But it is too late: she knows her time is up (Alfredo, Violetta: Gran Dio! morir si giovane – “O, God! to die so young”). Alfredo’s father enters with the doctor, regretting what he has done. Very quickly, Violetta dies in Alfredo’s arms.

Though illegal, paying for sex is widely accepted by many Russian men. The eight-laned highways which stretch out of the sprawling capital of 10.5 million teem with prostitutes, some of whom agree demand for sex has fallen. “Now they often talk about work.”

On a website where men can search for prostitutes in their area, a banner invites them to de-stress by simply talking: “When your stock price is falling, what better way to relax than chatting with one of our girls?”

On the other side of the road to my house when I was there, they were lined up at night along the patio and steps to the local school. Many cars went into that slip road at night. Most houses in the area had phone numbers daubed on the corner.  I think they were running a place in a flat above me and a bit further along.

I never understood the trade because most men could get a legit girlfriend fairly easily. Of course, girlfriends make demands and require some sort of fidelity but fewer and fewer were following the Russian way into marriage and were giving it away anyway at parties, which suited the boys fine.  So there was a situation where the majority of girls and young women were prostitutes of some form or other.

Maildotcom:

It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation’s demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe’s many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons. The recent spread of claims into the Netherlands, Austria and Italy has analysts and churchmen wondering how deep the scandal runs.

Pretty deep, actually.  What sort of stupidity is it to demand celibacy as a precondition for being Holy?  I mean, where is that indicated in the Bible?  You force men to be unnatural and they’re going to be … er .. unnatural in what they do, aren’t they?

As far as I know, the men who molested me when I was a boy weren’t Catholic.  They might have been.  All I know is that it was a pretty horrible thing for a boy to have any association with men in a sexual context.  If you want to know why your humble blogger is uber-hetero and goes on about women the whole time – this is why.

For some reason, movements like the Scout Movement and churches seem to attract these people – Scouts was where I also encountered molestation and it was so bad that when my parents visited me one camp, I asked them to get me out of there but I wouldn’t give them the reason why.

And the worst of it is that it then creates perpetrators at an early age.  Even though I wanted out of that camp, I still penetrated another boy in my tent and I can’t remember if he penetrated me.  I think I stopped him.  It didn’t help that I was at a public school either where the only people I saw were other boys.  So all my hetero was done in primary school, then came secondary and then the hetero started again after that with a vengeance.

Whither the Catholic Church?

This has been a long time coming, this crunch and the Catholic world has been set up.  The enemies of Christianity saw a perfect opportunity here to associate, in people’s minds, Christianity with paedos and hey presto – here it is, scandals supposedly “sweeping the world”.  No wonder Andrew Scott is so vehemently anti-Church although he’s not Catholic.

The Catholic Church has had the Borgias, the ten worst popes of all time, the P2 scandal, the assassination of John-Paul I, Opus Dei and so on but despite the most earnest wishes of the godless, humanist, PC global socialists, this scandal is probably not going to bring down the broader church, in the sense of people’s core beliefs.  In a spiritually bereft country like the UK, it’s hard to understand but there are still a lot of devout people out there and the forces of darkness haven’t killed their essential faith off yet, probably because it happens to be based on truth.

Nor will it be killed off.  The greater the persecution, the better Christianity thrives and in its purest sense too, stripped of the livery, the gold-plated finery and the gobbledegook.

Stripped of the paedophilia too.

Christianity, belief in the nation-state, the family, mothers and all the other good things in the world are wonderful means by which to put a spanner in the works in the advance of the new feudalism and anything which puts a spanner in that is to be supported.  The moment the enemy forces everyone into the godless, relativistic, multi-cultural, PC mindset where the only god is money and his high priest is shopping on credit, people are ripe for the picking.

In 1912, Anna Jarvis trademarked the phrases “second Sunday in May” and “Mother’s Day”, and created the Mother’s Day International Association.  As Ann Jarvis said:

A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother—and then eat most of it yourself. A petty sentiment!

The vast majority celebrate it on the second Sunday in May, following Jarvis’s campaign and so, in any attempt to get the celebration on the one day worldwide, this would be the favoured day.  Despite the “International” Day of Women of most Slavic countries being on March 8th, Russia actually has its Mother’s Day on November 28  In France it is the First Sunday in June or last Sunday in May.

The odd one out is the UK, which connects it with Easter and has it on Mothering Sunday, part of the Lenten cycle [4th Sunday] and in 2010, this falls on March 14th.  For the Muslims whom Peter Hain likes to cheapen and invoke for his own political ends, one opinion is:

”In Islam Each Day is Mother’s Day So Muslims Respect their Mothers More than any Community of the World ”

… and we all see how well Muslim men respect their women.  Various Muslim nations have their own days for it, including the birthday of Mohammed’s daughter.   For our good friends, the Argentinians, it’s Día de la Madre – the second or third Sunday in October.

Sorry to be a globalist and all that [had to laugh at how at Davos, the G word was not spoken by anyone this year] why can’t it be on the one day?  The correct day IMHO, is Mothering Sunday  but the logical day, worldwide, is the second Sunday in May.

This day today is a great reminder that we are a country based on Christian traditions, our religion is Christianity [despite all the spoilsports dotted around the country] and certain things like Mothering Sunday are not likely to alter any time soon.

Women’s Day

Question – do we even want to celebrate “Mothers Day” [apostrophe deliberately excluded]?  Not all women are mothers, are they?  What about girls?  Don’t they get to be celebrated?  Or would the ladies like two days – Mothers Day and Womens Day?

To all mothers everywhere

The family is the nucleus of civilization and mothers are the nucleus of the family.  The attacks on the family in this age have not yet conquered motherhood.

Let me raise a glass and toast mothers everywhere.  Kiss a mother today [preferably your own but let's not get too hard and fast about this].

“We are at present working discreetly but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands, because to impugn the sovereignty of the local national states of the world is still a heresy for which a statesman or a publicist can be, perhaps not quite burnt at the stake, but certainly ostracized and discredited.”

She also keeps up with all things British or at least did until Sky shut them down in Italy.  Could this be the start of an attempt to return everyone to his/her country of origin?

The lady is also a chef extraordinaire and her homemade ice-cream and bread are second to none.

100 interesting comments have me  thanking you, Welshcakes.

What was the reason for Herve Falciani [pictured] doing as he did?   If it was for money, who was going to pay it?  The answer might be in here:

The UK’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) office paid around £100,000 for information about its taxpayers with bank accounts in Liechtenstein, according to accountants UHY Hacker Young.

“Paying criminals for data stolen from banks is highly questionable,” said the firm’s tax partner, Roy Maugham. “If people know that there is a market for this data, they will steal it in expectation that HMRC or another tax authority will hand over a six figure sum,” he said.

A Georgina M went with him to Beirut and says it was to sell the data.  Falciani says “in no way“:

Le fisc vous a-t-il rémunéré ? La justice vous a-t-elle offert une protection ? Y a-t-il eu un échange ?  En aucun cas. J’ai dit : voilà la situation, je ne veux pas d’argent. Ils ont su trouver les preuves.

He maintains that in 2006, when he was working on the archiving of data with HSBC, he noted that French customers’ data was being “locked up” in Switzerland.  This article gives a better explanation:

Why did Herve Falciani do this? Difficult to answer. If one reads between the lines of his interview, one understands that its motivations are ideological: as from the moment when he had included/understood what occurred: the practice had to be denounced.

What practice?  The practice of money laundering, of course and tying up data in Switzerland so that French authorities could not access it and bring criminals to trial.  Of course, you’ve already tumbled to the fact that this was HSBC allegedly doing this with “special accounts” in Switzerland and if they are doing it, then which other banks also?

This blog makes no statement either way. How would I know if HSBC has been up to naughties or not?  What the Falciani action does do, of course,  is focus the world’s attention on the question of money laundering, the ability of the “English way” to cloak it all with opacity and the relationship between the need for tax authorities to beef up databases in order to catch out high level crims who go on to escape the net anyway and to use those databases to crack down on the little people in ways unrelated to the catching of high end crims.

Time for a break from European politics.  Your humble blogger had never heard of Aum Shinrikyo, Yoichi Clark Shimatsu or Archipelago before today, nor had he heard of Shoko Asahara, Harry Mason or Dan Gerber – shows what a sheltered life he’s led.

Probably any twelve year old gamer could tell him about these things and about “the major January 1995 quake which laid waste to the Japanese City of Kobe.”

When I read:

The latter resulted in the crash of the Tokyo stock exchange – itself directly leading to the collapse of England’s spook-infested Barings bank. Suggestions that the Kobe event may have been caused by a laser-powered seismic weapon continue to circulate.

… then we were clearly in Science Fiction territory and there’s nothing wrong with a good bit of SF for light relief. So, for a bit of corroboration on who this Aum Shinrikyo actually is and lo and behold, guess who’s got an article on it?

Our old friends the CFR.

At the center of the group’s belief is reverence for Shoko Asahara, Aum’s founder, who says that he is the first “enlightened one” since Buddha. Asahara preached that the end of the world was near and that Aum followers would be the only people to survive the apocalypse, which he predicted would occur in 1996 or between 1999 and 2003.

Asahara has claimed that the United States would hasten the Armageddon by starting World War III with Japan. Aum accumulated great wealth from operating electronic businesses and restaurants, in addition to requiring members to sign their estates over to the group. Aum recruited young, smart university students and graduates, often from elite families, who sought a more meaningful existence, according a New York Times profile of the group.

At the time of the 1995 subway attack, the group claimed to have an estimated forty thousand members worldwide, with offices in the United States, Russia, and Japan, according to the State Department.

Subway attack?

The group made headlines around the world in 1995 when members carried out a chemical attack on the Tokyo subway system. A nerve agent, sarin, was released onto train cars, killing twelve and causing an estimated six thousand people to seek medical attention, according to the U.S. State Department 2007 Country Report.

Chemical attack?  The original article has a different version:

Shoko Asahara, predicted the Kobe quake nine days before the event. In an 8 January 1995 radio broadcast, Asahara stated “Japan will be attacked by an earthquake in 1995. The most likely place is Kobe.” Hideo Murai, the late Science and Technology minister for Aum Shinrikyo also adhered to this view.

Now we’re getting into the old truth gap, where one version, by the infamous CFR says one thing and if they were involved in earthquake technology, they’d hardly be likely to mention it on their site and the original article, by fearless Alex Jones types, says another.

The CFR concedes:

As early as five years before the March 1995 subway attack, the group attempted to carry out at least nine biological assaults—all failed—according to a 1998 New York Times investigation. Originally, Aum planned to massacre citizens by spraying botulin, the most lethal natural poison to humans, from buildings and modified delivery vans. Aum’s team of young scientists cultured and experimented with biological toxins, including botulin, anthrax, cholera, and Q fever.

The transition to chemical weapons came after biological attacks failed. Investigations and raids after the subway attack showed that Aum was capable of producing thousands of kilograms of sarin a year, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The cult had also acquired a Russian military helicopter that could have been used to distribute the gas, the police said.

Early summary – crazed cult with intelligent scientists lays hands on chemical and biological weapons, with a view to bringing their predictions of Doomsday to fruition. Compare that to the Christian version which says He will come as a thief in the night – you’ll not know when, so stop speculating about it now and prepare yourselves inside, i.e. clean up your act, boys and girls.

Uh huh. The original article goes on:

Murai [astrophysicist Hideo Murai, Aum member] presented his allegation in an April 7, 1995 news conference at the Foreign Correspondent Club in Japan. In answer to questions about the Kobe quake, Murai said “There is a strong possibility of the activation of an earthquake using electromagnetic power, or somebody may have used a device that applied force inside the Earth.” The Aum leadership believed the Kobe quake an act of war: “The City of Kobe was hit by a surprise attack…” they claimed, adding the City was an “…appropriate guinea pig.”

It gets better:

Aum’s singular interest in weapons of mass destruction – including sophisticated earthquake, weather and plasma weapons – were considered serious enough to launch a special investigation by the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Chaired by Senator Sam Nunn, the committee spent five months conducting hundreds of interviews of “both government and private individuals.” These included classified briefings from numerous US intelligence agencies. Their findings were published in an October 1995, 100 page report on the Aum cult.

The Nunn report, in addition to outlining Aum’s large international membership and massive finances of US$1 billion plus, also revealed the cult’s fascination for Tesla weapons. The Senate report describes Aum’s visits to the New York based International Tesla Society (ITS), where they sought to obtain a number of his books, patents and papers.

A representative of the ITS told Senate investigators that Aum’s interest focused on Tesla’s experiments with “resonating frequencies,” adding that “Tesla had experimented in creating earthquakes.” Significantly, the report also states that Tesla claimed “…with his technology he could ‘split the world’ in two.”

Aum personnel also travelled to the Tesla Museum in Belgrade. Their studies here included researching the so called “Tesla Coil” – a device used for alternating currents. Additionally, they also uncovered Tesla’s work on “high energy voltage transmission and on wave amplification, which Tesla asserted could be used to create seismological disturbances.”

But why? For what purpose?

It is important to note that the cult shared one common thread with their arch rivals, the militaristic Soka Gakkai. The latter is a truly enormous and powerful Japanese religious cult with 15 million members and massive finances. Both cults adhere to the cataclysmic teaching of the 18th century prophet monk, Nichiren.

This doctrine states that an apocalyptic “final war” (saishu senso”) is to be fought against the “Christian west and the Islamic world.” Also known as the “100 hundred year war” it pre-dates WW11 and continues to be fought in the shadows, even as we speak.

One always tries to relate these things to personal experience and there was an incident in 1995 where I took the heads of two London Chinatown youth organizations to lunch as a goodwill exercise, as I thought we might get a bit more peace and cooperation if we did. They probably embellished their tales of Hong Kong life but let’s just say that Aum would not have felt out of place in their particular world.

Unfortunately, two weeks after this, a restaurant in Chinatown was gutted and two of these chaps were arrested in connection with it.

This was where I developed an interesting theory [yes, Guthrum] that the security forces in the UK know everything of these groups, where they’ll be and how they get round. The notion of group members travelling freely and linking up without security knowing anything at all makes me smile.

Of course, I’m probably completely wrong in that assertion and in fact British security is totally hopeless, with the chiefs knowing absolutely nothing and having no info conduit whatsoever to a central place. They just sit around drinking coffee, of course.

Lifton, Robert Jay, Destroying the World to Save It: Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism. New York: Macmillan (2000), wrote of Aum:

The religion’s practices remained shrouded in secrecy. Initiation rituals often involved the use of hallucinogens, such as LSD. Religious practices often involved extreme ascetic practices referred to as “yoga” These included everything from renunciants being hung upside down to being given shock therapy.

Two years before the Kobe massacre, there was an incident in Western Australia, according to Wiki:

At 11:03 on May 28,1993, a large seismic disturbance in West Victoria, Australia tripped sensors across the globe. However, truckers and campers saw a bright flash of light “like a far off explosion”. It was later discovered that Aum owned a large plot of land near the epicenter. Many scientists and authorities believe this could have been a bomb test or even possibly a nuclear bomb.

A link to the station in question was given at the foot of the Wiki page. The original article says:

In 1995, British born Geologist/Geophysicist, Harry Mason, stumbled across a strange, unaccountable earthquake which rumbled across the vast open spaces of Western Australia two years earlier. The event took place at 11.03 p.m., on 28 May 1993 with an epicentre close to Banjawarn sheep station in the Leonora-Laverton area – North-west of Perth. The event registered 3.7 on the Richter scale and was assumed to have been the first ever recorded quake in that part of Australia.

Harry Mason, was gathering information that made him pause for thought.  Intriguingly, just a few kilometres from Banjawarn, is a military facility located at Laverton.  Mason says that press photos of this facility “are identical” to the Alaskan HAARP (High-frequency Active Aural Research Project) programme.  HAARP has received intense media speculation in recent years, due to its Tesla-like research programme.

In an early, detailed essay, Mason concludes “One is certainly left with the impression that someone has been utilising the Leonora-Laverton region as their own private testing ground.” In a private telephone conversation with the US Senate Investigations Chief Council, Dan Gerber, Mason was told that Aum had “developed” nuclear bombs and were thought to be conducting a “crash” programme to build an “Earthquake Inducing Weapon.”

Ah, HAARP, which then gets onto the Russian Woodpecker.  See here and here.  Further investigation by Harry Mason led him to this:

Additional investigation by Mason centred on the South East Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. An area unknown for earthquake activity until 1970, an amazing 173 tremors measuring between 3-0 on the Richter scale occurred between 1970-3, with the majority between March and early October 1970. The epi-centres of these events are spaced exactly 10 kilometres apart, along “8 lines each 50-70 km long. Several similar events have occurred subsequently.

With the 1995 figure standing at 246 , Mason concluded they were “abnormally regular,” and believed Australia was being surreptitiously used as a testing ground for advanced “scalar E/M weapons exercises. Originally, Mason thought these tests may have been of Russian KGB – or more probably French origin.” However, recent data pointed to Scalar EM weapon tests conducted from the US Navy Exmouth Peninsula Tx facility.

The US Navy connection is intriguing. It was the US Navy who were responsible for Project “Prime Argus” – a precursor programme to HAARP.

Interestingly, I myself was at their base hospital in 1986 so they do exist although I was drugged and out of it at the time. I remember it being 52 degrees Celsius outside and beautiful inside.

The Russian connection

The Nunn report makes clear that Aum sought to selectively recruit Russian scientists into its fold.  They targeted, in particular, physicists, chemists, biologists and others engaged in advanced military weapons research. The Senate report also states that Aum were in the process of purchasing a gas laser for plasma-weapons research from their Russian contacts, one of who was Oleg Lobov, Premier Yeltsin’s close confidante.

Lobov was paid a significant sum of money for his assistance.  The figure may have been as much as US$900 million.  It is also clear that Aum received significant assistance from various Russian intelligence services, according to “Vitaly Savitsky, head of the Russian Duma’s religious affairs committee.”  Aum’s intelligence connections also extended to Toshio Yamaguchi, head of Japan’s foreign intelligence service – and allegedly a Soka Gakkai devotee.

Again I looked for corroboration and found this, from the NYT:

In an interview tonight on NTV, the independent television station, Mr. Rutskoi, who is one of the Russian President’s most vehement opponents, said he had been instructed by Mr. Yeltsin’s office to meet with the Japanese sect leader. He suggested that the Yeltsin Administration was at that time seeking favor with the leader of the cult.

And the chairman of a subcommittee on religious organizations in the the lower house of Parliament, Vitaly Savitsky, added fuel to the scandal by waving a piece of paper in a news conference today that he said was a list of former Cabinet members and a Government official still in office who have links to various cults, including Aum Shinrikyo. He declined to give their names.

Then I looked at this, including Surkov, V. V., and M. Hayakawa (2009) and a glance at that page is interesting, which leads us to Mephi Ru, a funded centre for innovative projects which I looked at.  Mephi?  Mephistoph…..  no, let’s pause for a reality check here.

So, what do we have so far?  Crazed cult moves around the world at will, funded by big money, intelligent people, Russian and American connection to Japan, group buys property in Australia near US base and soon after there is a seismic incident, connection to HAARP, thence to predicted result in Kobe.  OK, let’s press on.

Tesla

Was Tesla actually capable of triggering earthquakes?   John O’Neill’s “Prodigal Genius,” (1944) quotes Tesla:

In one experiment in 1896, Tesla accidentally triggered an earthquake across a dozen New York city blocks. This, Tesla later said, was caused “by a little piece of apparatus you could slip in your pocket.” As local police stormed his lab, the wily inventor lifted a sledge-hammer and smashed the oscillator to pieces, bringing an end to the pandemonium.

A bit too much gilding the lily there for my tastes.  This article mentions Tesla’s experiments as well and you most likely have more knowledge of Tesla than I.

Madness

Any James Bond villain worth his salt is mad, unbelievably rich and has plans for world domination.   The particular form of insanity which regards humans as ants to be washed away seems to permeate many of the upper echelons of our society – those echelons which tell us not to worry and to leave the running of the world to them.

They seem to love greenery. The driving force behind the Valdez Principles, committing corporate America to the Gorean Eco principles has this mindset:

The Shamballa force is in reality Life itself; and Life is a loving synthesis in action. We also used the Six Laws and Principles of the New Age to lead us towards creating a vision of how these principles might create patterns for the New Civilization humanity will be constructing over the next 2500 years.

The purpose of the World Service Intergroup is to generate a focused, conscious and deliberate intergroup effort to specifically assist the Externalization of the Hierarchy and the Reappearance of the Christ.

That’s a direct reference to the Evil One and I don’t mean Mandelson.  They might point to David Kelly as evidence that it might be a very good strategy not to get too far involved.

Counterclaim

Dr Christian Klose,  geohazards researcher at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory puts an alternative theory, that there is no need to utilize Tesla.  He cites five ways to induce an earthquake:

1.  Water is heavier than air, so when the valley behind a dam is filled, the crust underneath the water experiences a massive change in stress load.

2. In 1961, the Army decided that the best way to dispose of toxic waste from napalm production (among other things) was to drill a 12,000-foot-deep well in the Rocky Mountains and inject the bad stuff down into the crust of the Earth.

3.  Coal provides more than half the electricity in the United States and an even greater percentage in China. That means there are a lot of coal mines working overtime to pull the fossilized fuel out of the Earth.

4.  Three of the largest human-caused quakes occurred near a natural-gas field in Uzbekistan, the Gazli. The combination of liquid extraction and injection changed the tectonic action in the field. The biggest of the trio registered as a 7.3.

5. Back in 2005, a geologist claimed that the world’s then-tallest building, the Taipei 101, which weighs in at more than 700,000 metric tons, was triggering earthquakes in a long-dormant fault in Taiwan. Klose doubts that the building actually did so, but said that it wasn’t outside the realm of possibility for a building to create an earthquake.

So no, there is no need to go to all the trouble of the Doomsday weapon from Western Australia.  The five above here require big funding on a large scale, but naturally, would not be of as much interest to the military-industrial complex and not as exciting.  A group like Aum would not be interested because they were trying to actually make a point – to show their power.

Bottom line

That apocryphal story Liddy likes to tell about how he and a Russian counterpart were sizing each other up and Liddy let the flesh of his hand burn away over a candle to show the Russian his steely resolve and therefore that of the USA is what we’re dealing with here.  “Bomb ‘em back to the stone age”, “peaceful purposes” with its grim humour, all these Rumsfeldian mindsets, plus crazed yet seemingly sane groups like Aum, funded by big money coming from somewhere and utilizing international scientific cooperation – these, when taken together, point to one of two things.

The first is a bunch of very sick minds which appear to get sicker the higher one goes – just look at Gore for a start.  The second explanation is so bizarre that almost nobody would accept it.

What if there was another entity [just google "lucis trust united nations"] which, for the sake of argument, didn’t like either the earth or the people on it?  How many of you reading this have ever thought, ‘If I were running the world ……?”   What if someone already was?  Now, if you were to accept the existence of that person/entity and the background story, then he’d be one sick mind for the simple reason that he can’t accept a reality staring him in the face and when people are forced to do that, they lose their minds – hence the criminal masterminds in the world.

What we’re talking here is sheer madness and I’m well aware you’ll make the mental jump that this blogger is writing sheer madness but pause for a moment and let the idea sink in.  It really does explain an awful lot.

Finally

An awful lot of earthquakes and tsunamis in recent years, don’t you think?  Who needs Haitians anyway?  The world needs depopulating.

My mind’s eye is actually looking at San Francisco just now.

Something to read.

H/T Xxxl and ATS

As QM says:

Once I was British and proud, now I’m English and proud, I wonder what’s going to go next? Probably my sanity.

Look, he’s a good lad who should be on anyone’s list of required reading.  Smiling that he managed the 100 comments, being so quiet ‘n all, like.