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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:38 am Post subject: |
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Yes it appears this is the work of our Labour government. And it follows on from the Olympic logo which is equally mischievous.
They know exactly what they are doing.
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:32 am Post subject: Re: Two Swastikas Govt Website |
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Rory Winter wrote: | Huh? Is this logo from a government website??!!??
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It looks to me that this logo rotates clockwise though, not counterclockwise.
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I cant add the pic but is this (logo top right corner)
http://progov.pm.gov.uk/about/venue/
not just a modified version of the above gov logo, which still manages on the sly to retain the swastika?
It also appears to feature a spear or spike rammed through the head of a hatted gentleman, who's red hat may just be construed as a stereotypical depiction of people working in paddy fields. The spike also depicts the tail of the dragon that it stems from imhho.
Yesterday via this site was a live video conference but judging from the transcript of online Q & A it was totally controlled or purely available for those that love the system and its puppets.
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_________________ "The conflict between corporations and activists is that of narcolepsy versus remembrance. The corporations have money, power and influence. Our sole influence is public outrage. Extract from "Cloud Atlas (page 125) by David Mitchell. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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Open the page with the image on it then press Print Screen button (Printscrn) which sends the current screen image to the clipboard. Open"Paint" in Windows Accessories and press "Edit" then "Paste" puts the image in the Paint window. Cut the part you want to keep and "copy" to clipboard then open "New" file in Paint and paste so you have only that part. Save as a Jpeg file and upload to a free image host such as "Imagecave" then link to it. Sounds a lot but only takes a minute or two.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:35 pm Post subject: Re: Two Swastikas Govt Website |
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Caz wrote: | Rory Winter wrote: | Huh? Is this logo from a government website??!!??
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It looks to me that this logo rotates clockwise though, not counterclockwise. |
Quote: | But it's still the reversed, Nazi Hakenkreuz, not the Eastern Good Luck Svastika. |
Ca you please make it clear how these two logos are rotating in the same direction? At the moment, I can't see it..... I'd appreciate it.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:36 pm Post subject: Re: Two Swastikas Govt Website |
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Caz wrote: | Rory Winter wrote: | Huh? Is this logo from a government website??!!??
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It looks to me that this logo rotates clockwise though, not counterclockwise. |
Quote: | But it's still the reversed, Nazi Hakenkreuz, not the Eastern Good Luck Svastika. |
Can you please make it clear how these two logos are rotating in the same direction? At the moment, I can't see it..... I'd appreciate it.
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:24 pm Post subject: Re: Two Swastikas Govt Website |
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Note the blue/purple background of the left image - it appears to be a slightly-angled square. However with the foreground image placed on top (the arrows and the circle with pertruding arms) it takes on the form of a swastika. Using my amazing MS Paint skills...
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Rory Winter Major Poster
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Ca you please make it clear how these two logos are rotating in the same direction? At the moment, I can't see it..... Confused I'd appreciate it. |
Clearly it's a swastika for all the world to see!
It might be rotating in either direction, clockwise or widdershins, depending on one's perception.
Why should we care how the swastika is rotating?! The concern is that the UK government should be using the hakenkreuz, a sign associated in the public mind with Hitler, as a logo at all!
The swastika employed is the reversed one used by Hitler, not the Good Luck swastika long employed in eastern countries. If the intention had been to use the Good Luck swastika it would not be enough to have the current image rotating either clockwise or widdershins, it would be necessary to reverse the image altogether, ie to transpose and turn it inside-out.
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Caz, I understand you're interested in esoterica. From that point-of-view research is interesting & your papers similarly.
But let's be clear. There are two types of hakenkreuzen or 'crooked-crosses'.
There is the one we know as the Swastika or, in Sanskrit, svastika, associated with the Sun and Good Fortune:
and the one Hitler used which in Sanskrit, is known as the sauvastika, associated with the Hindu Goddess of Destruction, Kali:
Tilt this by 45 degrees and you have Hitler's most commonly-used version:
Which is identical with:
Through ignorance or deliberate intent, the person responsible for designing the sauvastika in the Whitehall logo above used the sign of Kali. That is more than ironic in a self-destructing capitalist economy. So was the symbol of destruction used with deliberate intent?
We cannot know whether the Whitehall sauvastika was meant to rotate clockwise or widdershins, or either. But what is clear is that it's the Sauvastika of Destruction, not the Svastika of Good Fortune which is often found on house-fronts in Asia.
That's what should interest us as well as the fact that a symbol associated with Hitler was ever used by a British government.
Is Gordon Brown a crypto-fascist, closet Nazi? Many of us would think so.
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Note images on the websites below:
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/taka/past/2000/October/October_06_2000 /
and the related comments:
Quote: | One of the most ancient symbols known to man, the Auspicious Swastika. Variously representing a Sun Sign, a sign of Good Luck, the Divine Order. . . Unfortunately the symbol came under a dark stigma during the Second World War when it was used by the Nazis and its use today has become a matter of controversy in some arenas. But the swastika is slowly being restored to its original noble position in human consciousness making sure the dark forces are not victorious in the usurpation of this enigmatic "Wheel of Life." |
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/taka/past/2005/March/March_30_2005/
http://www.hindupaintings.com/sendcard.php3?code=JKG62
These people (Hindu) do not dispute that the swastika is identical to theirs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6269627.stm
Quote: | Hindus opposing EU swastika ban
The Nazis hijacked the symbol from its Hindu origins
Hindus in Europe have joined forces against a German proposal to ban the display of the swastika across the European Union, a Hindu leader said.
Ramesh Kallidai of the Hindu Forum of Britain said the swastika had been a symbol of peace for thousands of years before the Nazis adopted it.
He said a ban on the symbol would discriminate against Hindus.
Germany, holder of the EU presidency, wants to make Holocaust denial and the display of Nazi symbols a crime.
Mr Kallidai said his organisation was writing to European lawmakers to highlight the issue. |
and this is why we have websites such as reclaimtheswastika:
http://www.reclaimtheswastika.com/history/ and
http://www.reclaimtheswastika.com/symbolism/
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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | "In India it [the gammadion] bears the name of swastika, when its arms are bent towards the right (fig. 14a), and sauwastika when they are turned in the other direction (fig. 14b). The word swastika is a derivative of swasti, which again comes from su = well, and the verb asti = it is . . . and, in fact, amongst the Hindus as amongst the Buddhists, its representation has always passed for a propitious sign." (pp. 40-41) |
Well, there seems to be a lot of confusion between the swastika and the sauvastika. From my childhood in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) I remember seeing many house-fronts bearing, according to this description, the sauvastika, ie the Sign of Kali, Death and Destruction:
Possibly their owners were Kali worshippers but my understanding was that these signs were meant to bring the house & its residents good fortune. Seems they were using the wrong sign! Either that or, as Buddhists they held that to be the Good Luck sign?
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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Some photos would be nice.
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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Evidence is always a good thing.
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, but I'd have to make a 6,500 mile trip to Sri Lanka to find the houses I mention! My memory is very clear on the fact that the houses bore the sauvastika sign. I asked my dad why it was different to the Hitler sign & he told me that it was because this one meant Good Luck.
So it seems there are opposing interpretations of which is which either in two different cultures or amongst the individual house-owners who commissioned the signs.
Anyway, all this is interesting but gets away from the original point: whoever designed the Whitehall logo would have known that the swastika of the kind used has become associated in the minds of the western public with Hitler. To go ahead and use that sign knowingly was, to say the least, mischievous.
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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You need evidence. There must be some somewhere.
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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You're misunderstanding. I was looking for evidence of one which turned in the other direction.
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