#I do not know the source unfortunately I saw it in a translated to Arabic clip but his name was Arabized as بولسين

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[CW one count of vulgar language] "Conformity with expectations is monetized--it's rewarded--so when you send the message to women and to girls that wealth can be rapidly expedited for them if they take off their clothes on stage or on camera, rather than develop their minds, rather than develop their skills, their character, and so on... When you tell women and girls they're going to have to go to university for years, you're going to have to be in the workforce for years, before society will moneterily reward you anywhere close to what it will reward you right now, today, if you would just objectify yourself and get naked in front of strangers. The message is crystal clear. We want you to be what we think you are. A sexual object. And if you go along with that, you will be generously rewarded. We don't think you have dignity. We don't think you have honour. We don't think you're decent! We think you're agents of the Devil and instruments of sin. You caused the fall of man. That's deeply embedded in the cultural thinking of the west. And clothes, being covered, covering your nakedness, is only for the dignified! That's why they strip you in interrogations. To break you down, to humiliate you, to demean you, to create an imbalance of power between you and the interrogators. I know what I'm talking about, 'cause they did it to me! They do it to make you vulnerable and that's what the western society does to women. Forget about s----shaming, they practice modesty-shaming, dignity-shaming, because who are you to think that every man in the public sphere isn't supposed to see your body? What makes you so special? What makes you think you have the right to deny any man's eyes access to your body? Your bodies are supposed to be public! Your bodies are supposed to be decorations! That's the culture. And they don't want dignified women in the public sphere. They don't want virtuous women in the public sphere. They don't want modesty. So now France has banned women from wearing 'abayahs in schools. Women can't wear clothes in schools that deny male teachers and fellow students access to enjoy their figures, enjoy their bodies, and of course, this is just a crooked way of banning Muslim women from education. Just like the public ban on the niqab. France wants Muslim women to stay in their homes and they don't want them to go to school. You say that's what we force on women, but because we don't actually enforce that on women, you're trying to enforce that on women, now you're trying to enforce it yourselves. France is enforcing it themselves. You don't want Muslim women in public. You don't want Muslim women to get an education. It's not us, it's you. You're the one who's trying to prevent them. They don't want you to go to school unless you abandon modesty, unless you're compromising your values. In other words, they're not allowed to be in public, not allowed to go to school, unless they go along with your objectification and misogyny."

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I literally never once thought about it like that (that it's a method of keeping Muslim women uneducated and out of the public sphere--I realize it should've been obvious, but it wasn't to me, because I didn't consider the future ramifications of that, only the present moment) and the way he tied it to how strippers make as much money as lawyers and the intentional degredation and inferiority being stripped down and objectified can cause and how that would send a message to girls and women that they'll be instantly rewarded for objectifying themselves compared to the years it would take to get a degree, so why bother?

Man... that's horrifying, what kind of future are they setting those girls up for, especially the ones who have no choice but to work (poor women have always worked, a whole family relying on a single breadwinner husband/father is a feature of more privileged families, and vanishingly rare)...

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Statement of Nelson Briar (pt. 2)

Title: 0181105 - Graduation Gift Part: 2/3

“Secondary statement of Nelson Briar, Head of Folklore and Legend Research of the Magnus Institute. A followup containing when he was first exposed to the Spiral.”

“Oh Jon, much better that time. See, now I’m not as inclined to only talk about how lovesick I was and still am. Now we can really start to get to the meaty bits, can’t we? Sorry, I sound a little overly excited this time, don’t I? I can’t really say it’s unexpected. The part about Michael and him leaving clues for me was only the tip of the iceberg. That story was really very simple. My romantic partner was consumed by the Spiral in Sannikov Land, and I started to lose my mind a little trying to find out what happened to him, only to land myself in the midst of the labyrinth as well! 

But you see, now that you’ve added the bit about me being touched by the Spiral, you’ve given me the opportunity to go further back. To long before I met Michael. To long before I even began work for the Magnus Institute. Hell, even before the Usher Foundation. We get to go all the way back to my high school graduation when my grandmother gave me a book.

You know, I know Greek very well now. I spoke a little with my mother growing up. But I was never quite fluent in it. I know it rather well now. Part of my studies in university required me to study Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic and a few other languages in order to appreciate what I was reading on a deeper level. So, when I started learning Greek properly, I should have noticed that Noris Andras was not the correct way to say the phrase ‘early man’ in Greek. That book should have been called something closer to Prooros Anthropos. But I only knew a bit of conversational Greek from my mother and my yiayia back when I received the book. Now, mind you -- my yiayia did not buy me Noris Andras, my fathers mother did. Old Scotch woman. Wouldn’t know the Greek language from a Greek salad. 

My entire family knew I was going to start my undergraduate degree in classical literature. I had always been a fan of myths and legends and ancient stories. I had always been ambitious as a kid -- still am -- I almost chose Icarus as my name when I transitioned but well. My name’s very personal to me. I have my reasons for it. Icarus Briar just doesn’t have the right kind of ring to it. Anyways, fact of the matter. My grandmother on my fathers side wanted to send me off with a very special gift. Apparently she and my parents had been regularly scouting used bookshops and antique stores and old library sales to see if they could find me any especially rare books on the classics. It had been a tradition in my family since I was a child that I would always get a new book of classics to read. I’d always eagerly show my parents where myths would differentiate between publications and where names were spelled differently. Comparing and contrasting these differences was always a delight for me. It thrilled me. So when I opened my grandmothers wrapping on my graduation day and found what I can now say was an exceptionally beautiful book amidst the paper, I was over the moon. It was bound in leather that had been intricately detailed and tanned and bore in Greek letters the words Noris Andras. I knew individually what each word meant but I knew it to be grammatically incorrect. My mother and I briefly conversed over how it must have been a poor translation in Greek, sharing a laugh at my grandmothers expense, of course she had no idea. But it was truly a gorgeous book. It was old. I could smell the age of the pages, all brushed around the edges with gold leaf for a particularly lovely sheen. But its condition was stunning. We supposed there must have been a dialectical reason for the grammatical faux pas of the title, but either way, I was in love with this book. It felt like it belonged in my lap. If you asked anyone else in my family about the day I received that book, they would say it was just me, my parents and my grandmother sitting in our living room, eating appetizers as we waited for my cousins, aunts and uncles to arrive for my graduation party. But I’m the only one that will tell you that there were five of us in that room.

My brother was there too. My twin, but he had graduated early and had finished his first year at MIT. He was so proud of me, but anyone could tell you -- if they remembered this correctly -- that shortly after I opened Noris Andras and held the book upon my lap, my parents and grandmother were immediately fussing over my brother. My brother. . .the real Nelson Briar.

Nelson, the-the real Nelson, that is -- he was the star of the family. He was brilliant. Highly intelligent. Charming. Well liked by just about everyone. And he was my best friend. We both had lived a life of constantly lifting one another up, supporting each other and doing our best to be in each other’s court through all our struggles. But even through it all, my entire family always found his achievements far more impressive. He was going into engineering. He had graduated early. He had a 4.0 at the end of his first year. Nelson was perfect. 

Now, I suppose you’re wondering, ‘So why did you choose his name when you transitioned. Isn’t that confusing.’ Well, it would be if there were still two of us. But I’m getting there, hold your horses Jon.  As you no doubt have concluded by now -- Noris Andras was a Leitner. My grandmother found it in an antique bookstore covered in dust and filth and she’d brought it to a book restoration center to get it repaired. So that’s why it was so nicely maintained when I received it.  After the graduation party was over, Nelson and I went up to our roof. Our bedroom at home had a stairwell that led to the roof and we’d often go up there in the summer together. While he was away at school I often went up there to smoke and think when I’d had especially long days. I had brought Noris Andras up with me because I was truly fascinated by it, and Nelson seems really interested as well. So he and I ended up flipping through it while we were on the roof, just fascinated by the content. The entire book was clearly written in Greek, but neither of us seemed to have much of a challenge reading it. Perhaps it was all very easy for us because of our occasional conversations with our mother, but Nelson told me, he had never seen my eyes light up while reading like I did while skimming that book.

It was filled with stories and legends I had never ever read before. Legends that I swore must have been lost to time. Or cultures that only had one written document in their entire community. I was astounded. There was nothing in those pages that even hinted at being a retelling of another story. They were all completely new to me.

Nelson left me to my reading and turned in for the night. Morning came and I was still on the roof. I had read almost the entire thing. And I felt like I knew secrets that no one else in the world knew. I felt like a god that morning. There were deities and demigods I had never heard the names of. Heroes with names that could be broken down into Forsaken Daydream in terms of its translation. Tales of growing women from tufts of their hair, who would grow and grow and become titans. I had a book in my possession with myths that were as old as civilization. And I was the sole keeper of these stories. 

I did some research, naturally. Tried searching the names of characters but nothing came up online. What I had was purely original and I was thrilled. And I needed to know if more of these stories existed. I searched Noris Andras online both in English and Greek and only found sources trying to correct my grammar. Nothing like this book existed and my pagan heart told me I had been blessed by Athena herself and she was bestowing knowledge on me that was too important for anyone else. Of course, Nelson thought I was out of my mind. He told me to call him when a story existed about a gorgon made of pillows would prey upon those who denied travelers blankets when staying anywhere as a guest. Or something to that extent. I told him I still had a small portion of the book left to read and I’d get back to him. Now, I don’t think it will come to any shock to you, of course, when I tell you the very next story in Noris Andras was just that. I stopped reading for a spell after seeing that. And I thought there was absolutely no way this would be the case. So I thought incredibly hard about another concept. Just something I conceived for shits and giggles. A transgender young man who could create his own myths and legends simply by willing them into existence. It was ego stroking but if my brother could pitch an idea to this book and for it to be on the very next page. Surely, I could do the same?

But the unfortunate part was. I was at the very end of the book. There was only about six or seven pages left, and I assumed it was an appendix covering terminology in the book. But as I would soon check. A story appeared on those final pages. It bore the name I had been using at the time -- Nigel -- and told a story of a young man who could weave stories in and out of reality. How he could simply will it and wish it and bring the stories he so desired into our world. And the story read like what my very heart had always wanted. A power to make fiction real. To make the mythology I had loved so very dear real.

And as I got to the bottom of the page, I saw the only English in the entire book. It was a small contract. It simply said: “Do you accept?” I wasn’t sure what to make of it. But as I had flipped to that page, I gave myself a paper cut. My blood dripped on the page and like invisible ink -- it vanished.

Any normal person would tell you this is abnormal. Blood doesn’t just vanish. But part of me just accepted that this was normal. And so I closed the book. My gut told me to simply close the book and leave it on my bed. And my gut also told me to make a wish. I made it simple. I wished for my shoes to be untied. I looked down. And the laces lay loose on either side of my foot. I could brush that off. Maybe they had always been untied. I made another wish. I wished for my bedroom door to open. And it did just that. Very well, my house had always been a little drafty. So I went a step further. I wished for Noris Andras to be back in my hands. And it was. 

I don’t think I need to explain that I had discovered I had a new power thanks to this antique book. But it wasn’t something I could just tell anyone about or just indulge in. I didn’t know if it was something on a limited use factor. But I did know what it did was very, very real. And I suppose, I didn’t realize how dangerous it was until I used it for the wrong reason. As I mentioned before. I used to use the name Nigel. It was my preferred name back then and truthfully, I’m glad it’s not anymore. My dead name did not begin with an N and my parents were still calling me by my dead name at the time. I’d not yet come out to them, but I had come out to Nelson. Nelson was beyond supportive. Often would do whatever he could to help me feel comfortable in my own skin. Used my preferred name and pronouns in any situation he could without outting me to our parents.

I’m still not sure why I turned Noris Andras against him. I don’t even think I did it on purpose. But you know, they do tell you to be careful what you wish for. He didn’t out me to our parents. A friend of ours did. On accident. I don’t hold it against him. He thought I’d come out to our parents. Our parents were not exactly the most accepting. Sat on the couch listening to them tell me about how they weren’t going to cover my college expenses anymore. How I was going to work instead and pay for my own education if I wanted to go so badly. Whole slew of hurtful things. Nelson tried to diffuse the situation. He did his best. Until I just said aloud. “If you can’t stand me so much, then how about I just wish me and Nelson were one and the same.” I asked if they would prefer if they only had ever had one son. The perfect, wonderful, flawless Nelson. And just like that. It was my graduation party again. I was sitting on the couch. Noris Andras was in my lap. My mother kissed my forehead and told me “We’re so proud of you, Nelson. You’re going to do so wonderfully in college.”

Nelson was gone. Or rather. Nelson and I became the same person. Somehow. I looked down at Noris Andras. I opened it to the last page, and beneath the words “Do you accept?” was a name, written in the dark brown of dried blood -- Nelson Briar.

I was still trans, mind you. When the party ended, I went to my room -- it had always only been my room. One bed. One dresser. One desk. I stood in front of the mirror in just my underwear. I was in my binder. I examined myself. I didn’t look like Nelson. I still looked like me. But I was more mannish. I was on hormones. My wish, whatever that wish was. Gave me all the love and support my family had given Nelson -- but at the expense of his existence, as it were. I lived my life ever since then as Nelson. That’s who I am now. Kind of funny, isn’t it? The Distortion became Michael just as Nelson became me. Very juxtaposed. 

I should add, in all my years of research, I never found another copy of Noris Andras. Nor did I ever find the other myths mentioned. I can only assume the people in these stories were also affected by the book as well. Maybe none of these stories are even from Greek mythology. Maybe they’re from another world altogether.

Oh, and before you ask. No, I don’t have Noris Andras anymore. If I did, MIchael would still be here. I would have wished him back ages ago. I caught him holding the book when we were sort-of-living-together. He asked me where I got the book and I told him it was something of a keepsake, but he wanted to borrow it. Naturally, I let him, thinking he was going to leave it in the apartment, but well, I have reason to believe he brought it to Gertrude and she disposed of it. If not it’s buried somewhere in the Institute. Either way. . .I don’t think I want it back. It’s not like it ever did me any favorites.

I believe that’s all I have time for, Jon -- I have a meeting to attend. Sort of. I think Peter’s still trying to tempt me back into the Lonely along with your boyfriend, but I’m going to have to tell him to sod off. I’ll be seeing you. I’m sure you’d love to hear the rest.”

[i-amateur]

Dr. Éric Denécé: “The Americans, the British and the French, Through Their Special Services, Supported Terrorists Who, Moreover, Organized Attacks on Our Soil”

Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Why does France tolerate on its soil the presence of different jihadist movements and terrorists? Dr. Éric Denécé: You are asking an essential question for which I am unable to find a valid answer. Indeed, France officially fights against extremists and Islamist terrorists... but lets them develop their activities on our soil. There are probably several explanations. First of all, the poor knowledge of Islam among the vast majority of our political leaders, who do not know the difference between its different tendencies, those that are respectable and those that represent a danger. Then, one should not neglect the strategy of entryism and skillful propaganda which the Muslim Brotherhood leads and which partly shows results, in particular because of the naivety of our elites, who think that by allying themselves with them they will have "peace" in our suburbs. Finally, post-colonial guilt is another element that is increasingly holding back a society that doubts its values and no longer knows how to react to some developments that threaten its national cohesion and its future. In one of your editorials, you referred to Turkey as a rogue State. How do you explain the Western alliance with this rogue State, when Turkey has armed and financed terrorist groups that have destroyed Syria and Iraq? Don't you think that the Westerners have played with fire by allying themselves with Erdogan, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, who has only one objective: to establish a caliphate? And how do you explain the troubled game Erdogan is playing in Libya? Turkey, not just Erdogan's - which is certainly by far the worst - is a State that has flouted international law since 1974, when it invaded part of the island of Cyprus. At the time, the Turks should have been expelled from NATO for invading another member State. But we were in the middle of the Cold War and we did nothing because the Atlantic Alliance, under American leadership, focused on the Soviet threat. This first cowardice was a real betrayal to our Greek friends and began to make the Turks think that anything was possible. Since the arrival of Erdogan, a totally megalomaniac leader and member of the international bureau of the Muslim Brotherhood, Ankara has not ceased to pursue an aggressive and neo-Ottoman policy: erasing all traces of the Kemalist legacy, attacking non-Muslims in Turkey, illegally invading - without any protest from the international community - part of Syrian territory, support ultra-radical jihadist and terrorist groups, supplying arms to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (whose accession to power was undemocratic, contrary to what is still believed in the West) and now supporting and arming a Libyan regime linked to the terrorist brotherhood and intervening militarily at its side, by sending it, in particular, jihadist mercenaries who have already worked under its control in Syria. Turkey today is an evil State and constitutes a real risk to peace and stability in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. But once again, Westerners are refusing to take the necessary decisions, still under the influence of the Americans and the British, who continue to see Moscow as a threat and fear that if Turkey were ostracized from the West - which must be done - it might throw itself into the arms of Russia. Some of our sources mention a movement of jihadists from Syria and Iraq to Libya, which has become a terrorist sanctuary. Do not you think that what is happening in Libya threatens the stability of the entire Mediterranean basin, if not the world? Wasn't the intervention in Libya by Sarkozy and his ally Cameron under the aegis of NATO a serious political mistake for which we are currently suffering the consequences? Obviously, the current situation has its origins in the Western intervention of 2011, which is totally unjustified, unproductive and in some aspects illegal (exceeding UN Resolution 1973). Sarkozy, Cameron but also Obama bear full responsibility of it. They all three have played sorcerers' apprentices and have destabilized North Africa and the Sahel... and now the Mediterranean. The destruction of Libya has created a real terrorist and criminal hotbed (smugglers and migrants) which is growing steadily and which we will take years to eliminate. And more worryingly, it could become a theatre of confrontation between regional powers: Egypt and the Emirates, Turkey and Qatar... As early as spring 2011, back from Libya where we had visited both camps (Tripoli and the NTC), we never stopped warning about the irresponsible and deplorable policy that the West was conducting and about its foreseeable effects. Unfortunately, we were right… I saw one of your interviews where you talked about a group you formed after the Arab springs and I read your collective book "La face cachée des révolutions arabes" (The Hidden Face of the Arab Revolutions) published by the CF2R and dedicated to the Arab spring, which became an Islamist winter. You mentioned names such as those of our friend the late Anne-Marie Lizin, whom I interviewed several times, and Madame Saïda Benhabylès. This latter was attacked and accused of being an agent of the French and the name of the Benhabylès family was dragged through the mud on social media by Islamist organizations activating in Europe and by individuals linked to terrorism and to the "Who Kills Whom" thesis, thesis which targets the Algerian army and the Algerian intelligence services. How do you explain that dubious individuals can afford to attack a personality of your group and distort your words, knowing that these dubious individuals themselves have links with Western, Saudi, Moroccan, Qatari and Turkish intelligence services? Madame Saïda Benhabylès is a woman for whom I have great respect and a friend whom I appreciate very much. In recent weeks she has been the victim of destabilizing actions orchestrated by individuals who are members or close to the Muslim Brotherhood, with an objective that I do not yet fully perceive. Naturally, this is all slander and lies. I was able to observe how these Islamists falsified some of my interviews, translating them into Arabic with totally false or fanciful statements. I confess that I do not measure the links between these individuals and the "promoters" of "Who Kills Whom". But they remain active in France, after having managed to give a totally distorted view of the Algerian reality of the "black decade". It is, of course, obvious that the most radical Islamists, seeking to impose their stupid and unfounded "values" on other Muslims, have always sought to seize power and thus to attack all those who were an obstacle to their strategy. Fortunately, Algeria did not fall, neither did Syria, and Egypt, thanks to Marshal Sissi, was able to drive them out of power. But they are in power in Turkey and in the Gulf monarchies - despite their doctrinal differences - and continue to spread their deadly ideology throughout the world. Elements of the Rachad organization, an organization affiliated to the Ummah congress linked to the Muslim Brotherhood of Erdogan and based in Istanbul, did not hesitate to incite the Algerians to take up arms against their army and their State. And Mohamed Larbi Zitout, one of Rachad's leaders, calls the terrorist groups active in the Sahel "national liberation groups". These individuals live in countries such as Great Britain and France. How do you explain the fact that they are not prosecuted, despite their proselytizing for the benefit of Erdogan and the Muslim Brotherhood? Are not these individuals linked to terrorism using your "democratic" system to spread their terrorist ideas? You give a very clear example of their strategy: proselytism, propaganda and deception, calls for armed struggle and murder, all with the support of the above-mentioned Islamist States... and the total passivity of the West. The European "elites" - and this is particularly true in France - are without reaction for several reasons: - they do not know how to act in the face of this phenomenon, as they are characterized by their lack of vision, culture, courage and mediocrity - they are "asleep" by the money, promises and lies of the Gulf monarchies... and the Americans who persist in supporting them. - they want to stay in power and tell themselves that if they get the "Muslim vote" (5 to 10 % on average in Europe), they are likely to succeed. Thus, they turn a blind eye or accept behavior that contravenes our rules, values and laws. - they are obsessed with the risk of the extreme right, which in reality has much less foundation than one might imagine, because the parties that embody it would be incapable of governing. But on the other hand, at each election, they attract more votes from all those who are outraged by the authorities' inaction. These are the ingredients of an explosive situation. Didn't the individuals who sold the “who kills whom” thesis to Western intelligence services concerning Algeria have several strategic objectives including, among other things, using Taqiya and hiding the true nuisance potential of jihadists in the West, knowing that afterwards we have seen the attacks in Brussels, Paris, London, Berlin, etc., which contradict the theses of "Who kills whom"? Is it not time to reveal the truth to your peoples that jihadism and its ideology exist in your society and that they are fed by different countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey? For at least a decade, more and more voices have been raised to denounce these dangers and the true ideology of these sectarian and harmful movements. But the politicians, for the reasons I have just mentioned, do not want to hear it. I will give you two edifying examples: in the summer of 2016, François Fillon, the future presidential candidate of the right, opposed, during a vote in the National Assembly, the taking of measures against the Muslim Brotherhood in France. And also in 2016, Jean-Yves Le Drian, then Minister of Defense in a Left-wing government, published a book entitled “Qui est l’ennemi?” (Who is the Enemy?), in which he wonders if France is at war but does not denounce radical Islamism or the archaic monarchies of the Gulf... he doesn't even talk about it!  Is it blindness, complicity, stupidity? That's where France is today... Don't the intelligence services, whether French, Algerian or other, have the same enemy, namely Jihadism and its deadly ideology, whether it comes from the Salafists or the Muslim Brotherhood? Don't you think that cooperation between intelligence services needs to be improved on a win-win basis? Of course, I do. Moreover, they cooperate closely on this matter... but not in all areas or on all subjects. This is normal because national interests remain different. Counter-terrorism is the area in which cooperation is most advanced, not only between Western countries, but also with Arab countries, including the Gulf States. This may mean that some of the information exchanged is biased. Indeed, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey will never give any information about "their" terrorists, given that these regimes themselves adhere to Salafism or the doctrine of the Muslim Brotherhood. They will only provide information on groups that threaten their regime. You are an intelligence expert and a geopolitical connoisseur. Weren't Western governments wrong in their handling of the Syrian file? Totally. There's been a major misjudgment of the situation: thinking that Bashar was going to fall quickly in 2011 showed a lack of knowledge of the Syrian reality. There has also been a major influence from the Gulf States wanting to bring down "secular" Syria, a country in which the cohabitation of religions was intolerable for the radical Islamist regimes of Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Thus, the Americans, the British and the French, through their special services, supported terrorists who, moreover, organized attacks on our soil or fought against our forces in Mali. A good example of political coherence... Fortunately, the Russian intervention made it possible to defeat this delusional strategy. Don't you think that the solution in Libya must be political and that if there is ever a war, everyone will lose? That would of course be ideal, but I hardly see us going down that road. This would require the belligerents to agree to negotiate... as well as their external supports. However, neither the Libyan Islamists nor Turkey which supports these latter, want this, and the militias and criminal networks in Misrata and elsewhere have a vested interest in keeping the situation chaotic, allowing their "business" to flourish. And Egypt cannot accept that an Islamist regime, a refuge for terrorists and criminals, should settle on its borders... any more than Algeria, of course. Shouldn't the West, led by the United States, reconsider its alliance with the Saudis, Qataris and Turks? Absolutely, our foreign policy and our alliances need to be totally reconsidered. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Turkey are all States whose values and politics are diametrically opposed to those of France. They are neither our friends nor our allies, contrary to what a part of our leaders persist in believing, hoping for big contracts for our defense industry... Fortunately, Turkey has not been able to join the European Union and everything must be done to ensure that this never happens. If it remains in NATO, I think it is essential that we question the usefulness of this alliance ... which no longer has anything Atlantic ... nor Pacific! Don't you think that Europeans should stop aligning with American policy? In your opinion, hasn't NATO become an empty shell that no longer serves any purpose? NATO has no longer had a reason to exist since the end of the Cold War and should have been disbanded, that is obvious. For the Americans, however, this remains an essential means of influence, control and pressure on Europeans who do not want to bear the cost of their own defense. Above all, it is a godsend for the American defense industry, which can impose its armaments on its allies and kill off any European competition in this area. But this would not be possible without the complicity of Europeans, who have, for the most part, accepted major losses of political and economic sovereignty. For several decades, France was the only "itchy" nation in this alliance. But Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to join NATO's integrated military organization sounded the death knell for true independence. But today, NATO should either be dissolved or France should withdraw from it. As an intelligence professional, what is your analysis of Operation Rubicon where the CIA and the BND spied on the whole world, including their European allies? In your opinion, is mass espionage useful in the fight against terrorism, or is it rather, as Snowden revealed, a tool for mass control? There are two aspects to consider. On the one hand, the external espionage practiced by all States. I would dare to say that it remains legitimate, in any case that it will never disappear because it allows one to read the game of others (friends, allies, opponents) to conduct its international policy and defend national interests (political, economic, military). That's the way it is. On the other hand, there are the "alliances". The fact that the United States spies so relentlessly on its own allies, and that the European States themselves agree to cooperate with Washington in intercepting their neighbors’ communications, is a contradiction that shows that Europe does not exist, that there's no awareness of a common interest. Let us remember in this respect the attitude of the Europeans during the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the Americans. France, which has opposed to this operation - and Germany, which did not support it - have been betrayed by all their other European partners. Finally, there is the myth of global data control. I speak of myth because today, the growth of data is infinitely faster than the progress of processing methods, which are already extremely efficient. The Americans are spending considerable sums of money, have achieved undeniable results, but are only able to process a tiny part of the information they have gathered. But that doesn't mean there's no danger. This is where we cannot thank Edward Snowden enough for what he did. Moreover, the obsession of the American authorities with him illustrates perfectly the embarrassment of Washington with regard to the electronic espionage practices which Snowden has not yet all revealed … Interview realized by Mohsen Abdelmoumen Who is Dr. Éric Denécé? Éric Denécé, PhD in Political Science, authorized to direct research, is director of the French Intelligence Research Center (CF2R) and its Risk Management consulting firm (CF2R Services). Previously, he was successively: Officer-analyst at the Directorate of Evaluation and Strategic Documentation of the General Secretariat of National Defense (SGDN); Export sales engineer at Matra Defense; In charge of communications for NAVFCO, a subsidiary of the DCI (Defense Council International) group; Director of Studies at the Centre for Strategic Studies and Prospective (CEPS); Founder and managing director of the economic intelligence firm ARGOS; Creator and Director of the Business Intelligence Department of the GEOS Group. Éric Denécé has long taught intelligence or economic intelligence in several French and foreign business schools and universities (ENA, War School,) University of Bordeaux IV-Montesquieu, University of Picardy-Jules Vernes, Bordeaux School of Management). He is the author of numerous books, articles and reports on intelligence, economic intelligence, terrorism and special operations. His work has earned him the 1996 Prize of the Foundation for Defense Studies (FED) and the 2009 Akropolis Prize (Institute for Advanced Studies in Internal Security).

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WHITE  SHE - DEVIL PAULA  CRISTINA GOMEZ -  CULTURAL AMBASSADOR, ALAAFIN OYO 

Forwarded as received June 2018

WHITE  SHE – DEVIL PAULA  CRISTINA GOMEZ –  CULTURAL AMBASSADOR, ALAAFIN OYO

Àlàáfíà, Some days ago,

The Ooni took his first official trip to Brazil, to connect with his subjects.

I got information for a very reliable source that the white, she-Devil called Paula Cristina Gomez, the self acclaimed Ambassador of the Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́, has gone before hand, to the Yoruba ifa/òrìṣà Community in Latin America to spread lies and defamation that the Ooni, Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II is a charlatan and a Christian. The devilish Paula does not see anything bad in Aláàfin being a Muslim. Even, the new children of Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́ last year were named by Muslims. He did not invite any traditional religious practitioner to the naming.

This has lead to so much confusion and disappointment among the Latin American community.

Let me first set the records straight.

The Oonirisa is the king of all Yorubas and the spiritual leads of the Yoruba.

It is a great sacrilege and disrespect to all Yorubas to have an old white hag thinking she can defame the identity of that throne.

Oonirisa Enitan Ogunwusi is not a Christian.

He has gotten initiated into Ifa long even before he became king.

Yes, we all saw the unfortunate video that circulated a while back where he was invited to a church.

And the videos circulated wildly by the unfortunately lost children of Yorubaland.

We were all disappointed. But! We must understand that.

The Ooni as a king has his subjects from different religion, even though they are lost and we hope that soon, they will come back to their senses. that doesn’t make them less of his subjects.

And this video happened in the very early days of his office,  he is the Ooni but he still has a human side prone to mistakes who learns and makes improvements on past actions.

I haven’t seen an Ooni in recent times who is fully committed to the isese community.

Unlike the past Ooni sijuade, who had a church and a big picture of the elusive Jesus the christ in his palace.

OONIRISA Adeyeye, ever since ascending the throne of his forefathers has had his actions focused on the revitalization of Yoruba spirituality, culture, tradition and economy.

The biggest statue of Moremi Ajasoro the mother of Ela, is standing tall in his palace.

The highlight of the recently concluded Ifa festival at òkè itase ile ìfẹ́ was When the Ooni walked into the Shrine and joined the various babalwos. Iyanifa, ọmọ àwo, olorisa ẹ.t.c in walking round the palm tree while pouring libation and making ìwúre.

After that, he gave words of encouragements to the community, to press on in truth and light against all demonization tactics.

How can it now be said that he is a Christian?

As times are changing and the universe is coming full circle, with Yoruba and African spirituality reemerging, we must be very cautious and watch full of our actions and the people around us.

This is not the time to cast aspersions on the Ooni rather, it is the time that we all must play our part as Yoruba people and lend all our support to the Throne of Odùduwà. And ilé ìfẹ́ às The source and our spiritual home.

Never forget that the Abrahamist are not relenting on their demoralisation agenda.

Why then must we push our own away on the lies whipped up by a Paula Gomez who has proven time and time again that she has an agenda.

To you Paula. Give it up!

Your evil plans have been exposed and your end in near.

We all know that you are nothing but a culture vulture and a chronic cultural appropriator with a slice of pathological lying.

You go about pretending that you are helping isese.

There are lots of well meaning  Caucasians and other non-African devotees of ifá-orisa, and we embrace all that mean well.

But you Paula! we know that you have nobody’s interest in your heart other than yours.

Your life’s dream is to be in the spot light.

You want so bad to be like Adunni Olorisa (Susan Wenger) but you will never be her.

The people of Osogbo saw your evil mind and that was why you were chased away from Osogbo and you came to Ọ̀yọ́. You were disgraced and sent away from Osogbo.

But instead of relenting, you found your way down to OYO, where you unfortunately now have the ears of the Alaafin. In Ọ̀yọ́, people did not suspect your devilish agenda until you set Aláàfin against many of the traditional religious people.

And you were giving an undeserving position of cultural ambassador to the throne.

Ever since you got to OYO, you have caused a big rift among the community.

Through lies, blackmail, and distortion of history.

We all saw the nonsense you put on your “Asa orisa” page where you said that the Alaafin allegedly told you that ifá came from Islamic Arab Geomancy.

You went to Oyo and started misconstrued words from the mouth of elders who do not understand English.

We all say your video interviewing the Aare isese Oyo, Baba Morakinyo jaiyeola.

Where you twisted the man’s word simply because he doesn’t understand the translations you were giving in English and Portuguese.

Claiming that the man said Orisa don’t need ifa, leading to a separation in the community and the prosecution and harrasmnets of ifá priests and devotees in oyo, on orders of the Alaafin whom you have succeeded in cutting off from the rest of his community so you can feed him lies poison his mind to keep your hold on the oyo isese community.

All other isese people in Nigeria now stay away from Oyo like a plague because of you.

while the remaining in oyo  are trapped and feeling helpless.

Because of your evilness.

The rest of us who are enlightened having  both western education and indigenous  education have observed you for far too long from afar.

You bite more than you could chew when you made the unfortunate decision to set your eyes on the throne of Odùduwà.

And your time is up.

While we are making efforts to further unify and articulate Yoruba spirituality.

We will not allow a power-hungry, selfish being like you drive a wedge amongst us.

You will not be allowed to continue your divide and conquer tactics on these lands!!!

We will see to it that you are flushed out like the terrible cancer that you are.

I am using this opportunity to call on all well-meaning sons and daughters of Kaaro ojiire, home and abroad.

To leave no stones unturned in seeing to it that the fungus Paula is rooted out of our system.

She must not be allowed to tear OYO apart.

We must do our duties to the motherland by making sure than we preserve our heritage and keep our community unified and defended from her evilness and any other that may arise after her.

We must talk to our Obas to embrace Ìsèse. Paula, the best thing you can do for us is to advise Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́ to accept Traditional Religion totally and remove the mosque built inside the palace by his father. Remember that the church put inside the palace of the Ooni of Ifè by the late Ooni has been removed. let the Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́ stop naming his children muslim names. May be he has forgotten the history that the Muslim banish his father from Ọ̀yọ́ Ile, the old Ọ̀yọ́ empire.

Let this also serve as an example to all babalwos and isese people who are quick to embrace anybody because of money or because they want to be affiliated with oyinbo.

May Olódùmarè be with us all

May the Ancestors continue to Guide us.

And may the Irúmọlẹ̀s never  depart from us.

Àṣẹ

Ẹ̀làbọrú Ẹ̀làbọyẹ̀ Ẹ̀làbọsísẹ.

Omidan Àyinkẹ́ Adẹ́fẹ̀mi.

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WHITE  SHE - DEVIL PAULA  CRISTINA GOMEZ -  CULTURAL AMBASSADOR, ALAAFIN OYO 

Àlàáfíà, Some days ago,

The Ooni took his first official trip to Brazil, to connect with his subjects.

I got information for a very reliable source that the white, she-Devil called Paula Cristina Gomez, the self acclaimed Ambassador of the Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́, has gone before hand, to the Yoruba ifa/òrìṣà Community in Latin America to spread lies and defamation that the Ooni, Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II is a charlatan and a Christian. The devilish Paula does not see anything bad in Aláàfin being a Muslim. Even, the new children of Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́ last year were named by Muslims. He did not invite any traditional religious practitioner to the naming.

This has lead to so much confusion and disappointment among the Latin American community.

Let me first set the records straight.

The Oonirisa is the king of all Yorubas and the spiritual leads of the Yoruba.

It is a great sacrilege and disrespect to all Yorubas to have an old white hag thinking she can defame the identity of that throne.

Oonirisa Enitan Ogunwusi is not a Christian.

He has gotten initiated into Ifa long even before he became king.

Yes, we all saw the unfortunate video that circulated a while back where he was invited to a church.

And the videos circulated wildly by the unfortunately lost children of Yorubaland.

We were all disappointed. But! We must understand that.

The Ooni as a king has his subjects from different religion, even though they are lost and we hope that soon, they will come back to their senses. that doesn’t make them less of his subjects.

And this video happened in the very early days of his office,  he is the Ooni but he still has a human side prone to mistakes who learns and makes improvements on past actions.

I haven’t seen an Ooni in recent times who is fully committed to the isese community.

Unlike the past Ooni sijuade, who had a church and a big picture of the elusive Jesus the christ in his palace.

OONIRISA Adeyeye, ever since ascending the throne of his forefathers has had his actions focused on the revitalization of Yoruba spirituality, culture, tradition and economy.

The biggest statue of Moremi Ajasoro the mother of Ela, is standing tall in his palace.

The highlight of the recently concluded Ifa festival at òkè itase ile ìfẹ́ was When the Ooni walked into the Shrine and joined the various babalwos. Iyanifa, ọmọ àwo, olorisa ẹ.t.c in walking round the palm tree while pouring libation and making ìwúre.

After that, he gave words of encouragements to the community, to press on in truth and light against all demonization tactics.

How can it now be said that he is a Christian?

As times are changing and the universe is coming full circle, with Yoruba and African spirituality reemerging, we must be very cautious and watch full of our actions and the people around us.

This is not the time to cast aspersions on the Ooni rather, it is the time that we all must play our part as Yoruba people and lend all our support to the Throne of Odùduwà. And ilé ìfẹ́ às The source and our spiritual home.

Never forget that the Abrahamist are not relenting on their demoralisation agenda.

Why then must we push our own away on the lies whipped up by a Paula Gomez who has proven time and time again that she has an agenda.

To you Paula. Give it up!

Your evil plans have been exposed and your end in near.

We all know that you are nothing but a culture vulture and a chronic cultural appropriator with a slice of pathological lying.

You go about pretending that you are helping isese.

There are lots of well meaning  Caucasians and other non-African devotees of ifá-orisa, and we embrace all that mean well.

But you Paula! we know that you have nobody’s interest in your heart other than yours.

Your life’s dream is to be in the spot light.

You want so bad to be like Adunni Olorisa (Susan Wenger) but you will never be her.

The people of Osogbo saw your evil mind and that was why you were chased away from Osogbo and you came to Ọ̀yọ́. You were disgraced and sent away from Osogbo.

But instead of relenting, you found your way down to OYO, where you unfortunately now have the ears of the Alaafin. In Ọ̀yọ́, people did not suspect your devilish agenda until you set Aláàfin against many of the traditional religious people.

And you were giving an undeserving position of cultural ambassador to the throne.

Ever since you got to OYO, you have caused a big rift among the community.

Through lies, blackmail, and distortion of history.

We all saw the nonsense you put on your “Asa orisa” page where you said that the Alaafin allegedly told you that ifá came from Islamic Arab Geomancy.

You went to Oyo and started misconstrued words from the mouth of elders who do not understand English.

We all say your video interviewing the Aare isese Oyo, Baba Morakinyo jaiyeola.

Where you twisted the man’s word simply because he doesn’t understand the translations you were giving in English and Portuguese.

Claiming that the man said Orisa don’t need ifa, leading to a separation in the community and the prosecution and harrasmnets of ifá priests and devotees in oyo, on orders of the Alaafin whom you have succeeded in cutting off from the rest of his community so you can feed him lies poison his mind to keep your hold on the oyo isese community.

All other isese people in Nigeria now stay away from Oyo like a plague because of you.

while the remaining in oyo  are trapped and feeling helpless.

Because of your evilness.

The rest of us who are enlightened having  both western education and indigenous  education have observed you for far too long from afar.

You bite more than you could chew when you made the unfortunate decision to set your eyes on the throne of Odùduwà.

And your time is up.

While we are making efforts to further unify and articulate Yoruba spirituality.

We will not allow a power-hungry, selfish being like you drive a wedge amongst us.

You will not be allowed to continue your divide and conquer tactics on these lands!!!

We will see to it that you are flushed out like the terrible cancer that you are.

I am using this opportunity to call on all well-meaning sons and daughters of Kaaro ojiire, home and abroad.

To leave no stones unturned in seeing to it that the fungus Paula is rooted out of our system.

She must not be allowed to tear OYO apart.

We must do our duties to the motherland by making sure than we preserve our heritage and keep our community unified and defended from her evilness and any other that may arise after her.

We must talk to our Obas to embrace Ìsèse. Paula, the best thing you can do for us is to advise Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́ to accept Traditional Religion totally and remove the mosque built inside the palace by his father. Remember that the church put inside the palace of the Ooni of Ifè by the late Ooni has been removed. let the Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́ stop naming his children muslim names. May be he has forgotten the history that the Muslim banish his father from Ọ̀yọ́ Ile, the old Ọ̀yọ́ empire.

Let this also serve as an example to all babalwos and isese people who are quick to embrace anybody because of money or because they want to be affiliated with oyinbo.

May Olódùmarè be with us all

May the Ancestors continue to Guide us.

And may the Irúmọlẹ̀s never  depart from us.

Àṣẹ

Ẹ̀làbọrú Ẹ̀làbọyẹ̀ Ẹ̀làbọsísẹ.