PufPuf93 » Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:59 am wrote:The use of Isis as a marketing brand and cultural desecration has seemed obvious to me since the acronym ISIS was the new term in the western media.
Now a decade pass, the same media outlets and US-led coalition used "Shock and Awe" to market the invasion of Iraq. "Shock and Awe" was a name for overt terrorism but also was close in form, pronunciation, and cadence to the cultural and spiritual term "Shekhinah". I thought at the time and since that this was a part of the planned military psyops that was "Shock and Awe". But on the few times over the years I have mentioned "Shekhinah" regards the invasion of Iraq to others, others pulled a blank as the term is not as well known nor as obvious ISIS and the goddess Isis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekhinah
That is amazing, PufPuf93. The word "Sekinah" in Arabic means "divine peace", or "God-inspired peace". It is a common name for girls. In that Wikipedia page, there is a verse from the Quran, in which the Arabic word "Sekinah" ("Shekinah" in Hebrew) is translated as "tranquility".
Their prophet said to them: "The sign of his kingship is that the Ark will come to you in which there is tranquility from your Lord and a relic from the family of Moses and the family of Aaron, borne by the angels.
If we substitute the Hebrew word Shakinah for the original Arabic Sakinah:
Their prophet said to them: "The sign of his kingship is that the Ark will come to you in which there is Shakinah from your Lord and a relic from the family of Moses and the family of Aaron, borne by the angels.
And then:
Their prophet said to them: "The sign of his kingship is that the Ark will come to you in which there is Shock and Awe from your Lord and a relic from the family of Moses and the family of Aaron, borne by the angels".
Is it a coincidence that the first US invasion of Iraq ended on Purim, the second US invasion of Iraq occurred on Purim, and the US invasion of Libya also occurred on Purim?
The phrase "Shock and Awe" derives from the nineteenth-century German military theorist Clausewitz. It was brought to the United States by Dr. Harlan Ullman, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a man of deep influence in the Bush administration, whose acumen as a strategic thinker has been lauded by Colin Powell. The doctrine of "rapid dominance" expounded by Dr. Ullman is the key to the strategy that General Myers and others now find themselves preparing to execute.
Extreme clarity marks the doctrines and maxims of Dr. Ullman. For him, a major precedent to guide American military policy in the twenty-first century, and a clue to the effect on enemy morale intended by Shock and Awe, was the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese were shocked into immediate surrender. The greatness of such an overwhelming attack, according to Ullman, lies in its capacity to inflict on the enemy an instant paralysis of the will to fight. It assures that an entire people will be "intimidated, made to feel so impotent, so helpless, that they have no choice but to do what we want them to do." It might be objected that this amounts to an endorsement of the use of weapons of mass terror, since concussive paralysis and the injury of non-combatants are among the intended effects of such an attack. The implicit answer offered by Ullman and his admirers is that the end justifies the means, and in a case involving the United States, the end is always benign.
"Super tools and weapons -- information age equivalents of the atomic bomb -- have to be invented," Dr. Ullman wrote in an opinion piece for the Economic Times. "As the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki finally convinced the Japanese Emperor and High Command that even suicidal resistance was futile, these tools must be directed towards a similar outcome" against the smaller and less threatening countries that now stand in the way of American power. But terrorism has many hiding places in a city. In order to eradicate it, you must destroy every common resource for survival. "You have this simultaneous effect," says Ullman, "rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but in minutes."
In the first Gulf War, 10 percent of the weapons were precision guided. In this war, 80 percent will be precision guided. The Air Force has stockpiled 6,000 guidance kits in the Persian Gulf to convert ordinary bombs into satellite-guided bombs, a weapon that did not exist in the first war. So, "you're sitting in Baghdad" Ullman told the CBS News reporter David Martin, in anticipation of the first missiles that are to be launched, "and all of a sudden you're the general and 30 of your division headquarters have been wiped out. You also take the city down. By that I mean you get rid of their power, water. In 2,3,4,5 days they are physically, emotionally and psychologically exhausted."
To what condition do we intend to reduce Baghdad? Here Ullman gives substance to the obscure intimations of General Myers. In addition to destroying military targets, the strategy calls for treating an entire city the size of Los Angeles as an ocean in which the army swims. When you want the army to surrender fast, you drain the water; and Ullman has surveyed the range of newly available methods with clinical calm. Our ability "to turn the lights on and off of an adversary as we choose, will so overload the perception, knowledge, and understanding of that adversary that there will be no choice except to cease and desist or risk complete and total destruction." No wonder General Myers warned Americans to get used to the idea that civilians will die.
This war has been conceived, among other things, as a demonstration. It is important not only for what it does to Iraq but for what it shows the United States can do to any nation that defies our will. Afterward, the dominant emotion toward the United States in the rest of the world is likely to be fear. This is an effect that the war on Iraq certainly intends; but once the result is achieved, it will be hard to remember without regret a time when many people elsewhere felt affection and admiration more than fear of the United States.
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I started this thread because though I'm still struggling to understand what is happening below the surface, I'm disgusted by the use of the name "Isis" to refer to the monstrous, bloodthirsty zombie proxies of the Zio-American empire. Isis is the goddess of motherhood, of healing, of love. She represents, to many Egyptians even today, the heroism and fearlessness of a mother defending her husband and her young.
The emergence of "ISIS" from Iraq, where the Zio-American empire implanted it through "Shock and Awe", coincided precisely with the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the summer of 2013. Women were at the forefront of the struggle against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the resistance movement began with the proliferation of videos that showed Egyptian women, many of them middle-aged or elderly, scolding or haranguing and in a few cases even hitting Muslim Brothers or Salafists with their bare hands. This was a spontaneous phenomenon that appeared across the country, and it destroyed once and for all the mystique and aura of power the Islamists had struggled so hard to build. It was women who broke the barrier of fear. The sight of the big, bad thug Ahmed Mogheer terrorized and bleeding after the young female reporter Rasha Azab beat him on the head with her shoe, made the formerly fearsome Brotherhood into a national laughing-stock.
When the MB 'fought back', they made things even worse for themselves. This iconic photo, of an Brother trying to silence an elderly protester, caused nation-wide outrage:
In 2012, newspapers hailed "The Rise of Isis", retelling the story of how Isis struggled to find and gather the pieces of her husband's corpse, and then using magic, breathed life into him once again, and then became impregnated by him, giving birth to Horus, the falcon-headed god whose right eye represented the sun, or power, and whose left eye represented the moon, or healing.
It is striking that, at the same time "Isis" rose up in Egypt to defeat the MB, "ISIS" appeared out of the smoking ruins of Iraq. That's what got me thinking: how the Zio-American empire takes words and concepts that have great meaning, and literally desecrates them, so they mean the opposite. And now, you've provided another example, of how "Shock and Awe" can be heard as "Shakinah", and made to mean the exact opposite.
That started me thinking about all sorts of things, like "Pussy Riot" being considered "feminist heroines" because they put on a blasphemous show inside a Russian Orthodox church, and speaking of churches, about how the Catholic Church has been irrevocably associated in many people's minds with child sexual abuse. The Jewish religious faith has been substituted for a savage lust for land, and nothing else. Similarly, Islam is being buried under a monstrous golem that has trampled it into the ground, along with millions of helpless innocents. These observations, and many more, have been slowly incubating inside me, culminating in the question, "is there anything sacred, anything at all, that is not being attacked and profaned and dragged into the mud, and transformed into its opposite?" It's becoming increasingly clear that the answer is "no".
"If you're not careful the newspapers will have you hating the oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X
