{"id":4194,"date":"2011-07-24T03:24:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T03:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4194"},"modified":"2011-07-24T03:25:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T03:25:41","slug":"2083-graphics-a-first-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4194","title":{"rendered":"2083 Graphics &#8212; a first look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; index of graphics, first 800 or so pages of the &#8220;2083 European Declaration of Independence&#8221;, with some analysis ]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>A great deal of work needs to be done on the <strong>2083 European Declaration of Independence<\/strong>, and I thought a useful place to start would be a catalog of images.<\/p>\n<p>The document opens with a graphical title:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/000-2083-cross-tp.jpg\" title=\"000-2083-cross-tp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/000-2083-cross-tp.jpg\" alt=\"000-2083-cross-tp.jpg\" \/> <\/a>&#8212; title page &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/000-2083-cross-tp.jpg\" title=\"000-2083-cross-tp.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s probably the largest single graphic in the entire work, and it puts the work squarely in the context of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knights_Templar\">Knights Templar<\/a> &#8212; with e Templar cross and the full name of the order, &#8220;Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonic&#8221; or Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon.\u00a0 The Templars were a <strong>Western Christian chivalric order<\/strong> strongly associated with the <strong>Crusades <\/strong>&#8212; and the topic more recently of much historical, occult and fictional speculation.<\/p>\n<p>The date 2083 is a date SFE (in the <strong>Science Fictional Era<\/strong>) as was 1984 before it &#8212; but it was almost certainly chosen for its echo of the <strong>1683 Battle of Vienna<\/strong>, which is commonly taken to represent the turning back of the Ottomans by the Habsburgs, and thus the <strong>victory of Christendom over Islam<\/strong>.\u00a0 Two maps show the Umayyad Conquests:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/umayyad-conquests-p-228.jpg\" title=\"umayyad-conquests-p-228.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/umayyad-conquests-p-228.jpg\" alt=\"umayyad-conquests-p-228.jpg\" \/><\/a> &#8212; p 228 &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/umayyad-conquests-p-228.jpg\" title=\"umayyad-conquests-p-228.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and the Second Islamic Wave, turned back in Spain and at the gates of Vienna:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/243-1683-second-islamic-wave-p-243.jpg\" title=\"243-1683-second-islamic-wave-p-243.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/243-1683-second-islamic-wave-p-243.jpg\" alt=\"243-1683-second-islamic-wave-p-243.jpg\" \/><\/a> &#8212; p 243 &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/243-1683-second-islamic-wave-p-243.jpg\" title=\"243-1683-second-islamic-wave-p-243.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These can fruitfully be contrasted with a map of &#8220;tomorrow&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/demain-p-487.jpg\" title=\"demain-p-487.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/demain-p-487.jpg\" alt=\"demain-p-487.jpg\" \/><\/a> &#8212; p 487 &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>it being the author&#8217;s contention that France will be the first European country to fall to Islamic dhimmitude.\u00a0 I suspect much the same is implied in this version of the French tricolore:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/flag-face-p-781.jpg\" title=\"flag-face-p-781.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/flag-face-p-781.jpg\" alt=\"flag-face-p-781.jpg\" \/><\/a> &#8212; p 781 &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>There are some pointed attacks on leftist intellectuals:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/033-academic-reform-p-33.jpg\" title=\"033-academic-reform-p-33.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/033-academic-reform-p-33.jpg\" alt=\"033-academic-reform-p-33.jpg\" \/><\/a> &#8212; p 33 &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>and on media perceived as left-leaning, notably the BBC:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bbc-flag-w-crescent-p-384.jpg\" title=\"bbc-flag-w-crescent-p-384.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/bbc-flag-w-crescent-p-384.jpg\" alt=\"bbc-flag-w-crescent-p-384.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 &#8212; p 384<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; that&#8217;s the Saudi flag mashed up with the BBC logo and star and crescent &#8212; and:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/804-bbc-02-p-804.jpg\" title=\"804-bbc-02-p-804.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/804-bbc-02-p-804.jpg\" alt=\"804-bbc-02-p-804.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 &#8212; p 804 &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>giving both &#8220;ancient&#8221; and &#8220;modern&#8221; variants on the theme&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There are some strange items which I&#8217;ll drop in here for a breath of fresh air&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/free-pluto-equal-gravity-for-all-planets-p-381.jpg\" title=\"free-pluto-equal-gravity-for-all-planets-p-381.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/free-pluto-equal-gravity-for-all-planets-p-381.jpg\" alt=\"free-pluto-equal-gravity-for-all-planets-p-381.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 &#8212; p 381 &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>which appears to be a commentary on the respective attractions of <strong>Venus <\/strong>and <strong>Mars<\/strong>, since it&#8217;s situated in a commentary on Feminism&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>this really is a strangely mythic document&#8230; and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/global-warming-voidka-p-657.jpg\" title=\"global-warming-voidka-p-657.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/global-warming-voidka-p-657.jpg\" alt=\"global-warming-voidka-p-657.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>with its reference to &#8220;mind control agents&#8221; &#8212; and those whose minds have been controlled are clearly sheep:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wake-up-p-803.jpg\" title=\"wake-up-p-803.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wake-up-p-803.jpg\" alt=\"wake-up-p-803.jpg\" \/><\/a> &#8212; p 803 &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/wake-up-p-803.jpg\" title=\"wake-up-p-803.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>which may be the right moment to mention that the British, too, come in for a measure of contempt, via a quotation from none other than <strong>Osama bin Laden<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/when-people-see-a-strong-horse-p-707.jpg\" title=\"when-people-see-a-strong-horse-p-707.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/when-people-see-a-strong-horse-p-707.jpg\" alt=\"when-people-see-a-strong-horse-p-707.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 &#8212; p 707 &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse&#8221;.\u00a0 Perhaps its unsurprising that the author is something of an admirer of bin Laden&#8217;s means, if not his ends.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that&#8217;s largely the fault of the Labour party:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/labour-declares-multiculturalism-is-a-blessing-p-373.jpg\" title=\"labour-declares-multiculturalism-is-a-blessing-p-373.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/labour-declares-multiculturalism-is-a-blessing-p-373.jpg\" alt=\"labour-declares-multiculturalism-is-a-blessing-p-373.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s <strong>probably enough for one post<\/strong> &#8212; in my next, I&#8217;ll consider how weak we are, what the jihadist strategy against us is, and how the new Templars hope to<strong> turn the tide<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>against:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/worst-threats-to-mankind-p-674.jpg\" title=\"worst-threats-to-mankind-p-674.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/worst-threats-to-mankind-p-674.jpg\" alt=\"worst-threats-to-mankind-p-674.jpg\" \/><\/a> &#8212; p 674 &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>the worst threats to mankind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; index of graphics, first 800 or so pages of the &#8220;2083 European Declaration of Independence&#8221;, with some analysis ] . A great deal of work needs to be done on the 2083 European Declaration of Independence, and I thought a useful place to start would be a catalog of images. 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