Cherche la femme or however it's spelled in French. Yes. A cop-out masquerading as a plot twist.
I can't help thinking Blair is in some sort of secret cult, maybe he's an Ascended Master or something in some branch of Theosophy. It's just a weird feeling I get from him, but he seems like he's in a trance quite often. If that were true, Ghost doesn't go completely off-track, because Lang is controlled as Tony Blair is. Not that Blair would perceive himself that way, he would be the prime mover in a drama he helped write. With whom did he think he was co-authoring the script, and for what purpose? Did anyone else hear how Tony Blair signed a guestbook somewhere and put his home city down as Jerusalem? It might've even been at some place in Israel. Odd behaviour.
Helen Reyes Wrote:Cherche la femme or however it's spelled in French. Yes. A cop-out masquerading as a plot twist.
I can't help thinking Blair is in some sort of secret cult, maybe he's an Ascended Master or something in some branch of Theosophy. It's just a weird feeling I get from him, but he seems like he's in a trance quite often. If that were true, Ghost doesn't go completely off-track, because Lang is controlled as Tony Blair is. Not that Blair would perceive himself that way, he would be the prime mover in a drama he helped write. With whom did he think he was co-authoring the script, and for what purpose? Did anyone else hear how Tony Blair signed a guestbook somewhere and put his home city down as Jerusalem? It might've even been at some place in Israel. Odd behaviour.
I reckon he is Opus Dei. Definitely not kosher though.
I don't necessarily believe the exchange below, leaked by who?, is correct in all aspects.
However, fwiw it is superficially amusing:
Quote:At the time of the furore over Mr Blair's appointment of Ruth Kelly as Education Secretary – caused by her membership of Opus Dei – the Prime Minister asked Canon Russ: "What is Opus Dei?"
"A rather strict organisation of the Church," the priest told him, adding: "General Franco had 11 members of Opus Dei in his government."
"I've only got one – what's wrong with me?" the Prime Minister said.
Mr Blair spoke to Canon Russ several years ago about his desire to become a Roman Catholic deacon when he left Downing Street. He asked the priest: "Would this be possible?"
When Canon Russ told him it would usually take "two or three years" before he could be considered for such a role, Mr Blair replied: "The fact that I'm PM, could this make a difference?"
I asked Canon Russ if, when Mr Blair was free from politics, he would accept the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. He was convinced he would, saying: "He has a lot of potentiality for good. He is still looking for the meaning in his life." But for the time being he was "two different people."
Although Canon Russ no longer sees the Blairs – he was excluded from their circle after making critical comments about the Iraq War – he writes to Mr Blair weekly and still sends him his sermons, which he says contain coded messages to the Prime Minister.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/artic...already.do
Given Seymour Hersh's claims that:
Quote:Hersh then brought up the widespread looting that took place in Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. "In the Cheney shop, the attitude was, What's this? What are they all worried about, the politicians and the press, they're all worried about some looting? … Don't they get it? We're gonna change mosques into cathedrals. And when we get all the oil, nobody's gonna give a damn.'"
"That's the attitude," he continued. "We're gonna change mosques into cathedrals. That's an attitude that pervades, I'm here to say, a large percentage of the Joint Special Operations Command."
He then alleged that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who headed JSOC before briefly becoming the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, and his successor, Vice Adm. William McRaven, as well as many within JSOC, "are all members of, or at least supporters of, Knights of Malta."
Hersh may have been referring to the Sovereign Order of Malta, a Roman Catholic organization commited to "defence of the Faith and assistance to the poor and the suffering," according to its website.
"Many of them are members of Opus Dei," Hersh continued. "They do see what they're doing and this is not an atypical attitude among some military it's a crusade, literally. They seem themselves as the protectors of the Christians. They're protecting them from the Muslims [as in] the 13th century. And this is their function."
"They have little insignias, these coins they pass among each other, which are crusader coins," he continued. "They have insignia that reflect the whole notion that this is a culture war. … Right now, there's a tremendous, tremendous amount of anti-Muslim feeling in the military community."
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...s-of-Malta
And Blair's call that the West must be prepared to follow the war against Iraq with one against Iran:
Quote: In his second appearance before the Chilcot inquiry the former prime minister repeated the warning he gave in evidence a year ago that Iran was a "looming, coming challenge" to the peace and stability of the whole region and must be tackled.
He accused the Tehran regime of fomenting terrorism and destabilising the Middle East, deliberately impeding chances of peace.
"The Iranians are doing this because they fundamentally disagree with our way of life," he said. "At some point we have got to get our head out of the sand and understand Iraq is one part of a far bigger picture right across the region. People are going to have to face that struggle."
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...own/page11
I'm bumping this thread which contains potentially relevant material.
Opus Dei.
SMOM.
War against the "infidels", replacing "mosques with cathedrals".
Perhaps George W Bush's call for a "crusade" was precisely that.
It may be of further interest that the fragmentation of Yugoslavia was aided and assisted by SMOM and Opus Dei.
Robert Hutchison's book "Thy Kingdom Come - Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei" makes this quite clear.
In that, Hutchison states that Opus Dei has suborned the FBI, CIA, the Pentagon and other powerful bodies, that it has also forged an alliance with the Mafia - all in their holy war on Islam.
I've been trying to find an online copy of the book to link to, but am unable to locate one.
I'm bumping this thread because I've now watched the film, and need to fix my quote accordingly:
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:The Ghost is not radical.
It is not a danger to consensus reality.
If anything, this complete and utter waste of celluloid reinforces the status quo ante.