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Gunpowder Plot

conspiracy, England [circa 1603–1605]

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Gunpowder Plot, the conspiracy of English Roman Catholics to blow up Parliament and King James I, his queen, and his eldest son on November 5, 1605. The leader of the plot, Robert Catesby, together with his four coconspirators—Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy, John Wright, and Guy Fawkes—were zealous Roman Catholics angered by James’s refusal to grant more religious toleration to Catholics. They apparently hoped that the confusion that would follow the murder of the king, his ministers, and the members of Parliament would provide an opportunity for the English Catholics to take over the country.

Assembling the conspirators

Catesby had conceived of the plot as early as May 1603, when he told Percy, in reply to the latter’s declaration of his intention to kill the king, that he was “thinking of a most sure way.” Subsequently, on or about November 1, 1603, Catesby sent a message to his cousin Robert Winter at Huddington, near Worcester, to come to London, but Winter refused. On the arrival of a second urgent summons shortly afterward, he obeyed, and at a house in Lambeth, probably in January 1604, he and John Wright were initiated by Catesby into the plot to blow up Parliament. Before putting this plan into motion, however, it was decided to try a “quiet way” to obtain the repeal of the Penal Laws, a body of laws that essentially criminalized Roman Catholicism. Winter was sent to Flanders to enlist the aid of Juan de Velasco, duke of Frias and constable of Castile, who was conducting the negotiations for a peace between England and Spain. Winter, having secured nothing but vain promises from the constable, returned to England about the end of April, bringing with him Fawkes, a man devoted to the Roman Catholic cause and recommended for undertaking perilous adventures.

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Trump Overthrown!

Updated:
May 18, 2017



President Donald Trump has been overthrown by a coup d'état engineered by Deep State operatives in collusion with the Media. This coup and takeover of the White House by hostile forces is indicated by Rod Rosenstein’s abrupt appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel and Trump being ordered who to pick as new FBI Chief. Note that the only candidates are establishment quacks like incompetent Joe Lieberman, Democrat and Al Gore clone, and the corrupt former governor of Oklahoma, Frank Keating, who was in on the Clinton Oklahoma City bombing coverup.

The coup has claimed as victims Congressman Devin Nunes, head of the House Intelligence Committee, and Congressman Jason Chaffetz, head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Nunes was forced to step down as committee chairman and Chaffetz will retire next month from the House. More resignations are forthcoming as lawmakers are rattled by spreading word of the coup.

Trump will eventually be replaced by establishment sycophant, Vice President Mike Pence, who is cooperating with coup plotters. Trump, knowing of the jeopardy he is in, has sent his sons away—thus, the reason why they have been out of the limelight. Trump is being ordered to fire most of his staff and to reverse Executive Orders against NAFTA, TPP, and Climate Change. (Developing...)


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RED ALERT: Attempted political coup now taking place in D.C. with effort to impeach Trump for fabricated “obstruction of justice”

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 by: Mike Adams






(Natural News) This is a high priority alert. The Washington Post, now exposed as a CIA propaganda front, and the New York Times (a fiction-pimping anti-American rag owned by a Mexican national) have tag-teamed their way to their desired finish line: The impeachment and indictment of President Donald J. Trump.

This has been accomplished through the publishing of a seemingly endless stream of utterly fabricated fake news stories, nearly all of which are based on “anonymous sources” that are probably little more than schizophrenic voices in the heads of the reporters writing the “news” in the first place.

The aim has been to accuse President Trump of every imaginable crime, from “leaking intel to the Russians” to “obstruction of justice.” Keep in mind that these same discredited media outlets gave Obama a pass when he laundered $1.7 billion in cash and delivered it to Iran on a military cargo plane.

They are the same fake news media that looked the other way when Bill Clinton met with Loretta Lynch on the tarmac in a private meeting to pressure Lynch to back off any potential criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton’s long list of crimes.

They are the same anti-American media that said nothing when Hillary Clinton cheated during the presidential debates by receiving the debate questions in advance from CNN. (She also pre-sold her anticipated presidency by collecting tens of millions of dollars in “donations” and “speaking fees” from foreign interests.)

They are the same media that stood silent when former President Obama weaponized the IRS to suppress the speech of conservative non-profits. Similarly, nobody in the media seems to be alarmed at all that Obama abused the state surveillance apparatus to spy on his political opponents such as Rand Paul.

These are all serious crimes, serious abuses of power and treasonous acts carried out by Obama, a Democrat. Yet the left-wing media remains silent on every one of them. What’s obvious from all this is that, according to the left-wing media, Democrats can do no wrong and all their crimes are whitewashed by default (even the obvious murder of Seth Rich). Yet Republicans are instantly guilty of the worst crimes imaginable, even when they’ve done nothing wrong at all.

Fethullah Gulen on 'GPS': Failed Turkey coup looked 'like a Hollywood movie'

 

By Ray Sanchez, CNN

Updated 4:49 PM ET, Sun July 31, 2016

 

Gulen on facing the Turkish public

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pointed the finger of blame for the failed uprising squarely at Gulen

Gulen calls for international organization to investigate government claims connecting him to the coup attempt

(CNN)Fethullah Gulen, the reclusive cleric accused by Turkey of hatching a military coup attempt, concedes that his supporters could have been involved in the putsch but again denied any direct connection.

"There might have been some sympathetic people [to Gulen] among them," he told CNN's Fareed Zakaria in an interview.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has pointed the finger of blame for the failed uprising squarely at Gulen.

When is a coup not a coup?

1. When you are in the Nile.

 

2. When you are in denial.

3. When you are looking at the world through rose colored glasses.


 


BTW: 

1. How is the momentum coming along on that remarkable Arab Spring?
2. How are things working out in Libya?   Any breaking stories from there?
3. How are things in the Republic of Tunisia these days?

On another note,..   I see Syria is still a lingering 'mere' speed bump on the road to peace, ha?

Let's wait until the end of the holy month of Ramadan and Friday prayers to see what else is new.

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Morsi Is Out as President, Egyptian State Media Says

Egypt’s military moved forcefully to seize power from President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday, deploying tanks and troops in Cairo and other cities, restricting his travel and convening an emergency meeting of top civilian and religious leaders to devise an interim government and lay the groundwork for new elections.
Ahramonline, the government’s official English-language Web site, said the military had informed Mr. Morsi that he was no longer head of state. There was no word on Mr. Morsi’s whereabouts.
The military’s actions came as enormous crowds of the president’s supporters and opponents filled the streets of the capital and soldiers were deployed in significant numbers to keep the spiraling political crisis from going out of complete control.

READ MORE »http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/world/middleeast/egypt.html?emc=edit_na_20130703

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