"He-Man" was a Nazi - Part II

I remember bits and pieces of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe from childhood. One of the first comic books that I remember owning was one with He-Man. The show was being re-run at that point and this re-airing must have not lasted for very long, as I did not remember too much of the show. However, I distinctly remember watching G.I. Joe, which had numerous toys, games, re-vamps, and made-for-TV movies, as well as an overblown Hollywood movie in the summer of 2009 as part of its franchise.

However, due to YouTube and the official He-Man channel there, I was able to rediscover this show and I must say that it is a real hidden gem amongst the piles of garbage that can be found in TV land. Not surprisingly, the show ran for only 130 or so episodes, while other programs that had no intention of providing good social messages and/or teaching about ethical positives, tend to go on for season after season. He-Man also had its share of short-lived re-incarnations, but none caught on as well as shows like The Simpsons or South Park, which were of much better quality when they first aired, but have steadily slipped down into a fester-pot of tired unoriginality and blatant scatological humor. The latter goes double for South Park that is best described as an "equal opportunity ridicule machine" - the creators of the show, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, just pick up on mainstream media hot-topics and ridicule them into the ground. Many of the people they tear to pieces probably deserve it, but that doesn't mean that the show serves any useful purpose. By now the show is pretty much the equivalent of a dog passing gas - it only matters for a second and only a few other dogs will ever bother to notice. Pretty much all of mainstream TV is deserving of this anti-accolade.

For now, enough ripping on the media, let's take a look at some of the first episodes of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

The Cosmic Comet - Skeletor attempts to use a magic comet against the good beings on Eternia. The job of stopping such a powerful force is too much for He-Man alone, so he seeks helps from an old wizard. The "evil comet" doesn't end up destroyed but paired with another magic comet and this stops it from wreaking havoc. This plot element is very interesting as it shows that He-Man and the good-guys on Eternia do not seek to destroy evil, but rather to ameliorate it. The magic comets, are perhaps more aptly described as some sort of celestial beings or life-forces, that have taken comet form. Skeletor attempts to use this power for evil, while He-Man for good. This doesn't mean reining in the comet-being, but rather letting it make its own choice, and once it sees that Skeletor is using it for his own ends, it stops serving him.

This episode is a good display of one of the show's major themes and over-arching conflicts: Honor - symbolized by He-Man - versus Dishonor - symbolized by Skeletor. He-Man uses his magic, namely his sword, to be able to directly deal with the enemy and he never initiates violence with it. On the other hand, Skeletor constantly schemes with magic to be able to get an upper hand and to avoid dealing directly with his enemies.

The Shaping Staff - Evil-Lyn, one of Skeletor's closest allies, uses a magic staff that can change someone's appearance in order to sneak her way into the Eternian Royal Palace. This is a very direct continuation of the scheming with magic theme. This plan also allows for the planting of a parasitic advisor as Evil-Lyn, posing as a traveling magician, makes King Randor disappear and reappear, but this was just a quick ruse to replace Randor with Beastman (another one of Skeletor's key allies) who is in the semblance of the King due to the staff's magic. This move is really a combination of the parasitic advisor and Manchurian candidate tactics.

In this episode, Skeletor also creates a being in the semblance of He-Man so as to fool the Eternians, which is just another parasite-placement tactic; they are literally the mainstay of Skeletor's battle with He-Man and Co. The creation of mindless servants to do his bidding also mirrors the golem from Jewish lore - it is an example of avoiding direct conflict by orchestrating puppets.

The Disappearing Act - The subversive tactics of Skeletor continue in this episode as he kidnaps Prince Adam and sets him as bait with the hope that He-Man will rescue him. Of course, Skeletor has no idea that Prince Adam is actually He-Man. Other than Adam, only Man-at-Arms, Orko and Cringer the Tiger know of this warrior alter-ego.

This episode demonstrates that without trustworthy allies, even the strong He-Man would not be able to effectively fight - camaraderie is essential for a Kampf to go forward and succeed. This notion also effectively makes He-Man antonymic to the Lone Wolf archetype that seems to be so popular in most superheroes - he is not arrogant, not a loner, nor does he project his eccentricities (when he is Prince Adam) - He-Man is pretty much the essence of honor, helping anyone and everyone without expecting anything in return. He possesses many traits that can be seen in the stories of Christ, Mohammed and Buddha.

Man-at-Arms (whose name is actually Duncan, but he goes by his title for the most part) is head of the Royal Palace guards. The plural of that title, Men-at-Arms, could be seen as a translation of "Schutzstaffel," which means "Protective Echelon" and the SS was set-up as a guard unit for an authoritative and militarist leader, Adolf Hitler. Note, Man-at-Arms's helmet design.

Freies Eternien!

He has two S shaped Bolts on either side of his helmet and the same type of helmet is worn by all Eternian Royal Palace Guards. The S-bolts often seem like one band that stretches around the back of the helmet, but in several close-ups Man-at-Arms can be seen looking down or turning around and this always reveals that it is actually two identical bolt shapes.

Diamond Ray of Disappearance - The ever scheming Skeletor has cooked up another plan to subversively take over the rule of Eternia. He has found the long lost gem of the episode's title that causes all who look into to it to be transported into some other dimension. Once again, this is all to avoid direct engagement with his the Noble Eternians. In one scene of this episode, Skeletor even brings rocks to life and they take a humanoid form and this is yet another golem summoned by the main antagonist.

Oddly, Skeletor is shown as being quite muscular, yet he almost never uses his physical strength, which suggests that these muscles are just another illusion. He looks intimidating and strong, but the fact is that his power is actually quite easily sapped, since it has no real foundation - just smoke and mirrors.

Each He-Man episode presents a relavant lesson at the end. This is always seen in the form of a brief scene that brings the episode's events into real World context. These coda scenes were one of the show's main ethical positives and they are something that practically all contemporary TV programs lack. The one presented here is about how quick routes to riches and power are almost always wrong. Thus, He-Man stands for honest work so as to provide honest results.

The She-Demon of Phantos - This episode contains some very interesting images. Skeletor has decided to subvert Eternia's weapons production by infiltrating the refinery in Phantos where Man-at-Arms acquires the metal needed for his workshop and forge. Skeletor hides behind a curtain and it is revealed that the supplies that the Eternians just bought are a fraud - worthless and frail ore - and that Skeletor blackmailed the Queen of Phantos, Elmora, to get his way.

Back on Eternia, Man-at-Arms has made some weapons, which includes a shield with an Iron Cross design, much like He-Man's breastplate. The fake metal soon becomes apparent when the newly forged weapons fall apart. Our clever heroes soon figure out Skeletor's newest parasite tactic and the coward antagonist immediately folds in fear as he is found out.

The interesting thing is that the spell that Skeletor puts on Elmora makes her see her friend, He-Man, as her actual enemy, Skeletor. This is really interesting, as Elmora knows that Skeletor is her enemy, but he just uses misdirection here and doesn't at all try to hide his guilt, just deflect attention away from it. The criminal Jew does this the same way by making Adolf Hitler seem like a mass-murderer when it is actually the Jew and his puppet Gentiles that are to blame.

Teela's Quest - This is an interesting episode in that it provides a side-track to the main storyline. We learn a bit about the background of Teela, whom Man-at-Arms raised as his own daughter, but she is actually adopted. Skeletor hardly plays a role in this episode, he just sends out Mer-Man to capture Teela as she travels to an oracle.

There is also a great scene that shows He-Man for the honorable warrior that he really is. He-Man actually saves Mer-Man, a sworn enemy, from certain death after the villain loses control over an ancient beast that he had magically reined, but soon it broke out into a rampage.

"In this war – as almost always – the unjust are known by their arrogance, their pride and their bullying nature. In this war – as almost always – the just are known by their honour, and by their noble behaviour." ~David Myatt

He-Man, most certainly, possesses the honor of which Myatt speaks. Letting Mer-Man die would have been an unrighteous act, but one that could easily be written off as a convenience. This is such a favorite tactic of the Jew, that he has gone so far as to orchestrate these kinds of "conveniences" as well as having a whole brigade of public relations officials that help pave over the resulting criminality.

Aryanism in He-Man
It is an unmistakable set of parallels that He-Man and the Masters of the Universe shares with National Socialist Germany. However, He-Man also fits as a part of a much grander mosaic - that of Aryanism. He-Man's appearance has been described as "Germanic" and this is quite appropriate, since historically, out of all the European peoples, it was the Germans who were the best example of Aryanism, particularly after Germany had become united in the later 19th century. Other nations only had the odd Aryanist individual here or there. However, German thinkers like Martin Luther, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and eventually Adolf Hitler all spoke out, in their own way, against everything that Jewry stands for.

The Jew is well aware of this and it is no mistake that one of the leading Zionist apologists had this to say:

"Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German." ~Elie "I might have survived exactly four or five death camps" Wiesel

If you think about it, that makes sense from the Jewish point of view. The German has repeatedly advocated against every major Judaic poison - Luther against the corruption of Christianity, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche against materialism, and Hitler was essentially a grand culmination of all this. He took it to the next exponential level - a nation-wide re-Germanization of all major aspects of society, and this was to then permeate down into each household and family member. He addressed both general concepts and took direct action. Essentially, Hitler held out a nice big silver mirror to the Jew, who then saw his own ugly character right in front of him. And it is for this that the Jew will never forgive Hitler. Not with the Talmudized ego that he possesses.

Today, Hitler’s concepts are being studied by members of practically every ethnic group and those people are seeing how Der Fuhrer’s ideas apply to their own nation. Perhaps this is why the Jew is becoming increasingly volatile in his actions, but often just plain old careless. War crimes, such as those in Gaza (a small piece of land that is essentially being used as an "internment territory") are being harder and harder to defend - shamelessness is no longer enough!

Story Dyanamics
This publicity image for He-Man shows some of the main story dynamics.

On the edges we have the animal-like characters: One bad - a crude beast. One good - a graceful bird with divine knowledge.

Then, the women-warriors, note that their breastplates and collars are very similar. The bad uses magical schemes to fight. The good uses her own wits and weapons in battle.

This is taken to the next level with the male warriors. The bad, Skeletor, creates many of the schemes and magical devices used by his allies, and he also summons golems to fight. The good, Man-at-Arms, forges weapons and commands actual troops in battle to help his allies. Orko's placement right above Man-at-Arms is accurate as he is the good side's magician, thus both these characters form the opposite to Skeletor. Orko also provides much of the show's humor and makes his friends laugh, while Skeletor's laughter usually comes when he feels like one of his schemes will work, it is a self-serving laughter.

Then, the apex of power is only attainable to the good, though the bad try and clamor up there every chance they get. He-Man is the ultimate combination of magical power and physical fighting ability. This is a dangerous combination, so only a few are privy to it, the noblest stock of Eternia. Ironically, this doesn’t include the King, but King Randor is highly respected and gives orders to Man-at-Arms who works closely with He-Man. Thus, the titular hero is like a secret guardian angel - all effort, no reward, and it's all fine by him - a true Ubermensch and even an Arhat.

Part I was a reply to that one particular video, but with this much closer examination of the show's content, I must correct my previous statement that the show "contains allusions to National Socialist ideas, though just on simple level" -- the allusions are not so simple! They actually permeate the show and reflect NS ideals close enough to make the show a good element on The Storytelling Front.

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SEE ALSO: ThunderCats review

"He-Man" was a Nazi - Part I

I was given a link to a particular video not too long ago. This four minute video was basically a simple video-essay on how the cartoon character, He-Man, was a drawn from Nazi images and themes. The ominous music accompanying the piece seems to suggest a steadily creeping evil. The ironic part is that the video, on a simplistic level, is quite true - the show He-Man and the Masters of the Universe did align for the most part with much of the image of National Socialist Germany as propagated by the Allied and Soviet propaganda machines. However, the people behind that propaganda painted the Nazis as Devil Incarnates, but in the show, "the Aryan barbarian," He-Man, is the good guy of the series. We'll get into why in a little bit.

First, the video: Nazi He-Man!

The video is a rather lame propaganda vehicle, at best. Let's identify its weak points.

Target One: The Opening Quote
The opening quote is by Robert E. Howard, who was the American author who conceived the character, Conan the Barbarian. So it is not unreasonable to associate his writing with He-Man who is quite similar in appearance and general mythos. He-Man creator, Louis Scheimer, even based his character on Conan, though he opted for a less violent protagonist by writing He-Man as character that delivers a positive social message. The end of each episode features a short lesson or moral derived from the episode's themes. Robert E. Howard wrote in the 1920s an 1930s when racism, especially white supremacy, was rampant in the United States, thus the quote from one of his works is really a product of its time. When the video's author links the quote to the Nazis, however, he mysteriously does not provide any source nor does he provide proof that any leading Nazi Official admired Howard's fiction or anything of the like. If the Nazis were so obsessed with blonde-haired and blue eyed people, they wouldn't have approved of Hitler as their leader since he had dark hair. Thus, this video's attempt at connecting Nazism to racism is just a bridge to nowhere.

This point is further weakened by the fact that the video then shows a dark-eyed He-Man. He doesn't have blue eyes!

Target Two: The Iron Cross
The video then links He-Man to Nazism by pointing out the cross on his breastplate. It does, in fact, look like an Iron Cross, but the Iron Cross is not a Nazi creation. The Iron Cross became a military decoration and recognition of a soldier's valor in Prussia in 1813. The design was by Prussian architect Karl Schinkel, who based his design off of the cross of the Teutonic Knights. The Iron Cross also bears a strong resemblance to the Maltese Cross, which has its origin back in the Crusades when the Knights of St. John engaged the Saracens on the island of the Malta. The Saracens had weaponized fire, which proved to be a very effective weapon. The many knights in that battle who had saved their comrades from fiery death were award badges of honor, and these featured the cross that eventually became knows as "the Maltese Cross" - a recognition of bravery in the fires of war.

Hint: they're not all Nazis.

The design from the 1770s in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth appears to be the oldest of the Iron Cross variants, but it was actually a hoisted banner used by the Hussar Cavalry and was known as "Husarski Krzyż" (Eng. - "Hussar Cross"). The first time it was used as an award was with the 1813 Prussian variant. Also, the 1920s Polish version of the Iron Cross was a unit insignia, of the "Death Hussars," during the Polish-Soviet War and not an award.

The basic design for this military icon is far from being exclusively Germanic. The pictures above are only a fraction of badges/military decorations that employ the Iron Cross/Maltese Cross motif. Note that even US Fire Departments make use of a similar design for their badges, this refers back to the story from Malta. Also, the German Armed Forces today, the Bundeswehr, not only use the Iron Cross insignia on vehicles, but also award a new variant of the Cross for valor.

Target Three: The Tiger
Prince Adam has a humble cat companion named Cringer. When Prince Adam assumes his warrior form of He-Man, the normally calm Cringer becomes Battle Cat, whom He-Man rides into battle. The main German battle tanks during the Second World War, were named after large cats - the "Tiger" and the "Panther." However, the connection to Nazism is, once again, totally superficial. The Bundeswehr's main battle tank today is called the Leopard... yep another big cat. Also, the video makes the point that the Tiger symbolized the Nazi Military as a whole, but this image was the product of Allied and Soviet propaganda. Thus, the video just effectively contradicted itself.

Target Four: The Lightning
When Prince Adam transforms into He-Man, he does so but drawing a sword and taking on his powerful alter-ego with a flash of lightning, which also transforms Cringer into Battle Cat. The video then states that the "Nazi military" was so effective due to the use of "Blitzkrieg" (Eng. - Lightning War) tactics. In a way, this is true as the Blitzkrieg was a revolutionary general attack strategy that coordinated ground and air forces, as well as gave officers in the field much more flexible orders for how to command their own soldiers and how to approach objectives. All this amounted to rapid military advances, but also allowed for quick, coordinated fall back moves as well.

The Blitzkrieg was conceived by the military strategist Heinz Guderian who served in the regular army and not the Schutzstaffel as the ominously placed SS Bolts seem to suggest. By war's end, Heinz Guderian was not convicted of war crimes and his conduct was deemed that of a professional soldier. His military theories went on to redefine war strategy and, like the cat names for German tanks, as well as the Iron Cross, those theories are still in effect today and are used by every modernized military.

The maker of this video must see Nazis in his sleep, since a warrior figure with thunder and lighting reminds me more of the Norse god Thor than anything else. The Scandinavian countries, to this day, have big cats as centerpieces for their national emblems.

Target Five: The Eagle
One of He-Man's key helpers is the Sorceress, who is said to be "an Aryan woman who dresses as, you guessed it, a Bundesadler Eagle." Actually, the Sorceress's bird form is a falcon, but I suppose that we could let that one slide. What we cannot let slide, however, is that the hopelessly naive out there (among whom the video maker can be found if anyone cares to look for him/her) will never comprehend the fact that "Aryan" does not mean "ethnic German" or "Germanic" or anything ethnic specific. Two of the largest ancient Aryan sites are not located anywhere near Germany - one is in Russia and the other one is in Bulgaria. Russia and Bulgaria are Slavic nations. According to Allied and Soviet propaganda that has become so firmly entrenched in peoples' perception of the Third Reich, the Nazis were said to have detested the Slavs right down to their core. Thus, news stories about archeological sites like this don't ever make mainstream news, since they effectively put a huge hole in the established lies and perpetuated illusions.

Also, it is down right to ridiculous to say that the Eagle logo is exclusively Nazi, since there are a great many countries that use an eagle for their Coat of Arms. The Great Seal of the United States also features a large eagle with wings spread out.

Target Six: The Protocols
The text, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (there are some variations as to the exact title) is said to be the "Anti-Semitic, Conspiracy Theory manifesto." The video then states that said manifesto "paints its 'Jewish conspiracy' as a Snake eating the world, as orchestrated by a Secret Society called Skull and Bones." The Skull and Bones is a secret society from Yale University and it has many pro-Zionist politicians on its exclusive list of members, including former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush, father of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and grandfather of yet another man to hold that office, George W. Bush. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who ran against George W. Bush in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, is also a member. However, this one society, based in one university is hardly worthy enough to be blamed for all of the Jewish subversion in the World. Thinking along the lines that this video proposes will result only in foolishness. One must actually apply what they learn to the real World. And one famous American did just that.

"The only state I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. THEY FIT IT NOW." ~Henry Ford, as quoted in an interview in 'New York World' on 17/2/1921

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Henry Ford didn't start to circulate and print copies of this text out of unprovoked hatred for the Jews. Though, the expert victim Jew likes to see it that way; he likes to paint his opposition as irrational so that anyone who speaks out against Jewry can be easily just branded an "anti-Semite." This goes for people that possess numbskull hate (as seen in neo-Nazis and racists) as well as people utilizing rational observation and application of knowledge like Adolf Hitler and authentic National Socialists, the latter to this day. Additionally, the term "anti-Semite" is intrinsically absurd as Arabs are also Semites and the main source of anti-Arab hate in this World are none other than Zionist Jews - thus they brand themselves with their own malicious label! Just don't expect them to admit that. It would be too much of a hassle for them to see past the illogic of their own arid hate and think of something rational to call their enemies.

Of course it is not just the Jews that fall into this self-perpetuated pit of folly. Long before he became Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler had noticed this in a great number of people. His thoughts are aptly summarized in the following passages from Mein Kampf:

"I know people who read interminably, book after book, from page to page, and yet I should not call them 'well-read people'. Of course they 'know' an immense amount; but their brain seems incapable of assorting and classifying the material which they have gathered from books. They have not the faculty of distinguishing between what is useful and useless in a book."

~Adolf Hitler    

"The material which one has acquired through reading must not be stored up in the memory on a plan that corresponds to the successive chapters of the book; but each little piece of knowledge thus gained must be treated as if it were a little stone to be inserted into a mosaic, so that it finds its proper place among all the other pieces and particles that help to form a general world-picture in the brain of the reader. Otherwise only a confused jumble of chaotic notions will result from all this reading." ~Adolf Hitler

This idea of applying knowledge was also something Tolkien wrote about in relation to his great work, The Lord of the Rings. He didn't want people to see it as an allegory for Europe and European nations - he preferred "applicability."

"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its prescence." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, forward to 'Fellowship of the Ring'

The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is routinely called a "forgery" and "a fraudulent text" by the mainstream press. About six months after Henry Ford, a famous and influential person, went on record as supporting the distribution of the text, an Irish journalist named Philip Graves, who worked for The Times, a London-based newspaper, "uncovered" that it's actually a hoax. The nature of this connection is about as solid as the "proof" for homicidal gas chambers in Auschwitz. The story took a while to invent, note that they didn't just automatically refute Ford, but needed time to cook up the right story. Eventually, a newspaper from one of the main hubs of the International Bankster Jews, produced the "refutation" that was immediately taken as "sacred truth."

FEUER FREI!
Well, there you have it. The weak points of this enemy vehicle. You know what to do with that Panzerschreck.

Conclusion
Basically, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe contains allusions to National Socialist ideas, though just on a simple level. The maker of the video above undoubtedly noticed this, but they can't get their head around all the anti-Nazi propaganda that they've been fed since grade school. In fact, given the intelligence level of most anti-Nazi information, I was expecting that at some point, someone was going to label Skeletor as "the evil Nazi," since his face is like the SS Totenkopf, his castle represents the snake that corrupted Adam and Eve, and his cohorts are brutes - that image is actually how Nazis are most often represented - "the incarnation of absolute evil." It is, in a way, ironic that the video's creator saw Skeletor as the Jew; it was a keen observation, but they took the final step, applying the story's symbols to the real World, the wrong way and saw He-Man as subversive evil.

SEE ALSO: Part II, review of the actual show.

Aryan themes in “ThunderCats”

Movies, movies, movies… but now a little about television. More specifically, about a particular television show, ThunderCats, which first aired in January of 1985. I remember many 1980s and early 1990s TV shows as I was growing up at the time. I watched mainly GI Joe (with a typical young male military fascination) as well as some other zany, though fairly generic, cartoons like Tiny Toons and Bonkers that had all the classic cartoon slapstick gags such as falling anvils as well as all that silly and destructive, yet largely victimless, mayhem. Looking back at these cartoons now, there really isn’t much more to extract from them, they are mainly just simple fun for kids, though GI Joe is military propaganda through and through.

One show that I missed, however, was ThunderCats and I thank Kamerad Aryan Sanctuary for bringing it to my attention. Even when taken at face value, ThunderCats possesses something radically different about it than other shows of its time. Or from any time, really. Main reason being that ThunderCats has Aryan themes. Yes, the show is geared for kids, it’s a cartoon after all, and it does contain common storytelling devices, but the Aryanist factor is not just what happens, but how it happens. I’ll draw examples from some of the program’s first episodes.

Overview
The main story introduction tells us that the ThunderCats are all that’s left of a civilization from a now destroyed planet called Thundera. They were the civilization's nobility and among the ranks of the leaders of a folk. Now they must find a new home so that their civilization can continue. This very first episode is called “Exodus” and it may seem like a reference to the Jewish fabricated legend, but it in fact refers to the dispersal of the ancient Aryan Civilization. The facts have been greatly simplified for this cartoon show, but thematically it is consistent with reality. One needs to trail blaze just outside the mainstream media to find a wealth of information about the factual Aryan civilization and the seemingly “inexplicable” fact of why the swastika is probably the World’s most prominent (as well as most suppressed) symbol.

Lion-O, the heir to Thundera’s Leadership, is given a sword and his duty is explained to him by an aging mentor, who also tells the remaining Thunderans that their duty is to raise Lion-O so that he is fit to lead. There is an emphasis on “duty” which is a key part of an Aryan State, and the Code of Honor of Thundera even reads: Justice, Truth, Honor, Loyalty. This motto can be seen as a version of the SS motto: My Honor is Loyalty (with Justice and Truth implied as the SS was a Police Force when first established). The Sword of Omens that Lion-O receives is reflective of noble themes; knights had specially forged swords which is a tradition carried on to this day where it is customary for military officers to have a sword as part of their dress/parade uniform. The Sword of Omens even has a jewel at the base of the blade, just above the hilt, one that bears the ThunderCats’ emblem, which allows Lion-O “sight beyond sight” - a sort of divine knowledge - that he uses to summon his fellow warriors for help and into battle. This is likely a subtle reference to the Aryan Sun Circle, Greater Knowledge.

Perhaps the connection may be on a purely symbolic level, but I changed my mind on that when I noticed this picture:

Have you seen a similar banner composition and color scheme?

The antagonists of the story are known as the Mutants of which there are several brutishly cooperating groups. The leading group are the Reptilians that resemble snakes and lizards. They often use lies and manipulation to get their way, which equates them to the Snake People, a.k.a. Khazars - a violent tribe that was pushed from the steppes of Central Asia to near Europe where it adopted the monotheistic faith of Judaism as a matter of convenience to avoid conflict/maintain neutrality with their Christian neighbors to the West and with the Muslims to their South. Virtually all of today’s Jews (and the Talmud) can be ancestrally linked back to the Khazar Tribe. The Reptilians' allies are the Simians and Jackalmen, which are rather apt metaphors for many racist Gentiles. Monkeys were often used to convey primitivism in peoples (i.e. in Africans), but also in less offensive uses like the phrase “to go ape” meaning to get very angry for no real good reason, an example of succumbing to natural tendencies, which is essentially being primitive. The Simians here are just that. Next we have the Jackalmen; jackals are animals that hunt and scavenge flesh… a parallel with brutish Gentiles has just been made. Later episodes see the appearance of Vultureman (vultures too scavenge for carrion) and Ratar-o, a rat-like mutant, with real-life rats being creatures most concerned with procreation and surviving and not much else.

Upon landing on Third Earth (where the story’s action takes place) the Mutants come into contact with a demon-like being called Mumm-Ra. His name can be seen as a mistake for Amun-Ra, an ancient Egyptian deity, or even as a plagiarism. In fact, the Jewish Old Testament is essentially one long shameless rip-off of the religion of Kemet, an ancient African Civilization, in addition to other Jewish folly. Mumm-Ra also has a snake symbol, which links him to both the Snake People/Khazars and to Baphomet; his aura is that of a dark spiritual being alone in his chambers, rarely coming out, but frequently barking orders at subordinates while at the same time manipulating them for his own benefit. In short, Mumm-Ra is the fanatical Rabbi, one like Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who puppeteers atheistic Jews and Gentiles (though many may have some superficial beliefs in the Eternal) to carry out his Zionist scheme, which first and foremost involves silencing all Aryans. Mumm-Ra covets the Sword of Omens, which is a symbol of the power of the Swastika, and his main effort to steal it is to slyly convince the Mutants to get it for him so that he can then destroy the ThunderCats. Mumm-Ra's entire existence can be summed up as "desire for power and hate for all" - the latter even includes himself as Mumm-Ra cannot bear to look at his own reflection, seeing it turns him into a decaying corpse, a vessel with no soul, since he is just that. As long as he doesn't see this reflection and what he really is, the illusion he projects is so powerful that it even fools himself - self-imposed delusion.

Lastly, there is also a group of Goys, the Brute Men, whose looks can be described as anthro-cattle. The Mutants enslave them and force them to build a fortress. The Brute Men are honest beings, they mean no harm and do no harm, but they are being manipulated by the Zionists. Their salvation comes from the Noble Aryans who free them so that they can live their lives free and in peace. A key idea here is that the ThunderCats see the Brute Men much like the Mutants do, but noble peoples do not enslave under any circumstance.

“I agree with the Jews that most people are cattle. I merely disagree with how they should be treated.”

          ~John Alan Martinson Jr.

In fact, the ThunderCats at first even politely refuse an offer of help to build their own home base on Third Earth before finally accepting after the offer is insisted upon by some new found friends, the Ro-Bear Berbils.

Three-Way Conflict
The most important real world parallel that ThunderCats draws is the conflict with three simultaneous front lines. The ThunderCats are fighting, in effect, two other groups, not one. Mumm-Ra, by his own actions and own choosing, is separate from the Mutants. The Mutants, technically, also have the same stance on the situation. They have joined forces for the sake of convenience, but still operate independently, and wouldn’t hesitate to lash out with betrayal once they felt that they have gained enough. Essentially, the Mutants and Mumm-Ra have on loose terms joined forces just to put off destroying one another until after they achieve their goal of Aryan destruction. Thus each side involved has TWO opponents with the Mutants and Mumm-Ra the advantage of their “non-aggression pact.” However, this agreement is highly unstable and the ThunderCats have the advantage of much more unified movements from their warriors. Less is more when it’s optimized.

Interestingly, the episode in which the Mutants ally with Mumm-Ra is called “The Unholy Alliance.” A most appropriate name for a pact between two nefarious and self-obsessed groups.

Even if Mumm-Ra and the Mutants are seen as ONE group, thus apparently making the conflict two-sided, a third side is still present in the form of unaffiliated Gentile tribes that find their way into the conflict. In episode 6, the Mutants and Mumm-Ra do not appear at all, but a ship of creatures called the Berserkers shows up and immediately does what Gentiles/Jews would do: start exploiting other creatures. The Berserkers attempt to hunt down unicorns and the ThunderCats defend the horned equines despite never having been in contact with them before for. They do not yet stand for the unicorns, but they do stand against what the Berserkers are trying to do to them. The three-sided conflict isn’t about literal front lines, but that of ideas.

Jews/Zionists may possibly ally with Gentiles based on selfish motivation.

Gentile tribes may ally possibly with each other or Jews/Zionists based selfish motivation.

Aryan groups ally based on shared ideals and never with Jews.

The Aryan advantage is that Aryans are also willing to accept Gentiles if their ideals are in agreement, which would actually make them not Gentiles, but actually Aryans discovered from among society's dissimulation. These new recruits may then go on to join the Aryan Movement fulltime. On the flipside, self-obsessed Jews would never consider taking a Gentile ally into the ranks of Jewry, for allies of the Zionists are really just goys who will be shunned the moment their usefulness to Jewry is over. Thus “allies” of the Jews are just people who have been successfully conned into thinking there is an alliance. Or a Gentile may think that they have successfully conned the Jews into a pact, but such an agreement does not genuinely exist in either circumstance. Mumm-Ra and the Mutants have such an arrangement, both sides are ready to dump the other at the moment most opportune for their own group. The irony is that their in-group altruism is both what temporarily binds them while being the factor that is destined to tear them apart.

Aryans choose allies with whom they genuinely feel that they can work with. Thus the only true alliance is an Aryan one, or simply a noble one. When forming a coalition, Jews and Gentiles agree to disagree. They are sweeping dirt under the rug. When forming a coalition, Aryans agree on ideals, thus Aryans may be forced to only ally with other Aryans, but are also, in effect, already allied with those other Aryans since Nobility is immortal. They only need to make contact another Aryan group and only work out details on who performs what necessary duties, but the alliance is written in their shared nobility. Such is the meeting between the ThunderCats and the caretakers of the Unicorns. Jews would type out contracts and agreements, with exceptions, conditions and interest rates while Aryans just proceed with universalism. An noble group is an ally. An ignoble one is an enemy, be it Jewish or Gentile.

Bits and Pieces
The care takers of the Unicorns have crescent moon shapes on their staffs and star shapes on their foreheads. The crescent moon and star form the main icon of Islam, which includes teachings on animal welfare.

The Sword of Omens is only used to fight enemies and violence is never initiated with it.

The ThunderCats never fight innocents, not even the manipulated Brute Men, but instead break them out of their trance.

There are really many details like this all throughout. Each one by itself really doesn’t mean anything, but as a whole they do form a theme. Another very minute example is when in one scene the Thunder Tank, while in boat form, is going ahead unusually slow, so Panthro, who's driving, flushes out some sort of intake causing fish that were stuck inside to pop out. Panthro then smiles as he watches them swim away. This may not seem like much, but he did just save those fish from dying and was clearly happy to have done so. Thus, this little moment fits into the overall Aryan theme.

Conclusion
While this remains a kids’ show, it does have levels of comprehension, much like Aesop’s Fables are not just about talking animals. There is a message here that goes well beyond the typical good vs. bad story structure. Much of the message is conveyed through character actions instead of just dialog. There is also a much smaller aspect of fancy aesthetics here than in, say, GI Joe or Transformers. Those shows that not only were totally based in the Good vs. Bad (left vs. right, conservative vs. liberal, etc…) paradigm, but had a strong focus on elaborate military technologies and were packed with explosive action scenes in each episode. ThunderCats is a much smarter example of storytelling since not only kids have something of interest here.

There is also a revamp of the series due out in 2011. We’ll see whether this reboot remains true to Aryanism, or if Jews picked it up to taint and ultimately destroy the memory of this show with their corruption and plagiarism.

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See Also:
He-Man review Part I & Part II

Anti-Elitist themes in "They Live"

Time to look at another film. This time around it’s the 1988 science fiction/conspiracy film They Live directed by John Carpenter who also wrote the script under the pseudonym Frank Armitage and co-composed the score. Carpenter shot to fame with the classic horror film Halloween in 1978 and even during his years with bigger budgets and studio backing he was always a more innovative-than-usual film director. Avoiding sensationalism in the form of excess gore and nudity, his films were driven by atmosphere, as well as by storytelling and filmmaking creativity. They Live is no exception to this and it comes from a time in Carpenter’s career when he went back to making lower-budget independent films after lackluster performances at the box-office with studio productions. It all worked for the better since there is no way a big budget movie studio would produce a film like this: it has one of the most effective anti-Zionist metaphors of all time. Of course, there is no way to prove that his intentions were anti-Zionist, but that just might be Carpenter making a clever chess move.

MAJOR CHARACTERS
Nada - a drifter who winds up in Los Angeles. Discovers a special set of sunglasses and soon links up with a revolutionary group on a mission to save the city, and maybe even, all mankind. His name is a witty take on the “man with no name” or nameless hero archetype who sweeps in and saves the day. Appropriately so, Nada’s name is not mentioned once in the film and we only learn it in the end credits.

Frank - works at a construction site and helps Nada find a place to stay. Thinks Nada is nuts when told about the truth about society and even takes a bit of convincing, but eventually teams up with Nada.

Holly - initially taken hostage by Nada when he needs to escape undercover. She lives in a posh house and has a well paying thus hasn’t even considered the possibility of society being endangered. Her character is ripe material for a standard love-subplot, but unlike Hollywood cheesefests, the film here takes a much different direction.

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
Man watching TV - an interesting though very small role. He becomes the film’s ultimate example of a sellout.

Gilbert - volunteer working who helps out around the shantytown, but also works with the revolutionaries.

Revolutionary Group - all glance roles, but they show that a militarist movement is in operation.

A DEGENERATED WORLD
The world is in a state of decay. Nada mentions that many banks in Denver have closed. Lower-class people have trouble finding work in a packed jobs office. A street preacher in the middle of a sermon about how civilization worships greed is suspiciously taken away by cops. Note that what this preacher says, using a venomous snake tongue metaphor, is very similar to Christ's words to the Sanhedrin Jews. -[Thanks to Delendaestziobot for this elaboration]- Frank mentions that in Detroit many steel mills closed and despite workers taking many cuts to their pay and benefits, but the corporate owners just “gave themselves raises.” Around the city people can be seen to be entranced by television sets that play pointless programs and show dull ads all appealing to vanity and desire for longevity. The world seems to have lost purpose and direction with the rich milking all resources for their own benefit while keeping the lower classes entranced in a servile (goy) state of mind.

At one point a TV ad mentions “divine excess” which, reflects the street preacher's example of how much of a religion materialism has become. Peoples' lives consist of just spending and comsuming, which are the sustaining processes of their society and they cannot see past this. Their frustrations as to why things never get better have no rational answer, at least not one they can see. Nada says, "I believe in America" and that he is sure a chance will come for him if he waits, while Frank seems to see this hope as naive. Later, when Nada wants to look into something that may provide some answers, Frank tells him to "leave it alone" as he has a job and just walks the white line doing his job, while Nada responds, "white line's in the middle of the road, that's the worst place to drive." Their respective attitudes seem to have switched.

Note that Frank's mentioning a white line, effectively means he is going along a path that has been drawn out for him, which is analogous to Nada "believing in America." So sometimes they may feel that something is not right, however what is likely true is their attitudes sway back and forth from day to day or week to week, but the end result is they remain servants locked in am empirical prison with glimmers of false hope here and there.

SEEING IS BELIEVING
The central idea of the film can be seen as a slam on the myth that White Nationalists love to preach, which roughly sums up as: "Wake up!" Meaning, we’re asleep and the Jews (and also all non-christian non-whites, according to false-Aryan white nationalists) are robbing us of our freedom and rights. The movie does cater to this by using the "wake up" message in several forms, for example Nada sees a sign “They Live We Sleep” - an elaboration on the title and an indicator that Nada is learning more about the reality of his world. However, these references to waking up and sleeping are well outnumbered by film’s references to sight.

His afternoon just got a lot more interesting

The first hint of this is in the opening shot: we get an oddly framed title card with the film’s title off to the bottom left written in what looks like hand-writing. The first shot fades in and we see a graffiti covered wall and the movie title is actually written on that wall… it is part of a bigger picture and the film has just very specifically pointed it out. In approaching such a large mural, one bit of writing off to the side is not likely to be noticed first if at all. This is the key idea: “seeing” isn’t enough, “seeing the right thing” is what matters; the right patterns so that the right conclusion and right course of action can be taken.

In the shantytown where Nada settles down some people are watching TV, which is showing some dull programs. Then suddenly a signal comes on that warns people that they are slaves and talks about some mysterious conspirators: "They are safe as long as they are not discovered." The "Man watching TV" mentioned above is in this scene and he gets annoyed by this transmission: “it must have taken the hackers months to do this.” He is simply writing off anything different in the status quo as a violation or annoyance of some sort. The transmission reappears the next morning calling once again for revolution to the annoyance of the people watching. Nada, however, doesn't just disregard it, in fact, he looks very curious. This is the first indicator that he will break the status quo.

His curiousity takes off, because soon after Nada starts to suspect something is going on in the church next to the shantytown. When he brings it up to Frank is when he is told to "leave it alone," but he goes to investigate. There he finds that it is not just a church, but also a lab where sunglasses are made, ones with so called “Hoffman lenses.” An exact spelling of the lens name isn't given, but it may be a reference to, Albert Hofmann, the creator of LSD. A drug which doesn’t "wake" the user, but alters their perception, makes them "look along a different plane of reality" so to speak, which is akin to what the glasses let the wearer do. The glasses are the central element to the film and once Nada puts them on “seeing is believing” is taken to a whole new level.

The world is not at all what it seems. All billboards, ads, newspapers and signs that make up the corporate-run world contain subliminal commands to be obedient. The glasses allow the wearer to see this, but without them, everything looks normal, "normal" in the sense of how we've been conditioned to perceive it.

Some signs Nada sees:
“Marry and Reproduce” is behind an ad about travelling to the Caribbean, which features a woman in a bikini. All in all, with the hidden message it is suggesting hedonism and base-sexual behavior.

“No Independent Thought” is behind a sign for men’s apparel suggesting that all people buy the same clothes, which draws a connection to uniforms, but more precisely, and given the film's context, prison uniforms.

“Consume” is behind a sign for a “close out sale” which is just fancy capitalist jargon masking very blunt capitalist jargon.

Then when Nada looks down a city avenue...

Consumerist Civilization

Notice that all the signs are in all capital letters and one font, in other words, as blunt and direct as can be. It is not just ads and billboards, magazines that are usually filled with useless news stories, soft porn and other interruptions have like-minded commands behind them. Even money has “this is your God” on it. One magazine on the street stand Nada visits has “let TV teach you” written on it and this is seen without the glasses, which suggests that the propaganda is so rooted in, it is becoming less and less necessary to disguise. This little detail is visible when Nada sees the real shocker about his world, thus it was most definitely a detail the director wanted the audience to see. The real shocker, however, is that aliens live among us and they’re only seen for what they really are through the glasses, otheriwse they appear human. They hold the positions of power and influence and to be blunt, they are the “they” of the title and the “they” the man on the intruding TV signal was talking about.

They are elitist minded creatures claiming to be inherently better than us, using the most elaborate manipulations to herd us, stealing wealth from our planet’s resources, enjoying a life of materialist hedonism as the honest of us suffer, bribing some of our own to help them maintain control and showing perhaps the ultimate example of in-group altruism through their selfish actions.

Note how the film's many political, economic and imperialist references reflect this.

ARYAN MILITARIST REVOLUTION
Nada, shocked and in some disbelief, tries to figure out what to do. His struggle is reflective of the Aryanist struggle in that he has trouble convincing anyone; partly due to his inarticulate communication, partly due to people’s stubbornness in their comfort, partly due to being hunted by the aliens' enforcers. The comically over-the-top fight between Nada and Frank is an example of this: Frank is comfortable working (life ain’t easy, but it’s steady) and it takes a lot of convincing to get him to go on the militarist route to actually change the world for the better, hence the fight. What finally gets Frank convinced that Nada is right is when he sees the aliens, Nada puts the glasses on him. Again, the "wake up" notion is totally ignored in this key scene. Seeing the truth is also dangerous, since the minute the aliens know that someone can “see” they call in their enforcers. Nada learns this the hard way during his first walk with the glasses.

Nada and Frank figure that they can’t be the only ones with the glasses and they soon locate some revolutionaries. The group is meager, but well armed and planning a blend-in strategy while they acquire more numbers, however, the aliens enforcers crash their meeting and start to kill everyone. In that moment, Nada and Frank basically realize the situation: we fight now or never.

Holly, who has a subplot with Nada (which I didn't go into here), helps them determine that the alien signal must be coming from the TV station where she works. The relation between Nada and Holly is interesting in that it avoids almost all cliches. The three sequences that Holly is in all take a drastic unexpected turn. I don’t want to reveal all twists here so as not to spoil the entire movie.

Note that as the film progresses, Nada starts to make more and more calculated moves. This goes back to his first walk with the glasses. First he found the aliens just plain ugly and started to insult them, funny, but it gives him away. He next used a bit of cleverness to get out of being cornered by two cops, but shot up a bank killing several aliens right after. However, he escaped the bank scene using a bit of cunning once again and from that point on all the violence that Nada causes is to serve the goal of revealing the aliens. What starts as a simple-minded revolt takes on traits of an Aryan Militarist Revolution. By the end Nada and Frank willingly go against great odds since as Aryans the only death they’ll let their oppressors exact on them is one in which they were fighting out of oppression.

In trademark Carpenter form, the movie’s ending is a bit open ended, but that’s one of the things that makes it interesting to talk about.

BITS AND PIECES
The opening shot, after fading in, tracks left and we see a freight-train rolling by with sun-wheel designs on the cars and after it passes we see a Nada, which links him to the Aryanism. Also when first at the construction site he says he has his own tools, he is a reasonably self-sufficient worker.

Frank, in turn, is linked to Aryanism when he tells Nada, “you’ll meet some of the folk” when showing him the shantytown.

Right before the police raid, Nada is looking at the church, but then he looks up and sees a helicopter and only then does he hear the engine roaring. Why didn’t he hear it when it first arrived if it's that loud? Because the world is in a trance and under illusion, things have to be specifically concentrated on to break the spell.

A trash truck “appears” in a similar way to the chopper mentioned above. This is right before Nada fights with Frank, in watching the scene it is plain to see that there is no way Nada could have not seen it unless there was some sort of illusion going on.

The "Man watching TV" and complaining about program being interrupted shows up at the end. Note this key scene.

Holly’s house is located on Circle View Drive… and interesting name considering that the essence of maintaining an illusion is keeping people looking around in circles and away from the source.

Also, something very important in the film is, quite unexpectedly, very fragile. I do not want to give away all the details here and it should be rather obvious once it comes up on the film. Take note of how this relates to the arrogance of the aliens. On how they must have totally counted on it not being discovered. On how seeing the right patterns and taking the right course of action can easily ruin even the most elaborate illusion.

The music in the film is pretty interesting and not a very typical film score. John Carpenter almost always at least co-composes the scores for his films. Thus his ideas and metaphors from his direction of the film as well as his writing of the script are directly linked to the film's music. The music here is largely composed of bass sounds; low, subtle sounds. This reflects the film's message of important things being largely hidden and not out right obvious.

The film's poster also underlines the important of "seeing" not "waking up."

CONCLUSION
This film doesn't make very many direct references to Zionism and I do consider it more of a broader anti-elitist themed film, though it is interesting to see how well an anti-Zionist interpretation fits here. Henry Ford only started to distribute the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion after he saw how similar the course the world was taking to what was described in the book. Can you, reader, see any parallels with this film and our world?

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