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BRANNON HOWSE: Are Russian Made Club-K Cargo Container Cruise Missile Launchers in the U.S.?
Are Russian Made Club-K Cargo Container Cruise Missile Launchers in the U.S.? Brannon Howse & Former DHS Officer Phil Haney. Dr. Jafar Dhia was Saddam Hussein’s nuclear scientist and now has access to Florida’s Port Canaveral cargo container terminal with a 35 year lease. Jafar and his family own “Gulftainer,” a company that works in a joint venture with Russian, state-owned exporter of the Club-K Container that can conceal and then launch four cruise missiles from a command off of a satellite.
KEY FINDINGS ● In 2014, the U.S. awarded UAE-based Gulftainer a 35-year lease to operate the cargo container terminal at Port Canaveral, Florida a key U.S. port for submarine and space programs. ● The CFIUS review and oversight process failed, possibly in part because a Pakistani immigrant from Kashmir with family connections to the Pakistani intelligence service as well as to the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood, served as the CFIUS staff chairperson from 2009-2014. ● Gulftainer and its co-owners, the Iraqi Jafar family, are in a joint venture with Russia’s Rostec, owner of Rosoboronexport, the Russian state-owned exporter of the Club-K container cruise missile launch system. ● Gulftainer is co-owned by the brother and business partner of Saddam Hussein’s top nuclear scientist, Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar, and the Emir of Sharjah, UAE. ● Dr. Jafar was on the Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) CENTCOM ‘Blacklist’ as an Iraqi regime official who could be engaged as a military target. ● Dr. Jafar created the so-called ‘Beach Ball’ miniaturized nuclear weapon; ahead of the 2003 OIF invasion, Russian troops helped remove nuclear program devices, materials, and documents from Iraq. ● Dr. Jafar sought a missile delivery system from North Korea shortly before OIF and North Korea planned to build a missile factory in Iraq. ● A model of North Korea’s miniaturized nuclear weapon that appears strikingly similar to Dr. Jafar’s Beach Ball design was seen in 2017 photos with Kim Jong-un. ● Russia’s Club-K container cruise missile launch system looks like a standard ocean container, but can launch biological, chemical, EMP, nuclear, and conventional payloads; it is produced by Russia’s state-owned Concern Morinformsystem-Agat. ● Club-K units can be moved around inside the United States aboard ships, riverine boats, trains, and semi-trucks and then can be remotely activated by satellite. ● Each Club-K container can be loaded with four ‘Sizzler’ 3M-54-TE cruise missiles (1st stage subsonic, then 2nd stage supersonic on terminal approach to target) or four ‘Switchblade’ cruise missiles. ● Based on a statement by a Russian official representing the Club-K manufacturer, Club-K was conceptualized during a major conflict (likely the Iraq War) as a way to defend against an invader (U.S.) by using shipping containers. ● A single Club-K container armed with four cruise missiles can reportedly destroy an aircraft carrier. ● Defense experts fear that Russia is exporting Club-K container missile launchers to several nations (including China, Iran, Malaysia, North Korea, the UAE, and Venezuela). ● The Jafars hired Iranian-American Siamak Namazi as Crescent Petroleum’s Director of Strategic Planning. ● Namazi is a close associate of Trita Parsi, co-founder of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), often referred to as the ‘Iran Lobby’ in the U.S.; both Namazi and Parsi worked closely with the Iranian delegations to nuclear talks that culminated in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in July 2015. ● Jafar’s Gulftainer is majority owner in a consortium which was under FBI and Department of Defense (DOD) investigation, after being implicated in illicit export activity and money laundering for Iran. ● Dr. Jafar’s nuclear weapons advisor and accomplice was Yevgeny Primakov, former Russian Prime Minister, spymaster, and for years, the Kremlin’s top expert on Middle East affairs and architect of the ‘Islamic Bloc,’ as conceived by Russia. ● Dr. Jafar’s Iraqi nuclear weapons program was a covert Russian-sponsored nuclear weapons program. ● Dr. Jafar directed not only the nuclear program in Iraq, but also technology transfer and illicit procurement for it, including inside the U.S.
LTRP Note:Over the past few months, since we releasedCalvinism: None Dare Call It Heresy (which caused such a firestorm), we have received many letters, phone calls, and e-mails similar to the one below. We tell you this so you do not think that what this letter is saying is just an isolated case. It isn’t. While the specific circumstances may be different in each case, the feelings of isolation, confusion, and dismay are a thread that run through many of the correspondences we have received. In spite of the loss of support and care for Lighthouse Trails since releasing this book, we still believe it is what we were supposed to do. Calvinism represents a “God” who does not want every human being to be saved and a gospel that does not believe John 3:16 that “whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Dear Lighthouse Trails: The Self Proclaimed Elect. That’s what should be in neon letters on the sign of the Southern Baptist Church we currently attend in a small town. The Self Proclaimed Elect. We moved to this small town as quintessential Yankees without having done any real homework. My spouse and I always considered ourselves devout, but “garden variety” believers in Jesus Christ, along with everyone else we’ve ever known. We joined the largest church in town, largest population in a church, and it is strongly affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Half the town appears to attend this church or a few small other Baptist churches in the area. We have now attended as members for over 4 years. The first few years, everything looked and sounded OK to us. Even the New Members class didn’t seem to have any red flags. But, the concept of “election” and “predestination” was openly taught as fact. We were confused a little by it but didn’t see why it should be of any concern. We were wrong. Way wrong. What began to be noticed by the both of us after a while were the negative whispers from several members as to who is elect and who is not. We thought they were talking about “saved.” They weren’t. And the harsh judgmental comments always came from the same group of individuals—the top social class of the church. I grew up in a very class conscious neighborhood and admit I am sensitive to places where there seems to be a “popular kids” table at every function where no one else is welcome. I was often picked last for teams at recess and socially rejected as a kid so I am still very conscious of it as an adult. And this church had that element—on steroids. I had never seen anything like this before, and it was becoming very unnerving to be a part of it. We were already aware that rural Southern towns don’t like outsiders. But this was way beyond that. They accepted us at first—but only out of momentary curiosity. It was like we were two monkeys in a zoo cage and they just wanted to read your plaque—and then tell their kids to move along before you bit them. It was rapidly becoming very isolating and hurtful, but we figured, hey, it’s a little town in the South. That’s just the way it is. But then the whispers about being unelect began to get aimed directly at us. Hard. After a few years, despite active involvement in the church’s various ministries, we began to get ostracized and the popular kids table became openly cold, distant, and even outright hostile towards us. And the big shock came when we were forced to realize it was coming from the top. All I knew about this Pastor was that he was a devoted follower of John Piper, John MacArthur, Mark Dever, RC Sproul, Al Mohler, and many others. He is also a faithful attendee of the yearly T4G conference. Still, it wasn’t registering. But he was himself keeping a painful distance from us and his wife has never introduced herself to us once in the entire 5 years we have been there, even though I myself attend many of her choir rehearsals. That’s where my own red flag first went up. . . . . Yet we all still faithfully attend because he’s the most high profile Pastor at least in our surrounding counties. And he’s overall a good teacher. At least, as long as you are completely clueless as to what he’s actually saying. And we were becoming less clueless with every sermon. That’s when we discovered the Not So Wonderful World of Calvinism. After doing months of research, I especially started to go from confused, disappointed, to now worried, and then outright scared. We were somehow now declared unelect. . . . And, then the worst hit me: What if I really am unelect? And why would that even make sense? The Pastor teaches consistently to new members and believers that none of us know who the elect will be. . . . But how in the world does he know he even is? He can’t possibly have that assurance if he’s telling us we don’t. If Jesus died for practically no one, how can he give that pitch that he, his wife, his kids and anyone he personally likes is elect – and then warn us we might not be? I had really liked and respected this pastor. Now I was becoming terrified of him. . . . I’d sit through his sermons now hearing every Calvinist nuance he was saying. . . . I could see I was heading down that dark dangerous road of starting to believe it myself – that maybe I’m not elect since I am in doubt of the validity of their theology altogether. All I have studied tells me clearly never to challenge their theology to their faces – especially a Senior Pastor with lifelong indoctrination into this theology. You will instantly become devastated by this. He/they will tell you that you just don’t have “ears to hear and eyes to see.” And then they’ll walk away saying to themselves with certainty, “Well, that one’s sure not elect.” So you can’t talk about it to anyone whatsoever. And, already feeling very isolated, this was starting to shake our faith altogether. I would watch their many mission teams go away to far off places and now wondered, “What’s the point in that?” They keep saying that they are going out to “save the lost.” But they’re not. They’re going out to call out the elect before it’s too late. And the elect only. Of whom they have no idea either way. Even about themselves. This isn’t right. If Jesus died for only the elect and no one else, why would God waste His time putting him here in the first place? That makes no sense. But it seems to make perfect sense to them. Because, from the Pastor on down, they have absolute certainty they have been chosen to be saved without actually ever making the choice. And it was almost now obsessively messing with our heads. I began to go from hoping to fit in to just keeping to myself and not wanting to talk to anyone at all. Being from a different culture, it’s easy to say the wrong thing and offend someone here in general. Now it could have lifelong consequences to be rejected this way. I would only sit with a few people I know and avoid even saying hello to anyone else. What if I say or question something and it throws up red flags to them that I am in doubt of their beliefs? How much worse would that make it for both of us? My spouse quit going. I would make excuses for him in relation to his job. But he just quit going. And I can’t blame him. I have been as terrified to leave as to stay. If I leave, then they’ll all say, “Well, we called that one correctly. Unelect. Not one of us.” I have continued to go only out of defiance and the fact that there’s really no other place to go here without running into the same theology. So, I take in what he says that I perceive as biblical truth and throw out the rest. And that is mentally exhausting to do. And causing a lot of despair. The blatant social rejection there just reinforces to me every Sunday I walk out of the service that I should be scared I’m not saved. Or, worse, not elect. I should be doubting myself. They sure do. When the Pastor himself doesn’t speak to us or want us anywhere near his family or close inner circle, it becomes a constant mental and spiritual battle not to let this take root as a permanent choking source of deep worry. I’ve cried over this many times in frustration. And, frankly, in stark terror. So, we’re doing the only thing that can be done. And it’s long overdue. We’re renovating our house and putting it on the market. We’re getting out. Out of this town. And maybe out of the Baptist South altogether. It’s almost embarrassing that we’re fleeing this 1,000 person church without confrontation. But I’m taking seriously the advice of other Non-Calvinists. Don’t engage. Just get out. Don’t waste your time. They’ll destroy you. And you may never recover. I don’t know where we’ll end up from here. But I especially think I need time to heal and re-grow my faith, which has been badly shaken by this 5-year experience. I continue to read and watch non-Calvinist preachers, and it’s a great comfort for me. It’s the only way I don’t feel completely alone and the only one damaged by this teaching. The good news is that, we now know what we don’t ever want to see in a church again. Our eyes and ears are wide open. Infinitely more so than our church Pastor and members will ever know. Thank you for listening. Anonymous in The South
Dear Lighthouse Trails: The “update” to the Anne of Green Gablesseries on Netflix calledAnne with an E. has undertones – and overtones – of transvestitism and homosexuality. It started out with one of Anne’s young male friends, Cole, hinting about his sexuality. In season 2 episode 7, it all came out. In that episode, her best friend Diana, who’s wealthy aunt had hinted about her lesbianism in the past, came right out with it at a bizarre party, attended by Anne and her friends. Her lost lover was mourned by all – even Anne, and by the end of the episode, Cole announces, after being exhorted to be who he really is by a lesbian artist, that he is gay, and receives glowing support from the aunt. If that’s not enough, in the previous episode, the pastor in their hometown, dressed up like a voluptuous drag queen for the town play, while Anne cut her hair and played a farm . . . boy. Even my beloved HGTV international beach-oriented house-hunting shows are jamming Yoga and/or homosexuality down our throats in almost every episode. My wife and I are in shock how in literally every Caribbean Life or Mexico Life episode, the buyers discuss how excited they are to do Yoga on the patio or on Paddleboards – or they are Yoga teachers themselves. It’s crazy how both homosexuality and Yoga have been forced upon HGTV viewers as never before. Thanks for your work, Ed _________________________________________________________________
NETFLIX TWISTS ANNE OF GREEN GABLES INTO A “QUEER SOIRÉE”
(Friday Church News Notes, August 17, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes: The following is excerpted from “Netflix Twists,” CBN News, Jul. 21, 2018: “The new Netflix adaptation of the 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables has been revised to include multiple homosexual characters, according to the series creator, Moira Walley-Beckett. In the Northwood Entertainment-produced series, ‘Anne with an E,’ the beloved character Great Aunt Josephine Barry is the first of many LGBT characters in the series. … Aunt Jo revealed in Season 1 that she was grieving over the loss of a character known as Aunt Gertrude, Josephine’s partner. IndieWire reports their relationship is what’s called a ‘Boston marriage,’ when two women live together without being supported financially by a man. The term didn’t exist during the time period of the show. ‘And so we touch on that in Season 1, and in Season 2 we get to expand upon it in a way that allows her to provide a forum of acceptance,’ Walley-Beckett continued. That ‘forum of acceptance’ is known as a ‘queer soirée.’ In Season 2, Aunt Jo holds her first queer soirée since the passing of her partner. … IndieWire goes on to say that one of the artists attending the soirée is the show’s creation of the real-life pianist and composer, Cécile Chaminade. … The media outlet reports the show also features two homosexual male characters. One is Anne’s good friend, ‘Cole.’ … And it doesn’t end there. IndieWire goes on to report that the series creator also pictured the children’s teacher, Mr. Phillips, as gay. … A contributing writer for Movieguide, The Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment, spoke out against all the prominent homosexual story lines depicted in ‘Anne With an E.’ ‘The creators of the series have carefully manipulated the classic story with an agenda that fits their worldview,’ wrote Tess Farrand. ‘ANNE WITH AN E’s attempt to also push LGBT in programming that would normally attract more faith-based audiences is utterly unnecessary. Moreover, focusing attention on the sexuality subplot of the series detracts from the moral redemptive nature of the story. Obviously, the minds behind the series are jumping onto the ideological bandwagon that already has concerned parents even more worried. The discussion of gender and sexuality are in fact discussed ad nauseam. People in 2018 don’t need or want to see political/social debates take place on ‘family’ TV shows; they see enough of it on social media or see it on the 5 ‘o clock news. Rather, we should be turning to the ultimate resource for clarification on these pressing topics: the Bible.’”
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The FBI’s deep corruption is becoming generally known regarding Trump and Russia, but it is even worse than most people think. In 2011, the Obama administration ordered the removal of all mention of Islam and jihad from counter-terror training. And in 2015, the FBI had no agents in place to stop the jihad attack on the free speech event Pamela Geller and I organized in Garland, Texas, even though it is clear that they knew about this attack beforehand. So it is no surprise that the FBI, having gone so far off the rails, would be working with a group that is dedicated to delegitimizing and destroying organizations that represent the point of view of roughly half of the electorate.
“Report: FBI Has ‘Ongoing’ Relationship With Left-Wing SPLC, Which Once Put Ben Carson On An ‘Extremist Watch List,’” by Peter Hasson, Daily Caller, July 28, 2018:
The FBI has an “ongoing” relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a left-wing nonprofit that once placed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson on an “extremist watch list.”
That’s according to an exclusive report from Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson, who broke the news on his show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Friday.
“Well as you already know if you’ve been paying any attention at all, the Southern Poverty Law Center is a fraudulent enterprise,” said Carlson. “It’s a left-wing political group that uses ‘hate crime’ designations to target its ideological enemies and to crush people.”
“The SPLC has repeatedly been allowed to brief the FBI on alleged domestic terrorist threats to this country,” Carlson reported. “Disturbingly though, the relationship is ongoing, if you can believe it.”
“Despite multiple requests from this program, the FBI has refused to describe the extent of its collaboration with the SPLC, we’ve asked repeatedly, or even to explain why it continues to work with a group like that,” Carlson said, noting the agency would only offer bland statements.
“For many years, the FBI has engaged with various organizations, both formally and informally,” FBI spokeswoman Jacqueline Maguire said in a statement to Carlson’s show.
“Such outreach is a critical component of the FBI’s mission, and we welcome information from these organizations on any possible violations of civil rights, hate crimes, or other potential crimes or threats.”
“The Attorney General has directed the FBI to reevaluate their relationships with groups like this to ensure the FBI does not partner with any group that discriminates,” Department of Justice spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores told Fox News.
The SPLC’s lists of “extremists” and “hate groups” have consistently courted controversy and the nonprofit’s work has been plagued by inaccuracies.
The SPLC cited as proof of Carson’s “extremism” a quote in which he said: “Marriage is between a man and a woman; it’s a well-established pillar of society.”
Following a backlash, the SPLC apologized and removed him from its list. Carson was on the list for four months before the SPLC removed the “extremist” label.
The SPLC removed a controversial “anti-Muslim extremist” list in April, after British Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz announced plans to sue the SPLC for defamation. The left-wing group ending up paying Nawaz a $3.375-million settlement.
Somali-born women’s rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali was also on the list.
Ali, a victim of female genital mutilation who now advocates against the practice, is an award-winning human rights activist. For the last decade, her nonprofit, the AHA Foundation, has worked to protect women from honor violence, forced marriage and genital mutilation.
But according to the SPLC’s since-deleted list, Ali is an “anti-Muslim extremist.” The SPLC has yet to apologize or officially retract its “extremist” label for Ali….
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The FBI has a long history of collaborating with the Southern Poverty Law Center. In 2009, an FBI memo described the SPLC as a "credible" organization.
The Department of Justice told Tucker Carlson Tonight that the FBI will "reevaluate their relationships with groups like this to ensure the FBI does not partner with any group that discriminates."
Former FBI Agent Reveals Deep State
Supports Islamic Jihad
Former FBI agent John Guandolo joins Alex to discuss how John Brennan secretly converted to Islam according to eyewitness accounts. The American people are being misled about the loyalties of those that run the deep state.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney and City Solicitor Marcel Pratt announced July 27 that their city will let expire a decade-old contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that currently allows ICE access to the Philadelphia Police Department’s Preliminary Arraignment Reporting System (PARS). The PARS agreement with ICE will expire August 31.
A news release posted by the city’s Office of Immigrant Affairs Law Department quoted Kenny as follows:
For some time now we have been concerned that ICE uses PARS in inappropriate ways, including to conduct investigations that result in immigration enforcement against law-abiding Philadelphia residents. My Administration engaged in dialogue with ICE in recent weeks about its use of PARS data, and rather than allay these concerns, ICE officials in fact confirmed many of them. Such practices sow fear and distrust in Philadelphia’s great immigrant community, and make it more difficult for our Police Department to solve crimes. I cannot in good conscience allow the agreement to continue.
Pratt, also quoted in the release, repeated Kenney’s assertion that ICE was using PARS data to enforce the law against “law-abiding” residents, stating in part: “We have concluded that ICE’s use of PARS can result in arrests of otherwise law-abiding residents for civil immigration violations when the agency executes an operation due to information found in PARS.”
These statements by Kenney and Pratt ignore the fact that someone who is in the country illegally has broken our country’s immigration laws, and therefore is not “law abiding.”
An AP report quoted a statement by U.S. Homeland Security spokeswoman Katie Waldman, who called Philadelphia’s decision irresponsible and said the city will end up “harboring criminal aliens.”
“Sanctuary-city policies make American communities like Philadelphia less safe by putting the rights of criminal aliens over the safety and security of American citizens,” Waldman said. “Despite the misguided action taken by Philadelphia today, DHS will continue to work to remove illegal aliens and uphold public safety.”
As a sanctuary city, Philadelphia had already limited cooperation with immigration enforcement. It won’t honor detainer requests from ICE and release inmates to the agency without a judicial warrant.
Controversial talk-show host Alex Jones has been suspended for 30 days by Facebook because of posting four videos that the social-networking giant deemed offensive. The suspension only includes Jones’ personal page and any pages directly managed by him. The page for his Infowars platform is, thus far, unaffected by the suspension.
For 30 days, Jones may not post any new content to his page or any page he manages. Facebook has removed the four videos that it said violated its community standards. Two of the videos removed reportedly contained “hate speech” against Muslims; another was said to contain “hate speech” against transgendered people. The fourth video showed a child who was pushed to the ground by an adult and was removed because of “child endangerment” standards.
“Our Community Standards make it clear that we prohibit content that encourages physical harm [bullying], or attacks on someone based on their religious affiliation or gender identity [hate speech],” a Facebook statement said. “We remove content that violates our standards as soon as we’re aware of it.”
It’s not the first time Jones has run afoul of the social-media mobocracy. YouTube has issued multiple strikes against him, one only last week. If a YouTube channel receives three strikes in a three-month period, it is deleted. Jones has also faced multiple Twitter suspensions. Facebook reportedly warned Jones that he had violated community standards on several occasions and that a suspension would result if he continued to do so.
The Facebook ban comes after weeks of whining by mainstream news outlets such as CNN over why Jones is still allowed on the platform. On July 11, CNN’s Oliver Darcy tweeted, “Facebook is hosting an event about how committed they are to fighting fake news, but they have no good answer when I ask as to why they permit InfoWars to have a page on their platform.”
This prompted a tweet back from the president’s son Donald Trump Jr.: “Seriously, if someone is going to lead the charge against fake news, shouldn’t they be a lot more credible than CNN?”
Facebook has been on a mission to fight the spread of so-called fake news by enlisting the assistance of “non-partisan” fact-checkers. But what is fake and what is real is often in the eye of the beholder. For instance, far-left hate group Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is one of Facebook’s “fact-checkers.” Does Facebook expect us to believe that a leftist scam group such as the SPLC can be impartial in judging the veracity of news?
Jones has at least one defender from an unlikely source. Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R), a frequent target of Jones and his admittedly conspiracy-laden media platform, came out against Facebook’s treatment of Jones. “Am no fan of Jones — among other things he has a habit of repeatedly slandering my Dad by falsely accusing him of killing JFK — but who the hell made Facebook the arbiter of political speech? Free speech includes views you disagree with,” Cruz tweeted.
And the senator is correct. Facebook and the “fact-checkers” at the SPLC have no business censoring anybody’s speech. Besides, the social network is full of options for people who don’t wish to see content from Infowars or anyone else. Users have the ability to act as their own censors. They can block content, advertising, and even their own friends who post things they find objectionable. Facebook users can already create their own bubbles. There’s no need to add another layer of protection in the form of censorship.
Jones is an easy target because of his sometimes questionable choices for content on Infowars. He is bellicose and provocative. He uses clickbait headlines, designed to shock readers and listeners. The censorship of his platform is something the majority of the United States will simply shrug at.
But who’s to say what’s next to be censored for being “hate speech” or “fake news?” Tucker Carlson? Sean Hannity?The New American? Jones himself believes that he is simply the first domino to be toppled. “Infowars has been chosen as the test subject for total internet censorship,” Jones tweeted. It’s possible he’s right.
Ironically, Jones’ suspension comes in the same week that Facebook suffered the biggest one-day loss in market value for any U.S. company in history. Shares of the company fell nearly 20 percent on July 26, erasing around 120 billion in market value for the company. Facebook executives blamed the drop on predictions of slowing growth for the company, though some might say it was poetic justice.
A screenshot of the video game, which looks to be a replication of a popular 90s PC game, but with fetuses to kill instead of monsters.
Hostilities from abortion advocates in Argentina continue to mount with the mid-July release of a graphic video game.
The South American country currently is considering legislation to legalize abortion on demand. Argentina currently prohibits unborn babies from being aborted except in cases involving rape, severe disabilities or threats to the mother’s life.
According to Crux, the new video game, “Doom Fetito,” has players race to procure an abortion-inducing drug by battling Catholic priests, Nazi-like police and pro-life women. Once those “opponents” have been conquered, players are supposed to kill “the boss,” which is an unborn child, in the “Doom”- style game.
The game developer said she was inspired to mock Argentina’s pro-life movement after seeing pictures on Twitter of a 20-foot cardboard baby during recent Argentine pro-life rallies, according to the report.
After players defeat the “villainous” child, the game displays the message: “You defeated fetito! Give this misoprostol to those in need so they might defeat it, too!” Misoprostol is an abortion-inducing drug that could become easily accessible in pharmacies if Argentina passes the pro-abortion bill. The Senate is scheduled to vote Aug. 8.
The following article is the third of a three part testimony about my experience with the cult of Freemasonry at my former church, Rowland Spring Baptist Church. Rowland Springs Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist Church in Cartersville, Georgia and is a part of the Georgia Baptist Convention and Bartow Baptist Association. Part One can be found here. Part Two can be found here.
Easter Intimidation
It was Easter Sunday 2017, I had just finished teaching my final Sunday School class at Rowland Springs Baptist Church (RSBC). I was sitting in the sanctuary with a friend from seminary, who came to church with me to provide moral support on what was a very trying morning before the worship service started. I glanced to the back of the sanctuary to find Alton Kay, the Worshipful Master of Cartersville Lodge #63 staring right at me. Another church member was pointing me out to him. There were quite a few Masons in the back of the church that day. Alton, although he had been ordained a deacon, didn’t come to RSBC much. He was, however, a long-time member with an extensive family history at Rowland Springs. According to an interview Alton gave to the local paper on the occasion of the church’s 150th anniversary, his grandfather started the church the 1800s. Alton had been coming to RSBC for seventy-four years.
The local paper interviews Alton Kay on the occasion of RSBC’s 150th Anniversary.
Educating the church about the wicked nature of Freemasonry was going to be a challenge. Not only was I freshly dismissed from my Sunday School teaching position, but the routes of the lodge ran deep at RSBC. Educating ignorant people about a secretive cult is hard enough when their friends and fellow church members are not members. At RSBC, many long-time members were Freemasons and Lodge officers. In my opposition to Freemasonry at Rowland Springs, I had no support from the church’s pastor, staff, or Deacon Board. It was up to me, still relatively new to the church, to stand for biblical truth over and against the reputations of prominent long-time church members who had been respected in the church for years. I think the Freemasons and the hireling pastor knew this. That Easter Sunday, the Masonic intimidation factor was on full display, but I didn’t intend to turn tail and run. It was my biblical responsibility to bring the matter up to the entire church whether I thought they would listen or not. When the Lord gives you a hill to die on, it doesn’t matter whether or not you think you will manage to make it all the way to the top, you just charge.
Summer and Winter, Springtime and Harvest
The next year at Rowland Springs was a long one. The fellowship of my weekly Sunday School class, which was one of the primary factors that encouraged me to join RSBC, had been removed. I think this was strategic on the part of the Pastor and Deacon Board. Any influence that I had at Rowland Springs was a danger to the unity they had achieved through compromising with the Masonic Lodge. The Pastor, the hireling Joe Ringwalt, seemed more concerned about potential disagreement between church members than he did with the holiness of the church he was tasked with shepherding. I think a lot of people would leave a church after the embarrassment of being dismissed as a Sunday School teacher. Yet I didn’t and didn’t plan on doing so. I had to wonder then, as I do now, how many people had left Rowland Springs and similar churches in the past after being condemned in the kind of quiet, basement meeting that the Pastor and Deacons had with me. As an accountant, that math was very apparent to me. My family represents one tithe, the Masonic household represented eight.
Walking in each Sunday, I knew that I wasn’t welcome by the leadership. The congregation, I think, was generally ignorant about what had gone down in the wake of my calling the Freemasons to repentance. At the same time, I believe the leadership was ever vigilant that I would again bring up the matter of Freemasonry, this time to a larger audience. Periodically, I would receive a call from the hireling Pastor criticizing me for something I had posted on Facebook and asking me to consider leaving the church. He and the Student Minister even went as far as to suggest other churches that I should join! Each time, I responded that I had a right to share my opinion as long as I wasn’t in sin, belonged to Christ, and should thus be welcomed as a member of Christ’s church. So, my family and I continued going to our church, despite the persistent discouragement from our pastor, not willing to be quietly shooed away when no one was looking. I also began to save money. I wasn’t quite sure how I was going to raise the issue of Freemasonry to a church of hundreds but I knew it would be costly. I was wrapping up the last of my seminary work and was scheduled to graduate in December of 2017. When that was over, I knew that I could refocus on the cult that permeated my local church.
One particular Sunday, after the worship service, I was walking with Grant McDurmon, the Chairman of Deacons, to the children’s area to retrieve our kids. We were talking Falcons football; the Masonic Lodge was the farthest thing from mind. Then, I saw Jim Moore (the Chaplain of Lodge #63) sitting at the end of the children’s hall working security. Jim was wearing a ball-cap with a Masonic emblem, a pagan symbol, smack dab in the middle of God’s house. I pointed the matter out to Grant but he was noncommittal in giving his opinion on the matter. Jim started towards us. As he walked by Grant said nothing. I spoke. “Jim,” I said sternly, “get that pagan symbol off your head in the Lord’s house.” Grant remained silent. Jim, full of anger, snapped back at me coldly, “Why don’t you just go back to First Baptist…don’t you ever talk to me again.” Jim was as indignant about wearing his pagan symbol at church as he was about being the chaplain of the false Masonic Temple. Grant looked at me, saying nothing to Jim, and told me that what I had done was inappropriate. This was the environment the pastor had cultivated at Rowland Springs. I was being rebuked by the Chairman of Deacons for telling someone not to wear a pagan idol to church! Adam Burrell, the Student Minister, walked up to me as Jim walked away. I explained to Adam what had happened and he agreed with me that Jim shouldn’t have worn the hat. He told me that he was going to talk to him about it. I was somewhat dumbfounded, Adam was the same man who had months earlier told me that Masonry was a matter conscience. Somehow, though, it was not okay to wear a Masonic emblem to church.
The Chaplain of the Masonic Lodge served as church security wearing a pagan symbol
Word spread of my incident with Jim. A few days after it happened, I was invited to lunch by a Deacon named Ben Thompson. Ben and I had talked denominational politics a little bit in the past but had never really hung out. I considered him to be a fair-minded man. I thought it was peculiar that he was asking me to lunch after never having done so in the past two years. I figured that it wasn’t just to chat. Before lunch started, I resolved to say nothing of Freemasonry to him unless Ben brought it up. It didn’t take long for him to do so. He had heard what happened with Jim and wanted my side of the story. Jim, according to another church member, was threatening to leave the church over the incident. I explained exactly what had happened that day. As with Adam, Ben agreed that Jim should not have worn the hat. Furthermore, Ben agreed with me that Freemasonry was a cult and that something needed to be done about it at Rowland Springs. This was music to my ears. Perhaps the matter wouldn’t have to be brought before the church after all. Perhaps this Deacon could go as a “2nd or 3rdwitness” to address the sin situation at the church. Ben advised me that we needed to “build a coalition” to deal with Freemasonry at RSBC. He also chided me about the direct approach I had previously taken in dealing with the matter and recommended a softer tactic. He told me that he would again raise the issue of Masonry with the Deacons and I left the soft tactics up to him.
After a few weeks, I followed up with Ben. He said that he had brought up the Masonry issue at a Deacon’s meeting but that it had been “tabled”. I could see that, even with Ben’s support, the hireling Pastor and the Deacons were still not going to act to excise Freemasonry from the church body. It was clear to me that all the church members would have to be educated about Masonry before anything else was done about Masonry. I devised a plan to do just that. I took the money that I had been saving over the year and ordered a copy of The Facts on the Masonic Lodge by John Ankerberg for every household in the church. I used Amazon to have a book delivered to every family in the RSBC church directory. In this book Ankerberg and his co-authors, clearly explain, using facts, evidence, and scripture, just how unchristian the Masonic Lodge is. There would be no more ignoring Freemasonry in backroom meetings. Every single church member was going to be made aware. The facts were coming to everyone’s house. Having finally graduated from seminary (my school requires a church endorsement) , I was prepared to face the very high possibility of being excommunicated from Rowland Springs.
Every household on the Rowland Springs mailing list received a copy of this book.
One Easter Later
My final Easter as a member of Rowland Springs was filled with greater Masonic aggression than the last. I was sitting in a chair the lobby waiting for my wife to get out of the bathroom. The service has just ended. The first two people out of the door were Jim Moore and his wife Betty. Jim looked me dead in the eye, didn’t say a word, then turned his head to the site and made a spitting motion…right there in the church lobby. This was the utter contempt that this man, this Mason, had for a fellow church member in the house of God.
It didn’t take long for the hireling, Pastor Joe Ringwalt, to call me to ask about the incident. He asked me the name of the Mason who had spit at me. I told him it was “the chaplain of Lodge #63.” That gave Joe no help. He didn’t even know that his own church member was the chaplain of a pagan temple. I told him it was Jim Moore. “Jim isn’t the man we all think he is,” Joe said, as he apologized for what happened. It was the same way he talked behind Jim’s back when we had first discussed his involvement in Freemasonry over a year prior. At that time, he called Jim “an insecure man.” It struck me how willing Joe was to talk about Jim behind his back but how unwilling he was to confront him over the sin of being a member of the Masonic lodge. Joe Ringwalt is a gutless coward who is unqualified to sit in the pastoral office of the local church. I practically begged Joe to stand against Freemasonry at Rowland Springs but he would do nothing. He said he didn’t support Masonry but he supported our Masons. He said Masonry in the church “wasn’t a hill to die on.” To me, it was clear, the most important thing to that hireling was keeping his job.
After I was excommunicated from Rowland Springs, I received this message from a former member.
It was during this phone conversation with Joe that he asked me if I knew anything about a book on Masonry that a church member named Harold Barret had received. I told him that I did indeed know. I further told him that I had sent one to every household in church. The hireling was, to say the least surprised. He asked me where I had gotten the addresses, as if I had done something wrong. I informed him that he himself had sent the address list to every church member and that I had taken the liberty to use it to educate our congregation about the Lodge. “That’s your right,” Joe said. I could tell Joe was upset. The problem he had been trying to avoid for over year was coming to the mailbox of every church member. It took Joe less than a month, before all the books could even be delivered, to have me summoned to yet another Deacon’s meeting.
Nanci Davis, a Deacon’s wife, suggested that our church burn the Ankerberg books.
The issue to be discussed at this meeting was, ostensibly, my divisiveness. During the meeting, Joe insisted that Masonry was not the the reason I was called before the Deacons. He then proceeded to being up my stance on Masonry. At that meeting (which was recorded and is available on my podcast), I was railroaded, in complete unity, by the Deacons.
No matter how sinful and wicked Freemasonry was, the problem was Seth Dunn. No argument was good enough, the Deacons had long ago decided the matter. Ben Thompson, who had earlier suggested to me creating an anti-Mason coalition, sat beside me and said nothing in my defense and nothing in regard to the wickedness of Freemasonry. Grant McDurmon asked me, on behalf of all the Deacons, never to come back to Rowland Springs. I told him I would be there until they voted me out. A regularly-scheduled church conference took place that night. It was announced at that conference that Alton Kay and his wife, for what reason I do not know, desired to transfer their membership to an Independent Baptist church down the street. The church then voted to approve their transfer of letter to Gateway Church. “One less freemason!” I exclaimed upon the conclusion of the vote.
These three influential Masons sat together at the church conference.
After my meeting with the Deacons, a special-called church conference was scheduled for the following Sunday night for the express purpose of bringing me under church discipline.
I was accused of the nebulous sin of “sowing discord.” At that meeting, I was voted out of the membership of Rowland Springs Baptist Church, with the unanimous recommendation of the Deacons, by an overwhelming margin.
Typically, the hope for church discipline is restoration of fellowship. Rowland Springs used the police to tell me never to come back on its property.
When I got the parking lot, two police officers were waiting for me. I was given a criminal trespass warning and told never to come back. Ben Thompson signed it as a church representative.
My stand against Freemasonry at Rowland Springs had run its course. The snake that I stepped on had bitten. The hireling, Joe Ringwalt, is still preaching at Rowland Springs to a church full of Freemasons. Adam Burrell, ironically, went to work for Pray’s Mill Baptist Church in Douglasville, Georgia where its pastor, popular blogger and conference speaker Josh Buice, has moved to prohibit Free Masons from church membership. I am attending another Baptist church in Cartersville.
The Blackball Rolls Downhill
I attended Sunday services at Tabernacle Baptist Church on April 29th, seven days after I was disfellowshipped from Rowland Springs Baptist Church. Having been run out of Rowland Springs, I needed another place to go. My wife suggested Tabernacle. I was baptized at that church. I was married there. Tabernacle endorsed my application to seminary. My children have attended PreK there for two years. My parents are members.
My wedding day at TBC.
On April 30th, I was informed that I am no longer allowed on the TBC campus for Sunday worship services. Richard Brown, the very pastor who performed my marriage and signed my seminary endorsement called me Monday morning to tell me that TBC’s security personnel had been informed to be on the lookout for me. The pastoral staff has, in Richard’s words chosen to “protect the flock” from me because I “sow discord.” Part of this protection is to ensure that I don’t so much as set foot on the property of Tabernacle Baptist Church, to sit in its pews during Sunday Service. This treatment was warranted by my stance against Freemasonry at Rowland Springs.
Such is the blackball. This is the kind of thing I knew could happen if I stood up against Masonry. It’s a powerful network. I stood up anyway. No network is more powerful than the God I serve. When it comes down to it, I will not assent to the idea that I committed the nebulous sin of “sowing discord” because I wouldn’t put up with a demonic cult being part of God’s Holy assembly.
And I never will.
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Some months ago, a Tennessean named Glenn Beck reached out to me regarding my research into and publications about the unbiblical nature of the cult of Freemasonry. Glenn is a Southern Baptist Deacon and Sunday School teacher. He is also, perhaps, the most decorated Freemason ever to leave the craft and speak out against it. A few weeks ago, I traveled to East Tennessee and sat down with Glenn for an in-depth interview about his experience as a Freemason. That interview is included below:
How long have you been a Christian?
I have been a Christian since I was 16 years old. I am now in my 70s.
What led you to get saved?
The conviction of the Holy Spirit, I attended a revival that lasted two weeks. There was an altar call every night. Every night I would go out the back door, until one night responded to the call of the Holy Spirit and walked down the aisle to the mourners’ bench where I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and was later baptized in a local river.
Of what church are you a member?
I am a member of Russellville Baptist Church in Russellville, TN.
How do you and have you served there?
I am the Senior Men’s Sunday School teacher and a deacon. I’ve been a deacon there for 3 years. I also served as a deacon at a former church.
How long were you a Freemason?
I was a Mason for 38 years.
What led you to become a Freemason?
I think all the things that drive men: ego, politics, greed, and selfishness. I began to look at men I knew around the community who were Masons and over time learned that if you wanted jobs you had to go see certain people because they knew certain people. That was the system. So, I asked a family friend who was known to be a Mason how to become a Mason and he gave me a petition to join the lodge.
How are potential members recruited to the lodge?
As I stated in my previous answer, I asked. If you are interested in becoming a Mason you have to ask a Mason. You will be given a petition for membership in the lodge. You complete the petition and submit it to the lodge. If your petition is accepted then the worshipful master appoints an investigative committee to check into you as a candidate.
Glenn Beck and I discuss Freemasonry.
Tell us about your various Masonic degrees and honors.
I took the three degrees of Blue Lodge and was raised a Master Mason in 1976. After becoming a Master Mason, I petitioned for the Scottish Rite and became a Shriner, all in 1976. After going through the Scottish Rite, I was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason. (all Shriners are Masons but not all Masons are Shriners). I also went into the Eastern Star, my wife and I, and served as Worthy Patron six times. I served as Worshipful Master of my local Lodge in 1980. Around 1995, I became interested in the York Rite and petitioned for those degrees. This is the “Christian” branch of Masonry. The Scottish Rite was set up for the Masonic Jews and the name of Jesus is not in it. York Rite Masons must swear to defend the Christian faith (the York Rite is older in origin than the Scottish Rite ).
I petitioned the Chapter, Council, and Commandery in the York Rite. I progressed through the nine degrees of the York rite. I served as High Priest and Illustrious Master. I served as Commander of the Commandery. I was awarded the (KYCH) Knights of York Cross of Honor, the Knight York Grand Cross of Honor, and the Order of the Purple Cross. I was a Rosicrucian, a member of St. Thomas of Acon, Knights Masons, AMD Mason, Red Cross of Constantine, and the Holy Royal Order of Knights Templar Priests. I was elected to serve as Grand Commander of Knights Templar in Tennessee in 2010. I served the Grand Lodge and District Chairman. I was serving as Governor of the York Rite College when I left Masonry.
Do any of the oaths, lectures, and rituals related to them conflict with biblical teaching?
Yes, in various ways. The Third Commandment (Exodus 20: 7) says, “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in Vain.” The Masonic obligations are taken in vain using God’s name in a false and unjustified way that represents no genuine faith. “Vain” means, simply to take for an empty, not good purpose. It is hypocrisy, claiming the name of God but acting in a way that disgraces him. It is using the name of God in a superficial and stupid way. It is perjury related to God’s name. Consider Zechariah 8: 17, “ love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.” Once you understand His essence and the majesty of God’s name, you will never want to even come close to abusing His name. In Matthew 5:34-37, Jesus said not to swear at all. Jesus was laying down the principle that Christians must not have two standards of truth. So, if Masonry is not a religion then does it have its own form of truth apart from the Bible? Then why use the bible to justify you own truth?
I remember all the oaths, I had a proficiency card. I taught the lectures. You repeat the words of the obligation the Worshipful master gives you, while kneeling with your hands upon the Holy Bible, Square and Compasses, which are placed on top of the Bible. You swear all this and seal it by kissing the Bible. The Bible, Square, and the Compass are said to be furniture of the Lodge and are placed upon an altar. The subversive teaching here is that you need another medium in addition to the Bible for moral truths and spiritual knowledge. Apparently, the Bible alone is not enough. Some argue that the obligations are not binding, but, if they aren’t, why use the Bible? Does this then make the scripture irrelevant?
What led you to quit the Lodge?
I’ve renounced Masonry. It gets me nothing. I have all kinds of certificates and awards. It doesn’t mean anything. Deciding to leave took a period of 5 or 6 years. I experienced a number of frustrations over a period of years, some of them related to Masonic politics . At one point my pastor asked me to serve on a church committee to draft policies related to LGBTQ activity. These policies were created to provide legal protection and to ensure that homosexuals would not be allowed to use our church for same-sex “marriage” or other functions. At the same time, men (Masons) who “married” other Masons continued their membership in the Lodge and continued being accepted as Masons in the State of Tennessee, even though it was against the Masonic code. This is completely hypocritical and against my Christian beliefs and values for me to be a part of the Lodge which has laws in place prohibiting men with this type of lifestyle from membership in the Masonic Lodge. How can a man belong to an organization that accepts this lifestyle, while saying it doesn’t? How does a man who believes and supports what the Bible teaches about this lifestyle justify this contradiction within himself, with God, and with his church? I demitted from the Blue Lodge, which removed me from all Masonic bodies. If Masonry is designed to give more light, then I received enough light to know that I wasn’t getting the real light. Masonry is darkness.
Is Christianity compatible with Freemasonry?
My definition of Christianity is a belief in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. I believe in the Virgin birth of Jesus and his Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension. John 3:16indicates that centrality of Christ. John 14:6 states the vitality of Christ to Christianity clearly, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
What did you specifically feel led to repent of when you quit the lodge and why?
I was led to repent of all the obligations that I had taken. It is unbiblical. It is hypocritical.
I couldn’t and didn’t keep the oaths. I am not acquainted with any Mason that has kept his obligations as a Mason, whatever it may have been. So, what did it mean? I came to the realization that the oath and obligation was not biblical, a Violation of the 3rd Commandment. I saw the real light and what Masonry really is. Masonry is darkness.
During your years as a Freemason and Church member, did anyone ever approach you about the incompatibility between Christianity and Freemasonry?
No. No one ever came to me and said it was wrong. I did have one conversation about Masonry with my sister. She passed away this year. I told her before she died that I had gotten out of Masonry. She said, “I am so glad.”
Does Masonic service conflict or take away from one’s service and commitment to his church?
Yes. We can’t have two masters. If you are heavily involved in Masonry, how much time do you spend doing and focusing on Masonic work and ritual versus reading and studying the bible, doing church work? Masonry creates a conflict and you choose which is important to you. Masonry became my idol because of the amount of time and focus I gave it. When you are doing Masonic work, do you use that time to witness for Jesus or do you use that time to talk and witness about Masonry? In reality, it is confusing to people, who are you representing, Masonry or Jesus? Does the conversation always lead back to Masonry?
Can you compare being a Mason to matters of Christian liberty, such as drinking wine, eating certain foods, or going to church on Saturday versus a Sunday? In other words, can Masonry be a matter of conscience or is it plainly unbiblical for everybody?
Speaking as a Christian, and using my definition of a “Christian,” it is not compatible to anyone who professes to be a follower of Jesus Christ. It is unbiblical.
Does Masonry teach any theological doctrines or lessons which conflict with biblical teaching?
When you go through the degree work, it’s in a religious setting and there is prayer being given. All human beings, I think, would get the impression that it is a religious ceremony.
In the first degree, you are presented as “a poor blind candidate in total darkness who desires to be brought to light by receiving and having a part of the rights,” light and benefits of this worshipful Entered Apprentice Lodge dedicated to the memory of the Holy Saints Johns as all others have done who have gone this way “before” you. Gnosticism comes into play here. You are taught to search for “more light,” which is masonic (enlightenment) knowledge. Having to say that you are in darkness seeking light, and being blindfolded (hoodwinked) having the blindfold removed after the obligation where you receive “masonic light,” it’s gnostic. If you are a Christian, it is contrary to biblical teaching. It is seeking God through an avenue other than the Bible. When you take your obligations in a Lodge, you put your hands on the Bible. You have to go to the Lodge to get to that point in seeking knowledge. It places the Lodge on the same level, at least in your mind, with the church or in competition with it. It is religious. It becomes a form of worship. There is prayer. You can say there is no religious connection but even an atheist would think it was religion. The Lodge is intended to represent Solomon’s Temple. You’re asked four questions as you progress through your Entered Apprentice Degree. If you answer them correctly, your answers come out to make the statement “It is in God I Am Light,” but you received this knowledge or light in a setting of a Masonic ceremony inspired by man. So, if Masonry takes good men and makes them better, is the inference here that Masons are better than non-Masons (the profane)?
In the 3rd degree, the Master Mason degree, there is the Hiram Abiff ceremony. It is a resurrection. You can call it whatever you want to call it but it is pure and simple a resurrection from the dead. It’s hard not to perceive it as some form of religion. Hiram Abiff was murdered by three workers of the temple, according to the legend, because he wouldn’t give them the secret word of a Master Mason. He was buried in his grave and his grave was marked with a sprig of acacia. His murderers tried to flee the country but were caught and executed by King Solomon. Hiram’s name is mentioned in the Bible but it is spelled differently. The characters are there but the story is not. A party of twelve was sent out to search for the body. Three of them found him and went back and reported it. They found peculiar looking jewels around his neck. They attempted to raise the body as an Entered Apprentice Mason and Fellowcraft Mason and failed. Scripture is read at this point in the ceremony, Ezekiel 37 about dry bones living again. On the third try, they successfully raised the body by the signs and grips of a Master Mason and you receive the new word of a Master Mason which is Ma-Ha-Bone. This legend or story is not in the Bible. I believed it was true when I was a Mason. From the 3rd degree you move onto the higher degrees of the Scottish Rite, the 4th through 32nd degrees. The Scottish Rite is all paganism and Gnosticism; it’s very theatrical. I think men see something there and think, “This is better than going to church,” and “I don’t have to go to ‘church,’ I am a 32nd degree Mason, wow I am almost to the top.” A pastor once told me he asked two Masons where they went to church, they said they were Masons they didn’t need to go to church. I remember thinking, when that pastor told me that, “How disappointing this has been, the only secret I have learned is how to shake a brother Mason’s hand and give him a password.”
Paul says, “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers.” In Masonry, are Brother Masons yoked together with unbelievers?
Yes. Masonry teaches universality. It’s taught that Masonry is not a religion but it’s based on religious tenets. Non-Christians are entitled to sit in the Lodge with religious believers simply because they are brother Masons. The Masonic oaths and obligations are the ties that bind. I think it is a form of religious Christian Gnosticism.
Is there a Masonic hermeneutic (a Masonic way of reading the Bible)?
Yes. In the state of Tennessee, nothing can be on the altar (according to the Masonic Code) but the Holy Bible. The Masonic degrees, which come from the Bible, are allegorical. The Bible is intended to mean one thing, what it says, not my interpretation of it. It says what it says. The Lodge uses the Bible for allegory. As you advance, you are searching for more light. The basis of Masonic knowledge is biblically-based. There is the idea of “this is what really happened,” with Solomon’s Temple and Hiram King of Tyre. It has to be so, a Mason whom you trusted and believed told you so. The story of Hiram Abiff, for example, is presented as veiled in allegory and illustrated with symbols. It portrays the resurrection of the dead outside the name of Jesus. Again, the Ezekiel 37 scripture is read in the Hiram ceremony. When that is done, the Junior Warden, Senior Warden, Junior Deacon, Senior Deacon, and Worshipful Master form a line and that becomes the Tabernacle. The Worshipful Master raises you out of the grave.
What is the symbolism of the various apron jewels and Heavenly Bodies?
The Lodge officers will wear the jewels around their neck and/or on their apron. The Worshipful Master wears the square, the Wardens wear the Sun, and the Deacons wear the Moon. When you are raised a Master Mason you are told to behold the three great lights of Masonry which are the Holy Bible, the Square, and the Compass. The lesser lights of Masonry as the Sun, Moon, and Worshipful Master. As the Sun governs the day and the Moon governs the night so does the Worshipful Master govern the lodge with equal regularity and pleasure to himself. When you look in the context of the Bible being the “furniture of the Lodge” where does that place the Bible? Is it on the same level as the Square and Compass that sit on the Bible?
Do the Jewel symbols, which represent Heavenly bodies and/or God violate the Ten Commandments’ prohibition of graven images?
Yes. God never created or gave a likeness of Himself. It’s a violation of 2nd Commandment. The officers wear the Jewels of the Sun and Moon around their necks. They open and close the Lodge like the Sun and Moon opens and closes the day. What is a rational human being supposed to think? These things attract the eye to seduce the soul. All these images and symbols in Masonry are turned into idols of worship. God prohibits idolatry because He is already in the Image making business (Romans 8:29).
Is there any similarity between Freemasonry and the pagan mystery religions.
For example, the Rosicrucian is about philosophy and alchemy. Masonry is a form of Christian Gnosticism/ Kabbalah, a form or mixture of both was practiced by some of the Jews and others.
Is there an association between Shriner’s and the Koran and Allah?
Yes, unless they’ve changed it. The Shrine is billed as the “fun” part of Masonry. The obligation is taken on the Koran. The fez (hat) comes from Morocco. The scimitar is on the fez. It doesn’t take you but a second, Google it, that’s an Islamic emblem.
Does the Masonic funeral ritual contradict biblical teaching and practice in any way?
The Masonic funeral preaches you right into Heaven, whether you have any church affiliation or not. You have to be a Master Mason, with your dues paid or a 50-year Mason and you are entitled to the funeral. You don’t have to be a Christian. Every Mason gets the same Masonic rites. The Masons will tell you they are not a religion and that they don’t teach a way of salvation, just morals. The funeral rite mentions God (the Great Architect of the Universe) and Heaven (the Celestial Lodge). Being a Mason will get you into the Celestial Lodge above.
How much authority do the writings of Pike, Mackey, or Coil have in Masonry or with individual Masons?
The Scottish Rite is going to rely on Albert Pike’s writings. When you complete the 32nd Degree, you are given a copy of Morals and Dogma by Pike. It’s their Bible. A Blue Lodge member that does not join the Scottish Rite probably knows very little about Albert Pike. And his book is probably not read by most Scottish Rite Masons. Here are 3 quotations from Albert Mackey:
“Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truth, that truth consisting in the knowledge of the divine and human nature of God and the human soul.”
“The religion of Freemasonry is not Christian.”
“The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings…Much use is made of it in the advanced degrees, and entire Rites have been constructed on its principles.”
I would venture to say that less than 10% of Masons have ever read any of Mackey’s works.
When you first contacted me, you described Freemasonry as a “cult.” Why?
Just the pure definition of a cult, the Lodge meets that. Masons have their own form of rituals and if you become one, you are expected to conform to all the rules and accept everything as truth. You accept their philosophy, sometimes to the exclusion of other things. They don’t take everyone, you have to qualify.
Does Freemasonry add to the word of God?
Yes. Consider 2 Timothy 2:15-16. The bible is truth and it is intended to keep us away from the allegorical teachings that are taught in Masonry.
Does Freemasonry subtract from the person of Christ?
Yes. It excludes Christ in the Blue Lodge degrees and subverts him in some of the other degrees.
Does Freemasonry involve a multiplication of salvation requirements?
The petition you submitted to the lodge lists a question, “Are you a member of a Church?” If so give name. Being a member of a church or being religious or Christian is not a requirement to become a Mason. Masons are asked, “As a rational accountable being, in whom do you put your trust?” This question may or may not be asked depending on the jurisdiction. As a Christian, that is supposed to be God. For a Muslim, it’s Allah. Masonry promises no way of salvation. It teaches being a good moral person doing good works.
Does Freemasonry divide the loyalty of its followers?
I don’t think so. Biblical based religious principles are used to teach that Masonry will give you all that you need. It is about your relationship with, and obligation to other Masons that binds and creates loyalty and support, so far as it may be justified by each individual. No matter what political or religious persuasion you may subscribe to all are bound by the obligations.
How have you been treated by Masons since you demitted from the lodge?
Not well, I have been shunned and banished. I had one person call me that turned out to be one of my best friends and he said, “You know why you don’t get any calls anymore don’t you?” He was speaking of Lodge members. “They don’t want to hear what you have to say, they don’t want to deal with it.” “They are afraid of what you have to say.”
Has the shunning or rudeness extended to Masons who are church members, brothers in Christ?
One of my supposedly best friends asked my wife, “When is Glenn coming back to the Lodge?” (Notice he didn’t ask if I was still going to church). She said, “Never, it’s not going to happen. He wonders why you have stopped calling. He found out who his true friends were.” This is a guy who will witness to people about Jesus. So when I stopped being his brother Mason, evidently I stopped being his brother in Christ. These people have all the “masonic light” they can get. I think that some who profess to be a follower of Jesus are afraid to talk to me about why I left the lodge and renounced Masonry. By the way, according to some Masonic writings I can’t renounce Masonry. I have nothing in common with these men since I am not a Mason. Evidently, the Masonic brotherhood is greater than the Christian brotherhood! You can’t do both.
Do you think Freemasons, even those who identify as Christians are in danger of going to Hell? Why?
My concern is that I don’t see how someone can serve Freemasonry and Jesus. Blue Lodge Masonry is not about Jesus, it’s not about salvation. Blue Lodge Masonry is not Christian. It teaches Universalism which in itself is contrary to the word of God. You can’t have it both ways. Ultimately, though, I cannot judge who is going to hell.
What would you say to pastors who are considering whether or not Freemasonry is inherently sinful?
It’s a violation of the 3rd Commandment. Refer to the Scripture in this article. Understand what Masonry is and is not. Be prepared to answer what your personal opinion is on Freemasonry. Be able to explain where the (your) church stands on its members belonging to Freemasonry. Talk to a former Mason.
To what scriptures would you direct Freemasons, their Christian friends and family members, and pastors to address Freemasonry?
First and foremost it is a violation of the Third Commandment. Also, I would direct them to Matthew 5:34 where Jesus forbids swearing oaths on things. Further, they should consider 1 Timothy 6:20-21, which says, “O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called ‘knowledge’—which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith.” Masonry is about acquiring knowledge and light, but it’s Masonic knowledge, Gnosticism. Using the bible to teach Masonic allegories (Truth) knowledge is unbiblical.
How would you advise someone to approach his or her Masonic loved one?
Do it lovingly. Ask why they are looking for organizations to pay to learn how to live and do good works. Ask why they want to join? Ask them to talk to someone that has left Masonry. Ask them to explain what Masonry is. Ask if they know and understand it is a cult. Talk to their pastor if they have one.
Would you be willing to talk to any Masons who read this interview if they reach out to you?
Yes. I didn’t think I’d ever do this interview. I’m not doing it to “get even.” This is something I had to do out of conviction from the Holy Spirit. I had all the reasons not to leave Masonry. I had all the titles. That was what I was told when I left. I didn’t care. The titles didn’t mean anything. What does Masonry do for you? It feeds your ego and pride. It was hard to give up after 38 years. So what? It’s not what I gave up, it’s what I gained. Masonry took away from my personal life and spiritual life. We’re all going to meet God one way or another. We are all witnesses every day, whether we want to be or not. We have to decide what kind of witness in this case we want to be, a Masonic witness or a Jesus witness. You can’t witness for one without being a hypocrite to the other.
*Please note that the preceding is my personal opinion. It is not necessarily the opinion of any entity by which I am employed, any church at which I am a member, any church which I attend, or the educational institution at which I am enrolled. Any copyrighted material displayed or referenced is done under the doctrine of fair use.
**If you are reading this and God has convicted you of the sin of Freemasonry, please do not hesitate to reach out to me with your own story.
Published on Jul 12, 2018Issuing a bold wake-up call to America, New York Times best-selling author Brigitte Gabriel reveals the people, organizations, and forces at work to dismantle our Judeo-Christian values and freedoms, destabilize and threaten our national security, and radically redefine our very way of life. Gabriel regularly faces death threats from terrorists, condemnation from critics, and attacks from the “PC police,” yet she refuses to back down.
The Washington Post suggests that the “loudest opponent of Italy’s new anti-migrant policy” is the Catholic Church, with some leaders going so far as to say that those who oppose open borders “cannot call themselves Christian.” In this case, the WaPo is right despite what its intention might be. The Catholic Church has become an unprecedented and powerful advertising tool for the globalist and Islamization agenda.
Author George Neumayr, who wrote the book The Political Pope, states that Pope Francis has allied himself with Communist influences and that he has “turned the Vatican into a bully pulpit for the left’s favorite causes, including: open borders, gun control, climate-change activism, the abolition of the death penalty and lifetime imprisonment, and the socialism of central planners.”
The Catholic Church and Pope Francis should be advocating for persecuted Christians and the innocent victims of the oppressive Sharia. Instead, Pope Francis received a noteworthy accolade in June when Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar, thanked him for his “defense of Islam against the accusation of violence and terrorism.”
When will the Pope and his cronies lead by example and implement a wide-open Vatican with no security guards, to welcome in all Muslim migrants seeking shelter?
There is not complete unanimity, however, among Catholic prelates on this. A Jesuit scholar, Father Henri Boulad, sounded a dissenting note when he said that “Islam is an open-ended declaration of war against non-Muslims and those who carry out violent jihad are true Muslims who are applying exactly what their creed demands.”
A Catholic website, Lifesite News, also highlighted a worrying trend within the Catholic Church: the site discussed Pope Francis as “the Pope of Islam,” drawing on research by Robert Spencer. The article also warned…
Considering how rapidly violent Jihadism has been spreading in the world and into Europe and North America, it is crucial that LifeSite readers take the time to become aware of this information. Ignorance of the realities of Islam could lead to catastrophic loss of freedoms and even of many lives in Western nations.
“The loudest opponent of Italy’s new anti-migrant policy? The Catholic Church”, by Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, July 27, 2018:
ROME — In a small church in central Italy, a priest told his congregation one recent Sunday morning that the motto of Italy’s highest-profile politician — “Italians First” — was antithetical to Christianity itself.
Farther north, another parish priest said that supporters of the country’s new governing hard-line anti-migrant party “cannot call themselves Christian.” On the island of Sicily, an archbishop speaking in a public square took an even broader swipe, criticizing politicians who drive “their own miserable success” by exploiting fear about migrants.
“The church can’t stay silent,” the archbishop of Palermo, Corrado Lorefice, said during that speech, which marked a local holiday. “I can’t stay silent.”
As Italy’s migration politics swing to the right, the Catholic Church is responding with an oppositional roar.
Pope Francis, during the five years of his papacy, has spoken about the humanity and rights of migrants, cautioning about the anti-immigrant sentiment taking hold in parts of the developed world. But those warnings only recently turned into a clarion in the very backyard of the Roman Catholic Church, where one of the world’s most Catholic nations has ushered in a populist government that pledges to “stop the invasion” and tighten its doors.
In recent weeks, church leaders of all kinds — figures close to Francis and priests speaking on quiet Sundays — have struck back against what they describe as a xenophobic and fear-driven response to the wave of refugees and economic migrants who have reached Italian shores. Their voices have stood in relief against a political landscape where few others, even in Italian opposition parties, are delivering that message.
“It’s really unprecedented that the official voices of the Catholic Church are so squarely opposed” to an Italian government, said Massimo Faggioli, a Villanova University professor who studies Catholicism and European politics. “That hasn’t happened before. The Catholic Church is the opposition, basically.”….
The left has proven yet again that they are the advocates of violence, intimidation, lack of logic, and overall lack of civility. They are horrible human beings, willing to take your rights, physical security, and pursuit of happiness. The violent left pretends to be the voice of reason, but they are unreasonable. They pretend to have the mantle of self-righteousness, yet are the most horrific human beings on the planet, denying the Constitution, rule of law, and individual liberty. May they go the way of the dodo.
Speaking at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom on July 26th, Vice-President Pence announced that the U.S. would impose “significant sanctions” against Turkey until Pastor Andrew Brunson is freed.
Brunson, a pastor from North Carolina who has lived and ministered in Turkey for the past 20 years, was arrested and jailed for over 600 days. On July 25th, he was moved to house arrest.
A portion of Vice President Pence’s remarks are available here:
Pastor Andrew Brunson was imprisoned without being charged for more than a year. When the Turkish government finally indicted him, they accused him allegedly of “dividing and separating” Turkey by simply spreading the Christian faith. Pastor Brunson is an innocent man…
To President Erdogan and the Turkish government, I have a message, on behalf of the President of the United States of America. Release Pastor Brunson NOW or be prepared to face the consequences. If Turkey does not take immediate action to free this innocent man of faith and send him home to America, the United States will impose significant sanctions on Turkey until Pastor Andrew Brunson is free.
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
This is long overdue. Turkey has not been behaving like an ally of the United States for a long time, without Washington taking the slightest notion of the change. There needs to be much more of holding Turkey accountable for its actions against its Christian minorities and its increasing regional adventurism. Imagine in general how different the world would be if good relations with the United States depended upon how one treated one’s religious minorities, women, etc.
“President Trump threatens to hit Turkey with sanctions if it doesn’t release Christian pastor,” by Mike Ciandella, The Blaze, July 26, 2018 (thanks to Robert):
President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday that the United States would “impose large sanctions” against Turkey for its imprisonment of Christian pastor Andrew Brunson. Vice President Mike Pence made a similar announcement at a religious freedom event earlier in the day….
Trump tweeted that Turkey would face “large” sanctions for its treatment of Brunson, whom he described as “a great Christian, family man and wonderful human being.”
The United States will impose large sanctions on Turkey for their long time detainment of Pastor Andrew Brunson, a great Christian, family man and wonderful human being. He is suffering greatly. This innocent man of faith should be released immediately!
At a State Department-hosted religious freedom event, Pence declared:
To President Erdogan and the Turkish government, I have a message on behalf of the president of the United States of America: release Pastor Andrew Brunson now or be prepared to face the consequences.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is deeply threatened by Christians and Christianity, and persecutes them harshly. The contrast is stark: in the West, many imams in mosques preach death to the Jews, and are either ignored or even defended in the establishment media. In Iran, meanwhile, Christians don’t preach that anyone should suffer harm, and are arrested and persecuted, while the global “human rights watchdogs” generally look the other way.
“Christians in Iran Seized from Homes, including Violent Imprisonment of Pastor,” Morning Star News, July 25, 2018:
(Morning Star News) – Three Christians in Iran were arrested from their homes today and yesterday following the violent arrest of pastor Yousef Nadarkhani on Sunday (July 22), according to advocacy group Middle East Concern (MEC).
Pastor Nadarkhani, a convert from Islam like the others arrested, was awaiting a summons to begin a 10-year prison sentence after his appeal of a conviction for “propagating house churches” and promoting “Zionist Christianity” was upheld in May.
“Around 10 police officers arrived at the house and physically assaulted Yousef’s son when he opened the door to them,” MEC reported. “Both Yousef and his son were tasered, despite offering no resistance. The manner of their arrest was probably an attempt to intimidate the Christian community, but their friends report that the church has not given in to fear.”
Pastor Nadarkhani was sentenced on July 6, 2017, along with fellow converts from Islam Yasser Mossayebzadeh, Mohammadreza Omidi and Saheb Fadaie. Mossayebzadeh was arrested from his home today, and Omidi and Fadaie were arrested from their homes yesterday evening (July 24), according to MEC.
Pastor Nadarkhani ad [sic] Omidi were also sentenced to two years of internal exile, according to MEC.
“Both will serve this sentence in the south of Iran, far away from their families in Rasht,” the group reported in a press statement.
The three Christians arrested today and yesterday have been taken to Evin Prison in Tehran to join Pastor Nadarkhani, who has been put in a “quarantine” ward normally reserved as a form of punishment, according to MEC.
“Please pray that the Lord will comfort and strengthen those arrested and their families and that the Christian community in Iran will trust the Lord and not be intimidated,” MEC’s statement read, also requesting prayer that “Iranian authorities will treat converts and other religious minorities with respect, and that they and their families will not be wrongly and aggressively handled.”
The four Christians were arrested in Rasht on May 13, 2016 during a series of raids by security agents on Christian homes, according to advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). They were sentenced by Judge Ahmadzadeh, head judge of the 26th Branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, who is accused of miscarriages of justice and is subject to financial sanctions in the United Kingdom, according to CSW.
“Their appeal hearing on 13 December 2017 took place before Judge Hassan Babaee and Judge Ahmad Zargar, both of whom are alleged to have played prominent roles in the crackdown on freedom of expression in Iran,” CSW said in a press statement.
Judge Zargar, a Hojjatolislam (clerical position immediately below an ayatollah), was among several Iranian officials deemed responsible or complicit in serious human rights violations in 2012, according to CSW. He was also one of six judges accused in 2014 of lacking judicial impartiality and overseeing unjust trials of journalists, lawyers, political activists and members of Iran’s ethnic and religious minorities, the group reported.
“The national security charges leveled against these men were spurious, and their sentences are excessive, amounting to a criminalization of Christian practice,” CSW Chief Operating Officer Scot Bower said in the press statement. “We are calling for the unconditional release of Pastor Nadarkhani, and for his sentence and those of Mr. Omidi, Mr. Mossayebzadeh and Mr. Fadaie to be quashed.”…
Ben Davies of The Rebel.Media reports: American Pastor Andrew Brunson has been imprisoned in Turkey since 2016 with no reason to feel hopeful about being released from that corrupt country until now. Watch as Ben explains why he now has reason to hope. MORE: https://www.therebel.media/trump_dema…
FRC President discusses imprisoned American pastor
in Turkey on Fox
Jacqueline Furnari testimony and singing of Andrew Brunson’s song, “Worthy of My All”
Addressing the EPC’s 38th General Assembly, Andrew Brunson’s daughter, Jacqueline Furnari, thanked the EPC for their prayers and support for her father, who has been imprisoned in Turkey since October 2016.
‘Shock and Betrayal’ Andrew Brunson’s Daughter Dismayed by Father’s Imprisonment, Still Waiting for Her Father to Walk Her Down the Aisle
“In February I got married. We didn’t want to get married without my parents present, but because my husband is in the military, we could not postpone it. We had received my father’s blessing, but we felt so terrible about getting married while he was imprisoned. Neither of my parents were present when I got married. I will never get that moment back. For those of you who are fathers to daughters, I’m sure you would want to walk your daughter down the aisle. My father didn’t get that. I didn’t get that. My husband and I decided to have a civil ceremony and to postpone our wedding ceremony until my father is home. I’m still waiting for my wedding. I’m still waiting to wear the wedding dress that I got almost a year and half ago. I’m still waiting for my dad to walk me down the aisle. I’m still waiting for that father-daughter dance.”
She said when she visited her father in a Turkish jail in August, 2017, “We sobbed the entire visit. It was hard to fit words in because the emotions were too strong and only led to more tears. It was hard to see my father so broken, so thin, so desperate. He hated having us kids see him that way.” ___________________________________________________________
Pastor Brunson’s Daughter Testifies to Senate Committee
“Prisoners of the Purge: The Victims of Turkey’s Failing Rule of Law” committee hearing Jacqueline Furnari’s testimony.
PORTLAND, Ore. —A federal judge in Oregon has rejected a lawsuit filed by concerned parents who challenged a school district’s policy allowing those with gender dysphoria to use the restroom and locker room that aligns with their gender identity, stating that if parents object, they have a right to remove their child from school, but have no power over the policies once they choose to send them.
“Parent Plaintiffs seek to expand their right and exercise control over district’s decision-making authority embodied in the plan. It is within Parent Plaintiffs’ right to remove their children from Dallas High School if they disapprove of transgender student access to facilities.Once the parents have chosen to send their children to school, however, their liberty interest in their children’s education is severely diminished,” wrote U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez, appointed to the bench by then-President Barack Obama.
“Plaintiffs allege that they ‘have a fundamental right to determine whether and when their children will have to risk being exposed to opposite sex nudity at school, as well as a fundamental right to determine whether their children, while at school, will have to risk exposing their own undressed or partially unclothed bodies to members of the opposite sex,’” he noted, but pointed to the 2005 Ninth Circuit decision of Field v. Palmdale School district, which concluded that parents have a right to decide where to send their children to school, but not to direct how they are taught once they get there.
“Plaintiffs cite no case standing for the proposition that parents retain the right to prevent transgender students from sharing school facilities with their children,” Hernandez wrote. “As the Ninth Circuit explained in Fields, Parent Plaintiffs’ Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest in the education and upbringing of their children ‘does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door.’”
The coalition Parents for Privacy, which is comprised of current and former students and their parents, the group Parents’ Rights in Education, along with three individual plaintiffs, had filed a legal challenge against Dallas School District No. 2 and the Oregon Department of Education in November after the restroom policy was implemented.
According to reports, the policy was created to accommodate a female student who identifies as a boy, so that she would be able to use the boys’ locker rooms and restrooms. The student, who goes by the name Elliot Yoder, was a senior at the time and has since graduated.
“These students have the sincere religious belief that they must not undress, or use the restroom, in the presence of the opposite biological sex, and also that they must not be in the presence of the opposite biological sex while the opposite biological sex is undressing or using the restroom,” the legal challenge from the plaintiffs read.
They also stated that, as a result of the new policy, “biologically male and female students … have experienced, or may experience, embarrassment, humiliation, anxiety, fear, apprehension, stress, degradation, and loss of dignity because they will have to use locker rooms, showers and restrooms with a student of the opposite sex.”
However, Judge Hernandez dismissed the groups’ religious liberty and right to privacy infringement claims, but instead ruled that not allowing students with gender dysphoria to use their preferred facilities would not only violate Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, but would also be “harmful” to “transgender” students.
“Forcing transgender students to use facilities inconsistent with their gender identity would undoubtedly harm those students and prevent them from equally accessing educational opportunities and resources. Such an injunction or district policy would punish transgender students for their gender non-conformity and constitute a form of sex stereotyping,” he wrote.
It is not yet known whether the parents plan to appeal. However, Gary McCaleb, an attorney Alliance Defending Freedom, told the New York Times that “[t[he Oregon ruling treats sex as if it were determined by a person’s perception of their masculinity or femininity, rather than the objective fact that a person is either male or female.”
Most of Gulftainer’s promised $584 million in investment in the Port of Wilmington would convert the closed Edgemoor chemical plant into a marine terminal.
ABOVE: AERIAL VIEW OF EDGEMOOR, NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE
ON THE DELAWARE RIVER ACROSS FROM NEW JERSEY~
FORMER SITE OF CHEMICAL PLANT~A HIGHLY POPULATED AREA
Gulftainer and Crescent Petroleum are subsidiaries of the Jafar family’s conglomerate, The Crescent Group
“It is notable that the DHS, alongside other federal and state agents, conducted perhaps the biggest national security sweep in the Port of Wilmington’s history at the same time that Delaware officials were devising a plan to hand over one of America’s key critical infrastructure ports in the Northeast to Gulftainer.”
Gulftainer hiring port workers with
criminal records
Background checks: Richards and GULFTAINER want “to find a way around that” and hire port workers with criminal backgrounds — with help from Delaware’s secretary of state. What could possibly go wrong?
Peter Richards is “working with Delaware’s Secretary of State Jeff Bullock, a Democrat, to hire people with criminal backgrounds” NPR affiliate Delaware Public Media reported.
“I’m working with Secretary Bullock there to try to find a way around that,” Richards said. “We always believe in giving people a second chance and if there’s a way that they can do it legally and through the legislation, then we’re all for it, we really are.”
CRUISE MISSILES COULD BE HIDDEN IN CARGO CONTAINERS
DELAWARE LIBERAL STUPIDITY LEAVES ENTIRE EAST COAST VULNERABLE TO ATTACK~JUDGE JEANINE PIRRO & REP. DUNCAN HUNTER DISCUSS DANGEROUS “GULFTAINER” PORT OF WILMINGTON DEAL TIES TO OBAMA & ISLAMIC SOCIETY
The Obama administration placed Aimen Nabi Mir, formertwo-time president of the youth wing of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), into the top advisory position to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a national security post at the Treasury Department.
Aimen Mir was the CFIUS Staff Chairperson from 2009 until 2014. During that time, Aimen Mir played a key role in the CFIUS panel’s decision to approve the sale of Uranium One to Russia’s Rosatom. Mir also played a key role in the Treasury Department’s refusal to investigate the UAE’s Gulftainer 35-year cargo container terminal lease at Port Canaveral, a critical military infrastructure facility for U.S. naval and space operations. Both decisions severely damaged United States national security.
For starters, Aimen Mir’s ISNA connections are troubling. ISNA is one of the largest Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the U.S. and was named by the Department of Justice as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation HAMAS terror funding trial.
CLUB-K MISSILE FIRING
GULFTAINER’S PROJECT PELICAN,
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA
APPROVED WITHOUT TREASURY DEPARTMENT’S “CFIUS” REVIEW
Robert Mueller and Project Pelican’s
35-Year Lease & Islamic Connections
Russia’s Trojan Horse: The Club-K cruise missile Doomsday Box
EXCERPTS: The Delaware General Assemblyapproved a 50-year lease to cede control of the entire Port of Wilmington to United Arab Emirates-based Gulftainer. Gulftainer is a ports management company in business with Russian arms giant ROSTEC. The agreement was reached only days after DHS agentsraidedthe Delaware port and Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)warnedPresident Trump about Gulftainer’s ties to Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi WMD programs. On April 6, 2018 President Trump slapped sanctions on ROSOBORONEXPORT, the wholly-owned subsidiary of ROSTEC that exports the Russian Trojan Horse Club-K Container Missile System. The Port of Wilmington is entering into a 50-year lease that turns over control of the strategically-located U.S. port to UAE-based Gulftainer. The Port of Wilmington is located 30 miles from Philadelphia, 110 miles from Washington D.C., 125 miles from New York City, and, as the crow flies, only 16 miles from the Salem Nuclear Power Plant. Gulftainer, co-owned by a UAE ruler and Iraqi oil billionaire Hamid Jafar, a Saddam Hussein loyalist, is in a joint venture with ROSTEC. A multi-agency task force of federal and state law enforcement personnel, led by Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers raided Delaware’s Port of Wilmington on April 18, 2018. Federal agents seized fentanyl-laced heroin and marijuana making several arrests during the surprise operation. “In addition to CBP, the multi-agency team consisted of Homeland Security Investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration, Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Delaware State Police, and Delaware National Guard Counterdrug Task Force”. In aletter to President Donald J. Trump, Representative Duncan D. Hunter (R-CA), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, wrote: “Several news reports indicate a family connection between the officers of the company [GULFTAINER] and Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar, a top Iraqi nuclear scientist during Saddam Hussein’s regime,” Rep. Hunter asked President Trump to place a hold on Gulftainer’s Port of Wilmington deal until the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) conducts a full national security review of Gulftainer. Hamid Jafar’s brother and business partner, Iraqi nuclear physicist Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar was the director of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons and uranium enrichment programs. Gulftainer co-owner Hamid Jafar plotted with Iraq’s military-industrial complex and Lt. Gen. Dr. Amir al Saadi, the “Superweapons Czar” of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime, to sell Iraqi oil through Crescent Petroleum to finance Iraq’s nuclear weapons program, according to congressional records.
EXCERPTS: On Friday, April 6, 2018, the Board of Directors of Delaware’s Diamond State Port Corporation voted unanimously to transfer control of the Port of Wilmington, Delaware, a major strategic U.S. port, to UAE-based GULFTAINER through a $580 million 50-year lease. In 2014, under the Obama administration, Florida’s Port Canaveral handed GULFTAINER the port’s cargo container operations in a secretly-negotiated deal code-named “Project Pelican.” On the same day Diamond State Port Corporations’ Board approved GULFTAINER’s Port of Wilmington lease, President Donald J. Trump imposed sanctions on Russian weapons exporter ROSOBORONEXPORT. Earlier that day, Peter Richards, CEO of GULFTAINER U.S. subsidiary GT USA, publicly assured Delawareans that GULFTAINER has no connections to Russia. Peter Richard’s denial on behalf of GULFTAINER flies in the face of a mountain of meticulously compiled evidence documenting GULFTAINER’s extensive business dealings with Russian state-owned enterprises.
Gulftainer chief promises jobs as board gives blessing to port privatization effort
Gulftainer CEO Peter Richards speaks to a packed room at a Diamond State Port Corporation meeting at the Chase Center on the Riverfront to discuss and hear views on Gulftainer’s privatization effort.(Photo: Suchat Pederson, The News Journal)
EXCERPTS: A joint Delaware legislative committee on Thursday unanimously endorsed a 50-year lease ofWilmington’s port to Gulftainer Group, a Mideastern port operator that promised to invest $584 million to improve the existing port and to build a new deepwater terminal in Edgemoor. Six senators and six representatives on the Joint Committee on Capital Improvements, meeting in Dover, recommended the full General Assembly approve the lease, although several lawmakers said they had read only a summary of the contract terms, and not the 30-page term sheet approved this month by the Diamond State Port Corp. Jeffrey Bullock, Delaware’s secretary of state and chairman of state-owned port corporation, said he would provide more details to legislators confidentially, but he declined to disclose the term sheet or contract publicly because they contain “some commercially sensitive aspects.”
CLUELESS: PORT CANAVERAL SECURITY DIRECTOR ON GULFTAINER NUCLEAR SCIENTIST
DR. JAFAR DHIA JAFAR
Port Canaveral’s Senior Director of Public Safety and Security is Barry Compagnoni. Director Compagnoni appeared baffled when asked about Port Canaveral’s assessment of Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar, uttering just ten words — “Yeah, I’m sorry. I don’t understand what you’re talking about” — before slamming down the phone at his Canaveral Port Authority headquarters office in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
It was a quick and abrupt ending to a call placed to Director Compagnoni’s office on December 1st in an attempt to gauge Port Canaveral’s security posture toward Saddam Hussein’s rogue Iraqi nuclear weapons physicist Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar.
Dr. Jafar and his family’s ports company Gulftainer were placed ‘inside the wire’ at Port Canaveral with a 35-year lease approved and awarded by the Obama administration in a secretly-negotiated deal code-named ‘Project Pelican.’
The next time you watch a freight train pass by a railroad crossing, or hear the evocative sounds of the mournful horns of trains passing in the night or railroad crossing warning bells as flatbed rail cars double-stacked with cargo containers roll by, or see a flatbed semi-truck hauling a cargo container down the highway, keep in mind that President Barack Hussein Obama and his administration awarded Saddam Hussein’s rogue nuclear mastermind access to Florida’s Port Canaveral cargo container terminal, a U.S. port of entry that gives Russia and its Axis of Evil client states unfettered access to the entire United States.
This paper will explore how the confluence of several seemingly disparate factors have come together to create a perfect storm, threatening the United States and the West.
The tectonic shift of (i) the placement of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear scientist Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar and Gulftainer inside the wire at Port Canaveral with a 35-year container terminal lease through a secret operation known as ‘Project Pelican’ (ii) the dawn of Russia’s Club-K container missile launch system, (iii) The Jafars’ and Gulftainer’s joint venture with Russia’s state-owned Rostec, which owns 100% of the shares of Rosoboronexport, the exporter of the Club-K, (iv) Dr. Jafar’s miniaturized nuclear weapon, known as the ‘Arab bomb’ or ‘Beach Ball,’ (v) the Jafar family’s long-term relationship with Russia and the KGB/SVR and GRU intelligence services revolving around nuclear, chemical, and biological WMD, (vi) Dr. Jafar’s collaboration with North Korea on weapons delivery systems, and (vii) the similarities between Dr. Jafar’s ‘Beach Ball’ and the miniaturized nuclear weapon seen with Kim Jung-un, has become the perfect storm of danger, both on and off our shores.
In December 2016, we wrote “What Could Possibly Go Wrong.” Subsequently, we learned that several things have already gone wrong and could likely get worse. The advent of a new advanced weapon system designed and built by Russia, and the involvement of hostile foreign governments deeply tied to the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) experts who leased Port Canaveral’s container terminal, have now made the already dire national security situation at Port Canaveral exponentially more dangerous. The situation has reached critical mass. All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.– Sun Tzu
‘Project Pelican’: Gulftainer’s Jafar Family, Which Includes Saddam’s Rogue Nuclear Scientist Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar, The Creator Of Miniaturized Nuclear Weapon ‘Beach Ball,’ Given 35-year Lease To Florida’s Port Canaveral Container Terminal
‘Project Pelican’ was the secret operation that handed over the cargo container terminal at Port Canaveral, Florida to Iraq’s oil-wealthy Jafar family, major power players in Saddam Hussein’s rogue nuclear WMD programs.
Particle physicist Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar, under the watchful eye of KGB General Yevgeney Primakov, masterminded Saddam Hussein’s top secret Petrochemical Complex Three (PC-3) nuclear weapons program. As Saddam’s Deputy Defense Minister and chief nuclear adviser, Dr. Jafar also oversaw procurement operations for Iraq’s vast nuclear, biological, and chemical WMD programs.
Dr. Jafar, his brother Hamid Jafar, and Hamid’s sons Majid and Badr are all key executives steering the family business, the Crescent Group conglomerate. The Crescent Group is the ultimate parent company of Gulftainer and Crescent Petroleum.
The Jafars were able to take control of the American cargo facility at Port Canaveral through an illegal 35-year lease granted to the Jafars’ UAE-based ports company Gulftainer (GTUSA).
Hamid Jafar was the key player in Saddam’s ‘Oil for Superweapons’ scheme, also known as ‘Put a Tyrant in your Tank.’ Under this scheme Crescent Petroleum, acting as a front company for Saddam, would sell millions of barrels of Iraqi crude oil to be used for Fina gasoline sold in the United States in order to fund Dr. Jafar’s rogue nuclear weapons program.
This ‘Oil for Superweapons’ scheme resulted in Crescent Petroleum becoming the target of investigations by the U.S. Treasury Department and four Congressional committees as a ‘front company for Saddam Hussein.’
“Crescent Petroleum is owned by senior Iraqi military figures” according to a citation in Dr. Christin Marschall Routledge’s (Ph.D. Harvard — History and Middle Eastern Studies) 2003 book “Iran’s Persian Gulf Policy From Khomeini to Khatami.”
The Project Pelican operation succeeded in placing Gulftainer and Dr. Jafar inside the wire at Port Canaveral without the required national security reviews because the Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) process was corrupted. CFIUS staff chairperson Aimen Mir at the Treasury Department bypassed the mandated 30 and 45-day national security reviews of the Gulftainer Port Canaveral transaction, allowing the Jafars to fly under the radar of the intelligence community.
In an October 18, 2017 tweet, author James Rickards, former advisor to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) Support Group of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), revealed that “before Uranium One” Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper “disbanded” the CFIUS DNI advisory group.
Russia’s Club-K Container Missile Launch System: An Apocalyptic Threat
A paradigmatic example of the application of Sun Tzu’s principle of deception in warfare, is the Russian-designed WMD delivery system known as the Club-K (Klub-K). Russia’sClub-K container cruise missile launch system, the so-called ‘pandora’s box’ or ‘doomsday box,’ is an apocalyptic needle in a haystack, a modern-day WMD Trojan Horse delivery mechanism controlled via satellite.
U.S.defense experts have stated that the Russians have sold Club-K to Iran and also possibly to North Korea, Venezuela, Malaysia, China, and the UAE. Club-K container cruise missile launchers are designed to look identical to standard ISO intermodal commercial cargo containers, making them extremely difficult to detect and track.Club-K containers can be moved unnoticed throughout the United States aboard ships, riverine boats, rail cars, and flatbed semi-trailers.
Club-K Russian Kalibr-class cruise missiles can carry nuclear, EMP, chemical, biological, or conventional payloads and could deliver instant devastation far beyond anything Americans witnessed during the Pearl Harbor and 9/11 attacks.
The Club-K is a Trojan Horse that hides enemy missiles in order to attack the United States from inside the United States.
The Jafars’ Gulftainer And Club-K Are Linked Through A Joint-Venture With Russia
Image from the official website of arms exporter ROSOBORONEXPORT, part of Russia’s state-owned ROSTEC.
Image: 2010 SOCHI, RUSSIA Vladimir Putin watched over Badr Jafar, Chair of the Gulftainer Executive Board, as Gulftainer entered a joint venture with Rostec.
Gulftainer is in a joint-venture with Russian state-owned ROSTEC, which owns one hundred percent of the shares of ROSOBORONEXPORT, the exporter of the Club-K container missile launch system. ROSTEC markets the Club-K through its weapons export unit ROSOBORONEXPORT. ROSTEC entered into the joint venture with Gulftainer to operate Russian ports infrastructure projects, with Vladimir Putin personally overseeing the signing of the agreement. As a result, Gulftainer became a co-owner of a terminal at the Ust-Luga port” on the Baltic Sea near St. Petersburg, according to “Russia Beyond the Headlines.”
Club K containers have a shelf life of ten years. Each unit can lay dormant for a decade, until activated.
“There are terminals everywhere, where they can be stored however long it takes” boasted Rostislav Atkov, director for foreign economic activity at Morinformsistema-Agat Concern, the Russian manufacturer of the Club K container missile system. Atkov’s menacing remark about stealth Club-K launchers lying in wait in “terminals everywhere,” translated from Russian, suggests that Russia conceptualizes the Club-K as not just a defensive weapon but also as an offensive system for preemptive attacks. Atkov’s words were picked up by Global intelligence firm Stratfor and subsequently released by Wikileaks. Atkov’s comments from “I Serve Russia” a TV program on Russian Defense Ministry-controlled Zzezda TV.
Gulftainer is “the largest port operator in the Middle East with regards to the number of terminals operated in the region, with the company managing 40 percent of all the major container terminal facilities in the Middle East.”
Dr. Jafar And His Nuclear Weapons Advisor And Accomplice, Russian KGB Chief Yevgeny Primakov, The Architect Of The ‘Islamic Bloc’
Images: KGB General Yevgeny Primakov with Saddam Hussein (left), Saddam Hussein with Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar (right)
Baghdad-born Dr. Jafar began his high energy physics career studying nuclear fission in the Soviet Union after being rejected for a position at his U.K. alma mater the University of Birmingham. He spent decades under the tutelage of Saddam’s Soviet Adviser, KGB General Yevgeny Primakov (a.k.a. Nemchenko) (a.k.a. KGB code-name MAXIM). Dr. Jafar has been working with the KGB and its successor the SVR, for at least 36 years, dating back to at least 1982.
Dr. Jafar proposed to Saddam that Iraq deceptively remain a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to avoid raising suspicion in the West while he was secretly moving Saddam’s nuclear weapons program into new clandestine facilities.
“‘If we walk out now, our enemies will say this is proof of our real intentions. I say we keep them guessing. Better we stay inside and learn how to deceive them’’ Dr. Jafar reportedly told Saddam.
Dr. Jafar turned to the KGB for technical assistance and advice in concealing his rogue nuclear weapons program inside structures that U.S. satellite imagery analysts would not recognize as WMD facilities.
Dr. Jafar used Vietnamese tunnel diggers (who had years of experience digging tunnels for the communist NVA during the Vietnam War) to dig Dr. Jafar’s new underground nuclear WMD facilities.
Kenneth R. Timmerman writes in his book “Shadow Warriors”:
“The debriefings indicated that the underground facilities had been dug by 2,500 Vietnamese laborers during the mid-1980s who toiled for $4 per month,” the former CIA officer said. “They dug at night to avoid infrared signatures. It was all done by drill blast, without heavy machinery.” To the trained eye, these were all telltale signs of Iraq’s intent to camouflage the work from satellite surveillance.
Dr. Jafar would go on to occupy the highest echelons of Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime, relying on his deep understanding of particle physics and his engineering prowess to advise President Hussein on how to unleash the power of science against their shared enemies, the United States and Israel.
Spymaster Primakov, also known as the ‘Bear in the Desert,” directed all of the KGB/SVR’s foreign intelligence operations for several years. Virtually single-handedly, Primakov ran Russia’s interests in the Arab World via the KGB’s Foreign Intelligence Service (FIS) and the KGB’s successor the SVR, which Primakov established and directed. Primakov was CIA mole Aldrich Ames’ handler.
Ferociously anti-Semitic and fluent in Arabic, Primakov clandestinely created Russia’s Islamic Bloc of rogue terror-sponsoring Middle Eastern regimes: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Sudan.
With cold calculation, Primakov targeted the poorly-educated Islamic populations of these countries with anti-Semitic propaganda brainwashing. Throughout the Islamic Bloc, Primakov weaponized Islamic extremism against the ‘imperialist’ United States and the ‘Zionist’ Israel, all to Russia’s benefit.
Primakov’s use of the Islamic Bloc and Russia’s so-called ‘War on Terror’ were both contrivances of Soviet/Russian intelligence services and crucial sub-strategies of the KGB/SVR’s long-range ‘Perestroika Deception.’
According to KGB defector Major Anatoliy Golitsyn and Christopher Story (former adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher), the Perestroika Deception is a KGB/SVR operation designed and conducted to deceive the United States, the U.K., and NATO into thinking that “the West ‘won the Cold War’, that the enemy ‘disappeared’, that ‘Communism is dead’, that the Soviet Union ‘collapsed’ and that Russia has embarked upon ‘progress towards democracy.’”</p
The Perestroika Deception and the Islamic Bloc were meant to weaken the U.S. military through endless wars on terror, and to set the stage for Vladimir Putin’s takeover of the Middle East, while U.S. strategic nuclear forces became antiquated.
With the U.S. military mired in Primaokov’s deadly project known as the ‘War on Terror,’ America took its eyes off the mushrooming threat from its old Cold War adversary Russia.
Putin, seeing an opening, rapidly innovated and accelerated Russia’s strategic weapons programs, expanded Russia’s cruise missile arsenal and submarine fleets, and developed new asymmetrical systems like the Club-K. Russia is proliferating these new weapons and tactics across the Axis of Evil as America becomes surrounded by menace.
Former Pentagon nuclear strategist Mark Schneider, commenting on the growing cruise missile threat from Russia, told the “The Washington Free Beacon” that “the Russians are preparing to fight us while we are preparing to fight terrorists.”
Dr. Jafar’s Miniaturized Nuclear Weapon: The Iraqi ‘Beach Ball’
Diagram of Dr. Jafar’s Iraqi ‘Beach Ball’ miniaturized nuclear weapon. (Source: Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control)
Dr. Jafar, a “Dr. Strangelove who mixes Muslim fatalism, Arab nationalism, and modern technocracy,” executed his most terrifying crowning achievement (perhaps prior to ‘Project Pelican’) with the successful design and production of his super-secret miniaturized nuclear weapon known as the ‘Beach Ball,’ was a worrisome and alarming technical accomplishment.
‘Beach Ball’ was the manifestation of Saddam’s and Dr. Jafar’s dream of creating the first ‘Arab bomb’ and Dr. Jafar’s ‘Beach Ball” created a sea change in the Middle East nuclear weapons environment.
According to Al J. Venter’s book “Allah’s Bomb: The Islamic Quest for Nuclear Weapons,” many years after Israeli war planes had bombed Dr. Jafar’s Osirak nuclear reactor during 1981’s Operation Opera Dr. Jafar reportedly bragged about deceiving the West:
Let the Israelis believe they destroyed our nuclear capability. Accept the sympathy offered for this aggression then proceed in secret with an atom bomb program — which is what we did.
America At Risk Of Nuclear Or EMP Attacks: Dr. Jafar’s ‘Beach Ball’ And Russia’s Club-K Mobile ‘Container’ WMD Delivery System — A Marriage Made In Hell
Images: ‘Beach Ball’ miniaturized nuclear weapon, Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar, computer animation depicting Club-K container cruise missile launch from aboard a rail car.
With the arrival of the Club-K, the true scale of the threat from Dr. Jafar’s ‘Beach Ball’ must be recalculated.
The Club-K container system’s stealth WMD delivery capability has exponentially expanded the danger zone from Dr. Jafar’s ‘Beach Ball” — it does not cover just Israel and the Middle East anymore but has now expanded to every city in America.
Defense analysts call the arrival of Club-K an asymmetrical “game changer” that has shifted the U.S.-Russia strategic balance of power to Russia’s advantage.
Russia is even equipping its new state-of-the-art arctic icebreakers with Club-K missile systems.
Officials at NORTHCOM/NORAD concede that the United States has no off-the-shelf technical solutions for (i) tracking Club-K units that determined adversaries may have already smuggled into the U.S. or (ii) defending America from surprise Club-K cruise missile attacks, which could include nuclear and EMP attacks.
The coupling of ‘Beach Ball,’ Dr. Jafar, and Gulftainer with the genesis of Russia’s Club-K container missile launch system, and the placement of Dr. Jafar ‘inside the wire’ at Port Canaveral, adds up to a catastrophe in the making.
In 2011, around the same time that Gulftainer was setting up their Ust-Luga port operations, a prototype of the Club-K debuted at the nearby 2011 International Maritime Defence Show in St. Petersburg.
Gulftainer’s Ust-Luga is one of twelve Russian ports where ships carrying nuclear material or products are allowed to dock.
Dr. Jafar Seeks ‘Beach Ball’ Delivery System; North Koreans And Iraqis Met In Damascus For Missile Factory Deal
Because Primakov led the Islamic Bloc — Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Lebanon — it must be understood that Dr. Jafar was not merely Saddam’s rogue nuclear scientist, but was also one of the leading nuclear scientists in Russia’s wider Red-Green alliance, spanning from North Korea to Iran.
Accordingly, it comes as no surprise (i) that Dr. Jafar has worked with the North Koreans since the 1990s seeking a delivery system for ‘Beach Ball,’ (ii) that the Jafars and Crescent are deeply connected to Iran’s brutal regime, (iii) that the Jafars’ Director of Strategic Planning was deeply involved in President Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA P5+1) (the ‘Iran Nuclear Deal’) — working for the Iranian side — (iv) that the Jafars’ employee Siamak Namazi, a former Iranian army officer and Iranian regime government official, became Crescent Petroleum’s Director of Strategic Planning.
Dr. Jafar’s ‘Beach Ball’ Closely Resembles Kim Jung-Un’s North Korean Miniaturized Nuclear Weapon
Images: Dr. Jafar’s ‘Beach Ball,’ Kim Jong-un with North Korean miniaturized nuclear weapon, Club-K unit aboard semi-trailer.
Dr. Jafar’s Iraqi ‘beach ball’ nuclear bomb bears a striking resemblance to the miniaturized nuclear warhead which North Korea’s ‘Rocket Man’ Kim Jong-un was photographed posing with and ‘hugging’ in propaganda images released by North Korea in 2016.
Image: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un posing with senior military officials behind what appears to be a miniaturized nuclear warhead. Credit: Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and The New York Times
A U.N. official “holding his arms out in a circle like a man holding a beach ball” described Dr. Jafar’s ‘Beach Ball’ as “about a yard across, weighing about a ton” according to a 1991 first-hand account of a meeting at U.N. headquarters published in “The New York Times Magazine.”
The latest blueprint, according to United Nations inspectors, is of a sphere measuring 32 to 35 inches in diameter with 32 detonators. The bomb would weigh less than a ton and fit on a Scud missile, the weapon Mr. Hussein used in the war to hit Israel and kill American troops.
Image: ‘Beach Ball” Iraqi miniaturized nuclear weapons. Credit: The New York Times
The ‘Beach Ball’ represents a horrific development. It is, however, made significantly more frightening by its coupling with the stealthy cargo container delivery system.
The Club-K can be launched remotely and provided with target acquisition data from “any coastal, shipborne, aviation, or satellite system,” such as North Korea’s mysterious KMS 3-4 and KMS-4 satellites, currently orbiting over the United States, in a high-tech enemy act of military deception.
Dr. Lajos F. Szaszdi, an expert on the Russian military, reports at the “Daily Signal”:
The Club-K missiles have satellite navigation, which currently would utilize the U.S. GPS and the Russian GLONASS (GPS) systems, and possibly also China’s Beidou 2 system and Europe’s Galileo in the future. According to the Club-K promotional video, targeting coordinates would be provided from space by a satellite, but these could also be supplied by airborne platforms.
Experts such as Dr. Peter Vincent Pry fear that North Korea could use a miniaturized nuclear weapon or a variant — the so-called ‘Super EMP,’ in order to knock out much of the U.S. power grid, plunging America into darkness with disastrous repercussions for the American public.
Wiping out America’s power grid with an EMP is something that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has recently hinted he is prepared to do.
“Let’s reduce the US mainland into ashes and darkness” North Korea’s official KCNA news agency threatened in a September 2017 statement.
Iran Practicing Launching EMP Attacks From Cargo Freighter Ships
Major General Paul E. Vallely, Chairman of Stand Up America, according to “Townhall,” wrote:
SUA believes strongly that Iran now possesses low yield nuclear warheads that can be mounted on the Shehab missile and deployed on the oceans in container ships with the Russian provided Club K missile launch system…to launch EMP (electromagnetic pulse) weapons on U.S. Coastal cities and freeze our national grid systems.>
Not only has Iran reportedly purchased the Club-K, it has been practicing launching EMP attacks from cargo freighters and has deep ties to the Jafar’s cargo container operations.
(Dr. Peter Vincent) Pry, president of EMPACT America, one of the nation’s leading authorities on EMP, revealed that Iran recently purchased Russia’s Club-K missile launcher, which can be hidden in tractor-trailer-sized cargo boxes.
“I and my colleagues, including Reza Kahlili, who warned six months ago that these Iranian patrols were coming, think it more likely Iran would make an EMP attack by launching a missile off a freighter, so they could do the deed anonymously, and escape retaliation,” Pry explained…”The Club-K, if armed with a nuclear warhead, could be used to execute an EMP attack.”
Jafar’s Gulftainer Is Majority Owner In GSCCO Consortium With Partner KGL — KGL Was Under FBI And DoD Investigation, Implicated In Laundering Money For Iran
KGL Executives Secretly Operated Container Ships With Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) Through RAK Shipping
KGL/RAK Executive Set Up Secret Shore-to-Ship Communication To IRISL-Controlled Ships Via ‘Ghost Email’ System
KGL Board Members Were Detained At Dulles and SFO Airports, One Was Charged With Undermining US National Security, Selling Aircraft Parts To Iran
When Gulftainer took control of container terminals at three major Saudi Arabian ports by grabbing the helm and the majority equity stake of the renamed Gulf Stevedoring and Contracting Company (GSCCO) the Jafars also became consortium business partners with GSCCO’s co-founders KGL, a Kuwaiti ports company. KGL executives and board members, it had recently been revealed in an American court, were deeply involved in a secret container ship operation with The Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and were under FBI and DoD investigation for money laundering and sanctions violations.
Image: Defense Secretary Ashton ‘Ash’ Carter (Source: DoD)
IRISL was under U.S., EU, and UN sanctions at the time due to IRISL’s history of shipping materials for Iran’s rogue nuclear weapons program. The KGL officials worked closely with a top IRISL executive who was placed under sanctions as a Specially Designated National (SDN) by the U.S. Treasury Department and was separately indicted for conspiracy by U.S. District Attorney Cyrus Vance in Manhattan.
The attention might have been a problem for Gulftainer as it secretly courted first Port Jacksonville (located near Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay and Naval Station Mayport), and then Port Canaveral.
Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) demanded answers from Undersecretary of Defense Ashton B. “Ash” Carter as to why KGL has been awarded over $1 billion in Department of Defense contracts.
Under Secretary Carter skirted the truth in a reply letter Senator Kirk by stating that there was “no indication that KGL Holding has violated U.S. law.”
Dr. Jafar’s Company Employs Former Iranian Regime Official (As Its Director Of Strategic Planning) Who Is Also Tied To 33 White House Visits And To Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal
Image: Trita Parsi (left) and Siamak Namazi (right)
The Jafars’ business interests are not only intertwined with Russia and Russian intelligence services, but also with the terror-sponsoring Iranian regime. The Iranian government has served as a talent pool for key executive posts within the Jafars’ shadowy business empire.
The Jafars turned to a former Iranian army officer and regime official with deep ties to Obama’s ‘Iran Nuclear Deal’ to operate as its Director of Strategic Planning for the Jafars’ Crescent Petroleum.
Image: Ambassador William Green Miller
Siamak Namazi and his Iranian father Baquer Namazi were feeding talking points to Swedish-Iranian operative Trita Parsi. Siamak Namazi’s other contacts include Iran’s UN ambassador and former US Ambassador to the Urkraine William Greene Miller, then-Senator Obama’s backchannel to the Iranian regime.
Ambassador Miller’s mentor Fred Dupee joined the CPUSA and handed out communist literature to the longshoremen’s union in New York City, where Miller grew up. Dupee was a member of CPUSA’s League of American Writers.
MILLER: I also was reading and studying American literature with Fred Dupee. I don’t know if you know that name.
Q: I’ve heard the name.
MILLER: Yes, he was a visiting professor from Columbia. Fred Dupee, became a close friend and was a very important influence.
Ambassador Miller promised the Iranians a better deal than what the Bush administration was offering. This backchannel diplomacy took place in advance of the 2008 presidential election.
Court documents proved through the exposure of Siamek Namazi’s emails that Namazi was giving talking points to Trita Parsi.
In an article titled “Namazi: NIAC Ringleader,” Iran Lobby, a group of pro-America Iranian-Americans whose stated objective is “Exposing the activities of the lobbies and appeasers of the Mullah’s dictatorship ruling Iran,” published and analyzed an email in which Ambassador Miller’s name is mentioned:
(In one of the subpoenaed emails sent by Parsi) Parsi discussed the contents of the minutes from their conference call.
EMAIL CONTENTS:
There has been silence since the draft minutes of last week’s telephone conference was sent to the group for your review and approval. I assume everyone has been busy, but it would be good if we could finish the minutes by Tuesday so that we can follow Mr. Ba[qu]er Namazi’s instructions and sen[d] it to Amb. Bill Miller.[5] [emphasis added]
“Iran Lobby” provided an analysis of the email.
The email reveals that Baquer Namazi is the ringleader of the group, giving instructions to Parsi and the others. Parsi is thus working with Namazi, who has close ties to the Iranian regime, and whose family members work for one of the top consulting companies in Tehran with multiple links to government officials and ministries.
The email indicates Parsi also was working with William G. Miller, then an advisor for the Search for Common Ground and a member of the board of the American Iranian Council. He earlier had been a political officer at the US Consulate in Isfahan (1959-62) and Embassy in Tehran (1962-64)
Namazi sent emails to Trita Parsi, his co-founder of NIAC as Parsi visited the Obama White House on 33 occasions in the run-up to the Iran Nuclear Deal.
Sources familiar with the nature of the meetings told the Washington Free Beacon that both Parsi and Mousavian helped the White House craft its pro-Iran messaging and talking points that helped lead to the nuclear agreement with Iran. These efforts were part of a larger pro-Iran deal “echo chamber” led by senior Obama administration officials who were tasked with misleading Congress about the nature of the deal.
Trita Parsi and Siamak Namazi co-founded the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). Namazi and Parsi were crafting the Iran Nuclear Deal and heavily lobbying Washington for its implementation. Parsi was photographed meeting with senior Iranian regime officials in Switzerland during negotiations for the Iran Deal.
The Jafars’ Director of Strategic Planning Namazi attended the 2012 World Ports and Trade Summit in the UAE with Gulftainer officials during the secret Project Pelican deal negotiations.
Putin Credits Yevgeny Primakov As First To Propose Iran Nuclear Deal — That Obama Implemented
In 2016 Vladimir Putin credited his KGB mentor Yevgeny Primakov for being one of the first to propose what would become the ‘Iran Nuclear Deal.’
Let us recall that Mr. Primakov was one of the first to propose a solution to the Iranian nuclear issue. And all who were involved in resolving this problem know the role the different countries, diplomatic services and intelligence services played in this complex process. We know this role. We are not exaggerating anything here, but the fact remains that Mr. Primakov was one of the first to propose a peaceful solution to the problem.
Image: Russian President Vladimir Putin credited Yevgeny Primakov with being one of the first to call for the Iran Nuclear Deal.
Pearl Harbor 2: Russia’s Strategy – Massive Axis Of Evil Cruise Missile Attacks Against U.S. Using Club-K ‘Containers’ And Submarines
Image: Club-K container cruise missiles launched from ships, trains, and trucks targeting a military base on land and an aircraft carrier group. Source: ROSOBORONEXPORT, the weapons export unit of Russia’s state-owned ROSTEC. The Jafar’s Gulftainer entered a joint venture with ROSTEC.
The military deception tactics designed into Russia’s ‘Trojan Horse’ Club-K exemplify the Sun Tzu dictates found in “The Art of War.”
A study of evolving Russian military doctrine reveals that Club-K container cruise missile launchers, smuggled through U.S. ports and armed with Kalibr-class (NATO code-name Sizzler) cruise missiles, could be used in a Pearl Harbor-style attack on U.S. naval forces sitting in port. The Club-K gives “any merchant vessel the capability to wipe out an aircraft carrier.”
These Club-K container cruise missile attacks could be augmented by force-multiplying submarine fleets from (i) Iran (a member of the Islamic Bloc), (ii) from North Korea, Vietnam, and China (members of the Trans-Asian Axis) (iii) and from Russia. These submarines (such as the Russian Akula II class) along with surface warships and merchant ships also carrying Kalibr cruise missiles could result in a massive coordinated surprise cruise missile attack from both off U.S. shores and from within the U.S. interior, including highways, rail lines, and rivers.
A single Club-K with four missiles carrying nuclear or conventional weapons could devastate several U.S. cities. Russia designed its Club-K system container units to be used in large numbers as components of a massive preemptive ‘distributed lethality’ attack against the United States. A coordinated Club-K attack by Russia and its affiliates could immediately limit America’s counter-strike options and capabilities.
The ‘Kalibration’ of the naval forces of Russia and other Axis-of-Evil states including Iran and North Korea is the ‘distributed lethality’ tactic of widely deploying Russian Kalibr cruise missiles aboard axis submarines and hidden in ‘Club-K’ ‘cargo containers’ which can launch Kalibr cruise missiles from ships, riverine boats, rail cars, and semi-trucks inside the United States.
Chief of Staff of the United States Army General Mark A. Milley issued a warning during an October 2016 speech:
While we focused on CT (counterterrorism) and COIN (counterinsurgencecy) fight, other countries, Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, went to school on us. They closely watched how we fought (in Iraq) in ‘91 and ‘03. They studied our doctrine, our tactics, our equipment, our organization, our training, and our leadership. And in turn, they revised their own doctrines and they are rapidly modernizing their militaries today to avoid our strengths in hopes of defeating us at some point in the future.
Recently a senior Russian official, Ambassador to the United Kingdom Alexander Yakovenko, he said quote… “Russia can now fight a conventional war in Europe and win. Russia is the only country that will remain relevant forever. Any other country is dispensable, and that includes the United States. We are in endgame now” end quote.
Bluster? Hubris? Bravado? Or does he mean what he says. Does he believe it? And more importantly, do the leaders in the Kremlin believe it? Well, history tells us to be careful. It’s always wise to believe foreign leaders’ declaratory policy as most nations tend to telegraph their strategic intentions.
The Russian Defense Journal “Natsionalnaya Oborona” (translation: National Defense) published a paper in 2015 written by Aleksandr Mozgovoy called “RUSSIAN NAVY’S LONG ARM: KALIBR MISSILE FAMILY.” Mozgovoy writes (translated from Russian):
Thanks to the (Kalibr) cruise missiles, nuclear and conventional submarines will no longer have to change ship targets all over the ocean, but strike them in their ports, attacking from long ranges. They can now attack a wide range of land targets and from directions poorly protected by air defenses. This also applies to attacks on surface ships. In the near future, Russian submarines, missile boats, and surface ships will be able to hold at risk all important sites in Europe and in the Middle East. While the nuclear subs will have the US as their potential target…We believe that the idea of placing Kalibrs in standard 40-foot containers (the Kalibr-K system) installed on civilian ships, including riverine ones. Such concealed floating arsenals can operate on seas and rivers unnoticed. Club-S export version is also enjoying success. It has been installed on more than twenty diesel-electric submarines delivered to Algeria, Vietnam, India, and China. Iranian sailors are casting covetous gazes at them.
The West clearly understands the power of the Kalibr system. Not for nothing did they name it the “Sizzler.”
Emergency Exit: Primakov And Russian Special Forces Evacuate Dr. Jafar’s ‘Beach Ball’ And Jafar’s Other WMD Programs Out Of Iraq
Image: Russian special forces generals and KGB/SVR general Yevgeny Primakov oversaw Operation Emergency Exit, a secret evacuation of Iraqi WMDs in early 2003.
Primakov helped oversee Russia’s GRU Operation ‘Emergency Exit’ (Russian code-name: Sarandar) that hid Dr. Jafar’s and Saddam’s WMDs by moving them to Syria, Lebanon, and Iran via truck convoys and air cargo operations in early 2003 as the US and coalition military forces prepared to invade Iraq at the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Primakov, with the help of Russian Spetsnaz special operations elite units dressed in civilian clothing to avoid detection by American spy satellites, worked side-by-side with Saddam’s elite Iraqi Special Security Organization (SSO) special operations personnel, to move and hide all traces of ‘Beach Ball’ and other WMD.
A compilation of reports indicated that converted Iraqi Airways Boeing aircraft were used in 56 sorties into Syria (disguised as relief missions for flood victims), truck convoys, refrigerated cargo containers, and Primakov’s own aircraft, to move Iraq’s WMDs into Syria, Lebanon, and Iran.
Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John A. Shaw, speaking in 2006 at a private ‘Intelligence Summit’ in Virginia said that Saddam’s WMDs “were moved by Russian Spetsnaz (special forces) units out of uniform, that were specifically sent to Iraq to move the weaponry and eradicate any evidence of its existence.”
There Were WMDs In Iraq: The Left Hid It For Political Advantage
Image: IRAQ 2003: Iraqi WMD site contaminated by radiation. Credit: Dave Gaubatz
Political operatives inside U.S. intelligence, led by CIA Chief of the European division for clandestine operations in the Directorate of Operations Tyler Drumheller, sought to gain political advantage in the 2004 presidential election, by insisting that there were no WMDs in Iraq. In fact there were — a deception which benefited Dr. Jafar, Primakov, Putin, and Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad greatly. Drumheller’s wife was working for John Kerry’s presidential campaign. Drumheller threw his country under the bus for political advantage in the upcoming election.
Not everyone bought into Drumheller’s story. Just ask Dave Gaubatz, a civilian US federal agent with the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI), who previously spent 20 years on active duty. Agent Gaubatz was exposed to WMD in Iraq and he has the medical records to prove it.
Image: Medical records of federal agent Dave Gaubatz reporting exposure to WMD in Iraq. (Source: Dave Gaubatz)
Agent Gaubatz, highly trained in counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and Arabic linguistics, deployed to Nasiriyah, Iraq in 2003, tasked with looking for WMD. His team, with help from a few local Iraqis who wanted to help America, all risked their lives but succeeded in locating several WMD sites. Mysteriously, the OSI WMD reports that Gaubatz and his team filed were ‘lost’ by OSI and the Department of Defense. By 2006, the WMD sites Gaubatz’s team located had still not been inspected.
Image: Agent Dave Gaubatz with the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (left) and his team of active duty Air Force personnel, tasked with looking for WMD sites, Nasiriyah, Iraq, 2003 – Operation Iraqi Freedom
Agent Gaubatz returned from Iraq suffering from acute radiation sickness and chemical weapons exposure after his deployment to an Iraqi Air Force base.
Agent Gaubatz wrote in one of his medical reports:
Certain areas of the base had tested above normal for radioactive materials. All personnel in my unit became sick at various time during the deployment at the Iraqi base.
Agent Gaubatz complained of “weakness, muscle aches, headaches, dizziness, difficulty breathing, tired after sleeping, diarrhea, indigestion, vomiting.”
According to the CDC, symptoms of “Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS), or radiation sickness, may include nausea, vomiting, headache, and diarrhea.”
Another former U.S. military member who does not buy Drumheller’s story is former CENTCOM Arabic translator Bill Tierney, who actually listened to audio tapes of Saddam and Dr. Jafar (the so-called ‘Saddam Tapes’) discussing their WMDs and the ways to use them. However, and inexplicably, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte shut down the ‘Saddam Tapes’ program prior to the completion of the review of all of the tapes. Failure to analyze all of the Saddam Tapes leaves vast amounts of intelligence, including additional data on Dr. Jafar and his WMD programs, inaccessible to decision makers.
According to “The Weekly Standard,“ former CIA director George Tenet — who headed the agency under both Clinton and Bush — takes pages in his book “At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA” to call out Drumheller for not telling the truth and dismantle[s] his version of events brick by brick.”
In the political and media environment of ‘Bush Lied, People Died,’ the most dangerous components of Dr. Jafar’s, Saddam’s, and Primakov’s nuclear weapons programs, including ‘Beach Ball,’ vanished in the darkness of night, under remote mountains and rivers, and across the deserts and out-of-the-way settlements of the Middle East.
However, Saddam always had contingency plans to reactivate his nuclear WMD programs in the future, even in the event of the fall of his regime. With the components and CDs of blueprints of “Beach Ball” safely hidden by Dr. Jafar and Primakov’s Russian special operations troops, the potential scourge of ‘Beach Ball’ was never fully taken off the table.
THE PERFECT STORM: TIMELINE
Like Russia’s Club-K container cruise missile launch system,’Project Pelican’ and the ‘Iran Nuclear Deal’ are also examples of the effective application of the principles found in Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War.” Notably, the three parallel operations were concurrently executed.
CONCLUSION
For many months, the full scope of Iran’s and Russia’s strategic takeover of Iraq, Syria and with a presence not before seen in the the Middle East, made possible by President Obama, his cabinet, certain members of Congress, wealthy foreign-born financiers and businessmen, spies and double-agents operating throughout DC and the intelligence community have become frighteningly and soberingly apparent.
Still unanswered questions about Barack Hussein Obama’s personal background and his 1980s travels to Pakistan are coming back to haunt U.S. national security as names of his former foreign student college roommates (Hamid Wahid and Vinai Thummalapally), several of whom traveled with Obama on a mysterious trip to Pakistan, reappeared in the investigation of the handover of a U.S. port to a company linked to Saddam Hussein’s WMDs, Russia, Iran and Pakistan.
Seemingly disparate chapters in this grand rearrangement of the pieces on the chessboard are, upon closer inspection, parallel operations moving the United States closer and closer to a complete and final intelligence, military, economic, and civilizational defeat, burying the American experiment in democracy and permanently extinguishing any light from the shining city on the hill. The parallel operations are now coming together and on the verge of reaching critical mass.
The withdrawal from Iraq, the murder of American heroes at Benghazi, Extortion 17, the Pakistani Awan Brothers Congressional IT spying scandal, and now the Gulftainer Port Canaveral deal are only the visible signs of the iceberg tearing into America’s bow.
Below deck, America’s intelligence secrets have been spilling into the sea. Secret military hardware, communication systems and GPS technology have been handed over to enemies.
One of our most strategic seaports has been given away to the UAE and by proxy to Iraq, Iran, Russia and more. Secret and illegal computer servers and fraudulent email accounts were set up as cyber-Wal-Marts for hostile governments to collect virtually unlimited data and secrets including Special Access Programs (SAP — above top secret) a classification which includes live Intel and silo locations. Interestingly not one single live intelligence operative remained standing in China after 2011.
America is flying blind.
America’s enemies have been elevated, their powers expanded, while America’s reputation was sullied.
For a major WMD commander like Dr. Jafar to emerge from Saddam’s Iraqi regime — the regime that created that threat environment that pulled the U.S. into the Iraq War — and to then gain access to U.S. national security hub Port Canaveral makes it impossible to evade the question any longer: On whose side was Barack Hussein Obama? What else has he done that we do not know about?
The perfect storm did not just happen, it was conceived and created.
EXCERPTS:J.D. Greear cannot be trusted to remain independent of Russell Moore’s George-Soros-style immigration policy. Greear has repeatedly thrown his public support behind Russell Moore, the embattled president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Immigration is one area where Greear has joined with Russell Moore in pushing for immigration. Greear tweeted out his thoughts on immigration policy and Donald Trump during the last election. Greear said, “Is Donald Trump wrong about Muslim immigration? (Hint: yes),” along with a link to his blog. Greear’s ministry blog published by his staff during the election attacked Trump’s immigration policy and promoted Russell Moore’s opposition.
The blog said, “Recently he suggested that we close our border to all Muslims. This is an obviously foolish agenda, and one that flies in the face of Christian principles. For the sake of religious liberty, for the sake of integrity, and for the sake of basic humanity, Russ Moore says we’ve got to reject this for the folly that it is.” (Link) Folly is using cooperative program money to fund legal briefs to help build mosques. Folly is helping Russell Moore on his open-borders agenda. Folly is not calling Russell Moore out for his connections to George Soros funded open borders immigration groups. Folly would be electing Greear at a time we need leadership to stand up to Russell Moore and stop the progressive attack on pro-life values.
NEW SOUTHERN BAPTIST PRESIDENT SHOWS THE DANGER OF EVANGELICALISM TODAY
SEE: https://www.wayoflife.org/friday_church_news/19-30.php(Friday Church News Notes, July 27, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
In the book What Is the Emerging Church? (2008) we warned that the emerging church is weak on the issue of homosexuality. Brian McLaren, for example, says, “Frankly, many of us don’t know what we should think about homosexuality” (“Brian McLaren on the Homosexual Question,” Jan. 23, 2006, blog.christianitytoday.com). Chris Seay says, “Approach homosexuals without condemnation but with God’s love and the gospel” (ChurchRelevance.com, June 19, 2007). This confused thinking is now front and center in the Southern Baptist Convention by the election on June 12 of J.D. Greear as President. In 2014, in a message before the ERLC [Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission] National Conference on “The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage,” Greear said, “We have to love our gay neighbor more than we love our position on sexual morality … I am not saying that we would ever compromise our position or fail to state it, just that even when they disagree with it, we do not cut them off, we draw them close. We say yes, this issue is important. I cannot compromise, but I love you more than I love being right. In the cross of Jesus Christ, he shows us the right way to relate to the gay and the lesbian community—clarity about God’s righteousness, compassion that would give up its own life to draw them close.” Greear’s position is incredibly misguided and unbiblical, though it is presented in a semblance of truth. It is certain that Jesus Christ loved sinners and died for sinners with a desire that sinners draw close to Him; but Jesus calls sinners to repentance and there is no “drawing close” to God without repentance. Twice in the same sermon Christ said, “except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3).Christ directly and plainly exposed the sin of the woman at the well, and she repented and drew close to God in salvation (John 4). On the other hand, Jesus exposed the sin of the rich young ruler, and he did not repent and as a result did not draw close to God (Mark 10:17-23). Greear says, “We have to love our gay neighbor more than we love our position on sexual morality,” and, “I love you more than I love being right.” But the Bible says we should love God’s Word and hate every false way (Psalm 119:128). The Bible says we should have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Ephesians 5:11). Jesus was a friend of sinners, but He preached repentance to sinners and warned them of eternal hellfire (e.g., Mark 9:43, 45, 47; Luke 12:5). Christ never modified or softened or shortened His message in any way whatsoever in order to “draw them close.” The fundamental problem in the Southern Baptist Convention is that it is composed of churches that do not have a zeal to obey God’s Word and are thus spiritually powerless. Having grown up in Southern Baptist Churches and having wide experience of them over the past 68 years, I can say that the average SBC congregation is a mixed multitude of saved and lost and is spiritually lukewarm at the very best. The pastor is a hireling, not a prophet, and his greatest fear is offending some lukewarm member of his congregation. Serious intercessory prayer and fasting are nearly unknown. Separation from the world is considered legalism. Life-changing conversions are as rare as hen’s teeth. Consider the statistics for 2013: A full 60% of SBC churches baptized zero youth between ages of 12-17 and 80% baptized zero or just one young adult ages 18-29. But there was an explosion in the baptisms of “five and under” (Annual Church Profile, 2013). That is Baptist infant baptism, and it is the sign of a dead denomination! And most Independent Baptists today are no different in spiritual character than Southern Baptists. I am so thankful that I personally know of many churches that are different in spiritual character than what I have described and that do know and experience the resurrection power of God in regenerating power and life-changing holiness and biblical separation.
HOW LGBT THEOLOGY IS INVADING THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
(Friday Church News Notes, July 27, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
The following is excerpted from “Trusted SBC and PCA Seminaries Producing Sexual Minority Activists,” by Thomas Littleton, thirtypiecesofsilver.org, May 12, 2018: “As early as 2010 the ‘conversation’ and the language on sexuality of the remaining biblically conservative churches began to show signs of impending derailment. The introduction of new phrases like ‘Same Sex Attracted (SSA)’ and ‘Gay Celibate Christian’ in reality betrayed a larger undercurrent intent on migrating the Christian churches toward affirmation of gay marriage and creation of a homosexual Christianity. … We must now … face some hard facts, namely, that major institutions in the Southern Baptist Convention and Presbyterian Church of America are actually training LGBTQ activists and advocates for inclusion of sexual minorities in the churches—in ministry positions and even as ‘theologians’ of LGBTQ and Queer Theory. … In 2013, certain Southern Baptist and PCA organizations began to promote the acceptance of ‘Same-Sex Attracted’ but ‘Celibate Christians.’ This category is based on the assertion that same sex desire is not sinful in itself, but that only acting upon the desire is sin. This mindset reveals a glaring ignorance of the nature of sin and defilement as explained by Jesus, in Matthew 15:1-20, when asked why his disciples did not observe ritual washing before eating. Jesus clarified that it is ‘what is in and comes out of the heart of man that defiles us.’ Paul called homosexual lusts ‘vile affections’ in Romans 1:26. James further warns us that ‘when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death’ (Jas. 1:15). So, desire is the seed in the heart that if harbored gives birth to sin. We are told, however, in this ‘new conversation’ that SSA or homosexual desire is not temptation to lust as other heterosexual desires are but that the issue is one of ‘Orientation,’ which implies that God made a gay person to be gay and for the church to expect them to be changed by the Gospel is to reject God’s creation. Albert Mohler, whose Southern Seminary plays a major role in the ‘new conversation’ of all things LGBT+ [the plus sign is inclusive of other groups, such as “asexual, intersex, queer”], has openly apologized to homosexuals, asserting that Baptists have had it wrong on orientation and that neither ‘Conversion Therapy’ nor saving faith in Jesus changes a homosexual into a heterosexual. Imagine, this is coming from one of the leading voices in Biblical Conservative Evangelical circles today. … Nate Collins is a graduate of Albert Mohler’s Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, with a Master of Divinity degree and completing his Ph.D. in 2017. His father is Chip Collins former assistant Dean at Boyce College which is now operated by Southern Seminary under Al Mohler’s directive. Nate and his dad Chip had an organization featuring their testimonies as father and son during Nate’s coming ‘out’ as a homosexual at 19. .. Nate self-identifies as a homosexual Christian and is in a ‘mixed-orientation marriage’ with two children. … This young man and young ‘minister’—who was theologically prepared by Dr. Mohler’s Southern Seminary—sees life, the church, the faith, his calling, and the Word of God all through the lens of his own sexuality, which he identifies as homosexuality. This is the single biggest flaw in the approach to having those with unresolved sexual conflicts to be the spokespersons and counselors to and for the church in the political and activist driven culture existing today. The Church needs clarity on God’s design and personal testimonies of deliverance from the bondage of perversion. We need to see human proof like the demoniac of Gadara who was clothed and in his right mind after encountering Jesus, and then sent forth to evangelize the cities of the Decapolis. There are many wonderful testimonies of both lay Christians and ministers who have been transformed and converted by the power of the Gospel and Repentance and Faith in Christ. Instead, Dr. Albert Mohler and Tim Keller are giving us Sexual Minorities who want to help us appease and accommodate them, so they as ‘LGBT+ Christians can Flourish within historic Christian traditions.’”
Tennessee –-(Ammoland.com)- The state and federal constitutions protect a right of individual citizens to keep and bear arms. The constitutions do not create the right – they protect a preexisting right. This fact is addressed in detail in an article by John Harris, TFA’s executive director and a co-author on parts of the Tennessee Star’s constitution series.
In this election cycle, almost everyone running for any public office likes to say that they believe in the 2nd Amendment, that they have the “endorsements” of some organization, or they show photos of themselves in camo, shooting at a range, or holding perhaps some hunting firearm.
But that is not what the 2nd Amendment is about and if these people want to claim to defend and understand the 2nd Amendment then they should be expected to understand it.
The 2nd Amendment is broad enough to cover the possession and ownership of hunting weapons, but it is first and foremost a political right to protect the ability of citizens individually and collectively to own and possess weapons suitable for military service.
Have you heard any of the candidates say that? Mae Beavers did! I have also heard Mark Green say it! But what about the others? Not often if at all and perhaps none of the candidates for governor, Congress, or major state offices say or believe it either.
While some talk about their handguns or their hunting longarms, few talk about true 2nd Amendment arms.
The Tennessee Supreme Court has correctly held that “arms” as used in the constitutional context are just that – weapons that would be useful for military service of individuals.
“As the object for which the right to keep and bear arms is secured is of a general nature, to be exercised by the people in a body for their common defense, so the arms–the right to keep which is secured–are such as are usually employed in civilized warfare, and constitute the ordinary military equipment. If the citizens have these arms in their hands, they are prepared in the best possible manner, to repel any encroachments upon their rights by those in authority.”
Andrews v. State, 50 Tenn. 165, 184-85 (1871) quoting from its earlier opinion in Aymette v. State, 2 Hum., 158.
Even the United States Department of Justice has argued to the United States Supreme Court that the 2nd Amendment protects civilian ownership of military grade weapons in its brief in United States v. Miller (1939)
While some courts have said that the right to bear arms includes the right of the individual to have them for the protection of his person and property as well as the right of the people to bear them collectively (People v. Brown, 253 Mich. 537; State v. Duke, 42 Tex. 455), the cases are unanimous in holding that the term “arms” as used in constitutional provisions refers only to those weapons which are ordinarily used for military or public defense purposes and does not relate to those weapons which are commonly used by criminals.
As you consider your options and prepare to vote, ignore the mudslinging ads and perhaps “quid pro quo” endorsements. Look at the specific voting histories. Look at what they actually do. Look at what they say when they are pressed on the topic.
Also, realize that a candidate’s true understanding and willingness to protect the true meaning and purpose of the 2nd Amendment may be a strong indicator of whether they are a capable, principled public steward. If the candidate is right on such a difficult concept in today’s “politically correct” environment, it is likely that they are going to be equally correct and trustworthy on other core constitutional and core conservative issues such as state’s rights, the proper size of government, the wrong of excess government growth and taxation, closing the borders, fighting illegal immigration and facilitators and so many more critical issues.
On the other hand, someone who is lukewarm on the 2nd Amendment or tells you they are strong because they have a permit or they wear camo likely does not truly understand the constitutional purpose of the 2nd Amendment. If not, can they truly be expected to defend and uphold any of it?
TFALAC and Tennessee Firearms Association conduct surveys of candidates for state office as part of its vetting process. You can view the survey questions and responses online — 2018 Survey Response.
Tennessee Firearms Association and TFALAC seldom actually endorse a candidate. When it does its a rare event. However, TFALAC does provide some financial assistance to candidates that it believes are more likely to improve the laws on the 2nd Amendment issues or that it feels can defeat incumbents who have proven that they should not be in public office. The complete list of candidates to whom financial contributions have been distributed has been published on the TFA’s website and also on the TFALAC’s website.
Tennessee Firearms Association and TFALAC are not making any contributions to or otherwise supporting any candidate for governor in 2018. None of them have a strong, demonstrated history of standing firm to protect the rights recognized and protected by the 2nd Amendment.
About Tennessee Firearms Association
To learn more about the Tennessee Firearms Association or the political action committee, neither of which are affiliated with nor approved by any candidate or candidate committee, you can visit their websites at:
www.tennesseefirearms.com or www.tfalac.org
Joining and supporting TFA and/or TFALAC is an investment in the fight to restore our constitutional rights and in the fight against politicians who are willing to sell their votes and your rights to whichever business interest gives them the most money!
Facebook Stock Plummets After Zuckerberg’s Suicidal Censoring Of Conservative, Pro-America Media
Alex Jones breaks down why Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook stock has been plummeting due to the implementation of anti-American, leftist driven censorship policies that silence half of their users.
In less than an hour on Wednesday, Facebook tycoon Mark Zuckerberg (shown) lost $16.8 billion.
The hit to the billionaire’s assets was delivered via the social media giant’s massive stock collapse. With $13.7 billion in gains for the year wiped out, as Bloomberg put it, he’s worth only $70 billion.
But the real loser isn’t Zuckerberg. It’s the investors in Facebook, who watched the stock drop 20 percent.
Not good news for Facebook, which is fighting for its reputation on numerous fronts. It has permitted data companies to mine the site for user information, and inspired the anger of leftists who think it should censor conservatives or news organizations the Left has declared out of bounds.
The nut of the story? Facebook’s having a tough time.
Stock Loss This morning, CNN reported that shares dropped 19 percent on the stock market’s opening bell, setting up the company for “its worst day ever — by far.”
After Wednesday’s disastrous loss of 20 percent, CNBC reported, today isn’t looking much better.
“Facebook is on pace for its worst day as a public company after opening 19.6 percent down,” CNBC reported after shares dipped to $174.48 Thursday morning. “Thursday’s plunge knocked roughly $120 billion in market value off the tech stock and is dragging the rest of the sector lower.”
The tumble began Wednesday after its latest earnings report was released. Stock dropped seven percent, Marketwatch noted, “then plummeted to a loss of more than 20% as a conference call with analysts progressed…. Should the losses hold into Thursday’s regular session, Facebook would lose more than $100 billion in market capitalization and lose the stock’s gains for the year thus far.”
Wednesday’s debacle, CNN and other media reported, was Facebook’s worst day since July 27, 2012, when its stock dropped 11.7 percent.
Facebook Scandals As The New American reported a few days ago, Facebook is under increasingly hostile fire for the way it handles access to user information by outside entities.
It recently suspended an analytics firm, Crimson Hexagon, that was mining data to help governments, including Russia’s, Turkey’s, and ours, monitor “public sentiment,” as the Washington Post put it.
Crimson Hexagon did nothing wrong, but Facebook suspended the company anyway. Four federal agencies are probing its activities vis-à-vis the data-mining companies.
The FBI, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, along with the Department of Justice, are probing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, the firm that harvested private information on some 80 million Facebook users. Facebook has said that data gathering was improper.
Leftists Attack Facebook Facebook is also under increasing political pressure from the radical Left, including its media auxiliaries, to censor conservatives and others the Left believes are peddling falsehoods on the social-media platform.
According to Entertainment Weekly, during a “combative exchange with reporters” at a press event in Beverly Hills, Facebook executives couldn’t answer questions about the “the presence of right-wing conspiracy site Infowars and Fox News on the social network’s platform.”
Infowars, as The New American has reported, has been the subject of repeated attacks for its “conspiracy” tales. CNN’s Oliver Darcy attacked Facebook executives at an event in New York over their failure to censor Infowars.
Another reporter for an unnamed news organization broadened the attack to include Fox News. Entertainment Weekly took the exchange down verbatim:
Reporter: One of the most prominent organizations you’re working with is Fox News, and they’re sort of incorrigible about proliferating a lot of misinformation. Can you speak to your reasoning behind that? Why would you want to work with an organization like that when, as you said, you’re trying to limit the spread of false information?
At this, Rick Van Veen, head of global creative strategy at Facebook, jumped in: “Yeah, well, given that we have limited time. I’d like to keep it — Fidji and I don’t lead the news organization. Campbell Brown leads that…”
Another reporter in the background: Answer the question!
“We have limited time —”
Another reporter: We’ll give you time!
Simo: “We have a range of new shows we’re presenting —”
Reporter: But Fox News is still on every day, including the weekends on this programming list.
Simo: “So is CNN —”
This was met by some chortles in the crowd.
Zuckerberg’s Billions As for Zuckerberg, the billions he dropped in the stock collapse knocked him way down the billionaire’s list below the two men who were just above him in first and second.
They are Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, who is worth $154 billion and earned $10 billion in the first two weeks of 2018, and Bill Gates, who is relatively poor by comparison with a net worth of $96.7 billion.
RED ALERT: Alex Jones Calls Upon Patriots To Spread The Word About Big Tech’s Murder Of Free Speech
The biggest and yet least talked about issue facing conservatives and Trump supporters heading into the mid-terms and the 2020 presidential elections is social media censorship and big tech’s efforts to rig elections by manipulating their algorithms.
Dems Call For Banning Fox News On Social Media
After Infowars Banned
The MSM now claims Infowars is promoting violence against children, but Infowars, Mark Dice, and other patriots are only becoming more popular.
EMERGENCY: Infowars Banned From The Internet!
Facebook Posts Record Loss; Investors Want Zuckerberg Out As Chairman
“Facebook’s stock dropped more than 20 percent, and the company lost $120 billion in market capitalization, the largest one-day dive in history.
And that wasn’t the only bad news. A group of investors is trying to remove Zuckerberg as chairman of the company because of its recent data-mining scandal. He is also its chief executive officer, a dual role with which the investors are unhappy.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization…called on Fox News to withdraw its representatives from an upcoming conference sponsored by a notorious anti-Muslim hate group.
A reminder: the West is not under Sharia, but still upholds the freedom of speech, which includes the right to criticize Islam. Criticizing Islam is not hate.
ACT For America does not espouse hate, but casts light on the atrocities committed worldwide in the name of Islam, and on the truth about the incursion of Islamic supremacist/Sharia ideology into the West. That ideology aims to shut down the freedom of speech, the cornerstone of democracy, as we can see from this call.
CAIR and other unindicted co-conspirators relentlessly chip away at the freedom of speech in accordance with the program of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to bring Sharia blasphemy restrictions to the West. The U.S. needs to declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terror organization and deal with its affiliates and offshoots accordingly.
Note in CAIR’s press release the same old accusations of “Nazism” and “white supremacism” aimed at ACT For America. Somali-born anti-Sharia activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali was also called a “white supremacist” by a group of Australian Muslim women. Yet no matter how often this accusation is made, Islam is not a race, and it is not “white supremacist” to oppose jihad and Sharia.
“CAIR Calls on Fox News to Pull Reps From Anti-Muslim Hate Conference”, CAIR press release, July 24, 2018:
WASHINGTON–The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on Fox News to withdraw its representatives from an upcoming conference sponsored by a notorious anti-Muslim hate group.
Several Fox News hosts and commentators are scheduled to appear at the September 4-5 conference of the hate group ACT For America in Arlington, Va.
Host Tomi Lahren, along with commentators Jeanine Pirro and Lisa Daftari, are listed as “Invited and Confirmed Speakers” for the conference.
ACT For America, founded by “Brigitte Gabriel,” is an anti-Muslim hate group with growing ties to white supremacist, neo-Nazi hate organizations….
The report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which was released this week, shows that the number of radical Islamists now totals 10,800, up from 9,700 the year before and shows a more than doubling of the number from five years ago
10,800 represents known “radical Islamists.” Chances are that there are many more, thanks to Germany’s open-door policy regarding Muslim migration.
The number of terrorism cases has also greatly increased between 2016 and 2017. Last year the agency said there had been 1,200 terror cases initiated, 1,000 of which were related to radical Islamic elements. In 2016, the total number was 250 with 200 of the cases being linked to radical Islam.
Sweden and France are also experiencing a rise in the number of “Islamic salafists,” by the thousands. With the EU continuing its suicidal immigration policies, those numbers will continue to multiply exponentially.
Willful blindness continues to put Western populations at risk.
“Number of Radical Islamic Salafists Tops 10,000 in Germany for the First Time,” Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, July 25, 2018:
The number of known radical Islamic Salafists has exceeded the 10,000 mark, according to a new report by the German domestic intelligence agency.
The report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which was released this week, shows that the number of radical Islamists now totals 10,800, up from 9,700 the year before and shows a more than doubling of the number from five years ago, Die Welt reports.
The newspaper has also claimed that the number of radical Islamists coincides with an increase in the number of criminal cases in which a radical Islamic motive or background was suspected.
The BfV noted that Germany is still in the crosshairs for radical Islamic terrorism and that the situation is still very serious. The agency said that they have identified around 1,880 individuals in Germany who they believe may have the potential to carry out a terrorist attack and more worryingly, that the number was continuing to rise.
The number of terrorism cases has also greatly increased between 2016 and 2017. Last year the agency said there had been 1,200 terror cases initiated, 1,000 of which were related to radical Islamic elements. In 2016, the total number was 250 with 200 of the cases being linked to radical Islam.
The report echoes that of other security agencies in Europe which continue to reveal a rise in the number of radical extremists…..
In a continued war of words: The chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri reportedly warned the United States on Tuesday that, just as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned American President Donald Trump, threatening Iran would result in an “unimaginable” response that the U.S. will “regret.”
Days ago, Trump tweeted to Rouhani:
“Never, ever threaten the United States again or you will suffer the consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before.”
As with Islamic supremacists/jihadists, taqiyya is a specialty (particularly since Iran is Shi’ite):
General Baqeri went on to say that Iran is a peace-loving country and has never started any wars against other nations.
Thanks to the Obama Administration, the Iranian regime was emboldened for years, and the Iran nuclear deal saw billions released to fund Iran’s jihad proxy wars. Obama also engaged in further shady backroom deals to the tune of tens of billions.
“Iran’s Top Commander: U.S. Will Regret Triggering ‘Unimaginable’ Response from Tehran,” by Adelle Nazarian, Breitbart, July 25, 2018:
The chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri reportedly warned the United States on Tuesday that, just as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned American President Donald Trump, threatening Iran would result in an “unimaginable” response that the U.S. will “regret.”
According to Iran’s state-run Fars News agency, Baqeri said:
As correctly stated in the remarks of our honorable president, the enemies, especially the U.S., whose deployment centers and interests are accessed by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s overt and covert defense power should not play with lion’s tail otherwise they will be given a strong, unimaginable and regretting response at a very vast extent in the region and the world.
Ironically, General Baqeri went on to say that Iran is a peace-loving country and has never started any wars against other nations. “Iran, as the superior power in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, has always guaranteed security of shipping in the vital waterway and the global economy and enjoys the power to make any move (it desires) in this region,” Baqeri reportedly said.
While Iran has had a relatively peaceful history prior to the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the current government has been responsible for the export of terrorism throughout the region with its support for Houthi rebels in Libya, Hezbollah in Lebanon, its support for Hamas in the Palestinian territories, and its stalwart support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The Shi’ite-majority region has also sowed conflict in the Muslim world, specifically as it pertains to its Sunni nemesis Saudi Arabia…..
