NY Times reports that Saudis support Al-Qaeda linked jihadists

The New York Times reports that Saudi Arabia supports Al-Qaeda linked terrorists in Syria

“...the kingdom now supports Islamist rebels in Syria who often fight alongside Qaeda groups like the Nusra Front. The Saudis say they have little choice...they believe they must now back whoever can help them defeat Mr. Assad’s forces and his Iranian allies.”

End quote from the NY Times, January 5, 2014, p. A10.Michael Hoffman’s question: Since the US has expended trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives purportedly battling Al Qaeda as part of President George W. Bush’s War on Terror (waged by President Obama as well), how is it that Saudi Arabia, an American-supported “ally” is not under sanctions or threat of diplomatic or military action in view of the fact that its proxy troops are fighting alongside Al Qaeda terrorists in Syria? If Al Qaeda was responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City, how can the US government in any way continue to support Al Qaeda-linked Saudi Arabia?

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Talmudic mentality decrees that French pianist is “tainted to the end of time"

Here is an example of the “Never Forgive/Never Forget" Talmudic mentality that decides which goy is morally tainted and for how long (in the following case, forever).

Concerning the French pianist Alfred Cortot, Terry Teachout writes:

"Cortot was the greatest of all French classical pianists, a recreative genius — no lesser word is strong enough — whose recorded performances of the music of Chopin, Schumann, Debussy and Ravel are incomparably beautiful. But he became a Nazi collaborator who served as Vichy's High Commissioner of Fine Arts and performed in Hitler's Germany, and that despicable fact will taint the memory of his artistry to the end of time.”  (Google: Questions of Conduct Terry Teachout [Wall Street Journal, Feb. 28, 2014])

You can be sure that Mr. Teachout reserves no such infamy for anyone who collaborates with the Israeli government or Israeli settlements. He does not hector musicians who are Zionist collaborators the way he hectors, in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev.

According to the Babylonian Talmud, the Roman emperor who fulfilled Jesus Christ’s prophecy and destroyed the Temple at Jerusalem in 70 A.D., is burned to ashes, then reconstituted, and burned to ashes again, "to the end of time."

Teachout personifies the moral superiority of the Talmudists who self-authorize themselves to judge the world, damn the memory of anyone who displeases them, while exempting those who collaborate with their blood-drenched Holy State from similar scrutiny or condemnation.

With the 2012 release of the 40-CD set, "Alfred Cortot: The Anniversary Edition 1919-1959" (EMI 04907), the accompanying booklet, written by François Anselmini and translated by Yehuda Shapiro, contains information about Cortot's politically incorrect associations:

"Like his friend Furtw?ngler, (Cortot) thought that art and artists were above political contingencies and tried to maintain that position admidst the grave antagonism of the wartime period. Then there is the matter of Cortot's supposed anti-Semitism. In order to occupy his official posts, he did, indeed, like every functionary, declare that he did not belong to the 'Jewish race,' but there is no evidence that he was actively anti-Semitic.

While he appears to have remained indifferent to the fates of certain of his (Judaic) pupils, such as Clara Haskil and Vlado Perlemuter, and of colleagues such as Lazare-Lévy, who came to ask for help for his son, other (Judaic) musicians such as Marya Freund and Manuel Rosenthal bear witness to his support. There is also a story that he presided over a jury tasked with removing the Jewish members of the Orchestre Nataional, but these so-called 'Cortot auditions' in May 1941 had a purely musical focus; it was not until later that Jews and foreigners were excluded from the orchestra, and Cortot had no involvement in the process.” (Emphasis supplied).

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The Talmud: Just a series of debates?

The Babylonian Talmud: Just a series of debates?Our enemies and detractors among the rabbis and their allies insult the intelligence of the uninformed by deceitfully claiming that Hoffman’s "Talmud quotes only reflect a series of debates between rabbis," rather than serving as a law-making function within Judaism. 

In the course of attempting to forge a connection between the U.S. Constitution and the Babylonian Talmud which Thomas Jefferson mocked and despised, Benjamin Wittes of the “conservative” Brookings Institute writes the following nonsense:

"The Talmud is a series of debates—and commentaries on those debates—on a text called the Mishnah.” 

The concept of a multiplicity of interpretations is not something we deny. Orthodox Judaism is a situation-ethics religion whose disposable “morality" has a shelf life according to the zeitgeist, as for example, Rambam’s injunctions on killing gentiles, heretics and Christians, depends on whether Judaics are in the ascendant in a particular era, or not. 

Judaism’s situation ethics revolve around relatively few fixed, non-negotiable sacred dogmas, such as the superiority of the “Jew,” the inferiority of the gentile, the filthiness of the female menstruant, the evil of Jesus Christ and His Mother, etc.Rabbinic law, the halacha, is derived first from the Mishnah, then from the Gemara, and then from successor texts having canonical status. How this halacha comes to be formed and exert authority is a matter of exegetical rules pertaining to hermeneutic and epistemological boundaries and determinations which do not derogate any portion of the Talmud Bavli (Babylonian Talmud). Almost all of the Talmud Bavli at one time or another can be valid and authoritative, depending on the circumstances of the time.In Erubin 13b we observe that the school of Hillel and the school of Shammai differed. These schools are depicted as disputing for three years over whose ruling constitutes the halacha. In this case, even though it was subsequently determined that the halacha was according to Hillel, it is written that both Shammai and Hillel represent the words of the living God. [Cf.  Bar-Ilan University Prof. Avi Sagi, “Both are the Words of the Living God: A Typological Analysis of Halakhic Pluralism,” in Hebrew Union College Annual no. 65 (1995). Also cf. Prof. William “Zev" Kolbrenner, “Chiseled from All Sides: Hermeneutics and Dispute in Rabbinic Judaism,” Association for Jewish Studies Review, no. 28 (2004)].Since both schools of rabbinic thought represent the word of God according to the authentic teaching of Orthodox Judaism, both represent the Torah sheBeal peh, the Oral “Torah" of the ancient Pharisees embodied by “Chazal," the Phraisaic and Talmudic “sages” who concocted the halacha. 

Viewed within the perspective of the rabbinic hermeneutic — which is so often denied in public — the exchanges between competing rabbinic views within the Talmud Bavli are 1. the basis of rabbinic law (halacha) and 2. have authority and validity even when in certain historical periods another view predominates. 

Therefore, when our opponents claim that the racist, demonic, anti-Christian, misogynist and insane statements from the Talmud should be dismissed as the mere flotsam of banal debates, they are lying, in the flagrant and familiar pattern that has come to be known as chutzpah. On the Contrary blog is reader-funded. It comes to you today thanks to donations from truth-seekers, and the sale of Michael Hoffman's books, newsletters and recordings. Join other truth-seekers in giving something back for that which you have received, thereby helping to ensure the continuation of this service.On the Contrary is a service of Independent History and Research • Box 849  Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83816 USA ***

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The European rhinoceros beetle, oryctes nasicornis breeding report

Last spring I obtained some L3 larvae of the European rhinoceros beetle, oryctes nasicornis.  These beetles are fairly large and can grow up to 4 cm or even bigger for some subspecies such as oryctes nasicornis grypus.  In nature their larvae live in rotten wood and their distribution is often associated with compost heaps and sawdust mills.  Moreover, the relatively higher temperature during winter in compost and sawdust heaps allowed these beetles to spread far north in Europe and Asia.  Remarkably, the oryctes nasicornis is absent in the United Kingdom and has not been reported breeding in the wild in this country.  The larvae feed mainly on decayed wood, but any decayed vegetation, like the one that can be found in compost heaps, can serve as a food source. The adult beetles do not feed, however, can live several month using reserves accumulated during the larval part of the life cycle of the  beetle.

My larvae were in late L3 when I obtained them, so they turned into the pupa pretty soon. Interestingly, the pupal stage lasted only 2-3 weeks, perhaps because the containers were kept with my tropical beetles, and the temperature there was around 22-25C.  Adults (2 males+2 females) were transferred into an egg laying container (40l plastic box) where they stayed inactive for about 5-7 weeks. The egg laying container was set up as follows. Bottom layer- 15-20 cm of the garden soil mixed with mulched oak leaves and rotten wood (oak, poplar, willow). The proportion of wood:leaves:soil=80%:10%:10%. This layer was pressed hard. On the top of this layer, I placed another layer (about 15 cm) of the soil with the higher contents of mulched wood and leaves. All was finished up with individual chunks of well-decayed wood, bark and oak leaves on the top.  

The adults spent about 3-4 months inactive in the garden shed. After that I transferred them into my beetle breeding cupboard where they stayed inactive for another couple weeks.   After one night I discovered that big chunk of softwood was split into a few pieces, which suggested that something is going on there:)  I waited patiently for about two months and then checked the content of the box.  Firstly I found one female dead :( and then a reasonably big L1 larvae in a top layer. When I started digging further I found quite a few (40+:) L1s and eggs.  Eggs and smallish L1 larvae were in clumps of substrate about the size of a large cherry that was tightly packed by the female during oviposition, so it was not very difficult finding them :)  Some clumps had not just one larvae/eggs inside (please see photos below). I was surprised how big the egg of this rhinoceros beetle is; the fresh laid egg was about 3-4 mm long which then expand to about 5 mm ball. The remaining female was placed into another smallish container, hopefully she will lay a few more eggs.

Left: substrate clump (2.5 cm size) with L1 larvae ; center and right- two newly hatched L1 larvae discovered in the clump:)

From left to right: freshly laid egg, egg that about to hatch, newly hatched L1, and older L1. Same head size confirms that bigger larva is still in L1 stage. 

You can also contact me via beetlesaspets@gmail.com regarding any related issue and availability of beetles.

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Prosopocoilus bison breeding report

I recently obtained a few of these beautiful beetles, so I tried to breed them. The male can reach 60 mm, females are smaller (see photo below). Just a few observations which you may find helpful. As for food they were feeding well on the home-made jelly for stag beetles, that I use for all my beetles. You can find this recipe in the topic below. (http://beetlesaspets.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/jelly-for-tropical-beetles-at-home.html)  They also seem to prefer the jelly to ripe fruits, such as grape, banana or sweet clementine.  They stayed active at temperatures between 19-25C. I kept a male together with the females;  the male was not aggressive towards the females. The interesting thing about these beetles, is that they regularly played dead when I opened the beetle enclosure and they could stay like that for minutes, and often upside down:) So you have to be very careful not to "discard" the live beetle, thinking that it has died. As an egg laying substrate I used decayed softwood chunks and logs from various deciduous trees. The females of prosopocoilus bison seemed to prefer a softer wood for the egg-laying, much softer than one which is preferred by the females of rainbow stag beetles (phalacrognathus muelleri). 

Prosopocoilus bison  pair;

male left, female right.

Few pieces of bark were also  placed in the enclosure as hiding places for the male.  Interestingly, females did not do much wood boring: the eggs were deposited into small gaps and holes close to the surface of the wood chunks. I observed female depositing eggs in a container with clear plastic sides. Female made a shallow hole/"incision" in the wood chunk and then deposited an egg. Female often did not bother covering such holes, sometimes just pushing  a little amount of softwood around it. Some L1 larvae  were also found in the substrate (garden soil mixed with mulched wood). I am not sure whether the eggs were deposited in the substrate, or just fell out of the wood chunks. Unlike some of my other stags, prosopocoilus bison larvae did not get too excited:) when I transferred them into the individual containers filled with original wood and fermented oak sawdust and initially preferred to keep chewing the original wood rather than the treated oak flakes. Only a few of them switched to the fermented sawdust right away. Would be interesting to see what size males I will get on my fermented flakes and whether these flakes are any good for the prosopocoilus bison larvae. 

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