Monday, May 12, 2014

With Boko Haram, Clinton’s State Department Dropped The Ball

With Boko Haram, Clinton’s State Department Dropped The Ball

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Over the past week, Hillary Clinton has raised awareness for the more than 270 girls that were kidnapped in Nigeria by Boko Haram. #BringBackOurGirls has been a rallying cry on Twitter for human rights activists and the global community as a whole. However, when she had the opportunity to brand the group a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) and help US law enforcement agencies cope with the growing threat Boko Haram posed, Clinton dropped the ball. A former senior US official called it “gross hypocrisy.”
Last night, The Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin published a story detailing how Hillary Clinton’s State Department ignored pleas by the US Justice Department, FBI, CIA and numerous lawmakers to designate Boko Haram as a FTO. There wasn’t a partisan divide either. Lisa Monaco, currently at the White House, said that Boko Haram met the criteria for a foreign terrorist listing because the group carried out violent attacks against “police, politicians, public institutions and [the] civilian population.” General Carter Ham, the chief of US Africa Command, said that Boko Haram provided a “safe haven” for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and was likely sharing explosives and funds with the group.
Unfortunately, Hillary’s inaction could have serious consequences. Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA) told The Daily Beast that US law enforcement agencies might be in a better position to help search for the girls had Clinton not dropped the ball.
Of course we haven’t heard her side of the story. As Rogin noted in his article, representatives for Clinton did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Read the full piece here:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/07/hillary-s-state-department-refused-to-brand-boko-haram-as-terrorists.html

Will Hillary Clinton Condemn her Million Dollar Donor Who is Out to Stone Gays?

Will Hillary Clinton Condemn her Million Dollar Donor Who is Out to Stone Gays?

by: Doc Holliday
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Hillary Clinton has been praised for, eventually, tweeting a condemnation of Boko Haram’s kidnappings, but she hasn’t had anything to say about the Sultan of Brunei’s plans to stone gay men to death.
And that’s not too surprising.
Hillary, like Obama, has been to Brunei and set up relationships with the Islamic tyranny. Bill Clinton and Chelsea visited Brunei last year. The Beverly Hills hotel being boycotted by Hollywood over its ownership by the Sultan of Brunei hired a Clinton aide as a crisis manager.
The Clinton Foundation, which has played a key role in helping position Hillary for her 2016 race, received between $1 and $5 million from Brunei.
So it’s not surprising that Hillary, despite flirting with gay rights, has nothing to say about Brunei, even as her Hollywood donors are vowing to boycott businesses linked to the Muslim country.
It’s not just about Brunei. The Clinton Foundation received even bigger amounts of money from Saudi Arabia. If Hillary Clinton isn’t prepared to criticize the Sultan of Brunei for being prepared to stone gay men to death, will she stand up for human rights in any country that gave Clintonworld enough money?
Considering the Marc Rich pardon case, it’s known that money buys favors from the Clinton family. The question is how many favors have the international interests that donated millions to the Clintons bought from a woman who aspires to be the President of the United States?
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Boehner Rules Out Using Congressional Powers To Arrest Lois Lerner For Contempt

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Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner refused to consider using the House’s constitutional authority to arrest disgraced IRS official Lois Lerner for being in contempt of Congress, noting it’s never been used before and should be left to Attorney General Eric Holder.
On Sunday, Boehner spoke with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo about next steps in the investigation into the alleged targeting of conservative nonprofit groups by the IRS. As head of the tax revenue service’s nonprofit division at the time, Lerner has repeatedly refused to testify before lawmakers — leading to last Wednesday’s vote holding her in contempt of Congress.
“The contempt charge has gone to the attorney general,” Boehner explained, “and it’s up to the attorney general, Eric Holder, to prosecute this, and to assign someone to prosecute the case. Now, will he do it? We don’t know. But the ball is in his court.”

Boehner Rules Out Using Congress To Arrest Lois Lerner For Contempt

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Getting to the “Foggy Bottom” of Benghazi

Getting to the “Foggy Bottom” of Benghazi

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By Doug Hagmann (Bio and Archives)  Monday, May 12, 2014
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“Follow the money.” That was the directive given to Washington Post journalists Woodward and Bernstein by their confidential source code named “Deep Throat” to get to the bottom of the Nixon White House cover-up of the Watergate burglaries in 1972.
It was, in part, from the persistence of the Fourth Estate that resulted in the creation of the Senate Watergate Committee, which ultimately led to the indictments of forty administration officials, the convictions of several others, and the resignation of a sitting president as articles of impeachment were being introduced in the House of Representatives.
Notice here that it was not just the crime, but the cover-up. Especially the cover-up.
In consideration of last week’s announcement of a Select Committee on Benghazi,  truth-seeking Americans titillated by the formation of this committee would be well advised to recall the backroom dealings that established the Senate Watergate Committee and the political perimeters to which it was bound. The back story is nicely articulated by Jeffrey Lord in his article published in the American Spectator titled Trey Gowdy and the Real Lesson of Watergate. Although I am in favor of the formation of a truly independent investigative body, my hopes for the whole truth to be made known are not only tempered by history, but the magnitude of the crime, not scandal, that is now simply known as “Benghazi.”

“Follow the money” becomes “Follow the weapons”

In the event that it has gone unnoticed, the White House and the U.S. Department of State is desperate for every American to believe that persistent questions about the attack at Benghazi on September 11, 2012, that killed four Americans, including a U.S. Ambassador (the first such murder in more than 30 years) are nothing more than a baseless political ploy against the current administration and a gratuitous attack to derail a potential future candidate for president. So do many in congress. So do nearly all of the major media outlets, every Progressive blog on the internet, and countless political pundits.
Irrational yet exuberant allegiance to their own political messiah and their matriarch of international mayhem aside,  there is a much more important reason for this frenzied veil of protection against any thorough and meaningful inquiry. Although only a few similarities exist between the “Deep Throat” of Watergate and my intelligence source for facts related to Benghazi, the message is similar. Instead being directed to “follow the money,” I was directed to “follow the weapons.”

Whistleblowers and Deep Throats

Since my source first uttered that directive in the days following the attack, I have written over four dozen investigative reports about the events leading up to the attack in Benghazi, the attack itself, and the consequential cover-up. On April 30, 2014, I also conducted a 90-minute interview with CIA source Robert “Tosh” Plumlee on my radio broadcast The Hagmann & Hagmann Report. Mr. Plumlee caught the attention of the Obama White House and the Holder Justice Department for posing 11 questions on a Facebook page he created specifically to “out” the arms operation.
Following that interview, I’ve spoken to Mr. Plumlee on multiple occasions off-air, only to learn that the pressure from above to simply be quiet and go away is intensifying.
Yesterday, whistleblowers were sought and protected, and their information was reported in the court of public opinion. Today, they are ignored or threatened, and ultimately vilified in a ploy for political public opinion. Their vilification is in direct proportion to the threat they pose to the official account of the events surrounding the men and materials related to the rogue elements of the U.S. State Department, the White House, and the CIA.
I’ve also had numerous contacts with my intelligence source about all aspects of the attack, learning more every time. Accordingly, I feel I have earned the right to speak with authority about this issue. I also have a unique perspective to add yet another question to the 11 posed by Mr. Plumlee—one that could stand alone should the other 11 be forced down as they were last October.

18 1/2 hour gap of the whereabouts and activities of Barack Obama

Reminiscent of the 18 1/2 minute gap of the subpoenaed Watergate tapes, there appears to be an 18 1/2 hour gap of the whereabouts and activities of Barack Obama. So my additional or replacement question is where was Barack Obama during this period, who was he with, and exactly what were the nature of his activities? A follow-up question, if I may. If Barack Obama was not in charge or making decisions during this most critical period in recent American history, who was? The Secret Service logs, among documents and tapes, would certainly tell this uncomfortable tale.
The truth is as simple as it is uncomfortable. The truth will expose a level of national and international criminality far beyond the scope and treachery of the combined sum of Watergate, Iran-Contra, the Bay of Pigs, Fast & Furious, and even the proven presidential perjury at the end of the finger-wagging to an American audience and congress. The truth about Benghazi is far greater than most people realize, for a thorough and honest investigation will expose the largest central logistics, control and coordination center for weapons, arms and manpower in the Middle East.
As Michael Reagan so astutely and accurately detailed in his column Building on a Kernel of Truth in the immediate aftermath of Benghazi, the U.S. State Department, with their own army consisting of intelligence forces selected from the CIA and government subcontractors, created “a Ho Chi Minh Trail of Muslim Brotherhood supply lines that crisscross North Africa and eventually enter Syria from staging areas next-door in Turkey.” The operation involved the U.S., along with other Western nations, doing the heavy lifting for the Saudis. Part of the Saudi agenda is to rid the Middle East of Assad, and their plans intended on using our intelligence agencies, military subcontractors and others to do so. This was being done at the highest levels of our government as well as with some of our allies, in direct violation of U.S. and international law.

Criminal cabal of globalists

Truthful exposure would be an admission that the criminal cabal of globalists holding key positions within our government, involving both sides of the political spectrum had, and still have, the blood of not just four Americans, but over a quarter of a million men, women and children on their hands. That is the current best estimate of the death count in Syria, for it is Syria where the weapons and manpower were ultimately destined.
Additionally, it is upon their shoulders that rests the responsibility of causing millions of families in Syria to be displaced from their homes as a result of their covert activities to reshape the Middle East. Those attempts continue today, as the current Secretary of State under the authority of the White House has permitted the opening of a second front against Syria via Iraq, allowing the terrorist group known by the acronym ISIS to fortify the anti-Assad “rebels” as the U.S. declines to intervene.
It is critical to note that since the 2012 attack in Benghazi, there have been four unsuccessful attempts to involve NATO, the U.S. and the West into a much larger conflict in the region to oust Assad. One of those failed attempts was, of course, to blame Assad for a chemical weapons attack, although that plot was exposed for the false flag it was. Rest assured that it remains the objective of this cabal of criminal globalists to oust Assad by any means necessary.
The Progressives in power, along with their media sycophants are correct when they assert that Benghazi is not a scandal, for it is not. The attempts to cover it up and to promote lie upon lie is not a scandal. The lie upon which all other lies are based is not a scandal. It is a crime of the highest magnitude. It is a crime against humanity, and by definition, a criminal conspiracy to circumvent the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and all for which it stands.
An honest and independent investigation would prove that the attack in Benghazi was the direct consequence the actions of a covert army of agents within U.S. intelligence, under the command structure of the U.S. Department of State and the White House, with the imprimatur of elected and appointed officials of both parties.
The CIA compound in Benghazi, along with the half-dozen or so related warehouses, were central into not just arming, but creating a rebel force to oust Assad much like what was planned a half-century ago in Cuba, but for much different reasons. Much like Cuba, anti-Assad rebels could never exist without outside help, both in arms and training. Benghazi also has many elements of Iran-Contra, where weapons were diverted then just as today. Much like Watergate, there is a sanctioned cover-up at the very highest levels of our government. And the now infamous finger-wagging denial of a president to an entire nation has been replaced by a ceremonious bow to a Saudi king, where we appear to be less deserving of a face-to-face denial. Instead, we are the recipients of another anatomical display of contempt—the posterior of a servant bowing deep to his master.
Evidence will show that the attacks at Benghazi were neither spontaneous nor a failure of U.S. intelligence. The claims of spontaneity attributed to an obscure internet video and the feigned introspection regarding intelligence failures are the methods of tactics of the cover-up. The video alone leads to a trail that suggests the involvement of government subcontractors, if not a current member of government, as I have stated in my previous reports. If that proves to be the case, this alone shows not just a criminal cover-up, but possible preplanning for plausible denial.
We must get to the “Foggy Bottom” of Benghazi, for the fate of not just our nation, but the world hangs in the balance.
We are engaged in a proxy war, where the stakes are the future.
Whether the Select Committee will be able to get to the truth remains to be seen. Whether the Select Committee will be able to get to the truth in time to stop the death race to Damascus, the real life game of risk, or understand that the tripwire for World War III is Syria, which will fully and completely explain Benghazi, is a matter of life and death—ours.

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New smoking gun on Obama negligence the night of Benghazi

New smoking gun on Obama negligence the night of Benghazi

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The Barack Obama Regime absolutely refuses to answer any questions about where the president was, and what he was doing, doing those five key hours the night of September 11, 2012 while our consulate in Benghazi was attacked and our ambassador to Libya was murdered by al Qaeda operatives. It is known he basically left Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in charge of things at about 5 PM and his whereabouts are unknown until about hours after that when he spoked with Hillary on the phone at about 10 PM about the crisis in Benghazi. The smoking gun comes from former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor, recently questioned by Brett Baier on the Fox News program Special Report, which revealed that Preisident Obama was in the White House but apparently not in the situation room during those key hours that night.
For many, knowing the president is a long time cocaine user who could easily have relapsed, could well have spent those hours somewhere in the White House getting high on cocaine because perhaps he could't deal with the reality he knew was going on in Benghazi. The very reason that question was raised, and there was speculation about where Obama was during those hours, was to get an answer that the public deserves to know, about exactly where the president was and what he was doing during those hours when clearly he was not doing his job as president.
Brett Baier asked Vietor several times whether the president was in the Situation Room during those hours and where was he, and the only straight and non-evasive answer Vietor gave was to confirmed that Barack Obama was “in the White House” during those hours and apparently not in the Situation Room. Vietor would not tell where in the White House the president was but did seem to act like he knows where the president was during those hours.
This revelation is huge because it confirms the president was not in the situation room doing his job, where he should have been, but that he was in fact somewhere in the White House. If the Obama Regime hadn't been working extra hard to cover up such issues as this, they wouldn't needlessly raise so many questions about what really goes on at the White House.
We know a few other interesting facts about the day of Benghazi. Apparently, someone in Hillary's State Department had intelligence that there would be a anti-American demonstration in Cairo, Egypt organized by allies of the Muslim Brotherhood and factions of al Qaeda and earlier that day, before such demonstrations began, someone from the State Department put out an apolocy, in advance, apologizing for the “hateful” anti-Muslim video that no one had yet heard of until that apology mentioned it. Conveniently, this gave way for the Regime to claim the video inspired the demonstrations in Cairo as well as the attack on our consulate that night in Benghazi, Libya. Perhaps the very purpose of the pre-emptive apology memo was to set up the blaming of all those events that day on the previously unknown video?
The Regime didn't want anyone to think an act of terrorism has happened because near the end of the campaign for reelection, they had painted the picture (another lie from the regime) that they had defeated al Qaeda and there were no risk of terrorism anymore. Perhaps Obama himself knew trouble was brewing that night when he skipped out like a coward during those five hours and left Hillary to take care ofthings. Some believe that Hillary was the one who thought up the lie of blaming it all on the video in order to cover for Obama, who seemed to be more than willing to let Hillary take the blame if things blew up that night and couldn't be covered up as the Regime did in fact cover it up.
While we still do not know where the president was, and what he was doing, during those five hours that night, we do know one thing. The president has quite cowardly slipped away the hours of a real crisis, and was not doing his job. That alone should have been exposed before the 2012 election and should easily have been proof that he should have been not elected to a second term as president. A clear picture of what really happened in the White House that night would reveal that the most unqualified president elected in the history of the country, after four years of on-the-job training, was still not qualified to be president. With that knowledge, the voters might well have made a very different decision on election day in 2012, even with the degree of voter fraud that occurred.
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Tim Geithner: The White House Asked Me to Mislead the Public


Tim Geithner: The White House Asked Me to Mislead the Public


By FRANCESCA CHAMBERS, The Daily Mail
The White House wanted Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to lie on Sunday talk shows to downplay the part Social Security played in driving the deficit, it was revealed today.
Geithner writes in his memoir Stress Test, out today, that the White House communications director asked him to downplay the long term cost of Social Security spending to mollify the Democratic Party's base.
'I remember during one Roosevelt Room prep session before I appeared on the Sunday shows, I objected when Dan Pfeiffer wanted me to say Social Security didn't contribute to the deficit. It wasn't a main driver of our future deficits, but it did contribute,' he says.
'Pfeiffer said the line was a 'dog whistle' to the left, a phrase I had never heard before. He had to explain that the phrase was code to the Democratic base, signaling that we intended to protect Social Security.'

The New World Order is Masonic in character. Sadaam Hussein (and Islam in general) represent an obstacle to the Masonic plan to rebuild Solomon's Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This will be the seat of a new world religion subtly devoted to Lucifer.

As The World Goes To Hell...
Freemasonry Is The Common Denominator
By Henry Makow, Ph.D
10-1-2


In the past, I ascribed humanity's woes to a conspiracy of inbred British aristocrats, their American toadies, Zionists and central bankers. So far I have overlooked the most important ingredient, the "Freemasons" the world's largest secret society with five million members (including three million Americans.) Only their inner circles are aware that the "Craft" is in fact devoted to satanism.
 
The conspirators all belong to it. George W. Bush is a member. As a student at Yale Bush joined its "Skull and Bones" chapter and referred to it in August 2000 in these terms: "My heritage is part of who I am."
 
Dick Cheney and Colin Powell are also high level Freemasons. So is Al Gore and Ariel Sharon. Past Presidents FDR, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan and Lyndon Johnson were also members. So are Henry Kissinger, Allen Greenspan and World Bank President James Wolfensohn. In fact devil worship seems to be a prerequisite for power and success today.
 
Freemasonry has been blamed for many cases of child sexual abuse and ritual murder. (Search "ritual and sexual abuse + freemasonry" in Google.) There are at least three books out about people who claim to have been brainwashed and sexually exploited as children by certain members of our power elite. "The Franklin Cover-Up" (get the 2nd. Edition, 1996) by John W. DeCamp describes a homosexual and satanic child sex ring based in Omaha, which serviced members of the Reagan administration. In "Trans-formation of America," (1995) Cathy O'Brien describes her experiences as a mind-controlled sex slave with members of the current and past administrations.
 
It gets more bizarre. In addition to oil, the war against Iraq is part of a long-term plan to establish the rule of satan on earth. The New World Order is Masonic in character. Sadaam Hussein (and Islam in general) represent an obstacle to the Masonic plan to rebuild Solomon's Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This will be the seat of a new world religion subtly devoted to Lucifer.
 
The war is the latest in a step-by-step plan to enslave humanity. For example, the United Nations' true character is revealed by the fact that the only religious chapel at its headquarters is run by a satanic cult, the "Lucis Trust." The name was changed from Lucifer Trust to make the nature of the organization less conspicuous. For more background, see an online article by Lyndon LaRouche entitled "The Real History of Satanism." (http://www.econcrisis.homestead.com/The_REAL_History_of_Satanism.html)
 
The Satanists disguise their agenda in warm and fuzzy buzzwords like "economic justice" and "international peace." They are drafting a new world constitution called the "Earth Charter" which will have the authority of holy writ. Later this year, the Earth Charter will be presented to the United Nations in a pantheistic 21st Century replica of the Ark of the Covenant. Stephen Rockefeller and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund is behind this initiative.
 
According to Joseph Farah, "these are dangerous and diabolical folks making long-term plans to seize even more power and destroy any vestige of freedom left in the world." (Rockefeller-sponsored Socialism, World Net Daily, Sept. 24)
 
I don't have the heart (or stomach) to explore the philosophy of Freemasonry in detail. I refer you to an excellent web site that contains articles and a list of over 50 books. It is called "Freemason Watch" (http://www.freemasonwatch.freepress-freespeech.com/index.html)
I only want to point out the essential difference between a true religion like Islam or Christianity and a naturalistic cult like Freemasonry.
A true religion believes that God is the ultimate Reality (Truth, Love) and that man has the Spirit of God within. "God is a spirit and we worship him in spirit and truth." (John 4:24) Liberation is defined as overcoming the limitations of ego. This is what it means to be "born again." Jesus said, "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32).
 
Collectively mankind is in a process of transformation, of becoming more God-like or "Real." By loving God and obeying our "higher" self, we outgrow our baser instincts. "Be ye therefore perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect," Jesus said. (Mathew 5:48)
 
Civilized life and culture involve a respectful debate about how to find happiness. I believe everyone must approach God individually, and therefore must be free to choose his own path.
 
In contrast, Freemasonry is a pagan cult that pretends to embrace all religions in order to negate them all. It says there is no God but man. Man not God is the measure of all things. Our lust for more power, money, and sex is unleashed. The lower instincts become the higher.
 
For the last century or more, the world has been subject to a subtle process of Masonic indoctrination. Religion is portrayed as irrelevant and "liberation" is defined as being able to have sex with anyone and to talk about bodily functions in public. Have you noticed how much toilet humor and stupid sexual jokes permeate prime time? This is the slippery slope of consciousness.
 
Recently a reader emailed to object to my "religious fundamentalism" saying that God could not exist or else He would not permit so much suffering.
 
We are God's agents. We embody His spirit to create heaven on earth. God can't do it without us, and He certainly can't do it if we succumb to satan.
 
Modern history is understandable only in terms of the ongoing campaign by the Illuminati (which infiltrated Freemasonry in 1781) to destroy Western Civilization and enslave mankind. Nesta Webster's book "World Revolution" (1921) and John Daniel's "Scarlet and the Beast" (Vol. 1, 1994) both describe this process.
 
Communism has been the main instrument of the Illuminati. (The Communist anniversary May 1st refers to the date the Illuminati was founded in 1776.) The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was probably an Illuminati document disguised as a Jewish one. Certainly, Jews like Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky dominated Communism but they were Freemasons first. They did not represent the Jewish people.
 
John Daniel believes that Bolshevik Russia was a French Orient Masonic state. He says the slaughter of millions of Russians by the CHEKA was Masonic ritual murder. He points to "the numerous Masonic symbols carved into the flesh of victims' heads, faces, necks and torsos." (495) The assassination of Czar Nicholas II and his family was also a Masonic ritual murder (512).
 
We don't hear much about the "holocaust" of educated Russians between 1918 and 1922. The Bolshevik Freemasons slaughtered 3,200,000 people. Husbands, fathers and brothers were compelled to watch as their wives, daughters and sisters were brutally raped. (497)
 
Published in "The Scotsman" on November 7, 1923 are the following counts of the slaughtered to bring about the Craft's "dictatorship of the proletariat":
 
"28 bishops, 1219 priests, 6000 professors and teachers, 9000 doctors, 54,000 officers, 260,000 soldiers, 70,000 policemen, 12,950 property owners, 535,250 members of the intellectual and liberal professions, 193,290 workmen, 618,000 peasants." (495)
 
John Daniel believes that the Second World War was essentially a civil war between two branches of Freemasonry. The English Grand Lodge built up Adolph Hitler in order to destroy Communist Russia, French Grand Orient Freemasonry's creation. After Hitler double-crossed his sponsors and made a pact with Stalin (threatening England), power swung from (English Grand Lodge Mason) Neville Chamberlain to (French Orient Mason) Winston Churchill. Nevertheless the English branch and its Wall Street satrap continued to back Hitler and later helped Nazis war criminals escape.
 
G.K. Chesterton said the study of history should be a study of power elites. Instead historians obscure and deny the truth. The more I read, the more I am convinced that the function of the news media, the arts, education and entertainment is to deceive and make us stupid. While we are numbed and distracted, our leaders carry out their orders under occult discipline (or blackmail.) As human life becomes degraded, it seems less worth saving. The devil is afoot and all-powerful. As long as he uses deceit, good people seem helpless to resist.
 
Three things give me hope. 1) The Constitution gives us the right to own guns. 2) The Internet. (Tyranny has never had to face instant communication.) 3) Our ingrained habit of freedom.
 
We must expose the satanists to the light of day.
 
 
Henry Makow, Ph.D. is the inventor of the board game Scruples and the author of "A Long Way to Go for a Date." His articles on Feminism ad the New World Order can be found at www.savethemales.ca He welcomes your comments at Henrym@mts.net
 
 
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From R. Theron Dunn, PhD, Senior Deacon
10-4-2
 
Freemasonry, an Anchor of Morality in a Sea of Moral Relativism
By R. Theron Dunn, PhD, Senior Deacon
Evergreen Lodge #259, F&AM
Riverside, Ca
 
There are few institutions in the world more misunderstood that that of the Freemasons. There is much incorrect, deliberately misleading and false information posted about the fellowship of Freemasons. Lets take a few moments here to discuss what Freemasonry actually is and what it is not, what it stands for, and what it does NOT stand for.
 
First of all, Freemasonry is an ancient and venerable institution, with a stated purpose of Brotherly Love, Relief, Charity, with the basic tenets of Faith, Hope, Charity, temperance, fortitude, justice and truth. Freemasonry is a fraternity of religious men, dedicated to the goal of making good men into better men.
 
Freemasonry teaches men that there are no moral relatives. In a culture that offers classes in moral relativism, Freemasonry stands as an almost lone beacon in worldwide culture as a fraternity dedicated to the promulgation of morality. Freemasonry teaches its members moral lessons through the use of allegorical tales (as the bible does, and as did the Christ), using symbols to illustrate the lessons.
 
There are many things that Freemasonry is NOT. Freemasonry is not a religion, or a substitute thereto, nor is it a secret society, or not part of a secret world government. The truth is that many famous men have been Masons, among them George Washington, Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, nine signers of the Declaration of Independence and thirteen signers of the Constitution of the United States.
 
Freemasonry is not a religion, or a substitute for the religious duty of honoring God and his works and praising Him in fellowship. Freemasonry is open to all MEN of ALL Faiths who profess a belief in God and life beyond this one, regardless of race. Freemasonry claims as its sons Christians of all brands, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Taoists, and Hindus.
 
All lodges open with a prayer to God, and close with a prayer to God. God is acknowledged in all our undertakings. In fact, when a candidate is initiated, he is told that "? no man should ever enter upon any great or important undertaking without first invoking the blessing of God?"
 
Freemasonry is not a secret world government. Freemasons are janitors and presidents, ditch diggers and lawyers, funeral directors and doctors, we are your brothers, your uncles, your fathers and grandfathers. Freemasons are ordinary, good men, men who believe in the word of God, and seek to make themselves more serviceable to their God, their country, their neighbors, their families and themselves.
 
It is ridiculous in the extreme, however, to infer that the world is ruled by Freemasons because some famous politicians and powerful men have been Freemasons. This belief is the mental equivalent of saying that since all Heroin users drink milk that milk leads to Heroin. This type of mental self abuse is not intellectually honest or demonstrative of mental excellence. Great men CHOOSE to be Freemasons because Freemasons are honorable men, God fearing men, men who are dedicated to moral honesty and integrity.
 
So, so, we have discussed what Freemasonry is, let us now turn our attention to what it is not. I will start with an admission the Freemasonry has erred over the last fifty years in not responding to those few critics that exist, ignoring them as irrelevant. By not responding to our critics and ignoring them, we have allowed their voices to be the only voices heard on the subject, and therefore harmed ourselves.
 
By being secretive, and withdrawing from the community of discussion about the fraternity and what we stand for, the moral stand we take, the moral teachings of the fraternity, and the services we provide to the community, we have inadvertently caused this paranoid concern. Masonry requires that a man come to the fraternity of his own free will and accord, and we do not solicit members.
 
Since we do not solicit members, some have assumed us to be a secret society, so lets examine what a secret society is and why Freemasonry is NOT a secret society. Freemasons identify themselves by the symbol of the Square and Compass, the square of virtue and the compass which is used to symbolically circumscribe our desires to keep our passions within due bounds toward all of society.
 
We wear this symbol on our suits, on our vehicles, on our homes. We are proud to be Freemasons. Our lodges are listed in the phone books in all towns across America under Masonic Lodge, and in the classified directories under Fraternities. Our lodge buildings are marked clearly and distinctly with the square and compass, and can also be seen in nearly every city in the world.
 
The only exception to this is in dictatorial countries. For instance, in Germany during the Nazi reign, Hitler suppressed Freemasons, and as a result, we hid, using the Blue Forget Me Not flower to show ourselves to other Freemasons. After the fall of the communists in Russia, thousands of Freemasons came out of hiding to rejoin the worldwide fraternity. Masonry is NOT a secret society.
 
Freemasons do have secrets, but not the ones you would be led to believe. The secrets are passwords, signs, tokens by which one brother mason may know another and show himself to be a Mason. These "secrets" are ancient, and a historical legacy that is imparted to each Mason as he moves through the three degrees. Our meetings are closed to non-masons, though any man, who can assert a belief in God and in the afterlife, can come into the meetings. This is hardly secret.
 
Freemasonry is not satanic, and has no agenda to push any religious beliefs. In fact, there are two things that are not allowed in lodge, proselytizing for any religion and politics. Not that our members don?t have opinions about both, but since these are the two subjects that are most divisive and most likely to cause disharmony in the lodge, they are forbidden.
 
Some few, dishonest men, claim that Freemasonry is satanic worship. This claim can be found in the writings of a pornographer and Vatican tool named Leo Taxil. This man, to curry Vatican favor and make money from the Catholic Church, admitted after a number of years that he had made it all up to make a fool of the pope, but that does not get the press that the lies do.
 
The second reason Freemasons have been accused of devil worship is less clear, and more rooted in the fanaticism of the evangelist. They teach that if you do not 100% support the Christ and denounce any other faith, you are a satan worshipper. Southern Baptists have accused Roman Catholics of satan worship for the same reason, yet no thinking man considers the Catholic church a hotbed of Satanism, despite its recent setbacks due to child molesting priests.
 
Sorting out the lies takes intellectual energy, and the few opponents of Freemasonry are not interested in the truth, but are interested in controlling you through fear of the unknown. The truth is that Freemasonry is erected to God and dedicated to the Holy Saints John, and all lodges have the great book of Law open on the altar, either a Holy Bible, a Torah or the Koran, or whatever other Holy Writings are used in the country.
 
Now, when I assure you that Freemasons do not worship the devil, some person with a lack of understanding will claim "Well, you think that because you are not a 33rd degree or 32nd degree Freemason, so lets take a moment to dispel that bit of nonsense. A moments serious consideration by a person with an IQ above that of his shoe size will realize this is patently impossible and inane.
 
To wit: A religious man joins the fraternity, watches religiously based moral lessons, works for the benefit of his community in the name of God, and attends lodge meetings, opened in the name of God and conducted in the name of God, and finally attends the 32nd Degree of Freemasonry in the Scottish Rite or York Rite, given in the name of God. Then after additional hard work and labor for the community and the fraternity, is AWARDED the 33rd degree, is told that this honorary degree is dedicated to the service of satan? That is so patently ridiculous that even the most hateful and ignorant savage can see it cannot be true.
 
George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Al Gore, Ariel Sharon, Henry Kissinger etc etc are not Freemasons. Many famous men are Freemasons, and if these men were Freemasons, the fellowship would be enriched therefrom, as among these men, George W. Bush is a most religious, pious, honorable and respectable man! However, President Bush is a "Bonesman", a member of the college fraternity, the Skull and bones, but this fraternity is NOT Masonic in nature.
 
Oh, sure, it was started by a Mason, but so were many organizations in the world. However, being founded by a Freemason does not make these organizations Masonic. I will give you three examples: the Boy Scouts of America, was founded by Lord Baden Powell, a Mason; Ford Motor Corporation was founded by Henry Ford, a mason, and J.C. Penny?s was founded by J.C. Penney. None of these organizations are Masonic.
 
There are all kinds of absurd claims made against Freemasons, none of which have a basis in truth, however, someone makes a claim, the Fraternity does not respond, and there it hangs. In intelligence circles, this is referred to as Disinformation. Ignored, it takes on a life of its own. So lets take a look at the claim. Freemasonry teaches her sons to act by the square, a symbol of truth and morality, by the plumb, walking uprightly before God and men in our various stations, and on the level, open and honest between men.
 
It is the intent of the Fraternity to no longer sit back passively and allow lies to be promulgated about our fraternity. Freemasonry does not practice magic, worship goats, practice human sacrifice, abuse children or any of the other ridiculous claims made against it. So, one man says "where there is smoke there is fire." We all know that this is not true, and a famous example of this is the McCarthy Hearings. Tons of smoke, created by a man trying to further his career, no substance.
 
An even greater example of this is the Nazi regime, which needed a scapegoat, and chose the Jews. All manner of hateful lies were created to justify the pogroms to further the career of a little failed painter turned politician. Folks that publish lies about the fraternity, either knowingly or through a lack of a willingness to actually research the issue, are acting in much the same manner.
Freemasons are good men, servants to the community, and reverent, religious men, whose goal in the fraternity is the fellowship with other good men and service to the community. For a more in-depth examination and refutation of the lies and frauds perpetrated against the fraternity, I recommend a visit to http://www.masonicinfo.com.
 
R. Theron Dunn, Senior Deacon,
Evergreen Lodge #259,
Riverside, Ca
"...the network, from the intimate connections of its several parts, denotes unity..."

Rabbi: Israelis Must Stop Spitting on the Cross


Rabbi: Israelis Must Stop Spitting on the Cross

 
Lawmaker Rabbi Michael Melchior (Labor Party) says the phenomenon should be tackled through educational means. "I would expect prominent figures among the religious and ultra-Orthodox sectors, such as the chief rabbis, to denounce this phenomenon," he says.

Religious Jews, among them yeshiva students, customarily spit on the ground as a sign of disgust on seeing the cross. The Armenians, who live adjacent to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, suffer from this phenomenon more than any of the other Christian sects in the Old City.

Michael Hoffman Memo:
The truth is, Orthodox Judaics are commanded to utter a curse whenever they pass a Christian church or cemetery, and to spit at or near any Cross they see.

http://www.revisionisthistory.org/news.html
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Armenian archbishop quizzed over spat with yeshiva student

By Amiram Barkat
Oct. 11, 2004
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/486934.html

The Armenian archbishop in Israel, Nourhan Manougian, was questioned under warning by police yesterday after he slapped a yeshiva student during a procession marking the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem's Old City. The archbishop slapped the student after the latter spat at the cross the Armenians were carrying and at Manougian himself.

The incident developed into a brawl during which Manougian's ceremonial medallion, which has been used by Armenian archbishops since the 17th century, broke.

The yeshiva student was also detained for questioning

Police are now considering whether to initiate criminal proceedings against the Armenian archbishop and to charge him with assault. Meanwhile, the incident has sparked much anger among the clergy of the small Armenian community in Jerusalem.

Religious Jews, among them yeshiva students, customarily spit on the ground as a sign of disgust on seeing the cross. The Armenians, who live adjacent to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, suffer from this phenomenon more than any of the other Christian sects in the Old City.

Manougian says he and his colleagues have already learned to live with it. "I no longer get worked up by people who turn around and spit when I pass them by in the street; but to approach in the middle of a religious procession and to spit on the cross in front of all the priests of the sect is humiliation that we are not prepared to accept," he notes.

A policeman is customarily posted to guard the Armenians' religious processions, but doesn't generally do anything to prevent the spitting. TheArmenians took the matter up with Interior Minister Avraham Poraz some seven months ago, but nothing has been done about till now.

"The Israeli government is anti-Christian," Manougian charges. "It cries out in the face of any harm done to Jews all over the world, but is simply not interested at all when we are humiliated on an almost daily basis."

Lawmaker Rabbi Michael Melchior (Labor Party) says the phenomenon should be tackled through educational means. "I would expect prominent figures among the religious and ultra-Orthodox sectors, such as the chief rabbis, to denounce this phenomenon," he says.
 

Rituals of Freemasonry Freemasonry Proven To Worship Lucifer

Rituals of Freemasonry
Freemasonry Proven To Worship Lucifer
Part 3 of 5
 
Once you understand what is going on in the world you can then recognize evidences of Satanism in so many, many places.
 
 
 
THE PENTAGRAM

It was proven from Masonic books that Masons worship both Lucifer and Satan. They serve both the "good" Lucifer and the "evil" Satan. They believe that both good and evil exist in equal measure in the world.
They also believe good cannot exist without an equally powerful evil.

This belief is the reason we see both type of 5-pointed stars within Masonry; the star with the upright single point is a symbol of the "good" Lucifer, while the star with the two points upward is a symbol of the "evil" Satan. It also takes 33 degrees of rotation of a pentagram (one point up) to achieve a Satanic pentagram (two points up). Coincidence?
 
I don't think so.
The women's division of Freemasonry, Eastern Star (above right) is based upon the "evil Satan" Star, the Goats Head of Mendes. This is one of the Infernal Names of Satan within Satanism.

In looking at the Eastern Star Goatshead (above right), the star itself is a Goatshead, and the star in the middle is a plain Goatshead, which is within an inverted pentacle. In one symbol there are three instances of inverted pentagrams.

So, just how important is the Pentagram to the Satanist? Listen to the Witch of Salem, Massachusetts, Laura Cabot, on this question. In her book, Power of the Witch: The Earth, the Moon, and the Magical Path to Enlightenment, Cabot says,
"It really isn't that difficult to distinguish the Craft from Satanism. Witches wear the pentacle with the point up. Satanists reverse it with the point down ..."
Once we examine the two symbols above, both Masonic, we can only conclude that Freemasonry admittedly serves both the "good Lucifer" and the "evil Satan!"

Cabot has more to say on page 93, about the significance of the Pentagram to witchcraft.
"It [Pentagram] consists of a five-pointed star inside a circle. It is the key symbol of the Craft. It is the witch's Mandala ...."
The Pentagram, inside a circle or with no circle, is the key symbol of witchcraft. Both "good" and "evil" pentagrams are within Freemasonry in abundance.
 
 

THE TRIANGLE -- CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS ARTICLE

The Triangle wasn't the first subject mentioned on this page because the Pentagram is far more important to their practice of Witchcraft.

The triangle is part and parcel of the Pentagram. The triangle plays a big part within the Hexagram as well.

 

FREEMASONRY TEACHES MAN IS BECOMING GOD

To the occultist, the triangle is very important. It is used constantly in every conceivable manner. It is used either with the point up or down.
When you see the point down, this represents the Deity and is called the Deity's Triangle or the Water Triangle.

The Earthly Triangle or Pyramid Triangle is what it is called when one point is up. It "symbolizes the PERFECT OR DIVINE MAN." This quote is not from some heinous Black-hooded Satanist, it comes from a 33rd Degree Masonic author named George Steinmetz [Freemasonry: Its Hidden Meaning , New York, Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1948, p. 63, repeated on p. 67]

Freemasonry joins all pagan groups in saying that man can become "divine" or "perfect." In another book, George returns to this theme once again:
"Be still -- and know -- that I am God ... That I AM GOD -- the final recognition of the All in All, the unity of the Self with the Cosmos -- the cognition of the DIVINITY OF THE SELF!"

[George H. Steinmetz, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, Richmond, Virginia, Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1923, p. 92]
Freemasonry has been so sensitive about any of its secrets ever becoming public knowledge. Masons in every age knew that if the general public knew the Satanic core that existed in the heart of Freemasonry, the organization would either go into oblivion or would be arrested and put in jail. Now you know why Freemasonry insists that its Initiates pledge that, if they divulge any of Masonry's secrets, he would agree to having his throat slit and be disemboweled.

Manly P. Hall, another 33rd Degree Mason, writes,
"Man is a God in the making ..."
[The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, p. 92]
Masonic author, Joseph Fort Newton, clearly and boldly states,
".. to the profoundest insight of the human soul -- that God becomes man that man may become God."
[The Religion of Freemasonry: An Interpretation, Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1969, p. 37]

 

MASONRY ACKNOWLEDGES THAT FREEMASONRY ORIGINATED IN THE PLACE WHERE SATAN DWELLS!

Albert Churchward, another Masonic author states that the triangle pointing upward us a symbol for Set, which is one of the Infernal Names for Satan. [Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man , George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913, p. 189, 309, and 471]. Then, Masonic author, J.S.M. Ward states,
"With the point upwards, the equilateral triangle stands for Shiva the Destroyer and signifies the flame which rises upwards from the funeral pyre toward Heaven. This symbol is familiar to us in several degrees, most notably the Thirtieth degree."
[Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods, 1921; also reported by Masonic authors William Meyer, The Order of the Eastern Star, p. 20; Alain Danielou, The Gods of India]
Shiva is another name for Satan in the occult. The triangle with one point pointing up is a symbol for Satan. Most likely this is the reason why the pyramid is such an important symbol to the Mason. This is the symbol on the reverse of the one dollar bill. This symbol contains two triangles: the Pyramid itself and the All-Seeing Eye of Horus (Osiris).
 
Occultists know that both Horus and Osiris are alternate names for Satan. There is one more proof from Masonic authors, that Satan is the one they worship.
Masonic authors tell us that they worship Lucifer in yet another way. Lynn Perkins (a Masonic Author), states that
"Shamballa has a bearing on the ancient origins of Freemasonry and upon its future in the coming Aquarian Age ..."
[Masonry In The New Age, p. 56]
Then, on pages 55-56, Perkins says that today's Mason has no idea that Freemasonry comes from such an ancient, esoteric source. Most Masons today understand that the roots of their organization are in Satanism. When Perkins said that Freemasonry had its origins in Shamballa, he just identified Masonry as Satanic.
 
Alice Bailey, with her Demon Master - Master D.K. - writing through her, stated that
"Shamballa is the mythological place where the 'Lord of the World', Sanat Kumara, or Shiva , is supposed to live."
[Discipleship in the New Age].
Masonic author, Perkins, has just admitted that Freemasonry originated in the place where Shiva (Satan) lives.
 
Manly P. Hall, 33rd Degree Mason, K.T., in his book, Initiates of the Flame boldly admits Freemasonry is from Hell:
"Those who follow the path of faith (or the heart) use water and are known as the Sons of Seth, while those who follow the path of the mind and action are the Sons of Cain, who was the son of SAMAEL , the Spirit of Fire. Today, we find the latter among the alchemists, the Hermetic philosophers, the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons."
[p. 20]
Hall places Freemasonry among the circle of the damned -- Sons of Cain , who rebelled against God; alchemists who are known sorcerers, Black Magicians, and worshippers of Satan, and the Rosicrucians who have so desecrated the precious cross of Jesus Christ with Pentagrams and Hexagrams as to make you sick.

Hall's major revelation was that Freemasonry is the son of SAMAEL. being careful not to confuse Samael with the beloved prophet Samuel. SAMAEL is one of the Infernal Names of Satan. In fact, House of Theosophy author, writing under the influence of her demon possessing her -- Master D.K. -- identifies SAMAEL as Satan! [The Secret Doctrine] In fact, Satanists have a symbol of SAMAEL.

The pentagram on the left with the one point up represents the Divine Man specifically and Lucifer the good god generally; the pentagram on the right with two stars up and the goats head is called the Goats Head of Mendes by most Satanists, but Black Magick Satanists call him SAMAEL.
 
 

The Lord Will Punish the Edomites

Obadiah 1 (New Century Version)

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The Lord Will Punish the Edomites

This is the vision of Obadiah.
This is what the Lord God says about Edom:[a]
We have heard a message from the Lord.
    A messenger has been sent among the nations, saying,
“Attack! Let’s go attack Edom!”

The Lord Speaks to the Edomites

“Soon I will make you the smallest of nations.
    You will be greatly hated by everyone.
Your pride has fooled you,
    you who live in the hollow places of the cliff.
    Your home is up high,
you who say to yourself,
    ‘No one can bring me down to the ground.’
Even if you fly high like the eagle
    and make your nest among the stars,
    I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.
“You will really be ruined!
If thieves came to you,
    if robbers came by night,
    they would steal only enough for themselves.
If workers came and picked the grapes from your vines,
    they would leave a few behind.
But you, Edom, will really lose everything!
    People will find all your hidden treasures!
All the people who are your friends
    will force you out of the land.
The people who are at peace with you
    will trick you and defeat you.
Those who eat your bread with you now
    are planning a trap for you,
    and you will not notice it.”
The Lord says, “On that day
    I will surely destroy the wise people from Edom,
    and those with understanding from the mountains of Edom.
Then, city of Teman, your best warriors will be afraid,
    and everyone from the mountains of Edom will be killed.
10 You did violence to your relatives, the Israelites,
    so you will be covered with shame
    and destroyed forever.
11 You stood aside without helping
    while strangers carried Israel’s treasures away.
When foreigners entered Israel’s city gate
    and threw lots to decide what part of Jerusalem they would take,
    you were like one of them.

Commands That Edom Broke

12 “Edom, do not laugh at your brother Israel in his time of trouble
or be happy about the people of Judah when they are destroyed.
    Do not brag when cruel things are done to them.
13 Do not enter the city gate of my people
    in their time of trouble
or laugh at their problems
    in their time of trouble.
Do not take their treasures
    in their time of trouble.
14 Do not stand at the crossroads
    to destroy those who are trying to escape.
Do not capture those who escape alive and turn them over to their enemy
    in their time of trouble.

The Nations Will Be Judged

15 “The Lord’s day of judging is coming soon
    to all the nations.
The same evil things you did to other people
    will happen to you;
    they will come back upon your own head.
16 Because you drank in my Temple,
    all the nations will drink on and on.
They will drink and drink
    until they disappear.
17 But on Mount Zion some will escape the judgment,
    and it will be a holy place.
The people of Jacob will take back their land
    from those who took it from them.
18 The people of Jacob will be like a fire
    and the people of Joseph[b] like a flame.
But the people of Esau[c] will be like dry stalks.
    The people of Jacob will set them on fire and burn them up.
There will be no one left of the people of Esau.”
This will happen because the Lord has said it.
19 Then God’s people will regain southern Judah from Edom;
    they will take back the mountains of Edom.
They will take back the western hills
    from the Philistines.
They will regain the lands of Ephraim and Samaria,
    and Benjamin will take over Gilead.
20 People from Israel who once were forced to leave their homes
    will take the land of the Canaanites,
    all the way to Zarephath.
People from Judah who once were forced to leave Jerusalem and live in Sepharad
    will take back the cities of southern Judah.
21 Powerful warriors will go up on Mount Zion,
    where they will rule the people living on Edom’s mountains.
    And the kingdom will belong to the Lord.

Footnotes:

  1. 1 Edom The Edomites were the people who came from Esau, Jacob’s twin brother. They were enemies of the Israelites.
  2. 18 people of Jacob . . . Joseph The people who came from Jacob and Joseph, or the Israelites.
  3. 18 people of Esau The people who came from Esau, or the Edomites.