Is the Biblical / post-Biblical demon Asmodeus really a displaced Vedic storm god who entered Middle Judaism through Zoroastrianism?
No idea, and the video above isn´t scholarly, but it´s an interesting idea, to be sure! Note also the peculiar ambivalence towards the Asmodeus character in Judaism. Solomonic grimoire magick, anyone?
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Marx said that world history always repeats itself twice: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Somebody has proposed burlesque as the third repetition. I´m not sure what stage Trump´s foreign policy has reached, but it´s certainly beyond farce at this point.
Trump recently said that he will declare the Strait of Hormuz American territory. A few days later some spokesman of the Trump administration dismissed the statement as a joke?! Then, the erratic president threatened to "bomb the shit" out of Oman.
Another jocular remark, I suppose?
But perhaps Trump can still do something properly tragic, since he decided to scale down US involvement in a joint military exercise with South Korea, citing the ROK´s refusal to back his increasingly quixotic adventure in the Gulf. Instead, he bragged about having good relations with North Korea! The same North Korea which may be in the process of sending tens of thousands of fresh troops to aid the Russians in Ukraine.
It will be interesting to see if Trump´s end will be a tragedy, a farce or even a burlesque. Maybe the Don could at least give us one more performance? For old times sake.
Let´s hope this is just one of those "Monthly Doomer Report" scenarios. After all, invasive marine species are already spreading throughout the world due to our international shipping lanes.
And we´re still here, right? As is most of our seafood...
Ships stuck in strait of Hormuz pose "super-spreader" biodiversity threat, scientists warn
Alex Jones apparently wants to remove Trump by impeachment or the 25th amendment. Cuz Iran-Israel something something.
Oh.
For the record. Sorry for the self-referential title of this blog post!
The "classical" definition of anti-Semitism is "hostility to Semites, especially Jews". By that standard, Thomas Sheridan´s latest rant is clearly anti-Semitic. And no, I´m not surprised. He is simply reverting to his old self about ten years ago. Yawn. But OK, he doesn´t like Sumerians either, apparently...
Will the next video be about how the Apollonian-Solar Aryans have always been at war with the Cthonic-Lunar Dravidians?
Note how he claims that *both* Yahweh and Jesus Christ were demons!
Dude.
Svarta ("afro-svenskar") är tydligen överrepresenterade i svensk television, sett i relation till sin andel av folkmängden. Från Hübinettes blogg.
Svarta personer är överrepresenterade i svensk TV
Och så har vi den här. En ovanligt gnällig PK-artikel om att vita kvinnor hyllar en mördad somalisk journalist. Men anta att de *inte* hyllat henne. Då hade skribenten såklart klagat på *det* istället.
Det ironiska är förstås att PK är västerländskt i sig själv, så den stenhårda afro-identitären imiterar egentligen helvita postmoderna filosofer (antagligen fransmän).
Hennes gnäll förminskar dessutom vad som faktiskt verkar ha inträffat, nämligen att reportern från Somalia avslöjade islamister från hemlandet, men blev ifrågasatt...av vem då? Det förklaras aldrig.
Okej, då går vi vidare.
Mordet på Abdullahi har gjort henne hyllad igen
Tillägg: Det slog mig just att hela artikelns premiss är att Abdullahi *inte* var svensk, men bildredaktören kallar henne "svensk" i bildtexten. Vilket totalt negerar hela poängen med krönikan! Faktiskt ganska dråpligt. Hübinette kanske har en kommentar? Färgblind anti-rasism, und so weiter.
If you like your atheism raw, here is Carrier´s attack on the rather notorious Old Testament prophet Ezekiel...
Breitbart News surrenders and admits that Nolan´s Woke "Odyssey" is a block bluster. It´s over.
Nolte: "The Odyssey" launches best live-action opening of year with 120 million dollars
Pinsamt för det finländska företaget, men varför gjorde shia-muslimerna detta? Är det inte lika pinsamt för dem? Eller bryr de sig inte? Karbala i Irak är förresten shia-islams heligaste stad...
My traditional "Wednesday pic" of Ganesh again, LOL. In other news, Trump has resumed Operation Epic Shitstorm. Stay tuned, I suppose.
What´s up with the peace negotiations between the Iranian non-regime regime and the Trump administration non-administration? Does anyone know? More importantly, does anyone even care?
It´s interesting to note that the United States has become the world´s largest exporter of oil due to the Hormuz crisis. Very interesting indeed. Maybe that´s why finding a solution to the situation isn´t the first priority of this administration...
The era of "great" power brigandage has begun. Perhaps we should all care about *that*, at least!
Very little about Iran on pro-Trump "news site" Breitbart News just now. Sure wonder why. Imagine if Biden had fucked up this hard somewhere in the Greater Middle East, I mean, Breitbart would have been all over the place attacking him for betraying Amerika, sounding almost like bellicose Neo-Cons in the process...
I *know* they would sound like that. Because, you see, they did...in 2021, at the fall of Kabul. But now, radio silence is apparently the more prudent course of action.
Oh, and I sure wonder who negotiated that take-over deal with the Taliban in the first place? Right.
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So the United States abducted one foreign head of state and killed another one. So far, the success rate seems to be 50/50. It worked in Venezuela, but the jury is still out on Iran. It certainly doesn´t *seem* to be working.
Still, a 50% success rate is pretty high. Especially since the succesful example was in the US sphere of influence (a.k.a. backyard). Sure wonder how the Russians and Chinese are calculating the odds right now. For instance, would killing or abducting Zelensky work if your last name is Putin? What about Taiwan?
Of course, the opposite is true as well. Could killing *Putin* work for Ukraine, for instance? And, more importantly, Ukraine´s backers...
How long before somebody starts calculating whether or not a direct hit at a certain white house close to the Potomac might yield geopolitical dividends? But thanx for the crude oil, I suppose.
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Trump can´t even win a PHONEY war. Conclusions are currently being drawn in all national capitals of the world...
The United States and Iran have agreed on a peace agreement. Supposedly. Nobody knows what it entails, and it won´t be signed until Friday. In other words, plenty of time to fuck everything up. And plenty of tacos and nachos, perchance!
Ryssland kan som bekant inte besegra Ukraina. Om några timmar kommer vi tydligen att få reda på om USA åtminstone kan besegra Iran...
