"The late eighteenth century Illuminists modelled their ideas on Plato's 'Republic' - another version of modern utopian visions in which the old order of religions and monarchy would be swept away...Mirabeau conceived of a plan for infiltrating and taking control of freemasonry and using it as a launching pad or base of operations to start a violent revolutiuon...their first efforts were, of course, the French Revolution. In Nesta Webster's well-documeted: 'The French Revolution: A Study in Democracy', we see that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were tyring to improve living conditions - they were more open to discussion and reform than other European monarchies of the time...the fomenter of the French Revolution was the Duc d'Orleans, head of the French Grand Orient Lodge and an active Illuminati member...he brought about discontent and eventual violence in the early months of 1789 by creating a severe artificial famine by buying up grain and food commodities in Paris and storing them in his warehouses and other secret locations...when the people of Paris broke into the Bastille, instead of discovering hundreds of miserable wrongly-imprisoned peasants, as they had been led to believe, they found just 7 prisoners - four forgers, two lunatics and the Comte de Solanges...during the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, it is interesting to note that the entire calendar was changed in France because it had religious significance...if you think about it - why seven days a week? - 1794 years since what happened? The first conscription of military service was put into effect in this period...the metric system was also adopted, not so much because of its inherent or alleged superiority, but because it would eradicate the monarchical, if not religious, origin of other systems of measurement..."

Extract from a talk by William H McIlhany in California, 1987, on the internet at http://home.earthlink.net~whm/download.txt

Tony Bennett

Your base is belong to us !

Thanks Ralf, that contribution has left me bald through scratching my head!

^ I literally just found this out myself, yesterday. It is an old joke from the internet community. Apparently there was a bad translation in a game from Japanese to English where one part of the computer game says, instead of "All your bases belong to us/ have been overidden" came out in the translation "All your base are belong to us"- don't ask me; fifteen year old computer hacker humour.

>I literally just found this out myself, yesterday
>It is an old joke from the internet community

>don't ask me; fifteen year old computer hacker humour.

Sad to see that everything you aren't part of (or experienced firsthand) you refer to derogatively.

Ralf

"Sad to see that everything you aren't part of (or experienced firsthand) you refer to derogatively."

Are you aerious?

Everything? Do you mean metric and internet l337ness? I do not talk down to everything, but was informing someione as to what it was. If I had said something like "YEah, a bunch a thickie fifteen year old...blah blah" then maybe it would be a problem.

Hmm, must have understood it the wrong way.

Either way, my inital response was meant as sarcasm to the quite obvious degree of paranoia displayed in Mr. Bennetts posting.
Calling something "the real agenda" displays the belief that there is a "mastermind" behind the metrication who masquerades his evil plot by taking small steps like aforementioned metrication.

Cheers,
Ralf

That was me in last posting, forgot to put my name in.