World holocaust gathering displays emerging Global Order, messianic delusions

by Sean Jobst
28 January 2020　

Delegations of world leaders from 47 countries converged upon Jerusalem's Yad Vashem for the World Holocaust Forum on 23 January 2020. Among the delegations attending the two-day event, billed as "Remembering the Holocaust: Fighting Antisemitism", was Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emanuel Macron, US Vice-President Mike Pence, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and British Prince Charles. Far from being a mere "remembrance", the gathering reveals many aspects about the Global Order - its emerging alliances, Orwellian thought crime laws, and messianic delusions.

The central figure lurking behind the scenes, bankrolling the entire operation clearly aimed at elites, was the Russian-Jewish oligarch, Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor. He told the Jerusalem Post how he wanted to send a "clear" message "that antisemitism has no place in our global society". Local sovereignties, concerns of free speech and free discourse, and why one type of "hatred" is elevated over all others, is lost in this well-funded elitist choir that sang to Kantor's tune.

Putin confers with Kantor

Deep pockets and connections of oligarch Kantor

With a personal net worth of $4.2 billion, Kantor's Acron Group is one of the world's leading fertilizer company. As if this stench was not enough, Kantor is also a "philanthropist" who pursues an ideological agenda through such organizations as the World Jewish Congress and Russian Jewish Congress. Going directly to the heads of state beyond any mere "congress", as president of the European Jewish Congress he praised Putin as a "friend of the Jews". He includes any opposition to Zionism in his definition of "anti-Semitism".

As one of Putin's "army of Jewish billionaires", Kantor naturally gave Putin a platform the "former" KGB spook used to sanitize the Soviet role in World War II vis-a-vis "collaborater" Poland. This is a favorite trope of Putin, which he echoes from such figures as the oligarch Boris Spiegel, his Chabad Rabbi Berel Lazar, and the Duginist/Kahanist Avigdor Eskin who routinely accuse Ukraine, Poland, and Baltic nations of "anti-Semitism". His government has generally "whitewashed" Stalin's crimes, used FSB agents to beat Russian citizens who criticize Soviet crimes, imprisoned a Russian who mentioned historical facts about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and railroaded through various trumped-up charges a historian who documented the Gulags.

Duda confers with Netanyahu

Was the Polish President snubbed?

The warm welcome of Putin was an apparent snub of Polish President Andrzej Duda, who told the Polish media he would not attend since the organizers turned down his request to speak while allowing for Putin. In a move of damage control, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin then rushed to Poland to meet with Duda. The Polish Foreign Minister reiterated Israel's privilege as "very important to us as a Jewish state". This lavish praise of Israel's own Jewish nationalism comes from the cabinet of a President who condemned his own country's nationalists as having "no place" within Poland - contrary to the apparent "nationalism" of Visegrad countries.

Indeed, it would be a mistake to read into disagreements about Poland's role in World War II and the holocaust some kind of "conflict" between Israel and the Polish government, much less proof of its "anti-semitism". Duda has a Jewish wife, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, and his own ruling Law and Justice Party is closely associated with Jonny Daniels, a Polish-Jewish businessman who heads the "remembrance" group From the Depths while dividing his time between Poland and Israel. "It’s the politicization of the Holocaust that is the most dangerous aspect of what he’s doing - and the politicization of history," says Michael Schudrich, the chief rabbi of Poland and a critic of both Daniels and the government.

Duda with Rabbis Dov Ber Stambler and Eliezer Gurary,
Chabad's representatives in Poland

Not to be deterred, Daniels works directly with Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders, as well as with a parallel Jewish organization in the form of Chabad. He has cultivated some links to the milieu around Trump, and indeed Daniels produced Trump's well-known video endorsement of Netanyahu's 2013 re-election campaign. While living in Israel, Daniels was a senior adviser to Likud Party member Danny Danon, who as Israel's Ambassador to the UN has publicly called for "punishment" of "those who engage in anti-Semitism" after a New York Times cartoon merely criticizing Trump's servile position towards Netanyahu.

There are also deep links between Law and Justice and the international Jewish supremacist Chabad movement. In August 2017, Party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski met with two local Chabad representatives in a meeting publicized by Polish state media. One of these was Rabbi Dov Ber Stambler, who boasted of how Kaczynski "made it clear that he definitely supported Jewish life in Poland. And he certainly supports the State of Israel". Stambler presented Duda with a menorah engraved with "Jerusalem" when the Polish President hosted a Hanukkah celebration in December 2017. The two Chabad rabbis were also guests at Duda's 2018 Hanukkah celebrations. There might be feuds between the Kremlin and the Polish government, but behind both are Chabad and holocaust-peddling oligarchs such as Kantor, Spiegel and Daniels.  

Left to right: Stembler, Jewish leader Artur Hofman, Kaczynski,
Daniels, and Gurary, at a meeting in Warsaw, 16 Aug. 2017

Self-hating German grovels before the Temple altar

Despite this division over whether Poland can also be considered "guilty", both dialectics remain united behind their Germanophobia - holding to the orthodoxy of the collective "guilt" of the German nation whom many religious Zionists have labelled "Amalek". Even not going into the findings of Revisionist historians or the war-time and post-war Soviet atrocities and various Allied crimes against German civilians, all decent people can agree the idea of an "Erbschuld" (inherited guilt) or any other notion of a collective guilt, is nothing but an artificial construct that has been milked for all its worth for monetary and political purposes. It has been especially perpetuated by the German state and its elites.

In his speech, Steinmeier "bowed in deepest sorrow" in reference to "the worst crime in the history of humanity", for which "Germany's responsibility does not expire. We want to live up to our responsibility. By this, you should measure us". The self-hating Steinmeier chose to speak in English and not German so as to not "upset" the audience, while beginning and ending it with the Talmudic "Shehecheyanu" blessing in Hebrew. This delighted Israeli correspondent Amit Segal, who gloated about how the arrival of foreign leaders to Jerusalem "unintentionally fulfilled the words of the ancient prophecy", quoting Isaiah's words about non-Jews "bowing before you....prostrate at the soles of your feet" (Isaiah 60:14). None characterized this sick messianic delusion as much as Steinmeier.

Steinmeier "bowing in deepest sorrow"

A joint Jewish-Muslim pilgrimage

A majority of the gathered leaders were professed Christians, but the other branch of the Abrahamic religions was not neglected. On the same day as the gathering, a joint delegation of American Jewish Committee (AJC) officials and a Muslim delegation led by the Saudi Muslim World League (MWL) secretary-general Mohammed al-Issa made a "groundbreaking" pilgrimage to Auschwitz. This hajj was a calculated move planned since 30 April 2019, when the AJC and MWL signed a "memorandum of understanding". The AJC CEO David Harris called it "the most senior delegation of Muslim religious leaders to visit Auschwitz ever".

As early as January 2018, I saw signs of what seemed to me an "intersectional alliance" of Jewish and Muslim groups around the holocaust, based on the Frankfurt School's notions of an "intersectionality" and resulting political alliances around such issues as mass immigration into Europe. Since assuming leadership over the MWL in 2016, Al-Issa has purged any signs of "anti-semitism" and intensified interfaith outreach with Jews. The bargain seems to me two-fold: Acceptance of a Jewish state in their midst, in exchange for organized Jewish support of Muslim communities within Europe and North America, including their "dawa" efforts.

David Harris and Mohammed al-Issa

Beneath these efforts, there has been a political current beyond simple "remembrance". A former Saudi justice minister and ally of Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Al-Issa visited the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. in May 2018, accompanied by none other than Robert Satloff, executive-director of the AIPAC-linked Washington Institute for Near East Policy. To the delight of these groups which demand a global holocaust "education" accompanied to mantras of "Never Forget", Al-Issa wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post innovating a sixth pillar of faith: "I urge all Muslims to learn the history of the Holocaust".

In addition to the MWL, Al-Issa is president of the International Organization of Muslim Scholars based in Mecca - part of what I see as the emerging institutionalization of Islam under the auspices of a Saudi Arabia allied with Israel. He certainly speaks authoritatively on behalf of "senior Muslim scholars from different sects" to establish "our religion's stance toward that crime", as he addressed Friday prayers at the Tatarska St. Mosque in Warsaw. After visiting the mosque, the joint Jewish-Muslim delegation attended Shabbat services and a meal at the city's Nozyk Synagogue - certainly no "day of rest" for these deeply-connected activists.

Al-Issa's new platform at the AIPAC think-tank

Saudi-Israeli alliance unveiled in....Warsaw?

Perhaps one of the most noteworthy things about this pilgrimage was one of the most hidden. Joel Rosenberg is a US/Israeli dual citizen who is both an Evangelical Christian and "Jewish believer in Christ" - ironically, Issa is the Arabic name for "Jesus" - as well as being a former advisor to Netanyahu. He advocates an apocalyptic war against Iran and was hosted by the Saudi Crown Prince in November 2018. Speaking on the authority as one who personally met twice with Al-Issa in Saudi Arabia, Rosenberg told the Times of Israel: "He definitely would not be making this visit if the crown prince did not want him to do so".

That such a "groundbreaking" pilgrimage would converge in Warsaw, while other leaders did so in Jerusalem, is perhaps no accident since successive meetings between Israeli and Gulf Arab leaders have taken place in Warsaw within the last couple of years. This was the city where Netanyahu achieved his "greatest diplomatic coup", boasting of developing links with Saudi Arabia "to advance the common interest of war with Iran" after one such meeting in February 2019. Is the AJC-MWL pilgrimage related to these meetings?

Rosenberg with Mohammed bin Salman

Conclusion

I have demonstrated throughout this article that behind the "remembrance" campaign lurks a deeper, more sinister political agenda, laden with intrigue and double-think. That this campaign is used to suppress and even criminalize dissent to this political agenda, was mentioned by Shulamit Aloni, a former Israeli education minister, Meretz Party leader, and human rights activist. In an interview by "Democracy Now" journalist Amy Goodman on 14 August 2002, Aloni said:

"Well, it’s a trick, we always use it. When from Europe somebody is criticizing Israel, then we bring up the Holocaust. When in this country people are criticizing Israel, then they are anti-Semitic. And the organization is strong, and has a lot of money, and the ties between Israel and the American Jewish establishment are very strong and they are strong in this country, as you know. And they have power, which is okay. They are talented people and they have power and money, and the media and other things, and their attitude is 'Israel, my country right or wrong,' identification. And they are not ready to hear criticism. And it's very easy to blame people who criticize certain acts of the Israeli government as anti-Semitic, and to bring up the Holocaust, and the suffering of the Jewish people, and that is justify everything we do to the Palestinians."

Geopolitical actors scurry around the Soleimani assassination and PS752 shootdown

by Sean Jobst
16 January 2020

Each new year seems to start with an event that soon subsides but actually sets the stage for the rest of the year. And its no different with 2020, with the same State and non-State actors playing out their rehearsed roles in this political theater. Two events - the U.S. government's assassination of Iran's elite Quds Force commander Major-General Qasem Soleimani, and the subsequent Iranian missile downing of Ukrainian flight PS752 - establish what is shaping up to be a new dialectic of "bad America" vs. "bad Iran", with some unlikely beneficiaries.

The MSM narratives are now mistrusted by a growing skeptical public, but so too should we be suspicious of what passes for most of the "alternative" media. On the one hand, there are the "woke" anti-Trump crowd whose opposition is purely partisan and therefore hypocritical. Their apocalyptic concerns about a new war instigated by Trump are off-the-mark, while the actual wars of his predecessor was never even a blip on their radar. It will not escalate into a war - and its my contention that it was never designed to achieve anything but destabilization.

On the other hand, are a segment of the pro-Trump media who see Trump as an innocent victim of certain people surrounding him. They see his motives as truly "America First", but that for some reason he keeps certain figures around him - the likes of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, fanatical Neocons like Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo, and assorted Israel Firsters - while allegedly trying to counteract each other. These people know that Trump is basically a reality TV star, but neglect to realize its them and not his close circle who are being played. Then there is the pro-Kremlin media - spanning both "left" and "right" - that hypocritically bashes America using the Duginist playbook while giving a free pass to the Russian Empire.

What - and Who - is behind the Soleimani assassination?

It now seems that Soleimani was lured to the Baghdad International Airport for some kind of meeting to discuss a de-escalation of tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia, moderated by the Iraqi Prime Minister. US Defense Secretary Mark Esper - a former lobbyist with Raytheon - has discounted initial White House claims that even Trump now seems to be downplaying, of Soleimani allegedly being in Baghdad to plan attacks on four U.S. embassies.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke more vaguely about "a broad, large-scale attack", which was "imminent" even while admitting he knew nothing about "when or where". This is not surprising for a religious fanatic like Pompeo, who needs no proof for his apocalyptic vision which includes agreeing with a Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) question that "Trump right now has been sort of raised for such a time as this, just like Queen Esther, to help save the Jewish people from an Iranian menace". So clearly there is an Israeli dimension central to the entire stage-play.

On two separate occasions in late 2019, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Mossad chief Yossi Cohen publicly called for Soleimani's assassination.  Even the MSM has churned out the typical "expert" talking heads to control the discourse about these events and Iran generally, without disclosing their ties to various military-industrial companies and pro-Israel think-tanks. This current administration's "hawkish" policies towards Iran is largely shaped by National Security Council official Richard Goldberg, who the entire time he was at the White House was receiving a salary from the Sheldon Adelson-funded pro-Israel think-tank, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

One leading anti-Iran voice in US bipartisan government circles is Patrick Clawson, former senior economist with both the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, who as Research Director for the AIPAC-linked Washington Institute for Near East Policy, delivered a 21 Sept. 2012 speech entitled "How to Build U.S.-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout", calling for "covert means" to "increase the pressure" against Iran.

There are no innocent actors in geopolitical theater

Anyone who is not awoke to the deep connections between Putin and Netanyahu, or more broadly the burgeoning Israeli-Russian alliance, is either willfully ignorant or disinformation agents at this point. The links are there for anyone who cares to think outside the dialectic and venture outside their spoon-feeding limited hangouts, so its not for me to detail the literally hundreds of sources documenting all aspects of that alliance. Just as knowledge is power, so too will an awareness about this unravel the events' real meaning. We should also know that there is no such thing as "saviors" or "innocent victims" in politics, aside from the common people who may be caught up in the crossfire. All have an agenda which could just as well align as easily as they seem to conflict.

Such is the case with the Iranian-Israeli conflict. Their war charade - only "fighting" through a proxy which itself was founded with Israeli connections, according to Israeli spymaster Rafi Eitan - has not prevented both countries from joining the Kremlin's Eurasian Economic Union, and Iran being a hub or Israel a member of China's Belt Road Initiative.

Australian researcher Brendon O'Connell has been doing excellent work detailing the charade and he has also theorized that Soleimani was an Iranian nationalist, often criticizing political elites in Iran and was a rival of leading figures with Globalist connections, like President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The ways that the Iranian government reacts in ways that on one hand are bombastic on the rhetorical level but on the other hand seems to be more concerned with "saving face" than actual meaningful actions, seems to indicate their role within the geopolitical theater.

Iranian lawmakers making their predictable chants of anti-American slogans and burning flags, and Trump's hawkish vocal support for protestors in Iran, so blatantly embolden the most hardline segments in both countries that we have to wonder if this is all by design. I agree with O'Connell that Russia and China, which have close relations with both Iran and Israel, will exploit these events to be the "good guys" in the Mideast as they continue to corral the region into their own respective geopolitical blocs. Indeed, Putin followed up the assassination with trips to Syria and Turkey and capitalized on growing calls to expel U.S. troops by the potential sale of S-400 air defense systems  to Iraq.

Unit 8200 Kill Switch Subversion?

When we look at the involvement of Israel-First subversives in the White House and Russia's close military technological control over Iran (while simultaneously working together as equals with Israel's military), we have to ponder if perhaps the Mossad through some of its back-channels could have fed Iran false signals about a detente with Saudi Arabia to lure Soleimani to Baghdad, while feeding the White House faulty claims that he was there to "plot attacks" against American targets. Especially since no American intelligence source ever made such a claim, and we know that Kushner often has Trump's ears on intelligence matters over the actual American intelligence agencies, it would lend credence to an environment breeding such subversion. This is my working hypothesis.

This leads us to the Israeli military intelligence's Unit 8200, which one expert has called "the foremost technical intelligence agency in the world and stands on a par with the NSA in everything except scale". Graduates of its programs have gone on to assume leading positions at Silicon Valley tech firms and Israeli start-up firms now increasingly being entrusted with an unprecedented level of the American technological sectors.

Science and technology writer Sally Adee has written an informative article documenting the hidden "backdoors" through certain chip technology built into microprocessors in military equipment that can be accessed remotely. This isn't just theory, as even the MSM in 2010 was blaming Israeli hackers behind the Stuxnet malware for attacking Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant.

Who brought down Ukrainian flight PS752?

This now leads us to the recent events, with American activist, producer and "The Antedote" researcher Jeremy Rothe-Kushel raising the hypothesis that this could be what happened with the Iranian missile shooting down Ukrainian flight PS752. As he writes,

"This was an Israeli cyber terrorist attack that triggered Russian-made Iranian anti-aircraft missile system to misfire against a friendly civilian target by a Unit 8200 backdoor into the 'Friend or Foe' ID code, conduited to Israel via Russian technology relations. The Iranians accused Russia years ago of 'selling' the 'codes' to Iran's Russian-supplied anti-aircraft tech to Israel. And it was said that the compromise of the supplied 'codes' would allow 'Foe' Israeli fighters to confuse Iranian anti-aircraft 'Friend or Foe' ID systems to slip through Iranian airspace as 'Friends.' But, of course, the penetrated 'Friend or Foe' ID system could be flipped the other way, turning a 'Friendly' Ukrainian passenger airliner that just took off into a 'Foe' to be shot down, and the system would automate its cyber false-flagged response before human intervention would be feasible, and it could all be tagged to 'human error'."

The missiles seem to have been Russian-made TorM1 missiles and, as I documented in relation to Syria in a 2017 article, there are close military technology links between Israel and Russia. So it would not be out of the realm of possibility for some connection. An email by a Stratfor employee named Reva, dated 26 Feb. 2012 and revealed by Wikileaks, said in relation to the Israeli-made UAVs that had been given to Georgia and later used in its war against Russia (incidentally showing Israel double-crossed Georgia in favor of Russia): "I inquired more about the compromised Israeli UAVs. What he explained was that Israel and Russia made a swap -- Israel gave Russia the 'data link' code for those specific UAVs; in return, Russia gave Israel the codes for Iran's Tor-M1s."

The email went on to say: "I asked about the S-300 (source tracks a lot of defense deals for Jane's). He doesn't think the Russians will give it to the Iranians. Besides, he said... Israel and Turkey have been collaborating very closely on the S-300s. He explain how about 8 years ago when Russia sold S-300s to Greece to base in Crete (which were supposed to protect Cyprus), Russia delivered those with a carrier so that Turkey wouldn't try to sink them. (things got a bit noisy so i may have misheard some of this). The gist of what he said is that Turkey has been cracking the S-300 since the Crete sale and has been sharing intel on the S-300 with the Israelis to ensure that they retain an advantage over Iran should Iran get them from the Russians."

If we remember, Russia has offered to sell Iraq the S-400 system which is a direct upgrade over the S-300, and its not unlikely that Israel knows the codes for the new system too, so that Putin could be setting the Iraqis up for Israeli infiltration. Whether there are American or Russian bases in Iraq, that country will still be reduced to vassal status. One other tenable aspect of the downing of PS752 is that it could similarly harm Iranian-Ukrainian relations - further keeping Iran within the Kremlin's subservient orbit while undermining its own enemy, Ukraine. Such an event would directly benefit a certain "Eurasianist" subversive who already has ties with Iranian hardliners.

The downing also revealed tensions within the Iranian government, specifically between Globalist politicians and a Nationalist military. Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh revealed at a January 11 press conference that the IRGC had requested a no-fly zone due to the heightened tensions and thus the risk that civilian airliners might get caught in the cross-fire, but "it was not approved for certain considerations" by the government. Despite this, Rouhani - with his suspicious links to Jack Straw and thus Lord Levy and the Rothschilds during his time as a PhD candidate in Scotland - has "turned on the Iranian military" by blaming the Revolutionary Guards in a set-up to increase his power vis-a-vis theirs.

Conclusion

My contention is that America and Iran are being set up for a proxy war that will benefit neither country; that certain political elites in both countries are benefiting from it however for their own subversive interests; and that ultimately only three leaders are directly benefiting from this America vs. Iran charade: Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Xi Jinping. Incidentally, its only those three countries - Russia, Israel and China - which seem to be able to escape direct involvement while their various proxies expend their own blood and treasure.

All Eurasian trade routes lead to....Jerusalem? The Bünting 
Map is official property of the National Library of Israel and 
a replica appears outside the Jerusalem City Hall 

The only reason Iran is an "enemy" of America is because of the power of the Israel lobby and think-tanks. Contrary to the dialectic, I am not a fan of the Iranian government either and see it as inundated with corrupted Globalist elites as surely as my own country. Its a repeat of the old Arab-Israeli wars: America is bled dry to the tune of countless billions and consistent military and technological espionage, ensuring that Israel has the "edge". Meanwhile, just like the Soviets gave substandard equipment to its Arab "allies", Russian military aid to Iran is designed to keep Iran in subservience while its "ally" Putin deals with Netanyahu on an equal footing.

War is not inevitable. Rather, US withdrawal is what will be imminent and, while I have been a lifelong non-interventionist and anti-empire, I also see the stage being set for an unprincipled replacement of one empire with another, notwithstanding the obvious legitimate anger against American exceptionalism. One need only look at the Russian Eurasian Economic Union and Chinese Belt and Road Initiative to see who is waiting in the wake of an American withdrawal. Intimate Israeli involvement with both empires and Israeli firms' takeover of global cyber-security, will ensure that Israel remains the regional power in alliance with China and Russia. No other regional power will enjoy any but client status.

A "unipolar" and a "multipolar" world are still parallel poles to the same Globalist dialectic. And, as surely as the trade networks of the ancient and medieval worlds, so too are the modern high-tech trade networks a Globalist interplay of political with mercantile elites. US withdrawal from the region will be balanced by an illusionary economic growth that will grow jobs to placate the public but at the price of outsourced control by oligarchs and firms based in Tel Aviv, Moscow and Beijing....behind which will remain the same banking system but with minor tweaks and new centers of operations.

Zisa, A Swabian Goddess

By Sean Jobst
2nd October 2019

Augsburg. Nestled in the Bavarian part of our cultural region of Schwaben, this is one of the main centers of Swabian heritage and history. A city I want to visit for its historic social housing concept  called the Fuggerei, among other sites. This was also the city where my Oma's uncle, Ludwig Schneider, moved to from our ancestral town of Baldern in the Ostalbkreis, so that family memories intertwined with Augsburg.

Now as a Pagan who has been studying our ancient traditions, I have come across a goddess closely associated with Augsburg: Zisa. She is associated with this time of year, her feast day being 28th September, and thus reconstructionist Swabian Pagans could consecrate that day as Zisastag. Although some have denied such a goddess was even revered (Simek, 52; Kohl, 21-39), other scholars have attested to her from surviving medieval texts and folk traditions. She has harvest and fertility connotations, and is also known as consort of the god Ziu, the Sky Father God whose name stemmed from Proto-Germanic *Tiwaz and was known as Týr to the Scandinavians.

Portrayal of Augsburg from 1550, with
the Perlachturm in the background

Ancient Roots of Augsburg

Zisa is mentioned in at least three medieval manuscripts: Codex Monac and Codex Emmeran from 1135CE, and Suevicarum rerum scriptores by the early 17th-century Swiss jurist Melchior Goldast (Grundy, 85). Her earliest record is the 11th century Latin text Excerptum ex Gallia Historia, a manuscript written by abbots from Ursberg and now held in Wien, wherein its alleged that Augsburg was originally named Cisaris after her. However, another source suggests the original name was Ziusburg, after Ziu who was honored with a special sword dance during which oaths were made (Guerber, 85-86). The Nuremberg Chronicle (1493), better known as Die Schedelsche Weltchronik after its author, has this passage:

"And they chose for themselves the goddess Ziza, whom they believed to be Ceres. After the same goddess the city was named Zizaria. Her temple remained there intact until the time of the Romans, when it fell into ruin. And the city bore the name of a mountain that to this day the inhabitants of Augusta [Augsburg] call the Eisenberg. The city was afterwards protected by the Rhaeti and the Vindelici with walls, turrets and other defenses; and it endured much war at the hands of the Romans. These people always loved freedom and therefore held themselves aloof from the Romans. At a later date the Divine Augustus Octavian sent Titus Ennius, the praetor, with the Marcian Legion, and other generals, against them. In this legion Avar Bogudis, the king's son, a youth trained in weapons among the Greeks and Latins, and Varus (Varro), a tribune of the soldiers, became famous. These besieged the city in the late summer with a large force of Romans, and harassed it in many ways. In this storming Avar the Greek was slain, and he was buried in the village of Creichsaueron. The following inscription has been found indicating his origin and his end. 'The praetor also perished together with his Marcian legion so that few survived that battle who could tell what had taken place. And the destroyed legion gave to the region where the defeat occurred the name that now in the middle of the city is called Perleich [Latin perdita legio 'destroyed legion']'. Thus it is written. The hill here indicates by its name the Roman disaster where the Marcian Legion at once utterly perished. Varus (Varro), whom they called Verres, fled over the water, hid himself in the marshes, and gave his name to Lake Vernensee. Afterwards, that consul died miserably." (Folio XCI Verso)

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle

Commentary

This account is not entirely free from the erroneous, as it repeats the common trope - first invented by the Romans and later repeated by the Christianized Franks - of forging a fictitious link with the ancient Trojans rather than appreciating our ancestors; a motif built upon the three motives of a translatio imperii political agenda, idealizing Greco-Roman Classicism as the measure of "civilization", and a Christianized obsession with the Near East rather than honoring our origins within our own forests, river valleys and mountains. The work also seeks to twist Swabian history into a linear Biblical timeline. Given its close parallels to the event, it seems to be a semi-fictionalized version of the Roman defeat in Teutoburger Wald applied to the Augsburg region.

We do know that Augsburg was "officially" founded as Augusta Vindelicorum in 15BCE, in honor of the Roman Emperor Augustus and named after the local Celtic tribe of the Vindelici. This lends credence to the notion of a pre-Roman history of Augsburg, as the Celts definitely had their own towns which were merely added on by the Romans. I personally came across this trend on travels to Thrace and Anatolia, where I saw Roman-era additions to pre-existing ancient settlements, so why not our Celtic-Germanic ancestors? I tend to agree with at least one Swabian writer who proposes our origins in Germanic Suebi and Alemanni warriors intermarrying with the Celts who previously settled the region and cultivated the land.

Ceres was a Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility - there were multiple ones, as in other pantheons, to accurately describe the multifaceted complexities of nature cycles - so despite the obsession with interpretatio romana, a valid point could be made that Zisa was a localized equivalent of an agriculture/fertility goddess. The Eisenberg or "iron mountain" could have some credence, since the Danubian Celts were indeed known for their advanced iron and bronze works that were esteemed by the Romans. Perhaps "Perleich" survives in the historic Perlachturm and I wonder if, contrary to a Roman link, its not instead related to the goddess Frau Perchta, known "precisely in those Upper German regions where Holda leaves off, in Swabia, in Alsace, in Switzerland, in Bavaria and Austria" (Grimm, 272). But this is entirely speculative.

Die wilde Jagd

The events in Augsburg seem to have taken place sometime in the 1st century BCE and the Romans were defeated due to the timing: The day before was Zisa's feast day and the Suebi warriors were still gathered for the occasion. "They built a great temple to give to Ziza the goddess that they worshipped according to pagan customs in those days," declares a 13th-century poem cited by the German folklorist Jakob Grimm. "The temple long stood uninjured until in age its fall was decreed and as from age it passed away the mountain received its name where the work (werck) had stood, is still called today Zizenberck."

Etymology

Generally skeptical, a German religious history scholar named Kohl points out how a nearby hill named Cisunberc or Cisenberg was attested from a charter dated 1300. He nevertheless discounts the Zisa-based etymology by pointing out Old German glosses to Latin texts called Augsburg "Agistadium" or "Eistetin", which he suggests derived from the masculine personal name Agi/Egi. There could be some credence to this, if we consider Egi as a common name among Swabian nobility, while Agi seems to be a localized version of the Greek female name Agatha.

Kohl proposed that Zisa/Cisa was invented by the author of the Excerptum - despite being a Christian abbot - as an explanation for the place-name Cisenberg. Rather, he suggests that its origin was Cisaeara, "altar of Cisa" in Latin; or that it derived from "mountain on which siskins [zeisige, a type of finch bird] nest" or "mountain in the form of a breast (zitze)." But this latter explanation would not necessarily discount a goddess named Zisa, as breasts were symbolic of fertility goddesses - certainly within our Swabian region, going back at least to the "Venus of Hohle Fels" figurine 35,000-40,000 years ago, made from mammoth ivory and suggesting the prehistoric roots in "Our Lady of the Mammoth".

Venus of Hohle Fels

"Isis of the Suebi"?

Worldwide, the Earth was traditionally personified as a goddess who nurtured her children and was fertilized by the Sky who was personified as a god. This Earth Goddess was known under different localized names. In Germania, the Roman Cornelius Tacitus alluded to an earth goddess known as "Isis of the Suebi", whose identity is unknown but likely a local goddess with whom he found some common qualities as the Egyptian goddess Isis, as it was the Roman custom to compare deities of different cultures.

Nigel Pennick regards Zisa as a localized Earth Goddess, while Grimm thought Tacitus' "Isis of the Suebi" was actually a reference to Zisa (Grimm, 298-299). A predecessor in this view seemed to be Konrad Peutinger (1465-1547), a German humanist and jurist who also served as a senior official in the municipal government of the Imperial City of Augsburg, who earlier proposed the same connection (Pieper, 500).

I discount Grimm's idea that "Isis of the Suebi" was Zisa, as her cult involved a ship and that symbolism does not seem to have been common in the region. It seems most likely to have been the Frisian goddess Nehalennia, whose emblem was the ship. So that was a Northern German figure, perhaps indicative again of Tacitus' erroneous knowledge of the different practices of the Germanic tribes. For unlike the imperial centralized Roman Cult, while there were common deities among all the Germanic or Celtic tribes, there were also many localized deities as seen for example in the various Matronae.

Matronae altar from Rheinland

Zisa Remnants Surviving Under Christianization

There were many surviving remnants of Zisa worship, long after Christianization. Grimm mentioned a pagan Swabian Duke named Esenerius, who built a chapel in his castle in Hillomondt (now called Kempten), in the southern region of Schwaben, with a venerated image of Zisa (Pennick, 109). A plaque on a church outside the city walls said: "Impious worship long ago defiled the Gallusberg, and then offered it to you, Ziza" (Wood, 95).

The catholic Church of St. Peter am Perlach was built over Zisa's temple grounds at Zisenburg. The Suebi knew Tuesday as "Zistag" in her honor, a name banned by the Diocese of Augsburg to eradicate our indigenous traditions and renamed it "Aftermontag" (Schreiwer and Eckhart, 72-74), much like it renamed Wednesday "Mittwoch" from "Wotanstag". Nevertheless, the names of our European deities generally survive in days of the week.

"Mary, Undoer of Knots"

Much like various pre-Christian goddesses were identified with the Virgin Mary, so too was Zisa Christianized as "Maria Knotenlöserin" (Mary Untier/Undoer of Knots). Her image as such was portrayed in the Baroque "Mary, Undoer of Knots" (1700) by Augsburg painter Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner (1625-1705). This painting is currently inside St. Peter am Perlach, whose Perlachturm has a weathervane topped with a woman wearing a crown and holding a pinecone; the crown can loosely be Christianized as the "Queen of Heaven" while the pinecone is a common ancient pre-Abrahamic motif as we will see later.

The "knots" imagery is a peculiar one without a Christian basis, but employs native Germanic imagery of individual fate or destiny, called Urlag in Old High German, symbolically "spinning" and "weaving" into the broader Web of Wurt. Etymology provides a fuller meaning of this symbolism: Respectively, Proto-Germanic *uz- "out" + *laga "situation, law"; and Proto-Indo-European *wert- "to turn, rotate" and Proto-Germanic *wirþ- "to come to pass, to become, to be due". Thus describing fate in terms of Natural Law, not a fixed "fate" in later Abrahamic notions.

Web of Wurt....and the Runes

Within this role, Zisa and other goddesses of fate or destiny loosen the "knots and tangles" of troubles, smoothing the way to prosperity and well-being. Zisa undoes Urlag if one's cause is just (Schreiwer and Eckhart, 72-74), much like her husband Ziu is also associated with justice. In our ancient Germanic lore, "weaving" and "spinning" also had shamanic/magical connotations, but this imagery survived the literalist Christians who failed to see the deeper symbolism behind such imagery, which they reduced to actual "weaving" and "spinning" of yarn.

Renaissance as a Pagan Revival

Some of my favorite contemporary thinkers have made a compelling case that the Renaissance was a Pagan revival, with its classical ideas and laying the foundations for the Romantic period when there was a celebration of folk customs and ethnic traditions. This would not necessarily be conscious (as indeed few Renaissance thinkers would have proclaimed themselves Pagan), but rather operating on what Carl Jung called the Collective Unconscious, which boiled forth through new trends in European societies.

Goldener Saal, Augsburg Rathaus

German humanists from the Renaissance associated the images of various women around Augsburg with Zisa, including some in churches and some dug up in the city (Kohl, 21-29). This includes a red-dressed woman in the Augsburg Town Hall's Golden Hall (Pennick, 107-108), which is interesting because Ziu is also associated with red - another expression of the divine marriage of masculine and feminine, especially pertinent here since Ziu being the Sky Father would naturally have an Earth Mother as his consort.

The local humanists tended to extol Greco-Roman mythological figures, so that depictions of Medusa that appeared in Augsburg from this time can be seen as veiled references to the native Zisa, including the Medusenhaupt that was at the evangelisch Ulrichskirche. The humanist and historian Markus Welser (1558-1614) referred to the "great stone Götz, which can be seen to this day above the gate of St. Ulrich's Church." In 1457, the local Benedictine monk Sigmund Meisterlin depicted Zisa in his Chronographie Augustensium, illustrated by the councilman Hektor Mülich (1420-1489).

Augsburg Coat of Arms

Pinecone: A Symbol of Abundance, Regeneration, and the Third Eye

Aside from the symbolic knots, Zisa is also associated with the pinecone, particularly the Zirbelnuss or Swiss pinecone, which appears on Augsburg's Coat of Arms, called the Stadtpir. The city's original symbol was a bunch of grapes - Augster being a type of grapes, hence a possible origin of the name. Grapes and pinecones are symbolic of fertility and abundance, fitting in with my view that Zisa is a localized version of the Earth Mother goddess. The pinecone also symbolizes protection, regeneration, and continuity.

The pinecone motif commonly appeared among the Greeks and Romans as the thrysus, an ivy leaf-covered staff topped with a pinecone. The fertility and wine god known as Dionysus to the Greeks and Bacchus to the Romans was shown with a thrysus and, not surprising given his other quality was ecstasy, Dionysian initiates used it for their mystic rituals. Callimachus, a Greek historian of the 3rd century BCE, described an Athenian sculpture of a dancing maenad - as female followers of Dionysus were called - holding a thrysus and dating to the 5th century. The Romans built a massive bronze pinecone sculpture called the pigna that sat atop the Pantheon.

The Greek god Dionysus with the thyrsus

Fontana della Pigna, Roma

The Myths are allegories of deeper natural and cosmic forces, not to be taken literally, so that in this way the pinecone symbolizes Zisa as a protectoress over the Swabians. This is because the pinecone's multiple layers protect its delicate seeds. Another layer of meaning (pardon the pun) can be seen in the pineal gland, called such due to its resemblance to the pinecone. Producing melatonin, the pineal gland has a direct connection to sleep and waking states. One's level of melatonin is based on the amount of light one is exposed to, which the ancients recognized through the sacredness of the Sun and deities associated with light-bringing and different aspects of brightness.

However, the fact that the pineal gland releases greater amounts of melatonin when dark shows this interplay of darkness and light. The ancients understood the natural cycle of birth, death and rebirth, that life can come from death as can be observed within nature. Hence, the pinecone was also a symbol of regeneration because it releases its seeds after a fire and from those scattered seeds new life grows. No surprise then that the gland named after this symbol would also have esoteric associations with the Third Eye and thus expanded consciousness. As Above, So Below. As Within, So Without.

Natural mysteries: Just as the pineal gland resembles the pinecone, the
ancients instinctively knew the cerebellum resembled tree trunks;
encoded it within various spiral symbols like the triskele

A large pinecone from a nearby forest, on part of my ancestor altar

Sources:

Grimm, Jakob. Teutonic Mythology, trans. James Stallybrass, Vol. 1. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882.

Grundy, Stephan. "Freyja and Frigg," The Concept of the Goddess. Sandra Billington and Miranda Green, eds. New York: Routledge, 1998, pp. 56-67.

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Analysis of the Christchurch Attacks: Reactions and Geopolitics (Part 2)

by Sean Jobst
25 April 2019

@7:00 - "It is now second to the United States. That tall tower there is the United States. The United States is bigger than Israel. But it ain't that much bigger than Israel! And Israel is number two. Israel is 1/10th of 1% of the world's population and we are receiving 20% of the global share in private cyber security investments. That's 200 times our weight in the world. What this revolution is doing - big data, AI, and connectivity - is allowing small countries to be big countries."

@9:51 - "Our NSA which is called Unit 8200. It's pretty big. How big do you think it is? Hmm? Well, I'll give you a hint, okay. America, the United States, is about 42 times the size of Israel in terms of population. So how much bigger do you think the American NSA is relative to the Israeli NSA? No brave people among you? 42 times, 40 times? Nah, come on, stop. Its not five times, but its not ten times bigger. It's not even ten times bigger. You know the Five Eyes? Israel is the sixth Eye? No, Israel is the second Eye!"

Netanyahu has his sights on the Five Eyes

At the end of this January, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the Cybertech 2019 conference in Tel Aviv, in which he made several revealing statements. Reiterating his recurrent boasts about the growth of Israel among global cyber-security and tech firms, and with the United States led by what's continuously revealed to be the most "Make Israel Great Again" President, an ungrateful Netanyahu made boasts clearly setting up Israel as a competitor seeking to replace the power of its foremost "ally".

What most concerns us here are his boasts about Israel, through the power of its Unit 8200, being the "second Eye" and in the process, implying that Israel will displace Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the UK in this global intelligence-sharing community. Both its timing only a month-and-a-half before the Christchurch attacks, and the Internet censorship efforts following those attacks, should lead us to wonder if there is a connection? Especially in what I discussed previously about a push to move New Zealand out of the full confidence of the Five Eyes given questions about the vulnerability of their intelligence services. We can further make connections with earlier comments by Netanyahu.

"Declaration of War"

On 23 December 2016, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2334, which was co-sponsored by New Zealand. It condemned the building of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Despite the fact that many previous resolutions had condemned the settlements and were never enforced, even if the UN had the means to do so never mind the will, Netanyahu took an especially harsh reaction against New Zealand, issuing what he termed a "declaration of war", and recalling the Israeli ambassador. The Foreign Minister's office was vandalized with the words "Traitor Jew Hater McCully". Diplomatic relations were only restored six months later. This followed Israel's warning to New Zealand not to draft a UN resolution supporting peace talks in 2015.


When an earthquake struck Christchurch in 2011, a Mossad ring was accidentally uncovered when five passports were found on the corpse of an Israeli who had died in that earthquake, and three of his colleagues had promptly flew back to Israel. The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service was suspicious that Netanyahu had phoned Prime Minister John Key no less than four times that day; how both the Australia-based Israeli Ambassador and the Israeli Defense Minister rushed to Christchurch; and an Israeli forensics team wandered into the sealed-off "red zone" and were given access to the police national database. We can thus add a concrete Israeli dimension to the "juicier target" threat.

Mossad activities in the region

Ex-Mossad whistleblower Victor Ostrovsky has revealed that Mossad operates a "passport factory" that churns out stolen Australian and New Zealand passports for many of their operations, most notably in the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai on 19 January 2010. He revealed that passports from those two countries are favored by Mossad due to their geographic isolation and thus their accents not as well-known in many areas of the world. The New Zealand government imposed diplomatic sanctions on Israel after two Mossad agents, Eli Cara and Uriel Kelman, were convicted of passport fraud in Auckland in 2004.

A security official revealed that the two were linked with a fugitive Mossad agent named Zev Barkan, connected to an "Israeli terrorist cell operating out of Thailand": "He goes to Laos, Cambodia, Burma and Thailand and deals with gangs that he pays to kill tourists steal their identity papers, passports, most just disappear or their deaths have been reported as accidents, drownings and such. They like to throw their victims off the side of tour boats. Barkan is mostly interested in passports and identity documents, there have been a number of Australians killed for their passports."

There is a peculiar link to the international Chabad movement, which operates branches throughout the region despite the small population of Jews. While providing a spiritual cover, such as presiding over "Noahide" cults in the Philippines, their activities in Thailand raise the question if their activities could also be used as cover by the Mossad. In August 2017, the Thai Army found smuggled weapons in a raid at the Chabad House and an Israeli's Search and Rescue Clinic. The Chabad House in Bangkok is "a backpacker haven packed with young Israeli travelers", which should make us wonder if any of those "backpackers" are Mossad agents. For that matter, what was Brenton Tarrant doing in Israel for the nine days he spent there in 2016?   

A selection of Tarrant's manifesto; pictures of
the Freemason and "Templar" Anders Breivik

Tarrant, Breivik, and the Reconstituted "Knights Templar"?

In his manifesto, Tarrant went out of his way to disclaim any connection to "any organization or group, though I have donated to many nationalist groups and have interacted with many more," almost like doing the latter was to provide the excuse for censorship as I described in Part 1. He alluded to a "reborn Knights Templar" which allegedly gave him "a blessing in support of the attack". This is the same "group" that Anders Breivik, the Norwegian who killed 77 in a bombing and mass shooting in 2011, claimed to belong. As we read in the above selection, Tarrant cited Breivik as his role model and primary inspiration.

Whereas Tarrant's 77-page manifesto was sloppier and full of grammatical errors, Breivik's 1500-page manifesto which he termed "2083: A European Declaration of Independence", was more complex and sophisticated, purporting to be an academic work for the shadowy group. Indeed, its cover displayed a Templar cross on the cover and the tagline "Christi Templique Solomonici", which aside from Templar connotations also alludes to efforts to rebuild the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, a favored cause of many Chabadist-Zionist groups and whose symbolism has long been employed by Freemasons; until his post-attack expulsion from the order, Breivik was a member of the Lodge of St. Olaf at the Three Columns in Oslo.

Giving himself the rank "Justiciar Knight", Breivik claimed that he refounded the Knights Templar around with eight others in London in 2002, as an "international Christian military order" and "anti-Jihad crusader-organization". The Knights Templar are the notorious subject of acceptable scope of "conspiracies" pushed by the mainstream, but even mainstream media admits there is no link to this modern group or the medieval group of knights. Rather, it seems to be a brand adopted to invest a sense of occultic mystique around some figure or event, adopted even by a group that splintered from the La Familia drug cartel in the Mexican state of Michoacan. In the case of Breivik and Tarrant, it was clearly adopted as imagery of a Clash of Civilizations.

Anders Breivik, Crusader for Israel

As part of their own effort to push this dialectical Clash of Civilizations, the elites and their media have portrayed Breivik as a "Nazi". Knowing that the public is not prone to appreciate nuances, they portray the gestures he has made in the courtroom as the infamous "Nazi salute". Aside from the fact that the Roman salute long predated anything associated with Hitler, and indeed has its original roots as a votive offering by ancient Iberians (thus the original name Salutatio Iberica), Breivik's clenched fist salute seems to be a copy of the radical Zionist Kahanists, Jewish Defense League (JDL), and Kach movement than anything native European.

Breivik made his reality clear in his manifesto, that he is a crusader for the cause of Israel: "So let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionists" (page 1166). His manifesto was filled with praise of Israel and Zionism and the standard denunciations of "anti-Semitism" in a way that fits the Zionist narrative: "If one acknowledges that Islam has always oppressed the Jews, one accepts that Israel was a necessary refuge for the Jews fleeing not only the European, but also the Islamic variety of anti-Judaism."

Those last words are especially significant, since they seemed to have bought into the Zionist narrative that European heritage and culture was also intrinsically "anti-Semitic" and so going along with the Zionist agenda is a sort of obligation to shed our "guilt". He expressed his belief in the holocaust: "I don't find the anti-holocaust evidence credible so I don't see a reason why anyone should deny the Jewish holocaust" (page 1366), a simplistic dismissal of revisionist scholarship. All of these and more lead me to agree with the Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, that Breivik had Mossad links. At the very least, we can see who clearly benefits from both Breivik and Tarrant.