VAN "CITY UPON A HILL" NAAR "ARMAGEDDON"



John Winthrop (1587-1649) was een Engelse Puriteinse jurist die in 1630 met een groep gelijkgestemden vanuit Engeland naar de oostkust van Amerika  vertrok en zich daar als de Massachusetts Bay kolonisten vestigden. Dit in navolging van de  Pilgrim Fathers, die zich in 1620 gevestigd hadden in de Plymouth Settlement.

Winthrop's zag de kolonie aan de Massachusetts Bay op de plek van het latere Boston als een  "City upon a Hill".
Een zinsnede uit de Gospel van Matthew: Matthew 5: 14

Ye are the light of the world. A city
that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Voor de groepering van Winthrop en die van de Pilgrim Fathers waren zij de "Uitverkorenen" die het "Beloofde Land" hadden betreden. Men ziet deze religieuze intocht wel als de voorbode van het politieke Amerikaanse Exceptionalisme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism


De Verenigde Staten hebben vele andersdenkenden en vervolgden binnen hun grenzen verzameld. De genoemde Gelovigen waren nog bereid om de symboliek in de bijbel te ontdekken en daar vreugde aan te ontlenen; dat veranderde totaal met de komst van de "Evangelicals" met hun letterlijke interpretatie van de Bijbel.


De Eindtijd en zijn strijd tussen Goed en Kwaad staan daar centraal in.
One influential definition of Evangelicalism has been proposed by historian David Bebbington. Bebbington notes four distinctive aspects of Evangelical faith: conversionism, biblicism, crucicentrism, and activism, noting, "Together they form a quadrilateral of priorities that is the basis of Evangelicalism."

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Eindtijd https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eindtijd staat voor een periode die gekenmerkt zal worden door geloofsafval, rampen en oorlogen. Aan het uiterste einde van die eindtijd valt het optreden van de Antichrist, die volgens een gecombineerde interpretatie van onder meer het Boek Openbaring, de eerste brief aan Timoteüs (4:1) en de twee brieven van Johannes (I 2:18,22 en II 1:7) nu al in de wereld is en die loochent dat Jezus de Messias is. De Antichrist zou 'orde' komen brengen en een korte periode van wereldvrede zal het resultaat zijn, waarna hij echter - geïnspireerd door satan - vervalt in het vervolgen van de christenen, terwijl ook strijd zal uitbreken tussen de volkeren, culminerend in de laatste grote strijd op de vlakte van Armageddon.
De Eindtijd zou dan worden afgesloten met de Wederkomst van Jezus. Voor de 'ware' gelovige betekent dit eindelijk verlost te zijn uit de 'knellende banden' van het vlees en op te gaan in de eeuwige heerlijkheid.
Wanneer we ons realiseren dat een kwart van de Amerikaanse bevolking  deze  Christelijke godsdienstvorm belijd dan moet de tocht naar Armageddon een intense vreugde voor veel Amerikanen zijn.
We gaan dan ook "Laughing on the Way to Armageddon" | https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/09/09/laughing-on-the-way-to-armageddon/#more-158747 volgens de auteur Paul Craig Roberts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts

The United States shows the world such a ridiculous face that the world laughs at us.

The latest spin on “Russia stole the election” is that Russia used Facebook to influence the election. The NPR women yesterday were breathless about it.

We have been subjected to ten months of propaganda about Trump/Putin election interference and still not a scrap of evidence. It is past time to ask an unasked question: If there were evidence, what is the big deal? All sorts of interest groups try to influence election outcomes including foreign governments. Why is it OK for Israel to influence US elections but not for Russia to do so? Why do you think the armament industry, the energy industry, agribusiness, Wall Street and the banks, pharmaceutical companies, etc., etc., supply the huge sum of money to finance election campaigns if their intent is not to influence the election? Why do editorial boards write editorials endorsing one candidate and damning another if they are not influencing the election?
NB
Uit William Blum: "Democratie als dodelijk Exportproduct". Sedert het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog heeft Washington geprobeerd om:
- meer dan vijftig buitenlandse regeringen omver te werpen waarvan de meest democratische verkozen;
- democratische verkiezingen te manipuleren in minstens dertig landen;
- meer dan vijftig buitenlandse leiders te vermoorden; 
- meer dan  dertig landen te bombarderen;
- nationalistische volksbewegingen te onderdrukken  in meer dan twintig landen.
What is the difference between influencing the election and influencing the government? Washington is full of lobbyists of all descriptions, including lobbyists for foreign governments, working round the clock to influence the US government. It is safe to say that the least represented in the government are the citizens themselves who don’t have any lobbyists working for them.
The orchestrated hysteria over “Russian influence” is even more absurd considering the reason Russia allegedly interfered in the election. Russia favored Trump because he was the peace candidate who promised to reduce the high tensions with Russia created by the Obama regime and its neocon nazis—Hillary Clinton, Victoria Nuland, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power. What’s wrong with Russia preferring a peace candidate over a war candidate? The American people themselves preferred the peace candidate. So Russia agreed with the electorate.

Opnieuw William Blum: Wat zei Hillary Clinton tijdens haar  Verkiezingscampagne van 2008: Het Amerikaanse leger heeft succesvol gehandeld. Ze hebben Saddam Hoessein opgeruimd. De VS effenden het pad voor de Iraki's naar vrije en eerlijke verkiezingen. Ze boden de Iraakse regering de kans om haar verantwoordelijkheden op te nemen en een reeks harde beslissingen te nemen die noodzakelijk waren om het Iraakse volk een betere toekomst te garanderen. Maar de Iraakse regering aarzelde en dus heeft het Amerikaanse leger die beslissingen doorgedrukt. De Iraakse regering heeft gefaald om de harde beslissingen te nemen die van het grootste belang waren voor haar eigen volk.


Those who don’t agree with the electorate are the warmongers—the military/security complex and the neocon nazis. These are democracy’s enemies who are trying to overturn the choice of the American people. It is not Russia that disrespects the choice of the American people; it is the utterly corrupt Democratic National Committee
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee  and its divisive Identity Politics, the military/security complex, and the presstitute media who are undermining democracy.
I believe it is time to change the subject. The important question is who is it that is trying so hard to convince Americans that Russian influence prevails over us?
Do the idiots pushing this line realize how impotent this makes an alleged “superpower” look. How can we be the hegemonic power that the Zionist neocons say we are when Russia can decide who is the president of the United States?

American exceptionalism is an ideology that holds that the United States is extraordinarily unique among nations in a very positive way, particularly with respect to its ideals of democracy and personal freedom. Another theme is the sense that the United States' history and mission gives it a superiority over other nations.
De term deed eerst opgeld na de Eerste Wereldoorlog en ging na de Tweede Wereldoorlog over in de 'Indispensable Nation' https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/05/america-the-indispensable-nationnot/ en na het uiteenvallen van de Sovjet-Unie ook wel de Pax Americana genoemd als enige overgebleven Grootmacht.

The US has a massive spy state that even intercepts the private cell phone conversations of the Chancellor of Germany, but his massive spy organization is unable to produce one scrap of evidence that the Russians conspired with Trump to steal the presidential election from Hillary. When will the imbeciles realize that when they make charges for which no evidence can be produced they make the United States look silly, foolish, incompetent, stupid beyond all belief?
Countries are supposed to be scared of America’s threat that “we will bomb you into the stone age,” but the President of Russia laughs at us.
Putin recently described the complete absence of any competence in Washington:
“It is difficult to talk to people who confuse Austria and Australia. But there is nothing we can do about this; this is the level of political culture among the American establishment. As for the American people, America is truly a great nation if the Americans can put up with so many politically uncivilized people in their government.”
These words from Putin were devastating, because the world understands that they are accurate. 
“Strategic Vision”: America and the Crisis of Global Power. Verschenen in 2012/2013 by Zbigniew Brzezinski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski
The uncomfortable truth is that the United States’ public has an alarmingly limited knowledge of basic global geography, current events, and even pivotal moments in world history - a reality certainly derived in part from its deficient public education system. A 2002 National Geographic survey found that a higher percentage of eighteen- to twenty-four-olds in Canada, France, Japan, Mexico, and Sweden could identify the United States on a map than their American counterparts. A National Geographic survey comparing current events and geography knowledge of young adults in Sweden, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, the UK, Canada, the United States, and Mexico found that the United States ranked second to last - barely beating its less-developed neighbor, Mexico. That level of ignorance is compounded by the absence of informative international reporting readily accessible to the public . With the exception of perhaps five major newspapers, local press and American TV provides very limited news coverage about world affairs, except for ad hoc coverage of sensational or catastrophic events. What passes for news tends to be trivia or human-interest stories. In general, public ignorance creates an American political environment more hospitable to extremist simplifications - abetted by interested lobbies - than to nuanced views of the inherently more complex global realities of the post-Cold War era.
Consider the (pro-Israel) idiot
Nikki Haley, http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.780429 
Nikki Haley en Sarah Palin "True Friends" of Israel
appointed by Trump in a fit of mindlessness as US Ambassador to the United Nations. This stupid person is forever shaking her fist at the Russians while mouthing yet another improbable accusation. She might want to read Mario Puzo’s book, The Godfather. Everyone knows the movie, but if memory serves somewhere in the book Puzo reflects on the practice of the irate American motorist who shakes a fist and gives the bird to other drivers. What if the driver receiving the insult is a Mafia capo? Does the idiot shaking his fist know who he is accosting? No. Does the moron know that the result might be a brutal beating or death? No.
Israel en de Zionistische Neocons beschuldigen Iran er van dat het land zijn verplichtingen overeengekomen in de
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) ook wel Iran 
NuclearDeal(2015) genoemd niet nakomt. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action. De inspecteurs van het International Atomic Energy Agency berichten dat de Iraniërs nauwlettend de afspraken nakomen.
Opnieuw oorloghitserij in gegeven door de Israel Lobby, die bereid zijn op oorlog aansturen als dat in het belang van Israel is. https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/06/nikki-haley-falsely-accuses-iran/
Deze gang van zaken doet erg denken aan de informatie verstrekt door de inspecteur Hans Blix m.b.t. de eventuele aanwezigheid van Weapons of Mass Destruction in Irak. Hij werd niet geloofd en zelfs geschoffeerd door de regering van George W. Bush.
Does the imbecile Nikki Haley understand what can be the result of her inability to control herself? No. Every knowledgeable person I know wonders if Trump appointed the imbecile Nikki Haley US ambassador to the world for the purpose of infuriating the Russians.

Ask Napoleon and the German Wehrmacht the consequence of infuriating the Russians.

After 16 years the US “superpower” has been unable to defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban, who have no air force, no Panzer divisions, no worldwide intelligence service, and the crazed US government in Washington is courting war with Russia and China and North Korea and Iran.
De Amerikanen hebben sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog  geen enkele oorlog gewonnen. Niet in Korea, noch in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Irak, Libië en Syrië. Wel is een spoor van dood en verderf achtergelaten.



De Amerikaanse organisatie PRS (Physicians for Social Responsibility) een Nobel Prijs winnende groep, die bekend is om zijn wetenschappelijke betrouwbaarheid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicians_for_Social_Responsibility
Zij schat het aantal doden in Afghanistan en Irak minstens op vier miljoen. Het aantal verminkten en gevluchten bedraagt een veelvoud daarvan.

De Amerikanen zijn verkozen totde 'Indispensable Killers' en worden als de  Greatest Threat to Peace in the World Today’| gezien.
The American people are clearly out to lunch in their insouciance. Americans are fighting among themselves over “civil war” statues, while “their’ government invites nuclear Armageddon.
The United States has an ambassador to the world who shows no signs of intelligence, who behaves as if she is Mike Tyson or Bruce Lee to the 5th power, and who is the total antithesis of a diplomat. What does this tell about the United States?
It reveals that the US is in the Roman collapse stage when the emperor appoints horses to the Senate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitatus
The United States has a horse, an uncivilized horse, as its diplomat to the world. The Congress and executive branch are also full of horses and horse excrement. The US government is completely devoid of intelligence. There is no sign of intelligence anywhere in the U.S. government. Of or morality.

As Hugo Chavez said: Satan is there; you can smell the sulphur. 

 America is a joke with nuclear weapons, the prime danger to life on earth.
How can this danger be corralled?

The American people would have to realize that they are being led to their deaths by the Zionist neocon nazis who, together with the military/security complex and Wall Street, control US foreign policy, by the complicity of Europe and Great Britain desperate to retain their CIA subsidies, and by the harlots that comprise the Western media.

War is evil; permanent war is permanent evil. It is evil to humans but also to other species and the planet; the weapons used destroy us but also contaminate and destroy nature.
Smedley Buttler [Smedley Darlington Butler (1881–1940) was a USA Marine Corps major general, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler identified war as a racket, making fortunes for some while costing much to the majority and the lives of many: “It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious (racket). It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is…something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about…conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets?…..
The general public shoulders the bill.” 
Are Americans capable of comprehending this? Only a few have escaped The Matrix.
The consequence is that America is being locked into conflict with Russia and China. There is no possibility whatsoever of Washington invading either country, much less both, so war would be nuclear.
Do the American people want Washington to bring us this result? If not, why are the American people sitting there sucking their thumbs, doing nothing? Why are Europe and Great Britain sitting there permitting the unfolding of nuclear Armageddon? Who murdered the peace movement? 

The World and the American people need desperately to rein in the warmonger United States, or the world will cease to exist.

An International Court To Preserve Life On Earth needs to be assembled. The US government and the war interests it serves need to be indicted and prosecuted and disarmed before their evil destroys life on earth.



We live in a World of Lies and We Always Have
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/30/we-do-not-live-in-post-truth-world-we-live-in-a-world-of-lies-and-we-always-have/ (Robert Fisk)

Who Rules the World? http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176137/ (Noam Chomsky)

Stop Living in Denial, Israel Is an Evil State http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.734309 (Gideon Levy)

 

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