Tuesday, September 25, 2007

EU MINISTERS PUSH BLUETONGUE VACCINATIONS

AFX News Limited
EU ministers push for fast-track approval of bluetongue vaccinations - report

09.25.07, 3:25 AM ET




BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - European Union agricultural ministers are pushing for the European Commission to give fast-track approval of vaccinations for sheep and cattle against the bluetongue virus, which is spreading across northern Europe, the Financial Times reports.

According to the financial daily, EU ministers will discuss the outbreak tomorrow and push the commission to make a vaccine available by early next year.

Health commissioner Markos Kyprianou is expected to recommend vaccination as the best way to deal with the outbreak.

If a vaccination programme is approved, the EU will pay for the drug and half the costs of dispensing it.

Bluetongue, carried by midges, is a non-contagious, insect-transmitted, viral disease of sheep, which is not known to affect humans.

The outbreak has struck Germany, the Netherlands, France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the UK.

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Source: http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/09/25/afx4151629.html

GAIA WORSHIP

GAIA WORSHIP - THE NEW PAGAN RELIGION

Contender Ministries

Posted: October 06, 2002

Anyone who has studied the global environmental movement has no doubt heard the term "Gaia". Gaia is a revival of Paganism that rejects Christianity, considers Christianity its biggest enemy, and views the Christian faith as its only obstacle to a global religion centered on Gaia worship and the uniting of all life forms around the goddess of "Mother Earth". A cunning mixture of science, paganism, eastern mysticism, and feminism have made this pagan cult a growing threat to the Christian Church. Gaia worship is at the very heart of today's environmental policy. The Endangered Species Act, The United Nation's Biodiversity Treaty and the Presidents Council on Sustainable Development are all offspring of the Gaia hypothesis of saving "Mother Earth". This religious movement, with cult-like qualities, is being promoted by leading figures and organizations such as former Vice President Albert Gore, broadcaster Ted Turner, and the United Nations and it's various NGO's. Al Gore's book "Earth in the Balance" is just one of many books that unabashedly proclaims the deity of Earth and blames the falling away from this Pagan God on the environmentally unfriendly followers of Jesus Christ. The United Nations has been extremely successful in infusing the "Green Religion" into an international governmental body that has an increasing affect and control over all of our lives.

So, what is this new cult of Gaia? It is basically a rehashed, modernized version of the paganism condemned by God in the Bible. Science, evolution theory, and a space age mentality have given it a new face, and made it sound more credible to a modern world, but it is the same paganism in all of its evils. There have been other religious movements that have presented similar revelations about the deity of a living earth, but Gaia has succeeded in uniting the environmental movement, the new age movement, Eastern religions, and even the leaders of many Christian denominations behind a bastardized version of paganism where the others weren't able to.

The Gaia hypothesis can be credited to James Lovelock. Lovelock worked for NASA during the 1960's as a consultant to the "life on Mars" Viking spacecraft project. Lovelock's theory claims that the earth's "biota", tightly coupled with its environment, act as a single, self regulating living system in such a way as to maintain the conditions that are suitable for life. This living system, he believed, was the result of a meta-life form that occupied our planet billions of years ago and began a process of transforming this planet into its own substance. All of the lifeforms on this planet, according to Lovelock, are a part of Gaia - a part of one spirit goddess that sustains life on earth. Since this transformation into a living system, he theorizes, the interventions of Gaia have brought about the evolving diversity of living creatures on planet Earth. From Lovelock's perspective in space he saw not a planet, but a self-evolving and self-regulating living system. His theory presents earth not as the rock that it is, but as a living being. He named this being Gaia, after the Greek goddess that was once believed to have drawn the living world forth from Chaos.

The idea of Earth as a living, divine spirit is not a new one. Plato said "We shall affirm that the cosmos, more than anything else, resembles most closely that living Creature of which all other living creatures, severally or genetically, are portion; a living creature which is fairest of all and in ways most perfect." As today's version of paganism, Gaia is eagerly accepted by the new age movement and fits neatly into eastern mysticism, but science was needed to gather in the evolutionists and science-minded humanists. For these people, Gaia was made palatable by Lovelock's Daisyworld model, a mathematical and scientific theory designed to refute the criticisms of Darwin's groupies. Just as evolution eliminates the need for a divine creator, the Daisyworld model provided a theory of evolving life on earth that incorporates natural selection with a world that is interconnected. It eliminates a personal yet separate God, and makes humans a part of the divine spirit that is Gaia.

More appealing to the New Agers and the interfaith movement is the mystical side of Gaia. They can easily relate to the belief that humans can have mystical experiences or a spiritual relationship with Gaia. A connectedness to nature and the belief that humans are a part of this collective consciousness called Gaia appeals to them. Gaia teaches that an "Earth spirit", goddess, or planetary brain must be protected. It is this belief that fuels the environmental movement, sustainable development, and a global push for the return of industrialized nations to a more primitive way of life. Just as with the evolutionists, the humanists, and the other pagan religions of the world, Gaia has named Christianity as the obstacle to human evolution and our spiritual destiny. A document mandated by the U.N.-sponsored Convention on Biological Diversity, the Global Biodiversity Assessment, explicitly refers to Christianity as a faith that has set humans apart from nature and stripped nature of its sacred qualities. The document states:

Conversion to Christianity has therefore meant an abandonment of an affinity with the natural world for many forest dwellers, peasants, fishers all over the world ...The northeastern hilly states of India bordering China and Myanmar supported small scale, largely autonomous shifting cultivator societies until the 1950's. These people followed their own religious traditions that included setting apart between 10% and 30% of the landscape as sacred groves and ponds.1

While condemning Christianity as the root of all ecological evil, the document goes on to praise Buddhism and Hinduism as they "did not depart as drastically from the perspective of humans as members of a community of beings including other living and non-living elements". Non-Christian religions are definitely favored by the global government as good stewards of Mother Earth.

Members of this "Green Religion" will all agree that the Earth is in a crisis state and this ecological emergency is the result of Christian traditions. They believe that the Judeo Christian belief that God assigned man to rule over the earth has caused us to exploit and abuse it. Monotheism, they assert, has separated humans from their ancient connection to the earth, and to reverse this trend governments, the media, our education system, artists, and other areas of influence must revive earth-centered myth and reconnect us to Earth's spirit. Al Gore, in his book Earth in the Balance, expounds on this view:

"The richness and diversity of our religious tradition throughout history is a spiritual resource long ignored by people of faith, who are often afraid to open their minds to teachings first offered outside their own systems of belief. But the emergence of a civilization in which knowledge moves freely and almost instantaneously through the world has spurred a renewed investigation of the wisdom distilled by all faiths. This panreligious perspective may prove especially important where our global civilization's responsibility for the earth is concerned." (pp. 258-259)

Gore praises the Eastern religions and new age spiritualism, while blaming Christianity for the elimination of the ancient goddess religion, and calls for a new spiritual relationship between man and earth.

"The spiritual sense of our place in nature predates Native American cultures; increasingly it can be traced to the origins of human civilization. A growing number of anthropologists and archaeomythologists, such as Marija Gimbutas and Riane Esler argue that the prevailing ideology of belief in prehistoric Europe and much of the world was based on the worship of a single earth goddess, who was assumed to be the fount of all life and who radiated harmony among all living things. Much of the evidence for the existence of this primitive religion comes from the many thousands of artifacts uncovered in ceremonial sites. These sites are so widespread that they seem to confirm the notion that a goddess religion was ubiquitous through much of the world until the antecedents of today's religions, most of which still have a distinctly masculine orientation...swept out of India and the Near East, almost obliterating belief in the goddess. The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity as late as the fifteenth century in Lithuania."

If Gore had read the Bible he would know exactly why Christians will not open their mind to these other beliefs as he suggests. The Bible very clearly warns us not to.

"So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority." Colossians 2:6-10

Gore also might want to read Romans 1:18 - 25:

"The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the creator - who is forever praised. Amen.

When men began to worship the creation instead of the Creator, the wrath of God was revealed. As societies begin again to turn from the truth of the creation and worship nature, "Mother Earth", or any other deceiving spirit, the evil and deception in their new religion will be made evident by God's response.

Romans 1:26 - 32

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Our societies today are becoming a picture of this wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. As the Christian church is brought into the fold by organizations such as the National Council of Churches and the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, we can be sure the results will be a further decline into immorality and chaos. There is a drive by these organizations and others to meld Earth worship with Christianity in the name of tolerance, biodiversity, sustainability, and the preservation of Mother Earth. It is a battle for Christianity and an attack on biblical truth. When this pagan agenda reaches your church or your community, how will you respond? Will you speak up for the truth of God or will you exchanged the glory of the immortal God for a global compromise that is leading countless people into spiritual darkness? As followers of Jesus Christ we know the truth and must boldly proclaim it. The opposition is fierce and to those who don't know the joy of a relationship with God, it is an appealing proposition. It is accepting of everything, intolerant of nothing, it deifies the environmentalist, worships the feminist, eliminates all responsibility for sin, and frees you to embrace your sinful nature. The truth of the Bible must first be taught in our churches, and then shared with the world. As churches begin to fall away from the faith and corrupt the Word of God, it is left to Bible-believing Christians to stand up for the truth, contend for our faith, and offer to the world an alternative to God's wrath. If we are ashamed of our faith, if we compromise our beliefs, and if we hide in our churches and ignore what is going on outside of them, we are aiding in our own destruction and countless souls will be lost because of our complacency, selfishness, and inaction.

"For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of god, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, but the power of God, who has saved us and called us to a holy life - not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace." II Timothy 1:6-8

FOOTNOTES

1 - Global Biodiversity Assessment, Chapter 8.1 Introduction: Concepts of the Economic Value of Biodiversity, 68, 69.

Source: http://contenderministries.org/UN/gaia.php

THE PAGAN ROOTS OF ENVIRONMENTALISM

The Pagan Roots Of Environmentalism

UPDATE ON THE WORSHIP OF GAIA

"In 1985, a friend of mine went to a meeting in Boulder (Colorado), called by Jose Arguelles (leader of PAN and New Age Transformation). It was attended by over 200 people, who 'found their own space' and began by meditating and resonating (using vibrating sounds, something like locusts, he said). Participants were presented with 'a new idea,' that of seeing the earth as a living, spiritual being that could feel pain.

The group was asked to tune in to the crystal matrix frequency (Mother Earth's heartbeat) and to relax. Many went into trance-like states. As people felt they were being filled with the Earth's energy, they became vocal, with sounds rising and falling rhythmically. Some swayed and some fell down on the ground and began writhing. They were then 'brought to silence.'

Arguelles told the audience to concentrate on a cloud floating overhead, just drifting, and then told them to invite the cloud in to fill the empty spirit, the empty soul. He said to invite "PAN" in, accepting him as the leader and guide for their lives.

Jose explained that Pan was the first son of Mother Earth and used to live close to his mother in the primeval forest with his brothers and sisters, who went out and founded the temple-building societies (Aztecs, Egyptians, etc,). When Pan refused to join his siblings in the cities, they called him evil and Satan. They invented their own selfish religion, Christianity, which must be removed because it includes a vision of an Apocalypse.

The Boulder audience was told that 'right now Mother Earth is bringing Pan back to save us and lead us into the New Age. We can help by surrendering to him, tuning into the crystal matrix frequencies and carrying out the directions received while tuned in.' Arguelles explained this might include the physical removal of Christians, because they are the biggest obstacle to transformation."

(Pan, cloven-hoofed half man/half beast is one of the infernal names given to Satan in Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible.)

    Excerpt from "Goddess Earth, Exposing the Pagan Agenda in the Environmental Movement" by Samantha Smith

Private property ownership is impossible; free enterprise is exploitation; technology is an abomination against nature; Western Culture is the root of all evil. These are some of the teachings of what is little more than the bastardized products of Eastern mysticism. Now called New Age religion, it culminates in deep ecology, eco-feminism and the worship of an ancient Greek God called Gaia - Mother Earth.

Gaia teaches that man has damaged or destroyed the fragile balance of nature. Disciples of Gaia believe that all living things on earth are interconnected (except man) and to damage or destroy even a tiny insect is to damage whole ecological systems. Such a premise was the basis for Vice President Al Gore's book, "Earth in the Balance."

Gaia worship is at the very heart of today's environmental policy. The Endangered Species Act, the United Nation's Biodiversity Treaty and the Presidents Council on Sustainable Development are all offspring of the Gaia hypothesis of saving "Mother Earth."

One of the prime spokesmen for the Gaia earth religion is Father Thomas Berry, a dissident Catholic priest and a leader of the Temple of Understanding, located in New York City. Father Berry contends that Christianity promotes "deep cultural pathology of human greed and addiction." He advocates that the earth is disintegrating and that Christianity is mostly to blame.

Father Berry believes that we are now entering an era of "earth consciousness" and he heralds a new era he calls the "Ecozoic Age" that will transcend God. Father Berry suggests that we will have to remove the idea that only humans are created in the likeness of God.

Father Berry says that "the world is being called to a new post-denominational, even post Christian, belief system that sees the earth as a living being - mythologically, as Gaia, Mother Earth - with mankind as her consciousness. Such worship of the universe is called "cosmolatry."

The Gaia Hypothesis, introduced by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis (formerly, wife of Carl Sagan), is an ancient idea, presented in scientific-sounding language that makes it politically correct for the new age. The idea itself pre-dates the Christian era and even Greek mythology, from which the name Gaia was taken. The idea is rooted in ancient cultures and, until Lovelock, was generally known as "paganism."

There are three principles of paganism:

    (1) animism - the belief that everything is imbued with a soul;

    (2) polytheism - the belief that many gods exist and each one has a function to preside over various aspects of nature and life; and

    (3) pantheism - the belief that all things, animate and inanimate, including the earth and humans are manifestations of God, that God is ALL: the universe is totally God.

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York City, is the seat of a bishop in the Anglican Church, one of the largest religious denominations in the world. From that spot, the Dean of the Cathedral, the very Rev. James Parks Morton, is translating Thomas Berry's "cosmology" into specific programs, rituals and institutions in order to spread the Gaia theology into mainstream Christianity.

One of those rituals is the "Feast of St. Francis" where elephants and camels and other animals are paraded down the aisle to the altar for a blessing, as others present bowls filled with compost and worms. Vice President Al Gore delivers a sermon in which he tells the congregation, "God is not separate from the Earth."

Such rituals are not limited to the New York Cathedral. The Episcopal Diocese of Kansas and the Stewardship Office of the Episcopal Church sponsored a celebration of Earth Day in April, 1995 that featured, among others, James Parks Morton, Thomas Berry, and Paul Winter, official musician of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Samantha Smith, author of "Goddess Earth," attended the affair and offered the following report:

"The gathering held at the Westin Crown Center Hotel, included a North American Native Indian praying to God, then praying to the Grandfather Spirit and to spirits of the Four Directions to bless the earth and oversee the conference. California Senator Tom Hayden, offered an Earth Day prayer, claiming the earth was speaking through him: 'On this Earth Day let us say an earth prayer and make an earth pledge. In the Bible "ruah" means both wind and spirit, so let us take time to breathe with the universe, connect with the earth and remember what we need to know and do. Celebrate that ancient spirits are born again in us, spirits of eagle vision, of coyote craft, of bear stewardship, of buffalo wisdom, of ancient goddesses, of druids, of native people, of Thoreau and Sitting Bull - born again and over again in John Muir and Rachel Carson and David Brower and Alice Walker.' Hayden then asked us to 'commit ourselves to carry the written word of Al Gore into official deeds.' Thomas Berry offered a prayer for the healing of the earth.

Gaia musician Paul Winter then entertained with his saxophone. He explained that he had gone into the Superior Forest and taped exchanges of howls between his saxophone and a wolf. With his sax, he demonstrated the sound. He then asked the audience to join him in a "Howl-le-lu-ia Chorus." He made a wolf sound, and nearly 200 Episcopalians from Kansas howled back, expressing their oneness with the wolf."

This is the theology - or cosmology - which underlies the National Religious Partnership for the Environment. These are the people who conceived the NREP, and these are the people who are creating the material that is being delivered to 67,300 churches in America - in an envelope labeled from the National Council of Churches.

Source: http://www.americanpolicy.org/un/thepaganroots.htm

SCHWARZENEGGER & GORE SEEK CLIMATE ACTION

Schwarzenegger, Gore Seek Climate Action
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

UNITED NATIONS - "Arnie" and "Al," Republican and Democrat, shared the world spotlight to press for climate action, adding a touch of star quality to the staid proceedings of a U.N. summit.

The two headliners, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Vice President Al Gore, also highlighted by their presence President Bush's absence from the eight hours of high-level speechmaking Monday on what to do about global warming.

Bush, who did take part later in a small, private U.N. dinner with key players on climate, rejects the idea of international treaty obligations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" blamed for global warming - an idea central to U.N. climate negotiations.

The Republican Schwarzenegger, on the other hand, has taken the lead on emissions caps at the state level, signing legislation mandating such reductions in California.

"One responsibility we all have is action. Action, action, action," the former Hollywood action star said as he helped open the summit, winning warm applause from the assembled presidents and premiers.

The Democrat Gore - a Hollywood figure himself as the lead in the Oscar-winning climate documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" - took his star turn at a summit luncheon, where he cited a lengthening list of global warming's impacts, from the shrinking Arctic ice cap to disappearing lakes in Africa.

"The need to act is now," Gore told delegates to the one-day summit, which drew more than 80 world leaders. "We need a mandate at Bali."

He was referring the annual U.N. climate treaty conference, scheduled for December in Bali, Indonesia, where the Europeans and others hope to initiate talks for an emissions-reduction agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.

The 175-nation Kyoto pact, which the U.S. rejects, requires 36 industrial nations to reduce the heat-trapping gases emitted by power plants and other industrial, agricultural and transportation sources. The 1997 agreement set relatively small target reductions averaging 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

The advocates of emissions caps say a breakthrough is needed at Bali to ensure an uninterrupted transition from the Kyoto deal to a new, deeper-cutting regime, something that almost certainly would require a change in the position of the U.S., long the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.

Bush objects that Kyoto-style mandates would damage the U.S. economy and says they should be imposed on fast-growing poorer countries such as China and India in addition to developed nations. He instead is urging industry to cut emissions voluntarily and is emphasizing research on clean-energy technology as one answer.

On Thursday and Friday, Bush will host his own Washington climate meeting, limited to 16 "major emitter" countries, including China and India, the first in a series of U.S.-led gatherings expected to focus on those themes.

"The Washington meeting is a distraction," Hans Verolme, climate campaigner for the Worldwide Fund for Nature, told reporters here. The Bush administration needs "to show they are serious and implement domestic legislation to reduce emissions," he said.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking at the summit, put the Washington meetings in a different light, describing them as designed "to support and help advance the ongoing U.N. discussion."

Late Monday, U.N. chief Ban was asked by reporters about Bush's position during the informal dinner discussions. "He made it quite clear that what he's going to do is help the United Nations' effort," he replied.

Japan's envoy, former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, told the summit Tokyo believes the separate U.S. talks will "contribute to achieving consensus" in the U.N. process, in which all agree that China, India and others must eventually accept emission limits.

But Japan, the Europeans and others, to one degree or another, stressed that all nations - including the United States - must accept binding emissions targets, something Bush gives no sign of doing.

To try to spur global negotiations, the European Union, which must reduce emissions by 8 percent under Kyoto, has committed unilaterally to a further reduction of at least 20 percent by 2020.

Speaking for the EU, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told Monday's gathering that "all the developed countries and the largest emitters" must commit to a 50 percent reduction by 2050. In a comment clearly aimed at Washington, he also said the U.N. negotiations are the only "legitimate framework," a point stressed repeatedly by Ban as well.

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Monday, September 24, 2007

VIRGIN MARY AT MIAMI CHURCH?

Virgin Mary at Miami Church?

Miami, Florida - Some faithful church members are calling it a miracle. An image that they believe to be the Virgin Mary appeared on an altar cloth at St. Brendan's Catholic church in Miami.

A security guard says he first noticed the image on Wednesday night.

Huge crowds have been lining up outside the church for a chance to see the image.

Asked whether the apparition is real, the church pastor father Fernando Heria said faith is in the eyes of the beholder.

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Source: http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=63927

HILLARY'S UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE


50 YEARS AGO: THE LITTLE ROCK 9



50 Years Ago: the Little Rock 9

Little Rock Nine Students and Mrs. Daisy Bates at the height of the school desegragation battles during 1957. Originally uploaded by Pan-African Wire file Photos.

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"Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts," President Dwight D. Eisenhower told the American people in an address given 50 years ago today. Eisenhower was in the midst of a racially charged crisis, having sent federal troops to Little Rock, Ark., to forcibly desegregate an all-white high school three years after the Supreme Court had ruled in the landmark Brown decision that "separate but equal" was no longer law.


Black students known as the Little Rock Nine were at the center of a showdown between Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus and his mob of supporters and the federal government. The black students were able to attend Central High School, but not without Army protection.


Fifty years later, Terrence Roberts and some of the other black students who were present are marking the anniversary in Little Rock, which includes an appearance by former President and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. While progress has been made, Roberts, who is now a professor of psychology at Antioch University, says that racial struggles and segregation remain unresolved.


Nikki Schwab



Source: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/news-desk/2007/9/24/50-years-ago-the-little-rock-9.html

COUNTRY LIVING SEMINARS - HUNSTVILLE AL.

October - Oakwood College Campus - Alabama

October 6&7 - Oakwood College Campus - Huntsville, AL



Oakwood College Country Living Seminars


We are very excited to announce an upcoming weekend Country Living Seminar that we have been invited to be guest speakers at. The date is Oct. 6 and 7. The location is in the Wade Hall Chapel on the campus of Oakwood College in Huntsville, AL.

Source: http://mountainmediaministries.org/upcoming-events/october-oakwood-college-campus-alabama/index.php

WILLIAM RODRIGUEZ AND THE KEY TO 9/11


William Rodriguez and the Key to 9/11

by Peter Zaza
http://www.newworldordermustbestopped.com/CasaZazaBlogspot.html


"First Man In" for Truth
Myself and 100 other people had the good fortune to see William Rodriguez
speak in Nanaimo, BC on Sept 17th, 2007. There are many things quite
remarkable about this man, his rare sense of integrity being chief among
them. I had heard him before on a radio show, it was a fascinating
interview where he went into some detail about his youth, his career in
magic, and just some of the noteworthy people he has been associated with
throughout his extraordinary life so far. Working at the World Trade Center
for 20 years, he was one of a small group of people who possessed a master
key to the building. That fact, along with his intimate knowledge of this
huge complex, permitted firefighters easier access, and therefore more
people could be saved. Rodriguez is a humble man who makes references to
the fact that he is just a janitor, but in truth, he is a powerful
individual with an amazing story to tell. Through his experiences we see
revealed a man who possesses incredible loyalty, uncommon bravery, and the
strength of his convictions concerning truth and justice.

"Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and
cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or
you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of
your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being." -
Daisaku Ikeda

More than 2 hours sped by all too fast as we heard his first person account
of events that occurred at the World Trade Center on 9/11. I was surprised
to hear him tell of the many instances where he kept going back into the
building to rescue strangers and try and save his friends. Not surprising
is the fact that all of his testimony about the bombs going off before the
planes hit was omitted from the official 9/11 Commission Report - as a
matter of fact there is no mention of William Rodriguez at all, or the many
others who would have to be considered prime witnesses in any real
investigation.

At one point in his presentation he talks about a specific moment where he
asks God for help. William tells us that he was not much of a believer
before this moment, but as he was sure that he was going to die just then,
he cried out for divine assistance. There were three instances during his
lecture where I was literally moved to tears - this was one such moment.
Rodriguez has an uncanny ability to engage an audience with his story, it
feels as if he is speaking to you directly, and you can feel the pain he
still experiences when he closes his eyes and falls silent while describing
the 200 friends he lost that day, or the exasperation and hopelessness he
felt while trying to save people amid this scenario of confusion and
devastation. At that moment when he describes turning toward God for help,
I'm reminded of another time in my own life when I turned away.

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and
evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that
takes religion." - Steven Weinberg

I can remember the exact instant I turned away from my Catholic faith - I
was enrolled at St. Mike's College in Toronto, a place where some famous NHL
stars had been schooled. Most of my teachers were Priests who lived there
at the college. I stayed after class one day and asked my teacher who was
an elder Priest this question, "If a baby is born and dies 5 minutes later
without having been baptized, why can't this child ever get to heaven and
must instead languish in limbo instead? It seems rather unfair to me that
our God would punish somebody who is completely innocent of anything, and
for all of eternity." He went on to explain that these were just the rules
and sometimes we were not capable as mere mortals of understanding God's
wisdom, it was not our duty to question, we are required to have faith and
obey. Well, I didn't like that answer at all - you see, we were also
studying physics, science and math which pointed to some kind of an ordered
universe with rules and laws of nature, these studies demanded reason and
truth in order to exist. I could not accept that God could be so unfair, or
that any religious doctrine would support this type of thought.

"The important thing is to not stop questioning" - Einstein

I pressed this man of the cloth further with the following, "If a man lives
his entire life and is always a good person and a respected member of
society, but then 5 minutes before he dies he takes a gun and murders
somebody - can this man still get to heaven, and does this one action negate
all the good work he has done his entire life?" Now my teacher and my
religion were both truly on the spot as far as I was concerned, in my 14
year old mind I felt I had this Priest and the whole Catholic faith on the
line and over a barrel for my allegiance. His answers both dismayed and
surprised me. He said first that if the man received the sacrament of
confession within that last 5 minutes of his life - he could then be
absolved and forgiven, and after a suitable length of time in Purgatory
would be able to proceed straight to heaven - pass Go and collect the $200.
I was shocked and disheartened, this formal religion thing had lost me at
that moment - here we have a completely innocent soul who has barely drawn
a breath and is denied heaven for all eternity, and then somebody who
willfully commits murder who is allowed the grand prize at the end of the
tunnel.

But then this teacher of mine said something that I didn't expect, and which
has subsequently afforded me a valuable lesson throughout my interesting if
not heathen existence on this earth. He said that each of our lives is like
a long strand of thread in this huge tapestry - if we live our entire life
and help to create a rich and colourful design, then this is not mitigated
by the thread becoming frayed and broken toward the end - it does not take
away from the beauty of all that has gone before. I suppose I decided right
there that his allegory about life's tapestry was correct, but I didn't
like
his capricious rules concerning player eligibility for heaven and hell.
Perhaps heaven and hell were not some mystical places we went after we died,
perhaps they exist on this tapestry itself during our time here - we make
our own heaven and hell I reasoned, and it's encapsulated in our thought at
this very moment. As a result of this exchange I never went to church
again, and decided to cultivate my interest in Taoism.


Later in my life I heard this poem, it of course reminded me of that
important day in my youth.


Just A Weaver

by Benjamine Malachi Franklin

My life is but a weaving, between my God and me,
I do not choose the colors, He worketh steadily.
Ofttimes he weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper, and I the underside.

Not till the loom is silent, and the shuttles cease to fly,
Will God unroll the canvas, and explain the reasons why
The dark threads are as needful, in the skillful weaver's hand
As threads of gold and silver, in the pattern He has planned.



More than one road to Maple Leaf Gardens

When I was young my father used to make little drawings when he explained
things to us, it was usually a visual diagram containing lines, boxes and
circles that would get connected and spill off the page as he spoke. I'll
never forget one such lesson, he said that when we went and watched the
Maple Leafs play a hockey game live, there were literally thousands of
different roads we could take - all leading from our house to Maple Leaf
Gardens. He tried to impress upon me the importance of respecting other
people's choices in this life. We are all in a sense trying to get to the
same arena, and once having arrived at our destination, it matters not what
route one takes or how long the journey. Parenthetically speaking, I would
later reason that statistically the Leafs had a better than equal chance of
losing no matter how the hell I got there.


In our search for truth we can take two different roads, the path of
acceptance, or the path of denial. Both lead to the same place as there is
only one truth at which to arrive. The path of affirmation, or the via
affirmativa, is the positive path, this method requires much effort as one
is trying to attain a sense of God through devotion, study and application.
The opposite is of course the via negativa, or the negative path. On this
road to truth we are required to do absolutely nothing at all - those who
choose this method will try and remain in a receptive state, as only your
stillness is required. The first path is an accumulation of study and
experience, the second requires a stripping away of knowledge to attain an
awareness of your inner being, and meditation is valued as a way to allow
the divine presence within you to be realized.


In our search for truth regarding 9/11 we can take two distinct roads. The
path of affirmation of the official theory means accepting everything we are
told by the US government on faith alone. There is no evidence for their
claims, but we are not supposed to question - don't ask to see the video
evidence they are hiding, the records of testimony from people like William
Rodriguez, or all those who received gag orders, etc. On the other side is
the 911 Truth movement's path of denial - the essential difference being, we
only have to show that the official story could not have happened - we are
not required to prove what actually did happen.


"The burden of proof rests upon he who affirms; not he who denies." -
Fundamental rule of evidence


This world of ours is comprised of so many things tied together by a
singularity, you can call it Truth, or God, or Tao, or even the "one story"
or "uni-verse". At the center of this universe is a reflection of reality
that is manifested through our consciousness - as all points of incongruity
swirl about our life, there is a calm truth to be found deep within our own
unique sense of being - if you can be still enough and take enough time and
effort to unlearn - all that remains is our awareness, or true perception.


"The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what
happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. I believe the single most
significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of
attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my
successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say
about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or
cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my
attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no
dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me." - Charles R. Swindoll


As we were leaving the William Rodriguez presentation my friend asked me,
"Do you think the 911 truth movement is making any progress? It doesn't
seem like anything is happening and we don't seem to be winning this fight
for justice." I proceeded to give my opinion that in my mind we have
already won, truth to me does not require X percentage of the populace to be
valid - only that realization within one individual.


I believe William Rodriquez when he describes the bombs going off before the
planes hit - I don't know why he would make that up, being the kind of
person who would continually risk his life to save complete strangers. I
suppose he still holds the key to 9/11, both literally and figuratively. On
that day he used it to help save people's lives, and today we can use his
testimony to help unlock the truth about what happened - or more succinctly,
what didn't happen.


Heaven and Hell are truly within our consciousness at this very moment - so
is the truth about 9/11. Our lives are not comprised of billions of
disparate events - there is a unity that ties everything together, whether
you call it Nature, God, or the Way of Tao. That truth is to be found on a
personal level by each of us - the place we can find it is the same place it
has always been - inside our own consciousness. Our duty, no matter what
path we may choose, is to strip away and deny each layer of deception, and
then have the courage to look within ourselves and realize and affirm that
which is truth.


"There are two paths leading to oneness with the Tao. The first in the path
of acceptance. Affirm everyone and everything. Freely extend you goodwill
and virtue in every direction, regardless of circumstances. Embrace all
things as part of the Harmonious Oneness, and then you will begin to
perceive it. The second path is that of denial. Recognize that everything
you see and think is a falsehood, an illusion, a veil over the truth. Peel
all the veils away, and you will arrive at the Oneness. Though these paths
are entirely different, they will deliver you to the same place: spontaneous
awareness of the Great Oneness" - Lao Tzu


Source: http://casazaza.blogspot.com/

AHMADINEJAD SPEAKS AT COLUMBIA UNIV.

Ahmadinejad Met With Applause, Boos, Harsh Words

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at Columbia

CBS

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received a scathing welcome from Columbia President Lee Bollinger before addressing students and faculty with a highly controversial question-and-answer forum that included him claiming that homosexuals don't exist in Iran.
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THE 'RED MASS'


The Red Mass
By John M. Swomley, Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics
St. Paul School of Theology

The Red Mass, a colorful religious ceremony of the Catholic Church, is celebrated in the United States before members of the Supreme Court, members of Congress, and other high government officials. It also occurs at state capitals and other metropolitan centers. It is not only the occasion of the sectarian cultural event involving the legal profession, but has become the only institution in which one church has an exclusive opportunity to influence judges and other government officials.

The term “Red Mass” traditionally refers to the color of the vestments worn by the bishops who speak at the event, but also to the robes of the judges who attend. The origin of the Red Mass is not precisely dated, but it first occurred in France during the Inquisition, probably during the reign of Pope Gregory IX or one of his successors, Pope Innocent IV (1243-1254). It was a religious ceremony of the state when the Inquisition was in full swing and when the state customarily used torture. Innocent IV subsequently permitted some forms of torture not as brutal or deadly as those of the courts.

It is also likely that a Red Mass occurred in England during the reign of Edward I (1274-1307) to inaugurate the opening of the judicial year, though some claim it was first celebrated there in 1310 at Westminster Abbey. In both France and England it was a ceremony that marked the union of church and state. The Mass was brought to the United States in 1928 by Catholic officials and subsequently organized through an association of Roman Catholic lawyers into a nationwide cultural and promotional event for Vatican policy.

Although the Red Mass in America is a religious ceremony, the celebrant (usually a bishop or a cardinal) uses his address to promote the political agenda of the Vatican. His audience consists of many of the members of the judiciary, Congress and, on the state level, judges and legislators, along with members of the legal profession, all of whom are invited. Some do not attend.

One of the early celebrants of the Red Mass in America was Bishop John Wright, later Cardinal Wright. He delivered many Red Mass sermons in which he spoke against that “totalitarian secularism and practical atheism which rule out all idea of the sovereignty of God.” (“Sermon of 1959,” in The Christian and the Law: Selected Red Mass Sermons, Fides Pub., Notre Dame, IN.) In 1950 Wright entitled his Red Mass sermon “The Common Good” and asserted that “upright men find themselves unable to meet with one another on questions of either public or personal good” and referred to “the present polarized condition of society” that can only be rectified “in the super-natural order which God has revealed”

During the years 1944-1952, I was in Washington coordinating the campaign against permanent peacetime military conscription. It began with the Society of Friends, Mennonites, Church of the Brethren, Methodists, peace organizations, other Protestant groups, and soon included farm, labor, and educational groups. Then the Catholics came on board. It was the most united religious activity in American history. Bishop Wright, with whom I was in telephone communication, not only knew about this “common good,” but cooperated. I phoned him in February, 1952, and asked him to persuade Roman Catholic Congressmen from Massachusetts to vote against peacetime conscription. He did, and all but one opposed it.

Wright never acknowledged that the religious groups prevailed for the common good, though it was later acknowledged by the armed forces, who came to pride themselves as an all-volunteer force. Wright continued to speak against secularism and the secular state.

The Red Mass continued to be used by the U.S. Catholic Bishops to oppose separation of church and state. At the October 1, 1989, annual Red Mass in Washington, Philadelphia Archbishop Anthony Bevilaqua said, according to the Washington Times, that conflicts between church and state have excluded religion from public life. He said, “The time has come to restore the vital relationship between religion and law, church and society.” His claim of an exclusion of religion from public life was untrue.

The Catholic hierarchy had been successful in having only anti-abortion judges appointed during the Reagan and Bush years. Time magazine reported that “in response to concerns of the Vatican, the Reagan Administration agreed to alter its foreign aid program to comply with the Church’s teaching on birth control.” In 1984 the U.S. withdrew funding for the International Planned Parenthood and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities.

There have been many more Vatican successes since then. The Red Mass, which now has spread into Florida, Alabama, and most other states, has taken its message to judges, legislators, lawyers, and others, insisting that the Vatican agenda become the law of the land. It has even spread into counties, cities, law schools, and universities such as Pat Robertson’s Regent University Law School.

Efforts have been made to get Protestants to collaborate with and sponsor the Roman Catholic Red Mass. For example, the Greater Jasper Ministerial Association in Alabama held its fifth Annual Red Mass service October 1, 2001, at the First United Methodist Church

In other words, presumably under the guise of ecumenism, papal theology and the Vatican political agenda are presented to all who attend in spite of the fact the pro-choice, tax support of public schools only, and other positions of some major Protestant churches are not permitted in Roman Catholic churches.

The most recent Red Mass in Washington on October 28, 2001, featured Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who dealt with a number of topics, one of which was to speak of the U.S. Armed Forces as “accomplishing their difficult task of punishing the guilty, of destroying the evil that threatens the free world and of restoring justice and peace to this critical moment in the history of humanity.” He also asked that “all our courts . . . might always be touched by that love and respect for the dignity of every person—we believe from the moment of conception to the moment God calls us home. . . .

In an internal pastoral letter in 1975, the U.S. Catholic bishops outlined an ambitious plan for controlling judicial appointments and influencing Congress and other national and state political offices. In his book, Catholic Bishops in American Politics, Catholic writer Timothy A. Byrne called the bishops’ plan the “most focused and aggressive political leadership” ever exerted by the American Catholic hierarchy. That plan called for involving twenty major Catholic organizations such as Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Press Association, the Catholic Physicians Guild, and the Catholic Lawyers Association to establish structures “to activate support for political programs.

Catholic lawyers and judges have been organized in the St. Thomas More Society, which now includes national, county, and state societies. It has among its functions the promotion of the Red Mass and the influencing of judicial appointments. There is an underlying assumption that law and morality began with the Roman Catholic Church and divine revelation.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is undoubtedly the More Society’s best-known spokesman. He not only attends national and some state Red Mass celebrations, but speaks on occasion to those lawyers who meet after the Mass. In a formal address to a Catholic audience in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 14, 2001, following a Red Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Scalia was reported by The National Catholic Register as saying, “We attorneys and intellectuals who don’t like to be regarded as unsophisticated can have no greater [role] model than St. Thomas More.

Speaking of the beheaded advisor to King Henry VIII, the Register indicated that “the saint died because he refused to recognize a king’s authority as being higher than the Pope’s, and his conviction was rejected by society, friends, and ‘even his wife,’ Scalia said”(National Catholic Register, November 4, 2001). Scalia, in effect, was promoting the idea that papal policy is superior to the U.S. Constitution and secular government

What actually happened during the reign of Henry VIII was an Act of Parliament in 1534, known as the Act of Succession, that forbade all payments by the government to the Pope, and ruled that all bishops were to be elected rather than appointed by the Pope. The recognition of papal authority was done away (Williston Walker, A History of the Christian Church, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1943, 404).

Henry and each of his successors were declared the only supreme head in earth of the Church of England. This “was not understood by either the King or Parliament as conferring on the King spiritual leadership such as ordination, the administration of the sacraments and the like, but in all else it practically put the King in the place of the Pope” (Ibid.). The Lutheran Reformation had already taken place, and in 1535 John Calvin was safely in Protestant Basel. So it was not just England that rejected papal authority.

Although there were various Protestant revolts against the Papacy, the one of England was less a doctrinal revolt than a question of supremacy. Sir Thomas More was willing to accept the Act of Succession but unwilling to take the oath of supremacy to the King. He saw this as a matter of conscience. He was convicted of treason on the basis of perjured evidence and executed

What Scalia did not mention in his commendation of More is that England’s rejection of the papal authority was timely, since Pope Paul III in July, 1542, “reorganized the Inquisition largely on the Spanish model, on a universal scale, though of course its actual establishment took place only where it had the support of friendly civil authorities” (Ibid.). So England was spared.

One St. Thomas More Society in an official statement says, “The duty of a Catholic lawyer is to remain faithful to Jesus Christ, His Church and its teaching at all times [emphasis added] despite the personal consequences” (Mission statement of the St. Thomas More Society of Orange County, California).

If this reflects the position of all Thomas More Societies or is the model for its various members, it is essential to note the 1995 Encyclical of Pope John Paul II, known as Evangelium Vitae. In that encyclical, the Pope specifically called abortion “contrary to the Law of God” and said, “It is never licit to obey it or . . . vote for it.” Since there is no statement against abortion in the Bible, the “Law of God” is proclaimed by the Pope and therefore binding on those who place loyalty to the Pope ahead of secular law and democratic judgment. The Pope specifically wrote, “Democracy cannot be idolized to the point of making it a substitute for morality.

What this may mean is that Thomas More Societies are expected to place papal teaching or mandates ahead of secular or constitutional government. The mission statement of one county Society also expects its members to participate in monthly meetings and “encourage interfaith understanding,” as well as “to attend and support the Red Mass” (Ibid.).

It is obvious that the purpose of the Red Mass and the St. Thomas More Society is not only to promote the Red Mass as a Catholic cultural event in the United States, but also make papal decisions influence the law of the land. The chief resistance to such influence comes from progressive Catholics who oppose patriarchal rule and support women’s rights. Most Protestant denominations are silent under the influence of the ecumenical discussions instituted by the Vatican.

In the case of the Southern Baptist Convention, there is political acceptance of rightwing Catholic politics and patriarchy. The relatively few humanists and atheists are also silent. So far as this author knows, no other analysis of the Red Mass has appeared in any major periodical.

Wednesday, April 17, 2002

Source: http://www.christianethicstoday.com/Issue/039/The%20Red%20Mass%20By%20John%20M.%20Swomley_039_26_.htm

DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA

JAMES JESUS ANGLETON


James Jesus Angleton -
Deputy Director of Counter
Intelligence & Guardian of The
CIA's Greatest Secret


By Timothy S. Cooper
Private Investigator - Copyright 2000
3-4-00


James Jesus Angleton was born on 9 December, 1917, in Boise, Idaho, to NCR businessman and OSS Colonel James Hugh Angleton, and Mexican born Carmen Mercedes Moreno. Upon Graduation from Yale in 1941, Angleton moved to Harvard Law School where he met his future wife Cicely d'Autremont of Duluth, Minnesota. Inducted into the Army on 19 March, 1943, Angleton was recruited into the OSS in August through the efforts of Angleton's father and Norman Pearson, his old English professor from Yale who was, at that time, head of the OSS Counter Intelligence division in London.(1)


ANGLETON AS CI AGENT IN OSS X-2 OPERATIONS DURING WW II

James Angleton was assigned the Rome desk after Italy's capitulation to the Allies and was made a OSS Lieutenant who ran CI activities that included such countries as Austria, Germany, Spain, the Mediterranean, and Switzerland. As part of OSS operations in the European Theatre of Operations, Angleton mastered the arts of "black" propaganda and "playback" that is, the method of reading the effectiveness of one's own disinformation on the enemy. In 1944, Angleton was given charge of the OSS Special Counterintelligence Unit Z made up of U.S. and British agents and was the youngest member of X-2 and was the only American member that was allowed access to the top secret British ULTRA code breaking intelligence. After the war, Angleton was promoted to captain and received the Legion of Merit from the U.S. Army which cited him for successfully apprehending over a thousand enemy intelligence agents. He was also decorated by the Italian government and was awarded the Order of the Crown of Italy, the Order of Malta-Cross of Malta, and the Italian War Cross for Merit. In October 1945, President Truman dissolved the OSS and had all research and analysis units moved to the State Department and operational units to the War Department and were re-designated as Strategic Services Unit. Angleton stayed on in the SSU in Rome and became the vital station chief in charge of the 2677 Regiment which made Angleton the senior U.S. intelligence officer Italy until it became the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.(2)


THE MAKING OF JAMES ANGLETON AS MASTER SPY HUNTER

Angleton's war experience in counterintelligence operations had affected him to the extent that he became absorbed into the 'hall of mirrors' world of intelligence and refused to leave the service after much insistence and disappointment of his father. James would pour over the many CI files he had amassed while in Italy and was forever changed by the intrigue and the possibilities of a career in the CIG. In the summer of 1947 Angleton returned to the United States to live in Tucson, Arizona, to be with his wife and family, but his love for the service was overpowering and on 30 December, 1947, he was hired by the CIA as a senior aide to the director of the Office of Special Operations (OSO).(3) It was during this period that Army G-2 and other intelligence agencies were trying to crack the Soviet VENONA code used by espionage agents operating in the United States sending back sensitive information regarding the Manhattan Project based at Los Alamos, New Mexico, and it is possible that Angleton was on special assignment prior to officially reporting to OSO who had the responsibility of running counterespionage operations.(4)

Angleton's primary mission in OSO included overseeing a classified component that operated espionage and counterespionage activities abroad and read all sensitive material coming across his desk and passed them back to OSO operators in countries were CIA had interests. In 1949, Angleton had moved up the chain of command within OSO and held a GS-15 position. Angleton developed a philosophy that "If you control counterintelligence, you control the intelligence service" and quickly realized the significance of the B-29 detection of Joe-1, the Soviet's first atomic weapon detonation in August 1949 and Angleton knew the technology required by the Soviets was not home grown, but the product of espionage and immediately set out to discover who the moles were that passed on America's most guarded secret to Moscow. As with all covert actions, counterintelligence operated without specific mentioning in the National Security Act of 1947 and Angleton set out to acquire information of the most guarded secret of all.


JAMES ANGLETON AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

Aside from the technology theft of atomic secrets, the most guarded secret within the CIA was the scientific and technical information regarding new weapons developments and the planned use of a new generation of thermal nuclear weapons and high altitude reconnaissance platforms to spy on countries hostile to United States strategic interests. One of the technical secrets of the United States was the study and transfer of advanced electronics gleaned from Air Force studies of unconventional aircraft and missile research carried on at several AEC facilities and proving grounds. The FBI and the CIA were aware of Soviet espionage rings operating in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom whose main task was providing any and all technical and scientific information on advanced technologies which would provide an advantage to the Soviet Union in the event another world war would break out.

By 1949, military intelligence authorities had classified the "flying saucer" phenomenon as Top Secret and Army CIC had passed on information that the Soviets may have developed saucer-shaped aerial weapons capable of delivering atomic bombs or dissipating radioactive materials over NATO countries as a stopgap measure to make up for the nonexistent nuclear weapons arsenal. In early 1947, the nonexistent nuclear arsenal in the United States was a closely guarded secret as well and no doubt this fact set in motion the nuclear arms race which terrified Angleton. OSO was probably aware of Soviet knowledge of the bomb gap existing within both superpowers and the flying saucer invasion of the United States which crossed Angleton's desk put a scare into his psyche which is reflected in a credo he shared with other OSO staff members: "You who believe or half believe, I can say this now, that I do believe in the spirit of Christ and the life everlasting, and in this turbulent social system which struggles sometimes blindly to preserve the right to freedom and expression of spirit. "In the name of Jesus Christ I leave you."

After General Walter B. Smith was appointed as DCI, Angleton continued on as OSO Staff A (foreign intelligence operations) inside the CIA's clandestine division. In 1951, he was given the all important Israeli desk which he held tight control for twenty years because it was a source of vital Soviet information in the Middle East. As more and more UFO (5) sighting reports made their way to CIA headquarters, unevaluated reports were forwarded to counterintelligence when the locations were identified as coming from Soviet bloc countries. During this period, Angleton made good liaisons with FBI contacts who were equally concerned with protecting vital atomic research facilities and no doubt many domestic reports were read by Angleton as they came across his desk in the "L" Building across the Lincoln Memorial. When Smith was coaxed away from his power base as DCI, Allen Dulles, Angleton's friend form the OSS days became the new DCI and in late 1954, promoted Angleton to the position of deputy director and Chief of Counterintelligence with direct access to Dulles and all foreign UFO intelligence from the Intelligence Advisory Committee who had been established to look into national security implications involving the UFO phenomena.(6) In order to cement Angleton's counterintelligence charter together, General James H. Doolittle was commissioned by Dulles to conduct an outside survey of CIA counterintelligence operations and concluded that the CIA was loosing ground to the KGB and recommended that more stringent and ruthless measures be taken against Soviet penetration. Dulles endorsed the Doolittle Report by ordering a more powerful tool to stop and interdict the moles within the CIA and he personally chose Angleton to head the CI Staff. Perhaps this is why foreign and domestic UFO sighting reports diminished shortly afterwards.

During Dulles' tenure as DCI from 1953 to 1961 (the longest in CIA histroy), Angleton enjoyed a privileged position not shared by other directors despite the fact that Angleton reported to the Deputy Director of Operations (DDO) and on many occasions bugged the phones and residences of high ranking U.S. government officials and foreign dignitaries with Dulles' approval and over the objection of the DDO. If the situation called for it, Angleton could go around proper channels for acquiring personal data on anyone within the CIA and other agencies which was clearly outside of CIA charter and violated FBI jurisdiction. As the new head of CI, Angleton had to organize a staff, write the rules, and oversee all clandestine operations aimed at Soviet military and security organs of the GRU and KGB.(7) The CI Staff was primarily tasked with preventing penetrations at home and abroad and protecting CIA operations through careful research and analysis of all incoming intelligence reports. By keeping the most vital and sensitive files to himself, Angleton became a storehouse of secrets which helped him consolidate his power base. Officially, Angleton was allowed access to everyone's personnel, operational, and communications files within the CIA and reviewed all proposed and active operations and the approval of recruitment of agent assets. This did not engender trust nor cooperation and Angleton did not concern himself nor his staff with such intrusions. One of Angleton's former Chief of Operations, "Scotty" Miller, expressed the environment in which CI Staff operated as one of a "watchdog" snooping around to sniff out either Soviet deception or manipulation.


ANGLETON AND THE MJ-12 DIRECTIVE

Among all the controversial documents leaked to the public in the last twenty years regarding state secrets and the UFO phenomena is the fantastic revelations of the CIA's unacknowledged MJ MAJESTIC TWELVE files disclosing the most guarded of all classified subjects-extraterrestrial life forms and their technologies.(8)

In order to secure this knowledge and prevent foreign countries from learning this vital secret and get an edge on the United States, President Harry S. Truman signed a finding that basically said that no one (including a chief executive) was to be in possession of, or disclose the finding without a "need to know" clearance which was above Top Secret.(9) The directive was secretly implemented without the consent or knowledge of the Congress and concealed by the wording of the National Security Act of 1947 which prohibits disclosing classified matters without presidential approval and prior agreement by the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency as amended in later national security acts. Knowledge of the finding was limited to only a select few within the intelligence and scientific community of the government and as long as the secret remained unresolved, there would be no official acknowledgement. The only official study program Project BLUE BOOK was taken over by the CIA in 1953 as a public experiment and used as a debunking tool to discount the extraterrestrial reality and possibly to quash any attempts by the KGB and GRU to glean any technological or defense secrets from the study.

Like the Manhattan Project, MJ MAJESTIC TWELVE or MJ-12 (as used in some leaked documents) was a joint government/military/private sector undertaking that encompassed every facet of national security functions and the CIA was the premiere intelligence agency tasked with the first line of defense of the United States during the 55-year Cold War between the Capitalist West and the Communist East worlds. When Angleton assumed his throne as Chief of Counterintelligence, no doubt that Truman's directive was the most excellent and inviting instrument to carry on his mole hunt career within the CIA against the KGB and GRU. MJ MAJESTIC TWELVE enjoyed greater protection than that of the hydrogen bomb program of the early 1950's and with that, the Soviets were driven to not only penetrate the secrets of the H-bomb program itself, but the ultimate prize that lay scattered throughout the maximum security research facilities of the U.S. Government located in the Southwest and Eastern United States. The shocking truth of the Soviet atomic weapons espionage program called ENORMOUS had dealt a tremendous blow to U.S. and British security when it was learned that British diplomats operating within the State Department and American Army technicians at Los Alamos National Laboratories had not only supplied blueprints and materials to their KGB handlers in New York for the atomic bomb, but stole the proposed plans for the hydrogen bomb as well and left security officials guessing what else did the Soviet spies steal from under their noses.(10)

As far as we know, there was no successful penetration by KGB or GRU agents into the CIA's UFO program due in large part by the disgraceful and unlawful actions taken by Angleton's CI Staff. After the fallout from the Burgess-MacLean-Phibly defections and the execution of the Rosenbergs, Angleton tightened the security and dedicated himself fully to the safeguarding of what secrets that still alluded the Soviets and embarked on a vicious mole hunt that would almost paralyze the CIA until his departure in 1974.

During the Eisenhower Administration the CIA was at its apex in covert operations piling up one success after another where cores of Soviet moles were detected and sent home to Moscow. Comments from the White House were nil when it came to the UFO problem though the supposed meeting of extraterrestrials and Eisenhower in 1954 was given some publicity, it was largely discounted in the press though some had tried to connect Eisenhower's heart attack with the meeting, national magazines and the media were downplaying the UFO sightings here and abroad as part of a cold war hysteria that accompanied the "duck and cover" scare that seemed to grip the nation. No real problems popped up until the 1960 presidential elections when Democratic presidential candidate Senator John F. Kennedy accused the Republican incumbent President Eisenhower of allowing a "missile gap" to exist and charged that the United States was getting to close to the Soviet Union through détente'.

Soon after Kennedy became president, he began to needle the CIA for information on UFO's (11) which was unnerving at the outset to Allen Dulles after he was burned on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Castro's communist enslaved island of Cuba in April 1961. The once cordial relationship that had existed fell apart and Dulles knew his time as DCI was short.(12) Knowing the explicit instructions contained in the 24 September, 1947 Truman directive prohibits the DCI from making disclosures to a chief executive who obviously did not have a "need to know" clearance would not only compromise the CIA, but the lengthy and costly UFO program deemed so necessary to national security by all involved, simply could not be jeopardized for any one, even the President of the United States. Knowing the character of Allen Dulles and James Angleton, I can only speculate as to what kind of response Kennedy got. According to the DCI Top Secret/MJ 12 document, it leaves no doubt that Dulles was not going to cooperate with Kennedy's request and forwarded it to Angleton for consideration and feedback. MJ MAJESTIC TWELVE included spin-off projects that were obviously equally sensitive activities of the CIA such as PARASITE, PARHELION, ENVIRO, PSYOP, GREEN, SPIKE, and HOUSE CLEANING. Other sensitive and covert programs could be affected as well, such as MK ULTRA, ARTICHOKE and DOMESTIC which all appear to have been valid projects associated with MJ MAJESTIC TWELVE. The full implications of the above are not clear at present but it is obvious that the other projects were held in readiness for some kind of mass indoctrination and deception undertaking in a national crisis.


MURDER, INC.

The strain mounted on the CIA by Kennedy was reaching a flash point of wills and with the Noresenko affair(13) driving Angleton to obsession, a UFO leak crisis brought new strains on Angleton as he had learned that Hollywood screen star Marilyn Monroe's phone conversation with a New York art dealer(14) discussing Kennedy's secret visit to an undisclosed military base to see alien artifacts and her disdain over the soured relationship she had endured with President Kennedy and his brother, the United States Attorney General had been recorded by CIA domestic electronic surveillance experts. Since 1955, Monroe had been under surveillance by the CIA and the FBI had maintained a security dossier on her because of her marriage with a well known American writer who was suspected of having communist affiliations and her trip to Russia and the press coverage she received while she was there.(15) The wire tap report also mentions nationally recognized New York syndicated reporter Dorothy Kilgallen as having conversations with Monroe regarding the Roswell UFO crash of 1947 and President Kennedy's politically motivated NASA Apollo moon program. Dorothy Kilgallen made headlines in 1955 when she disclosed a private conversation with a British cabinet official that UFOs are real and that the U.S. and British authorities considered the matter as the highest importance. The significance of the wire tap has to do with the fact that Monroe was murdered the following day in her Brentwood condo. According to internationally recognized private investigator and director of the Nick Harris Detective Agency, Milo Speriglio, Monroe was the victim of a national security management hit by the CIA and the mob.(16) The suggestion that somehow the CIA was involved in a domestic murder of an American citizen is not too far fetched when considering the past abuses coming from Angleton's CI program of 'absolute security at any cost' philosophy. Whether Angleton authorized the hit is not known, but the modus operandi of the way her body was found and moved around and the fashion in which the autopsy records were changed to reflect suicide and the theft of her secret red dairy one day after her autopsy is similar to the past methods used by Angleton's covert CIA Counterintelligence operators.


ACTIVE MEASURES

The final straw for Angleton came when President Kennedy fired off a top secret memorandum to him outlining a previous discussion concerning a classification review of all CIA UFO files that could affect national security. Dated 12 November, 1963, just ten days before he would be gunned down in the streets of Dallas, Texas, Kennedy informed Angleton(17) that we was setting things in motion to actually share sensitive CIA UFO intelligence data with the Russians through the director of NASA.(18) This request was made on the same day he requested James Webb(19) to begin Kennedy's peace overture to the Russians via joint space exploration. Webb, being a board member of the intelligence community most likely interpreted Kennedy's program to mean the sharing of classified UFO data under which the current directive forbid. In Kennedy's top secret memorandum(20) he outlined for Angleton specific items he wished to have disclosed to Webb, such as "[to] have the high threat cases reviewed with the purpose of identification of bona fide as opposed to the classified CIA and USAF sources."(21) And, "that we make a clear distinction between the known and unknowns in the event the Soviets try to mistake our extended cooperation as a cover for intelligence gathering of their defense and space programs."(22) Finally, Kennedy wanted Angleton to "arrange a program of data sharing with NASA mission directors in their defensive responsibilities."(23) This was unprecedented and totally unacceptable to Angleton and the CIA ! Here Kennedy was requesting the Central Intelligence Agency, the agency he swore he would "break into a thousand pieces" to just hand over the most guarded secret-ever! This memo was passed on to William Colby(24) who indicated to someone in Angleton's staff in a hand written note that says, "Response from Colby, Angleton has MJ directive" and is dated November 20, 1963, just two days before Kennedy dies. It seems that Kennedy's request bounced around from Angleton's desk possibly seeking consensus on the request or passing the buck back to Angleton. In either case, it was a hot potato for which Angleton had to deal with. It is also significant that Kennedy's NSAM No. 271 was the last coming from Kennedy's desk just before he left Washington for Dallas. What the real significance is was buried somewhere within the CIA and Angleton spent many a day trying to figure out who ordered Kennedy's execution. Was Angleton set up, or did he unintentionally supply the needed ingredient for the murder of the century? In either case, the secret remained safe.


POSTSCRIPT

One of the few former CIA officers to speak publicly on the Kennedy assassination and the UFO secret is Victor Marchetti, who at one time was Assistant to the Deputy for Plans and Operations under DCI William Colby. In a rare interview with Second Look magazine in 1979, Marchetti, author of the sensational book Cult of Intelligence which was vetted and censored by the CIA prior to publication (the only book to include the redacted portions within the text), made some interesting observations regarding the CIA's UFO intelligence gathering program and why the subject is not open for discussion. In a introduction piece for his web site Robert Collins, a retired air force intelligence officer produced an insightful forward for Marchetti in which Marchetti said: "My theory is that we have, indeed, been contacted-perhaps even visited-by extraterrestrial beings, and that the U.S. Government, in collusion with other national powers of the Earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public." Marchetti alluded to "rumors" at the highest levels within the CIA that the NSA has information as well and must be kept away from public viewing. We know now that the NSA does have sensitive COMINT files ,that, for reasons of national security cannot disclose. One of these NSA files that Marchetti speaks of might be the NSA intercept of Kennedy's phone conversation with Khrushchev dated 12 November, 1963, in which Kennedy spoke of a "situation that affects both our countries and the world," and "a problem that we share in common." It is believed that the UFO problem became a national security item when President Truman authorized the covert establishment of the National Security Agency whose primary responsibility bordered on "special activities" perhaps as outlined in an alleged Intelligence Estimate prepared by national security officials on 30 September, 1947, in which one of the concerns stated that "what we are up against is controlled by intelligent operators" and that "these objects are real and not illusionary." It is not surprising that in 1968, a NSA employee drafted a significant analysis of the intelligence community's ambivalence toward the UFO camouflage and warned of dire consequences unless the defense establishment wakes up and recognizes the danger these phenomena pose in the nuclear age.

On a final note, the legend of James Jesus Angleton and his "wilderness of mirrors" as he often referred to his daunting task of protecting vital state secrets faded into obscurity on 11 May, 1987 and with him the secret that would emerge almost precisely the day he died. Perhaps Jim was not the real bad guy in the counterintelligence game. Perhaps, he was its victim.



1. September 25, 1943 OSS memo released through the FOIA in September 1989.

2. U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Final report, Book VI, April 23, 1976, pp. 154-55.

3. JJA personal records. Angleton took a seven-month leave of absence to remain in Tucson, Arizona for unspecified reasons not substantiated by the need to be with his wife and family as is believed by other writers regarding Angleton's absence from CIA Washington headquarters during May through December 1947; COLD WARRIOR JAMES JESUS ANGLETON: THE CIA'S MASTER SPY CATCHER by Tom Mangold, Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster, 1991, p. 361.

4. The National Security Council on December 12, 1947, had adopted measures to counter the espionage and counterespionage threat as specified in NSCID 1 and later amended in NSCID 5 that authorized the Director of Central Intelligence to "conduct all organized Federal espionage and counterespionage operations." According to CIA Historian Arthur B. Darling, atomic weapons research became an overriding issue and coordination with the Office of Scientific Research and Development with the AEC through CIA consultant Dr. H.P. Robertson through General Vandenberg's directive containing an agreement between Dr. Vannevar Bush which facilitated the transfer of Manhattan Engineering District files to the Director of Central Intelligence for proper collection of foreign atomic energy research. Secret OSO activities in this area was not allowed to fall into administrative control of the AEC nor FBI which Vandenberg thought should remain within CIA intelligence operations; THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: AN INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT TO 1950 by Arthur B. Darling, Penn State Press, 1990, pp. 197-239.

5. The term U.F.O. as defined by Air Force intelligence directives is used here to reflect unconventional aircraft and missiles, not interplanetary spacecraft.

6. CIA FOIA response letter dated March 26, 1976, to July 14, 1975 FOIA request made by Ground Saucer Watch of Phoenix, Arizona, in which it stated that the NSC tasked the CIA a requirement to determine the actual UFO threat. The CIA responded through the Office of Scientific Intelligence by creating the Intelligence Advisory Committee to study the threat aspects. Military members of the IAC fought vigorously to maintain participation in areas relating to AEC intelligence collection and the Joint Chiefs of Staff represented by General Todd (who is mentioned in a FBI memo regarding JSC ignorance of flying saucer data in 1947) was at odds with the CIA about duplication of efforts by the Military Intelligence Division in producing UFO intelligence data for the IAC; THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY: AN INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT TO 1950 by Arthur B. Darling, PENN STATE PRESS, 1990, pp. 349-356.

7. The KGB-the Committee for State Security was a non-military arm of the Soviet Intelligence Service. The GRU was the military arm. The KGB received its title in 1954. When mentioning the Russian Intelligence Service, KGB and GRU are referenced generically to include both organizations.

8. This remarkable fact is substantiated in the mistakenly downgraded Top Secret Canadian Department of Transport Intra-Department Correspondence from Wilbert B. Smith to Dr. Robert I. Sarbacher, an American physicist and Science Consultant in the U.S. Defense Department's Research and Development Board and a member of the Guidance & Control Panel. Dated 21 November, 1950, Smith acknowledged that UFO studies were "considered by the United States authorities to be of tremendous significance" and that the "matter is the most classifies subject in the United States Government, rating higher than the H-bomb."

9. September 24, 1947 Top Secret/MAJIC EYES ONLY Project WHITE HOT Preliminary Estimate in Five Parts (Unacknowledged by the U.S. Government); THE MAJESTIC DOCUMENTS by Dr. Robert M. Wood, Ph.D. and Ryan S. Wood, Wood & Wood Enterprises, 1998, pp. 43-81.

10. 25 November, 1955 Top Secret memorandum from Rear Admiral Edwin T. Layton, Deputy Director for Intelligence, The Joint Staff, to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, ref. J.C.S. 1712/5. This report deals with the Burgess-MacLean defection after it was learned that sensitive weapons research information had been sent to Moscow through diplomatic means and the CIA was informed of the defection which Angleton was devastated to learn that Kim Philby, a long standing friend of British intelligence was part of the spy ring.

11. Unacknowledged June 28, 1961 Top Secret National Security Memorandum from President John F. Kennedy to Allen Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence, Subject: Review of MJ-12 Intelligence Operations as they relate to Cold war Psychological Warfare Plans. It is a one line request that says, "I would like a brief summary from you at your earliest convenience."

12. Unacknowledged CIA Top Secret/MJ 12 Counterintelligence carbon copy draft directive from Director of Central Intelligence to MJ 1-7 with eight tabs on government watermark onion skin paper (circa 1961).

13. Yuriy Ivanovich Norsenko was a Soviet KGB officer who defected in 1962 and Angleton had him detained and tortured for three years believing the warning given by another KGB defector Anatoliy Mikaylovich Golitsyn that Norsenko was ordered to defect and act as a disinformation plant to spread misleading information to the CIA regarding Soviet capabilities and intentions. Later CIA analysis suggested that it was Golitsyn who was the real mole planted within the CIA, not Norsenko. Angleton was convinced that Golitsyn was a bona fide defector and Golitsyn's information was used by Angleton and the CI mole hunt virtually destroyed the CIA;s covert operations for some time.

14. Top Secret CIA wire tap report dated 3 August, 1962 between Howard Rothberg and Marliyn Monroe with references to Project 40, MOON DUST, 5412, and MJ-12. The report was given to James Angleton and has his signature at the bottom right hand portion of the document establishing that CI was aware of Monroe's' desire to blackmail the Kennedy's with their indiscretions made to her while they were engaged in a sexual affair with her prior to August.

15. FBI file Number 105-40018-1, formerly classified Secret. CIA is copied on 19 August, 1955 FBI document from Mr. Dennis A. Flinn, Director, Office of Security, Department of State and copy sent to Director, Central Intelligence Agency with attention: Deputy Director, Plans, SECRET. Declassified on 11 November, 1978. Subject matter was redacted.

16. Crypt 33: The Saga of Marilyn Monroe-The Final Word by Adela Gregory and Milo Speriglio, Birch Lane Press, 1993.

17. This would be amazing since no one in government knew that James Angleton worked for the CIA much less his existence since there were few pictures of Angleton and very few within the agency knew who he was and what he did. It is also interesting, that until his appearance before the Church Committee in 1975 the public did not know about Angleton nor his counterintelligence position at the CIA. His identity was kept secret for twenty years.

18. National Security Action Memorandum No. 271, dated November 12, 1963 to The Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Subject: Cooperation with the USSR on Outer Space Matters. President Kennedy instructs James Webb as Administrator of NASA to "assume personally the initiative and central responsibility within the Government for the development of a program of substantive cooperation with the Soviet Union in the field of outer space, including the development of specific technical proposals. I assume that you will work closely with the Department of State and other agencies as appropriate." Kennedy had requested an interim report on NASA's progress in this adventure by December 15, 1963. Of course, after he was killed this program was never acted upon.

19. It should be pointed out here that James E. Webb had served on President Truman's Psychological Warfare Strategy Board and had assisted in revising NSC 10/2 for the Office of Policy Coordination (Covert Operations) in 1948 for the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff for emergency plans in case of war. He also was the author of the Webb Staff Study that worked out cooperation between the military and the CIA concerning IAC intelligence sharing of foreign atomic research with the AEC which allowed the DCI prerogatives in the dissemination to key executive officials. He at one time had considered the DCI slot after Rear Admiral Hillenkoetter left office in 1950.

20. Top Secret Kennedy memorandum to the Director [of Counter Intelligence], Subject: Classification review of all UFO intelligence files affecting National Security, dated 12 November, 1963.

21 Ibid.

22 Ibid.

23 Ibid.

24 Ibid.

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