|
|
|
|
|
Articles by Subject
European History & Politics
Is Denmark Being Set Up?
Why is a Nation Known for Pork Attacking Islam? By Christopher Bollyn I must say that I was somewhat surprised to read today in the New York Times that 17 newspapers in Denmark had reprinted the most offensive anti-Muslim cartoon from early 2006. For so many newspapers in tiny Denmark to re-publish the offensive cartoon in concert, on the very same day, indicates that the anti-Muslim conspiracy and agenda I discussed two years ago are, indeed, real, alive, and active. See: "Why the European Press is Provoking Muslims" and other articles on Flemming Rose by Christopher Bollyn, February 3, 2006 One might reasonably ask why one of the smallest and weakest countries in the world, with a population of less than 6 million, would want to inflame the passions and provoke the 1.5 billion Muslims of the world? It simply doesn't make any sense, especially for a nation like Denmark that depends on its exports. Didn't Danes pay an extremely high price in 2006 when Muslim nations boycotted Danish products and mobs attacked their embassies? Why would any sensible Dane want to see that happen again? Are they completely insane? Why would Danes be so eager to offend Muslims? Are they simply trying to spice up a long winter and an otherwise boring existence or is there a foreign agenda at work here? It certainly looks like Shakespeare had it right when he wrote, "Something is rotten in the kingdom of Denmark." Is Denmark being set up for a false-flag terror attack? That seems very likely, given the absurdity of this latest anti-Muslim offense. DENMARK THE CRUSADER Denmark is an active member of the anti-Muslim crusade known as the "War on Terrorism." Knowing that this fraudulent "War on Terrorism" is nothing but a Zionist scheme to drag corrupt Western nations into illegal wars of aggression against Muslim nations -- on behalf of Israel -- it stands to reason that Denmark must be both corrupt and dominated by strong Zionist-Jewish forces. There must, after all, be a good reason why other Scandinavians have traditionally called the Danes the "Jews of Scandinavia." Remember, the Zionist false-flag terror of 9-11 was carried out in New York City, the most Jewish-controlled city outside of Israel. Zionist control of the media, the police and courts, and the government, is essential for such false-flag attacks, in which Muslims are wrongly blamed, to succeed. Denmark is an active coalition partner and Danish troops are taking part in the illegal foreign occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Some 380 Danish soldiers are also in Kosovo. About the same number are in Afghanistan, where they have been since 2001. Danish troops are also patrolling the borders of Lebanon. What has Denmark lost in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, or Kosovo? This extremely irresponsible deployment by the Danish military supports the theory that the nation's leaders are stupid as well as corrupt. How else could this tiny nation of 5.5 million people be involved in 4 unmitigated foreign disasters at the same time? How do they possibly explain such criminal use of Danish armed forces to the people? (This is the same question I have been asking other Nordic and Baltic nations.) Is this another nation on Prozac? The controlled media uses the cartoon controversy, of course. They say that the Danish troops are fighting Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, while the Danish media is waging the same war on the home front. The Zionist media moguls of Denmark are using the offensive cartoons to try to inflame the completely artificial and fraudulent "Clash of Civilizations." How transparent do such media deceptions have to be in order to see through them? Will this nonsense spread or will it be contained to Denmark? The offensive drawing by Kurt Westergaard depicts the Prophet of Islam wearing a ridiculous turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse. How stupid can a cartoonist be? The Danish papers all claim that they are showing their commitment to freedom of speech after police arrested three people accused of plotting to kill Westergaard. This is pure rubbish. There is no such thing as freedom of speech in Denmark. Just try to question the Holocaust in a Danish newspaper and see what happens. Westergaard, who certainly can not be called a "foolish young man," displays the same profound cultural ignorance and provincial behavior as the Danish government and media. Hasn't this man ever been out of Denmark or Greenland, its largest colony? Westergaard says that he didn't think that his intentionally offensive drawing would be offensive. Is he on drugs? Didn't he even read a simple encyclopedia article about Islam, the religion he is dedicated to attacking? Can't he read? If Westergaard is truly keen on preserving Europe's so-called "freedom of speech" and attacking its "holy cows," which are protected from criticism, why doesn't he increase the number of his fronts, like the Danish military, and start drawing offensive cartoons about the Holocaust? Why is the controlled media's version of European-Jewish history protected from such satire and criticism? "With this drawing I wanted to show how fanatical Islamists or terrorists use religion as a kind of spiritual weapon," Westergaard said. "Naturally I never imagined these kinds of reactions." Westergaard may simply be extremely daft or desperate for money, but why would normal Danes go along with offending 1.5 billion Muslims? What is wrong with these people? Because Denmark is a very small country and is generally not very well known by outsiders, let's look at who these Danes are. Today, on BBC World television, I saw a very piggish-looking Danish woman defending the re-printing of the offensive cartoon. Although I didn't catch her name, she certainly looked like a pig, which happens to be the favorite food and most common animal species in Denmark. She certainly had some of the pig in her. While Danes may be very nice looking, they really sound quite awful when they speak. This is because Danish is a very primitive language, like Norwegian, but the Danes have preserved all the animal-like guttural grunts and burp sounds of the Vikings. It is not unfair to say that Danish does not sound very nice. But not all the grunts and burps one hears in Denmark are coming from the people. There are five times as many pigs in Denmark as people. Imagine that. Pigs are known to be very intelligent animals and certainly have some rights too. Pigs are certainly more intelligent than the people who publish the newspapers of Denmark! Perhaps Denmark should consider changing its name to Svinmark (Pigmark) and rename its capital, Grishagen (Pigharbor) to reflect the fact that the overwhelming majority of its population is, in fact, pigs. (Danes are fighting to support such changes in Kosovo, a part of Serbia, after all, to reflect the majority Albanian population.) The swine industry in Denmark is one of the most important parts of the Danish economy. In terms of value of annual turnover, Danish Crown Cooperative for pig production is the third largest company in the country. Some 60,000 Danes are employed in the pork industry. Thanks to the "War on Terrorism," many of the Danes who can't find jobs slopping muck in the pig houses of Denmark are able to find jobs in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Iraq. The Danes even have a National Committee for Pig Production, which conducts research on pig production and processing. Danes, it must be said, are known for keeping pigs in extremely inhumane conditions. Danish pigs don't spend a single day of their lives in the fresh air running free. This is partly because Denmark is so small that there is no space for the pigs to run around. It is also because the Danes love pork with a lot of fat. In order to increase the fat content of the pig, Danish pig farmers severely restrict the movement of the pig. A Danish pig spends its entire life in a pig-house stall where it can only stand and sit until it is slaughtered. In all honesty, this can only be described as extremely cruel treatment of animals. While the number of pork producers in Denmark has declined over the past 30 years, falling from about 80,000 in 1975 to about 10,000 in 2004, the number of pigs produced during that same time has more than doubled: from 11.3 million in 1970 to 25.2 million in 2004. This is in a tiny nation of some 5 million people! Danes obviously eat a lot of pork. According to a Danish study, Danes ate approximately 122 pounds per capita in 2004. Some 85-90 percent of Danish pork production is exported, making Denmark the world's largest pork exporter. Danes clearly live off the backs of pigs. The study of Danish society, written by Danish scientists, "politely" described Danish food as "unmemorable." "'Danish cuisine' is an oxymoron," the paper, entitled "Why Danes are smug," said, "except perhaps the open faced 'butter breads' that accompany the beer and aquavit Danes consume for lunch." Aquavit is a distilled grain alcohol product containing about 40 percent alcohol by volume. Danes drink this "for lunch," as the study noted. Danes do, indeed, drink and smoke a great deal. Danes are among the highest consumers of alcohol and tobacco in Europe. This is reflected in causes of death and their low life expectancy. A reviewer of the Danish study suggested that one reason that Danes seem smug may be that they were drunk when they participated in the European surveys. While this may sound silly, it is actually based on a good understanding of Danish society; Danish workers and firemen traditionally enjoy their first beer break at about 10 a.m.
Christopher Bollyn is an independent American journalist dedicated to exposing the lies of 9-11 and the fraudulent "War on Terrorism." Bollyn considers a correct understanding of these hoaxes to be essential to preserving the values of our shared civilization. Bollyn has lived and worked in Scandinavia, including a stint on a Norwegian farm that had a "grishus" or pig-house in which the pigs were kept in inhumane conditions very similar to those found in Denmark. The Bollyn family is strongly opposed to the inhumane treatment of animals and human beings. That's one of the reasons he is dedicated to bringing out the truth of 9-11. To support Bollyn's research and writing, please send a donation to: or Thank you. Sources: "Denmark: Papers Reprint Muhammad Cartoon" Agence France-Presse, February 14, 2008 "Why Danes are smug: comparative study of life satisfaction in the European Union" by Kaare Christensen, Professor, Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark; Anne Maria Herskind, paediatrician, Odense University Hospital, Denmark; James W Vaupel, director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, D-18057 Rostock, Germany http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1761170 "Danish Pork Industry" series of articles, Euken, Russ, Iowa State University, Livestock Specialist
Christmas Letter - 2007 - Rejecting the War Agenda & Standing Up for Peace
That peace, which was initiated not by presidents or prime ministers, - John Nichols on the
Rejecting the War Agenda & Standing Up for Peace Christmas is a truly wonderful time as Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, the Prince of Peace. It is a time when the peace of God fills our hearts and souls. Unfortunately, Christmas 2007 also marks the beginning of the 7th year of the fraudulent "War on Terror" and the 17th year of the utterly criminal and genocidal Anglo-American aggression against The unofficial truce began on Christmas Eve, when German troops began decorating the trees around their trenches. They put candles on trees and sang Christmas carols, most notably "Stille Nacht." "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht," the Germans sang. The British soldiers in their trenches responded by singing "Silent Night" in English. From the simple act of the soldiers in the trenches singing carols, the peace of Christmas spread quickly up and down the Western Front and the guns of war fell silent as more than one million men defied orders and personally rejected the war agenda. The soldiers laid down their weapons, exchanged gifts, and played soccer with soldiers on the other side -- and buried their dead.
Along some stretches of the Western Front, the truce lasted into January of 1915. The spontaneous truce started by the soldiers was strongly opposed by the higher levels of the military. Senior commanders sabotaged the truce and forced the fighting to begin anew. For the duration of the war, artillery bombardments were specifically ordered on Christmas Eve to prevent another Christmas truce from breaking out. "A Carol from O ye who read this truthful rime From God speed the time when every day Shall be as Christmas Day. "GOD SPEED THE TIME" This Christmas, all of us should decide to be like those soldiers on the Western Front in 1914. As citizens of America, Europe, Australia, and the other nations that have been deceived into fighting these evil wars, we should make a New Year's resolution to stand up for peace and completely reject the false logic and lies of the war agenda. It is not wishful thinking or idealism to reject the war agenda. It is our obligation as citizens. We must stop the evil and fraudulent "War on Terror" if we want to preserve our way of life, the peace and prosperity of our nations, and the values of Western civilization. After six years, we should realize that we can not wait for the media, the churches, or our government leaders to stop the war agenda. They are clearly not at all inclined to do so. These institutions are obviously supporting the "War on Terror." Therefore, as individual citizens, we must decide that we will stand for peace and do everything we can to resist the war agenda.
A COMPLETE CATASTROPHE When the independent journalist Dahr Jamail, who has spent a great deal of time in Jamail responded: There is no ordinary life. On all levels the basic infrastructure in Unemployment is between 60 to 70 percent, the average home has only up to five hours of electricity a day, there are ongoing gas shortages, and 70 percent of Iraqis do not have access to drinkable water. Over half the medical workers have fled the country, and the situation in the hospitals is worse today than it was than during the punitive United Nations sanctions following the first Gulf War in 1991. The occupation of This is a bipartisan war against By now it should be abundantly clear that the "War on Terror" is a huge criminal fraud. The invasions of If we had a feud with a neighbor because we suspected that neighbor had stolen or damaged our property, but then learned that someone else had committed the crime, what should our response be? We would naturally want to apologize and make amends. A gift to compensate for the hard feelings would be appropriate. Why has something similar not happened with the There is only one explanation for the compliance of these institutions with these illegal wars of aggression – they are all either supporting the "War on Terror" or are afraid of opposing it. Rejecting the false and evil logic of the fraudulent "War on Terror," however, is a moral obligation we owe to our children, our nations, and our civilization. We should try to see ourselves as the rest of the world sees us. Imagine that the Imagine Russia's President Vladimir Putin were sending tens of thousands of troops into conflicts around the world and that Russian forces were supporting the occupation regimes in Palestine, Afghanistan, and Iraq while Russian companies stole their most precious resources. Imagine that How would peace-loving Americans and Canadians feel about President Putin and ISLAM IS PEACE This year, Christmas begins at the end of the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Islam, grossly misrepresented in the Zionist-controlled media, is truly a religion that cherishes "Salaam" - peace. The word "Islam" means more than "peace." It means to give oneself completely to God and to enter into a covenant of peace with Him. The word "Islam" is derived from "Salaam." The Arabic concept of Salaam is much more than the mere absence of violence and aggression. It means total well being and happiness. Al-Salam is also one of the 99 Names of God in the Koran. The traditional Arabic greeting for both Muslim and Christian Arabs is "As-Salamu Alikum," which literally means "peace be upon you." The response is, "Wa Alikum As-Salaam, or "and upon you be peace." Peace is the true Islamic way of life. The traditional Hebrew greeting, "Shalom Alichem," means the same thing. Unfortunately, the Israeli government has been hijacked by radicals of the most extreme right-wing and militant faction of Zionism – the sons and daughters of the former Irgun terrorists of Vladimir Jabotinsky. These Zionist terrorists, people like Ariel Sharon, Benjamin Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, Ehud Olmert, and "Zippy" Livni, have created a fortress state in Palestine and are clearly unable to deliver peace or prosperity to the Israelis or the Palestinians. These fanatical Jewish-supremacists are determined to create the same fear and bring their Zionist wars and fortress mentality to the people of the The false-flag terror attacks that now occur with sickening regularity are not Islamic terrorism. They are false-flag attacks committed by Israeli agents, which are specifically designed to be blamed on Islam. The purpose of this outrageous terrorism is to convince the people of the West that radical Muslims, all across the Islamic world, are waging war against us, when clearly it is we who are the aggressors. False-flag terrorism, such as 9-11 and the subsequent bombings in
If you would like to support my research and writing, [email protected] With many thanks and the best wishes for a Christopher Bollyn Sources and Recommended Final Declaration of the Axis for Peace Conference, Brussels 2005, Signed by Christopher Bollyn, Helje Kaskel, and scores of other peace activists http://www.axisforpeace.net/article681.html "International terrorism does not exist" by General Leonid Ivashov, Axis for Peace 2005 http://www.voltairenet.org/article133909.html Denson, John V., "Soldiers Against War: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce" http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/denson4.html Nichols, John, "Short Peace In A Terrible War" "Dahr Jamail Interview: www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=13631 Khaleel, Kaasen, Wrongly Blamed, 2007 Knowledge House Publishers,
The Passing of Kurt Vonnegut
The Passing of Kurt Vonnegut - By Christopher Bollyn Who is more to be pitied, I am truly sad to hear that Kurt Vonnegut has left us. He is one person that I really wanted to meet and now I regret that I didn't. Having read Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) in high school and having lived a month at the slaughterhouse where he survived the fire bombing of Dresden in 1945, I would have very much liked to spend a few hours in Dresden, or anywhere for that matter, with Mr. Vonnegut. I wound up staying at Dresden's Alter Schlachthof, the old slaughterhouse, quite by accident. On February 14, 2004, exactly 59 years after the Allied fire bombing of Dresden, I took my family to hear the Mozart Requiem at Dresden's Semper Oper and we needed to find an affordable hotel.
We grabbed a taxi at the train station and I asked the driver for an inexpensive hotel. He drove about a mile from the town center down a wooded lane and through a large portal in a long wall that ran along the street. We passed through the portal and entered into a large complex of well built but unused buildings that had a massive and most unusual tower structure in the middle. A few hundred feet from the portal stood a small modern hotel, clearly from a later and less grand era, where we took a room. We wound up staying in there for several weeks. The next day I walked around a bit and asked a groundskeeper some questions about what this large complex had been in the past. Eventually I learned that it had been a very famous and scientific modern slaughterhouse designed by Hans Erlwein in the early 1900s. In recent years it had been abandoned and most of the buildings were no longer used.
At the main entrance of the complex stood some very impressive buildings, one of which had the number 5 by the door. That building was the administration building and at the time that the complex served as a prison camp, the Allied POWs knew their camp by the post address for this main building: "Schlachthof 5."
As a 22-year-old POW, Kurt Vonnegut survived the fire-bombing of Dresden because he and the other prisoners had the good fortune to have been kept at the slaughterhouse where they had been taken into the well-built and deep meat cellar. The groundskeeper took me into the cellar so I could see where Vonnegut had survived the holocaust of Dresden. Vonnegut wrote about how he, as the character Billy, had survived the fire-bombing in Slaughterhouse-Five: Billy was down in the meat locker on the night that Dresden was destroyed. There were sounds like giant footsteps above. Those were sticks of high-explosive bombs. The giants walked and walked.
Today, the day after Vonnegut passed away at age 84, the BBC played part of an interview with him. He said that he had been an eyewitness to the worst massacre in European history. Vonnegut was under the impression that about 135,000 people had been incinerated in the holocaust of Dresden. This number is at the low end of the death toll estimates from the Ash Wednesday/Valentine's Day holocaust of Dresden. The post-war British and American historians have greatly downplayed the number of victims and the size and viciousness of the Allied war crime that was the incineration – the holocaust of the hundreds of thousands of innocent people and the architectural masterpiece known as Florence on the Elbe. Another eyewitness, the late August Kuklane, had spent time in Dresden looking for his Estonian parents among the hundreds of thousands of refugees that had sought refuge in Dresden during the desperate winter of 1945. Kuklane told me that the number of people estimated to have perished in the city center that had been totally destroyed by fire was about 600,000. Both Vonnegut and Kuklane witnessed American fighter planes strafing the survivors of the holocaust of Dresden: "American fighter planes came in under the smoke to see if anything was moving. They saw Billy and the rest moving down there. The planes sprayed them with machine gun bullets but the bullets missed," Vonnegut wrote. "Then they saw some other people moving down by the riverside and they shot at them. They hit some of them. So it goes."  The corpses of Dresden were burned in piles and then buried in a mass grave. Article Links: Musical links: Here are two short audio samples from the Kreuzchor singing from two moving works from Rudolf Mauersberger's masterpiece, the Dresden Requiem: Here is the opening of motet 'Wir liegt die Stadt so wüst' - Here is the opening of Introitus from Dresden Requiem – Vonnegut Audio Links: http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/625000/audio/_629620_dresden.ram American fighter planes came in under the smoke to see if anything was moving. They saw Billy and the rest moving down there. The planes sprayed them with machine gun bullets but the bullets missed. "Then they saw some other people moving down by the riverside and they shot at them. They hit some of them. So it goes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/ram/programmes/frontrow_20060206.ram See also: |
