Conspiracies

Bansky – Smiley cops

   

For many years, I would say for millennia, we have been victims of different conspiracies. In Ancient Egypt, society was structured in a pyramid form; they had elites that would decide on society rules, taking advantage of their “religious knowledge”, most of the population consisting of slaves. Romans, Jews and Muslims (whose religions have the same origin) did the same thing. Soon after the Egyptian civilization Man began to use their symbology, stories and myths to create parallel religions; after all, everyone wanted gods, semi-gods and saviours to have a more familiar face. Naturally, by then there were already very wise and unscrupulous men. It wasn’t so difficult for them to see, that if they could control the masses for their benefit, why not at least try it? And so they’ve used astronomy mixed with religion, a touch of marketing and politics…yes, it all started far back in time. Honestly, it does not matter anymore whether they were Arabs, Chinese, Roman Christians or Jews, most of our civilizations promised the people Paradise while killing each other, and We the People bought it!

But for now, current on-going conspiracies need to be understood, as far as one can. This next excerpt was inserted in the middle of a conversation of authors unknown:

“You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.”

- Author Unknown –

At this very moment, many secret societies and societies with secrets, gather to discuss the future of our planet Earth. Their discussions are with the purpose of creating a one world government, where they are the main players on all top positions worldwide (once more the pyramid structure). Where only they and their future generations will profit from it, leaving the rest of us heavily oppressed after eliminating three thirds of the population with diseases, starvation and wars. Yes, I know it seems a bit too dark, but dark times are what humans have known for ages.

Some of these groups are recent; but some others date from earlier in History, like the Knights Templar, an order founded after the First Crusade (1096), that actually came up with the first banking system known. Many were later persecuted after the loss of Jerusalem in 1187, having an envious French King Philippe le Fair, in 1307, set out to arrest all the Templars (after many collaborations together), at the time leaded by Jacques de Molay (burned at the stake in Paris). Many were killed and tortured, but some escaped and resurfaced later in Portugal, Scotland and Malta.

Some of these fraternal organisations or Masonic orders, which arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century, are for example Ancient Craft Masonry, London Company of Freemasons, Freemasonry of the Scottish Rite with its 33 degrees of initiation, the Committee of 300 ( or Olympians), Bavaria Illuminati , Grande Oriente Lusitano , Grand Lodge Alpina, P2, the Rosicrucians and many others.

In general, Illuminati is the name commonly used to designate the group of Masons who control all the other groups, being its members also members from other societies. Naturally, there are many players in this game and not all have full conscience of the path they’re choosing. Many are perhaps merely curious, others are simply puppets. It is easy for me to understand that several groups of men have always tried to manipulate the world with religion and politics, and easy to understand how we have been fooled for so long. They kill thousands in one hand and build a couple hospitals and orphanages in the other. They make us think they have nothing to do with each other, in many cases they are showed to us as enemies, but behind the curtains they make the secret handshake and the secret smile, and share ancient bloodlines or family connections.

Using fear based propaganda, marketing and mind control psychology with help from the media; we are daily fooled in order to continue living our lives under a veil of ignorance. All we care now is about our job, our career, how many goods we have and saving as much as possible for our future generation. That is exactly what these people have been doing for centuries, ensuring that these – in many cases – ancient royal or not bloodlines continue having the wealth they are used to. And of course, eliminating or ridicule everyone they see as a potential threat for their plan.

These secret orders are always surrounded by mystery, magic, rituals, symbols, secret gatherings and myth, being the majority of the ideas taken from Ancient Egypt. Masons say they believe in a Great Architect of the Universe, so they accept all kind of different beliefs that go from Satanism, Christianity, Judaism, Islamism, Taoism or Hinduism. They use the kabbalah mysticism mixed with Egyptian and pagan symbols, several kinds of magic, etc. It’s a funny coincidence that I have two of these symbols tattooed on my back! Not only like them esthetically but also the fact that were used in ancient times to protect against Evil. Fact is they love all the esoteric symbols that accompany these myths and believe that the more symbols they have around them the more magical power they are going to have. We can see them in modern architecture, currency, company logos, etc.

To me, what they all (well…not all) have in common and really adore is money and power. Although, I also reckon there are naïf people among them who probably think they’re only doing what they believe is right and really try their best, being used the majority of the time. One cannot forget that some are really fascinated with the idea of participating in a group that intends for global illumination and happiness, which is a very touching thought indeed. What they seem to forget is that any kind of secrecies and elitism brings definitely no good. And although socialism and democracy may seem as the path to follow, it is an astonishingly dangerous one. We can lose our freedom for a long time…

It’s of public knowledge that many presidents of The United States of America were in fact members of these fraternal orders and it is said that the many of them are in fact related to European Royalty through descendants of Strongbow, from the British royal family and the House of Windsor (who are, in fact, descendants of the German Bavarian arm of European Royalty -the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family- who reigned also in Belgium, United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Portugal, etc. and later changed the name to Windsor).

Names such as Rothschild (Bavarian Jewish banking dynasty who made their fortune with the Napoleonic wars and became later barons), Rockefeller, Morgan, Freeman, Russell, Saint-Clair, Van Duyn , Collins, Kennedy, Li, Onassis, Reynolds, Cocteau, Astor, Warburg, Du Pont, as well as European monarchs, and Saudi Royal Family are claimed to be important members of this kind of orders. Henry Kissinger is said to be also connected and somehow involved with what happened to Aldo Moro, Ali Bhutto and General Zia ul Haq, and more recently, Admiral Borda and William Colby (anyone who isn’t a team player is taken out…).

Novus Ordo Seclorum – New Order of the Ages

This is about bloodlines, but not necessarily royal: bankers, CEO’s, politicians, scientists and artists have been always involved and they all try to perpetuate their Masonic careers, ones in search of power, others to satisfy their egos. Other notable Masons include F. Bacon, George Washington, Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur, George Marshall, Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, Sir Christopher Wren, Alexander Fleming, Mozart, A. Crowley, J. Parsons, L. Ron Hubbard, H.G. Wells, Harry Houdini, Jack L Warner, Henry Ford, Albert Pike, Andre Citroen, Robert Burns, Goethe, Rudyard Kipling, F. Pessoa, Manly Palmer Hall, Freud, Knigge, Voltaire, Da Vinci, Victor Hugo or Oscar Wilde. Many of them, though, could not possibly know the great orchestrators or their plan. So, one thing is for sure, not all of them are evil. Many of them have contributed with some of the best ideas and stunts and works ever done by man.

The committee of the 300 (1729); founded by the Black Nobility through the British East India Company to deal with international banking and trade problems, to support opium trade and it’s believed to be connected with the British royalty too. The Rothschild’s appear on all the top ranks.

One example of what could be their agenda is given to us by Dr John Coleman in 1992, in his book Conspirators’ Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300. He reckons, this group is set to implement a feudal system as it was in the middle Ages, where they select world leaders from their own ranks in a hereditary form. Reducing population to a billion or two, no middle class, only them rulers and us servants. One government, one currency, one religion, one police.

Seven years after the publication of Sue’s Les Mystères du peuple (1849-1856) a French revolutionary named Maurice Joly plagiarized aspects of the work for his anti-Napoleon III pamphlet, Dialogues in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, which in turn inspired Hermann Goedsche’s 1868 novel, Biarritz. One of the few copies to survive the confiscation of Napoleon III’s secret police found its way to Switzerland, where it was picked up by the Okhrana, the Russian secret police, and served as the basis for The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (anti-Semitic pamphlet – as if Zionists intended for world domination). It is believed by some, that these Protocols were written by Bavarian Jew A. Weishaupt and somehow got lost.

Adam Weishaupt (1748-1811), started in the 1770’s a “new” secret society called the Bavaria Illuminati after being overwhelmed with the Egyptian pyramids. After his order being already spread from Russia to Portugal, the King of Bavaria wanted to get rid of him, so he had to flee to Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ( where the British crown has its origins!). Weishaupt dreamed of taking over the world, and he made up several strategies to create a One World Government, all in the name of global happiness and freedom from the Church. He influenced many individuals into the occult and after his death, some say, Cecil Rhodes with the British Empire and the Rothschild’s took over his plans.

The Bohemian Club’s elite include R. Reagan, R. Nixon and the Bush Family. Another club following Bavaria Illuminati’s ideas is Skull and Bones (Death Brotherhood) which was founded in 1832 by William Russell (who had also studied in Germany) and A. Taft; paid obeisance to Eulogia, the goddess of eloquence. Over the years, Bones has included presidents (3 so far), judges, corporate men, and their families… for example John Kerry, McGeorge Bundy, Henry Luce , Averell Harriman, William H. Taft , Robert Taft, Prescott Bush (grandpa bush), and again George W. Bush and son and cousins, etc. In 1856, it is officially incorporated as the Russell Trust Association, until today. They call non-members “barbarians “or “gentiles”…

The popular phrase “new world order”, probably came around 1900 with C. Rhodes’ ideas of controlling the planet in order to achieve world peace. Several groups were founded to discuss international affairs until 1921, when the Council on Foreign Relations is created. The concept was further developed by Colonel Edward M. House (a close advisor of President Woodrow Wilson during the negotiations to set up the League of Nations) who has published in 1912 a book in which he promotes “socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx.”

In 1913 is the Federal Reserve System created with help from Nelson Aldrich, who was connected to wealthy banking Morgan and Rockefeller families. So basically an organized group of bankers have from this moment on the power to create money and lend it to the country, generating an everlasting debt (and President Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act).

The Mission Statement from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR – founded in 1921) taken from their site:

“The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank*, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.”

*also good to know: the internal think tank is The David Rockefeller Studies Program…and what they mean by being a resource is in reality another way to “guide” all this people…the way they want! Something else they want to do is to unite north and central America as one, and also with one currency, that is Canada, U.S.A. and Mexico for a start.

“They Live” – by J. Carpenter

In 1926, Colonel House actually refers to this N.W.O. in a Saturday Evening Post edition, in relation to the Council on Foreign Relations. Books continue to be written about this idea, often defended by famous writers like H.G. Wells, former Fabian socialist that in 1941 wrote “New World Order”. The dream was, a world with no wars, where everyone could live in harmony…but for that to happen…we all would have to work our asses off so that the Elite could reign with little effort forever.

“We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent.” (February 17, 1950, as banker Paul Warburg testified before the US Senate). Another interesting one in Gerald Ford’s “Declaration of Interdependence” on 24 October 1975: “We must join with others to bring forth a new world order….Narrow notions of national sovereignty must not be permitted to curtail that obligation.”

George Bush Sr. has also used this term in his speech “Toward a New World Order” on September 11th 1990, same date as the tragic events eleven years later. Coincidence? By the way…definitely an inside job! But that’s only to distract us…

Steve Jackson card games – INWO

“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents … to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” - David Rockefeller, “Memoirs” autobiography (2002, Random House publishers), page 405       The Polish socialist Joseph Retinger (founder of the European movement), Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (former SS-officer and close friend to the British Crown),Paul Van Zeeland (former Belgian Prime Minister) and Paul Rijkens (former Unilever Boss) created in the beginning of the 50’s the Bilderberg Group which is an unofficial annual invitation-only conference of around 130 guests, most of whom are central bankers, defence experts, mass media press barons, government ministers, prime ministers, royalty, international financiers and political leaders from Europe and North America.    “It is difficult to re-educate people who have been brought up on nationalism to the idea of relinquishing part of their sovereignty to a supra-national body.” (Alden Hatch, H. R. H. Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands: An Authorized Biography, G. G. Harrap & Co. [London], 1962.)

Steve Jackson card games – INWO

And finally the Trilateral Commission (officially founded in June 1973 by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski). USA, Japan and Western Europe unite forces to accelerate what the United Nations have not yet accomplished. This elite consists of the industrial and commercial giants, bankers and economists, scientists, publishers and newspaper columnists, union leaders and presidents of Foundations, real estate agents, etc… All coming from the “trilateral nations” being its 200 members permanent and in this case different from the Bilderbergers, who are invited (except for the Steering Committee).

“The Trilateral Commission is, in reality, a group of concerned citizens interested in fostering greater understanding, and cooperation among international allies.” (In the Wall Street Journal, David Rockefeller)

“The best way to effect this would be for a Trilateralist to soon become President. One did.” (Jimmy Carter) Apparently a couple of years ago, Hollywood director and documentary film maker Aaron Russo was asked by Nick Rockefeller if he was interested in joining the CFR. After Russo saying no, alleging he had no interest in “enslaving the people”, Rockefeller tried to convince him saying they were after the oil in the Middle East and getting prepared for Iran, and after they would go after Chavez in Venezuela. Rockefeller mentioned “The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.”And that Russo would have a special mark on his chip…

Verichip – RFID implant

Well, it is a complex net of situations with many people involved and many different sides to a story. So it is indeed difficult to discern specially when some individuals (conspiracy fanatics) lose the plot and start going in absurd directions, and most of all, they don’t even check their sources. Many times they make unbelievable mistakes or simply re-invent History to better suit their story. Be aware of the danger of accusing specific groups like the Jews or the Nazis or whoever, I cannot believe that a specific race is guilty of whatever crime; groups of men are. And they don’t give a shit about race or religion; they will kill anyone for more money and/or power. Naturally when we hear about these conspiracies, we tend to doubt; we were taught that way. No one wants to defy authority; we are always afraid of something and if we don’t we are called rebels…

Considering these societies operate for centuries, it is fair to assume that we really are dumb. It has been always easier not to see, to look the other way. Why? Because in the end what we’ve been taught since kids by society, is to work in order to consume…and die. Nobody cares anymore, one’s got to eat! And if one has children…one cares even less! “First save yourself and your own, fuck the rest!” No, I say fuck Elitism!

One thing is for sure, these secret societies exist, and these commissions are official and have official sites in the internet. But why are they secret then? Why doesn’t the Media inform us about it, since they are also part of it? And don’t forget that many of these wealthy motherfuckers have their money so well distributed in several corporations, that one cannot trace it to a single man. Many of us think we are pretty smart, but heedlessly forget that these people are smart and ruthless.

If the Illuminati are actually behind all this, it does not surprise me so much; it answers a lot of questions I had pending, in fact. If that concept evolved and now it’s all about CFR, Bilderbergers and Trilaterals, I can also understand it. Individuals? The Bush family follow orders, as other presidents do. The Pope and the Vatican do it as well, and so are other religious leaders and even kings. The names Rothschild and Rockefeller appear constantly, in a way that makes me presume that they are two major players. Their ideas about one world government are dangerous because of one important aspect. The power would be more centralized that is now. Meaning that only a small percentage of the population would rule in absolute wealth over the working class (us). Some say they have always ruled over us, we are just too busy working to notice it.

How have these vampires managed to deceive us? Through religion and the Media they did. Can’t forget about education too. They don’t want educated people with critical thinking. They don’t want us to know what is going on, so they show us what they need us to see. In order to achieve their plan, and that includes convincing a lot of people, they must make us want a universal military police or a chip in our hands (in order to have complete control over a person). How will they chip us? Easy, they will sell it to us, and we are already buying (no joke).

Steve Jackson card games – INWO

But please pay attention to the fact that not all Masons are evil, many may not know the superior plans. But without question something is wrong with this planet, and there is no God we can blame. They are “regular” blokes with respected positions within society. The ones we elect as our leaders, because of our ignorance.

Keep one eye open when watching TV or reading the newspapers may help prevent brainwashing. Check as many points of view on the subject (Masonic, Christian, atheist, lunatic, Satanist, skeptic, etc) since many sources only care about one thing, blame someone, especially people they don’t like! Don’t take for granted what you read here, go check it too, keep your mind open to all possibilities.

War on terror

Bansky – Rocket launcher

“It’s imperialism, stupid”

NOAM CHOMSKY

Khaleej Times, 4 July 2005

“IN his June 28 speech, President Bush asserted that the invasion of Iraq was undertaken as part of “a global war against terror” that the United States is waging. In reality, as anticipated, the invasion increased the threat of terror, perhaps significantly.

Half-truths, misinformation and hidden agendas have characterised official pronouncements about US war motives in Iraq from the very beginning. The recent revelations about the rush to war in Iraq stand out all the more starkly amid the chaos that ravages the country and threatens the region and indeed the world.

In 2002 the US and United Kingdom proclaimed the right to invade Iraq because it was developing weapons of mass destruction. That was the “single question,” as stressed constantly by Bush, Prime Minister Blair and associates. It was also the sole basis on which Bush received congressional authorisation to resort to force.

The answer to the “single question” was given shortly after the invasion, and reluctantly conceded: The WMD didn’t exist. Scarcely missing a beat, the government and media doctrinal system concocted new pretexts and justifications for going to war.

“Americans do not like to think of themselves as aggressors, but raw aggression is what took place in Iraq,” national security and intelligence analyst John Prados concluded after his careful, extensive review of the documentary record in his 2004 book “Hoodwinked.”

Prados describes the Bush “scheme to convince America and the world that war with Iraq was necessary and urgent” as “a case study in government dishonesty … that required patently untrue public statements and egregious manipulation of intelligence.” The Downing Street memo, published on May 1 in The Sunday Times of London, along with other newly available confidential documents, have deepened the record of deceit.

The memo came from a meeting of Blair’s war cabinet on July 23, 2002, in which Sir Richard Dearlove, head of British foreign intelligence, made the now-notorious assertion that “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy” of going to war in Iraq.

The memo also quotes British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon as saying that “the US had already begun ’spikes of activity’ to put pressure on the regime.”

British journalist Michael Smith, who broke the story of the memo, has elaborated on its context and contents in subsequent articles. The “spikes of activity” apparently included a coalition air campaign meant to provoke Iraq into some act that could be portrayed as what the memo calls a “casus belli.”

Warplanes began bombing in southern Iraq in May 2002 — 10 tons that month, according to British government figures. A special “spike” started in late August (for a September total of 54.6 tons).

“In other words, Bush and Blair began their war not in March 2003, as everyone believed, but at the end of August 2002, six weeks before Congress approved military action against Iraq,” Smith wrote.

The bombing was presented as defensive action to protect coalition planes in the no-fly zone. Iraq protested to the United Nations but didn’t fall into the trap of retaliating. For US-UK planners, invading Iraq was a far higher priority than the “war on terror.” That much is revealed by the reports of their own intelligence agencies. On the eve of the allied invasion, a classified report by the National Intelligence Council, the intelligence community’s center for strategic thinking, “predicted that an American-led invasion of Iraq would increase support for political Islam and would result in a deeply divided Iraqi society prone to violent internal conflict,” Douglas Jehl and David E. Sanger reported in The New York Times last September. In December 2004, Jehl reported a few weeks later, the NIC warned that “Iraq and other possible conflicts in the future could provide recruitment, training grounds, technical skills and language proficiency for a new class of terrorists who are ‘professionalised’ and for whom political violence becomes an end in itself.” The willingness of top planners to risk increase of terrorism does not of course indicate that they welcome such outcomes. Rather, they are simply not a high priority in comparison with other objectives, such as controlling the world’s major energy resources.

Shortly after the invasion of Iraq, Zbigniew Brzezinski, one of the more astute of the senior planners and analysts, pointed out in the journal National Interest that America’s control over the Middle East “gives it indirect but politically critical leverage on the European and Asian economies that are also dependent on energy exports from the region.” If the United States can maintain its control over Iraq, with the world’s second largest known oil reserves, and right at the heart of the world’s major energy supplies, that will enhance significantly its strategic power and influence over its major rivals in the tripolar world that has been taking shape for the past 30 years: US-dominated North America, Europe, and Northeast Asia, linked to South and Southeast Asia economies.

It is a rational calculation, on the assumption that human survival is not particularly significant in comparison with short-term power and wealth. And that is nothing new. These themes resonate through history. The difference today in this age of nuclear weapons is only that the stakes are enormously higher.”

Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author, most recently, of Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance.

photo by John Soares

“Surrealism is myself”

The Great Masturbator, 1929

Sleep, 1937

Imagination running free, that’s Dalí…from a melting Camembert he made “The Persistence of Memory”, alluding to Freudian psychological concepts about unconsciousness, as well as many other of his flabbergasting works. Another theme often approached was sex, this big taboo of human race.

He worked with Luiz Buñuel for “Un chien Andalou” and “L’Age d’Or” and the great A. Hitchcock in “Spellbound”, and aside from cinema he did jewellery design, worked with the theatre, made book illustrations and sculpture.

I won’t say much about his personality, apart from brilliant, flamboyant and ego-maniac, I reckon that to be a genius one must also be not quite all there…;D

The fact is that after his classic masterpieces from the 30’s, he chose a different direction and opted for a more religious environment, which gave him little space for imagination…even though, we can’t complain!

One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate, 1944

Poets are fakers

“It is sometimes said that the four greatest Portuguese poets of modern times are Fernando Pessoa. The statement is possible since Pessoa, whose name means ‘person’ in Portuguese, had three alter egos who wrote in styles completely different from his own. In fact Pessoa wrote under dozens of names, but Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos were – their creator claimed – full-fledged individuals who wrote things that he himself would never or could never write. He dubbed them ‘heteronyms’ rather than pseudonyms, since they were not false names but “other names”, belonging to distinct literary personalities. Not only were their styles different; they thought differently, they had different religious and political views, different aesthetic sensibilities, different social temperaments. And each produced a large body of poetry. Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis also signed dozens of pages of prose.”

Richard Zenith

F. Pessoa (Portugal, 1888 – 1935)

Autopsicografia

O poeta é um fingidor.
Finge tão completamente
Que chega a fingir que é dor
A dor que deveras sente.

E os que lêem o que escreve,
Na dor lida sentem bem,
Não as duas que ele teve,
Mas só a que eles não têm.

E assim nas calhas da roda
Gira, a entreter a razão,
Esse comboio de corda
Que se chama o coração.

© 1931, Fernando Pessoa (himself)

Autopsycography

The poet fancying each belief
So wholly through and through
Ends by imagining the grief
He really feels is true.

And those who read what he has spelt
In the read grief feel good–
Not in the two griefs he has felt,
But one they never could.

Thus to beguile and entertain
The reason, does he start,
Upon its rails, the clockwork train
That’s also called the heart.

Translation — Roy Campbell

He is my favorite poet ever, I will have more of his works here posted…absolute genius!

Human Stupidity

http://www.funpic.hu Sender: madcat

To find stupidity is not that hard. We only need to take a deep look unto ourselves…Fact is that if Mankind has always been stupid, and that is for millennia, so are you and I and everyone. Not necessarily the whole time, but we all have been stupid at least a couple of times in our lives. Many geniuses have noticed that already, like A. Einstein:

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

(appears that he was wrong about the universe…) or F. Zappa :

“The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”

But something that we could start thinking about, is whether we want to remain stupid or start changing, and how often will we want to associate with people who are most of the time stupid. Here are 5 basic laws we should at least consider, in this case proposed by Carlo M. Cipolla:

“1. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

2. The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.”

in The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
by Carlo M. Cipolla

We’ve seen in Cipolla’s essay, that is inevitable for us to underestimate the number and potential of the stupid individuals around us. Be aware, but understand that not everyone can make the right decisions all the time, and some have a bit more trouble in that chapter.

So, a stupid person is someone who causes losses to another, yet gets no benefit out of it…most of the times ends up with a loss too…that reminds me of the get-away truck driver that always fucks up when a group of intelligent citizens decide to rob a bank. For every time the bandits are caught, 80% are because of one them being so incredibly stupid. Now, were these intelligent guys so intelligent after all? That proves Cipolla’s fourth law…
According to him, for every action, we can be divided into 4 different characters, pending more for a quadrant or another, depending on the individual and his actions. So sometimes I’m stupid (that is a universal fact, I cannot deny it), sometimes I’m intelligent (every time I gain and provide gainings without prejudice of anyone), sometimes can be a bandit (takes from others for himself) or a simple naïf (he who provides gainings for others without gaining himself). Or a mix like stupid bandit, intelligent but naïf and so on…when we analyze recent actions of ours, we can make a chart with these 4 quadrants and see which one applies better to us, or if we are predominantly bandits or stupid or what…funny for a while … until you start noticing that you and your friends were stupid more often than you ever expected. Like Forrest Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does.”

And if we start talking about big companies, politicians, police, advertisers, bankers…f*@kin’ hellll…when they are not stupid bandits, they’re intelligent bandits!

How did it all started? That’s a secret yet to be uncovered by our geneticists… but it’s easy to understand that for ages, societies have been transmitting throughout generations, cycles of vicious behaviours. When I say vicious I mean everything that is apparently good at a particular moment, but has nasty consequences later, to one or more individuals.

How can we change then? Before every important decision, think well, whether is that bringing benefits in the future for everyone (honestly) or not. The real problem is that the “more often stupid” people don’t usually think about consequences, like when playing chess. One’s got to think about the next moves, putting into equation different possibilities…Perhaps would be a good idea if children in schools throughout the world could have chess classes from the first grade onwards, even if it had to be with improvised chessboards and pieces…

Satanist (egoist and materialist) La vey once said: “It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity. It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable.”

He’s right about the media washing people’s minds, which has been a way for the governments and their friends the big companies to shut everyone’s eyes to reality. So education is the step forward, which could be done with help from its worst enemy: TV.

“Television, the drug of the Nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation.” – Michael Franti from Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

girl-tv by Bansky

Darfur vs. Evil

Assassin Omar Al-Bashir

Quite obviously, it’s difficult for the people in Sudan even hope one day to have Peace. Omar Al-Bashir (in abusive power since 1989), one of the worst dictators in the whole world, continues violently killing thousands. Actually it is quite natural for him the use of lethal force against peaceful demonstrators, detention and torture of political opponents, no freedom of speech, attacking humanitarian personnel, hostage-taking, women and children sexual abuse, etc..

Not only the number of armed groups increase, but too their religious differences, also international institutions send troops to the field…saying..more guns..more torment…

I totally understand the work of many from these institutions like U.N., fooling the world. I honestly believe many of them try to do their best, but the fact is that they do it wrong. They are misled by their leaders and instead of helping, they kill and get killed….

And it is sad, day after day, Pain is all the people from Sudan get to know…but not all of them, this question adressed to Omar Al-Bashir is made by Bushara Ahmed Gumaa ( January 29, 2006):

“Why many people who live in oil rich zones in Southern Sudan are dying of hunger, meanwhile, in Khartoum your parasites are getting so fat, thanks to oil money?”

Which makes me think about the connection he has with the C.I.A. and the “War on Terror” carried out in Sudan.The real problem lies beneath…

South Sudan. Palotaka Boys School. Air raid drill.

© CRISPIN HUGHES PHOTOGRAPHY

Sudanese children – bbc.co.uk

“K was raped when she was seven months pregnant during an attack on her village. She was raped by three men. Her baby was born and is now one year old now but has never been healthy and doesn’t cry. Both mother and baby are living the physical and psychological pain of humiliation”.

Aid worker in South Darfur, 2006

in RAPPORT 2008 D’AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Women Rights

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From a United Nations declaration:

Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
General Assembly resolution 48/104 of 20 December 1993

“The General Assembly,

Recognizing the urgent need for the universal application to women of the rights and principles with regard to equality, security, liberty, integrity and dignity of all human beings…”

bla bla bla…and then in the sixth and final article:

“Nothing in the present Declaration shall affect any provision that is more conducive to the elimination of violence against women that may be contained in the legislation of a State or in any international convention, treaty or other instrument in force in a State.”

So, world leaders recognize they ought to do something about women rights, they are aware that over half of the world population consists of women, and that for millennia they have been “beaten, raped, mutilated and killed with impunity”*….

* in Amnesty International Report 2008

Yet still not much has changed, women still suffer from violence and discrimination. I still see women being marginalized, and I live in a “First World” country…

Let us be fair..women would definitely do a better job than men did…reckon that’s why world male leaders (the majority) want to keep it that way.

All social, political, religious and educational institutions are directly responsible for this. They must act now! They must review their laws and their principles! And don’t start me on Religion!!! Evil indeed..

And every macho fucker out there should start thinking about respecting every single person, women naturally included..

And women of this world and beyond: respect yourselves too, please. Learn to say NO!