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Libya: The Zionist Dragon And The Drums Of War
The Zionist Dragon; seen here, looking to feast on Lebanon. It now seeks to destroy Libya.
"… When the Zionist entity's tactics of subversion via a decade worth of false flag terrorism and sanctions didn't achieve the goal of crippling Qaddafi, it switched its tactics to all-out aggression against Libya…"
by Jonathan Azaziah, www.maskofzion.com
It's happening all over again. Do you hear them? You must be able to. The deaf, those incapable of hearing the sounds of serenity and calamity since birth, could hear them due to their almost wretched loudness. What? What do you ask? The drums of war of course.
And the drummers are composing their iniquitous cacophony from the same locations that they always do. Tel Aviv. Washington D.C. London, the City of London to be most precise. The audience for their bloodthirsty melody this time around? Libya. Their previous audiences included the ravaged nation of Afghanistan and the devastated nation of Iraq.
War, classically defined, is a state of armed, hostile conflict between nations. But the war of the drummers is different. Their war, in their minds, is waged on children of a lesser God. Women of a lesser state of being. Men of a lesser right. Their war is the mass murder of unarmed innocents, occupation, theft of land and resources, desecration, and dehumanization. Their war is genocide. These drummers sometimes appear to be of an otherworldly nature; vampires from movies produced in the dregs of the morally destructive institution known as Hollywood. Their aim is to remain. Remain as the sole holders of the globe; the lone controllers; the only existing cabal of masters and elders, who will govern masses of cattle.
20 years of sanctions, occupation, and decimation of land, water and natural resources in the shell of a nation known as Iraq left the people, the steadfast and courageous Iraqis, intimate with the inner workings of the drummers and their compositions of mayhem. Add another 10 years to the equation, and the resolute and brave people of Afghanistan could also write essays on the murderous music known as American interventionism. In both cases, the dismemberment of their societies came under the guise of "humanitarianism." The bullets came wrapped in heroic garb. The missiles and bombs were packaged with false sympathy for the oppressed. The rapes were for liberation. The murders were for freedom. Libyans beware; the drummers want to make your nation their next humanitarian adventure.
Incumbent Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi overthrew King Idris, a monarchical stooge for the Zionist-occupied US war machine and Italy, seeker of re-colonization of Libya in one form or another, in 1969. It was Qaddafi who removed the American military bases from Libya and it was Qaddafi who consistently supported the struggle to reclaim occupied Palestine from the Zionist entity and its ruthless operators (1). Qaddafi's process of abandoning his revolutionary ideals and selling out to the Zionist entity and its arrogant Western friends in the last decade did not remove these facts from the minds of his new and uneasy allies. Israel wanted revenge. Using the Libyan people as the sacrificial lambs and the wave of protests sweeping the Arab world as the cover, the plot was hatched to remove the 42-year ruler of Libya. The Zionist dragon was deployed into the frame. And the music of Zionism's chaos began to play.
A Short History: Operation Trojan, Lockerbie, and Abu Salim
During the beginnings of the presidency of war criminal Ronald Regan, the Zionist media vociferously promoted what would become a long-running propaganda piece about a Libyan hit squad operating in the United States. This hit squad's mission was to assassinate Ronald Regan. The source of the story was Manucher Ghorbanifar, a former agent of the overthrown Shah of Iran's secret police, SAVAK. SAVAK, the notorious apparatus known for its brutal torture techniques, learned everything from Mossad, and Ghorbanifar himself had deep-rooted personal ties to the Mossad, the world's leader in false-flag terrorism. The purpose of this hit squad story was to drum up support from the American populace for a strike on Libya (2).
This particular false flag vis-a-vis Ghorbanifar didn't accomplish the mission to the degree that the Zionist entity designed it to. The illegitimate Israeli state subsequently turned up the heat and put Operation Trojan into motion. The Trojan is an Israeli communications device used by Mossad's psychological warfare squad, LAP (LohAma Psicologit), as a relay station for misleading intelligence reports emanating from Israeli navy ships in the region. The Trojan is to be planted in nations resisting the Zionist Power Configuration, or in Israeli intel terminology, "hostile environments," at targets where official state business is conducted, like an embassy. These false reports were to be picked up by states allied with Israel on separate frequencies, wherein the information would be confirmed by Mossad. Little do the ally states know, the reports themselves are being created by Israel.
Operation Trojan was a success as the device was planted in the heart of Libya's capital, Tripoli, and the American government began retrieving numerous messages from the Trojan and processing intelligence proofs that Libya was closely linked with the planning and execution of terrorism. The chiefs of Mossad were exceedingly pleased (3). On April 5th, 1986, the final stages of Operation Trojan came to fruition when a disco club in Berlin was bombed, leaving two American soldiers and a Turkish woman dead, in addition to the severe wounding of 229 others (4). A heinous false flag blamed on Libya, the 1986 bombing of the La Belle disco was an extensive Mossad operation which was carried out with assistance from its allies in the CIA (5). This event led to the US military's Operation El Dorado Canyon on April 15, 1986. This murderous violation of Libya's sovereignty left dozens of Libyan civilians dead, including Muammar Qaddafi's 15-month old adopted daughter (6).
The murder of Qaddafi's daughter and so many other innocent Libyans was designed to boost Mossad's image in the international intelligence community and display to the Arab/Islamic world that the United States stood with the Zionist entity (7), or more accurately, that the USA stood wherever the Zionist entity told it to stand. Colonel Qaddafi was acutely aware of the deception that led to the murder of his child and the arrogance of the powers attempting to break him and the Libyan nation. Qaddafi didn't budge and his Resistance didn't end. The illegitimate Israeli state then kicked its next plot into high gear: the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988, better known as the Lockerbie bombing. 270 people died in the attack (8).
Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi: Framed by Mossad.
Abdelbaset Mohmed Ali al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer, was sentenced to 27 years in the Scottish Greenock prison for the mass murder. Al-Megrahi was innocent. Completely innocent. There wasn't a drop of evidence against him; concrete or otherwise. His arrest and imprisonment were horrific and deliberate miscarriages of justice that robbed his wife and five children of decades with him (9). Miscarriages perpetuated by a conspiratorial charade enforced incessantly by the Zionist media. Additionally, his conviction deflected the public's attention from the actual purveyors of the crime on December 21st and the reasons for its execution, most obviously the continued demonization of Qaddafi and Libya (10).
The Lockerbie bombing was carried out with a suitcase bomb, a known signature of Mossad, which has used this explosive weapon in its false flag operations in Kenya, numerous villages, and cities in occupied Palestine, Beirut, Dubai, London, Houston, and India (11). The Lockerbie bombing was yet another Israeli 'dirty trick' used against Zionism's eternal Arab/Muslim enemy for the furtherance of the anti-Islam agenda gripping the world on a daily basis via mass media institutions owned by Zionist extremists.
It has been linked to Abu Nidal, the infamous "Palestinian terrorist" who has been outed as a Mossad agent. Mere hours after the crash, Mossad's LAP unit unleashed psychological warfare on all international media hotlines, conveying to Israel's stooges that Libya was behind the bombing, telling them that there wasn't even the faintest doubt about it. Mossad agents were in Lockerbie, Scotland the day after the atrocity to remove evidence from the scene. The piece of evidence? A suitcase of course. The head of Pan Am's security at the time of the bombing was Isaac Yeffet, former chief of security at the illegitimate Zionist entity's airline El Al (12). El Al is known for being a front for Mossad's most intricate sabotage operations (13).
Not only did the Zionist media's version of the events behind the Lockerbie bombing bury Mossad's involvement beneath a mountain of lies, but it also buried the CIA's. Aboard Pan Am 103 were massive amounts of CIA-smuggled heroin and agents from CIA and DIA who were doing the smuggling (14). Mossad's suitcase bomb eliminated them and protected its terrorism partner's interests in the global narcotics market.
Finally, Lockerbie served one more purpose of the Mossad, a purpose with geopolitical implications that quite literally changed the world: the 9/11 false flag attack carried out by Israeli intelligence and its corrosive network of sayanim. Lockerbie was a major LAP psychological warfare operation, embedding the idea of "Arabs hijacking planes and blowing them up out of hatred for the West" into the minds of millions of Westerners, Americans specifically. When the remote-controlled planes of Dov Zakheim's SPC struck the Twin Towers, Americans (and the rest of the world for that matter) remembered Lockerbie and didn't bat an eyelash when the Zionist media told them 19 Arab hijackers just struck the USA. They were oblivious to the names of Silverstein, Lauder, Lowy, Eisenberg and Harel, 9/11's primary criminals (15).
With al-Megrahi indicted and the world's attention focused on Qaddafi for the malevolence of the Lockerbie bombing, the Zionist entity rejoiced over another successful operation. In the first quarter of 1992, right on schedule, the criminal UN-imposed crippling sanctions on the nation of Libya for the attack. The sanctions would demolish Libya's oil-refining capabilities, prevent Libyans from traveling for over a decade and cut them off from their relatives in the United States (16). The UN didn't lift these sanctions until 2003, while the US didn't lift its sanctions on Libya until 2004. It is here where Qaddafi reluctantly sold out the interests of his people to the Western nations he despised.
HRW, funded by Soros, covers up Israel's massacres and generates "genocides" to further the Zionist agenda.
In 1996, a curious event formally labeled by the Zionist media as the "Abu Salim Prison Massacre" occurred. An event lambasted by "human rights" organizations, this event served as a furtherance of the worldwide anti-Qaddafi agenda put in place by Mossad and its LAP, giving credence to the criminal sanctions slapped on Libya by the US and the UN. Despite its own admission that the reports of Libyans slaughtered at Abu Salim Prison in June 1996 were unverifiable and scarce, the world-renowned Human Rights Watch maintained that 1,200 people were murdered (17). Human Rights Watch is the same US-backed NGO that concocted the grossly false story about the gassing of Iraqi Kurds in Halabja to give legitimacy to the Zionist-instigated invasion of Iraq two decades ago and continued to serve as an excellent tool to create support for the Zionist coalition's invasion of Iraq 8 years ago. Intelligence reports have debunked the "Halabja Massacre" as nothing but pure wartime propaganda (18).
The false story about Abu Salim Prison has been used by leftists everywhere to justify the "revolution" taking place in Libya. It is pathetic that they have inadvertently fallen into the Zionist trap of playing the drums of war for an invasion. Human Rights Watch is being bankrolled, to the tune of $100 million, by none other than an internationalist Zionist war criminal, George Soros (19), who also heavily funds J Street, a pro-occupation, pro-war, pro-ethnic cleansing Zionist Lobby group masquerading as a bunch of peace-seekers (20).
It is by no means a coincidence that Soros, the corrosive billionaire who is responsible for insider trading in France, bankrupting the Bank of England, and waging financial war against Malaysia (21), pulled out his oil investments from Libya a mere 3 months prior to the unrest (22), and now the human rights wing of his empire is leading the assault against Qaddafi (23). Soros is also responsible for infiltrating the Egyptian Revolution and using his proxies to draft the new constitution which will enslave the African nation with enslavement far worse than Mubarak (24). For the people of Libya and Egypt, the Zionist dragon has just begun to torch your existence.
Qaddafi at the UN; blasting Israel for assassinating JFK (rip).
The Origin Points
As soon as the sanctions against Qaddafi were lifted by all Western powers in 2003-2004, "pro-democracy" groups were established inside Libya by various programs within the US State Department as a means to keep an eye on its newest ally. These groups were to be activated for the purpose of regime change if Qaddafi ever stepped out of line, under the guise of an uprising or a people's revolution.
Qaddafi's first mistake in the eyes of the Zionist dragon came in September 2009 when he delivered a speech to the United Nations and struck a nerve that few have struck, "The whole world should know that Kennedy wanted to investigate the nuclear reactor of the Israeli demon (25)." The Zionist entity's Kidon hit squad, an elite unit of Mossad, in collusion with the CIA and elements of the Meyer Lansky crime organization, assassinated John F. Kennedy for several reasons. Kennedy's silent war with al-Nakba architect David Ben-Gurion over Israel's nuclear program is at the top of the list (26). Israel does not like anyone, especially a leader as prominent as Qaddafi, making mention of it.
Qaddafi's second slip-up was the Libyan humanitarian aid convoy headed by one of his sons that cracked the illegal, internationally condemned siege against the Palestinian people of Gaza in July 2010. The aid ship, "al-Amal," was loaded with 2,000 tons of food, cooking oil, medicines and pre-fabricated houses. The Israeli navy harassed the ship and threatened the passengers on board with a forceful takeover (27). The Zionist entity has shown the world the lengths it will go to regarding its preservation of starving Gaza to death. 9 murdered activists on the Freedom Flotilla in international waters tell the story of the lengths in gruesome detail (28).
Qaddafi called on the Palestinian people to revolt against their Zionist occupiers.
Just four days before the "Feb17 Revolution" in Libya, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi engaged in his third and final mishap, triggering the Zionist dragon's drums of war. In the wake of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt which disposed of dictators Zayn al-Abidin Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak, two of Qaddafi's friends ironically enough, the Libyan leader called on Palestinians to revolt against their Israeli occupier. He called on Palestinians to amass from all over the world, coming to the shores of occupied Palestine by boat, to call on Zionism to give into the hands of the oppressed Arab people or face revolution (29).
Keeping Palestinians demoralized and subjugated is the chief weapon used by the Zionist regime in its 63-year occupation of the Holy Land. It is why it keeps collaborationist stooges like Abbas and Fayyad in place, to lead Palestinians down a perpetual road of servitude to Zionism. It considers any call for Palestinians to rise up for their dignity an existential threat. Qaddafi's call to the people of occupied Palestine may have been an honorable one, but to the Zionist dragon, it was an act of war.
The Zionist-founded, Zionist-controlled NED is as subversive as the CIA.
Controlled Opposition: Zionism 101
It was the mass murderer of tens of millions of Russian Christians, and the leader of the Bolsheviks, Vladimir Lenin, who said "The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves." It should come as to no surprise to anyone that the Zionists who identify themselves as neo-conservative, all of whom are admitted ex-Leninists and ex-Trotskyists (30), are the leaders behind implanting "pro-democracy" groups throughout the MENA to control opposition to global Zionist hegemony. The board of directors at the National Endowment For Democracy (NED), the leader of the "pro-democracy" project in Libya (31), as well as the notorious globalist institution Freedom House (32), are comprised almost entirely of neo-cons.
The foundation of NED was built between 1982-1984 at the behest of a research study headed by staunch Zionist Allen Weinstein, who has headed a plethora of globalist projects masked by the pursuit of democracy. Weinstein has authored numerous books in defense of the Zionist entity's genocidal operations throughout the Middle East, including one in particular that stressed the necessity of America's commitment to the illegitimate Israeli state (33). Allen Weinstein publicly admitted in 1991, that the NED's activities are modeled after the CIA's operations, "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." CIA monies are laundered through the NED (34), which serves as a perfect cover due to its perceived nature as an organization championing the cause of democracy.
The current head of NED is Carl Gershman, a ubiquitous globalist figure and zealous Zionist who has received awards for furthering the CIA's agenda in Tibet and who has composed a study entitled "Israel, the Arabs, and the Middle East" defending al-Nakba and all of Israel's colonial endeavors (35). Gershman also worked for the most venomous of all Zionist Lobby organizations, the Israeli intelligence wing known as the ADL. Gershman is rabidly anti-Muslim and anti-Christian; he has stated that the Qur'an "vilifies Jews" and that the Christian World spread the "blood libel." Additionally, he believes that Arabs and Arab culture suffer from a "moral sickness" and has gone on record to chastise any and all people who have associated Mossad with the 9/11 terror attacks as "anti-Semites (36)."
NED is already deeply embedded in the fabric of Egypt and has reared its ugly head from the shadows upon the command of Gershman since the fall of Mubarak (37). With Qaddafi upsetting the Zionist dragon to the point of rage, Israel-Firster Gershman initiated the activation of the democratic army. Just three of the NED-funded groups taking part in the "pro-democracy" protests in Libya are the Akhbar Libya Cultural Limited (ALCF), Libya Human and Political Development Forum (LHPDF), and Transparency Libya Limited (TL). These groups were funded in the hundreds of thousands by NED (38).
The NFSL, Libya's premier "opposition" group, is fully backed by the CIA.
NED's chief sister organization, the National Democratic Institute (NDI), headed by Zionist war criminal and butcher of Iraq's children Madeline Albright (39), is also deeply involved in the Libyan uprising, as is a smaller NED-linked group, the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). Aswat, an Arabic propaganda hub in Libya, Libya's General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation, My Arabic Library (MAL) and Youth Of Today, Leaders Of Tomorrow are all funded by NDI and MEPI (40). So, an umbrella of organizations controlled by an anti-Muslim, anti-Christian, anti-Arab, pro-war, pro-Zionist warmonger is looking out for the interest of the Libyan people? Right.
The organizing of the "Feb17 Revolution" in Libya was led by a group known as the National Conference for the Libyan Opposition (NCLO). The NCLO called for mass protests against the Qaddafi regime in a multi-level manner, inside Libya and abroad, all for the goal of bringing down the 42-year reign of the Libyan Colonel (41). The NCLO was formed on June 25, 2005, in London. The main goal of this organization was to foment the end of Colonel Qaddafi's revolutionary, political, military and security powers and to trigger the formation of a transitional government run by "trustworthy" individuals (42). The NCLO is comprised of six umbrella groups, with the National Front Of The Salvation of Libya (NFSL) sitting at the head. A Libyan exile who resides in London named Ibrahim Sahad is NFSL's leader (43).
At the onset of the Feb17 Revolution, Sahad and other NFSL and NCLO members began providing the Zionist media with "first-hand" information of massacres, human rights abuses, death tolls and other outlandish accusations that were never independently verified. Ominously, Sahad made it clear to state in an interview that "Qaddafi will not survive the protests (44)." The Zionist media has never given an audience to dissidents from occupied Palestine, occupied Iraq, occupied Kashmir, occupied Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan or the Resistance in Lebanon. So why Libyan dissidents? Simple. Because these particular Libyan dissidents belong to the NFSL, an organization funded for decades by the CIA and closet-Zionist regime of Saudi Arabia (45). In fact, whether it's the American-Zionist puppet Qatar's Al-Jazeera or typical Western media outlets like the Zionist-owned BBC and the New York Times, all reports leave a trail that leads back to the CIA's NFSL (46).
As aforementioned, one of the NFSL's goals was to set up a transitional government to replace the regime of Qaddafi as momentum from the wave of protests was mounted. On February 27, 2011, 13 days after the fake Feb17 Revolution began, the National Transitional Council, also known as the Libyan National Council, was formed (47), in perfect accordance with the NFSL's CIA-based agenda. One member of this transitional council is Mahmoud Jibril, who recently met privately with Zionist warmonger Hillary Clinton in Paris (48). Jibril also held a meeting with the Zionist President of France, Nicholas Sarkozy, and spoke by phone with the warmongering British Foreign Secretary, William Hague (49).
Jibril, who heads the Foreign Affairs division of the Council, was educated in the United States,
Mahmoud Jibril, the Western dope groomed to replace Qaddafi in the new, Zionized Libya.
receiving a master's degree and PhD at the University of Pittsburgh prior to teaching there for many years. Jibril also headed an organization called the National Economic Development Board (NEDB), Libya's largest think tank, formed in 2009 (50). The NEDB was set up and advised by a group of international consulting firms from the US and UK and is in partnership with the London School of Economics (51), which receives its largest amount of funding from none other than George Soros (52). Once the "rebels" secure victory and Qaddafi is overthrown, Jibril is expected to maintain his position at the head of this institution of subservience to neoliberalism. With Jibril's ties alone, it invalidates the Council's claims to be the sole representative of the people of Libya. It is the sole representative of Zionism in Libya.
The Council almost immediately called for a no-fly zone over Libya (53). No self-respecting person of conscience, let alone the righteous Libyan people, the sons of the great Omar al-Mukhtar (rip) who led two decades of Resistance to Italy's colonization of their nation, who are keenly aware of the aims of foreign occupiers and colonialists, would ever call for a no-fly zone over Libya. The same military operation that led to NATO bombing thousands of innocents to death in Kosovo with depleted uranium and cluster bombs and that led to the bombing of tens of thousands to death in Iraq prior to 2003's invasion. However, stooges of Western interests most certainly would. Could anyone imagine Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (rip) or Hugo Chavez calling for a no-fly zone? Didn't think so.
MI6 worked with Mossad to assassinate Qaddafi 15 years ago. "Al-Qaeda" was used in the false flag.
Israel's War: From Subversion To Aggression
Excluding game-changers like the assassination of JFK or the 9/11 false flag attacks, the Zionist entity's Dragon Policy may be its most prized operation. Through an intricate web of relationships woven with blood-drenched silk, linking it closely to its allies in RAW, Blackwater (Xe), and the CIA, Israel has terrorized the Islamic Republic of Pakistan through an unlimited supply of patsy terror groups and ordnance experts strategically scattered through the country. The face of the Dragon Policy, set up officially in 2001 and constantly rammed down the throat of the world's masses by the cabalistic Zionist media, is the Tehrik-I-Taliban, which is reported as being closely linked to the king of kings in terms of fake terror groups, "Al-Qaeda." Never is it reported that Al-Qaeda doesn't exist and never has existed (54), it is merely a name used to create and subsequently exacerbate psychological warfare. In the case of the Tehrik-I-Taliban and the Mossad-RAW nexus that runs it, it is only linked to Al-Qaeda because RAW agents of the Dragon Policy pose as Al-Qaeda to provide their patsies with weapons and money (55).
Israel attempted to run its Dragon Policy in Libya 5-6 years prior to its sanguinary beginnings in Pakistan through British intelligence. A Mossad-MI6 nexus was formed and an "Al-Qaeda" cell was paid handsomely to assassinate Qaddafi in his hometown of Sirte (56). Anas al-Liby was the leader of this cell. He would be used as a patsy for Mossad in its 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya (57).
Mossad worked with MI5 for the 7/7 bombings in London.
These operations were part of a long-running Israeli project in which Mossad would recruit Palestinians to carry out terrorism to provide justification for escalation of Israeli military operations throughout occupied Palestine, and extrajudicial revenge policies abroad. The terrorism would be blamed on "Al-Qaeda." The Palestinian operation, however, would turn out to be a failure (58). Mossad's relations with MI-6 shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Most recently, in the London bombings of July 7th, 2005, the Zionist entity's Mossad, notorious Shin Bet-infested Israeli security company ICTS and Britain's internal intelligence service MI5 collaborated for a successful false flag operation (59). It should also come as no surprise then, given the history, that Qaddafi is accusing "Al-Qaeda" of staging the unrest in Libya (60). Al-Qaeda in this case is interchangeable with CIA and Mossad.
When the Zionist entity's tactics of subversion via a decade worth of false flag terrorism and sanctions didn't achieve the goal of crippling Qaddafi, it switched its tactics to all-out aggression against Libya. With its allies in the CIA manipulating protests and its patsies forming the National Transitional Council to create the illusion of the Libyan people's representative, the next cog to be turned in the Zionist entity's machine was to create the illusion of a humanitarian crisis.
From the onset of the Feb17 Revolution, stories from all ends of the media spectrum were surfacing about massacres of "unarmed" protesters at the hands of African mercenaries hired by Qaddafi and his regime (61). Just as quickly as the stories surfaced, Qaddafi immediately issued an emphatic denial of his regime hiring anything of the sort, as did regime officials (62). Oddly enough, the US government, which had been hawkish towards Libya from the moment the uprising began, inserted a clause in a February 27th UN Resolution that would shield these African mercenaries from being prosecuted for their crimes (63). Many commentators speculated that this was done to prevent the US itself, notorious for using hunter-killer corporations like Dyncorp and Xe to carry out mass killings in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, from being subsequently prosecuted for the same crimes.
While this speculative theory was certainly plausible and even logical, it wasn't congruent with the greater plot at hand. Mercenaries, Xe (Blackwater) specifically, had been escaping international prosecution for a literal decade. Why start now? Especially when the world's hegemonic powers had a "genocide" stop.
Global CST's mercenaries are creating chaos in Libya. Global CST is run by Zionist General Israel Ziv.
The reason why the US, the Zionist entity's patron, lap dog, and military enforcer, introduced this clause into the UN resolution, is because the mercenaries on the ground have been recruited and employed by Global CST, an Israeli security company with strong links to Mossad, Shin Bet and Aman tied to war crimes and arms trafficking in Georgia and several countries in Africa. The director and owner of Global CST, retired Israeli General Israel Ziv, held a high-level meeting with Aman chief Aviv Cokhavi, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (all war criminals) shortly before the Feb17 Revolution to receive approval for the deployment of 50,000 mercenaries into Libya. The mission of this Israeli operation? Fuel civil war to bring about Western military intervention (64).
The mercenaries were in place and massacres of protesters were occurring, so the Zionist media took the opportunity presented by the troubled atmosphere to bolster its usual yellow journalism, stating that Qaddafi was now bombing civilians in Benghazi on February 22. As one would expect, however, this story was farcical. The story was first exposed as a sheer falsehood by the Russian military (65), and then astonishingly confirmed by war criminals Admiral Mike Mullen and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (66). Despite two of the most powerful militaries in the world confirming that there were no airstrikes against civilians, the Zionist media continued to report them as fact.
Wolfowitz and Kristol: Zionist extremists; destroyers of Iraq; invaders of Libya.
As the mercenary's massacres kept flowing, the Zionist dragon comprised of heads from the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) emerged from the shadows. Its thirst for blood was not quenched by millions of dead Iraqis and Afghans, it now wanted Libya to solidify the Zionist entity's revenge against Qaddafi once and for all. With the US, the UK and French special forces deployed to Tobruk and Benghazi a day after the fraudulent airstrikes stories were run (67), an organization called the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) wrote a letter to Obama, a puppet of Zion, urging an immediate full-scale military intervention to take out Qaddafi and "end the violence." Who are the leaders of FPI, you ask? PNAC repackaged: Wolfowitz, Kristol, Abrams, Kagan, Edelman, and Senor. The genocidal maniacs who designed the ravaging and pillaging of Iraq and Afghanistan. In line with FPI's request, Zionist hawks Joe Lieberman and John McCain called Washington from Tel Aviv demanding that Obama arm the "rebels (68)," who were already receiving training from Western Special Ops.
Obama followed suit, obeying the commands of his Zionist masters. On February 28th, the United States passed its largest set of sanctions ever, freezing $30 billion in Libyan assets and subsequently positioning its warships right off of the Libyan coast (69). The very next day, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon called for a no-fly zone over Libya to, no, this is not an attempt at comedy, "stop the genocide (70)." Ayalon of course did not call for a no-fly zone when the Zionist entity committed genocide from above in Lebanon in 2006 or in illegally besieged Gaza in 2008-2009.
A curious event took place on March 6th, as SAS forces led by an MI6 (Mossad's Dragon Policy partner) officer dropped into Libya armed with guns, ammunition, explosives and false passports, all to be delivered to Libyan "rebels." The Libyans were infuriated by such a bold move (71). That thought, isn't what invokes the accusation of curiousness. The Libyan people proposed the idea, that these British forces were actually Israelis using false British passports, as they did with Mossad's assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in January 2010 (72). Two scenarios should be noted. Scenario One: this British convoy really was just simply delivering weapons to the CIA-backed rebels, as per the West's policy of backing the anti-Qaddafi opposition from day one. Scenario Two: this British convoy was a false flag terrorism unit on a mission to carry out a massive attack on Libyan civilians to hasten a military intervention. Since they were detained and kicked out, the mission failed. Due to the gap between Obama's positioning of warships coupled with the round of sanctions and the actual invasion, the latter scenario seems to be the correct one.
Netanyahu and Barak both want Qaddafi out of the picture to ravage Libya.
On March 17th, the butcher of Gaza Benjamin Netanyahu stated clearly that Muammar Qaddafi was not a friend of Israel and not a friend of the Jewish people while stating rather ambiguously that he wouldn't mind seeing military action implemented in Libya, nor would he mind seeing Qaddafi removed (73). Coincidentally (not really), also on March 17th, the UN passed its resolution for a no-fly zone over Libya and the approval of 'all necessary measures to protect civilians,' i.e. bombing Libya incessantly; preparations for a coalition strike began (74).
Zionist war criminal Ehud Barak praised the UN for its decision the following day, going on the record that Qaddafi would be gone within weeks and also mentioning that the Arab League (of thugs, dictators, oil barons, and kleptocrats) giving its support was key to invading Libya (75). Barak's nauseating diatribes brought back the memory of 9/11. Just moments after the Towers were struck, Barak was live on the air to blame Osama Bin Laden and call for an invasion of Afghanistan (76). Barak played a key role in Mossad's false flag attack on 9/11, overseeing the operation as a special advisor for Electronic Data Systems (EDS), a Mossad haven partnered with another Mossad-run firm, SCP Partners. EDS and SCP secured the thermite explosives used to bring down the Twin Towers from several explosives-expert firms in their business portfolio (77).
Nearly 10 years after 9/11 and the criminal, genocidal invasion of Afghanistan, Israel has yet another war and its desired revenge on Qaddafi is imminent.
Obama has invaded Libya to secure Israel's oil needs.
Egyptian Oil Workers and The 1975 MOU
Referring back to the malevolent statement of Vladimir Lenin regarding the creation of opposition to locate and destroy real opposition, the Egyptian Revolution makes its return to the forefront in the discussion of the Zionist dragon's impending conquest in Libya. The Egyptian Revolution is not an absolute truth, nor is absolute fiction. It is a combination of reality and fantasy; the Zionist entity's way of quelling what was coming, what was bound to burst, and isolating the catalytic threats to Israeli hegemony. The atmosphere leading to the "Jan25 Revolution" was a tense one. Several protests had already been held due to the Mubarak regime stealing the recent parliamentary elections and Muslim-Christian unity rallies were getting larger in the wake of the Mossad bombing of al-Qiddissin Church in Alexandria (78).
A revolution was already a decade in the making. Egyptians began hitting the streets in protest of Mubarak and his cronies in 2000, during occupied Palestine's 2nd Intifada. In December 2006, poverty-stricken workers formed unions and partook in massive strikes. As a result of the growing revolutionary fire from these strikes, there were two huge uprisings in 2008, one in Mahalla, and another in Borollos. Both were crushed by the regime. These anti-Zionist workers and revolutionaries were aware of the Westernized "reform-seekers" in their mix. The real protesters? They wanted Mubarak gone. His regime is gone. Ties with the Zionist entity severed and the siege of Gaza lifted. The elite dismantled and the wealth returned to the people. The reform seekers wanted to maintain the status quo with little change; only the illusion of it (79).
Mohamed ElBaradei: George Soros' puppet in Egypt.
Unbeknownst to many of these revolutionaries, the reform-seekers that they kept their eyes on weren't just Westernized… they were Western-trained. "Activists" from the April 6 Youth Movement, a group vociferously promoted by the Zionist media as the face of the Egyptian Revolution, received their training from the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) and the International Center For Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), both funded by Zionist billionaire strongman Peter Ackerman and the face of internationalism, George Soros. The April 6 Youth Movement also works closely with Mohamed ElBaradei, a stooge and former board member of the International Crisis Group, founded by neo-con warmonger Morton I. Abramowitz and funded by Soros. ElBaradei sat on the board of International Crisis Group with Ackerman's wife (80). And these men want freedom for Egypt? Oh, the trail of smoke left behind by the Zionist dragon's fire.
The April 6 Youth Movement also received full backing from the US Statement department, with helping hands extended by Undersecretary For Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James K. Glassman and Jared Cohen of Hillary Clinton's Policy Planning Staff. Glassman is a rabid Zionist who was once a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a pro-Israel think tank known for providing talking points to the US government. The April 6 Youth Movement revealed in these endorsements (81). Once Mubarak transferred power to a military junta fully backed by Zionism, it is these puppet activists, these whitewashed and westernized House Arabs, that told Egyptians to go home and "work harder than ever before to build a new Egypt" while real activists remained in Tahrir Square, demanding the collapse of the regime, planning more strikes in Egypt's various business sectors and calling for the end of normalization with Israel (82).
The most important of all of these strikes is that of the Egyptian oil workers, who are sick of corruption, slave wages, no unions, and most of all, gas being pumped to the Zionist entity, which they refuse to ever do again (83). Israel had raked Egypt over the coals for its precious resources, forcing the North African Arab nation to lose over 100 billion Egyptian pounds since 2005 alone (84). No gas has been pumped to Israel since February 13th, with the most recent protest being held in Suez on March 20th (85). Due to pressure from the Egyptian people, the military junta have not resumed gas to Israel and reluctantly have no plans to do so, also because of that pressure. 40% of Israel's natural gas comes from Egypt, which the Zionist entity uses to produce 20% of its electricity (86). Egypt's natural gas is an important element needed by the Zionist entity to maintain its 63-year occupation of Palestine.
George Soros funded the undermining of Egypt's real revolutionaries.
Due to its proximity to Palestine, and the traitorous Camp David accords, Egypt's sale of natural gas to the Zionist dragon was always practical. But now with a war on the ground between the brave revolutionaries and workers, champions of Arab dignity, and the Soros-Ackerman armada of House Arabs, and the Israel-friendly military junta stuck in the middle and walking a tight rope to appease its paymasters in Washington D.C. which fund it to the tune of over $1 billion a year, the Zionist entity needed another source. Enter Libya, a nation with the largest proven oil reserves in all of Africa (87). Coupled with the Zionist entity's eternal vendetta against Qaddafi, this made Libya a prime target for another Israeli victim of balkanization.
On September 1st, 1975, an odious Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the United States of America and the Zionist entity residing on stolen Palestinian land. This MOU stated the following, "The United States Government will make every effort to be fully responsive, within the limits of its resources and Congressional authorization and appropriation, on an ongoing and long-term basis, to Israel's military equipment and other defense requirements, to its energy requirements and to its economic needs." Also, "If the oil Israel needs to meet all its normal requirements for domestic consumption is unavailable for purchase in circumstances where no quantitative restrictions exist on the ability of the United States to procure oil to meet its normal requirements, the United States Government will promptly make oil available for purchase by Israel to meet all of the aforementioned normal requirements of Israel (88)."
To simplify, whenever the Zionist entity needs oil, as per the 1975 MOU, the United States will answer Israel's beckoned call and go secure the oil. As was the case with Iraq, in which Benjamin Netanyahu bragged of Iraqi oil flowing from Kirkuk to Haifa (89), the war with Libya is indeed a war for oil. But not oil for America. Oil for the Zionist entity.
The US, UK and France have invaded Libya on Purim. It's occupied Iraq all over again.
Conclusion: Purim and Occupation
On March 19th, 2011, 2 days after Netanyahu's declarations against Qaddafi and the UN's approval of a no-fly zone, another dastardly crime of epic proportions was committed against humanity. The name of this crime is Operation Odyssey Dawn, the title for the French-British-American coalition attack on Libya. It began with 110 cruise missiles being fired from the sea by the US and the UK and bombardment from above being provided by France (90). 64 Libyan civilians were slaughtered and over 150 were wounded (91). Another genocide in the making. General Petraeus, the slaughterer of Iraqis and Afghans, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, another slaughterer of Iraqis and Afghans, think the mass murder of innocents deserves a good laugh (92).
It is certainly of no coincidence that the war against Libya, a revenge operation designed by the Zionist entity and instigated by its political assets, was started on the very same day that Iraq was invaded in 2003. Several analysts and politicos have made mention of this key point. The point that is not being mentioned, a point more important than the former, is that Libya, like Iraq (both inhumane invasions) and Kosovo before it, was invaded on Purim, the Jewish holiday of vengeance based on the events in the biblical Book of Esther, commemorating the killing of Persian Prime Minister Haman, who tried to wipe out the Jewish people before being wiped out himself. Haman's descendants are the Amalekites, and due to decades upon decades of brainwashing from the global Talmudic rabbinate, many Israelis and American Jews feel that Arabs and Muslims are the Amalekites (93). It is not a conspiracy theory, an opinion, a perspective or a supposition that Purim is a heightened time of conflict in the Middle East. It is a fact (94).
For Purim 2011, the occupied West Bank was placed under siege, and terminals within besieged Gaza were shut down (95). One of the most gruesome incidents on Purim in occupied Palestine was Purim 2006 when Palestinian prisoners were stripped naked, beaten, detained, and photographed after IOF tanks shelled a jail of illegally held Palestinians (96). But, a flashback that digs even deeper is required to fully understand what is being done to Libya. On March 5th, 1991, only five days after the Highway of Death incident in occupied Iraq, the US Congress honored a racist, xenophobic, genocidal Chabad Lubavich rabbi named Menachem Mendel Schneerson, deemed by American presidents as an achiever of "eminence as a moral leader for this country."
The killing of non-Jews, the goyim, according to Rabbi Schneerson, was not only permissible, acceptable, and even recommended, but he considered non-Jews to be a separate species from Jews. This monstrous man was the spiritual leader for many of the Zionist officials in the United States government from the first Bush administration through the second. These Zionist officials were the planners and executors of the invasions, occupations, and genocides of Iraq and Afghanistan. Were they spilling non-Jewish blood on Purim to appease their spiritual leader? (97).
Those reading can "do the math," especially considering that these same Zionist extremists are the warmongers who have orchestrated the spilling of blood in Libya today. Murdering Arabs, the Amalekites, on Purim, has become a sacred Israeli tradition (98), with certain rabbis going as far as considering Arabs worthy of annihilation for "obstructing the building of the 3rd Temple (99)." This extremism, which has claimed the lives of millions of Arabs and Muslims in the genocides of Iraq and Afghanistan, is never reported on by the Zionist media. Instead, the American people are given sustenance with fast mood meals of anti-Islamic rhetoric by the same pro-Israel war criminals sending their children to die for an illegal occupying entity. It is high time that they know what the true meaning of Amalek is and why it is of such esoteric significance to the Zionist controllers.
Cruise missiles fired by the occupiers into Libya.
What began as classic military interventionism has evolved into a full-blown occupation. Libya, like Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Kashmir, should be referred to as occupied Libya from now on. 2,200 Marines are directly offshore, making preparations to enter Libya (100). US Forces recently opened fire on Libyan villagers, wounding 6, including a young boy that needed to have his leg amputated (101). SAS squads classified as 'Smash Teams' are on the ground to aid the Operation Odyssey Dawn coalition in its incessant bombing of Libyan territory (102). And as the occupiers mobilize and multiply, the Zionist media is spreading obscene propaganda, echoing the lies of Iraq pre-invasion. Zionist puppet David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, is already parroting Gulf War-style tripe about Qaddafi using chemical warfare against the Libyan people (103); SAS forces are ready to seize the "mustard gas of the dictator" according to his government (104). The occupiers have already stated that there is 'no timeline' for the end of Odyssey Dawn (105).
The Zionist media is spreading its lies about the non-existent chemical weaponry of Muammar Qaddafi for a very specific reason: because the Zionist entity's American enforcer and its allies are using chemical weapons on the Libyan people. (45) 2,000 pound depleted uranium bombs have been dropped on Libya (106). As the confirmed civilian casualties rise to 100 (107), the nightmare starts anew. Birth defects, cancers and fetal damage from radiation among innocent Iraqis in Mosul, Basra, Fallujah, and Samarra and Baghdad after the US, Israeli and British depleted uranium in occupied Iraq (108). Contaminated blood, birth defects, and cancer among young Albanians after 11 tons of NATO depleted uranium in tiny Kosovo (109). Birth defects, incomplete hearts, and brain malformations in the children of illegally besieged Gaza after Israel's depleted uranium during Operation Cast Lead (110). Birth defects, deformities, leukemia, and esophageal cancer in Afghan children after US and NATO depleted uranium in occupied Afghanistan (111).
Pain. Suffering. More pain. More suffering. This is what Zionism and all of its allies bring to the indigenous peoples of the world, specifically the Middle East. It is sad, abysmally tragic, and flat-out despicable that so many "activists," "truth-seekers" and "journalists" have cheered on this occupation and incoming genocide of the Libyan people in an emotive, thoughtless manner, forgetting the lessons of the past.
Obama serves Zionism. Period.
They were nowhere to be found when the US incinerated children in Iraq and Israel's DU-tipped car bombs triggered hell on Iraqi streets from north to south. They were nowhere to be found when NATO destroyed Kosovo. They were nowhere to be found when the US and NATO massacred Afghanistan. They were definitely nowhere to be found when the Zionist entity rained hellfire on the innocent men, women and children of Lebanon and Gaza. They were nowhere to be found when US predator drones turned Pakistanis into dust matter. But now, they are on the front lines, cheering on Obama's war, a criminal that the Zionist political machine of Chicago, rooted in gangsterism, considers the "first Jewish president (112)."
The Zionist dragon has breathed its fire on one nation after another since it came into being almost 64 years ago. The blood of the Amalekites is what it needs to survive, and the innocents inflicted by Israeli-created genocides mentioned in the previous paragraph are obviously, not enough. It is up to the people of conscience to seek out the drummers of war and eradicate them ideologically, rendering them irrelevant and placing the defense of the indigenous above all. Muammar Qaddafi has a special place on the Zionist regime's hit list, and it doesn't care how many Libyans will die a brutal depleted uranium-touched death to accomplish its goal of overthrowing and burying him. Mahmoud Jibril, the Western stooge discussed earlier, has already been tapped by the Zionist Power Configuration as the "interim Prime Minister of Libya," i.e. Qaddafi's replacement (113).
The real message of the Libyan people: NO FOREIGN INTERVENTION!
To the vast majority of Libyans, who are not on the CIA payroll, whether you stand with Qaddafi or have issues with him, it is clear that you absolutely, positively, want nothing to do with the occupiers who are in the beginning stages of destroying your country. It is now up to you to fight back. It is up to you to cure this cancer. The traitors among you have made their decision to ally themselves with the butchers and bombers who have carved up the ancestral Arab and Muslim homelands like firewood on a chopping block. It is up to you to form a Resistance against all collaborators, all invaders, a model like that of Hezbollah in Lebanon, to save your nation.
Self-determination is a universal right that belongs to all people. It is embedded in the spiritual code of society, Islamic, Christian, secular or otherwise. It cannot be taken away by foreign powers; powers that never had any jurisdiction over such a right to begin with. Libya will overcome the siege of the Zionist dragon, no matter how long it may take, and when its self-determination blossoms, spitfire flowers will strike back at the powers who attempted to enforce humiliation against them.
And to those "humanitarians" attacking Muammar Qaddafi, an enigmatic leader who built Libya from the ground up over 42 years (114), you should direct your attention to real massacres from US-backed dictators ignored by the Zionist media like Islam Karimov, the barbaric 21-year dictator of Uzbekistan who slaughtered 700 of his citizens in the Andijan Massacre of 2005 (115).
Why are these "humanitarians" unaware of such a killing spree? Because Uzbekistan is a major torture center for the CIA's Rendition program (116), the cornerstone of Zionism's Orwellian 'War On Terror.' These "humanitarians" should remember that war is never the answer for anything, other than increasing the wealth of the globe holders. And finally, they should remember the words of late, great revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, whose words when applied to Libya and the oppressed Arab world have never rung so true, "Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." Indeed.
~ The End ~
About Jonathan Azaziah: The product of an Iraqi father whose family descended from the holy, resistant city of Kufa and a Moroccan-Russian mother, Jonathan Azaziah a.k.a. Madd Cold is an MC, poet and writer from Brooklyn, New York splitting his time between here, there and everywhere. His articles, poems and music predominantly deal with World Zionism and the cruel effect that it has had and continues to have on the world's oppressed people, as well as geopolitics and decolonization in general. He is the founder and Editor-In-Chief of Mouqawamah Music and is also the host of the "Mouqawamah Music Mask of Zion Report" on The Ugly Truth Broadcasting Network (theuglytruth.wordpress.com). His current album "Eternally Husseini" (May 2017) is out now. His music can be found on Insight Media and can be reached at jonathan DOT azaziah AT mouqawamahmusic DOT net
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6 Οὐ καλὸν τὸ καύχημα ὑμῶν. οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι μικρὰ ζύμη ὅλον τὸ φύραμα ζυμοῖ; 7 ἐκκαθάρατε τὴν παλαιὰν ζύμην, ἵνα ἦτε νέον φύραμα, καθώς ἐστε ἄζυμοι. καὶ γὰρ τὸ πάσχα ἡμῶν ἐτύθη Χριστός· 8 ὥστε ἑορτάζωμεν, μὴ ἐν ζύμῃ παλαιᾷ μηδὲ ἐν ζύμῃ κακίας καὶ πονηρίας, ἀλλ' ἐν ἀζύμοις εἰλικρινείας καὶ ἀληθείας.
5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. 3 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
The church in Corinth had a problem. They had a problem with being puffed up. They had a problem with pride. Paul takes a sharp needle and applies it to their over-inflated balloon in order to bring them back to a humility appropriate to those who are only sinners saved by God's grace through the cross of our Lord Jesus.
6 out of the 7 times that the word 'puffed up' or 'arrogant' appears in the New Testament, it is in 1 Corinthians. In 4:6 he tells them that they need to learn "not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another." In 4:18-19 he says that some are arrogant or puffed up, as though I were not coming to you, but he warns that he will come and find out not the talk of these puffed up people, but their power. In verse 2 of this chapter, he says that they are puffed up when they ought rather to be mourning. In chapter 8, he says that knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. In chapter 13 he says that love does not envy or boast, and it is not puffed up. They have an over-inflated view of themselves.
He repeatedly addresses boasting in this letter. In chapter 1, he reminds them that God chose to save in such a way "so that no human being might boast in the presence of God." He quotes the Scripture "let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord." He concludes in chapter 3 "so let no one boast in men." In chapter 4, he asks "what do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it why do you boast as if you did not receive it?" In this passage he starts out by saying "your boasting is not good." The Corinthians had a problem with pride, with being puffed up, with boasting.
In the first verses of this chapter, he applies the sharp point of glaring evidence to burst their over-inflated balloon. They, who claim to be so wise and strong and spiritual and mature, are tolerating a form of sexual immorality in the church that is not even tolerated among unbelievers. The church of Jesus Christ must have higher standards of morality than the world, not lower.
They are arrogant when they ought to be grieving. Their boasting is not good. They may have been flaunting this immoral person as an example of their so-called freedom in Christ. More likely, they were aware of the issue, but simply chose to look the other way and pretend that this sin did not affect them. They took an individualistic attitude toward spirituality; as if it were every man for himself. They may have even been boasting that they were not like this sinner.
Paul rebukes their pride head on, and asks them an insulting question. This is the second of ten such questions we find in 1 Corinthians. To ask someone who claims to be wise and advanced and super-spiritual 'do you not know?' is a blow to the ego. You think you are so wise; you are self-deceived. Let me bring you back to the basics. There are some really simple things you ought to know, but the evidence of your actions reveals that you are ignorant of these basic truths. Do you not know?
A little leaven leavens the whole lump. This is a proverbial principle. We might say 'one bad apple spoils the whole bunch'. Paul is pointing out the organic unity and interconnectedness of the church body. You all are one lump of dough. Because of our connection with Christ, we are connected with one another. We have been kneaded together through trials into a single indivisible whole. Each piece of dough is organically connected with the whole, and affected by the whole. The sin of one will infect or taint all the rest.
Jesus told his disciples to 'watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees' (Mt.16:6). "They understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees" (Mt.16:12) "which is hypocrisy" (Lk.12:1).
Leaven in that day was a starter of dough that already contained living organisms which feed on the sugars and release carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide is trapped inside the dough which causes the dough to rise or become inflated or puffed up. Once leaven is introduced into a lump of dough, it will quickly permeate the entire batch of dough. A tiny piece of this leavened dough can be broken off and used to leaven other batches of dough. The smallest amount of leaven can affect a huge amount of dough. Leaven in the bible is used as an illustration of sin. Because the body of Christ is bound together in unity, the church cannot claim to be spiritually advanced when evil is tolerated among them. Don't think that because you are not personally involved, you are innocent. There is corporate identity and corporate guilt. That is why Paul does not address the sinner. He addresses the group of believers and calls for them to take action.
Elsewhere he uses the illustration of the church as a body. If one part of the body is infected, the whole body is at risk. Sometimes desperate measures are necessary to curb the spread of the cancer. But you don't go around haphazardly lopping off limbs. That is a last resort when every other kind of healing rescue has failed.
What Paul has in mind here is the feast of unleavened bread that began with the passover celebration. Listen to God's instructions from Exodus 12.
This was a celebration memorializing what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt. God's people were slaves, cruelly oppressed. God was about to unleash his wrath against all the unbelievers who were mistreating his people and set his people free by a mighty deliverance. A lamb without blemish was to be slaughtered for each household, in place of the firstborn son. Its blood was applied to the door of the house as an indication that those inside were followers of God, obeying his instructions, covered by the blood. All leaven was to be removed from the house, and the passover lamb eaten with a hasty meal of unleavened bread and bitter herbs. There was not to be a trace of puffed up pride, because salvation is completely from the Lord. 'It is because of what the LORD did for me'.
Paul instructs the church in Corinth to cleanse out the old leaven. This is the third of four commands to expel the unrepentant sinner from the church; (v.1) let him who has done this be removed from among you, (v.5) deliver this man to Satan, (v.7) cleanse out the old leaven, (v.13) purge the evil from among you. There is sin that is contaminating the purity of the church, and they must deal with it. Remember, this was an ongoing public issue where there was no repentance. Jesus said "let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her" (Jn.8:7). All of us are sinners, forgiven by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. We must not be quick to cast stones. But when someone is presuming on God's grace and willfully continuing in sin that grace may increase, we are to defend the honor of Christ and the purity of his bride the church.
This is the ground, the basis for the command. This is not the goal of the command. It does not say 'cleanse out the old leaven so that you will be worthy of the sacrifice of Christ'. What it does say is 'cleanse out the old leaven because Christ has been sacrificed once for all and you are unleavened'. Be who you already are in Christ. Let your conduct come into harmony with who you are. The Messiah, Jesus, is our passover lamb, our substitute. We are covered by his blood. All who come under the protection of his blood, no matter what they have done, are safe. "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved"(Acts 16:31).
Romans 6:2 ...How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
You are under grace, you are not getting what you deserve, you have been set free from sin, you have been given new life. Now be who you are! The Christian life must be centered around the cross. The life of the church must keep the message of Christ crucified at center stage. Pursue the purity of the church, because Christ our passover has been sacrificed and he has made us pure.
8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
What must our response be to the awesome liberating truth of the Lamb of God who takes away our sin? Feast! Therefore keep on feasting! Celebrate the festival. Go on feasting. As we feast, we are to put aside the old leaven, leaven of badness and depravity. Instead we are to feast in unleavened clarity and transparency, with unleavened truth. We are to feast. The Christian life is to be a feast, a celebration. There are times for mourning and grief, grief over sin and decisive action to put away sin as Paul instructs in this passage, but the Christian life is to be characterized by joy. We are invited to a feast. With what is the table set? Keep in mind that we are talking about the passover. Christ our passover has once for all been sacrificed. We are invited to feast on the Passover Lamb. We are to feast on Jesus, to feed on Jesus, be nourished and strengthened by Jesus, to be sustained by Jesus, to let him meet our every need and satisfy our every longing. With transparency and truth, we are to come to the cross of our Lord Jesus and find in him everything our souls long for.
Christ our Passover has been sacrificed; so then, let us feast on him!


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Most Children Don't Like Spinach...But I Am a Child Who Does
A look at two childrens' relationship with food when they are not influenced by commercials and other media.
I didn't mean to raise my two kids as part of a human experiment in food preferences. It just worked out that way.
When Faith was born in 1998, my husband and I were living in Boston in an historic building where the wainscoting and windowsills were coated with lead paint. We knew we would need to move by the time that our daughter started crawling. Since I am a science writer and Jeff a sculptor, we began to look at communities that offered both large research libraries and cheap studio space. Ithaca, New York thus became our new home. On the very day that Faith first figured out forward locomotion, we loaded up a moving van with all our earthly possessions and headed for a log cabin in the woods just east of the Ithaca town line. The backyard descended into wetlands where great blue herons and foxes lived. The well water was sweet, and the frogs kept us awake at night. When we discovered, upon arrival, that our television set had apparently been stolen out of the back of the truck, we just shrugged.
And so the experiment was set in motion. We didn't replace the TV. I got pregnant again and started writing a new book, which I was determined to finish before the baby was born. Meanwhile, Jeff took over the running of the household and the care of a willful toddler. He quickly made three discoveries. One, there was a community-supported organic farm at the top of the hill which we could join. It had a play area out in the fields to occupy little kids while their parents picked produce or engaged in adult conversation. It also offered regular potluck dinners, which meant less cooking for him and more choices for his lumbering and now quite finicky spouse.
Two, there was a cooperative grocery store downtown called GreenStar that we could also join. Not only did it stock organic teething biscuits, it had a play area near the deli to occupy little kids while their parents could read, say, the arts section of the New York Times and drink much-needed cups of coffee.
Discovery number three: if he worked two hours a week at GreenStar, we could get a twenty-percent discount on groceries. The discount meant that the prices at the coop now approached those in regular supermarkets. And this meant that he didn't have to drive anywhere else for dog food, toilet paper, dish soap, and toothpaste. The result was a net gain of time. Running errands with small children, Jeff pointed out, takes a lot longer than just the driving time, especially when one factors in the minutes lost to the buckling and unbuckling of car-seat straps, the zipping and unzipping of little jackets, the diaper changes in the men's room, and, most dreaded of all, the disruption of the nap schedule. (Parents of toddlers are nodding furiously in recognition here, knowing all too well how one badly timed nap can throw an entire household into chaos.)
I was convinced by these arguments. So, for the past five years, all the food we eat at home has come from our local food coop or a local community-supported farm in which we are shareholders. The result for our two kids — Faith is now six and her brother Elijah almost four — is that they have never been advertised to. The images, jingles, and pitches of the food industry have, by and large, never reached them. Their food preferences have, consequently, been entirely shaped by their direct experience with the food itself and the farmers who grow it. No cartoon characters stare at them from boxes of presweetened cereals displayed at pediatric eye level in supermarket aisles. No candy bars wait in the checkout lane, ready to spark a parent-child battle of wills. No television commercials seduce them with pictures of crispy chips and bubbly colas.
I realize that my children are only a sample size of two. But because their commercially unmediated relationship to food is so unfortunately rare, it seems worthwhile to report on what they like to eat. Both my kids ask for sweet potatoes, baked with maple syrup drizzled on top, as bedtime snacks. Neither of them cares for soft drinks ("Too spicy," says my son). Both like almost any kind of vegetable, and are particularly fond of kale (with sesame seeds and tamari sauce), broccoli, and peas. Elijah has a special enthusiasm for avocados and cole slaw. Both are willing to try new foods, but Faith has the more adventurous palate. Elijah prefers to stick to the tried and true; he is big on eggs, beans, toast with olive oil, and any kind of soup.
Both of them cycle through food aversions in ways that seem fickle and irrational. One week Faith suddenly proclaims that she hates bananas and always will. The next week, she complains that there are no bananas. Elijah announces that tomatoes are detestable. A few days later, tomatoes are okay again. But no raisins! (Jeff and I treat these sudden-onset reversals of preference respectfully but casually.) Black and green olives, on the other hand, are always desirable, as are brown rice, tofu, red peppers, chickpeas, and corn. Watermelon is the ambrosia of the household, closely followed by cantaloupe, strawberries, and cherries. Apples are a staple.
It also seems worth reporting the following story: About a year ago, while traveling with Elijah and Faith, I was delayed in Chicago's O'Hare airport for several hours. We ran out of snacks. Forbidden from leaving the gate area — the problem was alleged to be a computer glitch that could be resolved at any moment — I looked around for something to eat. The only vendor within earshot of the gate was McDonald's. And that is where we went. Well, this is a watershed moment in parenting, I thought, as I handed each of my hungry children a little red and yellow sack, warm with food.
They hated it.
"Too spicy," said Elijah.
I urged him to eat it anyway; we wouldn't be home for another four hours.
"Look, Mama," Faith shot back. "Look at their sign."
I looked over at the big yellow "M" to which she was pointing.
"Even their name is made out of limp French fries," she asserted. "Why would you want to eat their food?"
That's when I realized that she didn't see the world-famous logo as golden arches at all. No one had ever told her that's what it was supposed to be. To her, the M in McDonald's looked like two yellow, bent-over fries. Yuck.
Faith has already begun school, and Elijah will follow her in another year. I know that their innocent, unpropagandized view of food will change once they spend some time at the lunchroom table, comparing the contents of their lunchboxes with those of their friends, hearing other comments, encountering other habits. I can hope that some remnants of the habits and tastes that they've developed so far will remain, but I'd like to do more than just hope. Already, Faith has noticed that many of her school friends, as well as characters in books, have disparaging things to say about spinach.
"I guess children don't like spinach," she observed. And then she added, "but I am a child who does!
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Q: SQL multiple Joing Question, cant join 5 tables, problem with max I got 6 tables:
Albums
id_album | title | id_band | year |

Bands
id_band | name |style | origin

composers
id_musician | id_song

members
id_musician | id_band | instrument

musicians
id_musician | name | birth | death | gender

songs
id_song | title | duration | id_album

I need to write a query where I get the six bands with more members and of those bands, get the longest song duration and it's title.
So far, I can get the biggest bands:
SELECT bands.name, COUNT(id_musician) AS numberMusician
FROM bands
INNER JOIN members USING (id_band)
GROUP BY bands.name
ORDER BY numberMusician DESC
LIMIT 6;

I can also get the longest songs:
SELECT MAX(duration), songs.title, id_album, id_band
FROM SONGs
INNER JOIN albums USING (id_album)
GROUP BY songs.title, id_album, id_band
ORDER BY MAX(duration) DESC

The problem occurs when I am trying to write a subquery to get the band with the corresponding song and its duration. Trying to do it with inner joins also gets me undesired results. Could someone help me?
I have tried to put the subquery in the where, but I can't find how to do it due to MAX.
Thanks

A: I find that using lateral joins makre the query easier to write. You already have the join logic all right, so we just need to correlate the bands with the musicians the songs.
So:
select b.name, m.*, s.*
from bands b
cross join lateral (
    select count(*) as cnt_musicians
    from members m
    where m.id_band = b.id_band
) m
cross join lateral (
    select s.title, s.duration
    from songs s
    inner join albums a using (id_album)
    where a.id_band = b.id_band
    order by s.duration desc limit 1
) s
order by m.cnt_musicians desc
limit 6

For each band, subquery m counts the number of musicians per group (its where clause correlates to the outer query), while s retrieves the longest song, using correlation, order by and limit. The outer query just combines the information, and then orders selects the top 6 bands.

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Jim the old guy
Joined: May 31, 2005 • 10:36 am
So asked Tex when arriving at the bottom of the ascension chamber. Reagan says she had just arrove as well. The question we have discussed before is this: Just how DID Reagan get there?
Here is my answer. She and Cross follow Fitzpatrick down to the ship or some how figured out the ship's exact location. Realizing Tex landed on the other side of the temple and knowing Tex would eventually work his way to the only apparent exit (via the roof of the chamber), Cross, using a rope, lowers Reagan to the bottom making sure she has a rope to get back out again.
Of course this raises one or two other questions. First, why didn't they just try to figure out a way into the ship? After all, they could see it sitting there like a big Xmas present waiting to be opened. Perhaps they DID try to get into the ship and found that to be impossible. If so, then they figured their only other option was Tex. Since he had adroitly resolved several issues and puzzles along the way, they probably surmised his success at figuring a way into the ship and decided they needed him after all. Second, why was Reagan so coy at trying to get only she and Tex to split the booty? I mean, she had to know Cross was there waiting. Think about it! There was no surprise in her voice or actions when Cross appeared; only Tex seemed taken aback at Cross's presence. Finally, IF they were successful in retrieving the power source from the ship, who's to say that Cross would want the spoils all to himself? After all, he was the only one with a loaded gun. Why split it with Reagan, who I might add was attracted to Tex, not Cross. He may have shot her just for spite, or, as he said earlier, he just likes killing people.
But, the real question is this: Why am I spending so much time on a game that's been off the market for 15 years? Maybe I just have too much time on my hands. Anyway, what do you think?
"If you look to me for illumination, you better have a flashlight!"
Bafitis
Joined: February 17, 2008 • 12:11 am
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
It's obvious she didn't come via the Temple like Tex did, because all of the Puzzles would have been solved and we wouldn't have had to do anything...
Even if Cross and Reagan followed Fitz, how did they know where the Chamber in the Temple was??? And I don't think there is a rope long enough to go all the way down that chamber...
My only guess is that she came in through an Air Shaft of some kind...
I have another question about the whole Temple scene... How did Tex lose his Backpack on the way down??? Shouldn't Gravity had made sure that it came tumbling behind him???
I'd like to know how much Witt gave Tex at the end of it all as well... Because Tex says Witt was nice enough to write him a check for his expenses and then some... Well how much is "And Then Some"???
I guess it was enough to take Chelsea to a Nice Restaurant in Overseer...
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I didn't think about an air shaft and that is certainly another possibility.
How much did Witt give Tex? Good question. There is nothing to indicate the exact amount but it would have been at least $500.00 since Fitz paid for 8 days w/o expenses. So, $500 for day nine, plus the air ride down, plus extra for the "then some".
I think it was Chelsee who paid for the dinner at The Golden Pagoda in Overseer. She'd have to since Tex didn't have more than $3.00 for the coat check.
Bjyman
Joined: July 28, 2005 • 7:41 am
Last edited by Bjyman on January 17, 2011 • 8:54 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Baf - Maybe the backpack got hung up on the tunnel spikes.
Jim I'd assume the spacecraft was concealed by jungle foilage. It had to be or Google Satellite or any airplane passing by would have noticed it.
Here's how I think Regan got there before Tex. If you look at the ceiling in the Ascension Chamber you see several tunnels. So I think Regan went down a seperate tunnel. To further support this I believe the Pandora Directive book talks about multiple pathways through the Mayan Temple. Not to mention Fitzpatrick advises taking multiple paths to the spacecraft. The temple must of had more than one entry point. The entry room Tex had was the Snake Chamber, so the entry room for Regan must have been somewhere else, off game.
Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis Spoiler alert. Hilight over the black on black to see.
There's a puzzle in this game that I think illustrates this nicely. In Tikal Indy takes the hard path to the temple by getting rid of a rodent and a snake, and then using a tree to cross a gap, only to find Sophia across on the other side. When he asks Sophia how she got there, she something to the effect of "Oh I just took the other path behind me."It's a gag on Indy's hard work all for nothing. Knowing how Tex gets the short straw, I could see this easily applying to Tex. The path Regan took to get to her tunnel probably didn't involve 5 chambers and the tunnel she shot off was probably less of a fall. I also believe with a temple full of safeguards Regan didn't see the tunnel coming. Cross, he didn't even go through the temple! He probably went an easy way through the jungle. The good guys get it so hard don't they?
The real question is how did Tex survive that tunnel drop? I think the game said the tunnel he went through was 40 feet high.
Now onto your question about Regan not mentioning splitting things with Cross. I'll give you 4 reasons.
1. Even if Regan didn't like Cross I don't think she'd want to cross Cross and the NSA.
2. You got to feel for Regan somewhat, but she's still a bad guy. And part of being a bad guy was using money to seduce Tex. If you're a bad guy making a sales pitch, you're not going to be up front and say oh it's not 50/50, we have to split the money 3 ways.
3. I think Regan knew about Tex's hatred for Cross and the NSA. After all he almost got killed because of them. Mentioning being aligned with Cross would most likely drive him right to Fitzpatrick. You think Tex would be trying so hard to get Regan on the rising platform if he knew the truth? Sure she could just mention a false third party but then I direct you to 1.
4. Regan did say "sell the technology to the right the people". I dont think Regan cared about the technology, so maybe the deal was Cross gets the technology and Regan gets the cash.
I hope that was insightful.
Well, that certainly gives me something more to think about. Thanks!
AJPebble
Joined: September 05, 2006 • 11:59 pm
I only post on the message board like once every five years, but I just wanted to say that it makes me really, really happy to know that there are other people still thinking about these kinds of things in 2011.
Well welcome... Good to have you around, even if you choose not to post... Feel free to join any discussion, the more the merrier for sure...
And yes we are still hopeful... Especially since in recent years Aaron and Chris have established their own company and have gotten the rights to Tex Murphy under their control... Now it is just a question of Time and Money... Though I imagine Time would be solved if Money were to be solved... So the main problem is obtaining the money for he Budget to begin...
I agree with Baf - good to see you here, AJ.
Yes, the almighty dollar couldn't be more almighty when it comes to a new Tex game. Maybe we should start a slush fund?
Joined: June 01, 2005 • 7:51 am
Lets not forget that throwing a rope down the chamber would've been impossible. It was not like a giant wishing well with a hole somewhere at the top. At the top of the chamber was a teleportation device which then transported them to the location of the ship.
-Cub. =o)
Never heard that one before, Cub. I thought the ship just happened to be in the vicinity of the Maya temple, lying there previously undiscovered. Although, the electric flashes would seem to support your supposition. Thanks!
Yeah I'm with Cub, there is no hole in the Ground, and you would have seen the Stone Platform that they were riding up the shaft on, instead they are just laying on grass... But if it was a Transporter, why did they have to ride so far up??? I mean they were on that platform for a while...
That's a good point to consider, Baf. I think I'm back to my "lowering Reagan on a rope" theory either from an air shaft or down the main hole leading to the chamber. She had to get into it some way and it was definitely not the same path taken by Tex.
Bafitis wrote: Yeah I'm with Cub, there is no hole in the Ground, and you would have seen the Stone Platform that they were riding up the shaft on, instead they are just laying on grass... But if it was a Transporter, why did they have to ride so far up??? I mean they were on that platform for a while...
Definately a teleportation. It's like a portal from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the ceiling. You have to touch it to actually go through it.
I can only assume this much, but I think I might know why they chose to create a long ascention shaft:
The Mayans were a primitive race, and although their understanding of the cosmos as well ahead of their time, they were probably still very frightened of any foreign technology, especially very advanced stuff. So the aliens, instead of building the teleportation device on the ground (where it would probably cause a panic), they built an ascention shaft which a rising platform so that the process would be more in-tune with the Mayan's interpretation of how someone ascends to heaven. So in the case where it would be someone's turn to ascend, they would be far more comfortable with a rising platform insead of having the giant orb of lightning on the ground and being told to just jump into it.
That's just me $0.02.
I can understand the concept behind not wanting to frighten the people, but still that was one LLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG Shaft...
I think they could have achieved the same effect with a simple 10 meters or so at a slower pace... As fast as they were rising and the amount of time they spent rising before the Electricity happened, it can be assumed that they rose about 100 meters or so... That's just using a rough formula since you can't be specific of how fast they were going...
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