#Jesuit tactics

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Oda Nobunaga

Oda Nobunaga was the foremost military leader of Japan from 1568 to 1582. Nobunaga, along with his two immediate successors, Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598) and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), is credited with unifying medieval Japan in the second half of the 16th century. An innovative general who also used diplomacy as well as superior military tactics and weapons to see off his rivals, the warlord was infamous for his ruthless drive to conquer all before him.

Rise to Power

Born into a family of local administrators in 1534, Nobunaga's father, Oda Nobuhide (1510-1551) was a minor feudal lord or daimyo in Owari Province, central Japan. Nobunaga would first come to prominence when, on his father's death, he became the lord of Nagoya castle. Using the castle as his base, Nobunaga extended his domination over rival daimyo with notable successes coming in 1555 when he razed the town of Kiyosu and in 1559 when he captured and obliterated the fortress of Iwakura. The warlord's reputation for ruthlessness was firmly established in 1557 when he ordered the murder of his own brother. In 1560 at the Battle of Okehazama, the warlord of Mikawa, Imagawa Yoshimoto (1519-1560), was defeated and killed when Nobunaga's outnumbered army sprang a surprise encirclement of the enemy. Nobunaga was well on his way to becoming Japan's most-feared military leader.

Nobunaga is the subject of two biographies in Japanese history, the first was Shincho koki by Ota Gyuichi, which was published in 1598, while the second, Shincho Ki, was published in 1622 and was compiled by Oze Hoan as an extension of the earlier work. Both works glorify their subject and, as with similar posthumous biographies of the medieval period, exaggerate the deeds of the famous daimyo and insert episodes of legend which likely never happened at all. The Jesuit missionary and historian Luis Frois (1532-1597), however, gave a much more revealing description of Nobunaga in the following extract from a letter written in 1569:

A tall man, thin, scantily bearded, with a very clear voice, much given to the practice of arms, hardy, fond of the exercise of justice, and of mercy, proud, a lover of honour to the uttermost, very secretive in what he determines, extremely shrewd in the stratagems of war, little if at all subject to the reproof, and counsel of his subordinates, feared, and revered by all to an extreme degree. Does not drink wine. He is a severe master: treats all the Kings and Princes of Japan with scorn, and speaks to them over his shoulder as though to inferiors, and is completely obeyed by all as their absolute lord.

(Keen, 1159)

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in any history course i've ever taken learning about the beginning of the colonization era is always the worst part (shocking). reading about people getting converted to christianity makes me livid. it feels like watching people sign up for their own doom, tricked by people who claim to want to help them. fuck christianity! #toxic or whatever but damn if conversion wasn't a tool for colonialism and still is. missionary work IS colonialism.

the textbook (A Concise History of Japan by Brett Walker) skirts around the idea although doesn't fully commit to it; the author uses it more as a transition tactic than actually exploring it as a method of colonialism. but missionary work, especially jesuit missionary work, has always been a tool for colonial domination

(excerpts from p. 88 and 91. “Society” refers to the jesuit society)

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➝ The Papal Bloodlines Black Nobility Crime Families 🚨

For thousands of years the ruling elite classes of monarchies, priests, black nobility, pharaonic blood lines, secret societies, money changers, dark occultists and Cabalists have been keeping knowledge from humanity, dividing and ruling us through fear and ignorance while all the while setting up a system of enslavement based on creating ignorance and division amongst us through false paradigms like money, religion, race division, the spreading of multiple conflicting ideologies, confusion through mixing of different languages, holding back occulted esoteric knowledge from our schooling and the general population, chemical dumbing down of populations through food, air and water additives, controlled propaganda, psychological warfare, false flags, psy-ops, hegalian dialectic tactics, sports and entertainment distractions, pharmaceutical, drugs, alcohol and other means. These international criminals and royal and noble crime bloodlines are threatening society with more fake epidemics, weaponized forced vaccinations, wars based on lies, civil war, world war, martial law, and genocides. They are attacking society with secret societies, organized crime, corporate fraud, and electronic weapons. These bloodlines spread plagues and have been doing that for hundreds of years. These families are behind all the major wars including World War I and World War II. When real people stand up to tyrants like them they infiltrate opposition such as the American Revolutionary War which was hijacked by Freemasons. These criminals collectively have trillions of dollars in offshore accounts in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg and they are controlling the Bank for International Settlements. They extort governments and people and make hundreds of billions per year through organized crime. They torment people with electronic weapons. The entire electronic grid has been weaponized with neuro-bio hacking programs. They finance continual lying in society through the media and entertainment. Their primary tactics are lying, making false accusations against people who expose them, and using phony arrogance to appear like they are in control at all times. The royals and nobles run all the religious organizations, secret societies and covert organizations like the Jesuits, Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Scientologists, Skull and Bones, Kabbalists, Wiccans, Five Percenters, Knights of Columbus, Knights of Malta, Shriners etc. They own the organized crime syndicates including all mafias, drug cartels, street gangs, and biker gangs. They oversee the global organizations like the United Nations, NATO, World Bank, IMF, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization, CERN, Maritime Law, INTERPOL, Conference on Disarmament, Red Cross, Geneva Conventions, etc. These criminals have infiltrated every government agency in the world through pedophilia, child sacrifices, criminal financing, bribery, secret organizations, and mafia tactics. They have designed all governments as corporate entities and chartered subsidiaries of their corporate houses and monarchies. They are mass human traffickers, mass murderers, and war criminals who commit crimes against humanity at all times. Continue: https://thegreatwork208716197.wordpress.com/2022/10/23/the-papal-bloodlines-black-nobility-crime-families/

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Recently, a historical church in Spencer, Massachusetts was hit by lightening and burned down. It is a member of the SNEUCC. In other words, just like nearly all churches you see, they are owned like a branch of a company, under the government. I've been trying to think how to word this because there is so much to be said, but there is one singular thing that is the root that I want to focus on. Take a look at the video and here the portion of the last sermon that was preached there.

That he said, I used to say that same thing. That was an excuse I used too.

But, where did that come from? Pay attention here...

It came from a counter reformation tactic of the Jesuits. In the 1800's, the Jesuits did MASSIVE damage to the protestant reformation with this very theology, as well as many many others. ALL of it was to discredit one main foundation of the protestant reformation, Solo Scriptura (scripture only). The early reformers (who by the way were catholics that realized what the Roman Catholic church was really about and chose God rather than a pope), believed that the words of God took authority over the words of man. Now, if you go to this church's (andnits a protestant church by the way) website, you can watch this video. And what you will see, that couldn't be seen here because of where he was standing, is a book behind him with the Jesuit IHS logo on it, clear as day.

So here is the main point, if you can not believe when you hold your Bible in your hand that you have the inerrant words of God, if you can't believe that God has the power to preserve his words like he said he would, if you say you believe God sent his only begotten Son to die for your sins, but then believe that He would leave you guessing at his words of salavtion, then what is the point of you trying? That is a Jesuit lie from the devils tongue to keep you out of your Bible.

Believing that lie discourages so many people from the truth, and those that may want it, will find refuge in a church like this that will not call for repentance, that will twist the words to make it fit their love of the world, that will allow everyone in there feel safe in their sins and imaginations of their own hearts. And it's not just this church. This? This is a warning to everyone who warms up a church pew on Sundays.

Get back in your Bible. Do not confuse a little bit of truth for full truth. Even catholics and JW 'S have a bit of truth. I bet even this church had some. Every false.prophet or teacher speaks some truth. Your individual salvation is worth more than this. God is going to bring wrath on the churches, and if you are in it, you will be accountable for supporting it. He's done it before, he's going to do it again.

REVELATION 11: 1-2 KJV

He that hath an ear, let him hear

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Events 10.12 (before 1970)

539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar) 633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd. 1279 – The Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan. 1398 – In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights. 1406 – Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four months before. 1492 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically on San Salvador Island. (Julian calendar) 1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people. 1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips. 1748 – War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana. 1773 – America's first insane asylum opens. 1792 – The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City. 1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 1798 – Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War. 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute. 1810 – The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. 1822 – Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor. 1849 – The city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by 'The Expedition of the 20'. 1856 – An M 7.7–8.3 earthquake off the Greek island of Crete cause major damage as far as Egypt and Malta. 1871 – The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes". 1890 – Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed. 1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools. 1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House. 1909 – Foundation of Coritiba Foot Ball Club. 1915 – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium. 1917 – World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history. 1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota. 1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital. 1933 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. 1944 – World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end. 1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor. 1945 – The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence. 1959 – At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde. 1960 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion. 1962 – The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. There was at least U.S. $230 million in damages and 46 people died. 1963 – After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union. 1964 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure suits. 1967 – A bomb explodes on board Cyprus Airways Flight 284 while flying over the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66. 1968 – Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.

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Glubb Contributions

Duvalier Bounty: The rescue of five Mosaics, African-blooded, from Haitian-Jamaican waters.

Lake Champlain: The discovery and charting of Great Lakes of Canada.

Defense of Montreal: The confrontation with Benedict Arnold, and the spearing through of Quebec City, by New York tariffs out of Native Tribal Scouts.

Citizen's Rights: The print of a baby's foot print, as proof of citizenship; held under nursery pageants, the veterans of gang fights in urban cities of dominatrix conflicts.

Vicksburg City Defenses: The rallying of Vicksburg, under General Robert E. Lee; clandestine infiltrator, under Johnson's papers, of Tennessee.

Charlebois and Sons: The lumber slavery of interdependent families; academy graduation, with both grades and finals, however having refused professor's service at any level.

Iroquois Confederacy War Act: The declaration of war on Germany, for reasons of a sperm stolen son, Adolf Hitler, having been visible in charge of a congregant of any nation-state or business. Madison Acts, imbued, illegal, through French Indochina; Pearl Harbor.

Latrun Civilian Defenses: The sculpting of Israel as a State, by the arrangement of Arab Legion defenses on Latrun Hill, for the witness of the power of the Death Camp survivor; Transjordan positions held until running out of ammunition, at Pavlach led forces; gentleman adventurers, of Rome and Britain and Poland, having stolen Death Camp texts from personal witness. Now imbued, to Jordanian tactics, taught by Britain; the Israeli Defense Forces Paramilitary Reconnaissance, the Mafia.

Palestinian War Camps: The trap of any Muslim, of homosexual refusal of lotus, as false war hero, out of Egypt and Gaza; however, the proper Muslim, now changed to an Arabic speaker, having inserted penis in anus, the lesbian dog groomer; hence any Arab, having completed Catechism's studies, and having brother as Israel, having spoken Urdu, outside of dog ownership as self in complaint of canine in courts.

Blue Man Group: The birth of a harlequin icytheosis, to Joe Nameth, blocking the MI-6 Pittsburgh Steelers takeover of national resources for MI-6, out of prison captivity and letters of state requesting steak and beef, instead of pork and chicken, at corrections incarceration, to eliminate masturbation for heterosexual inmates, instead replacing with heart disease and canal failure, outside of potato, the barrister's consumption of brain disease; the understanding of foreign ways, through creativity of women, bacon and whiskey.

Niggas With Attitude: The conversion of Jerry Heller, to Judaism, to eliminate Jesuits from the music industry; therefore cop instruction, to music band, and therefore fans, is gone, leaving law enforcement to the police, and intelligence, to the theaters; the rackets of common boycott, lost in the neighborhoods, with the wholesale slaying of those listening to sports and kayfabe logic.

Mortal Kombat: Noob Saibot (David Charlebois), Sub-Zero (Alexandra Gaetano), Tremor (Jawad Hussein), Rain (Jenna Williamson), Reiko (Robert Scarpato), Dan Monahan (Jax), Sonya Blade (Ashley Hamilton), Scorpion (Christiano Marisco), MIleena (Jessica Long), and Kano (Ivan Tomasic), placed in close region to each other, each with a syndicate built of appropriate power and level, to approach the War on Terror with the Sega game series, removed from fact of status from novels and literature, intended for CIA Corporate under Arab-Suzerein status, of British war with America over novels being ignored by common library bearing populace.

Arkham Asylum: Games printed through specialized system, allowed to be stolen by Ivan Tomasic, and then reimprinted with a separate fact of logic, hence the system only works for the "Arkham" print, not "Saint's Row", a broken system, as a deficient form of FBI's Rockstar Games and Take Two; the French program of national sabotage, replaced instead with industrial sabotage, proper American espionage.

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In the 1590s, foxes gained significant attention for being oecumenical, or representing a variety of Christian churches, in certain parts of Europe. This phenomenon was observed primarily in areas with a strong Catholic presence, such as Spain and Italy, and was met with fascination and even fear by the local population.

One possible explanation for this trend is rooted in the longstanding association of foxes with cunning and cleverness. In many European cultures, foxes were seen as sly and deceitful creatures, often portrayed as tricksters or villains in folktales and fables. This negative perception was also reflected in the Bible, where foxes were mentioned as being devious and destructive creatures.

However, during the 1590s, a new perception of foxes emerged in certain Christian communities. It was believed that the animal's supposed cunning and adaptability also made it a symbol of survival and resilience, qualities that were seen as essential for Catholics during a time of religious turmoil.

The 16th century was a period of intense religious conflicts and divisions in Europe, particularly between Catholics and Protestants. The Catholic Church, in an effort to bring its followers together and combat the spread of Protestantism, emphasized the need for unity and ecumenism. This included actively promoting the idea of "one true Church" and fostering a sense of solidarity among Catholics.

In this context, the fox became a potent symbol of Catholicism's strength and adaptability. Its ability to survive in various environments and its craftiness in evading its enemies were seen as emblematic of the Church's ability to endure and outlast its adversaries.

In addition, many Catholic leaders and theologians drew parallels between the fox's cunning and the Church's own tactics in dealing with the challenges posed by the Protestant Reformation. They saw the animal as a reminder of the importance of using strategic and shrewd methods in defending the Catholic faith.

The fox also held a special significance for the Jesuit order, a Catholic religious society that played a prominent role in the Counter-Reformation. The order's founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola, was known for using the metaphor of a cunning fox to describe the Jesuits' approach to evangelization and missionary work.

As a result, the fox became a popular motif in Catholic art and literature during the 1590s. It could be found in paintings, sculptures, and even tapestries, often depicted with a cross or other Christian symbols. The animal's portrayal as a clever and adaptable creature served as a powerful reminder of the Catholic Church's resilience and determination in the face of adversity.

In conclusion, the fox's popularity as a symbol of oecumenism in the 1590s can be seen as a reflection of the deep-rooted religious tensions and struggles of the time. Its association with cunning and survival made it a fitting representation of the Catholic Church's own efforts to maintain its unity and influence in the midst of religious diversity.

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THE ILLUMINATI BREAKDOWN PART 2:

DIDDY AND HIS LINK TO THE ILLUMINATI

POST 1 OF 4

HELLO EVERYONE. I’M GOING TO GIVE SOME GENERAL INFORMATION, AND THEN I’M GOING TO GIVE THE ANSWERS I GOT WHEN I ASKED THE SPIRITS OF THE SPIRIT WORLD WHAT IS GOING ON.

ONE OF THE PEOPLE PRIOR TO ALL THIS STUFF WITH DIDDY COMING OUT WHO SPOKE A LOT ABOUT WHAT HE TERMED “THE CABAL” WAS DAVID WILCOCK. HE DESCRIBED SOME THINGS QUITE A WHILE AGO THAT WERE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE CABAL, EVEN GOING SO FAR AS TO SAY THEY OFFERED HIM STOCK IN A CAVE FULL OF GOLD THAT THEY WERE GOING TO USE TO REBOOT THE DOLLAR. DAVID WILCOCK DID INDEED DESCRIBE AND CONFIRM THE THINGS THAT I HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT THESE GROUPS TORTURING AND DRINKING THE BLOOD OF CHILDREN TO GAIN SUPERNATURAL EFFECTS BY AN UNNATURAL ACTIVATION PRYING OPEN THEIR HIGHER FACULTIES. YOU ALSO HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF RONALD BERNARD ILLUMINATI INSIDER.

HERE'S WHAT INFORMATION I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GATHER ABOUT THE CABAL AND THE ILLUMINATI, BECAUSE THE TERM ILLUMINATI HAS BEEN USED FOR MANY DIFFERENT THINGS. THE PERSON THAT STARTED THE ILLUMINATI INSIDE OF OTHER SECRET SOCIETIES LIKE THE FREEMASONS WHERE THEY WERE RECRUITING WAS A JESUIT. THE JESUITS ARE THE MILITARY BRANCH OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH PRACTICING MACHIAVELLIAN DECEIT WARFARE TACTICS AND HAVE ALSO BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THE ONES WHO REALLY WROTE THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION. RONALD BERNARD TELLS EVERYBODY TO READ THOSE DOCUMENTS, AND STATES THAT THINGS IN THOSE DOCUMENTS ARE COMING TRUE AND PEOPLE BETTER FIGURE OUT WHO WROTE IT. WELL NOW WE KNOW, IT WAS THIS CABAL ILLUMINATI, AND WE KNOW THE JESUITS ARE A PART OF THAT. NOW WITH WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH DIDDY THERE ARE SOME OTHER THINGS THAT WE CAN INFER.

FIRST OFF, THERE ARE ALSO SOME CLAIMS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE BY DR STEVEN GREER OF THE DISCLOSURE MOVEMENT. TWO OF THE MAIN ONES BEING THAT THE JESUITS HAVE THE COMPUTER CODES TO THE BANKING SYSTEM AND ARE POTENTIALLY HOLDING IT HOSTAGE, AND THAT THEY ARE ALSO POTENTIALLY PLANNING TO LAUNCH A FALSE FLAG ALIEN INVASION TO TRY AND CONVINCE PEOPLE OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AS A TOTAL ACT OF DECEPTION WORLDWIDE. ONE THING WE CAN INFER FROM HISTORY IS THAT THE JESUITS PLAY A ROLE WITH THE NAZIS AND THE SS, AND THAT THE NAZIS AND THE SS MODELED MUCH OF WHAT THEY DID AROUND THE JESUITS, AND THERE ARE EVEN RUMORS THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE JESUITS HELPED TO GET A LOT OF THE NAZIS THEY WERE LOOKING FOR AFTER THE WAR SMUGGLED INTO SOUTH AMERICA. IN A BOOK ABOUT THE ADRENOCHROME CONSPIRACY WHEN THERE WERE RUMORS THAT HOLLYWOOD WAS INVOLVED, A GROUP OF PEOPLE CALLED THE UNVEILERS ALSO DESCRIBED AND CONFIRMED WHAT DAVID WILCOCK AND RONALD BERNARD WERE SAYING ABOUT CHILDREN BEING TORTURED AND THEN MURDERED AND THE CHEMICALS THEN BEING EXTRACTED FROM THEIR BLOOD TO BE USED TO ACTIVATE HIGHER FACULTIES PRYING THEM OPEN UNNATURALLY. THIS BOOK GOT INTO SOME MORE SPECIFICS SAYING THAT IT IS ADRENOCHROME, ADRENALINE, AND DMT THAT PLAY A MAJOR ROLE, IT STATES THAT IT HAS TO BE DONE WITH CHILDREN TO GET THE CHEMICALS NECESSARY AND CAN’T BE DONE WITH PEOPLE OVER A CERTAIN AGE “ITH ANY GREAT SUCCESS, AND IT STATES ALSO WHAT DAVID WILCOCK SAID THAT THEY THEN WOULD USE THIS FALSE ACTIVATION TO TRY AND INFLUENCE SPIRITS IN THE SPIRIT WORLD AND COMMAND SPIRITS. I CAN TELL YOU THAT BASICALLY WHAT THEY WERE DOING IS DISGUISING THEMSELVES AS SOMETHING THEY WERE NOT, AND THEN IN A FORCEFUL AND ABUSIVE WAY THEY WERE TRYING TO BULLY NATURE SPIRITS AND THE GUARDIAN SPIRITS INTO DOING HORRIBLE THINGS FOR THEM THAT THEY WOULDN’T NORMALLY BE INVOLVED IN. I’M NOT GOING TO EXPLAIN TO YOU HOW OR WHY THAT WORKS, AND I SUGGEST IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THOSE TOPICS AND SORCERY THAT YOU ACTUALLY BECOME INITIATED AS A WITCH, I WOULD AVOID THE MAINSTREAM SECRET SOCIETIES BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN IMPLEMENTED NOT AS BEING THE MASTERMINDS OF WHAT’S GOING ON, BUT BEING THE TOOLS OF THE MASTERMINDS THAT ARE THE ILLUMINATI AND THE CABAL. IN THE BOOK I WAS REFERRING TO IT ALSO STATES THAT THEY THOUGHT THE NAZIS WERE TAKING JEWISH CHILDREN FROM THE DEATH CAMPS DURING THE HOLOCAUST FOR THESE PURPOSES. DAVID WILCOCK HAS ALSO STATED THAT THE CABAL IS INVOLVED IN PEDOPHILIA AS A WAY TO NUMB THESE CHILDREN VICTIMS, AND THAT THEY ARE VERY HARD EVEN ON THEIR OWN CHILDREN. IT HAS ALSO BEEN STATED THAT THERE ARE DELIBERATE ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY THEIR LOWER CHAKRAS, ONE OF THOSE BEING INCREDIBLY ROUGH ANAL SEX.

POST 1 OF 4, TO BE CONTINUED IN POST 2

UNTIL NEXT TIME MY LOVELIES, KEEP DARING TO DREAM! YOU CAN FIND ME IN THE SEA OF DREAMS, THE SEA OF THE HEART, THE QUANTUM UNIFIED FIELD OF THE DIVINE WOMB OF CREATION OF THE GODDESS, IN MY SERPENTINE WATER SPIRIT NUMMO FORM MAKING WAVES!

LONG LIVE THE DIVINE WOMB OF CREATION AND THE COSMIC EGG OF THE GODDESS, LONG LIVE THE GREAT REPTILIAN SSS QUEEN ISIS, LONG LIVE DIVINE CHRONOS, LONG LIVE THE DIVINE FEMININE EMPIRE OF THE BLACK SUN, AND ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF!

BLESSED BE!

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Did John Wayne Play Fordham University’s Football Coach?

Did John Wayne Play Fordham University’s Football Coach?

      Photos from IMDb.com

Trouble Along The Way (1953) was released through Warner Brothers on April 4th of 1953. This black & white comedy starred Film Legend John Wayne and was directed by the great Michael Curtiz, who is himself best remembered for Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood & White Christmas. 

Was this film about Fordham Football?

A Catholic College in The Bronx

     Submitted for your approval is the fictitious St Anthony’s Catholic College. It is located in, of all places, The Bronx; Fordham University is located in the Fordham Road community. Which is the busiest commercial section of Bronx County. Also, it is the one Roman Catholic institution in the Borough that played big time football during this era. (Sorry Manhattan College- just in case they are wondering.)

The Society of Jesus (S.J.)

     Specifically, it is a Roman Catholic Institute of Higher Learning that is not run by the Archdiocese. But in turn it is managed by “The Order”; Perhaps they mean The Jesuits? No one attempts to explain this any further … So why not.

A Thinly Veiled Version of Cardinal Spellman?

     The story includes a fictitious Cardinal O'Shea, who also happens to be a St Anthony’s alumni. In the film, he uses his influence to schedule games with institutions such as the University of Notre Dame. Francis Cardinal Spellman, then the Archbishop of New York, held a B.A., from Fordham University, from 1911. After being elevated to this position back in 1939, he also became the face of the American Catholic Church throughout this period until his death in 1967.

"Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing." 

     These words are attributed to Coach Steve Williams, the fictional athletics instructor played by Wayne. In the actual context of the movie, they actually appear in print, on a sign, in his office. However, this sounds a lot like something Vince Lombardi (FCRH Class of 1937) might have said, now doesn’t it?

Dates Sync-Up With Closing Out of the Football Program

     Perhaps most importantly, this movie, which was released in 1953, involves a scandal that appears to shut down the football program. It should be noted that Fordham University dropped Big Time Football after the 1954 season. 

The Plot Line

     Recently divorced, Steve Williams has trouble finding a job due to his inability to get along with his prior superiors. If he doesn't find work soon, he'll risk losing custody of his 11 year old daughter Carole (Sherry Jackson). He needs a job to keep the wolf-at-bay as well as a social worker assigned to see if his daughter should not be taken away from him. 

1942 Oscar winner Charles Coburn (right) Photo IMDb.com

     Meanwhile, Father Burke, the school’s rector, played by veteran character actor Charles Coburn, hires Williams/Wayne to improve the school’s failing financial situation. St. Anthony's is heavily in debt. They may have to close their doors. Father Burke reasons that the school could get back on its feet if it had a successful football team. He hoped this would secure the financial support of the school’s alumni too. 

     Coach Wiliams/Wayne’s character violates the preseason training regulations believing the added “practice” time will give him the advantage over Holy Cross, Notre Dame and "Santa Carla" (perhaps a fictitious version of Santa Clara). This was because conference rules prevent these schools from practicing during summer sessions. The New York Archbishop, who is also an alumni, uses his influence to schedule games with the institutions mentioned above. 

Note: The only game that is actually played is against the fictional Santa Carla, where St Anthony’s tactics are discovered. This includes paying players and bringing in athletes much older than the accepted age. Perhaps the film’s producers wanted to avoid complaints from the real California University by creating a thinly veiled phony?  

     Film critic Hal Erickson of All Movie wrote: “Against his better judgment, Father Burke hires the troublesome Steve Williams, who'll stop at nothing to assemble a winning team. Somehow, Williams has to turn into a regular human being and that's where social worker Alice Singleton (Donna Reed) comes in. Described as ‘More sentimental than most Wayne vehicles, Trouble Along the Way is well worth the ride.’”

On The Other Hand: Was this not Fordham Football?

Why Did Fordham Actually Drop Football in 1954?

     The team’s record that final year was 1 win; 7 loses; 1 tie. Average attendance, when home games were played primarily at the Polo Grounds, in Upper Manhattan, were 11,950. This was down from the prior year’s average of 16,000 plus. (Football did not return to campus until students brought the sport back as a “club” team in 1964.) 

     It seems it was not a scandal, but the inability to fund big-time football in the era of television and coast-to-coast jet travel that brought the sport down. According to Fordham Librarian J.P. McCabe, in his monograph 125 Year of Fordham Football: On December 15 (1954) the President of Fordham, Rev. Laurence McGinely, S.J., announced that Fordham could no longer afford to support a football program. 

Would Notre Dame ever play the Fordham Rams?

     Would legendary Notre Dame ever play the Rams in football? An examination of Fordham football seasons from 1928 to 1954, an era which saw them playing back-to-back major bowl games, shows many battles against other leading catholic colleges and universities. Boston College, Holy Cross, Saint Mary’s and Villanova pop-up as regular opponents. In reality, Notre Dame never played against Fordham. 

     In fact, whenever some of the catholic schools talk about rebuilding their Division 1-A program, conversations often turn to possibly booking a game with Notre Dame. Now, the only other Power-5 catholic program-Boston College-has met them 26 times but that rivalry didn’t start until 1975. This was during these latter years when both programs found themselves together in two different major sports conferences-The ACC and before that the now splintered Big East Conference. 

“Much like an old-time Irish Ward boss, Notre Dame knows they already have the Catholic Vote. They want to be a national darling; So don’t count on those big pay days.”

A Bronx Setting? The ‘Shoot’ Never Left Southern California.

     Many of the exterior football scenes were filmed at Pomona College in Claremont, California. In fact, under IMDB.com Goofs section, there appears to be a State of California Flag on a poll in the background in one scene. 

Fordham Has Produced Many Church Leaders

     According to the List of Fordham University alumni, there have been almost twenty Archbishops, Auxiliary Bishops, Bishops and Cardinals. This includes our own Class of 1980 Gordon Bennett, SJ, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of the Mandeville Diocese: https://www.pinterest.fr/bergin0639/famous-fordham-graduates-from-class-of-1980/ 

It is not really a stretch to imagine a loyal alum in a position of church authority willing to use his influence to acquire top name opposition-now is it? Could the Cardinal Spellman reference simply be a coincidence?

Vince Lombardi Quote Dispute

     When this movie comes up, questions arise about the use of a quote that could be attributed to Vince Lombardi (Class of ‘37) and a member of the Seven Blocks of Granite."Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing." These words were from Coach Williams, the fictional football instructor played by Wayne. This sounds like Coach Lombardi … or does it?

     The closest offering I can find under ESPN Classic Vince Lombardi quotes seems to be: “Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all-time thing." Nice, but not exactly the same intense language. Besides, with a release date of April 4th, 1953, and actual filming taking place in the fourth quarter of 1952, this would suggest an A-List Hollywood Picture would be trolling for quotations from the then offensive line coach at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. 

Lombardi would not start on his way to immortality, becoming the head coach for the Green Bay Packers, of the NFL, until their 1959 season.  

Hearing From The Fordham Faculty

“As far as I can tell, film-history-wise, there is no direct connection to a football coach or a football scandal at Fordham.” said Karen Williams, Ph.D in Communication & Media Studies, in an email response. “Nowhere in the film's promotional material is it suggested that the story is based on real events. The writer of the film's original synopsis (based on a listing of his papers at Boston University) was Robert Hardy Andrews, and based on that it suggests that it is an original story, not based on a newspaper article or other pre-existing source.”

The Rose Hill campus Senior Lecturer added: “Andrews's background also suggests that he does not have any meaningful connections to Fordham.”

What Do You Think?

The Fordham similarities are pretty clear whether or not they were intentional, subconscious or coincidental. My first exposure to this movie was as a child, long before I entertained any notions of attending Fordham; I walked into the livingroom and my dad, who was raised in The Bronx, had just started watching it. He said simply, “This is about Fordham.” So I’m in the positive camp I guess.  

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ADDENDUM 

Romance or Assault? Is it still a John Wayne Movie?

Screenshot. Donna Reed who won an Academy Award in 1954 for her work in From Here To Eternity.

Click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NVeSPdMm2s

Fordham University has a Graduate School of Social Work. 

I forwarded this video clip, contacted several department faculty and asked the following 3 questions: 

Were Coach Williams' actions wildly inappropriate? (I know it's the 1950s and he is John Wayne ... but ...?)

What about Ms. Reed's reply?

What would you advise a social worker to do next?

“I'm a fan of re-examining history because we always seem to learn more about ourselves and the world when we do.” Dr. Shirley Gatenio Gabel, the Quaranta Chair for Justice for Children at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service writes: “I'm not sure how you see a social worker being called in here, especially in the 1950s. It appears the character that Donna Reed is playing was being sexually harassed; however, Title VII-the law that prohibits sexual harassment at work-was part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” 

She added: “I don't know what government agency the Donna Reed character may have called in the 1950s and how a social worker may have gotten involved.”

Note: Having re-watched this movie recently-for the 3rd time-I thought the producers didn’t know what to do with any potential romantic development either. Despite publicity stills suggesting they become one-big-happy-family (see below) these questions go largely unanswered by the film’s ending. 

IMDb.com: People: John Wayne, Donna Reed, Sherry Jackson

External Links: https://www.pinterest.fr/bergin0639/is-trouble-along-the-way-actually-fordham/

Did John Wayne Play Fordham's Football Coach?

[benefits1986]

Maroon x Blue Sunday Lovin'

Side Note: This was penned right after the game and debrief with second dad. So yes, late post, yet again. Was talking to my second dad after getting home as he can still outrun millennials on a full court basketball game. LOL. He even joked that during their time, height is not an advantage. Also, those hey days were spent in no less than Katipunan. He pushed the envelope further saying that he used to watch games live but traffic is just so bad; and he's glad that he didn't get a cardiac arrest live via satellite, too. There goes today's game debriefing. Later, I slid a note about how maroon mixes so well with blue. Ang ganda. Parang kumikinang siya sa mata ko.

Meanwhile, a friend who is a legit UAAP fan slid a DM asking since when I became a fan. This is a really funny story, sobrang babaw to be precise. Back in college I sighed over the thought of going to a game to represent your school in UAAP basketball. It's like a euphoric pill I can not swallow because I am but an outsider. One of the reasons why I commute from Las Pinas to Diliman is because I wanted to watch a game live and to cheer for my school. HAHAHAHAHHA. Never mind that I'm but a graduate school student with 36 units down and a thesis that's left to rot. Never mind that I still feel like an outsider. There's something about this little dream turned reality that makes me really giddy.

Going back to second dad... I found an opening to say that blue looks more and more tempting. Of course, he whacked back saying that I already have blue in my blood, only from Leon Guinto. UGH. And that, my LS dream will just turn my heart black. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. He reminded me that he gave it a try himself and that I just need to focus on my digital game. LOL. Eto na naman po kami ng second dad ko. Nagde-debate na naman na akala mo totoong anak niya ako. JUSQ. I knew what he means naman. But, I didn't back down saying that since I'm dabbling with AI, I'm wondering if using it in LS will make things better and faster.

One of the things I shared to him was that I'd most likely fail the exam. He said: Panigurado papasa ka. I was taken aback since I feel like I'm so clunky and can be labelled as sakto lang in all things I do. Ang bitbit ko lang is my intention, thus being intentional. (Redundancy is the key to me. CHZ.)

So, what's my take on today's game?

Hindi ako pikon. Start pa lang, I said sana matawid ng UP pero I have a hunch this would either be a close and tough fight OR we'll go home without the bacon.

Also, ang ganda ng galaw ng Katips. Pero, and weird lang din ng mga tawag. Unli freethrow Sunday po tayo, ladies and chemenemen. In fairness, may certain certainty bawat bitaw ng Blue Eagles. 'Yung tipong humihinga muna, sisipat, saka babato. Dagdagan mo pa ng dasal na may Jesuit vibe 'yan. I even saw a few female lolas na nag-antanda bago mag-game. HAHAHAHA. Heswita pong tunay. Tabi na agad Maroons. LOL.

UP naman today parang more of instincts and tactics. LOLOLLOLLOLLOLL. Sorry but true. This is only the second live game I watched. The first is the UP-Ateneo final game a few years back. I don't follow UAAP in general unlike my college days. Wala lang. Gusto ko lang talaga salpukan ng maroon and blue. Ganda. Visual appeal: 1000000. The stark contrast is such a vibe. The cool blues and the heated maroons.

Lemme add that the school hymns and cheers actually show that legit stark contrast. 'Yung Maroons, very high horse na emotionally packed. Medyo bordering na ng you can't sit with us. Ganun din naman Blue Eagles kaso mas subtle and mas brainy and poetic. LOL. Gets ba? Same alley but different store fronts and merchs. EMS. Me to myself: UP pa U-U-U pa kayo, U-WI tuloy tayo neto. Hahahaha. Also me: Buti na lang nanalo Katips para choosing the school won't need a spoonful of sugar that night. Also me ulit: Win or lose, it's maroon I CHZ. Tabi.

I won't go down the commentary route because that's not my cup of tea. My voice is raspy because it's just so nice to let loose after so much work and personal stuff that's happening. I just need a distraction. Watching games live is an experience on its own. Parang may pasavogue and of course, seeing the asses of players who perform is cute; walang pagnanasa. Saka, true pa rin, napapansin ko lang players kapag may silbi sila sa game like my super crush LA Tenorio. Mula noon, hanggang ngayon. Masipag. Maangas. Grounded. Magaling mag-English and Tagalog. Simple pero bumabaon. Ganern. 'Di ko sure if perky ba ass niya kasi ilong niya nakikita kong nauuna e. LOL.

BTW, I saw the shushing up close. In fairness to the Atenistas, unbothered. ALAVEETTTT. 'Yan ang isang strength nila. Tahimik lang pero 'pag may magandang play, they babble. CHZ. And it's so fun to be near the side of Ateneo, too. Nag-sorry pa 'yung girl sa unahan ko nung natalo. I replied naman that deserving sa win and that it's just a game. She smiled back. Hihihihihihihi.

I wanna see UP and Ateneo in the finals!!!

[mariacallous]

In late January, standing before a crowd of more than a hundred evangelical Christians and pastors, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro affirmed his faith in Christ. “I believe in Christ the Redeemer, the Christ of the peoples that faced the Pharisees, the brave Christ that sought justice and equality,” he said to great applause. Maduro then publicly ordered his staff to prioritize evangelical churches’ access to radio stations and announced that his government would start a welfare program to renovate churches and give bonuses to pastors.

It’s not the first time Maduro has tried to court Venezuela’s evangelical Christians. But his efforts—which critics say violate the country’s separation of church and state—are ramping up ahead of the 2024 presidential election, when the mainstream opposition will participate for the first time since 2013. The election is crucial to Maduro, who has struggled to gain international legitimacy since the disputed 2018 election. For Maduro, evangelical support could be key to shoring up his base—and finally regaining international recognition.

This might seem like a strange political tactic in a country where more than 70 percent of the population identifies as Roman Catholic, according to a 2020 poll. But the minority religion has grown in the country in recent decades, and the same poll reported that 13 percent of Venezuelans considered themselves evangelical Christians.

Evangelical Christians have become more influential in politics throughout Latin America. But in most of the region, they have largely supported conservative governments and coalitions, which have seen less success in recent years amid the region’s left turn. For instance, evangelical churches were among the most important allies of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, while an evangelical Christian music singer almost won Costa Rica’s 2018 presidential elections with a campaign opposing gay marriage.

In Venezuela, however, evangelical Christians have largely aligned themselves with Chavismo, the far-left movement of Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez. This unusual convergence could be a product of the country’s authoritarian system. In neighboring Colombia, evangelical parties mobilized the population against a 2016 proposal to sign a peace treaty with Marxist guerrilla groups. But in Venezuela, people don’t want to “be arrested or harassed,” said David Smilde, a sociologist and senior fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America. “You won’t see evangelicals mobilizing against a government like that.” In Smilde’s view, churches have simply sought to gain as much as they can under the current system.

Maduro’s approach, Smilde said, could also be a tactic to fight the influence of the Catholic Church, which has been openly critical of Chavismo since the early 2000s. While the Catholic Church isn’t one of the main political actors in Venezuela, it has influenced public opinion and has been critical of authoritarian governments since the 1950s; Jesuit institutions have also long influenced the country’s progressive and democratic movements.

In fact, Maduro announced the new church welfare programs to evangelical leaders a few days after Catholic authorities criticized him for reassuring the country that an economic recovery was taking place while a series of teacher-led protests against low salaries and working conditions raged on across the country.

“The government is seeking alliances that mobilize people and win support,” said Alfredo Infante, the Jesuits’ representative in Venezuela. “We could be in front of a new political phenomenon—for me, not positive at all—in which religious sectors are allied with political sectors.”

It’s not the first time that evangelical Christians have loosely allied with Chavistas. Their relationship started to develop as Chávez rose to power in 1999. “Chavismo was a moral rejection of technocracy,” said Smilde, an expert in the history of evangelical Christianity in Venezuela. “[Chávez] reached out to progressive Catholics, evangelicals, feminists, ecological movements”—basically “anybody who was critical” of the neoliberal Venezuelan governments of the 1990s.

When he came to power, Chávez gave evangelicals access to some of the privileges the Catholic Church had—for example, by letting them influence religious education in public schools—as part of his efforts to loosen Catholicism’s grip on the country, Smilde said. His government’s relations with the Catholic Church hit their nadir in 2003, when Chávez’s supporters threw rocks and set off fireworks at the funeral of an anti-Chavista cardinal and later decapitated a statue of the Virgin Mary in a square associated with the opposition.

Chávez’s close ties with some evangelical churches reached their peak in 2004, when 2,000 evangelical churches organized the “A Million Prayers for Peace” rally to pray and support Chávez in a recall referendum. Then the relationship came to a “screeching halt” in October 2005, when Chávez expelled New Tribes Mission (NTM) from Venezuela, Smilde said. NTM was a U.S. evangelical organization preaching among the Indigenous tribes of the Venezuelan Amazon, but Chávez accused its missionaries of being imperialist agents and CIA collaborators a few months after U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson publicly called for Chávez’s assassination.

It wasn’t until the late 2010s that evangelical pastors and churches made a political comeback. Maduro started to see the value of evangelical support when Chavismo’s popularity collapsed amid Venezuela’s severe economic and humanitarian crises. Since at least 2019, when he proclaimed a National Pastor Day, Maduro has organized events with thousands of pastors associated with the Christian Evangelical Movement for Venezuela (MOCEV), a group that claims 17,000 evangelical churches under its leadership. MOCEV is led by Moisés García, a pastor who is also a lawmaker from Maduro’s party.

“Many [evangelicals] have their own aspirations and see an opportunity,” Smilde said, and want to “stitch” themselves into the government’s clientelist networks. According to state media, 2,500 churches have received government aid and 13,915 pastors have been registered to receive aid since 2022. (The denomination was not specified, but evangelical churches are more likely to receive aid, since Catholic churches tend to have other sources of funding.) The share of money earmarked for “religious development” in Venezuela’s 2023 national budget approved by the Chavista-controlled National Assembly is equal to the funding for science and culture combined.

Maduro, who remains deeply unpopular, may need evangelicals’ support. If he manages to negotiate the conditions for free and fair elections in 2024 in exchange for sanctions relief, and thus make the elections legitimate in the eyes of the international community, the playing field could get competitive. While evangelicals’ vote may not be decisive, Smilde said, their churches and associations could mobilize members and bring considerable support to Maduro’s coalition ahead of a close election.

Yet while some evangelical Christian groups back Maduro, they are not united in their support. Some evangelical organizations—especially the oldest, most established ones, such as the Evangelical Council of Venezuela—have been mildly critical of his regime. Moreover, some evangelicals have tried to chart their own path separate from Maduro and the mainstream opposition, though they’re not revolutionary—they still follow the Chavista system’s rules.

In 2018, evangelical pastor Javier Bertucci, the leader of the Christian democratic party Hope for Change, ran for a president in an election boycotted by the mainstream opposition and not recognized by Western and Latin American democracies. Bertucci won more than a million votes—more than 10 percent of the vote.

Hope for Change, which considers itself an opposition party, has evangelical Christians in its ranks but is not part of MOCEV. Recently, it has engaged in its own talks with the government, which have been separate from the mainstream opposition’s negotiation process. Alfonso Campos, an evangelical congressman from Hope for Change, said his party believes “that the only way to achieve change is through the democratic way—the institutional way.” But these side negotiations end up helping the Maduro regime put on a democratic facade and weakening the mainstream opposition by dividing it. Members of the party “don’t question the government’s institutionalism, even if it’s unfair or illegal,” said Hector Briceño, a sociologist and researcher at the Central University of Venezuela.

Hope for Change’s strategy of participating within the Chavista system hasn’t turned it into a major party in Venezuela, but it has helped it win local elections. While its three gubernatorial candidates in the 2021 regional elections lost (the most successful won more than 22 percent of the vote), 79 municipal councilors and 17 state legislators running on the party ticket were elected. Still, it only won fewer than 105,000 votes—less than 2 percent of the state vote—mostly in rural areas and the state of Carabobo, which is home to Bertucci’s Maranatha Church.

While evangelical politicians’ electoral results are still meager, evangelicals close to Chavismo have had more success influencing Chavismo on social issues—particularly abortion and gay marriage, both of which remain illegal in Venezuela. Evangelical lawmakers in the National Assembly have established an evangelical pastors’ subcommittee, which openly opposes laws that seek to legalize abortion and gay marriage. “Evangelicals have completely paralyzed the [LGBT and women’s] rights agenda because they now represent an important mobilization force for Maduro,” said Rafael Uzcátegui, the general coordinator of PROVEA, Venezuela’s oldest human rights organization. When the mayor of the town of El Tigre tried to create a legal union for gay couples last year, evangelical pastors marched in protest and then said they would file a complaint against the mayor.

Although Campos, the evangelical lawmaker, hopes evangelical forces will unite and “rescue human society,” it’s unlikely for now that evangelical Christianity will rise as a political force of its own. But it can continue to grow its influence within Venezuela’s dominant party—and if Maduro does stay in power, evangelicals’ ability to stifle progressive social movements shouldn’t be underestimated.

[agape-philo-sophia]

⏰ The great reset has happened many times thru out history. New world order is nothing new. It’s ancient. And it will continue to happen until people wake up and stop buying into their control system.

The royals and nobles run all the religious organizations, secret societies and covert organizations like the Jesuits, Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Scientologists, Skull and Bones, Kabbalists, Wiccans, Five Percenters, Knights of Columbus, Knights of Malta, Shriners etc. They own the organized crime syndicates including all mafias, drug cartels, street gangs, and biker gangs. They oversee the global organizations like the United Nations, NATO, World Bank, IMF, World Economic Forum, World Health Organization, CERN, Maritime Law, INTERPOL, Conference on Disarmament, Red Cross, Geneva Conventions, etc. These criminals have infiltrated every government agency in the world through pedophilia, child sacrifices, criminal financing, bribery, secret organizations, and mafia tactics. They have designed all governments as corporate entities and chartered subsidiaries of their corporate houses and monarchies. They are mass human traffickers, mass murderers, and war criminals who commit crimes against humanity at all times.❗

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[romanceyourdemons]

i really do love this concept. the protagonist is like i’m sick of dealing with wei zhongxian’s shit, i’m gonna go someplace where people are holy and don’t even know how to act like this (the impression of europe he got from the jesuit missionary he had a tactical lunch with once), and so he travels 5000 miles and as soon as he stops to catch his breath he runs into cardinal fucking richelieu, the european wei zhongxian

in the tradition of outcast (2014), dragon blade (2015), and the great wall (2016), we need a movie set in the 1630s where a disillusioned member of the embroidered uniform guard and a profit-driven jianghu mercenary flee the corrupt and crumbling ming dynasty and somehow end up in the equally corrupt city of cologne, where they become key players in the fight against the sinister forces of cardinal richelieu and eventually secure the peace of westphalia and the end of the thirty years’ war. this is a million dollar idea i’m telling you

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Anonymous asked: I love your long posts which make for great reading and I wish you could do more because you’ve got such a range of astonishing interests. I’m hoping because you’ve served in the military you would have studied military thinkers. Do you think the Art of War by Sun Tzu is way overrated by everyone? I studied him a bit for my masters but I still couldn’t get my head around him. Interested to know your thoughts. Thanks!

“To lift an autumn hair is no sign of great strength; to see the sun and moon is no sign of sharp sight; to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear." - Sun Tzu's Art of War, Chapter IV - Tactical Disposition, Clause 10.

Sounds cool, doesn’t it?

But what the hell does this quote really mean? Do you know what it means? Can anyone else tell me?

Look, I enjoy a good Sun Tzu quote as the next person. Only recently I was exchanging thoughts with a fellow blogger whose studying Thucydides, Clausewitz, and Kissinger for an advanced course at the US Naval War College. Even he prefers Sun Tzu over Clausewitz. I can see why too. If you can make sense of chapter one of Clausewitz’s tome On War you deserve a Nobel Prize.

Unlike my very learned fellow blogger, there are lot of folk who don’t know Sun Tzu at all. They can quote him, but almost certainly out of context. As someone who partly grew up in the Far East and even learned Chinese and Japanese (a pitiful but functional degree of fluency) I’m embarrassed (not hard since I’m English) when I hear other Western compatriots romanticise and elevate Eastern icons to mythic status that the Chinese themselves have never done.

I am even more bemused than embarrassed after having hung up my military uniform for ‘civvy’ corporate clothing at how badly abused Sun Tzu’s book is in the corporate world. In my workplace I grit my teeth at corporate high flyers who mistake a balance sheet for a real battlefield by quoting Sun Tzu out of their arse, and then as self-styled ‘corporate warriors’ work themselves up in a lather of testosterone induced self-importance to crush their corporate enemies into the dust.

This is why the The Art of War by Sun Tzu has invited a jaundiced eye roll. And rightly so. I can see why many view Sun Tzu as over-rated because many easily impressed people go all woo woo over anything ancient and Eastern.

It’s become a familiar trope to say the art of ‘strategy’ as a science began 2,500 years ago with the writing of The Art of War. I would dispute this. Not that the writing of Art of War was the earliest written but whether I would call it a manual of strategy per se - more on this below in my answer.  However you rate or overrate the Art of War it’s important to have perspective and remember this book is written in 512 BC. Other than the bible and some religious books, there are not many books that can survived thousands of years and still remains a steady bestseller and enjoys a wide influence in military academies and army staff colleges today and even as far into board rooms.

The question behind your question is just as interesting to me: why did Sun Tzu and his Art of War gain such traction in the West?

Sun Tzu (544-496 BC) wrote the original text of The Art of War shortly before 510 BC. During most of the past two thousand years, the common people in China were forbidden to read Sun Tzu's text. However, the text was preserved by China's nobility for over 2,500 years. The Chinese nobility preserved the text of The Art of War, known in Chinese as Bing-fa, even despite the famous book-burning by the first Emperor of Chi around 200 BC. The text was treasured and passed down by the Empire’s various rulers. Unfortunately, it was preserved in a variety of forms. A "complete" Chinese language version of the text wasn't available until the 1970s. Before that, there were a number of conflicting, fragmentary versions in different parts of China, passed down through 125 generations of duplication.

Indeed at the beginning of the twentieth century, there were two main textual traditions in circulation, known as the (Complete Specialist Focus) and (Military Bible) versions. There were also perhaps a dozen minor versions and both derived and unrelated works also entitled Bing-fa. Of course, every group considered (and still considers) its version the only accurate one.

When I last visited China before the Covid pandemic for work reason, I had time off to go to a couple of museums that housed the fruits of a number of archeological digs uncovering the tombs of the ancient rulers of China in which sections of Sun Tzu’s works were found. These finds have verified the historical existence of the text and the historical accuracy of various sections. I understand new finds are still being made.

The first complete, consistent Chinese version was created in Taipei in the 1970s. It was titled The Complete Version of Sun Tzu’s Art of War." It was created by the National Defence Research Investigation Office, which was a branch of Taiwan's defence department. This version compared the main textual traditions to each other and to archeological finds and compiled the most complete version possible.

This work was completed in Taiwan rather than mainland China for a number of reasons. Mainland China was still in the throws of the Maoist Cultural Revolution, which actively suppressed the study of traditional works such as Sun Tzu. The mainland had also moved to a reformed character set, while Taiwan still used the traditional character set in which the text was written. Only today is the study of Sun Tzu in mainland China growing, interestingly enough, through the translation of Sun Tzu into contemporary Mandarin. Based on the archeological sources we have today, we are reasonably certain of the historical accuracy of this compiled version that is the basis of what most people use today.

Surprisingly, the Art of War only came to light in the West around the 18th Century.  

Historians believe it was first formally introduced in Europe in 1772 by the French Jesuit Joseph-Marie Amiot. It was translated at the time by the title “The thirteen articles of Sun-Tse”. Joseph-Marie Amiot (1718-1793) was not just a Jesuit priest but also an astronomer and French historian, as well as fervent missionary in China. He was one of the last survivors of the Jesuit Mission in China (he died in Beijing).

Many of the historical problems with understanding Sun Tzu's work can be trace back to its first Western translation in French. A Jesuit missionary, Father Amiot, first brought The Art of War to the West, translating it into French in 1782. Unfortunately, this translation started the tradition of mistranslating Sun Tzu's work, starting with the title, The Art of War (Art de la guerre).

This title, copied the title of a popular work by Machiavelli (a criminally underrated writer on military strategy), but it didn't reflect Sun Tzu's Bing-fa, which would be better translated as "competitive methods."

We cannot say what effect being translated by a Jesuit priest had upon the text. It was unavoidable that the work's translation reflected the military prejudices of the time era when war was both popular and Christian. It was also unavoidable that most future translations would reflect some of the first translation's prejudices. However, war was on the verge of becoming much less Christian in the West since this time was the era of the French Revolution (1789).

The work might well of slipped into obscurity after its initial publication, but it was discovered by a minor French military officer. After studying it, this officer rose to the head of the revolutionary French army in a surprising series of victories. The legend is that Napoleon used the work as the key to his victories in conquering all of Europe. It is said that he carried the little work with him everywhere but kept its contents secret (which would be very much in keeping with Sun Tzu's theories).

However, Napoleon must have started believing his own reviews instead of sticking with his study of Sun Tzu. His defeat at Waterloo was clearly a case of fighting on a battleground that the enemy, Wellington, knew best. Wellington’s trick at Waterloo was hiding his forces by having them lie down in the slight hollows of this hilly land. This is exactly the type of tactic Sun Tzu warns against in his discussion of terrain tactics.

After Napolean, Sun Tzu's theories made their way into western military philosophy. Many of his ideas are reflected in the ideas of work of Carl von Clausewitz. who defined military strategy as "the employment of battles to gain the end of war."

The first English translation of The Art of War is less than a hundred years old. Captain E. F. Calthrop published the first English translation in 1905. Lionel Giles, an assistant curator at the British Museum and a well-known sinologist and translator, attacked this early translation, and he published his own version in 1910. It soon began to be read alongside Clausewitz’s 8 volumes of turgid German military prose.

It wasn’t long before military thinkers were ditching Clausewitz for Sun Tzu because no one could get past Chapter One of Clausewitz’s On War. The “Clausewitz is dead, long live Sun Tzu” school was first championed by the influential British military theorist B.H. Liddell Hart in the 1920s.  Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895-1970) was a captain in the British Army. He was a very influential military theorist and historian, and author of several books such as The Future of War (1925) and Strategy (1954). Having witnessed first-hand the mechanised onslaught of the Great War, Liddell Hart sought a philosophy of warfare based in the prudent use of technology, psychology and deception - and the avoidance of the 'total war' catastrophes of preceding decades.

The main idea of Liddell Hart is to bring the set of principles of warfare in a so-called ‘indirect approach’ to the enemy. His advocacy in his scholarly work of an ‘indirect strategy’ over direct, frontal operations, was a reaction to the high casualties of the Western Front in the First World War. But his ideas were not simply about physically outmanoeuvring an opponent. Instead he pushed for a psychological scheme: to strike from unexpected directions, to generate strategic dissonance, and to induce paralysis. Hart’s well-known thoughts are “Only short-sighted soldiers underestimate the importance of psychological factors in time of war”, “Originality is the most important from all military virtues”, and “The principles of war could shortly be condensed in a single word: concentration”. 

Liddell Hart believed that distilling historical insights of strategy and operations would offer the chance to avoid the costly disasters of modern war and ensure a more cost-effective route to success. He imagined technological solutions in the form of air power and mechanised land forces outflanking and shocking an enemy at the tactical level. This would be complemented by taking indirect strategic ‘ways’. Like his contemporary J.F.C. Fuller, Liddell Hart considered concentrations of air and armoured forces driving deep into enemy territory to destroy their ‘nervous system’. The psychological aspects of this were central, since acquiring an advantage demanded moves that were unexpected, with precise attacks at the most vulnerable points. As the most influential military writer of the modern age, revered and reviled by three generations of strategists, armchair and armipotent, his controversial theories of armed attack laid the foundation of the famed German Blitzkrieg.

Hart’s championing of Sun Tzu’s work as articulated through his own works got a new lease of life as the world gingerly settled into the ice bath of the Cold War. The rise of Communist China, against all the odds having defeated the well disciplined nationalist armies of Chian kai-Shek, was a wake up call for the West. There was a general befuddlement among western military analysts to explain the secret of Maoist success. There was an intellectual inquest in the 1950s and 1960s for some way to explain (and, it was hoped, learn to counter) Maoist military doctrine. Sun Tzu was seen as one of the historical and cultural sources of some particularly Chinese or Asian way of war, and his work made its way into Western discussions of counterinsurgency and asymmetric warfare.

Into the breach - and with fortuitous timing - appeared a new translation of The Art of War that was to become the defining translation right down to our day. Liddel Hart provided the foreword to Samuel Griffth’s 1963 translated copy of the Art of War. It was to quickly become a key text in US war colleges and this version is still to this day favoured by most of these institutions. We also studied Griffith’s translation at Sandhurst alongside Liddell Hart’s ideas.

There is no question that Griffith’s translation has become the standard go to translation to this day in military circles - that is until James Clavell’s more populist and looser translation came along in the 1980s. One can see why. Griffith’s translation provided a number of historical Chinese commentaries on the text. It should also be noted that Griffith’s strengths was his immense experience in the military and knowledge of military history as a brigadier general in the U.S. Marine Corps.

However, this was also his version's greatest flaw. Like many other critics I have the impression that Griffith did not really believe or understand all of Sun Tzu. Indeed he would often explain away Sun Tzu's direct statements without making it clear that this was his commentary and not what Sun Tzu wrote. The other main criticism and this one is stylistic and therefore just my opinion, Griffith was also not much of a writer. By our standards today, much of Griffith’s language can seem awkward and dated.

Looking back it feels ironic of the US military were wrapping their heads around Sun Tzu as way to get inside the Chinese communist mind (of Mao the military strategist especially). Unknown to them Mao had desperately tried everything to get hold of a copy of the Art of War from the Chinese Nationalists. Cambridge historian and doyenne of intelligence history, Christopher Andrew in his book The Secret World: A History of Intelligence, wrote that the theory that Sun Tzu’s The Art of War was critical to mastering contemporary warfare is propagated through the use of a tantalising anecdote: “During the civil war between Communists and the Kuomintang regime [Mao Zedong] sent aides into enemy territory to find a copy of it.” The ancient text, ostensibly, was of such vital importance that Mao was willing to risk men’s lives to obtain it, while Chiang Kai-shek vowed to protect it all costs. It’s a questionable anecdote at best as there are no historical evidence of it.

We can say that the notion that Sun Tzu’s slim treatise is considered both potent and slightly dangerous - providing the master key to unlocking victory in war through the ages - is a compelling myth that refuses to die. Mao most likely never ordered a clandestine operation to pilfer the text, nor did Chiang Kai-shek give any thought to shielding its contents from prying eyes. Both men certainly read it long before the start of their civil war, both most likely had ready access to it during the conflict, and neither man won or lost based on adherence or divergence from its teachings. But undoubtedly it set the hearts of Western military theorists aflutter in trying to unlock the secrets of Eastern military thought.

Sun Tzu and his ideas in a reincarnated form took hold of the wider public imagination in the 1980s. The 1980s was synonymous with Japan. With the perceived rise of Japan as a global economic power and the changes in post-Mao China, there was a Western (meaning American) search for more explanations. What was the secret of Asia’s rise? How were Japan and China ‘doing’ this?

In Western business circles it was for a time trendy to read it because of the perception that it was part of what made Japanese businesses so successful during the 70s and 80s. Management gurus and other corporate consultants certainly latched on to it and touted it as a way for Western businesses to re-orient their entire management and business philosophy. I don’t know if that ever actually was the case in Japan - my father who worked in both China and Japan in the corporate world at a very senior level said it wasn’t - but what is true is that in the West as the Japanese economy languished into the lost decade of the 90s so too did interest in Japanese business practices, and thus Sun Tzu.

The idea that The Art of War was a kind of how-to guide to ‘strategy’  was made especially popular by Hollywood in the 1980s. Oliver Stone’s iconic film ‘Wall Street’ seemed to typify the ‘greed is good’ New York capitalist scene of the 80s and 90s. Hollywood mirror imaged the rise of the corporate raiders and junk bond kings like Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken. Hollywood sent thousands of American businessmen off to read Sun Tzu to look for ‘leadership secrets’. This is part of a general Western fascination with ‘timeless Asian wisdom’, the American idea that ‘the mysterious East’ is possessed of secret knowledge. American and European businessmen were enamoured of the idea that “a battle is won or lost before it ever begins”, a saying that reinforced traditional American business attitudes about a winning mentality and a ‘can-do’ spirit being two keys to success.

Because Japan and China were trendy in the 1980s and 1990s it also influenced Western popular culture, not just fashion (think Kenzo) but also comic books (manga) and anime. In this Eastern friendly climate it led a number of popular fiction authors to release their ‘own’ versions of the work to capitalise on its newfound popularity. These versions were more about the pop culture of the era than Sun Tzu. Unfortunately, though popular, none of these versions took advantage of the work completed in Taiwan creating a definitive version of Sun Tzu's text by this time. These versions were based either on old English translations (the Calthorp and Giles versions) or incomplete Chinese sources. However, all of these versions remain popular today, despite their questionable sources and poor quality of translation.

In 1983, James Clavell updated The Art of War translation of Lionel Giles and published it in a very popular version. This started a very common practice in English translation: creating a ‘new’ version from other English translations instead of going back to the original source. Authors today continue to follow this practice, which only perpetuates and exaggerates the problems with early translations.

Thomas Cleary, another well-known author, did his own The Art of War translation with historical commentary in 1988. Again, his name recognition did much to increase awareness of Sun Tzu, even if his work did nothing to improve the general quality of the translation.

Looking back the whole Sun Tzu as a business model fetish in the 1980-90s was really pretty silly, rather like 80s shoulder pads. Of course, there are some similarities in leadership regardless of profession, but the basic goals and working environments of war and of business are so wildly different that applying Sun Tzu to business is superficial at best.

So to me the problem is not that Sun Tzu is ‘overrated’ per se, the problem is that every half baked author out there try to apply its principles to every problems that mankind have. The Art of War, as the title suggest, is not The Art of Managing your Business, the Art of Winning in Competition against your classmates, The Art of picking up Women, The Art of Living Life to the fullest. It is, and only is, The Art of War. It is ‘overrated’ only if you expect it to answer every problems in your life.

The Art of War is not the word of God. It is a war manual advocating common sense with pithy aphorisms - and a very good one.

It’s not that I think the Art of War is over-rated it’s that the more common problem is that many people vastly under-rate Sun Tzu. By misreading Sun Tzu thoughts and ideas, I believe many are in effect under-rating the problems which Sun Tzu is addressing, namely war, or the continuum of conflict resolution where divergence in interests of multiple parties extends to the possible use of lethal force on a massive scale. A lot of people trivialise this problem with idiocies like “what if someone threw a war and nobody came” (clue, they would win, then hunt down and enslave or kill everyone too foolish to contest the issue, as has happened countless times in human history) or “ban war” (said ban apparently enforced by throwing flowers at soldiers).

Understanding that war is a very real and intractable problem is necessary to fully appreciate the genius of Sun Tzu’s work, especially where it avoids fixed and easily definable tactics specific to the Warring States period and instead illustrates timeless concepts of out-thinking the enemy at every level of conflict. That the text is still mostly readily applicable or at least reasonably insightful after thousands of years is a testament to the inability of humans to push warfare beyond the fundamental aspects of conflicting interests and continuum of forcible resolution Sun Tzu addresses.

Still, the particular translation matters far less than having an appreciation that, in war, you have an active opponent who is trying to out-think and counter any moves you make, and having an appreciation of non-dualistic philosophical reasoning more characteristic of Chinese classics generally. The classic symbol of Yin-Yang (and a number of derivative versions) illustrates apparent dualism as being a part of a deeper structural unity which does not permit a fixed division into separate parts.

Hence the difficulty of applying the principles of the Art of War to artificial ideas of “winning/losing” (or war/peace, right/wrong, us/them) as categorical absolutes rather than negotiated possibilities in a continuum of desirability/costs. And it is very difficult, no one should sugar coat that. Humans sort and construct their perceptions of reality by appeal to such gross simplifications. Binary logic is an immensely powerful tool in many areas because it leverages the ability to simplify complexity and then build valid inferences based on fixed premises. But at some point you have to go beyond that to have a more fluid response to reality as it is. Which Sun Tzu does for the reality of war.

I would recommend anyone to read it. At the end of the day it’s a book of highly general aphorisms that effectively synopsise the essential insights that apply to all kinds of human conflicts. Turning an enemy's flank has the exact same effect in 2500 B.C. and in 2000 C.E. and it has the same effect in the boardroom, or public market as it does on the battlefield. Deception and intelligence are still used in exactly the same way, whether conquering foreign lands, or stealing market share from a competitor. It's a book about common sense; but common sense must seem profound to those who have none.

Overall, I think Sun Tzu’s Art of War is a worthy read and not overrated because in our society of over educated achievers, common sense is in as short of supply as it has ever been; if this book can provide the meaningful framework for educating very bright people in down to earth common sense, that can only be a good thing.

The value of the book then is to drive home the fact that, in human conflict, there really is Nothing New Under the Sun (Tzu).

Pardon the pun and thanks for your question.