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Latest Finland news from the last week.

RITUAL SACRIFICE? There have been police investigations on Nazi terrorism going on for a long time, and last weeks have certainly introduced a new twist. One of the persons fingered for potential connections to terrorism is an unnamed (and I won’t name them here) person the news called “Maisteri” (i.e. a “master”, a master’s degree holder), a Satanist accelerationist who has participated in terrorist planner chats to get them to commit acts of terror for their own nefarious reasons. The police are even suspecting the “Maisteri” might have made plans for a ritual human sacrifice.

Of course, all of this sounds like some heady stuff, but even before this there have been connections to the Nazi/heathen/Satanic Order of the Nine Angles (“O9A”), and that’s what we’re also apparently talking about here. O9A has been internationally connected to a great number of planned and actual crimes, both terrorist attacks and other stuff, so it’s not a completely far-fetched story. Finland does have a previous history of Nazism and Satanism being connected, from the notorious 70s Nazi leader Pekka Siitoin to the modern NSBM scene.

“Maisteri” has denied all connections to terrorism and has indicated that the suspected sacrificial plannings and such are just a part of research book for a fictional book. This is of course always a possibility – folks have done stranger stuff in the course of writing fiction – but he has at least left a considerable paper trail on the Internet showing at least considerable knowledge of O9A ideology and occultism, as well as support for accelerationism and heavy, deep-set elitism and far-right opinions in general.

What has also received attention is that the “Maisteri” is connected to the Finns Party. A number of other terrorism suspects also have a history in the party but have clearly been low-level actors who have left on their own volition, while “Maisteri” appears to have operated within the party as an expert/writer until very recently. The party has indicated that he’s no longer a member and has issued some general condemnations of the terrorists, but is otherwise keeping mum – which isn’t surprising, since this is hardly something the party wants to bring attention to.

O9A is very obviously a CIA honey trap.

What makes it obvious?

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