Saturday, December 15, 2007

NEAR TO THE HEART OF GOD

NEAR TO THE HEART OF GOD

Refrain

O Jesus, blest Redeemer,
Sent from the heart of God,
Hold us who wait before Thee
Near to the heart of God.

There is a place of comfort sweet,
Near to the heart of God.
A place where we our Savior meet,
Near to the heart of God.

Refrain

There is a place of full release,
Near to the heart of God.
A place where all is joy and peace,
Near to the heart of God.

Refrain


Cleland B. McAfee (1866-1944)
Words & Music:
Cle­land B. Mc­A­fee, 1903
(MI­DI, score). He wrote these words af­ter two of his niec­es died from diph­theria. The Park Col­lege choir sang the new hymn out­side the quar­an­tined house.

Friday, December 14, 2007

COUNTRY LIVING SEMINARS - FONTANA, CA.

Country Living Seminars

December 15 & 16 - Fontana, CA (east of LA) - Two day country living seminar. Begins 3:30 PM on Sabbath & 10:00 AM on Sunday.
Topics:
Sabbath, December 15 (starts 3:30 PM):
-"Preparation or Presumption?" (laying a foundation from inspiration)
-"Principles of Independent Living" (practical instruction on how to become less dependent on others for necessities of life)
Sunday, December 16 (starts 10:00 AM)
-"Alternative Energy Systems" (basics of becoming less dependent or independent of the power company while still having electricity)
-"Affordable Country Housing" (a brief look at "scaling down" and obtaining your cabin/cottage in the country/mountains as inexpensively as possible)
-"Independent Water Systems" (a brief look at setting up a water system for your country home that is not dependent on utility companies)
-"Silently, Stealthily, & Unsuspectedly" (this presentation addresses end time issues, how the Beast of Revelation 13 has and is infiltrating/manipulating the "Beast with the lamb-like horns". Documentation and many pictures/slides will be shown proving this to be the case.)

Location:
Fontana SDA Church
9236 Palmetto Ave.
If you need more info, the local contact number is (562) 895-2243.

Additional Info

Source: http://mountainmediaministries.org/upcoming-events/fontana-ca/index.php

PREACH ANY OTHER (ANOTHER) GOSPEL?

6I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

7Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

8But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

9As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

10For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

11But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

12For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

13For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

14And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

15But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

16To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

17Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

18Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

19But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

20Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.

21Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

22And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:

23But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

24And they glorified God in me.

Galatians 1:6-22.

ANTI-CHRISTIANITY: THE MEGA CHURCH & NWO




Anti-Christianity: How the Mega-Church is Aiding in the New World Order



The theory of a global New World Order coincides with Bible prophesy of the coming rule of the Anti-Christ over all the earth, nations and people. Before this reign, however, there will happen a catastrophic event that will bring the rule to fruition; such that the event will confound science, scholars, and skeptics everywhere as to the possibility of a Supreme Being above man.
In a state of complete bewilderment, yet maintaining a sense of vain pride, man will offer the confused minds of the world an alternative to God, whereby the people will have no choice but to believe. This being or Anti-being will use all its sorceries to bewitch humanity into submission of a succinct World Order of life designed to calm and heal the distraught. Only then will the New World Order and the rule of the Anti-Christ become full bloom.
As of this day, society only experience pieces and portions of this coming world, such as collective exchanges of currency, individual identification methods, and political and bureaucratic rule of society. Prophesy tells of a time when no one will be able to buy, sell, or trade without having a mark upon his hand or on his forehead, which will connect that individual to the rest of the New World system.
Theories of national identification cards, microchips, bar scans and codes and tracking devices implanted into today's society foreshadows that which is to be; however, the times of the Anti-Christ will be much worst than now because it is a time of control without compassion. As of today, compassion remains within the hearts of humanity but will soon disappear from the face of the earth and from the actions of everyday human beings.
For, control is incomplete as long as compassion abounds.
The Bible says that "because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold" (Matt. 24:12), and once love is removed from the earth, control will prevail. So those living today have yet to see the worst of what is to come on this earth.
What is present today is a shadow and type of that time. The foundation of any civilization rest on the pillars of politics and religion together, from as far back as 6000 years ago unto this day. Regardless of man's attempt by law to separate the two, no one type of rule has ever completely existed without the other, even if the religion was of a pagan religion or the politics was dictatorial. One such example of a country that has stood without one (religion) and ruled by the other (politics) was the Communist Caucus-Russian state, which did away with God and ruled on control alone.
The New World Order (rule of the Anti-Christ) will base itself on both - religion and politics, with money and wealth as its root, but its stipulated practice of religion will not be of a pure sense but of a subtle yet evil one, a sort of Anti-religion. A shadow and type of that religion is seen quite clearly by the trained eye, yet not so clear by the eyes of the blind, in the practice of today's mega-churches. The following explanation connects the two, the church and the rule of the Anti-Christ.
The book of Revelation chapters 2-3, 17 speak of the seven churches in Asia and seven kings; "five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space (Rev. 17:10)." The five that are fallen are doctrines and theories that did not stand during their time eras or have run their course in history, the one that is, is the present age (the mega-church), and the one that is to come is the religion of the Anti-Christ, and when it comes it will remain a short time.
To integrate the behavior of today's church with what will come about in the next reign, let us look at a reference to the following description of the church that is today and how they are bringing the religious world (members of the mega-church movement worldwide) into preparedness of the Anti-Christ rule.
Revelation, chapter 3 states:
14. And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; 15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. 19. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
The lukewarmness of the church of Laodicea sickened God and was thrown-up (spewn) out of His mouth. It had no stability, no solidarity; no understanding of God's will and was thus cast out of The Body. In this current time age of prosperity and increase of personal wealth, the church has assumed the goal of gaining riches using the business tactics of capitalism to do so. Buying, selling, and trading in business, commercial products, and property to increase wealth among church leaders and members believing that wealth raises them to levels of power, respect, and control. This is a mirror image of how the New World Order will rise.
God tells them that in their thrust for wealth and great riches, they are in fact "wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked," as opposed to what they believe to be complete in all areas and "in need of nothing." Though they possess the wealth of the land, they are empty in spirit and walk through life in the motions without compassion.
If religious leaders can birth a multitude of people who believe that reward comes in material form as a result of menial sacrificial deeds, they can succeed in creating a people who lack compassion and are ripe for a system based on nothing more than buying, selling, and trading. If they believe that God rewards based on this type system, they will worship that God and unbeknownst any man who promises them such a world.
These people are blind to their ways, are filled with inner misery despite their riches, are spiritually poor (whereby they lack righteousness, true love, faith or any other fruits of the spirit), and they are naked before the world; their deeds are apparent to everyone but themselves. The church has no influence on the outside world at all, but is in fact influenced by the world and its evil practices, which have infiltrated the church itself.
Because of their wretchedness, God is giving them a chance to repent for their ways. He ironically councils them to buy from Him, gold that has been tried by fire. In other words, if they believe they are rich and have need of nothing, God requires them to take their riches and purchase (buy of [from] me) gold (experience, trials and tribulations that have past the test of true suffering) that they may truly be rich in spirit and not monetary wealth alone.
Unfortunately, today's church does not interpret the above scripture to mean what is described above because they are blind to the true ways of God and are unconsciously compelled to do the work of bringing the New World Order and the kingdom of the Anti-Christ to pass. A one world currency is in the making and churches encourage members to stay current with new financial trends. This push for members to work hard, buy land, and own capital provides a sure financial base for church leaders and makes servants and followers of a cult-like system of control.
Soon after its rise to complete power and world rule, the core of the Anti-Christ (and mega-church) will become corrupt from the inside. It will be revealed that the world and its nations and people were seduced by an adulterous whore who deceives the kings of the earth with her sorceries and wine of fornication. And when that day comes:
2. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 4. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. 5. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. 6. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. 7. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. 9. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10. Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. 11. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
--Revelation 18: 2-11
© Aug. 2007 By CR Hamilton




A FINANCIAL SYSTEM UNDER SIEGE



Friday, November 16, 2007
A Financial System under Siege
by Rodrigue Tremblay

"If these items [promised benefits in Social Security, Medicare, Veterans Administration and other entitlement programs] are factored in, the total [debt] burden in present value dollars is estimated to be about $53 trillion. Stated differently, the estimated current total burden for every American is nearly $175,000; and every day that burden becomes larger."
David Walker, comptroller general of the United States

"The economic forces driving the global saving-investment balance have been unfolding over the course of the past decade, so the steepness of the recent decline in long-term dollar yields and the associated distant forward rates suggests that something more may have been at work."
Alan Greenspan, former Fed Chairman, July 20, 2005

“The subprime black hole is appearing deeper, darker and scarier than they [the banks] thought. They’ve worked through ... about 40 percent of the backlog of the leveraged loan side, and there’s definitely some signs of thaw there.”
Tony James, president and CEO of Blackstone Group LP

The global dollar-based financial system is in crisis and is threatening the prosperity and stability of many economies. Financial excesses of all kinds have undermined its legitimacy and its efficiency. The U.S. dollar is losing its preeminence as the main international reserve currency while many banks are caught in the turmoil of the subprime credit crisis.

The overall background is the unprecedented real estate bubble that took place worldwide, from 1995 to 2005. In the United States, for example, owner-occupied home prices increased annually by an average of about 9 percent. The market value of the stock of owner-occupied homes in the U.S. rose from slightly less than $8 trillion in 1995 to slightly more than $18 trillion in 2005. It has been contracting ever since, confirming the working of the 18-year Kuznets realestate cycle, which has gone from the top of 1987 to the 2005 top.

What makes this period especially dangerous is the fact that the average 54-year long inflation-disinflation-deflation Kondratieff cycle is also at play, having begun in 1949 after prices were unfrozen. World inflation then rose for twenty years, until 1980, which was followed by a period of disinflation under the Volcker Fed. The entry of China into the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 11, 2001, with its abundant labor and low wages, unleashed strong deflationary forces worldwide. This in turn led to lower inflation expectations paving the way for the Greenspan Fed to keep interest rates abnormally low.

Persistent low interest rates and low inflation expectations led to a binge in borrowing and to a vast increase in market valuation, not only in real estate but also in stocks and bonds. Banks and other mortgage lending institutions took advantage of the opportunity to introduce some financial innovations in order to finance the exploding mortgage market. These innovations resulted in the severing of the traditional direct link between borrower and lender and the reduction in the lending risk normally associated with mortgage loans.


Thus, with the connivance of the rating agencies and of the Federal Reserve System, large banks invented new financial products under various names such as "Collateralized Bond Obligations" (CBOs), "Collateralized Debt Obligations" (CDOs), also called "Structured Investment Vehicles" (SIVs), which had the characteristics of unfunded short term commercial paper. In the residential mortgage market, for example, mortgage brokers and retail lenders would sell their mortgage loans to banks, which in turn would package them together and slice them into different classes of mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), carrying different levels of risk and return, before selling them to investors.

Indeed, these new financial instruments were the end result of a process of "asset securitization" and were slices of bundles of loans, not only of mortgage loans but also of credit cards debts, car loans, student loans and other receivables. Each slice carried a different risk load and a different yield. With the blessing of rating agencies, banks went even one step further, and they began pooling the more risky financial slices into more risky bundles and divided them again to be sold to investors in search of high yields.

By selling these new debt instruments to investors in search of high yields and higher yields, including hedged funds and pension funds, banks were doubly rewarded. First, they collected handsome managing fees for their efforts. But second, and more importantly, they unloaded the risk of lending to the unsuspected buyer of such securities, because in case of default on the original loans, the banks would be scot-free. They had already been paid and had been released from the risk of default and foreclosure on the original loans.

The banks' residual role was to collect and distribute interest, as long as borrowers made their interest payments. But if payments stopped, the capital losses incurred because of the decline in the value of unperforming loans would instead be carried by the investors in CBOs and CDOs. The banks themselves would suffer no losses and would be free to use their capital bases to engage in additional profitable lending. In fact, the end of the line investors became the real mortgage lenders (without reaping all the rewards of such risky loans) and the banks could reuse their capital to pyramid upward their loan operations. These were the best of times for banks and they gorged themselves without restraint. Some of them paid their employees tens of billions of dollars in year-end bonuses.

Indeed, and it is here that the Fed and other regulatory agencies failed, first line mortgage lenders became more and more aggressive in their lending, with the full knowledge that they could profitably unload the risk downstream. This explains the expansion of the "subprime" mortgage market where borrowing was done with no down payment, no interest payments for a while and no questions asked as to the income and creditworthiness of the borrower. These were not normal lending practices. Such Ponzi schemes could not last forever. And when housing prices started to decline, foreclosures also increased, thus shaking the new financial house of cards to its foundations. Banks became the reluctant owners of some of the foreclosed properties at very discounted values.

Why then are so many banks in financial difficulties, if the lending risk was transferred to unsuspecting investors? Essentially, because when the housing boom burst, the banks' inventory of unsold "asset-backed securities" was unusually high. When the piper stopped playing and investors stopped buying the newly created risky investments, their value plummeted overnight and banks were left with huge losses still not fully reflected in their financial balance sheets. Indeed, banks that did not unload their stocks of packaged mortgages were forced to accept ownership of foreclose properties at very discounted values. With little or no collateral behind the loans, bad-debt losses became unavoidable.
Since noboby knows for sure the value of something which is not traded, it will take months before banks come to terms with the total losses they have suffered in their stocks of unsold pre-packaged "asset-based securities". It is more than a normal "liquidity crisis" or "credit crunch" (which results when banks borrow short term and invest in illiquid long term assets); it is more like a "solvency crisis" if the banks' capital base is overtaken by the disclosure of huge financial losses incurred when the banks are forced to sell mortgaged assets in a depressed real estate market.

This is this financial and banking mess which is unfolding under our very eyes and which is threatening the American and international financial system. There are four classes of losers. First, the homebuyers who bought properties at inflated prices with little or no down payment and who now face foreclosure. Second, the investors who bought illiquid mortgage-backed commercial paper and who stand to lose part or all of their investments. Third, the holders of bank stocks who profited when the system worked smoothly but who now face declining stock values. And, finally, anybody who stands to fall victim, directly or indirectly, to the coming economic slowdown.

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Rodrigue Tremblay is a Canadian economist who lives in Montreal; he can be reached at rodrigue.tremblay@yahoo.com
Visit his blog site at: www.thenewamericanempire.com/blog.
Author's Website: www.thenewamericanempire.com/
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Posted, Friday, November 16, 2007, at 5:30 am

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

HOW THE CIA CREATED OSAMA BIN LADEN

How the CIA created Osama bin Laden

BY NORM DIXON ©, 19 September 2001
This article first appeared in Green Left Weekly, Australia's leading leftwing newspaper. Posted with permission of the author.

“Throughout the world ... its agents, client states and satellites are on the defensive — on the moral defensive, the intellectual defensive, and the political and economic defensive. Freedom movements arise and assert themselves. They're doing so on almost every continent populated by man — in the hills of Afghanistan, in Angola, in Kampuchea, in Central America ... [They are] freedom fighters.”

Is this a call to jihad (holy war) taken from one of Islamic fundamentalist Osama bin Laden's notorious fatwas? Or perhaps a communique issued by the repressive Taliban regime in Kabul?

In fact, this glowing praise of the murderous exploits of today's supporters of arch-terrorist bin Laden and his Taliban collaborators, and their holy war against the “evil empire”, was issued by US President Ronald Reagan on March 8, 1985. The “evil empire” was the Soviet Union, as well as Third World movements fighting US-backed colonialism, apartheid and dictatorship.

How things change. In the aftermath of a series of terrorist atrocities — the most despicable being the mass murder of more than 6000 working people in New York and Washington on September 11 — bin Laden the “freedom fighter” is now lambasted by US leaders and the Western mass media as a “terrorist mastermind” and an “evil-doer”.

Yet the US government refuses to admit its central role in creating the vicious movement that spawned bin Laden, the Taliban and Islamic fundamentalist terrorists that plague Algeria and Egypt — and perhaps the disaster that befell New York.

The mass media has also downplayed the origins of bin Laden and his toxic brand of Islamic fundamentalism.

Mujaheddin

In April 1978, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) seized power in Afghanistan in reaction to a crackdown against the party by that country's repressive government.

The PDPA was committed to a radical land reform that favoured the peasants, trade union rights, an expansion of education and social services, equality for women and the separation of church and state. The PDPA also supported strengthening Afghanistan's relationship with the Soviet Union.

Such policies enraged the wealthy semi-feudal landlords, the Muslim religious establishment (many mullahs were also big landlords) and the tribal chiefs. They immediately began organizing resistance to the government's progressive policies, under the guise of defending Islam.

Washington, fearing the spread of Soviet influence (and worse the new government's radical example) to its allies in Pakistan, Iran and the Gulf states, immediately offered support to the Afghan mujaheddin, as the “contra” force was known.

Following an internal PDPA power struggle in December 1979 which toppled Afghanistan's leader, thousands of Soviet troops entered the country to prevent the new government's fall. This only galvanized the disparate fundamentalist factions. Their reactionary jihad now gained legitimacy as a “national liberation” struggle in the eyes of many Afghans.

The Soviet Union was eventually to withdraw from Afghanistan in 1989 and the mujaheddin captured the capital, Kabul, in 1992.

Between 1978 and 1992, the US government poured at least US$6 billion (some estimates range as high as $20 billion) worth of arms, training and funds to prop up the mujaheddin factions. Other Western governments, as well as oil-rich Saudi Arabia, kicked in as much again. Wealthy Arab fanatics, like Osama bin Laden, provided millions more.

Washington's policy in Afghanistan was shaped by US President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and was continued by his successors. His plan went far beyond simply forcing Soviet troops to withdraw; rather it aimed to foster an international movement to spread Islamic fanaticism into the Muslim Central Asian Soviet republics to destabilize the Soviet Union.

Brzezinski's grand plan coincided with Pakistan military dictator General Zia ul-Haq's own ambitions to dominate the region. US-run Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe beamed Islamic fundamentalist tirades across Central Asia (while paradoxically denouncing the “Islamic revolution” that toppled the pro-US Shah of Iran in 1979).

Washington's favoured mujaheddin faction was one of the most extreme, led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The West's distaste for terrorism did not apply to this unsavory “freedom fighter”. Hekmatyar was notorious in the 1970's for throwing acid in the faces of women who refused to wear the veil.

After the mujaheddin took Kabul in 1992, Hekmatyar's forces rained US-supplied missiles and rockets on that city — killing at least 2000 civilians — until the new government agreed to give him the post of prime minister. Osama bin Laden was a close associate of Hekmatyar and his faction.

Hekmatyar was also infamous for his side trade in the cultivation and trafficking in opium. Backing of the mujaheddin from the CIA coincided with a boom in the drug business. Within two years, the Afghanistan-Pakistan border was the world's single largest source of heroin, supplying 60% of US drug users.

In 1995, the former director of the CIA's operation in Afghanistan was unrepentant about the explosion in the flow of drugs: “Our main mission was to do as much damage as possible to the Soviets... There was a fallout in terms of drugs, yes. But the main objective was accomplished. The Soviets left Afghanistan.”

Made in the USA

According to Ahmed Rashid, a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, in 1986 CIA chief William Casey committed CIA support to a long-standing ISI proposal to recruit from around the world to join the Afghan jihad. At least 100,000 Islamic militants flocked to Pakistan between 1982 and 1992 (some 60,000 attended fundamentalist schools in Pakistan without necessarily taking part in the fighting).

John Cooley, a former journalist with the US ABC television network and author of Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism, has revealed that Muslims recruited in the US for the mujaheddin were sent to Camp Peary, the CIA's spy training camp in Virginia, where young Afghans, Arabs from Egypt and Jordan, and even some African-American “black Muslims” were taught “sabotage skills”.

The November 1, 1998, British Independent reported that one of those charged with the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Ali Mohammed, had trained “bin Laden's operatives” in 1989.

These “operatives” were recruited at the al Kifah Refugee Centre in Brooklyn, New York, given paramilitary training in the New York area and then sent to Afghanistan with US assistance to join Hekmatyar's forces. Mohammed was a member of the US army's elite Green Berets.

The program, reported the Independent, was part of a Washington-approved plan called “ Operation Cyclone”.

In Pakistan, recruits, money and equipment were distributed to the mujaheddin factions by an organization known as Maktab al Khidamar (Office of Services — MAK).

MAK was a front for Pakistan's CIA, the Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate. The ISI was the first recipient of the vast bulk of CIA and Saudi Arabian covert assistance for the Afghan contras. Bin Laden was one of three people who ran MAK. In 1989, he took overall charge of MAK.

Among those trained by Mohammed were El Sayyid Nosair, who was jailed in 1995 for killing Israeli rightist Rabbi Meir Kahane and plotting with others to bomb New York landmarks, including the World Trade Center in 1993.

The Independent also suggested that Shiekh Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian religious leader also jailed for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, was also part of Operation Cyclone. He entered the US in 1990 with the CIA's approval. A confidential CIA report concluded that the agency was “partly culpable” for the 1993 World Trade Center blast, the Independent reported.

Bin Laden

Osama bin Laden, one of 20 sons of a billionaire construction magnate, arrived in Afghanistan to join the jihad in 1980. An austere religious fanatic and business tycoon, bin Laden specialized in recruiting, financing and training the estimated 35,000 non-Afghan mercenaries who joined the mujaheddin.

The bin Laden family is a prominent pillar of the Saudi Arabian ruling class, with close personal, financial and political ties to that country's pro-US royal family.

Bin Laden senior was appointed Saudi Arabia's minister of public works as a favour by King Faisal. The new minister awarded his own construction companies lucrative contracts to rebuild Islam's holiest mosques in Mecca and Medina. In the process, the bin Laden family company in 1966 became the world's largest private construction company.

Osama bin Laden's father died in 1968. Until 1994, he had access to the dividends from this ill-gotten business empire.

(Bin Laden junior's oft-quoted personal fortune of US$200-300 million has been arrived at by the US State Department by dividing today's value of the bin Laden family net worth — estimated to be US$5 billion — by the number of bin Laden senior's sons. A fact rarely mentioned is that in 1994 the bin Laden family disowned Osama and took control of his share.)

Osama's military and business adventures in Afghanistan had the blessing of the bin Laden dynasty and the reactionary Saudi Arabian regime. His close working relationship with MAK also meant that the CIA was fully aware of his activities.

Milt Bearden, the CIA's station chief in Pakistan from 1986 to 1989, admitted to the January 24, 2000, New Yorker that while he never personally met bin Laden, “Did I know that he was out there? Yes, I did ... [Guys like] bin Laden were bringing $20-$25 million a month from other Saudis and Gulf Arabs to underwrite the war. And that is a lot of money. It's an extra $200-$300 million a year. And this is what bin Laden did.”

In 1986, bin Laden brought heavy construction equipment from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan. Using his extensive knowledge of construction techniques (he has a degree in civil engineering), he built “training camps”, some dug deep into the sides of mountains, and built roads to reach them.

These camps, now dubbed “terrorist universities” by Washington, were built in collaboration with the ISI and the CIA. The Afghan contra fighters, including the tens of thousands of mercenaries recruited and paid for by bin Laden, were armed by the CIA. Pakistan, the US and Britain provided military trainers.

Tom Carew, a former British SAS soldier who secretly fought for the mujaheddin told the August 13, 2000, British Observer, “The Americans were keen to teach the Afghans the techniques of urban terrorism — car bombing and so on — so that they could strike at the Russians in major towns ... Many of them are now using their knowledge and expertise to wage war on everything they hate.”

Al Qaeda (the Base), bin Laden's organization, was established in 1987-88 to run the camps and other business enterprises. It is a tightly-run capitalist holding company — albeit one that integrates the operations of a mercenary force and related logistical services with “legitimate” business operations.

Bin Laden has simply continued to do the job he was asked to do in Afghanistan during the 1980's — fund, feed and train mercenaries. All that has changed is his primary customer. Then it was the ISI and, behind the scenes, the CIA. Today, his services are utilized primarily by the reactionary Taliban regime.

Bin Laden only became a “terrorist” in US eyes when he fell out with the Saudi royal family over its decision to allow more than 540,000 US troops to be stationed on Saudi soil following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

When thousands of US troops remained in Saudi Arabia after the end of the Gulf War, bin Laden's anger turned to outright opposition. He declared that Saudi Arabia and other regimes — such as Egypt — in the Middle East were puppets of the US, just as the PDPA government of Afghanistan had been a puppet of the Soviet Union.

He called for the overthrow of these client regimes and declared it the duty of all Muslims to drive the US out of the Gulf states. In 1994, he was stripped of his Saudi citizenship and forced to leave the country. His assets there were frozen.

After a period in Sudan, he returned to Afghanistan in May 1996. He refurbished the camps he had helped build during the Afghan war and offered the facilities and services — and thousands of his mercenaries — to the Taliban, which took power that September.

Today, bin Laden's private army of non-Afghan religious fanatics is a key prop of the Taliban regime.

Prior to the devastating September 11 attack on the twin towers of World Trade Center, US ruling-class figures remained unrepentant about the consequences of their dirty deals with the likes of bin Laden, Hekmatyar and the Taliban. Since the awful attack, they have been downright hypocritical.

In an August 28, 1998, report posted on MSNBC, Michael Moran quotes Senator Orrin Hatch, who was a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee which approved US dealings with the mujaheddin, as saying he would make “the same call again”, even knowing what bin Laden would become.

“It was worth it. Those were very important, pivotal matters that played an important role in the downfall of the Soviet Union.”

Hatch today is one of the most gung-ho voices demanding military retaliation.

Another face that has appeared repeatedly on television screens since the attack has been Vincent Cannistrano, described as a former CIA chief of “counter-terrorism operations”.

Cannistrano is certainly an expert on terrorists like bin Laden, because he directed their “work”. He was in charge of the CIA-backed Nicaraguan contras during the early 1980's. In 1984, he became the supervisor of covert aid to the Afghan mujaheddin for the US National Security Council.

The last word goes to Zbigniew Brzezinski: “What was more important in the world view of history? The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet Empire? A few stirred up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?”

THE END OF THE WORLD CULT

The End of the World Cult

C4, 10pm

The End of the World Cult The End of the World Cult

Self-styled Messiah Michael Travesser is at that awkward stage right now that many religious cult leaders go through. The world was supposed to end on October 31 this year, and conspicuously didn't.

British film-maker Ben Anthony visited the group's settlement in New Mexico as they prepared eagerly for the end and found Michael and his weird, bony-looking followers surprisingly willing to chat.

Michael's two female companions stare at him with a demented intensity. But what's most disturbing are the children - almost all girls - who have been brought up in this cult and then left there, even after their parents realised Michael wasn't the Messiah, but a 66-year-old former sailor called Wayne Bent.

Then, as Ben hears about a ceremony that called for seven virgins to help Michael mark the end of the world, his film takes an all-too predictable detour into the cult's sexual nature and the hold Michael has over his flock.

Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/showbiz/tv/todaystv/2007/12/12/the-end-of-the-world-cult-89520-20238832/

"MAN" BEHIND CIA TAPES DISPOSAL


The Man Who Ordered CIA's Tape Destruction

Jose Rodriguez Ordered Tapes Of Terror Interrogations Destroyed Without Telling CIA Director

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2007

Man Behind CIA Tape Disposal

There's a chill in Washington over the CIA tape case. David Martin reports the decision to destroy videotapes of the interrogations of two terror suspects apparently can be traced to one official at the agency.


(CBS) He is the man who ordered the destruction of video tapes documenting the CIA’s interrogation of two high-level al Qaeda operatives.

The then-head of the clandestine service, Jose Rodriguez, ordered the tapes destroyed shortly after a Washington Post expose focused attention on the CIA’s secret prisons, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

“Well, I think there might have been concern that those tapes could have been called for by some outside body and the CIA would no longer maintain control over them,” said retired CIA officer John Brennan, who is now a CBS News consultant.

Brennan says Rodriguez was also worried the Justice Department was backing away from its earlier support of harsh interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding.

“And that therefore agency officers who participated in those interrogation sessions may be subject to some type of prosecution,” Brennan said.

Rodriguiz ordered the tapes destroyed without telling then-CIA director Porter Goss and against the advice of the CIA’s own general counsel, the White House deputy counsel and the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

“I expressed concern about destroying any video tapes and said that would be a very ill-advised move by the agency,” Rep. Jane Harman, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said.

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou led the raid, which captured the al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah, told CBS News he and at least one other CIA officer refused to use the harsh interrogation techniques.

That job, he said, was turned over to retired commandos under contract to the CIA.

Ten years ago, Rodriguez was fired as chief of the CIA’s Latin America division after he sought to intervene to help a friend who had been arrested in the Dominican Republic for possession of cocaine and illegal weapons. The friend had also worked for the CIA in the Dominican Republic….[T]he director of the CIA felt that any criticism that might result from unmasking the top spy’s identity was outweighed by the need to emphasize the agency’s goal of recruiting officers from a variety of backgrounds.

AMERICAN JIHAD


Lt. General William Boykin (Retired).

American Jihad


By Farai Chideya, AlterNet. Posted October 21, 2003.




The most troubling aspect of the Boykin incident is not the general's religious warmongering, but the Bush administration's reaction to his comments.


There are several battles going on simultaneously in Iraq. One is to secure the country against lawlessness and terrorism. Another is to dole out the spoils of the oil resources. Third is to secure victory for George W. Bush in the 2004 elections. And yet another is to win a public relations offensive, convincing the world that this was a just war in the first place.



In that last campaign, mark one for America in the "skirmish lost" column.



Recently NBC News broadcast footage of Army Lt. General William Boykin, a deputy undersecretary of defense, equating our campaigns in the Middle East to a religious war. Among his arguments: that Islam is "a spiritual enemy. He's called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan," out to destroy America "because we're a Christian nation."



For bonus points, Boykin also pegged God (not the Supreme Court) as the deciding factor in the 2000 elections. "Why is this man [President Bush] in the White House?" he said. "The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this."



Who does it serve to antagonize not Islamic terrorists, who need no further incentive for their deeds, but the rest of the members of the world's fastest growing religion? If any Islamic cleric or politician were to make similar statements about Christianity in a public forum, you can bet our government would decry their hate speech.



Therefore the most troubling aspect of the Boykin incident is not his words, but the Bush administration's reaction to his attacks. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called Boykin "an officer that has an outstanding record in the United States Armed Forces." He then defended the Lt. General's statements on free speech grounds, saying, "We're a free people."



A free speech defense has great appeal. But this administration, which has relentlessly criticized those who speak out against the Iraq war and occupation, seems to have a very selective view of its uses. (Remember former White House spokesman Ari Flesicher admonishing Bill Maher of 'Politically Incorrect' and "all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do"?)



Much has been made of the evangelical Christianity of President Bush. He has tried to blend his courting of evangelical voters with attempts to extend an olive branch to a growing political force, Arab-Americans. But the President and his administration cannot have it both ways. They cannot restrict the meaning of "true American" to "Christian-American," and also purport to believe in a pluralistic society. And they cannot allow the military to promote the idea of an American Jihad -- a religious war -- while claiming to fight a religion-neutral war on terrorism as well.



The issue of religion in American identity will be one of the lynchpins around which the 2004 election turns. Currently the Supreme Court is debating whether schoolchildren should use the phrase "under God" (which was only added during the Red Scare of the 1950s) while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. The Supreme Court may well bar the use of the words in school -- but every politician running for President will then, to court voters, leap to their defense. On a much deeper level, the Red State/Blue State faultline corresponds nicely with states in which evangelical or fundamentalist beliefs pervade (Red) versus states with a healthy, if hard-won, sense of religious pluralism (Blue).



In our own nation, and abroad, we cannot take lightly the threat that religious warmongering holds for our Union or our standing in the world. The administration must recognize the speech of Lt. Gen. Boykin and any others like him for what it really is: a threat to national security and American democracy as well.



Source: http://www.alternet.org/story/17002/

P.S. Bolds added for emphasis. Blogman

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

MOVING CLOSER TO THE ERA OF MIND CONTROL

Mind Control
Listen to this 1 hour interview on the Investigative Journal with host Greg Szymanski. Greg interviews Steve Jacobson, an expert on Mind Control. This is a pre-recorded show that aired on Jan. 10, 2006. Download by right clicking or just click the link to listen. Pokemon is talked about as well as the animaniacs. Listen Here

We are moving ever closer to the era of mind control

The military interest in new brain-scanning technology is beginning to show a sinister side

Steven Rose The Observer

Brain scientists are on a roll. Concern about rising levels of mental distress have resulted in unprecedented levels of funding in the US and Europe. And a range of new technologies, from genetics to brain imaging, are offering extraordinary insights into the molecular and cellular processes underlying how we see, how we remember, why we become emotional.

Brain imaging has become familiar. Scanners, known by their initials - CAT, PET, MRI - began as clinical tools, enabling surgeons to identify potential tumors, the damage following a stroke or the diagnostic signs of incipient dementia. But neuroscientists quickly seized on their wider potential. The images of regions of the brain 'lighting up' when a person is thinking of their lover, imagining traveling from home to the shops, or solving a mathematical problem, have captured the imagination of researchers and public alike. What if they could do more?

Recently I published the results of an experiment in which we looked at the regions of the brain that became active when people chose between competing products in supermarkets. Major companies, ranging from Coca-Cola to BMW, are starting to image the brains of potential customers to study how they respond to new designs or brands. They are beginning to speak of 'neuromarketing' and 'neuroeconomics.'

Such trends may be relatively innocuous, but the increasing state interest in what the images might reveal is less so. Specifically, what if brain imaging could predict future behaviour, or indicate guilt or innocence of a crime? There are claims, for example, that it could reveal potential 'psychopathy', that the brains of men convicted of brutal murders show significantly abnormal patterns.

In the current legislative climate, where there have been attempts to introduce pre-emptive detention for 'psychopaths' who have not yet been convicted of any crime, such claims need to be addressed critically. They are and will be resisted by the judiciary, but recent developments suggest that this may be a frail defense against an increasingly authoritarian state.

More seriously, there is increasing military interest in the development of techniques that can survey and possibly manipulate the mental processes of potential enemies, or enhance the potential of one's own troops. There is nothing new about such an interest. In the US, it stretches back at least half a century. Impressed by claims that the Soviet Union was developing psychological warfare, the CIA and the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (Darpa) began their own programmes. Early experiments included the clandestine feeding of LSD to their own operatives and attempts at 'brain-washing'. These were the forerunners of the hoods and white noise used by the British in Northern Ireland - until judged illegal - and more recently in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, where they inhabit an uncertain borderline between what the US government regards as an acceptable level of violence and the torture that it denies committing.

By the 1960s, Darpa, along with the US Navy, was funding almost all US research into 'artificial intelligence', in order to develop methods and technologies for the 'automated battlefield' and the 'intelligent soldier'. Contracts were let and patents taken out on techniques aimed at recording signals from the brains of enemy personnel at a distance, in order to 'read their minds'.

These efforts have burgeoned in the aftermath of the so-called 'war on terror'. One US company claims to have developed a technique called 'brain- fingerprinting', which can 'determine the truth regarding a crime, terrorist activities or terrorist training by detecting information stored in the brain'. The stress of lying under interrogation is supposed to result in a specific wave form which electrodes measuring the brain's fluctuating electrical signals can detect. We may be skeptical about the validity of such methods, but they indicate the direction in which research is heading. The company claims its procedures have been accepted in evidence in court in the US.

The step beyond reading thoughts is to attempt to control them directly. A new technique - transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) - has begun to generate interest. This focuses an intense magnetic field on specific brain regions, and has been shown to affect thoughts, perceptions and behavior. There are suggestions it could be used to control obsessive-compulsive behavior, while some even take seriously the scenario envisaged in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which TMS was used to erase unwanted memories of a love affair gone wrong. Currently only possible if a subject's head is put inside the relevant machine, TMS at a distance is now under active military investigation. So is chip technology, which might provide implanted prostheses to overcome sensory deficits or control behavior, and whose potential bioethics committees around Europe have been scrutinizing.

It is tempting to dismiss all these as technological fantasies and their proponents as sellers of snake oil, but the fact that a technology is faulty doesn't mean it won't be used. One only has to think of the tens of thousands of lobotomies carried out on schizophrenic patients in the past century. Britain is one of the world's leading examples of a surveillance society, observing its citizens through CCTV cameras and controlling their behavior with Asbos and Ritalin. The potential for surveillance of citizen's thoughts has moved far beyond the visions of 1984

Science cannot happen without major public or private expenditure but its goals are set at least as much by the market and the military as by the disinterested pursuit of knowledge. This is why neuroscientists have a responsibility to make their subject and its potentials as transparent as possible, and why the voices of concerned citizens should be heard not 'downstream' when the technologies are already fully formed, but 'upstream' while the science is still in progress. We have to find ways of ensuring that such voices are listened through the cacophony of slogans about 'better brains' - and the power of the military and the market.

This is an edited extract from Better Humans? The Politics of Human Enhancement and Life Extension, a collection of essays to be published by Demos and the Wellcome Trust on Wednesday. Steven Rose is Professor of Biology at the Open University.

Source: http://www.exposingsatanism.org/mind-control.htm

WELCOME TO SPOOKLAND...

Welcome to Spookland: Tricks of the Trade of the CIA

by Steve Mizrach
http://educate-yourself.org/mc/spooklandtricks19oct06.shtml
Posted Oct. 19, 2006

http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/spookland.html

Origin and Function of the CIA: The "Cult of Intelligence"

The CIA was created at the outset of the Cold War by Truman's National Security Act of 1947. That Act was a response to Yalta, and to the general pervasive fear that, after WW II, the greatest threat to world peace was the communists. The CIA was mostly formed out of the reorganized OSS (Office of Strategic Services) which coordinated espionage and intelligence activities against the Nazis. (However, anti-communism was an overarching concern for the new agency, which enlisted some of its old enemies against a previous ally: many former Nazis functionaries, such as Richard Gehlen, were enlisted into the CIA spy network in Eastern Europe.)

Read whole article at source: http://educate-yourself.org/mc/spooklandtricks19oct06.shtml

CIA CHIEF GRILLED ON TORTURE TAPES

CIA chief grilled on torture tapes

By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington

Published: December 11 2007 20:11 Last updated: December 11 2007 23:24


General Michael Hayden, Central Intelligence Agency director, was grilled on Capitol Hill on Tuesday over the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of two al-Qaeda members.

The CIA has come under intense scrutiny following the revelation that interrogators videotaped the questioning of Abu Zubaydah, an alleged 9/11 planner, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the destroyer USS Cole in Aden, and later destroyed the tapes.

The justice department and CIA inspector-general have launched an investigation into the destruction of the tapes. Gen Hayden was appearing before a closed-door session of the House and Senate intelligence committees, which are also investigating the incident.

George W. Bush, US president, on Tuesday said he first learned that the tapes had been destroyed in a briefing by Gen Hayden last week.

“There’s a preliminary inquiry going on and I think you’ll find that a lot more data, facts will be coming out, that’s good,” Mr Bush told ABC news. “It will be interesting to know what the true facts are.”

Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, described Gen Hayden’s testimony as useful but “not complete”. The CIA director is scheduled for a second day of questions on Wednesday.

Comments by a former CIA operative have fuelled the affair. John Kiriakou, who was involved in the interrogations of Mr Zubaydah, this week told ABC news that the CIA subjected Mr Zubaydah to waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning. On Tuesday he told NBC the policy to use waterboarding was approved by the White House. Dana Perino, White House press secretary, refused to discuss the case but said the US did not use torture.

Mr Kiriakou said interrogators used waterboarding on Mr Zubaydah after he refused to co-operate and that the technique was immediately effective, forcing him to break down in 35 seconds. Other reports have suggested that the al-Qaeda operative told interrogators what they wanted to hear to stop the waterboarding.

Critics have accused the CIA of destroying the tapes to hide evidence that the US tortured detainees captured in the “war on terror”, interrogating them in secret prisons worldwide. Gen Hayden said the move was taken to protect the identity of interrogators. Some members of Congress have disputed claims by the CIA that lawmakers were notified of the intent to destroy the tapes.

Some senators have questioned whether the justice department can conduct a fair investigation given that Michael Mukasey, the new attorney-general, refused to classify waterboarding as torture during his confirmation hearing.

On Tuesday he said he had not reviewed justice department legal opinions to come to a conclusion on whether the technique should be considered torture.

TWO STUDENTS HURT IN BUS SHOOTING

US students hurt in bus shooting
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Two students were critically injured and four others hurt when they came under fire as they left a school bus in Las Vegas, US police say.

The six were all either middle or high school students and were shot just before 1400 local time (2200 GMT), the Associated Press news agency reports.

At least two people are believed to have taken part in the shootings, a police officer said.

It was not clear if the suspects had been on foot or in a vehicle.

According to local newspaper Las Vegas Review Journal, the six students were shot near a bus stop on "Alexander Road at Walnut Road".

Two are believed to be in their late teens and the others are believed to be juveniles, it said, adding that one of those hurt is a girl.

Two male casualties were reportedly shot in the torso and the others apparently suffered less serious wounds, the newspaper added.


Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7139743.stm

A DRIFTING SHIP



2RH 231, col 1 (7-24-1888): "The solemn question should come home to every member of our churches, how are we standing before God, as the professed followers of Jesus Christ?...Spiritual death has come upon the people that should be manifesting life and zeal, purity and consecration, by the most earnest devotion to the cause of truth. The facts concerning the real condition of the professed people of God, speak more loudly than their profession, and make it evident that some power has cut the cable that anchored them to the Eternal Rock, and that they are drifting away to sea, without chart or compass."1

1SM 206-07: "Many of our people do not realize how firmly the foundation of our faith has been laid....a line of truth extending from that time (1844) to the time when we shall enter the city of God, was made plain to me, and I gave to others the instruction that the Lord had given me."2

1&2 Wheat & Tares: http://www.lightministries.com/SDA/Booklets/id121.htm

Monday, December 10, 2007

AMERICA'S SECRET ESTABLISHMENT



America's Secret Establishment

An Introduction to The Order of Skull & Bones

(Liberty House Press, 1986)

By Antony C. Sutton

See also Bush, Beliefs, and elusive Bonesmen



"Quite a mixture of beliefs and activities. Do they reflect inconsistent philosophies? How can The Order [of Skull & Bones] have a consistent objective with this potpourri of individual actions? The answer is, they are not at all inconsistent: because the objective of The Order is above and beyond these actions and in fact needs these seeming contradictions....

"The answer to this seeming political puzzle lies in Hegelian logic...." (pp.33-34)



Memorandum #6: Operations Of The Order

"The Anglo American Establishment has nothing at all to do with the American establishment, which is hardly mentioned, but it has a lot to do with the British establishment.... Quigley describes in minute detail the historical operations of the British establishment controlled by a secret society and operating very much as The Order [of Skull & Bones] operates in the U.S...."

The Group

"The British secret society, known as “The Group” or just plain “US”, was founded at Oxford University, much as The Order was founded at Yale, but without the Masonic mumbo jumbo. As we. noted in Memorandum Five, the Group operates in a series of concentric circles and like The Order consists of old line families allied with private merchant bankers, known in the U. S. as investment bankers." 30

Modus Operandi Of The Order

"The activities of The Order are directed towards changing our society, changing the world, to bring about a New World Order. This will be a planned order with heavily restricted individual freedom, without Constitutional protection, without national boundaries or cultural distinction....

"Historically, operations of The Order have concentrated on society, how to change society in a specific manner towards a specific goal: a New World Order. We know the elements in society that will have to be changed in order to bring about this New World order.... More or less these elements would have to be--

Education — how the population of the future will behave,
Money — the means of holding wealth and exchanging goods.
Law — the authority to enforce the will of the state, a world law and a world court is needed for a world state,
Politics — the direction of the State,
Economy — the creation of wealth,
History — what people believe happened in the past,
Psychology — the means of controlling how people think,
Philanthropy — so that people think well of the controllers,
Medicine — the power over health, life and death,
Religion — people’s spiritual beliefs, the spur to action for many.
Media — what people know and learn about current events,
Continuity — the power to appoint who follows in your footsteps.

"...in the next volume, The Order Controls Education, we will describe how Daniel Coit Gilman. President of Johns Hopkins University, imported Wundt psychological methods from Germany, then welded education and psychology in the U.S., established laboratories, brought these educational laboratories into major Universities and generated hundreds of PhDs to teach the new educational conditioning system. One of the first of these Johns Hopkins doctorates was John Dewey. The result we well know. The educational morass of the ‘80s where most kids — not all — can’t spell, read or write, yet can be programmed into mass behaviour channels.

"The Order’s next move was to control the Foundations. They got all the big ones — Carnegie, Ford, Peabody, Slater, Russell Sage and so on. ... The initial objective was to establish a direction in an organization. Selection of managers, intuitive or amoral enough to catch on to the direction, kept the momentum going. In the case of Foundations, The Order has usually maintained a continuing presence over decades..."32

Activities by individual members...

• In the l920s, W. Averell Harriman [S&B] was a prime supporter of the Soviets with finance and diplomatic assistance, at a time when such aid was against State Department regulations. Harriman participated in RUSKOMBANK, the first Soviet commercial ink, bank.... The Order had a key post in a Soviet bank! But we also find that Averell Harriman, his brother Roland Harriman, and... Knight Woolley [S&B], through the Union Bank (in which they held a major interest) were prime financial backers of Hitler.

"Now our textbooks tell us that Nazis and Soviets were bitter enemies and their systems are opposites. How could a rational man support Soviets and Nazis at the same time?....

• The Bundy family... gives us another example of seeming inconsistency. William Bundy was with the Central Intelligence Agency for a decade. McGeorge Bundy was National Security Assistant to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. So the Bundys presumably support U.S-European policy which is pro-NATO. Yet the Bundys have been linked to activities and organizations which are anti-NATO arid, indeed, pro-Marxist — for example, the Institute for Policy Studies. Are the Bundys inconsistent?

• Among individual members of The Order we find a wide variety of publicly proclaimed beliefs, ideologies and politics. William Buckley periodically chews out the Soviets.... Member William S. Coffin, Jr. spent three years with CIA and then became a leader of anti-Vietnam war activity through the National Conference for a New Politics and Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. In fact, Coffin was one of the Boston Five charged and indicted for conspiracy to violate Federal laws.

"Quite a mixture of beliefs and activities. Do they reflect inconsistent philosophies? How can The Order have a consistent objective with this potpourri of individual actions?

"The answer is, they are not at all inconsistent: because the objective of The Order is above and beyond these actions and in fact needs these seeming contradictions."33

[Note: Remember the dialectic group must have diversity. The pre-planned "common ground" arises out of the growing consensus -- a synthesis of opposite beliefs and values.]

The State is Absolute

"How can there exist a common objective when members are apparently acting in opposition to one another?

"Probably the most difficult task in this work will be to get across to the reader what is really an elementary observation: that the objective of The Order is neither “left” nor “right”. “Left” and “right” are artificial devices to bring about change, and the extremes of political left and political right are vital elements in a process of controlled change.

"The answer to this seeming political puzzle lies in Hegelian logic. Remember that both Marx and Hitler, the extremes of “left” and “right” presented as textbook enemies, evolved out of the same philosophical system: Hegelianism. That brings screams of intellectual anguish from Marxists and Nazis, but is well known to any student of political systems.

"The dialectical process did not originate with Marx as Marxists claim, but with Fichte and Hegel in late 18th and early 19th century Germany. In the dialectical process a clash of opposites brings about a synthesis. For example, a clash of political left and political right brings about another political system, a synthesis of the two, neither left nor right. This conflict of opposites is essential to bring about change....

"In the Hegelian system conflict is essential. Furthermore, for Hegel and systems based on Hegel, the State is absolute. The State requires complete obedience from the individual citizen. An individual does not exist for himself in these so-called organic systems but only to perform a role in the operation of the State. He finds freedom only in obedience to the State. There was no freedom in Hitler’s Germany, there is no freedom for the individual under Marxism, neither will there be in the New World Order. And if it sounds like George Orwell’s 1984 — it is....

"So who or what is the State? Obviously it’s a self-appointed elite. It is interesting that Fichte, who developed these ideas before Hegel, was a freemason...." 34

This, then, is a vital part of our explanation of The Order. When its co-founder, William Russell, was in Germany in 1831-2, there was no way he could have avoided Hegelian theory and discussion. It was the talk of the campus. It swept intellectual Germany like a Pac Man craze. Most Americans haven’t heard of it. And those who have don’t want to hear any more about it. Why? Because its assumptions are completely at variance with our sense of individual freedom and Constitutional guarantees. Most of us believe the State exists to serve the individual, not vice versa.

The Order believes the opposite to most of us. ... So any discussion between left and right, while essential to promote change, is never allowed to develop into a discussion along the lines of ... the best government is least government. The discussion and the funding is always towards more state power, use of state power and away from individual rights. So it doesn’t matter from the viewpoint of The Order whether it is termed left, right, Democratic, Republican, secular or religious.... This is the common feature between the seemingly dissimilar positions taken by members — they have a higher common objective in which clash of ideas is essential. So long as rights of the individual are not introduced into the discussion the clash of ideas generates the conflict necessary for change.

As the objective is also global control an emphasis is placed on global thinking, i.e., internationalism. This is done through world organizations and world law. The great contribution of the Tafts to The Order was on the world court system and world law — to the internationalist aspect of the New World Order." 35



Memorandum #7: How The Order relates to The Council On Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission...

Organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) do not fit the requirements for a conspiracy. They are simply too large and their membership is not secret. The membership list for The Order has never surfaced until now. Anyone can obtain a list of members for the CFR and the Trilateral Commission....

"...the CFR and its sister organizations are not geared to action and implementation of policy.... The larger open organizations are a forum for discussion, a place where ideas can be kicked around, “a rich man’s club”, as someone commented, where people can be assessed, where discrete comment and criticism can be made away from a nosy press...

The Role Of The Order

The Order is represented in these organizations but does not always dominate. David Rockefeller, a former chairman of the CFR, is not a member of The Order (only Percy Rockefeller has represented the family), but the present CFR chairman, Winston Lord, is. We can represent the relationship between The Order and the larger groups as a series of concentric circles. The CFR, etc. form an outer circle.... They exist in a shadow cast by an inner organization. It is this inner organization that needs to be surfaced. The Order is the inner circle and Chapter 322 is a part of this inner circle..." 37

In brief, it looks like three segments [similar to the Freemasons]:
1. The outer circle, made up of large, open organizations with some membership coming from The Order.
2. The Inner circle, made up of one or more secret societies.... We can only prove one chapter at this time.
3. The Inner core, a secret society within a secret society. This is the inner decision-making core. We cannot prove it exists, but
logic suggests that some members of the inner circle will form an executive committee, an action group, an inner core..."37



See also Bush Believes in Universalism?

Facilitating permanent social change and

Using Dissatisfaction (a crisis) for social transformation

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Source: http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/reinventing-government/skull-sutton.htm

RON PAUL: HONEST...JEFFREY TOOBIN: CFR SHILL

Ron Paul: Honest, Consistent; Jeffrey Toobin: CFR Shill

- by Terry Melanson, Dec. 4th, 2007

Jeffrey Toobin: CFR One of the most pernicious examples of collusion with the fascist-elite against the voting public, is the fact that major news networks regularly employ talking heads who are simultaneously card-carrying members of a conspiracy elite cabal - either the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Trilateral Commission, the Bohemian Club, or the Bilderberg Group.

Let's get this out of the way to begin with: Jeffrey Toobin is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (2006-). See the complete rosters of the CFR (PDF: the years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007) to confirm. "Knowledge is Power," as the elite are fond of saying. And just knowing this fact, is key to understanding Jeffrey Toobin's motive in attacking Ron Paul after the CNN Republican YouTube debate (28/11/2007):


[YouTube Video]

"...that some secret forces are planning..." Ya, like the CFR! Of which Ron Paul, and the guy who asked the question, mentioned specifically. Toobin's vitriol is directed at Paul for the simple fact that the CFR is named as the lynchpin of the North American Union. Toobin is enamored with the power and prestige associated with his beloved Council on Foreign Relations. Being such a fresh recruit, defending the organization is the least he can do - and is most likely required.


[YouTube Video]

Here's the transcript of Ron Paul's question/answer:

YouTube question: Good evening, candidates. This is (inaudible) from Arlington, Texas, and this question is for Ron Paul.

I've met a lot of your supporters online, but I've noticed that a good number of them seem to buy into this conspiracy theory regarding the Council of Foreign Relations, and some plan to make a North American union by merging the United States with Canada and Mexico.

These supporters of yours seem to think that you also believe in this theory. So my question to you is: Do you really believe in all this, or are people just putting words in your mouth?

Cooper: Congressman Paul, 90 seconds.

Paul: Well, it all depends on what you mean by "all of this." The CFR exists, the Trilateral Commission exists. And it's a, quote, "conspiracy of ideas." This is an ideological battle. Some people believe in globalism. Others of us believe in national sovereignty.

And there is a move on toward a North American union, just like early on there was a move on for a European Union, and it eventually ended up.

And there is a move on toward a North American Union, just like early on there was a move on for a European Union, and eventually ended up. So we had NAFTA and moving toward a NAFTA highway. These are real things. It's not somebody made these up. It's not a conspiracy. They don't talk about it, and they might not admit about it, but there's been money spent on it. There was legislation passed in the Texas legislature unanimously to put a halt on it. They're planning on millions of acres taken by eminent domain for an international highway from Mexico to Canada, which is going to make the immigration problem that much worse.

So it's not so much a secretive conspiracy, it's a contest between ideologies, whether we believe in our institutions here, our national sovereignty, our Constitution, or are we going to further move into the direction of international government, more U.N.

You know, this country goes to war under U.N. resolutions. I don't like big government in Washington, so I don't like this trend toward international government. We have a WTO that wants to control our drug industry, our nutritional products. So, I'm against all that.

But it's not so much as a sinister conspiracy. It's just knowledge is out there. If we look for it, you'll realize that our national sovereignty is under threat.

Cooper: Congressman Paul, thank you.

(Applause)

That's a pretty straightforward answer, even courageous when you take into account the reality that most people alloted airtime on the mainstream media are invariably sellouts to the elite (Toobin, being a perfect example). The deck is stacked, and has been for quite some time now. Since the birth of the CFR in 1921, its members have variously been elected to high government office (executive branch included) and have traditionally had control over the state department in every administration; not to mention the induction and corruption of America's most prominent journalists, editors, business moguls and Ivy League educators.

On what Ron Paul has said (and a rebuttal to the MSM's denial), please see the latest primer by Steve Watson: "Dear Deluded Mass Media, North American Union Agenda Exists." There's also good material by the Council of Canadians, in a section of their site called "Integrate This!", as well as John W. Foster's "The North American Competitiveness Council: A corporate coup d'etat."

Lastly, the North American Forum had its third annual secret conference in Mexico recently - whose entire existence would still be unknown if it weren't for a few determined souls. As I reported in September last year, the CFR's "Building a North American Community" was the "final recommendation before the Independent Task Force on North America disbanded in September, 2005." The document explicitly recommended the creation of "private bodies that would meet regularly or annually to buttress North American relationships, along the lines of the Bilderberg or Wehrkunde conferences." And wouldn't you know it, just a month later, the North American Forum convened in secret and included 12 members of the original CFR task force. In essence, the CFR - after recommending an agenda and then anointing themselves for that very task - became the sole arbiters of the secret negotiations to implement "a North American economic and security community by 2010."

If you live in North America, it is high time you become familiar with those who have your future in their hands. They met again this year, in secrecy as usual. And just like the Bilderberg group - to get a handle on what it is they're up to - insiders and whistleblowers are the only means of effecting even the smallest amount of accountability.

Source: http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Ron_Paul_Jeffrey_Toobin.htm