1. The Devil’s Advocate
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- Satanism and Environmentalism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism
- is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.
- Divorce yourself from environmental philosophy in this discussion
- For those who do engage politically, that’s fine, this is a personal conversation though
- We will only refer to environmentalism in the context of the individuals impact, as a Satanist
- I have long been a proponent that the exertion of the Satanists will does not have to end at one’s interpersonal relationships or home
- Herr Doktor’s Pentagonal Revisionism: A Five-Point Program
https://www.churchofsatan.com/pentagonal-revisionism/- Stratification – …no more myth of “equality” for all…No one should be protected from the effects of his own stupidity.
- anyone to live within a total environment of his or her choice – Privately owned, operated and controlled environments
- This speaks to the Satanists need to reach beyond themselves in order to make these changes a reality, it will not happen on its own, and environmentalism is the key to make these things happen
- The downside is that as we can divorce the socio-political SJW style messaging, not many others can. So optics will be an issue with anyone who supports environmentalism
- It includes but is not limited to concepts such as a land ethic, environmental ethics, biodiversity, ecology, and the biophilia hypothesis figure predominantly.
- I would argue that all of these concepts support Satanic drives for our future.
- Having sustainable access to water globally reduces military conflict and migration. If you think of the environment and our engagement with it in the terms of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, physiological needs are the foundation. Food, water, etc. That is the essential result of environmentalism
- We cannot have impacts over our own lives until we can sustain our lives
- The fundamental core of the individual Satanists understanding is that we are carnal animals, like other animals on this planet.
- Self care is an indirect relation to environmental care
- It’s not about sacrificing yourself for the planet, it’s about finding a way for you to thrive in the environment
- The world will be here even if we aren’t, but if we want to exist, we have to behave in ways that allow us to continue existing
- In general terms, environmentalists advocate the sustainable management of resources, and the protection (and restoration, when necessary) of the natural environment through changes in public policy and individual behavior.
2. Infernal Informant
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- Iran newspaper: Strike Haifa if Israel killed scientist
- https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/29/iran-strike-haifa-israel-killed-scientist-440975
- An opinion piece published by a hard-line Iranian newspaper on Sunday suggested Iran should attack the Israeli port city of Haifa if Israel carried out the killing of the scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program in the early 2000s.
- Though the hard-line Kayhan newspaper has long argued for aggressive retaliation for operations targeting Iran, Sunday’s opinion piece went further, suggesting any assault be carried out in a way that destroys facilities and “also causes heavy human casualties.”
- Israel, suspected of killing Iranian nuclear scientists over the past decade, has not commented on the brazen slaying of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. A military-style ambush Friday on the outskirts of Tehran reportedly saw a truck bomb explode and gunmen open fire on the scientist, killing him and a bodyguard.
- U.S. intelligence agencies and U.N. nuclear inspectors have said the organized military nuclear program that Fakhrizadeh oversaw was disbanded in 2003, but Israeli suspicion of Tehran’s atomic program and his involvement has never ceased.
- Iranian officials have blamed Israel for Friday’s attack, raising the specter of renewed tensions that could engulf the region, including U.S. troops stationed in the Persian Gulf and beyond during President Donald Trump’s remaining weeks in office.
- Kayhan published the piece written by Iranian analyst Sadollah Zarei, who argued Iran’s previous responses to suspected Israeli airstrikes that killed Revolutionary Guard forces in Syria did not go far enough to deter Israel. He said an assault on Haifa also needed to be greater than Iran’s ballistic missile attack against American troops in Iraq following the U.S. drone strike in Baghdad that killed a top Iranian general in January.
- Striking the Israeli city of Haifa and killing a large number of people “will definitely lead to deterrence, because the United States and the Israeli regime and its agents are by no means ready to take part in a war and a military confrontation,” Zarei wrote.
- While Kayhan is a small circulation newspaper in Iran, its editor-in-chief Hossein Shariatmadari was appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and has been described as an adviser to him in the past.
- Haifa, on the Mediterranean Sea, has been threatened in the past by both Iran and one of its proxies, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
- Such a strike likely would draw an immediate Israeli retaliation and spark a wider conflict across the Mideast. While Iran has never directly targeted an Israeli city militarily, it has conducted attacks targeting Israeli interests abroad in the past over the killing of its scientists, like in the case of the three Iranians recently freed in Thailand in exchange for a detained British-Australian academic.
- Israel also is widely believed to have its own nuclear weapons, a stockpile it neither confirms nor denies possessing.
- The Iranian parliament on Sunday held a closed-door hearing about Fakhrizadeh’s killing. Afterward, parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf said Iran’s enemies must be made to regret killing him.
- “The criminal enemy does not regret it except with a strong reaction,” he said in a broadcast on Iranian state radio.
- A public session of lawmakers saw them chant: “Death to America! Death to Israel!” They also began the review of a bill that would stop inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The nuclear watchdog has provided an unprecedented, real-time look at Iran’s civilian nuclear program following the country’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
- The deal has unraveled after Trump’s unilateral 2018 withdrawal of the U.S. from the accord. Iran’s civilian atomic program has since continued its experiments and now enriches a growing uranium stockpile up to 4.5% purity.
- That’s still far below weapons-grade levels of 90%, though experts warn Iran now has enough low-enriched uranium to reprocess into fuel for at least two atomic bombs if it chose to pursue them.
- That Mysterious Monolith in the Utah Desert? It’s Gone, Officials Say
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/monolith-utah-disappeared.html
- As mysteriously as it arrived, a metal monolith that was discovered last week by Utah public safety workers is now gone, officials said on Saturday.
- The three-sided metal structure was removed on Friday evening “by an unknown party” from the public land it was found on, the federal Bureau of Land Management’s Utah office said in a statement.
- The bureau said it had not removed the monolith, which it considers “private property.”
- The Utah Department of Public Safety said on Monday that it had found the object while surveying for bighorn sheep.
- “IT’S GONE!” the Department of Public Safety said, reacting to the news in an Instagram post. “Almost as quickly as it appeared it has now disappeared,” the department said, adding, “I can only speculate” that aliens took it back, using the emoji for extraterrestrials.
- “Maybe it will stop by and visit us in Canada!!” one person commented.
- It was a mystery how the monolith had been installed in the first place. Lt. Nick Street, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety, said this week that the monolith had been embedded into the rock.
- “Somebody took the time to use some type of concrete-cutting tool or something to really dig down, almost in the exact shape of the object, and embed it really well,” he said. “It’s odd. There are roads close by, but to haul the materials to cut into the rock, and haul the metal, which is taller than 12 feet in sections — to do all that in that remote spot is definitely interesting.”
- Officials said that the structure was most likely a work of art and that its installation on public land was illegal. It was unclear who had put it there — and when — but the art world quickly speculated that it was the work of John McCracken, a sculptor fond of science fiction. He died in 2011.
- His son, Patrick McCracken, told The New York Times this week that his father had told him in 2002 that “he would like to leave his artwork in remote places to be discovered later.”
- While officials declined to disclose the monolith’s location, some people had tracked it down. David Surber, who visited the structure this week and posted videos of it on Instagram, said it was located near Lockhart Basin Road, which is south of Moab.
- The Bureau of Land Management said it would not be investigating the disappearance because “crimes involving private property” are managed by the local sheriff’s office. The San Juan and Grand County Sheriff’s Offices did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
- Mr. Surber, who trekked to the monolith, posted about its disappearance on his Instagram story on Saturday night. “Apparently the monolith is gone,” he said. “Nature returned back to her natural state I suppose.”
3. Creature Feature
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- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still
- a.k.a. Farewell to the Master and Journey to the World
- 1951 American black-and-white science fiction film from 20th Century Fox
- Director: Robert Wise
- Writers: Edmund H. North (screen play),
- based on the 1940 science fiction short story “Farewell to the Master” by Harry Bates
- Science fiction writer Raymond F. Jones worked as an uncredited adviser.
- film score was composed by Bernard Herrmann
- Log Line: An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
- Stars:
- Michael Rennie – Klaatu
- Patricia Neal – Helen Benson
- Hugh Marlowe – Tom Stevens
- Sam Jaffe – Professor Jacob Barnhardt
- Billy Gray – Bobby Benson
- In 1995, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
- Klatu is Jesus in metaphor
- The set was designed by Thomas Little and Claude Carpenter. They collaborated with the architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the design of the spacecraft.
- the phrase “Klaatu barada nikto” has appeared repeatedly in fiction and in popular culture