Sunday, August 21, 2005

Pope: Catholic Clowns in Cologne

"The Catholic Church", the Pope said on World Youth Day in Germany on Sunday "is like a net full of fish: you got good ones and the baddies." But alas, also in his 'church' the fish has started rotting at the head, and the whole circus of the catholic clowns in Cologne confirmed it.

by Henk Ruyssenaars

COLOGNE, Germany - Aug. 21 - 2005 - One of the friends I had in Sweden was honest about it: "You know why I became a priest?", he said: "because they refused me at the Royal Swedish Theater Academy and a couple of acting studios. So I thought: I want to act and at the same time make some money.

The solution was that I joined the Swedish State Church, Svenska Statskyrkan.Now I'm even paid to dress up, and can act as much as I want to and feel like. I'm earning a reasonable salary and I get more respect from the poor ignorants than I'll ever deserve. Churches are perfect stages, it's the best theater on earth!"

From my point of view that sounded like a perfectly normal explanation, being born and bred into a traditional catholic family and having seen some school friends disappear into the magic incense clouds of 'Rome's Ringling Brothers'; the catholic variety of the circus of Barnum & Bailey: the Vatican - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8n8fk

INCENSE AND HOLY WATER

Rome's Vatican - with all it's prelatic clowns running around and taking part in one of the biggest shows on earth - for the weekend moved it's tents to Germany. Including all the chubbies 'far out' and expensive dresses and mad miter hats*, the chandeliers, the incense, 'Holy Water' and crosses in gold and silver, jewels, and deep ruby red stones in the gold rings on the fingers of the cardinals and similar role players.

The rings however have never stopped those Überclowns from 'fingering' mankind especially first in the West and than spreading for over 2000 years. To see the 'Upper Clown' of the Vatican in his electric 'Papa Mobil' slowly driving among a million strong sea of brainwashed youngsters from many different countries and continents, gives any normal onlooker a very ungood feeling. Because as is shown in history: religion and civil liberties are like water and fat, and if this million of 'Christians' accepts the 'once upon time' stories from those jesters*, the world is in trouble. Because they'll believe anything, they proved.

The religion in the United States for instance allows human beings to be punished to death by poison injections, they are killed on electric chairs and gassed. The Judas speeches at this catholic circus in Cologne didn't mention the fact that at present the world is ravaged by one of their leading 'Christians', the president of the United States George Bush and his ilk, a psychopath who as a good 'Brother in Christ' committed at least 152 executions during the time he was in office as governor of Texas. Now he kills them by the hundred thousands, and that the Überclown forgot to mention too. [Bush kills - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/anbwu]

A 'CHRISTIAN' AS THE BIGGEST KILLER, AND NOBODY SAYS A WORD?

Not the pope, nor any of the well fed cardinals or their minions spoke up: they all played their roles, and the poor often genuflecting sheeple in front of them - over a million according to comments - waved their banners, had a gulp of 'Holy Water', sang their songs and chewed the wafers. While on stage this German pope with his crew, the whole clownesque entourage, did it's best to get the same results as another malignant German tried 70 years ago. Now neocon television fills the Goebbels-propaganda gap left by filmers like Leni Riefenstahl, when she filmed the followers of the Nazi ideology, millions believing and behaving in the same way.

Hitler's rants have had the same misleading effect on people as the 'Christian' churches with their fairy tales, ignoring catastrophes of which also they are part of the origin: in Africa - where most people not even can afford condoms, let alone the expensive US made drugs needed to keep AIDS under control - right now millions of people are dying of hunger and aids.

This happens under the gaze of those 'christians', who are in 99% of the cases not reacting while the US neocons are busy stealing $trillions worth of oil and other profitable natural resources, anywhere. Again with the expected disastrous effect, and making resistance everywhere grow by the minute.- Url.: http://tinyurl.com/chjdf

Hope that Christ has given you?

In one of it's information pieces - the neocon's 'Associated Press' writes that Benedict: ''asked pilgrims from Africa to bring your great and beloved continent the hope that Christ has given you. Be everywhere sowers of peace and brotherhood.'' Well, during my ten years as a correspondent in Africa I saw none of the hope that Christ has given to anybody. Hope is nothing you can either smear on your sandhich or the festering wounds. It's plunder and murder all the way what people see around them, and this mitered clown in Rome knows it: he's a two thousand years old part of their immense and inhuman problems.

Listening to Benedict one is abhorred: what an unbelievable crap that jester dares to spout! Instead of blasting away with all barrels at the criminals which sacrifice humanity on their bloodied neocon altar of greed. The by religion blinded million didn't hear an official open protest against the genocides going on, apart from some mumbling in the very low ranks, which was silenced immediately. If you don't accept spreading the lies, you're out of their gravy train 'Carnivale'.

Cardinal Joachim Meisner, the archbishop of Cologne, welcomed the 'Boss of the Circus': ''Here in the midst of the youth of the world, and countless priests, bishops and cardinals, we would like to welcome you to Marienfeld,''Meisner said. ''You belong to the youth, and the youth belongs to you.'' In Adolf's time youth was called ''Hitler Jugend''; now it's "Pope Jugend"?

And the Vatican on world TV offered a grand jig as a 'finale' of it's Carnival: the Gloria section took care of the music and was accompanied by South American zamponas and charangos, followed by an Indian sitar, African drums, and an Australian didgeridoo, and the clowns did what they are paid for. Apart from some stray dogs and the birds, there were no real animals.

But there were too many jerks, dressed as jesters...

Confirming that religion is opium for the people.


Henk Ruyssenaars


* A jester or fool is a specific type of clown mostly associated with the Middle Ages. Jesters typically wore brightly colored clothing in a motley pattern. Their hats (sometimes called the "cap'n'bells") were especially distinctive; made of cloth, they were floppy with three points (liliripes) each of which had a jingle bell at the end.

The three points of the hat represent the asses' ears and tail worn by jesters in earlier times. Other things distinctive about the jester was his incessant laugh.

Wikipedia - Url.: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester

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Vietnam all over: More quagmire - US Army planning for four more years in Iraq

Here's the flawed logic, the same studpidity as I've seen happening in Vietnam: "We are alone in the world in this invasion. The insurgency is growing. There is no visible prospect of success:

Therefore: let's send more troops?"

"Schoomaker was in Kansas City for a dinner Friday hosted by the Military Order of the World Wars, a veterans’ organization." What kind of 'Vets' are these? I remember Schoomaker (Schuhmacher) well enough, and did this item on him which got some funny comments, two years ago - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8uw9r

Army planning for four more years in Iraq

Top general says U.S. military prepared for 'worst case'

Aug. 20, 2005 - WASHINGTON - The Army is planning for the possibility of keeping the current number of soldiers in Iraq — well over 100,000 — for four more years, the Army’s top general said Saturday.

In an Associated Press* interview, Gen. Peter Schoomaker said the Army is prepared for the “worse case” in terms of the required level of troops in Iraq. He said the number could be adjusted lower if called for by slowing the force rotation or by shortening tours for soldiers.

Schoomaker said commanders in Iraq and others who are in the chain of command will decide how many troops will be needed next year and beyond. His responsibility is to provide them, trained and equipped.

About 138,000 U.S. troops, including about 25,000 Marines, are now in Iraq.

“We are now into ’07-’09 in our planning,” Schoomaker said, having completed work on the set of combat and support units that will be rotated into Iraq over the coming year for 12-month tours of duty.

Beyond Bush's term

Schoomaker’s comments come amid indications from Bush administration officials and commanders in Iraq that the size of the U.S. force may be scaled back next year if certain conditions are achieved. Among those conditions: an Iraqi constitution must be drafted in coming days; it must be approved in a national referendum; and elections must be held for a new government under that charter.

Schoomaker, who spoke aboard an Army jet on the trip back to Washington from Kansas City, Mo., made no predictions about the pace of political progress in Iraq. But he said he was confident the Army could provide the current number of forces to fight the insurgency for many more years. The 2007-09 rotation he is planning would go beyond President Bush’s term in office, which ends in January 2009.

Schoomaker was in Kansas City for a dinner Friday hosted by the Military Order of the World Wars, a veterans’ organization. “We’re staying 18 months to two years ahead of ourselves” in planning which active-duty and National Guard and Reserve units will be provided to meet the commanders’ needs, Schoomaker said in the interview.

Changes in troop rotations

The main active-duty combat units that are scheduled to go to Iraq in the coming year are the 101st Airborne Division, based at Fort Campbell, Ky., and the 4th Infantry Division from Fort Hood, Texas. Both did one-year tours earlier in the war.

The Army has changed the way it arranges troop rotations.

Instead of sending a full complement of replacement forces each 12-month cycle, it is stretching out the rotation over two years.

The current rotation, for 2005-07, will overlap with the 2006-08 replacements. Beyond that, the Army is piecing together the plan for the 2007-09 switch, Schoomaker said.

With the recent deployments of National Guard brigades from Georgia and Pennsylvania, the National Guard has seven combat brigades in Iraq — the most of the entire war — plus thousands of support troops.

Along with the Army Reserve and Marine Reserve, they account for about 40 percent of the total U.S. forces in Iraq. Schoomaker said that will be scaled back next year to about 25 percent as newly expanded active-duty divisions such as the 101st Airborne enter the rotation.

Deadly month

August has been the deadliest month of the war for the National Guard and Reserve, with at least 42 fatalities thus far. Schoomaker disputed the suggestion by some that the Guard and Reserve units are not fully prepared for the hostile environment of Iraq.

“I’m very confident that there is no difference in the preparation” of active-duty soldiers and the reservists, who normally train one weekend a month and two weeks each summer, unless they are mobilized. Once called to active duty, they go through the same training as active-duty units.

In internal surveys, some in the reserve forces have indicated to Army leaders that they think they are spending too much time in pre-deployment training, not too little, Schoomaker said.

“Consistently, what we’ve been (hearing) is, ‘We’re better than you think we are, and we could do this faster,”’ he said. “I can promise you that we’re not taking any risk in terms of what we’re doing to prepare people.” [enditem]

Original story at - 2005 MSNBC.com - URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9022420/

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The definition of fanaticism is, that when you discover that you are going in the wrong direction, you redouble your speed.
 
But the first step is to support our troops in the only way that word support can have real meaning - by saving their lives, their limbs, their sanity.

By 'bringing them home', and stopping this genocidal war, which is based on lies and deception, as Cindy Sheehan and all other mourning people are saying: ''What is the so called 'noble cause'?''
Why do they have to die for Israel or the profits of those lying neocons?

Because, every day the followers of warcriminals like Bush, Blair and the evil brain of the Dr. Faustian Kissinger; Feith, Wolfowitz, Perle, Weinstein, Goldberg, Cohen, Levi, and all the inhuman Washington's warmongering neocons proof the saying that:

'Nobody is blinder, than one who does not want to see'.

Blindest are the Dead.


Henk Ruyssenaars


IMPORTANT LINKS CONCERNING THE WAR IN IRAQ:

* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - UN's Kofi Annan/BBC - Url.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3661134.stm

* Howard Zinn - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6wmp4 - 2005 Miami Herald

* Canadian writer Paul Harris - US ''Peace Lovers'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/72eyy

* The deplorable US military history - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5sa2c

* Transcript: Condoleezza Rice on 'Fox News Sunday' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6jgsx - FPF - Condoleezza Rice, the world's 'Black Plague' and her gringo-vultures - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9ppyk

* Holding elections in occupied territory is according to the Geneva Conventions and all international Law illegal! - The faked coming 'elections' in Iraq in September too, like this one - 'Hollow Election Held on Bloody Day' - Inter Press Service* - Dahr Jamail/Baghdad - Url.: http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/

* ''The Lancet'' and the ''Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health'' - ''Over 100.000 killed in the illegal Iraq war'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5gys7

* Bush interv. ABC: No WMD's - many killed: "It was worth it". - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6bal9

* Former Secr. of State Madeleine Albright in her comment on half a milli on dead children in Iraq: "We think it's worth it" On CBS 60' Minutes: - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8

* Iraq Body Count - Url.: http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

* A crime against humanity is an act of persecution against a group, so heinous as to warrant punishment under international law: Please scroll - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6rphj

* Gore Vidal on our bleak future - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4ydyz

* Latest international 'Google News' on the fake election and the violence in Iraq - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ccoxq

* Former PM Kok and other Dutch government's war criminals heard in Court - Url: http://tinyurl.com/662pp
It can be done!

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