Jacqueline Thorpe - November 13, 2008

The Group of 20 summit in Washington this weekend has nostalgically been dubbed Bretton Woods II in a nod to the historic 1944 gathering in New Hampshire that laid the groundwork for the postwar economic order.

While the G20 is keen on hammering out a new financial order for the 21st-century global economy, one of the key elements of the original Bretton Woods Agreement is unlikely to get more than a passing glance — currencies.

The cornerstone of Bretton Woods was a fixed exchange rate system designed to prevent the “beggar-thy-neighbour” currency devaluations that wreaked havoc on the global economy in the 1930s. The system broke down in the 1970s, and currencies have been the Achilles heel of the global economy ever since.

Today is no exception. While presidents and prime ministers get set to tinker with new global regulations and promise to pour more stimulus into a beaten-down global economy, the 10,000-pound dragon in the summit room will surely be China’s insistence on maintaining a weak currency to boost export growth, and the bulging war chest of foreign exchange reserves around the world.

China, its BRIC brothers — Brazil, Russia, India — and other emerging powers may have won a seat at the summit table but the global economy has still not figured how to absorb their growing might without major disruption.

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Via the Freemasonry Watch blog.

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R. A. Gilbert also recently attended a Rose Circle Research Foundation conference, and was “presented with his Certificate as a Fellow of the Rose Circle Research Society.” Talks were presented in the Egyptian Temple Room of the Masonic Hall, 71 West 23rd St., New York.

Victor Thorn - American Free Press (Issue # 47, November 24, 2008)

More sinister than Karl Rove and potentially deadlier than Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney, his name is Rahm Emanuel, and he was recently appointed chief of staff in the president-elect’s White House. This first official act should send waves of alarm through people because Barack Obama promised change, but what we’re getting is the exact same cabal that brought us 9-11 and endless war in the Middle East.

Initial media reports described Emanuel as a vulgar, Chicago-based enforcer who had an aggressive, in-your- face, pit-bull style. Others painted him as a partisan Washington insider with strong ties to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Although these labels seem harsh, the reality is far worse.

Rahm Emanuel, nicknamed “Rahmbo,” is a pro- Israel Orthodox Jew who was educated in a Talmudic yeshiva and served as a volunteer in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). He is a dual citizen of Israel, which his office  refused to deny when AFP inquired. Israel is the only nation where Americans can apply for and obtain citizenship without automatically renouncing U.S. citizenship.

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Sorbo to star in new franchise ‘The Illuminati’

By W. H. Bourne

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 11/11/08 – “I love this stuff,” says ‘The Illuminati: Out of Chaos Comes Order’ star Kevin Sorbo. “I’ve been doing action, fantasy, and sci-fi stuff all my life, but ‘Illuminati’ also has some great drama. People usually associate me as the good guy, but in this I get to be an anti-hero.”

Sorbo is best known for his work in ‘Hercules: The Legendary Journeys’ and ‘Andromeda’. As the 29th annual American Film Market winds down in Santa Monica, buyers and sellers offer mixed reviews of the market in the wake of the recent global economic down turn. Of course, if you have a hot product there’s no shortage of buyers.

Sorbo teams up with ‘Andromeda’ director David Winning. ‘Illuminati’ is being produced by Elizabeth Fowler of Clear Pictures Entertainment. “Liz brought me the project,” says Winning, “and the first person I thought of was Kevin”. Also cast for ‘Illuminati’ are Lance Henriksen and C. Thomas Howell.

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Via Skilluminati:

Changing Images of Man is the stuff of legend — but the actual document is way more interesting than the conspiracy theory that surrounds it. It’s an undeniably weird document, though, and even the most airbrushed versions of it’s origin and history make for mind-expanding reading.

Changing Images is especially interesting today because the “future crisis” it was written to avert is now coming to pass. The Stanford Research Institute gathered a diverse group of brilliant thinkers and asked them to imagine how to change the entire world. Today it makes for occasionally challenging but rewarding brainfood.

When I first got ahold of this document, I thought it was the blueprint for world government and Willis Harman’s beloved “Global Mind Change.” There’s no secret formulas here, and no admissions from the secret society. There is a robust and still-valuable body of work about how to change human culture for the better — I’d like to think that’s more useful. Let me know if you agree.

Kurt Nimmo - November 13, 2008

In the audio here, recorded in 2006, Obama’s recently selected chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, details his ideas for compulsory service for all Americans. “There can be nothing wrong with all Americans having a joint similar experience of civil… what we call civil defense training or civil service… some sense of service to country in preparation, which will give people a sense of what it means to be an American,” Emanuel told NY Daily News reporter Ben Smith. According to Emanuel, this government mandated servitude “will give people a sense of what it means to be an American,” or an American of the sort defined by the bankers and their minions.

Emanuel told Smith involuntary servitude will become “a common experience,” part of a government mandated “circle of love” that will instill “some sense of service to country.”

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From the European Council on Foreign Relations (the actual title of the article).

I’m convinced they are just mocking us now; and that those in the media who have also become addicted to bashing our heads in with the term/goal/agenda “new world order,” are in on it. The financial rouse has given them cart blanche.

Stephen Foley - 12 November 2008

For the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, it is a “new Bretton Woods”, as important as the 1944 convention that established the modern financial world order. For Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, it is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to remake the global financial architecture and usher in an era of “regulated capitalism”. But beware the headlines that these leaders try to manufacture when they assemble for their credit crisis summit in Washington this weekend.

What we have is a summit without an agenda, on a crisis without an agreed cause, in a country without a functioning government. The US – whose outgoing President agreed to hold the meeting under French pressure, and whose President-elect, keen to stress that the US has “only one president at a time”, won’t even be there – has already bristled at European talk of a creating new supra-national regulators and international rules.

So little wonder everyone else is scrambling to downplay expectations for what might emerge, and to lengthen the timetable for achieving results. As one person from the UK delegation put it, “Bretton Woods took two years”.

Bretton Woods created the International Monetary Fund, which endures as the one international body powerful enough to prop up governments and economies that run into trouble. It also created a system of fixed exchange rates that failed to endure into the Seventies. Today, despite a financial crisis that is agreed to be the worst since the Great Depression, little yet under academic discussion rises to the level of ambition on display in the New Hampshire mountains in 1944. Certainly, nothing likely to be on the table on Friday and Saturday rises to that level.

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John Valentini has expanded his “Hollywood 9/11: 9/11 Synchronicities In Films” into a book.

I must confess that after posting his original article, the email responses were overwhelming. The discoveries that reader’s had uncovered were numerous and significant. At first I had forwarded them to John, but it didn’t take long before I grew weary of being the middle man.

John, I hope they succeeded in contacting you, and that the new discoveries ultimately made it in the book.

Jay Dyer writes:

I thought about doing this last year, but someone has already compiled several of the ones I noticed.

spytfyre - November 8, 2008

In short, eugenics is the applied science of Darwinism (social darwinisim).The Malthusian catastrophe where the lower class all die and the well-to-do survive, became the inspiration for eugenics. The modern eugenics movement started in the  United states in the late 1800’s and continues under different names today.  The original eugenics movement eventually was promoted in Germany, and Hitler was so inspired by the Americans he created his own genocide based on the laws of eugenics. This would have been the ultimate goal of the eugenicists, but they failed. The eugenics operations in the us changed their names. Today they are called ‘population control, or planned parenthood, or one child policy. and screening for unborn children has begun to determine their genetic standing.  Billions of dollars are being poured into the population control agenda today. The old money of the Rockefeller blending with the new money of Gates, Buffet and others.

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William L. Anderson - November 7, 2008

The voters have spoken, and so has Al Gore. It seems that the United States has no choice but to outlaw the burning of all coal and pretty much lay a chain saw to most of the energy industries and embrace something akin to the Great Leap Forward.

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The second installment in my “Illuminati Sightseeing” series. Once again it includes a lightbox with plenty of pictures. This one should appeal to a wider audience, since it involves Count St. Germain. Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel gave the infamous count refuge at his estate in Schleswig-Holstein; had an alchemical tower built - among other occult architecture - and the two of them conducted experiments there in “gold making,” etc.

It is pictures such as these - which relate to the real Illuminati - that I wish would have been included in Texe Marrs’ Mysterious Monuments. The castle and pyramid at Wilhelmsbad (a site notorious in secret society history), and the latest post on Karl von Hessen-Kassel and his occult-masonic-alchemical country estate - this is the stuff of authentic “Illuminati architecture.”

…and there’s much more to come.

David Livingstone - November 9th, 2008

I don’t watch TV or movies anymore, mostly. But I watched Elizabeth I: The Golden Age, directed by Shekhar Kapur. I’m still interested in that part of history, and I’ve had a nagging suspicion that there’s some significance I should be exploring in the Spanish Armada. It turns out the movie inspired me to discover some interesting clues.

The movie is a joke. It’s so over the top. Overt propaganda for British patriotism, and so idealizes the person of Elizabeth, aggrandizing her into a sort of superhero. So the acting is grossly exaggerated, and has no sense of realism.

And the movie follows the stereotypes forged by the Da Vinci Code in thoroughly demonizing the Catholics. All suspicions of the Vatican being the bastion of all modern evil aside, this is a pathological bent that is symptomatic of wholesale absorption of the Illuminati agenda.

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(November 05, 2008) The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, hosted the illustrated symposium ‘Caravaggio and the Knights of Malta: a 400-Year Perspective’ on 24 October. The meeting was attended by art experts and aficionados and by a sizeable contingent of American-based Knights of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Prof. David M. Stone of the University of Delaware’s Art History Department, organised the symposium to celebrate the quadricentennial of Caravaggio’s historic visit to Malta (1607-1608). He underlined that “Caravaggio made some of his greatest works in Malta, including his largest and only signed painting, ‘The Beheading of St John the Baptist’ (1608), painted for the Oratory of San Giovanni Decollato in the Annex of St John’s Co-Cathedral.”

Three internationally known Caravaggio scholars presented new research on the artist: Prof. David M. Stone (University of Delaware), Prof. Catherine Puglisi (Rutgers University), and Prof. Keith Sciberras (University of Malta).