Author: R J Adams

Purim starts this Saturday evening. No, it’s really not a new advert for dishwasher liquid – but “….a [Jewish] holiday that commemorates the redemption through divine intervention of the Jewish people from an evil Persian ruler about 2,500 years ago.”

At least, that’s according to today’s Jerusalem Post.

OK? What’s so special about that, you ask?

Normally, not a lot – unless, of course, you’re a Jew celebrating Purim. But this year Purim is also being celebrated by the lunatic Christian fringe, otherwise known as the Evangelicals, who are planning to use – or, perhaps, “abuse” might be a better word – six million children in the process.

It’s all the brainchild of this man –

Michael D Evans: evangelist; avid supporter of Israel and all things Israeli, founder of the Mike Evans Ministries.

The “Plan” is to “enlist” six million children “….to pray that God annul [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad’s plans for the destruction of the Jewish people……”

Apparently, the two sons of darkness, Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, are also in on it – which is hardly surprising.

According to Evans:

“The number six million is a reminder to Christians that never again must we allow a Holocaust……and since the young suffer most in times of catastrophe, it is fitting that children should be the ones praying.”

No more holocausts then, but genocide and apartheid are fine.

On the surface, Zionist Jews and Evangelicals make strange bedfellows, but Evangelicals have long supported the Jewish State. They see it as Biblical prophesy that Israel plays a vital role in God’s plan for the “Rapture” and, as a consequence, their divine responsibility to ensure Israel’s survival.

To normal human beings, with logical brains delivering logical thoughts, such ideas are so immature as to be scarcely worth considering. When six million innocent, easily-indoctrinated, children are involved the whole idea becomes appalling.

What, I wonder, would both Zionist Jews and Evangelicals say if Iran’s president was to “enlist” all Iranian children to pray that Allah annul George Bush’s plan to destroy Iran?

At the very least, they would condemn it as manipulation of the young and innocent.

Evan’s ego-inflated website can be found HERE. He obviously considers himself an influential man, and maybe he is. He describes himself as “…..one of the most-viewed Middle East analysts in the United States.”

Maybe he’s that also. If so, it is alarming for one very good reason.

However much knowledge one person acquires, and however cleverly they utilize that knowledge, if the very foundation of their belief system is at fault then the knowledge is for nothing and its use is detrimental.

Evangelicals and Zionist Jews tend to have one common denominator – they are self-inverting, looking to themselves and each other without regard for those outside their community. They lack an all-embracing, forgiving, love of humanity. Israel has proved this over and over in its brutal suppression of the Palestinian people, just as the Evangelical movement in America has sought political power to gain control over us all and force their false ideals upon us.

For that reason alone humanity should shun their presence and ensure their power is restricted. Manipulating the nations of the earth in an attempt to bring about their own delusional prophecies is a dangerous game that could rebound on all of humanity.

Jews acknowledge Purim to honor their god’s intervention; freeing them from slavery. Enslaving six million innocent young minds gives no cause for celebration.

Filed under: Save the children

In simple terms it boils down to whether we can still trust them. It’s not just the doctors, but the whole health industry. Have you noticed how they say one thing, then ten years later decide the opposite is true?

The real problem comes down to money, or rather, the importance of cash. It’s become more crucial than alleviating illness, at least so far as the major health professionals are concerned.

Take my doctor, as an example. He’s always trying to push either the latest drug to come on the market, or whatever Merck is giving the best backhanders on at the time. Last month it must have been the anti-reflux drug, Nexium.

Now, I know all about Nexium as I happen to have an esophageal reflux problem and have been taking proton pump inhibitors (Nexium is a PPI) of one sort or another since before I left Britain. This guy has been prescribing me another PPI, Prevacid, for the last four years.

After Christmas, I had a bit of a cough that wouldn’t clear up, and made a couple of clinic visits without success. Last month I made another appointment, and after some deliberation he disappeared, returning a few minutes later with a sample pack of Nexium.

“I think it may be a reflux problem causing your cough, ” he said, “I want you to try some of these and let me know how you get on.”

Fortunately, I recognized what they were and suggested it may not be such a good idea to add another 30mg of PPI daily to the 60mg I was already taking. Needless to say, he went rather red and muttered something about, “Oh, you’d better not take these then,” before rapidly disappearing out the door with the offending pills.

It seems my good family doctor was so keen to flog the drug company’s wares that he failed to check my medical records before dishing out the profitable pills. Profitable for him, that is. God knows what damage it may have caused to my health.

It begs the question: are doctors so keen to push drug company wares that they are putting patients’ welfare at risk?

How many vitamin supplements do you take each day? Most of us swallow, if not a multi, then at least a couple of different vitamin pills each day. After all, they’re an insurance premium against the rubbish passing for nourishment that we shove down our throats on a regular basis. It’s what the medical profession have told us for years: take your vitamins and you’ll live to be healthy, wealthy and wise.

Well, it seems they may be changing their tune. Vitamins are no longer a good idea – unless you listen to the manufacturers, of course. In fact, vitamin supplements may be doing you a great deal of harm, according to researchers at Copenhagen University. Not to put it too succinctly, they may be killing you.

To quote the conclusion of the researchers, as published in the Journal of the American Medical Association:

“Treatment with beta carotene, vitamin A, and vitamin E may increase mortality. The potential roles of vitamin C and selenium on mortality need further study.”

Of course, an “expert” from the vitamin supplements industry has leapt in to proclaim the research “fatally flawed”.

But then he would, wouldn’t he?

Filed under: Fashion statements

We should all respect our politicians more. After all, it takes talent to make it in government these days. Successful politicians need high levels of arrogance; a masters degree in contempt for those they represent; the ability to purloin large quantities of money and favors for doing very little, and above all the knack of making everyone else feel inferior.

Take Britain’s future prime minister, Gordon Brown, as an example.

Incidentally, never before has a candidate for the UK’s top job known in advance he/she is going to be elected. It says much for the quality of today’s British politicians that the democratic process has been upgraded to allow the outgoing prime minister to pick who will succeed him.

The present incumbent, Tony Blair, certainly possesses all the characteristics outlined above, in abundance, but in addition he displays a well-honed degree of deviousness others in the British parliament struggle to emulate. It is, perhaps, that special, extraordinary ability that has placed him head and shoulders above the rest during his last three terms in office, and allowed him to so purify the party electoral process that he was able to declare nine years ago – albeit tactfully – that the new leader would be Gordon Brown.

For his part, Brown is himself honing the skills he learned from watching Blair at work. His latest pronouncement will go down well with the traditional ‘roast-beef-and-two-veg-on-a-Sunday’ brigade – that gallant but ever-dwindling band of ethnically-cleansed, pure-bred, Englishmen who still believe the nation belongs to them and the “damned wogs” can “bloody well go home to Pakistan where they belong”. Any attempt to explain that most “wogs” are at least second generation British citizens, results in a glaze over the eyes and a look of “Dah! This does not compute”.

Never fear, Gordon is here, spurring his mighty charger to the rescue of these fair, white, Englishmen in distress.

Gordon Brown wants all immigrants to sweep the streets, clean public toilets, and trim fair, white, Englishmen’s hedges and lawns. This, he says, will “help them to settle” before becoming British citizens. He would truly like them to volunteer for these awe-inspiring tasks, but just in case they feel insufficiently qualified for such positions, Gordon is prepared to use the full force of law to persuade them otherwise.

Here, then, is a perfect example of Gordon Brown using all those qualifications a politician needs to succeed. His arrogance and contempt are only matched by an ability to instill in immigrants the sense of inferiority necessary for successful British citizenship.

Alas for Gordon, he’s still not quite devious enough for the position he expects to soon occupy. Announcing his intentions in advance allows his enemies to block them. They’ve already suggested his plans are “ill thought out” and “unworkable”.

Gordan needs to pay more attention to his mentor, Tony Blair.

Tony would have said nothing, silvered a few palms to ensure the legislation passed, and then announced it as a “fait accompli” at the next prime minister’s question time.

Pay more attention, Gordon!

Filed under: Special qualifications