Wednesday, May 07, 2014

Sunday, the day of rest? Not anymore





Wednesday, May 07, 2014


Blue laws, which prohibit commercial activity on Sundays, have been around since Colonial times. The state of Maryland got rid of most of its blue laws during the 1980s. It was at that time that many car dealerships around the state did not want to be open on Sundays, though that was not the case in Howard, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties.

Those three counties were feeling the pressure from Northern Virginia dealerships that they found themselves in competition with, according to reports during that time. For that reason, those counties lobbied to be able to sell cars on Sundays. And they’ve been doing so for decades.

It seems that most auto dealerships — including those in Charles — enjoyed being closed one day a week since there had been no attempts for at least a decade to make any changes to the law.

Move forward to a few years ago, when southern Prince George’s County near the Charles County border saw a proliferation of commercial and residential growth. The Brandywine Crossing shopping center has opened just a mile or two from north Waldorf. That growth has brought with it a Costco, Target, Marshall’s, Safeway, a movie theater, restaurants, shops and a CarMax, newly opened with acres and acres of cars. That dealership is only a few minutes drive from north Waldorf, which houses a large concentration of dealerships on both sides of U.S. 301. And since the new CarMax is in Prince George’s, it can open on Sundays.

Hence the reason that some Waldorf dealership owners approached the Charles County commissioners about the law prohibiting Sunday car sales. With a new dealership opening just minutes away, local business owners were concerned that they might lose business if they couldn’t be open on Sundays. The commissioners asked for legislation to include the county among those jurisdictions that can have Sunday car sales, and it was granted by the General Assembly. They have not yet moved to do so, but we were told last week they are planning to hold a public hearing on the subject. The new law will take effect Oct. 1, so if the county wants to allow Sunday sales they will be able to do so then.

Many county residents spend their weekdays going to and from work outside of the county and find themselves with very little time for much of anything else. For commuters, weekends are often about their families — their kids’ sporting events and extracurricular activities competing with time for chores like running errands and shopping. An extra weekend day to shop appeals to many. Waldorf’s shopping centers are as busy on Sundays as just about any other day.

Sunday, the day of rest? Not anymore.

The concept of banning Sunday sales is outdated. There is other merchandise that is sold on Sundays. Why not cars and trucks? It makes sense to explore the issue.


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VICE News Daily: Beyond The Headlines - May, 7 2014






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Published on May 7, 2014


The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Ukraine says troops from Russia and Crimea are fighting alongside separatists in the east of the country, Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel Fattah El-Sisi says the Egyptian people will 'put an end' to the Muslim Brotherhood if he is elected, Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guard says it builds then sinks replica American warships for practice, and French forces release video of their battle with rebels in the Central African Republic.

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UKRAINE
Government Says Russia has Troops in Embattled East
Officials report casualties on both sides as fighting intensifies between government troops and separatists.

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Sisi Says Egyptians Will 'Put an End' to the Muslim Brotherhood
The former army chief gives his first national television interview since announcing his run for presidential office.

IRAN
Replica U.S. Ships Built and Destroyed for Target Practice
Naval chief's comments showcase how different the Revolutionary Guard's tone is from the more moderate President Hassan Rouhani.

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French Army Releases Video Of Fierce Fighting
French forces engaged in an hours-long battle with rebels believed to have killed aid workers and civilians last month.

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John B Wells' Caravan To Midnight - Episode 54 with Tom Deweese



Caravan To Midnight - Episode 54 Tom Deweese & John B Wells



Caravan To Midnight

Published on May 7, 2014

Join John B. as he welcomes Tom Deweese to the Bridge to discuss Agenda 21 and what it means for you.
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And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man


18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.


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Tuesday, May 06, 2014

5 Apocalyptic Findings From The White House Climate Change Report



By Isobel Markham @i_markham 17 minutes ago





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Uh-oh. On Tuesday, the White House issued its third National Climate Assessment, a thorough report four years in the making on the effects of climate change so far and how it will likely affect the United States in the future. It’s a grim read, and includes the prospect of increased flooding in coastal lowlands; a longer and more intense wildfire season; torrential rains; and extinction of “iconic” species, to name some. The list is long and biblical. Even more terrifyingly, the report points out that the changes we’ve seen so far have been caused by a temperature rise of less than two degrees Farenheit since 1895.

In a statement released by the White House to accompany the report, the Obama Administration called for an urgent response to the report’s discoveries. “The findings in this National Climate Assessment underscore the need for urgent action to combat the threats from climate change, protect American citizens and communities today, and build a sustainable future for our kids and grandkids,” the statement read.

The report itself is a hefty yet morbidly-fascinating read, presented in a very cool, interactive web-page. It’s worth having a bit of a play around on there, but if you don’t have time to plow through the whole thing, here are its key takeaways.



1. IT REALLY IS OUR FAULT


There’s no getting away from it. Yup, there are naturally-occurring factors — such as the sun and volcanoes — that could contribute to global warming, but the rapidity of the warming that has taken place over the last 50 years is basically down to us.
Multiple lines of independent evidence confirm that human activities are the primary cause of the global warming of the past 50 years. The burning of coal, oil, and gas, and clearing of forests have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by more than 40% since the Industrial Revolution, and it has been known for almost two centuries that this carbon dioxide traps heat.


In fact, the data collected by the researchers suggests that if it weren’t for humans the earth’s temperature would actually have dropped slightly in the last half-century.

2. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO RISE

Remember what we said about all of the horrendous effects of climate change we’ve seen so far being caused by a measly two degrees Fahrenheit increase in temperature? Well, over the next few decades temperatures are expected to rise another two to four degrees. And although the amount it’s going to rise will change depending on whether we cut down emissions or not, it’s going to rise either way.


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These two graphs show predicted temperature changes based on two different models of figuring out what that rise might be. On both graphs, the red line shows the predicted temperature rise if emissions continue to increase at the current rate. The blue line of the top graph assumes a much slower increase in emissions from today, and a significant reduction from 2050 onward. The bottom assumes immediate and significant reductions in emissions.

Best-case scenario we’re looking at? A two and a half degree temperature rise by 2100.


3. TORRENTIAL RAIN IS BECOMING MORE FREQUENT

As well as getting hotter, it’s also getting wetter. This graphic shows just how dramatic the change in heavy precipitation has been from 1958 to 2012.


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Changes in the Southwest, Hawaii and the Northwest are considered “not larger than natural variations,” but the Northeast and the Midwest in particular? Well, the figures speak for themselves really.

4. SEA LEVELS ARE RISING, BUT SO ARE WATER SHORTAGES

It seems bizarre, but although global warming is causing an abundance of water, it’s also causing water shortages.

Many factors contribute to a rising sea level. Melting of ice-caps and glaciers and the fact that water expands as it warms up are the most devastating. The report notes that the global average sea level has risen by around eight inches over the past century, but the rapidity has significantly increased in recent years.

“Since 1992, the rate of global sea level rise measured by satellites has been roughly twice the rate observed over the last century, providing evidence of acceleration,” the report reads.




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Rising sea levels coupled with severe coastal storms are leading to increased storm surge damage, erosion and flooding, and sea levels are predicted to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century. That’s just the average. In some place, the level could rise as much as 6 feet.


“The stakes are high, as nearly five million Americans and hundreds of billions of dollars of property are located in areas that are less than four feet above the local high-tide level,” the report states.



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But rising sea levels and torrential rains are actually contributing to water shortages. Increases in sediment and other contaminants after severe downpours is diminishing water quality. At the same time, short-term droughts are expected to become even more intense in large parts of the Southwest, the Southeast and the southern part of the Great Plains. Rising sea levels and storm surges are also starting to contaminate fresh water supplies.


5. ALLERGY SEASON IS GETTING LONGER

For the time being, there are actually a few positives to come out of global warming from a human’s perspective. One of these things is longer growing seasons for farmers.

However, for those of us who suffer from allergies, this is not a good thing at all. A longer growing season coupled with higher temperatures and carbon dioxide levels means increased pollen production, which in turn can mean a lengthier and more intense allergy season.





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Infiltration of the U.S. Government, Part Two



By Cliff Kincaid — May 5, 2014

Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine has apparently surprised a lot of people who thought the Cold War was over, and that Russia had been integrated into the “community of nations.” In 2012, President Obama pushed through Permanent Normal Trade Relations for Russia, giving Putin access to billions of dollars of Western capital. Continue reading here... 

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Fiat Chrysler To Outline 5-Year Strategic Plan





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The automaker reached most of the last targets which were set shortly after Fiat took over Chrysler in 2009. Fiat Chrysler's CEO will again answer questions about the company's long-term viability.


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John B Wells' Caravan To Midnight - Episode 53 with Tosh Plumlee



Caravan To Midnight - Episode 53 Tosh Plumlee & John B Wells



Caravan To Midnight

Published on May 6, 2014

Join John B. Wells as he welcomes Tosh Plumlee on board for an epic conversation including details about the Benghazi cover-up, and much more.
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Anarchy in the USA! (and everywhere else) - BFP Roundtable





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In this edition of the BoilingFrogsPost.com Roundtable, James Corbett, Sibel Edmonds and Peter B. Collins welcome Andrew Gavin Marshall for a discussion of his recent podcast on "Anarchy, Socialism and Free Markets." We talk about anarchism as a philosophy and what it really entails, as well as how it links to socialism, libertarianism and other political philosophies. We also delve into some of the questions and critiques that many raise to the idea of anarchism.
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VICE News Daily: Beyond The Headlines - May, 6 2014




Published on May 6, 2014

The VICE News Capsule is a news roundup that looks beyond the headlines. Today: Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram threatens to 'sell' more than 200 abducted schoolgirls, South Sudan's government and rebels fight for key territory despite plans for new peace talks, the U.S. Supreme Court passes up another chance to define the breadth of the Second Amendment right to gun bear arms, and hundreds of thousands march to urge the Brazilian government to better protect the LGBT community.

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NIGERIA
Boko Haram Threatens to 'Sell' Kidnapped Schoolgirls
The Islamist group releases a video message offering a grim view of what's planned for the more than 200 girls.

SOUTH SUDAN
Government Recaptures Territory from Rebels
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is threatening sanctions and 'other consequences' if rebels don't agree to join peace talks.

U.S.A.
Supreme Court Refuses to Rule on Guns in Public
Court turns away a case dealing with New Jersey state restrictions on gun ownership.

BRAZIL
World's Biggest Gay Pride Parade Held in Sao Paulo
Activists urge legislation criminalizing discrimination against the LGBT community.

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A long, long time ago

"Hillary Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov press a red button symbolizing the intention to "reset" US-Russian relations March, 2009." 



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Monday, May 05, 2014

Lavrov's Peru Visit Very Much In Line With Past Russian Foreign Policy

2 May, 17:37





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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, left, and Peruvian President Ollanta Humala during a meeting in Lima.



By Rustem Safronov and Kells Hetherington

WASHINGTON (VR) — The West and the United States and Europe perceived Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s current tour of Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru and Chile as a response to the large American presence in eastern Europe and U.S. meddling in Ukraine, which has always been regarded as part of Russia's sphere of influence, according to Alex Sanchez, a Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs based in Washington. Sanchez added, Lavrov’s trip to Latin America was regarded as a way for Moscow to demonstrate now Russia can be aggressive and expand its foreign policy and its sphere of influence historically regarded as in Washington's backyard.

"And I have to just point out,” Sanchez said that “Russia has been paying attention to Latin America and the Caribbean more and more in recent years. For example, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, he was in Peru actually in October or November. He went to Brazil as well and also to Peru. So Peru, I will say, in the past couple of years, Peru has had quite a bit of attention from Russia."

According to Sanchez, Cuba and Nicaragua, the latter country, now under the [Daniel] Ortega presidency, have had a history of tensions with the US, but countries such as Peru and Chile have always been more neutral, although their foreign policies have tended toward U.S. appeasement. And he added, this is a big part of the reason Lavrov’s visit to Chile specially was unsettling to Washington.

Radio VR's Rustem Safronov emphasized, in trips such as the recent one by Lavrov Russia has worked to achieve a “multipolar world” as opposed to a U.S. centric one. Russia has a longstanding relationship with the Peruvians, and may be in talks with the Lima government to supply military equipment, including Russian tanks. Peru needs the equipment to fight a war on drugs in the country.

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Father General's Journey

Black Pope Adolfo Nicolás Pachón (left) and  Peter Hans Kolvenbach (right) his "predecessor".



Father General's Journey. On 25 April, Father General left Rome for South America. He will return on 12 May. The first stop of the visit was British Guyana, Venezuela and Cuba. During the second half of this visit, Father General took part in the 28th Meeting of Latin America Provincials (CPAL). On Friday, 25 April, Father General began his journey in British Guyana. After a night in Barbados, he arrived in Georgetown at noon on 26 April. Visits to apostolic works of the Society, and a meeting with Jesuits and their collaborators followed. Father General left for Venezuela on Monday, 28 April, where his stay centered on Caracas and Maracaibo. In Caracas, he visited the Catholic Andrés Bello University, the La Vega barrio, the Educational and Pedagogical Reflection Center, the San Ignacio College, and the Jesús Obrero center of collaboration, where he met Jesuits and their collaborators. The visit in Maracaibo on 30 April, allowed him to familiarize himself with the Ignatian Apostolic Network of Zulia. On the evening of 2 May, he left for Cuba, where he remained until the afternoon of 4 May. In Havana, he met the country's religious congregations, as well as Jesuits and their collaborators. He participated in the Festival de Jóvenes Ignacianos. On the Sunday evening he travelled to Guadalajara, Mexico, to take part in the Latin American Provincials meeting.

The 28th Assembly of CPAL begins on 6 May and continues until Saturday, 10 May. It will be held in the Retreat and Conference Center at Puente Grande. Father General will personally meet with each Provincial during the Assembly. He will familiarize himself with the common projects of CPAL's Provinces and Regions. These include the project centered on the Panama Canal Zone, and the international centers of formation. Core issues on the Assembly's agenda will be the re-configuration of Provinces, and the establishment of common centers of philosophical formation. On Friday, 9 May, still in Puente Grande, Father General will meet the Mexican Jesuits in formation. On Sunday, 11 May, before his departure for Rome, Father General will launch an exhibition whose theme is the Society of Jesus during the colonial era. This will be held in the Society's former novitiate and missionary center in Tepotzotlán, near Mexico City.


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Saturday, May 03, 2014

"The final movements will be rapid ones"


The Last Crisis

We are living in the time of the end. The fast fulfilling signs of the times declare that the coming o f Christ is near at hand. The days in which we live a re solemn and important. The Spirit of God is gradually but surely being withdrawn from the earth . Plagues and judgments are already falling upon the despisers of the grace of God. The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled state of society, the alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast approaching events of the greatest magnitude.

The agencies of evil are combining their forces and consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis. Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final movements will be rapid ones.

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To God Be the Glory - London Philharmonic Choir



London Philharmonic Choir - To God Be the Glory



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He Touched Me by Men's Quartet




 

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Uploaded on Nov 17, 2011 Listen to this men's quartet sing at the Temple Baptist Church in Powell, Tennessee. The title of their song is "He Touched Me."
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Happy Sabbath


And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
Isaiah 66:23
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Friday, May 02, 2014

The Great Controversy - Two Beasts Unite





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Video created by https://www.youtube.com/user/mynewnam...

The words are from 'The Great Controversy', Ch.35. (One of the most important books for our time, next to the Bible).

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The Vatican and the U.S.A.



The Vatican and the U.S.A.
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Avro Manhattan



THE U.S.A.. By. AVRO MANHATTAN .... The U.S.A. has become, in fact, the focal point of Vatican strategy. ... country, with a view to extending Roman Catholic influence in all parts of ..... th~ operation of the Constitution of the United States or.
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A comforting sight!

I was driving today and saw a peculiar bumper sticker;  Here's what it looks like:

When I saw it I was perplexed. I didn't know whether to laugh or worry.

It confirms my  assumption that there is a Roman Catholic agenda in full effect in our midst.

We are living in sobering times!

Thursday, May 01, 2014

Mayday! Mayday! Happy Birthday Illuminati!




1'st of May. Let's give some more power to the Illuminati!
2005 05 01

By Henrik Palmgren | red-ice.net


Adam Weishaupt ( February 6, 1748 - November 18, 1811) was the German founder of the Order of the Illuminati.


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He was born and raised in Ingolstadt, where he attained the rank of Professor of Canon Law in 1772. Though he was educated by Jesuits and was clearly influenced by the discretion, loyalty and the hierarchic obedience of the Society of Jesus and was for a time a member of their order, his appointment as Professor of Natural and Canon Law at the University of Ingoldstadt in 1775 offended them. He broke with them and became increasingly liberal in his religious and political views, favoring deism and a kind of millennial natural order that swept aside states and organized religion.

With the help of Baron Adolph von Knigge, on May 1, 1776 Weishaupt formed the "Order of Perfectibilists", which was later known as the Illuminati. Some claim that this founding date is the origin for the date of the Communist May Day observance. He adopted the name of "Brother Spartacus" within the order. Though the Order was distinctly not egalitarian or democratic, its declared mission was the development of morality and virtue and the creation of an association of good men to oppose the progress of evil, by any means necessary. "Sin is only that which is hurtful, and if the profit is greater than the damage, it becomes a virtue," Weishaupt wrote: the ends justified the means. The actual character of the society was determined by its traditionalist enemies to be an elaborate network of spies and counter-spies, though with the high goal of ensuring virtue. Each isolated cell of initiates reported to a superior, whom they did not know, a party structure that was later effectively adopted by some later groups, including more recently by the early Ba'ath party in Syria and Iraq.

Weishaupt was initiated into Freemasonry Lodge "Theodor zum guten Rath", at MunichMunich ( German: Munchen ) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. Behind Berlin and Hamburg, Munich is Germany's third largest city with a population of about 1. 261 million ( as of 2003). It is located on the river Isar. History The se in 1777. He worked at first to divest Freemasonry of its pseudohistorical mumbo-jumbo and reform it. Weishaupt had no use for other occultisms in general: "It is by this scale that we must measure the mad and wicked explanations of the Rosycrucions, the exorcists and Cabalists. These are rejected by all good Masons, because incompatible with social happiness." His project of "illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason, which will dispel the clouds of superstition and of prejudice" was an unwelcome reform. Soon however he had developed gnostic mysteries of his own, with the goal of perfecting human nature through re-education to achieve a communal state of nature, freed of government and organized religion. He began working towards incorporating his system of Illuminism into that of Masonry, with the aim of spreading his ideals throughout the world. "I did not bring Deism into Bavaria," he wrote, "more than into Rome. I found it here, in great vigour, more abounding than in any of the neighboring Protestant States. I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati."

Weishaupt's radical rationalism, sweeping away nations and religions, private property and marriage, with the vocabulary used by the French Revolution, was not likely to appeal, even to an establishment more liberal than the Wittelsbachs'. Writings that were intercepted in 1784 were interpreted as seditious, the Society was banned by Bavaria's government in 1784, Weishaupt lost his position at the University of Ingolstadt and fled Bavaria. He received the assistance of Duke Ernest of Gotha, and lived in Gotha writing a series of works on Illuminism, including A Complete History of the Persecutions of the Illuminati in Bavaria ( 1785), A Picture of Illuminism ( 1786), An Apology for the Illuminati ( 1786), and An Improved System of Illuminism ( 1787). He died there in 1811, though his later career was so obscure that some sources place the year of his death at 1830.

A century after his death, occultist interest in Weishaupt and the Bavarian Illuminati picked up, through the writings of Aleister Crowley. Modern adepts trace the imagery of symbolism like the eye in the pyramid, and embrace the secrecy of the Illuminati traditions but ignore the specifics of Weishaupt's published essays and correspondence.

Mayday for the distress signal May Day is a name for various holidays celebrated on May 1 (or in the beginning of May). Labour association Mumbai, are common. The holiday is most often associated with the commemoration of the social and economic achi
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Socialist Connection to the Illuminati

Was Lenin a Freemason?

Whether Lenin was a freemason as early as in the 1890s is not yet possible to determine but he worked in the same way as subversive groups usually do. The Illuminati, the Grand Orient, B'nai B'rith (Sons of the Covenant), and other Masonic lodges were all interested in agitating the workers towards certain "useful" goals.

It is important to stress that Lenin and his henchmen did not work for a living. They could still afford to travel around Europe (then relatively more expensive than now) and live in luxury. These professional revolutionaries had only one task - to agitate the workers. Lenin's later activity shows clearly how he followed Adam Weishaupt's line.

Several sources reveal that Lenin became a freemason whilst abroad in 1908. One of these sources is a thorough investigation: Nikolai Svitkov's "About Freemasonry in Russian Exile", published in Paris in 1932. According to Svitkov, the most important freemasons from Russia were Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin, Leon Trotsky (Leiba Bronstein), Grigori Zinoviev (Gerson Radomyslsky), Leon Kamenev (actually Leiba Rosen-feld), Karl Radek (Tobiach Sobelsohn), Maxim Litvinov (Meyer Hennokh Wallakh), Yakov Sverdlov (Yankel-Aaron Solomon), L. Martov (Yuli Zederbaum), and Maxim Gorky (Alexei Peshkov), among others.

According to the Austrian political scientist Karl Steinhauser's "EG - die Super-UdSSR von morgen" / "The European Union - the Super Soviet Union (USSR) of Tomorrow" (Vienna, 1992, p. 192), Lenin belonged to the Masonic lodge Art et Travail (Art and Labour). The famous British politician Winston Churchill also confirmed that Lenin and Trotsky belonged to the circle of the Masonic and Illuminist conspirators. (Illustrated Sunday Herald, 8 February 1920.)

Lenin, Zinoviev, Radek and Sverdlov also belonged to B'nai B'rith. Researchers who are specialised in the activities of B'nai B'rith, including Schwartz-Bostunich, confirmed this infor-mation. (Viktor Ostretsov, "Freemasonry, Culture and Russian History", Moscow, 1999, pp. 582-583.)

Lenin was a freemason of the 31st degree (Grand Inspecteur Inquisiteur Commandeur) and a member of the lodge Art et Travail in Switzerland and France. (Oleg Platonov, "Russia's Crown of Thorns: The Secret History of Freemasonry", Moscow, 2000, part II, p. 417.)

When Lenin visited the headquarters of Grand Orient on rue Cadet in Paris, he signed the visitors' book. (Viktor Kuznetsov, "The Secret of the October Coup", St. Petersburg, 2001, p. 42.)

Together with Trotsky, Lenin took part in the International Masonic Conference in Copenhagen in 1910. (Franz Weissin, "Der Weg zum Sozialismus" / "The Road to Socialism", Munich, 1930, p. 9.) The socialisation of Europe was on the agenda.

Alexander Galpern, then secretary of the Masonic Supreme Council, confirmed in 1916 that there were Bolsheviks among the freemasons. I can further mention Nikolai Sukhanov (actually Himmer) and N. Sokolov. According to Galpern's testimony, the freemasons also gave Lenin financial aid to his revolutionary activity. This was certified by a known freemason, Grigori Aronson, in his article "Freemasons in Russian Politics", published in the Novoye Russkoye Slovo (New York, 8-12 October 1959). The historian Boris Nikolayevsky also mentioned this in his book "The Russian Freemasons and the Revolution" (Moscow, 1990).

In 1914, two Bolsheviks, Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov and Grigori Petrovsky, contacted the freemason Alexander Konovalov for economic aid. The latter became a minister in the Provisional Government.

Radio Russia also spoke of Lenin's activities as a freemason on 12 August 1991.

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Auburn Lent Part 1





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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Auburn SDA Church hosted a Lent Service - "Pastor Arnold Parungao, a Catholic Priest, spoke at our church"



April 2014
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Because we believe Jesus is returning our mission is to attract and grow passionate followers of Jesus, through worship, relationships and service

 On March 19, 2014, Auburn SDA Church hosted a Lent ServiceLent is a time when we take a careful look at our lives and our relationship with God. This service is part of a series built around the 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. The sermons are being given by various pastors of different denominations around town.

On March 5th Pastor Dan spoke at the service at the St.Teresa Church. On March 19th Associate Pastor Arnold Parungao, a Catholic Priest, spoke at our church.

Pastor Arnold spoke on steps 6 and 7 of the 12-Step Program, which are Willingness to have God remove our defects of character, and Humility before God. Close to 300 members heard Pastor Arnold give a stirring sermon. The Lent series is another outreach to foster improved community relations and share with Auburn what the Auburn SDA Church is all about.


Inside this Issue:
Pg 1 -Lenten Service
Pg 2 - Sermon Notes, Church Birthdays, Health Bites, Upcoming Events
Pg 3- Jan’s Healthy Recipes, Church Contacts, Cartoon
Pg 4- Poem – Wall Of Partition

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An Afghan Village Of Drug Addicts, From Ages 10 To 60




by Renee Montagne
April 30, 2014 3:31 AM ET



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Herat is one of the most graceful cities in Afghanistan. Its traditions go back to the Persian empire, with its exquisite blue and green glass, and its thriving poetry scene.

Now Herat is struggling with a darker side: drug addiction at a higher rate than almost anywhere else in the country.

In a dusty ravine on the outskirts of the city, Ahmad, a scruffy 20-year-old, is striking a match to inhale heroin.

It's a simple act he repeats throughout his day — heating a dark slab of heroin paste smeared on a bit of foil so he can smoke it.

Ahmad is one of hundreds of addicts who have turned a dumping ground for building material into a village. A drug village.

They used chunks of cement and tarps to honeycomb the ravine with what look like stone igloos.

Ahmad's mother, Zahra, leans against some rocks in front of their place. Her flat, gold eyes peer at us from beneath a plaid veil as she tells her story

"I used to weave carpets and also worked as a maid," she says. "Then my husband got cancer and died."

Zahra's life spiraled downward, hitting bottom when her sister-in-law returned from Iran and offered her heroin.

Now, Zahra says, "I can't do anything except beg on the street."

We pull back a red cloth to find another woman, Zahra's sister, blinking up into the light. In the center of this tiny space is a cooking area — not for food, but for heroin.

There's also a small figure moaning and moving restlessly under a filthy blue burka.

"That's my daughter," says Zahra.

She's 10, and she's hooked on heroin too.

How did such a young girl become addicted?

"When we had my sister-in-law living with us, she was addicted," says Zahra. "I would go out to other homes to do housekeeping. And my little girl Laila used to cry a lot. So my sister-in-law gave the child opium to calm her down — that's when she became an addict."

Zahra says her daughter has already gone through rehab at a clinic in the city.
But back in this drug village, the 10-year-old became addicted once again.

Few Resources To Combat Drugs

In a white-tiled office, Dr. Ezmaray Hassin runs several clinics in Herat, and he says one of them serves children as young as 4. There are an estimated 70,000 drug users here now, he says.

"There's no doubt that Afghanistan is one of the largest producers of poppy, but historically they have never been drug users," Dr. Hassin says. But more than three decades of war, which has displaced millions of Afghans, has created all sorts of upheavals, he says.

"A lot of people travel to the neighboring countries, and they got to know about narcotics and they become addicted," he adds. "And the one country that's closest to Herat is Iran."



Saleh (from left), 25, Mohammed Ibrahim, 31, and Nisar Ahmed, 23, sit in a drug rehabilitation center on the outskirts of Herat. Opium grown in Afghanistan has long been smuggled through Herat on its way to Iran and to the West. Now Herat has many drug addicts of its own. David P. Gilkey/NPR

Iran has long had one of the highest rates of drug addiction in the world. Heroin is widely used in Iran, but recently there has been a dramatic rise in the use of crystal meth.

Sitting on a bed in this clinic in Herat is Saleh, 25, who tells a story we hear again and again, from migrants and refugees who've returned from Iran with addictions.

A few years ago, he crossed the border into Iran to look for work.

"I was in Iran and I was digging wells," he begins. "Then my legs would really, really hurt, really bad. Basically it started with opium first to treat my legs — to kill the pain. And then over time I went to heroin. Then the problem became that every time I did not use heroin my legs even would hurt more. So I had to use."

Relatively speaking, Saleh is among the lucky ones. There are just 250 beds devoted to drug treatment in all of Herat.

The city's top counternarcotics officer is Faquil Gul Amini, whose office in the center of Herat is protected by trucks with mounted machine guns.

Amini's resources are limited, and the challenge is growing with the arrival of a drug he'd never seen before a couple of years ago: crystal meth, which is known in Persian as shisheh, or glass.

Amini says he has just raided meth labs in Herat and arrested a Breaking Bad kind of guy from Iran. But he has no illusions about the magnitude of the battle he faces.

"I'm afraid to say when it comes to the list of priorities for the government to deal with, the issue of drug addicts, I'm afraid to say, it's below zero," he said.

Which is why this village outside the city is full of addicts. On a hot day you can see a constant flow of men walking up and down on a path crunchy with broken glass.

They are going nowhere.



A self-proclaimed poet and scholar, Haji Ismatullah blows smoke out after taking a hit of crystal meth. He says he turned to drugs after his wife and kids were killed in a car accident. David P. Gilkey/NPR

Those who are on crystal meth are easy to spot. One we encounter has the air of a 60-something hipster. A trim gray beard. A black leather jacket. A tattoo on his hand spelling love.

His name is Haji Ismatullah, and the young men clustered around him call out, "He's a writer."

As evidence, he opens a notebook filled with elegant Persian script in red and black.

"I say poetry for the people here," he says. "For the pain of the people."

Ismatullah says he began using crystal meth after his wife and three children were killed in a car accident.

"My heart was hurting a lot after the accident when I lost my family," he says. "Some people told me if you take meth it makes you forget things. And there's a lot in Herat, so I took it."

For the first few months, it did help, he says. But, he adds with a cackle, "After that, it does not help me because it's not a good friend."

Still, Ismatullah would like some meth right now.

As we walk with him to his place, a young woman who carries herself like a dancer comes toward us. The men see her and laugh. She has lost her mind, she's crazy, they say.

She does in fact call herself by the name of a famous Iranian singer and seems to think she's on stage. Decked out in a magenta cape, turquoise beads and a turban, she tosses her head dramatically and with a kind of wild beauty.

Then she spins away, just as we reach the dwelling of Ismatullah, which resembles a stone igloo.



A man walks past a fresh grave in the Kamar Kulagh slum outside of Herat. David P. Gilkey/NPR


He goes inside the tiny place and smokes crystal meth in a glass pipe.

Afterward, he's ready to wander again, so we walk to the top of a hill to a makeshift cemetery. He takes us to a fresh grave marked by a small mound of rocks. There lies his friend Baluchi, who died two days before.

It's a moment that brings to mind a question we put earlier to a man named Mohammed, who has been residing in this drug village for six months. I asked him how he sees his future. "Look at my life, this life," he said. "The end for us is death. That's what we're waiting for."


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