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45 Comments on "Israel’s blessing to the world"

  1. Apneaman on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 11:29 am 

    If Trump wins it will be a blessing to Israel, him being a big time Jew lover n’all.

  2. Brad on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 12:25 pm 

    Jews telling the world how wonderful Jews are, these people are utterly shameless.

    @apneaman: Trump merely pretends, every American politician has to pretend he is an Israel lover. If not, US organized jewry will destroy you. They did it to JFK, to Nixon and to James Traficant. You seem to have missed that American Jewry hates Trump and his agenda.

    Without these people there would not have been an Iraq war based on lies, there would not have been WW2, there would not have been US entry in WW1 (Balfour deal), there would not have been the disaster called communism, they snatched the US purse (FED) and America would not have been destroyed through mass immigration. They enforced political correctness (“Jewish Sharia”). And don’t get me started over the holocaust.

    Thank God, their days are numbered, although they could still throw Americans in the Gulag. But their NWO project is dead in the water.

    The 20th century was the American Century, or more accurately the Jewish Century.

    The 20th century is over.

  3. Apneaman on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 12:47 pm 

    Brad, reminds me of listening to Americans go on and on, all day every day, to the entire world and aliens about how exceptional they are. Been hearing my whole life in spite of the fact it degrades there a little more every year and appears to be going exponential. Hell, you could go to some shithole eastern European country and listen to them tell you why they are the best. Same where I live, same as everywhere. Same as it ever was. Bunch of screeching tribal monkeys.

  4. Anonymous on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 1:27 pm 

    Look,jew exceptionalism. To read this, one would almost get the impression that jews are, the ‘chosen people’, or something….

  5. JGav on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 4:21 pm 

    Yes, I’m really waiting with bated breath for “prophetic developments.” Can anybody really take this stuff seriously?

  6. JuanP on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 4:38 pm 

    Why was this article posted here? Will someone who read it please tell me if it is connected to Peak Oil in any way. I refuse to read this crap! Thank you!

  7. Roger on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 6:09 pm 

    Interesting article, though it completely misses the point it’s struggling to make (which is in and of itself is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy, namely that the Jews would be gathered back into the land in the end times in unbelief; i.e, as a secular nation).

    The author obviously has no clue what it means that God would bless all nations through Israel. This is a two-fold blessing: 1) primarily through the incarnation of God himself on earth as the Jewish messiah, Jesus and 2) (in my opinion) through revelation of God’s word,the Bible, to the Jews, who preserved it and shared it with the world.

    Through Jesus the world is offered eternal life.

    Through the Bible the world is offered truth.

    It’s not an exaggeration to say the entire western civilization, especially America and it’s unique form of government, are based upon Judeo-Christian beliefs. To those who grasp this, it’s no surprise watching it all crumble under a post-modern secular society…or the rise of Islam to fill the void. Love the truth or accept the lie, really no other choice.

  8. Roger on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 6:39 pm 

    JuanP,
    Not sure why it was posted…definitely has nothing to do with peak oil.

    That said, I consider it relevant to the big picture, as peak oil is merely one “tree” in the end times “forest.” Specifically, IMO, peak oil is setting up the 3rd seal judgement:

    ““When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not damage the oil and the wine.””
    ‭‭Revelation‬ ‭6:5-6‬ ‭NASB‬‬

    PO is very relevant–and a particular interest of mine as a petroleum engineer–but, still just one tree in a much larger forest.

  9. Alan on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 7:28 pm 

    This is just dumb-ass flying spaghetti fairy tale self-justification to whatever the hell they want. So they know their behavior sucks, and use this fairy tale to justify their exceptionalism. Smells like American propaganda, too.

  10. hitchens on Wed, 20th Jul 2016 10:13 pm 

    please dont post creationist things here …

  11. antaris on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 12:19 am 

    Religion, organized religion is just one human controlling another. For some it is a ticket to do whatever they want in the name of their Religion.
    We see that almost everyday.

  12. GregT on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 12:52 am 

    “Religion, organized religion is just one human controlling another. For some it is a ticket to do whatever they want in the name of their Religion.”

    The same could be said for nationalism.

  13. Brad on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 5:59 am 

    @Apneaman

    “Shithole” eastern European countries don’t have shithole north American cities.

    Oh and from another tread, Arabs did not invent algebra, or anything else for that matter.

    http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/08/how-muslims-did-not-invent-algebra/

  14. Kenz300 on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 8:38 am 

    Too many people demand too many resources……yet the worlds population grows by 80 million every year…..

    How many charities are dealing with the same problems they were dealing with 10 or 20 years ago with no end in sight.

    Every problem is made worse by the worlds growing population.

    If you can not provide for yourself you can not provide for a child.

    Birth Control Permanent Methods: Learn About Effectiveness
    http://www.emedicinehealth.com/birth_control_permanent_methods/article_em.htm

  15. Apneaman on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 11:48 am 

    Brad, I live in a N American city that, for decades has been ranked as one of the best cities in the world to both visit and live in and you could not pay me to go to Europe. All old and used up. It’s like a pair of big swinging saggy tits that looked good when they were young, but are now just old dead weight no one wants to look at or touch. Plus it’s all full of illegal immigrants because y’all to pussy to stand up to the ones who let them in – just lots of sissy bitching and moaning well after the fact and screaming hatred on the internet, but no balls to do the hard work and risk anything. All you racists fuck cowards are the same. Y’all screaming in the hopes that someone will do something – do the dirty work, but not one of you will even get off the fucking couch. Sit there and hope to incite other to go do the dirty work – fucking chicken shit phonies.

    gatesofvienna, oh yeah, nothing but the highest level of unbiased scholarship for you eh?.

    Bahahahahahahahahah

    Gates of Vienna Incites for Muslim Holocaust

    “Gates of Vienna the notorious white supremacist blog which published Fjordman and inspired Anders Brievik, recently published a three part essay which calls for the Holocaust of Muslims.”

    http://www.loonwatch.com/2011/09/gates-of-vienna-incites-for-muslim-holocaust/

    Gates of Vienna

    Gates of Vienna is an Islamophobic blog originally begun on Blogspot in January 2003. It is run from Virginia by Edward (Ned) May, but often hosts European proponents of the Eurabia conspiracy theory, including Fjordman from Norway, the ideological inspiration for the far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. [1] Other European contributors include “El Inglés”, and “Seneca III” who seem to live in Spain. The blog played a major role in introducing the Eurabia theory to a US far-right public. It moved to self-hosting in January 2013 after being taken down twice by Blogger due to its extreme and racist content.

    http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gates_of_Vienna

  16. JuanP on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 1:04 pm 

    Ouch, Brad! There went your credibility on this site. You didn’t last long! LOL! I think you’ll be better off visiting one of those other websites. You know what I mean?

  17. PracticalMaina on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 2:27 pm 

    The site didn’t even deny algebra was created by a Muslim is the best part, it admitted the word is Arab and the man most commonly given credit was a Muslim, but he might not have been as a kid, oooooo wow. The only part of that shitty website that makes a definitive statement against it being a Muslim creation is the title, typical fox style shit, all assertion, facts are for un-patriotic Harvard elites right?

  18. PracticalMaina on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 2:37 pm 

    They assert it may have been present before in Greece and India, but the middle east and Africa had very advanced civilizations before these…that built massive structures that still stand and mirror the constellations, they must have had an iphone for the engineering or something.
    The more I think about it the more I believe the Greeks raided the library at Alexandria before they burned it.

  19. PracticalMaina on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 2:39 pm 

    Babylonians had battery’s thousands of years ago, and are credited with laying the ground work for algebra, we let our dumbest president lead a coalition there to conquer and profit.

  20. Apneaman on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 3:44 pm 

    It should noted that during the centuries that span the “golden age” of Islamic invention and science there were many countries and cultures that fell under that umbrella of the Islamic world and the more sophisticated centers were multi cultural. Similar to saying the “The West”. A very loose term, just like “Golden Age”. Most empires had such an age because clever rulers know knowledge is power. Look at the steep savage Gengis. He conscripted all the brainiacs when he he conquered a new people and used them to further his power. America did it with Wernher Von Braun et al. It’s a pattern and all these morons going full retard with anti science, anti intellectual stances and clinging to historical myths, religious fundamentalism and childish fantasies of a return to an American or European golden age that really never existed always pop up at the end of empire. Never ends well. Same as it ever was.

  21. Brad on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 4:28 pm 

    @Apneaman,

    Please stay away as far as possible from Europe as you can, no need for neo-bolsheviks like you (“shoot first, ask questions later”)

    Top ten quality of living cities in the world, seven European, two Australian and only one in North-America: Hongcouver.

    https://www.imercer.com/content/mobility/quality-of-living-city-rankings.html#list

    North-America still stands because of the reserve currency status, but if that goes, so goes America.

    And there is far more rightwing resistance against third world immigration in Europa than in America, with Canada being the weakest link of them all.

    France is on the verge of civil war. They can expect help from all corners in Europa when tshtf, including Russia.

    It won’t be long before we can liberate ourselves from the AngloZionist yoke imposed on us in 1945.

    Now why don’t you start a war against China over these islands? We are right behind you.

    Ah well, even Michael Moore thinks Trump will win. He will withdraw from NATO all by himself. The US can’t afford its hegemonic role another five years.

  22. Apneaman on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 5:04 pm 

    Canada is the weak link? Take a look at the immigration stats for legal and illegals and get back to me. Ha, you fucking dream of having as tight immigrant regulations – enforced regulations, as Canada. If the US & Europe had that there would be no discussion. I don’t give one fucking shit about yours or any of the other little screeching monkeys politics and snivelling. I laugh my ass off watching y’all building up the hate getting ready to tear each other apart. Oh, and this time we ain’t coming to save your asses like with your last two squabbles. Fight your own fight this time ok. There has been enough Canadian blood spilled cleaning up your last fuck ups. That’s what European history is right? One long slaughter fest interspersed with a few decades of peace here and there. Good luck with your self inflicted muslim problem. Y’all elected your leaders, so deal with it. Do something or shut the fuck up.

  23. Brad on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 5:07 pm 

    Before Apneaman leaves the building for Ahmed’s weekly algebra classes, perhaps he would care to take a look at data as assembled by your own Charles Murray, so not some “self-important” European:

    https://mobile.twitter.com/genophilia/status/755964971582763008/photo/1

    If you compare which civilization was responsible for inventions of all sorts, you see that Muslims were mainly picking their noses, Americans, descendants of the underclasses of Europe, made themselves useful to a modest extent, but the real Gods are to be found in Europe. And this will never change.

    Now on your knees.

  24. Brad on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 5:24 pm 

    Canada and Sweden can compete for the title most pc country in the world. Here Canadian schoolchildren singing a classic jihadist war song to greet Syrian invaders. The initiative received praise from the Canadian pm and went viral globally for the joke that it was:

    https://youtu.be/wjPMmMCB78g

    And please spare me your embarrasing Hollywood interpretation of history. The people of the British colony Canada were used to add the independent Low Countries to the US empire. Even more important was that Canadian grain was used by the British government to bribe the nationalist Spanish government and prevent them to allow the German army to occupy Gibraltar and prevent the Anglos from invading Italy.

    – WW1 was the intentional rape of Germany by Britain, with France, Russia and US bought into the coalition.
    – WW2 was the war of the youknowwho, using their Soviet and Anglo proxies against continental Europe, so spare us your selfserving Anglo liberation baloney.

    Now back to your anal porn.

  25. Apneaman on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 6:03 pm 

    That’s right fuck head and the muslims in Europe are groping and fucking all your women. Apparently, y’all ain’t man enough to protect them or you just like jihadist sloppy seconds.

  26. Apneaman on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 6:13 pm 

    Brad, fuck your god. I wipe my ass with a bible page twice a day…..even if I don’t have to go.

    And you can scream and shout all day, but there is no swarm of illegal refugees groping the woman where I live and no weekly mass shootings and the citizens are not completely divided and at eachothers throats.

    Nice twitter link. Twitter links prove everything in 140 characters or less.

    “Yes, #SteveKing is right, which is why #ISaluteWhitePeople.

    @anncoulter @SteveKingIA @seanhannity @rushlimbaugh”

    Some real winners there.

    Pray tell Brad where do you live?

  27. Apneaman on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 6:23 pm 

    Brad why are you trying to change the subject on which countries are full of illegals to a completely mental degree and which ones or one (Canada) is not. If Europe is so fucking superior then explain it instead of bringing up those singing kids which was just one more piece of political theater. What does that have to do with overflowing illegals huh? WoW the Canadians let in a whole 20,000 Syrian refugees after they screened them. While Europe lets anyone walk in. Tell me why that is brad. How can that happen? It’s not like the Canadians have some big bad military or even a fence to stop latinos from coming up. How come Canada ain’t overrun like Europe and the US? Try and explain it without using another Rush Limbaugh twitter link.

  28. Brad on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 6:25 pm 

    Wow, even Canadians have grown a pair and have let themselves being inspired by the European Pegida movement:

    https://youtu.be/E9BpR6QKkHY

    Chapeau!

    I guess that you apey are one of these commie shouters in the background, right?

    Seriously if you look up on wikipedia the demographics of large Canadian cities, you see that they are max 50% European, so the hell with your false notions of strict Canadian immigration policies, it is a pipe dream.

    Ah well, Trump has now fully usurped the GOP and that won’t be reversed. What remains is the eventual split up of North America in a nationalist and commie part and get Anglosphere over with.

  29. Brad on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 6:37 pm 

    “While Europe lets anyone walk in.”

    That’s not Europe, but mainly Germany and Sweden, both run by feminists… for as long as it lasts. The overthrow of the German government and the multicult system is a matter of time. Elected government officials can no longer show up in public. These US satraps will be dealt with soon:

    https://youtu.be/xsW9OPmjdqQ

    Here another classic:

    https://youtu.be/J9rvjdB-VRc

    A few days ago the French pm Vialls was given the same treatment. It is brewing everywhere in Europe, that is rapidly approaching a 1989 of its own… at the cost of the imperial overlord.

  30. Apneaman on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 6:47 pm 

    Brad

    Muslim inventions that shaped the modern world

    “ondon, England (CNN) — Think of the origins of that staple of modern life, the cup of coffee, and Italy often springs to mind.
    But in fact, Yemen is where the ubiquitous brew has its true origins.
    Along with the first university, and even the toothbrush, it is among surprising Muslim inventions that have shaped the world we live in today.
    The origins of these fundamental ideas and objects — the basis of everything from the bicycle to musical scales — are the focus of “1001 Inventions,” a book celebrating “the forgotten” history of 1,000 years of Muslim heritage.”

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/29/muslim.inventions/

    Brad, what did you invent? What great notable accomplishments do you have that will put you in the history books like all those Medieval muslims? Hmmm, I guessing fuck all which is why your pitiful ass needs to try and ride on the coat tail of others. Guess what? If someone invents something and happens to have the same skin colour or come from the same country that you do, doesn’t make it YOUR achievement. It don’t rub off. That’s just a little trick your mind is playing-great by association. It’s always the most unaccomplished and insecure losers that need to try and claim credit by assocation for a dead person’s work or those who are manipulating you for gain. You have done nothing with you sad little life and that’s why you need all this bullshit white supremacy. If you were making bank, like middle class money or better you would not have the time, nor would you feel insecure. The hate is because you are low status or no status white male and the hate shit gives you meaning and some group to blame, because like all you fuck wads you do not posses the balls to go after the ones who are behind it all. They all white folks. The immigrants are just pawns to the white PTB same as you are. Divide and rule.

  31. JuanP on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 8:48 pm 

    Brad “France is on the verge of civil war. They can expect help from all corners in Europa when tshtf, including Russia.”
    I can’t stop laughing! You must live in some kind of alternative universe inside your delirious mind. The French are the second most despised people in the world behind the US Americans. Nobody will help France. The French are a bunch of xenophobic, conceited pricks who think they are better than everyone else. They are almost as exceptionalist as US Americans and even more arrogant; the whole world despises them. To think that the Russians will come to France’s help is delusional. Russians are going to be more than busy enough helping themselves, just like everybody else. The French will have to wipe their own asses and clean up their own mess all by themselves.

  32. Davy on Thu, 21st Jul 2016 9:16 pm 

    Muslims are just under 10% in France. They tend to be in ghettos if poor and radical. With that small of a population the French will wipe them clean quickly if push comes to shove. I lived for a year in France with my first wife who was 1/2 French. They are a very civilized people until cornered. Their wrath will be swift once anger is switched. I feel for the innocent Muslims everywhere. They will be the ones to suffer as countries react to violence with their scalps.

  33. Brad on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 1:55 am 

    Back on topic, that is the enormous beneficial influence Jews exercise in this world.

    Not.

    http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/07/clinton-trump-putin-nato/492332/

    You can’t make this stuff up: a Jeff Goldberg claims in a “serious” media outlet like the Atlantic that Donald Trump is a… (Drumroll) …

    “agent of Putin”.

    This idiocy illustrates how desperate the NWO crowd really is, they are losing power and they know it. America has just found a Putin of its own and that is terribly good news, not just for the achieving part of American society, but for Europe and Russia as well. No WW3 in Europe after all.

    But it is terrible bad news for the American left, like our own apey. The last chance for some form of world communism, the exceptionalist variety, is going down the drain, flushing the Goldbergs of this world with it. Boohoo.

    Michael Moore tells Bill Maher that Trump is going to win:

    https://youtu.be/q4OEnlr6i4w

  34. Brad on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 2:15 am 

    Responding to other remarks:

    Juan sez: “The French are the second most despised people in the world behind the US American”

    In the world perhaps, but not in Europe. Neither the French nor the Americans. And the biggest fans of the French are traditionally in Russia. Like in America, there is a general sense in Europe of being under siege, of being stalked by six billion potential invaders and colonizers, facilitated by the One World Grand Strategy of the kosher run US deep state. But stiff resistance is mounting both in the US and EU and everything points at the overthrow of the 1968 left, 1989 style.

    @Davy

    Yes 10%, but at the age bracket where it counts, it is more like 1 in 3. For sure, there is not going to be an Islamic victory. But hey, in the sixties the Slgerians threw out the French until the last man, the favor could now be reversed.

    @apey

    “Plus it’s all full of illegal immigrants because y’all to pussy to stand up to the ones who let them in –”

    Wrong. The influx has virtually stopped, thanks to the courageous behavior of the eastern Europeans who all build effective fences against the colonizers and defied orders from Merkel, Juncker and other NWO trash in doing so. It really pays off that eastern Europe was imprisoned in the Soviet (economic) flavor of communism and not in the US, that is racial counterpart. They are not pc like western European officialdom is.

  35. Brad on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 2:55 am 

    Listened from my hotel room, sitting out a rain front which keeps me from continuing my cycle trip to Sweden, to Trump’s acceptance speech:

    https://youtu.be/o6tYJBxiRsg

    Reasonable, measured, non-inflamatory speech. In the crowd pro-Trump Jews, blacks and latino’s. Trump is no fool, unlike Kunstler and others try to portray him.

    Go Donald.

  36. JuanP on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 8:16 am 

    Brad “Like in America, there is a general sense in Europe of being under siege, of being stalked by six billion potential invaders and colonizers …”
    Brad, it is really funny to read that the Europeans and Americans feel stalked by six billion potential invaders and colonizers, though I agree with the observation. What can I say? Payback is a bitch! LOL! After five centuries of having the Europeans and the US Americansinvading, occupying, colonizing, raping, and murdering the rest of the world, it is about time for them to experience the same at home. I, personally, call that JUSTICE!

  37. JuanP on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 8:24 am 

    Brad, I, like you, want Trump to win, but to compare him to Putin is ridiculous. Putin is the best statesman and politician in power in the world today while Trump is a glorified, narcissistic, clownish Real Estate salesman. I just want Trump to win because I think Clinton is a narcissistic and psychopathic bitch and she would be the worst president in US history. I also like Trump because he claims to want to stop attacking Russia, but that is about it. The USA has been declining for decades, will soon start collapsing, and has a horrible future ahead. Neither candidate will change that. The laws of thermodynamics are nonnegotiable.

  38. PracticalMaina on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 9:20 am 

    JuanP, the worst pres in history?? I mean I will give you she would be awful, but no one can dethrone Bush. Hillary and Obama may have been war hawks, but nothing compared to the right wingers supporting Trump. We can expect drone bombings of innocent civilians to continue to increase, especially if Trump wins. Perfect recruiting material for the never ending war, now that it seems the war on drugs is drawing to a close. After all if hippies get their weed, then wallstreet, bankers, lawyers, politicians will need their designer drugs, grown and processed by slave labor of course.

  39. Brad on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 1:08 pm 

    This is one of the most impressive scenes from American cinema:

    https://youtu.be/LT9YKjn67Og

    It is only 1492 and already the Aztek girl is contemplating applying for asylum, a few days after the Spanish for the first set foot in the Americas.lol (2:40).

    You say it is justice that America and Europa will perhaps become overrun by the third world.

    I disagree. In a matter of a few centuries, the result of European-African interaction was that the average African currently living in America turned from an illiterate canibal into a civilized (wel many at least) literate citizen, who weares cloths, can operate a phone, drive a car and live in a stone house, with electricity, heating and a telly.

    If Europe wouldn’t have set out to explore the world, Africans would still be canibals.

    No need to thank us or send us flowers.

    On a different note, the survival of large numbers of “darkies” goes hand in hand with the survival of large numbers of “whities”.

    So be carefull with what you wish for. Whitey and his civilization gone, darkie gone.

    But we won’t didappear from this planet, don’t worry.

  40. PracticalMaina on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 1:11 pm 

    Brad, I would be impressed if you don’t sign post cards with your feces.

  41. Brad on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 1:16 pm 

    Comrade PM, walk straight ahead, after 2nd block turn to the left, find house number 473, ring three times, somebody will open the door and you will be allowed entrance to the weekly meeting of the US Communist Party.

  42. PracticalMaina on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 1:25 pm 

    thats cute. I am more of a libertarian, green party myself. But I would rather be called a commie than a Trump supporter. Or a republican.
    Brad, read something on the internet or anywhere that is not written by a conservative hack. It just might get threw.

  43. Brad on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 1:37 pm 

    US libertarians recently endorsed Clinton.
    Trust me, you are a commie.
    It is not your fault.

  44. Brad on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 2:10 pm 

    Jon Leibovitz, who is paid to be funny, has declared today that ‘America no longer belongs to Trump supporters” (meaning whitey).

    Touche! Absolutely true.

    Unfortunately, it no longer belongs to Jon’s tribe either, otherwise Trump would not have been nominee. Tough luck, shit happens.

    Take-away point for Jon: in the near future it is not going to be about the question who owns America.

    No, in the near future the question will be: “who owns which part of America”.

    http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/jon-stewart-to-trump-supporters-you-dont-own-america-1201820140/

  45. Apneaman on Fri, 22nd Jul 2016 4:20 pm 

    Jon Leibovitz, is a has been, one trick pony and a fucking retard and so are you brad bitch.

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