APOCALYPSE 25
SHAYTAAN US-ISRAEL-UK-EU-UNO HU AKBAR!
BEWARE OF YAUM KIPPUR 6015!
FTMJ JIHAAD
by Basheer & Ghyslaine
(Not meant for the feeble-minded)
John Lennon Famous Words Of Wisdom
In the name of freedom, truth, morality and justice, very rare and ever fading commodities, that is, of The One Creator God whether He exists or not, but as conceptualised in the natural way of life known as Islam, which encompasses all older religions (including Atheism) and brings them to perfection.
(To all our loved ones as well as adversaries)
This is not a Biblical Lamentation, but a friendly reasoned and reasonable (not ‘rational’ or ‘rationalist’!) account inviting dialogue (in vain) and not hostility or aggressiveness (although Earthlings do not deserve any show of friendliness, except for the very few and the genuinely innocent and compassionate, of course!) of a life-long battle (Jihaad) that great good and foolish humans like Napoleon Bonaparte or Herr Adolph Hitler (and their equally foolish followers) lost yesterday, and also and above all a warning to all Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian and Muslim hypocrites, cowards and lazy materialists. Hitler was and is the most hated human of the past, current and for all centuries to come because the Satanic rulers of the world kept his made up (mythical) evilness alive at gun point in order to distract the whole world from more evil (the worst ever in human history) that they are themselves perpetrating with our tax money and slave labour by hiring armies of gangsters, perverts and cut-throats (under various labels!) and six million times (to borrow the so-called and never-ending Jewish Holocaust dogmatic and sacred figure) worse than Hitler’s National Socialist armies and all the armies of the world put together! By the way there was no Jewish Holocaust or Shoah at the Auschwitz Labour Camp, but many Holocausts of Germans by the Allies and in the Swedish Jew Eisenhower’s Death Camps! If you want to know where are the missing European Jews, go to USAmerica, Canada, Australia, South America, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland and Germany! This is where they are hidden in plain sight! And Herr Hitler and his wife Eva Brown never committed suicide, but lived happily ever after in the Fourth Reich of Argentina and the US, UK, and EU Diaspora. We are losing this battle today and will lose it tomorrow as there is indeed no hope of ever winning or even maintaining a semblance of balance between good and evil in this very mysterious world. Military Europe or the so-called West decreed that this world can never belong to us, but only to a Satanic Judaic Elite and other and forever.
Yes, it is a pessimistic, but not gloomy view of the world. Paradoxical? No! The so-called West and Eretz Israel have proved to the conscious world to be the worst enemies of civilisation, freedom, justice, morality and humankind by systematically destroying any country or nation that tries to be independent of Western Judeo Satanic hegemony and emancipate itself from Western mental and physical slavery and Western perverted ways of life that would make Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah pale in comparison, if these ever existed, of course. The days we use to travel freely from one country to the other are over for good because the Satanic imperialist monster known as The West (Occident) has established geographical open prisons (boundaries) by merely sitting at their warmongering tables and drawing straight, zigzag and curved lines on a world map and dividing nations for ever, and imposing military, political and economic frontiers and mass destruction embargoes, bloody regimes change, no-fly-zones for them to bomb and slaughter defenceless people with great ease and at will, imposing forced usury, and all kinds of oppressive measures. Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya are only three recent examples of Western warmongering savagery and they dare call us primitives. The uneducated or unconscious world seems to ignore what the West and the US did in the sixties to the biggest Muslim country in the world, Indonesia (or what Britain and their Judeo-Christian Freemasons did in past centuries to Hindustan) on the pretext that they had adopted Communism while they are best friends with Russia in so many domains: wars, culture, science, technology, Atheist religion, dictatorship and the Arts although this seems (just seems) to change slightly. Iran, the most advanced and independent country in the entire Muslim world, the best Muslim nation in the world in my view is the next target of the Western-Israel hegemonists to be bombed “back to the Dark European Ages”. Western savagery and hegemony will never stop unless we stop the savages, but we are far from being qualified!
Because Muslim nations are not adequately armed (due to their own fault and inferior and incorrect world view) to resist Western weapons of mass destruction and deceit, this is where FAITH comes in, faith in a Supreme Intelligence Creator God for a better world to come. But faith is useless without the effort (Jihaad) and the works. However, as soon as we become strong, powerful, prosperous and successful materially we do not need God at all except when calamity and disease strike again! Believers in God always believe in hope for better days here on earth or in a hypothetical after-life, an almost impossibility, and a most unreasonable proposition, yet very comprehensible given the nature and status of most humans. But, we, humans must be deluded, that is, mentally ill to have faith and hope in a God that does not exist in practice except in the minds of primitive and not well or not yet evolved apes, says (paid by our tax money and on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen!) the Grand Pope of Atheism and anti-Godism Pr Richard Dawkins. But, faith or no faith, hope or no hope, God or no God, do humans not have the right to be free, to speak out the truth, and to expect justice at the hands of their rulers, and the right not to be molested, persecuted, vilified, fined, jailed, tortured, terrorised at the hands of the ruling classes when they freely chose a way of life and a type of education of their choice for their children and grand children that they see as moral over the ones that they see as immoral? Apparently, humans do not have this right under the current totalitarian democratic dictatorships where only the extremely rich, their army generals and officers, their perverts, monsters, and the speculators have all the rights, and the masses are doomed to eternal slavery and are indoctrinated to be consumerism addicts forever.
GOD OR THE VIRTUES THAT HE REPRESENTS IS THE ONLY SAVIOUR OF THE OPPRESSED MULTITUDES AROUND THE GLOBE. And auto suggestion is indeed a very powerful weapon to resolve many or most of humans’ problems. But, our main obstacle is the lack ofunity among the Believers in good, and the incredible unity of the evil doers. Right at the onset we see where the problem lies. The believers for the most part are talkers and not doers because they lack not only unity within one religion and among the religions, but also truthfulness, sincerity, dedication, perseverance, bravery, compassion and obey other Gods than God as they are unwilling or too weak to fight tyranny because this involves great sacrifice in their personal lives, comfort, and even in many cases the sacrifice of their own lives and that of their loved ones. They waste their lives gossiping about the symptoms of the diseases that afflict humankind and are not interested in the least in tackling the causes. European Christendom has solved this problem a very long time ago by crucifying God and then by joining the forces of darkness with a false religion: Love the sinner (Satan and his henchmen and henchwomen), but hate or condemn the sin, meaning, let Satan rule forever! In other words, JUST BELIEVE AND DO NOTHING as they practice knowingly or unknowingly a religion that pleases Satan and not God who ordered them to obey Him Alone and His Commandments (for their success in this life) according to one Gospel:
“He who has my commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him”
(Holy Bible, John 14:21).
As they hated God’s Son, they made him into his Father and worship him as God and ended up in hating God Himself! And Jesus (whether he existed or not or said what was and is attributed to him or not) clearly said to the misled and corrupt Israelites (and not to the world) that his Father and his God are their Father and their God too, but the Churches (a European fabrication) who invented a new religion attributed to the same Jesus Christ said no, and that instead Jesus himself is the Father and God! This false and Europeanised unchristian religion completely messed up the mind and faith of most of Christendom that eventually lost nearly half of its followers that have today for the most part joined the Anti-Christs or Dajjals under different labels: modern western materialist, consumerist and warmongering civilisation where are more acceptable only the usurers, warmongers, land thieves, exploiters, secret societies, seculars (laïques), libertarians, liberals, humanists, rationalists, anti-God philosophers and scientists, socialists, communists, Zionists, Racists, ethnic cleansers, feminists, abortionists, pornographers, prostitutes, homosexuals, gamblers, alcohol consumers, smokers, and on and on. The terminology is varied but the evil is the same. The super military powers decide what a human being is or is not and should be. We have evolved from being a human into becoming an animal and they call this progress and freedom.
We do not need François-Marie Arouet, that despicable character popularly known as “Voltaire” and idolised by the West European warmongers and anti-God and Deist intelligentsia alike to know and say with conviction that I would prefer State officials to be democratically elected (and not selected!) on the conditions that the citizens’ fundamental rights are inalienable (God-given rights) and not dependant on the whims and fancies of the manipulated and bought for electorate, and professionals, merchants, religious leaders, scientists, humans or look-like-humans we had to deal with or are frequently victims of, including our spouses, to genuinely believe in the One God or Gods (whether they conclusively exist or not) but with the above attributes of truth, freedom, justice and morality, to truthfully, sincerely, loyally, bravely and with dedication practice those Godly or highly civilised human virtues, because it is thus less likely that we shall be betrayed, deceived, cheated, swindled, robbed, enslaved, “cuckolded” and even annihilated. And we further do not need “Voltaire” to tell us and to know that if God did not exist, it would be necessary (vital) to invent Him symbolically or otherwise as there is no survival of the human kind without a Merciful and Compassionate God or the Symbol of it. We have seen how the world has turned out to be in the hands of the Godless and the Anti-God: some half a billion exterminated since “Christopher Colombus, Cristoforo Colombo, Cristóbal Colón, Cristóvão Colombo or whoever (Europeans have the sickening habit of translating and twisting proper names), and mounting every day, currently with Arabs, Middle Easterners and Muslims the main victims of the Satanic Totalitarian Zionist and Fascist World Order.
God does not have to ‘exist’ to be ‘real’ in the lives of more than half of humanity, including myself, and nearly some 4 billion people worldwide out of 7 billion human and sub-human inhabitants of the planet. Scientists have been lying all along to force us to believe that we are evolved apes or biologically evolved intelligent beings in permanent and eternal need of Jewish pharmaceutical poisons, public schools, Secret Services, Classified Truth, Satanic Cults, GMO and vaccines to survive, but even if this were true this will not change the above reality of our humanity and humanness in need of a civilised atheist and theist environment and culture. Perverting the natural ways, stealing, dishonouring our parents, making false testimonies, coveting other people’s property, wives, worshipping the devil, greed, pride, lust, hedonism, selfishness, arrogance, indifference, deceit, tyranny, savagery, enslaving individuals and entire nations, political, social, cultural and State terrorism, and endless lies and false flag operations are all wrong, and as long as humans who prize freedom, truth, justice and a moral way of life will exist this world will know no peace and no happiness except for the tyrants, perverts, thieves and their acolytes (including the so-called Christian Churches, the Hindu and Muslim leadership) who run the world, many as mere puppet dictators and Kings, oppress, terrorise, mass murder, and enslave its inhabitants. We saw recently Arabia, occupied since the Jewish World War I by the Saudis recently using the same CIA-ALQAEDA myth to crack down on dissenting Arabs and Muslims! The Anti-God rulers use White European Racial Supremacy, Black racism, Black and White Christian Churches, White Royalties and Colonialism, warmongering Jewish ideologies like Marxism, Socialism, Communism, Zionism, Fascism, Feminism, and Totalitarian Parliamentary or Liberal Democracy to subjugate the entire planet.
Forget about God, the Gods, Jesus, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, because we have for the most part already surrendered to the UNO, the Devil in person! We are not Muslims anymore, but Satanists! If we want to survive, we need first to unite upon common values like freedom, truth, morality and justice, and then FIGHT not only against ourselves (Jihaad an Nafs) but also against those who have invaded our lands, killed our loved ones, stolen our wealth, enslaved us and destroyed our cultures and civilisation. All struggle requires strength of body and mind, sincerity, dedication, perseverance, patience and sacrifice, sacrifice to the last man, woman, child and baby, and to the last drop of blood. And if we refuse this cure, then, let us die and condemn our children and grandchildren to do the job in our place or be exterminated!
We are no more in the context of ALLAH HU AKBAR but of
SHAYTAAN US-ISRAEL-UK-EU-UNO HU AKBAR!
And we would be wrong and stupid to blame God for it when we are the ones who made this happen! And you stupid earthlings, stop hoping for a heavenly Paradise and fearing Hell because they are both right here on Earth and we refuse to see them! We have become cannibals and we do not even see this and almost everything we take into our body is artificial, Satan manufactured as well as almost everything we put in our reptilian brain incapable of compassion and human warmth.
USAMERICAN SAVAGES!
Enjoy slavery under Shaytaan or freedom under God. It is our choice and this will definitely benefit our progeny! Judaism and Christ have both been hijacked. Who said so: Christ and Muhammad, you dummies! And Islam is half dead because Muslim nations (people) stopped worshipping God and belonging to the Universal Nation of Muhammad, and followed the Ways of Shaytaan instead (usury and so on) , and have been conquered and are slaves to the Empire of Satan. Lamenting, talking, demonstrating, petitioning the tyrants, all this is useless. The only weapon we are left with is TOTAL BOYCOTT and GLOBAL RESISTANCE! And without this REVOLUTION, we will achieve nothing! And no Gods will come to rescue us because THAT God does not exist! And Jesus will not return you dummies! Use your brains! And we do not wish you Happy New Year as you do not deserve it!
If you did not know Ancient Arabic came before Hebrew despite what the racists tell us, and Hebrew is just a dialect of Ancient Arabic, the same Arabic that Arabic-speaking literates can read on the Rashida (Rosetta) Stone! Beware of YAUM KIPPUR because it is the Day of Atonement when the modern Hebraics and Judaics (those pseudo Semites) become One with God (which one is still a mystery!) and promise everything but fulfil nothing! Read about the Aramaic KOL NIDRÉ vows introduced into the Judaic liturgy and recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yaum Kippur.
"All [personal] vows we are likely to make, all [personal] oaths and pledges we are likely to take between this Yom Kippur and the next Yom Kippur, we publicly renounce. Let them all be relinquished and abandoned, null and void, neither firm nor established. Let our [personal] vows, pledges and oaths be considered neither vows nor pledges nor oaths."
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Trust the Judaic Kippurists and you die! Why do you think decadent Christendom and Freemasonry (Satanists) hired them and gave them all the top jobs?
GOD OR THE VIRTUES THAT HE REPRESENTS IS THE ONLY SAVIOUR OF THE OPPRESSED MULTITUDES AROUND THE GLOBE.
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Basheer & Ghyslaine
Sovereign Freeman and Freewoman-on-the-land
Servants of God Alone and of no man or woman
We do not belong to any political or religious Group
We are one Universal Brotherhood and Sisterhood
We never voted in our entire lives
WE ARE FOREVER FREEDOM-TRUTH-MORALITY-JUSTICE JIHAADIS
31st of December 6014
The Bitter Truth
almassari
Today Wednesday 31st of December 2014 at 12:02 PM
(Useful as it accumulates a lot of the known information)
The 'reality' of ISIS (aka ISILaka Daa3ish) is even more sinister:
IT IS AN EXTREME (KHAWARIJI) MURDEROUS CRIMINAL ORGANIASATION
The Reality Behind ISIS.pdf
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The Only Way to Stop the Empire
Muhammad Tajdeed
Wednesday 31st of March 2014 at 3:53 PM
The Only Way to Stop the Empire
By Gary Flomenhoft
By Gary Flomenhoft
December 02, 2014 "ICH" - "ClubOrlov"–
The final days of US empire are fast approaching. Perhaps its end will pass slowly and gradually, or perhaps the event will unfold rapidly and catastrophically. Maybe chaos will break loose, or maybe its demise will be organized well and proceed smoothly. This nobody knows, but the end of empire is coming as surely as day follows night and sun follows rain. Overexpansion, overreach and over-indebtedness will take their toll—as all past empires have discovered. Empires are like bacteria in a Petrie dish; unthinking, unseeing, unfeeling, they expand until they run out of food or contaminate their environment with their waste, and then they die. They are automatons, and they just can’t help it: they are programmed to expand or die, expand or die, and, in the end, expand and die.
What does the empire feed on? It feeds on money and fear; your money and your fear, both obtained with your cooperation. It is bigger now than when it faced an actual adversary in the Soviet Union. Russia is no adversary; all it wants is to be a normal country, at peace with the world. But the empire won’t let it, will it? It must create enemies. Who are our enemies? According to the authors of endless war they are North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Islamic terrorists. Are any of them actually capable of threatening the US? Well, yes, but they are all quite easy to deter. But the plan of the authors of endless war is not to deter them; it is to back them into a corner with political instability and sanctions, while whipping up the population on both sides into fear-filled frenzy.
We all know that the US military-industrial complex has become a self-perpetuating and uncontrollable organism, just like Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us in 1961. Everyone knows the phrase and Eisenhower's warning—it is part of our collective memory. At a trillion dollars a year and growing, with over 1000 bases ringing the planet, it has expanded far beyond what Eisenhower could have imagined in his worst nightmare. We can’t say we didn’t know: he warned us. After the National-Socialist episode in Germany, many good Germans voiced regrets at not speaking up, claiming that they didn’t know what was being done in their name. But we do not have that excuse: we all knew all along.
Nor was it the first time we were warned. General Smedley Butler told us before, in 1933, and his words are still with us, posted online. Why is it that everyone, generals included, suddenly gain wisdom immediately upon reaching retirement? Butler offered an explanation: his “mind was in suspended animation while serving as a soldier and following orders.” In 1933 Butler told us that he “was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.” He said:
What does the empire feed on? It feeds on money and fear; your money and your fear, both obtained with your cooperation. It is bigger now than when it faced an actual adversary in the Soviet Union. Russia is no adversary; all it wants is to be a normal country, at peace with the world. But the empire won’t let it, will it? It must create enemies. Who are our enemies? According to the authors of endless war they are North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Islamic terrorists. Are any of them actually capable of threatening the US? Well, yes, but they are all quite easy to deter. But the plan of the authors of endless war is not to deter them; it is to back them into a corner with political instability and sanctions, while whipping up the population on both sides into fear-filled frenzy.
We all know that the US military-industrial complex has become a self-perpetuating and uncontrollable organism, just like Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us in 1961. Everyone knows the phrase and Eisenhower's warning—it is part of our collective memory. At a trillion dollars a year and growing, with over 1000 bases ringing the planet, it has expanded far beyond what Eisenhower could have imagined in his worst nightmare. We can’t say we didn’t know: he warned us. After the National-Socialist episode in Germany, many good Germans voiced regrets at not speaking up, claiming that they didn’t know what was being done in their name. But we do not have that excuse: we all knew all along.
Nor was it the first time we were warned. General Smedley Butler told us before, in 1933, and his words are still with us, posted online. Why is it that everyone, generals included, suddenly gain wisdom immediately upon reaching retirement? Butler offered an explanation: his “mind was in suspended animation while serving as a soldier and following orders.” In 1933 Butler told us that he “was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.” He said:
“I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912…I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.”
This empire is nothing new, and we knew what it is and what it does all along. We can’t say we didn’t know. We have watched throughout our lives as the US put down every popular uprising against local autocrats and oligarchs, placed countries under US control, then helped organize and train the death squads that killed off the opposition. Think of Indonesia, Argentina, or Honduras. We watched as the empire crushed every democratic government that threatened US business interests under the false pretext of “anti-communism,” starting with Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, and proceeding to Congo, Haiti (numerous times), and most notably and infamously Chile in 1973 (assassinating president Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973), Nicaragua in the 1980’s, and many, many others. (For details see William Blum’s Killing Hope.) And of course, many of us lived through the epic lies and genocide of millions in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia during the so-called “Vietnam War.” We knew, we watched, and we paid taxes that paid for the bullets and the bombs.
More recently we’ve seen the barefaced lies of empire laid out for all to see in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Georgia, Pakistan, Yemen, Ukraine... they never end! But the trouble we stir up in other places never seems to come home and ring our doorbell, does it? Maybe that’s why it keeps on going. We think that we can just ignore it and go on with our lives—that it won’t affect us. Or does it?
Let’s leave aside the destruction of democracy that always accompanies a militarized, fascist police state that the US has gradually turned into. And let’s ignore the violence that pervades US society, or the vast gulag of incarceration that disposes of our useless eaters. Consider that the only military attack on US soil that actually scored a palpable hit since Pearl Harbor was 9/11. Pearl Harbor was on the periphery, way out in the Pacific, “A Day that will live in Infamy,” the more so since FDR knew it was coming and did all he could to provoke it by cutting Japan off from oil supplies, directly provoking it into launching the attack. But Hawaii is the periphery while 9/11 struck at the heart of the empire, the financial center in New York that drives the imperial wealth pump, and the Pentagon, which is charged with the mission of US world domination.
Whether you believe that 19 Arabs armed with box cutters who couldn’t fly propeller planes took down 3 World Trade buildings that plummeted straight down at the speed of freefall in what looked like controlled demolition (yes there were 3, look up “Building 7”), and destroyed a section of the Pentagon, or whether you believe it was an inside job, doesn’t matter. The point is, in that act of destruction, the wars of the empire finally came home.
What was the result? Did these events cause us to reconsider what we are doing? Of course not! Instead, we went all-in for war. Remember, the empire is an automaton, a self-perpetuating organism, living on money and fear. What better way to whip up fear than to stage, or to allow, or to simply fail to prevent, an attack on the “homeland”—which is, by the way, a Nazi propaganda term. The purpose of war is simply to cause more war, since it is so profitable for the badly misnamed “defense industry.” Butler told us in 1933 that “war is a racket,” and documented massive war profiteering during WWI. Do you know how much money Lockheed, Northrop-Grumman, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon et al. are making from the “War on Terror”? The sums are astronomical.
As you read these words, the empire is busy doing its work in Ukraine. Here is how that works. First, it overthrows the elected government in a US-backed coup. Next, it directs its local puppet regime to unleash a military attack and organize death squads to deal with the population in the east that won't go along with the US-backed coup, in this case using actual Nazi-branded death squads, complete with Nazi SS Insignias. (Anyone can verify these facts with the most cursory internet search.) And for the final, consummate imperialist touch, it votes in the UN (together with Canada) against a resolution condemning the Ukrainian Nazis and other racist murderers, while the Europeans shamefacedly abstain. This sort of plan used to work really well, and so the empire keeps repeating it over and over again, even though the results are worse every time.
Vast numbers of Americans support the empire’s wars of conquest because they help maintain their lavish lifestyles. They bother some of us more than others. Many of us are adamantly against them, but only a few find it emotionally unbearable to countenance the destruction of millions of lives in our names and with our money. What makes them different? Who knows, you would have to ask a psychologist.
The question for those who oppose endless war is, What have we done about it? A mass movement in the 1960’s that added up to an uprising by a vast segment of society perhaps had something to do with ending the conflict in Vietnam. In spite of these protests, the empire was able to extend the war by an extra five years all the way to 1973, when it agreed to end it on the same terms that had been offered in 1968 to Nobel “peace laureate” Henry Kissinger. There has been no significant anti-war protest since then, and certainly none that succeeded in preventing or ending war. Why?
First, the draft was ended. This put an end to the involvement of average US families in the wars of empire, and therefore ending the requirement for consent of the governed. The strategists realized that the draft was a disaster for the empire. The new, much better and cheaper way to procure cannon fodder for the endless war is to enlist the children of the underclass, by using economic oppression in order to deprive them of any other means of advancement except military service.
Second, the military has been outsourced and privatized, requiring even less involvement by US families in the military, and less need for their consent. “You’re all volunteers, so shut up” is the attitude.
Third, the vastly increased scope of domestic spying by the NSA and other government agencies has helped keep everyone under control and stifle dissent.
Fourth is the tight government/corporate control of the US media, which has become consummately successful in brainwashing and propagandizing the population.
Finally, there is the war on whistleblowers and journalists who expose the truth, from Tom Drake to William Binney, Sibel Simons, Jesselyn Radack, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. If necessary, the police, who are vastly more militarized than in the past, together with national guard troops, can squash any dissent like a bug. All these measures ensure that efforts at reform pursued through legal, nonviolent means such as voting, protest, civil disobedience, civil resistance, etc. will have absolutely no effect. The only action that can possibly stop the empire in its tracks is cutting off its food supply—the tax money on which it lives. We have to starve the beast through divestment, capital expatriation, tax resistance, tax refusal and tax revolt. Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig told us this flat out in the 1980’s when, being confronted with huge protests over US Central American policy, he said: “Let them protest all they want as long as they pay their taxes.” Truer words were never uttered by a US official. Is there any evidence to contradict his statement? Has any other measure had any impact on the war machine? The honest answer is no. Millions of people around the world protested before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. These protests were ignored. No amount of protest or other efforts can stop it, because it doesn’t cut off the empire’s food supply of money and fear. Only by cutting off its funds by not paying taxes can we stop the empire.
Many have said that the US doesn’t need tax money as it survives on endless debt. Yes, the empire lives on debt, but the ability to sell debt is based on the bond rating of US treasury bonds. Most recently in June, 2014 S&P gave the US a AA+ rating with “stable outlook.”
If there is any doubt about the US credit rating, the ability to sell debt to continue financing the empire comes into question. The ability to collect taxes is what maintains the US bond rating. Any reduction of the US bond rating, and interest rates have to go up in order to continue attracting more investment. Then the interest on the debt balloons out of control and becomes unrepayable—never mind the principal, which they have no intention of ever paying back. By the way, the Tea Party’s efforts to shut down government by refusing to raise the debt ceiling was helping this effort for a time, although for different reasons. They thought that the welfare system is bankrupting the country. This is a laughable claim, because welfare spending looks negligible when compared to military spending. Still, they did manage to lower the bond rating for a time. Shutting down the federal government is a step in the right direction, and since in recent years only the Tea Party has managed to do it, lets give them some credit
If the US became unable to reliably collect taxes, then its ability to finance the empire with debt would be diminished, and the US would have to turn to increasing taxes—another politically unpalatable choice, especially in the age of the Tea Party, when the empire’s main constituency is dead-set against more taxes. So it is absolutely clear that the only thing that could stop the empire is a tax revolt. It wouldn’t even have to be that big; the slightest question about the ability of the federal government to collect taxes could reduce the bond rating. Even a minor reduction could raise interest rates enough to make the US debt unrepayable.
Let's get down to brass tacks: How do you avoid paying taxes, when the IRS withholds our salaries, and the tables are rigged to withhold about 15% more than necessary on average, so 80% of people get a refund? Did you think that this is a coincidence? No, this is a one-year interest-free loan to the empire from taxpayers. But it’s actually quite simple not to pay taxes. Get a W-4 form, write EXEMPT in the space provided, and turn it in to your friendly HR office. Your employer is not allowed to change it unless directed by the IRS. Normally they have no reason to question it.
Here’s what happened last time it was tried on a big scale. In 2007, Code Pink joined the War Resisters League to organize a national project for war tax refusal, to “Stop Bush’s Wars.” This was not a true tax revolt, just more or less a referendum on how many people would potentially support withholding a portion of their taxes owed, even a token amount. The online petition asked people if they would be willing to commit to withhold some of their taxes, even $1, if 100,000 other people would agree to do the same. Out of the US population of 316 million, how many people do you think signed it? About 2,000. So you see, there is not much evidence that people will do the only thing that could stop the empire: a true Tea Party tax revolt.
What this implies is that the empire will continue to churn along, and debt will continue to build up, because any other approach to paying for it is not feasible, and therefore collapse is inevitable. The aftermath of collapse is unpredictable; maybe there will be a soft landing, maybe not. But unless you are willing to engage in some form of tax revolt, collapse is inevitable. You will get to live with the results: stage a tax revolt now, or face collapse later.
Are you sure you want to take your chances on collapse? The results of a personal tax revolt are predictable: retribution with penalties and interest from the IRS; living in fear of having your salary, your property, even your house seized, or worse, your door broken down by federal agents (although these extreme measures don’t happen too often, they happen often enough to instill fear). Perhaps there would be loss of income, or even your job. Losing one’s job often leads to depression, divorce, drug or alcohol abuse, etc. So you may prefer collapse after all: loss of your savings, no heat, electricity or trash removal, shops looted or closed, armed gangs roaming the streets... Your choice!
On the other hand, collapse might go well! Hope springs eternal in the optimistic American heart. We are (or used to be) the “can-do” people. Maybe we can-do collapse better than anyone else? Doubtful though if you read Dmitry Orlov’s Collapse Gap presentation.
The results of collapse later are likely to be worse then the effects of tax revolt now. Especially, since the IRS takes years to catch up to exempt W-4 forms, and it would be even harder to crack down if it were being was done en masse. But it’s perfectly understandable if you opt to do nothing now and suffer no consequences, while engaging in ineffective protest to assuage your conscience. You probably have a family to support, an expensive hobby, or some other excuse. So you decide to take your chances with collapse later. After all, collapse might turn out OK for you! This psychology is quite understandable. I truly hope that collapse will be as painless as you wish it will be, but somehow I doubt it. Good luck though! Whatever happens, you will have to live with your decision for the rest of your life—be it long or short.
More recently we’ve seen the barefaced lies of empire laid out for all to see in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Georgia, Pakistan, Yemen, Ukraine... they never end! But the trouble we stir up in other places never seems to come home and ring our doorbell, does it? Maybe that’s why it keeps on going. We think that we can just ignore it and go on with our lives—that it won’t affect us. Or does it?
Let’s leave aside the destruction of democracy that always accompanies a militarized, fascist police state that the US has gradually turned into. And let’s ignore the violence that pervades US society, or the vast gulag of incarceration that disposes of our useless eaters. Consider that the only military attack on US soil that actually scored a palpable hit since Pearl Harbor was 9/11. Pearl Harbor was on the periphery, way out in the Pacific, “A Day that will live in Infamy,” the more so since FDR knew it was coming and did all he could to provoke it by cutting Japan off from oil supplies, directly provoking it into launching the attack. But Hawaii is the periphery while 9/11 struck at the heart of the empire, the financial center in New York that drives the imperial wealth pump, and the Pentagon, which is charged with the mission of US world domination.
Whether you believe that 19 Arabs armed with box cutters who couldn’t fly propeller planes took down 3 World Trade buildings that plummeted straight down at the speed of freefall in what looked like controlled demolition (yes there were 3, look up “Building 7”), and destroyed a section of the Pentagon, or whether you believe it was an inside job, doesn’t matter. The point is, in that act of destruction, the wars of the empire finally came home.
What was the result? Did these events cause us to reconsider what we are doing? Of course not! Instead, we went all-in for war. Remember, the empire is an automaton, a self-perpetuating organism, living on money and fear. What better way to whip up fear than to stage, or to allow, or to simply fail to prevent, an attack on the “homeland”—which is, by the way, a Nazi propaganda term. The purpose of war is simply to cause more war, since it is so profitable for the badly misnamed “defense industry.” Butler told us in 1933 that “war is a racket,” and documented massive war profiteering during WWI. Do you know how much money Lockheed, Northrop-Grumman, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon et al. are making from the “War on Terror”? The sums are astronomical.
As you read these words, the empire is busy doing its work in Ukraine. Here is how that works. First, it overthrows the elected government in a US-backed coup. Next, it directs its local puppet regime to unleash a military attack and organize death squads to deal with the population in the east that won't go along with the US-backed coup, in this case using actual Nazi-branded death squads, complete with Nazi SS Insignias. (Anyone can verify these facts with the most cursory internet search.) And for the final, consummate imperialist touch, it votes in the UN (together with Canada) against a resolution condemning the Ukrainian Nazis and other racist murderers, while the Europeans shamefacedly abstain. This sort of plan used to work really well, and so the empire keeps repeating it over and over again, even though the results are worse every time.
Vast numbers of Americans support the empire’s wars of conquest because they help maintain their lavish lifestyles. They bother some of us more than others. Many of us are adamantly against them, but only a few find it emotionally unbearable to countenance the destruction of millions of lives in our names and with our money. What makes them different? Who knows, you would have to ask a psychologist.
The question for those who oppose endless war is, What have we done about it? A mass movement in the 1960’s that added up to an uprising by a vast segment of society perhaps had something to do with ending the conflict in Vietnam. In spite of these protests, the empire was able to extend the war by an extra five years all the way to 1973, when it agreed to end it on the same terms that had been offered in 1968 to Nobel “peace laureate” Henry Kissinger. There has been no significant anti-war protest since then, and certainly none that succeeded in preventing or ending war. Why?
First, the draft was ended. This put an end to the involvement of average US families in the wars of empire, and therefore ending the requirement for consent of the governed. The strategists realized that the draft was a disaster for the empire. The new, much better and cheaper way to procure cannon fodder for the endless war is to enlist the children of the underclass, by using economic oppression in order to deprive them of any other means of advancement except military service.
Second, the military has been outsourced and privatized, requiring even less involvement by US families in the military, and less need for their consent. “You’re all volunteers, so shut up” is the attitude.
Third, the vastly increased scope of domestic spying by the NSA and other government agencies has helped keep everyone under control and stifle dissent.
Fourth is the tight government/corporate control of the US media, which has become consummately successful in brainwashing and propagandizing the population.
Finally, there is the war on whistleblowers and journalists who expose the truth, from Tom Drake to William Binney, Sibel Simons, Jesselyn Radack, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. If necessary, the police, who are vastly more militarized than in the past, together with national guard troops, can squash any dissent like a bug. All these measures ensure that efforts at reform pursued through legal, nonviolent means such as voting, protest, civil disobedience, civil resistance, etc. will have absolutely no effect. The only action that can possibly stop the empire in its tracks is cutting off its food supply—the tax money on which it lives. We have to starve the beast through divestment, capital expatriation, tax resistance, tax refusal and tax revolt. Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig told us this flat out in the 1980’s when, being confronted with huge protests over US Central American policy, he said: “Let them protest all they want as long as they pay their taxes.” Truer words were never uttered by a US official. Is there any evidence to contradict his statement? Has any other measure had any impact on the war machine? The honest answer is no. Millions of people around the world protested before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. These protests were ignored. No amount of protest or other efforts can stop it, because it doesn’t cut off the empire’s food supply of money and fear. Only by cutting off its funds by not paying taxes can we stop the empire.
Many have said that the US doesn’t need tax money as it survives on endless debt. Yes, the empire lives on debt, but the ability to sell debt is based on the bond rating of US treasury bonds. Most recently in June, 2014 S&P gave the US a AA+ rating with “stable outlook.”
If there is any doubt about the US credit rating, the ability to sell debt to continue financing the empire comes into question. The ability to collect taxes is what maintains the US bond rating. Any reduction of the US bond rating, and interest rates have to go up in order to continue attracting more investment. Then the interest on the debt balloons out of control and becomes unrepayable—never mind the principal, which they have no intention of ever paying back. By the way, the Tea Party’s efforts to shut down government by refusing to raise the debt ceiling was helping this effort for a time, although for different reasons. They thought that the welfare system is bankrupting the country. This is a laughable claim, because welfare spending looks negligible when compared to military spending. Still, they did manage to lower the bond rating for a time. Shutting down the federal government is a step in the right direction, and since in recent years only the Tea Party has managed to do it, lets give them some credit
If the US became unable to reliably collect taxes, then its ability to finance the empire with debt would be diminished, and the US would have to turn to increasing taxes—another politically unpalatable choice, especially in the age of the Tea Party, when the empire’s main constituency is dead-set against more taxes. So it is absolutely clear that the only thing that could stop the empire is a tax revolt. It wouldn’t even have to be that big; the slightest question about the ability of the federal government to collect taxes could reduce the bond rating. Even a minor reduction could raise interest rates enough to make the US debt unrepayable.
Let's get down to brass tacks: How do you avoid paying taxes, when the IRS withholds our salaries, and the tables are rigged to withhold about 15% more than necessary on average, so 80% of people get a refund? Did you think that this is a coincidence? No, this is a one-year interest-free loan to the empire from taxpayers. But it’s actually quite simple not to pay taxes. Get a W-4 form, write EXEMPT in the space provided, and turn it in to your friendly HR office. Your employer is not allowed to change it unless directed by the IRS. Normally they have no reason to question it.
Here’s what happened last time it was tried on a big scale. In 2007, Code Pink joined the War Resisters League to organize a national project for war tax refusal, to “Stop Bush’s Wars.” This was not a true tax revolt, just more or less a referendum on how many people would potentially support withholding a portion of their taxes owed, even a token amount. The online petition asked people if they would be willing to commit to withhold some of their taxes, even $1, if 100,000 other people would agree to do the same. Out of the US population of 316 million, how many people do you think signed it? About 2,000. So you see, there is not much evidence that people will do the only thing that could stop the empire: a true Tea Party tax revolt.
What this implies is that the empire will continue to churn along, and debt will continue to build up, because any other approach to paying for it is not feasible, and therefore collapse is inevitable. The aftermath of collapse is unpredictable; maybe there will be a soft landing, maybe not. But unless you are willing to engage in some form of tax revolt, collapse is inevitable. You will get to live with the results: stage a tax revolt now, or face collapse later.
Are you sure you want to take your chances on collapse? The results of a personal tax revolt are predictable: retribution with penalties and interest from the IRS; living in fear of having your salary, your property, even your house seized, or worse, your door broken down by federal agents (although these extreme measures don’t happen too often, they happen often enough to instill fear). Perhaps there would be loss of income, or even your job. Losing one’s job often leads to depression, divorce, drug or alcohol abuse, etc. So you may prefer collapse after all: loss of your savings, no heat, electricity or trash removal, shops looted or closed, armed gangs roaming the streets... Your choice!
On the other hand, collapse might go well! Hope springs eternal in the optimistic American heart. We are (or used to be) the “can-do” people. Maybe we can-do collapse better than anyone else? Doubtful though if you read Dmitry Orlov’s Collapse Gap presentation.
The results of collapse later are likely to be worse then the effects of tax revolt now. Especially, since the IRS takes years to catch up to exempt W-4 forms, and it would be even harder to crack down if it were being was done en masse. But it’s perfectly understandable if you opt to do nothing now and suffer no consequences, while engaging in ineffective protest to assuage your conscience. You probably have a family to support, an expensive hobby, or some other excuse. So you decide to take your chances with collapse later. After all, collapse might turn out OK for you! This psychology is quite understandable. I truly hope that collapse will be as painless as you wish it will be, but somehow I doubt it. Good luck though! Whatever happens, you will have to live with your decision for the rest of your life—be it long or short.
Signed, expat and long-time conscientious tax refuser, Gary Flomenhoft.