the americans have been doing everything they can to ensure instability in the region. they just want them to keep fighting. divide and conquer.

the saudis seem to want to eliminate the shia and annex the arab-speaking areas (maybe not literally, but the goal seems to be to set up a puppet state to the gulf council). they night be in favour of this in the short term, but it's inevitable to lead to a desire for further expansion. an independent kurdistan would almost certainly end up aligned with iran. it's not their focus....for now.

this would benefit iran, as it would create a more serious bridge.

that makes netanyahu's statements....curious.

it doesn't matter. i've stated repeatedly that turkey, a nato member, is the most important american ally in the region. they'd start bombing the day they declare independence.

not happening.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/29/israel-prime-minister-kurdish-independence

the ironic thing about the spooky satan-worshipping side of the neo-pagan movement is that they interpret the old pagan gods the way that christians demonized them, rather than the way they were worshipped by actual pagans.

odin was a good guy. wise. kind. generous. more like jesus than satan, actually. maybe a little less naive, but no less altruistic in his motives.

to a medieval christian landowner, however, any competition with the church was satanic, by definition. i mean, you weren't even allowed to read the bible back then. it was just madness. a jesus by any other name is just another representation of satan. it challenges the monopoly. so, it all got perverted and twisted around. and, now these kids are just picking up the bullshit out of historical ignorance. in reality, it's all just christian propaganda...

you see the same thing with these anti-illuminati groups. the illuminati were the good guys. they were into liberty and equality. but, that meant opposing the church, because the church wasn't into liberty and equality, it was into feudalism and ignorance. so, the church did what it does to any person or organization that challenges it (odin, scientists, jews) - it declared it driven by satan. from this, we get the nefarious nwo that wants to take over the world and enslave us all. but it's never been anything more than christian propaganda designed to stigmatize a political movement that challenged it's power. it's just morphed from a right-wing catholic scare tactic to a right-wing military-industrial scare tactic. the united nations is really the only global body that offers the slightest bit of competition to american hegemony, which is why it's loathed so deeply by the people that make real decisions and have real financial power within the united states. a true global order would have to decentralize power from the united states, by necessity - by definition. the conspiracy is actually the conspiracy theory, itself; the anti-illuminati and anti-nwo propaganda is being spread by the status quo in order to maintain it.

if you strip out the anachronistic warrior culture, which is just no longer applicable to a civilization at the stage we're now at, actual odin worship would not be much different than the core ideas present in british liberalism. it would uphold fairness and honour in the face of a strong emphasis on individual sovereignty. a random observer would be forgiven for mistaking it for the kind of advanced form of christianity that most people adhere to nowadays - the golden rule minus the hubris.

people may have observed me running at full pace down the street today while pushing a shopping cart (it was starting to rain), and, if they did, they were no doubt struck by my wanton disrespect for rules and flat out rebellious behaviour.

yes, i was told not to run with a shopping cart, and warned of the dangers of doing so. yet, i heed the laws of no man!

in other news, the library was closed today, and i wasn't happy about it.