Tuesday, June 26, 2007

BLAIR MEETS POPE BENEDICT XVI

Blair meets Pope for private talks

Press Association
Saturday June 23, 2007 2:28 PM

The Vatican on Saturday bid farewell to Tony Blair as British prime minister, wishing him well in what it said were his plans to work for Middle East peace and inter-religious dialogue.

Mr Blair and Pope Benedict XVI men met privately for 25 minutes before being joined for further talks by English Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.

The Vatican stop on Mr Blair's farewell tour has fueled rumors that he plans to become a Roman Catholic.

A Vatican statement made no mention of the conversion rumors and the press office called the audience a normal meeting between the Pope and a government leader. Mr Blair leaves office on Wednesday.

The statement, issued after the talks with Pope Benedict and a separate meeting with Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said there was a "frank" assessment of the international situation, including such "delicate" themes as the Middle East conflict and the future of the European Union.

The Vatican opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq, which Mr Blair supported.

The statement said that Mr Blair has expressed the desire "to dedicate himself in a particular way for peace in the Middle East and for inter-religious dialogue."

Mr Blair's life after Downing Street has been a matter of speculation.

Earlier this week, it was suggested that US President George Bush, a close ally, wants him to take the job of Middle East envoy for the Quartet of peacemakers - the US, European Union, United Nations and Russia. Downing Street has refused comment on the reports.

Greeted by the Pope, Mr Blair explained that he had just arrived from an EU summit in Brussels. "I heard it was very successful," Pope Benedict said.

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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6730800,00.html

BLAIR SET AS MIDEAST ENVOY




US Official: Blair Set As Mideast Envoy

MATTHEW LEE
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be named on Wednesday as special envoy for the international diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East with a portfolio focused on Palestinian economic and political reform, a senior U.S. official said.

Members of the Quartet, the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia, will give their public blessing to the post and announce that Blair has agreed to take the job in simultaneous statements from Washington, New York, Brussels and Moscow, the official told The Associated Press.

The official, who insisted on anonymity because the statements are still being drafted, spoke after being briefed on a meeting of quartet representatives held earlier Tuesday in Jerusalem.

Three U.S. officials said Monday that discussions on naming Blair to the post had been completed and the issue was on the Quartet's Tuesday agenda.

Deputy State Department spokesman Tom Casey would not discuss the prospects of Blair being named the group's envoy, but said the meeting in Jerusalem had included a discussion about the post and what its duties might be and that a statement was expected on Wednesday.

"They have talked about the idea ... of having an envoy, having someone who would be available on behalf of the quartet to work on a variety of issues, including efforts to help support the development of Palestinian Authority institutions," Casey told reporters.

The senior U.S. official said the quartet had agreed on a job description for the special envoy position that Blair will assume shortly after leaving office on Wednesday, the senior official said, disputing reports in the Israeli media that Russia was holding up an official announcement.

"The Russians are the least enthusiastic about creating the position and least enthusiastic about Blair, but they didn't object," the official said. "No one objected."

The Russian delegation did not object to Blair or the expanded role of the envoy position, but had not received instructions from Moscow on how to proceed, according to the official.

So, the job description and statement on Blair were agreed to "ad referendum," which means the matter is settled but that all parties reserve the right to make minor changes to the documents, the official said.

Later Tuesday, the Kremlin released a statement saying Blair called President Vladimir Putin and that the Russian leader gave his blessing to Blair's being named special envoy.

Blair's new job will deal primarily with helping the Palestinian Authority build political institutions and will not, at least at first, involve direct mediation or negotiation between the Palestinians and Israelis, the official said. The official noted that the quartet itself "retains the right to be the interlocutor between the Israelis and Palestinians."

The post is expected to be unpaid but will come with staff and logistical support from the quartet, as did a previous similar position held by former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, who had a narrower job description.

Blair's portfolio will be broader than that of Wolfensohn, who dealt mainly with economic issues related to the Gaza Strip, which is now in the hands of the militant Hamas movement, the official said.

"The job is not just about economics, but it should not be mistaken as a mediator or negotiator," the official said.

Blair will be helping develop economic support and reform for Palestinian institutions as well as looking at rule of law questions, particularly in light of the split in the Palestinian government, the official said.

The official said that after the quartet announcement, President Bush would likely address Blair's appointment at a speech he is to give at a mosque and Islamic center in Washington.

Source: http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation/washington/cabinet/8186072.html

WHAT DOES CHICKEN LABEL MEAN?

What does that chicken label mean?

19:19 ET, Mon 25 Jun 2007
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By Terri Coles

TORONTO (Reuters) - Consumers found something new in the meat aisle last week after Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. meat producer, announced its fresh chicken would now come from poultry raised without antibiotics.

That will be welcome news for many shoppers, but those already bewildered by the growing range of health claims on food labels could be forgiven for wondering why they should care.

Antibiotics are added to feed because it makes animals grow about 10 percent faster. But the practice has led to concerns about bacteria developing resistance to antibiotics, in both animals and humans, said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University. If those bacteria are harmful and make humans sick, antibiotics may not work as a treatment.

"About 70 percent of the antibiotics that are used in the U.S. are used for animals in one way or another," Nestle explained in an interview. "There's a lot of concern about that because there doesn't seem to be a lot of drug development of new antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance has become a worldwide problem."

Tyson is ushering in the change to antibiotic-free feed with a $70 million marketing campaign and new packaging reading "100% All Natural Chicken Raised Without Antibiotics, No Hormones Administered, No Artificial Ingredients."

Hormones are banned when raising hogs and poultry in the United States, so all pork and chicken sold in the country is hormone-free. Indeed, the hormone-free label can only be used in conjunction with the text "Federal regulations prohibit the use of hormones," as the Tyson label does. "Grain fed" and "free range" are two other terms used by some chicken producers. Grain-fed chickens were not fed animal by-products, while free range chickens had some access to open outdoor spaces. But like "antibiotic-free," these terms are not subject to outside monitoring or approval, Nestle said.

There is considerable consumer and retailer confusion around the difference between "natural" and "organic," Nestle said. In her book "What To Eat", Nestle describes visiting organic food stores and asking about their organic meat products, only to be pointed to a product labeled as natural. "They don't know the difference," she said. "There's an enormous difference."

The USDA requires that a food labeled as "natural" must not have any artificial ingredients and must be minimally processed, and any other claims must be honest. "Natural" does not mean the chickens were raised without antibiotics. Their feed may contain non-organic ingredients or animal by-products. They may not have had access to the outdoors or open areas. Most importantly, the label comes with no guarantee of any inspection of these practices. "They don't have to prove anything," Nestle said. "It has no regulatory meaning whatsoever."

However, the only foods that can be labeled "organic" are those that have met the USDA's standards, which don't allow animal by-products in feed or the use of antibiotics and hormones to promote growth. Livestock must have freedom of movement and access to outdoor areas, and their feed must be 100 percent organic grain. Organic producers are subject to inspections by agencies accredited at the state or federal level.

Producers cite the high cost of organic feed as the deal-breaker for producing organic meat, and it's often difficult to find organic chicken, pork and beef.

Some studies have suggested that organic foods may be healthier than their conventionally-grown counterparts, but the USDA does not claim that organic foods are safer or more nutritious.

What is clear is that producers are moving further in the direction of natural and organic foods. Tyson's CEO said that 91 percent of consumers said having chicken produced and labeled "raised without antibiotics" was important. Organic food sales are showing double-digit growth each year, while overall food sales are increasing by just a few percentage points. "I think everybody is going to have to appeal to this market because it's the only place where there's growth in food sales," Nestle said.

Monday, June 25, 2007

CHINA AIMS AT AMERICA'S ACHILLES' HEEL


China aiming at US military's Achilles' heel with anti-satellite missiles
Published on Monday, June 25, 2007.


Source: Press Esc
China’s strategists have concluded that the easiest way to defeat US military power is to target its Achilles' heel: its space-based capabilities and their related ground installations, and the Chinese anti-satellite test (ASAT) was part of that strategy to combat US military superiority, according to a policy brief published by Carnegie Endowment.

Author Ashley Tellis argues that China is highly unlikely to abandon its counterspace program, as doing so would condemn its armed forces to inevitable defeat against US power, and as a result, it will not enter into any arms-control regime that would further accentuate its competitors’ military advantages.

The US domination of space, which underwrites both its civilian and military advantages, is at risk, and therefore necessitates a series of remedial investments, the report warns.

The advanced military might of the US depends inordinately on a complex, exposed network of command, control, communications, and computer-based systems that provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, that utilise the medium of space for communications.

Tellis explains that these space-based capabilities enable American forces to detect and identify different kinds of targets, exchange vast and diverse militarily relevant information and data streams, and contribute to the success of combat operations by providing everything from meteorological assessment to navigation and guidance to different platforms and weapon systems to early warning and situational awareness.

The author states that the China is heavily focused on developing all possible means of defeating the superior US conventional forces
it expects to encounter in any war over Taiwan, and the Chinese capability for space warfare implies that an American victory is no longer guaranteed.

On January 11, 2007, a China fired a home-made medium-range ballistic missile from a launch site at the Xichang space facility in Sichuan Province to destroy a an aging Chinese weather satellite deployed in a low Earth orbitat an altitude of 864 kilometers.

WORLD BANK'S NEW CHIEF WILL FOCUS...

World Bank's new chief will also focus on corruption

Combating corruption was a signature issue for Paul Wolfowitz in his two stormy years as bank president. Last year he hailed the belated blacklisting of the firms on the Lesotho project as helping to ensure "that precious public resources go to help the poor, for whom they are intended."

But the corruption issue was also been a source of anger at the bank that contributed to Wolfowitz's forced resignation last month amid charges favoritism. Some bank officials fear, and others hope, that with his departure the issue would fade.

All indications are, however, that his successor, Robert Zoellick - who won the unanimous approval of the World Bank's board on Monday - would not let that happen.

"Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fiber and destroys trust," Zoellick said. "The challenge is how best to clean corruption out. That's what the World Bank must diagnose, determine and execute in concert with developing and developed countries."

Zoellick has vowed in private meetings to press an anti-corruption agenda but also avoid Wolfowitz's mistakes, like cutting off money and punishing poor people dependent on bank programs in countries that happen to be poorly governed, bank officials say.

Zoellick, a former top trade envoy and deputy secretary of state under President George W. Bush, said he realized that much of the controversy under Wolfowitz had occurred because corruption was sometimes identified by him as more important than fighting poverty.

In addition, the head of the department of institutional integrity, Suzanne Rich Folsom, a Wolfowitz appointee and a Republican, has drawn fire for her management style.

Under Folsom's leadership, the department has gotten a 50 percent increase in funding and an expanded mandate to investigate corruption cases. Folsom's defenders say that it was inevitable that she would be unpopular, while critics say she has trampled on employee rights and been selective in her inquiries.

"There are definitely tensions in the system," Zoellick said. "What I've found is a high degree of distrust over the real purpose of the anti-corruption campaign. Our challenge now is to find real guidelines that can restore everyone's trust and assure governments that the bank is not wasting money."

How much corruption exists is a matter of conjecture. A former top official, requesting anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, estimated that it might affect, at least in small ways, as many as 40 percent of bank projects. Others say the money lost to graft may not be more than a few percentage points of bank lending.

No one disputes that in its six decades of existence, the bank did not do much about corruption until a decade ago, when its then president, James Wolfensohn, declared that something must be done to combat it.

The department of institutional integrity was established only seven years ago. It has barred 148 individuals and 190 firms from doing business with the bank. In an institution that employs 10,000 workers, 74 employees have been cited for cases of fraud and corruption.

In recent years, the bank has gone beyond specific cases and undertook systemic investigations into pervasive corruption problems in Vietnam, Indonesia, Kenya, Cambodia and India.

In India, for example, the investigation persuaded Wolfowitz to slow down three big projects worth nearly $700 million combating tuberculosis and providing maternal and child health care because of bid-rigging in procurement of pharmaceuticals that appeared to have been condoned, or to have involved, top officials in the government.

But when Wolfowitz's suspended funding for these programs, some bank officials and officials in the British development office, which was co-sponsoring the health projects, charged that innocent sick people would suffer. They forced a rewriting of the rules curbing the ability of the bank president to suspend funding unilaterally.

Wolfowitz also angered colleagues at the bank when he suspended funding for Uzbekistan over allegations of human rights abuses, with some officials charging that he was influenced by Uzbekistan's decision to bar American warplanes for its airspace.

In Vietnam, the bank's integrity division decided to investigate pervasive corruption problems after a scandal last year involving charges of theft, bribery, nepotism in a road-building project. Vietnamese prosecutors charged that road-building money lined the pockets of officials and also went to pay for gambling and prostitutes.

EXECUTIVE BRANCH NOT...

June 24, 2007

"EXECUTIVE BRANCH NOT PART OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH," DECLARES PRESIDENT

By steve young


in·ten·tion: A course of action that one intends to follow, no matter what one actually says.

"We don't dispute that the ISOO (Information Security Oversight Office) has a different opinion. But let's be very clear: This executive order was issued by the president, and he knows what his intentions were. He is in compliance with his executive order."
White House Spokesman Tony Fratto

Location: The White House Pressroom

Tony Snow: Good morning. I see we have an overflow crowd today. We
intended to build a bigger press room with more chairs, so will those in
the back please sit in those seats. First of all, the President would
like to send out early birthday wishes to Professor Irwin Corey who will
be 94 next week. Helen...

Helen Thomas: Vice President Cheney is refusing to allow an inspection of
his office by the National Archives' Information Security Oversight
Office. Isn't that a clear contempt of President Bush's own executive
order?

Snow: Oh, I'm sorry, Helen. I intended to call on David.

David Gregory: Helen's question.

Snow: (Sigh) If you actually read the order, the President clearly
intended it to only apply to those he intended it to apply to and not
have it apply to those who he did not intend it to apply to. All of
that, quite intentional.

Gregory: But I did read it and it doesn't exclude the Executive Branch.
Isn't the Executive Branch part of the government?

Snow: Now you're just speaking gibberish. But let's say, for argument's
sake, this (gestures finger quotes) "Executive Branch," as you call it,
is part of the (gestures finger quotes) "government." If that
hypothetical were applied, then sure, the order would apply to the
Executive Branch, but not necessarily to those in the Executive Branch.

Gregory: But when the president says "government," and doesn't exclude
anyone in that government, he'd have to mean all of government, wouldn't
he?

Snow: You're not saying you can read minds, are you David? Because the
only one who can read the President's mind is the President. And he does
so every day after finishing his morning bike ride.

Gregory: But in the President's order, it distinctly mentions any number
of times, that the President and the Vice President fall under this
order.

Snow: He also said we would find WMD in Iraq. Just because we didn't
doesn't mean he didn't intend to find them there. And if that didn't
raise any red flags I don't see why this should be any different. Look.
When the founding father drew up the two branches of government...

Gregory: Three.

Snow: Alright, I'll play your little game. Three. But they didn't intend
to have three. Originally there were only two. The Legislative, which was
intended to approve of every idea the country's king offered - much like
in President Bush's first six years.

Gregory: We don't have a king.

Snow: Sure, David. Sure. The second branch of government was the
Judicial, which was to be used whenever President Bush, or any leader,
for that matter, was not actually elected. But, as nature intended, the
two branches became very fond of each other and with one thing leading to
another, soon an adorable bundle of joy, the Executive Branch, was
delivered to the country. So you see, it's not what the founding fathers
intended, but it happened anyway.

Gregory: But now you're just saying the opposite. That there is an
Executive Branch.

Snow: Yes and no. But in actuality, no. The President doesn't argue that
there is great disagreement in the country as to whether there is or is
not, an Executive Branch, but there is no question that if there is an
Executive Branch, it is or is not a necessarily part of the Executive
Branch, that may or may not exist.

Ann Compton: The order says that "Our democratic principles require that
the American people be informed of the activities of their government."
Doesn't the President intend to adhere to his own stated democratic
principles?

Snow: His democratic principles, yes. But I'm sure you'll all agree that
everyone has their own concept of "democratic principles." That's why we
call this a democracy.

Compton. Technically, it's a republic.

Snow: Not during a time of war. Richard....

Richard Wolfe: Rahm Emanual is threatening to pull the Vice President's
funding if he doesn't comply with ISOO's request.

Snow: You know, it's a lot like when we said that Saddam threw the UN
inspectors out of Iraq, when it was actually us who told them to leave.
Is there any question that Saddam intended to throw them out sooner or
later? The President just didn't want to wait and see Saddam's intentions
end up being a mushroom cloud. If Representative Emanual intends to
undermine the troops and place this country in the middle of a nuclear
war, well, perhaps he should just say that.

Wolfe: That has nothing to do with what Emanual said.

Snow: Exactly. Terry...

Terry Moran: Henry Waxman says that what the President and Vice President are doing is unconstitutional.

Snow: Guys, how many times do you intend to take out the trash but
something comes up and you don't? I'm sure Congressman Waxman has
forgotten more than once. You're not going to create a constitutional
crisis over garbage, are you? Jeez, guys. It's not like the President
were making a signing statement. Look, it's very similar to when a young
man tells his girlfriend's father that his "intentions are honorable."
Just because he says it doesn't mean that's what he intends. If you're
going to hold the President libel for what he says, you better be ready
to throw millions of young men in jail just because they want to have a
little fun. Think of the President's executive order as just his way of
having a little fun with your daughter. And if you can't trust the
President with your daughter, who can you trust?

The President hopes that you're all clear on what is just a simple
misunderstanding...of yours. At least that's his intention. Okay. I see
lots of hands and I intend to call on everyone of you this morning.

See you tomorrow.

Award-winning TV writer, Steve Young, is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Sucessful" (www.greatfailure.com>)





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BLOCKED: SUIT AGAINST FAITH-BASED PLAN

Court Bars Suit Against Faith-Based Plan

President Bush, left, makes remarks on No Child Left Behind reauthorization in the East Room of the White House, Monday, June 25, 2007, in Washington.

Monday, June 25, 2007

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's faith-based initiatives got a boost Monday from the Supreme Court: a ruling that ordinary taxpayers cannot sue to stop conferences that help religious charities apply for federal grants.

President Bush called the 5-4 decision "a substantial victory for efforts by Americans to more effectively aid our neighbors in need of help."

The court blocked a lawsuit by a group of atheists and agnostics against eight Bush administration officials including the head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

The taxpayers set out "a parade of horribles" they contended could happen, Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority. None did and "in the unlikely event that any of these executive actions did take place, Congress could quickly step in," he wrote.

The ruling's effects are limited, opponents said.

"Most church-state lawsuits, including those that challenge congressional appropriations for faith-based programs, will not be affected," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Lynn called Alito's statement that Congress could step in "quite incredible because the damage is done when the president acts." Lynn said Congress cannot anticipate action by the president that might violate the constitutional separation of church and state. "We have the courts to do precisely this, rein in the president or the Congress," he said.

The taxpayers' group, the Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc., objected to government conferences in which administration officials encourage religious charities to apply for federal money.

The justices' decision revolved around a 1968 Supreme Court ruling that enabled taxpayers to challenge government programs that promote religion.

That earlier decision involved the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which financed teaching and instructional materials in religious schools in low-income areas.

"This case falls outside" the narrow exception allowing such lawsuits to proceed, Alito wrote. Congress must provide a specific appropriation, he said, and in the suit over the administration conferences the White House pulled the money out of general appropriations.

In dissent, Justice David Souter said the court should have allowed the challenge to proceed.

The majority "closes the door on these taxpayers because the executive branch, and not the legislative branch, caused their injury," wrote Souter. "I see no basis for this distinction."

Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas would have gone further that the rest of the court, favoring a repudiation of the 1968 decision that in certain instances allows taxpayer lawsuits.

"We had an opportunity today to erase this blot on our jurisprudence, but instead have simply smudged it," Scalia wrote.

With the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Bush says he wants to level the playing field so religious charities and secular charities compete for government money on an equal footing.

Jim Towey, formerly head of the White House office, said the ruling is "good news for addicts and the homeless and others seeking effective social services."

"It's also a repudiation of the kind of secular extremism that ruled the public square for decades," said Towey, now president of Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa.

"It's a bad day for the First Amendment. The Supreme Court just put a big dent in the wall of separation between church and state," said Ralph G. Neas, president of People For the American Way Foundation, a liberal-oriented group.

The White House program appears to have had a substantial impact.

In fiscal 2005, seven federal agencies awarded $2.1 billion to religious charities, according to a White House report. That was up 7 percent from the year before and represented 10.9 percent of the grants from the seven federal agencies providing money to faith-based groups.

Among the programs: Substance abuse treatment, housing for AIDS patients, community re-entry for inmates, housing for homeless veterans and emergency food assistance.

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Sunday, June 24, 2007

THE ILLUMINATI AGENDA



The Illuminati Agenda
(Best Historical Overview Yet-
Transcript of 1967 Recording)

[Editor's Note: The following is a transcript of a recording distributed in 1967 by Myron C. Fagan. He had hoped that if enough Americans had heard (or read) this summary, the Illuminati's plan to destroy America would have been aborted, just as Russia's Alexander I had torpedoed the Illuminati's plans for a One World, League of Nations at the Congress of Vienna from 1814-15. Fagan correctly describes those members of congress, the executive branch, and the judicial branch of that time as TRAITORS for their role in assisting to implement the downfall of America's sovereignty. It's understandable that most listeners of that period would have found it difficult to believe that the Kennedy's, for instance, were (are) part of the Illuminati plot, but he did say that Jack had a spiritual rebirth and attempted to rescue the country from the Illuminati's stranglehold by issuing US silver certificates, which apparently greatly contributed to the Illuminati's decision to assassinate him (his son, John Jr., was also murdered because he had intended to expose his father's killers after he gained public office).

Today we realize that the Illuminati exerts almost 100% control over all three branches of the American government and the few remaining congressional defenders of America can be counted on one hand as the intense public vilification and disparagement recently directed at Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia will bear witness to. It's too late in the game now to expect any patriot remaining within government service to rescue us from the brutal destruction that lies ahead, but the American people can save themselves from these satanic destroyers of liberty & life through NON-COOPERATION and NON-COMPLIANCE. The Illuminati plans to incorporate MIND CONTROL to force compliance, but their ELF mind control towers can be neutralized before that happens if enough people become aware of the enslavement agenda. The current crop of traitors with names like Rumsfeld, are merely stooges for hidden corporate satanists who, in turn, are themselves stooges for repressive alien overlords as described in the latest books of David Icke and the lectures of Al Bielek. You must play some role to help save your children and this world from these madmen. Help fulfill Fagan's Hope and distribute this article far and wide. My gratitude to Dr. Kanya Vashon McGhee <drkanya9@hotmail.com> of the Tree of Life bookstore for forwarding this important transcript to me...Ken Adachi]

By Myron C. Fagan
http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/illuminatiagendabestoverviewyet8jun02.shtml
June 8, 2002

Part 1

(Original title: The Illuminati and the Council on Foreign Relations )


The question of how and why the United Nations is the crux of the great conspiracy to destroy the sovereignty of the United States and the enslavement of the American people within a U.N. one-world dictatorship is a complete and unknown mystery to the vast majority of the American people.

The reason for this unawareness of the frightening danger to our country and to the entire free world is simple. The masterminds behind this great conspiracy have absolute control of all of our mass communications media, especially television, the radio, the press, and Hollywood.

We all know that our State Department, the Pentagon, and the White House have brazenly proclaimed that they have the right and the power to manage the news, to tell us not the truth but what they want us to believe.

They have seized that power on orders from their masters of the great conspiracy and the objective is to brainwash the people into accepting the phony peace bait to transform the United States into an enslaved unit of the United Nations' one-world government.

First of all, bear in mind that the so-called U.N. police action in Korea, fought by the United States in which 150,000 of our sons were murdered and maimed, was part of the plot; just as the undeclared by Congress war in Vietnam in which our sons are dying is part of the plot; just as the plot against Rhodesia and South Africa in which our sons will be dying is part of the U.N. plot.

However, the vitally important thing for all Americans, all you mothers of the boys who died in Korea and are now dying in Vietnam, to know is that our so-called leaders in Washington, who we elected to safeguard our nation and our constitution, are the betrayers and that behind them are a comparatively small group of men whose sole objective is to enslave the whole world of humanity in their satanic plot of one-world government.

Now in order to give you a very clear picture of this satanic plot, I will go back to its beginning, clear back in the middle of the 18th century and name the men who put that plot into action and then bring you down to the present - today's status of that plot. Now as a matter of further intelligence, a term used by the FBI, let me clarify the meaning of the expression "he is a liberal."

The enemy, meaning the one-world conspirators, have seized upon that word "liberal" as a cover-up for their activities. It sounds so innocent and so humanitarian to be liberal. Well, make sure that the person who calls himself a liberal or is described as a liberal is not in truth a "red."

Now then, this satanic plot was launched back in the 1760's when it first came into existence under the name "Illuminati." This Illuminati was organized by one Adam Weishaupt, born a Jew, who was converted to Catholicism and became a Catholic priest, and then, at the behest of the then newly organized House of Rothschild, defected and organized the Illuminati.

Naturally, the Rothschilds financed that operation and every war since then, beginning with the French Revolution, has been promoted by the Illuminati operating under various names and guises. I say under various names and guises because after the Illuminati was exposed and became notorious, Weishaupt and his co-conspirators began to operate under various other names. In the United States, immediately after World War I, they set up what they called the "Council on Foreign Relations," commonly referred to as the CFR, and this CFR is actually the Illuminati in the United States and its hierarchy.

The masterminds in control of the original Illuminati conspirators, but to conceal that fact, most of them changed their original family names to American sounding names. For example, the true name of the Dillons, Clarence and Douglas Dillon (one Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department), is Laposky. I'll come back to all this later.

There is a similar establishment of the Illuminati in England operating under the name of the "British Institute of International Affairs." There are similar secret Illuminati organizations in France, Germany, and other nations operating under different names and all these organizations, including the CFR, continuously set up numerous subsidiary or front organizations that are infiltrated into every phase of the various nations' affairs. But at all times, the operations of these organizations were and are masterminded and controlled by the Internationalist Bankers, they in turn were and are controlled by the Rothschilds.

One branch of the Rothschild family had financed Napoleon; another branch of the Rothschilds financed Britain, Germany, and the other nations in the Napoleonic wars.

Immediately after the Napoleonic wars, the Illuminati assumed that all the nations were so destitute and so weary of wars that they'd be glad for any solution, so the Rothschild stooges set up what they called the Congress of Vienna and at that meeting they tried to create the first League of Nations, their first attempted one-world government, on the theory that all the crowned heads of European governments were so deeply in debt to them that they would willingly or unwillingly serve as their stooges.

But the Czar of Russia caught the stench of the plot and completely torpedoed it. The enraged Nathan Rothschild, then the head of the dynasty, vowed that some day he or his descendants would destroy the Czar and his entire family, and his descendants did accomplish that very threat in 1917.

At this point, bear in mind that the Illuminati was not set up to operate on a short-range basis. Normally a conspirator of any type enters into a conspiracy with the expectation of achieving his objective during his own lifetime. But that was not the case with the Illuminati. True, they hoped to accomplish their objective during their lifetime, but paraphrasing "The show must go on," the Illuminati operates on the very long-range basis. Whether it will take scores of years or even centuries, they have dedicated their descendants to keep the pot boiling until they hope the conspiracy is achieved.

Now, let's go back to the birth of the Illuminati. Adam Weishaupt was a Jesuit-trained professor of canon law, teaching in Engelstock University, when he defected from Christianity to embrace the luciferian conspiracy. It was in 1770 that the professional money lenders, the then recently organized House of Rothschild, retained him to revise and modernize the age-old Protocols of Zionism, which from the outset, was designed to give the Synagogue of Satan, so named by Jesus Christ, ultimate world domination so they could impose the luciferian ideology upon what would remain of the human race after the final social cataclysm by use of satanic despotism.

Weishaupt completed his task May 1, 1776. Now you know why May 1 is the great day with all communist nations to this very day (May 1 is also "Law Day" as declared by the American Bar Association). That was the day, May 1, 1776, that Weishaupt completed his plan and officially organized the Illuminati to put the plan into execution. That plan required the destruction of all existing governments and religions. That objective was to be reached by dividing the masses of people, whom he Weishaupt, termed: "goyism" or human cattle into opposing camps in ever increasing numbers on political, social, economic, and other issues - the very conditions we have in our country today.

The opposing sides were then to be armed and incidents provided which would cause them to fight and weaken themselves and gradually destroy national governments and religious institutions. Again I say, the very conditions in the world today.

And at this point let me stress a prime feature of the Illuminati plans. When and if their blueprint for world control, the Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion, is discovered and exposed, they would wipe all the Jews off the face of the earth in order to divert suspicions from themselves. If you think this is far fetched, bear in mind that they permitted Hitler, a liberal socialist himself, who was financed by corrupt Kennedy, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds, to incinerate 600,000 Jews.

Now just why did the conspirators choose the word: "Illuminati" for their satanic organization? Weishaupt himself said that the word is derived from Lucifer and means: "holder of the light." Using the lie that his objective was to bring about a one-world government to enable those with mental ability to govern the world and prevent all wars in the future.

In short, using the words: "peace on earth" as his bait, exactly as that same bait as: "peace" was used by the 1945 conspirators to force the United Nations on us, Weishaupt financed, I repeat, by the Rothschilds, recruited some 2,000 paid followers. These included the most intelligent men in the field of arts and letters, education, the sciences, finance, and industry.

He then established Lodges of the Grand Orient; Masonic Lodges to be their secret headquarters and I again repeat, that in all of this he was acting under orders from the House of Rothschild. The main features of the Weishaupt plan of operation required his Illuminati to do the following things to help them to accomplish their purpose:

Use monetary and sex bribery to obtain control of men already in high places in the various of levels of all governments and other fields of endeavor. Once influential persons had fallen for the lies, deceits, and temptations of the Illuminati they were to be held in bondage by application of political and other forms of blackmail, threats of financial ruin, public exposure, and fiscal harm, even death to themselves and loved members of their families. Do you realize how many present top officials in our present government in Washington are controlled in just that way by the CFR? Do you realize how many homosexuals in our State Department, the Pentagon, all federal agencies, even in the White House are controlled that way?

Illuminati and the faculties of colleges and universities were to cultivate students possessing exceptional mental ability belonging to well-bred families with international leanings and recommend them for special training in internationalism. Such training was to be provided by granting scholarships to those selected by the Illuminatists. That gives you an idea what a "Rhodes scholarship" means. It means indoctrination into accepting the idea that only a one-world government can put an end to recurring wars and strife. That's how the United Nations was sold to the American people. One of the most notable Rhodes scholars we have in our country is Senator William J. Fulbright, sometimes referred to as half-bright. His entire voting record spells Illuminati. All such scholars were to be first persuaded and then convinced that men of special talent and brains have the right to rule those less gifted on the ground that the masses don't know what is best for them fiscally, mentally, and spiritually.

In addition to the Rhodes and similar scholarships, today there are three special Illuminati schools located in Gordonstown in Scotland, Salem in Germany, and Annavrighta in Greece. These three are known ones, but there are others that are kept undercover. Prince Philip, the husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, was educated at Gordonstown at the instigation of Lord Louis Mountbatten, his uncle, a Rothschild relative, who became Britain's Admiral of the Fleet after World War II ended.

All influential people trapped into coming under the control of the Illuminati, plus the students who had been specially educated and trained, were to be used as agents and placed behind the scenes of all governments as experts and specialists so they would advise the top executives to adopt policies which would in the long run serve the secret plans of the Illuminati one-world conspiracy and bring about the destruction of the governments and religions they were elected or appointed to serve.

Do you know how many such men operate in our government at this very time? Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Hubert Humphrey, Fulbright, Keekle, and goes on and on and on.

Perhaps the most vital directive in Weishaupt's plan was to obtain absolute control of the press, at that time the only mass communications media, to distribute information to the public so that all news and information could be slanted so that the masses could be convinced that a one-world government is the only solution to our many and varied problems.

Do you know who owns and controls our mass communications media? I'll tell you. Practically all the movie lots in Hollywood is owned by the Lehmans; Kuhn, Loeb, and Company; Goldman-Sachs; and other internationalist bankers. All the national radio and TV channels in the nation are owned and controlled by those same internationalists bankers.

The same is true of every chain of metropolitan newspapers and magazines, also of the press wire services, such as Associated Press, United Press International, etc.. The supposed heads of all those media are merely the fronts for the internationalist bankers, who in turn compose the hierarchy of the CFR, today's Illuminati in America.

Now can you understand why the Pentagon Press agent, Sylvester, so brazenly proclaimed that the government has the right to lie to the people. What he really meant was that our CFR controlled government had the power to lie to and be believed by the brain-washed American people.

Let us again go back to the first days of the Illuminati. Because Britain and France were the two greatest world powers in the late years of the 18th Century; Weishaupt ordered the Illuminati to foment the colonial wars, including our Revolutionary War, to weaken the British Empire and organize the French Revolution to start in 1789.

However; in 1784, a true act of God placed the Bavarian government in possession of evidence which proved the existence of the Illuminati and that evidence could have saved France if they, the French government, hadn't refused to believe it.

Here is how that act of God happened. It was in 1784 that Weishaupt issued his orders for the French Revolution. A German writer, named Zweig, put it into book form. It contained the entire Illuminati story and Weishaupt's plans. A copy of this book was sent to the Illuminists in France headed by Robespierre whom Weishaupt had delegated to foment the French Revolution.

The courier was struck and killed by lightening as he rode through Rawleston on his way from Frankfurt to Paris. The police found the subversive documents on his body and turned them over to the proper authorities. After a careful study of the plot; the Bavarian government ordered the police to raid Weishaupt's newly organized Lodges of the "Grand Orient" and the homes of his most influential associates.

All additional evidence thus discovered convinced the authorities that the documents were genuine copies of the conspiracy by which the Illuminati planned to use wars and revolutions to bring about the establishment of a one-world government; the powers of which they, headed by the Rothschilds, intended to usurp as soon as it was established, exactly in line with the United Nations' plot of today.

In 1785, the Bavarian government outlawed the Illuminati and closed the Lodges of the "Grand Orient." In 1786; they published all the details of the conspiracy. The English title of that publication is: "The Original Writings of the Order and the Sect of the Illuminati." Copies of the entire conspiracy were sent to all the heads of church and state in Europe. But the power of the Illuminati, which was actually the power of the Rothschilds, was so great that this warning was ignored. Nevertheless; the Illuminati became a dirty word and it went underground.

At the same time, Weishaupt ordered Illuminists to infiltrate into the Lodges of "Blue Masonry" and formed their own secret societies within all secret societies. Only Masons who proved themselves internationalists and those whose conduct proved they had defected from God were initiated into the Illuminati. Thenceforth; the conspirators donned the cloak of philanthropy and humanitarianism to conceal their revolutionary and subversive activities.

In order to infiltrate into Masonic Lodges in Britain; Weishaupt invited John Robison over to Europe. Robison was a high degree Mason in the "Scottish Rite." He was a professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh University and Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Robison did not fall for the lie that the objective of the Illuminati was to create a benevolent dictatorship; but he kept his reactions to himself so well that he was entrusted with a copy of Weishaupt's revised conspiracy for study and safekeeping.

Anyway; because the heads of state and church in France were deluded into ignoring the warnings given them; the revolution broke out in 1789 as scheduled by Weishaupt. In order to alert other governments to their danger, in 1798, Robison published a book entitled: "Proof of a Conspiracy to Destroy all Governments and Religions" but his warnings were ignored exactly as our American people have been ignoring all warnings about the United Nations and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Now here is something that will stun and very likely outrage many who hear this; but there is documentary proof that our own Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton became students of Weishaupt. Jefferson was one of Weishaupt's strongest defenders when he was outlawed by his government and it was Jefferson who infiltrated the Illuminati into the then newly organized lodges of the "Scottish Rite" in New England. Here is the proof.

In 1789; John Robison warned all Masonic leaders in America that the Illuminati had infiltrated into their lodges and on July 19, 1789; David Papen, President of Harvard University, issued the same warning to the graduating class and lectured them on how the influence of Illuminism was acquitting on American politics and religion, and to top it off; John Quincy Adams, who had organized the New England Masonic Lodges, issued his warnings.

Adams wrote three letters to Colonel William L. Stone, a top Mason, in which he exposed how Jefferson was using Masonic lodges for subversive Illuministic purposes. Those three letters are at this very time in Whittenburg Square Library in Philadelphia. In short; Jefferson, founder of the Democratic Party, was a member of the Illuminati which at least partly accounts for the condition of the party at this time and through infiltration of the Republican Party; we have exactly nothing of loyal Americanism today.

That disastrous rebuff at the Congress of Vienna created by the Czar of Russia, Alexander I, did not by any means destroy the Illuminati conspiracy. It merely forced them to adopt a new strategy realizing that the one-world idea was, for the moment, killed. The Rothschild's decided that to keep the plot alive they would have to do it by heightening their control of the money system of the European nations.

Earlier; by a ruse the outcome of the Battle of Waterloo had been falsified, Rothschild had spread a story that Napoleon had one bad battle which precipitated a terrific panic on the stock market in England. All stocks had plummeted down to practically zero and Nathan Rothschild bought all the stocks for virtually a penny on its dollar values.

That gave him complete control of the economy of Britain and virtually of all Europe. So immediately after that Congress in Vienna had boomeranged; Rothschild had forced Britain to set up a new "Bank of England" which he had absolute control exactly, as later through Jacob Schiff; he engineered our own "Federal Reserve Act" which gave the House of Rothschild a secret control of the economy in the United States. But now for a moment; let's dwell on the activities of the Illuminati in the United States.

In 1826; one Captain William Morgan decided it was his duty to inform all Masons and the general public what the full proof was regarding the Illuminati, their secret plans, intended objectives, and to reveal the identities of the masterminds of the conspiracy. The Illuminati promptly tried Morgan in absentia and convicted him of treason.

They ordered one Richard Howard, an English Illuminist, to carry out their sentence of execution as a traitor. Morgan was warned and he tried to escape to Canada, but Howard caught up with him near the border; near the Niagara Gorge to be exact, where he murdered him. This was verified in a sworn statement made in New York by one Avery Allen to the effect that he heard Howard render his report of the execution to a meeting of "Knights Templers" in St. John's Hall in New York. He also told how arrangements had been made to ship Howard back to England.

That Allen affidavit is on record in New York City Archives. Very few Masons and very few of the general public know that general disapproval over that incident of murder caused approximately half of all the Masons in the northern jurisdiction of the United States to secede. Copies of the minutes of the meeting held to discuss that matter are still in existence in safe hands and that all that secrecy emphasizes the power of the masterminds of the Illuminati to prevent such terrible events of history from being taught in our schools.

In the early 1850's; the Illuminati held a secret meeting in New York which was addressed by a British Illuminist named Wright. Those in attendance were told that the Illuminati was organizing to unite the Nihilist and Atheist groups with all other subversive groups into an international group to be known as Communists. That was when the word: "communist" first came into being and it was intended to be the supreme weapon and scare word to terrify the whole world and drive the terrorized peoples into the Illuminati one-world scheme.

This scheme: "communism," was to be used to enable the Illuminati to foment future wars and revolutions. Clinton Roosevelt, a direct ancestor of Franklin Roosevelt; Horace Greeley; and Charles Dana; foremost newspaper publishers of that time were appointed to head a committee to raise funds for the new venture. Of course, most of the funds were provided by the Rothschilds and this fund was used to finance Karl Marx and Engels when they wrote "Das Kaptial" and the "Communist Manifesto" in Soho, England. And this clearly reveals that communism is not a so-called ideology, but a secret weapon; a bogy man word to serve the purpose of the Illuminati.

Weishaupt died in 1830; but prior to his death, he prepared a revised version of the age-old conspiracy, the Illuminati, which under various aliases was to organize, finance, direct, and control all international organizations and groups by working their agents into executive positions at the top.

In the United States we have Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, William Fulbright, George Bush etc., as prime examples.

In addition, while Karl Marx was writing the "Communist Manifesto" under the director of one group of Illuminists, Professor Karl Ritter of Frankfurt University was writing the antithesis under the direction of another group.

The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies to enable them to divide larger and larger members of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other. And particularly, to destroy all political and religious institutions.

The work Ritter started was continued after his death and completed by the German so-called philosopher Freidrich Wilhelm Nietzache who founded Nietzscheanism. This Nietzecheanism was later developed into Fascism and then into Nazism and was used to foment World War I and II.

In 1834; the Italian revolutionary leader, Guiseppe Mazzini, was selected by the Illuminati to direct their revolutionary program throughout the world. He served in that capacity until he died in 1872, but some years before he died; Mazzini had enticed an American General named Albert Pike into the Illuminati. Pike was fascinated by the idea of a one-world government and ultimately he became the head of this luciferian conspiracy.

Between 1859 and 1871 he, Pike, worked out a military blueprint for three world wars and various revolutions throughout the world which he considered would forward the conspiracy to its final stage in the 20th century. Again I remind you that these conspirators were never concerned with immediate success. They also operated on a long-range view.

Pike did most of his work in his home in Little Rock, Arkansas. But a few years later; when the Illuminati's Lodges of the Grand Orient became suspect and repudiated because of Mazzini's revolutionary activities in Europe, Pike organized what he called the New and Reformed Palladian Right.

He set up three Supreme Councils; one in Charleston, South Carolina, one in Rome, Italy, and a third in Berlin, Germany. He had Mazzini establish 23 subordinate councils in strategic locations throughout the world. These have been the secret headquarters of the world revolutionary movement ever since.

Long before Marconi invented the radio; the scientists in the Illuminati had found the means for Pike and the heads of his councils to communicate secretly. It was the discovery of that secret that enabled intelligence officers to understand how apparently unrelated incidents, such as the assassination of an Austrian Prince [Arch Duke Ferdinand I ] at Serbia, took place simultaneously throughout the world which developed into a war or a revolution.

Pike's plan was as simple as it has proved effective. It called for Communism, Nazism, political Zionism, and other international movements to be organized and used to foment three global world wars and at least two major revolutions.

The First World War was to be fought so as to enable the Illuminati to destroy Czarism in Russia, as vowed by Rothschild after the Czar had torpedoed his scheme at the Congress in Vienna, and to transform Russia into a stronghold of atheistic communism. The differences stirred up by agents of the Illuminati between the British and German Empires were to be used to foment this war. After the war would be ended; communism was to be built up and used to destroy other governments and weaken religions.

World War II, when and if necessary, was to be fomented by using the controversies between Fascists and political zionists, and here let it be noted that Hitler was financed by Krupp, the Warburgs, the Rothschilds, and other internationalist bankers and that the slaughter of the supposed 600,000 Jews by Hitler didn't bother the Jewish internationalist bankers at all.

That slaughter was necessary in order to create worldwide hatred of the German people and thus bring about war against them. In short; this second world war was to be fought to destroy nazism and increase the power of political zionism so that the state of Israel could be established in Palestine.

During this World War II; international communism was to be built up until it equalled in strength to that of the united Christendom. When it reached that point; it was to be contained and kept in check until required for the final social cataclysm. As we know now; Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin put that exact policy into effect and Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and George Bush continued that same exact policy.

World War III is to be fomented by using the so-called controversies, the agents of the Illuminati operating under whatever new name, as are now being stored up between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Moslem world. That war is to be directed in such a manner that all of Islam and political Zionism (Israel) will destroy each other while at the same time; the remaining nations once more divided on this issue will be forced to fight themselves into a state of complete exhaustion; physically, mentally, spiritually, and economically.

Now, can any thinking person doubt that the intrigue now going on in the near Middle and far East is designed to accomplish that satanic objective? Albert Pike himself foretold all this in a statement he made to Mazzini on August 15, 1871. Pike stated that after World War III is ended; those who will aspire to undisputed world domination will provoke the greatest social cataclysm the world has ever known. Quoting his own words taken from the letter he wrote to Mazzini and which letter is now catalogued in the British Museum in London, England; he said:

"We shall unleash the nihilists and the atheists and we shall provoke a great social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to all nations the effect of absolute atheism; the origins of savagery and of most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the people will be forced to defend themselves against the world minority of the world revolutionaries and will exterminate those destroyers of civilization and the multitudes disillusioned with Christianity whose spirits will be from that moment without direction and leadership and anxious for an ideal, but without knowledge where to send its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer brought finally out into public view. A manifestation which will result from a general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and Atheism; both ! conquered and exterminated at the same time."


When Mazzini died in 1872; Pike made another revolutionary leader named Adrian Lemmy; his successor. Lemmy, in turn, was succeeded by Lenin and Trotsky, then by Stalin. The revolutionary activities of all those men were financed by British, French, German, and American international bankers; all of them dominated by the House of Rothschilds.

We are supposed to believe that the international bankers of today, like the money changers of Christ's day, are only the tools or agents of the great conspiracy, but actually they are the masterminds behind all the mass communications media leading us into believing that communism is a movement of the so-called workers; the actual fact is that both British and American intelligence officers have authentic documentary evidence that international liberals, operating through their international banking houses; particularly the House of Rothschilds, have financed both sides of every war and revolution since 1776.

Those who today comprise the conspiracy (the CFR in the United States); direct our governments whom they hold in usury through such methods as the Federal Reserve System in America to fight wars, such as Vietnam (created by the United Nations), so as to further Pike's Illuminati plans to bring the world to that stage of the conspiracy when atheistic communism and the whole of Christianity can be forced into an all out third world war within each remaining nation as well as on an international basis scale.

The headquarters of the great conspiracy in the late 1700's was in Frankfurt, Germany where the House of Rothschild had been established by Mayar (or Mayer) Amschel who adopted the Rothschild name and linked together other international financiers who had literally sold their souls to the devil. After the Bavarian government's exposure in 1786; the conspirators moved their headquarters to Switzerland then to London. Since World War II (after Jacob Schiff, the Rothschild's boy in America died); the headquarters of the American branch has been in the Harold Pratt Building in New York City and the Rockefellers, originally proteges of Schiff, have taken over the manipulation of finances in America for the Illuminati.

In the final phases of the conspiracy; the one-world government will consist of the king-dictator; the head of the United Nations, the CFR, and a few billionaires, economists, and scientists who have proved their devotion to the great conspiracy. All others are to be integrated into a vast conglomeration of mongrolized humanity; actually slaves.

Now let me show you how our federal government and the American people have been sucked into the one-world take over plot of the Illuminati great conspiracy and always bear in mind, that the United Nations was created to become the housing for that one-world, so-called, liberal conspiracy. The real foundations of the plot of the takeover of the United States were laid during the period of our Civil War. Not that Weishaupt and the earlier masterminds had ever overlooked the new world, as I have previously indicated; Weishaupt had his agents planted over here as far back as the Revolutionary War, but George Washington was more than a match for them.

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Source: http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/illuminatiagendabestoverviewyet8jun02.shtml

ECUMENISM CRITIQUED BY CATHOLICS?

ECUMENISM:
Syncretism and Indifferentism Repackaged

At the heart of the Novus Ordo Church there is Ecumenism, a set of heretical and impious practices and beliefs that--officially--aims to bring about "unity" among all those who claim the name of "Christian." While this sounds like a noble and pious goal, the Catholic Church has always taught that the only way to bring about true religious unity is by non-Catholics converting to Catholicism, for only the Catholic Church is the true and only Church founded by the Lord Jesus Christ, and only the Catholic Church is the Ark of Salvation, outside of which no one can be saved. The Catholic Church has always issued strong rebukes against ecumenical ventures (Popes Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, Pius XI, and Pius XII come to mind in particular), warning the faithful that such things lead to the ruin of souls. Now that the Novus Ordo Church has eclipsed the Catholic Church since 1958, and by looking at what has taken place since then, we can see in practice just how bad ecumenism is, what fruits it has wrought, and why the Catholic Church is so adamantly opposed to it.

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"Such attempts can nowise be approved by Catholics, founded as they are on that false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is inborn in us all, and by which we are led to God and to the obedient acknowledgment of His rule. Not only are those who hold this opinion in error and deceived, but also in distorting the idea of true religion they reject it, and little by little, turn aside to naturalism and atheism, as it is called; from which it clearly follows that one who supports those who hold these theories and attempt to realize them, is altogether abandoning the divinely revealed religion."
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PREMIER POPS OFF ON POPE


May 16, 2007

Premier pops off on Pope

By CHRISTINA BLIZZARD

Premier Dalton McGuinty handed Pope Benedict a kid glove rebuke yesterday.


Polite, dignified -- diplomatic even. But make no mistake, McGuinty made it quite clear that he is not pleased with the Pope's recent dictate that politicians who are practising Catholics and also pro-choice on abortion should be excommunicated.


Those of us who've criticized McGuinty in the past for being wishy-washy on controversial issues were certainly caught flat-footed by the premier's spirited response to a question on this. He quietly told the Pope where to get off.


The Pope reiterated his view on pro-choice politicians on his first trip to Latin America last week. He agreed with Mexican bishops who said Catholic politicians had excommunicated themselves by legalizing abortion in that nation's capital. A papal spokesman later clarified that statement to mean that the bishops had not actually excommunicated them.


In a speech in Brazil, the Pope said he's certain the bishops will reinforce "the promotion of respect for life from the moment of conception until natural death as an integral requirement of human nature."


McGuinty often talks of proudly about growing up as one of 10 children in a big Catholic family. He jokes that while other kids got a new puppy for Christmas, he got a new brother or sister. His wife, Terri, is a kindergarten teacher in the Catholic school board. In short, it would be hard to find a more devout family. But McGuinty was quite adamant yesterday in pointing out that in his role as premier he represents all Ontarians, not just those who share his Catholic faith.


"I have a different constituency than does the Pope," McGuinty said when asked in a scrum about the Pope's statement last week.


"I am responsible for representing all kinds of people from all kinds of different backgrounds, different faiths, different cultures, different traditions," he said.


Absolutely. And in a multi-faith, multicultural province such as this, the very notion that a politician should have to check with the Vatican before making a pronouncement is scary.


And the Pope's threat -- and that's just what it is -- means that Catholics in this country would have to excuse themselves from public life. While we don't have the same separation of church and state that there is in the U.S. Constitution, it is a fairly well established tradition here that the church does not meddle in the politics of the nation. Well, it doesn't meddle much.


It is, frankly, shocking, the Pope would make such a provocative statement in this day and age.


What place does a medieval organization like the Vatican have in a modern multicultural society? What the Pope is actually proposing is that politicians be elected along religious rather than political lines. And that's pure poppycock.


A Catholic politician may not personally support abortion for themselves or their family. But you can't impose that view on public policy, which affects people of all faiths.


What's next? Will the Pope also excommunicate Catholic politicians in jurisdictions that allow gay marriage?


"The Pope, his purview is the church. My purview is Ontario and there is one particular aspect of myself that is in common with the Pope -- I happen to be Catholic, but I have other responsibilities as well," McGuinty told a scrum before a caucus meeting yesterday.


"I think it is pretty clear that there are very few political leaders who would allow themselves and their actions to be formed exclusively by the dictates of the Church."


Them's fightin' words. Well, not fightin' perhaps. But certain punchy. And good for McGuinty for making himself crystal clear on this issue.


Of course, the Catholic church is a law unto itself. They could cut a swath through the country, excommunicating politicians who dare ignore their rules. Nothing like cutting off your nose to spite your face.


Frankly, I don't see this as an issue of abortion, pro-choice or pro-life. This is an issue of not-so-subtle bullying by a foreign head of state in the affairs of another country. Do you want your laws dictated by a duly elected Parliament in Queen's Park or Ottawa? Or do you want them formulated by a bunch of unelected old men in Rome?


McGuinty took a brave stand on this. No matter what you think about abortion, we should all stand behind him.


Source: http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Blizzard_Christina/2007/05/16/pf-4183920.html




Saturday, June 23, 2007

ANOTHER JESUS


ANOTHER JESUS?



The Christ of Mormonism is not the same Christ of the Bible. 2 Cor.11:3-5 tells us that there will be those who would teach a different Christ. Paul says of them, "For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ". There is a Biblical warning about those who would bring the doctrine of another Jesus and a simple test. Do the Mormons and their Jesus pass that test? No.

The Mormons have a difficult time understanding what actually happened at Calvary. In their pamphlet, WHAT THE MORMONS THINK OF CHRIST, we see the problem. In the section, The Blood of Christ (page 22 in the 1976 edition), we read:

"Christians speak often of the blood of Christ and its cleansing power. Much that is believed and taught on this subject, however, is such utter nonsense and so palpably false that to believe it is to lose one’s salvation. For instance, many believe or pretend to believe that if we confess Christ with our lips and avow that we accept him as our personal savior, we are thereby saved. They say that his blood, without any other act than mere belief, makes us clean.

"What is the true doctrine of the blood of Christ? Salvation comes because of the atonement, and the atonement was wrought through the shedding of the blood of Christ. In Gethsemane Christ sweat great drops of blood from every pore when he conditionally took upon himself the sins of the world, and then the shedding of his blood was completed upon the cross."

This is not the Biblical account of the Atonement! Jesus went to Gethsemane to pray and prepare. The Atonement was the Cross! The garden was the sanctification of the sin offering (Leviticus 4:3-5) to be given ONCE - for all - at the cross.

The LDS Church teaches in its Articles of Faith, Article 3, "We believe that through the atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel (The MORMON gospel)”. These Mormon laws and ordinances have been placed there, in the way of the Cross, blocking the LDS people from it and its cleansing power!

The Bible clearly teaches another Christ; and another gospel... In Col. 2:13-15 Paul writes: "And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it."

The Mormon Jesus has been stripped of his unique Deity and his sacrifice on the cross has been robbed of its power. Theirs is a tragically bloodless Christ, whose death only brought us immortality, NOT eternal life. Their Jesus forces us under laws, ordinances and an all-too-human priesthood. This is not the "Good News" of the Bible:

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause He is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance...Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others.

For then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." (Hebrews 9:14-15, 25-26)

Hebrews 10:28 states: "He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith He was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?"

In the early LDS church, there was a more orthodox Christ preached. But, when Joseph began to teach the strange doctrines of this different Christ, one without the redemptive powers, the church could no longer deal with the reality of the blood of Calvary and its full redemptive work. That was when the church removed the red wine from the communion table and went to water. This act literally washed away the reality of the blood from its basically Christian converts. The same holds true today. The cross and the blood have become strangers to the saints.

(c) copyright 2005, Ed Decker, all rights reserved

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