1. The Devil’s Advocate
Time Stamp: 9:36
- Practice Carnal Existence
- When I reflect on what it means to be an animal, what it means to connect with nature, and what it means to live off of the land, I keep coming back to this phrase: Carnal Existence
- It naturally stems from vital existence, the second Satanic Statement
- The idea that we celebrate the here and now rather than an imaginary afterlife
- But the subjects are core to what it means to be a human animal, as noted in the seventh Satanic Statement
- Survival
- Protection
- I would define Carnal Existence as those practices or set of skills and knowledge that celebrate your more primitive nature.
- Building Shelter
- Purifying Water
- Creating Fire
- Securing Food
- Protecting yourself
- Sexual Expression
- This is echoed in the first 2 tiers of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- Physiological Needs
- Safety Needs
- Only after you are capable of understanding your Carnal needs and achieving them successfully can you them truly appreciate your vital needs:
- Intimacy and Friends
- Esteem
- Self-Actualization
2. Infernal Informant
Time Stamp: 28:25
- Merrick Garland vows to target white supremacists as attorney general
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/21/merrick-garland-white-supremacists-attorney-general-senate-judiciary-hearing
- At his Senate hearing on Monday, attorney general nominee Merrick Garland will pledge to prosecute “white supremacists and others” who attacked the US Capitol on 6 January, in support of Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn his election defeat.
- The pledge was contained in Garland’s opening testimony for the session before the Senate judiciary committee, released on Saturday night.
- “If confirmed,” Garland said, ‘I will supervise the prosecution of white supremacists and others who stormed the Capitol on 6 January – a heinous attack that sought to disrupt a cornerstone of our democracy: the peaceful transfer of power to a newly elected government.”
- Five people including a police officer died as a direct result of the attack on the Capitol, before which Trump told supporters to “fight like hell” against the result of the presidential election. Trump lost to Joe Biden by 306-232 in the electoral college and by more than 7m ballots in the popular vote.
- More than 250 participants in the Capitol riot have been charged. As NPR reported, “the defendants are predominantly white and male, though there were exceptions.
- “Federal prosecutors say a former member of the Latin Kings gang joined the mob, as did two Virginia police officers. A man in a ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt took part, as did a Messianic Rabbi. Far-right militia members decked out in tactical gear rioted next to a county commissioner, a New York City sanitation worker, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist.”
- In his testimony, Garland made reference to his role from 1995 to 1997 in supervising the prosecution of the perpetrators of the Oklahoma City Bombing, a white supremacist atrocity in which 168 people including 19 children were killed.
- Trump was impeached for a second time on a charge of inciting an insurrection but was acquitted after only seven Republicans joined Democrats in the Senate in voting to convict, 10 short of the majority needed.
- “It is a fitting time,” Garland said, “to reaffirm that the role of the attorney general is to serve the rule of law and to ensure equal justice under the law.”
- The 68-year-old federal appeals judge was famously denied even a hearing in 2016 when Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell blocked him as Barack Obama’s third pick for the supreme court.
- Biden’s selection of Garland for attorney general is seen as a conciliatory move in a capital controlled by Democrats but only by slim margins, the Senate split 50-50 with Vice-President Kamala Harris the tie-breaking vote.
- In his testimony, Garland said he would be independent from Biden, being sure to “strictly regulate communication with the White House” and working as “the lawyer … for the people of the United States”.
- Trump pressured his first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to do his bidding, then saw his second, William Barr, largely do so, running interference on the investigation of Russian election interference and ties between Trump and Moscow.
- If confirmed, Garland will face sensitive decisions over matters including Trump, now exposed to criminal and civil investigation, and Hunter Biden, the new president’s son whose tax affairs are in question as he remains a target for much of the right.
- Some on the left have expressed concern that Garland might be too politically moderate.
- Black Lives Matter founder LaTosha Brown, for example, told the Guardian: “My concern is that he does not have a strong civil rights history … even when Obama nominated him, one of the critiques was that he was making a compromise with what he thought was a ‘clean’ candidate to get through.”
- In his testimony, Garland said justice department civil rights work must be improved.
- “Communities of colour and other minorities still face discrimination in housing, education, employment, and the criminal justice system,” he said, “and bear the brunt of the harm caused by pandemic, pollution, and climate change.”
- Garland is expected to be confirmed.
- U.S. deports 95-year-old who was a Nazi concentration camp guard
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/friedrich-karl-berger-us-deports-former-nazi-camp-guard-to-germany/
- A 95-year-old man who was a Nazi concentration camp guard during WWII has been deported from the U.S. to Germany, authorities announced on Friday. Friedrich Karl Berger, who lived in Tennessee, was deported “for participating in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution” while serving at the concentration camp in 1945, the Justice Department said.
- Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson said in a statement that Berger’s removal from the U.S. demonstrates the department’s “commitment to ensuring that the United States is not a safe haven for those who have participated in Nazi crimes against humanity and other human rights abuses.”
- “In this year in which we mark the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg convictions,” Wilkinson continued, “this case shows that the passage even of many decades will not deter the Department from pursuing justice on behalf of the victims of Nazi crimes.”
- Berger is the 70th person identified as a Nazi persecutor to be removed from the U.S., according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
- A 2020 trial found that Berger served the Nazi regime at a Neuengamme sub-camp near Meppen, Germany, during the Holocaust. The judge who presided over the 2020 case said that Meppen prisoners, many of which were Jewish, Russian, Dutch and Polish, were held at the camp in the winter of 1945. The conditions, the judge ruled, were “atrocious,” as the prisoners were forced to conducted labor outdoors “to the point of exhaustion and death,” the DOJ said.
- Prisoners at the Meppen-based camp were forced to build a so-called “friesenwall” to protect the northern coast of Germany, according to the Foundation of Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centres. On the day that the camp was evacuated, there were 1,773 imprisoned at the camp, the foundation says.
- Berger worked at the camp until the Nazis evacuated it in March 1945, at which time the prisoners were forced to go to the main Neuengamme camp. The two-week transfer was made in “inhumane conditions,” according to the DOJ, and 70 people who were imprisoned died in the process.
- Berger admitted during the trial that he guarded the prisoners and prevented them from escaping, U.S. officials said. He also admitted that he never requested to be transferred from his role as a concentration camp guard.
- To this day, the DOJ said, Berger receives a pension from Germany for his past employment in the country, including his “wartime service.”
- He was removed under the 1978 Holtzman Amendment because of his “willing service as an armed guard of prisoners at a concentration camp where persecution took place,” the DOJ said.
- Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tae Johnson said the department “will never cease to pursue those who persecute others.”
- “This case exemplifies the steadfast dedication of both ICE and the Department of Justice to pursue justice and to hunt relentlessly for those who participated in one of history’s greatest atrocities,” Johnson said, “no matter how long it takes.”
3. Creature Feature
Time Stamp: 55:21
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