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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-22940534165484218862011-03-29T20:37:00.001-05:002011-03-31T22:50:49.015-05:00The Occult Technology of Power<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">(<em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Anonymous)</span></em><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">A Project of the Society for Illuminating the Sources of Power</span></strong> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Copyright 1974 by Alpine Enterprises, PO Box 766, Dearborn, Michigan 48121. </span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">All Rights Reserved for Printed Editions. </span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">E-text editions may be distributed without limit as long as</span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"> the address of the Copyright Holder or publisher is included. </span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Printouts from e-text are not allowed. </span></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<blockquote><em>"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." ~ Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) </em></blockquote><br />
In this thin volume you will find the transcripts of your initiation into the secrets of my empire. Read them again not for the arcane knowledge which is now second nature you, but in order to re-experience the shock and awe you felt twenty years ago when at age thirty the fabulous scope of my power was revealed to you by my trusted, and now mostly departed advisors. Remember the surprise, to the point of disbelief, with which you beheld the invisibly delicate, but invincible chains of deceit, confusion, or coercion with which we finance capitalists enslave this chaotic world. Remember the feats of will and strategy that have been required to retain our position. Then, inspect your retinue carefully. Your heir must be equal to and eager for the task much as you were. Choose him carefully. As I lie here waiting for the end I can afford to relish the thought our empire lasting forever as I never dared while in charge. Rational power calculations, so easily disrupted by the thrill of power, are now entirely in your hands. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><em>"Know, Will, Dare, and be Silent!" --- Aleister Crowley</em> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>THE TRANSCRIPTS<br />
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1. My Introduction to Your Initiation <br />
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2. Professor A. on the Role of Fraud in Nature <br />
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3. Professor Q. on Occult Knowledge as the Key to Power <br />
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4. Professor M. on the Economics of Central Banking <br />
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5. Professor B. on the Functions of the Central Bank in the Mature Finance Capitalist System <br />
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6. Professor G. on Social and Business Legislation and Policy <br />
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7. Professor D. on the Role of Public Education <br />
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8. Professor X. on Prestigious Associations and Secret Societies <br />
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9. Professor Y. on Covert Operations and Intelligence <br />
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10. My Closing Remarks <br />
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11. Afterwords by the Transcriber [Author?] <br />
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12. Bibliography <br />
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</div>1. MY INTRODUCTION TO YOUR INITIATION ~ <br />
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<blockquote><em>"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman. A rope over an abyss." </em><br />
<em>"I teach you the Superman. Man is something to be surpassed." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche </em></blockquote><div><em></em></div><div><em></em></div><blockquote><em>"Self reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead to sovereign power." ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson </em></blockquote><em><em></em><em></em></em> <br />
<blockquote><em><em>"And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is." ~ Walt Whitman </em></em></blockquote><blockquote><div align="center"><em>"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." </em></div><div align="center"><em>~ Aleister Crowley: The Book of the Law</em></div></blockquote><br />
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My Son, the time has arrived to make formal what you have confidently awaited for some years. Of all your brothers, sisters, and cousins, as well as the offspring of my close allies, I have chosen you to be heir to my empire. All the trust funds, foundations, and accounts through which my empire is controlled shall pass into your hands upon my retirement. All my alliances, understandings, and enmities with my handful of peers around the globe shall gradually become yours. Over the next twenty years we shall collaborate closer and closer, you and I, until, we finally act as one. <br />
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For ten years you have toured my empire in a succession of managerial assignments and are now familiar with the outward operations of my crucial banking, foundation, governmental, and think tank organizations. Until now, my advisors and I have deflected your questions as to how and if my diverse operations and holdings, which seem autonomous and even contradictory, are integrated into an organic whole to serve the dynasty's interests. The fact that you asked these questions, rejecting my carefully nurtured public image as an idle, coupon clipping philanthropist, was a major factor in the high esteem in which I hold you. Most of your competitors found puppet leadership in any one of my organizations so awesome and gratifying that they immediately eliminated themselves from the contest for the top position which you have won. Such men of limited vision are necessary for my success. They bend unconsciously to the subtle pressures to which I expose them. They can be led in any direction I choose by simple-minded rationalizations aimed at their vanity without being privy to my motives which would be short lived secrets in their undisciplined and envious minds. <br />
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Most important in your selection as my successor, however was your psychological nature which has been faithfully reported to me over the years by my associates many of whom have advanced psychological training. A man in my position must have total mastery over his emotions. All actions affecting the power of the dynasty must be taken on the basis of coldly reasoned power calculations if the dynasty is to survive and prosper at the expense of its subjects and rivals. All power is impossible to those whose pursuit is ruled by sentimentality, love, envy power-lust revenge, prejudice, hatred, justice, alcohol, drugs, or sexual desire. Sustained power is impossible to those who repress all their irrational longings into their subconscious only to have them return in compulsive, out of control behavior that inevitably leads to their ruin. Although often clothed in the rationalizations of power calculation, compulsive behavior is at root, the emotionalism of a frightened child, desperately projecting his inner agony into a reality he is afraid to under stand, much less master. <br />
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Although you now must begin to pursue it consciously you have already displayed the alienation from your emotional nature that is so essential to achieving real worldly power. You must recognize your emotional nature as a primitive survival mechanism that was appropriate for the jungle and perhaps useful to common men, but useless for the tasks that confront us finance capitalists. Attachment to what you do, just because you do it, is the primary psychological characteristic of ordinary mortals. Such cognitive dissonance spells disaster for us. Our emotional mechanism makes our lives worth living, but is no guide to the occult arts of intrigue. So, continue to gratify your senses and emotions fully at your leisure. As long as the empire prospers you will have the resources to indulge in systematic gratification which will leave your irrational urges sated and, therefore, powerless. You will never be in the unenviable position of the middle class strivers who must, from lack of resources, repress their emotional natures if they are to attain any power whatever during their lives. Typically, they end up taking their pleasure from the victories and cruelties of their struggle. Thus, their end ceases to be power and they eventually defeat themselves with reckless behavior in pursuit of dominant thrills. <br />
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I have brought you into seclusion with my most trusted advisors in order to inaugurate a new phase of your instruction. Your formal training in the "official" political-economic world is now complete. This weekend will mark the beginning of your training in the occult technology of power that lurks behind outer appearances. As your tutors will explain, "occult" or secret knowledge is the basis of all power in human society, so I use the word "occult" advisedly, in its pristine usage. As I am sure you are aware by now, productivity in itself does not secure power and therefore does not secure the gratifications of life. After all, slaves can be productive. None of my organizations in which you served so well are concerned with advancing the techniques of satisfying human needs and desires. Rather, all are dedicated to the surreptitious centralization of productive, but especially coercive, efforts in my hands or in creating the intellectual climate in which such veiled control would be tolerated in the future. I destroy or paralyze productive efforts that cannot be ensnarled in my web <br />
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After a break Professor A. will take the floor in order to put finance capitalism into full biological perspective. His short talk will be followed by similar abbreviated summaries by his six associates, all of whom you know well. The rest of the weekend will be devoted to forthright fielding of your questions. <br />
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2. PROFESSOR A. ON THE ROLE OF FRAUD IN NATURE ~ <br />
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<em>"Nature, to be commanded must be obeyed " --- Francis Bacon </em></blockquote>Organisms typically base their success primarily on deception and rely on actual force or mutually advantageous trade (symbiosis) as little as possible. This should be nearly self-evident, but is generally overlooked due to the moral codes we elitists foist on our subjects. Let me give a few examples in case the moral culture has to some extent impaired your powers of objective observation. Camouflage is universal among predators and victims alike. Blossoms imitate fragrances and colors which are sexually attractive to certain insects in order to effect pollination. Dogs bark ferociously and feign attack on enemies of whom they are, in fact, terrified. The Venus Fly Trap plant lures flies to their deaths. Men proclaim their altruism to others and even themselves while they selfishly scramble for personal advantage. If you doubt that fraud is normal in nature you should read section 3 of the first chapter of Robert Ardrey's "The Social Contract" for a wealth of fascinating examples. (Of course Ardrey fails to grasp the full application to contemporary human society of his brilliant insights into man's animal nature.) <br />
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Human mental prowess and communicative powers have merely provided superb elaboration on nature's old theme of fraud and added its own distinctive feature: self delusion. Primitive animal hierarchies are based on bluff and bluster, and each member is well aware of and accepts, at least temporarily, its position in the hierarchy. The same wild enthusiasm and fascination for dominance and submission rages in human hearts. However, fraud is taken one step further. Not only is fraudulent bluff and bluster used to achieve dominance but fraudulent altruism and collective institutions are used to conceal dominance once achieved. Human hierarchies, in contrast to the animal variety, are best sustained when the members are deluded regarding the oppressive nature, or better, even the very existence of the hierarchy! <br />
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Visible rulers are highly vulnerable. Thus we see visible rulers claiming to be representatives of God, the common good, the material forces of history, the general will (either through vote or intuition), tradition, or other intellectual "spooks" that serve to lessen the envy of the ruled for the rulers. Encouraging such self-delusions among the masses of the ruled is universal for visible governments. However, such spooks are little protection for the leaders of such systems against their sophisticated elite rivals and no protection against men like your father. The Roman Empire was unquestioned by the mass of its subjects for centuries, but the Emperors lived in constant fear of coup and assassination. <br />
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By embracing deception wholeheartedly at every level, finance capitalism, or rule through money, has fashioned the ultimate system yet devised for the secure exercise of power. Men like your father, the hidden masters of finance capitalism, govern those who govern, produce, and think through invisible financial tentacles, the operations of which will be elucidated later by my colleagues. Dominance in all aspects of society is surreptitiously accomplished while the great majority of the ruled, and even most of the visible leaders, believe themselves to be fairly autonomous, if harried, members of a pluralistic society. Nearly everyone believes major decisions to be the vector sum of autonomous pressures exerted by business, labor, government, consumers, social classes, and other special interests. In fact, the vectors of societal power are carefully balanced by us so that any net movement is in a direction chosen by us. The only fly in the ointment is the occasional, but extremely messy, interferences by competing financial dynasties. This disconcerting problem will not be a major topic for this weekend. <br />
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I now yield to Professor Q. who will elucidate the central secrets of your father's immense money power. <br />
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</div>3. PROFESSOR Q. ON OCCULT KNOWLEDGE AS THE KEY TO POWER ~ <br />
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<blockquote>"The theory of aggregate production which is the point of the following book, nevertheless can be much easier adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state than the theory of production and distribution of a given production put forth under conditions of free competition…" --- John Maynard Keynes ~ Forward to the German Edition of the General Theory (September 7, 1936) </blockquote><br />
Throughout history, secure ruling elites arise through secret, or occult knowledge which they carefully guard and withhold from outsiders The power of such elites or cults diminishes as their occult knowledge is transformed into "scientific" knowledge and vanishes as soon as it becomes "common sense." Before analyzing the secrets of the finance capitalist money cult let us glance for historical perspective at occult astronomy, the oldest source of stable rule known to man of which astrology is hut the pathetic remnant. <br />
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As soon as men abandoned the life of wandering, tribal hunters to till the soil they needed to predict the seasons. Such knowledge was required in order to know when to plant, when to expect floods in fertile valleys, when to expect rainy seasons, and so on. Months of backbreaking work were wasted by the unavailability of the calendar, a convenience we take for granted. The men who first studied and grasped the regularities of sun, moon, and stars that presage the seasons had a valuable commodity to sell and they milked it to the fullest at the expense of their credulous fellowmen. The occult priesthoods of early astronomers and mathematicians such as the designers of Stonehenge, convinced their subjects that they alone had contact with the gods, and thus, they alone could assure the return of planting seasons and weather favorable to bountiful harvests. The staging (predicting) of solar and lunar eclipses was particularly effective in awing the community. The general success resulting from following the priesthood's tilling, planting, nurturing, and harvesting timetables insured the priesthood's power. Today's Christmas holiday season continues the tradition set by ancient priesthoods, who conducted rituals on the winter solstice to reverse the retreat of the sun from the sky. Their invariable success was followed by wild celebrations. Popular knowledge of seasonal regularities was discouraged by every manner of mysticism and outlandish ritual imaginable. Failures in prediction were blamed on sins of the people and used to justify intensified oppression. For centuries people who had literally no idea of the number of days between seasons and couldn't count anyway, cheerfully gave up a portion of their harvests, as well as their most beautiful daughters, to their "faithful servants" in the priesthoods. <br />
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The power of our finance capitalist money cult rests on a similar secret knowledge, primarily in the field of economics. Our power is weakened by real advances in economic science (Fortunately, the public at large and most revolutionaries remain totally ignorant of economics). However, we established money lords have been able to prolong and even reverse our decline by systematically corrupting economic science with fallacious and spurious doctrines. Through our power in the universities, publishing, and mass media we have been able to reward the sincere, professorial cranks whose spurious doctrines happen to rationalize in terms of "common good" the government supported institutions, laws, and economic measures upon which our money powers depend. Keynesianism is the highest form of phony economics yet developed to our benefit. The highly centralized, mixed economy resulting from the policies advocated by Lord Keynes for promoting "prosperity" has all the characteristics required to make our rule invulnerable to our twin nemeses: real private competition in the economic arena and real democratic process in the political arena. Laissez-faire or free market, classical economics was our original attempt to corrupt economic science. Its beautiful internal consistency blinded economists for many years to the fact that it had virtually nothing to do with current reality. However, we are so powerful today that it is no longer possible to conceal our imposing institutions with the appearances of free competition Keynesianism rationalizes this omnipotent state which we require, while retaining the privileges of private property on which our power ultimately rests. Although the interim reforms advocated by Marx in his Communist Manifesto such as central banking, income tax, and other centralizing measures can be corrupted to coincide exactly with our requirements, we no longer allow Marxist movements major power in developed countries. Our coercive institutions are already in place. Any real steps toward communism would mean our downfall. Of course, phony Marxism is an excellent ideological veil in which to cloak our puppet dictators in underdeveloped areas. <br />
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Secondarily, the power of the lords of money rests on an occult knowledge in the area of politics and history. We have quite successfully corrupted these sciences. Although many people are familiar with our secrets through such books as 1984 by the disillusioned George Orwell, few take them seriously and usually dismiss such ideas as paranoia. Since real politics is motivated by individual self-interest, history is viewed most accurately as a struggle for power and wealth We do our best to obscure this self-evident truth by popularizing the theory that history is made by the impersonal struggles between ideas, political systems, ideologies, races, and classes. Through systematic infiltration of all major intellectual, political, and ideological organizations, using the lure of financial support and instant publicity, we have been able to set the limits of public debate within the ideological requirements of our money power. <br />
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The so-called Left-Right political spectrum is our creation. In fact, it accurately reflects our careful, artificial polarization of the population on phony issues that prevents the issue of our power from arising in their minds. The Left supports civil liberties and opposes economic or entrepreneurial liberty. The Right supports economic liberty and opposes civil liberty. Of course neither can exist fully (which is our goal) without the other. We control the Right-Left conflict such that both forms of liberty are suppressed to the degree we require. Our own liberty rests not on legal or moral "rights," but on our control of the government bureaucracy and courts which apply the complex, subjective regulations we dupe the public into supporting for our benefit. <br />
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Innumerable meaningless conflicts to divert the attention of the public from our operations find fertile ground in the bitter hatreds of the Right/Left imbroglio. Right and Left are irreconcilable on racial policy, treatment of criminals, law enforcement, pornography, foreign policy, women's lib, and censorship to name just a few issues. Although censorship in the name of "fairness" has been useful in broadcasting and may yet be required in journalism, we generally do not take sides in these issues. Instead we attempt to prolong the conflicts by supporting both sides as required. War, of course, is the ultimate diversionary conflict and the health of our system. War provides the perfect cover of emergency and crisis behind which we consolidate our power. Since nuclear war presents dangers even to us, more and more we have resorted to economic crisis, energy shortages, ecological hysteria, and managed political drama to fill the gap. Meaningless, brushfire wars, though, remain useful. <br />
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We promote phony free enterprise on the Right and phony democratic socialism on the Left. Thus, we obtain a "free enterprise" whose "competition" is carefully regulated by the bureaucracy we control and whose nationalized enterprises are controlled directly through our government. In this way we maintain a society in which the basis of our power, legal titles to property and money, remain secure, but in which the peril of free, unregulated competition is avoided and popular sovereignty is nullified. The democratic process is a sitting duck for our money power. Invariably we determine the candidates of the major parties and then proceed to pick the winners. Any attempts at campaign reforms simply put the rules of the game more firmly under our government's control. <br />
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Totalitarianism of the fascist of communist varieties is no danger to us as long as bastions of private property remain to serve as our bases of operation. Totalitarian governments of both Right and Left, because of the vulnerability of their highly visible leaders to party rivals, can be manipulated easily from abroad. Primarily, totalitarian dictatorships efficiently prevent new money lords that could challenge our power from arising in whole continents, civilizations, and races. <br />
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Perhaps a few words on ideology proper are in order before I conclude. The only valid ideology, of course is rational egoism, that is, the maximization of the individual's gratification by whatever means prove practical. This requires power over nature, especially, when possible, power over other humans who are the most versatile and valuable tools of all. Fortunately, we do not have a society of egoists. Money lords would be impossible in such a society as the mental spooks and rationalizations by which we characteristically manipulate and deceive would be a laughing stock Under such circumstances a policy of live and let live or true "laissez-faire" anarchy might be the only alternative. Certainly a hierarchical order would be difficult to maintain by force alone. However, in the current era, while minds are yet in the thrall of altruistic collectivistic, and divine moralistic spooks, the egoist's rational course is to utilize such spooks to control others. <br />
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The next speaker, Professor M., will detail the key institution of our power: Central Banking. <br />
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4. PROFESSOR M. ON THE ECONOMICS OF CENTRAL BANKING ~ <br />
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<blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><em>"It (a bank) can take the depositors' goods, the goods that it holds for safekeeping, and lend them out to people on the market. It can earn interest on these loans, and as long as only a small percentage of depositors ask to redeem their certificates at any one time, no one is the wiser. Or, alternatively, it can issue pseudo warehouse receipts for goods that are not there and lend these on the market. This is the more subtle practice. The pseudo receipts will be exchanged on the same basis as the true receipts, since there is no indication on their face whether they are legitimate or not. It should be clear that this practice is outright fraud." --- Murray Rothbard: Man, Economy, and State </em></div><em></em><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><em>"The bold effort the present bank has made to control the Government, the distress it has wantonly produced,. . ., are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American People should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution (The Bank of the United States), or the establishment of another like it." --- Andrew Jackson (December 2, 1834) </em></div><br />
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As you have a doctorate degree in economics from a great university I will touch as lightly as my verbosity allows on facts accepted by economic "science" and proceed to occult aspects of Central Banking. <br />
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Since the division of labor is the key to all human achievement and satisfaction, a system of exchange is crucial. Barter is hopelessly complicated. A command economy, in which each does and receives what be is told, is also hopelessly cumbersome and fails to take advantage of individual initiative, ability, and concrete knowledge. A medium of exchange, money, is the obvious solution. (Even our highly centralized economies on the socialist model now enthusiastically embrace money as an indispensable simplifying tool in their economic planning.) <br />
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When left to themselves people of a given geographical area settled upon a durable luxury commodity, usually gold or silver, to use as money. Because money is a store of value as well as a medium of exchange, people saved part of their gold income rather than spending it all. This gold was often stored in the vaults of a local goldsmith, the precursor of the modern banker, for safekeeping. The depositor received a receipt that entitled him to an equal quantity and quality of gold on demand from the goldsmith. At some point the goldsmith realized that there was no reason he could not loan out some of the gold for interest as long as he kept gold on hand sufficient to meet the fairly predictable withdrawal rate. After all, be simply promised to pay on demand, not bold the gold as such. Better yet, be could simply issue more receipts for gold than be bad gold and the receipts, renamed notes, could circulate freely among the populace as money. <br />
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However, he soon found that there was a definite limit set on this process by reality. Not all the extra notes issued circulated forever among the public. The rate of note redemption began to increase rapidly as the receipts passed into the hands of people unfamiliar with his reputation and especially when competitive goldsmiths, always eager for more gold reserves, came into possession of his notes. To prevent a disastrous run on his gold reserves, note issuance had to be kept within bounds. But the spending power of over-issuance was a grave temptation. Especially relished was the power over governments, industry, and merchants that the miraculous loan power of the goldsmith could obtain. Many succumbed to temptation, overextended themselves and brought ruin to their depositors while others slowly became wealthy bankers by pursuing conservative loan policies. <br />
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At this point, according to economic "science," Central Banks are instituted to protect the public from periodic financial catastrophe at the hands of unscrupulous fractional reserve bankers. Nothing could be further from the truth. Central Banks are established to remove the limitation on over-issuance that reality places on competitive banking systems. As early as ancient Babylon and India, Central Banking, the art of monopolizing the issuance of money, had been developed into a perfect method for looting the general public. Even today many bankers copy the traditions of the earlier exploitive priesthoods and design their banks to resemble temples! Defenses of Central Banking are simply part of the deception that lies at the heart of all power elites. <br />
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Let us look at the way a new Central Bank is created where none has existed previously. We bankers approach the Prince or ruling assembly (both of whom always want more money to fight wars or to curry favor with the people and, typically, are ignorant of economics) with a compelling proposal: "Grant our bank a national Charter to regulate private banking and to issue legal tender notes, that is, force our notes to be accepted as payment for all debts, pubic and private. In exchange we will provide the government all the notes it prudently requires at interest rates easily payable with existing taxes. The increased government purchasing power thus created will simultaneously assure the power an prestige of the currently precarious nation and stimulate the sluggish, credit starved economy to new heights of prosperity. Most important the violent banking panics and credit collapses caused by unscrupulous private bankers will be replaced by our even handed, beneficent and scientific management of money and banking. Our public-spirited expertise will be at the disposal of the state while we remain independent enough of momentary political pressures to assure sound management." <br />
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For a while this system seems to work remarkably well with full employment for everyone. The government an public does not notice that we issuers of the new notes are using the notes we create out of thin air to surreptitiously build economic empires at the expense of established interests. Because of the legal tender laws, few of the new notes issued by the Central Bank are returned for redemption in gold. In fact, private banks and even a few foreign banks may begin to use the Central Bank's notes as reserves for further issuance of credit. Soon enough, though, prices begin to rise as the added notes increase demand relative to the quantity of goods and services. As the value of their savings decline more and more foreigners in particular begin to question the value of the Central Bank's notes and start to demand redemption in gold. We, of course do not take responsibility for the rampant inflation when it comes. We blame inflation on evil speculators who drive up prices for personal gain, as well as the greed of organized labor and business who are promptly made subject to wage and price controls. Even the consumer can be made to feel guilty for agreeing to pay the high prices! Mistaking symptoms for causes the government accepts the banker's analysis of the problem and continues to give the Bank free reign in monetary policy. <br />
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By slowing the rate of note issuance periodically, the ultimate crisis stage is postponed until many decades after the original Central Bank Charter was granted. Before the rapidly dwindling gold reserves on which faith in our Bank depends is exhausted we abruptly contract our loan volume to private industry and government as well. With the contraction of the money supply a great deflationary crash begins in earnest with all its attendant unemployment, bankruptcies, and civil strife. We do not take responsibility for the depression. We blame it on evil hoarders who are refusing to spend their money and the prophets of doom who are spoiling business confidence. The government accepts this analysis and leaves monetary policy in our hands. If things go well we bankers channel the fury and unrest into puppet movements and pressure groups that carry our agents into full control of the government. Once in charge we devalue our outstanding bank notes in terms of gold and make them inconvertible for all but possibly foreign Central Banks and begin plans to restore a "prosperity" that will be totally ours. <br />
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When lucky, we are able to confiscate the gold of private citizens as punishment for hoarding during the climax of the depression. <br />
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Once the old order is subdued during the chaos of the crash and desperation of the depression, the field is open for our full finance capitalist system to be realized. If the money lords behind the Central Bank can avoid lapsing into political and economic competition among themselves a new and lasting order can be established. A war timed for this period of consolidation provides the perfect excuse for the regimentation required to crush all opposition. <br />
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Professor B., a former Chairman of a Central Bank, will explain the functioning of the Central Plank in the typical, fully developed finance capitalist system. <br />
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5. PROFESSOR B. ON THE FUNCTION OF THE CENTRAL BANK IN THE MATURE FINANCE CAPITALIST SYSTEM ~ <br />
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<blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><em>"We are undone, my dear sir, if legislation is still permitted which makes our money, much or little, real or imaginary, as the moneyed interests shall choose to make it." --- Thomas Jefferson </em><em><br />
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In its pristine form a Central Bank is a private monopoly of a nation's money and credit issuance supported by the coercive power of the state. That the Central Bank be directly in our hands is vital until our new order is firmly established throughout the governmental, business, intellectual and political spheres of society. After our order is consolidated, formal nationalization of the Central Bank with great fanfare is usually advisable in order to dispel any lingering suspicion that it is operated for private gain. Of course only loyal agents of the dynasty are allowed to obtain high offices in the Bank and our power remains intact. Obvious private monopolies are always the targets of sharp reformist agitators. Only the most paranoid, however, can see through the public facade to the private monopoly of the nationalized or quasi-nationalized Central Bank. <br />
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The Central Bank is the primary monopoly on which all our monopoly power depends. The occult power of the Central Bank to create money out of nothing is the fountainhead that fuels our far-flung financial and political empire. I will make a quick survey of a few of the ways this secret money power is brought to bear. <br />
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Basically, the power of our Central Bank flows from its control over the points of entry into the economy of new, inflationary money which it creates out of thin air. Ordinarily, bills of exchange, acceptances, private bonds, government bonds and other credit instruments are purchased by the Central Bank through specially privileged dealers in order to put the new money, often only checking accounting entries, into circulation. The dealers are allowed a large profit since they are fronts operated by our agents. Our purchase of government securities pleases the government, as our purchase of private debt pleases private debtors. As a quid pro quo to assure "good management" our agents are given directorships, managerial posts, and offices in the corporations and government's so benefited. As the addiction to the narcotic of inflationary easy credit grows and grows we demand more and more control of our dependent entourage of governments and corporations. When we finally end the easy credit to "combat inflation" the enterprises and governments either fall directly into our hands, bankrupt, or are rescued at the price of total control. <br />
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Also, we ruling bankers control the flow of money in the economy through the wide authority of the Central Bank to license, audit, and regulate private banks. Banks that loan to interests outside the loyal entourage are "audited" by the Central Bank and found to be dangerously overextended. Just a hint of insolvency from the respected Central Bank authorities is enough to cause a run on the disobedient bank or at least dry up its vital lines of credit. Soon the banking establishment learns to follow the hints and nods of your father's agents at the Central Bank automatically. <br />
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Further, the periodic cycles of easy money and tight money that we initiate through our control of the Central Bank cause corresponding fluctuations in all markets. Our inner circle knows in advance the timing of these cycles and, therefore reaps windfall profits by speculating in commodity, stock, currency, gold, and bond markets. Monopolistic stock and commodity Exchanges are a vital adjunct to our power made possible by our Central Bank power. We do not allow a fair auction market to exist, but make a great show of "tough" government regulation to create a false sense of confidence among small investors. With the aid of our regulatory charade and financial power we are able to maintain Exchanges tailored to our entourage's need to manipulate stock prices at the expense of independent investors. Our privileged specialists on the floors of our Exchanges, aided by the propaganda of our financial press and brokerage houses, continually play on naivete and greed to drain the savings of the unwary into our coffers. The stock, commodities, and securities held in trading accounts by the Exchange and brokerage houses provides us with a clout far beyond our own actual holdings with which we can manipulate prices and win proxy fights for corporate takeovers. <br />
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Little danger to our lucrative racket exists from public-spirited regulation. Our manipulations are so complex that only the most brilliant experts could comprehend them. To most economists our Exchange operations appear to be helpful efforts to "stabilize" the market. We ruling bankers, if able to keep peace among ourselves, become richer and richer as time passes without the annoyance of exerting productive effort of benefit to others. <br />
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6. PROFESSOR G. ON SOCIAL AND BUSINESS LEGISLATION AND POLICY ~ <br />
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<blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><em>"There is no proletarian, not even a Communist, movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, in the direction indicated by money, and for the time being permitted by money--and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact." --- Oswald Spengler: "Decline of the West" </em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>"Also at the (SDS) convention, men from Business International Roundtables… tried to buy up some radicals. These are the world's leading industrialists and they convene to decide how our lives are going to go… We were also offered Esso (Rockefeller) money. They want us to make a lot of radical commotion so they can look more in the center as they move to the left." --- James Kunen: "The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary" </em></div></blockquote><br />
The danger to our system clearly is not that the "people" will spontaneously rise up and dispossess us. The "people" never initiate anything. All successful movements are led from the top, usually without the knowledge of the movement, by men like your father with vast resources and brilliant plans. The real danger arises in the upper-middle classes. Occasionally, these people make vast fortunes through some brilliant technological innovation in their business or through the favor of local politicians that escape our influence. Because of their ignorance of the reality of our power, however, the new rich usually fall easily into our hands. For instance, they seldom realize until too late that the dozens of loans they may owe to apparently independent banks can be called simultaneously with a mere nod from your father. Graver danger is presented by those whose enterprises are so successful as to be self-financing. Since the advent of the corporate income tax truly self-financing corporations are extremely rare. Most disquieting is when these upstarts acquire the covert or open support and advice of your father's major international antagonists. This is particularly dangerous in countries with long democratic traditions where it is difficult to make our arbitrary rulings stick. <br />
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The best solution is to enact comprehensive taxes and business regulations in the name of the common good. Such measures reduce the incidence of significant upstart competition to manageable levels. This policy, of course, strangles innovation and productivity. Reduction of the GNPs in countries under your father's control would be acceptable in the interests of secure power under the pretext of conservation, ecology, or no-growth stability except that if carried too far your father's clout vis-a-vis his international rivals would be impaired. The most difficult problem for the money lord is determining the level of social and economic freedom he dares allow for the sake of his international power. Only method is to maintain a home base of carefully monitored, relative freedom on which to base the economic and military strength required to maintain an empire of totalitarian dictatorships abroad. The following measures, however, are found necessary by nearly all money lords: <br />
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1. <strong>Steeply Graduated Income Tax</strong> ~ Income tax does not affect us because our money was accumulated before the tax was imposed and most of it is now safely protected in our network of tax exempt foundations. Foundation income and capital can legally be used to finance the bulk of our social, economic, literary, and even political propaganda. In a pinch it is easily diverted to illegal uses. Expensive "studies" required by our profitable economic operations can be legitimately financed through foundations. <br />
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To the middle classes, however, income tax makes life into an endless treadmill. Even the most productive find themselves unable to accumulate significant capital. They are forced into the clutches of our Central Bank entourage for injections of the inflationary credit which we are privileged to create out of nothing. The self-financing wealth of the legendary 19th Century robber barons and early Twentieth Century tycoons is no longer possible. Although your grandfather owed his start to just those wide-open conditions, he was among the first of the super-rich to advocate the erection of the tax wall that is now in place. Please note that in democratic countries eternal vigilance is required to prevent our tax shield from being riddled with loop holes by conniving legislators, who are usually of the tax oppressed, upper-middle class origins themselves. <br />
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2. <strong>Business Regulation</strong> ~ When upstarts slip through our financial tentacles and tax shields, perhaps with the aid of outsiders, a second line of defense becomes vital licensing in the crucial area of broadcasting has proven particularly necessary. This makes serious upstart-led mass political challenge impossible. Harassment by bureaucrats armed with arbitrary and voluminous industrial safety regulations is a new and increasingly effective technique. Security registration requirements, "to protect the small investor," can cause fatal delays in an upstart's ability to raise capital on the stock market. Ecological considerations are easily perverted to stymie the plans of those who would upset the stability of our carefully planned system. <br />
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Anti-trust law, however, is our ultimate weapon. The handy doctrine of "pure and perfect" competition which we have fostered in our universities is ideally suited to convict any successful competitor, at our discretion. If the competitor charges a lower price than ours he is accused of "unfair competition" aimed at driving us from the field to impair future competition. If he asks the same price as we, he is open to the charge of collusion. If he charges more than us, he is obviously exploiting his "monopoly power" at the expense of the consumer. Fortunately, the rulings of our bureaucrats are so complicated that even when successfully appealed in court many years elapse before the ruling is rendered. By then our goals are often achieved through harassment. <br />
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Product quality, safety, and testing regulations are excellent methods by which we insulate our established industries from potential competition. Beside raising the costs of entry into the auto business, for instance, the cost of "safety" can be passed to the consumer along with a healthy profit mark-up. <br />
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3. <strong>Subsidies, Tariffs, and Foreign Aid</strong> ~ Although direct subsidies can occasionally be procured for our entourage of corporations by appealing to the masses' desire to preserve jobs, this exploitive technique is usually too obvious. Tariffs are easily passed, but lead to retaliation against our foreign holdings. Foreign aid and soft (sure to be defaulted) government guaranteed loans, however, fill the bill perfectly under modern conditions. Foreign aid maintains our empire of foreign dictators abroad while providing guaranteed, highly profitable sales to our corporations at home base. Foreign aid should always be contingent on the purchase of goods, usually military hardware, that only our entourage of firms can provide. Few have the courage to oppose such altruistic aid to the "starving masses" of the "third world." <br />
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4. <strong>Centralization of Power</strong> ~ Real division of power between national, state, and local government is dangerous to our system. When local politicians have real autonomy, even in limited spheres, they can do much to enable upstarts to challenge our power. Our program is to bring all levels of government under our sway through such innovations as federal aid, revenue sharing, high federal taxation, and regional government. <br />
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5. <strong>Alliance with the Lower Classes</strong> ~ In order to keep our valuable regulatory machinery in place and under our control we must have the mass support of the numerous lower classes against our vigorous, but scarce middle-class rivals. The best method is to provide the lower classes with subsidies at the expense of the middle class. This creates a mutual hatred that prevents the middle class from appealing effectively to the lower classes for support. Social security, free health care, unemployment benefits, and direct welfare payments, while doing nothing for us directly, create a dependent class whose support for our critical measures can easily be made part of a package deal. Please note also that the major labor unions began with our financing and are led to this day by leaders of our choosing. No one can rise to or remain at the top of a rough and tumble union without our financial backing. In spite of their rebellious rhetoric, bought union leaders are the source of our power over the management of firms with widely held stock. Unions are the ultimate weapon for destroying otherwise invulnerable, self-financing rivals. Further, downward flexibility of wages and prices which obtains without widespread unionization would increase the ability of the economy to survive without our aid during the economic crises we create. <br />
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Bread and circuses are as useful today as in Roman times for mobilizing the mob against our staid adversaries. Next, Professor D. will describe our education policies. <br />
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7. PROFESSOR D. ON THE ROLE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION ~ <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><em>"A general state education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government --- whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation --- in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body." --- John Stuart Mill </em></div><br />
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In order to maintain our system of power, the institution of universal public education is indispensable. The anarchy of private education in which any manner of dangerous ideas could be spread cannot be tolerated. Thus we make private education financially impossible to all but the few mostly the elite offspring of our financial entourage, by means of burdensome taxation and regulation. The primary purpose of public education is to inculcate the idea that our crucial institutions of coercion and monopoly were created for the public good by popular national heroes to blunt the past power of the malefactors of great wealth. Crucial is to create the impression that, although the people have been exploited in the past, today the wealthy are at the mercy of an all-powerful government which is firmly in the hands of the people or do-gooding liberals. <br />
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For those of more sophistication who reject this Pollyanna view of reality, we promote the "liberal reformer mentality" which holds that a new era of reform is on the verge of crushing forever the last vestiges of money lordism. Of course, the reforms, after taking shape as a bewildering myriad of regulatory agencies and taxes, are found to be ineffective in subordinating our power to the popular will, whereupon we stir up another era of progressive reform. <br />
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Our contrived Left-Right spectrum which our compulsory education helps to make universal is valuable in assuring that this charade does not get out of hand. The Pollyannas in the middle are neither dangerous nor useful in this endeavor. What is needed is a feeble, but persistent right-conservatism to moderate and emasculate the liberal reforms. Conservatives tend to resist all the advances in centralized, government power that we lead the liberals to see as necessary in order to totally end the "undemocratic" power of money in society. Conservatism would rather promote a "pluralism" of competing interests in which money is the medium of competition than risk the excesses of "big government," When "liberal" reforms show signs of exceeding our intentions and actually threaten to place our key institutions in the hands of the people, we can always count on the conservatives to defend our power under the illusion that they are defending the legitimate rights of "free-enterprise capitalists." On the rare occasions when conservatives call for subjecting our enterprises to laissez-faire competition, we can count on the dominant liberal reformers to insist on more government interference, unaware of our desire for such, in effect, self-administered regulation. <br />
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The Right has such a fear of the Left's dream of democratic collectivism and the Left such a hatred for what it sees as the Right's elitist, rugged individualism that there is little danger that they will ever join forces to overturn our government-backed monopolies even though we violate the ideals of both left and right. <br />
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Centralization of control at the state, or preferably national level, assists in building the climate of opinion we require in public education. Failing to obliterate local control, other methods nearly as effective are available. Our overwhelming financial clout in the publishing industry can induce relatively uniform textbook selection. Further leverage can be created by promoting teacher colleges and teaching machines. National teacher's associations and unions are also an excellent power base from which to foster our programs of indoctrination. <br />
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With our great influence in publishing and publicity we are able to, selectively popularize educational theorists whose views are incidentally beneficial, compatible, or at least not in conflict with our own goals. This way we obtain sincere, energetic activists to propagate our desires without having to reveal our motives or even existence. We do not want an educational system that produces hard-driving individuals bent on amassing great wealth and power. Therefore, we discourage education that would develop the potential powers of students to their fullest. "Liberal" education that stresses knowledge for its own sake or even sophistry and sterile mental gymnastics is of no danger to us. "Relevant," vocational, or career-oriented education also poses no danger to our power. Education that prepares students to accept a cog-like existence in our military-industrial-social-welfare-regulation complex is ideal. Progressive education with its stress on "social adjustment" also produces the conformity we require of our subjects. Emphasis on competitive sports may produce a certain amount of disruptive competitiveness among the participants, but primarily has the effect of creating life-long voyeuristic spectators who will enthusiastically sublimate their competitiveness into endless hours of following college and professional sports on the boob tube. Space spectaculars and dramatic political infighting are also marvelous diversions with which to occupy the masses. <br />
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Anyone seeking social change will gravitate to the field of education. Our strategy is simple: Let only those succeed whose influence would be compatible with our power. Encourage all who would develop the passive or receptive mode of existence. Discourage all who promote the aggressive or active capacities. Build a great cult of salvation through endless education, touting it as the "democratic" path to success Deride the frontal approach to success of the "outmoded' rugged individualist. <br />
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Before yielding the floor to Professor X., who will discuss the role of secret societies and prestigious clubs, I would like to comment on the demise of religious education as a vehicle for social control. Religion, in its time, was a remarkable weapon for inculcating subservience, altruism, and self-abnegation among our subjects. We did not give up this weapon voluntarily. Your grandfather, for one, supported the Baptist faith well after most finance capitalists had turned wholly to secular ideologies. However, a trend toward rationality in human affairs plods along inexorably quite outside the reach of our power. Only in our totalitarian dictatorships can this trend be quashed entirely. In the semi-open societies in which our money power is based, the forces of reason can only be impeded and diverted. Some have theorized that, eventually, widespread rational egoism will overturn our order. I am confident that secular faiths and just plain confusion will suffice to sustain our power for many centuries to come. <br />
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8. PROFESSOR X. ON PRESTIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS AND SECRET SOCIETIES ~ <br />
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<em><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><em>"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize." --- Upton Sinclair </em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em><br />
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In preserving and protecting our grasp on nations we must exert veiled control of all major opinion molding associations and especially prestigious clubs which attract the leaders in various fields and do so much to influence the dispensing of commanding positions in government and business. Associations of the leading scholars, businessmen, writers, religionists, artists, bureaucrats, newsmen, ideologists, publishers, broadcasters, and professional men as well as special interest groups representing laborers, farmers, consumers, racial minorities, and so on must be subtly kept under the broad limits of our sway. Since membership dues and fees are never sufficient to support their ambitious activities, voluntary, non-profit organizations are easy prey for the nearly unlimited financial resources of our entourage. However, our real motive, to further our political and economic power, must not be revealed in the process. Our policies must be laboriously rationalized in terms compatible with prevalent ideologies and moralities or the material advantage of the groups involved. Leaders of such groups are remarkably quick to accept our rationalizations when financial support is extended. We engage in outright bribery only as a last resort, and then, only in extreme cases. Our long-range interests are better served by temporarily postponing a policy victory than by risking exposure of our power by attempting outright bribery. In fact, clumsy bribery and intimidation attempts are characteristic of our foolish nouveau-riche opponents. <br />
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As an example, if we decide that federal rather than state chartering or licensing of corporations would further our control over the economy, we would not simply order politicians and opinion leaders to support our desires. Corporations not relishing central control would be suspicious that something was afoot and might expose our plot. Our strategy would be as follows: <br />
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1. Sacrifice one of our less competent management teams in a well-publicized corporate scandal in order to focus attention on the "widespread problem of corporate corruption under current, lax regulations." <br />
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3. After the issue is before the public, offer to support through foundations the "objective" study of the federal licensing proposals being discussed with an eye toward proposing legislation. Often, simultaneous support for studies by disreputable, irrational groups who will oppose the proposal is useful as well. Provide no platform for well-reasoned opposition. <br />
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4. When a ground swell of support appears to be building provide the interested lobbying organizations with plenty of funds to grease the palms of politicians. The enactment of the federal licensing law thus appears as the will of society. Last-ditch opposition automatically appears mean spirited, obstructionist, reactionary, and paranoid, serving only to discredit our opposition. <br />
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In our fully developed system of finance capitalist thought control and promotion control, our hierarchy of prestigious associations is capped by a single prestige society: The Council of World Affairs. This organization is a front for the secret society of which your father is head. This secret society is made up of the people who have spoken, plus six others not present. You are replacing Professor Q. who is to retire shortly. Eventually you will replace your father. We thirteen are your father's advisors and only confidants. All other agents are misled as to the bulk of our objectives and motives. Their knowledge is restricted to the details required by their assignments. The penalty for disloyalty is death. <br />
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The Council is invaluable for propagating our policy decisions to our entourage without revealing our motives and strategy. In many instances, policy can he successfully sold to our entourage and thus transmitted to the multitudes by merely airing it along with appropriate rationalizations in a single awe-inspiring session of the Council. The informal power of the Council is such that our policy manipulations are usually attainable without the clumsy exercises in brute power that invariably snag the independent power seekers. The Council is at the heart of what is called the Establishment and we are at the heart of the Council. <br />
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At the Council's inception, we worked hard to attract the successful of all fields with all the prestige that our money power could buy. We had to work hard convincing the independent, self-made Council members to move in harmony with our policy objectives. We had many failures. Now everything is changed. Membership is no longer a reward for success as much as it is a prerequisite for major success. Without Council membership only the most outstanding can achieve national prominence. With membership, glaring mediocrities, with the "right" attitudes, achieve prominence. In fact, mediocrities are much more adapted to propagating our policy rationalizations and less likely to detect and oppose our ulterior motives. A power lusting mediocrity is not likely to judge his benefactors too harshly or inquire diligently into the nature of the power structure that brought him what he fears was undeserved success. The vanity of even idealistic, committed humanitarians militates against such a course. <br />
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The Council is now a giant employment agency of loyalists ready to parrot our public line from the commanding posts of government, foundations, broadcasting, industry, banking, and publishing. Although Council members are encouraged to take sides and bicker over the diversionary issues we create to entertain and enfeeble the populace, their solidarity in defending our power structure, root and branch, when pressed is a sight to behold! And to think that most see themselves as righteous defenders of the public good while they dismiss whispered rumors of our power structure as "kooky paranoia." <br />
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Classical secret societies with elaborate circles within circles no longer play a major role in finance capitalist power structures. Most wide membership secret societies have degenerated into middle class excuses for escaping the wife and kids once a month for the company of men. But secret societies were a major weapon of our bourgeoisie forebearers in their struggle with the old feudal order of kings and princes. Under authoritarian despotism of the old style, the secret society was the only place a free-thinking man could express himself. Through threats of exposure, loyalty oaths, patronage, deception, and rewards we bound such malcontents into a fierce force for our revolution. The multitude of degrees, occult mumbo-jumbo, and vague humanitarianism concealed the real goals of our secret societies from the bulk of the membership. The roles of the "Illuminated" Masonic Lodges in European revolutions were decisive in our final victory over the old order. <br />
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I now yield the floor to Professor Y. who will discourse on the real "secret societies" the Modern Finance Capitalist State: the National Security Institutions and Intelligence Agencies. <br />
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9. PROFESSOR Y. ON COVERT OPERATIONS AND INTELLIGENCE ~ <br />
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In our fully developed state-capitalist systems we have found absolute control of governmental intelligence gathering and covert operations to be vital. <br />
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Besides providing a valuable tool in our struggle with rival dynasties, such control is now an integral and necessary part of our day-to-day operations. Large intelligence communities are inevitable, given the system of all encompassing governments which we have imposed upon the world during our ascent to power. Our power would be short-lived indeed if the pervasive influence and power of these iron-disciplined intelligence agencies fell into the hands of mere politicians, especially those beyond our control. <br />
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We do not allow intelligence agencies to pursue the "national interest," the way the public conceives "spies" to operate. Politicians cannot be permitted to divert the power and influence of our intelligence community from the esoteric requirements of our Money Power to petty political struggles. <br />
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Neither nationalistic aspirations of races and peoples nor ideological visions of intellectuals for humanity can be allowed to pervert intelligence and covert operations. Our rationalizations, both within the intelligence community and to the public at large, must be diverse and flexible, but the intelligence community must further without exception the inexorable goals we have set for humanity. <br />
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No crisis is more serious for our Money Power than an attempt by a head of government to assume personal control of intelligence and operations or to by-pass existing agencies by setting up parallel ones. Such intrusions must be met decisively. Although a contrived scandal to remove the offending politician from office is the first line of defense, we dare not shrink from assassination when necessary. <br />
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Perhaps the most accurate overview of our intelligence community can be achieved by visualizing it as a "nationalized secret society." Our predecessors, in their struggle against the old order of kings and princes, had to finance secret societies such as the Illuminati, Masons, German Union, etc. out of their own pockets. <br />
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At great expense and risk such secret societies were able to infiltrate the major governmental and private institutions of the nations that our noble predecessors targeted for take over by the Money Power. Such bureaucratic takeovers are expensive and time consuming. They can be considered complete only when promotions, raises, and advancements are no longer based on objective service to the stated organizational objectives, but are in the hands of the infiltrating group and its secret goals. <br />
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How much easier it is for us, the inheritors of a fully developed state-capitalist system! By appealing to "national security" we are able to finance and erect secret societies of a colossal scope, far beyond the wildest dreams of our path breaking predecessors. Besides the benefits of public financing reaped by these "nationalized secret societies," we obtain a decisive advantage from the fact that these our "spook" operations are sanctioned by law! <br />
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Maintaining discipline, loyalty, and secrecy is no longer solely a matter of propaganda, blackmail, patronage, and intimidation. Although these remain important tools, especially in emergency cases, ordinary discipline among initiates (now called agents) can be encouraged by appealing to patriotism and can be enforced in courts of law by prosecuting "national security violations." <br />
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As massive as our intelligence community has become in itself, we still operate strictly on the finance capitalist principle of leverage. Just as a rational finance capitalist never owns more stock in a corporation than the bare minimum required for control, intelligence operatives are placed only in as many key positions as are required to control the target organizations. Our goal, after all, is agent control of all significant organizations, not intelligence community member ship for the entire population. <br />
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The organizational pattern of baffling "circles within circles," characteristic of classical secret societies, is retained and refined by our intelligence community. That "one hand not know what the other is doing" is essential to the success of our operations. In most cases, we do not allow the operatives themselves to know the ultimate, and when possible, even the short-range objectives of their assignments. <br />
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They operate under "covers" that disguise our goals not only from the public and target groups, but from the agents themselves. For instance, many agents operating under "left cover" are led to believe that the agency, or at least their department, is secretly, but sincerely motivated by socialistic ideology. Thus, they assume that the intelligence agency's ultimate goal is to guide left-wing groups in "productive" directions, even though they cannot always see how their own assignment fits into those assumed goals. <br />
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Other "left-cover" agents, those with right-wing predilections, are encouraged to believe the agency is simply "monitoring" violence prone, subversive groups in order to protect the public. When such agents are asked to participate in or even lead radical activity they assume that the ultimate objective is to fully infiltrate and destroy the organization for the good of the country. This is very seldom the case. We waste little or no money protecting the "public" or defending the "nation." <br />
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Agents operating under "right-cover" are handled in symmetrical fashion. Agents with right-wing prejudices are encouraged to believe the agency is right-wing. Left-prejudiced agents are asked to operate under "right-cover" in order to "monitor" dangerous rightist organizations. Most intelligence agents remain blithely ignorant of the big picture which is so clear to us from our spectacular vantage point. Very few have enough information or intelligence to reason out how their specific and sometimes baffling assignments promote the legislative, judicial, operational and propaganda needs of our Money Power. Most would never try. They are paid too much to think about such things. <br />
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Agents with a "gangster-cover" are of two types. First, there is the sincere gangster that draws his salary from an intelligence agency. He is led to believe that the gangland "Godfathers" control the government agency for their own purposes. Actually, the situation is the opposite. The agency controls the gangster for other purposes. Second, is the sincere crime fighter who is led to believe that the agency is at tempting to infiltrate and monitor the gangsters as a preliminary step to destroying organized crime. Such "upstanding" agents commit many crimes in their zeal to rid the country of organized crime! <br />
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To envision how we operate in this lucrative field, let's briefly look at the mechanics of dope smuggling. Police and customs officials are told to leave certain gangsters alone, even when transporting suspicious cargoes. This is made to seem perfectly proper since it is well known that secret police infiltrators of organized crime must participate in crimes in order to gain the confidence of gangsters. <br />
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What customs agent would want to upset a carefully laid plan to "set-up" the underworld kingpins of dope pushing! But the agent, as well as the police who cooperate, are mistaken in believing that the purpose of the assignment to help smuggle dope is ultimately to smash organized crime. If he could see the big picture, as we can, the agent would see that practically all our dope is smuggled by federal intelligence agents and secret police! How ever could such a volume be transported safely? Real harassment and prosecution is reserved for those who enter the field without our approval. <br />
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Here is our organized crime strategy: On the one hand we pass laws to ensure that mankind's favorite pastimes (vices) are illegal. On the other hand, we cater to these "vices" at a huge monopoly profit with complete immunity from prosecution. <br />
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A new and growing methodology of our intelligence community is psychologically and drug-controlled agents. Properly, these are referred to as "behavior modified" agents, or, in the vernacular, "zombies." With the use of hypnotic drugs, brain washing, sensory deprivation, small group "sensitivity" training, and other behavior modification techniques, the scope of which was hinted in the movie "Clockwork Orange," complete personalities can be manufactured from scratch, to the specifications of value structure profiles we design by computer to suit our purposes. Such personalities are quite neurotic and unstable due to defects in our still developing technology, but still useful for many purposes. <br />
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The primary virtue of "zombies," of course, is loyalty. Agents that are subconsciously programmed for the assignment at hand cannot be conscious traitors. All a "zombie" can do is reveal how compulsive and psychotic he is with regard to his "cause." Even to trained psychologists he simply appears to be the proverbial "lone nut." Although the "zombie" may have memories of psychotherapy at a government agency when questioned under hypnosis, this is unlikely to raise suspicion in the mind of court-appointed psychologists. After all, "lone nuts" should be kept in insane asylums and subjected to psychotherapy! At most, the government hospital will be reprimanded for letting a loony loose before he was cured. <br />
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Until our techniques can be perfected the use of "zombies" must be restricted to "national dramas" designed to justify the growing power of our centralized governments over the lives of our people. Most suicidal radicals and "crazies" who so mysteriously avoid arrest for years at a time are "zombies" conditioned to terrorize the public in the name of some irrational ideology. After repeated doses of such terror, the public is conditioned to accept the necessity of our intrusive police state with very little objection. <br />
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The way is clear for an accelerated program of behavior modification research to be conducted mostly at public expense in the name of mental health and rehabilitation. Such research can be conducted with little complaint in prisons, refugee camps, drug rehabilitation centers, government hospitals, veterans hospitals, and even public schools and day care centers. Mental institutions, methadone maintenance centers, and prisons are fertile fields for recruiting the deranged or drug-addicted persons most suitable for "zombie" conversions. Of course, only a few of our most trusted agents actually participate in the creation of "zombies." The brilliant researchers and experimenters who make most of the breakthroughs earnestly believe that their techniques are destined strictly for the betterment of mankind. <br />
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Inevitably, a fraction of the population objects to behavior modification as an infringement of man's "sacred" free will even if they are convinced that our intentions are benign. We carefully leak a few scandals to satisfy such persons that our experiments are being kept within bounds and that excesses are being stopped. Our artificial scandals exposing the "excesses" of coercive psychology are carefully designed to make the researchers seem incompetent and clumsy to the point of maiming and killing their "patients." This effectively conceals the fantastic strides we have made toward total behavioral control. Great things are going to be possible in the future. <br />
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I now return the floor to your father for his concluding remarks. <br />
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10. MY CLOSING REMARKS ~ <br />
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My son, you surely have many questions about my strategy in the seemingly momentous economic and political crises that are shaking national and international affairs. You and I will begin handling them in detail shortly. For tonight, let me be brief. Most of the current national upheavals are stage-managed to consolidate our monopoly position in government and business against the continual nuisance of economically competent, but politically naive competitors. Likewise, most international crises are managed to exert pressure on our obstreperous, reluctant puppet dictators in underdeveloped areas. These events are fairly easy to manage. I expect to place such management in your hands as soon as possible. <br />
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The real challenge lies in dealing with my international peers. These are the real crises since they are crises of my power structure, not just of my subject populations and puppets. In the vast chess game with my peers there are no rules and no proven tactics. Mutual vulnerability, alone, limits the conflict. My peers and I have labored for decades to erect a world government and banking system under which we could all share finance capitalism's millennium without the nightmare of internecine warfare. With the advent of nuclear war a new world order seemed particularly desirable. I say ostensibly we have labored for world government because none of us are sure the others will ever voluntarily surrender sovereignty to the group. The schedule set after the last World War has not been met. So far, the world government idea has served mainly to enthuse collectivist intellectuals, and secondarily to veil each finance capitalist's maneuvers for supremacy from the rest. <br />
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The future course of finance capitalism is difficult to predict. Our empires are too fragile to risk all-out battles for supremacy among ourselves. Our power would dissipate to second echelon wealthy during the struggle. Yet we continue to chip away at rival empires on the premise that offense is the best defense. On the other hand, purely political leaders are helpless before our money power. When Caesars arise, they are of our making. <br />
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Perhaps our system will simply remain much as it is, secure on the national level and disturbingly pluralistic at the international level, until reason and egoism have developed among our populations to such an extent that our occult technology of money power becomes obvious to all who think and must yield to either anarchy or a more advanced form of deception.<br />
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</div>11. AFTERWORD BY THE TRANSCRIBER ~ <br />
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<em><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><em>"The names of some of these banking families are familiar to all of us and should be more so. They include Baring, Lazard, Erlanger, Warburg, Schroder, Seligman, the Speyers, Mirabaud, Mallet, Fould, and above all Rothschild and Morgan." --- Dr. Carroll Quigley: "Tragedy and Hope"</em></div></blockquote><br />
Any resemblance of these characters to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Any resemblance of their methodology to that of real ruling elites is purely intentional. The extent to which I represent or exaggerate the self-conscious, intentional power technology of real politico-economic rulers and their unity is for the reader to decide after studying available empirical evidence. <br />
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I am providing a bibliography of relevant historical works to aid the curious reader. I have included no works written from spurious pluralistic suppositions no one seems to consider pluralism as a proposition requiring evidence since they are flooding the market. Unfortunately, many works listed affirm that ideas rather than individual struggles for wealth and power propel history; that is, they view the elites they observe ruling the world as ideologically motivated. Thus we have the spectacle of the Right claiming that major finance capitalists such as the Rockefellers or Rothschilds are "communist" conspirators or "socialists." On the other hand, we see the Left claiming that the same people are bent on imposing laissez -faire capitalism, or in a slightly more realistic vein, are fanatical proponents of fascism. Virulent white racism is another ideology foolishly ascribed to the ruling class by the Left. This opinion is nicely balanced by the charge from the Right that the elite wants to "mongrelize" and thus submerge the white race. As usual the elite, completely free of prejudice, supports both sides of this battle for its own ends. <br />
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As should be clear by now, I believe that finance capitalists (Ferdinand Lundberg has dubbed them finpols, or financial politicians) are understandably attempting to make their power as extensive as possible without incurring the severe risks which plague pubpols (public politicians). (It seems that only the most daring finpols are willing to take on the additional risks of pubpoldom, perhaps only because they are denied the reins to the family's fortune by more privileged relatives.) Pubpols lose their privacy and thus their right to sexual impropriety in addition to incurring vulnerability to electioneering and worse in "democratic" countries. In most areas of the world the lot of the pubpols is even worse. Purge, assassination, and armed coup are regular events. While totalitarianism of Right or Left at home eliminates the shield of secure private property desired by finpols, laissez--faire is likewise rejected out-of-hand as hell-on-earth by enlightened power-seekers. <br />
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Egoism, mitigated only by the reality of circumstance, is the motive to realistically attribute to healthy elites. An elite under the spell of mental spooks could not hold sway for long. Although finpol statism is increasingly a crisis for its victims, there is as yet no evidence that the elite itself is in serious crisis. Even inflation, the current crisis for the powerless, is simply another crisis to be managed toward the end of consolidating, extending, and refreshing elite power. No doubt the depression which must inevitably follow will be managed to even better effect at the expense of the masses. <br />
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I have classified the bibliography into the categories Right and Left. In each list I begin with the most objective works and proceed to the works most infected with mental spooks and emotional hysteria. These books should be read for empirical data, not theoretical insight. A list of less ideologically biased works is provided as well. I quote and recommend authors, not to imply support for my scenario where there is none, but to credit a few of those who have provided grist for my thoughts. <br />
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12. BIBLIOGRAPHY ~ <br />
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<em><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><em>"We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do,</em><em>and not what they ought to do." --- Francis Bacon</em></div></blockquote><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Indispensable Thoughts on History, Economics, Politics, Philosophy, and Human Nature: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Murray N. Rothbard: Economic Determinism and the Conspiracy Theory of History Revisited; Audio-Forum. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Nash: America's Great Depression;1972. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Carroll Quigley: Tragedy and Hope; Macmillan, 1966 </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Gabriel Kolko: The Triumph of Conservatism; Quadrangle </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Carroll Quigley: The Evolution of Civilizations. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Anton S. LaVey: The Satanic Bible; Avon Books, 1969. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Arkon Daraul: Secret Societies; Citadel Press, 1962. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Count Egon Caesar Corti: The Rise of the House of Rothschild; ibid., The Reign of the House of Rothschild; Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1928. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Max Stirner: The Ego and His Own; Libertarian Book Club, 1963. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Robert Ardrey: The Social Contract; Dell Publishing; 1970. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future; Random House, 1966. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">George Orwell: Animal Farm; New American Library </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Ludwig von Mises: Theory and History; Arlington House, 1969. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Henry Regnery: Human Action; 1966. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">James J. Martin: Revisionist Viewpoints; Ralph Myles Publisher, 1971. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Committee on Government Operations, U.S. Senate: Disclosure of Corporate Ownership; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Antony C. Sutton: Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution; ibid., Wall Street and FDR; Arlington House, 1975. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Left on the Ruling Class: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Gabriel Kolko: The Triumph of Conservatism; Quadrangle Books, 1967. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Richard Ney: The Wall Street Gang; Praeger Publishers, 1974. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Ferdinand Lundberg: The Rich and the Super-Rich; Lyle Stuart, 1968. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Ferdinand Lundberg: America's 60 Families; Vanguard, 1938. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">William G. Domhoff: Who Rules America?; Prentice Hall, 1967. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">W.G. Domhoff: The Higher Circles; Random House, 1970. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Matthew Josephson: Money Lords; New American Library, 1973. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">M. Josephson: The Robber Barons; Harcourt Brace & Co., 1934. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">George H. Shibley: The Money Question; Stable Money Publishing Co., 1896. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Jules Archer: The Plot to Seize the White House; Hawthorn Books, 1973. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">William Hoffman: David: Report on a Rockefeller; Dell Publishing, 1972. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Joel Andreas: The Incredible Rocky; North American Congress on Latin America, 1973. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Gustavus Myers: The History of the Great American Fortunes; 1907 </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Right on the Conspiracy Theory of History: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Antony C. Sutton: National Suicide; Arlington House, 1973. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.: The Economic Pinch; Dorrance & Company, Inc., 1923, Reprinted by Omni Publications. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Louis T. McFadden: Collective Speeches of Congressman McFadden; Omni Publications, 1970. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">H.S. Kenan: The Federal Reserve Bank; The Noontide Press, 1968. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Gary Allen: None Dare Call It Conspiracy; Concord Press, 1973. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">G. Allen: Richard Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask; Western Islands, 1971. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">G. Allen: The Rockefeller File; '76 Press, 1976. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dan Smoot: The Invisible Government; The Dan Smoot Report, Inc., 1962. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">W. Cleon Skousen: The Naked Capitalist; The Author, 1970. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Taylor Caldwell: Captains and Kings; Fawcett Publications, 1973. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">John Robison: Proofs of Conspiracy; 1798, Reprinted by Western Islands. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Nesta Webster: Secret Societies and Subversive Movements; Christian Book Club, 1967. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">A. N. Field: The Truth About the Slump; 1931, Reprinted by Omni Publications, 1962. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">William Robert Plumme: The Untold History; The Committee for the Restoration of the Republic, 1964. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">June Grem: Karl Marx: Capitalist; Enterprise Publications, 1972. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Emanuel Josephson: Rockefeller Internationalist: Man Who Misrules the World; Chedney Press, 1962. </span><br />
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</div></em></em></em> </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-47308654014080712922010-11-25T21:50:00.000-06:002010-11-25T21:50:03.342-06:00HOW THE INTERNATIONAL BANKSTERS TOOK OVER THE UNITED STATES<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">READ THIS TO KNOW HOW THE 'ELITE' GOT THEIR POWER. </div><br />
Remarks in Congress, 1934 -- AN ASTOUNDING EXPOSURE <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkd_QwmhwmzhUj_Cfv_qF8oHCsYIGzZ4NCTDvfmjKu-3-wnhFNtdBNyd98sVrWoxznSbd0yYYBDy4Rf7w0GAl38kapPWbxXSjf6uz3bT6tPF4owc6bfKohh5JJulPN_tH4sFkS14eP938/s1600/McFadden_book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkd_QwmhwmzhUj_Cfv_qF8oHCsYIGzZ4NCTDvfmjKu-3-wnhFNtdBNyd98sVrWoxznSbd0yYYBDy4Rf7w0GAl38kapPWbxXSjf6uz3bT6tPF4owc6bfKohh5JJulPN_tH4sFkS14eP938/s1600/McFadden_book.jpg" /></a>On May 23, 1933, Congressman, Louis T. McFadden, brought formal charges against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank system, The Controller of the Currency and the Secretary of United States Treasury for numerous criminal acts, including but not limited to, CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, UNLAWFUL CONVERSION, AND TREASON. The petition for Articles of Impeachment was thereafter referred to the Judiciary Committee and has YET TO BE ACTED ON. So, this speech should be reprinted, re-posted, set up on web pages and circulated far and wide. </div><br />
<strong>Congressman McFadden's Speech</strong><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggKO62qjpsrWkBdvni_YM9PieqE-AzqVsyngcoIkTpGM-y7NuKHSf55MFVsfzh3LdOX6mGqSxcTHi-6CthlIP4YGCdcuGO1BqEY5FQn8s38gPFZgZLo9d315Mruf8QoIk90Lgi47vzDkM/s1600/434px-Louis_T__McFadden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggKO62qjpsrWkBdvni_YM9PieqE-AzqVsyngcoIkTpGM-y7NuKHSf55MFVsfzh3LdOX6mGqSxcTHi-6CthlIP4YGCdcuGO1BqEY5FQn8s38gPFZgZLo9d315Mruf8QoIk90Lgi47vzDkM/s200/434px-Louis_T__McFadden.jpg" width="144" /></a>Quotations from several speeches made on the Floor of the House of Representatives by the Honorable Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania. Mr. McFadden, due to his having served as Chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee for more than 10 years, was the best posted man on these matters in America and was in a position to speak with authority of the vast ramifications of this gigantic private credit monopoly. As Representative of a State which was among the first to declare its freedom from foreign money tyrants it is fitting that Pennsylvania, the cradle of liberty, be again given the credit for producing a son that was not afraid to hurl defiance in the face of the money-bun. Whereas Mr. McFadden was elected to the high office on both the Democratic and Republican tickets, there can be no accusation of partisanship lodged against him. Because these speeches are set out in full in the Congressional Record, they carry weight that no amount of condemnation on the part of private individuals could hope to carry.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<blockquote><em>"Mr. Chairman, we have in this Country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, hereinafter called the Fed. The Fed has cheated the Government of these United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the Nation's debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Fed has cost enough money to pay the National debt several times over."</em><br />
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<em>"This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of these United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Fed and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it."</em><br />
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<em>"Some people who think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lender. In that dark crew of financial pirates there are those who would cut a man's throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; there are those who send money into states to buy votes to control our legislatures; there are those who maintain International propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us into granting of new concessions which will permit them to cover up their past misdeeds and set again in motion their gigantic train of crime."</em><br />
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<em>"These twelve private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this Country by the bankers who came here from Europe and repaid us our hospitality by undermining our American institutions. Those bankers took money out of this Country to finance Japan in a war against Russia. They created a reign of terror in Russia with our money in order to help that war along. They instigated the separate peace between Germany and Russia, and thus drove a wedge between the allies in World War. They financed Trotsky's passage from New York to Russia so that he might assist in the destruction of the Russian Empire. They fomented and instigated the Russian Revolution, and placed a large fund of American dollars at Trotsky's disposal in one of their branch banks in Sweden so that through him Russian homes might be thoroughly broken up and Russian children flung far and wide from their natural protectors. They have since begun breaking up of American homes and the dispersal of American children. Mr. Chairman, there should be no partisanship in matters concerning banking and currency affairs in this Country, and I do not speak with any."</em><br />
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<em>"In 1912 the National Monetary Association, under the chairmanship of the late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, made a report and presented a vicious bill called the National Reserve Association bill. This bill is usually spoken of as the Aldrich bill. Senator Aldrich did not write the Aldrich bill. He was the tool, if not the accomplice, of the European bankers who for nearly twenty years had been scheming to set up a central bank in this Country and who in 1912 has spent and were continuing to spend vast sums of money to accomplish their purpose."</em><br />
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<em>"We were opposed to the Aldrich plan for a central bank. The men who rule the Democratic Party then promised the people that if they were returned to power there would be no central bank established here while they held the reigns of government. Thirteen months later that promise was broken, and the Wilson administration, under the tutelage of those sinister Wall Street figures who stood behind Colonel House, established here in our free Country the worm-eaten monarchical institution of the 'King's Bank' to control us from the top downward, and from the cradle to the grave."</em><br />
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<em>"The Federal Reserve Bank destroyed our old and characteristic way of doing business. It discriminated against our 1-name commercial paper, the finest in the world, and it set up the antiquated 2-name paper, which is the present curse of this Country and which wrecked every country which has ever given it scope; it fastened down upon the Country the very tyranny from which the framers of the Constitution sough to save us." </em></blockquote><br />
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<em>"One of the greatest battles for the preservation of this Republic was fought out here in Jackson's time; when the second Bank of the United States, founded on the same false principles of those which are here exemplified in the Fed was hurled out of existence. After that, in 1837, the Country was warned against the dangers that might ensue if the predatory interests after being cast out should come back in disguise and unite themselves to the Executive and through him acquire control of the Government. That is what the predatory interests did when they came back in the livery of hypocrisy and under false pretenses obtained the passage of the Fed."</em><br />
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<em>"The danger that the Country was warned against came upon us and is shown in the long train of horrors attendant upon the affairs of the traitorous and dishonest Fed. Look around you when you leave this Chamber and you will see evidences of it in all sides. This is an era of misery and for the conditions that caused that misery, the Fed are fully liable. This is an era of financed crime and in the financing of crime the Fed does not play the part of a disinterested spectator."</em><br />
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<em>"It has been said that the draughts man who was employed to write the text of the Aldrich bill because that had been drawn up by lawyers, by acceptance bankers of European origin in New York. It was a copy, in general a translation of the statues of the Reichsbank and other European central banks. One-half million dollars was spent on the part of the propaganda organized by these bankers for the purpose of misleading public opinion and giving Congress the impression that there was an overwhelming popular demand for it and the kind of currency that goes with it, namely, an asset currency based on human debts and obligations. Dr. H. Parker Willis had been employed by Wall Street and propagandists, and when the Aldrich measure failed- he obtained employment with Carter Glass, to assist in drawing the banking bill for the Wilson administration. He appropriated the text of the Aldrich bill. There is no secret about it. The test of the Federal Reserve Act was tainted from the first."</em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Throughout my public life I have supported all measures designed to take the Government out of the banking business. This bill puts the Government into the banking business as never before in our history. The powers vested in the Federal Reserve Board seen to me highly dangerous especially where there is political control of the Board. I should be sorry to hold stock in a bank subject to such dominations. The bill as it stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of the currency. I had hoped to support this bill, but I cannot vote for it cause it seems to me to contain features and to rest upon principles in the highest degree menacing to our prosperity, to stability in business, and to the general welfare of the people of the United States.</em></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Very Truly Yours, Henry Cabot Lodge.'</em></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;">_______________________________</div><br />
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<em>"In eighteen years that have passed since Senator Lodge wrote that letter of warning all of his predictions have come true. The Government is in the banking business as never before. Against its will it has been made the backer of horse thieves and card sharps, bootlegger's smugglers, speculators, and swindlers in all parts of the world. Through the Fed the riffraff of every country is operating on the public credit of the United States Government."</em></blockquote><br />
<strong>THE GREAT DEPRESSION</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"Meanwhile and on account of it, we ourselves are in the midst of the greatest depression we have ever known. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, our Country has been ravaged and laid waste by the evil practices of the Fed and the interests which control them. At no time in our history, has the general welfare of the people been at a lower level or the minds of the people so full of despair."</em><br />
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<em>"Recently in one of our States, 60,000 dwelling houses and farms were brought under the hammer in a single day. 71,000 houses and farms in Oakland County, Michigan, were sold and their erstwhile owners dispossessed. The people who have thus been driven out are the wastage of the Fed. They are the victims of the Fed. Their children are the new slaves of the auction blocks in the revival of the institution of human slavery."</em></blockquote><br />
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<strong>The Scheme of the Fed</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"In 1913, before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, Mr. Alexander Lassen made the following statement: 'The whole scheme of the Fed with its commercial paper is an impractical, cumbersome machinery- is simply a cover to secure the privilege of issuing money, and to evade payment of as much tax upon circulation as possible and then control the issue and maintain, instead of reducing interest rates. It will prove to the advantage of the few and the detriment of the people. It will mean continued shortage of actual money and further extension of credits, for when there is a shortage of money people have to borrow to their cost. 'A few days before the Fed passed, Senator Root denounced the Fed as an outrage on our liberties. He predicted: 'Long before we wake up from our dream of prosperity through an inflated currency, our gold- which alone could have kept us from catastrophe- will have vanished and no rate of interest will tempt it to return.'"</em><br />
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<em>"If ever a prophecy came true, that one did."</em><br />
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<em>"The Fed became law the day before Christmas Eve, in the year 1913, and shortly afterwards, the German International bankers, Kuhn, Loeb and Co. sent one of their partners here to run it."</em><br />
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<em>"The Fed Note is essentially unsound. It is the worst currency and the most dangerous that this Country has ever known. When the proponents of the act saw that the Democratic doctrine would not permit them to let the proposed banks issue the new currency as bank notes, they should have stopped at that. They should not have foisted that kind of currency, namely, an asset currency, on the United States Government. They should not have made the Government [liable on the private] debts of individuals and corporations, and, least of all, on the private debts of foreigners. As Kemerer says: 'The Fed Notes, therefore, in form, have some of the qualities of Government paper money, but in substance, are almost a pure asset currency possessing a Government guarantee against which contingency the Government has made no provision whatever.'"</em><br />
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<em>"Hon. L.J.Hill, a former member of the House, said, and truly: 'They are obligations of the Government for which the United States received nothing and for the payment of which at any time, it assumes the responsibility: looking to the Fed to recoup itself.'"</em><br />
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<em>"If this United States is to redeem the Fed Notes, when the General Public finds it costs to deliver this paper to the Fed, and if the Government has made no provisions for redeeming them, the first element of unsoundness is not far to seek."</em><br />
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<em>"Before the Banking and Currency Committee, when the bill was under discussion Mr. Crozier of Cincinnati said: 'The imperial power of elasticity of the public currency is wielded exclusively by the central corporations owned by the banks. This is a life and death power over all local banks and all business. It can be used to create or destroy prosperity, to ward off or cause stringencies and panics. By making money artificially scarce, interest rates throughout the Country can be arbitrarily raised and the bank tax on all business and cost of living increased for the profit of the banks owning these regional central banks, and without the slightest benefit to the people. The 12 Corporations together cover y and monopolize and use for private gain- every dollar of the public currency and all public revenue of the United States. Not a dollar can be put into circulation among the people by their Government, without the consent of and on terms fixed by these 12 private money trusts.'"</em><br />
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<em>"In defiance of this and all other warnings, the proponents of the Fed created the 12 private credit corporations and gave them an absolute monopoly of the currency of these United States- not of the Fed Notes alone- but of all other currency! The Fed Act providing ways and means by which the gold and general currency in the hands of the American people could be obtained by the Fed in exchange for Fed Notes - which are not money - but mere promises to pay."</em><br />
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<em>"Since the evil day when this was done, the initial monopoly has been extended by vicious amendments to the Fed and by the unlawful and treasonable practices of the Fed."</em><br />
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<strong>Money for the Scottish Distillers</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"Mr. Chairman, if a Scottish distiller wishes to send a cargo of Scotch whiskey to these United States, he can draw his bill against the purchasing bootlegger in dollars and after the bootlegger has accepted it by writing his name across the face of it, the Scotch distiller can send that bill to the nefarious open discount market in New York City where the Fed will buy it and use it as collateral for a new issue of Fed Notes. Thus the Government of these United States pay the Scotch distiller for the whiskey before it is shipped, and if it is lost on the way, or if the Coast Guard seizes it and destroys it, the Fed simply write off the loss and the government never recovers the money that was paid to the Scotch distiller."</em><br />
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<em>"While we are attempting to enforce prohibition here, the Fed are in the distillery business in Europe and paying bootlegger bills with public credit of these United States. "Mr. Chairman, by the same process, they compel our Government to pay the German brewer for his beer. Why should the Fed be permitted to finance the brewing industry in Germany either in this way or as they do by compelling small and fearful United States Banks to take stock in the Isenbeck Brewery and in the German Bank for brewing industries? Mr. Chairman, if Dynamit Nobel of Germany, wishes to sell dynamite in Japan to use in Manchuria or elsewhere, it can drew its bill against the Japanese customers in dollars and send that bill to the nefarious open discount market in New York City where the Fed will buy it and use it as collateral for a new issue of Fed Notes- while at the same time the Fed will be helping Dynamit Nobel by stuffing its stock into the United States banking system."</em><br />
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<em>"Why should we send our representatives to the disarmament conference at Geneva - while the Fed is making our Government pay Japanese debts to German Munitions makers?"</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Chairman, if a German wishes to raise a crop of beans and sell them to a Japanese customer, he can draw a bill against his prospective Japanese customer in dollars and have it purchased by the Fed and get the money out of this Country at the expense of the American people before he has even planted the beans in the ground. Mr. Chairman, if a German in Germany wishes to export goods to South America, or any other Country, he can draw his bill against his customers and send it to these United States and get the money out of this Country before he ships, or even manufactures the goods."</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Chairman, why should the currency of these United States be issued on the strength of German Beer? Why should it be issued on the crop of unplanted beans to be grown in Chile for Japanese consumption? Why should these United States be compelled to issue many billions of dollars every year to pay the debts of one foreigner to another foreigner? Was it for this that our National Bank depositors had their money taken out of our banks and shipped abroad? Was it for this that they had to lose it? Why should the public credit of these United States and likewise money belonging to our National Bank depositors be used to support foreign brewers, narcotic drug vendors, whiskey distillers, wig makes, human hair merchants, Chilean bean growers, to finance the munition factories of Germany and Soviet Russia?"</em><br />
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<strong>THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN RANSACKED</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"The United States has been ransacked and pillaged. Our structures have been gutted and only the walls are left standing. While being perpetrated, everything the world would rake up to sell us was brought in here at our expense by the Fed until our markets were swamped with unneeded and unwanted imported goods priced far above their value and make to equal the dollar volume of our honest exports, and to kill or reduce our favorite balance of trade. As Agents of the foreign central banks the Fed try by every means in their power to reduce our favorable balance of trade. They act for their foreign principal and they accept fees from foreigners for acting against the best interests of these United States. Naturally there has been great competition among foreigners for the favors of the Fed."</em><br />
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<em>"What we need to do is to send the reserves of our National Banks home to the people who earned and produced them and who still own them and to the banks which were compelled to surrender them to predatory interests."</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Chairman, there is nothing like the Fed pool of confiscated bank deposits in the world. It is a public trough of American wealth in which the foreigners claim rights, equal to or greater than Americans. The Fed are the agents of the foreign central banks. They use our bank depositors' money for the benefit of their foreign principals. They barter the public credit of the United States Government and hire it our to foreigners at a profit to themselves."</em><br />
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<em>"All this is done at the expense of the United States Government, and at a sickening loss to the American people. Only our great wealth enabled us to stand the drain of it as long as we did."</em><br />
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<em>"We need to destroy the Fed wherein our national reserves are impounded for the benefit of the foreigners. "We need to save America for Americans."</em><br />
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<strong>SPURIOUS SECURITIES</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"Mr. Chairman, when you hold a $10.00 Fed Note in your hand, you are holding apiece of paper which sooner or later is going to cost the United States Government $10.00 in gold (unless the Government is obliged to go off the gold standard). It is based on limburger cheese (reported to be in foreign warehouses) or in cans purported to contain peas (but may contain salt water instead), or horse meat, illicit drugs, bootleggers fancies, rags and bones from Soviet Russia (of which these United States imported over a million dollars worth last year), on wines whiskey, natural gas, goat and dog fur, garlic on the string, and Bombay ducks."</em><br />
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<em>"If you like to have paper money- which is secured by such commodities - you have it in Fed Note. If you desire to obtain the thing of value upon which this paper currency is based, that is, the limburger cheese, the whiskey, the illicit drugs, or any of the other staples- you will have a very hard time finding them."</em><br />
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<em>"Many of these worshipful commodities are in foreign Countries. Are you going to Germany to inspect her warehouses to see if the specified things of value are there? I think more, I do not think that you would find them there if you did go."</em><br />
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<em>"On April 27, 1932, the Fed outfit sent $750,000 belonging to American bank depositors in gold to Germany. A week later another $300,000 in gold was shipped to Germany. About the middle of May $12,000,000 in gold was shipped to Germany by the Fed. Almost every week there is a shipment of gold to Germany. These shipments are not made for profit on the exchange since the German marks are blow parity with the dollar."</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Chairman, I believe that the National Bank depositors of these United States have a right to know what the Fed are doing with their money. There are millions of National Bank depositors in the Country who do not know that a percentage of every dollar they deposit in a Member Bank of the Fed goes automatically to American Agents of the foreign banks and that all their deposits can be paid away to foreigners without their knowledge or consent by the crooked machinery of the Fed and the questionable practices of the Fed."</em><br />
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<em>[Ed. Note - Problem with next paragraph in original] "Mr. Chairman, the American people should be told the truth by their servants in office. In 1930, we had over a half billion dollars outstanding daily to finance foreign goods stored in or shipped between several billion dollars. What goods are these on which the Fed yearly pledge several billions of dollars. In its yearly total, this item amounts to several billions of dollars of the public credit of these United States?"</em><br />
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<em>"What goods are those which are hidden in European and Asiatic stores have not been seen by any officer of our Government but which are being financed on the public credit of the United States Government? What goods are those upon which the 17 United States Government is being obligated by the Fed to issue Fed Notes to the extent of several billions of dollars a year?"</em></blockquote><br />
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<strong>The Bankers' Acceptance Racket</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"The Fed have been International Banks from the beginning, with these United States as their enforced banker and supplier of currency. But it is none the less extraordinary to see these twelve private credit monopolies, buying the debts of foreigners against foreigners, in all parts of the world and asking the Government of these United States for new issues of Fed notes in exchange for them. The magnitude of the acceptance racket as it has been developed by the Fed, their foreign correspondents, and the predatory European born bankers, who set up the Fed here and taught your own, by and of pirates, how to loot the people: I say the magnitude of this racket is estimated to be in the neighborhood of 9,000,000,000 per year. In the past ten years it is said to have amounted to $90,000,000,000.00. In my opinion it has amounted to several times that much. coupled to this you have to the extent of billions of dollars, the gambling in the United States securities, which takes place in the same open discount market- a gambling on which the Fed is now spending $100,000,000.00 per week."</em><br />
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<em>"Fed Notes are taken from the U.S. Government in unlimited quantities. Is is strange that the burden of supplying these immense sums of money to the gambling fraternity has at last proved too heavy for the American people to endure? Would it not be a national [calamity to] again bind down this burden on the backs of the American people and by means of a long rawhide whip of the credit masters, compel them to enter another seventeen years of slavery?"</em><br />
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<em>"They are trying to do that now. They are trying to take $100,000,000.00 of the public credit of the United States every week, in addition to all their other seizures and they are sending that money to the nefarious open market in a desperate gamble to reestablish their graft as a going concern."</em><br />
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<em>"They are putting the United States Government in debt to the extent of $100,000,000 a week, and with the money they are buying our Government securities for themselves and their foreign principals. Our people are disgusted with the experiences of the Fed. The Fed is not producing a loaf of bread, a yard of cloth, a bushel of corn, or a pile of cordwood by its check-kiting operations in the money market."</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Speaker, on the 13th of January of this year I addressed the House on the subject of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. In the course of my remarks I made the following statement: In 1928 the member banks of the Fed borrowed $60,598,690,000. from the Fed on their fifteen-day promissory notes. Think of it. Sixty billion dollars payable on demand in gold in the course of one single year. The actual amount of such obligations called for six times as much monetary gold as there is in the world. Such transactions represent a grant in the course of one single years of about $7,000,000 to every member of the Fed."</em><br />
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<em>"Is it any wonder that American labor which ultimately pays the cost of all banking operations of this Country has at last proved unequal to the task of supplying this huge total of cash and credit for the benefit of the stock market manipulators and foreign swindlers? In 1933 the Fed presented the staggering amount of $60,598,690,000 to its member banks at the expense of the wage earners and tax payers of these United States. In 1929, the year of the stock market crash, the Fed advanced $58,000,000,000 to member banks."</em><br />
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<em>"In 1930 while the speculating banks were getting out of the stock market at the expense of the general public, the Fed advanced them $13,022,782,000. This shows that when the banks were gambling on the public credit of these United States as represented by the Fed currency they were subsidized to any amount they required by the Fed. When the swindle began to fall, the bankers knew it in advance and withdrew from the market. They got out with whole skins - and left the people of these United States to pay the piper. My friend from Kansas, Mr. McGugin, has stated that he thought the Fed lent money on rediscounting. So they do, but they lend comparatively little that way. The real discounting that they do has been called a mere penny in the slot business. It is too slow for genuine high flyers. They discourage it. They prefer to subsidize their favorite banks by making them $60,000,000,000 advances and they prefer to acquire assistance in the notorious open discount market in New York, where they can use it to control the price of stocks and bonds on the exchanges."</em><br />
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<em>"For every dollar they advanced on discounts in 1928, they lent $33.00 to their favorite banks for whom they do a business of several billion dollars income tax on their profits to these United States."</em><br />
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<strong>The John Law Swindle</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"This is the John Law swindle over again. The theft of Teapot Dome was trifling compared to it. What King ever robbed his subject to such an extent as the Fed has robbed us? Is it any wonder that there have been lately ninety cases of starvation in one of the New York hospitals? Is there any wonder that the children are being abandoned?"</em><br />
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<em>"The government and the people of these United States have been swindled by swindlers deluxe to whom the acquisition of American or a parcel of Fed Notes presented no more difficulty than the drawing up of a worthless acceptance in a Country not subject to the laws of these United States, by sharpers not subject to the jurisdiction of these United States, sharpers with strong banking "fence" on this side of the water, a 'fence' acting as a receiver of a worthless paper coming from abroad, endorsing it and getting the currency out of the Fed for it as quickly as possible exchanging that currency for gold and in turn transmitting the gold to its foreign confederates."</em></blockquote><br />
<strong>Ivar Kreuger, the Match King!</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"Such were the exploits of Ivar Krueger, Mr. Hoover's friend, and his rotten Wall Street bakers. Every dollar of the billions Kreuger and his gang drew out of this Country on acceptances was drawn from the government and the people of the United States through the Fed. The credit of the United States Government was peddled to him by the Fed for their own private gain. That is what the Fed has been doing for many years."</em><br />
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<em>"They have been peddling the credit of this Government and the [signature of this] Government to the swindlers and speculators of all nations. That is what happens when a Country forsakes its Constitution and gives its sovereignty over the public currency to private interests. Give them the flag and they will sell it."</em><br />
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<em>"The nature of Kreuger's organized swindle and the bankrupt condition of Kreuger's combine was known here last June when Hoover sought to exempt Krueger's loan to Germany of $125,000,000 from the operation of the Hoover Moratorium. The bankrupt condition of Krueger's swindle was known her last summer when $30,000,000 was taken from the American taxpayers by certain bankers in New York for the ostensible purpose of permitting Krueger to make a loan to Colombia. Colombia never saw that money."</em><br />
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<em>"The nature of Krueger's swindle was known here in January when he visited his friend, Mr. Hoover, at the White House. It was known here in March before he went to Paris and committed suicide."</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Chairman, I think the people of the United States are entitled to know how many billions of dollars were placed at the disposal of Krueger and his gigantic combine by the Fed, and to know how much of our Government currency was issued and lost in the financing of that great swindle in the years during which the Fed took care of Krueger's requirements."</em><br />
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<em>"A few days ago, the President of the United States with a white face and shaking hands, went before the Senate of behalf of the moneyed interests and asked the Senate to levy a tax on the people so that foreigners might know that these United States would pay its debt to them."</em><br />
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<em>"Most Americans thought it was the other way around. What does these United States owe foreigners? When and by whom was the debt incurred? It was incurred by the Fed, when they peddled the signature of the Government to foreigners- for a Price. It is what the United States Government has to pay to redeem the obligations of the Fed."</em><br />
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<strong>Thieves Go Scot Free</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"Are you going to let these thieves get off scot free? Is there one law for the looter who drives up to the door of the United States Treasury in his limousine and another for the United States Veterans who are sleeping on the floor of a dilapidated house on the outskirts of Washington?"</em><br />
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<em>"The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is here asking for a large loan from the people, and the wage earners and the taxpayers of these United States. It is begging for a handout from the Government. It is standing, cap in hand, at the door of the R.F.C. where all the jackals have gathered to the feast. It is asking for money that was raised from the people by taxation and wants this money of the poor for the benefit of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., the German International Bankers."</em><br />
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<em>"Is there one law for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and another for the hungry veterans it threw off its freight cars the other day? Is there one law for sleek and prosperous swindlers who call themselves bankers and another law for the soldiers who defended the flag? The R.F.C. is taking over these worthless securities from the Investment Trusts with United States Treasury money at the expense of the American taxpayer and the wage earner."</em><br />
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<em>"It will take twenty years to redeem our Government. Twenty years of penal servitude to pay off the gambling debts of the traitorous Fed and to vast flood of American wages and savings, bank deposits, and the United States Government credit which the Fed exported out of this country to their foreign principals."</em><br />
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<em>"The Fed lately conducted an anti-hoarding campaign here. They they took that extra money which they had persuaded the American people to put into the banks- they sent it to Europe- along with the rest. In the last several months, they have sent $1,300,000,000 in gold to their foreign employers, their foreign masters, and every dollar of that gold belonged to the people of these United States and was unlawfully taken from them."</em></blockquote><br />
<strong>Fiat Money</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"Mr. Chairman, within the limits of the time allowed me, I cannot enter into a particularized discussion of the Fed. I have singled out the Fed currency for a few remarks because there has lately been some talk here of 'fiat money.' What kind of money is being pumped into the open discount market and through it into foreign channels and stock exchanges? Mr. Mills of the Treasury has spoken here of his horror of the printing presses and his horror of dishonest money. He has no horror of dishonest money. If he had, he would be no party to the present gambling of the Fed in the nefarious open discount market of New York, a market in which the sellers are represented by 10 discount corporations owned and organized by the very banks which own and control the Fed."</em><br />
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<em>"Fiat money, indeed!"</em><br />
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<em>"What Mr. Mills is fighting for is the preservation, whole and entire, of the banker's monopoly of all the currency of the United States Government."</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Chairman, last December, I introduced a resolution here asking for an examination and an audit of the Fed and all related matters. If the House sees fit to make such an investigation, the people of these United States will obtain information of great value. This is a Government of the people, by the people, for the people. Consequently, nothing should be concealed from the people. The man who deceives the people is a traitor to these United States."</em><br />
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<em>"The man who knows or suspects that a crime has been committed and who conceals and covers up that crime is an accessory to it. Mr. Speaker, it is a monstrous thing for this great nation of people to have its destinies presided over by a traitorous government board acting in secret concert with international usurers."</em><br />
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<em>"Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers - but the truth is - the Fed has usurped the Government. It controls everything here and it controls all of our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will."</em><br />
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<em>"No man and no body of men is more entrenched in power than the arrogant credit monopoly which operated the Fed. What National Government has permitted the Fed to steal from the people should now be restored to the people. The people have a valid claim against the Fed. If that claim is enforced the Americans will not need to stand in the bread line, or to suffer and die of starvation in the streets. Women will be saved, families will be kept together, and American children will not be dispersed and abandoned."</em><br />
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<em>"Here is a Fed Note. Immense numbers of the notes are now held abroad. I am told that they amount to upwards of a billion dollars. They constitute a claim against our Government and likewise a claim against our peoples' money to the extent of $1,300,000,000 which has within the last few months been shipped abroad to redeem Fed Notes and to pay other gambling debts of the traitorous Fed. The greater part of our money stock has been shipped to other lands."</em><br />
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<em>"Why should we promise to pay the debts of foreigners to foreigners? Why should the Fed be permitted to finance our competitors in all parts of the world? Do you know why the tariff was raised? It was raised to shut out the flood of Fed Goods pouring in here from every quarter of the globe - cheap goods, produced by cheaply paid foreign labor, on unlimited supplies of money and credit sent out of this Country by the dishonest and unscrupulous Fed."</em><br />
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<em>"The Fed are spending $100,000,000 a week buying government securities in the open market and are making a great bid for foreign business. They are trying to make rates so attractive that the human hair merchants and the distillers and other business entities in foreign land will come her and hire more of the public credit of the United States Government to pay the Fed outfit for getting it for them."</em></blockquote><strong>World Enslavement Planned</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"Mr. Chairman, when the Fed was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here which would make the savings of the American school teacher available to a narcotic-drug vendor in Acapulco. They did not perceive that these United States was to be lowered to the position of a coolie country which has nothing but raw material and heart, that Russia was destined to supply the man power and that this country was to supply the financial power to an 'international superstate.' A superstate controlled by international bankers, and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure?"</em><br />
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<em>"The people of these United States are being greatly wronged. They have been driven from their employments. They have been dispossessed from their homes. They have been evicted from their rented quarters. They have lost their children. They have been left to suffer and die for lack of shelter, food, clothing and medicine."</em><br />
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<em>"The wealth of these United States and the working capital have been taken away from them and has either been locked in the vaults of certain banks and the great corporations or exported to foreign countries for the benefit of the foreign customers of these banks and corporations. So far as the people of the United States are concerned, the cupboard is bare."</em><br />
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<em>"It is true that the warehouses and coal yards and grain elevators are full, but these are padlocked, and the great banks and corporations hold the keys."</em><br />
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<em>"The sack of these United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history."</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Chairman, a serious situation confronts the House of Representatives today. We are trustees of the people and the rights of the people are being taken away from them. Through the Fed the people are losing the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution. Their property has been taken from them without due process of law. Mr. Chairman, common decency requires us to examine the public accounts of the Government and see what crimes against the public welfare have been committed."</em><br />
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<em>"What is needed here is a return to the Constitution of these United States."</em><br />
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<em>"The old struggle that was fought out here in Jackson's time must be fought our over again. The independent United States Treasury should be reestablished and the Government should keep its own money under lock and key in the building the people provided for that purpose."</em><br />
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<em>"Asset currency, the devise of the swindler, should be done away with. The Fed should be abolished and the State boundaries should be respected. Bank reserves should be kept within the boundaries of the States whose people own them, and this reserve money of the people should be protected so that the International Bankers and acceptance bankers and discount dealers cannot draw it away from them."</em><br />
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<em>"The Fed should be repealed, and the Fed Banks, having violated their charters, should be liquidated immediately. Faithless Government officials who have violated their oaths of office should be impeached and brought to trial."</em><br />
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<em>"Unless this is done by us, I predict, that the American people, outraged, pillaged, insulted and betrayed as they are in their own land, will rise in their wrath, and will sweep the money changers out of the temple."</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Chairman, the United States is bankrupt: It has been bankrupted by the corrupt and dishonest Fed. It has repudiated its debts to its own citizens. Its chief foreign creditor is Great Britain, and a British bailiff has been at the White House and the British Agents are in the United States Treasury making inventory arranging terms of liquidations!"</em></blockquote><strong>Great Britain, Partner in Blackmail</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"Mr. Chairman, the Fed has offered to collect the British claims in full from the American public by trickery and corruption, if Great Britain will help to conceal its crimes. The British are shielding their agents, the Fed, because they do not wish that system of robbery to be destroyed here. They wish it to continue for their benefit! By means of it, Great Britain has become the financial mistress of the world. She has regained the position she occupied before the World War."</em><br />
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<em>"For several years she has been a silent partner in the business of the Fed. Under threat of blackmail, or by their bribery, or by their native treachery to the people of the United States, the officials in charge of the Fed unwisely gave Great Britain immense gold loans running into hundreds of millions of dollars. They did this against the law! Those gold loans were not single transactions. They gave Great Britain a borrowing power in the United States of billions. She squeezed billions out of this Country by means of her control of the Fed."</em><br />
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<em>"As soon as the Hoover Moratorium was announced, Great Britain moved to consolidate her gains. After the treacherous signing away of American rights at the 7-power conference at London in July, 1931, which put the Fed under the control of the Bank of International Settlements, Great Britain began to tighten the hangman's noose around the neck of the United States."</em><br />
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<em>"She abandoned the gold standard and embarked on a campaign of buying up the claims of foreigners against the Fed in all parts of the world. She has now sent her bailiff, Ramsey MacDonald, here to get her war debt to this country canceled. But she has a club in her hands! She has title to the gambling debts which the corrupt and dishonest Fed incurred abroad."</em><br />
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<em>"Ramsey MacDonald, the labor party deserter, has come here to compel the President to sign on the dotted line, and that is what Roosevelt is about to do! Roosevelt will endeavor to conceal the nature of his action from the American people. But he will obey the International Bankers and transfer the war debt that Great Britain should pay to the American people, to the shoulders of the American taxpayers."</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Chairman, the bank holiday in the several States was brought about by the corrupt and dishonest Fed. These institutions manipulated money and credit, and caused the States to order bank holidays."</em><br />
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<em>"These holidays were frame-ups! They were dress rehearsals for the national bank holiday which Franklin D. Roosevelt promised Sir Ramsey MacDonald that he would declare."</em><br />
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<em>"There was no national emergency here when Franklin D. Roosevelt took office excepting the bankruptcy of the Fed- a bankruptcy which has been going on under cover for several years and which has been concealed from the people so that the people would continue to permit their bank deposits and their bank reserves and their gold and the funds of the United States Treasury to be impounded in these bankrupt institutions."</em><br />
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<em>"Under cover, the predatory International Bankers have been stealthily transferring the burden of the Fed debts to the people's Treasury and to the people themselves. They the farms and the homes of the United States to pay for their thievery! That is the only national emergency that there has been here since the depression began."</em><br />
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<em>"The week before the bank holiday was declared in New York State, the deposits in the New York savings banks were greater than the withdrawals. There were no runs on New York Banks. There was no need of a bank holiday in New York, or of a national holiday."</em></blockquote><strong>Roosevelt and the International Bankers</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"Roosevelt did what the International Bankers ordered him to do!"</em><br />
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<em>"Do not deceive yourself, Mr. Chairman, or permit yourself to be deceived by others into the belief that Roosevelt's dictatorship is in any way intended to benefit the people of the United States: he is preparing to sign on the dotted line! He is preparing to cancel the war debts by fraud!"</em><br />
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<em>"He is preparing to internationalize this Country and to destroy our Constitution itself in order to keep the Fed intact as a money institution for foreigners. "Mr. Chairman, I see no reason why citizens of the United States should be terrorized into surrendering their property to the International Bankers who own and control the Fed. The statement that gold would be taken from its lawful owners if they did not voluntarily surrender it, to private interests, show that there is an anarchist in our Government."</em><br />
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<em>"The statement that it is necessary for the people to give their gold - the only real money - to the banks in order to protect the currency, is a statement of calculated dishonesty!"</em><br />
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<em>"By his unlawful usurpation of power on the night of March 5, 1933, and by his proclamation, which in my opinion was in violation of the Constitution of the United States, Roosevelt divorced the currency of the United States from gold, and the United States currency is no longer protected by gold. It is therefore sheer dishonesty to say that the people's gold is needed to protect the currency."</em><br />
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<em>"Roosevelt ordered the people to give their gold to private interests - that is, to banks, and he took control of the banks so that all the gold and gold values in them, or given into them, might be handed over to the predatory International Bankers who own and control the Fed."</em><br />
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<em>"Roosevelt cast his lot with the usurers. He agreed to save the corrupt and dishonest at the expense of the people of the United States."</em><br />
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<em>"He took advantage of the people's confusion and weariness and spread the dragnet over the United States to capture everything of value that was left in it. He made a great haul for the International Bankers."</em><br />
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<em>"The Prime Minister of England came here for money! He came here to collect cash!"</em><br />
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<em>"He came here with Fed Currency and other claims against the Fed which England had bought up in all parts of the world. And he has presented them for redemption in gold."</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Chairman, I am in favor of compelling the Fed to pay their own debts. I see no reason why the general public should be forced to pay the gambling debts of the International Bankers."</em></blockquote><strong>Roosevelt Seizes the Gold</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"By his action in closing the banks of the United States, Roosevelt seized the gold value of forty billions or more of bank deposits in the United States banks. Those deposits were deposits of gold values. By his action he has rendered them payable to the depositors in paper only, if payable at all, and the paper money he proposes to pay out to bank depositors and to the people generally in lieu of their hard earned gold values in itself, and being based on nothing into which the people can convert it the said paper money is of negligible value altogether."</em><br />
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<em>"It is the money of slaves, not of free men. If the people of the United States permit it to be imposed upon them at the will of their credit masters, the next step in their downward progress will be their acceptance of orders on company stores for what they eat and wear. Their case will be similar to that of starving coal miners. They, too, will be paid with orders on Company stores for food and clothing, both of indifferent quality and be forced to live in Company-owned houses from which they may be evicted at the drop of a hat. More of them will be forced into conscript labor camps under supervision."</em><br />
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<em>"At noon on the 4th of March, 1933, FDR with his hand on the Bible, took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the U.S. At midnight on the 5th of March, 1933, he confiscated the property of American citizens. He took the currency of the United States standard of value. He repudiated the internal debt of the Government to its own citizens. He destroyed the value of the American dollar. He released, or endeavored to release, the Fed from their contractual liability to redeem Fed currency in gold or lawful money on a parity with gold. He depreciated the value of the national currency."</em><br />
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<em>"The people of the U.S. are now using unredeemable paper slips for money. The Treasury cannot redeem that paper in gold or silver. The gold and silver of the Treasury has unlawfully been given to the corrupt and dishonest Fed. And the Administration has since had the effrontery to raid the country for more gold for the private interests by telling our patriotic citizens that their gold is needed to protect the currency."</em><br />
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<em>"It is not being used to protect the currency! It is being used to protect the corrupt and dishonest Fed. The directors of these institutions have committed criminal offense against the United States Government, including the offense of making false entries on their books, and the still more serious offense of unlawfully abstracting funds from the United States Treasury! Roosevelt's gold raid is intended to help them out of the pit they dug for themselves when they gambled away the wealth and savings of the American people."</em></blockquote><br />
<strong>Dictatorship</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"The International Bankers set up a dictatorship here because they wanted a dictator who would protect them. They wanted a dictator who would protect them. They wanted a dictator who would issue a proclamation giving the Fed an absolute and unconditional release from their special currency in gold, or lawful money of any Fed Bank."</em><br />
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<em>"Has Roosevelt relieved any other class of debtors in this country from the necessity of paying their debts? Has he made a proclamation telling the farmers that they need not pay their mortgages? Has he made a proclamation to the effect that mothers of starving children need not pay their milk bills? Has he made a proclamation relieving householders from the necessity of paying rent?"</em></blockquote><strong>Roosevelt's Two Kinds of Laws</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"Not he! He has issued one kind of proclamation only, and that is a proclamation to relieve international bankers and the foreign debtors of the United States Government."</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Chairman, the gold in the banks of this country belongs to the American people who have paper money contracts for it in the form of national currency. If the Fed cannot keep their contracts with United States citizens to redeem their paper money in gold, or lawful money, then the Fed must be taken over by the United States Government and their officers must be put on trial."</em><br />
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<em>"There must be a day of reckoning. If the Fed have looted the Treasury so that the Treasury cannot redeem the United States currency for which it is liable in gold, then the Fed must be driven out of the Treasury."</em><br />
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<em>"Mr. Chairman, a gold certificate is a warehouse receipt for gold in the Treasury, and the man who has a gold certificate is the actual owner of a corresponding amount of gold stacked in the Treasury subject to his order."</em><br />
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<em>"Now comes Roosevelt who seeks to render the money of the United States worthless by unlawfully declaring that it may No Longer be converted into gold at the will of the holder."</em><br />
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<em>"Roosevelt's next haul for the International Bankers was the reduction in the pay of all Federal employees."</em><br />
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<em>"Next in order are the veterans of all wars, many of whom are aged and inform, and other sick and disabled. These men had their lives adjusted for them by acts of Congress determining the amounts of the pensions, and, while it is meant that every citizen should sacrifice himself for the good of the United States, I see no reason why those poor people, these aged Civil War Veterans and war widows and half-starved veterans of the World War, should be compelled to give up their pensions for the financial benefit of the International vultures who have looted the Treasury, bankrupted the country and traitorously delivered the United States to a foreign foe."</em><br />
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<em>"There are many ways of raising revenue that are better than that barbaric act of injustice."</em><br />
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<em>"Why not collect from the Fed the amount they owe the U.S. Treasury in interest on all the Fed currency they have taken from the Government? That would put billions of dollars into the U.S. Treasury."</em><br />
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<em>"If FDR is as honest as he pretends to be, he will have that done immediately. And in addition, why not compel the Fed to disclose their profits and to pay the Government its share?"</em><br />
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<em>"Until this is done, it is rank dishonesty to talk of maintaining the credit of the U.S. Government. My own salary as a member of Congress has been reduced, and while I am willing to give my part of it that has been taken away from me to the U.S. Government, I regret that the U.S. has suffered itself to be brought so low by the vultures and crooks who are operating the roulette wheels and faro tables in the Fed, that is now obliged to throw itself on the mercy of its legislators and charwomen, its clerks, and it poor pensioners and to take money out of our pockets to make good the defalcations of the International Bankers who were placed in control of the Treasury and given the monopoly of U.S. Currency by the misbegotten Fed. I am well aware that the International Bankers who drive up to the door of the United States Treasury in their limousines, look down with scorn upon members of Congress because we work for so little, while they draw millions a year. The difference is that we earn, or try to earn, what we get - and they steal the greater part of their takings."</em></blockquote><br />
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<strong>Enemies of the People They Rob</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"I do not like to see vivisections performed on human beings. I do not like to see the American people used for experimental purposes by the credit masters of the United States. They predicted among themselves that they would be able to produce a condition here in which American citizens would be completely humbled and left starving and penniless in the streets."</em><br />
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<em>"The fact that they made that assertion while they were fomenting their conspiracy against the United States that they like to see a human being, especially an American, stumbling from hunger when he walks. Something should be done about it, they say. Five-cent meals, or something! "But FDR will not permit the House of Representatives to investigate the condition of the Fed. FDR will not do that. He has certain International Bankers to serve. They not look to him as the man Higher Up who will protect them from the just wrath of an outraged people."</em><br />
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<em>"The International Bankers have always hated our pensioners. A man with a small pension is a ward of the Government. He is not dependent upon them for a salary or wages. They cannot control him. They do not like him. It gave them great pleasure, therefore, to slash the veterans."</em><br />
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<em>"But FDR will never do anything to embarrass his financial supporters. He will cover up the crimes of the Fed."</em><br />
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<em>"Before he was elected, Mr. Roosevelt advocated a return to the earlier practices of the Fed, thus admitting its corruptness. The Democratic platform advocated a change in the personnel of the Fed. These were campaign bait. As a prominent Democrat lately remarked to me; 'There is no new deal. The same old crowd is in control.'"</em><br />
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<em>"The claims of foreign creditors of the Fed have no validity in law. The foreign creditors were the receivers - and the willing receivers - of stolen goods! They have received through their banking fences immense amounts of currency, and that currency was unlawfully taken from the United States Treasury by the Fed."</em><br />
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<em>"England discovered the irregularities of the Fed quite early in its operations and through fear, apparently, the Fed have for years suffered themselves to be blackmailed and dragooning England to share in the business of the Fed. The Fed have unlawfully taken many millions of dollars of the public credit of the United States and have given it to foreign sellers on the security of the Debt paper of foreign buyers in purely foreign transactions, and when the foreign buyers refused to meet their obligations and the Fed saw no honest way of getting the stolen goods back into their possession, they decided by control of the executive to make the American people pay their losses!"</em></blockquote><strong>Conspiracy of War Debts</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"They likewise entered into a conspiracy to deprive the people of the U.S. of their title to the war debts and not being able to do that in the way they intended, they are now engaged in an effort to debase the American dollar so that foreign governments will have their debts to this country cut in two, and then by means of other vicious underhanded arrangements, they propose to remit the remainder."</em><br />
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<em>"So far as the U.S. is concerned, the gambling counters have no legal standing. The U.S. Treasury cannot be compelled to make good the gambling ventures of the corrupt and dishonest Fed. Still less should the bank deposits of the U.S. be used for that purpose. Still less should the national currency have been made irredeemable in gold so that the gold which was massed and stored to redeem the currency for American citizens may be used to pay the gambling debts of the Fed for England's benefit. The American people should have their gold in their own possession where it cannot be held under secret agreement for any foreign control bank, or world bank, or foreign nation. Our own citizens have the prior claim to it. The paper [money men] have in their possession deserves redemption far more than U.S. currency and credit which was stolen from the U.S. Treasury and bootlegged abroad."</em><br />
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<em>"Why should the foreigners be made preferred creditors of the bankrupt U.S.? Why should the U.S. be treated as bankrupt at all? This Government has immense sums due it from the Fed. The directors of these institutions are men of great wealth. Why should the guilty escape the consequences of their misdeeds? Why should the people of these U.S. surrender the value of their gold bank deposits to pay off the gambling debts of these bankers? Why should Roosevelt promise foreigners that the U.S. will play the part of a good neighbor, 'meeting its obligations'?"</em><br />
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<em>"Let the Fed meet their own obligations."</em><br />
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<em>"Every member of the Fed should be compelled to disgorge, and every acceptance banker and every discount corporation which has made illegal profits by means of public credit unlawfully bootlegged out of the U.S. Treasury and hired out by the crooks and vultures of the Fed should be compelled to disgorge."</em></blockquote><strong>Federal Reserve Pays No Taxes</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"Gambling debts due to foreign receivers of stolen goods should not be paid by sacrificing our title to our war debts, the assets of the U.S. Treasury- which belong to all the people of the U.S. and which it is our duty to preserve inviolate in the people's treasury."</em><br />
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<em>"The U.S. Treasury cannot be made liable for them. The Fed currency must be redeemed by the Fed banks or else these Fed banks must be liquidated."</em><br />
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<em>"We know from assertions made here by the Hon. John N. Garner, Vice-President of the U.S. that there is a condition in the [United States such] would cause American citizens, if they knew what it was, to lose all confidence in their government."</em><br />
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<em>"That is a condition that Roosevelt will not have investigated. He has brought with him from Wall Street, James Warburg, the son of Paul M. Warburg. Mr. Warburg, alien born, and the son of an alien who did not become naturalized here until several years after this Warburg's birth, is a son of a former partner of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., a grandson of another partner, a nephew of a former partner, and a nephew of a present partner."</em><br />
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<em>"He holds no office in our Government, but I am told that he is in daily attendance at the Treasury, and that he has private quarters there! In other words, Mr. Chairman, Kuhn, Loeb and Company now has control and occupy the U.S. Treasury."</em></blockquote><div></div><div></div></em><br />
<strong>Preferred Treatment for Foreigners</strong><br />
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"The text of the Executive order which seems to place an embargo on shipments of gold permits the Secretary of the Treasury, a former director of the corrupt, to issue licenses at his discretion for the export of gold coin, or bullion, earmarked or held in trust for a recognized foreign government or foreign central bank for international settlement. Now, Mr. Chairman, if gold held in trust for those foreign institutions may be sent to them, I see no reason why gold held in trust for American as evidenced by their gold certificates and other currency issued by the U.S. Government should not be paid to them. "I think that American citizens should be entitled to treatment at least as good as that which the person is extending to foreign governments, foreign central banks, and the bank of International Settlements. I think a veteran of the world war, with a $20.00 gold certificate, is at least as much entitled to receive his own gold for it, as any international banker in the city of New York or London."<br />
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"By the terms of this executive order, gold may be exported if it is actually required, for the fulfillment of any contract entered into prior to the date of this order by an applicant who, in obedience to the executive order of April 5, 1933, has delivered gold coin, gold bullion, or gold certificates. This means that gold may be exported to pay the obligations abroad of the Fed which were incurred prior to the date of the order, namely, April 20, 1933."<br />
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"If a European Bank should send 100,000,000 dollars in Fed currency to a bank in this country for redemption, that bank could easily ship gold to Europe in exchange for that currency. Such Fed currency would represent 'contracts' entered into prior to the date of the order. If the Bank of International Settlements or any other foreign bank holding any of the present gambling debt paper of the Fed should draw a draft for the settlement of such obligation, gold would be shopped to them because the debt contract would have been entered into prior to the date of order."<br />
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<strong>Crimes and Criminals</strong><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"Mr. Speaker, I rise to a question of constitutional privilege.</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas, I charge. . .Eugene Meyer, Roy A. Young, Edmund Platt, Eugene B. Black, Adolph Casper Miller, Charles S. Hamlin, George R. James, Andrew W. Mellon, Ogden L. Mills, William H. Woo W. Poole, J.F.T. O'Connor, members of the Federal Reserve Board; F. H. Curtis, J.H. Chane, R.L. Austin, George De Camp, L.B. Williams, W.W. Hoxton, Oscar Newton, E.M. Stevens, J.S. Wood, J.N. Payton, M.L. McClure, C.C. Walsh, Isaac B. Newton, Federal Reserve Agents, jointly and severally, with violations of the Constitution and laws of the United States, and whereas I charge them with having taken funds from the U.S. Treasury which were not appropriated by the Congress of the United States, and I charge them with having unlawfully taken over $80,000,000,000 from the U.S. Government in the year 1928, the said unlawful taking consisting of the unlawful creation of claims against the U.S. Treasury to the extent of over $80,000,000,000 in the year 1928; and I charge them with similar thefts committed in 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1933, and in years previous to 1928, amounting to billions of dollars; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally with having unlawfully created claims against the U.S. Treasury by unlawfully placing U.S. Government credit in specific amounts to the credit of foreign governments and foreign central banks of issue; private interests and commercial and private banks of the U.S. and foreign countries, and branches of foreign banks doing business in the U.S., to the extent of billions of dollars; and with having made unlawful contracts in the name of the U.S. Government and the U.S. Treasury; and with having made false entries on books of account; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them jointly and severally, with having taken Fed Notes from the U.S. Treasury and with having put Fed Notes into circulation without obeying the mandatory provision of the Fed Act which requires the Fed Board to fix an interest rate on all issues of Fed Notes supplied to Fed Banks, the interest resulting therefrom to be paid by the Fed Banks to the government of the U.S. for the use of the Fed Notes, and I charge them of having defrauded the U.S. Government and the people of the U.S. of billions of dollars by the commission of this crime, and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having purchased U.S. Government securities with U.S. Government credit unlawfully taken and with having sold the said U.S. Government securities back to the people of the U.S. for gold or gold values and with having again purchased U.S. Government securities with U.S. Government credit unlawfully taken and with having again sold the said U.S. Government security for gold or gold values, and I charge them with having defrauded the U.S. Government and the people of the U.S. by this rotary process; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having unlawfully negotiated U.S. Government securities, upon which the Government liability was extinguished, as collateral security for Fed Notes and with having substituted such securities for gold which was being held as collateral security for Fed Notes, and with having by the process defrauded the U.S. Government and the people of the U.S., and I charge them with the theft of all the gold and currency they obtained by this process; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having unlawfully issued Fed currency on false, worthless and fictitious acceptances and other circulating evidence of debt, and with having made unlawful advances of Fed currency, and with having unlawfully permitted renewals of acceptances and renewals of other circulating evidences of debt, and with having permitted acceptance bankers and discount dealer corporations and other private bankers to violate the banking laws of the U.S.; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having conspired to have evidences of debt to the extent of $1,000,000,000 artificially created at the end of February, 1933, and early in March 1933, and with having made unlawful issues and advances of Fed currency on the security of said artificially created evidences of debt for a sinister purpose, and with having assisted in the execution of said sinister purpose; and</em><br />
<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having brought about the repudiation of the currency obligations of the Fed Banks to the people of the U.S. and with having conspired to obtain a release for the Fed Board and the Fed Banks from their contractual liability to redeem all Fed currency in gold or lawful money at the Fed Bank and with having defrauded the holders of Fed currency, and with having conspired to have the debts and losses of the Fed Board and the Fed Banks unlawfully transferred to the Government and the people of the U.S., and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having unlawfully substituted Fed currency and other irredeemable paper currency for gold in the hands of the people after the decision to repudiate the Fed currency and the national currency was made known to them, and with thus having obtained money under false pretenses; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having brought about a repudiation of the notes of the U.S. in order that the gold value of the said currency might be given to private interests, foreign governments, foreign central banks of issues, and the Bank of International Settlements, and the people of the U.S. to be left without gold or lawful money and with no currency other that a paper currency irredeemable in gold, and I charge them with having done this for the benefit of private interests, foreign governments, foreign central banks of issue, and the bank of International Settlements; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with conniving with the Edge Law banks, and other Edge Law institutions, accepting banks, and discount corporations, foreign central banks of issue, foreign commercial banks, foreign corporations, and foreign individuals with funds unlawfully taken from the U.S. Treasury; and I charge them with having unlawfully permitted and made possible 'new financing' for foreigners at the expense of the U.S. Treasury to the extent of billions of dollars and with having unlawfully permitted and made possible the bringing into the United States of immense quantities of foreign securities, created in foreign countries for export to the U.S. and with having unlawfully permitted the said foreign securities to be imported into the U.S. instead of gold, which was lawfully due to the U.S. on trade balances and otherwise, and with having lawfully permitted and facilitated the sale of the said foreign securities in the U.S., and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having unlawfully exported U.S. coins and currency for a sinister purpose, and with having deprived the people of the U.S. of their lawful medium of exchange, and I charge them with having arbitrarily and unlawfully reduced the amount of money and currency in circulation in the U.S. to the lowest rate per capita in the history of the Government, so that the great mass of the people have been left without a sufficient medium of exchange, and I charge them with concealment and evasion in refusing to make known the amount of U.S. money in coins and paper currency exported and the amount remaining in the U.S. as a result of which refusal the Congress of the U.S. is unable to ascertain where the U.S. coins and issues of currency are at the present time, and what amount of U.S. currency is now held abroad; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having arbitrarily and unlawfully raised and lowered the rates of money and with having arbitrarily increased and diminished the volume of currency in circulation for the benefit of private interests at the expense of the Government and the people of the U.S. and with having unlawfully manipulated money rates, wages, salaries and property values both real and personal, in the U.S. by unlawful operations in the open discount market and by resale and repurchase agreements unsanctioned by law, and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them jointly and severally, with having brought about the decline in prices on the New York Stock Exchange and other exchanges in October, 1929, by unlawful manipulation of money rates and the volume of U.S. money and currency in circulation: by theft of funds from the U.S. Treasury by gambling in acceptances and U.S. Government securities; by service rendered to foreign and domestic speculators and politicians, and by unlawful sale of U.S. gold reserves abroad, and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas the unconstitutional inflation law imbedded in the so-called Farm Relief Act by which the Fed Banks are given permission to buy U.S. Government securities to the extent of $3,000,000,000 and to drew forth currency from the people's Treasury to the extent of $3,000,000,000 is likely to result in connivance on the part of said accused with others in the purchase by the Fed of the U.S. Government securities to the extent of $3,000,000,000 with U.S. Government's own credit unlawfully taken, it being obvious that the Fed do no not intend to pay anything of value to the U.S. Government for the said U.S. Government securities no provision for payment in gold or lawful money appearing in the so-called Farm Relief bill- and the U.S. Government will thus be placed in a position of conferring a gift of $3,000,000,000 in the U.S. Government securities on the Fed to enable them to pay more on their bad debts to foreign governments, foreign central banks of issue, private interests, and private and commercial banks, both foreign and domestic, and the Bank of International Settlements, and</em><br />
<em>"Whereas the U.S. Government will thus go into debt to the extent of $3,000,000,000 and will then have an additional claim of $3,000,000,000 in currency unlawfully created against it and whereas no private interest should be permitted to buy U.S. Government securities with the Government's own credit unlawfully taken and whereas currency should not be issued for the benefit of said private interest or any interests on U.S. Government securities so acquired, and whereas it has been publicly stated and not denied that the inflation amendment of the Farm Relief Act is the matter of benefit which was secured by Ramsey MacDonald, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, upon the occasion of his latest visit to the U.S. Treasury, and whereas there is grave danger that the accused will employ the provision creating U.S. Government securities to the extent of $3,000,000,000 and three millions in currency to be issuable thereupon for the benefit of themselves and their foreign principals, and that they will convert the currency so obtained to the uses of Great Britain by secret arrangements with the Bank of England of which they are the agents, and for which they maintain an account and perform services at the expense of the U.S. Treasury, and that they will likewise confer benefits upon the Bank of International Settlements for which they maintain an account and perform services at the expense of the U.S. Treasury; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having concealed the insolvency of the Fed and with having failed to report the insolvency of the Fed to the Congress and with having conspired to have the said insolvent institutions continue in operation, and with having permitted the said insolvent institutions to receive U.S. Government funds and other deposits, and with having permitted them to exercise control over the gold reserves of the U.S. and with having permitted them to transfer upward of $100,000,000,000 of their debts and losses to the general public and the Government of the U.S., and with having permitted foreign debts of the Fed to be paid with the property, the savings, the wages, and the salaries of the people of the U.S. and with the farms and the homes of the American people, and whereas I charge them with forcing the bad debts of the Fed upon the general public covertly and dishonestly and with taking the general wealth and savings of the people of the U.S. under false pretenses, to pay the debts of the Fed to foreigners; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with violations of the Fed Act and other laws; with maladministration of the h evasions of the Fed Law and other laws; and with having unlawfully failed to report violations of law on the part of the Fed Banks which, if known, would have caused the Fed Banks to lose their charters, and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with failure to protect and maintain the gold reserves and the gold stock and gold coinage of the U.S. and with having sold the gold reserves of the U.S. to foreign Governments, foreign central banks of issue, foreign commercial and private banks, and other foreign institutions and individuals at a profit to themselves, and I charge them with having sold gold reserves of the U.S. so that between 1924 and 1928 the U.S. gained no gold on net account but suffered a decline in its percentage of central gold reserves from the 45.9 percent in 1924 to 37.5 percent in 1928 notwithstanding the fact that the U.S. had a favorable balance of trade throughout that period, and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having conspired to concentrate U.S. Government securities and thus the national debt of the U.S. in the hands of foreigners and international money lenders and with having conspired to transfer to foreigners and international money lenders title to and control of the financial resources of the U.S.; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having fictitiously paid installments on the national debt with Government credit unlawfully taken; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with the loss of the U.S. Government funds entrusted to their care; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having destroyed independent banks in the U.S. and with having thereby caused losses amounting to billions of dollars to the said banks, and to the general public of the U.S., and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with the failure to furnish true reports of the business operations and the true conditions of the Fed to the Congress and the people, and having furnished false and misleading reports to the congress of the U.S., and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having published false and misleading propaganda intended to deceive the American people and to cause the U.S. to lose its independence; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with unlawfully allowing Great Britain to share in the profits of the Fed at the expense of the Government and the people of the U.S.; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having entered into secret agreements and illegal transactions with Montague Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with swindling the U.S. Treasury and the people of the U.S. in pretending to have received payment from Great Britain of the amount due on the British ware debt to the U.S. in December, 1932; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having conspired with their foreign principals and others to defraud the U.S. Government and to prevent the people of the U.S. from receiving payment of the war debts due to the U.S. from foreign nations; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with having robbed the U.S. Government and the people of the U.S. by their theft and sale of the gold reserves of the U.S. and other unlawful transactions created a deficit in the U.S. Treasury, which has necessitated to a large extent the destruction of our national defense and the reduction of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy and other branches of the national defense; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, of having reduced the U.S. from a first class power to one that is dependent, and with having reduced the U.S. from a rich and powerful nation to one that is internationally poor; and</em><br />
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<em>"Whereas I charge them, jointly and severally, with the crime of having treasonable conspired and acted against the peace and security of the U.S. and with having treasonable conspired to destroy constitutional Government in the U.S.</em><br />
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<em>"Resolve, That the Committee on the Judiciary is authorized and directed as a whole or by subcommittee, to investigate the official conduct of the Fed agents to determine whether, in the opinion of the said committee, they have been guilty of any high crime or misdemeanor which in the contemplation the Constitution requires the interposition of the Constitutional powers of the House. Such Committee shall report its finding to the House, together with such resolution or resolutions of impeachment or other recommendations as it deems proper.</em><br />
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<em>"For the purpose of this resolution the Committee is authorized to sit and act during the present Congress at such times and places in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, whether or not the House is sitting, has recessed or has adjourned, to hold such clerical, stenographic, and other assistants, to require of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to take such testimony, to have such printing and binding done, and to make such expenditures as it deems necessary."</em></blockquote>After some discussion and upon the motion of Mr. Byrns, the resolution and charge was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.<br />
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<strong>"Attacks on McFadden's Life Reported"</strong><br />
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Commenting on Former Congressman Louis T. McFaddens's "heart-failure sudden-death" on Oct. 3, 1936, after a "dose" of "intestinal flu," "Pelley's Weekly" of Oct. 14 said:<br />
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<em><blockquote><em>Now that this sterling American patriot has made the Passing, it can be revealed that not long after his public utterance against the encroaching powers of Judah, it became known among his intimates that he had suffered two attacks against his life. The first attack came in the form of two revolver shots fired at him from ambush as he was alighting from a cab in front of one of the Capital hotels. Fortunately both shots missed him, the bullets burying themselves in the structure of the cab. </em><br />
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<em>"He became violently ill after partaking of food at a political banquet at Washington. His life was only saved from what was subsequently announced as a poisoning by the presence of a physician friend at the banquet, who at once procured a stomach pump and subjected the Congressman to emergency treatment."</em></blockquote></em>- Robert Edward Edmondson (Publicist-Economist)<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">President Andrew Jackson stated in reference to the bankers at the state of his administration: "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out."</div><div style="text-align: center;">______________________________________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></em></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-11361573178131208692010-11-15T00:55:00.002-06:002010-11-15T00:58:43.802-06:00ANNO LUCIS - The Year of Light<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Email from a Mason concerning Anno Lucis</div><blockquote style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em></em><br />
<blockquote style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><blockquote><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>"During my ascension through the ranks of Freemasonry (I will be exhalted in the Royal Arch in a few weeks), one of the things that I am researching vigorously is the origins of the Mason Calendar of Light, or "Anno Lucis" timetable. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF43ZtlmGyl_U5uznxW2M1p_fiF94zlG8DcETsr7wyhbq_e2ffktinagZ5SGvG-s5TtaP_Hz4Ca-U68-qxgPNpHtQ6FlcLbo7oXV5Dt14C8QEV9ljIJozV1M8Ung1Unnrn4ZxjXKv7SyI/s1600/3221262888_60ee16750d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF43ZtlmGyl_U5uznxW2M1p_fiF94zlG8DcETsr7wyhbq_e2ffktinagZ5SGvG-s5TtaP_Hz4Ca-U68-qxgPNpHtQ6FlcLbo7oXV5Dt14C8QEV9ljIJozV1M8Ung1Unnrn4ZxjXKv7SyI/s200/3221262888_60ee16750d.jpg" width="200" /></a><em>I came across an interesting book in the Masonic library last month, refuting the claim (often made by non-Masons or uninformed brethren) that the start of the AL dating, 4000 BC, is due to the Bishop Usher calculation of Genesis. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>Usher, you might know, counted backwards using the alleged ages of people in the Old Testament, and came up with the year 4004 BC for the date of creation. Just because the Usher date is close to the AL start date- 4004 instead of 4000 - many people just assume (due to Freemasonry's connections to Christianity) that the Masonic calendar is based on Usher.</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivUMDa6H6QP5XnXWj4mKPif1VMyeBn-T7IfLlLqZ4REnazc9va2Nh2iuKReaGMQo857MvWWWj5M84552G2NqniqgCgHA72-RT3jFlxiayyIa9Yn4aJakt0YEP50D7XiZS9EevTjYsm1ys/s1600/4057996702_204c0220f4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivUMDa6H6QP5XnXWj4mKPif1VMyeBn-T7IfLlLqZ4REnazc9va2Nh2iuKReaGMQo857MvWWWj5M84552G2NqniqgCgHA72-RT3jFlxiayyIa9Yn4aJakt0YEP50D7XiZS9EevTjYsm1ys/s200/4057996702_204c0220f4.jpg" width="200" /></a><em>However this old book, written in the 1700s, instead asserts that the A.L. date is based on a calendar created by an Isis cult from ancient Egypt. In the year 4000 the star Vela went supernova, and for months, if you were located near in the lattitudes of Egypt, you would have seen two suns. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The Vela explosion effectively created a "year of Light" by blazing away and preventing any night for most of the year 4000. The Isis priests apparently took this as a sign for a new era being born and started their calendar accordingly."</em></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-RdcpHU0ZsU2BJYr_Uq8VlxWhcb9lZLwPT8OjDi_z-Wat_fsBonhxKCzMVr2DAao73lHwa1Q5z26bZChElxNbQ2WsFQ-qM-ILG6KAVH2_0p-YwEzMyTYZS6WPoXzLrSP2tnvXE7bscRc/s1600/Capture+al.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="154" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-RdcpHU0ZsU2BJYr_Uq8VlxWhcb9lZLwPT8OjDi_z-Wat_fsBonhxKCzMVr2DAao73lHwa1Q5z26bZChElxNbQ2WsFQ-qM-ILG6KAVH2_0p-YwEzMyTYZS6WPoXzLrSP2tnvXE7bscRc/s200/Capture+al.PNG" width="200" /></a><em>This quote, from Bill Cooper's writings on the subject, refers to this theory:</em></div><blockquote><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>"According to many, the great pyramids were built to commemorate and observe a supernova explosion that occurred in the year 4000 B.C. Dr. Anthony Hewish, 1974 Nobel Prize winner in physics, discovered a rhythmic series of radio pulses which he proved were emissions from a star that had exploded around 4000 B.C. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The Freemasons begin their calendar from A.L., "In the Year of Light," found by adding 4000 to the modern year. Thus 1990 + 4000 = 5990 A.L. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>George Michanowsky wrote in The Once and Future Star that; </em></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em></em><br />
<blockquote style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><blockquote><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>"The ancient Sumerian cuneiform...described a giant star exploding within a triangle formed by...Zeta Puppis, Gamma Velorum, and Lambda Velorum...located in the southern sky....[An] accurate star catalogue now stated that the blazing star that had exploded within the triangle would again be seen by man in 6000 years." </em></div><br />
<em>According to the Freemason's calendar it will occur in the year 2000, and indeed it will."</em></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://illuminati-news.com/secret-societies-nwo.htm"><em><span style="color: blue;">http://illuminati-news.com/secret-societies-nwo.htm</span></em></a></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><em></em><br />
<blockquote><em>Cooper seems to be generally "right on", however his last bit, claiming that the star would appear again, obviously turned out to not be true. I have looked (extensively) and not found anything in any official Masonic writings on the subject referring to this prophecy, or the Calendar supposedly being oriented to the year 2000 for this purpose, so maybe he made that up or got it from a spurious conspiracy source. </em></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><em></em><br />
<blockquote><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Kl-QgZ723FxsvBpTm6OlUaphdNwJLRpPDCa4wIIsgYyCDOAb3ZeR49tnc7tfMiCVPxec8hYJpOjYS7YOTMwN1RB40yte5LLE3Lsp5zB1TgwHWwDdwr8EcFsrEv0nR5dCrwESfEjLR2k/s1600/MasonicCornerstone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Kl-QgZ723FxsvBpTm6OlUaphdNwJLRpPDCa4wIIsgYyCDOAb3ZeR49tnc7tfMiCVPxec8hYJpOjYS7YOTMwN1RB40yte5LLE3Lsp5zB1TgwHWwDdwr8EcFsrEv0nR5dCrwESfEjLR2k/s200/MasonicCornerstone.jpg" width="200" /></a><em>What seems beyond question is that the Masonic calendar is in fact based on the Egyptian source, and not Usher. You just can't explain away those missing four years, or the fact that both Egyptians and Masons call 4000 BC the "year of Light", the capper being that it actually WAS a "year of Light" if you were in Egypt.</em></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><em></em><br />
<blockquote><em>Another website offers more on the Vela stellar explosion, and also contains stuff from Sitchin about how it impacted the Sumerian culture:</em><br />
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</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>"The Vela supernova most likely occurred 6,000 years ago (although estimates range from 5,000 to 11,000 years). At a distance of 1,300 light years from earth the Vela X pulsar is three to four times </em><em>closer than the Crab Nebula. The supernova would have hung low on the horizon over the Mediterranean, a brilliant star shining as bright as the moon (-12.5 losing brightness at 4.5% per day). Due to defects in the cornea of the eye, a person viewing the supernova would see spikes a quarter to a third the diameter of the full moon (7.5 to 9 minutes of arc). </em></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em></em><br />
<blockquote><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>It would appear as an endlessly dancing, varying mass of fire, shooting spears of intense color every way like a fountain. The landscape and the observer would be flooded with pulsing illumination. Tossed flocks of shadow bands would animate the landscape, moving eerily through forest and town."</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>- Sources include Science Digest, Mar '81</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/vela/vela.html"><em><span style="color: blue;">http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/vela/vela.html</span></em></a><em><br />
</em></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">_______________________________________________</div></blockquote><blockquote style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">What Cooper was referring to that didn't happen in 2000 was <strong>Project Lucifer</strong>.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">They had planned a reenactment of 'The Year of Light', and wanted to make us a binary star system, complete with a capstone ceremony at Giza, but the plans for NWO weren't advanced far enough at the time....</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It was cancelled for 1/1/2000 with the Galileo probe and Jupiter, and then attempted in September 2003, and then again with the Cassini probe and Saturn in June 2008<br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">2003 - <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_luciferproject08.htm">http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_luciferproject08.htm</a></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">2008 - <a href="http://www.optcorp.com/edu/articleDetailEDU.aspx?aid=32">http://www.optcorp.com/edu/articleDetailEDU.aspx?aid=32</a></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://theuniversalseduction.com/articles/will-the-cassini-space-probe-be-used-as-a-nuclear-trigger-to-ignite-saturn-and-terraform-its-moons-for-human-colonization">http://theuniversalseduction.com/articles/will-the-cassini-space-probe-be-used-as-a-nuclear-trigger-to-ignite-saturn-and-terraform-its-moons-for-human-colonization</a><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpTE18Dcmw4i7DOX08MSltfSdXuxWEIAFYqmI9xFQ_M_ND4oIRRRsb5HM-ppV0TEainH_fFS8ndBzSXwVt9pLm5QQC623sixBFxK8dzveKZNwHaPQa0Oy5gKye855kx8n4SO1KWOAfhCs/s1600/2000+A.D%253D6000+A.L..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpTE18Dcmw4i7DOX08MSltfSdXuxWEIAFYqmI9xFQ_M_ND4oIRRRsb5HM-ppV0TEainH_fFS8ndBzSXwVt9pLm5QQC623sixBFxK8dzveKZNwHaPQa0Oy5gKye855kx8n4SO1KWOAfhCs/s1600/2000+A.D%253D6000+A.L..jpg" /></a>Fortunately is was bad science.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I picked this up from a Masonic site near the end of 1999 when there was the attempt to </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">create fear and panic with the Y2K bug.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">_____________________________</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-62495744755464229032010-10-20T08:24:00.000-05:002010-10-20T08:24:28.330-05:00THE AMERO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO3KsaMRaSZmGbwnriLS__f22kz9vAczCeXTbd2jBSOmpY2ytQ0nAxonFtP5OAyB7weMOjS3Qtekew51HmSeb7VxrIPuVohZrBsJWpsucA15sh9qAKPR-LoYEt6zOuRKL6bvF30dXKyp0/s1600/1+Amero+note.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO3KsaMRaSZmGbwnriLS__f22kz9vAczCeXTbd2jBSOmpY2ytQ0nAxonFtP5OAyB7weMOjS3Qtekew51HmSeb7VxrIPuVohZrBsJWpsucA15sh9qAKPR-LoYEt6zOuRKL6bvF30dXKyp0/s400/1+Amero+note.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqu-9uPXsnsQl-D_WaOxnWnP65WrCfab4eJNB7yiwmeLS1GFrFH35-8bw79hAKNAVhiNJNIVQFQvwjvb_CSFhGZu1deJ4FRme4_rHFF6pDN1dVE7pglufj8HR60LjfUAHOsOrmBGKXneM/s1600/5+Amero+note.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqu-9uPXsnsQl-D_WaOxnWnP65WrCfab4eJNB7yiwmeLS1GFrFH35-8bw79hAKNAVhiNJNIVQFQvwjvb_CSFhGZu1deJ4FRme4_rHFF6pDN1dVE7pglufj8HR60LjfUAHOsOrmBGKXneM/s400/5+Amero+note.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Harry Leroy Mobley, Sr.</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">10/12/1932- 9/30/2010</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(this is an open post and comments and memories will be accepted and added)</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_pL_aboKVTFoVYICoImCZ_oiWWebYBhPe9nnjDYesjYtGdMj-cd9tcvWJQSeWi46Q1TMaUaI2bzFiYgAPfEo9qBP4rNqbK7gfy96eImL6hY_xYn5RGksKQa0rb-nueEzToTwIXVD3E6U/s1600/dad2+cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_pL_aboKVTFoVYICoImCZ_oiWWebYBhPe9nnjDYesjYtGdMj-cd9tcvWJQSeWi46Q1TMaUaI2bzFiYgAPfEo9qBP4rNqbK7gfy96eImL6hY_xYn5RGksKQa0rb-nueEzToTwIXVD3E6U/s200/dad2+cropped.jpg" width="195" /></a>On the morning of Thursday, September 30th, 2010, Harry L. Mobley, Sr. passed away in the loving care of his wife after a lengthy and brave battle with cancer.<br />
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He died at his home of 46 years, 2395 Brown Lane, in Florissant, Missouri. This was made possible through the BJC Hospice program.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">He had waived all medical treatment, and decided to finish his days being with people he loved and doing those of his favorite things of which he was still capable; which included watching old westerns on TV, playing games like Yahtzee at the table with Mom, and his usual wisecracks.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-PF5rC3zrx20LLNbPLE100RQe35IOS8w3-zS6Tb4RP84Aiwb2NQp1xvhxkkcmFTqbaLfbMdP3TdDO4Bo3EzaFqF5VeNbaeE5sL1amvqBZhWtMdIZkASb3xXe36_F3EpjvXtcHKyVtCQ/s1600/eulogy2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-PF5rC3zrx20LLNbPLE100RQe35IOS8w3-zS6Tb4RP84Aiwb2NQp1xvhxkkcmFTqbaLfbMdP3TdDO4Bo3EzaFqF5VeNbaeE5sL1amvqBZhWtMdIZkASb3xXe36_F3EpjvXtcHKyVtCQ/s200/eulogy2.jpg" width="176" /></a>If he was in pain, he never let it show, and handled the end of his life the same way that he lived - at his own speed and on his own terms. After making sure that his final accomodations were set up and that his family was prepared, he simply stopped breathing.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">His final words were, " I had almost forgotten. Life is so simple."</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">______________</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Harry was born to Hugh Lafayette Mobley, and Zella Marie Myers Mobley Kurtz in their home in Greenwood , Mississippi on the bank of the Yazoo River.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwRQTJH0ybjAemZZCTtdc2Zg21oEL22RmYHySjfssbyzTZS3ZkZxvNcy4R8pUGIOG3GdKGVdhGk2f5rgyOKGkcNNdBhZT-omce3zpgBOP4BW3b_YY5C3WY-fwNtEftxU7-QgSY8ahhkk/s1600/eulogy5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIwRQTJH0ybjAemZZCTtdc2Zg21oEL22RmYHySjfssbyzTZS3ZkZxvNcy4R8pUGIOG3GdKGVdhGk2f5rgyOKGkcNNdBhZT-omce3zpgBOP4BW3b_YY5C3WY-fwNtEftxU7-QgSY8ahhkk/s200/eulogy5.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">After graduating Greenwood High School in 1952, he joined the US Army and served in a Signal Battalion from 1954 to 1956.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">He worked for WABG Radio, Supreme Electronics, and Greenwood Utilities before moving his family to Florissant in 1963 and going to work for McDonnell Aircraft (now Boeing). He retired in 1995 after 33 years.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Harry loved spending time with his family, attending church, going to bluegrass music festivals, and trips to the beach.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Sarah Katherine Lee Mobley, and his children; Harry Jr., and Terry of Alton, Illinois, Gary Keith of Florissant, Kathy Lynn Mobley of Kirksville, Missouri, and Leslie Karen Mobley, of Shalimar, Florida.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfInt0sXRlxTYDL5fatY5cM_DNqPcwMdcQ-En0fxnMxpg5TckkzFp8YNLgbRaK1wEmoYnGNZEhkuSFB4JoRqf3-M69f7pef3kii9I-Vy0QxTshVYNw6kHtwCyNd66Si7zG6gbebK_sTh0/s1600/eulogy3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfInt0sXRlxTYDL5fatY5cM_DNqPcwMdcQ-En0fxnMxpg5TckkzFp8YNLgbRaK1wEmoYnGNZEhkuSFB4JoRqf3-M69f7pef3kii9I-Vy0QxTshVYNw6kHtwCyNd66Si7zG6gbebK_sTh0/s200/eulogy3.jpg" width="160" /></a>He also leaves his eight grandchildren; Paul, David, Mark, Doris, Michael, Sarah, Shane and Jonah; and two great-grandchildren, Olivia, and Kaiden. </div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">His only two siblings preceded him in death. They were Freda Rutledge, and Jesse Mobley. <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">As he wished, there were no services, and his body was cremated, and his remains are now at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetary in St. Louis, Missouri.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
We, as his family, chose to wait and make the announcement until after we could gather and spend time together in remembrance.<br />
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There need be no sadness or grieving. We all just feel extremely lucky to have him as a part of our lives for as long as we did.<br />
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<em><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(comments below)</span></em></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-53451245515964552992010-08-15T10:59:00.006-05:002010-09-01T21:44:02.829-05:00THE STORY OF YOUR ENSLAVEMENT<div style="text-align: center;">"This is the story of your enslavement;<br />
how it came to be, and how you can finally be free.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNAufZzfi4s7j6yh0-B3uJVlnJf6Ag1g4F6oFxNhoBklx3mPzuZKyidmqyuSi4YooaP856iCvwkbtyDcM35TAcDnYUW-8VD2azmCoymmnSxkIOW4vHl9oohncNykZ0nvhz1X1CWILzaQ/s1600/NWO+sand+castle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNAufZzfi4s7j6yh0-B3uJVlnJf6Ag1g4F6oFxNhoBklx3mPzuZKyidmqyuSi4YooaP856iCvwkbtyDcM35TAcDnYUW-8VD2azmCoymmnSxkIOW4vHl9oohncNykZ0nvhz1X1CWILzaQ/s320/NWO+sand+castle.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>Like all animals, human beings want to dominate and exploit the resources around them.<br />
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At first, we mostly hunted and fished and ate off the land - but then something magical and terrible happened to our minds.<br />
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We became, alone among the animals, afraid of death, and of future loss.<br />
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And this was the start of a great tragedy, and an even greater possibility...<br />
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You see, when we became afraid of death, of injury, and imprisonment, we became controllable -- and so valuable -- in a way that no other resource could ever be.<br />
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The greatest resource for any human being to control is not natural resources, or tools, or animals or land -- but other human beings.<br />
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You can frighten an animal, because animals are afraid of pain in the moment, but you cannot frighten an animal with a loss of liberty, or with torture or imprisonment in the future, because animals have very little sense of tomorrow.<br />
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You cannot threaten a cow with torture, or a sheep with death. You cannot swing a sword at a tree and scream at it to produce more fruit, or hold a burning torch to a field and demand more wheat.<br />
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You cannot get more eggs by threatening a hen - but you can get a man to give you his eggs by threatening him.<br />
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Human farming has been the most profitable -- and destructive -- occupation throughout history, and it is now reaching its destructive climax.<br />
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Human society cannot be rationally understood until it is seen for what it is: a series of farms where human farmers own human livestock.<br />
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Some people get confused because governments provide healthcare and water and education and roads, and thus imagine that there is some benevolence at work.<br />
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Nothing could be further from reality.<br />
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Farmers provide healthcare and irrigation and training to their livestock.<br />
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Some people get confused because we are allowed certain liberties, and thus imagine that our government protects our freedoms.<br />
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But farmers plant their crops a certain distance apart to increase their yields -- and will allow certain animals larger stalls or fields if it means they will produce more meat and milk.<br />
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In your country, your tax farm, your farmer grants you certain freedoms not because he cares about your liberties, but because he wants to increase his profits.<br />
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Are you beginning to see the nature of the cage you were born into?<br />
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There have been four major phases of human farming.<br />
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The first phase, in ancient Egypt, was direct and brutal human compulsion. Human bodies were controlled, but the creative productivity of the human mind remained outside the reach of the whip and the brand and the shackles. Slaves remained woefully underproductive, and required enormous resources to control.<br />
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The second phase was the Roman model, wherein slaves were granted some capacity for freedom, ingenuity and creativity, which raised their productivity. This increased the wealth of Rome, and thus the tax income of the Roman government - and with this additional wealth, Rome became an empire, destroying the economic freedoms that fed its power, and collapsed.<br />
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I'm sure that this does not seem entirely unfamiliar.<br />
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After the collapse of Rome, the feudal model introduced the concept of livestock ownership and taxation. Instead of being directly owned, peasants farmed land that they could retain as long as they paid off the local warlords. This model broke down due to the continual subdivision of productive land, and was destroyed during the Enclosure movement, when land was consolidated, and hundreds of thousands of peasants were kicked off their ancestral lands, because new farming techniques made larger farms more productive with fewer people.<br />
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The increased productivity of the late Middle Ages created the excess food required for the expansion of towns and cities, which in turn gave rise to the modern Democratic model of human ownership.<br />
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As displaced peasants flooded into the cities, a huge stock of cheap human capital became available to the rising industrialists - and the ruling class of human farmers quickly realized that they could make more money by letting their livestock choose their own occupations.<br />
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Under the Democratic model, direct slave ownership has been replaced by the Mafia model. The Mafia rarely owns businesses directly, but rather sends thugs around once a month to steal from the business "owners."<br />
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You are now allowed to choose your own occupation, which raises your productivity - and thus the taxes you can pay to your masters.<br />
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Your few freedoms are preserved because they are profitable to your owners.<br />
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The great challenge of the Democratic model is that increases in wealth and freedom threaten the farmers. The ruling classes initially profit from a relatively free market in capital and labor, but as their livestock become more used to their freedoms and growing wealth, they begin to question why they need rulers at all.<br />
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Ah well. Nobody ever said that human farming was easy.<br />
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Keeping the tax livestock securely in the compounds of the ruling classes is a three phase process.<br />
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The first is to indoctrinate the young through government "education." As the wealth of democratic countries grew, government schools were universally inflicted in order to control the thoughts and souls of the livestock.<br />
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The second is to turn citizens against each other through the creation of dependent livestock.<br />
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It is very difficult to rule human beings directly through force -- and where it can be achieved, it remains cripplingly underproductive, as can be seen in North Korea. Human beings do not breed well or produce efficiently in direct captivity.<br />
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If human beings believe that they are free, then they will produce much more for their farmers. The best way to maintain this illusion of freedom is to put some of the livestock on the payroll of the farmer.<br />
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Those cows that become dependent on the existing hierarchy will then attack any other cows who point out the violence, hypocrisy and immorality of human ownership.<br />
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Freedom is slavery, and slavery is freedom.<br />
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If you can get the cows to attack each other whenever anybody brings up the reality of their situation, then you don't have to spend nearly as much controlling them directly.<br />
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Those cows who become dependent upon the stolen largess of the farmer will violently oppose any questioning of the virtue of human ownership -- and the intellectual and artistic classes, always and forever dependent upon the farmers -- will say, to anyone who demands freedom from ownership: "You will harm your fellow cows.<br />
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The livestock are kept enclosed by shifting the moral responsibility for the destructiveness of a violent system to those who demand real freedom.<br />
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The third phase is to invent continual external threats, so that the frightened livestock cling to the "protection" of the farmers.<br />
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This system of human farming is now nearing its end.<br />
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The terrible tragedy of the modern American system has occurred not in spite of, but because of past economic freedoms.<br />
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The massive increases in American wealth throughout the 19th century resulted from economic freedom -- and it was this very increase in wealth that fed the size and power of the state.<br />
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Whenever the livestock become exponentially more productive, you get a corresponding increase in the number of farmers and their dependents.<br />
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The growth of the state is always proportional to the preceding economic freedoms.<br />
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Economic freedoms create wealth, and the wealth attracts more thieves and political parasites, whose greed then destroys the economic freedoms.<br />
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In other words, freedom metastasizes the cancer of the state.<br />
The government that starts off the smallest will always end up the largest.<br />
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This is why there can be no viable and sustainable alternative to a truly free and peaceful society.<br />
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A society without political rulers, without human ownership, without the violence of taxation and statism...<br />
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To be truly free is both very easy, and very hard.<br />
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We avoid the horror of our enslavement because it is painful to see it directly.<br />
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We dance around the violence of our dying system because we fear the attacks of our fellow livestock.<br />
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But we can only be kept in the cages we refuse to see.<br />
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Wake up.<br />
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To see the farm is to leave it."<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Text from video 'The Story Of Your Enslavement'</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>view video here:</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A"><em><span style="color: blue;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A</span></em></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>____________________________</strong></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-16343104679650325142010-07-11T13:06:00.004-05:002010-07-24T08:02:43.482-05:00There Are Two Socialisms<blockquote><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://images.world66.com/ne/ve/_o/neve_og_rose_fist_galleryfull" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><em><img border="0" height="320" rw="true" src="http://images.world66.com/ne/ve/_o/neve_og_rose_fist_galleryfull" width="259" /></em></a><em>"There are two Socialisms. </em></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>One is communistic, the other solidaritarian. </em><br />
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<em>One is dictatorial, the other libertarian. </em><br />
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<em>One is metaphysical, the other positive. </em><br />
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<em>One is dogmatic, the other scientific. </em><br />
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<em>One is emotional, the other reflective. </em><br />
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<em>One is destructive, the other constructive. </em><br />
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<em>Both are in pursuit of the greatest possible welfare for all. </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>One aims to establish happiness for all, the other to enable each to be happy in his own way. </em><br />
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<em>The first regards the State as a society sui generis, of an especial essence, the product of a sort of divine right outside of and above all society, with special rights and able to exact special obediences; the second considers the State as an association like any other, generally managed worse than others. </em><br />
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</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The first proclaims the sovereignty of the State, the second recognizes no sort of sovereign. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>One wishes all monopolies to be held by the State; the other wishes the abolition of all monopolies. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>One wishes the governed class to become the governing class; the other wishes the disappearance of classes. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1370/558237467_76fe9f7c89.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><em><img border="0" height="140" rw="true" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1370/558237467_76fe9f7c89.jpg" width="200" /></em></a><em>Both declare that the existing state of things cannot last. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The first considers revolutions as the indispensable agent of evolutions; the second teaches that repression alone turns evolutions into revolution. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The first has faith in a cataclysm. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The second knows that social progress will result from the free play of individual efforts. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>Both understand that we are entering upon a new historic phase. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1a/Red_Rose_(Socialism).svg/424px-Red_Rose_(Socialism).svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><em></em></a><em>One wishes that there should be none but proletaires. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The other wishes that there should be no more proletaires. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The first wishes to take everything away from everybody. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The second wishes to leave each in possession of its own. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The one wishes to expropriate everybody. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The other wishes everybody to be a proprietor. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The first says: 'Do as the government wishes." </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The second says: 'Do as you wish yourself.' </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The former threatens with despotism. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The latter promises liberty. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The former makes the citizen the subject of the State. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The latter makes the State the employee of the citizen. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>One proclaims that labor pains will be necessary to the birth of a new world.</em></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1a/Red_Rose_(Socialism).svg/424px-Red_Rose_(Socialism).svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" rw="true" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1a/Red_Rose_(Socialism).svg/424px-Red_Rose_(Socialism).svg.png" width="141" /></a><em>The other declares that real progress will not cause suffering to any one. </em></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The first has confidence in social war. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The other believes only in the works of peace. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>One aspires to command, to regulate, to legislate. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The other wishes to attain the minimum of command, of regulation, of legislation.</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>One would be followed by the most atrocious of reactions. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The other opens unlimited horizons to progress. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The first will fail; the other will succeed. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>Both desire equality. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>One by lowering heads that are too high. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The other by raising heads that are too low. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>One sees equality under a common yoke. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The other will secure equality in complete liberty. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>One is intolerant, the other tolerant. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>One frightens, the other reassures. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The first wishes to instruct everybody. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The second wishes to enable everybody to instruct himself. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The first wishes to support everybody. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The second wishes to enable everybody to support himself. </em></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.believeallthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/weareallsocialistsnownewsweekcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><em><img border="0" height="200" rw="true" src="http://www.believeallthings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/weareallsocialistsnownewsweekcover.jpg" width="151" /></em></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>One says: </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The land to the State </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The mine to the State </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The tool to the State</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The product to the State </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The other says: </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The land to the cultivator. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The mine to the miner. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The tool to the laborer. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>The product to the producer. </em></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>There are only these two Socialisms. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>One is the infancy of Socialism; the other is its manhood. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>One is already the past; the other is the future. </em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><br />
</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: large;">One will give place to the other</span></strong>......... "</em></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>~ Ernest Lesigne - Liberty V, 10 (December 17, 1887), No. 114, p. 5.</strong></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">____________</span></em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">The top two photos are of the "Neve Og Rose" or the "Fist and Rose".</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">This sculpture is in Oslo, Norway and stands in front of the building where the Oslo Accord meetings were held. These were planning sessions for the New World Order.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">The "Fist and Rose" is the official logo of the Socialist International.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.socialistinternational.org/"><span style="color: blue;"><em><strong>http://www.socialistinternational.org/</strong></em></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">Socialism pretends to be all snuggly and warm with everyone in the embrace of a loving 'Big Brother' who takes care of all our needs and asks for nothing in return.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">We see the offer of the Rose, and are intoxicated by the aroma and beauty, and we are willing to suffer a few pricks from the thorns for the good of humanity and the beauty we percieve but we forget about the Fist which follows.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">The petals die and fall away all too soon, and all we have left is the the fist and the pricks. ;)</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">Oh look. They are already forgetting about the rose...</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><a href="http://isonoho.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;"><em><strong>http://isonoho.blogspot.com/</strong></em></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">______________________________________</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><a href="http://flagspot.net/images/d/de-1933.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="120" rw="true" src="http://flagspot.net/images/d/de-1933.gif" width="200" /></a>Socialism = NAZI </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/704277/posts"><span style="color: blue;"><em><strong>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/704277/posts</strong></em></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">Hitler was a Socialist. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">NAZI meant 'National Socialism'.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">______________________________________</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">Our indoctrination began in grade school...</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><a href="http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html"><span style="color: blue;"><em><strong>http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html</strong></em></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">______________________________________</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">History's lessons on this subject have been all too painful...</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><strong>PROS AND CONS OF SOCIALISM</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><em><a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/Experiments-in-Socialism"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>http://hubpages.com/hub/Experiments-in-Socialism</strong></span></a></em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: right;">...let's not allow another repeat.<br />
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<blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."</strong></span></em></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">– Norman Thomas, American socialist</span></div><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><em><span style="font-size: xx-small;">by harry mobley 7/11/2010</span></em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><strong>_______________________________________________________</strong></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-63215938702793920542010-06-13T01:24:00.014-05:002011-05-01T14:59:48.223-05:00Heaven and Hell<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The fear of a 'Hell' and the promise of a 'Heaven' control the behavior of a very large percentage of the Earth's peoples. <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This is a look at the basis of these beliefs.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>HELL</strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMJG8O3KV5ASkZU476F8KJEuzb91uNbmoYR-HIXRRGyZ0f-Oif2jGp2pEdj3vkDrCdUJkF08b5qUP6dksHqxe65F39jbttQamtUFVuO93T_7yxjck_yA4QxUj-2yqBcFpFO1LuUvBEMrc/s1600/map+of+ancient+jerusalem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: right; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMJG8O3KV5ASkZU476F8KJEuzb91uNbmoYR-HIXRRGyZ0f-Oif2jGp2pEdj3vkDrCdUJkF08b5qUP6dksHqxe65F39jbttQamtUFVuO93T_7yxjck_yA4QxUj-2yqBcFpFO1LuUvBEMrc/s320/map+of+ancient+jerusalem.jpg" width="244" /></a>'Hell' is a fictitious place, but it is based on a very real location.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">In Biblical times, it was called the 'Valley of Hinnom','The Valley of the Son of Hinnom' or 'Gehenna'. </div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It was the former worship site of people who built sacrificial fires beneath their own children in the outstretched arms of the Bull God, Moloch, during the Age of Taurus approximately 4500 years previously.<br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It was a hot, rocky valley with 'biting winds' on the Southwest edge of Jerusalem and was used as the town dump / crematory / leper colony / cesspool.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Fires burned constantly, the stench from waste was horrible, and ash and embers fell from the sky. <br />
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There was weeping and wailing from mourners beside the funeral pyres, and moans from the lepers who had been cast out of the city, and subsisted on the scraps of food brought by people taking out their trash.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Upper Jerusalem had a sewage drainage system which terminated into the Valley of Hinnom, making the smell even worse</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyEVUTr1wsOPu4diYxu1VPDCUYYy7EtnxbpBC-8nPacLdr_pRjw9Y-sGq5LJoITDhv-6VYdYFws0Gbiz4odOcDAA8cYT4KDMQnT-uODIiTEQ89ZlpPqjpBF9fyzb2hxnlG_2ZH8PR7aLU/s1600/Jerusalem-11942.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyEVUTr1wsOPu4diYxu1VPDCUYYy7EtnxbpBC-8nPacLdr_pRjw9Y-sGq5LJoITDhv-6VYdYFws0Gbiz4odOcDAA8cYT4KDMQnT-uODIiTEQ89ZlpPqjpBF9fyzb2hxnlG_2ZH8PR7aLU/s200/Jerusalem-11942.jpg" width="200" /></a>Parents would bring their children to the funerals, and told them that they had to be good, or they would end up in this awful place when they died. The children saw it with their own eyes and knew it to be true.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This photo shows what 'Hell' looks like in modern times.<br />
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What would it have been like to be looking over Jesusalem's South wall<br />
at night? What they saw and heard is recorded in the Bible.</div><br />
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<strong>HEAVEN</strong><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LFvDyTZslBERTBlAR-oDyBromi0ziv_1HFFHDKBg2lpYPVUnpquT0MTOtjDE31C1wJAxCfzuMD5rUm20rAzrbhweKKjVTTRzl2lq2ygUBhtQMQWkqQTLoJXjscF6c08TJj0coh6ooyU/s1600/son-sun+between+pillars-gates+of+heaven.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: right; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LFvDyTZslBERTBlAR-oDyBromi0ziv_1HFFHDKBg2lpYPVUnpquT0MTOtjDE31C1wJAxCfzuMD5rUm20rAzrbhweKKjVTTRzl2lq2ygUBhtQMQWkqQTLoJXjscF6c08TJj0coh6ooyU/s200/son-sun+between+pillars-gates+of+heaven.jpg" width="163" /></a>Heaven was the place in the sky where God resided - but God was the Sun/ aka 'Horus' - before he was made 'flesh' in allegory and the name was changed to 'Jesus'. </div><br />
The people worshipped a triune, or three-way God - a God with three main aspects:<br />
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<strong>God</strong> - the yellow glowing orb in the sky - the source. Undescribable because no one can stand to look directly at it without being blinded.<br />
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<strong>The Sun of God</strong> - The light from 'God' that travels to Earth, and casts away the <strong>d</strong>ark <strong>evil</strong> (devil). It's vitamin D cures many illnesses<br />
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<strong>The Holy Spirit / Ghost</strong> - the Sun's radiant heat; which can be felt, but not seen.<br />
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This became our '<strong>Trinity</strong>'.</div><br />
But people were begging for a 'more personal God', and religion aims to please.<br />
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The 'Gates of Heaven' were the lines that marked the furthest reaches of the Sun's travels to the North and South of the equator. <br />
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It's two gate pillars were The Tropic of Cancer, and the Tropic of Capricorn... otherwise known as 'Jachin' and 'Boaz', and The Pillars of Hercules.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62QUq0jveKW8nKuOz9hb3xzg8UxaHAM0tLpUE1f3IVs_Yj6oyq9-OmkJT5OmWMoN3Se8EOjDuiRVtuUtQMvV99H2SGnJY2NIEXgbW4SoMBhUIjkXs8hyf2-HT92rnFixvU_Ietrw_-6o/s1600/Jesus-zodiac-pisces.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj62QUq0jveKW8nKuOz9hb3xzg8UxaHAM0tLpUE1f3IVs_Yj6oyq9-OmkJT5OmWMoN3Se8EOjDuiRVtuUtQMvV99H2SGnJY2NIEXgbW4SoMBhUIjkXs8hyf2-HT92rnFixvU_Ietrw_-6o/s200/Jesus-zodiac-pisces.jpg" width="200" /></a>These imaginary lines bound the Sun by day, and by night became the Northern and Southern limits of the constellations of the Zodiac. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The people divided this band of the night sky into twelve segments, or 'houses', and designated them according to the natural annual cycles that they observed:<br />
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Scorpio - when the hot stinging winds came out of the desert.<br />
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Leo - when the lions, because of the heat, spent all their time near the watering holes - which made it very dangerous to go there.<br />
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Libra - the balance - when the days and nights were equal in length.<br />
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Aquarius - when the spring floods came.<br />
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Cancer - when the water backed off of the land ... moving as a crab.<br />
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Taurus - when it was time to use the ox and plow the fields.<br />
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Aries - when the lambs came forth from the ewe.<br />
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Virgo - the maiden with a bundle of wheat - harvest time.<br />
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...and so on..</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">These constellations were also the basis of the stories of The Twelve Apostles during the Age of Pisces (Jesus / New Testament), and The Twelve Tribes during the Age of Aries (Moses / Old Testament).</div></div><br />
Those stars not in the main constellations were called 'The Hosts of Heaven', or 'Angels'.<br />
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Meteorites / shooting stars were thought to be 'fallen angels' cast down from Heaven.<br />
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see also:<br />
<a href="http://www.crichtonmiller.com/heaven.htm"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.crichtonmiller.com/heaven.htm</span></a><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: xx-small;">by harry mobley 6/13/2010</span></em><br />
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</div>How do "they" control the world?<br />
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The quick and thorough explanation of everything.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This is a simple explanation of how "they" control the world. This will explain how and why "they" killed John F. Kennedy, what "they" were doing in Vietnam, not to mention explaining one hundred years of unexplainable foreign policy and wars. You will see who "they" are. Also, you will learn how "they" control what the people think, and how "they" do it. <br />
</div>Ten thousand years ago when civilization began, commerce was simply trading. Trading goods is a reliable economic method, because the value of your economy always equals the value of goods within the economy. There is no such thing as debt spending, or trade deficits, or monetary policy. You simply produce and trade what you produce. <br />
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Trading was simplified with coins, but value of trade was still maintained. Many coins had value of their metal, so they stayed intrinsically stable. The big change of civilization began when a group of people called Goldsmiths began to print receipts for their gold holdings. These receipts supposedly had the value of the gold in deposit. Of course, unchecked corruption began unchecked gold receipt printing, and thus for the first time, "shadow" control of economies. <br />
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Proving control by this shadow government is simple. One simply needs to look at the latest Forbes' richest person list. One will find that a software giant like Bill Gates can top the list with a measly $20 billion dollars, while the owners of the largest international banks and oil companies aren't even billionaires. How can this be possible? The trillions of profit dollars a year from world's national debts and oil far exceeds the millions made in software. The yearly interest on national debts around the world (just US national debt is $7 trillion) could buy out Bill Gates' Microsoft without breaking a sweat. <br />
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The power and control of the money printers, or "bankers" wasn't always in the shadows. During the 1800s, their blatant and arrogant control over governments and foreign policy began to outrage the public. <br />
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The repercussions of the backlash called for a new secretive control system inflicted upon the planet during the 1900s. In the late 1800s, the prevalent anger of these bankers in Europe (who happened to be mainly Jewish) is what sparked the anti-Semitism which led to the holocaust. The irony being that the Nazi Party was funded and supported by these bankers (Jewish or not) which proves they care more about profits than their fellow man. <br />
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In these early years, the media and leaders had openly discussed bankers by name, and their excesses in power. In Germany, Otto Van Bismark said, <em></em><br />
<blockquote><em>"I fear that Jewish banks with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and will use it to systematically corrupt modern civilization. The Jews will not hesitate to plunge the whole of Christendom into wars and chaos in order that the earth should become the inheritance of Israel."</em></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Interview by C. Seim, La Vieille France, March, 1921.)</span></blockquote> The German leader specifically was talking about the Rothschild banking family. <br />
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Do our national debt payments go to international bankers? If one out of every 20 American citizens held the bond debt of the United States, those U.S. citizens would each have on average 60 million dollars in bonds. Any reasonable person knows this isn't possible. This debt is owed to private banking institutions, and anybody can prove this themselves with simple research. <br />
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Now we can address a crucial piece of information, which is that the Federal Reserve Bank is not part of the Treasury Department, or any branch of government. The Federal Reserve Bank is a private bank, privately owned. This is not classified, one can simply ask them, check their web site, or find out in a number of ways. The Federal Reserve Act was initially brought to Congress as the Aldrich Act, named after the banker who wrote it. <br />
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The power to print money is arguably the most powerful ability on the planet. Americans owe their worth to pieces of paper which say "Federal Reserve," a private bank established in 1913. <br />
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During the 1800s, the central bank was the biggest issue of the United States. Although we aren't taught this in school, much of the writings from Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, to Abraham Lincoln are entrenched with their opinion of these bankers' power. <br />
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For some reason, this has been written out of history, despite the fact that the coming and going of central banks has been the basis of elections for the first hundred years in this country. <br />
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Andrew Jackson, who ran exclusively on the banking issue and won, killed the central bank for the second time in 1836! One could claim that the end of the First National Bank, and the immediate followup of the 1812 war was a coincidence. Wars are never a coincidence. <br />
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Congressman Charles Lindbergh said about the 1913 Federal Reserve Act,<em> "When the President [Wilson] signs this Bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized." </em><br />
Why is it so important to be the one who prints money? <br />
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This should be obvious, but has outstretching reaches further than most people could imagine. I already mentioned that there was a time when the money printing was a receipt for gold that actually existed. Now the money doesn't actually have any value, so it can be simply printed at will. <br />
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Even if we still were still on a gold standard, the bankers own and control the price of gold. Having the ability to print money at will through Federal Reserve loans and non-backed "foreign support" is the regular practice of the international private bankers. This means that an economy can simply be boomed or busted by a whim of a banker. What popular economists call the "business cycle" should actually be called the "banker cycle."<br />
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If you printed your own currency, you would be locked away. <br />
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During the Great Depression, Automaker Henry Ford said, <em></em><br />
<blockquote><em>"It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." </em></blockquote><br />
How do these bankers keep an entire world secretly brainwashed? <br />
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It's not as difficult as one might think, especially for somebody who controls every aspect of the world's economy. <br />
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The control is as simple as this: Fund what you need, bankrupt/discredit what you dislike. Its that simple. <br />
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It applies as large scale as governments of nations, and as small scale as talk show hosts. It applies to elected officials, CEOs, foreign officials, media companies, and the list goes on. Having the media and elected officials in your pocket means you can create policy, persuade populations, or choose a Federal Reserve chairman. The ambition of this monarchy doesn't stop there. <br />
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Bankers created the Civil War in America simply by funding the separatists in the south. With research, one can find that every nation, whether "friend or foe," has been funded and put in power by those in the driving seats of the banks. If you search education and Public Broadcasting, you will see the many bankers providing the funds: Rockefeller, Carnagie, Warburg. <br />
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This gets a little more complicated, when we cover foreign policy. If a banker wanted country A to attack country B, they would need to do three things.....<br />
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One is convince their "elected" officials. Two is convince to public. Three is to create the "justifications" which slip these mindsets into actions. <br />
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Creating justifications (these include Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania, blowing up the Maine, September 11, etc) demonstrates the bankers' control over the military, and especially the "National Intelligence" sector of the military. This is extremely important, and once again, not very difficult for those who have top public officials in their pocket. <br />
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In 1962, the Department of Defense created a now declassified document called "Operation Northwoods, the justification for military intervention in Cuba." The cold hearted manipulation of a "justification" can be summarized in one line of the document which reads, "Blow up US ship, blame Cuba." It seems mad, yet this is standard operating procedure of our Military Industrial Complex. <br />
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It is too simple to say that "they" control the CIA, or they control the president. You can say that "they" stack the White House with their goons, as they stack every institution or nation. <br />
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Using influence, they put their goons in the CIA. This explains why the CIA is stacked with criminals, from every drug dealing Mafia of the world. Since "they" are criminals, "they" need criminals with National Security clearance to perform their tasks. <br />
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This also explains why nobody can figure out who killed JFK. Was it the Mafia? Was it the CIA? Was it anti-Cuban nationals from the failed Bay of Pigs operation? YES. The Mafia criminals on the CIA payroll who worked on the Bay of Pigs operation, such as Johnny Roselli, were in charge of the JFK assassination operation. Consequently, Johnny Roselli ended up dead when the 1978 Select Congressional Assassinations committee requested his presence. Apparently, the evidence linking to the real killers isn't nearly as hidden as the media has been convincing the public. <br />
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Why did "they" kill the president? Well, the president must have figured out who "they" are, because in his last few months alive, he tried to destroy the Federal Reserve Bank and reign in control of the CIA. <br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">[Speech given by JFK ten days before his assasssination - </span><br />
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I still haven't mentioned the ongoing institutions that have been crucial for broad control over media, government, and education. These secret institutions have big names and nefarious origins. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is often at the top of any conspiracy theorist's list. <br />
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This institution, started by the banker J.P. Morgan in the early 1900s, has members including every media spokesperson, every major CEO, much of Congress, University Professors, and anybody with any political sway. <br />
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This is one method to control information. One can also notice that all the president's advisors are on what's known as the Trilateral Commission. In addition, every morning the President gets his "intelligence briefing." This carefully planned presentation seeds the thoughts of the President's entire day. The criminal Yale fraternity known as the "Skull and Bones," which is practically protected by Act of Congress, seeds powerful institutions of our government in the highest aspects. These institutions combined with monetary control and funding are the principle methods used by bankers to convince the public to comply with their plans. <br />
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Am I crazy enough to say that without these bankers, there would be no war? No, it's not crazy, but war is long outdated. Wars were once fought for tangible property, both for the Lords and warriors. Now, a complicated world of economics and interests groups has the entire planet plunged in a world of chaotic battles and wars, with the real reasons for each fight hidden from the public. <br />
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Its crazy to think that a few poor fundamentalists can create a hi-tech terrorist group, or run a nation. Every "rogue nation" or "terrorist group" has a huge network of funding and connections. One can often easily trace funding of terrorist groups to some national resource, such as diamonds, cocaine or opium. Maybe the fact that the diamond mines funding "terrorists" are owned by international bankers is just a coincidence? <br />
Is it also a coincidence that the cocaine/opium dealing Mafia around the world works in close connection with major nations' Intelligence Agencies? CIA agents often call this "an evil alliance of necessity for National Security." <br />
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Whose necessity? There is always a discrepency between the media's vision of the world, and the CIA's daily alliances. One perfect example would be the 1972 Munich Olympics, where PLO operative Ali Hassan Salameh murdered the Israeli athletes. Mossad then killed Hassan with a car bomb. "But it is now known that the assassination robbed the United States of its chief contact" (Newsweek, 11/9/98, page 36). <br />
Before Martin Luther King Jr was shot, he began speaking against the U.S. policy of creating civil wars. In his own words at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967:<br />
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<blockquote><em>"...the United States came and started supporting a man named Diem, who turned out to be one of the most ruthless dictators in the history of the world. He set out to silence all opposition. ...The peasants watched as all this was presided over by United States influence and then by increasing numbers of United States troops who came to help quell the insurgency that Diem's methods had aroused....we increased our troop commitments in support of governments which were singularly corrupt, inept, and without popular support... Now they languish under our bombs and consider us.. their real enemy. They move sadly and apathetically, we herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps... They know they must move or be destroyed by our bombs."</em> </blockquote>Is it also a coincidence that the United States with "good intentions" put many enemies of the last 50 years into power? Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the Taliban in Afghanistan, Noriega in Panama, and future enemies are put in power everyday. <br />
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The Northern Alliance in Afghanistan is a brutal drug dealing Mafia. The KLA in Yugoslavia is also a drug dealing brutal Mafia regime. The United States has recently been entrenched with the task of putting cocaine dealing fascist dictator in Columbia. Whose interests are we really working for? Besides creating wars, banks also heavily profit from drug laundering (probably more than oil). <br />
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Drug trafficking also helps prevent the poor for empowering themselves as they are busy fighting their own inner city street wars. Its no wonder our government is filled with a drug trafficking protection force. <br />
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The radical right accuses former President Clinton of protecting the Mena Arkansas drug trafficking trade, and ignores the fact that Iran-Contra was the formation of that drug trade. Arkansas Governor Clinton was protecting his fellow Yalie George Bush's and Oliver North's drug trade. <br />
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John Stockwell, CIA Agent, member National Security Counsel, explains:<br />
<blockquote><em>"...we were not attacking the Soviet Union and CIA's activities, we were attacking people in the third world. They undertake operations in every corner of the globe. They undertook the license of operating totally above and beyond U.S. law. They had a license to kill, license to smuggle drugs... meanwhile, battled to convert the U.S. legal system in such a way to give them control of our society.... 3,000 major operations and over 10,000 minor operations, everyone of them illegal, everyone of them disruptive of the lives and societies of other peoples, and many of them bloody and gory beyond comprehension. Extensively we manipulated and organized the overthrow of functioning constitutional democracies in other countries. We organized secret armies and directed them to fight in just about every continent in the world. We encouraged ethnic minorities to rise up and fight."</em> </blockquote><br />
Its quite a coincidence that the creation of the state of Israel in Palestine was 1947, same year the Central Intelligence Agency was created. Many are frustrated with the continuous climate of fighting in Israel, even though Israel was offered as a land of peace for Jews. <br />
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The bankers will never allow peace, because the Rothschilds did not create Israel to be a land of peace, but rather a tool for perpetual divisions between the semitic peoples of the Middle East, and the incoming European and Russian jews. When all efforts to encourage war were curbed by Rabin, Israeli Intelligence had him killed. On November 13, 1997, Lyse Doucet explains to the BBC a recently declassified report, <em>"The report says Mr Raviv [Israeli Secret Service] knew of his friends intention to murder the Prime Minister. There have been accusations that the Shin Bet secret service was involved in a conspiracy to murder Mr Rabin..."</em> <br />
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This makes sense when the goal of Israel is to manipulate the Jews as a tool for division and war. This plan is documented at least as far back as 1917, the Balfour Declaration, a letter to Lionel Rothschild. <br />
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[ Proof of Rothschild influence in Israel - <a href="http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=1229"><span style="color: blue;">http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=1229</span></a> ]<br />
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The United States has conveniently bottled itself in all peace negotiations. The BBC article, <em>"Arab press upbeat on peace hopes,"</em> reports 7/17/99: <em>"remarks made by Mr Barak to The Washington Post newspaper in which he called for the USA to reduce its involvement in the peace process from a major to a minor role."</em> Then New York Times explains, <em>"two months after the Camp David peace talks had failed, [Barak] proclaimed that he and Mr. Arafat would be the ultimate Israeli-Palestinian peace parters..'more so than Rabin'"</em> (7/26/01, Deborah Sontag). Then immedately after, Sharon was railroaded in as Prime Minister. <br />
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The real source of division is a very few people who are orchestrating continual fighting. Arafat has stated, <br />
<blockquote><em>"Hamas is a creature of Israel which, at the time of Prime Minister Shamir, gave them money and more than 700 institutions, among them schools, universities and mosques." December 12, 2001 in the Italian paper, L'Espresso, Arafat is quoted as saying, "Hamas was constituted with the support of Israel. The aim was to create an organization antagonistic to the PLO. They (Hamas) received financing and training from Israel. They have continued to benefit from permits and authorizations, while we have been limited even [for permits] to build a tomato factory. Rabin himself defined it a fatal error. Some collaborationists of Israel are involved in these [terrorist] attacks. We have the proof and we are placing it at the disposal of the Italian government too."</em></blockquote><strong>Why create wars?</strong> <br />
George Orwell says in 1984 that war keeps the structure of society intact. This is done in a number of ways, partly by the destruction of the advance of civilization in a fair way. <br />
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Probably even more important is the creation of debt. A country will borrow massive amounts of money from international bankers for war. In addition, it's easier to change policy (like remove civil liberties) in times of threats.<br />
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<strong>It doesn't matter who wins the war, bankers lend to both sides of every war</strong>. <br />
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Debt moves power from the people directly to the bankers, continuously. Their systems of world control are thorough, and refined, and are being improved every day. Controversial organizations such as the World Bank and World Trade Organization, which are the focus of massive modern protests, are simply international organizations which further breakdown national sovereignty towards international banker control. <br />
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As I said at the beginning, there was a time when none of this was secret. Our founding fathers were well aware of who the real enemy was, and spoke often of them. They even spoke of them in the context of the causes for the American Revolution. They also laid down the tools to protect the people. These tools have been ignored, and faded over the years, as the United States has gone from bankers' biggest enemy, to their strongest tool. <br />
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Our founding fathers gave our government the Constitutional right to print government currency, and keep power out of the hands of the bankers. This tool was only utilized by the great President, Abraham Lincoln, but retracted soon after his assassination. Lincoln said <br />
<blockquote><em>"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy."</em> </blockquote>It should upset the population that the WTO's rulings supercede national sovereignty of our nation, yet the media hasn't brought up this issue. George Washington said, <em>"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."</em> <br />
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When did that policy change? By coincidence, we took a major turn at time of the creation of the Federal Reserve, which was immediately followed by World Wars, the Cold War, and then Terrorism Wars. The pattern is clear. World Wars allowed the world progression to break down for Cold War, which allowed the systematic rape of every third world country into chaos. Stronger nations were militarized. This allowed the preparation for the one world government, seeded by the Cold War established world terrorism networks.<br />
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James Madison said, <em>"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible, to maintain their control over governments, by controlling money and its issuance." </em><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">last updated February 3, 2002</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-78004572764866219742010-04-03T19:05:00.008-05:002016-03-08T17:45:09.165-06:00THE GADSDEN MINUTE MEN AND THE FEDERAL NIGGER HUNTING LICENSE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mike Kemp is the founder of The Gadsden Minute Men, Militia - Alabama and has been a member of my <a href="http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/reality101_redux/"><span style="background-color: #6fa8dc; color: blue;">Reality101 Yahoo group</span></a> for several years.<br />
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A while back he mentioned his involvement in exposing the BATFs (Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) "Good O' Boy Roundups" which were being conducted annually. <br />
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I did some research on it myself, and decided that this story needed to be brought back out of the dustbin of history, and seen in bright daylight again.</div>
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I've asked Mike to allow me to post what happened in his own words on this blog. I've also added some links to other articles which I found. This is his story:</div>
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<em>This was in the aftermath of the murders and other lawless governmental actions at Ruby Ridge, and at Waco.</em></div>
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<em>Then the federal Murrah Building at Oklahoma City was destroyed. </em><em><br />
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<em>As subsequent analysis demonstrated, this held the earmarks of a governmental attempt at gaining leverage on the burgeoning 'militia movement'. </em></div>
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<em>The founder of the Gadsden Minute Men was a chemist and engineer with extensive explosives experience, and the immediate analysis precluded the use of a very low brisance explosive such as ammonium nitrate/fuel oil. </em></div>
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<em>Brisance is the 'velocity of explosion', and while low brisance explosives can cause a lot of 'push' from their detonation, the low velocity of the explosion prevents such a compound from shattering or severing steel columns.</em></div>
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<em>Further, the effects of an explosion spread (and diminish with distance) like the ripples in a pond produced by dropping a pebble into the water. An overhead view of the damage instantly disqualifies ammonium nitrate as the agent of the destruction, because in a deep inset 'notch' in the damage, a very heavy structural column had been severed, while much lighter structural columns which were much closer to the truck bomb were left standing. This was positive evidence that some means other than an ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosive was employed.</em></div>
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<em>Interestingly enough, the first efforts of law enforcement focused on various 'John Does', with strong suspicion of a Middle Eastern connection.</em><br />
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<em>Recognizing that this event was to be used to put a damper on the growing militia movement, the Gadsden Minute Men went into high gear to discover a way to set the government effort back on its heels. The discussions cycled around various ways and means of 'catching the government with its pants down', and one of the members present chuckled, and said 'wanna see a video?'</em></div>
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<em>This member had recorded the video with his personal video camera, and it showed the entrance to the picnic in an earlier year, and most prominent was the banner over the entrance which read: <strong>NIGGER CHECK POINT - ANY NIGGERS IN THAT CAR??</strong> and, further, offered 17 cents a pound for 'field dressed and boned nigger meat'."</em></div>
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<em>He had been an invited guest at an annual picnic organized by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms-- commonly known as the ATF. </em><em><br />
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<em>The picnic, a weekend-long affair which had been conducted for 20 years, was known as The Good O'Boy Roundup. It was characterized by overt and extreme racism, drunkenness, and various and sundry vulgar and demeaning activities by those attending. The event took place on the Ocoee River in southeastern Tennessee."</em></div>
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<strong>Federal Cops Hold Racist Summer Camp</strong></div>
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<a href="http://www.no-debts.com/anti-federalist/gadsden.html"><strong>http://www.no-debts.com/anti-federalist/gadsden.html</strong></a></div>
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<em>"There were cops of various sorts from all over the US, plus a Canadian contingent who regularly attended. While it proved impossible to find definitive evidence, there were strong indications that various political and other personages from the federal as well as other governments, US Attorneys, politicians, judges, and other governmental sorts had been visitors to the event.</em></div>
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<em>Highlights of the event included the 'Redneck of the Year' competition, where various attendees performed skits, of a racist nature, in the attempt to produce the most offensive display. </em><br />
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<em>Members of the Gadsden Minute Men attended the 'Roundup' on the third weekend of May, 1995, using their current or former status as law enforcement, and took various photographs, one depicting an event called 'chicken shit bingo', where a giant bingo card of painted plywood was placed under a floor of chicken wire, and the spots on the bingo card were purchased by players, the money put into a pot, then a chicken was tossed up on the chicken wire, over the bingo card, and when the chicken defecated, landing on a spot on the giant bingo card, the owner of that spot on the card 'won' the pot."</em></div>
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<a href="http://dagmar.lunarpages.com/~parasc2/articles/1196/gobindex.htm">The Good O' Boys Roundup</a></div>
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<a href="http://dagmar.lunarpages.com/~parasc2/articles/1196/gob1.htm">Allegations of Egregious Misconduct</a> </div>
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<a href="http://dagmar.lunarpages.com/~parasc2/articles/1196/gob2.htm">Patriots, Feds & Videotape</a> </div>
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<a href="http://dagmar.lunarpages.com/~parasc2/articles/1196/gob3.htm">What the IG's Report Didn't Say</a> </div>
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<a href="http://dagmar.lunarpages.com/~parasc2/articles/1196/gob4.htm">Contradictions </a></div>
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<a href="http://dagmar.lunarpages.com/~parasc2/articles/1196/gob5.htm">The Other Side of the Looking Glass</a> </div>
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<em>Small business-card sized novelties were freely available, styled as 'Nigger-Hunting Licenses', stated to be good 24/7/365, with no bag limit, authorizing the bearer to 'hunt niggers', with or without dogs, during the 'upcoming roundup' of blacks in the US.</em></div>
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<em>Safely making their retreat, this information was examined and analyzed, and then began the search for a suitable news outlet to disseminate the information. First, it was written up, and sent to all the normal recipients of the Gadsden Minute Men newsletter, which included offices of the ATF, the FBI, the local sheriff, and all county officers. Further, a local talk radio station in Gadsden provided an hour in afternoon drive time for the discussion of the event.</em><br />
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<em>But no media outlet showed any interest whatsoever. A reporter for the Birmingham News, specializing in coverage of militia activities.... and the local crime beat... interesting correlation-- stated 'what am I supposed to do with it?'</em><br />
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<em>It was further shopped around, without even a nibble. However.... this was the period of time when the NRA was in hot water, because their Vice President, one Wayne LaPierre, had recently called the ATF 'jackbooted thugs'. Their annual convention was upcoming, and a member attended, and offered the information on the Good O'Boy Roundup to the NRA. They immediately snapped it up, but were soon afflicted with a major case of cold feet, realizing what impact it would have.</em><br />
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<em>So, they passed it along to a reporter for the Washington Times named Jerry Seper. He went to Ocoee, Tennessee, and did his own investigation, and it was easily enough confirmed. And, on July 11, 1995, the story ran front page, above the fold, in the Washington Times. And a pure firestorm ensued."</em></blockquote>
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">Articles from the Washington Times, the Philadephia Enquirer, and The Philadelphia Daily News:</span></strong></div>
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<em>"<em>Our source of the video of the 'Nigger Check Point' banner appeared on Gordon Liddy's morning radio show, getting an entire segment. At the end of the segment, G. Gordon inquired if there was anything else his guest wanted to say-- and the response was, 'thanks to the Gadsden Minute Men for making it possible'. And of course, everyone listening thought 'what did he just say?'</em></em></blockquote>
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<em><em>That afternoon, I was the first caller up on Ken Hamblen's-- 'The Black Avenger'-- nationwide talk show. He was all ticked off about something to do with the feds, and ranted for a few minutes-- and then I came on. I told him to chill, that we had struck a mightly blow that day. He was baffled, and inquired what I was speaking of. I asked if he had seen the front page of the Washington Times that day.</em></em></blockquote>
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<em>That evening, I was on every broadcast news outlet in the country-- ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN-- telling the tale, while wearing my ABOLISH THE ATF t-shirt. Subsequently, it was the lead story on ABC's station in the District of Criminals for two full weeks. It was on every news outlet worth mentioning, nationwide, print and broadcast, for weeks."</em><br />
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<strong>TIME Magazine article on The Good O' Boy Roundup:</strong></div>
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<em>"Immediately, the federal scramble began, and various ugly things happened-- including an absolutely hilarious scene in Chattanooga, where leadership of the Gadsden Minute Men met at the Marriot Hotel with a couple of federales-- who presented us with a subpoena for ALL the documentation gathered at the Roundup, and before. </em><br />
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<em>This was supposed to be a 'surprise'. However, the REAL surprise occurred when the federales, upon leaving the conference room, found an attractive lady in the hallway. The first fed winked at her-- and was promptly shot square in the face with a 35mm camera. As memory serves, the fed in question was named Paul Benners.</em><br />
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<em>He attempted to escape the deadly camera assault, but was shortstopped by a cameraman from a Huntsville, Bamaland tv station. He and his little fed buddy managed to tear themselves away from the further assault by camera, and dashed out into a driving rainstorm to their fedmobile, and finally made good their escape from the terrorists.</em><br />
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<em>The subpoena turned out to be nothing but waste paper, since it was an 'administrative subpoena', not signed by a judge, but only by a bureaucrat, and only valid to members of the government. Their ploy failed, the Justice Dept. then attempted extortion, threatening the Gadsden Minute Men with an armed assault by federales if we didn't turn over all the documentation-- and every other scrap of information possessed by the Minute Men-- to the feds.</em><br />
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<strong>Good O' Boy Roundup Report - Executive Summary</strong><a href="http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/9603/exec.htm"><strong>http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/9603/exec.htm</strong></a></div>
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<em>And that collapsed, in the 'Siege in Attala', where the federales realized that to further assault citizens for nothing in particular would not play well, not in the current atmosphere. So, the feds made nice.</em></div>
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<em>And the necessary information was turned over to Senate investigators, and was subsequently whitewashed by the 'Inspector General's Report' on the Good O'Boys. A few folks had their wrists slapped... and a lot of federal careers were ruined. My heart bled for them.</em></div>
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<em>A bit later, I was photographed at a private meeting on private property, 'running' a MAC 10 fully automatic submachine gun, with a large suppressor-- 'silencer'-- attached to the front. A cascade of spent brass was visible in the air. Just for informational purposes-- the weapon and the suppressor were fully registered and licensed, and the owner was slightly off camera. This, and trespassers prowling in my back yard in the dark of night, were the basis for a raid by a platoon of SWAT with air support on my home, soon after. No 'illegal weapons' were found. What was found were a few ounces of cannabis."</em></div>
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<strong>Mike Kemp, Snitch Detector</strong></div>
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<a href="http://www.loompanics.com/Articles/MikeKempSnitch.htm"><strong>http://www.loompanics.com/Articles/MikeKempSnitch.htm</strong></a></div>
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<em>"This provided, 18 months later-- after the locals managed, on their third try, to convince a local grand jury comprised of government employees to indict me on several drug-related felonies-- of charges, and I was taken to trial. Where I, acting in my proper person, convinced the jury that the cannabis found in my yard was for my own use, and they convicted me of a misdemeanor-- for which I was sentenced to the maximimum, a year in the county lockup.</em><br />
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<em>It didn't quite manage to kill me-- I am a near-lifelong type one diabetic, and spent some time hospitalized-- and was, on occasion, even a bit of fun, for I was then in the faces of officialdom all the time. But all things considered, it was largely the end of an adventure, with many high, as well as low moments."</em></blockquote>
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As you can see, the people who are trying to put a 'racist' label on the Militia movement are the racists themselves, and they are using that label to repel people from seeing what is really happening with the country. </div>
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Here is J.J. Johnson, the leader of the Ohio Unorganized Militia. You need to hear what he has to say as he speaks to the US Senate:</div>
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Part 1 : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bew_9GeuGA4&feature=related"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bew_9GeuGA4&feature=related</span></a></div>
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Part 2 : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIQ9Oa7xpW0&feature=related"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIQ9Oa7xpW0&feature=related</span></a></div>
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More on JJ Johnson: </div>
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<strong>Other Good O' Boy Roundup related articles:</strong></div>
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Who is the Militia? </div>
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You are.</div>
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When you see wrong, it's your job to make it right.</div>
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Thanks to Mike and the Gadsden Minute Men for setting a shining example for the rest of us.</div>
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<em><span style="font-size: xx-small;">by harry mobley 4/3/2010</span></em></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-67863911672310216022010-03-27T09:17:00.001-05:002010-03-27T09:46:52.023-05:00A few words on war...<blockquote><em>"Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out…and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. …And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" — with his mouth."</em> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> ~ Mark Twain</span></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;">_______________</div><blockquote><em>"Most of all we learned about death at an early age when it is common to think of oneself as immortal. Everyone loses that illusion eventually, but in civilian life it is lost in installments over the years. We lost it all at once and, in the span of months, passed from boyhood through manhood to premature middle age. The knowledge of death, of the implacable limits placed on a man's existence, severed us from our youth as irrevocably as a surgeon's scissors had once severed us from the womb. And yet, few of us were past twenty-five. We left Vietnam peculiar creatures, with young shoulders that bore rather old heads."</em> <span style="font-size: x-small;">~ Phillip Caputo, from "A Rumor of War"</span></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;">_______________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><blockquote><em>“Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought! Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder! Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings! Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!” </em><span style="font-size: x-small;">~ Helen Keller</span></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;">_______________</div><br />
<blockquote><blockquote><em>“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship…Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.</em></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>~ </em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nazi leader, Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials before he was sentenced to death</span></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>_______________</em></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em>“The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.”</em></span> ~ Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels</span></blockquote></em></span></span></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;">_______________</div><blockquote><em>“The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over." </em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>~</em> Adolph Hitler</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“</span><span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="font-size: small;"><em>What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty and democracy?" </em></span></em></span>~ Mohandas Gandhi </div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">_______________</span></div></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><em>"There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.”</em> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">~ Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Iran Contra Hearings</span></div></blockquote><em><div style="text-align: center;">_______________</div></em></blockquote><em><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><em>"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. </em><em>And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. </em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."</em></div></blockquote></em><div style="text-align: center;">_______________</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-62200164305901264112010-03-25T22:21:00.004-05:002010-10-22T07:45:43.904-05:00THE THREAT OF 'UNIDENTIFIED WHITE POWDER'<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://pictures.thaindian.com/d/3305-2/White-Powder-Sent-To-McCains-Denver-Colorado-Campaign-Headquarters-82507355.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" nt="true" src="http://pictures.thaindian.com/d/3305-2/White-Powder-Sent-To-McCains-Denver-Colorado-Campaign-Headquarters-82507355.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>It happened again today...<br />
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Yet another public official received an envelope containing and 'unidentified white powder' and a letter written in threatening language.<br />
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As usual, HAZMAT teams and cops with 'assault weapons' swarmed in, cordoned off the area, and set up decontamination tents. Also, as usual, it made headlines worldwide.<br />
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In today's case, it was New York Congressman Anthony Weiner.<br />
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<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62O4O920100325">http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62O4O920100325</a><br />
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A simple Google search for 'unidentified white powder threat' gives 12,800 hits.<br />
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<a href="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=unidentified+white+powder+threat&start=10&sa=N&fp=467c3568f2eec009"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><strong>http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=unidentified+white+powder+threat&start=10&sa=N&fp=467c3568f2eec009</strong></span></a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2008/08/21/image4372166g.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" nt="true" src="http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2008/08/21/image4372166g.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>I have to ask.. Why is this white powder never analyzed, and the results announced?<br />
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Let me answer my own question....<br />
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<strong>Because if it was, it would no longer be a threat.. and the threat is what is desired.</strong> <br />
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Without the threat, there would not be heightened security, raised 'threat levels', and an excuse for calling for more police state tactics and loss of freedoms.<br />
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Let's look back at where this started... back in 2001, one week after 9-11.<br />
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Envelopes containing anthrax spores were sent to the offices of Senators Tom Daschle, and Patrick Leahy.<br />
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Offices of ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, The New York Post, and The National Enquirer also received these anthrax letters.<br />
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In all, five people died, and seventeen others were infected.<br />
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Then an interesting 'discovery' was made...<br />
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The anthrax was identified as a military strain and had been traced back to the Government biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland. It became nicknamed 'Amerithrax'.<br />
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This was the same lab that gave us AIDS - which was developed as a human immune suppressor for warfare...but that's a future post, and will have to wait for another day...unless you want to do the research yourself now. <br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.rense.com/general45/cant.htm">http://www.rense.com/general45/cant.htm</a></span><br />
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It took seven years to identify a patsy.... oops! I meant to type 'culprit' - Bruce Edwards Ivins.<br />
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Ivins was a scientist in the lab, who conveniently <a href="http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/03/clinton-body-trail.html"><span style="color: blue;">'Arkancided'</span></a> himself before arrest or making any public statement by taking an overdose of acetaminophen. <br />
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Of course, Ivins was identified as 'sole culprit', effectively shutting down the investigation.<br />
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If you want to dig deeper into what else has been discovered regarding Ivins, see:<br />
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<a href="http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/green/911PlottersBuryEvidence.html"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: blue;">http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/green/911PlottersBuryEvidence.html</span></a><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh78KeN690aXRyBOrgnzkx-o2Zs3x8d_Pw6B7bomapDHxoWBpzNtEUh7h7OoXSbnKbafU_jw8SU8a74WDqkFoVcXpTkEgplZwyDU8634W7dl7GrucrG7hyphenhyphen6MzbC-Vk0dPYzDvZD4j3z30/s1600/cokedollar.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh78KeN690aXRyBOrgnzkx-o2Zs3x8d_Pw6B7bomapDHxoWBpzNtEUh7h7OoXSbnKbafU_jw8SU8a74WDqkFoVcXpTkEgplZwyDU8634W7dl7GrucrG7hyphenhyphen6MzbC-Vk0dPYzDvZD4j3z30/s200/cokedollar.bmp" width="200" /></a>___</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Let's switch now to another white powder, cocaine, and I'll show you where I think this is headed.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Remember hearing for years that cocaine is on virtually every note of paper currency?</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=cocaine+on+paper+money&btnG=Google+Search"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;"><strong>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=cocaine+on+paper+money&btnG=Google+Search</strong></span></a><br />
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Now... let's suppose you wanted a cashless society... how would you get the public to accept it?<br />
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Let's face it. People love cash. They want to hold it and fold it and count it and hide some of it away for a rainy day in their mattress, or stuffed inside a sock at the back of their underwear drawer.<br />
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They love the smell and the feel, and the way it looks so pretty in a stack of new bills nestled all snuggly in your wallet.<br />
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They want to have something tangible. Unlike plastic cards with records of balances that you can't even see.<br />
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Balances which can disappear without a trace into the ether, and you can't do anything about it. <br />
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Balances which can be deducted from without your permission when some agency decides to fine you for some transgression... like speeding, or having a hospital bill under the new National Health Care which is deemed higher than your alloted medical care budget, or as a forced tax <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=carbon+tax+&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=">for breathing too much and exceeding your carbon emission allotment</a>. <br />
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Your savings could vanish because someone accidentally pushes the wrong button, or a computer glitch, or because you say something which isn't politically correct with earshot <a href="http://www.notbored.org/scp-maps.html">of a sidewalk watching/listening post.</a><br />
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OK... so how do you get people to go to plastic, or to <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=verichip&btnG=Google+Search">the subdermal implant chips which are now being set up to replace them</a>?<br />
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You can't force it. That pisses people off.<br />
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You want to appear as a savior, or a hero - protecting them from impending doom.<br />
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You'd use <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm"><strong><span style="color: blue;">The Hegelian Dialectic</span></strong></a>.... a tool for affecting 'CHANGE'. It's also called problem/reaction/ solution. See how it works.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The Goal:</strong> You want to have a cashless society, but people want nothing to do with it</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The Problem:</strong> You announce the probabilty that there may be anthrax on the cash supply.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The Reaction:</strong> People become afraid of cash and refuse to accept it. Cash becomes worthless.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The Solution:</strong> You offer a cashless method of financial transactions... for which people are grateful.</span></span><br />
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<strong>View the future</strong><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://ciberhabitat.gob.mx/hospital/verichip/images/mano_veri.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" nt="true" src="http://ciberhabitat.gob.mx/hospital/verichip/images/mano_veri.jpg" width="138" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I've been following the development of this plan for about seven years now....</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It started out as <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.digitalangel.com/"><strong>DIGITAL ANGEL</strong></a> </span><span style="font-size: small;">- which now seems to be the GPS tracking division for inventory, livestock, and humans.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The identification/medical division is called <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=verichip&aq=&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=43dd59e47af515fb">VERICHIP</a></strong></span>, which just changed it's name a couple of weeks ago to <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.positiveidcorp.com/"><strong>PositiveID</strong></a> </span><span style="font-size: small;">because it was found and announced<a href="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=verichip+cancer&aq=&aqi=&aql=&oq=verichip+cancer&gs_rfai=&fp=43dd59e47af515fb"> that these chips cause cancer</a>.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The division which will control your bank account and your attitude was just acquired, and is called <strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=verichip+steel+vault&aq=&aqi=&aql=&oq=verichip+steel+vault&gs_rfai=&fp=43dd59e47af515fb">STEEL VAULT</a></span></strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This chip will be your identity, your medical card, and your bank account. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3EFfxxag0_LsnZwt0gFyutPQVn7LXnFI8YlbKhAjl3C8z6bH-UBZkpyUqNpKck_MpOU1g1cv1xtgfskoyOr7PGzO38daKw8DaILPMKdr9EKujzZO3GAQbJ7ziubRqNaCuYy5QickYD0c/s1600/Applied_Digital_Solutions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" qx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3EFfxxag0_LsnZwt0gFyutPQVn7LXnFI8YlbKhAjl3C8z6bH-UBZkpyUqNpKck_MpOU1g1cv1xtgfskoyOr7PGzO38daKw8DaILPMKdr9EKujzZO3GAQbJ7ziubRqNaCuYy5QickYD0c/s200/Applied_Digital_Solutions.jpg" width="61" /></a>It will track you in real time every second of every day. It will tell where you are, who you are with, and what you are doing.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It will monitor, tax, and charge a transaction fee for your every purchase, and thanks to <a href="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=RFID&aq=&aqi=&aql=&oq=RFID&gs_rfai=&fp=43dd59e47af515fb">RFID chips on every product</a>, will keep a running inventory of everything you buy and own. It will control you.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The new Health Care Bill everyone has been clamoring for will make all this possible, giving the Gubment real time access to your bank account.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Here's your change.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Still got hope?</div>______________________Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-41697694190330526682010-03-20T12:46:00.004-05:002011-05-22T21:13:29.133-05:00IMPORTANT PUZZLE PIECES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I've had a link to Caesar's Messiah on my blog since it's creation.<br />
<a href="http://www.caesarsmessiah.com/">http://www.caesarsmessiah.com/</a><br />
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Check out the recent announcement by it's author:<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/reader/1569754578?_encoding=UTF8&token=2YCaw1tU5yH7ZYmoxHu0S8yMBSswiWhRQSFjdb5YwLA%3D&ref_=sib_fs_top&page=11">http://www.amazon.com/reader/1569754578?_encoding=UTF8&token=2YCaw1tU5yH7ZYmoxHu0S8yMBSswiWhRQSFjdb5YwLA%3D&ref_=sib_fs_top&page=11</a><br />
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<blockquote><em>"I have purchased the rights to my work Caesar's Messiah from the publisher and have printed 1,000 copies of a second edition. This edition contains two discoveries not in the first. The first is the confession of the Flavians that they invented Christianity. The second shows that a sequence in the Gospel of Luke is a virtually line by line symbolic representation of a section of Josephus. I refer to this discovery as the Flavian Signature in Luke, and believe it puts the question of who wrote the Gospels to rest. Every copy is autographed. --Joseph Atwill "</em></blockquote>_________________________<br />
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This should prove very interesting... especially since it will 'destroy' Christianity just in time for the creation of the New World Religion at the end of 2012, and the change into <strong>The Age of Aquarius</strong>. <br />
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Christians will be made a 'laughing stock' and poked fun of, ridiculed and persecuted as the religion dies away after members of the churches won't admit that they were believers. Donations will stop, churches will sit vacant, and they'll eventually be boarded up, then torn down when they become derelict.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/files/2009/07/denver_airport_white_jews_christians.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="147" src="http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/files/2009/07/denver_airport_white_jews_christians.jpg" vt="true" width="200" /></a></div>Between new historical 'discoveries', and books and movies such as the DaVinci Code, people will discover that there was no real person named Jesus, and that all the stories about him were in actuality allegorical tales describing aspects of the Sun as it travels it's path through the Zodiac during the Age of Pisces.<br />
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see: <br />
<a href="http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/aquarian-conspiracy.html">http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/aquarian-conspiracy.html</a><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/files/2009/07/570587209_2d3129a196.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/files/2009/07/570587209_2d3129a196.jpg" vt="true" width="200" /></a>The other two main religions are also already set up for destruction....</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>Islam is being wiped out right now through war, and poisoning the Middle Eastern population through depleted uranium. <br />
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Even more <a href="http://www.wanttoknow.info/falseflag"><span style="color: blue;">false flag 'terror' events</span></a> will be happening which will cause further bombing throughout that region. The citizens of that part of the world won't be responsible, but it won't stop and ignorant public to demand bombing them all back to the stone age... which is exactly what we've been doing.<br />
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Judaism will be the scapegoat for the global financial collapse now in progress. <br />
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Attacks on Jews will increase as people lose everything they own, and demand retribution. It won't be the Jews' fault, it'll be the International Zionists, but people won't see that through their anger. The International Zionists have been doing their aggressions while hiding behind Judaism for years, setting all this up. <br />
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It's all foretold in the 'genocide mural' at <strong>Denver International Airport</strong>. <br />
The pictures above are from this mural.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">See the rest here:</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/970/the-unexplained/mysterious-murals-and-monuments-at-the-denver-airport/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/970/the-unexplained/mysterious-murals-and-monuments-at-the-denver-airport/</span></a><br />
______</div><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=Adolph+Rothschild+Hitler&btnG=Google+Search"><span style="color: blue;">Adolph Rothschild Hitler</span></a> was attempting this with his NAZI plan. Remember, 'NAZI' was short for 'National Socialism'.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Barack Hussein Obama aka Barry Soetero is doing the job he was created for to make it go worldwide and create 'International Socialism', the symbol of which is a<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Rose_(Socialism).svg"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">fist holding a red rose</span></a>. It looks really nice when it's coming at you, but then you feel the fist.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://images.world66.com/ne/ve/_o/neve_og_rose_fist_galleryfull" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://images.world66.com/ne/ve/_o/neve_og_rose_fist_galleryfull" vt="true" width="161" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This is a photo of the <strong>'Neve Og Rose', </strong>or<strong> 'Fist and Rose'</strong>.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This statue is in Oslo, Norway - home of the <strong><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=oslo+new+world+order&btnG=Google+Search"><span style="color: blue;">'Oslo Accords'</span></a></strong> which are planning meetings for the New World Order.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This financial collapse is also timed for the same 2012 deadline to wipe out all world currencies and institution of the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=verichip&btnG=Google+Search"><span style="color: blue;">Verichip</span></a>/ PositiveID implant chip as money and personal identification/ tracking.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Can you say <strong>New World Order</strong>?</div><br />
New World Government<br />
New World Religion<br />
New World Monetary System<br />
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I've been telling you for years...<br />
can everyone see it yet? <br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div>If you can't, here's what you need to bone up on: <br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/aquarian-conspiracy.html">http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/aquarian-conspiracy.html</a></span> <br />
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<a href="http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/religions-of-fear-and-hate-meme-theory.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/religions-of-fear-and-hate-meme-theory.html</span></a> <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/zodiac-explained-by-albert-pike.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/zodiac-explained-by-albert-pike.html</span></a> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/03/twilight-of-psychopaths.html">http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/03/twilight-of-psychopaths.html</a> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/05/bible-and-zodiac.html">http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/05/bible-and-zodiac.html</a> </div><a href="http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/04/religions-of-ages.html">http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/04/religions-of-ages.html</a> <br />
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<a href="http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/05/anatomy-of-church.html">http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/05/anatomy-of-church.html</a> <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/08/rise-of-rough-beast.html">http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/08/rise-of-rough-beast.html</a> </div><a href="http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/07/chronology-of-zionist-master-plan-for.html">http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/07/chronology-of-zionist-master-plan-for.html</a> <br />
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<a href="http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/letter-to-sheeple.html">http://reality101blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/letter-to-sheeple.html</a> <br />
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These are just a few, but you'll catch the drift. Look in the archives <br />
for more... <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We can stop all this- if we all get on the same page and work together... </div>but first we have to become of one mind and one heart. <br />
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This blog gives you everything you need to see what's going on and why. <br />
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Read up. <br />
It's free. <br />
Do it now -while <em><strong>we</strong></em> are still free. <br />
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"Time's up" is coming like a runaway freight train...<br />
________________________</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-44790707748137565142010-02-23T18:47:00.052-06:002016-04-28T23:00:15.536-05:00EVOLUTION OF THE UFO - we don't need no steenking aliens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">TIMELINE</span></strong></div>
<strong><u>1923</u></strong><br />
Thomas Townsend Brown, becomes a physics student of Dr. Paul Biefield at the California Institute for Advanced Studies (later renamed Cal Tech). He discovered that if you apply high voltages of direct current to two metal plates separated by a dielectric, it would reduce their weight by a small percentage. The higher the voltage, the lighter it became, until it became weightless and could even lift a small payload.<br />
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<strong><u>1928</u></strong><br />
Electro-Gravitic propulsion (what UFOs use to fly) is patented by T. Townsend Brown - who had expanded work done by Nikola Tesla. This is called "<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=The+Biefield+Brown+Effect&btnG=Google+Search"><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The Biefield Brown Effect</span></strong></a>" or "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAdvS5WbNic&feature=related"><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Ion Wind</span></strong></a>".<br />
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Video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBBlZ8agldE"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBBlZ8agldE</strong></span></a><br />
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more on Tesla and T.Townsend Brown antigravity:<br />
<a href="http://nexusilluminati.blogspot.com/2010/11/nikola-teslas-flying-saucer.html"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>http://nexusilluminati.blogspot.com/2010/11/nikola-teslas-flying-saucer.html</strong></span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.ttbrown.com/"><strong>http://www.ttbrown.com/</strong></a><br />
<a href="http://www.electrogravityphysics.com/html/t_brown.html"><strong>http://www.electrogravityphysics.com/html/t_brown.html</strong></a><br />
<a href="http://members.gcronline.com/cbrauda/"><strong>http://members.gcronline.com/cbrauda/</strong></a><br />
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<strong><u>1938</u></strong><br />
T.Townsend Brown submits proposal to the Pentagon for the development of a Mach 3 disc shaped electro-gravitic fighter craft. It is called <strong>'PROJECT WINTERHAVEN'</strong>. This is a copy of that document:<br />
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The proposal is not accepted.<br />
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<strong><u>1938-1945</u></strong><br />
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The Nazi's first attempt was called the '<strong>RFZ</strong>', after which came several models of '<strong>VRIL</strong>' saucers, followed by seven models which were named '<strong>HAUNEBU</strong>' - the latest having machine guns mounted on top and a Panzer style tank turret on the bottom.</div>
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<strong><u>1944</u></strong><br />
Germany designs a 360 foot long cigar shaped 'mothership' to be a mobile lauch platform for the smaller discs. They call it the <span style="background-color: white;">'<strong><a href="http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/04images/Nazi_Plans/ANDROMEDA_plan.jpg"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">ANDROMEDA</span></a></strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">'.</span> </span><br />
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By this same time, they had been sending expeditions to Antarctica to attempt to set up an air base to attack the United States from the South Pole for several years. </div>
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This area they called <span style="color: #3d85c6;">'<strong><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=NEUSCHWABENLAND&btnG=Google+Search"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">NEUSCHWABENLAND</span></a></strong></span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">'.</span></div>
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<strong><u>1946</u></strong><br />
Under <strong><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%27OPERATION+PAPERCLIP%27&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=">'OPERATION PAPERCLIP'</a></strong>, over 760 captured top Nazi scientists and physicists who created these discs, and from other fields such as rocketry and mind control are brought to Fort Bliss, at El Paso, Texas; and White Sands Proving Grounds near Alamogordo, New Mexico.<br />
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<strong><u>1947</u></strong><strong><br />
</strong>A UFO disc crashes near Roswell, New Mexico. I believe it was a test flight of a NAZI craft.<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.roswellufocrash.com/">http://www.roswellufocrash.com/</a></span><br />
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<strong><u>1948</u></strong><br />
Another disc shaped craft crashes near Aztec, New Mexico.....or does it?<br />
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<strong><u>1951</u></strong></div>
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Lubbock Texas - by this time our pilots are becoming adept enough to fly groups of Haunebu in standard 'V' formation. This became known as the <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubbock_Lights">'LUBBOCK LIGHTS'</a>.</strong> Sightings went on for about two months. Lubbock is just East of Alamogordo and White Sands.</div>
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<strong><u>1952</u></strong></div>
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Rene' Couzinet shows off his new French 'aerodyne' which he calls '<strong><a href="http://www.laesieworks.com/ifo/lib/VTOLdiscs-pict/couzinet07.jpg">RC360</a></strong>'</div>
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A Canadian company, A.V. Roe contracts with the U.S. military to produce disc shaped aircraft under <strong><a href="http://www.cufon.org/cufon/Silverbug.pdf">PROJECT SILVERBUG</a></strong>. </div>
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They name the disc<strong> </strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VZ-9_AV_Avrocar"><strong>AVROCAR</strong></a>.</div>
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This is what that same disc, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar"><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">AV-7055</span></strong></a>, looks like today...50 years later:</div>
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NASA uses the <a href="http://www.laesieworks.com/ifo/lib/VTOLdiscs.html#aeroshell"><strong>PEPP AEROSHELL</strong></a> - which was balloon launched from Roswell, New Mexico to test parachutes for the Voyager Mars lander program.<strong> </strong>Oops!</div>
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<strong><u>1960</u></strong><strong><br />
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Since 1962 <a href="http://www.moller.com/"><strong>MOLLER INTERNATIONAL</strong></a> has produced several types of VTOL craft, from disc shaped to the '<a href="http://www.moller.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=57"><strong>SKYCAR</strong></a>', which looks more like a Formula 1 race car.<br />
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<strong> <u>1960s-</u></strong></div>
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John Searl tests his <strong><a href="http://www.rexresearch.com/searl2/searl3.htm">'SEARL DISC'</a></strong> which uses his 'Searl effect'.</div>
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Astro Kinetics Corporation of Houson, Texas introduces it's <strong>'<a href="http://www.laesieworks.com/ifo/lib/Astro-V-Dynafan/Astro_Kinetics-July-1963-Popular_Science.jpg"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">DYNAFAN</span></a>'</strong> VTOL disc.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><u><strong>Patented July 30, 1957</strong></u>: Constantin Lent, Saucer-shaped Aircraft, Pat.# 2,801, 058 </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><u><strong>Patented Mar. 11, 1960</strong></u>: John Sherwood, Vertical Lift Flying Machine, Pat.# 213, 529 </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><strong><u>Patented Dec. 11, 1962</u></strong>: Irwin Barr, Rotating Flying Machine, Pat.# 3, 067, 967 </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><u><strong>Patented June 7, 1960</strong></u>: Heinrich Fleißner, Rotating Jet Aircraft with Lifting Disc, Pat.# 2, 939, 648 </em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><strong><u>Patented Nov. 27, 1956</u></strong>: John C. Fischer Jr., Rotating Circular Aircraft , Pat.# 2, 772, 057</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><u><strong>Patented March 10, 1959</strong></u>: Homer F. Streib, Circular Wing Aircraft with Tiltable Ducted Power Plant, Capable of Vertical and lateral Flight, Pat.# 2, 876, 965</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><strong><u>Patented Sept. 10, 1963</u></strong>: Nathan C. Price, High Velocity High Altitude VTOL Aircraft, Pat.# 3, 103, 324</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><strong><u>Patented Jan. 26, 1965</u></strong>: Donald Eral Ordway, Circular Aircraft, Pat.# Des. 200, 183 200, 183 </em></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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There are several reports of Lockheed making a two man anti-gravity fighter disc which was supposedly tested during Desert Storm in Iraq and called <strong><a href="http://images.google.com/search?q=X22A+DARKSTAR&um=1&hl=en&sa=G&gbv=2&ei=G3GES8zGEZ2uMpSjiTQ&oi=images_breadcrumbs_list&ct=images-breadcrumbs-list&cd=1">'X-22A DARK STAR'</a></strong>. However, I haven't found any reliable sources to confirm that this craft exists.</div>
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These are reportedly built by Northrop Grumman, and they are the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-3A_Black_Manta"><strong>'TR-3A BLACK MANTA'</strong></a> , <a href="http://www.fas.org/irp/mystery/tr3a.htm">[2]</a> and the <strong><a href="http://www.huforc.gr/plak%20projects/14%204%202009%20tr3b-astra-locust-prototype.jpg">'TR-3B ASTRA LOCUST'</a></strong>. </div>
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Since there is ample evidence that several countries around the globe have been flying these 'UFOs' for roughly 75 years, why are they still <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>TOP SECRET</strong></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">?</span></div>
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The answer to that is <span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong>'</strong></span><a href="http://www.google.com/webhp?sa=N&hl=en&tab=lw#hl=en&source=hp&q=project+blue+beam&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=Project+Blue&gs_rfai=Cki_X1_aETMKJGZG6hATQ6rSoBgAAAKoEBU_QF1gf&pbx=1&fp=4b78026160302aa0"><strong>PROJECT BLUEBEAM</strong></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong>' -</strong></span><span style="color: black;"> the last ditch effort to install the New World Order global government if all else fails... utilizing the time proven method called <a href="http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm"><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">'THE HEGELIAN DIALECTIC'</span></strong></a> . </span></div>
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Listen to what Ronald Reagan had to say about this when he was president:</div>
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<strong>'The Report From Iron Mountain"</strong> in 1963 was the top secret findings of a study to find if peace was possible in a modern world... and if it was possible, was it desirable?</div>
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In <a href="http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/ironmtn.html#sec.6"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3d85c6;">SECTION 6: Substitutes for the Functions of War</span></a>, under '<strong>Political</strong>', we find:</div>
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<strong><span style="color: #999999;">..but but but... if there aren't alien piloted UFOs... what about crop circles?</span></strong></div>
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<a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/fieldguide/"><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The Circlemakers Field Guide</span></strong></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfc-Lj2JWkw"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: blue;">Here is a conversation between two Circlemakers, one in England, and one in Belgium. Very interesting revelations here.</span></a></div>
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Finally, the US government finally made this official statement:<br />
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- Phil Larson from the White House Office of Science and <span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w0" style="color: darkgreen; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Technology</span></span> <br />
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<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45176460/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/white-house-theres-no-sign-et-or-ufo-cover-up/"><span style="color: #0b5394;">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45176460/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/white-house-theres-no-sign-et-or-ufo-cover-up/</span></a><br />
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An essay by Scott Bidstrup <br />
<blockquote><em>"If the truth is that ugly -- which it is -- then we do have to be careful about the way that we tell the truth. But to somehow say that telling the truth should be avoided because people may respond badly to the truth seems bizarre to me."</em> </blockquote><blockquote>--Chuck Skoro, Deacon, St. Paul's Catholic Church </blockquote><br />
The Bible is a lot of things to a lot of people, but to Christians, especially, it is a source of inspiration and a guide to daily living. <br />
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To others, the Bible is a historical document and a source of controversy. <br />
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To others still, the Bible is a self-contradictory mish-mash of arcane rules and proscriptions, mostly relevant to long-dead cultures in far away places. <br />
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What is the truth in all of this? <br />
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The reality is that it is all true to an extent, and equally nonsensical at the same time. The Bible has meaning to all its readers, but it is important to consider that the meaning it has is informed by the prejudices the reader brings to it. <br />
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To really understand the Bible and what it intends to say to present generations, it is necessary to understand who wrote it and why, and the cultural context in which it was written. The story is an interesting one, in no small part because the story is so much messier than most of its advocates would have you to believe. And its very messiness is why it is a story rarely told in any completeness to Christian audiences. <br />
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The overriding theme of the Bible storylines is the theme of cultural conquest. Conquest by the Hebrews over their enemy neighbors, culturally by the Jews over the Israelites (used here to mean members of the ten "lost" tribes), the Christians over the Jews, the Catholics over the Gnostics, Marcionites, and other pre-Catholic factions, and on and on. In some cases, the conquest is recorded as a historical, often military event. In others, it merely is recorded as a change in content and context, an alteration of the storyline and outlook and worldview. <br />
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And the story of the editing and translation of the final form of the Bible into what today is regarded as holy scripture is a story not just of cultural conquest, but of political intrigues, and not just between competing bishops, but with secular political authority itself. It is as if the U.S. congress or president were to decide what constituted Christian doctrine and scripture, and everyone went along - at the peril of their lives - until no one even questioned the accuracy of the official viewpoint. <br />
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The effect of its origins as selected parts of whole bodies of scripture, written by at least a hundred and fifty different people in dozens of different places at different times, many centuries apart, and for different reasons, colors what its authors wrote. Yet that simple fact is widely ignored, both by people who naively follow what they read in it as the inerrant word of God, and by more liberal scholastic theologians, who seek to understand its historical context as well as a body of doctrinal scripture, which they often blindly follow, even though they know full well its messy origins. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Origins of the Earliest Scripture</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Scholars have traced the roots of many of the Old Testament stories to the ancient, pagan myths of the ancient Mesopotamian cultures. In the Fertile Crescent, the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in present-day Iraq, gave birth to some of the worlds first civilizations. <br />
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In this early flowering of civilization, many religious myths abounded, seeking to explain what was then unexplainable. From this context comes the oldest complete literary work we have, the age of which we are certain, dating back at least 7,000 years. The Epic of Gilgamesh is a lengthy narrative of heroic mythology that incorporates many of the religious myths of Mesopotamia, and it is the earliest complete literary work that has survived. <br />
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Many of the stories in that epic were eventually incorporated into the book of Genesis. Borrowed from the Epic of Gilgamesh are stories of the creation of man in a wondrous garden, the introduction of evil into a naive world, and the story of a great flood brought on by the wickedness of man, that flooded the whole world. <br />
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In this Mesopotamian basin civilization, known to us today as the Chaldean Empire, tribal alliances that predated the amalgamation into a single empire, continued to exist and flourish. Many were allied to the palace, many opposed, all retained elements of their pre-conquest cultures. <br />
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The patriarchs first appear in our story with the journey of one of them, Abraham, who, the story tells us, led members of his tribe from the city of Ur, west towards the Mediterranean, to the "promised land" of Canaan, sometime between the 19th and 18th centuries B.C.E. Or so the story goes. <br />
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The problem is that we don't really have any good archeaological evidence to support the Abraham story, and there is much archaeological evidence to contradict it. The land where Abraham supposedly settled, the southern highlands of Palestine (from Jerusalem south the the Valley of Beersheba) is very sparse in archaeological evidence from this period. It is clear from the archaeological record that its population was extremely sparse - no more than a few hundred people in the entire region, and the sole occupants of the area during this time were nomadic pastoralists, much like the Bedouin of the region today. We know from clear archaeological evidence that the peoples known as the Phillistines never even entered the region until the 12th century B.C.E., and the "city of Gerar" in which Isaac, the son of Abraham, had his encounter with Abimelech, the "king of the Phillistines" (in Genesis 26:1) was in fact a tiny, insignificant rural village up until the 8th century B.C.E. It couldn't have been the capital of the regional king of a people who didn't yet exist! <br />
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This isn't the only problem with the account of the Age of the Patriarchs, either. There's the problem of the camels. We know from archaeological evidence that camels weren't domesticated until about the late second millenium B.C.E., and that they weren't widely used as beasts of burden until about 1000 B.C.E. - long after the Age of the Patriarchs. And then there's the problem of the cargo carried by the camels - "gum, balm and myrrh," which were products of Arabia - and trade with Arabia didn't begin until the era of Assyrian hegemony in the region, beginning in the 8th century B.C.E. <br />
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Yet influences from the east must have been, because we have evidence of worship of their gods and goddesses. The heiarchy of gods and goddesses who included Baal, the god of storms, who made the land fertile, and Lotan, the seven-headed dragon, known to Old Testament readers as Leviathan. There is Yam Nahar, the god of the seas and rivers, and other pantheons and heiarchies of gods and goddesses.1 Reigning over them all was El, the king of the gods, ruler of the pantheon. Remember the name, we'll encounter it again. <br />
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The fact is that with all that is known of Egyptian history from this time (since scholars can now read the records the ancient Egyptians with the ease of a modern newspaper), and the fact that the history of Egypt in this period is well documented, there is no evidence from the records of Egypt itself that the events of Exodus ever occured, either archaeologically or documentarily in the manner in which the Bible describes the events. The reality is that if a series of plagues had been visited upon Egypt, thousands of slaves escaped in a mass runaway, and the army of the Pharaoh were swallowed up by the Red Sea, such events would doubtless have made it into the Egyptian documentary record. But the reality is that there isn't a single word describing any such events. <br />
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The story of the expulsion of the Hyksos is easily the closest parallel we have from either the Egyptian record or the archaeological record to the story of the Exodus as recorded in the Bible. There are problems, though. Besides the Exodus story line, the biggest problem is the dates: the Bible places the Exodus at about 1200 B.C.E., yet the story of the Hyksos culminates in 1570 B.C.E. It is quite likely that the story of the Hyksos is the story that eventually, through generations of revisionistic retelling, became the myth of the Exodus -- another example of history being rewritten to flatter the storytellers rather than to record the unvarnished truth. <br />
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Anyway, the Hyksos grew in influence until they eventually took control of Egypt, which they ruled, with considerable cruelty and tyrrany during the Fifteenth Dynasty, beginning in 1670 B.C.E. The Egyptians had finally had enough, though, and rebelled against the rule of the Hyksos and drove them out a century later in 1570 B.C.E. They weren't just driven out, either; the Egyptians pushed them back into Canaan with considerable force, driving them all the way to the Syrian frontier, sacking and burning Canaanite cities along the way. Sometime later, the Hyksos capital in Egypt, Avaris, in the eastern Nile delta, was razed to the ground by the Pharoah Ahmose, who chased the last remnants of the Hyksos back into Canaan and even laid siege to Sharuhen, the main Canaanite citadel, destroying it and ending Canaanite influence there. At least one historian claims (a millenium after the fact) that the Hyksos refugees settled in Jerusalem and built a temple there, but the archaeological record does not support the claim of either a temple or large numbers of refugees in Jerusalem from this period. <br />
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It is quite clear from the archaeological record, as well, that there never was a "wandering in the desert for 40 years," either. Extensive archaeological surveys of the Sanai desert have never shown any encampments dating from the time of the Exodus, either before, during or after the time of the Ramsean pharoahs. At least two sites mentioned in the exodus story have been positively identified and carefully and extensively excavated, but no evidence of late bronze-age occupation or encampment has been found at either site. Additionally, the Sanai Desert was literally dotted with Egyptian military outposts, and nowhere in the Sanai could the Hebrews have been more than a day's travel from one of them. It is inconceivable that they could have remained undetected in the Sanai for forty years. The story of the Exodus is clearly mythmaking designed to portray a possible forced expulsion of oppressors as an escape of victims. <br />
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By the 12th century B.C.E., the Hebrews assumed an identity unique enough in the archaeological record to become discernible for the first time. In the mountains and plateaus of the northern highlands of Canaan, from Jerusalem north to the Jezreel Valley, the highland settlements, poor for their day, begin to show a single distinguishing feature from other, similar highland settlements in regions around them. There is little to go on - pottery shows an impoverished lifestyle, with little decoration and use other than as storage and cooking vessels. Yet one thing is clear - the bones of pigs become absent from the archaeological record. The prohibition on eating pork is therefore the oldest archaeologically supported feature of Jewish culture. It is representative of the beginnings of the transformation of the god "El" into "El-ohim," the god of gods, the god of Israel. <br />
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We now know this Mesopotamian god as "El-ohim," and our author "E," one of the earliest scriptorialists writing about this time, first has El introducing himself to Abraham as "El Shaddai" (El of the Mountain). He also appears as El Elyon, or El of Bethel in other, non-canonized scripture, and his name is also preserved in such Hebrew names as Isra-El and Ishma-El. The word Elohim was originally a plural of El.2 <br />
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To the south, from Bethel to the Valley of Beersheba, a similar transformation is taking place. In this climatically and geologically harsher place, a place with a much smaller and less settled population with greater geographical isolation, the Canaanite god Yahweh is being transformed by a culturally similar people of the land of Judah. The unknown author known to scholars simply as "J" has his god being familiar with and comfortable with Abraham, and he casually appears to Abraham in Genesis 18, introducing himself as Yahweh. But "J's" contemporary, author "E" in the north can't have God being so casual, and first appears as a voice, commanding Abraham to leave his people in Mesopotamia and settle in Canaan.3 <br />
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Yahweh, in his transformation from a pagan Canaanite god to the god of the Jews, becomes a cruel and vindictive god in the hands of author "J." He commands Abraham to sacrifice his first born son, an act which is not at all surprising given the nature of the pagan religions of the time. Many of these pagan religions (and remember that Yahweh got his start as a Canannite pagan god) considered the first-born to be the seed of a god. Because of this, they were often sacrificed to the god who presumably sired them. <br />
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Yet Elohim in the north continues to be a much more subtle god, who directs the affairs of men by revelation of the voice, hidden from the view of mere mortals. There is a tension among these peoples, both of whom identify themselves as culturally decendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. One people, perhaps, but two gods. <br />
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The people of the north, with a much more favorable geography and climate, eventually prosper and establish trading links with their neighbors. Their wealth eventually comes to greatly exceed that of the south - to the extent that they become a nation in their own right - the nation of Israel. Israel prospers to the extent that it becomes a significant trading nation - greatly eclipsing its poorer neighbor, Judah. The archaeological record clearly shows Israel to be a major regional power, one that certainly attracted the interest of its neighbors. <br />
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By now, the Egyptian hegemony in the region has faded, and the geopolitical vacuum was filled by Assyria. The Assyrians eventually assumed control of the region, with two provincial areas, Israel in the north, and Judah in the south. Israel, vastly more prosperous and populous than Judah, had its capital at various times in Megiddo, Samaria and Seschem, and Judah had its capital at Bethel, on it's northern frontier, or sometimes at Hebron in the south. Jerusalem, up until this time, was a tiny agricultural village of insignificance, and, until the Assyrian deportations, was certainly not a cultural center. <br />
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By the end of the eighth century, B.C.E., a Hebrew alphabet appears, and literacy rapidly spreads among the wealthier Hebrews. Finally, after centuries of oral tradition, writing becomes widespread for the first time, and culturally changes everything. The myths are written down and compared. And the two gods come into open conflict with each other. <br />
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Widespread literacy and the geopolitical events of the day, changed everything. Israelite rebellion against the Assyrians brought repression in the north, and with it, waves of refugees into the south. With the arrival of waves of refugees, Jerusalem is quickly transformed from a tiny agricultural village of no particular significance into a major town, with a religious influence of its own. The arriving Israelites with their gods with El at the helm, and the Judeans, with their single god Yahweh, are now forced to reconcile their religious differences. It is also from this era that the myths of the Old Testament become frozen in the form in which they have come down to us - the story of Abraham and his family travelling and trading Arabian goods with the use of camels, the myth of Exodus transformed as it was from the story of the expulsion of the Hyksos, the stories of the conquest of Canaan with David slaying Goliath, which was really a story based on the forced resettlement by the Egyptian authorities, of Solomon's great wealth and his great temple at Jerusalem; all were myths substantially altered from the facts as they originally occured. But writing them down now froze those myths, and it is from this time they came to us unaltered for the most part. For the first time, the Biblical record begins to correspond with the archaeological record. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">The Deuteronomist and the Second Great Revision, With the Rise of the Temple State and the Third Great Revision</span></strong> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>742-600 B.C.E.</strong></div><br />
It is at least a century after the first books of the Pentatuch was written that the gods of the Old Testament are harmonized into a singular being, this having been done by the third major writer of the Old Testament books, a writer (or more probably group of writers) called by scholars, "D" the Deuteronomist. If we are going to have a monotheistic religion here, we can't go around having two competing gods, so something must be done. The tribes of Israel and Judah had a choice to make, and Joshua warned them that Yahweh was a jealous god. Which god would it be? In essence, there was no difficulty making a choice. Yahweh was the more powerful, having demonstrated his power by intervening on their behalf in Egypt, and in the desert at Sinai. The choice was easy. It was Yahweh. <br />
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So the second great revision of Judaic religion has happened. In the original Pentatuch, written in the 8th century B.C.E., there isn't a clearly monotheistic statement to be found, but by the time of the writings of the Deuteronomist, a century or so later, the Deuteronomist has Joshua threatening the Israelites and making sure they became monotheistic under threat of being destroyed. The Deuteronomist pulls off this neat harmonization of two competing gods by having the Israelites reminded that their fathers had promised Yahweh that he would be their god, and so they made him their elohim, their high God. So now, Elohim, who originally was the king of the gods of Fertile Crescent, is now Yahweh, the god of Israel. If you have two conflicting gods, its a neat trick to just get rid of the conflict by declaring they're the same being.4 <br />
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A god has to have a home, and the home of the god Yahweh was in heaven. But his priests on earth had to have a place for the ritual sacrifices that were handed down as part of the ritual of the "El" pantheon, as well as the original pagan Canaanite god, Yahweh, which of course had been descended into the Hebraic monotheism. This place was the temple, of course, whose construction was attributed to Solomon, a mythical king. The reality is that it was built at least a century later than the period attributed to the rule of Solomon. The whole story of Solomon, his father David and the events surrounding that dynasty were created during this era to explain the fading splendor of Jerusalem and provide a centering myth around which to rally the culture towards a monotheistic religion, under assault from the Assyrian culture that politically was hegemonous in the region. <br />
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In the year 742 B.C.E., while the Deuteronomist writers were still busy getting rid of Elohim, a member of the Judean royal family had a vision. In it, he saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, directly above the temple in Jerusalem. In the vision, Isaiah is commanded to bring a new message to Israel. Isaiah is filled with foreboding and with good reason; King Tigleth Pilesar, who had recently ascended to the throne of Assyria had designs on Israel, and now the god of Israel had to take up the duties of defending the people of his covenant. <br />
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Isaiah was commissioned by his god to carry the message to Israel that he is the only god there is; this comes as a great problem to the Israelites who see Isaiah's concept of God as being the very god who had aided the Assyrians in their victories against them. Isaiah is largely rejected with his message, and Yahweh becomes a pensive, introspective god, who invites his followers to enter into a dialogue with him. Isaiah's second innovation was the notion that the commandments of the god should be integrated into the very lives of those who follow him, and not just be restricted to temple observance and ritual. Only by doing so would Yahweh be appeased and Israel saved. This also did not have much resonance in the lives of the average Hebrew. <br />
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In punishment for disregarding the prophet's message, Yahweh conveniently permits King Sargon II of Assyria to occupy the northern portion of Palestine and deport the population. Suddenly, the warnings of Isaiah are taken a bit more seriously as the ten "lost" tribes of Israel are marched off into forced assimilation in Assyria and Palestine becomes the land of the Jews. The reality of course, is that Sargon was punishing Israel for its insurrection and refusal to pay tribute. Israel, with a wetter, more productive climate and much easier geography was much easier pickings than the dry, rocky, thinly populated and more distant Judah. So it was only natural that Sargon would choose to occupy Israel rather than Judah. Yet even as Sargon occupied Israel his own empire was beginning to crumble. Assyrian power was fading, but Babylonian power was increasing. <br />
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In the south, to ensure that the people of Judah hear his message, Yahweh sends a succession of prophets to them. They preach from the temple and ally themselves with the political power of the Jewish kings. In so doing, the temple and the political process become allied in the fight against the military power of their neighbors. There is no longer an Elohim cult, and the Israelites are long gone. The Hebraic religion and culture becomes a Jewish one. Amos and Jeremiah were the prophets of note from this period. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Jeremiah's Failed Prophesy of Exile in Babylon </span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">and The Fourth Great Revision</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>586 B.C.E. to 538 B.C.E.</strong></div><br />
Jeremiah's message was that God is dependent on man to carry out his wishes in the world, a view very much in contrast to the writers of Exodus, who had Yahweh being a powerful, independent and even capricious god. And Jeremiah warns that only following the dictates of God would keep the newly ascendant Babylonians at bay. But it was not enough. He predicted that Babylon would conquer Palestine and the occupants of that land would spend 70 years in captivity by the rivers of Babylon. Well, the captivity happened, but it didn't last 70 years. We know from secular sources that it actually lasted from 586 to 538 B.C.E., a period of only 48 years. <br />
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By 600 B.C.E., the Babylonians were capturing bits of Palestine. By 586, Jerusalem itself was conquered and the temple destroyed. But as conquests of the period went, it was not a bitter one, as only some of the Hebrews were taken into captivity and those who were, were not forced to assimilate. Many were allowed to remain in Palestine. Archaeological surveys indicate that at most, about 10% of the population was forced into exile, most of them being the most economically and politically useful. <br />
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<strong>Among the first batch of deportees, in 597 B.C.E. was a young priest known as Ezekiel.</strong> <br />
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Ezekiel claimed to have had a great vision. It was a typical Yahwehian affair, a great and horrible thing, in which was revealed a plan of action. And in Ezekiel's case, the plan of action was unique, indeed. He first had to eat the word of God. Yes, he was required to eat and swallow the scroll containing the word. This was to make it a "part of" himself. <br />
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Then his wife died, and Ezekiel was forbidden to mourn. Instead, he had to lie down on one side for 390 days and then on the other for 40. On another occasion, he was required to eat excrement. For a period of five years, he spoke to no one. <br />
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Yahweh had not just become a violent and jealous god, he was also demanding and irrational at times. No wonder Ezekiel complained about the burden of being a prophet. <br />
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It seems that Yahweh could not only allow his chosen people to be taken captive, he seemed to have made a circus performer out of his prophets. The irrationality of all this was not lost on the Jews. Exiled as many of them were in Babylon, it seemed that the whole world was topsy-turvy, and practice of their religion, based as it was in a destroyed temple, was impossible outside their homeland. They resented their captivity and relished the thoughts of dashing out the brains of Babylonian babies. <br />
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<strong>But a new prophet preached tranquility. </strong><br />
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Scholars know him as Second Isaiah, as his true name is lost to history, and his message was much like that of the first Isaiah. Second Isaiah also preached that God was unknowable, hence the irrationality of trying to understand him as Ezekiel had gotten in trouble for. Yet this newer incarnation of Yahweh was a more tranquil god, who transcended the pettiness of human politics, and declared himself to be the god that Egypt and Assyria would ultimately worship alongside Israel. So Yahweh's jurisdiction seems to be transformed once again, from the god of the Jews, then all of Israel, to the whole world, and now back to just Palestine, Egypt and Assyria. <br />
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The numerous writers of this period became known to scholars as the Priestly writers, or "P." They gave us the books of Numbers and Leviticus, and also gave their interpretations to the events described by "J" and "E," including the account of the creation, taken from the Babylonian myth, Enuma Elish, a decendant from the Epic of Gilgamesh. "P" subscribes to the Ezekielian vision that God is unknowable and unseeable; it is from this revision that we now have Moses shielding himself from the sight of God by hiding behind a rock. It is also from this period that we have the Levitical proscriptions, the cleanliness laws, which do not define sin, but instead define simply what is Hebraic as opposed to the hated paganism (read: Babylonian) religions (it would only be the Christians centuries later who would assume the Levitical proscriptions to have been descriptions of sin). All this new material was inserted into the Pentatuch about the time Cyrus conquered Babylon in 538 B.C.E. and allowed the Jews to return to Palestine.5 <br />
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The returning Jews wished to rebuild the temple and reestablish the kingdom it all its glory, but they had a problem. Being still governed by foreigners, they weren't allowed a king. <br />
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They solved this problem by simply denying that a king was even necessary, instead heaping their veneration on the high priest of the temple, which they were allowed to have. This would be the pattern of religious practice they would maintain, even during periods when they escaped foreign domination and were able to have their own kings, until the destruction of the Second Temple, centuries later. It was during this period, about 400 B.C.E., that the Torah finally became canonized as scripture. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Greek Influence and the Fifth Great Revision of Judaism</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>323 B.C.E. to 45 C.E.</strong></div><br />
Hellenism by now was becoming a major cultural influence throughout the middle east. Successive waves of Greek influence, first brought by Alexander the Great, had brought with it a knowledge of the great Greek philosophers. For several centuries running, right up to and including the time of Christ, the major cultural influence in the region was Greek. The Roman Empire was primarily a political affair, relatively unconcerned with culture. It brought the Roman form of government, but it was the Greeks whose ideas were spreading with the Romans, which brought to Palestine a systematic philosophy the likes of which the Jews had never seen. <br />
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And Greek philosophy, skeptical and secular in many ways, made a great deal of sense. So again our Hebrew culture is presented with a problem. <br />
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How can the Jewish god, who by now had acquired a great deal of mythological and philosophical baggage, be reconciled with the unspeakable, unknowable god(s) of the Greek philosophers? <br />
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The first to sense the tension were the authors of Wisdom of Solomon and the other Wisdom books. The author of Solomon, a Jew living in Alexandria, warned Jews to be true to Yahweh, and that it was fear of Yahweh, not Greek philosophy that constituted true wisdom. <br />
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Yet the logic and reason of Greek philosophy was too great to be ignored. <br />
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The first major attempt at a reconciliation was by Philo of Alexandria (30 B.C.E. to 45 C.E.). Philo was a thoroughgoing Hellene who wrote in elegant Greek, but was probably ignorant of Hebrew and Aramaic, as the Jewish lingua franca had by now become, yet he was also an observant Jew. In his own mind there must have existed a microcosm of the conflict so evident around him. <br />
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Aristotle had considered history to be unphilosophic. It had nothing to tell us about the nature of God, he said. And to Plato, God was so unknowable and unreachable, it was only man's gift of reason that made him kin to the Gods. How then could Philo reconcile the humanist nature of Aristotelian historical interpretation with great epic of Exodus? And how could Plato's unknowable, unreachable God be manifesting himself with such drama as to terrify the Exodian Hebrews at Sinai? <br />
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Philo gets around the problem by creating a distinction between the essence of God (ouisa), and God's activities in the world (dynameis or energeiai). The essence of God, as Plato had said, is shrouded in impenetrable mystery. But the power, and evidence of God's existence is everywhere in evidence. <br />
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To Philo, the stories of the Pentatuch were allegorical, in keeping with the secular nature of history as Aristotle had taught. So the great myths of Genesis and Exodus should not be taken literally. What they had to tell us was hidden in inner meaning; and the spirit of intuitive apprehension was the way of knowing that meaning. <br />
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It was a neat theological trick, but none of this made any sense to the Semitic Jews. But to the enthusiastically Hellenized Romans of the era, searching as they were for a highly moralistic philosophy of living, and attracted as they were to Judaism for that very reason, it made a great deal of sense. They didn't have to have a literally jealous, blatant, thundering God, but one of unknowable subtlety would do quite nicely. Just give us a plan for living, they seemed to be saying, and we'll forget about thundering avengers. And so Jewish schools of thought based on Philo's interpretations of the scriptures began to spring up all around the Mediterranean basin. This dichotomy between the ethnic Jews and the converts to Philo's school of Judaism was to have important consequences for development of Christianity a couple of centuries later. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">The Christian Era and the Last Great Revision of Judaism</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>30 C.E. to appx. 73 C.E</strong></div><br />
The conflict between the Hellenism and the traditions of ethnic Judaism was nowhere more obvious than in the northern part of Palestine, which had been so often subject to conquest and which, being on the major trade route between Asia Minor and the Transjordan, was constantly subjected to foreign influence. This northern region apparently didn't even consider itself to be Jewish, but rather a separate nation that had been annexed, apparently involuntarily, by the Maccabean kings of Israel. So here you have Hellenized Semitics under the influence and control of Jewish kings, looking elsewhere for philosophical guidance. It was a volatile mix. <br />
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Into this little region, called Galilee, was born a stubborn iconoclast. He resented the Roman occupation but accepted its rule. He was an intellect who understood at least the rudiments of the Cynic school of Greek philosophy and the complex theology of the Semitic Jews around him. But he would have none of it. He felt that there had to be a better way to live. He grew up a suburb of the capital of Galilee, in a place called Nazareth. His name was Jesus. <br />
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At least, that's the mythology that has grown up around this figure. For all his influence on the world, there's better evidence that he never even existed than that he did. We have absolutely no reliable evidence, from secular sources, that Jesus ever lived, or that any of the events surrounding his life as described in the four Gospels ever happened. <br />
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Indeed, when scholars apply the Negative Evidence Principle, it begins to look like the Jesus we know from the New Testament is the result of late first-century mythmaking. <br />
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The Negative Evidence Principle is, of course, not foolproof. It is not a proof in itself, but is rather a guideline, a good rule of thumb. How useful and reliable it is, of course, is subject to debate among logicians. Here's how the N.E.P. works - it states that you have good reason for not believing in a proposition if the following three principles are satisfied: First, all of the evidence supporting the proposition has been shown to be unreliable. Second, there is no evidence supporting the proposition when the evidence should be there if the proposition is true. And third, a thorough and exhaustive search has been made for supporting evidence where it should be found. <br />
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As for the first point, the only somewhat reliable, secular evidence we have for the life of Jesus comes from two very brief passages in the works of Josephus, a first-century Jewish historian. And Josephus was a prolific writer - he frequently wrote several pages on the trial and execution of individual common thieves, but on Jesus, he is silent except for two paragraphs, one of which is a known interpolation, and the other is highly suspect. Other references to Jesus in secular writings are ambiguous at best, or known to be later interpolations, or both. The earliest references to Jesus in the rabbinical literature come from the second century, even though known historical figures such as John the Baptist merit considerable discussion, even though his impact on Judaism was minimal. There are no references to Jesus in any of the Roman histories during his presumed lifetime. That he should be so thoroughly ignored is unlikely given the impact the gospel writers said he had on the events and politics of the Jewish kingdom. <br />
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So we have to turn to Christian literature for help. <br />
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At this point, caution is called for in examining first century Christian literature. This caution is made necessary by the fact that during this era, it was not considered wrong to write your own material and ascribe it to someone else, someone you consider your philosophical mentor, in whose name and style you are writing. Indeed, not only was this a common practice, but it was actually a skill taught in the schools of the day. This practice has made modern scholarship enormously difficult in dealing with who actually wrote the New Testament books and when. The problem, though difficult, is not insoluble, and modern scholarship has developed techniques which have been applied to early Christian writings, to find out who is saying what, when and why. When these techniques are applied to these early Christian writings, the results have been quite surprising. <br />
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The writings of Paul accepted as genuinely his (Galatians I and II and Thessalonians I and II, Corinthians, Romans, Philemon, Phillipians, and possibly Colossians) are by far the most pristine of any early Christian literature we have. They were probably written beginning in the fifth decade of the first century - well after the events of Jesus' life. When the letters are examined in isolation, it becomes apparent that Paul was ignorant of the doctrine of the virgin birth, that he never spoke in terms of having lived in Jesus' time, nor does he mention that any of his mentors were contemporaries of Jesus, nor that Jesus worked any miracles and he appparently did not associate the death of Jesus with the trial before Pilate. Only in Galatians 1:19 does he make reference to a contemporary Jesus, and then only in terms of James being the "Lord's brother." The use of the term "Lord's" even makes that single reference somewhat questionable to scholars, as the word "Lord's" did not have currency until the late 2nd. century. So the Pauline letters, at least the reliably Pauline letters, aren't good witnesses for a Jesus of the first half of the first century. What makes this particularly interesting, is that other non-Canonical early Christian pre-Gospel literature make the very same omissions. <br />
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Later Christian writings were written well after the events they describe, none earlier than at least the seventh decade at the earliest. And none of them are known to have been written by the authors to which they are ascribed. Most are second or third-hand accounts. There was plenty of time for mythmaking by the time they were written, so they're clearly not reliable witnesses. <br />
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The next stricture of the Negative Evidence Principle is that there isn't any sound evidence where there should be, and here again this stricture is met. First, there are no records whatever of Jesus' life in the Roman records of the era. That's surprising, since he stirred up so much unrest, at least by Biblical accounts. There at least ought to be a record of his arrest and trial, or some of the political notoriety the gospel writers describe. Yet the Roman histories are silent, even though they are quite thorough (Flavius Josephus alone wrote dozens of volumes, many of which survive, and he is far from the only historian of Palestine in this period whose writings have survived in some form). Second, as mentioned, there is no reliable account in Josephus. <br />
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Josephus was a historian who was so very thorough he would write a three page history of the trial and execution of a common thief, and wrote extensively about John the Baptist, but on Jesus, his two small references are seriously doubted by scholars as being genuine. Unfortunately, the writings of Josephus have come down to us only through Christian sources, none earlier than the fourth century, and are known to have been revised by the Christians. There are a number of reasons why the two references in Josephus are doubted: As summarized by Louis Feldman, a promient Josephus scholar, they are, first, use of the Christian reference to Jesus being the Messiah is unlikely to have come from a Jewish historian, especially from one who treated other Messianic aspirants rather harshly; second, commentators writing about Josephus earlier than Eusebius (4th Cent. C.E.) do not cite the passage; third, Origen mentions that Josephus did not believe that Jesus was the messiah. There is a full account available on the Internet that describes the whole long list of problems with the "Testimonium Flavium" as scholars call it. <br />
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The earliest secular literary evidence for a religion based on the man we call Jesus comes from many decades after Jesus' supposed death (from about 70 C.E.). Why, if he had as much influence, and caused as much a stir as the Bible says he did, do we not know of him at all from reliable, contemporary testimony? <br />
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The third stricture of the N.E.P. holds that we must have conducted a thorough and exhaustive sweep for evidence where there should be evidence. Indeed, thousands of scholars, religionists, crusaders, apologists and skeptics alike have searched for such evidence since the earliest days of the Christian era. That they haven't found any reliable evidence that should have been there says that the third stricture has been clearly satisfied. <br />
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So based on the Negative Evidence Principle, we have good reason to doubt the historicity of Jesus and that lack of reliable evidence suggests no good reason to accept it. <br />
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How is it, then, that the movement began? Why did it grow as it did? <br />
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As discussed above, there was considerable intellectual ferment in Palestine at the time of the beginning of the Jesus movements. Many secular scholars and scholars from non-Judeo-Christian traditions have proposed, and I tend to agree, that it is likely that the Jesus myth began as a social movement to 'reJudify' Judaism. Remember that at this point, the temple was thoroughly corrupt, the high priest was a Roman political appointee, and many Jews felt that their culture and religion were under threat. <br />
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The most prominent of the many movements to 'reJudaify' Judaism was the Essene Movement. Founded in the second century B.C.E., the Essenes were either founded by or greatly influenced by a "Teacher of Righteousness," to which the Dead Sea Scrolls make constant reference without ever naming. One individual who fits the scanty evidence is a Yeishu ha Notzri, Jesus or Jesua, or Yeshua or Joshua ben Pantera or Pentera or Pandera or Pandira, who apparently had some influence with this movement, but may have been much more than that; we simply don't know. Indeed, there are even several first-century Christian references to this supposed miracle worker. <br />
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If he was the Teacher of Righteousness referred to by the Dead Sea Scrolls, as some have suggested, his impact on the movement towards Jewish reform was considerable. And if he was the Teacher of Righteousness, it would answer a lot of interesting questions, such as the scattered first century Christian and Talmudic references to a miracle worker named Yeishu ha Notzri, known to first-century Christians as Jesus or Jesua ben Pantera. Among them are a quote from Origen, saying that his arch-rival Celsus had heard from a Jew in Jerusalem that "Jesus Ben Pantera" was born of Mary as the result of a rape by a Roman soldier named Pantera, and had borne the baby in secret (most scholars now regard this claim to be a first-century legend resulting from misinterpretation of the facts). <br />
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That the first century Christians may have feared there was some truth to this rumor is evidenced by the fact of Mark's obvious embarrassment regarding the origins of Jesus; Mark, the first writer of a canonic gospel, never mentions Joseph as the actual husband of Mary. Note also that it was both the Roman custom and the custom of the Jews to include a patrilineal surname as part of a person's full name; yet nowhere in the New Testament does the surname of Jesus, (or Joseph, for that matter) appear. There is at least one Talmudic reference to Jeshu as being the illegitimate son of an adultress named Mary Magdala. There are several interesting references to a Yeishu ha Notzri (note the resemblance of the name to "Jesus of Nazareth"), who traveled around and practiced magic during the reign of Alexander Janneus, who ruled Palestine from 104 to 78 BCE. As these references are Talmudic (from the Baraitas and the Gemara), and therefore presumed by Christian scholars to be anti-Christian; Christian apologeticists have simply dismissed them as referring to someone else or being fabricated propaganda. But if they are genuine, and they really do refer to the Jesus of whom the Christians speak, they add evidence to the claim that the Jesus of Nazareth story is really based on the life of Yieshu ha Notzri, possibly the Essene "Teacher of Righteousness." Evidence points to him being the founder of the Notzri as the sects were known in first century Palestine, and as the Jesus Movements to modern scholars. <br />
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It must be noted here is that the version of the Talmud still used by most modern Christian scholars, is normally the version known to have been heavily edited by Christians by the 16th century - presumably to remove the dangerous references to Yeishu ha Notzri and his followers, the Notzrim, the account of which is absent from this version. But the pristine version, still used by Jewish scholars, gives us some rich detail. Yeishu ha Notzri was considered by the temple authorities of the time to be a troublemaking heretic, and when they had finally had enough of him, they put him on trial. He was convicted of heresy, sentenced to wander the city for 40 days, with a crier going before him, shouting that if anyone had reason why he should not be executed, they should come forward. When no did, he was stoned to death, and his body hung from a tree on the eve of passover, in 88 B.C.E. Note the death on the eve of passover. Note also the hanging of the body from a tree - at the time, a sign of despicability, with its resemblance to the crucifixion myth. <br />
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The Essene movement was one based on a very strict asceticism. Followers were expected to live in monastic isolation, eating a rough diet of hard, primitive foods and living in very simple, rough accomodations, in the harsh climate and isolation of the Judean desert. Since not a lot of people had a taste for that kind of harsh, strict living, it was not exactly a wildly popular movement, yet its social ideals had a great deal of popular appeal. The result was that many people began to adopt the social ideals if not the religious asceticism, and began to associate with each other, much like the modern Hippie movement borrowed heavily from Eastern mysticism and spawned a social movement in our own times. Many organized themselves into small groups for social sharing and discussion. By the first century, these movements, known to the Jews of the time as the Notzri, and its follwers the Notzrim, had become widespread, and were found throughout the Eastern Meditteranean region. It is of considerable importance to note here that it is also known from Talmudic sources and elsewhere that the first century Christians also referred to themselves as Notzrim - lending strong support to the Yeishu ha Notzri theory as the source of the Jesus myth. <br />
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The Notzrim, or Jesus Movements, as modern scholars refer to these groups, appeared as isolated groups in widely separated towns and villages throughout the region. What they had in common was that they were a social reform movement, and often refered to a 'Jesus' or 'Jeshua' or 'Yeishu' or 'Yeshua' as their inspiration, but we know from contemporary descriptions that they were clearly not a religion, even though they incorporated many religious values. <br />
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Each of these Jesus Movement groups had its own ideas, often networking with others of a like mind, often disputing with others of conflicting ideas. While we have no writings from them directly, we have many references to them by contemporary historians, so we have some awareness of what they believed and practiced, if filtered by others. By the time of Paul, the Jesus Movements had become extraordinarily diverse and widespread. Some were bands of iternant preachers, others were guilds of settled craftspeople. Some were simple study groups, others were formal schools of scholastic research. As mentioned, there was philosophical ferment in first century Palestine, and the Jesus movements were not immune. Rather, they were very much a part of it. While none of what they wrote has survived intact, scholars are reasonably certain of a "Sayings Gospel Q" (subsequently revised at least three times), which is lost to us except where Mark quoted from it much later in "his" gospel, and one of the gospels of "Thomas," which has survived to the modern era in at least two versions, contain if not the pristine writings of Jesus Movements, at least quotations from them. <br />
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What is interesting about the Jesus Movements as the source of Christianity and the Jesus myth, is that they were the source of Gnosticism, which for many decades, was considered by scholars to be a Christian heresy which arose in the second century. Scholars had presumed this mostly as a result of the comments made in the screeds of Iraeneus, who railed against this widespread and threatening "heresy" endlessly. But it is now widely accepted that Gnosticism was widespread by the time Jesus is supposed to have lived, and now, having the Nag Hammadi library as a treasure trove of new information, we now know that its mythology was Jewish, not Christian, its metaphysics was Neo-Platonic and Neo-Stoic, and it shared ideas from Egyptian, Greek, Jewish and "Hermetic" mystery religions, and was an outgrowth of the Jesus Movements. Yet, when one reads the Nag Hammadi gospels we have today, we also read constant references to Jesus, including such stories as the Last Supper and the Crucifixion - evidence that the Gnostic gospels themselves borrowed from later Christian sources. But the Jesus myth's widespread popularity among the Gnostics by the first third of the first century leads to the suggestion that, unless a wholesale and dramatic conversion took place (for which there is no evidence whatever), the Jesus myth was already widespread among the Gnostics by the time Jesus was supposed to have lived and died, and he died a long time ago. He wasn't a contemporary divine Messiah-figure. At least not yet. <br />
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The destruction of the Second Temple which occurred during the Roman-Jewish war of 66-73 C.E. and the diaspora that followed also greatly impacted Judaism. The destruction of the Temple-based priesthood made central authority for doctrine and ritual impossible, along with the ability to perform temple-based ritual. So now every local rabbi was on his own. Each had his own response to the rise of Christianity and the contemporaneous diaspora into which Judaism was forced. In certain places at certain times, various rabbinates established local schools and influenced local movements, but as a whole, Judaism split into local factions, each struggling to maintain the tradition as best it could. In the main, the maintenance of a Jewish identity and the basic cultural traditions was possible, but the rigid adherence to a single doctrinal viewpoint was not, since there was no central authority against which to measure local ideas against a common doctrinal standard. So it's not surprising that nearly as many schools of thought arose in the Judaism of the diaspora as occurred in Protestantism, a millenium and a half later. <br />
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The impact of the destruction of the temple on the Jesus Movements was to galvanize them into activism, trying to reform Judaism in order to save it from forced Romanization and the enveloping diaspora. For most of the Jesus Movements, there was no effort to reform the religion as much as the culture, but as we will see, for one Jesus Movement, things were to be quite different. Gnosticism, an outgrowth of the Jesus Movements, was by now and remained an inward-focused quasi-religion, based as much on personal reform as the basis of the social reform of the Jesus Movements from which it sprang, but which intended to contribute to the salvation of Jewish tradition by making Jewish religion more personal and inward-focused, and not dependent on outside authority. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">The Road To Damascus And The Origins of Christianity</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Appx. 50 C.E. to 140 C.E.</strong></div><br />
In about 50 C.E., a remarkable event occurred, which ultimately changed the course of human history. In Antioch, the local Jesus Movement suddenly and quickly transformed itself from a social and political reform movement into a full-blown religion. As this occurred, a remarkable conversion happened - or maybe the transformation occurred because Saul of Tarsus was "converted" to a new religious vision of his own and evangelized the group as Paul the Apostle. Whichever way it happened, we will probably never know. But secular scholars are pretty much agreed that this group included the first true Christians and that Paul, a Gnostic, was one of the first if not the first convert. And the Antioch Jesus Movement became the first of what modern scholars now refer to as the Christ Cults, the variety of Pauline-inspired cults prior to their consolidation under a single authority centuries later into the Catholic church. <br />
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That Paul was greatly influenced by Gnosticism, there is little doubt, in that many writers quote Gnostic sources as writing favorably of Paul and considering Paul to be their ally. There is also little doubt that Paul, among his contemporary Christian writers (Clement of Rome, Barnabas, and the author of Hebrews), and among the Gnostics and members of the Jesus Movements, all considered Jesus to be a long dead figure, their highly revered founder. None of these writers directly quote people who claimed to have seen Jesus in mortal flesh. Instead, what had changed was that with the advent of Paul, Jesus had now become available for visionary appearances, and, having been shown on the right-hand of God in Paul's visions, was clearly a divine being, not just a great teacher and prophet, as the Gnostics had heretofore held. <br />
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By accepting Paul's vision and taking the relatively small step of transforming Jesus from a great teacher of righteousness and great prophet into an actual divine being, Gnosticism became a form of Christianity, albeit one with a very different theology from the catholicised Christianity of later centuries. The form of divinity they eventually accepted, however, was that Jesus was a wholly spiritual being who only "seemingly" appeared to his followers as a man, and exposed himself to persecution and death on the cross. This lack of mortality became known to the catholic Christians as the "docetic" heresy of the Gnostics. It would survive into the sixth century, in spite of repeated attempts by the church and the Empire to stamp it out. <br />
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Paul's writings are among the earliest Christian writings that have survived intact, and quite probably because they were the first Christian writings in the sense that we know Christianity. They date to within two decades of the presumed date of the crucifixion. Of the books in the New Testament that are attributed to Paul, there are only a few that are generally agreed by scholars to be the product of his pen. Among these are Galatians I and II and Thessalonians I and II, Corinthians, Romans, Philemon, Phillipians, and possibly Collosians. The rest of the New Testament books attributed to him were written by later authors seeking to ride on his credibility and authority. <br />
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What's remarkable about these writings is that when considered apart from the rest of the New Testament, they paint an interesting and very different picture of Paul himself and of very early Christianity than that accepted by most Christians. Among the possibilities that have been presented to account for this are that Paul was ignorant of many of the important details of the life of Jesus or, more likely, those details are simply myths that were incorporated into Christianity after Paul wrote his letters. <br />
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The reasons for Paul's conversion is a question that deserves discussion here. Saul, the pre-conversion Roman Jew, was a man with an intense self loathing. He doesn't tell us why, but time and again, he describes himself as a sinner who was far beyond any possible redemption. A man who stood condemned in the eyes of God. A man clearly destined for hell, and there's nothing he himself could do about it, especially since his body's 'member' would not cooperate. It's not his persecution of the Christians that creates the self loathing; rather it is the other way around. Something was eating at Saul. It clearly related to behavior, because he describes himself as being a sinner. Over the centuries, many suggestions have been made as to what might have been the source of that self loathing. Few of them are really convincing, they all seem to have serious problems - except for one: the suggestion that Paul was a repressed homosexual. Homosexuality was not widely condemned in this region at the time, yet it could possibly have been a personal interpretation of Levitical proscriptions that drove him to consider himself a sinner for being a homosexual. Yet when he experiences his conversion, he realizes that by the grace of God, his homosexuality no longer matters, for God loves him, the same as all men. I say this after having read the references in the New Testament in which Paul speaks of his shame and his self loathing: his words have a startlingly deep resonance with every gay man who was ever brought up in a Christian environment. This theory alone to the exclusion of all others I've seen explains all the strange aspects of Paul's attitudes towards sexuality - the proclivity to a monastic degree of chastity, the extreme mysogony, the fact that he remained single and urged others in his situation, whatever that was, to do likewise, and the frequent discussions of how the 'members' of his body do not cooperate with his spiritual goals, and his despair over his inability to effect the changes he would like. All of these evidences are consonant with the repressed-gay theory; no other theory I know of account for them all. <br />
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I hasten to add here, that there is no acctual evidence to indicate that Paul was gay. The evidence is purely circumstantial, as is much of the evidence widely accepted in Biblical scholasticism. It has been charged that I included this theory only because "it irks Christians" or because I am myself gay. This is simply not true. I have included it, because it fits the evidence better than any other theory I have seen - the evidence fits remarkably well. On a personal note, I don't happen to care a whit whether Paul was gay or not - I have no investment in the theory as I am not a Christian; I'm only trying to arrive at a theory that fits the evidence better than any other, and so far, I have yet to find another that fits it better. If the reader can offer one, I'd be delighted to entertain it, and I hasten to point out that I have analyzed dozens of theories. The search for truth is a search for the best evidential fit, not the search for comfort, so whether Christians find the theory irksome, troublesome or disturbing, or whether the author of this essay is gay, is really quite irrelevant to reality. But I digress from the story... <br />
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If this theory is true, it may well be that the whole of the Christian edifice of sexual doctrine, and even of Christianity itself, is built on the foundation of the self-loathing of a repressed gay man, unable to change himself or find salvation within himself, but finding salvation only in the grace of God. Again, if this theory is true, try to imagine how world history might have been different had Saul not been born gay and suffered the self-loathing that resulted from that circumstance of his birth. <br />
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Paul speaks, then, from the perspective of a self loathing, pre-mythologized Christian. He utters the doctrines that pretty much will shape Christianity in the centuries ahead, but does not relate any of the 'faith promoting' miracle stories or details of Jesus' life that one would expect of an evangelist seeking converts in a first-century world hungry for the evidence of spirituality offered by miracles and magic. This, of course, is because the miracle stories didn't yet exist. Those stories would come from the gospel writers. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">The Gospels: Mythmaking Begins in Ernest</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>65 C.E. to appx. 120 C.E.</strong></div><br />
The gospel writers were converts to the new Christ cults. Whether any were directly converted by Paul, we don't know, but it has been 20 years since Paul's conversion, and the new religion has been spreading like wildfire among the Jesus Movements of the Eastern Mediteranean. We also know that none were writing from Palestine, but were all in the Diaspora, and none had, so far as we know, even traveled to Palestine. Mark wrote with the letters of Ignatius in hand, and each of the succeeding writers wrote with the previously written gospels, and probably Ignatius as well, in hand. <br />
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We do know that Paul traveled to Jerusalem to discuss with Peter the doctrines of his new church, and how they should be applied to gentiles as well as Jews. We can only speculate as to the details of what was discussed during this meeting, but one thing is clear: Peter and Paul had a heated discussion as to just who this new gospel should be preached to, whether gentiles should be included with Jews. Paul returned to Antioch apparently satisfied that he had convinced Peter and James of his point of view. <br />
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It is also quite clear that this meeting was one of several (there was at least one other, where Peter was known to have been publicly humiliated by Paul) that must surely have occurred among the early luminaries which took up the general outlines of how proselytizing should be done, how the church should be structured and what doctrines should be promulgated in order to appeal to as many people as possible, and whether they should include gentiles as well as Jews. The reason why was that there was a serious problem: Judaism was under direct threat from Roman persecution of the priestly class (seen as a political threat resulting from the uprising against Roman rule) and a new version of Judaism had to be concocted that would be so appealing that people would want to belong to it, and so captivating that people would not want to abandon it, even in the face of persecution, and be politically inoffensive so as to hopefully escape the attentions of the Roman persecutors. It had to abandon the temple worship since there was no temple anymore, and it had to be able to survive the onslaught of foreign ideas which were widely available, from Roman, Hellene, pagan and oriental sources, not to mention the many attractive mystery religions of the Roman Empire. The result is that the new religion had the features of what in our day is called a meme - an idea that actually behaves like a virus - it infects, reproduces and spreads itself, and most importantly, has the ability to evolve to adapt to fluid circumstances. As a response to Roman persecutions following the failed uprising against Rome, Paul and the other founders of Christianity seem to have set out to create a religion that was flexible enough that it could evolve in this way, so as preserve at least some form of Judaism from the Roman persecutions and do so in the absence of a highly organized priesthood. They succeeded, of course, beyond their wildest hopes, creating a cult that not only survived the Roman persecutions and the diaspora, but would survive, evolve and grow to become one of the world's major religions. <br />
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The ideas of Paul, with the contributions of Peter, James, and other early conversants and early bishops, including among others, Ignatius, Barnabas, the author of Hebrews, Clement of Rome and others, apparently communicated back to the local Jesus movements many of which had been converted to the members of the new Christ cult, either as Gnostics or as followers of Ignatius. These local Christ cult converts included the gospel writers, many of whom were inspired to write, at least following in the lead of Ignatias, to take up the cause against the "docetic" heresy of the Gnostics, claiming as it did, that Jesus was a purely spiritual being who never had a physical body, and only "seemed" to be in mortal flesh. Leading the charge against the Gnostics was the first-century bishop Ignatius of Antioch, highly regarded by the church membership and persecuted by the Romans, which of course, only increased the esteem with which he was held. It was his letters, seven of which are widely considered genuine and all of which were written before the canonic gospels, that contain the first references to "the Gospel," to Mary the Virgin, to the baptism and crucifixion of Jesus, to Jesus being the seed of David, and God being his father. It is clear that the rapidly spreading popularity of the Isis cult, with it's virgin mother of God story, was the inspiration for including a virgin birth for Jesus. Ignatius is the first to mention the role of Pilate, giving us our first reference date for Ignatius' physical Jesus to have lived in the first century. It is apparent from a careful reading of Ignatius' letters, in comparison to the canonic gospels and the first-century texts that preceeded them, that the myth of a first-century historical Jesus is quite likely to have originated with Ignatius. <br />
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Building upon the myth created by Ignatius, and to make a flesh-and-blood, historical Jesus real to believers and thereby make the docetic heresy untenable, additional myths surrounding the life of Jesus had to be and were liberally borrowed by the gospel writers from the pagan religions that surrounded them, probably because of the appeal these myths clearly had had for the followers of the pagan religions. Everywhere were to be found religions that had as major features one or more of the myths that eventually came to be associated with Jesus. Virtually every story surrounding Jesus, whether it be the virgin birth (borrowed from the myth of the birth of Tammuz, a pagan god from northern Israel who was supposed to have been born of the virgin Myrrha), the miracle stories found in the Bacchus and Isis cults, the betrayal and crucifixion, were part of one or more of the pagan religions of the time. The liberal plagiarizing of these stories from the mystery religions was one of the many embarrassing facts pointed out by Celsus. <br />
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Some of the myths were even the result of simple misinterpretations by gospel writers who writing from the Diaspora and who had never even been to Palestine - Nazareth, for example, was not a place name, but simply a corruption of the name "Notzri," with the name not meaning "of the town of Nazareth," but "of the Notzrim," the social reform groups known by scholars today as the Jesus Movements. Nazareth, as a place name, did not even come into existence until Emperor Constantine's mother, searching for the holy sites in Palestine in the fourth century on which to build preservatory basilicas, simply invented the name for a pre-existing village for which only very flimsy evidence tied it to the site of the youth of Jesus. Among the religions of the day incorporating a crucifixion myth, for example, were the mystery religions of Attis, Adonis, Dionysus, and several others. Dionisus, for example, was depicted as being given a crown of ivy, dressed in a purple robe, and was given gall to drink before his crucifixion. The depiction on a Greek vase from the 5th century B.C.E. even shows a communion being prepared. The fact that these stories are today almost exclusively associated with the myth of Jesus of Nazareth, show how both myth and history is often outright expropriated - and even rewritten - by the victors, in their own way. <br />
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There were literally dozens of gospels, most of which have been lost to us, but significant numbers survive, not just those included in the canon. Most of the non-canonical gospels are polemics and are easily dismissed, though some (particularly those from the Nag Hammadi library) including especially the Gospel of Thomas, are interesting mostly for what they help us learn of the early church. But because the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are so important to the development of Christianity, we'll examine each of them and the effect they have had on the Christian church. Of particular importance is the Gospel of Thomas, having been written before any of the canonic gospels, and therefore lacking in detail regarding the life of Jesus, but giving us a good overview of some of the more important Gnostic doctrines. By the late second century, the vast library of gospels, most of which contradicted each other to various degrees, led bishop Iraneus to angrily rail against most of them, and argue forcefully that there were only four legitimate gospels, the ones we know today as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. His reasoning might seem a bit obscure to us today - he argued that as there were four elements (earth, water, wind and fire) and there were four cardinal points of the compass (north, south, east and west), so there should be considered only four gospels. Yeah, you know the ones. The Gospel of John was included on his list even though it was clearly a Gnostic gospel, but he included it because it argued against the docetic heresy of the Gnostics, asserting the physicality of Jesus at every possible opportunity. Doing so was a very ecumenical move on Iraneus' part, offering a way into the fold for the Gnostics, if they would just give up their heresy. His successors argued that John should be dropped from the list because it was Gnostic, but they ultimately lost the debate. <br />
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The first of the canonic gospels to be written was that of Mark. We don't know much about the author of the Gospel According to Mark, but we do know that the author was a simple man, not highly literate in Greek (for whom it may have been a second language), and not particularly well educated, but a man who was thoroughly steeped in Jewish mythology and religion. Not being particularly well educated, his was a world of superstition, demons, of possession, of miracles and gods of the Roman world, and all these had an effect on how he wrote his gospel. It is also clear that his gospel was greatly influenced by the stories circulating in the Christian community as to just who this Jesus was. <br />
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If Jesus existed as depicted in the New Testament, Mark never knew him, but claimed to have been a follower of Peter instead - so much so that his gospel was known for a time as the Petrine gospel. Mark wrote his gospel in Syria for an audience of Roman Christians. Many scholars like to claim that the date of his gospel is about 70 C.E., but there are plenty of reasons to doubt this, mostly the fact that he is quoting many sayings that first appear in the letters of Ignatius, who began writing a bit later - and for that reason, I suspect a date early in the second century is more likely. <br />
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The Christians were suffering intense persecution at the time at the hands of Nero who was scapegoating them for the Roman fire and other problems, and so Mark wrote what he hoped would be a gospel to strengthen the Christian community and give it hope in times of trial. In so doing, he wrote a gospel that was long on the suffering of Jesus and those who follow him, and short on temporal salvation. Jesus was mythologized not as a carpenter, but rather as a carpenter's son - a blatant attempt to confer social status, by not relegating him to the status of a simple craftsman, but as someone who rose far above his circumstance, as the Christians were being asked by their leaders to do. Joseph is not mentioned in the story of Jesus' birth, but Jesus is rather referred to as "the son of Mary," a description (being the "son of" a woman) was normally reserved for the illegitimate - so it is clear that Mark is intent on telling what he regards as the truth, even if he has to tell half-truths to achieve his goal. Mark never explains the circumstances of Jesus' birth, but merely says that Jesus came from Nazareth - a misunderstanding of the term "Notzri" - the name by which the Jesus Movements had called themselves until the first half of the first century. Making this mistake was easy, because Mark had doubtless heard that Jesus had been a Notzri, but had apparently not understood what it meant, and assumed it to be a geographical reference. There is nothing in Mark about virgins or wise men or being born in a manger with angels talking to shepherds. This is because as Mark writes, the myths surrounding Jesus' birth had yet to be incorporated into Christian mythology, and Mark has not done so. But other myths of the Christian community, including several of the miracle stories, were included by Mark in his gospel. This is because Mark was a simple man and tended to accept these traditions at face value, and included them because they elevated Jesus in the minds of his readers, an important goal if his audience were to consider the hero of the story to be worth dying for.<br />
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The next of the canonized gospels to be written was Matthew. The author of Matthew was a well-educated conservative Jew, trained in the nuances of the Levitic tradition, and was intent on showing the Hebraic world just what Jesus had to offer them. Scholarship has traditionally held that he wrote a decade or so after the Second Temple was destroyed in the abortive Jewish uprising, but he quotes Mark, whose gospel was unlikely to have been written before the beginning of the second century. Matthew was determined to explain to the Jewish world just who Jesus was and to show Judaism that there was an alternative to the Rabbinic tradition that was then developing in the aftermath of the destruction of the second temple; i.e., that salvation through Jesus was possible. It was Matthew's conservatism that was the source of the hellfire and damnation in Fundamentalist Christian conservatism. Indeed, without Matthew in the canon, there would be few other biblical references to it. Matthew had a fire and a passion about him that well outran his qualifications as a scholar of Jewish law. Even though he was well versed in it, the attempt to prove his case by quoting Jewish law proved to be, well, disastrously badly done. <br />
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Matthew used as his primary source the gospel of Mark. In doing so, he incorporated many of Mark's myths and added a few of his own, changing bits of the story line here and there to better make the points for his Jewish audience that he was trying to make. For example, to make his case that Jesus was the promised Messiah, he heightened the miraculous and altered the detail, to the point of obvious error. A case in point is the geneology with which he begins his narrative: he deliberately left out detail in order to have seven generations each from Abraham to David and David to the Exile, and the Exile to Jesus. This has left some to suggest that Matthew couldn't count very well, as his geneology conflicts with other genealogies in the Old Testament. If he was aware of these discrepancies, his attempt to deify Jesus for a Jewish audience certainly overruled them. <br />
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What Matthew was to the Jews, Luke was to the gentiles. Luke, unlike Matthew, was the consummate scholar. Fluent in Greek, almost certainly a gentile himself, Luke saw the need to write a gospel to explain the new religion to the gentile community, and so he wrote one. Like Matthew before him, he had a copy of Mark and used it liberally, quoting long sections and adding twists of his own to suit his needs. <br />
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Above all else, Luke was an evangelist. His mission was to make this Jewish sect a relevant religion for the gentiles who had nowhere else to turn in the search for a strict moral code by which to live. Judaism required circumcision, an obvious disadvantage, and besides, it was a tribal religion whose members tended to view gentile converts with skepticism, if not outright racial discrimination, so all that got short shrift in Luke's gospel. <br />
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With the ascent of Domitian to the Roman throne in 81 c.e., the fires of persecution began to be stoked once again, and Luke saw the need to address Roman political concerns by showing that Christianity was simply a natural and harmless outgrowth of the respected Jewish tradition. Hence his address of the document to "The most excellent Theophilus." <br />
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Because Luke was writing for an official Roman audience as much as for an audience of prospective gentile converts, he was careful to portray Rome in as good a light as possible. For example, Luke has Herod's soldiers scourging Jesus, not Rome's soldiers as does Mark. The Kingdom of Christ being described by Jesus is proclaimed as being "not of this world," an obvious attempt to assuage Roman suspicions of a conspiracy at work within the bowels of this new cult. There are many other examples, which, like the above, bring this gospel into conflict with the others in Luke's attempt to dress up the story for an official Roman audience. <br />
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The last of the four gospels is, of course, the Gospel of John. Though a favorite of the literalists, this anti-authoritarian Gnostic gospel ironically takes great delight in poking fun at literalist authority. Chapters 3, 4, 6 and 8 all have stories in which those who have taken the word literally have been made fun of. John's gospel is skillfully crafted, the work of a true scholar and a deeply religious man, who well understood that myth and meaning are the substance of scripture, not the literality of the words themselves. Who "John" was we are not sure, but some scholars suggest he could have been a disciple of the two Johns of Ephesus, one of which was the John Zebedee spoken of by Mark, or John Zebedee's son. John wrote his gospel in the early to middle years of the second century, fully four to six generations after the events he recorded allegedly had transpired. <br />
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John, a Gnostic convert to the ecclesiastical non-docetic point of view, wrote his gospel with an eye to the growing rift between Judaism and Christianity, and sought to heal it by trying to bring the two together. He tried to do so by fashioning a mythology that would be acceptable to both: quoting liberally from respected and appreciated Jewish literature and by incorporating a mythology of Jesus that sought to fulfil Jewish law and prophesy - a gospel that also sought to heal the rift between the Jewish Essene gnosticism, and the ecclesiastical viewpoint. In so doing, John created a gospel that broke so completely with the gospels that proceeded it, that it is directly appealing to the Jews who found themselves uncomfortable with the tightening screws of Jewish orthodoxy that was one of the results of the destruction of the Second Temple. The apocalypic vision of the narrative was meant to appeal to the Jewish sense of destiny as well as Essene apocalypticism while being true to the Christian ideal. Here we have a prophetic Jewish vision in a Christian setting, completing the foundations of later fundamentalist Christian doctrine. The result, along with the book of Acts, believed to have been written by the author of the gospel of Luke, writing this time for a Christian audience, gave us the complete set of myths that are so central to the beliefs of many Christians, particularly fundamentalist Protestants. Unlike Mark, whose mission of Jesus as the Messiah is revealed only at the end of Mark's narrative, here is a Jesus whose very being seems to shout, "I am the fulfilment of the Law and the Prophets made flesh." Both the audience and the resulting mythology couldn't have been more different, and of course many factual and contextual conflicts were the result. It made his gospel controversial from the start. <br />
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These four gospels, as well as Luke's Acts, were the theological "best sellers" of their day, and with Iraneus' endorsement, had pretty much assured their canonic status by the end of the second century, in spite of the protests of many bishops about the gnosticism of the Gospel of John. <br />
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One question remains: if the Essenes are really so widespread and influential as we now know they were, why do we see no references to them in the Gospels and other New Testament works? Good question, and one that is often asked, seldom with satisfactory answers from the apologists. But the answer is simple - there are references to them, lots of references. We know them from the canonic gospels as the Nazarenes - a corruption of the word "Nozrim," by which the Jesus Movements, which sprang from the Essene movement, knew themselves early in the first century. Not citizens of a place (Mark's mistake), but members of a movement. By the time the gospel writers composed their gospels early in the second century, the word was no longer current, hence the mistake was an easy one for an uncultured non-scholar like Mark to make during his mythologizing. Mark, fairly ignorant of history as he was, failed to understand it as a movement, because by the time he was writing, that movement had largely disappeared - through being subsumed into the church. Subseqent Christian writers, knowing no better, never corrected the mistake, but compounded it by entrenching it in their own mythmaking. Once that is understood, it all makes sense. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">The Great Heresies of Gnosticism and the </span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Revisionism of Marcion</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>140 C.E. to 312 C.E.</strong></div><br />
Right from Paul's time, the Christ cults grew disputatious, with new ideas and heresies spreading among them like wildfire as each local bishop had his own ideas and sought to see them accepted. The cult became cults as the new "heresies" spread. <br />
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By the end of the first century, Romans hungry for a workable moral code began to look to the transforming Jesus movements and Christ cults for a spiritual home. Judaism still had appeal, but required circumcision, an obvious disadvantage. The Christ cults made no such demands. Indeed, membership in the Christ cult was a pleasurable affair, not requiring much in the way of embarrassing ritual and offering much interesting discussion and amiable camaraderie amidst the ritual of the table fellowship, a weekly ritual of the time, involving the community gathering together for a meal and discussion and ritual worship in private among friends.<br />
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Soon Christ Cult congregations were spread throughout the Mediterranean basin. They offered, with careful calculation, a way out for the Jews of the Diaspora, who could not accept such as the unabashed gnosticism of Philo of Alexandria, or were too distant from Jerusalem to engage in rabbinical study, or were misinclined to accept local rabbinical authority. And this new series of cults were as open to the gentiles as Judaism was suspicious. Here was a religion all could be a part of, without regard to ethnic origins or circumstances of social status, accidents of birth or location. <br />
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But which cult to join? Each local group, under the influence of local bishops had generated its own local traditions and doctrinal ideas, and even local groups splintered as doctrinal disputations arose. Christianity had by now become a significant social force in spite of Roman efforts to stop it; in Asia Minor especially, it had become so common that disputations between the followers of various Christ cults was as common a local pastime as discussion of football is today. <br />
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By the end of the first century, the smug confidence of the local bishops in their own ideas was about to be shattered by the very success of the Christ Cults. The doctrinal gulf between various groups calling themselves Christian had grown too great to be ignored, especially between the Gnostic Christians and those respecting the ecclesiastical and doctrinal authority of the bishops. So when intellectuals among these movements began to appear, it became obvious that something needed to be worked out. Finally, Valentinus of Alexandria, Justin of Samaria, Irenaeus (from Asia Minor, but writing from Lyons and a thoroughly loyal Roman), the Gnostic bishop Marcion of Sinope (a small town in Asia Minor), Clement of Alexandria, and a few others all converged on Rome in 140 C.E. with ideas of what Christianity was, that could hardly have been at greater odds. One of the most charismatic of these was Marcion, whose heretical views were supported by many other Gnostics in attendance. Indeed, this charismatic heretic was nearly elected to the papacy. <br />
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But the doctrinal gulf was huge, the controversies enormous, and the debate uncompromising. The church was never to be the same again. The firebrand intellectuals brushed aside the watered down ideas of the local bishops and looked at the foundations of the church, to discover that the stones of that foundation, based as they were on the old Jesus Movements, were not sound. So they set about revamping the entire doctrinal basis of the church. <br />
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One of the problems as Marcion saw it was that Christians were expected to be loyal to the Jewish god, even though they did not have to keep his law. Marcion's vision of God was as it was taught by Paul, his major influence, where grace was everything for salvation, and a personal relationship with God was the doctrinal authority. God was a god of mercy and compassion, a god for all mankind, not proprietary to a "chosen people." <br />
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The Jewish god, according to Marcion, was not worthy of worship. He was to be replaced by Christ, who had revealed the law that Christians should follow, as understood and interpreted by Paul. He was a god of justice and salvation, very unlike the Jewish concept of the angry, fiery, vengeful Jahweh. <br />
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By now, the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke as well as the many others had appeared, written by followers of the new Christ cults, and Marcion brought with him an abbreviated version of Luke, together with ten letters of Paul, to form the first canon of the New Testament. It was the first Christian scripture. <br />
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The other intellectuals rejected Marcion's ideas, primarily because they were Gnostic and docetic, and therefore rejected the Apostolic myths of the deeply respected Ignatius outright, and because he pointed out many other unresolved problems left them by the first-century bishops. But even more radical was his flat-out rejection of early "apostolic" writings where it was obvious that the writer did not share the current vision of the physical mission of Jesus as the savior of mankind. One of the intellectuals, Polycarp, called Marcion "the first-born of Satan" and others, especially Tertullian and Justin wrote extensively against his views. <br />
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But that opposition did not stop Marcion. He went on a preaching tour that was spectacularly successful, especially in the Eastern half of the empire. Congregations of Gnostic Marcionite Christians were organized in Ephesus, Rome and Pontus in Asia Minor. Even whole villages soon became converts. And the Marcionite church proved to be as durable as it was popular - it survived into the fifth century, in spite of official and papal persecution. <br />
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The Marcionite appeal lay in the fact that the doctrine was simple and understandable, but more than that, doable. Even though it had its own share of internal contradictions, it was clearly resonating with the masses, and the other bishops could see that and grew concerned. <br />
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By the dawn of the fourth century, the local bishops could no longer rely on their watered-down doctrines for support and authority, and feeling the threat from Gnosticism especially in the form of Marcionism, began to contend with each other regarding doctrine. The bishops of the principal congregations headquartered in Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Caesaria, Jerusalem, Alexandria and Carthage proceeded to squabble with each other incessantly. The attempt by the Rome conference to deal with the problem a century and a half earlier, had been a complete failure. Worse, it had spawned the development of the Marcionite church, a movement, regarded as heretical by the bishops, but with broad appeal. <br />
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There was such fierce, intractable doctrinal turmoil within the church, it appeared the church was doomed. And with continuing Roman persecution, how could the church survive? <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">An Unlikely Savior Saves The Church -</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">And Spawns The Greatest Revision Yet</span></strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></strong><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>313 C.E. to appx. 430 C.E.</strong></div><br />
In 313, Emperor Constantine and his co-emperor Lucinius sent a series of rather flowery letters to their governors, in which they said it was "salutory and most proper" that "complete toleration" be given to anyone who has "given up his mind to the cult of the Christians" or any other cult which "he personally feels best for himself." The Edict of Milan, as this series of letters came to be known, had the effect of legalizing Christianity throughout the Roman Empire. The question history has never adequately answered is why the Edict of Milan was issued in the first place, but it was probably due to the growing political power of the Christians of various stripes. Constantine's own wife was a convert (if not born into the church, we don't know for sure), and this was likely a contributing factor. <br />
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Emperor Constantine was a deeply superstitious man, but also a consumate politician. He was a practitioner of several religions, trying to keep his religious bases covered, even after his 'conversion.' He was also spectacularly arbitrary and capricious. He sent prisoners of war to the lions, committed wholesale acts of genocide in his campaigns in North Africa, and was known for his overbearing, egotistical, ruthless and self-righteous behavior. His nephew Julian said that his appearance was strange, with stiff effeminate garments of Eastern fashion, jewelry on his arms and it was all set off by a tiara perched on a dyed wig. Constantine apparently viewed Christianity as just one of the many cults of his realm, and he seemed to practice them all, apparently with roughly the same depth of commitment. He wasn't actually baptized until he was on his death bed. <br />
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Emperor Constantine, for all his strangeness, was nothing if not a good politician. He understood well the fact that the Christians were becoming so numerous as to represent a considerable political threat should they get their act together and become organized. In 312, a year before the Edict of Milan, he fought the battle of Milvan Bridge, against a rival claimant to the emperor's throne. Among his soldiers were many, if not a majority of Christians and they were already carrying on their swords and shields the Christian Chi-Rho sign. Well, to hear the stories, the heavens opened up, and the Emperor himself had a great vision, including the famous quote from God himself, "In this sign you shall conquer." And he was granted victory in his battle, which proved pivotal in his struggle to consolidate the empire. Rather than a grand vision, it's more likely that he simply looked out on all his soldiers with the power they represented, with so many of them bearing the Chi-Rho symbol on their shields, and he saw the light. <br />
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Unfortunately, we don't know what exactly happened at Milvan Bridge, because the dear Emperor kept changing his story and telling different versions of the events to different people. At least six different, contradictory versions have survived from different people who all claimed to have heard it first-hand from the good emperor himself. As he kept telling these conflicting stories, he still apparently remained personally converted to the Mithraic sun-cult common in the Empire at the time. Besides the somewhat dismissive wording of the letters in the Edict of Milan (see above), there is the small matter of the Milvan Arch. As a monument to his victory at Milvan Bridge, some years later, he raised a triumphal arch, which survives to this day. It still bears on it a dedication to the "Unconquered Sun" (a reference to Mithra) and referred to Jesus Christ "driving his [the sun's] chariot across the sky." He commanded the Christians to hold their services on Sun-day, and to commemorate the birth of their savior on December 25 - the birthday of Mithra. <br />
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Constantine became the sole Roman emperor in 324, amidst a period of intense squabbling by the various local bishops (not to mention pamphleteering and widespread graffiti campaigns by both sides). So intense were the feelings on both sides of the principal controversy, that civil unrest was being threatened, and Constantine wanted to put a stop to the controversies before it came to that. So he convened the First Council of Nicea the following year. His commandment to the bishops: Get your act together and quit squabbling. Come up with a consistent doctrine that would be universal, i.e.catholic - note the small "c", and could be understood and practiced by all. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">The Council of Nicea And The Emperor Dictating Doctrine</span></strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></strong><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>325 C.E.</strong></div><br />
Rather than risk Imperial disfavor and banishment from the Empire and almost certain death, the bishops met at Nicea, a small town in Turkey where the emperor owned a lake house on June 19th, 325 C.E. They squabbled and squabbled some more, and were able to come to almost no agreement among themselves. The most important of these controversies is called the "Arian Controversy," by historians, after Arius the Preacher, a bishop who was preaching that Jesus had been real enough, but not divine - rather, merely a great preacher and prophet. The other side of the controversy held that Jesus was the physical incarnation of God himself. This was a dispute over the doctrinal outcome resulting from the suppression of the Docetic Heresy, which gave rise to the physical Jesus myth itself. Basically, the Arian Controversy was a whole series of questions over the relationship of Jesus to God the Father. Now that we have a physical Jesus, was Jesus God? Or was he the son of God? Was he divine? Or was he merely a divine prophet? Did he die and was he resurrected, or was he taken up into heaven? Finally, in exasperation, the emperor himself intervened, and imposed some compromises by direct imperial edict. The principal compromise was simple: Jesus and God the father were of "the same substance" - whatever that meant, but the dear emperor didn't exactly delve into what that actually entailed. But the bishops had little choice but go along with that concept, even if the details were murky to nonexistent. The principal issue being settled, as well as several others, by imperial edict, the bishops went on to hammer out a statement of a few common doctrines (mostly with regard to the date for Easter celebrations, the creation and the nature of the universe, and the first version of the Apostolic Creed), declared themselves in agreement on it - that agreement is now known as the Nicene Creed - and departed totally unconverted to each other's views. So there you have it. Some of the most important of Catholic, even pan-Christian doctrines were the result of the edict of a politician, whose conversion and commitment to Christian ideology itself was highly questionable at best. <br />
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Argument and dissension continued for the next six decades with various factions finding themselves in and then out of Imperial favor at various times, in various places and for various reasons, almost all of them political. Athanasius, for example, the actual author of the Nicene Creed, found himself exiled and 'rehabilitated' on no fewer than six separate occasions. It was eventually imperial politics and the wealth of the Roman bishopric, which it shared with the smaller congregations along with instructions for its use, more than theology, that finally governed the form that Christian doctrine and its interpretation would take, as various bishops found themselves in and out of imperial favor at various times. By 430, the council of Nicea, having been frequently reconvened, had become an ongoing affair, designed to stamp out various "heresies" (in particular, Gnosticism as a movement in competition with the Roman church) and create a formal, universal, i.e. catholic church organization, organized in a manner similar to the political structure of the Roman Empire itself. <br />
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The Council of Nicea became, in essence, the enforcer of the official, politically correct doctrine, and in essence, the forerunner of the Inquisition. This, along with the influence of the emperor himself, is why the Catholic Church today resembles in its government the government of the Roman Empire of the period. The headquarters of the church was eventually established at Rome, and the head of the church became known as the Pope. New basilicas dotted the landscape, all built with the blessing of the Emperor, and all aligned to the new, imperially blessed, church headquarters in Rome (indeed, the very word "basilica" itself originally meant a building that was the local Roman courthouse and hall of justice). Constantine sent his mother off to Palestine to build basilicas over the sacred sites of the church's early history, and "find" and return with faith-promoting "relics" which of course, local entrepreneurs were happy to produce. The newly established headquarters in Rome set about persecuting the Gnostics (crucifying many of them and sending many others to the lions), and suppressing the Marionite, Arian and other heresies. <br />
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In order to popularize the church with the masses, the doctrinal emphasis was changed significantly even when the ideology didn't. These changes were reflected in the art of the Christian church. When early, pre-Constantine Roman Christians met secretly in Rome, the art they produced reflected the pastoral nature of Jesus' teachings - scenes of Jesus feeding the multitudes, blessing the children, and healing the sick were the themes in the art of that period. After the conversion of Constantine, the character of the art suddenly and dramatically changed to reflect the change in doctrinal emphasis. Gone are the sweet, pastoral scenes of a meek Jesus patiently ministering to his humble followers. Instead, images of the crucifixion and the scourging of Jesus in the court of Pilate become common. This was to help the suffering masses identify with Jesus who was said to have suffered on their behalf. The church had became a political instrument -- be patient with your suffering under Roman rule, the masses were told, and a better life for you is prepared for you if you believe in Jesus the Savior. The emperor may not provide good living in this life, but Jesus would in the next. In other words, shut up and suffer quietly. <br />
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It is at this time that the Chi Rho and the symbol of the fish, representing the miraculous nature of Jesus' message (at least as formulated by the gospel writers), is replaced by the cross, at the time a symbol of death and suffering, as the almost universal emblem of Christianity. The political message of the new symbol couldn't have been clearer at the time - join up and Jesus will relieve your suffering in the next world even if the Emperor doesn't do so in this. Fail to join, and you're on your own - and the consequences could be dire. For obvious reasons, the new religion spread quickly in far-off corners of the empire that had barely heard of it before. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Creation Of The Bible As We Know It</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">and Yet Another Revision</span></strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></strong><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>320 C.E. to 1330 C.E.</strong></div><br />
In the midst of all this intellectual turmoil in the church, Constantine gave to Eusebius, the bishop of Caesaria (a Roman port on the coast of modern Israel), a little assignment. Put together some scriptures for the emperor to present to the new churches he was constructing at his new capital of Constantinople in time for his new festival of the resurrection, to be called "Easter." Fifty copies, please. <br />
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Eusebius, who was easily the most notorious documentary revisionist of his time, thoughtfully complied. We do not know which books of the hundreds available that he supplied the emperor, nor how much he revised them (since many are not known from texts earlier than Eusebius), but we do know that Eusebius realized that it was only a matter of time before the "inspired oracles" as he called them, would have to be gathered together for Christians to study in common worldwide in the form of a scriptural library, a bible. We also know that Eusebius was deeply worried about the contradictions they contained and the political dynamite that could ensue should those contradictions become a matter of dispute among the masses, or, far worse, in the mind of the Emperor. We do know that Eusebius did, in fact, make extensive modifications of the works he was concerned about, as we have a few earlier texts with which to compare some of his work. As correlation and standardization were the orders of the day (under the less-than-gentle hand of the Council of Nicea), Eusebius could clearly see a very Imperial problem was brewing, and was determined to head it off if he could. Eusebius' revisionism is particularly unfortunate for modern scholars, in that the only versions we have of many early Christian documents are ones known to have passed through his scrutiny. <br />
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Everyone had their list of favorite books and letters; the various factions, with headquarters in Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Caesaria, Jerusalem, Alexandria and Carthage all had their own ideas as to what was or should be scripture. And they certainly didn't agree, in spite of the heavy hand of the Council of Nicea. Eventually, after the split with Rome, the compilation of Eusebius was to become the standard bible of the Eastern church. No doubt on his mind was the docetic heresy of the Marcionites, still a thorn in the side of the Roman as well as Eastern churches. The strongly anti-docetic message of the four gospels favored by Iraneus no doubt played a role in their inclusion. <br />
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We're not quite sure how the task of compiling and translating a bible for the Roman, or Western church fell to Bishop Jerome of Dalmatia (340-420 C.E.), a few decades later, though imperial politics quite likely played a role. Jerome was highly educated and had devoted his life to the study and translation of scripture. He was a deeply devout adherent to the Roman faction, and the fact that the Roman church was wealthy and influential probably had something to do with his being the choice, since he had spent years in the cause of translating scripture into Latin and standardizing what are now New Testament texts for the benefit of the Roman church at the request of Damasus, the bishop of Rome. We can presume from the politics here that this certainly colored his choices. <br />
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Melito of Sardis, one of the disputants at that infamous Council of Rome of 140 C.E. that had spawned the Marcionite Church, had compiled a list of Hebrew scriptures that Jerome is known to have much admired. Yet Augustine, himself a rather nasty piece of work (the first known advocate of forced conversion and forced celibacy, among other things) and a man of doubtful ecclesiastical credentials, intervened and convinced Jerome to include works on a list compiled by himself (Augustine), which was similar to one compiled by Athanasius, the author of the first Apostolic Creed. We don't know all the intrigues which convinced Jerome to accede, but some were almost certain to have been political, with Eusebius' earlier imperial commission among them. Jerome's choice of New Testament works was governed by his choices in the works he'd already translated and standardized for Damasus at Rome. <br />
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Jerome's compilation and translation into Latin became known as the Vulgate (popular [language]) Bible. It was to become the standard Bible of the Roman Catholic church till the sixteenth century. It is still available, published by the Catholic Church in the original Latin, and as the Douai Version, one of the numerous English translations of the Vulgate Bible to appear in the 16th century as noted below. <br />
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After the death of Constantine, subsequent emperors, including Constantine's son, attempted to stamp out the Christian cult, but under Constantine's rule, it had become too entrenched, and too powerful and popular to be readily suppressed. The power of the papacy increased with the decline of the Roman imperium as Roman rule was being challenged on all sides - the Vandals, arriving by sea from Scandinavia sacked Roman ports in the western Meditteranean, and the Huns, sweeping in from the northeast, undermined Roman power slowly but steadily and brutally. The previously peaceful, agrarian Goths, who had been displaced by the Huns and had asked for asylum from the Roman emperor, had been betrayed with enslavement and conscription in the Roman army instead of being given the food and land they had been promised, and quickly rose in revolt, turning on the Romans, adding to the pressure, and finally sacking Rome itself in 410 AD. The myth of Roman invincibility was shattered by the sacking, and Roman power and prestige would never recover. <br />
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By the middle of the Fifth Century, the Huns themselves threatened to sack Rome, but Roman military power had declined to the point where Pope Leo Magnus felt himself forced to intercede with Atilla, the powerful Hun leader. Totally unarmed, dressed in his papal vestments, he met with Atilla in what is now northern Italy and persuaded him that the power of God would strike him and his troops down if the sacking took place. Atilla's troops, never before exposed to malaria, had no immunity and had already begun to suffer. As they moved south into warmer weather, the malaria endemic to the region began to take its toll, and not knowing what had hit him and his troops, Atilla apparently began to take the Pope's threat seriously. In the end, Atilla was brought down by the humble mosquito, but it was God who got the credit, and the disgraced Roman emperors, impotent and cowardly in the face of the threat, sort of just skulked out of town and the pope, seeing an unrivaled opportunity, scooted over into their seat. After sacking Rome, the Goths assumed power in the provinces as the Christianized Visigoths until displaced by the rising Islamic caliphates in Spain and Constantinople two centuries on - but it was the pope who permanently remained the center of political power in Rome itself. <br />
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The pope, the new political ruler by default of what was left of the Roman Empire, set about strengthening the church, converting the pagans and Christianizing Europe to consolidate his power and that of the church, while the political entity known as the Roman Empire slowly crumbled away. The process, interrupted occasionally by various wars and rebellions, proceeded apace for the next two centuries. <br />
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While the Latin bible was widely available for those who could afford a copy, Latin as a spoken, understood language eventually began to die out among the peoples of what had been the Roman Empire. So, with that dying out, access to the bible by the common man died out as well, for bibles were available in Latin, but were not being translated into the rapidly diverging local languages. The church eventually exploited this situation by making the reading of the Bible by the common man a crime, at times even punishable by death. This law was intended to enhance the local power of the priesthood. <br />
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And enhance that power it did. Not only did they have the political power of Constantine's legacy behind them, the priesthood also now held the keys to the church in their hands, both figuratively and literally. They couldn't have been more happy with that situation. They could often engage in acts of cruelty, repression or corruption and not be called to account by an ignorant and often superstitious congregation. Rebellions against the authority of the pope, including the Cathar Church, a rival to Catholicism which appeared in France, were ruthlessly put down. But power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and with it, the power of the papacy became ruthless and eventually, absolutely corrupt. Various popes engaged in behaviors that could only be described as scandalously immoral and unethical, and there are even persistent (if unproven) rumors that one pope was actually a cross-dressing woman, who actually gave birth to a son while on a papal precession. The son born of "Pope Joan" is alleged to have gone on to become a cardinal himself. While the story is almost certainly mythical, the very fact that it was widely accepted unquestioningly by Catholics themselves for a long time, exemplifies the sordid state of corruption into which the papacy had sunk. <br />
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But in spite of the papal decree against doing so, there were occasional attempts made to get at least small portions of the scripture into the hands of the masses, mostly in a vain attempt to reform the church. <br />
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The first attempts at an Old English translation appear with Aldhelm, who in 709 published an Anglo-Saxon translation of Psalms, and the Venerable Bede, who is said to have finished a translation of the Gospel of John on his deathbed 26 years later. Unfortunately, the latter translation has not survived. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">The Protestant Revision and the English Bibles</span></strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></strong><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>1330 to 1611</strong></div><br />
In the 13th and 14th centuries, translations of Psalms appeared by William of Shoreham and Richard Rolle, in Middle English. Their popular translations would plant the seeds for the struggle to come to break the stranglehold of the clergy and put the Bible in the hands of the lay people. <br />
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John Wycliffe (1330-1384) was repulsed by papal corruption and its demands on the English for money. A true man of the people, he decided that the best way to cop a snook at the Pope would be to publish the Bible in English. By the time of his death, the translation from the Vulgate was done, and John Purvey, a close associate, thoroughly revised and 'corrected' it, with a view to publishing it. It became the first and was the only English-language bible till the 16th century. <br />
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A scholar by the name of William Tyndale had the ambition of translating into English the entire bible, not from the Vulgate, but from the original Greek and Hebrew. This became his life's work. Tyndale learned his Greek from Erasmus. His study of the Greek New Testament by Erasmus probably influenced his later work. <br />
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Because the Roman Catholic church opposed his translation of the Bible into English, Tyndale was forced to leave England for Germany in 1524. For the next two years, staying one step ahead of Papal persecution, he managed to complete his first translation of the New Testament, which was then printed and smuggled into England and snapped up by an eager public. <br />
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Tyndale worked for years on his Hebrew translations of the Old Testament, finally completing them in 1534 and revising his New Testament in 1535. While not as violently opposed as were the earlier works, he was still betrayed by the Romanists, and was strangled and burned at the stake after months in prison in 1536. His last words were reputedly, "Lord, please open the King of England's eyes!" <br />
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King Henry VIII was the first English king to ask that a bible be placed in the hands of the common man. His motive was also likely to have been to cop a snook at the Pope in Rome, as a result of the fact that the Pope had refused to grant him a divorce. The bible chosen was The Great Bible, a work edited by the less-than-scholarly Miles Coverdale. Coverdale was an associate of Tyndale, and his Bible was the first to be an officially approved bible in English. Coverdale was no scholar, but had based much of his work on that of Tyndale who was. A flood of translations and revisions followed, the most notable being the Rogers bible appeared in 1537 and the Taverner's Bible in 1539. <br />
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Yet it was another bible was to become the family Bible. Called the Geneva Bible, because it was cheaply mass produced in Geneva, Switzerland, it was a decidedly one-sided translation favoring the views of the notorious French religious tyrant of that city, John Calvin. It had but one virtue - it was cheap, and could thus be afforded by the masses. It became popularly known as the "breeches bible" because of Genesis 3:7, where Adam and Eve "sewed figge leaves together and made themselves breeches." <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">The King James Version</span></strong></div><strong><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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In 1604, King James of England called a conference at Hampton Court. In attendance were 47 scholars and clerics. The agenda was to organize the production of a bible that would satisfy the needs of all -- the clergy, the king, the common man. An ambitious goal, considering the widely disparate points of view each with a political investment. <br />
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The King James Version first appeared in 1611. Though the frontispiece written by the conference declares it to be a new translation, that's not really what it was. In fact, it was a revision of the Bishop's Bible of 1602, which itself was a revision of the Bishop's Bible of 1568, which was a revision of Coverdale's less than scholarly Great Bible, which was a rewrite of the Tyndale and Wycliffe bibles which themselves had been translated on the run. <br />
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The King James Version did not gain immediate acceptance. It took a half century to displace the bibles that came before it, especially the Great Bible from which it was descendant, and the notorious Geneva bible of the masses which influenced it. <br />
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Yet it retains much of the beautiful English prose of the Tyndale and Wycliffe bibles, and hence its enduring popularity. The spectacular quality of its prose, not the accuracy of its translation, is why it endures. Consider the following translations of the same passage from Matthew 6:28-29, first from the King James Version, then the popular "Good News Bible" and finally from what I consider to be the translation most faithful to the original Greek, the Richmond Lattimore translation: <br />
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King James Version of 1611: "Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they do not toil, neither do they spin, yet I say unto you that even Solomon, in all his glory, was never arrayed like one of these." <br />
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Good News Bible (American Bible Society, 1976): "And why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow, they do not work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that not even King Solomon, with all his wealth had not clothes as beautiful as one of these flowers." <br />
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Richmond Lattimore Translation (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1996): And why do you take thought about clothing? Study the lilies of the field, how they grow. They do not toil or spin, yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these." <br />
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Which is the more accurate translation? The scholars will have to decide, but the beauty of the KJV's language and the power of its prose has seldom been equaled in English literature. The power of Tyndale's and Wycliffe's prose has been called some of the best in all of English literature. <br />
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So this is one the principle reasons, that for all its faults, the King James Version endures. It sounds like scripture. It truly sounds like it could have the authority of God whether in reality it does or not. As we've seen, prose aside, the legacy of its creation alone is enough to question its authority as scripture. But it just sounds so good! <br />
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How Objective Are The Translations, Anyway?<br />
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The short answer is not very. The Geneva bible, which through its sheer popularity greatly influenced what we have today, was a blatant piece of propaganda, pushed by the 'religious' tyrant, John Calvin. Other bibles, which also influenced what is now regarded as scripture, were written with clear points of view in mind, just as modern translations are now being done by theologians who come to the work with a religious axe to grind. <br />
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I've finally found a translation of the New Testament that is scholarly objective and complete, though necessarily without the flowery prose. You can find a link to it at the bottom of this page. I recommend it for anyone who is serious about knowing what at least the Gospels really have to say. It is the Richard Lattimore translation. <br />
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A point of pride among nearly all Christian theologians is that they feel the Bible, in whatever version they're talking about, appears to be reliably translated. Yet as we have seen, the writers of the original documents that became source material for the bible often picked up and revised earlier material, and in turn, their work was revised, often again and again. Then the translations were done and yet more revisions made, always with religious and political axes to grind in the process. <br />
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Well, if the bibles that Christian theologians use are reliably translated, there remain errors, then, with the source documents. The bible is fairly riddled with errors and contradictions, and not all of them are mistranslations, deliberate or otherwise. In fact, in response to the Christian fundamentalists who read this document and criticise it claiming that the book has come through the process described above still perfect, I've written an analysis of some of the more glaring errors and contradictions in the Bible. These are errors and contradictions in the bible that are simply not resolvable in any resonable way, even by resorting to magic and miracles. They're just plain impossibilities. As always, I welcome the fundamentalist's response, and have made room in that document for reasonable and logical alternative arguments to what the secularist will consider to be obvious. You'll note how few I've recieved. <br />
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How Reliable Is The Bible As A Source Of Guidance?<br />
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If not translated and edited properly, and full of obvious errors and logical contradictions, how reliable can the bible really be as a source of guidance? <br />
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The bible suffers from four problems in this regard. First, we can't know that what we are reading are words that convey the meaning the original writers intended, because the original texts are long lost, and the best we have for most of these documents are many generations removed from the originals. That problem has been the subject of this essay, and by now it should be very clear that after the multitudinous revisions, translations and editing by at least the 150 people who produced what we now call the Bible, there's way too much room for error to safely claim that it is error free. <br />
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The second problem from which the Bible suffers is the doctrinal content of the Bible itself. As Shakespeare observed, the Bible can be made to advocate anything you desire. Want a blatant, wrathful, vengeful god, zapping everything and everyone who doesn't stay out of His way, demanding genocide, infanticide and even slavery? Exodus is the book for you. Want a harsh, strict, angry, meanspirited code for living? Can't do better than Leviticus. Want a quiet, subtle, unknowable god who seldom intervenes but can be known only by sincere prayer and soulful supplication, who is kindly, gentle and forgiving? If so, Paul has written the scriptures you want. It's all there in the same book. <br />
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The third problem is that the Bible has many contradictions and errors in it, not just of obvious facts, but of doctrine as well. This is one reason why Shakespeare was so right. If you want to justify the dashing out of brains of infants against the stones, you can find justification for it in the injuctions of God in the bible. If on the other hand, you want to justify a ban on abortion, you can find it there too. So which is it? Of course that has to be a matter of personal interpretation, and any fundamentalist who argues otherwise simply isn't reading his Bible. One has to interpret matters of doctrine for himself, because the Bible is so often directly contradictory on matters of doctrine. <br />
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A fourth problem relates to the Bible but is not of it. And that is the problem of interpretation. The same passage of the same book of the same translation of the Bible can mean entirely different things to people of different religious backgrounds. It can mean entirely unrelated things to the Mormon, to the Southern Baptist, to the Seventh Day Adventist and to the Guatemalan Catholic as well as to the African Pentacostal. Who is right? Is anyone right? Who knows? How can anyone resolve such conflicts? <br />
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This brings up the question of the relevance of the Bible and Christianity in the modern world. it's easy to see, if one takes the trouble to look, that Christianity and belief in the Bible in the modern world are most successful in the more impoverished regions of the world, or where education is failing or has failed to raise standards of living and provide a sense of understanding and self worth. <br />
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In America, contrary to what Christians themselves believe, Christianity has always been a minority religion. From its low point at the American Revolution (19%) to its high-water mark today (49%), Christianity in America is often cited as the font of American civilization and culture. Yet this is contradicted by the fact that even though the number of converts is increasing, largely as a result of the decline of public education, the cultural influence of Christianity continues to decline. People continue to think for themselves, and it is the widespread contact with a variety of ideas and values is responsible for this trend in America. <br />
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In Europe, the scene of so much Christianity-inspired bloodletting and persecution in recent centuries, Christian influence has declined to the point that scholars refer to the current day as the "post-Christian era." In most countries of Europe, weekly church attendance has declined to low single-digit percentages. Only in Russia, suffering from the collapsing economy and educational system caused by the ill-concieved structural readjustments of the transition from Communism, is Christianity making headway, alongside New Age movements and cults based on eastern philosoply and religions. <br />
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The main regions where Christianity is gaining serious ground is in the impoverished nations of South Asia and Africa, where modern transportation and communications are beginning to reduce the cost of evangelical missionary work. The impoverished villages of India and Africa are the places where Christianity is seeing its most successful efforts at expansion. Where values of the 19th century still live, Christianity still flourishes. <br />
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<strong>Conclusions</strong><br />
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To base one's religion on a scripture as deeply suspect as the Bible, and declare it to be absolutely inerrant and reliable, is to build one's religion on what is clearly a foundation of sand. <br />
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If the lessons of recent Biblical scholarship mean anything, it is that the history of Christianity and the Bible it spawned is a very messy one that seriously calls into question the divinity, if not the validity of the message. To deny that fact is to simply deny reality. <br />
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Yet many people continue to do just that, even in the face of evidence that they and the religion they support are clearly wrong in holding that the origins of Christianity are divine and unsullied by human politics, greed and arrogance. <br />
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It can only be said that doing so is to display a form of ignorance. What then of the fundamentalist groups that do so, loudly and insistently? Clearly, they believe what they believe, not because it is true, but for other, less sound reasons, the primary reason being that the truth requires the painful admission that they are wrong. <br />
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In related essays, I have written of the the many basic errors of fundamentalism, and the virulence of Christianity as a meme complex. Clearly, believing because they want to believe, not because it is true, Christians around the world are making these fundamental errors. It is a sure prescription for ignorance, not wisdom. <br />
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What I have written in this essay is a summary of authenticated fact. It is fact gathered not by those seeking evidence to support a theory, as religionists too often do, but rather as scientists do, by gathering the evidence together and seeing what theories that evidence suggests. <br />
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It is the latter process, a dedication to the truth, that enables human progress. This is because humility is the basis of all intellectual advancement, spiritual or scientific. The ability to admit that you are wrong is the absolute prerequisite to gaining understanding. The presumption that the answer is revealed, and must then be supported by seeking evidence, is a sure way to lead civilization down the blind alley of arrogant egotism and the institutionalized error that prevented the Catholic church from acknowledging for three centuries that it was wrong to punish Galileo for defying the pope in publishing the Dialog, when Galileo was right about the sun being the center of the solar system and everyone who read the book knew it. That is the position in which the dogmatic Christian now finds himself. It is up to the Christian to be honest with himself as to what this means for his faith. Believe what you want to believe, because it is what you have heard all your life, or accept what is real, regardless of how painful that may be. <br />
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<em>"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."- Diderot</em><br />
__________________________________________________________________Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-67208099139469079922010-02-02T11:02:00.001-06:002010-02-02T11:06:21.889-06:00THE DAWN OF MAN<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifOcN0nCc9JiKMSSBq1-Syi_em7QLg0Yr0c-9xqOLfiMQVLW9rzQSB4uhKaHQFSqo33GCnLY8ypwDjyq3-dJrzdHY5TVroD2qsNk3DHs9u0KKkQIq5VNxSDiy8yIjPO_2hd5peL8-gGE4/s1600-h/dawn_of_man.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" kt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifOcN0nCc9JiKMSSBq1-Syi_em7QLg0Yr0c-9xqOLfiMQVLW9rzQSB4uhKaHQFSqo33GCnLY8ypwDjyq3-dJrzdHY5TVroD2qsNk3DHs9u0KKkQIq5VNxSDiy8yIjPO_2hd5peL8-gGE4/s320/dawn_of_man.jpg" /></a>The Mystery Babylon Series as broadcast by William Cooper on the Hour of the Time - WWCR Radio - shortwave</div><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Dawn of Man</span><br />
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When I first saw the movie 2001, I was amazed, awed to say the least. The entire scope of the movie was overpowering and for most of the people of the world was completely baffling. Most people who saw that movie did not understand from beginning to end what it was that they had experienced but they knew everyone who saw it knew that they had experienced something profound. That something had been communicated to the dark deep recesses of their mind which they did not understand and indeed which they were incapable of understanding. For you see the movie was not meant for the profane as most of us are called by the adepts or the initiates or the priests of the mystery schools. For that movie was a message to those initiates who were well versed in the symbology and the mystery religion of an ancient religion that is practiced to this day in secret. Now I’m going to tell you the meaning of the symbology that you saw in the movie 2001 and then each and every listener should go to your local video rental store and watch the movie again from beginning to end. For it is the story of the entire human race according to the history of the mystery religion of ancient Babylon.<br />
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Now I can assure you that you will not understand any of what you are going to hear without ample preparation and without a basic understanding in the symbology of the ancient religion. You are going to get that. And this is going to be a series of programs. That will in fact take probably many hours to complete.<br />
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But let me just go over the symbology of the movie 2001 quickly with you and then we will go back to the very beginning, to the first primitive human, probably sitting on his hunches munching upon some vegetable watching the sun rise in the east.<br />
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In the beginning of the movie 2001 most people who sat in the theater were struck by the imagery which was presented to them, as they first saw a dark and grey and ugly world. And as that world began to move down from the center of the screen they saw behind it a moon. And as moon begin to come down with the world that was sinking to the lower part of the screen behind it you saw the emergence of the sun. What you are witnessing was an eclipse of the sun partial eclipse and as the light of the sun spilled across the edge of the moon it took the shape of the boat of Isis and the sun of course for anyone who has studied the Osirian cycle became Osiris. the symbology was Osiris riding across the heavens upon the boat of Isis. This will all have much deeper meaning to you as we progress toward your education in the ancient mystery schools which are today known by many different names and we will get to some of those names as we go along. This signified of course the creation of the universe and the world.<br />
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And what we saw next was a barren plane, nothing growing, barren rocks, barren desert and then we saw the sun begin to rise in the east over the horizon signifying the birth of the world. As the sun traveled across the heavens we saw the wind begin to move across the face of the earth signifying that something was happening. Then as the sun began to reach zenith on a prime longitude we began to see shrubs. Small green plants began to emerge. Now the sun traveling across the heavens did not signify a day, it signified an age; an age dear listeners.<br />
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And the sun sank deeper into the afternoon we saw the emergence of animal life, birds. We can hear the birds singing. We can see the animals. And then we can see primitive, primitive man in the form of an ape lingering amongst the animals, neither harming the other living in a state of innocence. We saw man only eating plants and roots. You saw that even when the animals and man were in competition for food no one was injured or hurt but there was a display of waving of arms, yelling and grunting until one or the other moved away. The significance of this was the age of innocence, when the man lived in the Garden of Eden, innocent. With the animals it was a vegetarian and as the sun progressed farther toward the west we saw man begin to retreat into the womb. For you see the passage of the sun across the sky from the time it rose in the east signifying the birth of the world we saw that as it reached its zenith its most powerful aspect in the heavens, life began to emerge first in the form of plants and then animal life and that the animals and early man lived in harmony together in a state of innocence. This was the symbology of the movie.<br />
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During this process you saw a rock formation in the shape of the male organ. The penis. This was the symbol of the mystery schools of the generative force of creation. When you watch the movie again pay attention to the symbology of the movie.<br />
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Now the sun begins to sink even farther the west. Man and his little tribe goes to the water hole and confronts another group of primitive man all in form of the ape and there is a confrontation. But you notice that no one was injured or killed. There was a lot of waving of arms jumping up and down, grunting, screaming, screeching until the group that was at the watering hole and had already quenched their thirst moved away and the new group moved in. And then they scurried into the womb signified by the cave. there was more symbology there they all sat in the darkness with their eyes open in fear and one of the female apes a child to her breast. And you were seeing man in the transformation from ape to human. Primitive man evolving to the point where he think. And then what happened in the movie toward the dawn you heard the humming of bees; millions of bees. The beehive and bees prominent symbol in the mystery schools. It signifies societal cohesion; industry. Now not industry as you may know it in the manufacture of cars but industry in working together in a societal form. In this case the very basic rudiments of society. And as the sun again began to rise up in the east signifying the dawn of the new man the audience beheld an obelisk, a monolith, in the front of the cave or the womb from which the apes emerged and it appeared that the humming of the bees was emanating from this block of stone.<br />
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Notice I said three words: monolith, obelisk and stone. All of these are significant symbols in the mystery religions and you saw that this was not god because creation had already taken place. The world had been created, plants and animals had been created and primitive man existed on the earth before this monolith, this obelisk, this stone ever made his appearance. It is also known as the stone that you saw earlier the generative force or the penis. Now don’t get all confused by this terminology. It will begin to make sense to you as we go along. It took me many years of study to understand what I am now imparting to you. You watched as the apes moved about in great excitement and one encouraged by another signifying Adam and Eve, the one encouraging was the symbol of Eve, the one being encouraged was Adam. Until he actually reached out and touched the face of the stone and he was imparted intellect.<br />
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You can tell that something significant had happened because the tone the volume; of music changed at that point. And then the other apes began to touch and rub the statue. Now most people that I knew attributed what happened to some extraterrestrial force. And they were receiving the exoteric interpretation or that which is made for the profane. Those who were not illumined and can’t understand what it is that they were seeing. But for the initiated what they witnessed was the creation of the world by God and the impartation of knowledge to man, the forbidden knowledge by Lucifer through his agent Satan. For in the religion of the schools they believe man was held prisoner in the Garden of den by an unjust and vindictive God and that man was not told by this unjust and vindictive god that he could have the same powers. And man was set free from the bonds of ignorance by Lucifer through his agent and many believe that the two are the same and that’s okay because maybe they are. And that through the gift of intellect man himself will become God. Now for those of you who understand what I am imparting to you now, you may not even have to listen any farther for it explains everything that has ever happened in the history of man and everything that is happening now and all that is to happen in the future.<br />
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As it progressed you saw the first primitive man form the first original thought with the use of the gift of intellect when he squatted in the dust and picked up a bone and flopped the bone over and saw it hit a rib and the rib flew up into the air and he looked at it. He flopped it to the other side and hit another piece of rib bone and flew up into the air and you could see the wheels turning in the mind of this primitive individual as he lifted the side bone and then struck down in front of him and watched bones fly. And then he struck again and again and then he crushed the skull of the dead animal that was lying in front of him. And you notice that the portrayal of this was absolutely accurate because the next thing that happened was that this new gift this intellect and this original thought led to the murder of another primitive human being. In this case of the tribe that had not been given the gift of intellect did not had the ability to use a bone as a weapon because they had not made the connection. And you watched in the symbology of that movie the murder of Abel by his brother Cain. And you watched as he threw the bone up into the air and the progression of the use of the gift of intellect led you to a space station spinning around the earth. And then the story began of man's journey toward illumination.<br />
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And every thing in that movie was a symbol for something else. Now the audience sitting who are what the adepts or the initiates call the profane did not understand what they saw. They thought that it was really about a journey into space by an astronaut or a group of astronauts and that bad things happened to some of them and one survived. And none of them understood the significance of the obelisks the monoliths one on the moon one in orbit around Jupiter and the ultimate transformation of the astronaut into a giant fetus floating in space.<br />
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And to tell you the truth when I first saw the movie I didn’t really understand it , but I knew that there was something of such import there that I needed to know. And I never stopped studying until I found out. And of course one discovery leads to another. And every time I answered a question a hundred more popped up. Until I reached a point, listeners, where I realized that if I studied for the entire rest of my life there was not enough time in my life to learn what it is what I need to know. But I have learned enough along the way to impart some of my knowledge to you and maybe you can help me find the ultimate truth that all of us, all of us learn to look for. Although not all of us ever realized that we are looking and most of us never even understand what it is that we are looking for, but some of us do understand that we are looking. The adepts, the initiates, the priesthood of the mystery schools believe that they have found it and that they know all of these things. And I'm not really sure that they do. Because in my search in my ultimate illumination, ha ha ha, and yes I have become to a degree illumined, illuminated, I have discovered that I am more illuminated then most of those who have gone through the process of initiation in the mystery schools and believe that they know more then I do. And its not true. I have surpassed them by so far. And they believe that they are so far ahead. That it has become difficult for me to place my self in any kind of logical progression along a path that I am following and I know not where it will ultimately lead. But I know that many have been misled along this path and are worshiping the fallen angel that we know as Lucifer. Many believe that Lucifer and Satan are the same, many people believe that they are totally different entities and that Satan is evil and Lucifer is not. But Lucifer rebelled against God according to the Bible and was expelled from heaven and flung to the earth to be the master of the material world, the master of the earth.<br />
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Now if Lucifer is indeed Satan how this transformation took place I’m not wise enough to know. If they are different then I have not yet discovered where Satan came from if Lucifer is not Satan. Now there are people who have professed to know the answers to these questions and we have sat down and we have talked for hours and I still am not sure that they are right or that they are wrong. I’m still looking for the answer to that question. But I do know this, ancient man witnessed something that he described in his oral history and in his writings.<br />
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And it could probably be called the first UFO sighting in the history of the world. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning star. Now notice Lucifer was called the son of the morning star. It was also called the morning star and there is a great mystery here because Christ also called himself the morning star. Now how all that fits together I do not know, but I have been told by those who have been initiated in the mystery schools that Christ and Lucifer are one and the same being. However, I can not bring myself to believe that. What you believe, of course, is your own business. It is not my intention to make you believe anything, but rather to impart to you what I have learned over many many years of study into the secrets of those who worship the ancient mystery religions, in secret, for thousands of years.<br />
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For you see that monkey who sat there squatting on his hunches in the desert striking the earth and the pile of bones with this great thigh bone was the first priest of the mystery schools. And was this first priest who then began to initiate others into the secrets. And they are the ones who have been responsible, according to my research, for most of the scientific developments and the forward movement as far as material progress goes of the human race. For they were the learners. They were the ones who developed science. They were the ones who hid their developments and used their science and their knowledge and their secrets to govern others. Usually not as kings but as advisors and as priests and in all actuality the powers behind the thrones in ancient times and even today. They have ruled from the shadows you see. And they have called themselves the guardians of the secrets of the ages. And their first, their first, religion was called astro-theology or the worship of the heavens and their first object of worship was the sun. The second object of worship was the moon. And every where you see this mystery schools or the mystery religion you will see the symbols of the sun and the moon also known as Osiris and Isis and the child Horus which I will explain the meaning of, later.<br />
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Man's new found intellect set upon a quest that according to those that say that they know has never ended even unto this day and the modern day equivalent of this ancient mystery religion calls itself the of the. And you will see it reflected in many of their outward exoteric branches where disseminate information to the public or manipulate the public or deceive the public as the profane to them are nothing more than cattle to be herded and occasionally to be lead to the slaughter. In the movie 2001 the quest led them ultimately to space and to the moon. Where they were further imparted knowledge, by Lucifer again, in the form of the obelisk, the monolith, the stone, the penis and you will understand what that means later when we get in to the Osirian cycle or the legend of Isis, Osiris and the child Horus.<br />
When they were imparted knowledge again on the moon it set them off on a further quest to the planet Jupiter where they found a huge tremendous, again another obelisk, monolith, stone, the generative force, the penis floating in space, orbiting the planet Jupiter. Now the journey from the moon to Jupiter is significant. For the astronauts onboard this -ship represented the human race and it represented that some will evolve and those who can not, will not be allowed into the future. You see this was a message from those who rule to all of the initiates of the world. It was a message that new age now dawning.<br />
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And you see that at one point during this journey from the moon to Jupiter man represented on a microcosm by the astronauts making this voyage came in conflict with their own technology. The technology of the human race was represented by the computer called HAL and for those who were intelligent enough to experiment with the name HAL and progressed the letters one forward in the alphabet from what they were in the movie H became I, A became B, L became M and they were able to see that 14 symbol was of the largest at that time when the movie was made and the corporation that was on the cutting edge of computer technology IBM. It was significant that man had built this technology, this computer which had an artificial intelligence and was capable of communicating with the astronauts and yet they had forgotten to put a switch in the machine which could be turned off at will.<br />
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Now you have to understand that this is all symbology. HAL represented many things. He represented the atomic bomb, the hydrogen bomb, chemical warfare, bacteriological warfare. Represented the state of the art of technology where it became so complicated that no one man could be an expert in it and thus might unknowingly participate in the building of a technology which could destroy him yet he only worked on a part or portion of it.<br />
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The knowledge of which did not indicate to him that the end product could be a danger and we see that happen now don’t we? Where everybody has to specialize in one small portion of technology because the overall picture is so complicated and so far beyond our understanding that we see the prediction made in the movie 2001 becoming true before our very eyes. Just in my lifetime I’ve seen automobile’s that I can take apart and put together blindfolded myself as a teenager to driving automobiles that I can lift the hood and not even recognize most of what I’m looking at except that I know its an engine in there and I know that its got a fuel delivery system and some kind of system that ignites the fuel, but the technology has surpassed my ability to take it apart and put it back together again without many months or years of specialized training. And this has occurred across the board in our technology and as I told you before I will tell you again tonight dear listeners in secret, whatever you perceive as the state of technology in the public eye the very cutting edge, in secret they are a minimum a 50 to 100 years ahead to the point where science fiction is no longer fiction and hasn’t been for quite sometime but is in all actuality science fact.<br />
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You saw this battle play itself out onboard this space ship where ultimately there was only one astronaut left fighting the battle against HAL. And he was able to make this jump in his evolutionary consciousness and he was able to fool HAL and turn off the computer. But when he did so he knew that he had relegated himself to permanent separation from his fellow human beings back on earth. And folks the message was not that he went into space to affect this separation. Space was just the vehicle through which it was conveyed in the movie.<br />
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The message was that the new man will go into the future and the rest of us would perish we will not be allowed into the future. If we are it be as slave labor until we were no longer useful and then we will simply be exterminated. The message to the vast army of initiates the mystery school was we are on the threshold of the new age, and into this new age will march only one, , man. It is the new man, it is the illumined man, it is the man that is able to make the evolutionary jump to no more war, to no more rape, no more pillage, to the level in the mystery school known as 666. t is the number of a man. It is the illumined man to the mystery schools. To those of us who are Christians it is the symbol the ark of the east the indication that the A-Christ has arrived and the beginning of the time predicted in he Book of Revelation known as the Tribulation.<br />
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Now all of this that I thought I knew so well and understood has become even more mysterious to me now. As I know that I’m battling against something that is almost incomprehensible and I had to do it alone, by my self, not trusting anyone else, not letting them in, for fear that they would corrupt my mind and I would be led down the wrong path. And I still do not know the answers but I have an awful lot of clues and lot facts and I have learned an awful lot, and maybe I am more confused then I ever was in my entire life. But after you hear the results of what I have learned and after I’m for the first time since I’ve learned all of this communicated to other human beings to let you know how really confused I am maybe all of us being confused together can put the pieces in the places and patch this mystery together and come up what we need as answers to formulate a future that we can all, all enjoy, without fear, without wars, without lies and deception and manipulation, without elitists and terrorists and crooks and liars. For I am going to impart to you during all of this that the priests of the ancient mystery religion are the ones who have caused most of the misery in the history of man. And if they have not learned this knowledge secrets of the ages that they keep from the rest of us and use to manipulate us maybe, , we would have reached peace in this world hundreds of years ago. I don’t really know the answer to that. I don’t think much of what has happened in the history of the world that was miserable, terrible, wouldn’t have happened without these people. But I maybe wrong and as always when you listen to this show don’t believe a word you hear unless you can substantiate it in your own research.<br />
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At the end of the movie what you saw as the astronaut became older and aged and this was the symbol of gaining knowledge and wisdom and he looked at himself and he saw himself younger and he looked back and saw himself older and he looked back and he was older still and he looked back and he was young again and then old and then he saw this unbelievably overpowering stunning vision of a fetus a human fetus floating in great vastness of the universe signifying the birth of the new age and the new man that will go into the future.<br />
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And on the sequel to 2001 you saw that this astronaut who had made the jump came back and talked to some select few signifying that he had been become a teacher to the rest of us and when he was asked what happened to him he said and I quote, “something wonderful”. Now that was supposed to tell the rest of the initiates of the world who really understood the symbology of the movie that if they were able to make this transition the future would be a utopia. Now I don’t know whether it will be or not, but I can tell you this the priests of the ancient mystery religions are in charge right now and we had better damn well find out and we had better do it very quickly, for the new age is the age of Aquarius and the exact date of the dawning of the Age of Aquarius can be determined astrologically and I’m not going to tell you what that date is although I have it right here on a piece of paper in front of me. I want you all to help in this search. God knows I need help. I can’t save us all alone. And there is always the possibility because I am human that I can make the wrong decisions or make the wrong interpretation and that’s why I formed CAJI because many of us working together and digging searching for information are much more likely not to make the mistakes then one man working alone.<br />
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Lets go back now to the beginning, when man was in his infancy on the evolutionary scale of development. Man was alone. Alone in the sense that he did not have all of the help and knowledge that we have today that enables us to survive. You see man was then subject to the cold, to the wild beasts of prey. He didn’t have a home, didn’t have air conditioning in the summer, didn’t have heating in the winter, didn’t have medical doctors if he became ill or injured he was most likely to die. So it did not take ancient man very long to decide that in this world the single greatest enemy to be feared was the darkness of night and all the unknown dangers that came with it. And simply stated mans first enemy was darkness.<br />
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Now understanding first this one fact alone one can readily see why the greatest and most trust worthy friend the human race could ever have at that time was by far heavens greatest gift to the world that glorious rising orb of day that we call the sun. And that was the beginning of the battle between light and darkness and it was mans' first understanding the birth, the death and the rebirth of a deity. For the sun rose was born in the morning, traveled across the heavens were it reached its most powerful point the zenith, and that will explain why so many things occur at noon or near noon and then signifying old age and the end of its life and sank into the west and then died. And man was subjected to the rigors, the dangers, the cold of night until his God again was reborn the next morning.<br />
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Now folks I’m not making any of this up and it took me many, many, years of study to figure this out.<br />
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Man noticed that the moon also rose lived a different life then the sun and then set and died and was reborn again. The sun because of its brilliance became the master or the greatest deity and the moon took on the feminine aspect because the moon reflected the light of her aster.<br />
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And all of this will begin to make sense to you, eventually, as we go through this because from now on every program that I’ll do is going to be devoted to this to the explanation of the esoteric religion the ancient mystery religion and it is that we all understand it because these are the people in charge and don’t ask me to tell you the truth of religion for I really believe in the constitution and that we all have a right to worship our own God in our own way and no one has the right to tell anyone unless asked what they should believe. You all know by know that I am a Christian, but I am not a Christian in the sense that I follow the dogma of any church or the preachings of any preacher or necessarily word for word the Bible. I stick strictly and only to the words that are directly attributed to Jesus Christ and I attempt to follow those words in my daily life. And it doesn’t matter to me anyone proves that he never lived or he lived or not. I have found that those are the most profound teachings amongst all of the books and teachings that I have ever heard or read in my entire life. And until someone can prove to me that there is something better that is what I will always adhere to. I do not advise you what you should believe not believe.<br />
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But I do advise you that we all need to learn as much as we can about everything that we can because one thing I have learned in my life is that most of what he have ever been taught has been a lie. And whoever these people are and I know who they are. I will impart that knowledge to you, who are the priests, the adepts, the initiates the mystery schools they are in control and they are shaping the future and that future will affect all of us, so we had better learn as much about them as much as we can. You can not identify an enemy unless you know the enemy and you can’t fight a battle if you know nothing about the battle tactics of your opponent. And when you understand that Lucifer is the son of the morning star, or the morning star itself then the creations of the members of the mystery school begin to make much more sense. Good night and God bless you all.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">____________________________________</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-50170024668248465532010-02-02T10:42:00.008-06:002010-02-02T18:48:51.347-06:00INTRODUCTION TO THE MYSTERIES<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/mars-babel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" kt="true" src="http://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/mars-babel.jpg" width="320" /></a>The Mystery Babylon Series as broadcast by William Cooper on the Hour of the Time - WWCR radio - shortwave transcript</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">You’re listening to the Hour of the Time. I’m your host William Cooper. <br />
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Tonight ladies and gentleman, we begin the origin, the history, the dogma, and the identity, of the Ancient Mystery Religions. Which are now known as the Mystery Schools. The Order of the Quest, Freemasonry, The Ancient order of the Rose and Cross, The Knights Templar, The sovereign and military order of the Knights of Malta, The Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. The Priory of Sion. The Thuley Society, or sometimes known as the Thule Society. The Order, The Skull and Bones. The Russell Trust, the Jason Society. The Scroll and Key, the Illuminati, and I could go on, and on, and on and on. <br />
</div>But the most important thing to realize is that they all have been collectively known throughout the ages as the Mystery Schools. The Illuminati, which literally means, illumined ones. International Socialism, Communism they are all one and the same. As you will come to know. And you will understand perfectly how they have been able to infiltrate all of our society. <br />
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What you hear tonight does not necessarily reflect my views, or beliefs, or religion. Nor those of WWCR. <br />
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That song will have clearer meaning to you as we progress in your education in the Mystery Religion. But we have to begin in the beginning, with every story and every history. And we have to begin at the beginning of mankind. And the beginning is the beginning according to the mystery religion. And they believe whole heartedly, that man is a product of evolution, not of an extraterrestrial race, and not the creation of some benevolent god. <br />
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They believe that the tree dwelling ancestors of man, were among the most intelligent beings, of there distant age. And when these creatures finally abandoned the trees, and walked fully upright, freeing there hands to serve as implements of their minds as well as their bodies, there began the most successful evolutionary drive toward higher intelligence ever witnessed in nature. <br />
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As ground dwellers these creatures were easy victims of the great predators. Who hunted them down by day and surprised them at night as they huddled in clearings or in caves. They could not compete in strength, ferocity or speed with their attackers. Armed with little except their hands, and what their complex brains enabled them to do with those hands. They had to think or die. For untold thousands of years most of them met early violent deaths, only a few in each generation had the good fortune and the ability to outwit their enemies. And these favored ones survived long enough to have and rear offspring. <br />
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The unwary maladroits are stupid, and died early. And folks, im afraid that the stupid, who live today, are going to die early also. But back to the beginning. Their offspring if they had any, were left to starve or be eaten by predators. Natural selection was operating on the earliest types of man with grimmest intensity. Perhaps no other extent creature has undergone so severe and protracted a period of selective elimination. Yet, here and there small groups managed to survive, because they had the intelligence to use sticks, stones, and clubs to defend themselves. Crude and puny as these implements were, they were weapons. And their possessors were the first creatures who could kill with out having to come into direct contact with their antagonists. <br />
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As the great beasts grew larger and either faster or more formidable. Man became ever more watchful. Ever more successful in pitting his wit’s against mass and power. More and more adept at slipping out of trouble. And as the challenge grew greater, so did his brain. For the laggards on both sides got left behind in the race for the future. And we are still engaged in that race for the future. The steps in the development of man's brain are revealed by the progressively larger brain cases which appeared with the passage of centuries. Basing our judgment on the improvements in tools and weapons which took place as the intelligence of their inventors increased. We can construct some of the ways, in which natural selection may have worked to bring about a doubling in size of the human brain. <br />
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Many edible nuts are too hard for eating, for caveman to crack between his teeth. Accordingly they were useless to early man, until some genius of his day discovered that any nut could be opened if was just placed upon one stone and stuck hard with another. Better fed, the family of this innovator proliferated while the others died off. Perhaps centuries later while a man sat cracking nuts between two stones. One stone broke, and the broken edge cut his hand. Previously men in the same situation, had thrown the broken stone away, and nursed their cuts. But, this man, this man started thinking. <br />
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He possessed an original thought. Since the edge had cut through his skin and drawn blood. It might also cut through the skin of small animals he caught. Making it easier to get at the meat. The first knife was invented. He and those close to him, and those intelligent enough to imitate him increased in number. And the rest died off. <br />
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They had a cutting tool, which made it possible for them to skin and eat meat in less time. So they had more time for hunting. Many of the descendents of this exceptional man became increasingly skillful at breaking and chipping hard stones into sharper tools and weapons. And if you’ve been to a museum of natural history, and you’ve seen these fine, beautiful flint arrow heads, spear heads. Then you know it took patience and great skill. And this means a further development of the human mind. Natural selection favoring better knife makers went on for hundreds of thousands of years. According to those who guard the secrets of the ages, and even according to modern science. <br />
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A great many centuries later, another man foraging for his brood may have come along a straight stick splintered at one end. Well he pulled and chewed at the splinters till only one stought point was left. Or at least that is how we can imagine it was done. It seemed to him a very useful stick. For it was sharper than the digging sticks to which the woman used. He may have remembered a night during his boy hood, when a great cat had charged his families camp site, and dragged away a younger sister. Now that he had small children of his own, the memory of that attack was ever present. Lately he had seen fresh panther tracks. Another family, not far away had been attacked and the mother had been killed. His dawning intelligence told him the pointed stick, might be a better weapon against big cats than the clubs he and the other men carried. <br />
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So for many days he kept the long stick near him. Even when he was laughed at for having what was regarded as a woman’s tool. Not only did he posses a greater intellect than his fellow man. But he possessed more courage to resist their laughter. Then one night he heard a faint rustling, he whispered a quick warning to his family. Suddenly, a dim shape charged at him from out of the darkness, kneeling he raised the point of his long stick toward the beast. It sprang, clawed at him savagely than fled. The creature had struck the point so hard, that the blunt end of the stick was shoved deep, deep into the ground. <br />
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Next morning, following a trail of blood on the ground. The man found a panther dead from a punctured chest. The long sharp stick had saved his life, and the lives of his family members. In the same situation, less perceptive men armed only with clubs would have been killed. From that time, he, his sons and there sons, carried impaling sticks when ever big predators were near. <br />
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Foresight, genetically transmitted to their descendents, had given them a new weapon which they used with devastating effect against their natural enemies. Perhaps many generations later, a bright descendent of the inventor of the impaling stick mated with the daughter of a man who had thought of throwing a club at fruits, nuts and small animals on the lower branches of trees. Now and then, this brought down an extra meal. The man who knew how to defend his family from feline prowlers soon learned from his woman a new way to collect additional food. And their young family thrived and some of the children with good mental inheritance from both sides of the family showed an even higher order of intelligence than either of their parents. <br />
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With impaling sticks added to their clubs and cutting stones. Men no longer had to be such ferity food gatherers. The hunted gradually evolved into hunters. And in times of famine when battles over food were fierce, those with impaling sticks threw them with deadly accuracy at members of other hunting bands. Sharper stone knives and spears gave a double survival advantage during times of crisis. But the most telling gains, were the increasing sharpness of minds. <br />
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However incomplete our knowledge of human ancestry, there is scarcely any doubt that development of brain power of intelligence was the decisive force in the evolutionary process which culminated in the appearance of the species to which we belong. Natural selection, they believe has brought the evolutionary trends towards increasing brain power, because brain power confers ignoramus adaptive advantages on its possessors. It is obviously brain power, not body power which makes man by far the most successful biological species which living matter has produced. <br />
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Even with man's new weapons and tools, it did not take him very long to decide that in this world, the single greatest enemy to be feared was the darkness of night, and all the unknown dangers that came with it. Simply stated, man's first enemy was darkness. Understanding this one fact alone, one can readily see why the greatest and most trustworthy friend of the human race could ever have was, by far, heavens greatest gift to the world, that glorious rising orb of day, the Sun. And with this simple truth understood we can now begin to unravel the most ancient and still the most successful religion upon the face of this Earth. <br />
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It's success lies in its ability to remain hidden from the rest of the people. But first let me assure you folks, that no people of the ancient world believed that the Sun to be God. In point of fact, every ancient culture and nation of earth have all used the Sun as the most logically appropriate symbol to represent the glory of the unseen creator of the heavens. <br />
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In the Old Testament it says “The heavens are declaring the glory of God”, thast in Psalms 19 verse 1. In the Old Testament, “The Sun of righteousness will arise” Malachi chapter 4 verse 2. <br />
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The ancient people reasoned that no one on earth could ever lay claim to ownership to the great orb of day. It must belong to the unseen creator of the universe. It became figuratively speaking not man's, but God's Sun. Truly God's Sun was the light of the world. As I stated before folks, in the dark cold of night man realized his utter vulnerability to the elements. Each night mankind was forced to await the rising of the Sun to chase away the physical and mental insecurity brought on by the darkness. Therefore the morning Sun, focused man's attention on heavenly dependence for his frail short existence on earth, and in doing so it became the appropriate symbol of divine benevolence from heaven. <br />
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For with out the Sun there was no light, there was no warmth, and nothing could grow or live upon the face of this Earth. So just as a small fire brought limited light to man's own little world of darkness, likewise the great fire of day, served the whole Earth with its heavenly presence. For this reason it was said that the God of the Bible was a consuming fire in heaven, and so he was. <br />
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It was accepted by all that man was bound to a life on Earth but the sky was the abode of God's Son. He resided up there, in heaven. Ancient man saw his male offspring, his own image and likeness, and his own existence as a father was proved by the existence of his son. It was assumed that God’s son was but a physical representative of the unseen creator in heaven. So it was said, “when you have seen the son, you have seen the father”. Said another way “the father is glorified in his son”. <br />
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Ancient man even with his limited intelligence at that time had no problem understanding that all life on Earth depended directly on life giving energy from the Sun. Consequently all life was lost with out the Sun. It followed that God's son was nothing less than man's savior. Since energy from the Sun gave life, and we sustained our very existence by taking energy in our food which came directly from God’s Sun, the Sun must give up it's life supporting energy, so that we may continue to live. God’s son must give his life for us to live. <br />
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I know that if you are intelligent out there listening, you are making some connections here. You see the Mystery Schools believe that Christianity is a perversion of the Mysteries. While it was plainly true that our lives came from, and was sustained each day by our savior God's son it was and would be true only as long as the Sun would return each morning. And our hope of salvation would be secure only in a risen savior. For if he did not rise from his grave of darkness. All would be lost. All the world waited for his immenent return each morning. The Father would never leave us at the mercy of this world of darkness. The heavenly promise was surely that, “He would come again” to light our path and save those lost in the darkness. <br />
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Logically even if man himself died, as long as the Sun comes up each day. Life will continue forever. Therefore it was said in the ancient texts, that everlasting life was the gift that the father gives through his son. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son that we may have life everlasting on Earth. And the ancient text did not mean for you personally, but on Earth everlasting life. That is the interpretation of the Mystery Schools. <br />
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Since evil and harm lurked at every turn in the fearful dark of night, all evil or harmful deeds were naturally the works of darkness. And with the return of the Sun each morning, man felt more secure in his world and therefore, was at peace. Therefore God's son was, with his warm rays of hope the great “Prince of Peace”. And of course the reverse was equally true, the evil of night was ruled over by none other than, “The Prince of Darkness”. Hence evil is of the dark or of the Devil. <br />
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It was only a short step to see that, the light of God's son equated with righteousness and truth, and evil with darkness. From then on it was simple to understand light was good, dark was bad.<br />
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And the priest of the Ancient Mystery Religion always followed the light. They always looked toward the East. They considered themselves to be illumined, that being true than the great orb of day God's son could rightly say of itself, “I am the light and the truth”. <br />
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We should all, in their words, not mine, give thanks to the Father for sending us his Sun. Spelled S-U-N, in case some of you were getting confused. In every instance where I have mentioned the word Sun, it has been in reference to the Sun. S-U-N. For the peace and tranquility he brings to our life its even called 'solace', solace is from the word solar. Which means Sun. <br />
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Are you beginning to see the light? Ha ha ha. We now have before us 2 cosmic brothers. One very good and one very bad. One brings the truth to light with the light of truth. The other is the opposite or in opposition to the light, the opposer. The Prince of the world of darkness. <br />
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It is at this point that we come to Egypt. More than 3000 years before Christianity began, the early morning Sun the savior was pictured in Egypt as the new born babe. The infant savior's name was Horus. The early morning Son or new born babe was pictured in two ways. The DOVE, known as the bringer of peace, the HAWK, the god of war who punishes the enemies of god. Today in government we still use these terms. Doves and Hawks. That’s how powerful this hidden religion is. Is that we use the terms of this religion today and even know it not. <br />
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At day break this wonderful new born child is of course born again. Halleluiah, Horus is risen. That is what halleluiah means. Even today when the Sun comes up, we see it on the Horus risen or horizon. His life was also divided into 12 parts or 12 Horus hours. The12 signs of the Zodiac. But now, what about the evil brother of God's Sun? That old Prince of Darkness himself. In the Egyptian belief system, he was called "Set", or sometimes "Typhen". <br />
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We are told in the Bible that when God's son died we are left in the hands of the Prince of Darkness at Sun set. SUN SET. Do you understand? God's son was killed by the prince of darkness, SET, at Sun set. It was generally observed that God's son could be depended upon to return in the same manner that he left, namely, on a cloud. And every eye will see him, unless of course your blind or dead. Keeping in mind that God's Sun not only represented the light of truth, but was put to death by his enemies who could not endure the light of truth in their life. It was taught by the ancients, that the very act of opposing or denying the light of truth to the point of killing it happened in ones own mind. <br />
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When we are confronted with harsh realities of life, the truth, the light of truth which we do not wish to face which runs counter to us our views such truths is put to death by your mind and in your head. Therefore God's Sun, the truth and the light is put to death at the Place of the Skull or skull place. Located some where between your ears. This putting to death of the light of hope in your mind is always accompanied by the two thieves. Regret for the past ,and fear of the future. <br />
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Don’t go away folks, we have to take a short break. Ill be back right after this pause. <br />
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And of course God's Sun goes to his death wearing a corona. Which in Latin means "crown of thorns". Remember the Statue of Liberty? It was given to us by Masonic France. To this day kings still wear a round crown of thorns, symbolizing the rays of the Sun. <br />
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Now as far back as we can go into the ancient world in our research, we find that all known cultures had a 3 in 1, or Triune God. The very first trinity was simply the three stages of life of the Sun. Newborn at dawn, mature or full grown in its full power at 12 noon, and old and dying at the end of day, going back to the father. All three were of course one divinity. The trinity is no mystery in the Mystery Schools. <br />
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The Egyptians knew that the Sun was at its highest point in the sky or high noon, when no shadow was cast by the pyramid. At that point all Egypt offered prayers to the 'Most High God'. As stated before, to the ancients the sky was the abode or heavenly temple of the most high. Therefore God's Sun was doing his heavenly father's work in the temple at noon. The world of ancient man kept track of times and seasons by the movement of the Sun. Daily, monthly and yearly. For this the Sun dial was devised. Not only was the daily movement of the Sun tracked on the round dial, but the whole year was charted on a round calendar dial. <br />
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Examples are, ancient Mexican, Mayan, Inca, Aztec, Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Celtic, or Cheltic as some pronounce it, Aryan etc. And with this method certain new concepts emerged in the mind of ancient man.<br />
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Since the Earth experienced four different seasons all the same and equal in time each year. The round calendar was divided into four equal parts. This represented the complete story of the life of God's Sun. This is also why we have in the Bible only four gospels. Of this point there can be no doubt, for Turtulean and many early church fathers stated this exact fact themselves in their own writings. <br />
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And this, the Mystery School claims, is why the famous painting of the last supper pictures the 12 followers or houses of the Sun in 4 groups of 3. The Seasons, with the Sun in the center alone. On the round surface of the yearly calendar, you draw a straight line directly across the middle cutting the circle in half. One end being the point of the winter solstice, the other end being the point of the summer solstice. Then draw another straight line crossing the first one. One end of the new line being the spring equinox, the other end being the autumn equinox. You now have the starting points for each of the four seasons. This is referred to by all major encyclopedias and reference works both ancient and modern as the "Cross of the Zodiac". <br />
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Thus the life of God's Sun, is on the cross. This is why we see the round circle of the sun on the crosses of Christian churches. The next time you pass a Christian church, look for the circle, Sun, on the cross. <br />
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On December 22nd, the Sun going south reaches its lowest point in the sky. Our winter solstice. At that lowest point the Sun stops moving on the sun dial for three days. Dec 22nd, Dec 23rd, and Dec 24th in the southern constellation known as the Southern Cross. Hence our savior, dead for three days died on the cross. The Southern Cross constellation, that is. This is the only time of the year folks that the Sun actually stops its movements in our sky according to the Mystery Schools. On the morning of Dec 25th, the Sun begins its annual journey back to us in the northern hemisphere, bringing of course our spring. Therefore on Dec 25th, the Sun is born again. And to this day his worshippers celebrate his birthday. <br />
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It is at this point that we should look at the significance of the recurring number 12 in the Bible. First 13 is said to be unlucky for humans, it is a heavenly number and represents the son plus the 12 equals 13. Christ plus the 12 disciples equals 13. Its unlucky for a different reason folks, and I will explain that on another program. It has to do with the persecution of the Mystery School. The Mystery Religion. It would be well to get a Bible concordance and look to see how many times the number twelve is used in the entire Bible. <br />
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Remember the Mystery Religion is a religion of the heavens. Also in the Bible you will find many combinations of the number seven. In the Mystery Religion that represents the seven stars of the Pleiades. And you can see the emergence of the Mystery Religion in the UFO movement, when the Pleiadians come to talk to Billy Meiers in Switzerland. Ha ha ha. Oh my. How we are deceived by these people. <br />
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Here are a few examples of the use of the number 12 in the Bible. The 12 months of the year, the 12 apostles of the Son, the 12 tribes of Israel, the 12 brothers of Joseph, the 12 judges of Israel, the 12 great patriarchs, the 12 Old Testament prophets, the 12 kings of Israel, the 12 princes of Israel, God's son and temple at 12, and there are many more. <br />
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All of these examples and countless more derive directly from the ancient world's fascination with the 12 signs of the Zodiac. Now remember folks what I’ve given you, is the teachings of the Mystery Schools. This does not necessarily reflect any of my own beliefs or my own religious beliefs, or those of WWCR. We cannot fight against these manipulators unless we know who they are and what they believe. What you want to believe is your own business. <br />
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As we noted before folks, the year was divided into 12 equal parts or months, and to each month was appointed a heavenly symbol or astrological sign. Three of these signs made up one season in the world of the heavens. Thus divided into four separate seasons. Each of the 12 monthly signs were called houses of the heavenly Zodiac. The astronomers of Babylon divided the sky into 12 houses. They did this to account for the fact that the planets were not always exactly in the ecliptic, but appeared to wander a certain number of degrees either side of it. They therefore had to assume that each sign of the Zodiac extended its influence through a fixed portion of the sky. Which they thought of as a house to which a planet could return when it completed one of it's journeys about the Sun. <br />
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The great God of the day had it's house in Leo, Leo the Lion of Judah. Where he ruled at the head of his splendor. The moon ruled in Cancer, at the right hand of the sun. The other planets were given two houses. One for day and one for night. And since the Zodiac divided the sky into twelve equal portions. Each of these houses were also equal, comprising thirty degrees or one twelfth of the three hundred and sixty degree circle. And the houses, signs of the zodiac were as follows, Aries was the ram or lamb of god. Taurus the bull, the golden calf. Gemini the twins which represented Cain and Able, Jacob and Esau or Jesus and Satan, for in Mystery Babylon Jesus and Satan are brothers, and in some sects of the Mystery Religion they are the same entity. <br />
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Cancer the crab, Leo the lion of the tribe of Judah, that can be found in Revelations 5 verse 5. Virgo the virgins, spring birth of God's son or Mary. Mary or Marie means pure thus Mary the virgin the mother of god when god is reborn or born in the spring. And that is where the mother holding the child, Isis with the child, Horus, all through the history of the world you will find a virgin holding a child in every culture, every language, in every continent, of this Earth. Libra the scales, Scorpio the scorpion, that back biting traitor Judas. Sagittarius the archer, Capricorn the sea goat, or the goat of Mendes. Aquarius man with the water pitcher, Pisces the two fish. The age that we are leaving at this point in time, is the age of Pisces. And according to the Mystery Religion, we are entering into the Age of Aquarius very soon in our future. And to them this has great meaning for it means the Dawn of the New Age, the age of the illumined man. The number of the man is 6-6-6 in the Mystery Religion. <br />
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Today we have expressions when some one dies. We say things like they passed, they passed on or they passed away. The ancients said, they passed over, from one life to another. Over what? Over the river. And so it was with the coming of spring. As God's Sun is resurrected from the death of winter to his new life in spring. This is why Christians celebrate the resurrection with a Sun-rise service at Easter. And the Jews who knew this ancient religion from their time in captivity in Babylon celebrate the same with their Passover. <br />
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With this knowledge we now add the fact that the first deacon of the astrological sign of Virgo is Coma or the desired one of the nations. This was pictured by the ancient astrologers as a virgin girl holding a new born babe, hence our Madonna and child motif, so in the spring, our Virgo, gods son is born of a virgin. Incidentally the astrological symbol for Virgo is the letter M, or Marie, which means pure, hence Mary the pure virgin. And all through every culture you will sign-find other representations by other names of the virgin mother with the child. Isis with the child Horus, born of a magical intercourse, when Isis changes into a bird and flutters over the dead Osiris. Osiris representing the sun, Isis representing the moon. I will tell you the meaning of the child Horus, other than the Sun in the morning, probably in another episode of the Hour of the Time. <br />
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Now, we belong to one another. According to the Mystery School, we are part of God's creation. We are part of a great fraternity of man. According to them, we are creations voiced to sing praises to God as we gather in the morning. He he he, the morning folks, to pray. The very time of day recalls our creation and our new creation in Christ, During the gathering time reflect on this mystery. Using the silence the sounds of morning, the Psalms and other scriptures, be aware that the rising Sun is the image of Christ, our Sun and source of life, and that is taken right out of a protestant churches leaflet calling for the congregation to gather for the Easter sunrise service. <br />
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Next we read at 1 Peter chapter 5 verse 4, that Gods son is the chief shepherd. This word chief is very important, for at 1 Peter chapter 2 verse 6 and again at Ephesians chapter 2 verse 20, God's son is called the chief cornerstone. Now in our research in the mystery schools we find that the word in Greek for chief cornerstone simply meant the peak of a pyramid. The peak of a pyramid, the corner foundation stone or peak of the pyramid, the prefix akro or top most, was added by the Jews to the already existing Greek adjective pagonyios, or at the corner. In that way the translators of Isaiah rendered the Hebrew word for corner, pinya-esiah. 28-16 describing the stone which was a sure foundation and which probably had reference to the future messiah. <br />
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Well understood by the Christian writers was that of an important stone which was both akro, a peak, and a pagonyios, a corner stone. But there are four or more corners to a building and a stone and a corner cannot be uniquely significant. Although you will find in freemasonry, the ceremony of laying a corner stone for every building that is built, and you look at all the buildings in Washington DC you will see a cornerstone with a Masonic symbols, Masonic date of the Mystery Schools of the calendar of six thousand years.<br />
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Well, we found that we don’t believe that it can be significant unless the stone be at the apex- apex of a pyramid where all corners meet and bond together and that is the secret of the truncated pyramid missing the cap stone, on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States. For we have found in our research, that in the Mystery Religion the Master Mason is the cornerstone or peak of the pyramid. The illumined man who functions as the eye of Horus, or the spy for the Mystery Schools where ever he is at. Just as the great pyramid near Mexico City is called the Pyramid of the Sun, so also the great pyramid of Egypt was actually dedicated to Horus the Sun. A picture of this, you may see on the back of any One Dollar Bill, above the pyramid folks is the eye, the Sun. The Eye of Horus, the Sun of God.<br />
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The New Testament tells us three different times that God's Son was taught by and learned all things from the Father, he was the pupil. We are told at Mathew chapter 14 versus 17 and 19 that Gods son tends to his people's needs with two fishes. The two fishes being the astrological sign all astrologers know as Pisces. Thus we have had for almost two thousand years, God's son ruling in his kingdom or sign of Pisces, two fishes. As stated before these signs are called houses, therefore Pisces is the Lord's house at this time. Truly the greatest fish story ever told. <br />
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According to astrology, sometime after the year 2010, catch that date folks, the year 2010 remember when I told you about 2001, Arthur C Clark is obviously a member of the Mystery Schools, and Stanley Kubrick, who is responsible for making the movie is obviously a member also. According to Astrology, sometime after the year 2010 the Sun will enter into his new sign or his new kingdom. As it was called by the ancients this next coming sign or kingdom soon to be upon us, will be according to the Zodiac, the house or sign of Aquarius. <br />
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So when we read at Luke chapter 22 verse 10, we now understand why God's son states that he and his followers at the last Passover are to go into the house of the man with the water pitcher. So we see in the coming millennium, God's son will bring us into his new kingdom or house of Aquarius, the man with the water pitcher. Once we realize that in Astrology each month is a sign, one of the so called houses of the Zodiac, and in heaven are twelve houses or twelve monthly signs. Then the words we read of God's Son saying “in my fathers house are many mansions”, makes sense when translated correctly. The proper translation is as follows, Father House equals Heavenly Abode, Mansions equal Houses, so correctly read in the original text we read, in my father’s heavenly abode are many houses. Yes twelve to be exact, according to the Mystery Religion of Babylon. <br />
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By careful intention and study of the houses you will be enable to interpret Horoscopes. It is well to remember that just as the influence of one planet in one sign may be affected for good or ill by another planet in another sign, so the influence of planet and sign in general may be strengthened, weakened, enhanced, afflicted or otherwise altered by the influence of planets and houses, according to their beliefs. A rule of thumb to remember is that signs measure your inherent qualities. The planets influence those qualities, and the houses indicate directions for them. In other words the houses indicate certain things; any planet in a house influences or activates the things indicated. <br />
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Now this is all according to their religion, if you want more explanation please ask Nancy Reagan. Any one familiar with modern day Christianity must surely know that it is said that we are living in the Last Days. This teaching is in part based on the idea expressed in Mathew chapter 28 verse 20 of the King James Bible where God's Son says “I will be with you even to the end of the world”. End of the world? In another simple mistranslation to clarify and there are many in the Bible, with a proper understand of the actual words used, this end of the world is translated differently in the various bibles. Some say 'end of time', some say 'end of the days', and still others say 'conclusion of this system of things'. <br />
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So what does all this talk about the End Times or End of Days really mean? Well here is the simple answer folks, according to the Mystery Schools when the scripture speaks of “the end of the world” the actual word used is not, I repeat is not, end of the world. The actual word in Greek is Aeon. Which when correctly translated means age. That’s spelled folks A-G-E. Any library will have bible concordances; Strong’s Bible Concordance is a good reference work to use here. Look up the word age. And any secular dictionary or Bible concordance. There you will find the word for age is from the Greek Aeon, or A-E-O-N. <br />
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Remembering that in astrology each of the twelve houses or signs of the Zodiac correspond to a two thousand year period of time called, and age. We now know we are one thousand, nine hundred and ninety two years into the house or age of Pisces. Now correctly understood it can rightly be said that we today in fact are living in the Last Days. Yes according to the Mystery Schools we are in the last days of the old age of Pisces. Soon God's son will come again into his new kingdom or new age, and that is where all this new-age movement and new age comes from. New Age of Aquarius. Man with the water pitcher, Luke chapter 22 verse 10. <br />
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That’s right folks the new Aeon or the New Age. This according to the Mystery Schools is the perversion of Christianity. This is the theme of the Bible, Gods son in his coming kingdom age the new age of Aquarius. Now what you choose to believe is your business. Remember, don’t get mad at me, I am teaching you the Mystery Religion of ancient Babylon. And I am telling you right now many people are practicing the Mystery Religion in secret and they hate Christians. They hate Christians because they believe Christianity is a perversion of their religion, and thus is their enemy. When viewing the shimmering rays of Sun light on a body of water at dawn or sunset according to the Mystery Schools, one can still see today, how God's Sun walks on water. <br />
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Good night and God bless you all. <br />
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Walk On The Water, by Creedence Clearwater Revival<br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-18379331203294719882010-01-29T22:30:00.004-06:002011-03-20T21:55:16.131-05:00CYCLES OF CIVILIZATION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has <br />
been two hundred years. <br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">These nations have progressed through this sequence:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">From bondage to spiritual faith;<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">From spiritual faith to great courage;<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">From courage to liberty;<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">From liberty to abundance;<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">From abundance to selfishness;<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">From selfishness to complacency<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">From complacency to apathy<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">From apathy to dependence.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">From dependency back again into bondage.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">---source unknown</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">____________________________________________<br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship"</em></blockquote>--Alexander Fraser Tytler<br />
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</em></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-83841170987348474972010-01-29T22:26:00.001-06:002010-01-29T22:28:11.725-06:00"I was not born to be forced..."<blockquote><em>"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.</em></blockquote><blockquote><em>Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>They only can force me who obey a higher law than I. </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>They force me to become like themselves. </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>What sort of life were that to live? </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>When I meet a government which says to me, 'Your money or your life,' why should I be in haste to give it my money? </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>It may be in a great strait, and not know what to do: I cannot help that. </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>It must help itself; do as I do. It is not worth the while to snivel about it. </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society. I am not the son of the engineer. </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. </em></blockquote><blockquote><em>If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."</em> </blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">-- Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">____________________________________________________</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-63447533797127026692010-01-24T09:50:00.000-06:002010-01-24T09:50:01.414-06:00Dear Officer,<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyWEadPXjX0Y2w-bLcWF64Xkr29SJ85t3ZzwWvavEUaHV9y9CmexL0r-z10rqWtURUO_Ys2jkQ7ZYeInEZprnzg01PqhU-kfA27L4ZFK4rhCs_fL9uHj70Io-krsJ5JuVa2vtkLTSMIgg/s1600/swat+with+flaming+skull+%26+obelisk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" mt="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyWEadPXjX0Y2w-bLcWF64Xkr29SJ85t3ZzwWvavEUaHV9y9CmexL0r-z10rqWtURUO_Ys2jkQ7ZYeInEZprnzg01PqhU-kfA27L4ZFK4rhCs_fL9uHj70Io-krsJ5JuVa2vtkLTSMIgg/s320/swat+with+flaming+skull+%26+obelisk.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyWEadPXjX0Y2w-bLcWF64Xkr29SJ85t3ZzwWvavEUaHV9y9CmexL0r-z10rqWtURUO_Ys2jkQ7ZYeInEZprnzg01PqhU-kfA27L4ZFK4rhCs_fL9uHj70Io-krsJ5JuVa2vtkLTSMIgg/s1600-h/swat+with+flaming+skull+%26+obelisk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><em></em></a><em>Dear Officer, <br />
</em><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>I don't want to kill you. <br />
</em><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>I don't even want to wound you.</em><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>I admire your courage and the commitment you've made to help others, often at risk of own your life. </em><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>I hope you won't come for me, because if you do, one of us will die. <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>It may be you. <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>I've done nothing wrong. I don't intend to. But the government which you serve has passed too many laws. I am sure to accidentally break one, some day. And that same government is systematically destroying the unalienable rights which our Constitution says may not be infringed — very specifically, my right to keep and bear arms. <br />
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</div><em>I am not some wacko lunatic, but I can no longer stand idly by, while decent people are systematically enslaved by an out-of-control government. I cannot allow a corrupt judiciary to use its power to destroy my rights and my country. That government and that judiciary has begun to use you to arrest and kill people just like me — people who believe that the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights mean what they say. <br />
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<em>You don't know me, but you see me every day. I may be a businessman, a truck driver, an executive. I could be a housewife or a salesman. But I am armed, as Americans have been for over 250 years, and I am determined to keep the freedoms which only an armed people may retain. With a rifle, I can hit a man-sized target at 800 yards. At shorter distances, in the blink of an eye, I can hit a head-size target with a rifle or a handgun. I don't wear a uniform. I don't drive a marked car. I don't wear camouflage. I could be your own secretary, or your barber. I might be the guy who delivers your bottled water, or the parcel delivery lady. You don't know who I am, or what arms I have, and you never will. I am tens of millions. <br />
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<em>I am America. <br />
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<em>But I know you. I know your uniform, your car, and your work schedule. I know where you work, and where you live. And that is good for you, because not only am I no threat to you, so long as you do the job for which you are hired, I am also prepared to assist you when you are threatened by real criminals. There aren't many of me left, you may think, but believe me, there are many, many more than you can imagine. When the chips are down, we are the ones who are truly on your side. <br />
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<em>On your side, that is, so long as you honor your Oath. We are on your side if you are one of the majority of peace officers who are not corrupt and who have not sold out to the socialists and communists — freedom betrayers who will do anything, say anything to destroy the America our fathers and grandfathers bequeathed us. </em><br />
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<em>No, I am no threat to you, but your bosses in government don't see it that way. They think that I, and my arms, are a threat to them, and they are planning to send you for me, just as they've sent armed, dangerous officers on select little missions for years, taking out targeted individuals. On their orders, you may succeed in murdering me for my beliefs. <br />
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<em>Or you may not. <br />
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<em>Whether or not you succeed in murdering me, as federal agents murdered Vicki Weaver and her young son in Idaho; or as those same federal agents murdered 81 men, women and children at Waco, Texas; there will be others who will rise up in my memory, as I now rise up in honor of the innocent lives taken by the jack-booted thugs and black-clad imitation ninjas who think it is fun to murder Americans — who have somehow become convinced that it is their job to murder Americans! <br />
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<em>I am prepared to die, honoring my sacred Oath as an American, to defend and protect the Constitution of the united States of America. Are you prepared to die to violate the Oath you took? <br />
</em><br />
<em>You see, our government is out of control. It has rotted, from the top down. You know it. You've seen it. But you, like many others, have been too concerned with your job, your family, and your pension, to say or do anything about it. Deep down, you know I am right. <br />
</em><br />
<em>But you think you must follow orders. <br />
</em><br />
<em>Or must you? Are you going to murder me for having the courage to stand up for the country and the principles in which you believe? Are you going to go along with unconscionably illegal, unconstitutional orders, just as "good" German soldiers followed their orders? <br />
</em><br />
<em>Are you going to be a peace officer or a jack-booted thug? <br />
</em><br />
<em>There is little difference between a street outlaw who murders and robs; and a uniformed thug who murders and robs under color of law. The result is the same. Property confiscated, lives ruined, families ripped apart, murder committed, and a free nation destroyed. Look at history. Look around the world. As we move toward a lawless society, our country moves closer and closer to anarchy and then some form of fascism. Are you going to enforce unconstitutional laws? Are you going to be the private army of socio/fascist dictators who masquerade as democratic representatives? <br />
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<em>Or are you going to do your part to recapture America? Are you going to keep your eyes and ears open? Will you quietly let me know when the jack-booted thugs in the SWAT teams have targeted me? Will you let your fellow officers know that they are being sold down the river by their corrupt masters? <br />
</em><br />
<em>Don't come to kill me. Because I don't want to kill you. </em><br />
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<em>If you do come, you may succeed — if you get lucky. But don't count on luck, because it will probably be hard — damned hard. Like millions of other Americans, I am the son or daughter of a nation of riflemen — citizen-soldiers who have a rich heritage of beating the best the enemy can send against us. We are resourceful. We cherish our homes and freedom. We understand weapons and tactics. You are foolish if you intend to be our enemy. <br />
</em><br />
<em>If you don't succeed, and in the long run, you won't, here's what you can expect: ambushes of SWAT teams, and the wholesale slaughter of all the jack-booted thugs who have murdered innocent Americans on the orders of their socialist masters; targeted assassinations and kidnappings of anti-Constitution judges, and assassinations of anti-American, anti-gun politicians. <br />
</em><br />
<em>By your willingness to be a good little Nazi, you will have unleashed a civil war — just what America's enemies want. <br />
</em><br />
<em>It doesn't have to be that way. You can do something about it. It's easy. Read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Although you took an Oath to defend them, you don't learn much about them in your training, do you? Today, these documents are considered dangerous by the government, just as King George found them dangerous over 200 years ago. <br />
</em><br />
<em>Why do you suppose your leaders lead you to oppose the very rights you swore to protect? Why do they want a disarmed public? You know the reason. It has nothing to do with controlling crime. It has everything to do with using you to disarm, fine, control, and ultimately murder your American fellows — just like the brownshirts and the SS did to German citizens. <br />
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<em>Don't fall for it. Don't force me to kill you. <br />
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<em> (signed) 100 Million American Patriots </em><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">By Dana Larsen, Cannabis Culture. Posted February 8, 2005.</span><br />
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<strong><em>The world's most famous sailor-man may be tooting more than just spinach in his pipe.</em></strong> <br />
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Popeye is one of the world's most well-known and beloved animated characters. <br />
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Since his creation, the pipe-puffing Popeye has become a global phenomenon, with millions of kids heartily munching on spinach in the hopes that it will make them as strong as the legendary sailor-man.<br />
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Yet is the spinach which gives Popeye his super-strength really a metaphor for another magical herb? <br />
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Have children around the world been adoring a hero who is really a heavy consumer of the forbidden weed – marijuana?<br />
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The evidence is circumstantial, but it is there, and when added together it presents a compelling picture that, for many readers at least, Popeye's strength-giving spinach is meant as a clear metaphor for the miraculous powers of marijuana.<br />
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<strong>Comic Creation</strong><br />
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Popeye has gone through many different writers and artists since he was first created in 1929 by cartoonist Elzie Segar. Popeye was originally introduced as a minor character in Segar's ongoing comic strip, Thimble Theatre. For 10 years Segar had been chronicling the adventures of Olive Oyl, her brother Castor, and her fiance Ham Gravy. At the start of one new adventure, Castor and Ham were to embark on an overseas voyage, and so they went to the docks and hired a sailor named Popeye.<br />
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Soon Popeye had become a major part of the Thimble Theatre cast, and within a year Ham Gravy was written out of the strip as Popeye replaced him as Olive's sweetheart. Wimpy was added to the cast three years later, and baby Swee'pea four years after that.<br />
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At first there was no explanation for Popeye's amazing strength. But within a few years Popeye's reliance on spinach was entrenched in the strip, and the basis of some ongoing jokes. By the time of the animated cartoons, decades after Segar's death, the spinach had become an essential part of every plot, with Popeye's consumption of the magic herb signaling a swift end to his foes.<br />
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The original comic by Segar was much more complex and nuanced than the later animated shorts. Segar introduced many strange and wonderful characters into Popeye's world, including the malicious Sea Hag, whose enchanted flute enables her to fly and do magic; the wealthy Mr. Vanripple, whose beautiful daughter June rivals Olive for Popeye' affections; the disturbing Alice the Goon who speaks only in squiggles; and the mighty Toar, whose monstrous strength challenges even Popeye's.<br />
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Segar's storylines were full of adult humor, including Toar having a crush on Popeye, calling him "hot stuff" and kissing him on the head. Popeye's ongoing adventures included founding his own island nation called Spinachovia, and becoming "dictipator" over a country made up only of men.<br />
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<strong>Spinach = Marijuana</strong><br />
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</strong>So from these seemingly innocent beginnings, what evidence is there that Popeye is actually a stoner?<br />
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During the 1920s and '30s, the era when Popeye was created, "spinach" was a very common code word for marijuana. One classic example is "The Spinach Song," recorded in 1938 by the popular jazz band Julia Lee and Her Boyfriends. Performed for years in clubs thick with cannabis smoke, along with other Julia Lee hits like "Sweet Marijuana," the popular song used spinach as an obvious metaphor for pot.<br />
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In addition, anti-marijuana propaganda of the time claimed that marijuana use induced super-strength. Overblown media reports proclaimed that pot smokers became extraordinarily strong, and even immune to bullets. So tying in Popeye's mighty strength with his sucking back some spinach would have seemed like an obvious cannabis connection at the time.<br />
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Further, as a "sailor-man," Popeye would be expected to be familiar with exotic herbs from distant locales. Indeed, sailors were among the first to introduce marijuana to American culture, bringing the herb back with them from their voyages overseas.<br />
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Segar did make other, more explicit drug references in his comic strip. One ongoing 1934 plotline had Vanripple's gold mine facing corrupt, thieving workers. Popeye discovers that the mine manager is feeding his men berries from a bush whose roots are soaked in a nasty drug. Consuming the drugged berries removes human conscience, making people more violent and willing to commit crime.<br />
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Popeye falls under the influence of the laced berries and becomes surly and mean, striking out at his friends and allies. Yet he still manages to get five gallons of "myrtholene," a joy-inducing drug which he pours over the plant's roots. The new berries produce delirious happiness, and as Popeye says, "When a man's happy he jus' couldn't do nothin' wrong."<br />
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<strong>Pot References</strong><br />
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</strong>Segar died in 1938, and the strip was taken over by others in the following decades. As the Popeye character was re-interpreted by others in print, animation and film, other indicators of a marijuana subtext have continued to pop up.<br />
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For example, in many of the animated Popeye cartoons from the 1960s, Popeye is explicitly shown sucking the power-giving spinach through his pipe.<br />
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Further, in the comics and cartoons made during the '60s, Popeye had a dog named Birdseed. Surely the writers who named Popeye's dog during this "flower power" era were aware that cannabis was in fact America's number one source of birdseed until it was banned?<br />
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Another slightly different drug reference occurs in the 1954 cartoon, Greek Mirthology. In the cartoon, Popeye tells his nephews the story of his ancestor, Hercules. Hercules, who looks just like Popeye, is shown sniffing white garlic to gain his super strength. By the end of the cartoon Hercules has discovered spinach and switches over to it. Is this a metaphor for the benefits of cannabis over cocaine or snuff?<br />
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Another animated film shows Popeye carefully tending a crop of spinach plants reminiscent of a cannabis patch. He carefully takes cuttings, dips them into rooting gel and plants them in his outdoor garden. He even gives each plant a special feeding mix from a baby bottle. Pot growers worldwide would recognize the unique way that Popeye cares for his sacred crop.<br />
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<strong>I Yam What I Yam</strong><br />
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</strong>Some have commented on the parallel between Popeye's famous phrase, "I yam what I yam," and the statement, "I am that I am," made by God to Moses in the Old Testament. In the story, God speaks to Moses through a magical burning bush, which was not consumed by the fire. Many different people and faiths, including Rastafarians and various early Christian sects, have believed that the biblical burning bush is a reference to the cannabis plant.<br />
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So in this context, the use of phrase, "I yam what I yam," can be seen as a reference to Popeye's use of the burning cannabis bush, which creates his higher awareness of the self-reflective nature of the Godhead.<br />
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<strong>Pure Bolivian Spinach</strong><br />
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The only Popeye strip to ever explicitly refer to the pot/spinach connection was published in the 1980s by illustrator Bobby London. The comic showed Popeye and Wimpy picking up a load of "pure Bolivian spinach."<br />
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London did the syndicated Popeye daily strip for King Features from 1986 to 1992, and was known for putting adult, controversial themes into his work. He had previously worked on the short-lived comic book Air Pirates, which showed Mickey and Minnie Mouse having sex, getting high and smuggling drugs.<br />
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London was eventually fired from Popeye for writing an allegorical satire about the abortion issue. No new Popeye strips are now being written; those running in daily newspapers are all repeats.<br />
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<strong>Popeye Mythology</strong><br />
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</strong>Whether Popeye 's many pot references are intentional or not, some see amazing depths and layers of meaning within the Popeye saga. An author and online artist named Michaelm provides the following analysis:<br />
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<blockquote><em>"Popeye characterizes the natural cycle going back through the ages to the ancient mariners ... books, [B]ibles, logs, maps, pennants, sails, ropes, paints, varnishes, lamp oil and sealants were all derived from hemp. Bluto represents the greedy toxic corporations, dependent industries and landowners.</em><br />
</blockquote><blockquote><em>"Both characters try to swoon the premier oil source, Olive Oyl. Bluto begins to understand Popeye is too competitive so he decides to eliminate him. He chains Popeye down, captures Olive Oyl, and approaches the point of rape. But in the end Popeye manages to suck the 'spinach' through his pipe, grows strong with hemp, breaks free and defeats the evil corporations, saving her from industrial pollution and oppression.</em><br />
</blockquote><blockquote><em>"Relieved and happy, she gives herself back to the natural cycle, then Popeye smiles, winks and toots his pipe."</em><br />
</blockquote>While this is likely reading far more into the strip than any of its creators ever intended, it is an excellent example of the iconic status that Popeye has achieved among some quarters of the cannabis community.<br />
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</div>This is a summary of fascinating accounts by 10 award-winning journalists from the book Into the Buzzsaw, edited by Kristina Borjesson. <br />
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All of these writers were prevented by corporate media ownership from reporting major, incredibly revealing news. Some were even fired or laid off. <br />
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These journalists have won numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer.<br />
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</div><em><blockquote><em> "After our struggle to air an honest report, Fox fired the general manager [of our station]. The new GM said that if we didn’t agree to changes that the lawyers were insisting upon, we’d be fired for insubordination in 48 hours. We pleaded with [him] to look at the facts we’d uncovered. His reply: “We paid $3 billion dollars for these TV stations. We’ll tell you what the news is. The news is what we say it is!” [After we refused,] Fox’s general manager presented us an agreement that would give us a full year of salary, and benefits worth close to $200,000 in “consulting jobs,” but with strings attached: no mention of how Fox covered up the story and no opportunity to ever expose the facts. [After declining] we were fired."</em></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">-Jane Akreha - Fox News - Pages 43-45, 49</span><br />
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</div><em><blockquote><em>"Pierre Salinger announced to the world on Nov. 8, 1996, that he’d received documents proving that a US Navy missile had accidentally downed [TWA flight 800]. That same day, FBI’s Jim Kallstrom called a press conference. A man raised his hand and asked why the navy was involved in the recovery and investigation while a possible suspect. “Remove him!” [Kallstrom] yelled. Two men leapt over to the questioner and grabbed him by the arms. There was a momentary chill in the air after the guy had been dragged out of the room. Kallstrom and entourage acted as if nothing had happened."</em></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">-Kristina Borjesson - CBS, Emmy award winner - Pages 110, 111</span><br />
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</div><em><blockquote><em> "James Kallstrom, then of the FBI, said vehemently at a press conference that every boat in the area of the [TWA flight 800] crash had been identified. Subsequently, government radar data was released showing that the boat closest to the crash had never been identified and sped away at more than thirty knots an hour. Kallstrom was later hired by CBS."</em> </blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">- Philip Weiss - New York Times Magazine - Page 186</span><br />
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</div><blockquote><em>"CNN was a willing accomplice in [the] campaign to crush the [Tailwind] story. CNN management ran at the first sign of heat. The heat included everyone from Henry Kissinger and Colin Powell to Special Forces veterans. My co-producer and I were fired. We were branded journalistic felons. CNN’s goal, in the words of one manager, “kill this thing, drive a stake through its heart and bury it.” </em></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">- April Oliver - CNN - Pages 217, 218</span><br />
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</div><blockquote><em>"In the months leading up to the November [2000] balloting, Gov. Jeb Bush ordered elections supervisors to purge 58,000 voters on the grounds they were felons not entitled to vote. As it turns out, only a handful of these voters were felons. This extraordinary news ran on page one of the country’s leading paper. Unfortunately, it was in the wrong country: Britain. In the USA, it was not covered. The office of the governor [also] illegally ordered the removal of felons from the voter rolls—real felons—but with the right to vote under Florida law. As a result, 50,000 of these voters could not vote. The fact that 90% of these voters were Democrats should have made it news as this alone more than accounted for Bush’s victory."</em></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">- Greg Palast - BBC - Pages 65, 66</span><br />
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<em><blockquote><em> "Robert R. Garwood, 14 years a prisoner of the Vietnamese, was found guilty in the longest court-martial in US history. At the end of the court-martial, there seemed no question that Garwood was a monstrous traitor.</em><br />
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<em> Several years later in 1985, Garwood was speaking publicly about something that had never made the news during his court-martial. He knew of other American prisoners in Vietnam long after the war was over. He was supported by Vietnam veterans whose war records were impeccable….My sources included outstanding experts like former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency General Tighe and returned POWs like Captain McDaniel, who held the Navy’s top award for bravery. </em><br />
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<em>With such advocates, it was hard not to consider the possibility that prisoners (some 3,500) had in fact been kept by the Vietnamese as hostages to make sure the US would pay the more than $3 billion in war reparations. [After the war] American POWs had become worthless pawns. The US had not paid the promised monies and had no intention of paying in the future."</em><br />
</blockquote><div style="text-align: center;">-<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Monika Jensen-Stevenson - Emmy-winning producer for 60 minutes - Pages. 225, 226, 233</span><br />
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</div><blockquote> "<em>The Chang Mai “factory” that the CIA prevented me from destroying was the source of massive amounts of heroin being smuggled into the US in the bodies and body bags of GIs killed in Vietnam. Case after case was killed by CIA and State Department intervention and there wasn’t a thing we could do about it….In 1980, CIA-recruited mercenaries and drug traffickers unseated Bolivia’s democratically elected president. Bolivia [was] the source of virtually 100% of the cocaine entering the US. Immediately after the coup, cocaine production increased massively. This was the beginning of the crack “plague.”…The CIA along with State and Justice departments had to protect their drug-dealing assets by destroying a DEA investigation. How do I know? I was the inside source….I sat down at my desk in the American embassy and wrote evidence of my charges. I addressed it to Newsweek. Three weeks later DEA’s internal security [called] to notify me that I was under investigation….The highlight of the 60 Minutes piece is when the administrator of the DEA, Federal Judge Robert Bonner, tells Mike Wallace, “There is no other way to put it, Mike, [what the CIA did] is drug smuggling. It’s illegal.” "</em></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">- Michael Levine - 25year veteran of DEA, writer for New York Times, Los Angeles Times, </span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">and USA Today</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">- Pages 264-268, 271, 289</span><br />
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<em><blockquote><em>"In 1996, I wrote a series of stories that began this way: For the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods gangs of LA and funneled millions in drug profits to a guerilla army run by the CIA. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America….The story was developing a momentum all of its own, despite a virtual news blackout from the major media. </em><br />
</blockquote><blockquote><em>Ultimately, it was public pressure that forced the national newspapers into the fray. The Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times published stories, but spent little time exploring the CIA’s activities. Instead, my reporting and I became the focus of their scrutiny. It was remarkable [Mercury News editor] Ceppos wrote, that the four Washington Post reporters assigned to debunk the series “could not find a single significant factual error.” </em><br />
</blockquote><blockquote><em>A few months later, the Mercury News [due to intense CIA pressure] backed away from the story, publishing a long column by Ceppos apologizing for “shortcomings” in the series. The New York Times hailed Ceppos for “setting a brave new standard,” and splashed his apology on their front page, the first time the series had ever been mentioned there. </em><br />
</blockquote><blockquote><em>I quit the Mercury News not long after that….Do we have a free press today? Sure. It’s free to report all the sex scandals, all the stock market news, [and] every new health fad that comes down the pike. But when it comes to the real down and dirty stuff—such stories are not even open for discussion."</em><br />
</blockquote></em><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">- Gary Webb - San Jose Mercury News, Pulitzer Prize winner P. 297, 303-310</span><br />
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</div><em><blockquote><em>"ABC hired me to help produce a story about an investment firm that was heavily involved with the CIA. Part of the ABC report charged that the CIA had plotted to assassinate an American, Ron Rewald, the president of [the investment firm]. Scott Barnes said on camera that the CIA had asked him to kill Rewald. After the show aired, CIA officials met with ABC executive David Burke, [who] was sufficiently impressed “by the vigor with which they made their case” to order an on-air “clarification.” But that was not enough. [CIA Director] Casey called ABC Chairman Goldenson. [Thus] despite all the documented evidence presented in the program, Peter Jennings reported that ABC could no longer substantiate the charges. That same day, the CIA filed a formal complaint with the FCC charging that ABC had “deliberately distorted” the news. In the complaint, Casey asked that ABC be stripped of its TV and radio Licenses….During this time, Capital Cities Communications was maneuvering to buy ABC. [CIA Director] Casey was one of the founders of Cap Cities. Cap Cities bought ABC. Within months, the entire investigative unit was dispersed."</em></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">- John Kelly—author, ABC producer. P. 326-329</span><br />
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<blockquote><em>" [There has been a] striking consolidation of the media from hundreds of firms to an industry dominated by less than ten enormous transnational conglomerates. The largest ten media firms own all US TV networks, most TV stations, all major film studios, all major music companies, nearly all cable TV channels, much of the book and magazine publishing [industry], and much, much more. Expensive investigative journalism—especially that which goes after national security or powerful corporate interests—is discouraged. Largely irrelevant human interest/tragedy stories get extensive coverage….A few weeks after the war began in Afghanistan, CNN president Isaacson authorized CNN to provide two different versions of the war: a more critical one for the global audience and a sugarcoated one for Americans….It is nearly impossible to conceive of a better world without some changes in the media status quo. We have no time to waste. "</em></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">- Robert McChesney - 500+ radio & TV appearances. P. 371-381</span><br />
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</em></em></em></em></em>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05789750451427167243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4559890189880401534.post-79936669645275608082010-01-19T23:16:00.001-06:002010-01-19T23:30:46.475-06:00The Mousetrap<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.funnydb.com/full_931215799128.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" mt="true" src="http://www.funnydb.com/full_931215799128.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
</div>A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. What food might it contain? <br />
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He was aghast to discover that it was a mouse trap! Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning,<br />
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"There is a mouse trap in the house!! There is a mouse trap in the house!!"<br />
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The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, I can tell you this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me; I cannot be bothered by it."<br />
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The mouse turned to the pig and told him, "There is a mouse trap in the mouse." <br />
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"I am so very sorry Mr. Mouse," sympathized the pig, "but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; be assured that you are in my prayers."<br />
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The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, "Like wow, Mr. Mouse, a mouse trap; am I in grave danger, Duh?"<br />
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So the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected to face the farmer's mouse trap alone. <br />
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.<br />
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In the darkness, she did not see that it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. <br />
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She returned home with a fever.<br />
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Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farm yard for the soup's main ingredient.<br />
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His wife's sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.<br />
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The farmer's wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.<br />
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So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk<br />
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