Video - Bye Bye Empire (Third Reich Propaganda Swing)

Video Bye Bye Empire (propaganda swing) Reich Propaganda Ministry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML--h2YV9Ho ---------------------- ---------------------- Charlie & his Orchestra Third Reich German propaganda swing band ---------------------- ---------------------- Here's Mr Churchill's latest song Dedicated to Great Britain I never cared for you before Hong Kong, Burma, Singapore Bye, Bye Empire India, I may lose, too Then I'll only have the London Zoo Bye, Bye Empire There's no-one here who loves & understands me Nothing but heaps of bad news they all hand me The Yankees are still out of sight I can't make out wrong from right Empire, Bye, Bye ---------------------- ---------------------- Erhard Bauschke German musician 1912 - born Breslau 1945 - died Frankfurt am Main (age 33) Nickname:   'Funny' Instruments: violin piano saxophone clarinet Immediately after outbreak of WWII, Third Reich Propaganda Ministry obtained musical accompaniment for: The British Soldier's song Onward British Soldier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVcNuBtfsQg It looks as though a Lutz Templin, a violinist in dance orchestras, was also involved in the production of Onward British Conscript.  Hard to make out the translation, so I'm not sure about that. 'bausch' translates to 'ball' / so maybe Bauschke is derived from 'ball' Erhard Bauschke was an American prisoner of war at the end of WWII. Upon release, he played in clubs of the US military in Frankfurt am Main. While loading musical instruments, behind a truck following such a performance, Bauschke was struck by a jeep and killed. As US General George S. Patton would know, there was a lot of bad drivers occupying German soil back then. Oh, wait ... Patton was assassinated: The Telegraph General George S. Patton was assassinated to silence his criticism of allied war leaders claims new book  George S. Patton, America's greatest combat general of the Second World War, was assassinated after the conflict with the connivance of US leaders, according to a new book. By Tim Shipman in Washington 7:16PM GMT 20 Dec 2008 " ... military historian Robert Wilcox claims that OSS head General "Wild Bill" Donovan ordered a highly decorated marksman called Douglas Bazata to silence Patton, who gloried in the nickname "Old Blood and Guts"." "His book, "Target Patton", contains interviews with Mr Bazata, who died in 1999, and extracts from his diaries, detailing how he staged the car crash by getting a troop truck to plough into Patton's Cadillac and then shot the general with a low-velocity projectile, which broke his neck while his fellow passengers escaped without a scratch." "Mr Bazata also suggested that when Patton began to recover from his injuries, US officials turned a blind eye as agents of the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB, poisoned the general. " " ... car on display in the Patton museum at Fort Knox is not the one Patton was driving" LINK | Telegraph SOURCE / Bauschke [German] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Bauschke Other Lyons Pies J. Lyons & Company http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/news-opinion/steven-mccabe-nigella-lawson-tea-6462419 The Prostitutes’ Padre Harold Davidson and the Lyons Corner House in Coventry Street Gimps of inter-war London http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2011/02/the-prostitutes-padre-harold-davidson-and-the-lyons-corner-house-in-coventry-street/ ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Thought this was a really cool WWII musical propaganda find. The channel also hosts audio of the song 'Onward Conscript Army', which lyricises Britain's obligation to  repay a 'debt of thanks' to its benefactors, international banks; while "Isaac Hore-Belisha" (British War Minister) "will lead you from the rear."   LOL Hore-Belisha was born as Isaac Leslie Belisha, but he later adopted his senior public servant step-father's surname, Hore, and went with 'Leslie'. Leslie Hore-Belisha saw action in WWI and attained the rank of major; he was a qualified lawyer (barrister); and was senior writer for the Express newspaper, before being called to the bar.  His face looks really handsome in this military photo - here. The Find A Grave entry says Hore-Belisha was 'Britain's Dreyfuss', which refers to a French-Jewish military figure that was discriminated against (from recollection).  Yes, it was a big scandal 1894-1906, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason and spent 5 years of a life-sentence in exile at Devil's Island, French Guiana.  Anti-Semitic demonstrations ensued (Dreyfus was Jewish) and there were anti-Semitic riots in over 25 French cities and several deaths in Algiers, that were associated with this case.  But it transpired that Dreyfus was wrongly convicted.  The spy giving French secrets to the German embassy was reportedly another officer (Esterhazy, distinguished himself in the Crimean War -  here); there was a cover-up at the top, and there were falsified documents - here.  Dreyfus was tried again in 1899 and given a 10 year sentence the second time around, but was pardoned and released. Eventually, Dreyfus was exonerated in 1906 and reinstated in the French military, before going on to serve in WWI. Military man, Georges Picquart, was accused of forging the note that was said to have convinced Picquart of the guilt of Esterhazy, and therefore this presumably calls into question the shift of evidence from Drefyus to Esterhazy? Picquart wound up resigning from the military.  However, the exoneration of Dreyfus also exonerated Picquart, who became French Minister of War in 1906, before returning to the military once again in 1909 - here. Doubt crept in reading about the Picquart fellow, who was accused of forgery.  Now I'm finding it hard to take any of this at face value.  But after reading about the dodgy sounding Esterhazy, I'm not so confused.  It doesn't sound like Esterhazy was at all principled, so it's not hard to see him as guilty. Anyway, a version of the German propaganda swing song, Onward Conscript Army, was reportedly sung by the British armed forces themselves, until the then British War Minister, Leslie Hore-Belisha (a subject of the song), banned British troops from singing it. As British War Minister, Hore-Belisha fired high-ranking British military staff who weren't sufficiently hawkish, while he reportedly doggedly pushed for Britain's entry into war with Germany.  In addition, he pushed for introduction of conscription in 1938.  Conscription was subsequently introduced in early 1939, despite strong political and public opinion against this. Hore-Belisha alienated those within the British military and probably all those against conscription. Guess that's part and parcel of taking unpopular decisions? It looks like some serious rift within military command.  Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall on the subject of Hore-Belisha and (I think) the Chief of Imperial Staff, Anglo-Irish Gort (John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereke, Viscount Gort): "They could never get on, and you couldn't expect two such wildly different people to do so ; a great gentleman and an obscure, shallow-brained, charlatan, political Jewboy." Wonder if that means that Hore-Belisha was a political appointment, or if he just wasn't liked?  Gort is described as having what sounds like maybe an ideal military bearing (but also as kind of dull and preoccupied with minutiae), while Hore Belisha is referred to as 'theatrical' (Dunkirk 1940: Operation Dynamo By Doug Dildy). Hore-Belisha saw WWI action in France, Flanders and Salonica in what appears to be a rifle brigade, so how 'theatrical' and 'shallow' could he have possibly been? Click image to ENLARGE It would help knowing how the military works.  As in, did he start out in the trenches, or was he placed in a privileged position (much like all those titled military commanders probably were), and did he really engage in combat or was he just giving the orders from some tent? It looks like the British have farmed out public records to some sh*tty scam site that expects you to sign up and pay a subscription fee to view what ought to be made available to the public by the UK authorities themselves.  What a scam. According to this entry, it was also suggested that Hore-Belisha was more vested in pursuing foreign interests than strictly vested British interests (although there isn't a citation for that). Without knowing the ins and outs of key WWII facts, it's hard to tell whether that was a fair or unfair appraisal of his motivations. Due to political pressure,  Hore-Belisha was later marked for removal from his post, and he resigned in due course.  But Britain had already entered WWII. That was some interesting WWII trivia. It's mind-blowing listening to the delivery of the political messages of the day, from the voice of the dead -- and the voice of a defunct, defeated state whose spirit lingers even today. The political humour of yesteryear is rife with charges that also abound today.  Save that nobody's poised to fight Germans.  Spooky. Listening to this, it seems like Third Reich Germans had a sense of humour:  ... Bye Bye Empire.  Difficult to believe that KGB forerunner would finish off the assassination of Patton on behalf of the Yankees. I'm not buying that one:  the CIA and their friends have proven more than capable of handling hits themselves. * I've always loved Bye Bye Blackbird.

Franken & German Peasants' War - 1524 to 1525 AD

History SOURCE Primary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Peasants%27_War Franken German 'Franken' =  Franconia (region) Franconia  -- characterised by East Franconian culture & dialects Commonly refers to -- eastern part of historic Franconian Stem duchy -- now mainly in modern Bavarian districts of:     -- Lower Franconia     -- Middle Franconia     -- Upper Franconia     -- Heibronn-Franken (nth-eastern parts), Baden-Wurttemberg     -- Thuringia, parts south of Rennsteig ridge     -- small parts of Hesse -- ie Franconian lands principally in Bavaria -- north and south of River Main -- and Regnitz & Pegnitz streams -- other rivers:  Werra (Thuringia) -- Tauber -- Jagst -- Kocher -- Altmul (middle Franconia) flows towards Danube -- Rhine-Main-Danube Canal crosses European Watershed Franconia -- named after the Franks -- Germanic tribe who conquered most of Western Europe mid 700s AD -- Franconia likely homeland of Franks -- in German, 'Franken' refers to both modern-day Franconians & to historic Franks -- to 500 AD Franconia region likely dominated by Alamanni & Thuringians -- 507 AD - Franks defeated both tribes -- 529-534 -- most parts Franconia occupied by the Franks -- circa 800s AD - Frankish identity moved from ethnic identity to national identity -- no longer self-identified 'Franks' or called 'Franks' by others -- BUT other groups who were not Franks but were mostly ruled by Frankish nobility -- began to use term to describe their land and people -- start 900s AD - Duchy of Franconia -- German:  Herzogtum Franken -- established in East Francia -- { aside:   'Herzegovina' -- likely derivative of German for 'Duchy' - ducal lands } -- Duchy of Franconia (within East Francia) -- was comprised of (present-day):     -- Hesse     -- Palatinate     -- Baden-Wurttemberg (parts)     -- Franconia (most) -- these areas belonged to the Burgundians & Alemanni who had settled & dominated region -- Burgundians & Alemanni deported & resettled south:  around Switzerland -- area then resettled by Frankish nobles & their imported retainers (from their original base) -- Stem duchy of Franconia dissolved -- 1500 AD - Holy Roman Emperors created Franconian Circle -- German:  Frankischer Reichskreis -- 'Kreis' = circle   /  'Reich' = 'rich' or 'kingdom' or 'realm' or 'empire' -- incorporating principalities out of eastern half of former duchy (Stem Duchy ?) -- until 1803, title:  Duke of Franconia attached to:   Würzburg bishops  -- Würzburg bishops 783 AD - 1808 AD -- Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg was ecclesiastical principality of Holy Roman Empire Ebrach Abbey -- starting 1200s AD -- Bishops of Würzburg upon death:     -- monastery in Ebrach - received hearts     -- chapel of Marienburg - received entrails     -- St Kilian cathedral - received bodies         -- German Peasants' War - 1524 to 1525 AD     -- desecration of 30 hearts     German Peasants' War - 1524 to 1525 AD -- peasant revolt in German speaking Central Europe -- failed due to intense opposition of ARISTOCRACY     -- aristocracy slaughtered to 100,000 of 300,000 poorly armed peasants & farmers     -- survivors fined & achieved nothing Examples of prior rebellions:     -- Bundschuh movement     -- Hussite Wars -- all:  series of economic & religious revolts by peasants & farmers -- supported by Protestant clergy, taking the lead -- largest & most widespread popular uprising prior French Rev. 1789 -- hight of conflict:  spring & summer of 1525 -- commenced with insurrections in (now) Germany & Alsace, spreading over eastern present Germany & Austria -- following suppression in Germany, broke out in several Swiss Cantons -- cantons = member states of confederation -- peasants revolt - military disadvantage -- peasants lacked:     1.  command structure     2.  artillery     3.  cavalry     4.  military experience -- in combat, would turn & flee ... to be massacred by aristocrats' forces -- aristocratic class had advantage of:     1.  experienced military leaders     2.  well-equipped     3.  disciplined / structured armies     4.  ample funding -- peasants sought freedom & influence - rhetoric of Protestant Reformation -- historians & cultural historians have different takes on causes & nature of Peasants' War Background Peasants' revolt: -- Charles V, King of Spain = Emperor of Holy Roman Empire -- 1500s AD Europe had many political links within Holy Roman Empire -- HRE = decentralised entity / Emperor little authority outside of own dynastic lands -- such dynastic lands of Emperor only small fraction of whole -- aristocratic dynasties ruled 100s of mainly independent territories -- such territories both secular and ecclesiastical -- rule was within famework of Holy Roman Empire -- some operated as semi-independent city-sates -- Roman church was tax authority -- German church (under control of the princes) could not tax (the semi independent city-states ?) -- ECONOMIC GAIN FOR the PRINCES only by BREAKING AWAY -- German princes broke away with Rome using nationalistic slogan: "German money for a German church" -- princes sought to force freer peasants into serfdom by:     -- increasing taxes     -- introducing ROMAN CIVIL LAW     -- Roman Civil Law advantage to princes - personal power     -- enabled consolidation of power / all land PERSONAL OWNERSHIP     -- eliminating feudal concept of LAND AS A TRUST BETWEEN LORD & PEASANT     -- that had conferred rights as well as obligations on the peasant     -- Roman Civil Law         -- legitimised RULE OF PRINCES         -- elevated wealth of princes         -- elevated position of princes         -- increased princes' power over peasant subjects     -- by way of:         -- confiscation of all property         -- confiscation of all revenues KNIGHTS' REVOLT 1522 - 1523 -- knights:  the lesser landholders of Rhineland in Western Germany -- rose up in rebellion -- rhetoric:  religious -- split with Rome & new German church (Luther ideas) -- but the revolt *not* fundamentally religious -- Knights' Revolt sought to maintain feudal order (thus, conservative) -- Knights' Revolt was revolt against NEW MONEY ORDER squeezing them out of existence MARTIN LUTHER -- dominant leader Reformation (Germany) -- took middle course in Peasants' War -- criticised injustices imposed on peasants -- criticised peasants for fighting back -- was a supporter of CENTRALISATION & URBANISATION of economy -- alienated lesser nobles -- but his position was secured with the burghers burghers = split since 1400s into x3 legally co-equal group 1.  hereditary grand-burgers (ruling upper social class) 2.  ordinary burghers (Kleinburger) - petty-burghers, artisans, trades, merchants etc 3.  non-burghers:  inhabitants or resident aliens w/out specific legal rights     -- largely working class, foreign workers & other civil employees     -- not able or eligible to acquire ordinary petty-burghership hereditary grand-burgers (independent of territorial nobility) urbanised citizen of highest rank in social order:  upper social class / wealthy business or mercantile background & estate / hereditary title / constitutional privileges & legal rights -- the ruling class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Burgher LUTHER argued:  work was the chief duty on earth [exploitative creep] a.  'duty' of peasants to farm & labour b.  'duty' of ruling class to uphold peace Luther not supporter of German Peasants' War -- because it broke the peace / ie status quo -- [in Luther's twisted mind:  breaking peace is greater evil than of exploiters & abuse of peasants] -- even so, he paid lip service to criticising ruling classes for MERCILESS SUPPRESSION of insurrection Luther article:  Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants (1525) NOTE:  original title:  "Against the Rioting Peasants' but propagandist printers amped up propaganda against peasants Demented Luther argues the peasants have committed crime against: -- loyalty oath -- faith -- blasphemy against Christ COMMENT:  Reading this is anger provoking: -- those that dispossessed peasants to enrich themselves broke their social contract with their tribe of people -- the 'faith' is a foreign, forced & a lie -- there is no such thing as 'blasphemy' / notion is tool of political repression & oppression LOL ... FREE THE EUROPEAN PEASANTS NOW!!!! Luther: 1.  justified VIOLENCE AGAINST PEASANTS by robber prince overlords 2.  venerates killers of peasants as:  TRUE MARTYRS IN EYES OF GOD (sounds like Islam) 3.  preaching destruction 'of the world' in the face of such rebellion 4.  relies on St Paul's teaching of the DOCTRINE OF RIGHT OF KINGS in epistle to the ROMANS 13:1-7     contending that all authorities are appointed by god & should therefore not be resisted     FALSE DOCTRINE - CHRISTIANITY FREE THE EUROPEAN PEASANTS NOW!! Muntzer forces defeated 15 May 1525 at Frankenhausen -- lack of leadership with political & military strength = war over -- felt betrayed by Luther -- Luther refused to retract writings -- instead, later wrote formal explanation:     -- An Open Letter on the Harsh Book Against the Peasants     -- states duty of the Christian to:             "suffer injustice, not to seize the sword & take to violence"             -- Luther contends:  "rebel is not worth rational arguments, for he does not accept them"     -- Martin Luther the bitch of 'secular authority'     -- Martin Luther shill of Princes, instilled increased power in princes     -- Luther sold Reformation intro by princes as 'godly duty'     CONCLUSION: " ... social order of the day would not tolerate a peasant-engineered realignment of society, economics, religion and politics; and the full weight of Church and secular authority would inevitably be used to crush this movement." [Wikipedia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Murderous,_Thieving_Hordes_of_Peasants THOMAS MUNTZER -- most prominent Protestant minister in support of demands of peasantry -- which included political & legal rights -- politically, Muntzer was more interested in social positions than in religious questions -- mystical and apocalyptic elements of theology, forming basis of support for peasants -- main leader of peasantry in Saxony -- described by Diarmaid MacCulloch as impractical dreamer, rather than an earlier incarnation of Lenin     MacCulloch contends that:         -- contribution to 1525 was marginal         -- that Muntzer had no interest in material betterment of peasants         -- that  communist authorities of East Germany unduly elevated Muntzer     Diarmaid MacCulloch     British historian & academic     specialising in church history     Church of England (Anglican) deacon     homosexual     Gay Christian Movement in 1976     Knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours (services to scholarship)    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarmaid_MacCulloch -- Luther called for 'peaceful' protest [COMMENT:   What a w*nker Martin Luther was; like the greedy elites he was representing were going to give the peasants any power -- they slaughtered them like dogs. ] -- Muntzer preached:  RISE UP & BEAR ARMS     Does not Christ say:  I came not to sent peace, but a sword? -- Muntzer argued that bible not infallible & definitive -- Muntzer argued that holy spirit has ways of communicating directly through gift of reason Twelve Articles of the Black Forest aka The Twelve Articles of the Christian Union of Upper Swabia -- called for an end to feudalism & strengthening of the commons -- ie  resources are held in common, not owned privately -- communal strengthening would have stood in way of nascent CAPITALISM     USUFRUCT     in Roman-based legal systems     the temporary right to the use of property of another     without changing the character of the property     Usufruct - limited real right (ie in rem right) in civil law     -- unites TWO property interests of USUS & FRUCTUS     USUS - user     -- right ot use thing possessed without altering it     FRUCTUS - fruit     -- right to derive profit re ppty (eg sale crops, leasing immovables, taxing entry)     USUFRUCT granted in severalty or held in common ownership     as long as property is not damaged or destroyed     ABUSUS (lit. 'abuse') -- right to alienate, consuming or destroying     (eg for profit) or to transfer (sale, exchange, gift) to another.     Entity that has ALL THREE RIGHTS:   Usus +  Fructus  +  Abusus  =  FULL OWNERSHIP  Twelve Articles of the Black Forest -- manifesto for Peasants' Rebellion (but not the one behind rebellion) -- summary composed by:  Sebastian Lotzer -- 100s of articles & grievances with biblical refs. support (expanded)   Demand list of rights denied peasantry, plus burdens:     -- to elect own pastors     -- to collect tithes for use ONLY within own community     -- to end serfdom (on basis of obedience to elected & appointed rulers)     -- right to fish & hunt without limits     -- right to take wood as necessary     -- limits on labour due to lords     -- imposition of peasant 'services'     -- unregulated rents to lords     -- unfair judgments in legal cases     -- appropriated common lands from peasants (seek return for common use)     -- heriot / seizure by lord of peasant best chattel on death of peasant  (death tax)         enemies of gospel were deemed enemies of peasants     scripture deemed to uphold these demands MARTIN LUTHER: to the nobility: " ...  as temporal rulers you do nothing but cheat and rob the people so that you may lead a life of luxury and extravagance. The poor common people cannot bear it any longer” urging German nobility to reassess their position of privilege relative to peasants     / in hope of averting armed combat / bloodshed while Luther recognised demands as reasonable, considered the demand by force 'wrong' Luther takes issue with use of gospel as justification for armed demand for freedom from exploitation. Kempten Insurrection 1525 -- Kempten im Allgäu in what became Bavaria -- important city -- early 700s Celtic monks established Kempten Abbey monastery there -- 1213 Holy Roman Empire (Frederick II) declares abbots members of Reichstand (imperial estate) -- abbot granted title of Duke -- 1289 King Rudolf of Habsburg - free imperial city special privileges to urban settlement -- 1525 last property rights of abbots sold in 'Great Purchase' -- two independent cities begin co-existence next to each other -- during German Peasants' War, abbey-peasants revolted / plundered abbey & moved on town Battle of Leipheim 1525 -- 5,000 peasants rise against city of Ulm -- NOTE:  peasants well-armed / canons w. powder & shot -- armed with Arquebus (musket successor firearms) & light artillery Georg, Truchsess von Waldburg / hereditary title 'Truschsess (Seneschal or Steward)      -- in service of Swabian League / prior to that Duke Wurttemberg      -- no loyalty to Wurttemberg in end,       --  & merciless in crushed peasant revolt      -- defeated peasants pursued into villages to be tortured & executed      -- Georg, Truchsess von Waldburg ruled large areas he conquered      -- & he collected ransoms from the remaining population      -- TACTIC:  positioning troops to advantage while 'negotiating' -- fortified peasants managed a retreat:  only 2,000 of 4,000 -- of those retreating peasants:  400 drowned in Danube & horse units cut down another 500 Weinsberg Massacre -- peasant leader of large band peasants from Neckar valley:  Jack Rohrbach -- peasants march on town of Weinsberg / victory to peasants who take castle -- most of the soldiers were in Italy & Count of Helfenstein had little protection -- forced Count plus 70 nobles taking refuge with him to RUN THE GAUNTLET of PIKES -- band's piper ordered to play during gauntlets -- popular execution among Landsknechte (German mercenary pikeman)     -- pikemen weapons bearers  / pike is a long spear used by infantry     -- musket superseded the pike weapon     -- effective for open warfare (exceptions) - in use other eras etc     -- Landsnecht armies were Swish mercenaries     -- German Landsknechte, imitated Swiss warfare methods, also used the pike, supplemented by the halberd     -- halberd was like a pike, with an axe on the end     -- German Landsknechte also had short sword sidearm:  katzblager     -- katzblager:  last resort, close combat weapon  (very nice looking) - weighed to 1.5kg  (ouch)     -- in 1400s Swiss valued as mercenary soldiers / had successfully defended liberty against Habsburgs     -- Machiavelli discusses system of combat at length in The Prince     -- Swiss:  love of combat per se forged by two centuries of conflict  --  peasants didn't have stomach for pike gauntlet execution of nobles -- deposed Jack Rohrbach & replaced him -  knight:  Gotz von Berlichingen -- but some sector of peasants wanted revenge on the new commander -- peasants burnt down Widenburg castle in contravention to Article of War on which they agreed Massacre at Frankenhausen -- open peasant revolt -- large part of citizenry joined in -- occupied town hall & stormed castle -- insurgents gathered in fields of town -- peasant force final strength to 10,000 -- Philip of Hesse & Duke George of Saxony direct German mercenaries to Frankenhausesn -- princes' troops (incl. 6,000 mercenaries) defeat peasants under Mutzer -- advantage:  experienced, well-equipped, good morale -- peasants:  only 300 armed fighters without experience or training -- insurgents arranged ceasefire -- princes' troops broke truce -- heavy combined infantry, cavalry & artillery attack -- peasants flee in panic, but attack continues -- massacre of 3,000 to 10,000 estimated -- mercenary Landsknecht casualties:  only 4 + two wounded -- Müntzer tortured & executed at Mühlhausen Other battles also detailed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Peasants%27_War ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Really enjoyed checking this out. Stumbled on this because I wanted to know where the word 'Frankenstein' might have come from. What's happening today with the secret free trade agreements, with the sovereignty of nations being usurped by supranational authorities, serving corporate and elite interests, such as European Union and NATO, as well as the move to mega capitalism, is like the drive to consolidation of power of the princes around the time of the German Peasants' Revolt ... only this time around, it is the consolidation of the power of a capitalist monster:  a Frankenstein that's taking over the world.  LOL Once again, the peasants are empty handed, they have no effective leaders, no military experience, no military discipline, no capital, no arms and no military equipment, and they have no hope against the might of the oppressive state machinery ... even as Europe is being invaded and the birthright of Europeans is usurped from right under them (sort of like the nobles' land grab that left the peasants slaves to masters of PRIVATE PROPERTY). Intensely disliked Martin Luther while reading this.  More into Muntzer, even though I'm not into either of their religions and would have given both Rome and the aristocracy the heave-ho, to go back to pagan ways and pagan warfare, along with brutal pillage of nearby city-states.  LOL The number of peasants that were killed is obscene, compared to the casualties on the mercenary side.  In one of the battles above, only 2,000 of 4,000 got out of the fortification (I believe); and  four hundred drowned in Danube alone, 500 were deliberately slaughtered.  That's just one battle. The aristocrats' mercenaries didn't hold back on the murder, torture and executions. So ... this is what happens when the plebs take on the state. In a way, today's European Union is something like the Holy Roman Empire, only shabbier and sh*ttier because it's not even European anymore -- it's a vassal of USA or USA's elites, and Europe is now being flooded with human weapons of war deployed against Europeans -- weapons of divestment of  the helpless indigenous European peasantry. [no time to check for typos ... sleepy  ;)]  Yuuuuuummmmmmmmmm Culinary Specialties of Franconia (Franken) http://www.germanfoodguide.com/frankencooking.cfm

Video - News Round-Up & Humour

This Week in Stupid (31/01/2016)   26:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMVKNwAS_XM 26:00 Video Overview Funny first segment on feminists & freedom of expression: Canada:  artist, Gregory Allen Elliot, cleared of Twitter harassment of feminist complainants. Ontario NDP MPP Cheri di Novo: "Once again, a man's 'freedom of expression' trumps a woman's right to feel safe & secure.' Right to freedom of expression:  under attack by feminists. Various other nonsense analyses / lobbying by the loonie left:  entertainment, kindergartens ... Pakistan Pakistan bans porn. Israel Feminism showing Marxist colours dealing with Israel: Chicago.  'Pinkwashing'.  Cultivating 'racism'. Denmark Danish teen who fought off  foreign rapist to be fined for using pepper spray to defend rape attack. Immigration Comrade Corbyn sticks with Labour ideology, despite: UK already has twice as many persons unemployed as there are available jobs in the country. New Labour:  1997-2010 Brought in over 2.2 million immigrants.  In last term (2005-2010) average of 247,000 per year. European Commission full of crap: European Commission Denial of Reality Goes to the Very Top ...  EU insists:  sex attacks nothing to do with immigrants. ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Not sure what to think about the Israel and exploitation of homosexual angle for political gain, mentioned in the video.   Israel isn't alone.  It's quite common.   Watch United Nations ambassadors, human rights NGOs and celebrities shilling for US interests, or politicians exploiting some 'victim' group or other to deprive another group of rights or to achieve some ulterior aim. There is nothing but exploitation of 'victim' groups and victim/advocate hyped issues in politics and in media. Even though conditions for homosexuals are non-existent in Palestine compared to Israel, that doesn't mean that Israel isn't politically exploiting the points of difference between Israel and Palestine, for PR persuasion & supporter-winning advantage. However, shutting down the Israeli presentation for the sake of defending those that  are hostile to the rights sought by the group (one is presumably advocating for) sounds absurd. It sounds like the focus somehow moved from homosexual issues to something else:  protesters would be contending that Israel's propaganda is 'racist'.  I don't see how politically exploiting a point where the Palestinians are at a clear disadvantage can be considered 'racist', although it is probably disadvantageous for the Palestinians. Liberalism with all its prohibitions is unappealing to me, so I'm not big on having the Israeli presentation shut down by protesters.  It's also hard for me to see how protesters would have a case to do so; but they don't need one.  Liberalism is big on shutting down whoever it chooses ... maybe it should be called fascism instead? On the other hand, it's kind of funny that the leftist liberal / Cultural Marxist Frankenstein that was championed is the same liberalism that now equates propaganda, politics, and a bit of PR as:   'racism'. ------- PS ... while Israel may be more liberal than its neighbours in terms of rights of homosexuals, Israel sounds positively totalitarian in other respects:  eg.  removal of children (on what sounds like flimsy grounds) and the 'no exit' orders that prevent departure from Israel (over 1.5 million Israelis and foreign nationals) -   (here). Just came across this the other day and was quite shocked. Hope this makes sense.  It's been a nightmare to edit:  Blogger kept throwing up unwanted code  ...  & I've over fixing & looking at this.

NETHERLANDS - POLICE HARASSMENT, POLITICAL POLICING & POLITICAL SUPPRESSION

Article SOURCE https://www.nordfront.se/polisen-i-nederlanderna-slar-till-mot-medborgare-som-uttryckt-sig-invandringskritiskt-pa-natet.smr NETHERLANDS POLICE HARASSMENT, POLITICAL POLICING & POLITICAL SUPPRESSION Translation from Swedish Police in the Netherlands strike against citizens who expressed themselves critical of immigration online The editorial staff By the editors, 2016-02-01 redaktionen@nordfront.se OPPRESSION. In response to Nederländares [ie Nederlander] migration resistance to police now have established ten intelligence units that monitor what citizen writes on social media. Monitoring is then followed up with home visits to the immigration critics who deemed to have gone too far. As previously reported, has experienced a number of Netherlands loud protests and riots against the planned asylum accommodation, which also resulted in a number of asylum places stopped. At the same time, is now reporting the Dutch daily NRC Trade sheet on how Dutch police recently started cracking down on people who expressed themselves critical of immigration on social media, with several named examples. Mark Jongeneel, 28 years old from the municipality of Sliedrecht, got from his mother know that he tried by two policemen who just knocked on the door and who now was on his way to his place of work. When the police confronted him in the Office where he works as they should according to the Land have expressed something along the lines of: — You tweet a lot. We have ordered to ask you to moderate your tone. Your tweets can be regarded as seditious. What Mark had done was he on Twitter had written a couple of posts that included a new planned refugee accommodation in Sliedrecht. The tone of the posts should have been along the lines of: Sliedrechts City Council will come up with a proposal to receive 250 refugees for the next two years. What a bad idea! Should we let this happen?! In another case, so wrote the 43-year mechanic Johan van Kite from the town of Kaatsheuvel, outraged on Facebook if they advertised plans to place 1200 refugees at the resort: Let these leaders risk going to hell, we're going to all of them. Later that day, he was a 20-minute police visit, in which he describes how the authoritarian police officials pointed out that he was instigating a demonstration, after which they forced him to remove it, he wrote. Since then describes John the feeling that his liberty has been limited, and that he now feels aware that police read when he writes on Facebook. What the newspaper NRC experiences from a police statement, the Dutch police in this purpose set up ten pieces of intelligence units, with Digital detectives that in real time monitoring what is written on Facebook and on Twitter where you are looking for posts as "gone too far" in his criticism of the detention centres. Police gets here its legal support in the ban against so-called hate crimes and sedition, but according to police is the limit [ie definition arbitrary] for what is illegal diffuse and constantly open to new interpretations. After that post that "gone too far" discovered helps the local police with home visits to those individuals identified by the Digital detectives. The police are the last few months have struck against a large number of Dutch people in this way. At least 20 such home visits have taken place in Leeuwarden in October last year. The same thing occurred in Enschede. And in Brabant Kaatsheuvel so have at least three persons received a visit from the police. This makes overall newspaper NRC to talk about a police state, but a police spokesman for the local police in Malden defending the newspaper its actions with that particular tolerate demonstrations, but they have to be tillståndsgivna, and that freedom of expression certainly exists, where threats to Land just been speaking of recommendations. Mark see it all as an attempt to silence him, but attests to the newspaper NRC that he does not intend to let this keep him back. Swedish https://www.nordfront.se/polisen-i-nederlanderna-slar-till-mot-medborgare-som-uttryckt-sig-invandringskritiskt-pa-natet.smr ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Europe is being forcibly invaded and Europeans are being raped by political policing and by the state enforcers of the invasion of Europe policy, pursuant to European Union / NATO member elites' agenda.  The invasion of ancestral European homelands, the state political policing, the police harassment and POLITICAL SUPPRESSION is being PAID FOR by the oppressed taxpayer.

Best of British Hypocrisy & Injustice - Free Political Prisoner Julian Assange

Best of British Hypocrisy & Injustice FREE POLITICAL PRISONER JULIAN ASSANGE Best of British  Hypocrisy & Injustice Exhibit 1 British Foreign Office lobbying for release of CIA-coup neo-Nazi Ukraine puppet regime poster-girl detained in Russia on trial for crimes associated with unlawful KILLING of two (2) Russian journalists .... [Click image to enlarge] LINK | Source UKIE POSTER-GIRL CHARGED & ON TRIAL - COMPLICITY IN DEATHS OF TWO (2) RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS LUGANSK EASTERN UKRAINE [Click image to enlarge] LINK | Source UKRAINE CIA PUPPET REGIME  FOOTSOLDIERS KILLED JOURNALISTS Igor Kornelyuk (left) & Anton Voloshin (right) UKRAINE CIA PUPPET  REGIME JOURNALIST VICTIMS DEAD OR ABDUCTED & TORTURED BY LAWLESS UKIE REGIME LINK | JOURNALIST VICTIMS More Andrey Stenin Russian journalist Murdered With Civilians in Ukraine [ vehicle travelling in convoy of escaping civilians ] LINK | Source Exhibit 2 U.S. POLITICAL TARGET JOURNALIST ASSANGE [Click image to enlarge] PRICE POLITICAL PERSECUTION  US $19.8 - MILLION [ US $19,856,758.32 ] https://govwaste.co.uk/ UNDEMOCRATIC British detention of AMERICAN TARGET POLITICAL PRISONER WikiLeaks publisher, Australian journalist, Julian Assange, DETAINED OVER FIVE (5) YEARS WITHOUT CHARGE in UK -- in violation of human rights and international law conventions by the British!!! [Click image to enlarge] The British who have SIMULTANEOUSLY DENIED POLITICAL PRISONER JOURNALIST  the right to DEFEND himself: [Click image to enlarge] [Click image to enlarge] ---------------------- ---------------------- What a pack of undemocratic, hypocrite, politically persecuting, assh*les the British authorities and their public servants are. AND, as a measure of the British government moral bankruptcy, the Brits support Ukraine regime neo-Nazi poster-girl charged with crimes associated with the unlawful killing of two (2) Russian journalists. How sick are these people? ---------------------- ---------------------- In other news  TWITTER CENSORSHIP The following twitter post  (I hate the term 'tweet')  DOES NOT APPEAR in the TWITTER feed for the HASHTAG #ASSANGE SUPPORT & FAQ ASSANGE https://justice4assange.com/ LOL ... I thought this was rather groovy.    Not happy with lame fonts tho.

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