Just a quick promotion of a music review blog I have established to cater for my far too big collection of music.
The name is The Sound Of Fighting Cats and the url is http://thesoundoffightingcats.blogspot.com/
It will be updated when I feel for it and it will be a bit tongue-in-cheek blog.
Friday, 10 February 2012
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Political correctness
I am one of those who does not believe in:
Racism as a mean to discriminate others
Homophobia as a mean to discriminate others
Sexism as a mean to discriminate others
Genocide as a justified political tool
Racism as a justified political tool
Nastiness as a justified political tool
Class war as a justified political tool to enrich a single individual
Terror as a justified political tool to enrich a single individual
The Bible as an excuse to lie, murder others, exploit others for sex and enrich myself
The Koran as an excuse to lie, murder others, exploit others for sex and enrich myself
My beliefs and moral standards is broadly speaking The Ten Commandments + do to others what you want them to do to yourself.
That makes me.......... sigh........ horror of all horrors and shame being heaped upon myself and my family...... a political correct person. Something we are all told to believe is the ultimate sin. Racist.... OK ..... Communist... Very good !..... Nazi... OK. But political correct ? Oh horrible shame. He was such a good child and he was studying to become a doctor. Then he became political correct and he brought shame upon our family and our village.
Some sarcasm aside, I don't think any of us has failed to notice that political correct has become a swearword on the same level as a nazi and holocaust denier. This by people with what I would call dubious moral values. See my list above.
My definition of political correct is conservative or liberal who does not believe in racism, genocide, lies, murder, exploitative sex, homophobia and sheer nastiness as political or personal tools. I personally does not hate anyone. But I am not the reincarnated Frans Of Assis either. I believe in normal moral values as the guidance for how to live a life. That for me is political correct.
Now, I am out of the closet and that too as a............ horror, shock, horror....... man with rather conservative values. I do not believe in radicalism and any sudden upheavals. For me, Stalin and Hitler is the same type of muck and may they continue to burn in hell. I don't believe in conspiracies either. I don't believe in racism too or that any races is smarter than any others. I believe in treating everyone with respect.
I am political correct and I am not ashamed of that. And I will fight for a society based on respect for all human beings. The type of society those who use political correct as a swearword wants to destroy and replace with their own very dubious values. The values that has killed many millions of people during the last 100 years. And that is the next fight our civilization is now facing. Do not take our humane society for granted. It is here today and maybe replaced with a murdering regime tomorrow unless we remember the lessons from the history.
Regard this as a call to arms.
Racism as a mean to discriminate others
Homophobia as a mean to discriminate others
Sexism as a mean to discriminate others
Genocide as a justified political tool
Racism as a justified political tool
Nastiness as a justified political tool
Class war as a justified political tool to enrich a single individual
Terror as a justified political tool to enrich a single individual
The Bible as an excuse to lie, murder others, exploit others for sex and enrich myself
The Koran as an excuse to lie, murder others, exploit others for sex and enrich myself
My beliefs and moral standards is broadly speaking The Ten Commandments + do to others what you want them to do to yourself.
That makes me.......... sigh........ horror of all horrors and shame being heaped upon myself and my family...... a political correct person. Something we are all told to believe is the ultimate sin. Racist.... OK ..... Communist... Very good !..... Nazi... OK. But political correct ? Oh horrible shame. He was such a good child and he was studying to become a doctor. Then he became political correct and he brought shame upon our family and our village.
Some sarcasm aside, I don't think any of us has failed to notice that political correct has become a swearword on the same level as a nazi and holocaust denier. This by people with what I would call dubious moral values. See my list above.
My definition of political correct is conservative or liberal who does not believe in racism, genocide, lies, murder, exploitative sex, homophobia and sheer nastiness as political or personal tools. I personally does not hate anyone. But I am not the reincarnated Frans Of Assis either. I believe in normal moral values as the guidance for how to live a life. That for me is political correct.
Now, I am out of the closet and that too as a............ horror, shock, horror....... man with rather conservative values. I do not believe in radicalism and any sudden upheavals. For me, Stalin and Hitler is the same type of muck and may they continue to burn in hell. I don't believe in conspiracies either. I don't believe in racism too or that any races is smarter than any others. I believe in treating everyone with respect.
I am political correct and I am not ashamed of that. And I will fight for a society based on respect for all human beings. The type of society those who use political correct as a swearword wants to destroy and replace with their own very dubious values. The values that has killed many millions of people during the last 100 years. And that is the next fight our civilization is now facing. Do not take our humane society for granted. It is here today and maybe replaced with a murdering regime tomorrow unless we remember the lessons from the history.
Regard this as a call to arms.
The blogsphere
One of the biggest revolutions in mass communications during the last one hundred thousand years has been the advent of blogs. A revolution that I also believe spawned Facebook and Twitter (both is compressed blogs). As a revolution, blogs is almost on the same level as Gutenberg's bible.
Blogs can be a lot of things. Profoundly touching blogs like cancer sufferers who want to get things of their chest before they passes away. I have read some of them and I have cried a lot for people I have no idea who was before I read their blogs. I have found their blogs and their personalities extreme giving and rewarding. The greatness of the mankind is manifested in these blogs and I highly recommend these blogs.
We also have blogs written by teenagers who reveals too much and earn too much on product placements. Some bloggers can earn an obscene amount of money on their blogs. Fair game to them and good luck.
Then we have the casual blogger who writes about their favorite pets and tribulations in life. This is the true revolution in communication. Thoughts and daily occurences observations which is as important to us than someone detonating a bomb in a street somewhere. I am a big fan of the ordinary, of the ordinary man and woman who lives ordinary life. Bring the blogs on and documentations of these lives. It has both a confirmation and a historical value. I hope I never ever sink so low that I make fun out of these blogs. After all; a pet dog with a sore paw is not to turn a nose up on. Trivial, but important.
Blogs are also being used to spread music now and other copyrighted material. Pirate blogs, in other words.
Most of the quality online music magazines today are published on blogger platforms like Wordpress which is a superb platform for online magazines. No xtra work with layouts and a lot of the types of quality the best journalists would be happy with.
Then we have the not so pretty blog scene. Those who inadvertently replicates Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in their bitter attack on those they hate. That may be Christian/Jews who hates Arabs. Arabs who hates Jews. Christians who hates Arabs and Jews....... well, you get my drifts. All these hate blogs seeking to justify genocides, final solutions, extreme political views or mostly; the blogger's bitterness over a life that has not turned out like the blogger wished it had. Or it can be a blogger who got the sack from a job and want to get even. I call these blogs for "holy crusades" blogs. It is mostly the extreme left and the extreme right who uses blogs to spread their mentally disturbed messages. Moderates and people with a no-genocide agenda is not that active with blogs. It is a bit sad that we socalled "political correct" who does not advocates genocides is leaving the blogspheres to the political loonies. But then again; our opinions and views are being published in newspapers and mainstream media. Loonies are not. Their only platform are blogs.
Being a triviality and loony platform demeans the blogsphere and under values it. I have read a lot of blogs lately, written by complete strangers from all corners of the world. My impression is that there are some truly great stuff out here. Stuff that really deserves a great audience. I think blogs is a truly great invention and long may this continue.
This note has been dedicated to the bloggers who has sadly passed away while I was reading their very poignant blogs. God Bless.
Blogs can be a lot of things. Profoundly touching blogs like cancer sufferers who want to get things of their chest before they passes away. I have read some of them and I have cried a lot for people I have no idea who was before I read their blogs. I have found their blogs and their personalities extreme giving and rewarding. The greatness of the mankind is manifested in these blogs and I highly recommend these blogs.
We also have blogs written by teenagers who reveals too much and earn too much on product placements. Some bloggers can earn an obscene amount of money on their blogs. Fair game to them and good luck.
Then we have the casual blogger who writes about their favorite pets and tribulations in life. This is the true revolution in communication. Thoughts and daily occurences observations which is as important to us than someone detonating a bomb in a street somewhere. I am a big fan of the ordinary, of the ordinary man and woman who lives ordinary life. Bring the blogs on and documentations of these lives. It has both a confirmation and a historical value. I hope I never ever sink so low that I make fun out of these blogs. After all; a pet dog with a sore paw is not to turn a nose up on. Trivial, but important.
Blogs are also being used to spread music now and other copyrighted material. Pirate blogs, in other words.
Most of the quality online music magazines today are published on blogger platforms like Wordpress which is a superb platform for online magazines. No xtra work with layouts and a lot of the types of quality the best journalists would be happy with.
Then we have the not so pretty blog scene. Those who inadvertently replicates Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf in their bitter attack on those they hate. That may be Christian/Jews who hates Arabs. Arabs who hates Jews. Christians who hates Arabs and Jews....... well, you get my drifts. All these hate blogs seeking to justify genocides, final solutions, extreme political views or mostly; the blogger's bitterness over a life that has not turned out like the blogger wished it had. Or it can be a blogger who got the sack from a job and want to get even. I call these blogs for "holy crusades" blogs. It is mostly the extreme left and the extreme right who uses blogs to spread their mentally disturbed messages. Moderates and people with a no-genocide agenda is not that active with blogs. It is a bit sad that we socalled "political correct" who does not advocates genocides is leaving the blogspheres to the political loonies. But then again; our opinions and views are being published in newspapers and mainstream media. Loonies are not. Their only platform are blogs.
Being a triviality and loony platform demeans the blogsphere and under values it. I have read a lot of blogs lately, written by complete strangers from all corners of the world. My impression is that there are some truly great stuff out here. Stuff that really deserves a great audience. I think blogs is a truly great invention and long may this continue.
This note has been dedicated to the bloggers who has sadly passed away while I was reading their very poignant blogs. God Bless.
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
A warning from the history: Socialism
This year is going to be a hellish year for most of us in Europe and the rest of the world. Huge unemployment and social unrest. Iran is stewing on a nuclear bomb and Israel/USA may attack them. One month in and I think it is safe to declare this year as the annus horribles already.
It is tempting to grab the tail of some flea ridden dogs from the past and trying to re- introduce them as cosy poodles again. Socialism is one of them. A brilliant idea....... on paper. The reality is totally different though.
Socialism is a brilliant idea on paper. But as the history has proven time after time; all socialist regimes sooner or later turns into national-socialism and sometimes genocidal murdering regimes. There is no socialist regimes on this planet who has not morphed into national-socialism and pure racism.
Let's have a look.....
Russia/USSR: Very much socialism mixed with nationalism. Murdering terror regimes. A lot of anti-semitism and racism towards other minorities. Genocides. Environmental disasters. Famines killing millions.
Cuba: Socialism based on patriotism towards Cuba and xenophobia against other nations. A socialism turned into nationalism and national socialism.
Nicaragua: See Cuba.
Venezuela: See Cuba.
China: Socialism mixed with nationalism and racism towards all other races than the Chinese-Asian one. Patriotism and nationalism is the central tenet in the socialism in China and has always been that. International socialists were purged out of the party and to an early grave back in the Cultural revolution.
Vietnam: More nationalism than socialism from the beginning and has not moved away from a national-socialist ideology. Very racist towards the Chinese minority and there was some massacres based on racism at the end of the 1970s. Hence the Chinese invasion of some square kilometers of Vietnam at that time.
Cambodia: The Khmer ideology is a racist, national-socialist strand of socialism. The Vietnamese population, among others, was the subject of a genocide under Pol Pot and Vietnam invaded Cambodia and ended the Pol Pot genocidal, racist regime. Pol Pot then withdrew and ran a guerilla war based on racism.
North Korea: The central tenet of their regime and socialism is juche, a nationalist ideology with strong racist overtones. The North Korean regime propaganda tells their people media and in newspapers that all other people are sub humans and inferior to the Korean master race.
United Kingdom: The central tenet among the two most significant figures in the socialism, Arthur Scargill and Tommy Sheridan, is the belief in the strong man, the strong leader. Arthur Scargill had paintings of himself as a Stalin/Hitler figure being admired by the masses in a rally displayed in his office. Tommy Sheridan's lurid personal failings and double standards is well documented in media and in the courts. But he still insists that the only road to socialism in United Kingdom goes through blind obedience towards him.
In short, the history of socialism is enough to serve as a warning against dressing up this flea ridden dog as a cosy poodle again. Once bitten; twice shy. Only political ideologies who recognice the negatives and the postives in the mankind is the answer to our needs. Socialism, nee racism and national socialism is not the answer to the tribulations this and next year.
Let's prove that we as human beings are smarter than animals. Let's learn from our mistakes.
It is tempting to grab the tail of some flea ridden dogs from the past and trying to re- introduce them as cosy poodles again. Socialism is one of them. A brilliant idea....... on paper. The reality is totally different though.
Socialism is a brilliant idea on paper. But as the history has proven time after time; all socialist regimes sooner or later turns into national-socialism and sometimes genocidal murdering regimes. There is no socialist regimes on this planet who has not morphed into national-socialism and pure racism.
Let's have a look.....
Russia/USSR: Very much socialism mixed with nationalism. Murdering terror regimes. A lot of anti-semitism and racism towards other minorities. Genocides. Environmental disasters. Famines killing millions.
Cuba: Socialism based on patriotism towards Cuba and xenophobia against other nations. A socialism turned into nationalism and national socialism.
Nicaragua: See Cuba.
Venezuela: See Cuba.
China: Socialism mixed with nationalism and racism towards all other races than the Chinese-Asian one. Patriotism and nationalism is the central tenet in the socialism in China and has always been that. International socialists were purged out of the party and to an early grave back in the Cultural revolution.
Vietnam: More nationalism than socialism from the beginning and has not moved away from a national-socialist ideology. Very racist towards the Chinese minority and there was some massacres based on racism at the end of the 1970s. Hence the Chinese invasion of some square kilometers of Vietnam at that time.
Cambodia: The Khmer ideology is a racist, national-socialist strand of socialism. The Vietnamese population, among others, was the subject of a genocide under Pol Pot and Vietnam invaded Cambodia and ended the Pol Pot genocidal, racist regime. Pol Pot then withdrew and ran a guerilla war based on racism.
North Korea: The central tenet of their regime and socialism is juche, a nationalist ideology with strong racist overtones. The North Korean regime propaganda tells their people media and in newspapers that all other people are sub humans and inferior to the Korean master race.
United Kingdom: The central tenet among the two most significant figures in the socialism, Arthur Scargill and Tommy Sheridan, is the belief in the strong man, the strong leader. Arthur Scargill had paintings of himself as a Stalin/Hitler figure being admired by the masses in a rally displayed in his office. Tommy Sheridan's lurid personal failings and double standards is well documented in media and in the courts. But he still insists that the only road to socialism in United Kingdom goes through blind obedience towards him.
In short, the history of socialism is enough to serve as a warning against dressing up this flea ridden dog as a cosy poodle again. Once bitten; twice shy. Only political ideologies who recognice the negatives and the postives in the mankind is the answer to our needs. Socialism, nee racism and national socialism is not the answer to the tribulations this and next year.
Let's prove that we as human beings are smarter than animals. Let's learn from our mistakes.
US elections, honesty and the cost of our welfare
BBC published some stats today which I found very revealing and myth busting.
It is claimed in the media and the newspapers that the major European nations has an enormous health and welfare costs compared to the ones in the USA. The US president candidates goes on and on about this. They are warning the voters about US becoming like Europe with their crippling welfare states.
The truth is very different though........ But who really cares about the truth when lies are so much sexier ? In case you do; please read on....
United Kingdom is said to have a crippling big health sector (named NHS) with a bad service, the US politicians says. So let's get the facts here: NHS cost 9.8 % of our GDP. In the USA where the health care is supposed to be covered by the private sector; the health cost 17.4 % of the GDP. Money wise and with USA's far bigger economy (5 x more people living there than in United Kingdom), we are talking about a massive bigger difference than only 8 % of GDP.
Another factor in this is the NHS's very fast turnaround time if you break a leg (God forbid). You are off work and back to work in a very short time = less welfare payments and more tax earning for the state. I know this from personal experiences. I have had some sudden impacts with the geography in United Kingdom (on my bikerides) and have visited altogether nine different hospitals. Brilliant care and standards everywhere despite of my personal injuries.
Btw the percentage of GDP the health service costs in France is 11.8 % and 11.6 % in Germany. That means all the three biggest countries in Europe has a cheaper health service (in GDP) than USA. And that is really a mystery to me why a free market health system can cost a state 1/5 of it's GDP. There must be something totally flawed in the system which is far bigger than Obamacare or the Republicans vs Democrats in a president election.
The welfare state.......... Same problem issue there. The US welfare state costs 19.5 % of their GDP. In Germany, the cost are 27.6 %, in France 30.7 % and 24.3 % in the UK. The figures are wrong taken into account that you don't get welfare payments in the US after 99 weeks while the system in Germany, France and United Kingdom is universal, or from cradle to the grave to be more precise. If we take the 99 weeks into account in the three European nations, the real figures is very probably far less than the US figures of 19.5 %.
In short; there is something totally flawed in the US system and that costs the US taxpayer an obscene amount of extra money. There is massive savings to be made here due to these flaws in the system. Flaws which very probably is inefficiencies, mismanagments and creative accounting. Something that does not sounds like free markets to me. It frankly sounds like *dripping with sarcasm* the good old USSR to me.
That frankly make me laugh out loud when the US president election candidates warns their voters about the European health and welfare systems. Europe is cursed with a lot of problems. But not with that kind of double dealings and standards. Thank God for that !
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16583813
It is claimed in the media and the newspapers that the major European nations has an enormous health and welfare costs compared to the ones in the USA. The US president candidates goes on and on about this. They are warning the voters about US becoming like Europe with their crippling welfare states.
The truth is very different though........ But who really cares about the truth when lies are so much sexier ? In case you do; please read on....
United Kingdom is said to have a crippling big health sector (named NHS) with a bad service, the US politicians says. So let's get the facts here: NHS cost 9.8 % of our GDP. In the USA where the health care is supposed to be covered by the private sector; the health cost 17.4 % of the GDP. Money wise and with USA's far bigger economy (5 x more people living there than in United Kingdom), we are talking about a massive bigger difference than only 8 % of GDP.
Another factor in this is the NHS's very fast turnaround time if you break a leg (God forbid). You are off work and back to work in a very short time = less welfare payments and more tax earning for the state. I know this from personal experiences. I have had some sudden impacts with the geography in United Kingdom (on my bikerides) and have visited altogether nine different hospitals. Brilliant care and standards everywhere despite of my personal injuries.
Btw the percentage of GDP the health service costs in France is 11.8 % and 11.6 % in Germany. That means all the three biggest countries in Europe has a cheaper health service (in GDP) than USA. And that is really a mystery to me why a free market health system can cost a state 1/5 of it's GDP. There must be something totally flawed in the system which is far bigger than Obamacare or the Republicans vs Democrats in a president election.
The welfare state.......... Same problem issue there. The US welfare state costs 19.5 % of their GDP. In Germany, the cost are 27.6 %, in France 30.7 % and 24.3 % in the UK. The figures are wrong taken into account that you don't get welfare payments in the US after 99 weeks while the system in Germany, France and United Kingdom is universal, or from cradle to the grave to be more precise. If we take the 99 weeks into account in the three European nations, the real figures is very probably far less than the US figures of 19.5 %.
In short; there is something totally flawed in the US system and that costs the US taxpayer an obscene amount of extra money. There is massive savings to be made here due to these flaws in the system. Flaws which very probably is inefficiencies, mismanagments and creative accounting. Something that does not sounds like free markets to me. It frankly sounds like *dripping with sarcasm* the good old USSR to me.
That frankly make me laugh out loud when the US president election candidates warns their voters about the European health and welfare systems. Europe is cursed with a lot of problems. But not with that kind of double dealings and standards. Thank God for that !
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16583813
Ozzy Osbourne
....... who is probably drinking a cup of tea, reading the new issue of the 60+ Magazine, working out in the gym, working on some music, being with his family or sleeping. He is not dead and this is not an obituary.
I have been an admirer of his and Black Sabbath's music for more than half of my life. His first solo albums is really good (with Diary Of A Madman as my favorite) and so is the first Black Sabbath albums. And here is a quest for you: How many Django Reinhardt riffs & references did Tony Iommi sneak into the first four Black Sabbath albums ? The answer is a lot.
Back to Ozzy though. He grew up in Aston, Birmingham. An area in England who also spawned the likes of Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Carcass, Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower..... and Black Sabbath. Ozzy still speaks with the local dialect, btw. Aston is a very tough area with little prospect of escape. Social mobility a non-starter. You were born there, you worked as a non skilled worker in a factory for 50 years, you retired and then you passed away shortly afterwards. End of the story. Ozzy was one of the few who escaped this fate. The rest of his story is well known.
Ozzy always had a very low self esteem and this is no doubts this lead to the substance and alchohol misuse he is infamous for. People with low self esteem always seek acceptance through being outrageous (clowns and "funny"). Their escape from self esteem is drugs and alcohol. And I mean; really excessive misuse of drugs and alcohol.
I should know that. Me too have low self esteem. My seek for social acceptance has been through being a clown and "funny". My escape has been solitude. Ozzy's problem was dyslexia. Mine is my personal appearance.
That is why I, strange as it may sound, identify with Ozzy's well known traumas. That and his at times brilliant music. And let us not forget that most of his music is nothing but sensational good. Mostly very much helped by the strong team he has been surrounded by. There is no doubts Randy Rhoads saved Ozzy's career and very probably life too. The two albums with him is sensational and so is the Tribute live album. Zakk Wylde also did a brilliant job with Ozzy. A lot of credits also goes to Sharon Osbourne and probably his son Jack Osbourne too.
Despite of all his well known failings, Ozzy Osbourne is an icon and a legend. Sometimes very misunderstood too. A man with strong personal ethics and a much closer personal relationship with God than the evangelical preachers who label him as a satanist.
This world would had been so much poorer without Ozzy Osbourne among us. Rock on & live well.
I have been an admirer of his and Black Sabbath's music for more than half of my life. His first solo albums is really good (with Diary Of A Madman as my favorite) and so is the first Black Sabbath albums. And here is a quest for you: How many Django Reinhardt riffs & references did Tony Iommi sneak into the first four Black Sabbath albums ? The answer is a lot.
Back to Ozzy though. He grew up in Aston, Birmingham. An area in England who also spawned the likes of Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Carcass, Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower..... and Black Sabbath. Ozzy still speaks with the local dialect, btw. Aston is a very tough area with little prospect of escape. Social mobility a non-starter. You were born there, you worked as a non skilled worker in a factory for 50 years, you retired and then you passed away shortly afterwards. End of the story. Ozzy was one of the few who escaped this fate. The rest of his story is well known.
Ozzy always had a very low self esteem and this is no doubts this lead to the substance and alchohol misuse he is infamous for. People with low self esteem always seek acceptance through being outrageous (clowns and "funny"). Their escape from self esteem is drugs and alcohol. And I mean; really excessive misuse of drugs and alcohol.
I should know that. Me too have low self esteem. My seek for social acceptance has been through being a clown and "funny". My escape has been solitude. Ozzy's problem was dyslexia. Mine is my personal appearance.
That is why I, strange as it may sound, identify with Ozzy's well known traumas. That and his at times brilliant music. And let us not forget that most of his music is nothing but sensational good. Mostly very much helped by the strong team he has been surrounded by. There is no doubts Randy Rhoads saved Ozzy's career and very probably life too. The two albums with him is sensational and so is the Tribute live album. Zakk Wylde also did a brilliant job with Ozzy. A lot of credits also goes to Sharon Osbourne and probably his son Jack Osbourne too.
Despite of all his well known failings, Ozzy Osbourne is an icon and a legend. Sometimes very misunderstood too. A man with strong personal ethics and a much closer personal relationship with God than the evangelical preachers who label him as a satanist.
This world would had been so much poorer without Ozzy Osbourne among us. Rock on & live well.
A rehabilitation of Vidkun Quisling in Norway ?
Vidkun Quisling (1887- 1945) was a traitor that gave the name to the English word quisling (the only Norwegian word ever to enter the English dictionary) which means a traitor that assist the occupier of a country to gain full control. Vidkun Quisling was a dreamer and a failed politicians who the Germans helped to power during their invasion of Norway in April 1940. He was captured in 1945 after Germany's capitulation, put on trail, convicted and executed in 1945. Under Vidkun Quisling's regime, the vast majority of Norwegian Jews was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where they perished. Other Norwegians lost their lives in torture chambers, excecutions and in the struggle against Vidkun Quisling's regime.
In short; Vidkun Quisling is still Norway's most hated and infamous man, although Anders Behring Breivik (ABB) may disagree with that.
Vidkun Quisling was not only a failed politician. He was also a failed philosopher and theologian which left behind quite a considerable volume of work. He subscribed to the Norwegian national sosialist strand of theology. One of the central tenets in the Norwegian nationalist socialist theology is that the Scandinavians is the 12th lost tribe of Israel. A view which has no founding in the Bible itself whatsoever. But facts is not something the national socialists/the Nazis has ever been worried about if it conflicts with their own beliefs as their chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels stated many times.
Vidkun Quisling also advocated a rehabilitation of all Jews to Palestine before the war and during the first half of the war. During that time, he did not advocated what today is known as Holocaust. But his and his regime's contribution to the extermination of the Norwegian Jews was still vital.
I always thought that Vidkun Quisling's ideas was beyond the pale and had no chances for a comeback anywhere in Norway. But I have been proven wrong.
One of the Evangelical churches in Norway is active preaching the repatriation of the Norwegian Jews to what is today Israel and that Scandinavians is the lost 12th tribe from Israel. Which off course makes white arian Scandinavians der uber menschen ("the ultimate race which should rule over other races" in English) as the Nazis would say. The church has often stated that only white coloured Norwegians has the mental ability to feel as true Norwegians and that all coloured races are inferior to the Nordic white race.
Recently, one of the marginal Christian parties in Norway has also come out in support of the main national socialist tenets of theology.
They are all strong defenders of Israel within their Biblical borders (Eretz Israel) where all Jews, now scattered around this planet, should live and practise their religion (so God can kill them all in one place as the Christianity says God will do). But so was Vidkun Quisling and the national socialists too in the 1930s.
I find it hard to believe that their embrace of the national socialist strand of theology is an accident. Their views are quite hard to stomach when taken ABB and the atrocity of 22/7 into account. But I wonder if this is the start of the rehabilitation of Vidkun Quisling within the Norwegian right-wing Christianity and in the Norwegian Christianity as a whole. Not to mention; within the Norwegian society.
I sincerely hope I am overly pessimistic again. Vidkun Quisling's betrayal of Norway is a shameful chapter and may all Norwegian shudder with horror and disgust every time his name is mentioned. His ideas should never ever be rehabilitated.
In short; Vidkun Quisling is still Norway's most hated and infamous man, although Anders Behring Breivik (ABB) may disagree with that.
Vidkun Quisling was not only a failed politician. He was also a failed philosopher and theologian which left behind quite a considerable volume of work. He subscribed to the Norwegian national sosialist strand of theology. One of the central tenets in the Norwegian nationalist socialist theology is that the Scandinavians is the 12th lost tribe of Israel. A view which has no founding in the Bible itself whatsoever. But facts is not something the national socialists/the Nazis has ever been worried about if it conflicts with their own beliefs as their chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels stated many times.
Vidkun Quisling also advocated a rehabilitation of all Jews to Palestine before the war and during the first half of the war. During that time, he did not advocated what today is known as Holocaust. But his and his regime's contribution to the extermination of the Norwegian Jews was still vital.
I always thought that Vidkun Quisling's ideas was beyond the pale and had no chances for a comeback anywhere in Norway. But I have been proven wrong.
One of the Evangelical churches in Norway is active preaching the repatriation of the Norwegian Jews to what is today Israel and that Scandinavians is the lost 12th tribe from Israel. Which off course makes white arian Scandinavians der uber menschen ("the ultimate race which should rule over other races" in English) as the Nazis would say. The church has often stated that only white coloured Norwegians has the mental ability to feel as true Norwegians and that all coloured races are inferior to the Nordic white race.
Recently, one of the marginal Christian parties in Norway has also come out in support of the main national socialist tenets of theology.
They are all strong defenders of Israel within their Biblical borders (Eretz Israel) where all Jews, now scattered around this planet, should live and practise their religion (so God can kill them all in one place as the Christianity says God will do). But so was Vidkun Quisling and the national socialists too in the 1930s.
I find it hard to believe that their embrace of the national socialist strand of theology is an accident. Their views are quite hard to stomach when taken ABB and the atrocity of 22/7 into account. But I wonder if this is the start of the rehabilitation of Vidkun Quisling within the Norwegian right-wing Christianity and in the Norwegian Christianity as a whole. Not to mention; within the Norwegian society.
I sincerely hope I am overly pessimistic again. Vidkun Quisling's betrayal of Norway is a shameful chapter and may all Norwegian shudder with horror and disgust every time his name is mentioned. His ideas should never ever be rehabilitated.
(originally published in a nationwide newspaper, January 2012)
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