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Over the weekend, the always-excellent John Burn-Murdoch, over at The Financial Times, posted an alarming bit of demographic analysis that has now gone very viral. It’s from a column Burn-Murdoch wrote titled, “A New Global Gender Divide Is Emerging,” which shows a tremendous political gap forming between young men and women around the world.

Burn-Murdoch followed up the column with a lengthy thread on X hypothesizing as to what may be causing this gap and thousands of other users have offered up their own diagnoses, as well: Smartphones, video games, economic inequality, lack of education, an over-correction post-#MeToo.

Interestingly enough, though, the bulk of Burn-Murdoch’s reporting focuses on South Korea, the US, Germany, the UK, Spain, Poland, China, and Tunisia. Which, aside from China and Tunisia, were all countries I worked in, covering elections and far-right radicalization, in and around the time period those countries’ respective political gender gaps began widening. I’m not saying I have a tremendously in-depth understanding of, say, Polish toxic masculinity, but I did spend several days there following around white nationalist rappers and Catholic fundamentalist football fans. And, in South Korea, I worked on a project about radical feminists and their activism against the country’s equivalent of 4chan, Ilbe Storehouse.

In fact, between 2015-2019, I visited over 20 countries, essentially asking the same question: Where do bad men here hangout online? Which has given me a near-encyclopedic directory in my head, unfortunately, of international 4chan knock-offs. In Spain, it’s a car forum that doxxes rape victims called ForoCoches. In France, it’s a gaming forum that organized rallies for Marine Le Pen called Jeux Video. In Japan, it’s 2channel. In Brazil, it’s Dogolachan. And most, if not all, of these spaces pre-date any sort of modern social movement like #MeToo — or even the invention of the smartphone.

But the mainstream acceptance of the culture from these sites is new. Though I don’t actually think the mystery of “why now?” is that much of a mystery. While working in Europe, I came to understand that these sites and their culture war campaigns like Gamergate were a sort of emerging form of digital hooliganism. Nothing they were doing was new, but their understanding how to network online was novel. And in places like the UK, it actually became more and more common in the late-2010s to see Pepe the Frog cosplayers marching alongside far-right football clubs. In the US, we don’t have the same sports culture, but the end result has been the same. The nerds and the jocks eventually aligned in the streets. The anime nazis were simply early adopters and the tough guys with guns and zip ties just needed time to adapt to new technology. And, unlike the pre-internet age, unmoderated large social platforms give them an infinitely-scalable recruitment radius. They don’t have to hide in backrooms anymore.

Much of the digital playbook fueling this recruitment for our new(ish) international masculinist movement was created by ISIS, the true early adopters for this sort of thing. Though it took about a decade for the West to really embrace it. But nowadays, it is not uncommon to see trad accounts sharing memes about “motherhood,” that are pretty much identical to the Disney Princess photoshops ISIS brides would post on Tumblr to advertise their new life in Syria. And, even more darkly, just this week, a Trump supporter in Pennsylvania beheaded his father and uploaded it to YouTube, in a video where he ranted about the woke left and President Biden. Online extremism is a flat circle.

The biggest similarity, though, is in what I can cultural encoding. For ISIS, this was about constantly labeling everything that threatened their influence as a symptom of the decadent, secular West.

(X.com/jeremykauffman)

Taylor Swift, an extremely affluent blonde, blue-eyed white woman who writes country-inflected pop music and is dating a football player headed for the Super Bowl. She should be a resounding victory for these guys. Doesn’t get more American than that. But due to an actually very funny glitch in how they see the world, she’s actually a huge threat.

Pop culture, according to the right wing, should be frivolous. Because before the internet, it was something sold to girls by corporations run by powerful men. Famous pop stars through the ages, like Frank Sinatra, America’s first Justin Bieber, or The Beatles, the One Direction of their time, would be canonized as Great by Serious Men after history had forgotten they rocketed to success as their generation’s Tumblr Sexymen. But from the 2000s onward, thanks to an increasingly powerful digital public square, young women and people of color were able to have more influence in mainstream culture and also accumulate more financial power from it. And after Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was able to connect this new form of pop influence to both liberal progressive politics and, also, social media, well, conservatives realized they had to catch up and fast. And the fastest way to do that is to try and smash the whole thing by dismissing it as feminine.

Pop music? It’s for girls. Social media? It’s for girls. Democrats? Girls. Taylor Swift? Girls and also a government psyop. But this line of thinking has no limit. It poisons everything. If Swift manages to make it to the Super Bowl, well, that has to become feminine too. And at a certain point, the whole thing falls apart because, honestly, you just sound like an insane loser.

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Je ne suis pas Charlot #Daesh attentats! Où en est la #criseclimat environ écolog? Fake or Truth ce #COVID19 ? Législatives en France ou débat zéro ! #legislatives2022 Ukraine ou Poutine? #UkraineWar

my news tweet in may 'calendar'

L'Europe peut-elle continuer à perdre son temps ! #EuroLife Où en est le débat sur les frères Karamazov? #Justices2022 La guerre de sarko #SarkozyGuerre Je reprends donc les actualités:

N'oubliez plus les mauvais perdants de l'Euro, et de l'Occident! Ensuite il faut rappeler le cas Karashi, ou kaDachi? oui… D'abord, je reviens sur l'affaire Sarkozy" entre "guillemets.

"100" Triche à l'envers #hebdoCent Refus de faire ce qu'on vous demande Crevard comme toujours,

@gouvernementFR

hebdocent "100"

Ensemble politique pour exister en démocratie et agir !

Le média travers est-il une bombe chez les petits écervelés ? Neofax

Quels sont les numéros de la carte vitale du président ? 'french flag' Célin maniaq Poutou violenc Artaud soumis

Je ne souhaite aborder l'abstention ! Insulte politique: gauchaud

millejours du gardien

"cuillère"

tenbuxmor

Bing bro' Black's back Bank$ Builders Bitch please?!

Ça suffit maintenant !

mauvaisefoi

Ils avaient dépassé le siècle. Cent ans ?! qu'ils nous enmerdent. Sur-nietzsche (M. Jordan 23)

millejours

1000 jours Mille jours de la droite agress Pécresse menace Lassalle provoc Dupont-Aignan "Et Le Pen qu'est-ce qu'on en fait ?" Attaque Z

AttaqueZ FACHO

totalitaire (9 avril 2022) Gilets vomis Abonnez et partagez ! Date: trois' _ du deux. an.

archiveFrance cartable

historic record I aim, oli ' vie da @Iaimolivieda isi real life I aim oli vie da

These tweets are from april 2022. They have a news that is from a thousand days, it's past! What, now in 2024, could we talk about this information?

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STOP GLOBAL NAZIS

STOP NAZI VANILLA ISIS

STOP NAZI KING FELON KKKILLER KKKLOWN TEFLON DON

FELICITATIONS!!!

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I was gonna steal @i-remove-color-from-posts’s gimmick but then I realized I have no idea how

So instead I recolored them

Enjoy >:)

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“All You Fascists Bound To Lose” - Woody Guthrie

 Happy birthday, Woody.

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“Le Pen Kicks Butt” New Ben Garrison Cartoon

The so-called ‘centrist’ French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron doesn’t want to offend Muslims. He claimed terrorism would be a part of the daily lives of the French people for years to come. Just like croissants and good bordeaux. He may as well wave a surrender flag and then get down on a Islamic prayer rug.

Marine LePen wants to stop importing Islam and the terrorism that always accompanies it. She is the voice of sanity in a country gone mad with political correctness. Even the pope made the ridiculous claim that ‘migrant’ holding centers are ‘Nazi concentration camps’ for Muslims. Apparently the Pope wants to help hasten the demise of his own Christianity. Europe seems to be ready to hand over their countries to Islam without a fight. Sharia law is at odds with western civilization and Muslims will use violence to implement it. The Quran tells them to do this.

Socialists continue to welcome and embrace Islam because they consider it their best means to destroy Christianity--thereby making it easier to usher in their communism. That's why Obama and Merkel have eagerly flooded western civilization with Islam. Soros is a big player in this scheme, too. What they really want is the erosion of the historically strong Christian foundation in western countries.

Marine Le Pen wants to end such insanity. She’s always labeled ‘far right’ by the mainstream media. There’s no longer such a thing as ‘right’ or ‘conservative.’ It’s always ‘far right.' It’s just one of the pejorative terms used to impugn those who care about preserving the culture of one’s country. They are called ‘nativists’ or the ubiquitous terms “racist” and “Nazi.”

I don’t want to see France become a caliphate. I admire Marine Le Pen for making a stand against the Islamic invasion. I wish her the best of luck in the election.

—Ben Garrison

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[hudasyahdan]

Mlayuuuuu

Selama di CFD tadi, hampir-hampir di setiap tempat jadi inget apa yang dilakuin dan kenangan semasa SD dulu. Hingga kemudian puncaknya, pas mas ipar bilang, "emang ada ya, orang datang ke CFD cuma buat baca di perpustakaan keliling gitu"

Lalu jadi kepikiran, kalau itu perpusnya udah ada dari SD, mungkin ada. Aku orangnya wkwk.

Dan jadi inget betapa dulu ada banyak kebiasaan baik, bahkan mungkin bisa dihitung pengorbanan yang begitu ikhlas kita lakukan.

Dari zaman SD, nabung uang saku biar bisa beli majalah Bobo, Bola, sama XY Kids. Belum kalau kosong suka ke gudang di belakang kelas nyari buku bacaan kisah-kisah di belakang kelas.

Zaman SMP, masih inget masa-masa nangis tiap Jumat karena dijenguk, ke masjid duluan karena minder hafalannya dikit, dan waktu belajar malem yang serius dipakai karena pen masuk Isy Karima.

Berlanjut di SMA, masih inget kalau sore mojok biar dapet feel ngapal, mencoba banyak hal bahkan lari sakit punggungnya juga dipaksa biar bisa membuktikan kalau orang dengan kelainan struktural tulang juga bisa kuat larinya, sampai masa-masa sore hingga malam kadang kehujanan buat les di kota, pulangnya masih harus mengendap lompat pagar buat ambil baju setoran.

Lalu ketika udah berkepala dua, ketika mulai kuliah, mulai koas, mulai mencari pembenaran-pembenaran atas banyak kesalahan yang dilakukan.

Males buat A, alasannya merasa gak bakat.

Males baca buku B, alasannya karena di sana gak minat.

Males ibadah sunnah dan suka nunda sholat, alasannya karena ada hal-hal darurat.

Andaikan kita coba merenung, dan mengandai masa lalu kita bisa hadir di depan kita saat ini, mungkin yang pertama kali keluar adalah hujatan dari mereka.

"Kamu Jangan Nglokro, jangan kebanyakan nyari pembenaran, dulu kita juga pernah merasa jatuh, pernah merasa salah arah, pernah merasa bahwa jalan yang dilalui begitu berat."

"Tapi kami bertahan, sampai mengantarmu di posisi saat ini. Terus kamu yang udah enak, jadi Ga mau berusaha dan beralasan jalan ini seolah bukan passionmu."

Tangio ndaaaaa, mlayu meneeeehhhhh!

Klaten, 27.10.19

Huda S Drajad

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Tutt'altro che inaspettato l'endorsement alla Le Pen, proprio alla vigilia delle elezioni, da parte dell'Isis che ha tutti gli interessi ad infiltrare nella nostra società intolleranza e razzismo. Gli estremismi, è risaputo, hanno le stesse radici e si alimentano a vicenda.

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The president of France’s anti-Islamization Rassemblement (Rally) National party, Marine Le Pen, is set to stand trial over her tweeting of gruesome images of ISIS atrocities in the Middle East, which included a photo of the decapitated body of US reporter James Foley. The so-called ‘crime’ of free speech is punishable by up to three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros ($91,000)

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Le Pen election a referendum on Islamic terrorism

Image Credit: Day Donaldson CC by 2.0

NICE, France—On the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, former French special operations troops and French foreign legionnaires have fought on opposite sides of the war, joining the ranks of both pro-Ukrainian volunteer battalions as well as Russia’s proxy separatist army.

Meanwhile, on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, about 700 French citizens remain among the Islamic State’s ranks, including about 300 women and dozens of minors. In the skies overhead, French warplanes bomb Islamic State targets almost every day, having conducted about 1,200 airstrikes on ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria since September 2014, according to France’s Ministry of Defense.

French civilians and soldiers are on opposing sides of Europe’s two biggest security challenges—Islamist terrorism and Russian revanchism. Similarly, when French voters go to the polls for the second, decisive round in their country’s presidential election on May 7, they will choose between two candidates who hold diametrically opposing national security platforms—centrist Emmanuel Macron and the far-right National Front party’s Marine Le Pen.

Le Pen represents the National Front, a far-right, anti-EU, anti-immigration party with financial backing from Moscow. She favors France’s departure from the European Union and possibly NATO, and wants to lift sanctions on Moscow for its proxy war in Ukraine. Her counterterrorism proposals include curbs on immigration and revoking citizenship for French nationals with ties to terrorist groups.

Macron, France’s former economy minister, is running his first political campaign and is without the backing of a major party. The 39-year-old front-runner embraces France’s traditional role in legacy European institutions like the EU and NATO. To combat terrorism, Macron’s plan includes rehabilitation centers for French jihadists, as well as law enforcement and intelligence-sharing reforms.

May 7 represents an existential fork in the road for the French Republic, both at home and in its national security policy. But the election is about more than just France. Europe’s future is also at a crossroads.

From its Atlantic shoreline to its eastern limits on the Eurasian steppe, Europe is threatened on multiple fronts by myriad crises that are pulling apart the Continent’s social fabric from within, and have raised the specter of a war with Russia.

Far-left and far-right nationalist parties, many funded by Moscow, are serious contenders in national elections, and are pushing for their respective countries to withdraw from the European Union.

Russia has invaded Ukraine and has pursued a revanchist military policy across Eastern Europe. Souring relations with Turkey could resume a flood of refugees into Europe from war-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Jews are fleeing for Israel at an historic rate due to an increase in anti-Semitic incidents. And battle-hardened Islamist militants are returning home from Syria and Iraq to launch attacks, and recruit new followers, in their adopted European homelands.

A snapshot of events over the span of one week from April 18 to 25 underscore Europe’s myriad, interwoven crises.

Tuesday, April 18

In Turkey on April 18, voters narrowly approved a referendum that dramatically expanded President Recep Erdogan’s executive powers, setting the NATO member country, and EU candidate, on a path to dictatorship.

After a failed coup last year, Turkish authorities have arrested 40,000 people, including more than 2,700 judges and about 200 journalists. The post-coup roundups drew condemnations from the European Union, sparking tit-for-tat diplomatic jabs.

For the European Union, deteriorating relations with Turkey come at a price—Ankara’s perpetual trump card in any spat remains its ability to reopen the spigot of refugees from Syria and other embattled countries. That flood of refugees has had dramatic social consequences for Europe, reshaping its political order.

Since 2014, anti-immigration nationalistic parties have gained followers in countries across Europe, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Austria, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Serbia.

In France, the National Front’s anti-immigration, anti-EU platform is resonating among voters. In 2014, the party scored its first nationwide election victory.

At an April 17 rally in Paris, Le Pen pledged to suspend all legal immigration of non-EU citizens and slap a 10 percent tax on all businesses that hire foreigners. “I will protect you,” Le Pen said at the rally. “My first measure as president will be to reinstate France’s borders.”

She added, “With the serious terror threat that weighs on us, we have to be able to control who enters to be able to expel those who represent a danger.”

In Germany, where more than 2 million asylum seekers from war-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa have entered since 2015, the refugee crisis and an attendant rise in crime and terrorism will be a key issue for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s re-election campaign this year.

The number of crimes committed by migrants in Germany jumped by 52.7 percent in 2016, according to German police statistics reported by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. And in 2016, Germany was hit by seven terrorist attacks that left 22 people dead and 122 wounded, according to news reports.

Thursday, April 20

On April 20, two days after the Turkish referendum, as French presidential candidates were on TV for a live debate, an Islamist militant gunned down and killed a French police officer on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.

It was the latest in a series of deadly terrorist attacks that have kept France in a state of national emergency since January 2015, when Islamist terrorists stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, murdering 11.

In the past two years, a series of Islamist terror attacks, most linked to ISIS, have killed 240 people in France. The majority of the attackers were French-born citizens, who, in most cases, were radicalized in prison.

Le Pen has advocated sweeping domestic changes to combat terrorism. She wants to strip citizenship from all dual national French citizens with ties to “jihadist networks,” expel all foreigners linked to Islamist fundamentalism, shut down all mosques linked to extremism, and carry out a nationwide crackdown on “hate preachers” in French mosques.

Also included in her campaign platform is a proposal to “place in preventive detention all French citizens in contact with foreign organizations suspected of acts of hostility or aggression against France.”

Macron called Le Pen’s proposals “demagoguery.”

To combat the terrorist threat, Macron has offered a more measured, prescriptive approach than his rival. His proposals include hiring 10,000 additional French police officers and gendarmes over five years (Le Pen has proposed adding 15,000), the formation of an interagency task force to combat the Islamic State threat, as well as a centralized European intelligence-sharing network.

Macron has also proposed creating rehabilitation centers for radicalized French citizens returning from embattled regions in the Middle East—to show them that “another life is possible after a life of radicalization or jihadism.”

“This threat, this imponderable problem, is part of our daily lives for the years to come,”  Macron said after the April 20 Champs-Elysees attack.

Sunday, April 23

On April 23, Le Pen and Macron advanced to the second round of France’s presidential contest, setting up an upheaval of the established political order in France on May 7. Both of France’s traditional parties, the Socialists and the conservative Les Républicains, have been shut out of the presidential runoff.

Most polls predict a Macron victory on May 7. Yet, last year’s Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the election of U.S. President Donald Trump have underscored a contemporary, worldwide penchant for poll-defying election results.

The National Front has been a longtime outlier in French politics, best known for the controversial Nazi-sympathizing, anti-immigrant missives of its founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen—Marine Le Pen’s estranged father.

Yet, as early as 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was the National Front’s leader at the time, stunned the French establishment with a second-place showing in that year’s presidential election.

In 2011, Marine Le Pen took over the National Front’s reigns from her father, and has since tried to rehabilitate the party’s image. Three years later, the National Front won mayoral elections in 12 cities and finished first with about 25 percent of the vote for France’s European Parliament election. It was the first nationwide election victory since the party’s founding in 1973.

And in December 2016, just weeks after terrorist attacks in Paris killed 130 people, the National Front won the first round of France’s regional elections, taking 28 percent of the overall vote.

“The terrorist attacks have played an important role in Le Pen’s rise to a serious candidate,” Marcel Van Herpen, director of the Cicero Foundation, a Dutch think tank that specializes in Russian and European affairs, told The Daily Signal in an earlier interview. “They confirmed the already existing idea that migrants from Muslim countries are dangerous and are a threat to the French identity. They also confirm the idea that the European Union … is not the solution, but only a part of the problem.”

Monday, April 24

On Monday, Ivanka Trump commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin with Merkel, the German chancellor. The annual commemoration came at a precarious moment for European Jews.

In Germany, reported anti-Semitic attacks have doubled from 2015 to 2016, according to the Israeli Diaspora Ministry. In 2016, the United Kingdom registered the sharpest rise in anti-Semitic incidents among all countries worldwide, according to a Tel Aviv University report.

In France, Jews have been fleeing for Israel at a rate unseen since the Jewish state’s founding in 1948.

In 2012, an Islamist extremist killed four people in an attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse. The next year, the number of Jews leaving France for Israel jumped by 72 percent from 1,917 to 3,293.

In 2014, the number more than doubled again to 7,086. And after a jihadist attacked a Jewish kosher market in January 2015, killing four, the number of French Jews emigrating to Israel that year doubled yet again to about 15,000.

About 5,000 Jews left France for Israel in 2016.

“Once again, young Jewish boys are afraid to wear yarmulkes on the streets of Paris, Budapest, London, and even Berlin,” Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, said at the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in January 2015.

Le Pen has drawn criticism for remarks in which she suggested that France’s Nazi-collaborating Vichy government during World War II was not responsible for rounding up tens of thousands of French Jews and sending them to Nazi death camps.

In July 1942, French police corralled 13,000 Jews, including 4,000 children, at the Vel d’Hiv velodrome in Paris before they were sent to concentration camps.

“I don’t think France is responsible for the Vel d’Hiv,” Le Pen told French broadcaster LCI in April, adding that the Vichy government “was not France.”

Overall, during the occupation from 1940 to 1944, France’s collaborationist Vichy government helped German authorities deport about 78,000 French Jews to death camps.

Tuesday, April 25

In a surprise move on Tuesday, the U.S. Air Force deployed two of its newest fifth-generation fighter jets, the F-35, and approximately 20 airmen to Ämari Air Base, Estonia—less than 150 miles west of the Russian border.

The move comes as NATO repositions troops and military hardware on its eastern flank as a hedge against Russian military aggression.

“The introduction of the newest fighter to Europe, with its state-of-the-art systems will help the alliance maintain the fundamental sovereign rights of all nations,” Estonian Defense Minister Margus Tsahkna said, according to news reports.

The war in Ukraine has rattled many Eastern European countries, and spurred them to prepare for war with Russia. After more than three years, and despite multiple cease-fires, Europe’s only ongoing land war has not ended. Ukrainian military forces are fighting against a combined force of pro-Russian separatists and Russian regulars along a 250-mile-long front line in Ukraine’s embattled eastern Donbas region.

Today, the war in Ukraine is limited and static, mostly fought at a distance from trenches and ad hoc forts with artillery, rockets, and snipers. More than 10,000 Ukrainians have so far died in the conflict.

Behind the front lines in Ukraine, Russia has waged a “hybrid” war of cyberattacks and propaganda—a modern take on a Soviet military strategy called “Deep Battle.”

Russia’s hybrid warfare playbook, honed in Ukraine, is now being put to work to undermine Western democracies. And, according to news reports, has targeted the Macron campaign through propaganda and cyberattacks.

Due to the Russian threat, Eastern Europe has become the most rapidly militarizing region on earth. Since 2014, Ukraine (which is not a member of NATO) has rebuilt its military into the second-largest standing army in Europe, comprising more than 250,000 active troops—only Russia’s is bigger.

The Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania, both NATO members, have had the two fastest-growing military budgets in the world since 2014, according to IHS Jane’s. Poland, also a NATO member, has doubled its military spending since 2006.

NATO has plans to send four 1,000-troop-strong battalions eastward; one for each of the three Baltic countries, and one for Poland. Additionally, one of the core tasks of NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, which comprises about 5,000 troops, is to “respond to emerging security challenges posed by Russia,” according to a statement on the alliance’s website.

The U.S. has about 35,000 military personnel in Europe. Recently, the U.S. Army deployed an additional heavy brigade to Poland, comprising about 3,500 troops and 87 tanks, as well as a unit of 500 troops to Romania. The U.S. also has troops in Ukraine conducting a training mission.

Moscow has called NATO’s eastern buildup a threat to Russian national security, and has accordingly repositioned missiles and bombers to its western outposts in Crimea and the Kaliningrad exclave.

“The alliance’s expansion is disrupting a balance of forces in the region and increasing the risks of military incidents,” Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of Russia’s General Staff, said on Wednesday, according to TASS.

Wednesday, April 26

On Wednesday, French officials announced the results of a declassified investigation, which concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assad “undoubtedly” used sarin gas in a deadly attack in Idlib province on April 4.

The Syrian chemical weapons attack killed at least 70, including children, and spurred a retaliatory U.S. cruise missile strike on a Syrian air base where Russian forces were deployed in support of the Assad regime.

“There’s no doubt that sarin was used. There is also no doubt about the responsibility of the Syrian regime,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a tweet.

Russian officials promptly rebuked the French investigation’s findings, claiming it proved nothing.

“The Kremlin and President [Vladimir] Putin still believe that conducting an impartial international investigation is the only way to find out the truth,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday, according to TASS.

The National Front has received financial backing from Moscow, and Le Pen is an avowed ally of Putin, as well as an apologist for Russia’s 2014 seizure of Crimea and ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, as well as the Kremlin’s military operation in Syria.

Le Pen has been critical to the U.S. retaliatory cruise missile strike. Echoing Moscow’s line of thinking, she claimed not enough information existed to pin the chemical weapons attack on Assad’s forces.

“What happened is terrible, yes, and I bitterly condemn the gas attack, but could we not wait to hear the results of an international inquiry?” Le Pen said, according to French news reports.

For his part, Macron said if elected president he would “neutralize” Assad’s chemical weapons stockpiles. And vis-a-vis Russia, Macron wants to maintain punitive EU sanctions against Russia until the Kremlin fully complies with the Minsk II cease-fire.

“Vladimir Putin’s Russia is pursuing a dangerous foreign policy that does not hesitate to disregard international law,” Macron’s campaign said in a statement on its website.

Report by The Daily Signal’s Nolan Peterson. Originally published at The Daily Signal. The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. Donate now

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Le Pen election a referendum on Islamic terrorism

Image Credit: Day Donaldson CC by 2.0

NICE, France—On the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, former French special operations troops and French foreign legionnaires have fought on opposite sides of the war, joining the ranks of both pro-Ukrainian volunteer battalions as well as Russia’s proxy separatist army.

Meanwhile, on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, about 700 French citizens remain among the Islamic State’s ranks, including about 300 women and dozens of minors. In the skies overhead, French warplanes bomb Islamic State targets almost every day, having conducted about 1,200 airstrikes on ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria since September 2014, according to France’s Ministry of Defense.

French civilians and soldiers are on opposing sides of Europe’s two biggest security challenges—Islamist terrorism and Russian revanchism. Similarly, when French voters go to the polls for the second, decisive round in their country’s presidential election on May 7, they will choose between two candidates who hold diametrically opposing national security platforms—centrist Emmanuel Macron and the far-right National Front party’s Marine Le Pen.

Le Pen represents the National Front, a far-right, anti-EU, anti-immigration party with financial backing from Moscow. She favors France’s departure from the European Union and possibly NATO, and wants to lift sanctions on Moscow for its proxy war in Ukraine. Her counterterrorism proposals include curbs on immigration and revoking citizenship for French nationals with ties to terrorist groups.

Macron, France’s former economy minister, is running his first political campaign and is without the backing of a major party. The 39-year-old front-runner embraces France’s traditional role in legacy European institutions like the EU and NATO. To combat terrorism, Macron’s plan includes rehabilitation centers for French jihadists, as well as law enforcement and intelligence-sharing reforms.

May 7 represents an existential fork in the road for the French Republic, both at home and in its national security policy. But the election is about more than just France. Europe’s future is also at a crossroads.

From its Atlantic shoreline to its eastern limits on the Eurasian steppe, Europe is threatened on multiple fronts by myriad crises that are pulling apart the Continent’s social fabric from within, and have raised the specter of a war with Russia.

Far-left and far-right nationalist parties, many funded by Moscow, are serious contenders in national elections, and are pushing for their respective countries to withdraw from the European Union.

Russia has invaded Ukraine and has pursued a revanchist military policy across Eastern Europe. Souring relations with Turkey could resume a flood of refugees into Europe from war-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Jews are fleeing for Israel at an historic rate due to an increase in anti-Semitic incidents. And battle-hardened Islamist militants are returning home from Syria and Iraq to launch attacks, and recruit new followers, in their adopted European homelands.

A snapshot of events over the span of one week from April 18 to 25 underscore Europe’s myriad, interwoven crises.

Tuesday, April 18

In Turkey on April 18, voters narrowly approved a referendum that dramatically expanded President Recep Erdogan’s executive powers, setting the NATO member country, and EU candidate, on a path to dictatorship.

After a failed coup last year, Turkish authorities have arrested 40,000 people, including more than 2,700 judges and about 200 journalists. The post-coup roundups drew condemnations from the European Union, sparking tit-for-tat diplomatic jabs.

For the European Union, deteriorating relations with Turkey come at a price—Ankara’s perpetual trump card in any spat remains its ability to reopen the spigot of refugees from Syria and other embattled countries. That flood of refugees has had dramatic social consequences for Europe, reshaping its political order.

Since 2014, anti-immigration nationalistic parties have gained followers in countries across Europe, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Austria, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Serbia.

In France, the National Front’s anti-immigration, anti-EU platform is resonating among voters. In 2014, the party scored its first nationwide election victory.

At an April 17 rally in Paris, Le Pen pledged to suspend all legal immigration of non-EU citizens and slap a 10 percent tax on all businesses that hire foreigners. “I will protect you,” Le Pen said at the rally. “My first measure as president will be to reinstate France’s borders.”

She added, “With the serious terror threat that weighs on us, we have to be able to control who enters to be able to expel those who represent a danger.”

In Germany, where more than 2 million asylum seekers from war-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa have entered since 2015, the refugee crisis and an attendant rise in crime and terrorism will be a key issue for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s re-election campaign this year.

The number of crimes committed by migrants in Germany jumped by 52.7 percent in 2016, according to German police statistics reported by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. And in 2016, Germany was hit by seven terrorist attacks that left 22 people dead and 122 wounded, according to news reports.

Thursday, April 20

On April 20, two days after the Turkish referendum, as French presidential candidates were on TV for a live debate, an Islamist militant gunned down and killed a French police officer on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.

It was the latest in a series of deadly terrorist attacks that have kept France in a state of national emergency since January 2015, when Islamist terrorists stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, murdering 11.

In the past two years, a series of Islamist terror attacks, most linked to ISIS, have killed 240 people in France. The majority of the attackers were French-born citizens, who, in most cases, were radicalized in prison.

Le Pen has advocated sweeping domestic changes to combat terrorism. She wants to strip citizenship from all dual national French citizens with ties to “jihadist networks,” expel all foreigners linked to Islamist fundamentalism, shut down all mosques linked to extremism, and carry out a nationwide crackdown on “hate preachers” in French mosques.

Also included in her campaign platform is a proposal to “place in preventive detention all French citizens in contact with foreign organizations suspected of acts of hostility or aggression against France.”

Macron called Le Pen’s proposals “demagoguery.”

To combat the terrorist threat, Macron has offered a more measured, prescriptive approach than his rival. His proposals include hiring 10,000 additional French police officers and gendarmes over five years (Le Pen has proposed adding 15,000), the formation of an interagency task force to combat the Islamic State threat, as well as a centralized European intelligence-sharing network.

Macron has also proposed creating rehabilitation centers for radicalized French citizens returning from embattled regions in the Middle East—to show them that “another life is possible after a life of radicalization or jihadism.”

“This threat, this imponderable problem, is part of our daily lives for the years to come,”  Macron said after the April 20 Champs-Elysees attack.

Sunday, April 23

On April 23, Le Pen and Macron advanced to the second round of France’s presidential contest, setting up an upheaval of the established political order in France on May 7. Both of France’s traditional parties, the Socialists and the conservative Les Républicains, have been shut out of the presidential runoff.

Most polls predict a Macron victory on May 7. Yet, last year’s Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the election of U.S. President Donald Trump have underscored a contemporary, worldwide penchant for poll-defying election results.

The National Front has been a longtime outlier in French politics, best known for the controversial Nazi-sympathizing, anti-immigrant missives of its founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen—Marine Le Pen’s estranged father.

Yet, as early as 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was the National Front’s leader at the time, stunned the French establishment with a second-place showing in that year’s presidential election.

In 2011, Marine Le Pen took over the National Front’s reigns from her father, and has since tried to rehabilitate the party’s image. Three years later, the National Front won mayoral elections in 12 cities and finished first with about 25 percent of the vote for France’s European Parliament election. It was the first nationwide election victory since the party’s founding in 1973.

And in December 2016, just weeks after terrorist attacks in Paris killed 130 people, the National Front won the first round of France’s regional elections, taking 28 percent of the overall vote.

“The terrorist attacks have played an important role in Le Pen’s rise to a serious candidate,” Marcel Van Herpen, director of the Cicero Foundation, a Dutch think tank that specializes in Russian and European affairs, told The Daily Signal in an earlier interview. “They confirmed the already existing idea that migrants from Muslim countries are dangerous and are a threat to the French identity. They also confirm the idea that the European Union … is not the solution, but only a part of the problem.”

Monday, April 24

On Monday, Ivanka Trump commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin with Merkel, the German chancellor. The annual commemoration came at a precarious moment for European Jews.

In Germany, reported anti-Semitic attacks have doubled from 2015 to 2016, according to the Israeli Diaspora Ministry. In 2016, the United Kingdom registered the sharpest rise in anti-Semitic incidents among all countries worldwide, according to a Tel Aviv University report.

In France, Jews have been fleeing for Israel at a rate unseen since the Jewish state’s founding in 1948.

In 2012, an Islamist extremist killed four people in an attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse. The next year, the number of Jews leaving France for Israel jumped by 72 percent from 1,917 to 3,293.

In 2014, the number more than doubled again to 7,086. And after a jihadist attacked a Jewish kosher market in January 2015, killing four, the number of French Jews emigrating to Israel that year doubled yet again to about 15,000.

About 5,000 Jews left France for Israel in 2016.

“Once again, young Jewish boys are afraid to wear yarmulkes on the streets of Paris, Budapest, London, and even Berlin,” Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, said at the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in January 2015.

Le Pen has drawn criticism for remarks in which she suggested that France’s Nazi-collaborating Vichy government during World War II was not responsible for rounding up tens of thousands of French Jews and sending them to Nazi death camps.

In July 1942, French police corralled 13,000 Jews, including 4,000 children, at the Vel d’Hiv velodrome in Paris before they were sent to concentration camps.

“I don’t think France is responsible for the Vel d’Hiv,” Le Pen told French broadcaster LCI in April, adding that the Vichy government “was not France.”

Overall, during the occupation from 1940 to 1944, France’s collaborationist Vichy government helped German authorities deport about 78,000 French Jews to death camps.

Tuesday, April 25

In a surprise move on Tuesday, the U.S. Air Force deployed two of its newest fifth-generation fighter jets, the F-35, and approximately 20 airmen to Ämari Air Base, Estonia—less than 150 miles west of the Russian border.

The move comes as NATO repositions troops and military hardware on its eastern flank as a hedge against Russian military aggression.

“The introduction of the newest fighter to Europe, with its state-of-the-art systems will help the alliance maintain the fundamental sovereign rights of all nations,” Estonian Defense Minister Margus Tsahkna said, according to news reports.

The war in Ukraine has rattled many Eastern European countries, and spurred them to prepare for war with Russia. After more than three years, and despite multiple cease-fires, Europe’s only ongoing land war has not ended. Ukrainian military forces are fighting against a combined force of pro-Russian separatists and Russian regulars along a 250-mile-long front line in Ukraine’s embattled eastern Donbas region.

Today, the war in Ukraine is limited and static, mostly fought at a distance from trenches and ad hoc forts with artillery, rockets, and snipers. More than 10,000 Ukrainians have so far died in the conflict.

Behind the front lines in Ukraine, Russia has waged a “hybrid” war of cyberattacks and propaganda—a modern take on a Soviet military strategy called “Deep Battle.”

Russia’s hybrid warfare playbook, honed in Ukraine, is now being put to work to undermine Western democracies. And, according to news reports, has targeted the Macron campaign through propaganda and cyberattacks.

Due to the Russian threat, Eastern Europe has become the most rapidly militarizing region on earth. Since 2014, Ukraine (which is not a member of NATO) has rebuilt its military into the second-largest standing army in Europe, comprising more than 250,000 active troops—only Russia’s is bigger.

The Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania, both NATO members, have had the two fastest-growing military budgets in the world since 2014, according to IHS Jane’s. Poland, also a NATO member, has doubled its military spending since 2006.

NATO has plans to send four 1,000-troop-strong battalions eastward; one for each of the three Baltic countries, and one for Poland. Additionally, one of the core tasks of NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, which comprises about 5,000 troops, is to “respond to emerging security challenges posed by Russia,” according to a statement on the alliance’s website.

The U.S. has about 35,000 military personnel in Europe. Recently, the U.S. Army deployed an additional heavy brigade to Poland, comprising about 3,500 troops and 87 tanks, as well as a unit of 500 troops to Romania. The U.S. also has troops in Ukraine conducting a training mission.

Moscow has called NATO’s eastern buildup a threat to Russian national security, and has accordingly repositioned missiles and bombers to its western outposts in Crimea and the Kaliningrad exclave.

“The alliance’s expansion is disrupting a balance of forces in the region and increasing the risks of military incidents,” Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of Russia’s General Staff, said on Wednesday, according to TASS.

Wednesday, April 26

On Wednesday, French officials announced the results of a declassified investigation, which concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assad “undoubtedly” used sarin gas in a deadly attack in Idlib province on April 4.

The Syrian chemical weapons attack killed at least 70, including children, and spurred a retaliatory U.S. cruise missile strike on a Syrian air base where Russian forces were deployed in support of the Assad regime.

“There’s no doubt that sarin was used. There is also no doubt about the responsibility of the Syrian regime,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a tweet.

Russian officials promptly rebuked the French investigation’s findings, claiming it proved nothing.

“The Kremlin and President [Vladimir] Putin still believe that conducting an impartial international investigation is the only way to find out the truth,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow on Wednesday, according to TASS.

The National Front has received financial backing from Moscow, and Le Pen is an avowed ally of Putin, as well as an apologist for Russia’s 2014 seizure of Crimea and ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, as well as the Kremlin’s military operation in Syria.

Le Pen has been critical to the U.S. retaliatory cruise missile strike. Echoing Moscow’s line of thinking, she claimed not enough information existed to pin the chemical weapons attack on Assad’s forces.

“What happened is terrible, yes, and I bitterly condemn the gas attack, but could we not wait to hear the results of an international inquiry?” Le Pen said, according to French news reports.

For his part, Macron said if elected president he would “neutralize” Assad’s chemical weapons stockpiles. And vis-a-vis Russia, Macron wants to maintain punitive EU sanctions against Russia until the Kremlin fully complies with the Minsk II cease-fire.

“Vladimir Putin’s Russia is pursuing a dangerous foreign policy that does not hesitate to disregard international law,” Macron’s campaign said in a statement on its website.

Report by The Daily Signal’s Nolan Peterson. Originally published at The Daily Signal. The Daily Signal depends on the support of readers like you. Donate now

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Hi! Regarding your tags on that post about Brunei, why would life be better for Muslims in Europe if Europe was Christian? Not trying to start discourse, just curious! I really like your blog, and how thoughtful and nuanced your opinions are (a bit rare on tumblr)

Hi there! Thank you for all that - God knows I try to stay informed and nuanced, but it’s hard as hell, and harder still to realize if you’re actually assuming radical or insane positions just because they’re suddenly mainstream. It’s weird times we live in, right?

The article is actually online, but unfortunately it’s not accessible without a subscription to the newspaper. In short, it’s an interview to Olivier Roy, a French political scientist who specializes in Islam. He’s something of an eccentric (think ‘hitch-hiking to Afghanistan and volunteering to fight against the Soviet army’ eccentric, so a bit beyond your usual French je ne sais quoi) and obviously some other experts don’t agree with him, but he knows several Muslim countries inside and out and he’s predicted a lot of stuff that’s happened in the Muslim world over the last decade or so.

The part of his opinions I fully agree with is that a) Europe is no longer a Christian continent, b) far-right populists who sob about our Christian values are actually not religious at all and c) religions are inherently conservative. Just to summarize:

a) Europe was shaped mostly by Christianity, but we’ve been pushing back for centuries, and today most people are not actually religious. Even those who say they’re Catholics, for instance, go to Mass twice a year (if ever), hardly ever pray, and readily blend into their secular state without any problem.

b) Politicians like Marine Le Pen or Matteo Salvini may go on and on about the need to defend our Christian values, but to them it’s a strategic tool, not a deep conviction. None of those clowns lives in accordance with Gospel rules, or even pretends to, and they only remember about religion when they have something to gain (Salvini, for instance, turned on the Catholic Church when several leading bishops started to point out that welcoming strangers at your table is actually the Christian thing to do).

c) This is self-evident, really? I’m not adding anything else because I don’t want to be needlessly polemical, but yeah.

So basically what he was saying there is that a Christian Europe would have found a way to accomodate deeply religious Muslims, because as we can see in day-to-day life, religious people actually agree on a lot of things (most of them debatable, tbh). Like, as soon as it’s about limiting the rights of women, erasing the LGBT community out of existence, taking control of education and maintaining age-old rituals (from exorcism to ritual slaughter), religious leaders of different faiths magically find a way be friends. Just look at the World Congress of Families that recently took place in Verona (and was partially funded by the Italian government): their guests came from all over the world, featured everyone from imams to Orthodox priests, and it worked very well because they were all against abortion and in favour of punishing gay people.

The part I’m less sure about, but I simply don’t know enough to judge, is that according to Roy something like Islamic radicalism is not inherently Islamic - it’s a symptom of something that’s first radicalization and then Islam. If I understand this correctly, Roy doesn’t see much of a difference between the Christchurch killer and an ISIS ‘martyr’ - what’s at the root for both is a sense of dissatisfaction, a drive towards extremism. For instance, we usually say those converts who went to Syria were radicalized online, but I guess Roy would say they were already extremists in some way, and they simply found Islam as the best channel to focus that extremism. To him, the fact those brands of extremisms are so different from each other that they end up on opposite sides of a (culture) war is not relevant to understanding why they’re there and how to fight back.

(I do have to admit the idea is intriguing? If you look at football hooligans, after all, very often they’re either on the far-left or the far-right, but it’s true they’re essentially the same kind of people: angry young men who need something to give their lives meaning.)  

Anyway - while I do think that guaranteeing equal rights for everyone is the foundation of any democratic state, it’s dangerous to accept and normalize just how radical Islam has become over the last couple of decades. Considering that version of the religion as the only one, or the normal one, hurts non-radical Muslims first - and hardest.

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3h33 et la signification de 333

Samuel

3 avril 2019

19

Mystique | Nombres

L’heure triplée 3h33 occupe une place particulière dans le symbolisme des heures miroir. Ouvrir son esprit au sens caché des heures miroir, c’est être initié aux fréquences vibratoires, c’est prendre conscience de forces universelles à l’oeuvre.

La numérologie et son origine, la gématrie, se fondent sur l’attribution de propriétés vibratoires aux nombres.

Nous aimons prendre appui sur ces énergies pour définir le réel à venir.

Nous cherchons à savoir si nous sommes sur le bon chemin ou si un grand changement s’annonce. Nous sommes en quête perpétuelle de pensées positives réconfortantes ou d’un message des anges. À défaut de se faire suffisamment confiance pour trouver toutes les réponses en soi, il convient de discerner le réel à l’intérieur de ce qui a été apporté par un message numérologique. Alors que les objets de divination comme les cartes ou le pendule sont sous le contrôle de forces astralisées difficilement maîtrisables, les influx des heures miroir s’adressent directement à notre être profond.

Par une heure double ou une heure miroir se présentant répétitivement à notre regard, nous en venons à en être interpellé. Nous pensons à la protection des anges gardiens sans être capable d’en appréhender la nature. Si les lois physiques animant le monde sont complexes, les fréquences vibratoires des nombres le sont plus encore. Toute réduction de celles-ci à des interprétations faciles ou passe-partout, teintes de surcroit d’une coloration angélique, nous maintient dans la superficialité.

Chaque personne confrontée à une heure miroir, 3h33 ou autre, tente de faire une lecture du réel qu’il perçoit. Il suffit, pour cela, d’ouvrir son esprit et de ressentir intérieurement, pratiquant ainsi une médiumnité dont nous sommes tous pourvus. C’est ainsi que je vous offre ma lecture du nombre 3, au coeur de l’intrigante séquence de chiffres 333.

La signification mystique de 3h33

Le langage sacré et mystique est encodé dans les formes géométriques et les mathématiques. Depuis des temps immémoriaux, le chiffre 3 et le symbole du triangle ont représenté le divin et le spirituel. La trinité égyptienne Osiris, Horus et Isis trouva sa traduction chrétienne dans la Sainte-Trinité du Père, Fils et Saint-Esprit. Le chiffre 3 est l’assise de nombreuses religions. Dans l’hindouisme, la Trimūrti des dieux Brahmâ, Vishnou et Shiva succéda à la trinité védique formée d’Agni, Vâyu et Sûrya.

À la nécessaire complétude du matériel par le spirituel, le fait religieux n’est qu’une succession de tentatives de réponse, mais toujours sous la puissance du nombre 3.

Le code 333, se traduisant par des apparitions répétitives de l’heure 3h33, est une triplicité du chiffre 3. L’expérience de vie dans le monde physique est basée sur la puissance de ce chiffre. Le 3 est le fondement du cadre évolutif de l’être humain.

Dans son corps physique, enveloppe charnelle et grossière de l’homme, siège la double triplicité. Le 333 dans son être inférieur symbolise l’égo, l’émotionnel et le mental ou intellect. Le 333 dans son être supérieur représente le Coeur, l’Âme et l’Esprit.

L’heure miroir 3h33 est une activation silencieuse de chacune de ces triplicités biquotidiennes.

Le pouvoir d’activation de 3h33 le jour

En période diurne, siège de la vie active humaine, la synchronicité de 3h33 s’adresse à l’être inférieur. Ce sont l’égo, les émotions et le mental qui sont alors principalement à l’oeuvre. L’énergie du 3h33 vient équilibrer cette trinité et réduire les tensions qui peuvent le tirailler. Cette énergie prépare notre être inférieur à s’arrimer avec notre être supérieur.

L’être inférieur est à l’image d’un triangle inversé pointant vers la surface de notre être périphérique, dont la représentation symbolique est le corps physique. La pointe de ce triangle est l’égo, porte d’entrée de la triplicité 333 inférieure, s’ouvrant à la fois sur notre côté mental et rationnel, le cerveau gauche logique et raisonnable, et sur notre côté intuitif et émotionnel, le cerveau droit créatif et imaginatif. Ainsi, l’heure miroir 3h33 de jour doit être perçue en conscience et notre regard être attiré sans raison apparente.

Notre égo est sa porte d’entrée.

Dans ce triangle inversée, l’émotionnel et l’intellect seront à la source de la curiosité d’en connaître davantage. Ils ont besoin de comprendre le sens du 3h33 d’après-midi.

L’être inférieur trouve sa plénitude dans la vibration de ce 3h33. Il transforme sa vie pour acquérir et développer son chemin de vie dans son incarnation. La synchronicité du 3h33 est une nécessaire sublimation de l’équilibre entre l’égo, le mental et l’émotionnel.

Le pouvoir d’activation de 3h33 la nuit

En période nocturne, siège de la vie inconsciente humaine, la synchronicité de 3h33 s’adresse, quant à elle, à l’être supérieur. Ce sont les vibrations du Coeur, le chant de l’Âme et la pureté de l’Esprit qui se trouvent honorés et activés. L’énergie du 3h33 agit alors même que nous ne nous réveillons pas pour l’observer au détour d’un regard sur l’horloge. Pourtant, nous dormons presque tous à quelques centimètres d’un réveil ou d’une montre. Dès que s’affiche l’heure miroir 3h33, elle déverse une énergie parfaitement comprise et assimilée par notre inconscient.

Le Coeur est sa porte d’entrée.

Siège de l’intuition, le Coeur ne cherche pas à en comprendre le sens et accepte naturellement l’énergie du 3h33 du matin. Son énergie peut être intense certaines nuits et induire un réveil. Il suffit simplement de poursuivre sa détente pour laisser les influx opérer.

L’être supérieur est à l’image d’un triangle dressé dont la base s’appuie sur la connexion Coeur-Âme, à la recherche du Grand Soi hors de notre monde, l’Esprit tout au sommet. S’élever spirituellement afin d’établir sa demeure en l’Esprit, telle est la mission de la vibration 3h33 à ce moment-là.

La pointe du triangle inférieur est ancrée dans la Terre alors que la pointe du triangle supérieur s’élève au Ciel. L’être humain peut alors se réaliser pleinement, l’énergie des 3h33 ou du nombre 333 constitue une source activatrice et équilibrante.

Il est à noter que le pic énergétique de l’heure nocturne 3h33 nous expose paradoxalement à la convoitise des forces astrales négatives. À partir de 3h du matin, nous revenons progressivement du sommeil lent profond pour glisser dans le sommeil paradoxal. Ce passage est propice à ce que les plus rationnels qualifieront de cauchemars, et les plus ouverts appelleront des formes de parasitages énergétiques. Le phénomène complexe de paralysie du sommeil se constate parfois. Les termes d’heure des démons ou d’heure du diable sont parfois employés, simplement parce que l’ouverture intérieure vers la Lumière divine est particulièrement forte, attisant la convoitise de ces forces prédatrices.

L’heure 3h03 ou 3h30

33 est un Maître-nombre et à ce titre 33 est un élévateur de fréquence vibratoire. Il accompagne ainsi l’action bienfaitrice de l’heure triplée 3h33. L’enracinement de l’homme dans le plan de la matière requiert trois points d’ancrage. Ce triangle égo, émotion et intellect sont les trois points d’appui nous permettant de tenir en équilibre. L’élévation spirituelle vers le divin requiert aussi trois points d’éthérisation de l’être, au travers du triangle Coeur, Âme et Esprit.

Ce Maître-nombre est cependant absent dans les configurations 3h30 et 3h03. Lorsque se répètent ces deux codes horaires, l’influx énergétique vient réaliser une nécessaire guérison. Un rééquilibrage s’opère. Une tension physique, un nœud émotionnel, appelle à être relâché. Une correction est nécessaire au niveau de notre corps éthérique avant que cela n’accroisse davantage la mésentente intérieure. La tristesse, le chagrin, la peur, le doute sont particulièrement ciblés par ces fréquences numérologiques. 3h30 et 3h03 font oeuvre de guérison, de soulagement et d’apaisement. Elles contrecarrent l’involution de notre cheminement intérieur.

Le chiffre 3 dans le Tarot

Certains veulent connaître leur avenir au travers des arts divinatoires tels que la cartomancie. Le tirage de tarot pour établir une lecture et une prédiction fait appel à des symbolismes peu connus.

Nous aimons l’idée d’une guidance bienveillante des anges sans s’attarder véritablement à leur nature réelle. Nous oublions que l’art de la voyance, de la divination ou de l’interprétation des signes prend appui sur l’invisible. Le monde physique est profondément influencé par le monde astral, ce que l’on nomme justement l’invisible. L’astral n’est pas un plan de création mais un plan de concentration et d’amplification de forces. Les énergies qui s’y accumulent, vont ensuite se répliquer par osmose dans notre monde physique.

L’intriguant parallélisme du jeu de tarot et des heures miroir.

Trois lames de tarot portent et envoient la vibration du nombre 3, tel le code 333 ou l’heure triplée 03h33.

La lame 3 du tarot représente l’Impératrice, incarnant l’amour maternel, la fécondité, l’enracinement dans la matière au travers de la naissance physique. L’arcane majeur du nombre 3 représente le triangle pointant vers le bas, les trois points d’appui de l’être inférieur. À l’endroit, le principe féminin s’exprime pleinement dans ses plus hautes vertus. L’Impératrice à l’envers est une mise en retrait du pouvoir du Féminin, de vibration Yin, au profit de celui du Masculin, de vibration Yang. Le Masculin réprime souvent l’intuition, les vertus et la morale pour s’exprimer dans la matière. C’est alors que l’heure 3h33 de l’après-midi offre la possibilité de vivre harmonieusement notre aspect Masculin dans son exploration de la matière, au côté de notre aspect Féminin pleinement libre d’être.

La décomposition du 3 dans le tarot donne d’abord 1+2, soit l’arcane majeure nombre 12 du Pendu. La tête vers le bas représente le nombre 1, les deux pieds suspendus la symbolique du 2. L’une des jambes est habituellement repliée à l’horizontal dans les représentations du Pendu. Un point de support est manquant. À l’endroit ou renversée, cette lame renvoie à divers aspects d’attente ou de blocage. Les heures 3h03 et 3h30 viennent soulager spécifiquement ces situations de vie que nous rencontrons immanquablement.

La décomposition du 3 dans le tarot donne enfin le 2+1, soit l’arcane majeur nombre 21 du Monde. En matière d’occultisme et d’ésotérisme, de nombreux textes associent à ce nombre 21 la sagesse divine et la lumière éternelle. L’heure 3h33 du matin concoure à la spiritualisation du corps et de l’être inférieur. Dernier arcane majeur numéroté, le 21 indique le but ultime, celui de se libérer et de reprendre sa juste place dans l’univers.

L’arithmosophie, ou la science symbolique des nombres, explore leur mystique. Les nombres entretiennent entre eux une force suprarationnelle. Les nombres sont alors des étapes dans la progression vers l’Unité, un pont à emprunter pour atteindre le divin. Les heures miroir atténuent la coupure actuelle entre le monde matériel et le monde spirituel.  

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