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Thursday, July 15, 2010
APOSTASY, The spiritual lights are ready to be switched off.
SPIRITUAL MANNA IN THE POST 9-11 SPIRITUAL DESERT No. 6
shared by Fritz Springmeier on Oct. 31, 2001
titled: APOSTASY, The spiritual lights are ready to be switched off.
Christianity in North America could be marginalized very quickly, & collapse
like the WTC. It would feel like someone had simply flipped the light switch
off.
YHWH God was stronger than Baal, but most Israelites ceased to think so when
the world's superpower Babylon first took their children from their parents &
homes for a proper re-education, next took their skilled workers & educated
nobles for slaves, then looted their nation's food, and finally demolished
Solomon's temple, blinded the high priest and murdered his sons. Israelites
felt abandoned by God & returned Him the "favor".
Apostasy-- the word comes from the Greek word apostasia and is the noun form
of "to desert, abandon, or rebel", in other words "desertion, rebellion,
abandonment". Christianity has nothing to protect its demise (short of YHWH's
intervention), which is not likely due to the corruption already in the
churches. It is ready to be abandoned, and deserted.
History repeatedly shows us that a nation can discard its faith in God rather
quickly if its leaders desire. King Ahaz, who is written about in the Bible
books of 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, will be used to illustrate this point. King
Ahaz (the long form of his name is Jehoahaz, & the Assyrian form was Yauhazi)
was King of the southern kingdom of Israel called Judah from c. 735 B.C. to
c.720 B.C. King Ahaz led his people into apostasy, even going so far as to
carry out the human sacrifices of his two sons. (2 KG 16:3,4; 2 CH 28:3,4).
Besides ruining the nation morally, he destroyed it financially as well. He
also managed through his sloppy misrule to allow the northern kingdom to raid
his nation and kill 120,000 of his people and take back 200,000 others as
slaves. (That makes the WTC attack look puny in comparison.) He closed the
Temple of Solomon's in Jerusalem, and built pagan altars (modeled after the
Assyrian King Tiglathpileser III's alters) all over Jerusalem, like ATM
machines they were on every street corner.
Jeroboam is another leader, who once he became king, took the 10 northern
tribes into apostasy (the cult of Dan) very quickly. (See 1 KG 12)
Inciting Apostasy under the law of God carried the death penalty (DE 13:1-15).
Treason carried the death penalty in the United States, but Bill Clinton,
whose traitorous acts did more harm than huge armies and hundreds of enemy
spies could ever have accomplished to this nation's security walked away
without a scratch. Many of our loyal military officers who plotted to arrest
him and try him with their overwhelming evidence of his traitorship paid for
their patriotism with death.
While the World Order doesn't mind Christianity any more than Joseph Stalin
did, it does want to see witchcraft become the dominant practice. Notice that
Gorbachev, in a speech to Hollywood notables, said the U.N. should enforce the
Ten Environmental Commandments. We see the outlines of a new Mother Gaia
religion being birthed by these world leaders.
Today, we have an illusion that our Christian churches are spiritually strong.
The honest truth, and this is no theory, I know it as a solid fact, over 99%
of the churches are infiltrated by double agents, who are simply waiting for
the command to follow the World Orders wishes. (The Illuminati are masters at
overkill.) In terms of church membership, I would estimate about 98% of the
church members go to churches that have pastors who are controlled by the
World Order. (By the way, do you know where you pastor is tonight?) Some small
churches have escaped the control and have real Christian pastors, but from my
interviews with these pastors, most have little concept about what is going
on, and their training to become a pastor has taught them to avoid people like
me who might educate them.
After the Russian tanks had rolled into Rumania, and the Russians took
political control of the nation, Stalin called a meeting of all the ministers
and pastors of Rumania. They numbered 4,000, and they almost unanimously
elected this persecutor of the faith as the religious leader of their
Congress. (Never mind he held leadership positions in Atheist organizations at
the time. Not to mention that he was quietly a type of Freemason as well as a
Satanist). Richard Wurmbrand's wife goaded him into taking the mike at this
large meeting and saying our allegiance is to Christ first, which was a bold
statement in the situation, and laid the foundation for his eventual 14 years
of torture by the communists. The President of the Baptists said that Stalin
was such a saint that his activities only followed the ten commandments (i.e.
sinless), and was a great teacher of the Bible. Various ministers ran to get
the communist hammer and sickle placed on their garments. Deputy bishop of the
Lutherans (second in that church's hierarchy) preached that Stalin was the
third great prophet after Moses and Jesus, and that Stalin's revelations
superceded Christ's! Can you see how they fell all over themselves to
apostasize! Kiss the butt of Satan. (They probably did that in secret. There
are really ceremonies where that is done.)
Now the situation in America is much worse than Rumania when that religious
Congress was called. Many of our pastors are programmed multiple slaves of the
Illuminati. Many of the other ones are totally blackmailed. I had a friend who
saw some of the blackmail files on these pastors. Cisco, who I brought out of
the Illuminati, was involved while a member in blackmailing pastors. Long
story short, I know what's happening. Any time the World Order wants to repeat
what Stalin did, they can do it in this nation. We have a programmed multiple
as our President, who calls himself a Christian, but comes from a generational
satanic bloodline. I have worked with the Illuminati's programming. Remember
that George Orwell said the future could be envisioned as "a boot stamping on
a human face-forever."(1984, p. 270) And Aldous Huxley said that slaves in
the future would "love their servitude" (Brave New World, p. xii) Both were
right. They use the boot (trauma) to trauma bond the slave to his master whom
he loves. When the master wants to, he can rotate the alter systems of his
slaves (with codes), and in minutes all these tens of thousands of Christian
pastors could be switched into personalities that sacrifice children in
satanic rituals. But they won't need to show their hand. Just call a meeting
and everyone will follow along with the World Order's agenda.
It never ceases to amaze me that some people have bought one of the
Illuminati's spins that the Pope will protect them. Yeah, just like he
protected people from Hitler and Stalin. Have you noticed the New Cath.
Encyclopedia has articles on "Masturbation" and "Merovingian Art" but not the
"Mark of the Beast"? They must not consider that an important issue for our
time.
And whatever these traitors decide, it will force the real Christians back
into a corner. "Don't you want to respect your leaders? Your Bible teaches you
to follow them. You need to be accountable." They'll use our religious leaders
to lead us into apostasy and more compromise. It will really make the rest of
us stand out as crazy rebels. Some of us may stand up like Daniel, & this
faithfulness will bring honor to God. Let's not forget how truly helpless we
are independent of God. Sure you can join the rebellion against God, but that
is a death march down a dead end street.
What form of "Christianity" will they condescend to let us have? What mold
will they squeeze us into? What defilements are planned to eat away at our
souls?
It's sad that these ministers will not likely heed the warning of history, the
biblical accounts of the kings of Israel (and its smaller southern kingdom
called Judah), who jumped into apostasy as fast as they could pervert
themselves: Ahab, Ahaz, Ahaziah, Amon, Jehoram, Jeroboam, and Saul. And then
there were some of the others who began well but gradually slipped like
Solomon. For if they read these accounts, they would discover that evil
contains the seed of its own destruction. These men ruined their nations.
They ruined their own reputations. Paraphrasing a modern Christian patriot,
These corrupt leaders today are polishing brass on the Titanic. The question
is how long will it take for evil to run its course and destroy itself? or
will they push things to the limit, and bring God's wrath down? Either way
they are infatuated with destruction, and their evil carries the seeds of its
own destruction. Evil is a dead end. Who doesn't know what a mass murderer
and monster Stalin was? Who left more of a legacy and a better one at that,
Daniel with his faithfulness, or Nebuchadnezzar with his incredible city with
its amazing canals, gardens, artwork and architecture?
If we stand firm in our conscience, the battles get easier down the line.
Sadly "mature" Christians are not warning young Christians that holiness will
cost them (even the house built on the rock got tested). The up side of
holiness is that your insides don't have to feel like a mushroom full of
maggots. Christians are so carelessly defiling their crippled consciences they
can't even recognize compromise, look at all the churches with Halloween
garbage in them. You don't even want to hear what will go on tonight!
The point of this article is then twofold:
First, to warn those who have ears to hear that there is nothing between this
nation and total apostasy. If the world's leaders wanted to, they could
demolish Christendom tomorrow like splitting a rotten log. On the other hand,
the elite are all robots to the Illuminati's 10, 20, and 30-year plans, and
they carry out their actions according to strict orders and plans. That is no
real reprieve, for when and if they move, it will mean a chance to suffer for
righteousness for the rest of us. It will be a good time to plead for God's
mercy. Hey! Daniel & his friends did it.
Second, I can't promise you that if you stand up for what is right that you'll
become a prime minister of some empire like Joseph and Daniel did. But I can
promise you based both on the Word of God, and a 100% historical track record,
evil self-destructs. So take courage, by God's grace, we stand a chance to
either overcome or bring honor to God, or both.
shared by Fritz Springmeier on Oct. 31, 2001
titled: APOSTASY, The spiritual lights are ready to be switched off.
Christianity in North America could be marginalized very quickly, & collapse
like the WTC. It would feel like someone had simply flipped the light switch
off.
YHWH God was stronger than Baal, but most Israelites ceased to think so when
the world's superpower Babylon first took their children from their parents &
homes for a proper re-education, next took their skilled workers & educated
nobles for slaves, then looted their nation's food, and finally demolished
Solomon's temple, blinded the high priest and murdered his sons. Israelites
felt abandoned by God & returned Him the "favor".
Apostasy-- the word comes from the Greek word apostasia and is the noun form
of "to desert, abandon, or rebel", in other words "desertion, rebellion,
abandonment". Christianity has nothing to protect its demise (short of YHWH's
intervention), which is not likely due to the corruption already in the
churches. It is ready to be abandoned, and deserted.
History repeatedly shows us that a nation can discard its faith in God rather
quickly if its leaders desire. King Ahaz, who is written about in the Bible
books of 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, will be used to illustrate this point. King
Ahaz (the long form of his name is Jehoahaz, & the Assyrian form was Yauhazi)
was King of the southern kingdom of Israel called Judah from c. 735 B.C. to
c.720 B.C. King Ahaz led his people into apostasy, even going so far as to
carry out the human sacrifices of his two sons. (2 KG 16:3,4; 2 CH 28:3,4).
Besides ruining the nation morally, he destroyed it financially as well. He
also managed through his sloppy misrule to allow the northern kingdom to raid
his nation and kill 120,000 of his people and take back 200,000 others as
slaves. (That makes the WTC attack look puny in comparison.) He closed the
Temple of Solomon's in Jerusalem, and built pagan altars (modeled after the
Assyrian King Tiglathpileser III's alters) all over Jerusalem, like ATM
machines they were on every street corner.
Jeroboam is another leader, who once he became king, took the 10 northern
tribes into apostasy (the cult of Dan) very quickly. (See 1 KG 12)
Inciting Apostasy under the law of God carried the death penalty (DE 13:1-15).
Treason carried the death penalty in the United States, but Bill Clinton,
whose traitorous acts did more harm than huge armies and hundreds of enemy
spies could ever have accomplished to this nation's security walked away
without a scratch. Many of our loyal military officers who plotted to arrest
him and try him with their overwhelming evidence of his traitorship paid for
their patriotism with death.
While the World Order doesn't mind Christianity any more than Joseph Stalin
did, it does want to see witchcraft become the dominant practice. Notice that
Gorbachev, in a speech to Hollywood notables, said the U.N. should enforce the
Ten Environmental Commandments. We see the outlines of a new Mother Gaia
religion being birthed by these world leaders.
Today, we have an illusion that our Christian churches are spiritually strong.
The honest truth, and this is no theory, I know it as a solid fact, over 99%
of the churches are infiltrated by double agents, who are simply waiting for
the command to follow the World Orders wishes. (The Illuminati are masters at
overkill.) In terms of church membership, I would estimate about 98% of the
church members go to churches that have pastors who are controlled by the
World Order. (By the way, do you know where you pastor is tonight?) Some small
churches have escaped the control and have real Christian pastors, but from my
interviews with these pastors, most have little concept about what is going
on, and their training to become a pastor has taught them to avoid people like
me who might educate them.
After the Russian tanks had rolled into Rumania, and the Russians took
political control of the nation, Stalin called a meeting of all the ministers
and pastors of Rumania. They numbered 4,000, and they almost unanimously
elected this persecutor of the faith as the religious leader of their
Congress. (Never mind he held leadership positions in Atheist organizations at
the time. Not to mention that he was quietly a type of Freemason as well as a
Satanist). Richard Wurmbrand's wife goaded him into taking the mike at this
large meeting and saying our allegiance is to Christ first, which was a bold
statement in the situation, and laid the foundation for his eventual 14 years
of torture by the communists. The President of the Baptists said that Stalin
was such a saint that his activities only followed the ten commandments (i.e.
sinless), and was a great teacher of the Bible. Various ministers ran to get
the communist hammer and sickle placed on their garments. Deputy bishop of the
Lutherans (second in that church's hierarchy) preached that Stalin was the
third great prophet after Moses and Jesus, and that Stalin's revelations
superceded Christ's! Can you see how they fell all over themselves to
apostasize! Kiss the butt of Satan. (They probably did that in secret. There
are really ceremonies where that is done.)
Now the situation in America is much worse than Rumania when that religious
Congress was called. Many of our pastors are programmed multiple slaves of the
Illuminati. Many of the other ones are totally blackmailed. I had a friend who
saw some of the blackmail files on these pastors. Cisco, who I brought out of
the Illuminati, was involved while a member in blackmailing pastors. Long
story short, I know what's happening. Any time the World Order wants to repeat
what Stalin did, they can do it in this nation. We have a programmed multiple
as our President, who calls himself a Christian, but comes from a generational
satanic bloodline. I have worked with the Illuminati's programming. Remember
that George Orwell said the future could be envisioned as "a boot stamping on
a human face-forever."(1984, p. 270) And Aldous Huxley said that slaves in
the future would "love their servitude" (Brave New World, p. xii) Both were
right. They use the boot (trauma) to trauma bond the slave to his master whom
he loves. When the master wants to, he can rotate the alter systems of his
slaves (with codes), and in minutes all these tens of thousands of Christian
pastors could be switched into personalities that sacrifice children in
satanic rituals. But they won't need to show their hand. Just call a meeting
and everyone will follow along with the World Order's agenda.
It never ceases to amaze me that some people have bought one of the
Illuminati's spins that the Pope will protect them. Yeah, just like he
protected people from Hitler and Stalin. Have you noticed the New Cath.
Encyclopedia has articles on "Masturbation" and "Merovingian Art" but not the
"Mark of the Beast"? They must not consider that an important issue for our
time.
And whatever these traitors decide, it will force the real Christians back
into a corner. "Don't you want to respect your leaders? Your Bible teaches you
to follow them. You need to be accountable." They'll use our religious leaders
to lead us into apostasy and more compromise. It will really make the rest of
us stand out as crazy rebels. Some of us may stand up like Daniel, & this
faithfulness will bring honor to God. Let's not forget how truly helpless we
are independent of God. Sure you can join the rebellion against God, but that
is a death march down a dead end street.
What form of "Christianity" will they condescend to let us have? What mold
will they squeeze us into? What defilements are planned to eat away at our
souls?
It's sad that these ministers will not likely heed the warning of history, the
biblical accounts of the kings of Israel (and its smaller southern kingdom
called Judah), who jumped into apostasy as fast as they could pervert
themselves: Ahab, Ahaz, Ahaziah, Amon, Jehoram, Jeroboam, and Saul. And then
there were some of the others who began well but gradually slipped like
Solomon. For if they read these accounts, they would discover that evil
contains the seed of its own destruction. These men ruined their nations.
They ruined their own reputations. Paraphrasing a modern Christian patriot,
These corrupt leaders today are polishing brass on the Titanic. The question
is how long will it take for evil to run its course and destroy itself? or
will they push things to the limit, and bring God's wrath down? Either way
they are infatuated with destruction, and their evil carries the seeds of its
own destruction. Evil is a dead end. Who doesn't know what a mass murderer
and monster Stalin was? Who left more of a legacy and a better one at that,
Daniel with his faithfulness, or Nebuchadnezzar with his incredible city with
its amazing canals, gardens, artwork and architecture?
If we stand firm in our conscience, the battles get easier down the line.
Sadly "mature" Christians are not warning young Christians that holiness will
cost them (even the house built on the rock got tested). The up side of
holiness is that your insides don't have to feel like a mushroom full of
maggots. Christians are so carelessly defiling their crippled consciences they
can't even recognize compromise, look at all the churches with Halloween
garbage in them. You don't even want to hear what will go on tonight!
The point of this article is then twofold:
First, to warn those who have ears to hear that there is nothing between this
nation and total apostasy. If the world's leaders wanted to, they could
demolish Christendom tomorrow like splitting a rotten log. On the other hand,
the elite are all robots to the Illuminati's 10, 20, and 30-year plans, and
they carry out their actions according to strict orders and plans. That is no
real reprieve, for when and if they move, it will mean a chance to suffer for
righteousness for the rest of us. It will be a good time to plead for God's
mercy. Hey! Daniel & his friends did it.
Second, I can't promise you that if you stand up for what is right that you'll
become a prime minister of some empire like Joseph and Daniel did. But I can
promise you based both on the Word of God, and a 100% historical track record,
evil self-destructs. So take courage, by God's grace, we stand a chance to
either overcome or bring honor to God, or both.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Saturday, June 19, 2010
BP Oil Spill
Indeed, given its chequered recent history and experience of controversy, perhaps the most surprising thing about the Gulf oil spill is just how badly BP has handled the publicity surrounding it. ORNOT...
Scientist: BP's Oil Spill Estimates Improbable
http://www.vpr.net/npr/126975907/
Gulf Spill May Far Exceed Official Estimates
http://ww.npr.org/templates/transcrip...
BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil spill
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ne...
Goldman Sachs Sold 44% of its BP stock three weeks before the Deepwater Horizon explosion
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-9...
Goldman Sachs knew Gulf oil leak in advance.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/k...
Media ignores Goldman Sachs' ties to Corexit dispersant
http://www.picassodreams.com/picasso_...
Deepwater Horizon survivors allege they were kept in seclusion after rig explosion, coerced into signing legal waivers
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/2010052...
http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
Abridged Activist Orientation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2fNfi...
Scientist: BP's Oil Spill Estimates Improbable
http://www.vpr.net/npr/126975907/
Gulf Spill May Far Exceed Official Estimates
http://ww.npr.org/templates/transcrip...
BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil spill
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ne...
Goldman Sachs Sold 44% of its BP stock three weeks before the Deepwater Horizon explosion
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-9...
Goldman Sachs knew Gulf oil leak in advance.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/k...
Media ignores Goldman Sachs' ties to Corexit dispersant
http://www.picassodreams.com/picasso_...
Deepwater Horizon survivors allege they were kept in seclusion after rig explosion, coerced into signing legal waivers
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/2010052...
http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
Abridged Activist Orientation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2fNfi...
Friday, June 18, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Court: Israelis suspected in 'Nigerian scam' can be extradited to U.S.
Well, well, well...all those Nigerian Princess and Lottery scams came from Israel.
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The seven Israelis suspected of scamming tens of millions of dollars from U.S. pensioners in a so-called "Nigerian scam" can be extradited to the United States to face trial there, the Jerusalem District Court ruled on Wednesday.
The seven, arrested by Tel Aviv police in July 2009, have been charged by American prosecutors for a serious of legal violations, including conspiracy to commit fraud. Some of the defendants also face money laundering charges.
The defendants are suspected of building a sophisticated crime network to defraud elderly American pensioners. Over four years, the network netted tens of millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains.
The defendants, all in their 20s and 30s, allegedly phoned American pensioners, told them they had won the lottery and asked them for a fee of several thousand dollars for the transfer of the prize money, which in fact never existed.
The investigation that uncovered the network was conducted in conjunction between Israeli and U.S. law enforcement agencies
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/court-israelis-suspected-in-nigerian-scam-can-be-extradited-to-u-s-1.296597
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The seven Israelis suspected of scamming tens of millions of dollars from U.S. pensioners in a so-called "Nigerian scam" can be extradited to the United States to face trial there, the Jerusalem District Court ruled on Wednesday.
The seven, arrested by Tel Aviv police in July 2009, have been charged by American prosecutors for a serious of legal violations, including conspiracy to commit fraud. Some of the defendants also face money laundering charges.
The defendants are suspected of building a sophisticated crime network to defraud elderly American pensioners. Over four years, the network netted tens of millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains.
The defendants, all in their 20s and 30s, allegedly phoned American pensioners, told them they had won the lottery and asked them for a fee of several thousand dollars for the transfer of the prize money, which in fact never existed.
The investigation that uncovered the network was conducted in conjunction between Israeli and U.S. law enforcement agencies
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/court-israelis-suspected-in-nigerian-scam-can-be-extradited-to-u-s-1.296597
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
BP and Haliburton and the network
Sales of shares and stocks in days and weeks beforehand
- Halliburton link, acquisition of cleanup company days before explosion
- BP report cites undocumented tampering with well sealing equipment
- Government uses disaster to push for Carbon Tax, Nationalization talk
Troubling evidence surrounding the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20th suggests that the incident could have been manufactured.
On April 12th, just over one week before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, Halliburton, the world's second largest oilfield services corporation, surprised some by acquiring Boots & Coots, a relatively small but vastly experienced oil
well control companies.
The company deals with fires and blowouts on oil rigs and oil wells. It was responsible for putting out roughly one third of the more than 700 oil well fires set in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi soldiers during the Gulf War.
The deal itself is still under scrutiny with Boots and Coots facing an ongoing investigation into "possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of state law"
Where this information gets really interesting is with the fact that Halliburton is named in the majority of some two dozen lawsuits filed since the explosion by Gulf Coast people and businesses who claim that the company is to blame for the disaster.
Halliburton was forced to admit in testimony at a congressional hearing last month that it carried out a cementing operation 20 hours before the Gulf of Mexico rig went up in flames. The lawsuits claim that four Halliburton workers stationed on the rig improperly capped the well.
As the New York Times noted on May 26th, "BP officials chose, partly for financial reasons, to use a type of casing for the well that the company knew was the riskier of two options,"
Workers from the rig and company officials have said that hours before the explosion, gases were leaking through the cement, which had been set in place by the oil services contractor, Halliburton. Investigators have said these leaks were the likely cause of the explosion."
According to a 2007 study by Minerals Management Service, cementing was a factor in 18 of 39 rig blowouts in the gulf between 1992 and 2006.
Another intriguing connection Boots and Coots has to the Deepwater Horizon explosion comes via Pat Campbell, the man BP has employed to cap the well beneath the ruined rig. Campbell worked for Boots and Coots as general manager for many years.
BP has admitted to buying Yahoo and Google keywords in an attempt to control publicly available information in the wake of the catastrophe. It seems that the company is taking all the flack for the spill while the Halliburton link is being roundly ignored.
BP's prepared testimony briefing, which has since leaked online, also intriguingly notes that the Hydraulic Control System on equipment designed to automatically seal the well in an emergency was modified without their knowledge sometime before the explosion
- Halliburton link, acquisition of cleanup company days before explosion
- BP report cites undocumented tampering with well sealing equipment
- Government uses disaster to push for Carbon Tax, Nationalization talk
Troubling evidence surrounding the Deepwater Horizon explosion on April 20th suggests that the incident could have been manufactured.
On April 12th, just over one week before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, Halliburton, the world's second largest oilfield services corporation, surprised some by acquiring Boots & Coots, a relatively small but vastly experienced oil
well control companies.
The company deals with fires and blowouts on oil rigs and oil wells. It was responsible for putting out roughly one third of the more than 700 oil well fires set in Kuwait by retreating Iraqi soldiers during the Gulf War.
The deal itself is still under scrutiny with Boots and Coots facing an ongoing investigation into "possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of state law"
Where this information gets really interesting is with the fact that Halliburton is named in the majority of some two dozen lawsuits filed since the explosion by Gulf Coast people and businesses who claim that the company is to blame for the disaster.
Halliburton was forced to admit in testimony at a congressional hearing last month that it carried out a cementing operation 20 hours before the Gulf of Mexico rig went up in flames. The lawsuits claim that four Halliburton workers stationed on the rig improperly capped the well.
As the New York Times noted on May 26th, "BP officials chose, partly for financial reasons, to use a type of casing for the well that the company knew was the riskier of two options,"
Workers from the rig and company officials have said that hours before the explosion, gases were leaking through the cement, which had been set in place by the oil services contractor, Halliburton. Investigators have said these leaks were the likely cause of the explosion."
According to a 2007 study by Minerals Management Service, cementing was a factor in 18 of 39 rig blowouts in the gulf between 1992 and 2006.
Another intriguing connection Boots and Coots has to the Deepwater Horizon explosion comes via Pat Campbell, the man BP has employed to cap the well beneath the ruined rig. Campbell worked for Boots and Coots as general manager for many years.
BP has admitted to buying Yahoo and Google keywords in an attempt to control publicly available information in the wake of the catastrophe. It seems that the company is taking all the flack for the spill while the Halliburton link is being roundly ignored.
BP's prepared testimony briefing, which has since leaked online, also intriguingly notes that the Hydraulic Control System on equipment designed to automatically seal the well in an emergency was modified without their knowledge sometime before the explosion
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Gulf Oil Spill - Done on purpose
http://www.manticoregroup.com/radio/2010/06jun/jamesfox2010.mp3
http://www.manticoregroup.com/radio/2010/06jun/jamesfox2010.mp3
http://www.manticoregroup.com/radio/2010/06jun/jamesfox2010.mp3
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Gulf OIl Disaster, an Inside Job
Could the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil
rig explosion be part of a larger scheme to "reform" the energy
industry, just as the Obama
administration has "reformed" healthcare, banking and automobile
manufacturers? Worse, is "cap and trade"—possibly the worst legislation
ever
penned—the ultimate endgame behind this spill, which they are now
capitalizing upon? The first red flag receiving virtually no attention
is that
Halliburton (of Dick Cheney fame) had finished a cementing process only
20 hours prior to Deepwater Horizon erupting in flames. Lawsuits have
already
been filed, with Reuters reporting on April 29, "Halliburton improperly
and negligently performed its job in cementing the well, increasing the
pressure at the well and contributing to the fire, explosion and
resulting oil spill." As a result, a high-pressure pocket of deep oil
30,000 feet
beneath the ocean floor erupted with the force of a gigantic, non-stop
fire hose. A surviving worker on the rig, John Kersey, said it sounded
"like a
war zone" as alarms were triggered, electricity shorted out, and flames
shot 300 feet into the air. The inferno-like blaze could be seen 35
miles
away.
CONNECTIONS
BILDERBERG INFLUENCE
A TEAM EFFORT
CONNECTIONS
Suspicions arise when an ownership paper trail is followed. Halliburton subcontracted for a company named Transocean, which leased and operated Deepwater Horizon for British Petroleum (BP). Transocean is a subsidiary of Sonat Inc., which merged with the El Paso Corporation (EPC) in March 1999. Douglas Foshee, EPC's chairman, president and CEO, was hired away from Halliburton. The interim CEO prior to his arrival was Ronald Kuehn of Sonat. Another previous CEO of EPC was William Wise, who served with Cheney on the influential National Petroleum Council. EPC was the largest single contributor from Texas for Bush-Cheney's 2000 presidential campaign. Similarly, Wise helped Cheney raise $8 million for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. These incestuous relationships aren't limited to the GOP. Barack Obama and his Chicago crime network expect to reap handsome profits in the future. Step No. 1 in this process began with Chicago's Joyce Foundation, which had John Ayers (brother of terrorist William Ayers) on its board. Another board member was then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. The Joyce Foundation created the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), which in turn received financing from Franklin Raines, former head of Fannie Mae, a prime mover in our recent housing market collapse and economic recession. Of vital importance is CCX's role as the sole "carbon trading system" under Obama's cap-and-trade bill. CCX would act as a quasi-stock market to buy and sell energy emission allowances. Richard Sandor, CCX founder, estimated a $10 trillion potential for this easily manipulated market.
BILDERBERG INFLUENCE
With that much money at stake, a host of high rollers enter the picture. Namely, one company with a huge ownership interest in CCX is Generation Investment Management (GIM), whose chairman is former Vice President Al Gore. Four other GIM founders include Henry Paulson, David Blood, Mark Ferguson and Peter Harris—all of Goldman Sachs. Not surprisingly, Goldman Sachs purchased 10 percent of CCX in 2006. One other individual on CCX's board of directors is the controversial Maurice Strong, a New Age occultist with direct ties to the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds. Since Goldman Sachs has now become part of the equation, we next need to examine its non-executive chairman, Peter Sutherland, who formerly filled the same role at BP, the company at the center of this debacle. As the third-largest global energy company in existence, BP has four direct links to Bilderberg: former CEO John Brown, chairman Carl Henric Svanberg, chief executive Tony Hayward and Sutherland. In addition, Sutherland formerly served as the World Trade Organization's director general, EU commissioner and chairman of the European Trilateral Commission. This background information is important because the top recipient of BP donations during the 2008 presidential campaign was Obama. Similarly, the second highest political action committee contributing to a political candidate in 2008 was Goldman Sachs. The beneficiary of their largess: Obama. Undoubtedly, one of Obama's primary big government missions is to enact cap-and-trade legislation. To implement this plan, influential decision makers such as Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Paul Volcker and Timothy Geithner are all members of the financial mafia. In this vein, David Mayer Rothschild stressed that last year's Copenhagen environmental summit was "an attempt to establish a world government." Likewise, AFP editor Jim Tucker reported on March 24, 2007 that General Lord Guthrie, director of N.M. Rothschild & Sons, said political leaders should "address the global climate crisis with a single voice, and impose rules that apply worldwide." The Rothschilds have spent huge amounts of money promoting the global warming hoax. Goldman Sachs is obviously an arm of their empire, whereas BP is among a host of companies in Nathan Rothschild's portfolio.
A TEAM EFFORT
Considering the nature of these prominent players, one factor binds them all together. Cap and trade, via the CCX, will tax carbon-dioxide emissions and generate trillions in revenue. Only a month ago, however, this legislation sat dead in the water with virtually no support from Congress or the American public. But now, with an environmental catastrophe at hand, could it be resurrected and enacted in a way that mirrored President Clinton's counter-terrorism bill following the OKC bombing? Ironically, big oil and global bankers are two of the most ardent supporters of climate change legislation. In this sense, seeming adversaries such as "environmentalist" Gore and BP are on the same team; as are Cheney's Halliburton, Goldman Sachs and Obama's CCX. It should also be noted that prior to their demise, the corrupt Enron Corporation lavished huge amounts of praise on cap and trade legislation. Lastly, if gasoline prices surge this summer due to the Gulf of Mexico spill, one obvious benefactor will be the new green-friendly "smart cars" owned by GM (Government Motors). As AFP goes to press, all containment efforts have failed as millions of gallons of oil continue to gush into the Gulf of Mexico on a weekly basis."
smoking gun on oil disaster
: Parish President is stonewalled into saving LA marshes until it is too late.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Satanic Signature in WTC rubble
Look inside the red box, and we see a pyramid with a slightly disconnected capstone, the Main SIGNATURE OF THE SATANIC ELITE, THE ILLUMINATI. Thus, this reveals to us who and what was truly behind the attacks. The dark siders may control a great deal of reality on earth, but Our Creator has his over-ruling ways of revealing truth.
BENZENE
In all
likelihood, you will encounter the chemical benzene today. It is present
in the air largely as a pollutant from manufacturing and motor vehicle
exhaust. Many manufacturing processes involve benzene including the
production detergents, medicines, synthetic fabrics and dyes. Cigarette
smoke also contains benzene. In addition to polluting the air, benzene
can also contaminate water supplies and the soil. Benzene enters the
body through inhalation of the vapors, absorption through the skin or
ingestion. The adverse health effects of benzene depend on the route,
duration and dose of your exposure.
Poisoning
Accidental or
intentional ingestion of benzene causes acute poisoning. Benzene is
rapidly absorbed into the blood stream and travels to the brain with
devastating effects. Stupor, delirium, and drowsiness give way to
seizures and coma. Fluid accumulates in the lungs compromising
breathing; there is poor oxygen absorption from the air. Intensive
treatment is necessary to prevent death.
Inhalation Injuries
Benzene irritates
the linings of the airways. Exposure to low concentration benzene
vapors can cause inflammation of the nasal airways and throat.
High-level exposure can severely damage the lungs causing fluid
accumulation and bleeding, which is often fatal. Accidental and
potentially life-threatening benzene inhalation injuries can occur in
people who practice huffing--inhaling the vapors of chemical products to
induce a recreational high.
Skin Disorders
Benzene is
harmful to the skin. Exposure to low levels of benzene vapors may cause
dermatitis--a local skin reaction characterized by dry, itchy, red skin.
Highly concentrated benzene vapors or spills of liquid benzene on the
skin can cause second-degree burns.
Headaches and Neurological Problems
Headaches, sleep
disturbances, irritability, confusion, memory loss and nerve damage in
the extremities (arms and legs) may occur with persistent exposure to
benzene vapors. Short-term exposure to highly concentrated benzene
vapors may cause decreased consciousness, stupor, seizures, coma and
possibly death.
Pancytopenia
Chronic exposure
to benzene can cause a serious bone marrow disorder called pancytopenia.
A marked reduction in the number of red blood cells, white blood cells
and platelets occurs because the bone marrow--the site of all blood cell
and platelet production--cannot produce sufficient quantities.
Pancytopenia causes chronic anemia and increases risk for serious
infections. The low platelet count may cause uncontrolled bleeding.
Aplastic Anemia
Chronic benzene
exposure may cause aplastic anemia, which is a more advanced form of
pancytopenia. With this disorder, the bone marrow is so severely damaged
that blood cell and platelet production drop to levels too low to
sustain life. Transfusions are necessary to replace the blood cells not
produced by the bone marrow. Bone marrow transplant is generally the
best option for long-term survival with aplastic anemia.
Leukemia
Protracted
occupational or other exposure to benzene may cause leukemia--cancer of
the white blood cells. The strongest association is with acute
myelogenous leukemia followed by chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Regulations are now in place in the U.S. to control benzene exposure in
the workplace and prevent occupationally induced leukemias.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Gulf Dead Zone BEFORE oil tragedy, circa 2008: red is totally dead and so on...
but pay attention to the image within the black circle....
Imagine what it is today, and will be tomorrow
Monday, May 17, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
The Unholy Bible, New International Version
The NIV...corrupted in so many places that it completely alters, changes, and corrupts any factual information from the original Textus Receptus. The NIV is based on and streams from the Gnostic Alexandrian codices, then further modified to eliminate any refernece whatsover to the blood of christ. FYI.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
It was an intention event designed to kill off the communities that live off the gulf in 5 states and ruin ALL seafood forever from the gulf, as Fukushima has done for the Pacific ocean.
These satanic pigs are beyond monsters, they are abominations.
Oil Rig Explosion In Gulf Foreshadowed In 2009 Movie 'Knowing'
I and others who understand how these things work with the "network" have been saying for years that they use the media to telegraph their intentions, especially as it relates to global events. Those events that will have a global impact and of which they have total control. This can be seen in countless movies and shows, then acted out in real life within a matter of months or years. The timeline is often given, provided you understand how to read the messages given.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Will The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Be An Economic Disaster That The Gulf Coast Will Never Recover From?
As a silent blanket of black goo that is now about the size of the state of Florida slowly but relentlessly drifts towards the Gulf Coast, communities in the region are bracing for an economic catastrophe that is being described as a "slow motion Katrina". Still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Katrina after all these years, many who depend on the Gulf of Mexico for their livelihood fear that the massive oil spill heading their way could prove to be an economic disaster from which they will never recover.
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/will-the-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-be-an-economic-disaster-that-the-gulf-coast-will-never-recover-from
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/will-the-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-be-an-economic-disaster-that-the-gulf-coast-will-never-recover-from
Oil slick lies from the MSM and BP
Oil rig survivors and those in the industry say that the flow volume is at least ten times the reported figure of 5,000 barrels a day.
Happy Day, Mothers!
Editor’s Note: For most Americans, Mother’s Day means ordering some flowers or buying a card to express a sentimental appreciation for one’s mother, but that wasn’t what the first Mother’s Day had in mind.
The original Mother’s Day Proclamation from poet and suffragette Julia Ward Howe was a protest against the evils of war, a call to mothers to act to prevent future wars that would exact horrific tolls on their sons and the sons of others, as Gary G. Kohls reminds us:
In 1870 – 140 years ago – the disastrous human consequences of the American Civil War were becoming increasingly apparent, especially to the mothers of sons and the wives of husbands who had watched as these men proudly and patriotically marched off to “glorious” war a decade earlier.
Some of these women had probably (and regretfully) participated in the pre-war flag-waving fervor that war planners and profiteers cunningly elicit from the poor and working classes who will be doing the dirty work.
Everything changed, however, when the killing and maiming started and the permanent war wounded struggled back home with desperate needs for medical and mental health care.
Julia Ward Howe was a life-long abolitionist and therefore probably a reluctant supporter of the Union Army’s anti-slavery rationale for going to war against the pro-slavery Confederate South.
A compassionate and well-educated middle child of an upper-class family, Howe was also a poet who, in the early days of the Civil War, wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” using many biblically-based lyrics.
Though she later became a pacifist and a famous antiwar activist, her fervent anti-slavery attitudes inspired her to write that still famous song; and she did it in one sitting, in the pre-dawn darkness of Nov. 18, 1861.
Originally, Howe had thought of her song as an abolitionist anthem. However, because of some militant-sounding lyrics and the eminently marchable tune, the song soon was adopted by the Union Army as its most inspiring war song.
At the time, the Civil War also had not yet degenerated into the wholesale mutual mass slaughter made possible by the advances in weaponry that were destined to make obsolete the cavalry, the bayonet and the sword.
Grim Images
In part because of the relatively uncensored battlefield journalism of the time and the grim images of dead soldiers made possible by the invention of the camera, it didn’t take too long for peace-loving, justice-oriented activists to recognize that war was the equivalent of hell on earth.
By the time the Civil War ended in 1865, 600,000 American soldiers were dead, with no accurate count of the likely much larger number of soldiers wounded, disabled or missing in action.
Women saw their sons and husbands returning home broken in body and spirit – definitely not as heroes, as had been the pre-war hope – and the minds of Howe and other women were changed about the lie that war is glorious.
The families of the returning Civil War veterans, both North and South, also discovered that many of the soldiers who had no visible scars were emotionally disabled, a problem that actually grew worse after they were home and out of “harm’s way.”
The healing effect of time didn’t work like it was supposed to with these psychologically wounded veterans. The so-called “unwounded ones” often suffered melancholy, had nightmares, couldn’t function in society and turned suicidal, homicidal and/or anti-social.
Many of the most infamous train and bank robbers and serial killers of the late 1800s got their start as Civil War soldiers, most famously the members of the James gang.
Because of normal society’s inability to deal with massive numbers of war-traumatized veterans, the first “veterans homes” were constructed for the long-term care of the tens of thousands of invalided ex-soldiers who otherwise might have died homeless, hungry and helpless.
Many of these unfortunates were diagnosed as having “Soldiers’ Heart,” also known in the Civil War era as “Nostalgia,” a commonly incurable malady better known today as “Combat-Induced PTSD” (posttraumatic stress disorder).
The horrors of the Civil War even changed those the conflict made famous. Speaking to a graduating class of military cadets years later, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman uttered his famous truth about the nature of warfare as part of a rebuke to the era’s “chicken-hawks,” people who call for war without having experienced it.
“I confess without shame that I am tired and sick of war,” Sherman said. “Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded, who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is Hell.”
By 1870, Julia Ward Howe had been deeply affected both by the ongoing agonies of Civil War veterans and the carnage occurring overseas in the Franco-Prussian War. Though very short, that war resulted in almost 100,000 killed in action plus another 100,000 lethally wounded or sickened.
The First Mother’s Day
So, as a humanist who cared about suffering people – as well as a feminist and a suffragette who advocated social justice – Howe penned her “Mother’s Day Proclamation” in 1870 as an appeal to mothers to spare their sons and the sons of others from the depredations of war.
The Mother’s Day Proclamation was partly a lament for the useless deaths and partly a call to action to stop future wars. The call was directed, not to men, many of whom may have felt proud for their “service,” but to women, who often have proved more thoughtful and humane about issues of human suffering.
Then, on June 2, 1872, in New York City, Julia Ward Howe held the first “Mother’s Day” as an anti-war observance, a practice Howe continued in Boston for the next decade before it died out.
The modern Mother’s Day, with its apolitical message, emerged in the early Twentieth Century, with Howe’s original intent largely erased from the mainstream consciousness. Howe’s vision of an antiwar mother’s call to action was watered-down into an annual expression of sentimentality.
Like most other holidays (including religious ones), Mother’s Day in capitalist America has been transformed into just another expectation of gift-buying and gift-giving.
What was originally a call to mobilize outraged mothers to keep their sons and husbands from going off half-cocked to kill and die for some corporate war profiteer or other, became just another opportunity to market non-essential consumer goods.
Note in Howe’s proclamation below how strongly she felt that wives and mothers should never have to be put in the position of comforting or applauding their soldier-husbands or soldier-sons when they come home from war “reeking of carnage.”
In her view, the prevention of such “reeking” was so much simpler than the attempt to reverse the consequences of the “carnage” of war.
Howe also felt that mothers should never allow war-making institutions to make killers out of their sons whom they had raised to be ethical, humane people with love for humankind.
One must wonder, too, what Howe meant when she referred to “irrelevant agencies.” One can only assume that the same American military, governmental, corporate and bureaucratic agencies that have been messing things up in Iraq, Afghanistan, New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico and all over the world were also operating in the last half of the 1800s.
Wall Street and the military/industrial/congressional/media complex – the entities that dominate U.S. policymaking today – were probably in operation then, too, though surely with less exorbitant salaries, bonuses, contracts and cost overruns.
Given the ongoing horrors of war, perhaps it’s finally time for people of good will to recall Julia Ward Howe’s peacemaking vision on this Mother’s Day, 2010.
Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation of 1870:
"Arise then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or tears!
"Say firmly: 'We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies.
Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have taught them of charity, mercy and patience.
We women of one country will be too tender of those of another to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.'
"From the bosom of the devastated earth, a voice goes up with our own. It says, 'Disarm, disarm!'
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor does violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar but of God.
"In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace."
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/050610a.html
The original Mother’s Day Proclamation from poet and suffragette Julia Ward Howe was a protest against the evils of war, a call to mothers to act to prevent future wars that would exact horrific tolls on their sons and the sons of others, as Gary G. Kohls reminds us:
In 1870 – 140 years ago – the disastrous human consequences of the American Civil War were becoming increasingly apparent, especially to the mothers of sons and the wives of husbands who had watched as these men proudly and patriotically marched off to “glorious” war a decade earlier.
Some of these women had probably (and regretfully) participated in the pre-war flag-waving fervor that war planners and profiteers cunningly elicit from the poor and working classes who will be doing the dirty work.
Everything changed, however, when the killing and maiming started and the permanent war wounded struggled back home with desperate needs for medical and mental health care.
Julia Ward Howe was a life-long abolitionist and therefore probably a reluctant supporter of the Union Army’s anti-slavery rationale for going to war against the pro-slavery Confederate South.
A compassionate and well-educated middle child of an upper-class family, Howe was also a poet who, in the early days of the Civil War, wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” using many biblically-based lyrics.
Though she later became a pacifist and a famous antiwar activist, her fervent anti-slavery attitudes inspired her to write that still famous song; and she did it in one sitting, in the pre-dawn darkness of Nov. 18, 1861.
Originally, Howe had thought of her song as an abolitionist anthem. However, because of some militant-sounding lyrics and the eminently marchable tune, the song soon was adopted by the Union Army as its most inspiring war song.
At the time, the Civil War also had not yet degenerated into the wholesale mutual mass slaughter made possible by the advances in weaponry that were destined to make obsolete the cavalry, the bayonet and the sword.
Grim Images
In part because of the relatively uncensored battlefield journalism of the time and the grim images of dead soldiers made possible by the invention of the camera, it didn’t take too long for peace-loving, justice-oriented activists to recognize that war was the equivalent of hell on earth.
By the time the Civil War ended in 1865, 600,000 American soldiers were dead, with no accurate count of the likely much larger number of soldiers wounded, disabled or missing in action.
Women saw their sons and husbands returning home broken in body and spirit – definitely not as heroes, as had been the pre-war hope – and the minds of Howe and other women were changed about the lie that war is glorious.
The families of the returning Civil War veterans, both North and South, also discovered that many of the soldiers who had no visible scars were emotionally disabled, a problem that actually grew worse after they were home and out of “harm’s way.”
The healing effect of time didn’t work like it was supposed to with these psychologically wounded veterans. The so-called “unwounded ones” often suffered melancholy, had nightmares, couldn’t function in society and turned suicidal, homicidal and/or anti-social.
Many of the most infamous train and bank robbers and serial killers of the late 1800s got their start as Civil War soldiers, most famously the members of the James gang.
Because of normal society’s inability to deal with massive numbers of war-traumatized veterans, the first “veterans homes” were constructed for the long-term care of the tens of thousands of invalided ex-soldiers who otherwise might have died homeless, hungry and helpless.
Many of these unfortunates were diagnosed as having “Soldiers’ Heart,” also known in the Civil War era as “Nostalgia,” a commonly incurable malady better known today as “Combat-Induced PTSD” (posttraumatic stress disorder).
The horrors of the Civil War even changed those the conflict made famous. Speaking to a graduating class of military cadets years later, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman uttered his famous truth about the nature of warfare as part of a rebuke to the era’s “chicken-hawks,” people who call for war without having experienced it.
“I confess without shame that I am tired and sick of war,” Sherman said. “Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded, who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is Hell.”
By 1870, Julia Ward Howe had been deeply affected both by the ongoing agonies of Civil War veterans and the carnage occurring overseas in the Franco-Prussian War. Though very short, that war resulted in almost 100,000 killed in action plus another 100,000 lethally wounded or sickened.
The First Mother’s Day
So, as a humanist who cared about suffering people – as well as a feminist and a suffragette who advocated social justice – Howe penned her “Mother’s Day Proclamation” in 1870 as an appeal to mothers to spare their sons and the sons of others from the depredations of war.
The Mother’s Day Proclamation was partly a lament for the useless deaths and partly a call to action to stop future wars. The call was directed, not to men, many of whom may have felt proud for their “service,” but to women, who often have proved more thoughtful and humane about issues of human suffering.
Then, on June 2, 1872, in New York City, Julia Ward Howe held the first “Mother’s Day” as an anti-war observance, a practice Howe continued in Boston for the next decade before it died out.
The modern Mother’s Day, with its apolitical message, emerged in the early Twentieth Century, with Howe’s original intent largely erased from the mainstream consciousness. Howe’s vision of an antiwar mother’s call to action was watered-down into an annual expression of sentimentality.
Like most other holidays (including religious ones), Mother’s Day in capitalist America has been transformed into just another expectation of gift-buying and gift-giving.
What was originally a call to mobilize outraged mothers to keep their sons and husbands from going off half-cocked to kill and die for some corporate war profiteer or other, became just another opportunity to market non-essential consumer goods.
Note in Howe’s proclamation below how strongly she felt that wives and mothers should never have to be put in the position of comforting or applauding their soldier-husbands or soldier-sons when they come home from war “reeking of carnage.”
In her view, the prevention of such “reeking” was so much simpler than the attempt to reverse the consequences of the “carnage” of war.
Howe also felt that mothers should never allow war-making institutions to make killers out of their sons whom they had raised to be ethical, humane people with love for humankind.
One must wonder, too, what Howe meant when she referred to “irrelevant agencies.” One can only assume that the same American military, governmental, corporate and bureaucratic agencies that have been messing things up in Iraq, Afghanistan, New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico and all over the world were also operating in the last half of the 1800s.
Wall Street and the military/industrial/congressional/media complex – the entities that dominate U.S. policymaking today – were probably in operation then, too, though surely with less exorbitant salaries, bonuses, contracts and cost overruns.
Given the ongoing horrors of war, perhaps it’s finally time for people of good will to recall Julia Ward Howe’s peacemaking vision on this Mother’s Day, 2010.
Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation of 1870:
"Arise then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or tears!
"Say firmly: 'We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies.
Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have taught them of charity, mercy and patience.
We women of one country will be too tender of those of another to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.'
"From the bosom of the devastated earth, a voice goes up with our own. It says, 'Disarm, disarm!'
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor does violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar but of God.
"In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace."
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/050610a.html
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