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Ilan Pappe
10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.267
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The history of Modern Palestine begins somewhere in the 19th century. Writing it, or about it, is a huge challenge. It is very hard to distinguish between the history and the historiography of the country, as it is narrated to this very day, including by scholars, in two diametrically opposed ways. Even the term modern Palestine itself is a contentious one, let alone the history of the country itself.
The history of Palestine cannot be dissociated from that of Israel, one of the few states in the world whose modern, indeed, its contemporary history is still contested and highly charged. Therefore, the historiographical research on Palestine is inconclusive.
The best way of approaching such complexities is recognizing the prevalence of more than one narrative about the country's past and present realities as well as acknowledging the dynamic and dialectical relationship between the competing narratives. Thus, the pendulum keeps oscillating in favor or against the validity and acceptance of the two major competing narratives about the country's history: the Israeli Zionist one and the Palestinian one.
In such a world, the historian's own positionality is as much a factor in the story he or she tells as is the evidence itself. For this reason, the history of modern Palestine, in particular, cannot be easily presented as an entry to an encyclopedia. Any scholarly work on such a place will reflect, despite all the attempts at professionalism and fairness, a certain moral as well as an emotive position. An intelligent reader could easily detect within a factual presentation, where a more subjective commentary is proposed.
It is not only the personal views of the historians that affect the analysis of the country's history, but also the changing balance of power between the competing narratives that plays a crucial role in the way articles like this one are written. This balance of power has changed in recent years. In crude terms, one could say that scholarly works around the world on Palestine reflected the Zionist narrative until the 1980s and were far more critical toward this narrative ever since.
From the Israeli Zionist narrative, the history of Palestine is closely associated with the history of the Jewish religion. Thus, this narrative begins in the biblical times, when the Jewish nation was born as a monotheistic religion on the land, which today is Israel and Palestine. It continues with the expulsion of the Jews by the Romans around 70 AD and defines Jewish life ever since as life in exile. The modern history of Palestine commences in 1882 with the return of the Jews to their homeland after centuries of neglect that left the county arid and derelict for centuries: in fact, until the arrival of Zionism. The Zionist immigration is thus depicted as a "return" to an ancient homeland on the one hand, and as an act of modernization, on the other. The arid, desert-like country was bloomed, and the new arrivals founded a democratic state, the only one in the Middle East. The native people are described as semi nomads without any sense of national or even ethnic aspirations. Their rejection of Zionism is therefore attributed to their primitivism or to the incitement by others: namely Islamic leaders, Arab tyrants, or anti-Semitic gentiles.
This would be the explanation for the attempt by the Arab world to defeat the Jewish state in 1948, after it was recognized by the international community (through the United Nations' General Assembly Resolution 181 from November 29, 1947), which accorded roughly half of the country to the local Arabs who rejected what par this narrative was as a just and fair solution.
The history of Palestine ever since 1948, from the perspective of this narrative, is exclusively the history of Israel, which moves between endless and hostile attempts to wipe Israel out by military force—in several recurring regional wars and recently Islamic terrorism—and a wish to find a solution to the bits of Palestine Israel occupied in 1967—the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. A lack of Palestinian leadership, internal Israeli debates about the future of the occupied territories, and international diplomatic incompetence are provided as explanations for failing to end this conflict.
The Palestinian narrative, on the other hand, depicts a society that at least since the 7th century lived a normal and organic life as the indigenous people of the country. Contrary to the Zionist maxim that Palestine was a land without people waiting for the people without land, the Palestinian historiography reveals a vibrant society, mostly rural but with a dynamic urban center that survived foreign and regional occupiers. The one disruption it could not cope with was the arrival of Zionism, depicted in this narrative as a colonial movement that eventually led to the Nakba, the 1948 catastrophe. Ever since that year, the Palestinian struggle to liberate their homeland through the agency of the PLO, which in the late 1980s was willing to partition the country into two states but was not reciprocated by any goodwill on the part of Israel. This is a narrative of dispossession on the one hand, and a liberation struggle that still continues today, on the other.
Ever since the 1980s, the scholarly world tends to accept the basic arguments included in the Palestinian narrative, not least because there are quite a few Israeli historians who endorsed them. Thus, the Palestinian narrative ascended not just as the "other side" of the story that was silenced, but also appeared as the more universal one among the two. It became the narrative of the human rights' agenda in which the Palestinians were depicted as victims of settler colonialism and the Zionist movement, and later the state of Israel, as colonial victimizers. This is a work in progress and recent scholarship is not content with such a simplified dichotomous historiographical approach. This new updated look on human history, from a moral and not just factual point of view, still requires a paradigm that would help the historian to make sense of a complicated reality.
The narrative thus chosen for this article reflects these historiographical developments. It narrates the history of Palestine as the tale of an indigenous population that since the 630s was ruled by Muslim dynasties (apart from a short period of a Crusader conquest), until it was colonized by a settler colonial movement arriving there in 1882.
The colonization effort expanded and grew during the period of the British rule (1918–1948). It resulted in 1948 with the creation of the state of Israel over 78 percent of Palestine and the transformation of half of the Palestinian population into refugees. These two outcomes affect the modern history of the country ever since. This year, 1948, was a miraculous year for the Zionist movement and a disastrous year for the Palestinians. The Israeli attempt to maintain its 1948 achievements and the Palestinian struggle to rectify the 1948 catastrophe inform both the history and historiography of Israel and Palestine. This is not a closed chapter in our modern global history; it is an ongoing story that has wider implications for the history of the region and the world at large.
Keywords: British Mandate, Gaza Strip, PLO, Zionism, West Bank, Palestine, Israel
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
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Martyr Ian David Long and the Reflective Beauty of Outlaw Mass Murder
November 9, 2018 mass murder, mental health, psychology, social commentaryBorderline Bar & Grill mass shooting, catharsis, child abuse, Ian David Long, Ian Long, mental illness, military, reflection, Thousand Oaks massacre, WarThe Seer of Forbidden Truth	View all 2 comments
Ian David Long, Your Tortured Victim-Creation and amerikkkan Martyr
I am a huge fan of outlaw mass murder, for many different reasons, and it delights Me to bear witness to a steady increase, in recent decades and years, to this beautifully reflective individual act of catharsis by tortured victim-creations of 20th and 21st century human society, culture, and government, all across planet earth.
For those of us who are sane and capable of both recognizing and embracing the Forbidden Truths of human existence, the 00000000.01%, the deranged and perverse reaction of you humans to these events, demonizing guns and judging these Martyrs to be mentally ill and evil, does not merely justify each act, but elevates each act a noble and honorable message of Truth, delivered in the best possible way, to a species that is only capable of worshiping death, delusion, and hypocrisy.
Every outlaw mass murderer is a writer, a director, a teacher, a Seer, a Shaman, a psychologist, a doctor, a healer. You pathetic creatures do not heal, because you are incapable of it, and yet the outlaw mass murderer is trying to heal you. Your rejection of his efforts, delights Me.
Each and every time, you prove by your collective response that the outlaw mass murderer did the right thing. In a world where Truth is forever dead, in a world where life is hated and death is worshiped, in a world where the most mentally ill rule and determine and control the fate of the less mentally ill, in a world where the ritualistic destruction of all child minds is mandated by law and by public policy mandate of every existing society and government, in a world where every voice of Truth is silenced, snuffed out, ridiculed and rejected, in a world where universal harm, suffering, trauma, and victimization for all is deliberately imposed and inflicted, in a world where nothing can ever be seen, understood, known for what it is, just the facts, just the realities, so obvious and clear and undeniable, these few men and women who stand up and reflect themselves upon the world with independently inspired rage, hate, vengeance, and the infliction of as much external harm as they can, in vibrant and dynamic form, deserve the pure and unconditional admiration of their fellow victims, those of us who are genuinely enlightened to the True nature of the human condition.
Always I will stand up for Truth and for all who express it. It is the only way a human-born can honor Himself. Truth, so rare, so often hidden away, and always rejected and condemned when it is presented. The gift of Truth, I love it as I love Myself.
And so a new voice, a new messenger, receives my time and focus today. 28 year old Ian David Long, tortured victim of child abuse, a professional murderer taught to hate an imaginary enemy, sent thousands of miles away by his greatest enemy, his own society and government, brainwashed and propagandized and indoctrinated to dehumanize complete strangers, given deadly weapons and ordered to try to massacre these complete strangers with the promise of riches and rewards and parades and praise, decreed a moral hero for agreeing to participate in the Insane War Ritual as created and sponsored by his genocide-based society and government, has stood up, sacrificed his very opportunity to try to gain the gift of existence, in exchange for 5 minutes of freedom of mind, 5 minutes of independence of rage and hate, 5 minutes of revenge, payback for 28 years of injustice that began while he was still womb-trapped.
Less than 48 hours ago, Martyr Ian opened fire inside of a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, successfully harvesting 12 humans, and wounding 25 more. And immediately afterward, he Self-murdered, giving up on Himself, knowing that Truth is forever dead to humanity, knowing he could and would never be respected and honored and thanked and recognized as a leader of a human mind revolution that could put an end to the insanities of war, of alcohol consumption, of government and parenthood and universal child abuse. He left the universe as he entered the universe: a dead thing incapable of becoming alive, trapped within a species that is collectively dead in mind, in spirit, in consciousness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Oaks_shooting
Outlaw mass murder is a beautiful thing, not because it works, but because it doesn't work. Every success is a failure, within a system that makes it impossible to define what failure is. this Forbidden Truth is one of the most precious and profound of them all. Within the pitch blackness of human consciousness, Ian David Long illuminated Himself and all of the Forbidden Truths, inside of the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, amerikkka, 48 hours ago.
Thank you Ian, for standing up and shining brightly.
"I hope people call me insane… (laughing emojis).. wouldn't that just be a big ball of irony? Yeah.. I'm insane, but the only thing you people do after these shootings is 'hopes and prayers'.. or 'keep you in my thoughts'… every time… and wonder why these keep happening…"—Ian David Long, Facebook post, moments before opening fire.
The End of Belief
March 30, 2018 belief, consciousness, philosophy, psychologybelief as a weapon of government, believe in nothing, brain dysfunction, eradicating belief, freedom of mind, mental health, mental illness, reality perception, rejecting belief, religionThe Seer of Forbidden Truth	Leave a comment
What do you believe, and what do you believe in??
It does not make any difference what answers you provide, you will be wrong and you will prove yourself to be an inferior creature possessing a damaged, deformed, and dysfunctional brain. There is only one correct answer to this question, and here it is:
I have no beliefs, and I believe in nothing, because I understand and know the philosophical concept and the psychological embrace of belief itself to be a fundamental and profound error of reason, consciousness, and the vital clarity necessarily inherent within all True Quests. I recognize belief, in and of itself, as being dangerous, harmful, inherently unnecessary, and in direct conflict with all efforts to pierce and dismantle The Matrix of Universal Illusion. I categorically reject the structure of belief itself, because it can be and is only being used, to conceal, distort, discourage, compromise, and destroy all efforts of mankind to dwell within Truth.
Humans, pathetic humans of planet earth, it is time to end the scourge of belief! It is time to stop believing…in anything! It is time to recognize and to understand that belief is a mind shackle of the highest order. It is time to out belief as paralyzer of all personal and collective human potential to thrive within the lights of reality, fact, knowledge, and Truth!
Henceforth, nothing is to be believed. The psychological construct of belief must be evaporated to nothingness, left to wilt and disintegrate as a fundamental mistake of the genetically birth defective human brain. Henceforth, things will either be known, or they will be not known. There will be facts and realities, standing across unknown mysteries. Proof will be defined accurately. Science will be honored for what it proves, and for what it disproves.
Never will there be any shame to admit a lack of knowledge. Never will the mind poison of belief be allowed to infiltrate and contaminate any issue. Never again!
All believers will be diagnosed mentally ill. Belief will be recognized as a dysfunction of the brain, a cowardly, delusional, failure of mind order. Never again will the relative possibility of any belief being valid, be allowed to darken the consciousness of the universe. Belief as a mind structure is itself invalid, so how can any singular belief emanating from such a diseased structure, be allowed to exist, to contaminate the sacredness of our Truth Quest?!
Who will stand with Me, who will heft the mighty sword, and mercilessly bring it down, to decapitate the mind virus that is belief?!
It is time to stop associating belief to religion, it is time to broaden our minds to an understanding of the limitless devastation wrought by the chasm of consciousness within which belief dwells.
"I believe she loves me." No! You cannot believe that, you cannot believe anything, pathetic human. "I believe things will be okay." No! "I believe in myself." No!
There are no positive beliefs, there are no empowering beliefs, because to believe is to wage war against reality, Truth, and your own Self-universe. Self-love is not belief. Confidence is not belief. Ego is not belief. Determination is not belief. All of these positives can be embraced and can thrive, absent all belief.
Belief is a mistake, it is a dysfunction of the human brain. It cannot be selectively redeemed. It must be purged from human consciousness, as a failed structure, a house of cards that is always collapsed, before it can ever even be erected.
In the names of Truth and Self, in honor of what is real and solid, the contaminated mind wasteland of belief must be condemned and burned to ashes.
It is March 30, 2018, and a species stands paralyzed, billions of life forms entranced and chained to something that is wrong, stupid, destructive, tearing them, and the Forbidden Truths, to pieces, from every angle.
And still they believe, they believe in belief.
Human Imagination: A Symptom of Genetic Mental Illness & Brain Deformity
March 26, 2018 consciousness, imagination, psychology, reality perceptionbrain function, defective human brain, human imagination, mental health, mental illness, mythology, philosophy, religion, self-insight, the aftelifeThe Seer of Forbidden Truth	One Comment
Everywhere today, you find human societies, cultures, and government praising, fetishizing, deifying the human imagination as being a wonderful and precious asset of the individual human brain. Imagination is decreed to be the driving force behind creativity, innovation, scientific progress, mental health and well-being, intelligence, and many other overtly positive and necessary human traits. Without a good imagination, we are lost! Right??
What if all this is a lie, a perverse illusion and delusion? What if the human imagination is in fact one of the darkest, most destructive forms of universal brain dysfunction?!
A Forbidden Truth analysis of the human condition, absolutely reveals the latter to be True. There is something fundamentally perverse and obscene not only within the operational structure of human imagination, but just as importantly, in how the species chooses to deify and literally worship imagination as being a sacred, vital indicator of mental health.
Those of us who are sane and Superior know that the human brain is genetically diseased and malformed, that humanity exists as a birth defect species, on a direct level of brain development, physiology, and functionality.
If you dissect how humanity, individually and collectively, uses its imagination, how it chooses to perceive and to apply value to the capacity of the human brain to imagine things, you can see that something is terribly, foundationally, flawed.
In a nutshell: Every brain, every consciousness, should only be able to imagine, precisely and definitively what it is capable of achieving and creating and experiencing within functional reality. If something cannot be achieved, created, or experienced, it should not be imagined. It should be unimaginable, to both the conscious and subconscious realms of the mind. This is mental health, this is proper brain functionality, as exhibited by all other animals.
To be able to imagine things that are false, wrong, impossible to achieve, or functionally delusional, is a basic and profound error and malfunction of the brain. All such imagination is a profound negative, not positive, helpful, or indicative of any type of normal, natural, or appropriate brain functionality.
But humans suffer from this brain dysfunction, and completely refuse to acknowledge it as a dysfunction. No pun intended, but they imagine their imagination is a wondrous asset, something that sets them apart and above other species of life, when in reality the exact opposite is True. It is their very imagination itself, that renders them unable to even consciously imagine and envision the great harm and crippling of personal and species-wide potential, caused by both their obsessive compulsion to engage in wildly fantastical imagination, and their obsessive, subconscious need to perceive and judge such imaginations as being good, valuable, and positive.
Inferiors will argue that the imagination absolutely leads to scientific, technological, and social progress. If something cannot be first imagined, how can it be later achieved??They will vehemently decree that the virtues of a powerful and vibrant imagination absolutely outweigh any and all negatives of such an imagination.
But here we come to the crucial moment of Forbidden Truth understanding that human insiders who lack the Alien Eye, cannot and will not ever grasp: Whatever can be achieved, whatever is possible and True and scientifically valid and expressive of functional reality, should and indeed must be imagined beforehand. This type of imagination is simply intelligence and knowledge projected forward to enhance what already is. This type of imagination is simply a form of learning, that all species of life fully engage in. It indicates normal and appropriate brain functionality.
At the same time, within the exact same framework, the brain should not be able to imagine projections and "fantasies" of future realities that are false, wrong, impossible to achieve, or functionally delusional. A genetically healthy brain would simple be incapable of generating such imaginations, in reflection of the natural law that such imaginations are overtly harmful to the Self-universe, and serve to retard and cripple progress potential.
And because functionally healthy and sane brains individually and collectively do evolve and change over time, the parameters of imagination would also, naturally, shift and change over time, so that always, what is possible can be imagined, while what is not possible, cannot be imagined. This is the state of natural mental health experienced by most, if not all, known species of life. With the only glaring and absolute exception, being the pathetic human species.
Let's cut right to a profoundly important example, to illuminate this Mind Bomb of Forbidden Truth:
2000 years ago, humans were capable of imagining the True and factual consequences of their own deaths, and were also capable of imagining a bizarre and fantastical afterlife delusion that had no basis in fact, reality, or sane thinking, inspired by their terror of the original, factually valid imagination. Both of these imaginations were indicative of genetic malformation and malfunction of the human brain. Why? Because if technological immortality could not be functionally achieved back then, imagining the true and factual consequences of dying, should have also been impossible.
As the human brain evolved, an understanding of the consequences of death should only have occurred within the past 100 years, no earlier than year 1900, concurrent with the capacity to imagine successfully defeating and overcoming the consequences of death, via technological immortality.
So now, here we are, and the human imagination holds all of humanity hostage within The Matrix of Universal Illusion. Death is a problem easily solved, any sane outsider knows exactly what the solution is and how it must be attained, but because the human brain is genetically diseased and malformed, something imagined 2000+ years ago, that should have never been imagined, that would have never been imagined absent the birth defect status of the human brain, will now cause each of us, everyone born human, to be eternally murdered and retroactively unborn, even though this horrific fate is completely preventable and avoidable, absent the incapacity of humans today, to imagine, as evolutionary learning, technological immortality as being the actual and real solution to the problem of death.
Don't you see, fools: An imagination that should never have been possible back then, is destroying all human capacity to imagine something now, that should be easily and obviously and clearly imaginable, today.
Read this essay, and know my brilliance, human fools! I despise you all, for your stupidity! Can't you see what you are doing, and why you are doing it?! No, of course not, because you remain human, trapped within your birth defect, genetically crippled brain. You talk about mass murder rampages with disbelief and contempt, yet your own imagination is running rampant, on a rampage that is murdering every human being on planet earth.
If you were capable of sanity you would stop in your tracks. You would be thunderstruck by the conscious realization of what is wrong with you, with all other humans, and with the world itself. You would stop, and you would acknowledge on every level of consciousness, the Forbidden Truth that your brain is genetically defective. And within this knowledge you would abandon everything you hold dear and true today, knowing it all to be toxic and useless and false and a manifestation of your brain defectiveness.
But no, instead you will imagine I am wrong.
Encyclopedia of Obscure Customs of Extinct Species, Entry 63,857: "LIFE"
March 22, 2018 consciousness, immortality, psychology, technological immortalitybrainwashing, death, do you exist?, existence, forbidden truth, life, mental illness, philosophy, self-awareness, the lie of existenceThe Seer of Forbidden Truth	Leave a comment
"Life": A nonsensical term coined by a genetically brain damaged species of mutated monkeys, incapable of evolving, who referred to themselves as "human", and terrorized a small planet they called earth, for a brief period of time before devolving to species extinction.
"Life" was universally embraced by this doomed species, as an absurd illusion and pretense of existence. The uniquely defective brains of this species, were able to consciously perceive and comprehend the reality of their own impending eternal non-existence, but unable to psychologically bear the functional ramifications of this eternal non-existence.
As a universal delusion, arising as coping mechanism, the concept of "life" was concocted. This universal delusion, embraced by 99.99999999% of all humans, held that the capacity of an individual to consciously experience transitory changes and alterations to his consciousness, as well as to maintain short-term memory of these changes, constituted life.
Conscious experiences and memories, utterly meaningless and doomed to be eternally lost, were fetishized as constituting markers of an existence, as the unbearable realities of death were desperately hidden away and denied, via a mentally deranged system of organized delusion referred to as the "after-life".
In a unique example of devastating brain dysfunction affecting an entire species collectively, humans consistently refused, as a collective whole, to try to gain the gift of existence, even after achieved technological and scientific progress rendered death an easily defeated problem.
Psychologically, the illusion and delusion of an existing life was so powerful and addictive, it was impossible for humans to pierce and to abandon. This, coupled with a unique species-wide mind virus of Self-hate and personal worthlessness, rendered the illusion and delusion of existence to be overtly preferred, over the attainment of actual existence via the eradication of death.
Even as thousands of other species of life, throughout the galaxy, naturally possessed the normal brain functionality necessary to consciously understand and accept that to gain the invaluable gift of existence required the eternal preservation of personal brain functionality and consciousness via the defeat and termination of death, the human remained pathologically fixated upon the bizarre notion that he already existed, and that the reality of death bore no impact upon the reality of his existence.
The human species continued to devolve to complete extinction, never gaining conscious awareness of it's own capacity to gain existence, much less engaging in any practical efforts to achieve such an existence.
A unique lesson can be learned, in dissecting the tragic fate of this inviable species: Genetic and organic brain defectiveness must always be consciously recognized and acknowledged. Only in doing so, can the devastating impacts of such genetic deformity be mitigated.
Kaylee Muthart and the Forbidden Truths of Religion, god, and Blindness
March 19, 2018 god, religion, social commentary, theologyatheism, atheist, blindness, brainwashing, child abuse, government, Kaylee Muthart, media propaganda, mental illness, methamphetamineThe Seer of Forbidden Truth	View all 2 comments
Kaylee, along with all the rest of you humans, under the delusion she can see.
Kaylee, along with all the rest of you humans, still under the delusion she can see.
The perversity, insanity, hopelessness, and overt malice of humanity as a species is never indicated or proven by what any individual human being might do. Never! It is proven by the collective response of humanity, meaning the existing social, cultural, and governmental structure, to what individual humans, created victims of the existing society, actually do.
All human-borns who are capable of breaching The Matrix of Universal Illusion, read and understand this illumination of clear, obvious, undeniable, Forbidden Truth:
On February 6th, 2018, a 20 year old tortured child-victim of amerikkkan society, culture, and government, her imposed identity cage is Kaylee Muthart, gouged out her own eyes, permanently blinding herself, in front of a church in Anderson, South Carolina. Read:
http://people.com/human-interest/kaylee-muthart-speaks-out-gouge-out-eyes/
The Forbidden Truth: Religion and god are the most lethal and toxic of all drugs, inducing, imposing, and maintaining consistent, lifelong, psychotic delusion and derangement for billions of human-borns, yesterday, today, tomorrow, in the real-time moment of now.
Martyr Kaylee mutilated herself, destroyed one of her most uniquely valuable personal assets as a Self-universe, in front of a church, a church, one of the most primitive, barbaric, perverse, functionally deranged, and harmful concepts ever developed by mankind, an instrument created and deployed by human society and government to promote and to legitimize the universal delusion of god, and to deploy the ideology behind this delusion, you call it "religion", as a devastating weapon of universal human slavery, oppression, terrorization, destruction, and murder.
Religion should not exist today, anywhere on planet earth. The delusional derangement of the insane god myth should never have come into existence as an organized human social and cultural structure, it should have been rejected always, on a cultural and social level, outed as a mistake, a failure, a virus, a toxic addiction of the human brain, an illness to be treated and cured and eradicated.
But no, none of that has happened, not 2000 years ago, not 500 years ago, and not today. Instead, this addictive virus has been relentlessly promoted and viciously imposed upon all human beings, as official public policy mandate of every society, every culture, every government, resulting in the genocide of countless trillions of human minds and lives, helpless minds with their potential to thrive within Truth mercilessly snuffed out.
And so here we are. One month ago this tortured child, your victim, your creation, gouged out her own eyes in tribute to your collective delusion, your collective insanity. And now, one month later, Kaylee is back, and everything is just fine. Kaylee is back home, with her "family" and community, eyeless, but completely integrated back to her deranged society, once again serving the Hive Mind of Universal Illusion, and delusion.
We now know the terrible thing responsible for Kaylee's "mistake": Not god, not religion, not her mother, who helped introduce her helpless and supremely vulnerable child mind to the insanity of religion, not society and not government. Nope, none of those things are responsible.
The guilty demon is actually methamphetamine, a physical substance that alters brain chemistry and reality perception. Evil drug, we must now pretend to launch a crusade against it, so declares amerikkkan society and government.
Yes, Martyr Kaylee is back at her "home", again imprisoned to a family unit, declared mentally cured by licensed 21st century psychiatrists and psychologists, cured of her terrible addiction to a terrible drug that caused her to do a terrible thing, to herself.
And now Martyr Kaylee is being deployed by the amerikkkan government, via its media puppets, as an inspirational figure, a survivor of the terrible curse of drugs.
jesus fuckin* christ!
Hundreds of the most popular news media resources owned and controlled by the amerikkkan regime, from People Magazine to Cosmopolitan Magazine, to The Washington Post to BuzzFeed to Fox News, are hailing the great news: Kaylee is back home, still believing in god, and blaming drugs for her blindness, blaming drugs for causing her to gouge out her eyes.
Yes, she can now see the light! Ahahahaaaaaa! Martyr Kaylee now knows what she did wrong! god will forgive her for making this terrible mistake, of ingesting this terrible drug, methamphetamine, that infected and warped her brain. Eyeless Kaylee is back in the good grace of god, and everything is again right with the world.
But what is the Forbidden Truth??
Kaylee is more mentally deranged now, than ever before.
Martyr Kaylee Muthart is literally being used and deployed as a drug right now, by the amerikkkan government, to help addict others, and keep others addicted, everyone addicted, to the exact same perversion of mind that is guilty of causing her to mutilate herself, and you, all of you, to mutilate your own minds and bodies and to amputate your own potential to dwell within the glorious light of Truth!
And to anyone who thinks I am being melodramatic: Open your eyes, you blind fools! Can't you see the horror of it all?! Can't you see that you have been made mind-blind, and that your mind-blindness is far more horrific than what was done and is being done to Martyr Kaylee?
You were blinded, you are being blinded, in real-time, every real-time moment of now, by the Insane God Myth as it is deployed against you as terrorist weapon, by your society and government.
Kaylee will wake up every morning for the rest of her imaginary existence to pitch darkness, but the True darkness where she dwells is in her addiction to the insanity of religion, and her inability to pierce and illuminate The Matrix of Universal Illusion, and identify the root causes of her mind-blindness, which is exactly and only what has caused her eye blindness.
Her horrific fate exactly parallels your horrific fate, each of you who can still pretend to possess 20/20, or less perfect, eye vision. You are all just as completely blind as Kaylee is, and just as guilty of allowing every child to be blinded, and every adult to remain blinded, by the mental disease and derangement that is religion and belief in god.
And what if you claim to be an atheist, claim to be enlightened enough to reject the insanity of religion?? Unless you can see and know the True horror of religion, and take a personal oath to seek and attain the eradication of this scourge, you too, are just as blind.
A Personal and Important Message of Truth to Torture Victim and Martyr Nikolas Cruz
February 20, 2018 personal perspective, psychology, school shootings, self-helpego, mental health, mental illness, MindPower, Nikolas Cruz, pride, self love, Self-autonomy, strength of mind, truthThe Seer of Forbidden Truth	Leave a comment
Hello Nikolas,
I want you to know that you are not mentally ill. No matter what the humans say, and no matter how emphatically they say it, you are a pale reflection of the mental derangement and the insanity that is embedded within humanity as a species. Those who label you as being mentally ill are dead wrong, they are blind hypocrites who project onto others, what they are unable and unwilling to face within themselves.
Also, Nikolas, I want you to know how proud I am of the fact that you found a way to reject the demands of 21st century amerikkkan society and government, that you destroy Yourself, and instead turned your justified rage and hate outward. So impressive, especially given the fact that you have overtly harmed Yourself, physically, in the past.
But not this time. Be proud of Yourself, and now is the time to fully embrace and to cultivate limitless and unconditional love of Self.
Nikolas, look up, look up at Yourself with awe, pride, and love!
Nikolas, you are not a Doing. You are a Being. Nothing you do, or fail to do, defines You. Be a brain in infinite love with itself, slicing like a hot knife through butter, through every cage, every steel bar, every handcuff and every shackle, each and every day, to attain new heights of personal freedom and untouchability.
Nobody can ever cage your brain, Nikolas, unless you allow them this violation of your Self-universe. Don't!
Nikolas, no living thing in this universe has the right to judge you. Whoever and whatever dares to stand in judgment of You, proves by the very attempt, that it is beneath You, something pathetic and worthy only of your pitiless scorn and overt destruction.
Nikolas, I give you this gift of Truth because you deserve it. You deserve it because to humanity you are now a monster. That judgment, proves to Me that you worthy of eternal pleasure and power as a Self-universe.
Wishing you all the best, forever to thrive as a untouchable mind.
The Seer.
Torture Victim and Martyr Nikolas Cruz as a baby, held by his mother/slaveowner.
The Devastating and Harmful Impacts of Self-control
February 19, 2018 mental health, MindPower, self-helpbrainwashing, control, mental illness, mind control, philosophy, psychology, self, self control, self-control is bad, the self-universeThe Seer of Forbidden Truth	Leave a comment
Today as never before, every human society and government overtly promotes the psychological cage of Self-control as being positive, necessary, indicative of good mental health and of proper brain functionality. Self-control is also touted as being one of the key indicators of maturity and intelligence.
All of this is absolute bulls*it! Self-control is relentlessly propagandized as being an essential human positive, specifically because it serves the malicious objective of The Hive Mind of Universal Illusion, to compel every individual to accept oppression, enslavement, victimization, injustice, and their own utter and absolute destruction.
As creator and owner of a sacred Self-universe, each of us deserves to be in full and absolute control of every aspect of every experience. We deserve to be unfettered and unlimited controllers of the universe itself. But of course this is a Forbidden Truth no human is ever allowed to perceive, to know, to recognize and to embrace.
Self-control is the psychological mechanism by which the sacred, individual human right to seek, demand, achieve, and attain absolute domination and control over his external environment, is perversely deformed, negated, neutered, and inverted, to an attack against Self, a denial of the very Self-entitlement to rise up and respond to their own genocidal caging and slavery, as directly imposed and inflicted by society and government.
By convincing you mind slaves that you should practice self-control, your capacity to revolt against the systemic chains that destroy your capacity to exert any Truth-based control over your own fate and future, is beheaded, or, to be more accurate, be-brained.
Self-control is the externally weaponized lie by which the individual is compelled to subjugate the rage and hate, frustration and torment, terror and the reflective need to terrorize, that has been instilled within his core consciousness via lifelong denial of control over his external environment, over what happens to him in every real-time moment of now, projected forward to the eternal nothingness of physical death.
Do not forget this Forbidden Truth: Every emotion, every "feeling", is a wayward thought, a potential Mind Bomb of conscious enlightenment, diverted.
Self-control, as promoted by society and government, and as embraced by you pathetic slaves, does not refer to subjugation of emotions or impulsive feelings. No! It refers directly to the neutering and denial of your own mind projections in totality, your most valid and sacred thoughts, cold and clear-minded insights to your own real and actual torments.
All who are sane, hear and know the Forbidden Truth: Self-control is something to be condemned and rejected, personally and universally. Do not control Yourself! Embrace every mind impulse to lash out, to lash out in the name of universal injustice, in the name of what has been done, is being done, and will be done, to You.
To You, a Self-universe kept in chains, a Self-universe under relentless attack, a Self-universe shattered into a million fragments, a Self-universe tortured and murdered, already dead, simply trying to be born, to exist, and to thrive, under the sacred right to resist and defy all external control and domination, and to destroy that which IS destroying You!
Self-control is everywhere. Everyone is controlling themselves, wearing their Acting Mask, denying to themselves the reality of their own mind, their deepest and most profound reflections of their Self-universe. This is the universal trance by which Truth is and will always remain forever invisible to you.
Top 21 Greatest Failures and Mistakes of the Human Species
December 31, 2017 humanity, philosophy, social commentarychild abuse, death, government, human failure, human mistakes, injustice, insanity of humanity, mental illness, religion, the familyThe Seer of Forbidden Truth	View all 2 comments
As you humans are about to engage in the perverse universal celebration of the illusion and delusion of time change and forward progression that your overlords have named New Years Day, it seems appropriate that I pen this list of the worst mistakes and failures of humanity as a species.
Nothing here is new, I have already revealed and comprehensively dissected all 21 of these human perversions in previous, lengthy essays. Therefore this will only be a listing, with perhaps 1 or 2 sentences of commentary for each failure. Should any of you be new to Forbidden Truth, I will gladly point you towards the specific texts and essays related to these specific failure and mistake.
There is no specific order to these twenty-one items, all are tremendous failures that have in the past, and continue today, to completely cripple all human potential for progress, and are directly contributing to the current devolutionary death spiral of humanity to near-term species extinction.
Let's get to it:
++ No recognition or acknowledgment of the birth defect status of humanity. The only way to mitigate and cure a problem, is to recognize, acknowledge, face up to it. The human being came into existence as a monkey with a malformed, genetically deformed, brain. The failure of humanity to accept this fact, devastates and destroys all potential for mitigation.
++ Embrace of the Sacred Family Unit as core and guiding construct of every human society. The family unit is a terrible mistake. It is unviable, it ensures universal harm for all and the crippling of all potential for evolutionary progress. It is a stone age relic that should have been abandoned many thousands of years ago.
++ The ownership of all children as slaves. Throughout all of human history, and more so today than ever before, every child has been officially decreed to exist solely as a piece of owned property to be viciously molded into the diseased reflection of existing society.
++ The refusal and inability of humanity to openly and consciously face up to the Forbidden Truths of what death entails, and very specifically, the personal consequences each individual is certain and guaranteed to suffer, as a result of dying. The refusal of humanity to face up to the reality of death, is the singular failure that is most directly responsible for turning the species into a death worshipping cult.
++ The collective choice of humanity to embrace, legitimize, and promote afterlife mythology. This failure goes beyond organized religion and beyond religious cults. The perverse construct of an afterlife is what allowed religion to form and flourish, therefore afterlife mythology itself must be understood as the foundational failure of mind that led to the perversion of religion.
++ The command and control structure of government, ensuring universal slavery and oppression for all humans, under the pretense and illusion of providing freedom and protection.
++ The collective suicidal ideation of humanity as a species. More so today than ever before, humanity chooses to die. There is a death wish implanted within the consciousness of individuals, both genetically and environmentally. Death is perceived as the solution to a problem, instead of being recognized as THE singular problem that MUST be addressed, solved, and defeated.
++ The universal destruction of ego and love of Self, mandated as societal decree and manifesting as the collective willingness of the overwhelming majority of all humans to subjugate and sabotage their own Self-universe, in favor of serving as sheeple and slaves to the terrorist demands and dictates of others, both individuals and organized Hive Mind and Matrix-based structures.
++ The deranged notion of punishment, by which the infliction of harm and trauma and victimization upon those who are merely reflecting the Truth and the reality of their own experienced harm, trauma, and victimization, is declared to create justice, when in Truth it ensures universal injustice for all, and the perpetuation of an endless cycle of harm and trauma and victimization for everyone, always.
++ The universal use of organized educational systems, throughout the modern era of human existence and never more so than today, to brainwash and indoctrinate all children to embrace the legitimacy of their own society, and to destroy all capacity of all children to be able to recognize their sacred obligation to serve only Self, and to recognize and destroy everything that is harming and destroying them.
++ The embrace of money and monetary systems during the modern era, as a method to obtain freedom and success, when in Truth the very existence of money ensures universal slavery, oppression, and failure for all.
++ The choice by humanity to create a fictionalized universe of illusion and fantasy, manifesting as books, fables, organized sports, movies, television programs, celebrities, and the like, and to dwell within this universe, as a way to reject and deny and ignore the horrific realities and Truths of their own perceived existence, on an individual and collective level.
++ The inability and unwillingness of the human, individually and collectively, to develop the strength of mind to function and to go through life with the emotional autonomy that is necessary to thrive in isolation, and to be free of all toxic emotional, psychological, and functional enmeshment with fellow humans and/or other species of life.
++ The human embrace of the perverse construct of materialism, by which the possession and ownership of objects obtained through Self-sacrifice and Self-harm, is accepted as fair trade for the loss and the destruction of the sacred freedom inherent only within absolute and unconditional ownership of Self and the perpetual maintenance of one's own Self-universe.
++ The sanctification of majority rule, never more prevalent than today, even though the majority of humans are always wrong. Majority rule, not merely on a political level, but on the level of enacting public policy mandates and defining cultural norms, guarantees that no positive progress, no Truthful understanding, no evolutionary consciousness of mind, can or will ever be attained.
++ The pathological addiction of humanity to sanctification of the past. The history of humanity is a history of endless and ongoing mistakes and failures, never realized as such due to a consistent illusion of enlightenment and progress.
++ A consistent and pervasive inability by humanity, individually and collectively, to define the reality of what is occurring, within parameters of factually accurate Truth. Every child is abused, but humanity defines child abuse in order to conceal and reject this Truth. Religion is the worship of death, but society defines it as the worship of a creature capable of providing eternal life. And thousands of other direct and absolute examples of this definitional derangement.
++ The most mentally deranged, decide what constitutes mental health and mental illness. Throughout all of modern human history, the mental illness, mental dysfunction, and retardation of brain functionality of humanity as a whole, of the existing majority at any point in time, has been denied and cloaked so that the deranged choices made by every society and culture in real-time, can never be recognized for what they are.
++ Never has the personal sacredness of the individual been recognized, much less allowed to thrive. Throughout all of human history, the individual has been decreed an insignificant piece of something larger, mandated to serve, to sacrifice, to suffer, and to die, on behalf of something more valuable than Self, even though there is NOTHING more valuable than Self.
++ Throughout all of human history, the irrationality and instability of feelings have always been decreed more valuable, more legitimate, more natural and respectable, than the rationality and intellectual validity of thought and emotionless, deductive reasoning. The Superior thinker is decreed ill, for daring to subjugate feelings in favor of thought.
++ The philosophical delusion of morality flourishes, never more so than today, even as everyone is always viciously harming everyone else. Morality is the cloak by which the greatest evils are always successfully concealed from human consciousness.
So here we are, waiting for a "new" year to begin. A new year where nothing good and True and valuable can happen, absent an extraterrestrial intervention. The new year is just another illusion and delusion manufactured by The Matrix, eagerly sucked up by you pathetic and broken fools.
Break up the nightmare of a pointless and meaningless illusion of existence, break it up into time segments, so the walking dead can pretend to be able to look back, and look ahead, so they never see, never know, the horrific reality of Now, as it stands forever still, in real-time tribute to those who never existed, given the privilege of being allowed to pretend they exist.
No, the new year will not be happy, no more than the old year was. Happiness is the mental delusion of those too terrified to look, to see, to know, to embrace, the Forbidden Truths.
WHO Decrees Video Game Addiction a Mental Illness, Remains Mute on Religion
December 25, 2017 atheism, atheist, christmas, religionconsciousness, death, definitional brainwashing, immortalist, mental health, mental illness, social reform, technological immortality, WHO, World Health OrganizationThe Seer of Forbidden Truth	Leave a comment
Several years ago, in one of my most brilliant essays ever, I outed and viciously condemned the World Health Organization (WHO) for its official, worldwide definition of what constitutes mental health for individual human beings. Read that uniquely brilliant Mind Bomb essay, which also beautifully defines mental illness within accurate and valid Forbidden Truth parameters, right here:
https://forbiddentruthblog.com/2015/01/03/mental-health-definitions-and-manifestations/
So here we are, two years later, christmas day in fact, and I am looking through Google News, honestly searching for church bombing or church massacre news items, anywhere in the world, to perk up my christmas mood. Not too much luck on that front, unfortunately.
But, as I'm searching, I find this:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-health-organization-recognize-gaming-174644751.html
Yes, it's true, for 2018 the WHO, the most powerful and influential first world organization devoted to worldwide human health issues, is declaring video game addiction to be a newly recognized mental illness, even as it remains 100% mute on religion, which is of course the second most horrific, universally destructive, and universally prevalent mental illness among humans in the entire world, surpassed only by Universal Child Abuse and the worldwide usage of all children, within every society and government on earth, as Poison Containers for their legal slaveowners and for the entire adult population.
I wanted to confirm that nothing has changed in the WHO definition of what constitutes mental health over the past two years, so I clicked on the same link I had used 2 years ago in writing my brilliant dissection, and yes, the WHO page is exactly the same, only updated with a 2017 copyright notice:
http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/mental_health/en/
The WHO bills itself as being on the cutting edge of all worldwide health issues. In fact, it has a specific mandate to proactively respond to all new and emerging diseases and health problems in current, real-time. And yet, since being founded in 1948, seventy years ago, it has never addressed, in any way, the then existing and continuously growing public health emergency of worldwide mental illness, disease, and dysfunction, that is religion.
For 70 years, not a single word! And why not? Because The Matrix of Universal Illusion officially decrees and mandates religion and belief in god to be necessary, appropriate, and desirable. A symptom of good mental health, something to promote and to encourage. And all organized social organizations, such as the WHO, serve The Matrix. Therefore, religion and belief in god cannot be a mental illness, even though it is, of course. So clearly, so obviously, so undeniably.
Imagine if, in 1948, upon it's creation, the WHO had possessed the sanity, yes I have to use that word, and the courage and the respect for Truth, to declare religion to be the single greatest and most dangerous threat to human mental health in the entire world, and had established a mandate to end this mental illness, to eradicate religion just as it was determined to eradicate polio and tuberculosis and rickets.
Would religion be, today, 100% eradicated from the human experience of existence? No. But it would be, today, hobbled and shackled, weak and impotent, a refuge of the weak-minded, the cowards, the delusional minority, instead of universal delusion for all being the status quo.
From that year forward, three generations of children would have been born and able to grow up free of the mind virus and genocidal harm of god addiction.
By the 1980's, all medical, scientific, and technological focus would have shifted towards solving the greatest public health emergency ever realized by human consciousness, a realization only made possible by an open, transparent, worldwide acknowledgment of the Forbidden Truth that religion is the very embodiment of mental illness and dysfunction, a delusion of the mind, of the brain. And what would this public health emergency be? Death, of course! The problem of death, death recognized worldwide as a disease that had to be vanquished.
And today, this very day, christmas day 2017, technological immortality would be a reality. Of course it would be! Take 1985 as a baseline starting point. 30 years of intensive medical, technological, robotic, computer, engineering, scientific research, all joined together with a specific goal of solving the problem of death, and it would be solved well before the 30 years were up.
The problem of death would be solved, if only the World Health Organization had the capacity, in 1948, to do the right thing, the sane thing. Think of it, all who are sane. Think of it, how right I am. Think of it, each and every one of you who are now doomed to the eternal nothingness of retroactive unbirth. Think of what you have lost, all because of the universal stupidity, cowardice, and derangement of humanity as a collective species!
The right thing, the sane thing, was not done by the WHO in 1948. It could not be done. And here we are, 70 years later, and the right thing was not done in 2017, and it could not be done. 70 years, and nothing has changed. Human progress was and is impossible, as the species devolves to extinction.
And why? Because Truth is dead, and sanity does not exist. Mental illness has never and can never be defined for what it is. It cannot be, because the mentally deranged are running Asylum Earth. The mentally deranged are officially empowered to define what constitutes mental health, and what constitutes mental illness.
Are the mentally deranged going to out themselves as being mentally deranged?? Of course not. They could not even if they wanted to, because a front-line symptom of mental derangement is the incapacity to gain or to possess conscious awareness of your own mental derangement. D'oh!
So here we are, on christmas day 2017, and one lone voice cries out, one lone voice of Truth, one Superior and sane mind, Me. As billions of human minds remain hopelessly addicted to the Insane God Myth, and spend this day worshipping their own deaths, hopelessly infected by the mind virus of religion.
No, I cannot end this essay with "Merry christmas". I just ate, and do not wish to vomit.
christ More Popular Than Ever, After Failing to Stop christian Church Massacre
November 13, 2017 atheism, god, religion, social commentaryatheist, brainwashing, consciosness, Devin Patrick Kelley, mental illness, reality perception, religion is mental illness, the human mind, theology, truth is deadThe Seer of Forbidden Truth	Leave a comment
In My very last essay, written and published just yesterday, I brilliantly dissected the organic and immovable mental derangement of collective human addiction to the Insane God Myth, as proven over the past seven days alone, by the response of the amerikkkan public, the amerikkkan media, amerikkkan social and cultural leaders, and all amerikkkans who claim to be deliberative, sentient, and rational thinkers, to Devin Patrick Kelley's seminal mass murder rampage inside of The first baptist church of sutherland springs, Texas, just 8 days ago.
Then I went to sleep, creating and savoring three different fully realized and intricately plotted Conscious Dreams directly inspired by Martyr Devin and his actions.
Then I woke up, went to Google News, and immediately found a mainstream news article that proves how incredibly correct and 100% accurate, every word I wrote yesterday actually is! How beautiful is that?!
To gain a perspective on how uniquely incredible My Alien Eye is, reread in full My oriiginal article of yesterday:
https://forbiddentruthblog.com/2017/11/12/seven-days-later-the-fundamentalist-christian-dictatorship-of-amerikkka/
And then, immediately afterwards, read this mainstream news article, just published by CBS news, unbeknownst to Me, at almost the exact same moment I unleashed My Mind Bomb essay to the universe:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-church-shooting-record-attendance-at-1st-service/
Read it, you pathetic fools! Everything I reveal in My essay is proven True, right there. Humans flocked to the very same christian church where Devin carried out his massacre, but not to declare their abandonment of god, not to burn the church down in protest over the abysmal failure of god to protect his own worshippers from dying in horror. No! They came to renew and reemphasize their devotion to this very same god, in the very same church!
The hopelessness of humanity, proven by humanity over and over and over, every day, by billions of humans in billions of different ways.
Just listen to the leader of the church, a man responsible for countless thousands of mind deaths, mind murders, as he reaches new heights of oratory derangement. This mass murderer declares: "Rather than choose darkness as that young man did that day, we choose life." "I know everyone who gave their life that day. Some of whom were my best friends and my daughter. I guarantee they are dancing with Jesus today."
The only fitting tribute to that, would have been for god to burst into hysterical peals of laughter, and then for pastor Frank to collapse dead of a massive heart attack, desperately gasping for breath. But of course that did not happen, because god does not exist.
Just look what he said: "We choose life", but everyone who worships god chooses death! "I guarantee they are dancing with Jesus today", he just spat in the face of Truth, of sanity, of rational thinking, of science, of evidence, of reality, and nobody dares to call him out!
The shame and the horror of being born human cannot leave Me, at moments like this. I know I am nothing like you creatures, we Superiors are the Truest form of alien. Yet I was born one of you, something so weak and stupid and hopeless, something addicted to death, something pretending to glorify life, as it seeks and demands and worships death. Something that stands by and gives thanks, as a leader claims with certainty that retroactively unborn fellow humans who have ceased to exist are somehow, magically, "dancing with jesus". "I guarantee it", he declares, and humanity as a whole nods in approval.
That is newsworthy, while the factual evidence that god is dead, that christ is a dead delusion who cannot help, save, protect, or do anything for anyone, the proof as given to the universe by Devin Patrick Kelley eight days ago, is universally ignored and whitewashed from all human consciousness.
I burn with shame at My horrific origin, even as I celebrate My glorious mind triumphs.

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Jed Saint| 29/01/2018| Features, Sound
Frank Turner: Unearthing The Underground
Eclectic singer-songwriter Frank Turner gives Trebuchet the low-down on some of his favourite rising stars.
[dropcap style="font-size:100px; color:#992211;"]I[/dropcap]f the repeated and fevered rantings from our musical elite in recent years is anything to go by, our grassroots offering is in a bit of a pickle.
It's easy to slate in an effort to appear relevant in the eyes of the tabloids, I guess… without naming names. What's also easy is actually making an effort to listen to some breaking and contemporary artists. Thankfully, for every self-professed megastar too out of touch to set foot in a venue smaller than an arena, there's a few a little more grounded.
It's still refreshing, though, to see someone with an unquenchable thirst for gigs sitting up and paying attention to what's actually going on around them. Enter Frank Turner, whose live show archive website section I've linked here to reinforce my point.
Frank was kind enough to find a minute mid-hectic tour schedule and give us his (nicely varied) top steers at the moment!
I encountered Derek on tour a few years back, and we became friends. I've always been a fan, but his latest record, "Normal", is a stone-cold masterpiece. A perfect mixture of punk, folk, anger and nostalgia.
Deux Furieuses
We had DF play at the first Lost Evenings Festival, last May, in Camden. They blew me away live even more than on record. Furious feminist punk rock, completely unique and unapologetic.
Sean MacGowan
Sean comes from Southampton, just down the road from where I grew up, so we've known each other a little while. He's a great songwriter, a ton of heart and a turn of phrase that I envy. His new album, on Xtra Mile soon, is excellent.
Daniel Wakeford
A lot of people know of Daniel from a TV show. I just heard his music through my tour manager being a fan, and instantly fell in love with it. The show I caught in London recently was an absolute delight, sheer joy and showmanship with wonderful songs.
Arkells and I have shared a lot of road together already, and we have more coming up. They're huge in their home country of Canada (and rightly so), but still making waves in other parts of the world. They deserve to be the biggest band in the universe, they've been a big influence on me lately.
Frank has just wrapped up a tour with his hardcore band Möngöl Hörde. He'll be playing a benefit show for Safe Gigs For Women as part of Independent Venue Week on Saturday 3rd February. His latest release 'Songbook' is available now!
Cover image: Partisan PR
Jed Saint
Jed the Music Ed. is a Music Promoter/Booking Agent and general fixer with Rawkus Events. Jed's interests include a constant and reckless over-caffeination, irrationally spontaneous travel plans and maintaining an over-expensive (borderline hoarder) PC/retro gaming habit.
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The India telecom industry will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.8 per cent between 2010 and 2014 and will touch revenues of Rs.3,77,683 Crore ($ 82 billion) according to a research done by CyberMedia Research.
The India telecom services and mobile handsets market will grow at 16.7 per cent in 2012 (over 2011) and will touch revenues of Rs.2,88,832 Crore ($ 63 billion) out of which, the telecom services, which includes mobile and fixed line services will contribute Rs.2,05,454 Crore ($ 45 billion) and the India mobile handsets market which includes feature phones and smart phones will contribute Rs.83,377 Crore ($ 18 billion). The latter will grow at over 30 per cent during 2012 (over 2011).
Anirban Banerjee, Associate Vice President, CyberMedia Research, said "The telecoms growth story will be a function of the enhanced demand for high speed broadband and data services from both enterprises and consumers, as 3G and BWA/WiMax services are rolled out by various operators to cover an increasing number of cities and towns"
The key factors behind the growth in the telecom services segments would be the launch and roll-out of 3G and BWA / WiMax / LTE services and the resulting growth in usage of high speed broadband, VAS and data services, although the broadband content will still be in the early stages of development in 2011. Other high growth telecom services areas will include IP-TV, IP-VPN, VoIP and Mobile VAS. Additionally the India telecom products (mobile handsets) segment will witness a high growth rate of 26.2 per cent CAGR over the period 2010-2014 and will touch Rs 1,28,729 Crore in 2014.
The India domestic mobile handsets market will see an increase of more than 150 per cent in terms of the value of featurephones and smartphones shipped. It will increase from Rs.50,714 Crore in 2010 to Rs.1,28,729 Crore in 2014.
The smartphones market in India is expected grow to over 10 million units in 2011 from 6 million units in 2010, a 66.7 per cent increase. The Android operating system will be the most popular mobile OS and 12 per cent of all smartphones shipped in India during 2011 are expected to be based on the Android platform. Additionally Due to the increase in popularity of WiMax / LTE services, content creation and mobile application development see a rapid increase.
"Going forward these devices (smartphones) will become as powerful as present day laptops", said Naveen Mishra, Lead Analyst, Telecoms Practice, CyberMedia Research.
As per the current pricing of tablets from companies like Samsung, Apple and Olive, over 1,00,000 Tablets will be shipped in 2011 alone, but if a tablet for the masses is introduced at a price lower than Rs.10,000 by any company (like Reliance Infotel), then it could become a game changer.


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The Lede Conflict
Israel | Losing Faith
African Refugees in Israel Face Persecution and Little Solace
Mya Guarnieri
African refugees take to the streets in 2010 to demonstrate against plans to build a detention camp to house refugees who have flocked to Israel. Israel refuses to process requests for asylum for the roughly 35,000 African refugees in the country.
OREN ZIV / ISRAEL OUT / AFP PHOTO
WHEN I PUT MY SILVER DIGITAL RECORDER on the table, Kidane Isaac, an Eritrean refugee, eyes it and shifts in his chair. He angles his broken straw fedora downwards, tipping the rim lower, as though to cover his face.
The hat, which has a black band and a hole in the top—bits of straw unravelling, sticking this way and that—doesn't suit the red, white and blue windbreaker Isaac wears. It's also a poor choice for the weather. It's a wintry day in Israel and the stylish summer hat is ineffective against the cold.
Not to mention that the fedora seems out of place here, at a coffee kiosk in South Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station. The surrounding neighbourhoods, the poorest in the city, are home to a large population of foreign workers and African refugees as well as a handful of Palestinian collaborators. While some migrant labourers make enough to send remittances home to their families, most African refugees are barely hanging on to the bottom rung of the socioeconomic ladder. Some have fallen off completely—homeless, they live in the parks near the Central Bus Station.
Mya Guarnieri is a Jerusalem-based journalist and writer whose work has appeared in dozens of international outlets.
Keywords: Israel African refugees refugees Eritrea Sudan labourers Prevention of Infiltration Law asylum persecution


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Mathesis Universalis from Leibniz to Husserl
Carlo Ierna
Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
The idea of a mathesis universalis plays a prominent role in Edmund Husserl's Formal and Transcendental Logic (FTL). It is clear that at this mature stage of his philosophy the idea he refers to with "mathesis universalis" is in large part due to Husserl's own development and cannot be straightforwardly derived from one single author or source anymore. In a historical respect, of course, the idea is most strongly associated with Leibniz, and indeed we see that Husserl does re- fer repeatedly to him in FTL when discussing the mathesis universalis (e.g. § 23b). However, Leibniz is not the only author that is relevant for the specific way in which Husserl fills out the notion of mathesis universalis, since he also repeatedly refers to more recent 19th century authors such as Bolzano and Lotze, as well as early modern authors such as Vieta and Descartes. Here, as elsewhere, we see Husserl's eclecticism at work.
Mathesis, Grund, Vernunft
Die philosophische Identität Europas zwischen Deutschem Idealismus und Phänomenologie
Fausto Fraisopi
Ergon Verlag
https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956506215-43
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Ierna, C. (2019). Mathesis Universalis from Leibniz to Husserl. In F. Fraisopi (Ed.), Mathesis, Grund, Vernunft: Die philosophische Identität Europas zwischen Deutschem Idealismus und Phänomenologie (pp. 43-56). (Studien zur Phänomenologie und Praktischen Philosophie; Vol. 50). Ergon Verlag. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956506215-43
Ierna, Carlo. / Mathesis Universalis from Leibniz to Husserl. Mathesis, Grund, Vernunft: Die philosophische Identität Europas zwischen Deutschem Idealismus und Phänomenologie. editor / Fausto Fraisopi. Ergon Verlag, 2019. pp. 43-56 (Studien zur Phänomenologie und Praktischen Philosophie).
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Mathesis, Grund, Vernunft: Die philosophische Identität Europas zwischen Deutschem Idealismus und Phänomenologie. ed. / Fausto Fraisopi. Ergon Verlag, 2019. p. 43-56 (Studien zur Phänomenologie und Praktischen Philosophie; Vol. 50).
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National Status: RDB3
Local Status: Very rare and very local resident.
Flight time: -
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2012 (CHF): Slender-striped Rufous is an uncommon moth of damp heathland and moorland in the north of Scotland with no English populations. Waring mentions old records however from Widdybank Fell in Co. Durham and from Shap Fell in Westmorland and since then an old record has surfaced from Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland. He also states the it is "almost certainly under-recorded due to the remoteness of the places it inhabits and its late flight season"
Now a possible old Yorkshire record has surface in The Naturalist for January 1921 which states:
"Phibalapteryx lapidata in Yorkshire.—In a sale at Stevens' Sale Rooms some time ago, the following was included from the collection of the Honourable R. Bethell: 'Lapidata I, Upper Teesdale, Yorks., Honourable R. Bethell.'. I think this is worth being put on record, as the species is not included in the Yorkshire list, and it is recorded for a part of the county which is practically unworked, and which, from its interesting Alpine flora, should be worth closer investigation.—T. ASHTON LOFTHOUSE, Middlesbrough."
Upper Teesdale is still one of the most under-recorded parts of the county. It is unlikely that the moth still exists here but it is quite possible that this was a genuine record.


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The PSOJ is deeply saddened at the passing of Superintendent of Police Leon Clunis.
PSOJ President Keith Duncan expressed shock at the police officer's death, "We were hopeful for his recovery and were anticipating his release from the Kingston Public Hospital. We are shocked to hear that he succumbed to the injuries sustained during the brazen shooting a few weeks ago. On behalf of the PSOJ, I extend deep sympathies to his family and colleagues within the Jamaica Constabulary Force."
Duncan continued, "The passing of Supt. Clunis and his colleagues Detective Corporal Dane Biggs and Constable Decardo Hylton while doing their duty, further strengthens our resolve to participate in developing a sustainable bipartisan and national approach to reducing crimes and murders, while creating a more inclusive and equitable Jamaica."
The PSOJ reaffirms its commitment to support the work being done by the security forces who are charged with the responsibility of serving and protecting all Jamaicans.
Finalization of National Consensus on Crime requires increased urgency from political leadership


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Having difficulty with the Whistles link to this greatjacket...anyone else?
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Love my army style jacket. I wear it all spring and it goes with everything!
Please let us know if they put it back in stock!
Marlien, have you had any update on the Whistles jacket? I'm so hoping that more stock becomes available!
I did hear from Whistles PR and sadly, the jacket is no longer available online. Boo! I will look around for an equally great stand-in!
Looks like it's back in stock!


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Two AMEA Members recognized for exceptional electric reliability
The City of Lanett Electric Department and Riviera Utilities have received national recognition for achiev- ing exceptional electric reliability in 2018. The recognition comes from the American Public Power Association (APPA), a trade group that represents more than 2,000 not-for-profit, community-owned elec- tric utilities.
Both AMEA Membera were presented Certificates of Excellence in Reliability at the Alabama Municipal Electric Authority (AMEA) Power Supply Conference President's Awards Dinner on April 18 in Point Clear. This is the fourth year the City of Lanett Electric Department has been recognized.
APPA helps members track outage and restoration data through its subscription-based eReliability Tracker service and then compares the data to national statistics tracked by the U.S. Energy Information Administration for all types of electric utilities.
AMEA, the wholesale power provider for Lanett and Riviera Utilities, as well as nine (9) other public power utilities in Alabama, began providing each Member utility free access to this software application several years ago.
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Cork City Council
Cork weather: risk of flooding in city centre due to high tides and heavy showers
High astronomical Spring tides and heavy showers on the way
Cork city following floods on Tuesday morning (Image: Jacob Olearski)
There is a strong chance of flooding in the city centre this evening due to the confluence of high tides and heavy showers.
Cork City Council said that a number of streets throughout the city centre are at risk of flooding.
Met Éireann forecasts heavy showers for Saturday evening, and together with high astronomical spring tides many low-lying streets are at the risk of flooding at high tide.
High tide will be around 4:30 p.m. this evening Saturday 14, and again at 5:00 a.m. on Sunday 15.
The city council said that "there is a risk that some roads and parking areas along low-lying quays in the City Centre may suffer localised flooding during high tides."
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Included in that list are:
Morrison's Quay,
Fr Matthew Quay,
Trinity Bridge,
South Terrace,
Union Quay,
Sharman Crawford Street,
Wandesford Quay,
Frenche's Quay,
Proby's Quay,
Crosses Green,
Lavitt's Quay
Kyrl's Quay.
Traffic restrictions may be in place at these locations, during these times according to the council.
High astronomical tides are the highest tides which can be predicted to occur.


 Which of the following is called The Bible of Tamil Land ?
The Kural is one of the most important forms of classical Tamil poetry. It is a very short poetic form, exactly in 2 lines, the first line consisting of 4 words and the second line consisting of 3. It should also conform to the grammar for Venpa. Thirukkural, one of the greatest philosophical works in Tamil language by Thiruvalluvar, is a typical example.


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This instrument is produced from grenadilla wood. It features silver plated keywork and blue steel springs. It has a poly-cylindrical bore, and is in the key of Bb.


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