CLINTONS SHUTTER GLOBAL INITIATIVE AS DONATIONS DRY UP

CLINTONS SHUTTER GLOBAL INITIATIVE 
AS DONATIONS DRY UP
BY BOB ADELMANN
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The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) filed a WARN
— Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification — with New York State’s
Department of Labor on Thursday, announcing that, effective April 15,
2017, it would be closing its doors and laying off 22 employees. The
CGI’s stated reason: “Discontinuation of the Clinton Global Initiative.”

Following the election, foreign governments that had been regular
donors began cutting their contributions to the Clinton Foundation, some
severely. For example, news.com.au noted
that the Australian government “has not renewed any of its partnerships
with the scandal-plagued Clinton Foundation, effectively ending 10
years of taxpayer-funded contributions worth more than $88 million.” The
government of Norway, which had been contributing as much as $20
million a year to the foundation, cut its contribution by nearly 90
percent.

As noted by the New York Observer, these cuts indicate that
“the organization’s clout was predicated on donor access to the
Clintons, rather than its philanthropic work.”

Suggestions that the CGI, which called itself a “networking” adjunct
to the Clinton Foundation, was primarily an influence-peddling scheme to
enrich the Clintons in exchange for “access” arose in October. That’s
when the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks published e-mails from Doug Band, a
co-founder of CGI, indicating how the “pay for access” scheme worked.
The Washington Post, a supporter of the Clinton candidacy for president, laid bare the details:

“The memo, made public Wednesday [October
26] by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, lays out the aggressive
strategy behind lining up consulting contracts and paid speaking
engagements for Bill Clinton that added tens of millions of dollars to
the family’s fortune, including during the years that Hillary Clinton
led the State Department. It describes how Band help run what he called
‘Bill Clinton, Inc.’, obtaining ‘in-kind services for the President and
his family — for personal travel, hospitality, vacations and the like.'”

The closing of CGI confirmed Peter Schweizer’s conclusions in his book Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,
that there are “serious and alarming questions of judgment, of possible
indebtedness to an array of foreign interests, and ultimately, of
[Hillary’s] fitness for high public office.”

As Forbes noted in its review of the book, “The timing of
policy decisions or international deals relative to donations,
transcends coincidence” while Harvard Law School professor Lawrence
Lessig observed, “On any fair reading, the pattern of behavior that
Schweizer has charged is corruption.”

As Schweizer reveals, the pattern is predictable and repeated
frequently: “Introductions are made. A deal is struck — usually to
exploit natural resources such as uranium, oil, or timber, on a large
and highly profitable scale. Soon after that, enormous contributions are
made to the Clinton Foundation from those who benefited from the deal,
while Bill is commissioned to deliver a series of highly-paid speeches.
Moreover, some of these deals require approval or review by the U.S.
government [which] fall within the purview of a powerful senator
[Hillary] or secretary of state [Hillary].”

Schweizer revealed how Hillary was involved in facilitating the
transfer of nearly 50 percent of U.S. uranium output to Russia,
benefiting large donors to her foundation. He revealed how Bill was paid
enormous sums for speeches given to foreign governments and businesses
which just happened to have matters pending before the State Department
while Hillary was secretary. He exposed how a visit by the Clintons to
Colombia was followed by the grant of lucrative logging rights to a
Canadian billionaire who also happened to be a Clinton Foundation donor.

But the river of financial largesse in exchange for access has dried
up. After all, when there’s no influence to peddle, what other reason
would there be to contribute?

THE PERFECT STORM DESCENDING UPON AMERICA: SOCIOLOGICAL IMPACT

THE PERFECT STORM DESCENDING UPON AMERICA: SOCIOLOGICAL IMPACT
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By Frosty
Wooldridge


January
17, 2017
NewsWithViews.com
Part
1: Immigration onslaught. Part 2: Sociological impact of jamming cultures
together. Part 3: Environmental impact. Part 4: What is your role
in changing America’s future?
Author
Samuel P. Huntington, Clash of Civilizations,
said, “It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict
in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic.
The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict
will be cultural. Nation-states will remain the most powerful actors
in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will
occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. [Inside
those nation states] The clash of civilizations will dominate global
politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the
battle lines of the future.”
As
an American living in a high speed, highly technological society—how
would you respond when all of a sudden someone flies you out of your
home and transports you to an African village in Sudan or Somalia?
What if a plane lifted you out of Chicago, Illinois and transported
you to Calcutta, India?
What
would you do when you arrived? First of all, no housing, no toilets,
no safe food and no clean water! No jobs, no familiarity with a radically
different culture and no ability to speak the language. No matter
how smart, old or skilled, you would stand in shock of being injected
into a third world society. You would huddle with your own until rescued.
But if not rescued, you would live in oblivion.
Fast
forward: what if you were a Somalian, Sudanese, Ethiopian or Congolese
citizen transported by the U.S. Government to save you from starvation
and war—that has become a part of your culture through tribal
heritage? You arrive in America with no skills, no job, no language
ability and a culture diametrically opposed to your own. You carry
a 68 IQ. (Source: IQ and the Wealth of Nations, www.iq-resarch.info)
Your “saviors” force you to live in a country with the
average IQ at 100 and millions over 120.
Once
in America, because you lack any qualifications for work, you enjoy
free food, free housing, free medical, free education, free car, free
gasoline, free clothing—all paid for by working Americans who didn’t
ask for your burden.
From
there, your kids fail in school because education standards run beyond
their intellectual horsepower. You combat new ideas of women’s
rights, free choice of religion, free speech and try to cope with
living in an ultra-high-speed society. Because you lack skills, educational
abilities and a comprehension of American culture—you live in enclaves
with your fellow immigrants and become permanent wards of the state.
Today, legal immigrants cost American taxpayers $113,000,000,000.00
(billion) annually with no end in sight. (Source: www.TheSocialContract.com)
Also,
this fact must be realized: today, American industry increases robotics
for redundant jobs at an astounding rate of speed. Inventions make
fast food completely without human hands. Automobile assembly lines
via robots complete 90 percent of car manufacturing. Crops see machines
plant and pick everything going to market.
Let’s
look ahead to 30 years from now if the U.S. Government continues the
1965 Immigration Reform Act that imports 110,000 unskilled refugees
every 30 days to total 1.5 to 1.7 million legal and illegal refugees
annually.
In
the next 30 years, that equates to our country adding 100,000,000
(million) legal immigrants from 190 different countries with 190 different
world views. That means we import 100 million people with 190 different
cultures, 190 different religions and 190 different languages.
Do
think we stand a chance of surviving this human juggernaut?
We
cram them into America in three short decades—so fast that they
cannot and will not assimilate. They form tribal enclaves like Minneapolis,
Minnesota where 120,000 Somali immigrants created “Somaliland”
where Americans avoid visiting. The majority of immigrants exist on
permanent welfare. Additionally, Dearbornistan, Michigan with 350,000
Middle Eastern immigrants where Arabic dominates and schools teach
out of the Quran and do not subscribe to anything American. They practice
honor killings, female genital mutilation, women as property, four
wives, arranged marriages and killing of gay people. Additionally,
the majority live on welfare.
Welcome
to Dearborn, Michigan. [YouTube
Link
]
Yet,
the United Nations, Lutheran Churches, Catholic Churches and others
force those refugees into every town that features a welfare office—knowing
full well those refugees cannot and will not become functioning parts
of the American workforce. Additionally, they will never integrate
into American society. And worse, those organizations understand that
such places like Africa, India and Indochina continue adding 80,000,000
(million) new babies, net gain, annually—so the line of refugees
never ends.
View
this video to see uselessness of endless immigration. It solves nothing,
but in fact exacerbates population growth:
In
a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration,
Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG,
graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation. Take
five minutes to see for yourself
.
As
you can see from the video, no amount of immigration will solve the
starvation, misery, suffering or hopelessness of people around the
world. Why? Because developing countries keep adding 80 million, net
gain, annually.
But
on a sociological level, America, Europe, Canada and Australia find
their countries becoming “Everybody Else’s Countries.”
Whether it’s the impact of cultural conflict, religious conflict
or linguistic chaos—first world countries will not survive the “Clash
of Civilizations” described so clearly in Huntington’s
book.
As
stated, all cultures and ethnic groups compete for dominance. With
100,000,000 added immigrants from 190 different countries by 2050,
the USA finds those millions pulling for their own culture, ethos,
language and religions. America today, already fractures and fragments
in the big cities with Black Panthers and Black Lives Matter calling
for a separate Black Country. With the advent of more terrorist Muslims,
you will see them demanding Islamic caliphates in the USA much like
Europe.
Our
country faces ultimately pulling apart at the seams. It will not be
able to hold in the center as “Americans.” Again, those
100 million immigrants will be pulling in their direction because
this will no longer be America. It will be a massive polyglot of religious,
linguistic and cultural conflict.
Any
culture that will not defend itself against displacement through mass
immigration faces extinction. That includes both time-tested and successful
cultures. Embracing diversity results in cultural suicide. America’s
multicultural path guarantees its destruction via cultural clashes
and conflict with Islam, Mexican and African cultures that diametrically
oppose American culture. The more diverse a country, the more destructive
and broken-down its future. The more people, the more it destroys
its quality of life and standard of living. The more it adds immigrants,
the more destruction to its environment. The more it imports refugees,
the faster America, Canada, Europe and Australia lose their own ability
to function and worse, their identities. Exponential growth of any
civilization leads to ultimate collapse. You see it in Africa, India
and China today. You will see it in Europe, Canada, Australia and
America in the coming years, “IF” Western countries don’t
stop all forms of immigration.
If
you don’t want a Paris, France, San Bernardino, Orlando or Fort
Lauderdale event in your community, it’s time to call for a
total “Immigration Shutdown Now.”
Call
your senators and House rep: 1 202 224 3121 or 1 888 995 2086. Demand
a stop to all immigration and stop to any Syrian immigration.
Definition
of slogan: “Immigration Shutdown Now means the American people
want a total shutdown on all legal and illegal immigration. That means
we want all illegal immigration stopped by arresting, prosecuting
and jailing employers of illegal aliens. We deport all illegal aliens
by taking their jobs away and as we catch them. We want English mandated
as our national language. We demand a cessation of Muslim immigration
in order to protect our culture, language and way of life. We can’t
save the world but we can save or destroy our civilization. We demand
a stable population that allows everyone to live, work and thrive
into the 21st century. Especially our children.” FHW
(Permission
to republish this population graph by Roy Beck, www.NumbersUSA.org
)
Muslims
cannot in any way become Americans. The Koran forbids it. Their entire
context of religious-political Sharia Law demands subjugation to their
religion with no allegiance to the U.S. Constitution. The Koran forbids
women’s rights, marital choice, free speech, gay rights and
religious rights. Our way of life remains completely out of bounds
to Islam. This
4-minute video explains our plight
.
That’s
why you need to take action. Send this series to everyone in your
network. Educate them. Urge them to take action by joining these websites
to become faxers of prewritten letters and phone callers. We must
force Congress into an “Immigration Shutdown Now!”
Share
these videos all over America:
In
a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration,
Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG,
graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation. Take
five minutes to see for yourself
.
“Immigration
by the numbers—off the chart” by Roy Beck
This
10
minute demonstration
shows Americans the results of unending mass
immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations:
in a few words, “Mind boggling!” www.NumbersUSA.org
Take
action by joining for free: America: www.CapsWeb.org
; www.NumbersUSA.org
; www.Fairus.org
; www.CarryingCapacity.org

THE FAKE NEWS: FAKE NARRATIVE EPIDEMIC PART 1 of 2

THE FAKE NEWS: FAKE NARRATIVE EPIDEMIC 
PART 1 of 2
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By Professor
Steven Yates


January 17, 2017
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The
CIA and FBI say Russian hackers influenced, or tried to influence, last
November’s election, with Vladimir Putin himself directing the covert
cyber-attacks. These claims have been made without evidence to back them
up. There have now been tens of thousands of references to “Russian
hackers” in mainstream media over the past month. Most of these,
as a lawyer would say, assume facts not in evidence. I guess repetition
counts as evidence these days, however.
Fifteen
years ago the CIA said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,
and that there was a real and living threat he would use them against
the U.S. This evidence-free claim led, back in 2003, to the worst foreign
policy blunder of the new century, as Bush II launched the Iraq War. Saddam’s
regime was brought to its knees in less than a month. But then what? An
insurgency began; over 4,000 Americans ended up losing their lives; tens
of thousands of Iraqis were also killed, with tens of thousands more people
displaced as war spread across the region, today’s hotspot being
Syria. Small wonder Donald Trump could call U.S. foreign policy “complete
and total disaster.”
No weapons
of mass destruction were ever found in Iraq. This turned out to be the
fake news story of the decade.
Fake
news is the order of our times. In mid-2015, when Trump first announced,
his candidacy was a joke. The “experts” said so. He would
never be taken seriously. Then, of course, he was. The “experts”
went on to say he had no chance at the nomination. Then, as one by one,
his empty-suited competitors fell, he did. Trump, who was invoking issues
the GOP base cared about such as outsourcing, immigration, globalism,
and jobs, began racking up delegate votes, until Ted Cruz was his only
opponent. Then he won the GOP nomination. He still had no chance against
the Clinton machine. The pundits said so. The major polls all said so.
Then Trump won the Presidency!
The
rationalizations began. It was “whitelash” (said Van Jones).
Then it was James Comey’s fault and Email-gate. Then it was fake
news on Breitbart, Facebook, and Twitter. More recently it became Russian
hackers. One could make a case for the first of these. Many white people
are fed up with political correctness. They have had it with being told
they have “privileges.” They are fed up with official narrative
on race, gender, homosexuality, and so on. Trump actually said little
about these, but what he did say appealed to the white working class.
Ergo, he’s a racist, a sexist, and so on. This is Exhibit A in the
decline of critical thinking skills amongst the “experts”
of our era, and certainly among so-called progressives. At one point,
Trump told black America, “Your schools are terrible.” This
is the truth. Most public schools are terrible. Some are worse
than others, though, and those of the inner cities border on dysfunctional.
We are
awash in fake narratives, promulgated in universities and government as
well as major media. Fake narratives form the backdrop that gives mainstream
media fake news credibility. If the subject is race, the fake narrative
begins with the premise that America is a structurally racist society,
that what is harming blacks today is the legacy of slavery, not their
own behavior; that they continue to face unjust discrimination; that their
visceral hostility and violence is to be blamed on the “white majority,”
and that more “education for diversity” is the cure.
If you
don’t agree, then you’re a “basket of deplorables”
racist, “irredeemable” and possibly even a “white nationalist”
or “white supremacist.”
Thus
you will not read about black crime in any general way, even if a few
dramatic incidents like the four blacks who kidnapped and tortured the
autistic white kid in Chicago might be covered. You will read that Black
Lives Matter, but you will be told that to respond, “all
lives matter,” is to be racist. You will not read that blacks are
13% of the population but commit well over 50% of all violent crimes in
the U.S., and in big cities, this number rises to over 90%, most of it
against other blacks. There is far more violent crime by blacks against
whites than by whites against blacks. There is far more hatred of whites
by blacks than there is hatred of blacks by whites. These, too, do not
fit the fake narrative, any more than does the occasional black conservative
who has figured all this out. Thus if you assert them, you must again
be a “deplorable” and possibly a “white… Well,
you get the idea.
Or take
gender, that “social construct” (i.e., academic superstition)
that is something other than biological sex. Women are held back by the
“glass ceiling”; never mind that one just ran for president
and would have won had it not been for the Electoral College. Women, it
seems, face hostile environments, because everywhere they go, they face
the “patriarchy.”
Universities
have a “rape culture” where one in five (one in six? one in
four?) girls can expect to be sexually assaulted at some point. Another
fake narrative. Recall the “campus rape” story at the University
of Virginia fraternity house that Rolling Stone reported? Completely
discredited, this sordid tale owes its existence to the fake “rape
culture” narrative. The article has been taken down. I am not surprised.
It is embarrassing. Read (I copied and saved portions of it):
“Jackie
was sober but giddy with discovery as she looked around the room crammed
with rowdy strangers guzzling beer and dancing to loud music. She smiled
at her date, whom we’ll call Drew, a good-looking junior – or
in UVA parlance, a third-year – and he smiled enticingly back.
“Want
to go upstairs, where it’s quieter?” Drew shouted into her ear,
and Jackie’s heart quickened. She took his hand as he threaded them
out of the crowded room and up a staircase….
Drew
ushered Jackie into a bedroom, shutting the door behind them. The room
was pitch-black inside. Jackie blindly turned toward Drew, uttering
his name. At that same moment, she says, she detected movement in the
room – and felt someone bump into her. Jackie began to scream.
“Shut
up,” she heard a man’s voice say as a body barreled into her, tripping
her backward and sending them both crashing through a low glass table.
There was a heavy person on top of her, spreading open her thighs, and
another person kneeling on her hair, hands pinning down her arms, sharp
shards digging into her back, and excited male voices rising all around
her. When yet another hand clamped over her mouth, Jackie bit it, and
the hand became a fist that punched her in the face. The men surrounding
her began to laugh. For a hopeful moment Jackie wondered if this wasn’t
some collegiate prank. Perhaps at any second someone would flick on
the lights and they’d return to the party.
“Grab
its [sic.] m********* leg,” she heard a voice say. And that’s when
Jackie knew she was going to be raped.
She
remembers every moment of the next three hours of agony, during which,
she says, seven men took turns raping her, while two more – her
date, Drew, and another man – gave instruction and encouragement.
She remembers how the spectators swigged beers, and how they called
each other nicknames like Armpit and Blanket. She remembers the men’s
heft and their sour reek of alcohol mixed with the pungency of marijuana.
Most of all, Jackie remembers the pain and the pounding that went on
and on….
When
Jackie came to, she was alone. It was after 3 a.m. She painfully rose
from the floor and ran shoeless from the room. She emerged to discover
the Phi Psi party still surreally under way, but if anyone noticed the
barefoot, disheveled girl hurrying down a side staircase, face beaten,
dress spattered with blood, they said nothing. Disoriented, Jackie burst
out a side door, realized she was lost, and dialed a friend, screaming,
“Something bad happened. I need you to come and find me!”
Minutes later, her three best friends on campus – two boys and
a girl (whose names are changed) – arrived to find Jackie on a
nearby street corner, shaking. “What did they do to you? What did
they make you do?” Jackie recalls her friend Randall demanding.
Jackie shook her head and began to cry. The group looked at one another
in a panic. They all knew about Jackie’s date; the Phi Kappa Psi house
loomed behind them. “We have to get her to the hospital,”
Randall said.
Their
other two friends, however, weren’t convinced. “Is that such a
good idea?” she recalls Cindy asking. “Her reputation will
be shot for the next four years.” Andy seconded the opinion, adding
that since he and Randall both planned to rush fraternities, they ought
to think this through. The three friends launched into a heated discussion
about the social price of reporting Jackie’s rape, while Jackie stood
beside them, mute in her bloody dress, wishing only to go back to her
dorm room and fall into a deep, forgetful sleep. Detached, Jackie listened
as Cindy prevailed over the group: “She’s gonna be the girl who
cried ‘rape,’ and we’ll never be allowed into any frat party again.”

This
story began to unravel almost at once. Efforts were made to identify “Drew,”
something “Jackie” had refused to do from the start. There
was no evidence he existed. And are we really supposed to believe that
these people rolled around in broken glass for three hours?
Or
that following a brutal gang rape, she and her friends would be pondering
the future of their social lives? 
It turned
out that when someone checked its calendar, the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
had not held an event the night of the alleged “gang rape.”
As “Jackie’s” friends were located, they had different
stories of what happened that night, leaving investigators with an incoherent
mess. “Jackie” stopped cooperating. Surprise, surprise.
Had
this “gang rape” actually happened as described, would there
have been the slightest doubt? Ever knocked a drinking glass to your kitchen
floor by accident? Of course you have; we all have. You locate the pieces
and pick them up gingerly, unless you want to sustain a few painful cuts.
For part two click below.
Click
here for part —–> 1, 2,

WILL THE GLOBALISTS STOP TRUMP BEFORE HE’S SWORN IN?

WILL THE GLOBALISTS STOP TRUMP 
BEFORE HE’S SWORN IN?
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By

Al Duncan



January 17, 2017

NewsWithViews.com

America’s
Fate
The
powers that be (PTB) and all of their lackeys and brainwashed sheeple
were literally blindsided when Hillary Clinton loss the election. By controlling
the media coverage of the election with a constant barrage of false accusation
and vicious attacks on Trump and never a negative remark about Clinton,
manipulating the polls by polling a majority of democrats, using Hollywood
to esteem Clinton while condemning Trump, giving Clinton the questions
and answers during the debates, programming the voting machines to only
vote Clinton, shipping busloads of illegals from one voting booth to another
to vote for Clinton, using names of dead people as Clinton voters, paying
people to report false accusations on Trump, transporting tens of thousands
of unemployed cross country at $15 an hour to disrupt, harass and attack
at Trump gatherings, they had done everything money, power and corruption
could do to assure a Clinton win.
And
yet, to their utter shock, Trump had still garnered such a tremendous
national following that he won by such a huge margin it eclipsed all of
their attempts against him.
The
PTB, orchestrated by Satan himself, have been preparing their global takeover
for over a hundred years. They have amassed incalculable riches, ascended
to unthinkable heights of power and obtained unimaginable intercontinental
control. The PTB have no intentions of relinquishing one dollar, one degree
of power, one inch of control, especially to one man.
Therefore,
they will do everything within their power to halt the actual swearing
in of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States, even at the risk
of starting a civil war, and if need be, his assassination. At best, if
he is sworn in and through all of their controlled sources, cheer lead
by the media, the PTB crash every social, public, civic and economic institution
around him, leaving him a failed disgrace while simultaneously affirming
that only they, the PTB, are qualified to rule.
Until
Donald J. Trump is sworn in as President of the United States, Obama will
retain the power of Commander and Chief. If we attack or are attacked
by Russia, or civil war erupts, or there’s a terror attack, or an
EMP attack, or a natural disaster, or any other reason he can declare
a State of Emergency and he will retain the authority of Commander and
Chief.
For
those who remember, the constitutionally required procedure for Barack
Obama’s inauguration was not completed (see below). Thus, he was
never sworn in properly and legally. The first oath was flubbed and the
second swearing was done in private without a Bible.
Barak
Obama is a Manchurian Candidate. I say that because we still don’t
know him. Especially now that the Birth Certificate he presented the public
was recently authenticated to be a fraudulent document on nine points,
determined by leading experts from around the world: Sheriff Joe Arpaio:
Obama’s Birth Certificate is Forgery Press …
Therefore
Barack Obama is most likely not a legitimate president of the United States,
which negates and nullifies every illegal, unconstitutional act he has
perpetrated during his past eight years in office: The Very Strange Case
Of Obama’s Oath Of Office – Rense I have excerpted the pertinent facts
from this article, below:
“For
a couple of smooth-talking constitutional experts, Chief Justice John
G. Roberts Jr. and President-elect Barack Obama sure had a hard time getting
through the constitutional oath of office…
The
chief justice seemed to say ‘to’ rather than ‘of,’ but that was not the
main problem. The main problem was that the word ‘faithfully’ had floated
upstream…
“The
chief justice gave it another go, getting closer but still not quite right:
“faithfully the office of president of the United States.” This
time, he omitted the word ‘execute.’ Mr. Obama now repeated the chief
justice’s initial error of putting ‘faithfully’ at the end of the phrase.
Yes,
indeed these two “smooth-talking constitutional experts” couldn’t
manage to recite the brief oath as it was written.
Here’s
how the media reported the second rite: …After a day’s worth of chatter
over whether the president had been properly sworn into office…(i)n
25 seconds, President Obama became president again. Chief Justice John
G. Roberts Jr. re-administered the oath to Mr. Obama on Wednesday evening,
one day after the two men stumbled over each other’s words during the
inauguration ceremony at the Capitol. For their do-over, the two men convened
in the White House Map Room at 7:35 p.m. for a brief proceeding that was
not announced until it was completed successfully…Only hours after aides
told reporters there was no reason to administer the oath again, they
concluded it was easier to do it on the first day, rather than have someone
challenge the legitimacy of his presidency…Mr. Obama raised his right
hand and did not use a Bible….only nine people witnessed the do-over.
There were four aides, four reporters and a White House photographer…”
(NY Times, Jan. 22, 2009).
 This
second-time-around doppelganger oath was the real oath, since the flawed
first one, done in the sight of millions and upon the Bible of assassinated
President Abraham Lincoln was a “challenge (to) the legitimacy of
his presidency…”
What
appears to be the authentic inauguration took place in a basement, and
was an elite rather than a populist rite, with just nine witnesses. It
occurred in former President Franklin Roosevelt’s secretive, war-era “map
room.”
Hence,
the absence of a Bible per se does not invalidate the oath, but the peek-a-boo
nature of the inaugural Bible may be deliberate, in that its momentous
presence at the botched inauguration is all the more glaring in its inexplicable
absence at the real inauguration.
Let
us recall that the second oath was performed in secret: “…the two
men convened in the White House Map Room at 7:35 p.m. for a brief proceeding
that was not announced until it was completed…”
I have
already made my conclusions; I’ll now let you make yours.

CNN AND DEMOCRATS FAILED TO DESTROY TRUMP

CNN AND DEMOCRATS FAILED TO DESTROY TRUMP
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By Kelleigh Nelson


January 17, 2017
NewsWithViews.com
“I
win an election easily, a great ‘movement’ is verified, and
crooked opponents try to belittle our victory with FAKE NEWS. A sorry
state!” -Donald Trump
“Intelligence
agencies should never have allowed this fake news to ‘leak’
into the public. One last shot at me. Are we living in Nazi Germany?”
-Donald Trump
Russia,
Russia, Russia…the Democrat controlled media has found a fake news
story they believe will stick, and they’re not going to let it go.
What is their bottom line? Two things…destroy Donald J. Trump by
delegitimizing his win, and start a war with Russia.
The
Democratic socialists still believe that Comey and Russia stole the election
from Hillary Clinton. They still believe they won! They’ve protested
in the streets and laid the blame on just about everything and everyone
but themselves.
They
cannot believe that the American electorate turned out in droves to absolutely
destroy their candidate and give the presidency to an outsider who hates
globalism! As long as Donald J. Trump is in office, the leftist media
will try their best to destroy him.
Accepting
Defeat with Grace
George
Washington Carver said, “Ninety-nine percent of the failures come
from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
To bear
defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors
with humility—these are marks of maturity and graciousness. Obviously,
this quote by author, William Arthur Ward has totally been ignored by
the Democratic
socialist left.
While
the election may be over, Hillary Clinton supporters are not taking the
results well. Can you guess who isn’t on their blame list? Of course,
the unlikeable Hillary Clinton whose supporters cannot accept defeat,
are now blaming Russia.
Who
is Really Colluding with Russia?
While
Obama was taking part in a global nuclear security summit in South Korea,
he was caught on tape asking Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for “space.”
He told Medvedev that he would have more flexibility to deal with contentious
issues like missile defense after the 2012 U.S. presidential election.
Here’s the
exchange caught on an open mic
. Think maybe Putin hacked the 2012
election for Obama? Ahem.
And
what about the uranium deal brokered through government agencies by then
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Leaders of the Canadian mining industry,
who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President
Bill Clinton and his family, built, financed, and eventually sold off
to the Russians, a company that would become known as Uranium One. The
sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production
capacity in the United States. Even the NYT’s
reported this story
!
Uranium
One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations
to the Clinton Foundation totaling $2.35 million, and then another half
million for a Moscow speech by Bill Clinton for a Russian investment bank
with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.
To top
it off, the outgoing Obama Administration just approved a large shipment
of uranium to Iran…from Russia! [Link]
Tell
me who is actually in bed with the Russians?
Warmongers,
McCain and Graham
Through
an endless barrage of ugly propaganda, the U.S. government and the mainstream
American socialist press have put the world on course for a potential
nuclear showdown with Russia. This risk has been undertaken all because
of fake news and media hype regarding Vladimir Putin.
Two
Republicans, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, and a Democrat
,
Amy Klobuchar, all voiced their support for action to be taken against
Russia for “meddling with the presidential election” in November.
There is no proof! They are insane! Do we really want a nuclear war with
Russia?!
McCain,
Graham, and Klobuchar are claiming that there is support from 99% of both
Republicans and Democrats for actions against Russia, and particularly
against Vladimir Putin personally.
The
US has expelled 35 Russian diplomats as punishment for alleged interference
into the presidential election. It will also close two Russian compounds
used for intelligence-gathering, in Maryland and New York, as part of
a slew of retaliatory measures. President Barack Obama had vowed action
against Russia amid US accusations it directed hacks against the Democratic
party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The US State Department declared
the 35 Russian diplomats from the Washington DC embassy and the consulate
in San Francisco “persona non-grata,” giving them and their
families 72 hours to leave the US.
President
Obama’s actions are obviously designed to strangle Trump’s
presidency while it is still in the cradle. He took this audacious action
with less than one month left before turning the keys of the White House
over to the new president, and put Trump in the position to either reverse
the actions or let it stand. The socialist media will make it difficult
for our new president either way he goes.
BuzzFeed
and CNN
The
political establishment went nuclear on President-elect Donald Trump with
a double-barreled blast of “leaked” “intelligence”
reports by CNN and BuzzFeed. The documents contain explosive bull dung,
and unverified opposition research that alleged intel ties between Russia
and Trump, and also claims Russia holds sexual blackmail material over
Trump.
If these
journalists were true journalists who wanted the truth, and not leftist
socialist journalists itching for anything to destroy Donald J. Trump,
then they would have found that the original documents did not conform
to CIA or UK intelligence requirements.
So,
scrape BuzzFeed and CNN off the bottom of your shoes and move on.
This tripe has been around for months, but guess who decided to fetch
this garbage from across the pond and make sure it was taken to the FBI?!
Senator
John McCain Deeply Involved
Oh yes,
there you have it, Senator
McCain, who disowned Trump before the election, admitted he handed this
35-page dossier document outlining claims of Kremlin blackmail to FBI
.
He claims that he received it and gave it directly to FBI Director James
Comey because he was “unable to make judgment about accuracy.”
Right John, we really believe that!
McCain
actually sent someone on a plane to the UK
to retrieve this made-up
piece of slander so he could give it to the FBI. He later made the statement,
“Comey already had it. I wasn’t the first guy that gave it
to him. I was wearing my citizen hat, my good citizen hat, sensitive material,
who knows if it’s true, potential problem.” Oh yeah, great
citizen that you are Senator…you’re
a lout
, and you know it.
Rick
Wilson
, Buzz Feed and CNN … claimed Trump wouldn’t say
anything bad about Putin because Putin is blackmailing Trump with this
garbage, and the media is using it to say that Putin hijacked the election,
and that’s why Hillary lost.
Remember,
Buzz Feed published the entire 35-page
dossier of memos
. None of it was verified. None of it was established.
None of it was approved. None of it was confirmed. They admitted this
when they published it. It’s totally made up. It is a series of
memos written
by a former spook at MI6, the U.K. version of the CIA
. And it turns
out that the guy
who was actually commissioned to do this, works for an outfit hired by
Planned Parenthood
. The guy is embedded deeply in liberal Democrat
politics. The whole thing is made up.
According
to a report from the Wall
Street Journal
, former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele
prepared the dossier. In hiding, Steele
is now claiming he fears for his life
.
If anyone
was blackmailable it was Hillary. Hillary cheated Bernie Sanders, the
DNC emails were hacked, the Clinton Foundation monies are questionable,
Benghazi, Syria…and on and on. [Link]
The
media is dangerously close to implosion. They’re used to being able
to use innuendo and allegations to destroy people, and it’s not
working against Donald J. Trump. Trump not only survives, but actually
grows stronger and more powerful after each one of these attacks. They
are just days away from losing everything because they cannot get Trump.
Everything they’ve used against Trump has been totally ineffective,
and Trump and his team know this.
Russia
Categorically Denies Involvement
Russia
has denied any involvement with hacking and reports on Trump. And, so
far, she has ignored the slaps in her face from the Obama administration,
and
for that, we can thank Putin. “The information is not true and is
nothing other than a total fabrication,” Kremlin spokesman Peskov
said, responding to allegations Moscow had a compromising report on Donald
Trump. “You have to react to this with a certain humor, but there’s
also a sad side to this. Hysteria is being whipped up to maintain a political
witch hunt.”
Barack
Obama previously dismissed Russia as a merely “regional power acting
out of weakness.” (Washington
Post
, 3-25-14) And Hillary Clinton actually compared Putin to Hitler
on March 5, 2014. (Washington Post) Of course their words belie their
actions with Russia.
Russia
is unlike any other country on the planet. They are the one country that
could wipe the United States off the face of the Earth in 45 minutes.
Russia currently has the largest arsenal of nuclear warheads in the world,
with 8,000 weapons (the U.S has up to 7,315). Yet, with the insane and
lying rhetoric that the Democratic administration has been using against
Russia as of late, you wouldn’t realize this.
Decades
ago, the left always took the side of the Soviets over any Republican,
and they also hated American intelligence. Today, they hate the Russians
and love American intelligence. Why? Because it’s all about what
suits them for their political purposes.
President
Trump Responds to Fake News
Trump’s
January 11th, 2017
press conference
made total mincemeat out of the main stream media.
If you missed this gargantuan slap down of CNN, you need to listen. President-elect
Trump directly called BuzzFeed a “failing piece of garbage,”
and further rightly calling CNN “fake news.”
It’s
astounding how quickly this CNN fake news fell apart — in less than 24
hours. All because of the Alternative Media.
We
now have a strong leader, a leader with chutzpah who never cowers when
the fake news folks attack. The media’s tactics won’t work
this time. Trump will use social media and press conferences to counter
their lies. It’s so nice to see a leader with a spine of steel who
speaks the truth.
Conclusion
The
idea that the Russians tampered with this election is still out there,
and it’s not going to stop. The entire left, which includes the
media will keep trying to convince people of it, even when there’s
not a shred of evidence and that’s been proven. It didn’t
happen, but they will keep lying about it, and that’s not to say
the Russians do not try. We believe the Russians did get into the Democrat
National Committee computer and did get into John Podesta’s email
and did release what they found, but that didn’t spread disinformation.
Everything they told us, or Assange told us, that we learned about in
Podesta’s email account, everything happened to be true!
 The
Russians didn’t run a disinformation campaign, and they certainly
didn’t tamper with voting machines. If anyone tampered with them,
it was George Soros and the Democrats. The Russians had nothing to do
with the election that mattered regarding the results. So, all this pontificating
regarding Russian hacking is fake news that the brainwashed folks who
listen to the MSM will believe.
Global
Government in Peril.
Remember
these five things:
1.
Putin hates the New World Order. [Link]
2. Great Britain exited the European Union – Brexit
won. [Link]
3. Marine Le Pen has reawakened France and may win. [Link]
4. Italy on track to leave EU, bows PM hopeful [Link]
5. Hungarian referendum, EU humiliated as 95% say no.
[Link]
God’s
Word tells us there will be a “Globalist Order,” but the people
have pushed back, and we very well may have a reprieve because of the
sacrifices of those who love freedom.
Very
shortly, President Donald J. Trump will move into our White House. I can
hardly wait. Please continue to pray for him for wisdom and protection.

LORETTA LYNCH, SOON FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL, FAILS TO CONDEMN JIHADISTS FOR THE “HATRED, INTOLERANCE, & INJUSTICE” OF WHICH SHE ACCUSES AMERICANS

 
LORETTA LYNCH, SOON FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL, FAILS TO CONDEMN JIHADISTS FOR THE 
“HATRED, INTOLERANCE, & INJUSTICE” 
OF WHICH SHE ACCUSES AMERICANS
BY CHRISTINE WILLIAMS
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

The greatest “hatred, intolerance and injustice” against
humanity is perpetrated by Islamic supremacists and jihadists, but
Loretta Lynch is not speaking to them. Instead, in her parting speech
she is pontificating to Americans, even as Muslims are throwing gays off
rooftops and regularly viewing blacks as inferiors (and continuing to enslave
them in Sudan and Mauritania). In the face of all this and more, Lynch
once said that the “most effective response to terror is compassion,
unity, and love.”

Now she is saying:

Waves of hatred, waves of intolerance and injustice that
are still blowing in this country, and they seem to grow stronger the
more that we achieve.

Her beating down America in the face of our worst enemies is not only
unjust, but it fails to take into account that America has come a long
way since the civil rights movement (and elected her boss, a black
President, for two terms).

What, pray tell, has Obama done for the advancement of black people and for America overall? He facilitated the victimology narrative of Black Lives Matter, which “cheers violence,” and he emboldened jihadists worldwide, some of whom have allied with Black Lives Matter.

Obama’s legacy also includes his disempowering of America in his
signing of the Iranian deal,  funneling of money to Iran through backroom deals, and betraying Israel with Resolution 2334.

Obama did more to divide and disempower America than any other president in recent memory.

“Lynch’s Scorn: Americans Still Blowing Hatred, Intolerance, and Injustice”, by Justin Holcomb, Townhall, January 16, 2017:

Current U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch gave a grim
prognosis to Americans at a speech in Birmingham, AL on Sunday during
her final public event before leaving the office.

“Fifty years after the civil rights movement finally put an end to so
much of the state-sanctioned discrimination and the regime of racial
violence that terrorized our country for decades, we still see our
fellow Americans targeted simply because of who they are – not only for
their race, but for their religion, sexual orientation and gender
identity, as well,” Lynch said during an event at the infamous 16th
Street Baptist in Birmingham.

“Fifty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, we see new
attempts to erect barriers to the voting booth. And 50 years after this
very church was bombed for its role in the civil rights movement – an
unspeakable act of malice that killed four little girls – we see
anti-Semitic slurs painted on the walls of synagogues. We see bomb
threats and arson directed at mosques. And as we stand here today in
this holy place, we cannot help but remember the tragic shooting that
claimed nine innocent lives during Bible study at Mother Emanuel AME in
Charleston in 2015,” she continued.

Her final diagnosis for Americans before turning over the office to
President-elect Trump and Jeff Sessions was one of serious doubt.

“Waves of hatred, waves of intolerance and injustice that are still
blowing in this country, and they seem to grow stronger the more that we
achieve,” Lynch said.

Some in the congregation saw reality in a much different light…..

________________________________________________________

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch delivers final speech in Birmingham

 

TRUMP PRESS SECRETARY: ALTERNATIVE MEDIA & BLOGGERS TO BECOME PART OF PRESS CORPS

TRUMP PRESS SECRETARY: ALTERNATIVE MEDIA & BLOGGERS TO BECOME PART OF PRESS CORPS 
 Corporate Media Freaks Out At possibility of Breitbart, Infowars Being Allowed To Ask Questions
BY STEVE WATSON
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

In an unprecedented move, Donald Trump’s incoming White House
Press Secretary revealed Sunday that members of the alternative media,
and even prominent bloggers may be allowed to join the White House Press
Corps, and take part in press conferences in Washington.

In
an interview with Fox News Sunday, Sean Spicer, said that owing to “off
the chart” interest in the Trump administration, the president-elect is
thinking about relocating press briefings to a room with a larger
capacity.

Since 1970, all official press briefings have been held in the James S Brady room. Esquire magazine reported that the potential new venue could be the Old Executive Office Building, to the west of the White House.
“I know change is difficult sometimes,” Spicer said. “But sometimes change can actually be better.”

“There’s a lot of talk radio and bloggers and people that can’t fit
in right now and maybe don’t have a permanency because they’re not part
of the Washington elite media,” Spicer added.
“But to allow them
an opportunity to ask the press secretary or the president a question is
a positive thing. It’s more democratic.” he urged.
The reaction to Spicer’s comments from the Washington establishment has been predictably one of panic and alarm.
The
White House Correspondent Association (WHCA) which oversees which media
outlets are allowed to attend press briefings, said it would push
against the idea of involving less traditional media.
Jeff Mason,
the WHCA president and Reuters White House correspondent, said that in a
“constructive” meeting with Spicer, he had “emphasized the importance
of the White House press briefing room” because of how near it is to
West Wing officials.
“I made clear that the WHCA would view it as
unacceptable if the incoming administration sought to move White House
reporters out of the press work space behind the press briefing room,”
Mason said in a statement. “Access in the West Wing to senior
administration officials, including the press secretary, is critical to
transparency and to journalists’ ability to do their jobs.”
“We
object strenuously to any move that would shield the president and his
advisers from the scrutiny of an on-site White House press corps,” Mason
said.
The Guardian, which is one of the only 49 outlets represented in the press Corps, published a report expressing
derision over the idea of both Breitbart and Infowars having
representatives allowed to ask the President and other officials
questions.
The report suggested Breitbart was “racist” and made
claims, repeatedly disavowed by Alex Jones, that he believes the Sandy
Hook massacre to be a fake hoax:

The president-elect’s
campaign drew consistent support from numerous conservative talk radio
hosts and internet conspiracy theory sites, for instance Alex Jones’s
InfoWars. During the campaign, Trump took the unprecedented step of
appearing on Jones’s site, known as America’s foremost conservative
conspiracy theory outlet. Jones has previously dismissed the Sandy Hook
massacre, in which 20 elementary school students and six school staff
were murdered, as “completely fake”, and has branded the September 11
terror attacks an “inside job”.
Trump was interviewed for around
30 minutes by Jones in December 2015, and later called Jones a “nice
guy”. Jones claimed in November that Trump called him to thank him for
his support after winning the presidential election.

In
a related development, outgoing President Obama slammed the “corrosive
nature” of talk radio and what he described as “fake news,” while
throwing BOTH Trump and Hillary Clinton under the bus.
“You had
two of the most unpopular presidential candidates selected by the two
parties in history. Doesn’t that say something’s wrong, something
serious is wrong?” CBS anchor Steve Kroft asked.
“It indicates
that there is a lot of cynicism out there,”Obama responded, adding “It
indicates that the corrosive nature of everything from talk radio to
fake news to negative advertising has made people lack confidence in a
lot of our existing institutions. I think it indicates, at least on the
Democratic side, that we’ve got more work to do to strengthen our
grassroots networks.”

LEAKED AUDIO: LEFTISTS PLOT CHAOS AT INAUGURATION, PLAN TO KICK OFF “WITH A BANG”

LEAKED AUDIO: LEFTISTS PLOT CHAOS AT INAUGURATION, PLAN TO KICK OFF “WITH A BANG”
BY SHEPARD AMBELLAS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

On Wednesday, Jan. 18 scores of radical leftists from the activist group, #DisruptJ20
plan to kick off their devilry “with a bang,” starting with a
demonstration in front of Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s house
,
according to a newly leaked audio tape.

It’s “our first
big activist plan,” a propagandist’s voice can be heard telling a large
crowd of cheering radicals who plan to participate in the shenanigans.
“We
got a bunch of folks who are going to be organizing that, it’s going to
be a lot of fun. It’s going to be his last few days living in Chevy
Chase before he moves into the Vice Presidential Residence — and we’re
going to send him off with a bang,” the organizer told the crowd.

But the organizer didn’t stop there. The radicals are intending to create a whole lot more chaos. Even the DeploraBall is on their list.
The organizer told the crowd:

“On the 19th is the DeploraBall, which is exactly what it sounds
like. The, all the alt-right, neo-Nazi’s, etc. etc.. This is their party
to celebrate Trump [and] we’re going to crash it,” the organizer said.
The “D.C. Anti-Fascist Coalition” is planning it.

Of course, they didn’t leave out Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, where the activists have “big” plans.
“There’s
stuff happening all day. […] A.N.S.W.E.R. [Act Now to Stop War and End
Racism] is doing their thing along the parade route. They’re going to be
along the parade route all day. They got a permit and a sound system
and a stage — that’s what they’ll be doing. We’ll be doing just about
everything else [unpermitted].”
“Early in the morning, we’re going
to be doing blockades. We’re going to be blocking checkpoints into the
security zones. We’re also going to be blocking roads and other modes of
transit into the event.”
“We are going to do everything we can from trying to stop people from being able to access the Inauguration.”
[More cheers from the crowd of radicals]
Also
according to the organizer, on Jan. 20 starting at 9:00 a.m. at
McPherson Square “different kinds of programming” will be “going on”
throughout the day. The activists plan on having a heated tent situated
on location which protesters can use as a “starting point” and a place
to “fall back on” during the protests.
Without skipping a beat, at
10:00 a.m. an “unpermitted […] anti-fascist, anti-capitalist” march
will start, “leaving from Logan Square,” which will occur before the big
“resistance march” at 12 noon.
The Resistance March “leaves at
Columbus Circle and ends at McPherson Square,” where the group plans to
“have puppets coming,” along with a “flatbed truck” full of “dancers.”
[Crowd cheers]
The
organizer then goes on to call President-elect Trump a “fascist
maniac,” garnering cheers from the crowd and talks about crashing
various balls, such as the Inaugural Ball, terming the action “Operation
Ball Crusher,” which the crowd seemed to like.
It looks as if this will all make for an interesting week in D.C. where security will be at an all-time high with more than “three dozen agencies” participating.
H/T: Tabertronic/Twitter
Shepard Ambellas is an opinion journalist and the founder and editor-in-chief of Intellihub News & Politics (Intellihub.com). Shepard is also known for producing Shade: The Motion Picture (2013) and appearing on Travel Channel’s America Declassified (2013). Read more from Shep’s World. Get the Podcast. Follow Shep on Facebook and Twitter.
Watch: Alex Jones Reports on Leftists Planning Terror Attacks On Trump Supporters In DC

 

LEFTISTS PLAN TO GAS “DEPLORA-BALL” ATTENDEES WITH BUTYRIC ACID DUMPED INTO VENTILATION SYSTEM

 Shock Video: Leftists Plan to Gas DeploraBall Attendees with Butyric Acid
LEFTISTS PLAN TO GAS “DEPLORA-BALL” ATTENDEES WITH BUTYRIC ACID
 ‘If you get it into the HVAC system’s air-intake grill it will get into the whole building forcing an evacuation’
BY SHEPARD AMBELLAS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 Radical leftists are planning acts of terrorism during the “completely sold-out”
  DeploraBall being held at the National Press Club building in D.C. starting this 
Thursday, according to Project Veritas.
PLOTTING TO ATTACK TRUMP SUPPORTERS PHYSICALLY 
UNDERCOVER VIDEO FROM PROJECT VERITAS 
"D.C. 'ANTI-FASCIST' COALITION" PLOTS 
 

Luke Kuhn with the D.C. Anti-Fascist Coalition was recently captured
on a hidden camera at Comet Ping Pong and Pizza of all places, talking
about his cowardly plan to gas out attendees with “butyric acid” and
even “blow […] all the sprinklers” in the building off to ruin the
evening.
“Yeah, if I had […] a pint of butyric acid, I don’t care
how big the building is, it’s closing,” Kuhn said while sitting at a
table inside Comet Ping Pong and Pizza.

“You take with a plunger and put the rubber bands, a safety pin
thing, so all you got to do is pull the pin, press the plunger and the
whole can discharges,” said Kuhn.
Kuhn’s buddy, Scott Green, with
the D.C. Anti-Fascist Coalition, then spoke up saying, “And this stuff
is very efficient. It’s very, very smelly and a little goes a long way.”
But
the group’s plan didn’t stop there. The coalition’s Colin Dunn jumped
in with his underhanded plan to try and “get all the sprinklers to go
off at once.”

“There’s usually like a piece of fusible metal or a piece of glass
with liquid in it that will blow,” Dunn stated in the undercover video.
The
group is similarly “prepared to make the whole inauguration a giant
clusterf**k” and is trying to get authorities to “pull the entire
inauguration aside.”
Various radical groups – including Progress
Unity Fund, Workers World Party, Americans Take Action, D.C.
Anti-Fascist Coalition, and A.N.S.W.E.R coalition, to name a few – have
gathered together “under the #DisruptJ20 umbrella” to “perhaps even…
shut down the city of Washington D.C.,” as pointed out by Project
Veritas.
Luke Kuhn with the D.C. Anti-Fascist Coalition stated:
“The
message has to be we do not recognize the city or the government
either. If you try to close us down we will look for your house, we will
burn it. We will physically fight the police if they steal one of our
places. We will go to war and you will lose.”
According to Project
Veritas, “These actions likely violate anti-terrorism laws and may be
punishable up to five years in prison.”
The group already ran a
recon mission and was quoted by Scott Green in an email, writing, “The
resonance went pretty well and we left with confidence that we can
accomplish our objective with no negative consequences for our side, nor
any collateral damage.”
Law enforcement has been alerted.
H/T: https://www.twitter.com/tabertronic
Shepard Ambellas is an opinion journalist and the founder and editor-in-chief of Intellihub News & Politics (Intellihub.com). Shepard is also known for producing Shade: The Motion Picture (2013) and appearing on Travel Channel’s America Declassified (2013). Read more from Shep’s World. Get the Podcast. Follow Shep on Facebook and Twitter.
Watch: Alex Jones Reports on Leftists Planning Terror Attacks On Trump Supporters In DC

Plan To Flood Deplora-Ball With Vomit Smell 

 Published on Jan 16, 2017

Project
Veritas has released the first part of an undercover investigation
exposing criminal plans to release butyric acid at the DeploraBall,
along with other plans of obstruction & violence. Butyric acid is
the distinctive smell of human vomit. Besides being nauseating,
inhalation can result in coughing, sore throat, burning sensation and
labored breathing as well as burns if it comes in contact with skin.

  

Part II: NEW Investigation Uncovers Plot to Chain the Trains & Shut Down DC During Inauguration

 

James O’Keefe Responds to #DisruptJ20’s Statement 

 Published on Jan 17, 2017

Yesterday,
DisruptJ20 released a statement claiming that they knew of our
journalists all along, and they were just “playing along”. Here is our
evidence to refute them.

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“DEMAND PROTEST”, A “GRASSROOTS” ORGANIZATION, OFFERS PAYING $2,500 TO PROTEST TRUMP INAUGURATION

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“DEMAND PROTEST”
https://www.demandprotest.com/,
A “GRASSROOTS” ORGANIZATION, OFFERS PAYING $2,500 TO PROTEST TRUMP INAUGURATION
 Online job postings claim to provide travel expenses, insurance benefits to ‘operatives’
BY ADAN SALAZAR
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

A private protest organization is allegedly offering $2,500
to participants who’d like to help disrupt the inauguration of the 45th
US president, Donald J. Trump.

A group called Demand
Protest has created several online job postings targeting Democrat areas
of the country “seeking operatives to help send a strong message at
upcoming inauguration protests.”
 Claiming to be the “largest private grassroots support organization in
the United States,” Demand Protest says they “pay people already
politically motivated to fight for the things they believe.”
“You
were going to take action anyways, why not do so with us!” say several
job listings in different parts of the country, under the headline, “Get
paid fighting against Trump!”
backpage-tulsa1
According
to postings, “grassroots” protest operatives are handsomely rewarded
for their participation, with insurance benefits and travel expenses
being provided.
“As a Demand Protest operative you will receive a
monthly retainer of $2,500 on top of our standard per-event pay of
$50/hr, as long as you participate in at least 6 events a year. We are
extremely flexible and can work with almost any existing work schedule.
Full-time operatives receive health, vision and dental insurance for
families, flexible vacations, and paid trainings. Travel expenses are
always paid.”
Here are just a few cities where job postings have popped up on Backpage.com:
San Diego, CA
Tulsa, OK
Phoenix, AZ
El Paso, TX
It’s unclear if the DemandProtest.com website is actually legitimate. The site appears to be relatively new, with WhoIs results showing it was created on 2016-12-02, nearly a month after Trump’s election.
“We are strategists mobilizing millennials across the globe with seeded audiences and desirable messages,” the DemandProtest.com
website claims. “With absolute discretion a top priority, our
operatives create convincing scenes that become the building blocks of
massive movements. When you need the appearance of outrage, we are able
to deliver it at scale while keeping your reputation intact.”
An
undercover video released by independent media outlet Project Veritas
Monday also claims to have caught a leftist group plotting disruptions
for various inauguration events.

“The DC Anti-fascist Coalition plotting to disrupt President-Elect
Donald Trump’s inauguration by deploying butyric acid at the National
Press Club during the Deploraball event scheduled for January 19,”
Project Veritas’ latest video states.
On Monday Infowars also reported the existence of leaked audio from the far-left protest group #DisruptJ20
who are similarly planning to stir chaos this week, with activists
plotting to “stop people from being able to access the inauguration.”
Last November, a fake news story was circulated claiming that a man was paid $3,500 to protest at a Donald Trump rally.
Demand Protest did not return a request for comment at time of publication.
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MIXED BAG OF APOSTATE SPEAKERS AT ASSEMBLIES OF GOD GENERAL CONFERENCE

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 ABOVE: GEORGE WOOD, SUPERINTENDENT, AOG
Mixed Bag of
Speakers at Assemblies of God General Conference to Include Rick Warren,
Priscilla Shirer, Circle-Making Mark Batterson 
(SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS ABOUT WOOD, WARREN, SHIRER, BATTERSON)
LETTER TO THE EDITOR 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Dear LHT editors:

My parents attend an Assemblies of God church, and I
try to keep up to date on what is going on.  I left the denomination
years ago, but they are struggling to stay.  I just looked up the
events for 2017 and wasn’t too shocked to find good old Rick Warren as
a speaker as well as Mark Batterson (The Circle Maker) and others who I am not familiar with, but who seem to be part of the large megachurch mindset.  Here is the link:  General Council 2017 | Anaheim, CA

Also if possible if you could add Joanna Weaver to your
list of books to stay away from.  I am so grieved that churches just
don’t want to listen.  They refuse to expose error and embrace false
teachers through books.  They pick out the nuggets.  It doesn’t matter
if the author got her info from mystics, contemplatives, and flat out
heretics from the NAR movement.  🙁

God bless you all and we will be praying for your ministry.

— Concerned

LTRP Comments: Dr. George Wood, who is
the General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God church, is one of
the leaders Lighthouse Trails is sending booklets to a few times a
year.1 Thus far, he has received 5 booklets from LT: 10
Scriptural Reasons Jesus Calling is a Dangerous Book, 5 Things You
Should Know About Contemplative Prayer, Rick Warren’s Dangerous
Ecumenical Pathway to Rome, Setting Aside the Power of the Gospel for a
Powerless Substitute
, and Is Your Church Doing Spiritual Formation (And Important Reasons Why it Shouldn’t).
On December 22, 2016, Lighthouse Trails editors received a short
letter from Dr. Wood acknowledging receipt of the last two. It is our
hope he will read the booklets and consider the information provided
in them. As with many other denominations today, the Assemblies of God
is heavily promoting contemplative spirituality.

Related Articles:

The Circle Makers

The Native Spirituality “Medicine Wheel” and The Circle Maker

Beth Moore & Priscilla Shirer – Their History of Contemplative Prayer and Why War Room Should Not Have Used Them

Letter to the Editor: Assemblies of God Pastor Disheartened by Direction AOG and Other Denominations Are Going

Rick Warren’s Dangerous Ecumenical Pathway to Rome And How One Interview Revealed So Much

Is AOG Superintendent George Wood Responding With Video Regarding Ruth Haley Barton Issue?

DRESS
REHEARSAL FOR A FALSE REVIVAL? – Evangelical, Charismatic, Emerging
Leaders, & Pope Francis Unite for “Together 2016” in Washington, DC

FREEMASONRY: A REVEALING LOOK AT THE SPIRITUAL SIDE

FREEMASONRY: 
A REVEALING LOOK AT THE SPIRITUAL SIDE 
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 FREEMASONRY: A Revealing Look at the Spiritual Side

By Carl Teichrib

Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and
his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and
beside me there is no God. . . . Is there a God beside me? yea, there
is no God; I know not any. (Isaiah 44:6,8)

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.—Jesus (Revelation 22:13)

Warning bells sounded in my head. What have you
been accused of? The setting was simple; a near-empty restaurant in a
sleepy prairie town with two respected community members across the
table. I knew what they wanted: my involvement in a local
organization, for I had been approached numerous times about joining.
As an energetic young man in my mid-20s and very involved in the
community, I was a perfect candidate . . . so I was told.

Similar to other conversations, it was evident
my dinner hosts were trying to explain something without actually
telling me anything. Nudge-nudge, wink-wink, but never getting to the
point; it was a sales pitch cloaked in ambiguity.

It would be beneficial for you to join, I was
told. We make good men better, I was promised. They waxed on about a
legacy, doing good work, and having a sense of camaraderie, and the
importance of regular meetings. And it all took place in the
“building-with-no-windows.”

More meetings? Between family, church, and a
host of activities attached to my workplace, my life was busy enough
without adding more. Yet these men believed it would be important for
me to become a Freemason. So I listened to repetitious
non-explanations and interjected where I could.

“Is your group political?” I asked, knowing the answer from previous chats. No.

“Religious?” No.

“Ok, then what are you about?” My query was an open door.

Chairs shifted as they glanced at each other and then back to me. The silence was palpable. And then the hammer dropped.

“We’re not Satanists.” It was said so
matter-of-factually, as if it were a normal response when at a loss
for something to say. But for me, it was as if a lightening bolt had
been shot through a dense fog. Where did this come from?

The thought had never entered my mind, and there was nothing I could correlate this statement to. I was stunned.

Were my dinner colleagues trying to dispel rumors or alleviate fears—but of what? Why say something so outrageous?

In retrospect, they were probably acting
preemptively. The year was 1991, before the public had access to the
Internet, and television documentaries on the subject were unheard of.
If fears of rumors existed, it didn’t stem from the information
battleground we experience today. Rather, my board members would have
likely viewed it as emanating from a church context. This was what
they were probably trying to dispel.

Compelled by the Satan-bomb to find
out what the Lodge was about, but not wanting to join, I determined to
obtain their rituals and philosophical texts. Books examining and
critiquing the Lodge had already been published, but I didn’t know
this at the time. What I did know was that a body of internal
literature existed. Thus began a quest to collect the texts and
materials of the Lodge. Along the way, I talked with current Masons,
probed into community archives, and studied the subject.

Interpretations

Freemasonry has long been called a secret society.
But this is a misnomer. Properly defined, a secret society is an
organization that intentionally remains unknown to all outside of the
closed group. Not so with the Lodge. Its existence and the location of
its buildings are public knowledge. Moreover, the Craft’s internal
secrets of recognition—its grips, signs, and symbols—have long been
publicly circulated. Likewise with its ritualistic texts,
constitutions and monitors, handbooks and memorization aids,
commentaries, encyclopedias, works of history and jurisprudence, and
the writings of its scholars and philosophers.

Foster Bailey, who was a Masonic lecturer and the National Secretary of the Theosophical Society, made this statement:

There is little that is not known today about
the Masonic work, and nothing that cannot be discovered by anyone who
diligently seeks it.1

Others have said similar things.

However, hints of a deeper reality—a spiritual interest—cannot be overlooked. Bernard E. Jones’ Freemasons’ Guide and Compendium points to religious underpinnings.2 And Bailey’s book, The Spirit of Masonry,
is devoted to the spiritual endeavor pulsing within the Craft. Others
have asserted similar connections between religious philosophy and
Freemasonry.

This spiritual association is a point of
contention within the Lodge itself. Is it essentially religious and
spiritual in nature, or is it something else?

Upfront, it must be noted that Masonry does not
have an authoritative text to offer clarification in the way many
religions and some ideologies do. Using religion as a comparison,
Christianity has the Old and New Testament, Judaism the Torah and
Talmud, Islam the Quran, and Hinduism builds on the Vedas. But a
Masonic scriptural authority does not exist. Grand Lodge constitutions
and monitors offer an official look into the workings of the Lodge,
including duties and principles and explanations—with references to
the “Great Architect of the Universe” and the Bible—but they lack
deeper analysis.

Where does the Mason receive knowledge of the
Craft’s meaning? Primarily from three sources: Grand Lodge
constitutions and monitors, the writings of Masonic philosophers, and
the individual’s experiences within the Lodge. Personally gleaning
from his own observations and study, the Mason legitimately asserts
that every man interprets Freemasonry in his own way.

Herein we have a dilemma: The claims of
Freemasonry are many and diverse from within the Brotherhood itself.
Regarding spirituality, two conflicting positions are often
encountered:

The Craft is only a beneficial and benign society, a place for good deeds and self-improvement. It is a moral society.

Good deeds and moral lessons are part of the
experience, but the Craft carries a deeper spiritual meaning and
religiously oriented message.

How will we know what the Craft is about if,
after hearing opposing sides from the Brotherhood, we discover
everything is subjective?

This leads to an observation I’ve made when
discussing this religious-spiritual identity problem with Freemasons:
Local Masons and the visible voice of the Lodge, public announcements
and openly distributed literature, inevitably proclaim the first
position—it is a moral and benevolent body with no religious or
spiritual meaning.

Conversely, men who have achieved significant
stature within the organization, such as a Sovereign Grand Commander
of the Supreme Council, or who are recognized as noted philosophers or
historians within the Craft, are quicker to admit the second
position.

Returning to the subjective nature of
interpretation, that it rests upon individual observations and study, I
was compelled to accept this ruling. I chose, therefore, to interpret
the Craft through the second group and not the local Mason whose
experience has been narrower. While experience plays an important role
in shaping that person’s understanding of the Lodge as an individual,
it has little bearing on deciphering the broader meaning and purpose
of the Craft.

Manly P. Hall, arguably one of the most
important Masonic thinkers of the last century, recognized the divide
within Freemasonry:

In fact, there are actually blocs among the
brethren who would divorce Masonry from both philosophy and religion
at all cost. If, however, we search the writings of eminent Masons, we
find a unanimity of viewpoint, namely, that Masonry is a religious
and philosophical body.3

To discover the philosophical and spiritual
fabric of Freemasonry, we must turn to the voices that have shaped it
and who have invested their lives in its application.

—In Their Own Words—

Religious Universalism

Henry C. Clausen, Clausen’s Commentaries on Morals and Dogma (The Supreme Council, 33°, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, USA, 1974)—

[T]he One Supreme God has been known by many
names to many races of men. The Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Medes
and Persians, the Hebrew Kabalists, the Druids and Norsemen, the
Brahmans, the Moslems, the Buddhists and the North American Indians
all believed in God as the One Supreme Ruler and Creator of the
Universe. This belief, held by the earliest guilds of operative
masonry nearly six thousand years ago, is the same belief held by
modern Freemasonry today. (p. 161)

Melvin M. Johnson, Universality of Freemasonry (The Masonic Service Association, 1957)—

Masonry is not Christian; nor is it
Mohammedan nor Jewish nor to be classified by the name of any other
sect. The power which has held it together, the chemical which has
caused its growth, the central doctrine which makes it unique, is the
opportunity it affords men of every faith, happily to kneel together
at the same Altar, each in worship of the God he reveres, under the
universal name of Great Architect of the Universe. (Forward)

[Regarding religious universalism] Thus, and
thus only, can we furnish to the world at large a common base upon
which all civilized mankind may unite. (p. 10)

Joseph Fort Newton, The Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry (The Torch Press, 1914/1916)—

It is true that Masonry is not a religion,
but it is Religion, a worship in which all good men may unite, that
each may share the faith of all. (p. 250-251)

Albert G. Mackey, A Text Book of Masonic Jurisprudence (Redding and Company, 1859)—

Masonry requires only a belief in the Supreme
Architect of the universe. . . . Masons are only expected to be of
that religion in which all men agree, leaving their particular
opinions to themselves . . . the Christian and the Jew, the Mohammedan
and the Brahmin, are permitted to unite around our common altar, and
Masonry becomes, in practice as well as in theory, universal. The
truth is, that Masonry is undoubtedly a religious institution—its
religion being of that universal kind in which all men agree, and
which, handed down through a long succession of ages, from that
ancient priesthood who first taught it, embraced the great tenets of
the existence of God and the immortality of the soul. (pp. 95-96)

Allen E. Roberts, The Craft and Its Symbols: Opening the Door to Masonic Symbolism (Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1974)—

Freemasonry calls God “The Great Architect of
the Universe.” This is the Freemason’s special name for God, because
He is universal. He belongs to all men regardless of their religious
persuasion. All wise men acknowledge His authority. In his private
devotions a Mason will pray to Jehovah, Mohammed, Allah, Jesus, or the
Deity of his choice. In a Masonic Lodge, however, the Mason will find
the name of his Deity within the Great Architect of the Universe. (p.
6)

Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (The Supreme Council of the Southern Jurisdiction, A.A.S.R. USA, 1871/1944)—

The Holy Bible, Square, and Compasses, are
not only styled the Great Lights of Masonry, but they are also
technically called the Furniture of the Lodge . . . The Bible is an
indispensable part of the furniture of a Christian Lodge, only because
it is the sacred book of the Christian religion. The Hebrew
Pentateuch in a Hebrew Lodge, and the Koran in a Mohammedan one,
belong on the Altar; and one of these, and the Square and Compass,
properly understood, are the Great Lights by which a Mason must walk
and work. (p. 11)

Masonry, around whose altars the Christian,
the Hebrew, the Moslem, the Brahmin, the followers of Confucius and
Zoroaster, can assemble as brethren and unite in prayer to the one God
who is above all the Baalim. (p. 226)

[Masonry] reverences all the great reformers.
It sees in Moses, the Lawgiver of the Jews, in Confucius and
Zoroaster, in Jesus of Nazareth, and in the Arabian Iconoclast, Great
Teachers of Morality, and Eminent Reformers, if no more: and allows
every brother of the Order to assign to each such higher and even
Divine Character as his Creed and Truth require.

Thus Masonry disbelieves no truth, and
teaches unbelief in no creed, except so far as such creed may lower
its lofty estimate of the Deity. (p. 525)

Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry
(Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1923/1954). Note: Hall
wrote this before becoming a Mason. After joining, Hall ascended to
become a recognized authority within the Craft—

No true Mason is creed-bound. He realizes
with the divine illumination of his lodge that as a Mason his religion
must be universal: Christ, Buddha or Mohammed, the name means little,
for he recognizes only the light and not the bearer. He worships at
every shrine, bows before every altar, whether in temple, mosque or
cathedral, realizing with his truer understanding the oneness of all
spiritual truth . . . No true Mason can be narrow, for his Lodge is
the divine expression of all broadness. (p. 65)

Foster Bailey, The Spirit of Freemasonry (Lucis Trust, 1957/1996)—

Is it not possible from a contemplation of
this side of Masonic teaching that it may provide all that is
necessary for the formulation of a universal religion? May it not be
true, as has been said, that if all religions and Scriptures were
blotted out and only Masonry were left in the world we could still
recover the great plan of salvation? Most earnestly should all true
Masons consider the point . . .

The study of this position will reveal to any
earnest Mason that if Masonry is ever to achieve this ideal it will
be impossible for him to be against any man or any religion. He will
be for all true seekers and light, no matter what their race or creed.
(p. 109)

Spiritual Applications

Allen E. Roberts, The Craft and Its Symbols: Opening the Door to Masonic Symbolism (Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1974)—

[Regarding the Entered Apprentice Degree] You
have entered a new world. Symbolically and spiritually you have been
reborn. This started the moment you were prepared to become a
Freemason. (p. 3)

W.L. Wilmshurst, The Meaning of Masonry (Gramercy Books, 1980)—

The Ceremony of our first degree, then, is a
swift and comprehensive portrayal of the entrance of all men into,
first, physical life, and second, into spiritual life; and as we
extend congratulations when a child is born into the world, so also we
receive with acclamation the candidate for Masonry who, symbolically,
is seeking his spiritual rebirth. (p. 35)

Henry C. Clausen, Emergence of the Mystical (Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 1981)—

[S]cience and religion will be welded into a
unified exponent of an overriding spiritual power . . . The theme in
essence is that the revelations of Eastern mysticism and the
discoveries of modern science support the Masonic and Scottish Rite
beliefs and teachings. (p. xi)

Science and philosophy, especially when
linked through mysticism, have yet to conquer ignorance and
superstition. Victory, however, appears on the horizon. Laboratory and
library, science and philosophy . . .outstanding technicians and
theologians are now uniting as advocates of man’s unique quality, his
immortal soul and ever expanding soul.” (p. 92).

Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry (Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1923/1954)—

Yet if the so-called secrets of Freemasonry
were shouted from the housetops, the Fraternity would be absolutely
safe; for certain spiritual qualities are necessary before the real
Masonic secrets can be understood by the brethren themselves. (p. 69)

Foster Bailey, The Spirit of Freemasonry (Lucis Trust, 1957/1996)—

Masonry is a quest. Not a material quest, but
a spiritual quest, a mystic quest. Not only an individual quest,
although as individuals we strive to learn and achieve, but basically a
group quest. (p. 122)

George H. Steinmetz, The Royal Arch: Its Hidden Meaning (Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1946)—

“Here is the PRINCIPAL SECRET of Royal Arch
Masonry, or for that mater, ALL MASONRY. The supreme fact concerning
man’s being. That the physical and mental are but passing phases of
his evolution toward perfection, that basically and intrinsically he
is inherently and OF NECESSITY, if he actually be in the image and
likeness of his Creator, ESSENTIALLY A SPIRITUAL BEING!” (p. 73,
capitals in original)

The Secret of Human Ascension

W. L. Wilmshurst, The Meaning of Masonry (Gramercy Books, 1980)—

[I]t is clear, therefore, that from grade to
grade the candidate is being led from an old to an entirely new
quality of life. He begins his Masonic career as the natural man; he
ends it by becoming through its discipline, a regenerated perfected
man. To attain this transmutation, this metamorphosis of himself, he
is taught first to purify and subdue his sensual nature; then to
purify and develop his mental nature; and finally, by utter surrender
of his old life and losing his soul to save it, he rises from the dead
a Master, a just man made perfect. (p. 46)

This—the evolution of man into superman—was
always the purpose of the ancient Mysteries, and the real purpose
behind modern Masonry is, not the social and charitable purpose to
which so much attention is paid, but the expediting of the spiritual
evolution of those who aspire to perfect their own nature and
transform it into a more god-like quality. And this is a definite
science, a royal art. (p. 47)

George H. Steinmetz, The Royal Arch: Its Hidden Meaning (Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1946)—

[W]hen the Master of the Lodge has completed
his term of office, the square, emblematic of the COMPLETE MAN is
taken from him and he is presented the jewel of a Past Master, a
compass open to sixty degrees, symbol of the PERFECT MAN. This is
placed upon a quadrant to emphasize the thirty degrees which he has
progressed from the ninety degree right angle of the square to the
sixty degree angle of the equilateral triangle, of which the compasses
are but a substitute. It is symbolic of his ‘REBIRTH’ on the
spiritual plane. (pp. 54-55, capitals in original)

MAN IS IMPELLED TOWARD PERFECTION! There is
that within man—his inner-most divinity—which informs him of the
possibility of attaining completeness of being and urges him on to
strive for that attainment. (p. 84, capitals in original)

[Regarding the Royal Arch symbolism]
Constant, repetitious reminder that man is divine and that the place
to seek that divinity is WITHIN HIMSELF! (p. 123, capitals in
original)

Foster Bailey, The Spirit of Masonry (Lucis Trust, 1957/1996)—

Masonry, therefore, is not only a system of
morality, inculcating the highest ethics through which result, if
followed, the conscious unfolding of divinity, but it is also a great
dramatic presentation of regeneration. It portrays the recovery of
man’s hidden divinity and it bringing forth into the light; it
pictures the raising of man from his fallen estate to Heaven, and it
demonstrates, through which is enacted in the work of the lodge, the
power to achieve perfection latent in every man. (p. 105)

J.D. Buck, Mystic Masonry and the Greater Mysteries of Antiquity (Regan Publishing, 1925)—

It is far more important that men should
strive to become Christs than that they should believe that Jesus was
Christ. If the Christ-state can be attained by but one human being
during the whole evolution of the race, then the evolution of man is a
farce and human perfection an impossibility… Jesus is no less Divine
because all men may reach the same Divine perfection. (p. 62)

Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry (Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1923/1954)—

Man is a god in the making, and as in the
mystic myths of Egypt, on the potter’s wheel he is being molded. When
his light shines out to lift and preserve all things, he receives the
triple crown of godhood, and joins that throng of Master Masons who,
in their robes of Blue and Gold, are seeking to dispel the darkness of
night with the triple light of the Masonic Lodge. (p. 92)

Wrestling with the issue of Masonry, religion, and spirituality reveals two important points:

It demonstrates that the Lodge and its
teachings represent much more than just “making good men better,” and
that this statement is a type of window-dressing obscuring the bigger
spiritual picture.

The Christian man, that is, the person who
holds to the exclusivity of Jesus Christ and His grace and mercy—the
gift of salvation by faith and not by works, “that any man should
boast”—finds himself in contradiction to the secretive-spiritual
teachings of the Craft; that man can attain perfection and obtain
divinity through the works (rituals and degrees) of the Lodge.

Perfection in the Lodge

The use of the word “perfection” is found
throughout Freemasonry. For example, in the Scottish Rite, the
combined degrees of 4 to 14 are called the “Lodge of Perfection,” and
Degree 5 is labeled “Perfect Master.”

Henry C. Clausen, the former Sovereign Grand
Commander of the Supreme Council (1969-1985), Southern Jurisdiction of
the Scottish Rite, provides commentary on the fifth degree. Notice
the connection between what we create—the works of our hands and what
we do—and the subsequent attainment of immortality and our highest
spiritual enlightenment:

The setting and symbolic color for this
Degree remind us that while we die in sin we may revive in virtue. We
therefore always should act with regard to justice, equity, honesty
and integrity and reaffirm our abiding belief in the immortality of
the soul. Thus, we symbolically raise the departed from the coffin and
place him at the holy altar as a Perfect Master . . . The universe is
created continually. As we participate in the process we partake of
the Creator—the Divine of God. This participation as co-Creator is
itself a form of man’s immortality regardless of whether, as we
believe, his spirit survives the body. We exist and create. Being
greater than self is man’s true destiny, dignity and grandeur.

Man’s will to believe in something greater
than self is the springboard from which we can touch the Divine. Talk
with men of faith. Read the books that tell of spiritual achievements.
Meditate as you gaze at the stars of the first magnitude. Then you,
too, may attain that conclusive spiritual revelation which is the
highest human development.4

When the Mason enters the 14th level of the
Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, he has attained the degree of
the Perfect Elu, or the Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Mason in the
Canadian division. Speaking to this degree, Clausen tells us:

We press on toward the unattainable, yet more
nearly approaching perfect truth . . . Our future well-being depends
on how we perform in this life.5

Albert Pike, who was Sovereign Grand Commander
of the Southern Jurisdiction for 32 years starting in 1859 and had a
hand in writing the Scottish Rite rituals, provides some philosophical
background to the 14th degree:

[Masonry] is the universal, eternal,
immutable religion, such as God planted it in the heart of universal
humanity. No creed has ever been long-lived that was not built on this
foundation. It is the base, and they are the superstructure . . . The
ministers of this religion are all Masons who comprehend it and are
devoted to it; its sacrifices to God are good works, the sacrifices of
the base and disorderly passions, the offering up of self-interest on
the altar of humanity, and perpetual efforts to attain to all the
moral perfection of which man is capable.6

Many other instances of perfection crop up in
the family of Masonic societies. In the Egyptian Rite, we find the
Rite of Perfect Initiates, in the Irish branch, we discover the
Perfect Irish Master, and in the Order of Noachites, we find the
Perfect Prussian. In Rennes, France, there existed a Lodge of Perfect
Union, and in 1754, a Masonic oriented lodge was set up in the College
of Jesuits of Clermont, in Paris, known as the Rite of Perfection. In
Germany, the degree of Perfection was the last in the now-defunct
Rite of Fessler. Moreover, when Adam Weishaupt formed his independent
body—known as the Order of Illuminati at Bavaria—it was first called
the Perfectionists.7

Today, a number of Masonic lodges have
“perfection” in their name. In Calgary, Alberta, you can find
Perfection Lodge #9. Perfection Lodge #75 is in New Westminster,
British Columbia. Jacksonville, Florida is home to Perfection Lodge
#11, and Perfection Lodge can be found in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Going beyond the naming of lodges, Masonic
symbolism speaks to something more ubiquitous within the Craft. Here,
symbols meant to convey perfection and perfectibility are found across
the Masonic landscape. One example is the rough and perfect Ashlar: A
stone block which is first unfinished, and then, through the work of
Freemasonry, emerges perfect and ready for use. Historian Albert
Mackey describes it this way.

The Rough Ashlar, or stone in its rude and
unpolished condition, in emblematic of man in his natural
state—ignorant, uncultivated, and vicious. But when education has
exerted its wholesome influence in expanding his intellect,
restraining his passions, and purifying his life, he then is
represented by the Perfect Ashlar, which, under the skillful hands of
the workmen, has been smoothed, and squared, and fitted for its place
in the building.8

The non-Mason is the Rough Ashlar, but once he
enters the Lodge and is shaped by the rituals and educated in Masonic
philosophy, this individual is made new and perfected in the task of
what is called the “Great Work.” Sometimes the ashlar is pictured as a
single stone being hewn or chiseled, but more often it’s two stones
side-by-side: the rough and the perfect. The Masonic Trestle Board too
is symbolic of perfection. Allen E. Roberts tells us in The Craft and Its Symbols:

The Trestle Board, used by the master workman
to draw his designs upon, is a symbol of perfection. It is
symbolically a spiritual board on which a man should lay out his plans
to build his ‘living stones’ into a Temple to the Great Architect of
the Universe.9

Other symbols employed in Freemasonry have a
meaning of perfection, including the square and compass, the jewel of
the York Rite’s Past Master, the Equilateral Triangle, the level and
the plumb, the ruler with 24 divisions, and the Lambskin Apron worn by
all men of the Lodge. George H. Steinmetz reminds the Masonic
traveler:

All the symbology of Freemasonry depicts
man’s journey back to his lost perfection is intended to assist him to
accelerate his progress by teaching him how to more quickly
accomplish his purpose.10

So what is this “perfection” that the Craft
speaks so much about? It is the attempt through good works, rituals
and obligations, and Masonic education to be spiritually perfected
through one’s own striving. This is spiritual alchemy: the attempt to
transform one’s spiritual imperfection through the science of
mysticism and thus be re-forged as a new and perfected being.

Henry C. Clausen explains:

If you follow the true path of Scottish Rite
perfection, with an unshakable faith in a Supreme power, you will go
from the darkness of slavery into the dazzling, holy light of
freedom.11

Clausen continues:

The Scottish Rite teaches its members how to
spell “God” with the right blocks. That truly is the great relevance
of Scottish Rite Masonry in the modern world. We teach our initiates
there are available for the mind of man vast spiritual forces, vital
spiritual powers.

Similarly, we in the Scottish Rite can find
in our inner selves a refuge from external distractions and evils,
just as peace and quiet are found at the eye of a hurricane. There the
sun shines and birds fly. Put your trust in your own inherent
capacities.

Buddha attained his own enlightenment and said to his followers: “Be a lamp unto your own feet; do not seek outside yourself.”12

Chalmers I. Paton, in his book Freemasonry: Its Symbolism, Religious Nature and Law of Perfection, tells us that:

Freemasonry itself is symbolic of the highest
possible perfection of mankind, and to this its great aim is to
contribute; with a view to this object all its teachings are framed.13

J.D. Buck put it this way:

It is far more important that men should
strive to become Christs than that they should believe that Jesus was
Christ. . . . Jesus is no less Divine because all men may reach the
same Divine perfection.14

For the Christian, we know through God’s Word
that we are incapable of saving or perfecting ourselves: “For all have
sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).

Furthermore, Psalm 14 tells us that there is no
one who does good, that all mankind is together corrupt, and that all
have turned aside from God. Ecclesiastes 7:20 tells us; “For there is
not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, sinneth not.”

Scripture informs us that we must be perfect,
yet that we are incapable of such a lofty goal. In Matthew 5, we find
the standard for perfection, Jesus Christ, telling us we too must be
perfect, “even as your Father, which is in heaven is perfect” (Matthew
5:48). How is this possible?

Hebrews 10 informs us that Jesus Christ, as
both the High Priest and sacrificial Lamb, completed this task of
perfecting on our behalf—making us holy before God: “For by one
offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified” (Hebrews
10:14).

Consider the wonderful words of Ephesians 2:4-10:

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great
love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath
quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath
raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding
riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we
are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Also, consider how the apostle Paul relates
perfection and Jesus Christ in his letter to the Philippians. Here,
Paul recognizes that his Savior is the one who perfects, and that Paul
himself must continue the race as a believer, knowing that Christ
Jesus is He who completes everything.

Not as though I had already attained, either
were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that
for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count
not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting
those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things
which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:12-14)

When we examine the Lodge and explore its
mystical quest to achieve perfection, and contrast this to the saving
grace of Jesus Christ, we realize that a fork in the road is before
us: Either trust Jesus Christ as the one who perfects and finishes or
attempt to achieve the impossible—perfect ourselves. For the Mason, he
must perfect himself.

The man, therefore, who joins Freemasonry under
the pretense that “we make good men better” places himself in a most
difficult position where man is ascribed to be God and thereby able to
perfect himself through his own efforts. We have, in effect, another
gospel that excludes the Cross and leaves man to seek after his own
devices. Hence, the souls of all involved may be imperiled by a human
method that cannot save.

Conclusion

While this book is just an introduction to the
inner spiritual workings of Freemasonry, I believe it provides enough
information to show that Scripture runs counter to the ideas of the
Lodge and Freemasonry, which seeks mystical perfection through its own
works, making it an avenue that delivers the antithesis of the Gospel
message of Jesus Christ.

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Endnotes:
1.Foster Bailey, The Spirit of Masonry (London, UK: Lucis Press, 1957/1996), p. 77.
2. Bernard E. Jones, Freemason’s Guide and Compendium (Cumberland House), p. 282.
3. Manly P. Hall, Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (Philosophical Research Society, 1929/1984), p. 434.
4. Henry C. Clausen, Clausen’s Commentaries on Morals and Dogma
(The Supreme Council, 33, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, USA, 1974), pp. 24-26. Note: page 25
is a full-page color picture, thus the text flows from pages 24 to
26.
5. Ibid., p. 71.
6. Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (The Supreme Council, 33, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, USA, 1871/1944), p. 219.
7. For the list of “perfect” rites and lodges, see Albert G. Mackey, An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Volume II (The Masonic History Company, 1925), pp. 554-555.
8. Albert Mackey, An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Volume I, p. 81.
9. Allen E. Roberts, The Craft and Its Symbols: Opening the Door to Masonic Symbols (Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1974), p. 35.
10. George H. Steinmetz, The Royal Arch: Its Hidden Meaning (Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company, 1946), p. 53.
11. Henry C. Clausen, Emergence of the Mystical (The Supreme Council, 33, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, USA, 1981), p. 82.
12. Ibid., pp. 76-77.
13. Chalmers I. Paton, Freemasonry: Its Symbolism, Religious Nature and Law of Perfection (Reeves and Turner, 1873), p. 1.
14. J.D. Buck, Mystic Masonry and the Greater Mysteries of Antiquity (Regan Publishing, 1925), p. 62.

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THE DESERT FATHERS & THE METHODS THEY USED

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ABOVE: A LIVING TRIBUTE TO RAY YUNGEN
THE DESERT FATHERS & THE METHODS THEY USED

By Ray Yungen
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Catholic priest William Shannon in his book, Seeds of Peace, explained the human dilemma as being the following:

This forgetfulness, of our oneness with
God, is not just a personal experience, it is the corporate experience
of humanity. Indeed, this is one way to understanding original sin.
We are in God, but we don’t seem to know it. We are in paradise, but
we don’t realize it.1

Shannon’s viewpoint defines the basic
underlying worldview of the contemplative prayer movement as a whole.
One can find similar quotations in practically every book written by
contemplative authors. A Hindu guru or a Zen Buddhist master would
offer the same explanation. This conclusion becomes completely logical
when tracing the roots of contemplative prayer. Let us look at the
beginnings of this practice.

In the early Middle Ages, there lived a group
of hermits in the wilderness areas of the Middle East. They are known
to history as the Desert Fathers. They dwelt in small isolated
communities for the purpose of devoting their lives completely to God
without distraction. The contemplative movement traces its roots back
to these monks who promoted the mantra as a prayer tool. One
meditation scholar made this connection when he said:

The meditation practices and rules for
living of these earliest Christian monks bear strong similarity to
those of their Hindu and Buddhist renunciate brethren several kingdoms
to the East … the meditative techniques they adopted for finding
their God suggest either a borrowing from the East or a spontaneous
rediscovery.2

Many of the Desert Fathers, in their zeal,
were simply seeking God through trial and error. A leading
contemplative prayer teacher candidly acknowledged the haphazard way
the Desert Fathers acquired their practices:

It was a time of great experimentation with
spiritual methods. Many different kinds of disciplines were tried,
some of which are too harsh or extreme for people today. Many
different methods of prayer were created and explored by them.3

Attempting to reach God through occult
mystical practices will guarantee disaster. The Desert Fathers of
Egypt were located in a particularly dangerous locale at that time to
be groping around for innovative approaches to God, because as one
theologian pointed out:

[D]evelopment of Christian meditative
disciplines should have begun in Egypt because much of the
intellectual, philosophical, and theological basis of the practice of
meditation in Christianity also comes out of the theology of Hellenic
and Roman Egypt. This is significant because it was in Alexandria that
Christian theology had the most contact with the various Gnostic
speculations which, according to many scholars, have their roots in
the East, possibly in India.4

Consequently, the Desert Fathers believed as
long as the desire for God was sincere–anything could be utilized to
reach God. If a method worked for the Hindus to reach their gods, then
Christian mantras could be used to reach Jesus. A current
practitioner and promoter of the Desert Fathers’ mystical prayer still
echoes the logical formulations of his mystical ancestors:

In the wider ecumenism of the Spirit being
opened for us today, we need to humbly accept the learnings of
particular Eastern religions … What makes a particular practice
Christian is not its source, but its intent … this is important to
remember in the face of those Christians who would try to impoverish
our spiritual resources by too narrowly defining them. If we view the
human family as one in God’s spirit, then this historical
cross-fertilization is not surprising … selective attention to Eastern
spiritual practices can be of great assistance to a fully embodied
Christian life.5

Do you catch the reasoning here?
Non-Christian sources, as avenues to spiritual growth, are perfectly
legitimate in the Christian life, and if Christians only practice
their Christianity based on the Bible, they will actually impoverish
their spirituality. This was the thinking of the Desert Fathers. So as
a result, we now have contemplative prayer. Jesus addressed this when
he warned His disciples: “And when you pray, do not
use vain repetitions, as the heathen do.” (Matthew 6:7)

It should be apparent that mantra meditation
or sacred word prayer qualifies as “vain repetition” and clearly fits
an accurate description of the point Jesus was making. Yet in spite of
this, trusted evangelical Christians have often pronounced that
Christian mysticism is different from other forms of mysticism (such
as Eastern or occult) because it is focused on Jesus Christ.

This logic may sound credible on the surface,
but Christians must ask themselves a very simple and fundamental
question: What really makes a practice Christian? The answer is
obvious–does the New Testament sanction it? Hasn’t Christ taught us,
through His Word, to pray in faith in His name and according to His
will? Did He leave something out? Would Jesus hold out on His true
followers? Never!

Understanding this truth, God has declared in
His Word that He does not leave it up to earnest, yet sinful people,
to reinvent their own Christianity. When Christians ignore God’s
instructions in following Him they end up learning the way of the
heathen. Israel did this countless times. It is just human nature.

The account of Cain and Abel is a classic
biblical example of spiritual infidelity. Both of Adam’s sons wanted
to please God, but Cain decided he would experiment with his own
method of being devout. Cain must have reasoned to himself: “Perhaps
God would like fruit or grain better than a dead animal. It’s not as
gross. It’s less smelly. Hey, I think I will try it!”

As you know, God was not the least bit
impressed by Cain’s attempt to create his own approach to pleasing
God. The Lord made it clear to Cain that God’s favor would be upon him
if he did what is right, not just what was intended for God or
God-focused.

In many ways, the Desert Fathers were like
Cain—eager to please but not willing to listen to the instruction of
the Lord and do what was right. One cannot fault them for their
devotion, but one certainly can fault them for their lack of
discernment.

Notes:
1. William Shannon, Seeds of Peace, p. 66.
2. Daniel Goleman, The Meditative Mind 1988, p.53.
3. Ken Kaisch, Finding God, p.191.
4. Father William Teska, Meditation in Christianity , p.65.
5. Tilden Edwards, Living in the Presence , Acknowledgement page.

Related Material:

A list of ancient mystics (taken from Chris Lawson’s A Directory of Authors: Three NOT Recommended Lists booklet)

Mystics from the past oftentimes favorably endorsed by “Christian” authors today

Middle Ages (Medieval Times) and Renaissance
Angela of Foligno (1248-1309)
 Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)
 Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
 Bonaventure (1217-1274)
 Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
 Desert Fathers, The
 Hadewijch of Antwerp (13th century)
 Henry Suso (1295-1366)
 Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
 Hugh of Saint Victor (1096-1141)
 Jacopone da Todi (1230-1306)
 Johannes Tauler (d.1361)
 John of Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)
 John Scotus Eriugena (810-877)
 Julian of Norwich (1342-1416)
 Mechthild of Magdeburg (1212-1297)
 Meister Eckhart (1260-1327)
 Richard of Saint Victor (d.1173)
 Richard Rolle (1300-1341)
 The Cloud of the Unknowing (anonymous, instruction in mysticism, 1375)
 Theologia Germanica (anonymous, mystical treatise, late 14th century)
 Thomas a’ Kempis (1380-1471)
 Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
 Walter Hilton (1340-1396)
Renaissance, Reformation, and Counter-Reformation
Brother Lawrence (1614–1691)
 Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1822)
 George Fox (1624–1691)
 Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556)
 Jakob Böhme (1575-1624)
John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes) (1542–1591)
 Joseph of Cupertino (1603-1663)
 Madame Guyon (1647-1717)
 Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582)
 Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894)
 William Law (1686–1761)
Modern Era (19th—20th Century)
Alexandrina Maria da Costa (1904–1955)
 Bernadette Roberts (1931–)
 Berthe Petit (1870–1943)
 Carmela Carabelli (1910–1978)
 Domenico da Cese (1905-1978
 Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941)
 Flower A. Newhouse (1909-1994)
 Frank Laubach (1884–1970)
 Frederick Buechner (1926-)
 Karl Rahner (1904-1984)
 Lúcia Santos (1907-2005)
Maria Pierina de Micheli (1890–1945)
 Maria Valtorta (1898-1963)
 Marie Lataste (1822–1899)
 Marie Martha Chambon (1841–1907)
 Martin Buber (1868-1965)
 Mary Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938)
 Mary of Saint Peter (1816–1848)
 Mary of the Divine Heart (1863–1899)
 Padre Pio of Pietrelcina (1887–1968)
 Pierina Gilli (1911–1991)
 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881- 1955)
 Simone Weil (1909-1943)
 Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
 Thomas Merton (1915–1968)
 Thomas Raymond Kelly (1893–1941)