[late evening listening] an occasional series from dearieme

Dearieme's selection this evening:



Plus a little Playford I thought I'd drop in:

[silent sunday] oops

[back to blighty] for better or for worse

What other nation do you know requires people gardening to wear health and safety vests? Is this perhaps a tad OTT? Maybe it's just me.

This day last year, I flew back to Blighty. Just thought I'd mention that.

[sunday edition] complete these series

Er ... anyone going to try these? :)

1. Harlequin and Columbine, Pierrot and Pierette, Punchinello and ....?

2. The Great Pyramid of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and ....?

3. 3, 6, 30, 870, ?

4. D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and ....?

5. Dorothy Wordsworth, Charles Lloyd, Hartley Coleridge, John Wilson, and Thomas De Quincey were noted but who were the main three? Wordsworth, Coleridge and ....?

6. Australia, Nauru, Britain, Tristan da Cunha, France, No...a?

7. Duke, ???, Earl, Viscount, and Baron.

Bonus points: What is the name of the valley in the picture [in Spanish] and what is that building down there? Basílica de la ....?

Answers

Pulcinella, the Lighthouse of Alexandria,756 030, Aramis, Southey, Noumea, Marquess, El Valle de los Caidos, Santa Cruz

[afternoon tea] seven of the world's best

St Regis Hotel, New York

Raffles Hotel, Singapore

The Windsor, Melbourne

Empress Hotel, Victoria

Brown's Hotel, London

Angelina, Paris

Alvear Palace Hotel, Buenos Aires

Sigh. The lure of afternoon tea in good company - it's sheer delight. But which venues for that exquisite experience would you suggest could be added to this global list? Where have you had an unforgettable afternoon [or even morning] tea?

[venezuela] latest global battleground

Now here's a turnup for the books:

The BBC's Will Grant in Caracas says some parents have threatened to take their children out of school if there is any socialist material on the new curriculum, while teachers' unions warn that they will boycott classes, and university students say they will stage further protests.

What the *&^%$^?!!!! A teachers' union and students actually protesting AGAINST socialism! Oh, like it, like it very much. And the BBC faithfully reporting it for once? What's come over them?

More:

A previous attempt at education reform was one of the factors that led to mass protests in 2002, eventually culminating in a failed coup attempt against Mr Chavez.

Thousands of protesters against Chavas asserting state control of education, his proposals ostensibly to bring education to outlying areas and to the whole population. Ha - indoctrination is the name of that game and well done to the people who are essentially Catholic and won't have their faith stamped out this way.

The really frightening aspect though is that this bash-Christianity thing has got so far round the world but then again, remember Quantum and Dominic Greene - the reach of the enemy is extensive, predicated, as it always is, on money and power. Chavez is clearly, behind his little piggy eyes, into the power and as a willing tool of global socialism, will do as he must to become the demi-god he craves to be.

Those funding him, as always, are cynical and as le Chiffre said, are interested only in "a reasonable rate of return".

Actually, that's what they say up front but their mission is not religion-neutral in the least - it's just as religious as the mission of Islam and the mission of Christianity. The precepts of the religion they follow intergenerationally [just do your research - they DO follow one], can be found in Lucis Trust publications, Shamballism [very well named piece of gobbledegook offering no redemption but a drug-fuelled panacea] and using the billions in shadow money to promote it and bring the movers and shakers under its influence.

You decry this?

Go back through the pre-Napoleonic era of France where there's a luxury of evidence illustrating this very process, evidence which was recognized, yet mishmashed into the film Brotherhood of the Wolf. As always, we're talking about a cult belief of a small number of people but those people are the ones at the top. That's the difference, the whole difference here. It's not the weirdos in the house on the corner down the road from you - it's Them at the top who are seriously into this stuff.

Once again, look at this post and tell me if these are the words and actions of sane people?

Hence the savage attacks and the campaign to de-Christianize Christendom and the way they're doomed to fail in this generation. The protestant churches [I'm nominally C of E but haven't been to church for years, operating outside of the mainstream] have fallen away due to the failed leadership of those at the top and all sorts of apostasies are now being brought in to destroy it from within. If you were to examine the carcasses of the protestant churches, you'd see them riddled with relativistic, equivalent, humanistic white ants.

Only the Catholic Church, itself riddled from ancient times [Councils of Nicaea, Jerusalem, Jamnia et al] with apostasy and serving the ends, at the quasi-papal level, of the bulls of Bashan which encompass it, still stands and at least mouths the words of the Nazarene, Jesus [who happens to be my hero]. The most important role of the Catholic Church today is that it is the only official body standing as a beacon in the eyes of the far-flung believers around the world.

Long may it stand for that reason alone and for the notion behind the confessional - one's accountability for one's actions. Pity the world leaders, like Brown, Obama and Chavez, dance to the beat of a different drum.

Martin Kelly writes:

In his book 'How the Reformation Happened', Hilaire Belloc recorded how the decline of Catholic belief in the British Isles was more the result of generations growing up without the habit of Catholicism as through any sudden change in public mood.

The English Reformation had no Winter Palace moment, no Father Gapon, no Battleship Potemkin; just a slow and steady erasure of habit, abetted by the repetition of the same lies, and to which the forces of truth were too slow to respond.

This is why Chavez might nominally succeed, i.e. he will bludgeon the new education law through and have his Tiananmen Square massacre, backed by enormous forces of darkness and an interminable flow of cash to wean the country off the Catholic "superstition", backed by the international association of serpents [all the humanistic and pagan organizations]- he will have all these things as surely as night follows day but he is still too early.

This generation still has sufficient devotees, countrywide, to consciously resist the corrosion, whilst in their daily poverty and practices, with the carrot of the lifestyles of the rich and famous dangled before their eyes, their hearts are slowly won over and more importantly - those of their children.

This generation in Chavezland are still Catholic though and will resist the dictator.

The sad thing will be the next generation, lured by everything which plays on the base instincts of humanity, from the shiny 'Mon Oncle" new whitegoods mentality, to credit cards, to the cesspit on the internet [every home has a cesspit as well as a bathroom - this doesn't brand the whole net, of course] - that will be the real destruction of tenets of the faith.

As Martin puts it again, about the English Reformation, the decatholicization and the current [post-80s] push within Britain [and by extension, the west]:

Precisely the same process of rewriting history through myth-making and outright lies has been at work since at least 1997, and the accession of New Labour. We are not 'a nation of immigrants'; never have been. Yet that is the official lie, designed to condition the people into a way of thinking from which they can never be turned aside, which began to appear shortly after that date.

Privatisation robs a man of his goods; cultural privatisation, the redefining of a culture according to the whims of a rather freakish cultural elite, is vastly more insidious. No doubt the plan is to say it often enough to ensure it seeps into the common consciousness, to become an accepted habit of thought; the advance of minority parties shows it to have failed massively.

Let's look at that again - "a culture according to the whims of a rather freakish cultural elite". Yes, that's precisely what we have, this blog has examined its scriptures and goals and it is jaw-dropping in its horror - what these people at the top really do subscribe to. The very things this nation and America fought against in World War II, the very base principles driving on the Nazi evil, are alive and well in the Werner von Braunesque and Kurt Waldheimesque political elite today, pan-Europe and pan-world.

This isn't just Higham ranting at you - there are articles by many bloggers around the net, not in the least Christian, on this very topic - the nature of the political elite. What many of these bold colleagues of mine fail to grasp though, on account of their rationalist perspective, is that there is a religious fervour to much of what the elite does, out of synch with the supposed cold, rational, steady-the-ship mentality they like to project.

What is socialistic fervour after all?

Do you honestly believe it does not have its evangelical aspect to it? Do you honestly believe that the men and women driving it on at the elite level are not converts to another religion? The black joke is that they think, at the lower echelons, that they are doing it for themselves and for their families, for a better life, not understanding how they are hoodwinked and ... serving the ends of another deity.

Before you attack those last six words, the word deity can mean "that which obsesses a person so that his whole existence is driven by serving its ends".

All that's happening with the global socialist push is that they are seeking to replace the hold the Judaeo-Christian ethic had on people with a completely different paradigm. But it's the Old Enlightenment Lie at work. In turning everyone into good little humanists, believing only in the power of Man [just look at the French Revolution to see just how well Man regulates his affairs or read Chekhov], there are two birds killed with one stone.

Man is left defenceless before the ravening wolves and beasts of Bashan and in steps the new messiah, in whatever form you like at the time - Moloch, Ishtar, Ea, it has many names. Now you reading this - the city gent, the office worker, the non-religious majority - what you fail to understand is that the cocoon you occupy is not where the political elite are. And where are they? In their summer breaks, they are here. Read the link at the top of the post again.

I am the old soothsayer mumbling to himself on the steps of the Senate and you are either Caesar, smiling indulgently at these words, on the way up the steps or else you're one of the murderous senators, secure in the knowledge that Caesar will not listen to the mumblings of an old soothsayer. I'm one of many soothsayers and we say:

If you throw the baby out with the bathwater, if you throw out the Judaeo-Christian tradition and its precepts, you do not create a Brave New World of peace and harmony but you merely leave yourself and your families exposed to the ravening wolves and fall into the hands of a political elite who are anything but benign.

Please wake up before it's too late.

Would Caesar have heeded these words?