August 14, 2012

They're at it again, perhaps.

England: The headline of an article on the BBC News website today caused a raised eyebrow at Prattle Towers: Witchcraft-based child abuse: Action plan launched. The start of the article was even more worrying. Had they taken on a redundant News of the World writer?

The government has launched an action plan to tackle child abuse linked to witchcraft or religion in England.

So, who is to be the victim of a moral panic this time? Are the fundies attacking Neopagans again? No, but the potential for vilification of an entire minority group is clear. This time, I fear what will happen when the Daily Mail picks up the story, which is about a tiny number of cases among communities of more recent African origin than the majority:

Scotland Yard says it has conducted 83 investigations into faith-based child abuse in the past decade - among them Kristy Bamu, who was murdered aged 15 in 2010, Victoria Climbie who was eight when she was murdered in 2000 and the headless torso of "Adam", a five or six-year-old boy, which was found in the Thames in 2001.

Ministers are concerned that although the investigations number just a few dozen, other abuse is going on, "under-reported and misunderstood".

Fortunately, the government's "plan" seems to involve recognition of the efforts already being made by community groups and religious leaders, rather than the simultaneous nagging of the affected communities into apathy, and vilification of same as we've seen in the approach to extremist Islamist bampots.

These efforts included Channel 4 documentaries highlighting the problem, most recently in 2010.

The programme explores several churches where child “deliverance” takes place, using undercover footage. A young journalist named Juliana Oladipo agreed to pose as a difficult teenager being brought to church by her mother; in each case witchcraft is diagnosed as the problem, and aggressive exorcism prescribed as the cure.

Some of the fraudulent preachers were after more than just money. One of them demanded sex from a young woman, 21 times, to "cure" her of her witchcraft.

Witchcraft-based child abuse: Action plan launchedBBC News, 14 August 2012; Documentary Shows Child-Witch Stigmatisation Still Occurring in UK Churches, Bartholomew's Notes on Religion, 26 July 2010.

July 27, 2012

The Great Down South Egg-and-Spoon Race Conspiracy List

There's some sort of sporting event going on down south, and I don't think I'm allowed to mention it without paying lots of money. But it seems it's all part of a conspiracy, or several conspiracies, and not just the obvious one.

The most popular option is for there to be a fake terrorist attack in London during the games, possibly nuclear, though with a number of different culprits - those pesky Jews, or governments seeking to establish a New World Order, or the Illuminati, or something complex and occult, or a combination of those. You'll find these scattered around under different categories.

GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACIES

  • The London Olympics - a huge blood sacrifice in the making?Peter Preswick on YouTube
    Is the media predicting a 'terrorist' attack at the London 2012 Olympic Games? The 9/11 false flag event was 'predicted' in the media. There seems to be sufficient evidence that another false flag event is being predicted / planned at the Olympic Games.
    Unfortunately, the video is well over an hour long, so I can't tell you.
  • London Olympics 2012 False Flag AttackStuart J Hooper on YouTube. Looking at signs of preconditioning pointing towards a false flag attack at the Olympics in London this year.
  • The 2012 Olympic Games Exposed truth777exposed on YouTube.
    A false flag nuclear attack that will be yet another step towards the New World Order that we feel will either start World War 3 or trigger the quarantining of citizens all over the world.


THE JEWS ISRAELIS ZIONISTS



  • 2012 London Zion Olympics False-Flag WarningThe Atlantean Conspiracy
    Based on research done by Rik Clay, Ian Crane and others it seems highly probable that the 2012 London Olympics are meant to be the stage for a false-flag terror attack, a UFO/alien type event, or some other such large scale manipulation.

  • 2012 London Olympics Staged Alien LandingNoToBioChip on YouTube. And my research has led me to deduce that the Zionist organisation has laid down plans to attack the Houses of Parliament during this year's London Olympics in the form of a fake alien landing on 11th August 2012.

OCCULT CONSPIRACIES

  • (NEW EVIDENCE) 2012 Nuclear Attack on London Underground During Summer OlympicsTheTruthIsFromGod3 on YouTube.
    As for the false flag attacks of the World Trade Center 9/11, there are a lot of movies and press articles which actually announce the coming London Olympics False flag attacks. Some hidden messages are so explicit that there is no doubt that the London Olympic false flag attack will take place and is part of a bigger plan: WW3 trigger and the entering to the New Age, New World Order, Era of Evil & the Deception of the so called aliens/extraterrestrials which are actually no more than jinns, Satan's offspring, devils, deceivers....
    This individual has loads, and loads of videos bashing on the same theme.
  • London olympic clock stops...interesting 2012 conspiracy...have you noticed this..the Pharoah on Above Top Secret. It seems some Olympic countdown clock stopped in March, and this is obviously not a simple malfunction.

    firstly the clock maker for this 2012 olympic countdown...the clock is made by omega...we all know the current meaning of omega "the last"...as it is at the end of the greek alphabet...is this a countdown to omega.

    the clock has both the name and symbol for omega...with the apparant zion logo above. please find a picture yourself as i dont know how to add one...


    Angela1111 was able to explain:
    Anyway the clock stopped on an important date known as the IDES of MARCH this falls on the date 3/15.

    The Ides of March was a day which celebrates MARS the god of WAR. Mars was an Olympian. Why this date?

    If we look the next clue can be seen quite easily, is if you count 315 days in you get the date November 11 so essentially it directly links to the mystical number 11.11. (I have received this number for many years) so 315 is 11.11


  • OLYMPICS 2012 PAYING HOMAGE TO ANNUNAKI PART 1— Long-winded embedded video of an Occult researcher decoding the occult significance behind the Olympics and its connections to the Annunaki, who appear to be space alien deities.

FAKE CONSPIRACIES

  • Performance artist Bill Aitchison explains the true significance of the London Olympics and its role in the 2012 apocalypse:


OTHER OVERVIEWS


July 26, 2012

Pratlets for 26th July 2012

May 6, 2012

Allah unimpressed by religious boasting

England: I would not normally pay any attention to the Daily Mail, but someone else read it, so I didn't have to.

Newcastle are ready to unleash the power of prayer on the Premier League, with plans for a dedicated religious room for three key players who have lit up their season.

Papiss Cisse, Demba Ba and Hatem Ben Arfa are devout Muslims and they could play a key role on Sunday when Newcastle host Manchester City with the dreams of both clubs in the balance. United want to secure a berth in Europe and City want to clinch their first title since 1968.

It seems that several other clubs, including Manchester City, do have rooms set aside for those players (of all faiths) who wish to pray, but haven't been bleating about it. And it seems Allah is as unimpressed as God when it comes to boasting about one's religion. The final score? Newcastle United 0 - 2 Manchester City.

We must embrace religion, says Newcastle boss Pardew as he considers introducing prayer roomDaily Mail, 5th May 2012; Manchester City moved to within touching distance of their first title for 44 years, as Yaya Toure scored twice to secure a crucial 2-0 victory over Newcastle United.BBC Sport, 6th May 2012.

February 14, 2012

Choose which laws don't apply to you!

England

A particularly pompous and stupid Tory minister has said that councils should ignore the court’s ruling, and carry on praying. (!)

Meanwhile … and so, according to this guvmint minister (the egregious Pickles) one can disobey a particular law, because he doesn’t like it ….
Can we all play, and decide which laws we want to ignore?

Eric Pickles, the Communities and Local Government Secretary, and Ministers last night encouraged councils to openly defy a High Court ruling banning public prayers during meetings.


Government tells councils to carry on praying despite High Court ban
Daily Telegraph, 14th February 2012.

January 17, 2012

Homophobic bigot banged up for child sex abuse.

Scotland: A Christian preacher and former Conservative candidate has been gaoled for the sexual abuse of three children, two boys and a girl. He had met the children at the Edinburgh City Mission and gained the trust of their parents.

The parents of his victims believed he was a devout Christian and let him take the youngsters to play parks and swimming pools.

Instead Smart, of Christian Crescent, Edinburgh, used the time alone with them to carry out the abuse.

But this is not the first time Smart has featured in the Prattle. Back in 2003, when he was a Tory candidate, he ranted against Pride marches and campaigned to have them banned. His outburst directly caused a group of LGBT activists to call a meeting to arrange that year's march in Edinburgh. Somehow, no-one had bothered and the march would not have happened had the activists not been reminded by him. When he said I find quite horrendous the sort of materials being provided to impressionable youngsters in schools now. It is quite vile., it was assumed he was talking about the repeal of Section 28. We now know he was talking about himself.

Preacher John Smart jailed over campaign of child abuseBBC News, 17th January 2012. See also: Tories revert to type.—Pagan Prattle, 22nd April 2003 and DisappointmentPagan Prattle, 20th July 2003.

January 11, 2012

Chestnut continues to be hairy

England: Some myths never die. Indeed, the internet seems to enable them to spread far more quickly than before. That some people are simply violent cunts who need to be locked up never occurs to most. It's either space aliens, the Beast of Bodmin or, as in this case, some kind of imaginary Satanist.

Satanic link to Cornwall horse mutilation investigatedBBC News, 11th January 2012.

January 1, 2012

Look who's back

And still full of himself.

So, if someone ends up getting hurt there, will he take responsibility for his actions?

The Annual End-of-the-World Post 2012

Tradition was fully observed during 2011 when, despite some strong contenders, none of the predicted ends to the world happened. But 2012 promises to be a biggie. The world is going to end in so many ways this coming year that I really should have started writing this more than 11 hours before the end of 2011.

But first, as tradition dictates, the ongoing end-of-the-world scenarios:

December 20, 2011

A festive visitation

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Scotland: Strange things are afoot at Prattle Towers. Last night I set up the Solstice Everblack and stepped back to take a photograph. When I downloaded the photo from the camera, I spotted something I hadn't noticed: Cthulhu Himself peering through the window! (click on the image to see the large version)



The likeness is unmistakable. Heretics might claim it's really the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but look - there's no attempt to hide an essentially tentacled nature here. All those people who believe that Jesus can appear in a plank of wood, or that the Virgin Mary would manifest in the form of toast will have to admit, this is the real thing. They'd better bow down to Cthulhu and accept their inevitable doom, for the evidence is undeniable.

December 16, 2011

WotD: Scheinheiligkeit

Colombia: Scheinheiligkeit is a German word for hypocrisy, specifically that kind of hypocrisy which involves feigned innocence, an "appearance of holiness". A good example of Scheinheiligkeit would be a high-ranking representative of an organisation which has deliberately covered up child sexual abuse in its ranks groundlessly accusing another group of paedophilia.

Which brings us on to Colombian Roman Catholic bishop Juan Vicente Córdoba, who objected to the adoption of two boys by an American gay man because, well, pooves only want to have sex with children. He told newspaper El Tiempo:

I don't know him, and I do not blame him, but one thing is clear: he has homosexual tendencies, and has got a 10-year-old boy and a 13-year-old youth. Between them there will be no father-son relationship. the priest, who is also Secretary General of the Colombian Episcopal Conference, said. He will get the two children at an age when he might find them attractive. This could be a temptation. Cordoba said that it was safer to give gays two girls. [Caveat: this is translated by me from a German translation of a Spanish language article.]

I realise he's not very important to the sort of Christian who beats on about it, but didn't that Jesus chappie have something to say about this sort of behaviour? Ah yes, here we are. Matt. 7: 3-5:

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Bischof: Schwule wollen Sex mit KindernQueer.de, 15th December 2011. Okay, here's a link to it on Google Translate.

How not to run an online petition

Scotland: Dozens of people have complained after their names falsely appeared on a petition to the Scottish Government opposing same-sex marriage. MSPs and the Information Commissioner have heard from people whose names appeared on the petition without their consent.

Labour MSP Kezia Dugdale said a number of furious constituents had contacted her to say their names had been placed on the anti-gay marriage petition, which has been signed by former SNP leader Gordon Wilson, as well as senior figures from Scotland’s Episcopalians, the United Free Church of Scotland and the Evangelical Alliance.

Scotland for Marriage, an alliance of mostly religious organisations and opposed to marriage, was quick to blame the victims.

A spokesman for Scotland for Marriage suggested that supporters of gay marriage had placed their own names on the site in an underhand tactic to make it appear that Scotland for Marriage had dishonestly added names to the petition.

He said: This appears to be a malicious attempt to undermine the campaign. A police investigation would be welcome.

Those who found their names falsely added to the petition say that they were unaware they has "signed" the petition until it was published, suggesting that Scotland for Marriage had neglected to send out confirmation e-mail to signatories - a standard practice for online petitions. The bogus signatory who spoke to the Scotsman also did not think Scotland for Marriage deliberately added him to boost their numbers, but that someone else did so maliciously. In not applying even the simplest automated check, Scotland for Marriage have thoroughly undermined their own petition. No shenanigans required.

Bogus names discovered on petition that attacked gay marriageThe Scotsman, 16th December 2011.

December 5, 2011

Words fail me

Last night, Red Wolf forwarded me a link to an article. I have spent much of the intervening time wondering what on earth I could say about it, but I could only detract from the sheer amazement at reading this piece for the first time. So, without further comment, Awesome New UFO Theory: Approaching Comet is Really a Borg Cube From Jesus.

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