Saturday, August 28, 2010

Religious leaders speak out for freedom of expression in Mexico


Mexico City, Mexico, Aug 27, 2010 / 09:54 pm (CNA).- This week numerous religious denominations in Mexico banded together to publish the “Interdenominational Manifesto of Mexico,” reaffirming that no religious minister should be silenced under any circumstance.
The manifesto states that religious leaders must not be silenced because “it is our duty and obligation to guide the consciences of the members of our communities.”

“The secular state cannot and must not persecute religious ministers because of their opinions or attempt to silence their public statements,” because these things are necessary to “sustain the relationship between the being and God the Creator,” the manifesto continues.

“In any revision or analysis of laws that relates to human life, morality or bioethics, the opinions of various religious leaders must be heard,” it adds, noting that this was not the case with the recent laws passed on same-sex “marriage” and adoption.

The manifesto says the secular state must not overreach its authority and engage in militant secularism or persecution. The natural law must be respected above every human law, it continues, urging leaders to revoke anti-life anti-family laws and to cease all efforts to silence religious leaders.

The manifest was signed by the Methodist Church of Mexico, the Lutheran Church, the Maronite Church, the Anglican Church, the Greek-Melkite Church and the Hare Krishna Movement.
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Source: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/religious-leaders-speak-out-for-freedom-of-expression-in-mexico/ .
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Friday, August 27, 2010

New World Order – Jesuit Priests – Illuminati – Clip


According to a most eye-opening and incredibly compelling book Codeword Barbelon http://www.luxverbi.org.uk/arch/Codeword_Barb%C3%AAl%C3%B4n_Foreword_ISBN_0-954359666_and_ISBN_9780954359669.htm , by author P.D. Stuart, Obama is under the control of the Jesuits and has been for many years.

We also discovered that even the Pope Benedict XVI gave Obama his blessings after his election victory in November. As far as I am aware this is the first time a Pope has blessed the Presidency so openly. See the attached pdf news report on p. 16A from the National Post titled: “Pope Blesses Obama”!!

But first, here is a little Obama history.
Many years ago, Obama’s wife to be, Michelle Robinson, a promising associate at the same Chicago Loop law firm, Sidley Austin, became a good friend and mentor to a young paralegal looking for career advice, Mike Strautmanis; as did her future husband, Barack H. Obama.
Strautmanis, who is now 39 and a senior legal counsel to Obama presidential team, attended a very special school: the Jesuit-run St. Ignatius College Prep, one of Chicago’s influential Catholic schools.
You may think this is a mere coincidence, but Strautmanis is not Mr. Obama’s only or even his most important Jesuit confidant!

It’s around that time [while Obama was working as an organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) in Chicago] that Mr. Obama developed long-lasting ties with the Catholic Church and her most wily agents–the Jesuits.

So much so that Obama can’t seem to avoid apointing Jesuits to his inner circle of advisers and managers. These Jesuits are all men of amphibologia [i.e. double sensed words] and the most wonderful obstinacy whose sole objective, according to one of their former pupils, is to secure “to the highest office of state men who they have poisoned with their maxims.” (See, Jean Lacouture, Jesuits: A Multibiography, p. 340. Note: Jean Lacouture is himself an ancien élève of the Jesuits—i.e. a former pupil).

No wonder Edmund Burke wrote that the Jesuits are “an infectious ‘plague’ requiring ‘the precautions of the most severe quarantine.’ “
Even Pope Gregory IX had to admit: “The Jesuit foxes have various faces, but they all hang together by their tails.”

Enough of that.. Lets see what the author of Codeword Barbelon
http://www.luxverbi.org.uk/arch/Codeword_Barb%C3%AAl%C3%B4n_Foreword_ISBN_0-954359666_and_ISBN_9780954359669.htm reveals about Obama’s Jesuit foxes:

“Obama’s Chicago mentor” is “Gregory Galluzzo – a ‘former’ Jesuit priest….” [Jesuit Temporal Coadjutor and featured writer for the Pope's American neo-fascist Executive Intelligence Review, Webster Tarpley, mentions Galluzzo in his book, Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography.]

“Obama’s Chief Speechwriter, Jon Favreau, was Jesuit-trained.”
“Obama’s Senior Military and Foreign Policy Advisor, Maj. Gen. J. Scott
Gration, was Jesuit-trained.”
“Obama’s Deputy Communications Director, Dan Pfeiffer, was Jesuit-trained.”
How many other Jesuit agents Mr. Obama has on his team we may never know, for as American historian J. Wayne Laurens writes: “They [the Jesuits] are not merely priests, or of one religious creed; they are merchants [Wall Street Bankers] … and editors, and men of any profession, having no outward badge by which to be recognized…. “
[J. Wayne Laurens, The Crisis in America : or the Enemies of America Unmasked (Philadelphia: G. D. Miller, 1855), p. 265; cited in Codeword Barbelon].

Note too, that Obama’s Global Poverty Act, passed in 2007, was launched at a conference in San Francisco to lobby for the bill. The conference was held at the University of San Francisco, a Jesuit Catholic Institution [seventy miles south of the Order's Bohemian Grove] with a “global perspective,” under the auspices of the Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought.
In all of the above we have clues as to his agenda and who backed him: he was trained and mentored by Jesuits [no doubt, connectted to the Order through the Ford Foundation for which his atheist, White mother worked; the Ford Foundation oversaw the faith-mixing, race-mixing, culture-mixing Gamaliel Foundation for which Barry Davis Obama worked alongside co-founder Jesuit priest Greg Galluzo now an "ex-Jesuit" and the Foundation's Executive Director], he worked for the Catholic Church for most of his life, and he has even chosen a Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic, Joe Biden, as his vice-president. What does that tell you? Do you think all this Catholic connection is mere coincidence and stands for nothing? One can draw the conclusion that Obama’s relationship with the Jesuits is much more important to his success in this election and even more extensive than many think. Incidentally, Joe Biden lectures at the Jesuit University in Scranton [a major recruiting station for the Black Pope's Central Intelligence Agency] and his son, according to an official Federal finance document, was paid over $80,000.00 last year by the Jesuits to lobby for them in the White House!!
Joe Biden’s son was Jesuit-trained at Georgetown University and is paid to lobby for the Jesuit University of Scranton. Joe Biden was also given an honorary degree from the Jesuit University of Scranton (1979) and from the Jesuit Order’s St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia (1981).
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Here is an except of a quote from the Introduction to Codeword Barbêlôn
http://www.luxverbi.org.uk/arch/Codeword_Barb%C3%AAl%C3%B4n_Foreword_ISBN_0-954359666_and_ISBN_9780954359669.htm as found in a recent press release and on the publisher’s website: http://www.arcticbeacon.com/greg/?p=197
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Rerum Novarum – The REAL N.W.O. Must see 10 min Video…

Ten Things You Didn’t Know (About the Jesuits)



  1. They invented the trap door. Without the Jesuits, the Wicked Witch
    of the West wouldn’t have been able to disappear so suddenly
    in The Wizard of Oz. With a history in theater and the arts, Jesuits
    also perfected the “scrim,” the sheer curtain still used in theaters
    today.

  2. They discovered quinine (called “Jesuit bark” in the 16th century)
    that is used today for anti-malarial drugs and also in tonic water.
    Without the Jesuits, you wouldn’t be able to enjoy your gin and
    tonic. *

  3. Their founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), the Spanish-soldier-
    turned-mystic may be the only saint with a notarized police
    record: for nighttime brawling with intent to cause bodily harm
    (needless to say, this came before his conversion).

  4. Their dictionaries and lexicons of the native languages in North
    America in the 17th century were the first resources Europeans
    used to understand these ancient tongues, and they still
    provide modern scholars with the earliest transcriptions of the
    languages.

  5. They located the source of the Blue Nile and charted large
    stretches of the Amazon and Mississippi Rivers.

  6. They educated Descartes, Voltaire, Moliere, James Joyce, Peter Paul
    Rubens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Fidel Castro, Alfred Hitchcock, and
    Bill Clinton
    —not to mention Bing Crosby, Vince Lombardi, Robert
    Altman, Chris Farley, Salma Hayek, and Denzel Washington.

  7. They founded the city of Sao Paolo, Brazil.

  8. There are 35 craters on the moon named for Jesuit scientists. And
    Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century Jesuit scientist, called “master
    of a hundred arts” and “the last man to know everything”, was
    a geologist, biologist, linguist, decipherer of hieroglyphics, and
    inventor of the megaphone.

  9. They inspired the film On the Waterfront, based on the groundbreaking
    labor-relations work of Jesuit John Corridan, who worked in
    New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. His part was played by
    Karl Malden, who, last year, died 50 years to the day after Fr.
    Corridan.

  10. They count 40 saints and dozens of blessed among their members,
    including the globe-trotting missionary St. Francis Xavier. Their
    famous “former” members include Garry Wills, John McLaughlin,
    and Jerry Brown.


Source: http://www.companymagazine.org/v274/jesuit-guide.pdf

P.S. *Quinine is also used to dilute Heroin.

Vatican smokescreen on human rights

The Vatican tries to quietly elevate Chuch doctrine above human rights. It has not signed some human rights treaties and in some others has made “reservations” which keep it from having to comply. This strategy gives the Church leverage, prevents it from being held accountable for priestly abuse, and protects its courts from charges that they violate the right to a fair trial.

“Human rights language is being co-opted by those with an anti-human rights agenda, among governments but also armed groups and even within civil society.” — Claudio Cordone, Secretary General, Amnesty International, 2010 [1]
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TRE


Diplomatic recognition sought worldwide, bringing diplomatic immunity from charges of human rights abuse

Ratzinger's church lawyers have already assembled an elaborate defense strategy.
They argue that the pope, as the Vatican's head of state, enjoys immunity against lawsuits in US courts. They also point out that the American bishops who covered up abuse cases are not employees subject to directives from Vatican City. [7]

In U.S. courts foreign countries are generally immune from civil actions. This means that unless a case can be brought in under an exemption (as below), the only recourse may be to try to sue the Vatican in a country which does not have diplomatic relations with it. However, as the map shows, most of the world's countries (coloured blue) already recognise the statehood of the Holy See, as the Vatican is called officially.



There are very few (gray) countries left which don't yet have diplomatic relations with the Holy See. These amount to just three island nations (the Comoros, north of Madagascar, the Maldives, southwest of India, and Tuvalu, north of New Zealand) — two African nations (Mauritania and Somalia) — three from the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Oman and Afghanistan) — and the eight from Asia (Bhutan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Brunei and Malaysia). [8] The logistics of suing the Vatican from some of these countries could be daunting. Furthermore, due to the Vatican's persistent diplomatic efforts, the number of countries which don't recognise the Vatican is declining every year (and one of the few left, Tuvalu, is gradually disappearing beneath the rising seas).

Read 'whole' article @

http://www.concordatwatch.eu/showtopic.php?org_id=871&kb_header_id=40301

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And now, a "word from our sponsor".


N.Y. mosque imam in Mideast for outreach tour

The 15-day trip is being funded by the State Department

Craig Ruttle / AP
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, executive director of the Cordoba Initiative, addresses a gathering as groups planning a proposed Islamic center two blocks from the World Trade Center site spoke about their plans at a community board meeting in New York.


updated 8/19/2010 4:10:40 PM ET


MANAMA, Bahrain — The imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the Manhattan site of the Sept. 11 attacks began a U.S.-funded outreach tour of the Middle East Thursday to talk about religious tolerance in America.

The U.S. State Department said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf arrived in Bahrain for the start of a 15-day tour in which he will discuss Muslim life in America.

"He will be visiting mosques," said department spokesman P.J. Crowley. "He will be involved in direct discussions to help people in the countries he'll visit understand the role of religion in our society, how American Muslims celebrate Ramadan, how we emphasize religious tolerance in our society."

The trip — estimated to cost about $16,000 — is funded by the State Department's Bureau of International Information Programs and will include visits to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Details of the imam's specific plans in each country have been closely guarded — possibly in reaction to the rancor in the United States over plans proposed by the imam's organization, The Cordoba Initiative, for an Islamic cultural center near the site of the World Trade Center towers.

Crowley said he would be recording short lectures for Bahraini television to take advantage the expanded audiences during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and could even address the controvery of the new Islamic center.

"I wouldn't be surprised if he talks about the ongoing debate within the United States, as an example of our emphasis on religious tolerance and resolving questions that come up within the rule of law," he said.

The department said Rauf will get a daily $200 honorarium for the tour. Airfare is included, as well as the standard federal government per diem for expenses and lodging in each of the cities he will visit, spokesman P.J. Crowley said.

The published maximum per diem rate for U.S. government employees in Manama is $396, in Doha it is $341, and in Abu Dhabi it is $496.

Rauf will not be allowed to raise funds for the mosque on the trip, Crowley told reporters.

Rauf's tour has drawn attention because of his plans to build an Islamic center in lower Manhattan near ground zero. Foes of the project say it is insensitive and disrespectful to the victims of 9/11 and their families. The debate has become politicized ahead of November's midterm congressional elections.

According to the State Department, it will be Rauf's fourth U.S.-government sponsored trip. He traveled twice to the Middle East in 2007 during the Bush administration and once earlier this year.
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Make thy face to shine upon thy servant


Psalm 31

1In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

2Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

3For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.

4Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

5Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

6I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

8And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

13For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

14But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

15My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

16Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

17Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

19Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

20Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

21Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.

22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

23O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

24Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.


King James Version (KJV)
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Transformation of the Republic by C. T. Wilcox


"I am a firm believer in the people.
If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis.
The great point is to bring them the real facts."


Abraham Lincoln



This letter was from a concerned citizen to Presidential Candidate, Abraham Lincoln, in 1860 just before his election, to warn him to be on the lookout for those who would want to do him serious harm. Other officials had already been murdered or suffered injury; this citizen had good reason to write his letter.

Read his warning to Mr. Lincoln. (http://ctwilcox.com/lettertolincoln.pdf)




The Transformation of the Republic:
The Origins of the Religious Hi-Jacking of the American Government and the Truth Behind the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

by author and actor, C.T. Wilcox

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The people of the United States have been robbed of their own history. This is the worst kind of theft.


America – A People’s History
The Saga of Humanity’s Struggle for Political Freedom

America was born, not on July 4th but was conceived on July 4th . . . America was born as a fully formed nation on April 30th, 1789. On that day, for the first time, America had a Constitution, a House of Representatives and a President together. It was the birth of the United States as a fully formed, constituted nation. On that day, the government, the House, the Senate and the President all gathered in the Capital together, it was the Inauguration of George Washington. It was the nation‘s Dedication Day. Now often in the Bible, the threshold of a new beginning gives promises and warnings and prophetic truths: Moses at the Jordan River, Solomon at the dedication of the Temple. So after being sworn in, Washington, a devout Baptist, went inside the Capitol Building, then located in Lower Manhattan, and issued the first Presidential address. The first Presidential words were short and in the middle of it was a prophetic warning. He said this:

“We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and the right which heaven itself has ordained.”

The warning was, [that] America‘s future blessing, as with Israel, will hang on its relationship to God. If America should begin to depart from God, its blessings its prosperity and its protection shall be lifted up. He said,

“…it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge.”


The warning was given on the Nation‘s first day, its day of dedication. After finishing the address and giving his warning, the first act of the American government was undertaken. It was this: After the address, Washington, and all the other officials, the Senators, the House of Representatives, the Vice President, all left the place of Inauguration, travelled on foot to a small church, a chapel, they went inside…and we don‘t know exactly what they said there we know they were there for one purpose. For two hours they prayed they committed they consecrated this nation into God‘s hands. The entire Protestant government was kneeling before God.

European Monarchs and the Vatican had been eyeing this day with trepidation, knowing that if the United States experiment would prove successful it meant their own demise as the bells of political liberty peeled across Europe. For centuries the Vatican had been engaged in a symbiotic relationship with Europe’s elite and then came Luther and now the political fruits of his act had been birthed. They needed to kill the baby before it became a man. Men like Thomas Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams were well aware of the hornet’s nest they kicked and gave repeated warnings to their future generations of what is required for the preservation of this birthright. In the fall of 1822, a mere 32 years into the life of a new political order, the representative’s of Russia, Prussia, France, Austria and the Vatican signed a treaty to combine their resources to put an end to representative popular government in every manner possible and they enlisted the resources of the Jesuits as the ones who were to implement the war. The Monarchs, led by Metternich of Austria, would provide the funds. Their first act was to ban the printing press across Europe; their second was wholesale suppression of political liberty in Spain using Austrian bayonets paid for by France. Their third was to flood the United States with Roman Catholic immigration, congregate them in the major cities of the North, organize them into political factions and then vote in their own biased men whose purpose was to eventually alter the Constitution in order to conform to Vatican authorised nationhood. To aid in this end they began to exert their influence into Latin America and Mexico. This led directly to the Monroe Doctrine.

As the 1830’s rolled into view the overt political influence of those who were still attached to monarchical autocratic government backed by the Vatican spurred the formation of the American Nativist Movement led by Professor Samuel F.B. Morse. Professor Morse, encouraged by President Monroe, went to Europe for 2 purposes, to sell his invention of telegraphic code and to uncover the European/Vatican plot against the United States. After a few years he returned with both a warning and a scathing indictment against the Vatican. In the meantime devout papists were occupying places of power; mayors, judges, police and on up the ladder to State and Congress. The priests were in charge of educating the people away from their attachment to the government or the nation’s principles as well as playing both sides of any emotional issue. As the Vatican was deeply involved in the slave trade Roman Catholic judges like Taney put the government endorsement on slavery while the priests preached for and against depending on their local congregation’s location. In the South they generally excused slavery as an instrument of God while in the North there was more of a lean towards begrudging emancipation. In the 1850’s the plan to remove the United States as one self sufficient nation in a position of enough power to threaten the system of Europe and attempt to replace it with 2 weaker nations who would have to borrow and then be in hock to the Jesuit/Rothschild banking empire was now formulated. Control of the currency meant control over the country. The money would buy the government. After at least 2 previous Presidential assassinations by the slave/monarchy/Vatican faction, then came Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln became well versed with the global power play in which the US was being used as a pawn. Maximilian was being placed by the Pope as king over Mexico, 15,000 French troops were being massed to eventually camp across the Rio Grande. In 1856 Lincoln defended a Roman priest in St. Anne, Illinois, named Charles Chiniquy, who was being framed by his bishop. During the trial the bishop was forced by Lincoln to unveil the Vatican Law regarding the treatment towards non-Catholics. It was a very damning day for the Vatican, and the Jesuits vowed on that day to kill him or hire someone to do it. This trial also created and cemented a very close friendship between Chiniquy and Lincoln. After Lincoln became president Chiniquy would pay him a visit once each year of his term. These visits would last several days and Chiniquy would inform Lincoln of the plots he was able to uncover by the Vatican to wreck the Republic and to murder Lincoln. He told Lincoln why Meade refused to chase after Lee, of Bishop Hughes in NY who instigated the draft riots, of Rome’s goal to install a monarchy in the Southern Confederacy allied with Maximilian. How Jesuit bankers, the Rothschilds, had plans to control the supply of money to be loaned to the people at interest, to control every level of government, and the dissemination of information. To subjugate and kneel to Rome. In the autumn of 1863 Jefferson Davis pleads publicly to the pope and the pope answers his cries. The result of the pope’s actions nearly ruins the North.

In 1865, when it became apparent that Lincoln had defeated the well laid plans of the Hapsburgs, the Jesuits and the Pope, they put the plan to remove the government and try to kick start the war all over again. According to the written testimony of Charles Chiniquy, Brig. Gen. T.M Harris [who was a judge at the trials of the assassins], 2 priests in Minnesota, a general store owner and Col. Edwin A. Sherman, the Jesuits had hired a special hit squad who were to kill Seward, Grant, Johnson and Lincoln. After the deed was done they were to find their way to Baltimore, meet up with a priest there, travel to NY and sail to Rome to there enlist in the Vatican Zouaves and be directly under the Pope’s protection. The escape plan and duties went haywire and the only one to escape was John H. Surratt. Surratt went to Montreal to be met by 2 priests. They hid Surratt just outside in Trois Rivieres for 5 months. From there they put him on a ship in disguise and under the name Watson. He landed in England and found his way to St. Mary’s Church in Liverpool. He was sent money from Canada and continued on to Rome where he became a Zouave. From the largest manhunt in US history, through the biggest attempt at flim-flam by the Vatican and finally on to Alexandria, Egypt, Surratt is finally arrested. The US brings him back to face the biggest miscarriage of justice to have ever faced the country. 2 separate hung juries. The US cuts off all diplomatic relations with the Vatican as a result of its involvement in the Lincoln assassination and the war.

"To [the principles of our government] nothing can be more opposed than the maxim of absolute (Catholic) monarchies. Yet from such we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the government they leave, imbibed in their early youth; In proprtion to their numbers they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its directions, and render it a hetrogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass. I doubt the expediency of inviting them by extraordinary encouragements." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence and Religious Liberty, Notes on Virginia


The Transformation of the Republic

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Karzai aide in corruption probe linked to CIA: report


AFP/POOL/File – Afghan leader Hamid Karzai speaks during a summit in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on August 18. Karzai …

Wed Aug 25, 11:25 pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the center of a corruption probe is on the CIA payroll, The New York Times reported, citing Afghan and U.S. officials.

Mohammed Zia Salehi, an Afghan National Security Council official, appears to have been paid by the U.S. spy agency for many years, officials in Kabul and Washington told the Times.

The Times said it was unclear whether Salehi was being paid for information, or to advance U.S. views inside the Karzai administration, or both.

Salehi was arrested by Afghan police in July but released after Karzai intervened.

Salehi's relationship with the CIA underscores deep contradictions at the heart of the Obama administration's policy in Afghanistan, the newspaper said.

Karzai is under pressure from the Obama administration to do more to root out corruption in his government to shore up the legitimacy of his government.

Washington believes a successful counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan hinges on winning Afghan public support for the government in Kabul and sidelining the Taliban.

(Reporting by JoAnne Allen; editing by Todd Eastham)
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The Third World War (WW3) : Albert Pike's letter to Mazzini

Photo: New U.S. Embassy - Baghdad Iraq


"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm which in all its horror will show clearly to the nations the effect of absolute atheism, origin of savagery and of the most bloody turmoil. Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. This manifestation will result from the general reactionary movement which will follow the destruction of Christianity and atheism, both conquered and exterminated at the same time."

Source: http://libertyforlife.com/nwo/albert_pike.htm
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Illuminati Persecute Heterosexuals


August 21, 2010






Turkey baster families? Three Hollywood movies tout artificial insemination.


by Henry Makow Ph.D.

Every day, heterosexuals face an insidious mass media campaign designed to make homosexuality the social norm.

This vicious underhanded attack on heterosexual identity is disguised as defending "homosexual rights."

To defend gay rights, heterosexuals are taught to deny gender, marriage and family. The fundamental human rights of 98% of the population -- the right to natural human development -- are violated.

I'd call that hate.

People get their identity, meaning and support from family. The Illuminati is re engineering humanity to serve them.


THE BIG PICTURE


Humanity is satanically possessed. This sounds incredible and bizarre but it is literally true.

Humanity is controlled by a satanic cult called the Illuminati. They grew out of the Sabbatean heresy, a satanic Jewish movement from the 17th and 18th century that engulfed half the Jews of Europe. This led directly to the growth of Communism, Socialism, and Zionism.

Jewish rabbis identified them as Satanist and said they would destroy Judaism.

Their blueprint for world satanic domination is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Homosexuality is just one of many "false doctrines" designed to weaken and enslave the goyim. "We must introduce into their education all those principles which have so brilliantly broken up their order." (Protocols 16)

Sigmund Freud was a Sabbatean Jew. The Sabbateans practiced every sexual deviance including wife swapping, incest and pedophilia as a means of flaunting God and the natural/spiritual order. This satanic practice has been introduced as "sexual liberation" "feminism" and "gay rights." .

Sabbatean Jews have incredible power by virtue of their control of government credit. They have created a puppet Gentile elite using Freemasonry (Cabalism for goyim.) Barack Obama is one of many such Masonic puppets. They control corporations (advertising), government, education and the mass media which is devoted to social engineering.

CABALISM- DISTORTING REALITY


The Illuminati substitute their self-serving reality for true reality. They make lies seem truth; evil seem good.

This is why the world is becoming a zanier and zanier place. History and current events are literally scripted. We are living in a matrix.

Remember that scene of people fleeing from the crashing towers on 9-11. Remind you of a Hollywood disaster movie? The same Illuminati mentality scripted and funded the "Al Queda" attack as the summer blockbuster in your local theater.

The world wars were similarly choreographed complete with costumes and songs. Better to kill the goyim. Expendable non-Sabbatean Jews had to die in order to disguise this plot.

To control the world, the Sabbateans must recreate it in their own image. That requires destruction of religion, race, nation, and of course family. They use homosexuality to destroy family.

Homosexuality is a developmental disorder caused by gender confusion. It is promoted as a normal lifestyle choice to undermine heterosexuals and ultimately enslave society.

Despite what the mass media says, the vast majority of homosexuals want sex not marriage or children. This is the Illuminati vision for heterosexuals.

As I have said, they are turning us into homosexuals. (How would gays feel if they were subjected to such a campaign in reverse?) My readers tell me that between 25 and 50% of the young females they meet are bisexual. Do you think this is conducive to successful heterosexual marriage and family?


HOLLYWOOD'S TURKEY BASTER FAMILIES

Here are some examples of the current media barrage intended to undermine and replace heterosexual norms:

Movie - "The Switch" with Jennifer Aniston. Aging feminist resorts to turkey baster to have child. Discovers male friend switched his sperm. Only way men can have children these days.

Aniston got headlines by saying "women don't need men to have a child." She is a role model for millions of young girls. "A List" actors and actresses are Illuminati mouthpieces.

Movie - "The Back up Plan" - Jennifer Lopez plays a woman who conceives twins through artificial insemination, only to meet the man of her dreams on the very same day.

Movie - "The Children are all Right" - The children of two lesbians find their common sperm donor father who is only too happy to enter the family dynamic.

All three movies mimic normal healthy heterosexual families in order to show that they aren't necessary.

News Item - Gay Actor Neil Patrick Harris and partner will have twin boys with "beautiful surrogate " in Oct.

News Item- Kathy Griffin tells Larry King: "Heterosexual marriage should be a criminal offense."

She says gay marriage is a "civil rights issue." What about the civil rights of 96% of the population who don't want their
institutions attacked and redefined out of existence?

News Item - ABC news is the most Illuminati Jewish network of the three. In the show "What Would You DO?" August 20 they showed two beautiful "lesbians" kissing on a park bench and filmed the reaction of passers-by. Although some criticism was noted, the message is that "love conquers all." I wonder what the reaction would have been if those girls looked like butches? In another episode, they showed people defending gays against "gay bashing." Heterosexuals, not gays are being oppressed.

News Item - "Gender Differences Due to Socialization not Genetics" The Guardian Aug. 15 In her new book "Delusions of Gender" feminist scientist Cordelia Fine says there are no neurological differences between the sexes."

More "News" Items -

Children Of Lesbians May Do Better Than Their Peers [Time](http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1994480,00.html?xid=rss-health&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Fscienceandhealth+%28TIME%3A+Top+Science+and+Health+Stories%29 )
Few Psychological Problems For Children Of Lesbian Mothers [Medpage Today](http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pediatrics/GeneralPediatrics/20486 )
Kids Of Lesbians Have Fewer Behavioral Problems, Study Suggests [CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/06/07/lesbian.children.adjustment/?hpt=T2)

As with climate warming and homosexuality, the Illuminati manufacture their own science and then tout it in their wholly owned mass media.

CONCLUSION

The Illuminati attack on gender has resulted in untold suffering and degradation for millions of heterosexuals. Young men and women depend on marriage and family for purpose and satisfaction. Instead, many young women are turning to pornography, satanism and prostitution.
The Illuminati takeover is entering its final stages. War, financial upheaval,
migrations, natural disasters, plagues etc. are all part of the agenda. We can only keep our head by recognizing that it is all being engineered by the Illuminati and their lackeys, our so-called political and cultural leaders.

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Source: http://www.henrymakow.com/hollywoods_freaky_families.html
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Far From Ground Zero, Obscure Pastor Is Ignored No Longer

Chip Litherland for The New York Times
Pastor Terry Jones plans to burn multiple copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks.


By DAMIEN CAVE
Published: August 25, 2010


GAINESVILLE, Fla. — If building an Islamic center near ground zero amounts to the epitome of Muslim insensitivity, as critics of the project have claimed, what should the world make of Terry Jones, the evangelical pastor here who plans to memorialize the Sept. 11 attacks with a bonfire of Korans?

Mr. Jones, 58, a former hotel manager with a red face and a white handlebar mustache, argues that as an American Christian he has a right to burn Islam’s sacred book because “it’s full of lies.” And in another era, he might have been easily ignored, as he was last year when he posted a sign at his church declaring “Islam is of the devil.”

But now the global spotlight has shifted. With the debate in New York putting religious tensions front and center, Mr. Jones has suddenly attracted thousands of fans and critics on Facebook, while around the world he is being presented as a symbol of American anti-Islamic sentiment.

Muslim leaders in several countries, including Egypt and Indonesia, have formally condemned him and his church, the Dove World Outreach Center.

An Islamic group in England has also incorporated his efforts into a YouTube video that encourages Muslims to “rise up and act,” widening a concern that Mr. Jones — though clearly a fringe figure with only 50 members in his church — could spark riots or terrorism.

“Can you imagine what this will do to our image around the world?” said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington. “And the additional danger it will add whenever there is an American presence in Iraq or Afghanistan?”

Mr. Jones, in a lengthy interview at his church, said he sincerely hoped that his planned Koran-burning would not lead to violence. He dismissed the idea that it could put American troops at greater risk, and — echoing his sermons — he said that his church was being persecuted.

He said his bank recently demanded immediate repayment of the $140,000 balance on the church mortgage; that his property insurance had been canceled since he announced in late July that he intended to burn copies of the Koran; and that death threats now come in regularly.

“We have to be careful,” he said. He tapped a holster on the right hip of his jean shorts; it held a .40-caliber pistol, which he said he was licensed to carry. “The overall response,” he added, “has been much greater than we expected.”

Mr. Jones who seems to spend much of his time inside a dank, dark office with a poster from the movie “Braveheart” and a picture of former President George W. Bush, appears to be largely oblivious to the potential consequences of his plans. Speaking in short sentences with a matter-of-fact drawl, he said that he could not understand why other Christians, including the nation’s largest evangelical association, had called for him to cancel “International Burn a Koran Day.”

He acknowledged that it had brought in at least $1,000 in donations. But he said that the interviews he had done with around 150 news outlets all over the world were useful mainly because they had helped him “send a message to Islam and the pushers of Shariah law: that it is not what we want.”

Mr. Jones said that nothing in particular had set him off. Asked about his knowledge of the Koran, he said plainly: “I have no experience with it whatsoever. I only know what the Bible says.”

Nonetheless, his position and variations on his tactics have become more common, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Florida in particular has had a rise in anti-Islamic activity. In May, an arsonist set off a pipe bomb at a mosque in Jacksonville in what authorities called an actof domestic terrorism. A mosque and Islamic school south of Miami was vandalized twice last year, the first time with a spray of 51 bullets.

Just as disturbing to Florida’s Muslims, and to many Christians and Jews, is that anti-Islamic rhetoric has begun to enter the mainstream through Republican political candidates.

Some of the opposition predated the controversy about the proposed Islamic center near ground zero. In March, for example, Allen West, a retired Army officer running for Congress in Broward County, told a group of supporters that “Islam is not a religion” but rather “a vicious enemy” that was “infiltrating” the United States. (A campaign spokesman said last week that Mr. West meant to refer to radical Islam, not Islam generally.)

Ron McNeil, a candidate for Congress in the Florida Panhandle, told a group of high school and middle school students last week that Islam’s plan “is to destroy our way of life.” He added: “It’s our place as Christians to stand up for the word of God and what the Bible says.”

Similar sentiments now flow daily into the e-mail inbox of the Dove World Outreach Center. Mr. Jones said that the negative e-mails outnumbered the positive by about 3 to 1, but that strangers had sent 20 copies of the Koran and a church worker produced hundreds of supportive e-mails that had come in over the past three weeks.

A dozen of those messages revealed a wide range of motivations. For a few people — a Christian in Afghanistan, an Iraqi in Massachusetts, a Jew who called his co-religionists in the United States “soft in the head” — direct experience with Islamic extremists seemed to have darkened their views. Others seemed motivated by little more than hate, arguing that Korans should be barbecued with pork, which is banned by Islam.

Mr. Jones’s plan faced a new hurdle last week when the Gainesville Fire Department rejected his request for a burning permit. Mr. Jones said he would go ahead anyway (“it’s just politics”), and he predicted a quite a scene.

Some of his neighbors, like Shirley Turner, a retiree who shivered with disgust when Mr. Jones’s name came up in conversation, are already planning to protest with signs calling for unity. More than a dozen houses of worship, of various faiths, also intend to respond collectively on the weekend of Sept. 11 by “affirming the validity of all sacred books,” said Larry Reimer, pastor of the United Church of Christ.

Some pastors even plan to read from the Koran in their services.

For local Muslims like Saeed Khan, who came here in the 1970s to study for a Ph.D. in biology at the University of Florida, the collective rejection of Mr. Jones represents the America they want to believe in. In an interview at an Islamic center that used to be a Brown Derby restaurant, Dr. Khan said that “Mr. Jones is hijacking Christianity” just as “Al Qaeda hijacked Islam.”

What saddens him most, he said, is the lasting effect on Muslim youth. He now has three grandchildren under age 3 growing up in Gainesville, and he shook his head at the story of a friend’s daughter who woke up in the middle of the night and asked her mother, “Why don’t they like us?”

Still, like many others, he rejected the moment’s swirl of anger. Even if Muslims outside the United States respond to the planned Koran burning with protests, or worse, Mr. Khan said he would spend his Sept. 11 doing the same thing he did last year. He will be downtown, a few miles from Mr. Jones, feeding the homeless.

A version of this article appeared in print on August 26, 2010, on page A14 of the New York edition.
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Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime

Your Brain on Computers

Jim Wilson/The New York Times
Rhiana Maidenberg listened to an audio book on her mobile phone while watching television during a workout in San Francisco.


By MATT RICHTEL
Published: August 24, 2010


SAN FRANCISCO — It’s 1 p.m. on a Thursday and Dianne Bates, 40, juggles three screens. She listens to a few songs on her iPod, then taps out a quick e-mail on her iPhone and turns her attention to the high-definition television.


Jim Wilson/The New York Times
Loren Frank, a professor of physiology, said downtime lets the brain go over experiences, “solidify them and turn them into permanent long-term memories.”
Just another day at the gym.


As Ms. Bates multitasks, she is also churning her legs in fast loops on an elliptical machine in a downtown fitness center. She is in good company. In gyms and elsewhere, people use phones and other electronic devices to get work done — and as a reliable antidote to boredom.

Cellphones, which in the last few years have become full-fledged computers with high-speed Internet connections, let people relieve the tedium of exercising, the grocery store line, stoplights or lulls in the dinner conversation.

The technology makes the tiniest windows of time entertaining, and potentially productive. But scientists point to an unanticipated side effect: when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas.

Ms. Bates, for example, might be clearer-headed if she went for a run outside, away from her devices, research suggests.

At the University of California, San Francisco, scientists have found that when rats have a new experience, like exploring an unfamiliar area, their brains show new patterns of activity. But only when the rats take a break from their exploration do they process those patterns in a way that seems to create a persistent memory of the experience.

The researchers suspect that the findings also apply to how humans learn.

“Almost certainly, downtime lets the brain go over experiences it’s had, solidify them and turn them into permanent long-term memories,” said Loren Frank, assistant professor in the department of physiology at the university, where he specializes in learning and memory. He said he believed that when the brain was constantly stimulated, “you prevent this learning process.”

At the University of Michigan, a study found that people learned significantly better after a walk in nature than after a walk in a dense urban environment, suggesting that processing a barrage of information leaves people fatigued.

Even though people feel entertained, even relaxed, when they multitask while exercising, or pass a moment at the bus stop by catching a quick video clip, they might be taxing their brains, scientists say.

“People think they’re refreshing themselves, but they’re fatiguing themselves,” said Marc Berman, a University of Michigan neuroscientist.

Regardless, there is now a whole industry of mobile software developers competing to help people scratch the entertainment itch. Flurry, a company that tracks the use of apps, has found that mobile games are typically played for 6.3 minutes, but that many are played for much shorter intervals. One popular game that involves stacking blocks gets played for 2.2 minutes on average.

Today’s game makers are trying to fill small bits of free time, said Sebastien de Halleux, a co-founder of PlayFish, a game company owned by the industry giant Electronic Arts.

“Instead of having long relaxing breaks, like taking two hours for lunch, we have a lot of these micro-moments,” he said. Game makers like Electronic Arts, he added, “have reinvented the game experience to fit into micro-moments.”

Many business people, of course, have good reason to be constantly checking their phones. But this can take a mental toll. Henry Chen, 26, a self-employed auto mechanic in San Francisco, has mixed feelings about his BlackBerry habits.

“I check it a lot, whenever there is downtime,” Mr. Chen said. Moments earlier, he was texting with a friend while he stood in line at a bagel shop; he stopped only when the woman behind the counter interrupted him to ask for his order.

Mr. Chen, who recently started his business, doesn’t want to miss a potential customer. Yet he says that since he upgraded his phone a year ago to a feature-rich BlackBerry, he can feel stressed out by what he described as internal pressure to constantly stay in contact.

“It’s become a demand. Not necessarily a demand of the customer, but a demand of my head,” he said. “I told my girlfriend that I’m more tired since I got this thing.”

In the parking lot outside the bagel shop, others were filling up moments with their phones. While Eddie Umadhay, 59, a construction inspector, sat in his car waiting for his wife to grocery shop, he deleted old e-mail while listening to news on the radio. On a bench outside a coffee house, Ossie Gabriel, 44, a nurse practitioner, waited for a friend and checked e-mail “to kill time.”

Crossing the street from the grocery store to his car, David Alvarado pushed his 2-year-old daughter in a cart filled with shopping bags, his phone pressed to his ear.

He was talking to a colleague about work scheduling, noting that he wanted to steal a moment to make the call between paying for the groceries and driving.

“I wanted to take advantage of the little gap,” said Mr. Alvarado, 30, a facilities manager at a community center.

For many such people, the little digital asides come on top of heavy use of computers during the day. Take Ms. Bates, the exercising multitasker at the expansive Bakar Fitness and Recreation Center. She wakes up and peeks at her iPhone before she gets out of bed. At her job in advertising, she spends all day in front of her laptop.

But, far from wanting a break from screens when she exercises, she says she couldn’t possibly spend 55 minutes on the elliptical machine without “lots of things to do.” This includes relentless channel surfing.

“I switch constantly,” she said. “I can’t stand commercials. I have to flip around unless I’m watching ‘Project Runway’ or something I’m really into.”

Some researchers say that whatever downside there is to not resting the brain, it pales in comparison to the benefits technology can bring in motivating people to sweat.

“Exercise needs to be part of our lives in the sedentary world we’re immersed in. Anything that helps us move is beneficial,” said John J. Ratey, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and author of “Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain.”

But all things being equal, Mr. Ratey said, he would prefer to see people do their workouts away from their devices: “There is more bang for your buck doing it outside, for your mood and working memory.”

Of the 70 cardio machines on the main floor at Bakar Fitness, 67 have televisions attached. Most of them also have iPod docks and displays showing workout performance, and a few have games, like a rope-climbing machine that shows an animated character climbing the rope while the live human does so too.

A few months ago, the cable TV went out and some patrons were apoplectic. “It was an uproar. People said: ‘That’s what we’re paying for,’ ” said Leeane Jensen, 28, the fitness manager.

At least one exerciser has a different take. Two stories up from the main floor, Peter Colley, 23, churns away on one of the several dozen elliptical machines without a TV. Instead, they are bathed in sunlight, looking out onto the pool and palm trees.

“I look at the wind on the trees. I watch the swimmers go back and forth,” Mr. Colley said. “I usually come here to clear my head.”


A version of this article appeared in print on August 25, 2010, on page B1 of the New York edition.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Brookings Institution-based Hamilton Project relaunches


Michael Greenstone, director of the Hamilton Project, was formerly the chief economist for the Council of Economic Advisers. (Brendan Hoffman/bloomberg)

By Neil Irwin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 22, 2010

In the late years of the George W. Bush administration, a group of veterans of the Clinton White House's economics shop launched the Hamilton Project, a research effort aimed at developing policies to strengthen the nation's long-term economic prospects.

The Brookings Institution-based group's ideas -- which included reducing income inequality, developing a more sustainable fiscal course and making health coverage more available and affordable -- were widely discussed among policy wonks. But the efforts held little sway in the Bush White House.

Ironically, once an administration more open to the group's views arrived in January 2009, the Hamilton Project went dormant, as key staff members went to work in government. The project got a second wind this week, with a relaunch and a new director, and the reasonable expectation that this time around, the relationship to the White House will be much cozier. In fact, Hamilton could emerge as a key source of economic thinking for the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress.

"My experience from inside the government is that Hamilton ideas were pervasive," said Michael Greenstone, the new director of the program and formerly chief economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers. "That's partially because several people in the administration were previously affiliated with the group, but even in meetings where there was no one in the room that had anything to do with Hamilton, a lot of the very sensible solutions to the country's problems seemed to be emanating from Hamilton."

Peter Orszag, the first director of the program, is now Obama's budget director, Orszag's successor at Hamilton, Jason Furman, is now a key White House aide, and Furman's successor at Hamilton, Doug Elmendorf, is director of the Congressional Budget Office.

Vice President Biden spoke at the group's relaunch Tuesday. Greenstone cited medical cost controls in the new health-care law and a budget that freezes discretionary spending as examples of the group's ideas showing up in public policy.

Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman were among the key founders of the Hamilton Project, which is named for Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. treasury secretary.

Some liberal critics have viewed the group as a place for centrist economic thinkers within the Democratic coalition to bide their time. "It has, at times, seemed like a platform for Bob Rubin and Roger Altman and Larry Summers, more than anything else" said Lawrence Mishel, president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute, though he argued that there is now less ideological distance between the left and center on economic policy than there was during the 1990s.

Still, some Hamilton Project ideas, such as a proposal to privatize unemployment insurance, have gotten a cold reception from the left. "That would have been a disaster," Mishel said.

The group published a paper Tuesday outlining its research agenda. It argued that a sustainable economic recovery requires a national investment in education, more government support for research and development, and a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions to combat global warming.

Produced by Rubin, Altman, Greenstone and Sarah Cannon, the paper argues that those investments must be combined with a serious deficit-reduction effort. Greenstone described that basic challenge -- strengthening the U.S.'s long-run growth prospects in a difficult budget environment -- as the core of the group's focus.

"It's clear that we're going to have to focus on providing proposals to help the recovery take hold," Greenstone said. "That said, one thing Hamilton has always been focused on is a sustainable deficit position. And if anything, the circumstances that have been thrust upon the world" -- giant deficits from the recession -- "make that ever more timely."
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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/21/AR2010042105188.html
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Muslim, Christian, or Marxist?


By Cliff Kincaid August 24, 2010

...what the Obama presidential campaign says about Obama’s religious affiliation is not something to be taken at face value.When questions came up during the campaign about Barack Obama’s religious affiliation, his aides flatly asserted that he was a “practicing Christian” and was “baptized” in the Trinity United Church of Christ. However, some of the same questions have come up again in the wake of opinion polls finding people confused about Obama’s religious identity. Our media cannot understand the confusion.

For most in the media, it is cut-and-dried: Obama is a Christian. People who don’t believe it are dumb or misled.

But calling yourself something is not the same thing as proving it is the case. This claim deserves to be scrutinized, even when it involves a sensitive and personal matter such as religious belief.

Unfortunately for Obama and his backers, the same Obama campaign apparatus which claimed that he is a baptized Christian asserted that the mysterious “Frank” in Obama’s book, Dreams from My Father, was just a black civil rights activist. It turned out that “Frank” was Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party member under surveillance by the FBI who served as a mentor for a young Obama in Hawaii. The 600-page FBI file on Davis even suggests he was an espionage agent on behalf of the Soviet Union.

Dupes, a forthcoming book by Professor Paul Kengor, promises to take another close look at Obama’s Frank Marshall Davis connection.

So what the Obama presidential campaign says about Obama’s religious affiliation is not something to be taken at face value. They have a vested interest in making Obama look more acceptable to the American people.

As President, he has gone to church only a few times, which undermines the claim that he is a practicing Christian. People see him playing golf on Sunday; they don’t see him going to church.

In fact, however, being a Christian is not just a function of attending church services. Rather, it is related to being baptized. Did this critical development occur in Obama’s life?

In this context, it is important to take a look at what Obama’s own books, Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope, say about the President’s religion, or lack thereof.

He acknowledges in Dreams that his grandfather was a Muslim (page 104) and that he spent two years in a Muslim school in Indonesia studying the Koran (page 154). In The Audacity of Hope, he says (page 204) that “my father had been raised a Muslim” but that by the time he met his mother, his father was a “confirmed atheist.”

His stepfather was not particularly religious and his mother professed “secularism,” Obama wrote (pages 204-205), but as a child he went to a “predominantly Muslim school,” after being first sent to a Catholic school. His mother, he said, was concerned about him learning math, not religion.

Obama’s reference to being baptized is found in his second book, The Audacity of Hope, published in 2006, not in Dreams, published in 1995. Obama wrote on page 208, “I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized.”

Traditionally, Christianity teaches that baptism is a sacrament involving the use of water to signify acceptance of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Since Obama was not born and baptized a Christian, in order to become a Christian he had to enter into the sacrament of baptism some time later in life.

In this regard, Obama does not indicate anywhere in his books that he came into contact with what Christians regard as the “living water.” Instead, he says that, in his baptism, he made “a choice,” knelt beneath a cross, and “felt God’s spirit beckoning.” He said, “I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth.”

This sounds like a powerful religious experience but it is not what Christians regard as baptism.

In Dreams from My Father, Obama discusses his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, noting that he had been “dabbling with liquor, Islam, and black nationalism in the sixties” but that “the call of faith had apparently remained” and that he went on to study religion, including “the black liberation theologians.” For his part, Obama visited Wright to discuss membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ as an extension of his community organizing activities and the hope that he could get “involvement” in this effort from churches like Wright’s.

As Obama contacted the churches and their ministers, he reveals that they thought he was a Muslim (page 279) or, he jokes, an Irishman, “O’Bama.”

Obama talks about hearing a Wright sermon, “The Audacity of Hope,” which inspired the title of his second book. However, there is no mention of any baptism in this—his first—book. The reference to being baptized came in the second book, as Obama was preparing to launch his presidential campaign. The timing is significant.

These are the facts as Obama himself reported them. So how have the media handled them? Needless to say, there has been no serious investigation into whether the claims are true and what they mean.

“Obama’s religious biography is unconventional and politically problematic,” Newsweek’s Lisa Miller reported. “Born to a Christian-turned-secular mother and a Muslim-turned-atheist African father, Obama grew up living all across the world with plenty of spiritual influences, but without any particular religion. He is now a Christian, having been baptized in the early 1990s at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.”

The phrase, “having been baptized,” is apparently based on Obama’s claim about being baptized. Our major media haven’t questioned the claim.

Miller went on to say, “His baptism presents its own problems. The senior pastor at Trinity at the time of Obama’s baptism was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., the preacher who was seen damning America on cable TV…”

Notice the formulation, “at the time of Obama’s baptism.” She carefully does not say that Wright performed the baptism. In fact, there’s no evidence it was a baptism in the traditional sense that it was performed by Wright or anybody else. It looks like Obama walked down the aisle and made a profession of faith. That is not a Christian baptism.

The Canada Free Press published a very interesting article in February by Madeline Brooks, who asked, “Where is the baptism certificate? We do not see one because there was no baptism. That central part of Christianity was not required at Obama’s former church, the Trinity United Church of Christ, during the years Obama attended…”

She cites the research of a pastor, Usama Dakdok, who had called Obama’s church to ask about membership:

“Do I have to be baptized to join the church?” asked Pastor Dakdok. “No, you don’t,” was the answer. “You can be a member without being baptized.”

“And what exactly is required to become a member?” The answer: “You attend two Sunday school classes in a row about membership, and then you walk the aisle.”

Walk down the aisle? That sounds exactly what Obama described in his book. This is how one becomes a member. But it is not a baptism into Christianity.

“I called the Trinity United Church of Christ and they confirmed that baptism is merely optional for members,” Brooks added.

Pastor Dakdok reports that he also asked a spokesperson for Trinity, the membership director:

“If I am a Muslim man, and I believe in the prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, but I also believe in the prophet Jesus, do I have to give up my Islamic faith to join your church?”

The answer was, “Absolutely not! We have so many members of our church who are Muslims.”

Dakdok asked the Trinity spokesperson, “Is that how Senator Barack Obama became a member?” The membership director of the church refused to answer.

Madeline Brooks calls this “Muslim Christianity,” which she says is theologically impossible.

In fact, the contradictions don’t end there. Obama’s pastor for 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, could be described as a “Marxist Christian,” which is also theoretically impossible, since Marxism is materialistic and atheistic. Yet, as we revealed last November, Wright gave a speech in which he praised Marxism and faulted the media for claiming that communism and Christianity were somehow opposed to one another.

So the question regarding Obama is not just whether he is a Muslim but a Marxist, based not only on his attendance at Jeremiah Wright’s unusual church but the influence exercised over him during his growing-up years by Communist Frank Marshall Davis.

Dakdok, who was brought up in Egypt, a Muslim country, is adamant that Obama is a Muslim, based on the fact that his birth father was a Muslim and that there is no evidence that Obama ever specifically rejected Islam. Christian radio host Brannon Howse interviewed Dakdok, at the urging of conservative columnist David Limbaugh, brother of the national talk show host, Rush Limbaugh. Dakdok was also interviewed recently on Stacy Harp’s Christian radio show. He speaks around the country in front of Christian audiences.

While Obama may have been a Muslim by birth, that doesn’t mean that he accepts the Muslim faith or philosophy. Instead, Islam may be seen as just another religion/ideology that can be used for his own political purposes.

The case for Obama being a Marxist is far more convincing. He was exposed to Marxist ideology in church under Wright, as well as from Frank Marshall Davis.

The American people now seem to get it, even though the truth about Obama’s relationship with Davis has never been thoroughly explored by the major media. A poll from the Democracy Corps, a Democratic Party firm, found that 55 percent said that Obama could accurately be described as a socialist.

This is far more than the number of people who see him as a Muslim.

If and when the media start examining the Frank Marshall Davis connection, the “socialist” label could take on more sinister connotations.

This is why, of course, they will avoid it.


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Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report and can be reached at cliff.kincaid@aim.org


Source: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/muslim-christian-or-marxist/
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Frank warned colleague not to aid troubled bank


By Sandy Williams Friday, August 6, 2010
- Susan Milligan and Beth Healy boston.com

WASHINGTON—US Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts urged Representative Maxine Waters of California to avoid any dealings with Boston-based OneUnited Bank because her husband owned stock in it. But the Democratic congresswoman didn’t heed his warnings, according to a House ethics report released yesterday, and now faces a possible trial before her colleagues over a conflict of interest with the bank.

The 79-page report by the Office of Congressional Ethics said Waters confided to Frank that bank officials came to her for help in 2008. But she felt conflicted because her husband, Sidney Williams, had served on the board of OneUnited from 2004-2008 and was a stockholder. It is against House rules to use one’s power as a member for personal financial gain.

“She knew she should say no, but it bothered her,’’ the report said. Issuance of the document turns the matter over to the House Ethics Committee and sets the stage for a trial.

US Representative Barney Frank
Barney Frank is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and his boyfriend is Sergio A. Pombo.

Note: Harold E. Ford Jr. was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, is an advisory council member at the Hamilton Project (Healthcare AKA Obamacare), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

John Vincent Weber was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, is a director at the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James A. Johnson is an advisory council member at the Hamilton Project (Healthcare AKA Obamacare), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James H. Lambright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and the interim chief investment officer for the 2008-2009 financial bailout.

Sergio A. Pombo is Barney Frank’s boyfriend, a Georgetown University graduate, and an investment officer for the International Finance Corporation.

Madeleine K. Albright is a professor at Georgetown University, and a director at the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank).

James A. Johnson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James H. Lambright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and the interim chief investment officer for the 2008-2009 financial bailout.

International Finance Corporation is a private sector arm for the World Bank.

Elizabeth L. Littlefield is a director at the World Bank, and was the managing partner for JPMorgan Chase & Co. (Bailout Company).

William M. Daley is the chairman Midwest region for JPMorgan Chase & Co. (Bailout Company), and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank).

James A. Johnson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James H. Lambright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and the interim chief investment officer for the 2008-2009 financial bailout.

Robert B. Zoellick is the president of the World Bank, an EVP for Fannie Mae, and the vice chairman for the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Bailout Company).

James A. Johnson was the chairman of Fannie Mae, is a director at the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Bailout Company), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James H. Lambright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and the interim chief investment officer for the 2008-2009 financial bailout.

Emmett J. Rice was the U.S. alternative director for reconstruction & development for the World Bank, and his daughter is Susan E. Rice.

Susan E. Rice is the U.S. ambassador to UN for the Barack Obama administration, was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank).

James D. Wolfensohn was the president of the World Bank, is a director at the National Democratic Institute (think tank), a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Christopher J. Dodd is a senior advisory committee member at the National Democratic Institute (think tank), and his wife is Jackie Clegg Dodd.

Jackie Clegg Dodd is married to Christopher J. Dodd, and was the vice chairman & first VP for the Export-Import Bank of the US.

Madeleine K. Albright is the chairman the National Democratic Institute (think tank), and a director at the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank).

James H. Lambright was the chairman & president for the Export-Import Bank of the US, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and the interim chief investment officer for the 2008-2009 financial bailout.

Richard N. Haass is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and a VP at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James A. Johnson is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James H. Lambright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and the interim chief investment officer for the 2008-2009 financial bailout.

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters is married to Sidney Williams, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and was an investor at OneUnited Bank.

Note: Harold E. Ford Jr. was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, is an advisory council member at the Hamilton Project (Healthcare AKA Obamacare), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

John Vincent Weber was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, is a director at the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James A. Johnson is an advisory council member at the Hamilton Project (Healthcare AKA Obamacare), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Richard N. Haass is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and a VP at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James A. Johnson is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James H. Lambright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and the interim chief investment officer for the 2008-2009 financial bailout.

The Hamilton Project (Healthcare AKA Obamacare) is at the Brookings Institution.

brookings.edu/es/hamilton/200705butler.pdf.

brookings.edu/projects/hamiltonproject.aspx

Emanuel Cleaver is the whip, 2nd vice chairman for the Congressional Black Caucus, and a senior advisory committee member for the National Democratic Institute (think tank).

John R. Lewis is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and a senior advisory committee member for the National Democratic Institute (think tank).

Tom Daschle is a director at the National Democratic Institute (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James D. Wolfensohn is a director at the National Democratic Institute (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Madeleine K. Albright is the chairman of the National Democratic Institute (think tank), and a director at the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank).

Richard N. Haass is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and a VP at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James A. Johnson is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James H. Lambright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and the interim chief investment officer for the 2008-2009 financial bailout.

OneUnited Bank
Sidney Williams was a director & stockholder and his wife Maxine Waters was investor at OneUnited Bank.

OneUnited Bank received federal investment in the 2008-2009 financial bailout.

Note: James H. Lambright is the interim chief investment officer for the 2008-2009 financial bailout, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), was a VP at Credit Suisse First Boston, and the chairman & president for the Export-Import Bank of the US.

James A. Johnson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Richard N. Haass is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and a VP at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James A. Johnson is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James H. Lambright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and the interim chief investment officer for the 2008-2009 financial bailout.

Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a trustee, honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at Big Shoulders Fund, an honorary life director for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

William M. Daley is a director at Big Shoulders Fund, a director at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Mayor Richard M. Daley’s brother a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank).

Richard M. Daley is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and Valerie B. Jarrett was his deputy chief of staff.

Valerie B. Jarrett was Mayor Richard M. Daley’s deputy chief of staff, is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.

Thomas E. Donilon is the White House deputy national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great niece, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Richard N. Haass was a VP at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank).

James A. Johnson is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

James H. Lambright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and the interim chief investment officer for the 2008-2009 financial bailout.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank) and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982

(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the United States in war)


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