Fear & Loathing Part Two
This is Part Two of my journey with Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem, a podcast series by Darryl Cooper aka @MartyrMade. Other episodes of this effort are available. 041525 042325 042625 Disclaimer This is a greatly simplified view of what happened. For more information, you can listen to FLNJ, or google one of the many histories of this era. … At the end of this post, we will see that googling for more information can have its limits.
April 15, 2025 My morning walk today was a trip to the county office to buy next year’s auto tag. It is 1.54 miles from my house to the office. When I got there, I had to go through a metal detector wielding security guard. He looked in my bag, and would not let me take my bottle of tea into the office. As soon as I got in the office, I was waited on, and got my tag business done quickly.
I am finished with FLNJ-2. The last part was about the time between roughly 1922 and 1925. More Zionist settlers are coming into Palestine. There is a debate about whether settlers should take over, or whether they should get along with their neighbors. Unfortunately the Jaffa riots took place.
According to this narrative, the trouble began when a groups of settlers were having a march somewhere, and one Zionist group attacked the other. The British police got involved, and the Arabs started to hear that the settlers were causing trouble. The Arabs got involved, and it was a great big mess. After that after that there was little talk of getting along with your neighbors. This development had unfortunate consequences for the whole Zionist project.
After posting FLNJ Part One, u/chamblee54 made a comment at r/martyrmade announcing the publication of Fear & Loathing Part One. There was a festive comment thread. HughNormousPeanus “I made this list during my last listen hope it helps” (This list was the actors in the F&L drama. It may prove helpful in the production of the series.) Chamblee54 “Thank you. I may want to borrow from this in my series. I hope your co-worker wasn’t listening at work. He might not get anything else done. Always remember, Douglas Murray could have done this in one week.” HughNormousPeanus ‘Douglas Murray is a three letter word I can’t say on Reddit starting with F ending in G with an A in the middle” Chamblee54 “Oh my. I am a gay man. I do not appreciate that. His sexual honeydew list is about the only good thing I can say about that idiot.” HughNormousPeanus “I’d tell you to appreciate these nuts but you probably would I can’t think of anything more derogatory to call Douglas Murray you’ll have to get over it.”
Later in the day. … I took a different route back from the county office, making the round trip 2.87 miles. I downloaded FLNJ-3, and listened to the whole thing on a trip to a pizza buffet on Pleasant Hill Road. FLNJ-3 is only 1:44:03, and is not a narrative history. Instead, MartyrMade discusses the honor culture among the Arab people in West Asia. Societies are not governed by institutions as much as families and tribes. This is how mankind has operated until recently. There was one quote that made me pull into a parking lot and make a note. 33:18 “what civilization does is relieve us of the burden of needing to be honest all the time.”
April 16, 2025 I started to listen to FLNJ-4 on my morning walk. Immediately after the opening montage, FLNJ-4 got very interesting. “Late one Friday afternoon in 1924, the Orthodox Jewish rabbi Yaakov Yisroel Dehan was walking back from his synagogue to his home in Jerusalem …”
Jacob de Haan a Dutchman, was a Gay Poet, an Orthodox Jew, and an all around piece of work. In 1919, he left The Netherlands for Palestine. “On the day of his departure, thousands of fans crowded Amsterdam’s train station, waving frantically and singing “Hatikvah.” At least one chronicler of the occasion joked that many present just wanted to make sure that he’d really gone.”
Rabbi de Haan soon became disillusioned by the reality of Palestine, after hearing about the high minded vision of a Jewish homeland. He began to display his talent for pissing people often. One quote seems to sum up his attitude. “Ever the polyglot, he quickly studied Arabic, and took great pleasure in upsetting the Zionists he’d meet by demanding that they speak to him in Arabic, an official language according to the British bylaws.” Eventually, he got enough people mad at him.
When the Zionists killed Yaakov Yisroel Dehan on July 1, 1924 I found an article written about YYD shortly after his death. It was republished in 2002, by a contemporary group with similar ideas about Israel. “NKI is the voice of Religious Jews world wide in their Torah-based opposition to the State of Israel” … “At a time when the first followers of the Zionist movement began streaming into the Holy Land in large numbers, defiling the holiness of the land, and by virtue of their idiotic ideas began to work to expel the Arabs who had been living there for centuries in order to establish a Zionist state.”
April 17, 2025 The process of listenting to FLNJ is turning into a war of attrition. The gee whiz phase is over. I am 69 minutes into FLNJ-4. The saga is sometime in the 1920’s, and is being overwhelmed by problems. The Arabs are not going anywhere, and have plenty of issues with the British and the settlers. The settlers are quarelling with each other about the direction of the Zionist project. There is a lot more action to come.
My life continues. Every morning in April, I repost an old picture poem for national poetry month. Today, it was something from Psalm 46. I got unwound talking about that on facebook, and decided on a possible definition for God … something that we cannot fully know or understand, but just might be real. … It is too nice a day to worry about this.
At 1:24:00, Darryl gets onto a source of support for the Zionists. They have the backing of several Western European nations, most notably Great Britain. Some cynical people said these nations just wanted to get rid of the Jews. Whatever. Another source of support is the Rothschild family.
Illuminati talk often involves the Rothschilds, and can get antisemitic quickly. Darryl mentioned the wars that were financed by the Rothschilds. There have always been rumors of the Rothschilds financing both sides of a war, and of egging on the warring parties, so as to make money from the ensuing carnage. There are rumors about the War Between the States … the London branch financing the Union, with the Paris branch financing the Confederacy. This is difficult to confirm or deny, and inevitably leads to Illuminati talk.
The Zionists had unity, and access to resources, not enjoyed by the Arabs in Palestine. It is interesting to speculate how the Zionist project would have gone, had it waited until after the influx of oil revenues into the Arab world. At this point, we might note the presence of Iran, which is Persian rather than Arab. The saga of Iran over the last 80 years is consequential … the 1953 coup, the 1979 revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, the ongoing conflict with Israel and the United States. The story of Iran is just as consequential as the story of Israel.
April 18, 2025 I finished my morning walk without incident. The stock market is closed for good friday. The last report: −527.16 (1.33%) Apr 17, 4:55PM EDT. In a few minutes, I will drive over to Drew Valley, for their community yard sale.
I am now at 4:04:09 of FLNJ-4. It is 1929 in the New Jerusalem. Radical Zionists are forcing matters, into faster action. The Arab population does not like it. The British don’t know what to do. The situation gets very, very ugly. See Disclaimer at top of post.
The yard sale will be celebrated on Saturday. While driving back, I heard the last few minutes of FLNJ-4. Darryl mentions something I had never heard before. At some point in this era, the United States and Great Britain restricted Jewish immigration. Darryl says the fear was about communist revolutionaries coming into the country. At this time, most of the Bolsheviks were Jewish, and the Russian revolution was seen by many as a Jewish revolution. When I try to find out more about this, the only google results are to sources concerned with anti-semitism. Any information about communism being a motivation are very difficult to find.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the facebook photograph in July, 1941. “Lunch at carnival stand, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon”
Flaunt Of The Sunshine
Fact checking spurious quote by Walt Whitman, using search target “sunshine.” Sunshine appeared six times in “Leaves of Grass” · Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask—lie over! · O for the sunshine and motion of waves in a song! · Sunshine, storm, cold, heat, forever withstanding, passing, carrying, · No women looking on nor sunshine to bask in, it did not conclude with applause, · A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken’d me, · Sunshine upon the mountains—many a distant strain · To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.
Douglas Murray made a snide comment about Darryl Cooper. … Rogan: Have you ever absorbed any of his material, have you ever consumed any of his podcasts or anything like that? Murray: I tried it’s pretty hard to listen to somebody who says “I don’t know what I’m talking about but now I’m going to talk or I don’t know about this or I’m not capable of debating this historian but I’m going to just tell you what I think.” If you listen to a minute of “Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem” you will know this is not true.
@Drabblecast If you submitted something to us, we want to let you know that we are behind on our 90 day turn around time. Some things happened behind the scenes (turns out that when your shadow beckons you to follow a hallway that you don’t remember being there, you will get VERY lost). @chamblee54 Your tweet had 53 words/291 characters. This is 47 words short of a drabble. We are in the middle of the story. Drabblecaster followed his shadow into a hallway and got VERY lost. This is a handy metaphor for the United States economy right now.
041225 – 1641 Saturday afternoon I am sitting in the Marta parking lot, waiting for Mac to get to the station. It has been a good afternoon. I was downloading Bob Dylan albums, (one two three four) while listening to “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Hippies.” … Episode 113, September 3, 1968, Guests: Lewis Yablonsky, Ed Sanders, Jack Kerouac.” There was a tasty quote from Mr. Keruoac: “I said there are people who make a a rule of creating chaos so that once the chaos is under way they can then be elected as the people who take care of the chaos” …””I said there are people who make a a rule of creating chaos so that once the chaos is under way they can then be elected as the people who take care of the chaos.”
The fbf sent me this image in a dm. It is a link to a video. The caption read “TRUMP BROUGHT RACISM TO THE POLICE …” This all-caps screed forced me to reply. “Hey. This image rubs me the wrong way. I don’t appreciate Trump-bashing. I don’t like the man, but nonstop trumptrashtalk is part of the reason the idiot is in the White House. I don’t like ALL CAPS talk about racial dysfunction, especially when this shouting is done to spread hatred. While I do not appreciate police excesses, I also realize they have a tough, dirty, necessary job.”
A fbf recently cited Matthew 10:33 to make a point. … 33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. … Fbf did not mention what Jesus said next. (Fbf assumes that Jesus really did say these things.) … 34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
When you post to allpoetry, they require you to comment on two other poems · Obsolescence is the ontological result of hematologist vampire conscience struggle with morphodite baseball · my only regret is that I have but one **** to give for my country · money wise, sex wise, knowledge wise, technology wise” These are all oxymorons · this is what Hunter S Thompson meant when he said “buy the ticket, take the ride” · “And called him **** ” Jesus has the curse of being remembered in a culture that will not spell out what he was called. … The pictures are from The Library of Congress. John Collier took the photographs in November 1942. Pittsburgh PA (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Miner’s wife, who is an Office of Civilian Defense first aid nurse. · selah
Fear & Loathing Part One
April 13, 2025 – I am beginning Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem (FLNJ), a six part series by Darryl Cooper (middle name unavailable), aka @MartyrMade. This might prove to be a bit of a challenge. The podcast itself is easy to find as a free download. However, a transcript (the lazy blogger’s ally) might prove challenging. After googling several paywalled sources, I found a youtube edition. This will provide a transcript.
I begin this journey a few days after the infamous JRE featuring Douglas Kear Murray and Dave-no middle name-Smith. I am on team Dave, and found DKM to be an obnoxious purveyor of bad faith rhetoric. At one point, Rogan was trying to say that DC has done 30 plus hours of podcasting about Israel/Palestine. DKM interrupted him, to say “So what. 30 plus hours of podcasting, you do that in a week” I am just starting to listen to that 30 hours. I doubt that I will finish in a week.
There are so many ironies in FLNJ-1. DKM stridently said, in effect, that DS should not talk about Israel if he had not been there. At 59:54, DC mentions that “Herzl (Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism) had never even been to Palestine when he published his pamphlet calling for the Jews to move there.” In another head scratcher, at 24:44 we learn: “Zionism was competing for recruits with Bolshevism, and these other radical movements. It’s a competition which Winston Churchill … would later call quote little less than a struggle for the soul of the jewish people.” DC opened a can of worms when he said the Mr. Churchill was the real villain of World War II.
Eventually, though a series of World War I related events, Britain issued The Balfour Declaration. This document promised a “national home” for the Jewish people. Unfortunately, Britain had already promised the Arabs their own independent state. Britain also promised France that Palestine would be under international rule. These conflicting promises would lead to problems.
April 14, 2025 Today’s visit with FLNJ is with Episode 2, on my morning walk. FLNJ-2 begins by talking about the effect of World War I on the Arab populations of West Asia. The colonial powers … The English, The French, The Ottoman Empire … were conscripting Arabs to go fight in their war. These men did not understand why they had to go kill each other. This is not surprising, since the European conscripts did not understand the war either.
The first two hours of FLNJ-2 concern the events in Palestine after World War I ended. As could have been predicted, Britain broke its promise to the Arabs. The Balfour Declaration stood, and a portion of Palestine was “given” to the Zionists, under British administration. Meanwhile, Syria became a French governed territory. The Zionists began to build things, including militias. The Arabs were not happy, and the British managed to upset everybody. Before long, people began killing each other, and the whole thing devolved into a quagmire. … This is a greatly simplified view of what happened. For more information, you can listen to FLNJ, or google one of the many histories of this era. … I am going to copy that disclaimer for later use.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the facebook picture in May 1938, Southeast Missouri Farms. Farmers talking together in cooperative store. La Forge project, Missouri. There are more episodes of the Fear & Loathing series available. 041825 042325 042625
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Here is a link to the picture poem: Sorry, due to spam issues, new members can’t post links in their poems. Once you’ve been active on the site for awhile it will be possible. · Silts in the festering swamps … So this is what happened to Uncle Fester after Gomez kicked him out for hitting on Morticia · “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” Walt Whitman This is a wonderful quote. Unfortunately, it does not appear in “Leaves of Grass.” Sunshine, shadows, and face were used as search words. Maybe it is an Arab proverb. @QuoteResearch · Murray is a lost cause, but I highly recommend “Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem” by @martyrmade I only listened to the last episode, about Palestine/Israel/Lebanon between 1948 and 1982. It is powerful, fair to both sides, and deeply researched · eminent tremendous inversion, beautiful domain catastrophe, nice unbelievable excuse, incompetent sudden disgrace, lgbt systemic children seller, recommend out-of-pocket, contentious discrimination arena. – #nationalpoetrymonth 08/30 Hillary And Donald Speak · things truly wicked start with forgiving, what’s in store for me from this direction, there’s nothing to life but just the living, extinguish one man with his erection, know many tricks and have resolution, absolute honesty underneath, never confuse movement with action, smiling nothing but a mouth full of teeth – #nationalpoetrymonth 08/30 Truly Wicked · I am trying to cope, with your story about rope, it needs a bit more dope, or clean it up with soap · democracy is such a wretched refuse, without a teeming shore to crawl onto, but instead must party on · When I posted this, this is what you see: murder of crows **** of peacocks – Profanity : Our optional filter replaced words with *** on this page • Configure · Who’s that other dude who thinks he’s an expert on Churchill Darryl oh Darryl Cooper does not think he’s an expert in fact I think it’s everybody else is always calling him an expert and he’s like I’m just a history have you ever absorbed any of his material have you ever consumed any of his podcasts or anything like that i tried it’s pretty hard to listen to somebody who says “I don’t know what I’m talking about but now I’m going to talk or I don’t know about this or I’m not capable of debating this historian but I’m going to just tell you what I think.” · Douglas Murray and Dave Smith are on the Joe Rogan Experience. Mr. Murray makes a snide comment about Darryl Cooper. … Rogan: Have you ever absorbed any of his material, have you ever consumed any of his podcasts or anything like that? Murray: I tried it’s pretty hard to listen to somebody who says “I don’t know what I’m talking about but now I’m going to talk or I don’t know about this or I’m not capable of debating this historian but I’m going to just tell you what I think.” · Joe Rogan was trying to say that Darryl Cooper has done 30 plus hours of podcasting about Israel and Palestine. Douglas Murray interrupted him, to say “So what. 30 plus hours of podcasting, you do that in a week” · “And called him **** ” Jesus has the curse of being remembered in a culture that will not spell out what he was called. · “he spits on the floor and says **** off” The barmaid interpretted this rudeness as four star desire. · people that disagree with anything that’s happening any gigantic world events it’s one of these [ __ ] shows where there are screaming there’s the word again we brought it we were just talking about that the word [ __ ] is back and it’s one of the great culture victories that I think is spurred on probably by · @RichardHanania “People who go into border security sometimes do so because it’s the one job you can legally hurt innocent people for fun.” This is also why people go into the ministry. · @DouglasKMurray “So what. 30 plus hours of podcasting, you do that in a week.” If God can make the world in a week, then .@martyrmade can make “Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem” in a week. @ComicDaveSmith @joerogan · Jack Keruoac: “I said there are people who make a a rule of creating chaos so that once the chaos is under way they can then be elected as the people who take care of the chaos” · Does anyone else find these “debates” to be extremely tiresome? It is one thing to discuss ideas. However, what we are talking about is a “battle” using bad faith rhetoric and fallacious logic as weapons. The one who “wins” is the one who shouts loudest. @ComicDaveSmith · debbi דְבוֹרָה @RedeemedRags I once swallowed a book of synonyms. It gave me thesaurus throat l’ve ever had · I was scrolling down the list of poems on “this page”. I needed two comments of other poems, before my offering would hit the ether. I saw the word “nasties” in the sample, and realized I had a winner here. · The prejudice of haters and prudes is usually best ignored. If you fight back, you are wrestling with a hog, and will get dirty. Of course, wrestling with K-Gear might be fun. The dirtier you both get, the better. · A fbf recently cited Matthew 10:33 to make a point. … 33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. … Fbf did not mention what comes next. … 34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. 36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. · I just started “Fear and Loathing in the new Jerusalem.” @DouglasKMurray says he could have produced that show in a week. It will be difficult to listen to it in a week. @martyrmade · @Jon_S_Desoto_MS One of the serious flaws of in-person debate is that it almost always devolves into tactics designed to win rather than an exploration of truth. @DouglasKMurray was guilty of this, unfortunately. · I may be a landlubber, put I know persnickety · deontologogy is an ethical conundrum, not the study of Deion Sanders · 1 – “Experts” have disagreements 2 – Many “experts” are working on behalf of bad faith actors who pay the “expert” to promote their agenda. 3 – “Experts” make mistakes, or say things that will be seen as foolish in a few years. · Must-Watch: When our friend Douglas Murray agreed to sit down with Dave Smith on Joe Rogan’s podcast, he knew it would be contentious. It was certainly that, but also a triumph for Douglas, whose new book, On Democracies and Death Cults, is a book you should read. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. · “the mere fact that Waring commission was totally unable to prove that doesn’t mean that it’s not true” – Mark Lane, on Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. Episode 039, Recorded on December 1, 1966 · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress Russell Lee took the featured photograph in February 1940. “Wife of Pomp Hall, Negro tenant farmer, threading sewing machine. She makes practically all of the clothing for her family with the exception of such things as overalls, sweaters, etc. Creek County, Oklahoma. · selah
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