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Satanism in Switzerland’s Gotthard Base Tunnel and the Return of Practical Reason

Posted on June 11, 2016

by Richard Edmondson

By Jonas Alexis

A few days ago, the Daily Mail opened one of their articles with these words: “The Swiss have put on one of the most bizarre opening ceremonies in history to mark the completion of the world’s longest tunnel.”[1]

Other media outlets said similar things.[2] The Switzerland’s Gotthard Base Tunnel took 17 years to build, and it cost $12 billion.[3] But what was so bizarre about the opening ceremony that prompted such a huge reaction?

Well, Women with underwear were simulating sex with each other, among other strange phenomena. The ceremony also featured a goat-man that dies and is resurrected. At one point, a topless woman decked as a bird hovered above actors.BuzzFeed itself called the entire ceremony “creepy” and “a bit weird.” Similarly,NBC News called it “bizarre.”[4]Russia Today reported:

“More than 600 actors reportedly took part in the show, which at one point, included a topless creepy-looking bird that hung over nine performers, representing the nine miners that lost their lives during the tunnel’s construction.”[5]

The Inquisitr declared that

“The unbelievably strange Swiss ceremony was attended by a plethora of European leaders. Included among the guests were French President Francois Hollande, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the President of Switzerland Johann Schneider-Ammann.”

People were obviously confused precisely because the tunnel itself has nothing to do with the bizarre ceremony at all. It was like connecting Marlboro cigarettes with cowboys. No one with an ounce of common sense believes that there is a connection between Marlboro cigarettes and cowboys. But cigarette companies always try to make this dubious connection in order to sell their products and suck naïve people in.

Obviously this was the case in the Switzerland’s Gotthard Base Tunnel. Dane Jasper of the BBC declared,

“The strangest opening ceremony for a piece of basic transport infrastructure ever.”[6]

Another individual responded:

“The opening ceremony show for the new Gotthard tunnel is embarrassing. As a Swiss citizen, I apologize.”

No one could provide a rational explanation for the ceremony because it is not part of the rational universe. Even the BBC admitted:

“we have tried to explain what is going on as far as possible. It was not always possible.”[7]

If you want a better explanation, then you will have to look at the lives of people like Aleister Crowley and Antorn Lavey and other black magicians, who practiced similar ceremonies in their magic rituals.[8] Prolific scholar Hugh B. Urban of Ohio State University would almost certainly place the Gotthard Base Tunnel ceremony in the pantheon of New Age and neo-pagan movements around the world.[9]

I would argue that all those neo-pagan movements are not compatible with practical reason for the very fact that they use sexual perversion to deconstruct the sexual order and to marshal a dark and diabolical ideology.[10] The Church of Scientology, a cult movement which has already trapped numerous celebrities and Hollywood stars,[11] is a classic example.[12]

More importantly, the fundamental purpose of those neo-pagan ideologies is to tear down signposts of order, beauty, and rationality in this wonderful universe. Those signposts are all around us. The world of history, science, philosophy, art, mathematics, etc. is enough to convince an astute observe that an “absolute reason,” as the German philosopher Friedrich Hegel puts it, is at work.

In addition, any rational person with some level of intellectual honesty can recognize these signpost. Hegel had a sophisticated way of articulating this point. This universe, he argues, “is not prey to chance and external, contingent causes, but is governed by providence.”

Hegel moves on to deconstruct the atheist or agnostic position by saying that “the world’s events are controlled by a providence, indeed by divine providence,” and this “divine providence is wisdom, coupled with infinite power, which realizes its ends, i.e., the absolute and rational design of the world…”[13]

Looking at all the evil and chaos in this world, obviously the average atheist would think that there cannot be an “infinite power, which realizes its ends.” But Hegel would respond by saying that this is why this “infinite power” is “cunning.” This “infinite power,” according to scholar Robert C. Tucker’s interpretation of Hegel, “fulfill its ulterior rational designs in an indirect and sly manner. It does so by calling into play the irrational element in human nature, the passions.”[14]

In other words, the “irrational element in human nature” will end up fulfilling the very goals of this “infinite power.” The carnal mind, of course, cannot understand how this “infinite power” will work out in the future because he is blind to higher or metaphysical realities.

The carnal mind simply lacks spiritual vision and insight because he limits himself onlyto the primitive idea that the material universe, as Karl Sagan propounded, “is all that is or was or ever will be.”[15] H. G. Wells was a classic representation of this idea. Having rejected Logos on irrational grounds, Wells proposed a metaphysical replacement—and his is a chaotic one:

“To a watcher in some remote entirely alien cosmos, if we may assume that impossibility, it might well seem that extinction is coming to man like a brutal thunderclap of Halt!…We may be spinning more and more swiftly into the vortex of extinction, but we do not apprehend as much…

“A harsh queerness is coming over things and rushes past what we have hitherto been wont to consider the definite limits of hard fact. Hard fact runs away from analysis and does not return.”[16]

Yet even this irrational and destructive prediction could not stop Wells from searching for an ultimate meaning to life’s most important questions: “The question ‘Is this All?’ has troubled countless unsatisfied minds throughout the ages, and—at the end of our tether, as it seems—here it is, still baffling but persistent.”[17] Why should it be “persistent” if it is a fact that the cosmos is all that is?

Suppose you walk the streets of Manhattan and come across a person who is constantly talking to himself although nobody is around. So you approach him and ask, “What’s going on, dude? Why are you talking to yourself?” He answers, “I am angry with my wife.”

Further into the conversation, however, you realize that the man never had a wife. You then ask, “How can you be angry with an imaginary wife?” If he responded with, “Life doesn’t seem fair,” would you be satisfied with such an answer? You would immediately think that the guy is at least out of touch with reality, if not psychologically disturbed.

In that sense, it is crazy to look for life’s meaning when you already stated that life does not have any meaning whatever.

Actress Shirley is another soul who is looking for “the cunning of reason” in the wrong places. After teaching reincarnation, transcendental meditation, solipsism, and a whole lot of new age beliefs in books and even in movies (particularly Out on a Limb), declares in her book The Camino: A Journey to the Spirit:

“Now as a senior citizen, I found myself experiencing not only anger, loneliness, and anxiety over what we might be headed for, but fear that we were now almost completely out of touch with what we were intended to be in the first place.”[18]

So far so good. But recognizing the problem and trying to find a workable solution are two different things. MacLaine never stops to think that she may need to drop her new-age philosophy of life altogether and start from ground zero, following the dictate of practical reason, which is the opposite of magic, the very thing that Maclaine has propounded for years. She states:

“I had seen so many channels and mediums over the past few years, I decided I would apply the same thing to show business. I simply put my conscious ego aside, got out of my own way, and channeled a character that we had created and I absolutely adored….This time I allowed the character to inhabit me…

“So my experience of channeling spiritual energy…had translated into practical film acting. Reel life and real life had emerged. And both were contributing to an ever-expanding reality for me.”[19]

Because she is spiritually and intellectual lost, MacLaine proposed:

“If we can make peace with our ancient emotions, I believe we will have the capacity to live up to our moral obligation to seek joy.”[20]

Ancient emotions? Nonsense! Rousseau, Kierkegaard, Hume, Voltaire, Russell, Camus, Sartre, and a host of other individuals have tried that method. It has never worked precisely because “ancient emotions” are not substitute for practical reason.

The problem is that people like MacClaine do not want to submit their desires to practical reason. As a result, they find themselves completely adrift. This was one reason why Bertrand Russell’s own daughter, Katherine Tait, abandoned Russell’s empty philosophy and eventually embraced Logos.[21] “When he wanted to attack religion,” Tait later recounted in a memoir, Russell “sought out its most egregious errors and held them up to ridicule, while avoiding serious discussion of the basic message.”[22]

This was actually the case when Russell debated a Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy by the name of Frederick Charles Copleston. During the heated debate, Copleston asked Russell the simple question: how do you, Russell, differentiate good things and bad things?

Russell, with all his sophisticated knowledge as a mathematician and philosopher, hammered the final nail in his own atheist coffin by saying, “By my feelings.”[23]Russell must have thanked goodness that he was not debating Immanuel Kant. But one could imagine Copleston saying, “The Lord hath delivered him into my hands.”

Russell obviously knew that he was not the only person in this universe to act on the basis feelings and not on practical reason. Stalin, Mao, Oh Chi Minh, have all followed this “feelings” principle in one way or another. So, the logic is pretty simple here: Russell was superficially a pacifist and was philosophically a Stalinist or Maoist.

This is another reason why his position was intellectually contradictory and existentially unlivable. Perhaps his “feelings” principle had something to do with sensual life. Russell recounted in his own autobiography:

“I went out bicycling one afternoon, and suddenly, as I was riding along a country road, I realised that I no longer loved Alys [his faithful wife]. I had no idea until this moment that my love for her was even lessening. The problem presented by this discovery was very grave. We had lived ever since our marriage in the closest possible intimacy.”[24]

Russell admitted throughout that there was no real reason for him to dump his lovely wife. But he could not submit his feelings or appetite to practical reason at all.

The moral of the story? You cannot reject practical reason and remain a morally and intellectually honest person. And those who reject practical reason (another word for wisdom) are actually heralding their own moral and spiritual death. As the book of Proverbs puts it, “But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death.”

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[1] “A winged baby, semi-naked dancers and a man with a bird’s nest on his head: How Switzerland decided to mark opening of world’s longest rail tunnel,” Daily Mail, June 1, 2016.

[2] Matt Borkin, “Bizarre opening ceremony for Switzerland’s record-breaking railway tunnel featured goats and yodels,” National Post, June 1, 2016.

[3] “Swiss inaugurate world’s longest rail tunnel,” Toronto Sun, June 2, 2016.

[4] “Bizarre Stage Show Opens 35-Mile Rail Tunnel Under Swiss Alps,” NBC News, June 1, 2016.

[5] “Naked torsos & horned beasts: Swiss tunnel’s bizarre opening leaves viewers baffled,” Russia Today, June 2, 2016.

[6] Ibid.

[7] “Switzerland tunnel: The oddest moments of the opening ceremony,” BBC, June 1, 2016.

[8] For scholarly studies on these issues, see Hugh B. Urban, Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic, and Liberation in Modern Western Esotericism (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006); Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr, ed., Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Nevill Drury, Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011); Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000); Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley(Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 20020); Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (New York: Penguin, 1989).

[9] Hugh B. Urban, New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2015).

[10] For studies on these, see Hugh B. Urban and Wendy Doniger, The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001); Hugh B. Urban, Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003); The Power of Tantra: Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies (New York: I. B. Taurus, 2009); David Gordon White, Kiss of the Yogini: “Tantric Sex” in its South Asian Contexts (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).

[11] See Jenna Miscavige Hill and Lisa Pulitzer, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape (New York: HarperCollins, 2013); Leah Remini and Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology (New York: Random House, 2015); Tony Ortega, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper(London: Silvertail Books, 2015); Janet Reitman, Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion (New York: Mariner Books, 2013); Andrew Morton, Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008).

[12] Hugh B. Urban, The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011); Russell Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (New York: Penguin Books, 1988 and 2015); for related studies on L. Ron Hubbard, see Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (New York: Random House, 2013); Jon Atack, A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed (New York: Lyle Stuart Book, 1990).

[13] Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975 and 1998), 35.

[14] Robert C. Tucker, “The Cunning of Reason in Hegel and Marx,” The Review of Politics, Vol. 18, NO 3, July 1956: 269-295.

[15] Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Ballantine Book, 1980 and 1013), xxii.

[16] H. G. Wells, Mind at The End of Its Tether and The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life(New York: Didier Publishers, 1946), 5-6.

[17] Ibid., 13-14.

[18] Shirley MacLaine, The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit (New York: Pocket Books, 2000), 2.

[19] Shirley MacLaine, Going Within (New York: Bantam Books, 1989 and 1991), 25-26.

[20] MacLaine, The Camino, 10.

[21] Katherine Tait, My Father, Bertrand Russell (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1975).

[22] Ibid., 188.

[23] Al Seckel, ed., Bertrand Russell on God and Religion (New York: Prometheus Books, 1986), 139.

[24] Bertrand Russell, Autobiography (New York: Routledge, 1985), 150-151.

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Russia’s Air Force cuts off mercenary-terrorists’ communication lines with Turkey’s intelligence agency MIT

Syrian Free Press

Russian Fighter Jets Cut Off Terrorists’ Communication Lines with Turkish Intelligence Agency

The Russian air force targeted and destroyed the telecommunication towers in Northern Syria near the borders with Turkey and cut off the terrorists’ internet and lines of communication with Turkey’s MIT intelligence agency.

According to a report by al-Mayadeen news channel, the Russian warplanes smashed two telecommunication towers at the Syrian-Turkish borders, disconnecting the terrorists’ contacts with the Turkish intelligence agency.

Other sources said the terrorists who have be caught off hand are now thinking of ways to reestablish their contacts with Turkey.

Earlier reports said that the European satellite operators give terrorists, specially the ISIL (ISIS, IS, Daesh) members, an opportunity to upload propaganda, exchange information and possibly even prepare terrorist attacks.

The ISIL members located in Syria and Iraq are gaining access to the Internet using opportunities offered by European satellite operators, Spiegel online wrote last year.

The communication is reported to be carried out via satellites of European companies Avanti Communications headquartered in the UK and Eutelsat in France.

According to the magazine, there are thousands of devices in Syria and Iraq, which enable terrorists to use the satellite Internet. Theoretically, everyone who wants to get online can do so only by using the satellite technology, as the telecommunications infrastructure in the country is destroyed.

However, for ordinary people living in the cities captured by the ISIL militants it is almost impossible. ISIL is controlling Internet access and prohibits private individuals from buying the required devices. Only members of the terrorist group have the right to use the Internet, others are being threatened with severe punishment.

As reported by the magazine, the devices are being exported to Syria through Turkey.

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Assad: “Aleppo Is The Grave Of Butcher Erdogan’s Dreams”

Op-Ed by Brandon Turbeville

In a recent address to the Syrian Parliament, Bashar al-Assad delivered one of his most powerful speeches to date. Tackling the issues of elections, democracy, Turkish ambitions, and the battle against the Western-backed jihadist invasion, Assad’s words have garnered attention from Syrians and, of course, Western governments and their propaganda outlets (more commonly called “news organizations” in the West).

This is because, five years on into a Western-backed invasion of jihadists and terrorists, Assad is standing defiantly in the face of the world’s greatest military power and refusing to back down to imperialist demands and the Anglo-American agenda for his country.

In the speech, Assad touted Syrian democracy by pointing out that an unprecedented number of voters turned out to vote despite the widespread warfare and the dangers of participation due to targeting of voters and polling stations by Western-backed terrorists.

Addressing the Syrian military’s push toward Raqqa, Assad stated that “Just like we liberated Palmyra and many other areas before it, we are going to liberate each and every inch of Syria from their hands because we have no other choice but to win.”

The Syrian president paid tribute to the many Syrian military soldiers who have fought bravely and those who have lost their lives in the battle against the Western proxy invasion. Assad also gave praise to Syria’s allies in the war – Iran, Russia, Hezbollah, and China – for their sacrifices.

Yet Assad’s statement was not all praise. He saved particularly harsh words for those powers that have funded the terrorists currently doing their best to destroy his country. For Recep Erdogan, whose government Assad labeled a “fascist regime,” the Syrian President issued a warning: “Aleppo will be the grave where all the dreams and hopes of that butcher will be buried,” he said.

Assad also addressed the failure of the Geneva peace talks and the recent failure of the ceasefire agreement which ended after “opposition” negotiator and leader of Jaish al-Islam, “Mohammad Alloush,” abandoned the talks. Assad said that, at no point, were the talks ever genuine on the part of the so-called opposition and that, after these groups failed to get what they wanted in Geneva, “their response was an open declaration of supporting terrorism and withdrawing from the cessation of hostilities agreement… this was what we saw of targeting civilians and hospitals in Aleppo.”

Lastly, Assad addressed the domestic issue and the question of corruption, nepotism, and Syrian governance as well as the possibility of reforms. He said,

“If restoring security to Syria, achieving victory over terrorism, bringing back the homeland and reconstructing it is the outcome that stops the martyr’s blood from being spilt in vain, then fighting the harmful phenomena of corruption, nepotism and disregard for the law are the second part of that.”

Notably, the reform process was already taking place in Syria before the 2011 Western-backed destabilization, albeit in a much slower manner than many Syrians had hoped.

Regardless, Assad’s speech represents a defiance of Western aims in Syria and a growing confidence that the terrorists’ days are numbered.

Brandon Turbeville – article archive here – is the author of seven books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 andvolume 2, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria, and The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President. Turbeville has published over 650 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville’s radio show Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. His website is BrandonTurbeville.com He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.

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The UN Hears No Evil and Sees No Evil, UK- France Mum on Blackmailing UN

The UN Hears No Evil and Sees No Evil in Yemen

Darko Lazar

A little girl clinches a bottle of cooking oil as if it were her favorite toy. Hers and other families in a suburb of Sana’a scramble to grab hold of their allocation of food supplies distributed by the Yemen Organization for Humanitarian Relief and Development [MONA], one of the last remaining NGOs operating in war-torn Yemen.

Young boys hold onto sacks of rice and wheat and drag them across the yard to their houses, so they can be used in the preparation of the nightly Iftar meal. With the onset of the Holy Month of Ramadan, these children represent the very few of the fortunate ones.

Amid the relentless bombing campaign by the Saudi-led coalition which has dragged on for over a year now – claiming close to 10,000 lives – countless other families will spend their nights without the means to afford themselves this simplest of rituals.

To make matters worse, the already lackluster international condemnation of this slow-motion genocide hit a new low earlier this week when the United Nations reneged on its earlier decision and removed the Saudis and their allies from a children’s rights blacklist.

MONA’s co-founder Dr. Riaz Karim tells me that he is not surprised by the UN move.

“By removing the Saudi-led coalition from the blacklist for child deaths in Yemen, the United Nations has once again sold out its principles to the Saudi bloodlust,” Dr. Karim stresses.

The decision to reprimand Saudi Arabia was taken after the UN report on children and armed conflict, which deemed that the country and its cohorts in the conflict were responsible for some 60 percent of all child deaths and injuries in Yemen.
According to UN figures, more than 510 children were killed by the Saudi-led campaign, and nearly 700 have been wounded. The report also accused the coalition of being behind half the attacks on schools and hospitals.

But Dr. Karim, whose organization operates in some of Yemen’s worst hit areas, disputes those findings.

“The number of child deaths reported by the UN does not reflect the reality on the ground. Those children who die everyday due to a lack of food and medication are also part of the grand scheme of things. They are dying because of the blockade, which is also used as a weapon of war,” he says.

Despite its ‘modest’ assessment, the UN, which at best has a sketchy record in condemning rights violations in conflicts worldwide, was quickly forced to back paddle.

Speaking with Reuters on condition of anonymity, UN sources revealed how the international body was bombarded with calls from Arab foreign ministers, as well as ministers from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, threatening to cut off funds for other UN programs, after the blacklisting was announced.

“Bullying, threats, pressure,” is how one diplomatic source branded the lobbying campaign, adding that it was “real blackmail”.

By June 9, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon explained that he was forced to forgive Saudi Arabia’s atrocities against Yemen’s children to secure funding for humanitarian missions elsewhere in the region.

Ban said that without the funds, “children already at risk in Palestine, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen and so many other places would fall further into despair.”

The UN, which has kept “Israel” off the blacklist following the 2014 carnage in Gaza, has long since had a credibility problem, and is known for succumbing to brazen pressure from member states.

“The UN blacklisting showed that the degree of the crimes committed by the Saudi-led coalition could not be ignored anymore. It did not show that the UN has all of a sudden turned into an impartial, equitable player. If it had it would not have put whatever the Houthis had done on the same level and on the same table as what the Saudi and UAE military had done in Yemen,” says the Zagreb-based independent geopolitical analyst, Navid Nasr.

The removal of the Saudi-led coalition from the black list quickly prompted angry reactions from human rights groups, which accused UN officials of “political manipulation.”

Twenty prominent human rights groups urged Ban Ki-moon to reinstate Saudi Arabia onto the list.

“If the Saudi-led coalition wants to be removed from the list, it should stop killing and maiming children and bombing schools and hospitals in Yemen, the violations for which it was listed,” the groups wrote in a letter earlier this week.

Ontario-based International Human Rights Lawyer, Edward Corrigan agrees that the UN’s credibility has taken a serious hit.

“I am sure that the Saudis were backed by the US and Great Britain and that is a lot of power. It just goes to show that the UN is a body that is clearly not objective and is easily influenced by the big power brokers and it can be manipulated by countries like Saudis Arabia to force them to retract what I think was a truthful report,” says Corigen.

But the decision to remove Riyadh from the blacklist is not just about saving the estimated 150 million dollars in contributions to UN agencies from the US, UK and Persian Gulf Arab monarchies.

It is rather about the billions of dollars in arms deals, which were seriously jeopardized by the UN announcement declaring Saudi Arabia as a violator of children’s rights.

According to the Leahy Law, the US Department of State and Department of Defense are prohibited from providing military assistance to foreign governments that are classified as human rights violators.

So, less than 48 hours after the UN was forced to remove Riyadh from its list of disrepute, the American multinational corporation Boeing announced that it would start delivering 24 US AH-6i Little Bird attack helicopters to the Saudis.

The helicopters can be armed with Hellfire missiles, rocket launchers, mini-guns, and machine guns.

The delivery makes up a small portion of the record 60 billion dollars in US military sales to Saudi Arabia since 2010.

Meanwhile, Great Britain has sold an estimated GBP 2.7 billion worth of weapons to the Saudis since Riyadh launched its attack on Yemen.

Rights group Amnesty International provided indisputable evidence earlier this year that the Saudi-led coalition had used the internationally banned British BL-755 cluster bombs against civilian areas.

Each BL-755 bomb contains a cluster of 147 smaller explosives, which scatter over a wide area when dropped. Some do not explode until agitated by unsuspecting civilians and are often confused for toys by children.

The United Nations is not just powerless to uphold basic human rights of Yemen’s civilian population, it is complicit in promoting much more sinister agendas.

Source: al-Ahed news

11-06-2016 | 08:43

 Saudi War on Yemen: UK, France Mum on Blackmailing UN

Local Editor

France and the UK have called for calm in an angry row between Saudi Arabia and the UN but have kept silent on each side’s misconduct in dropping Riyadh from a blacklist of children’s rights violators.

Both Saudi Arabia and the UN have come under criticism after United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon admitted on Thursday that he removed the kingdom from the blacklist under “undue pressure.”

“We have to do everything to appease the situation,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Friday, refusing to take any sides in the dispute.

“France is always there when it comes to safeguarding the UN’s capacity to take action,” he added, without specifying what those actions were.

The United Nations blacklisted Saudi Arabia after concluding in a report released last week that it was responsible for 60 percent of the 785 deaths of children in Yemen last year.

But in an embarrassing climb-down, the world body announced on Monday that Saudi Arabia would be scratched from the list of shame pending a joint review with the kingdom.

The UN chief said Thursday he temporarily removed Saudi Arabia from the blacklist because Saudi Arabia’s supporters threatened to stop funding many UN programs.

“This was one of the most painful and difficult decisions I have had to make,” Ban said.

One senior UN official described Ban’s choice as between the “plague and cholera” but human rights groups accused the UN chief of caving to pressure from powerful countries and said he risked harming his UN legacy.

The United States backed Ban’s remarks and said the UN chief had invited the Saudis and its allies to discuss the report in New York on June 17.

British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft also tried to gloss over the situation, saying he welcomed “the fact that the secretary-general and Saudi Arabia have reached agreement on an analysis of the cases in the report.”

The 15-member council has not intervened in the controversy. It did not get involved last year when the occupying regime of Israel was left off the blacklist after being included in an earlier draft.

Ban took a veiled swipe at the council on Thursday.

“When UN reports come under fire for raising difficult issues or documenting violations of law or human rights, member states should defend the mechanisms and mandates that they themselves have established,” he said.

According to some diplomats, the UN chief was subjected to “bullying, threats, and pressure” and “real blackmail.”

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

11-06-2016 | 09:39

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بعض الأقدار لانفهمها ولانقدر أن نفهمها مهما كان إيماننا عظيماً .. ونبقى حائرين ونسأل الله أسئلة فيها عتاب .. ولكن من ذا الذي يعاتب الخالق على الأقدار إلا من لايفهم مزاج الأقدار .. فحتى الله نعاتبه عندما لانفهم أقدارنا .. وربما لاتوجد منذ انطلاق الحرب على سورية مدينة يحق لها أن تعاتب الله على أقدارها مثل مدينة حلب التي شاء لها القدر أن تكون على تخوم قبر عثماني نبشت جثته التراب وخرجت من القبر العتيق .. جثة عمياء عيونها بيضاء بلا أحداق وأصابعها لاتزال تحمل آثار دم سوري عمره 400 سنة من مرج دابق إلى السفر برلك .. وهذه الجثة تريد أن تتعلق بأي شيء خوفاً من أن تنزلق إلى القبر ثانية .. قدر حلب أنه لايمكن للحلم العثماني أن يبدأ إلا بها ولايموت إلا فيها .. لأنه ولد منها ولأنه مات فيها .. ففي معركة مرج دابق قرب حلب ولدت الامبراطورية العثمانية .. وكانت في حلب أيضاً آخر معركة للعثمانيين قبل خروجهم نهائياً من الشرق في تشرين الأول عام 1918 .. وباندحارهم من حلب في ذلك الشهر أعلن عن استسلام جميع القوات العثمانية وتخلي السلطنة عن كل بلاد الشام والعراق والحجاز واليمن .. أي كل مايحد تركيا جنوباً .. بدءاً من حلب ..
أقدار حلب أنها المدينة التي تمسك بيدها مصير الامبراطورية العثمانية وهي التي تحدد لها البداية والنهاية وتقرر أنفاسها .. في الماضي والحاضر .. ولهذا فان الجثة المتعفنة التي خرجت من القبر تمسك أصابعها المهترئة بثوب حلب وتتعلق به وهي تسحل على الأرض دون أن تتركه لأن من انزلقت أصابعه عن حلب انزلق إلى القبر العثماني ثانية ..

المشروع العثماني يحتضر .. ودليل ذلك هو رحيل داود أوغلو .. لأن رحيل أوغلو عن وجه السياسة ليس رحيلاً عابراً بليعني رحيل نصف الحلم العثماني ورحيل نصف أردوغان .. ومابقي هو نصف مشروع ونصف أردوغان فقط .. وأردوغان اليوم يحيا بنصف قلب ونصف رأس ونصف رئة ونصف عقل ونصف حلم .. والمشروع الذي كانت تجره ثلاثة بغال عثمانية (غول وأوغلو واردوغان) لم يعد يجره اليوم إلا البغل الأخير العثماني أردوغان وحيداً منهكاً ..ولكن نهايات الحرب السورية بدأت تتضح معالمها .. منذ أن رحل أوغلو .. فهذا الرجل رفع شعار صفر مشكلات وكان المعنى الظاهري له هو حل التوترات المزمنة مع كل الجيران بتنازلات متبادلة .. وكان المعنى التنفيذي الحقيقي له هو تنصيب الاخوان المسلمين على ضفاف السلطنة الجديدة في قوس الأزمات والمشكلات المحيطة بتركيا بحيث تكون مناطق تفريخ الأخوان أقاليم تابعة للنفوذ العثماني المركزي في استانبول .. وعندها تذوب كل المشكلات المزمنة والتحديات العرقية والاثنية وتخضع لعلاقة الولاء بين المركز والأقاليم .. وهذه هي حقيقة معادلة صفر مشاكل ..

بالرغم من أن عملية إقصاء أوغلو نظرنا إليها على أنها ولائم عثمانية حيث ينهش الأخ لحم أخيه ويمضغه وهو حي كجزء من التراث العثماني والاستئثار بالسلطة فإن علينا ألا نسبر الواقعة سطحياً بمعزل عن عمقها الإيديولوجي ودلالات المأزق العثماني .. فلايجب النظر إلى رحيل أوغلو بشكل عابر واعتبار أن المشروع العثماني لايزال يتمتع بزخمه ويتجول في المنطقة لأن رأسه أردوغان لايزال في السلطة الذي يستند إلى مرجعية دستورية ونصر انتخابي منذ أشهر قليلة .. فالمشاريع لاتبقى حية إذا رحل المؤسسون أو اعتكفوا أو بقي نصفها فقط .. لأن الحقيقة هي أن قلب المشروع العثماني ليس أردوغان بل داود أوغلو .. فهو مهندس الحلم العثماني الذي رسم للحزب الخطة والخطوات الديبلوماسية وأرشده إلى بواباتها (السورية والفلسطينية) وغطاها بغلاف لماع مخصص للتصدير وتبنى أردوغان الخطة التي صممها داود أوغلو وأطلقها على أنها مشروع الجميع في حزب العدالة والتنمية مما أضاف قيمة معنوية لها كون فيها روح الجماعة المسلمة التي تتفانى وتترفع عن المكاسب الشخصية في سبيل نصر الجماعة ..وكان أردوغان الأسوأ من ناحية تصميم النظريات والأقل ذكاء لكنه أفضل من ينفذها بسبب قدراته القيادية والمسرحية وخطابيته التي جذبت الإسلاميين .. وكان علاقته بأوغلو مثل الكسيح والأعمى .. الأعمى أردوغان يحمل الكسيح أوغلو الذي يرشد الأعمى القوي الساقين الى الطريق .. أي أن داود أوغلو هو“كارل ماركس” المشروع العثماني الأممي الإسلامي وصاحب النظرية “الإخوانية الأممية” التي امتصت وابتلعت كل تيارات الأخوان المسلمين في المنطقة وحولتها إلى توابع لها وقيادات ببغائية بعد أن كانت التيارات الإخوانية في المنطقة مستقلة نسبياً ولها خطها .. وقد استفاد أوغلو من تصدير النموذج التركي الجذاب الى جماعات الأخوان المسلمين حيث ظهر لها أنها فشلت طوال 90 سنة فيما نجحت فيه نظرية أوغلو في سنوات التي أوصلت الأخوان المسلمين في تركيا إلى ماوصلت اليه من نجاح أهم مافيه أنه هزم القوى العلمانية والجيش الذي طالما أذل الحركات اللاعلمانية في السابق وكبح طموحاتها السياسية مما أضاف قيمة استثنائية له ولنظريته التي اجتاحت جماعات الأخوان المسلمين وأخضعتهم لهيبة نجاحها الأخاذ .. فتحولوا جميعاً الى تلامذة في المدرسة العثمانية الجديدة ..

الشيء الذي لم يقدروا على تمييزه هو أن الأستاذ كان أوغلو وليس أردوغان .. ولكن الانبهار بشخصية أردوغان المسرحية طغى على شخصية الاستاذ صاحب النظرية الذي بقي في الظل يصفق لأردوغان ينتظر أن يدخل التاريخ كأب لنظرية أممية اسلامية .. فيما أردوغان صدق أنه هو المعلم وقائد النظرية الى أن قرر أنه قادر على الاستغناء عن الاستاذ وكارل ماركس حزب العدالة والتنمية وأطاح به وهو يظن أن الأستاذ لم يعد له لزوم أو أنه صار عبئاً على القائد .. بل صار ضرره أكثر من نفعه بعد تعثر النظرية .. ورحيل أوغلو واضع “النظرية الشيوعية العثمانية” هو انكسار النظرية الأممية للإخوان المسلمين التي أطلقها داود أوغلو ويشبه انكسارها انكسار النظرية الشيوعية الماركسية عند تطبيقها مع فارق أنالنظرية الشيوعية الاسلامية التركية انكسرت قبل أن تنتصر وهي في طور التشكل وتصارع للبقاء في تركيا .. كما أن النظرية الشيوعية كانت غنية بالشخصيات المؤثرة مثل تروتسكي ولينين على عكس المشروع العثماني الذي كان أفقه من فيه هو أوغلو ولاأحد ليحل محله .. وغياب واضع النظرية ترك النظرية بلا رأس .. لأن أردوغان ليس إلا حامل النظرية .. وهو بالتالي صار جسداً بلا رأس .. ولن يقدر على حقن الحزب بالنظريات والايديولوجيات المشوقة والاستراتيجيات التي تبهر .. والأحزاب التي تفرغ من الأيديولوجيا وتفقد القاعدة النظرية وتلجأ الى البراغماتية والتغيير تفقد كثيراً من زخمها وجسمها الجماهيري .. وتصبح جسداً بلا دم .. كما يصبح حزبها جسداً بلا عقل ..

نظرية أوغلو انكسرت في سورية لاشك .. والاستاذ لم يستطع إطلاق نظرية صفر مشاكل بخلق نطاق نظيف حوله من المنظومات الأخوانية النظيفة التي تدين بالولاء لتركيا وتذيب كل عناصر الخلاف والتباين وتترجم صفر مشاكل من مرونة سياسية وتنازلات متبادلة مؤلمة ومؤقتة إلى بناء منظومة راسخة دائمة وسدود أسمنتية في وجه كل المشكلات المحتملة وتثبيتها بمسامير تركية قوامها .. كل الجيران صاروا من الإخوان .. الذين يتبعون للدولة العثمانية الجديدة فالمشاكل الآن صفر .. لأن المشاكل هي بين قوى مستقلة وليست بين قوة قائدة ومدارات حولها تدور فيها أجرام إخوانية حول نظام شمسي تركي .. تركيا فيه هل المركز مثل الشمس ..

أردوغان يريد أن يثبت أنه لايحتاج إلى مهندس ومعلم وصاحب نظرية .. ولذلك فانه يلعب في تخوم حلب لعبة قذرة فهويريد أن يخوض معركة ضد الكرد بعد أن تسربوا من بين شقوق نظريات المهندس أوغلو .. يريد أردوغان أن ينتصر فيها أو على الأقل لايهزم فيها .. وهو يناور في حلب ويقصف بوحشية أحياءها كمن يريد أن يعاقبها ويعاقب الجيش السوري الذي يتجه لالتهام داعش في الرقة لأن داعش هي قرة عين أردوغان وهي قلب المشروع الخفي .. وهو يسمع الجميع أنه يضع خطوطاً حمراء على معركة حلب ..لأنها آخر خطوط الدفاع الباقية .. فما بعدها سيعني له تماماً تكراراً لسيناريو المعركة الاخيرة للسلطنة العثمانية في بلاد الشام قبل أن توقع الجيوش التركية المتمثلة بعصابات الإرهابيين صك الاستسلام وتغادر الحدود وتخرج بها تركيا من كل الشرق وتجلس تقضم أظافرها خلف حدودها ..

القيادة السورية والحلفاء يدركون أن تركيا تسير اليوم كدولة نزفت منها الإيديولوجيا وصارت فارغة من المشروع الذي شحنها بالقوة وصار مهندس المشروع الكبير متقاعداً أو محالاً على المعاش .. وهي بداية التراجع والتآكل والهزيمة الميدانية .. والجيش السوري يدرك أن نصف حلم الامبراطورية العثمانية القائم على نظريات أوغلو كامن في نجاح مشروع داعش (مخلب الامبراطورية القاسي) وفي الرقة تحديداً لأنه سيؤسس للتقسيم والانفصال الذي ترعاه تركيا والناتو ويكون خنجراً في ظهر العراق وسورية وإيران .. وأن تجريد أردوغان من الرقة يعني إضعافه كثيراً في حلب .. كما أن إضعافه في حلب سيجرده من الرقة .. والهستيريا التي أصيب بها المسلحون وهم يقصفون المدنيين في حلب لن تغير في الحقيقة هي أن الجيش السوري يقترب من استرداد الشمال سواء بدأ من الرقة أو من حلب بدليل حجم الحشود والسلاح هناك .. وتكامل معادلات أن في تحرير الرقة تسهيلاً لمعركة حلب وأن في خوض معركة حلب تسهيلاً لمعركة الرقة .. وأن كسر داعش يكسر النصرة وكسر النصرة يكسر داعش .. وكسر أي منهما يكسر تركيا ..

لذلك ربما تعاتب حلب الأقدار التي وضعتها في الجغرافيا بجانب القبر العثماني .. ولكن عليها أن تدرك أن المدن التي تولد فيه الامبراطوريات وتدفن فيها الامبراطوريات والنظريات تساوي الكثير في نظر التاريخ وفي عين الله .. ولايمكن أن تكون أقدارها كأقدار مدن الملح الصحراوية ومدن الملاهي والأبراج النفطية .. وإذا اختارت أن تكون مدينة عادية لاتمر بها الامبراطوريات عند ميلادها ومماتها فإنها يمكن أن تكون مدينة من مدن الملح ولاتستحق أن يكون اسمها حلب ..

إن حلب تدفع ثمناً باهظاً لأن الامبراطورية تموت من جديد في حلب .. الجثة الناهضة من القبر تمزق جدران حلب ووجهها وثوبها الأبيض .. والامبراطوريات تحقد كثيراً على المدن التي تقتلها .. فكيف إذا قتلتها مرتين؟؟ ..جثة الامبراطورية القديمة تنزلق ثانية إلى القبر .. والكل يردم القبر ويهيل التراب على وجه الجثة العثمانية .. تراب يهال من أوروبا وتراب يهال من روسية .. وتراب يهيله السوريون والعراقيون والإيرانيون .. والجثة تتلوى وتتخبط والدود الذي ينتشر في أحشائها ولحمها يخرج من فمها وجوفها ويهاجم حلب ويريد أن ينهش الحجر والحيطان .. الجثة المتعفنة تخرج كل ديدانها الملتحية .. وتريد أن يأكل الدود كل الشرق ..
كلما نظرنا إلى حلب وهي تقاتل الجثة العثمانية وديدانها التي تتسرب إلى جسد حلب الأبيض فإننا نرى الجثة العثمانية تتردى في أعماق القبر تنتظر حلب كي تذرو عليها التراب .. ولكن الكثيرين سيحسون بالذل الذي أحس به بدر شاكر السياب الذي وقف يتفرج على بورسعيد تقاتل وحدها العدوان الثلاثي .. فقال لها:يا قلعة النور تدمى كل نافذة فيها وتلظى ولا تستسلم الحجرأحسست بالذل أن يلقاك دون دمي شعري وإني بما ضحيت انتصرلكنها باقة أسعى إليك بها حمراء يخضل فيها من دمي زهرحلب قلعة النور .. لاتستسلم .. ولن نتركها ونكتفي بتقديم دموعنا لها كما فعل السياب وأحس بالذل .. بل إن مدينة تدفن الامبراطوريات مثلها سنهديها دمنا وليس دمعنا .. كي نشاركها النصر ونذرو معها التراب فوق الجثة العثمانية المتعفنة ..

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