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Unstable natural compounds (VOCs) and biohazards air air pollution in municipal strong waste switch station have been investigated. As compressor working, the concentrations of just about all quantified 14 VOCs (0.32-306.03 μg m(-3)) have been a lot larger than these as compressor off (0-13.31 μg m(-3)). Comparatively, solely Three VOCs with extraordinarily low concentrations might…
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As a long time player rep for the MLB Players Association, I got involved in some tough cases. Strikes or near strikes, grievances, drug policies. We thought collectively, but every once in a while, a player took matters into his own hands for a variety of reasons. Delmon Young, who was recently suspended for seven games without pay (which means he will be docked about $250,000) has decided to accept his punishment without using the union to appeal. But this is bad for Young, and bad for the game of baseball.
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No doubt Young has decided not to mount a defense in part because what he did was indefensible. Young was arrested after he assaulted a man outside his team hotel and allegedly made anti-Semitic slurs. He was so drunk that he had to be taken to a hospital for the night to sober up.
A little background: Young is a tightly wound and competitive person who learned how to play the game from a disciplined father. He did unravel in one incident in the minor leagues for throwing a bat at an umpire in a fit of frustration. Not that this excuses his behavior, but most of his high-strung expectations come from what he puts on himself. His brother, Dmitri, was also a successful long-time major leaguer and is considered an ambassador to the game of baseball even as he too endured his own personal struggles.
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Hate crimes cannot be tolerated, and whether Young was at the ballpark or not, he still has a greater duty as a visible professional athlete. Even so, he should still challenge the ruling, in part to support the process that was built on the backs of so many players that came before him. Challenging it does not condone the actions, does not support the hurtful words, does not make you sleep at night, but it does get the community of players involved so that they have to respond collectively to an issue. It means that the community then has to address any potential institutional problems that may have contributed to this offense, or at least think collectively about possible solutions.
Young is remorseful and reportedly undergoing anger management, although that never lead to sustainable improvement. In the end, he may find it most fitting to take another $250,000 and make a donation to an organization that represents those most impacted by his offensive words. The league and the player's association would likely endorse that gesture as well.
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Norman Catherine, a South African artist, critic of the apartheid regime, educator and promoter of Black artists
Norman Catherine was born in East London, South Africa in September 1949. He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo exhibition in 1969. This exhibition consisted of oil paintings on wood, bone, wire and an assortment of found objects. The following year he began his career as a commercial artist in Johannesburg.
Shortly after his first exhibition in 1969, Catherine began collaborating with Walter Battiss on the project 'Fook Island'. This project involved the building of Fook Manor at Hartebeespoort Dam, designing murals and merchandising. For a period of almost 20 years, he prepared the design of a book with Allan Cameron entitled "The Legend of Memo the Hierophant" which was finally published in 1995.
Catherine spent time overseas, in New York and Los Angeles, working on various projects. One of these projects was the animation for Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat. He has represented South Africa in major international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale and Art Basel, and has been included in numerous important shows in New York, Los Angeles, London and Berlin.
As both a sculptor and painter, Catherine works in an assortment of media, ranging from oil, acrylic, watercolour, and airbrush; as well as wood, fibreglass, wire, and metal. He incorporates surrealistic elements into his work, and uses humour with a dark overtone to confront the horrors of apartheid.
Catherine's art has undergone several metamorphoses over the last 40 years. Each passing decade was characterized by different features, from the airbrush paintings of the 1970s, to the mixed media works of 1980s. His work in the late 1980s was characterized by wire sculptures and tin cans, and his paintings from the early 1990s set the tone of future artworks, which have been described as a "pre-millennial menagerie of anthropomorphic beasts".
In the thirty years spanning his career, Catherine's visual trademarks have included rough-edged comical and nightmarish forms, rendered in brash cartoon colours. He has had 25 solo exhibitions and his work is displayed in numerous public and private collections, both locally and internationally.


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The Committee of 300 governs the world via a three-city state empire, in which the cities pay no taxes and obey their own laws.
City of London Corporation – Financial power center, established in 106;
District of Columbia – Military power center, established in 1871;
Vatican City – Religious power center, sovereign in 1929 ;
The Committee of 300 uses a network of roundtable groups, think tanks and secret societies which control the world's largest financial institutions and governments.
The most prominent of these groups include Chatham House, Bilderburg Group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, Ditchley Foundation, Club of Rome, RAND Corporation, PNAC and of course Freemasonry.
Western Europe, excluding the German Empire, was united by the House of Guelph in 1815. The German Empire was conquered in 1918 along with the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire following World War I.
The thousand year war between the Guelph's and Ghibelline's finally concluded with the Axis defeat in WWII, and the introduction of nuclear weapons, since then the world has been under monopolist control.
The victors of WWII play off the Germanic race as losers in that ideologically staged war.
The Germanic race was in fact spectacular winners, crushing the mighty Japanese Empire and recapturing control over the Holy Land. Communism was allowed to spread through Eastern Europe and Asia, proving to be a superior method of conquering peoples than warfare.
Communism in the forms of socialism, Outcome Based Education and slanted mass media has spread through the western world converting people by suggestion to Marxist-Leninist ideology.
Following WWII in 1946 the Tavistock Institute was established in London with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Tavistock's pioneer work in behavioural science along Freudian lines of 'controlling' humans established it as the world centre of foundation ideology.
"All Tavistock and American foundation techniques have a single goal—to break down the psychological strength of the individual and render him helpless to oppose the dictators of the World Order. Any technique which helps to break down the family unit, and family inculcated principles of religion, honour, patriotism and sexual behaviour, is used by the Tavistock scientists as weapons of crowd control."
This section then goes into a whole spiel about World War III, which the Galactics have told us will not happen.
But another section of the site lists what Ben Fulford says he believes is the most accurate listing of the Committee of 300.
Some names I know. Some I don't. You may.
But there are enough well known faces from world politics – past and present, royalty, the church and financial families for me to relate to.
And so, for posterity's sake, here they are.
Current Membership List of The Committee of 300:
Abdullah II, King of Jordan
Abramovich, Roman
Ackermann, Josef
Adeane, Edward
Agius, Marcus
Ahtisaari, Martti
Akerson, Daniel
Albert II, King of Belgium
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
Amato, Giuliano
Anderson, Carl A.
Andreotti, Giulio
Andrew, Duke of York
Anne, Princess Royal
Anstee, Nick
Ash, Timothy Garton
Astor, William Waldorf
Aven, Pyotr
Balkenende, Jan Peter
Ballmer, Steve
Balls, Ed
Barroso, José Manuel
Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands
Belka, Marek
Bergsten, C. Fred
Berlusconi, Silvio
Bernake, Ben
Bernstein, Nils
Berwick, Donald
Bildt, Carl
Bischoff, Sir Winfried
Blair, Tony
Blankfein, Lloyd
Blavatnik, Leonard
Bloomberg, Michael
Bolkestein, Frits
Bolkiah, Hassanal
Bonello, Michael C
Bonino, Emma
Boren, David L.
Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg
Bronfman, Charles
Bronfman, Edgar Jr.
Bruton, John
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
Budenberg, Robin
Buffet, Warren
Bush, George HW
Cameron, David
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
Carington, Peter
Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden
Carlos, Duke of Parma
Carney, Mark
Carroll, Cynthia
Caruana, Jaime
Castell, Sir William
Chan, Anson
Chan, Margaret
Chan, Norman
Charles, Prince of Wales
Chartres, Richard
Chiaie, Stefano Delle
Chipman, Dr John
Chodiev, Patokh
Christoph, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein
Cicchitto, Fabrizio
Clark, Wesley
Clarke, Kenneth
Clegg, Nick
Clinton, Bill
Cohen, Abby Joseph
Cohen, Ronald
Cohn, Gary
Colonna di Paliano, Marcantonio, Duke of Paliano
Constantijn, Prince of the Netherlands
Constantine II, King of Greece
Cooksey, David
Cowen, Brian
Craven, Sir John
Crockett, Andrew
Dadush, Uri
D'Aloisio, Tony
Darling, Alistair
Davies, Sir Howard
Davignon, Étienne
Davis, David
de Rothschild, Benjamin
de Rothschild, David René
de Rothschild, Evelyn
de Rothschild, Leopold
Deiss, Joseph
Deripaska, Oleg
Dobson, Michael
Draghi, Mario
Du Plessis, Jan
Dudley, William C.
Duisenberg, Wim
Edward, Duke of Kent
Edward, Earl of Wessex
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
Elkann, John
Emanuele, Vittorio, Prince of Naples
Ernst August, Prince of Hanover
Feldstein, Martin
Festing, Matthew
Fillon, François
Fischer, Heinz
Fischer, Joschka
Fischer, Stanley
FitzGerald, Niall
Franz, Duke of Bavaria
Fridman, Mikhail
Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau
Gates, Bill
Geidt, Christopher
Geithner, Timothy
Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
Gibson-Smith, Dr Chris
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gore, Al
Gotlieb, Allan
Green, Stephen
Greenspan, Alan
Grosvenor, Gerald, 6th Duke of Westminster
Gurría, José Ángel
Hague, William
Hampton, Sir Philip
Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
Harald V, King of Norway
Harper, Stephen
Heisbourg, François
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Hildebrand, Philipp
Hills, Carla Anderson
Holbrooke, Richard
Honohan, Patrick
Howard, Alan
Ibragimov, Alijan
Ingves, Stefan
Isaacson, Walter
Juan Carlos, King of Spain
Jacobs, Kenneth M.
Julius, DeAnne
Juncker, Jean-Claude
Kenen, Peter
Kerry, John
King, Mervyn
Kinnock, Glenys
Kissinger, Henry
Knight, Malcolm
Koon, William H. II
Krugman, Paul
Kufuor, John
Lajolo, Giovanni
Lake, Anthony
Lambert, Richard
Lamy, Pascal
Landau, Jean-Pierre
Laurence, Timothy
Leigh-Pemberton, James
Leka, Crown Prince of Albania
Leonard, Mark
Levene, Peter
Leviev, Lev
Levitt, Arthur
Levy, Michael
Lieberman, Joe
Livingston, Ian
Loong, Lee Hsien
Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou
Louis-Dreyfus, Gérard
Mabel, Princess of Orange-Nassau
Mandelson, Peter
Manning, Sir David
Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este
Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark
Martínez, Guillermo Ortiz
Mashkevitch, Alexander
Massimo, Stefano, Prince of Roccasecca dei Volsci
Massimo-Brancaccio, Fabrizio Prince of Arsoli and Triggiano
McDonough, William Joseph
McLarty, Mack
Mersch, Yves
Michael, Prince of Kent
Michael, King of Romania
Miliband, David
Miliband, Ed
Mittal, Lakshmi
Moreno, Glen
Moritz, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
Murdoch, Rupert
Napoléon, Charles
Nasser, Jacques
Niblett, Robin
Nichols, Vincent
Nicolás, Adolfo
Noyer, Christian
Ofer, Sammy
Ogilvy, Alexandra, Lady Ogilvy
Ogilvy, David, 13th Earl of Airlie
Ollila, Jorma
Oppenheimer, Nicky
Osborne, George
Oudea, Frederic
Parker, Sir John
Patten, Chris
Pébereau, Michel
Penny, Gareth
Peres, Shimon
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Pio, Dom Duarte, Duke of Braganza
Pöhl, Karl Otto
Powell, Colin
Prokhorov, Mikhail
Quaden, Guy
Rasmussen, Anders Fogh
Ratzinger, Joseph Alois (Pope Benedict XVI)
Reuben, David
Reuben, Simon
Rhodes, William R.
Rice, Susan
Richard, Duke of Gloucester
Rifkind, Sir Malcolm
Ritblat, Sir John
Roach, Stephen S.
Robinson, Mary
Rockefeller, David Jr.
Rockefeller, David Sr.
Rockefeller, Nicholas
Rodríguez, Javier Echevarría
Rogoff, Kenneth
Roth, Jean-Pierre
Rothschild, Jacob
Rubenstein, David
Rubin, Robert
Ruspoli, Francesco, 10th Prince of Cerveteri
Safra, Joseph
Safra, Moises
Sands, Peter
Sarkozy, Nicolas
Sassoon, Isaac
Sassoon, James
Sawers, Sir Robert John
Scardino, Marjorie
Schwab, Klaus
Schwarzenberg, Karel
Schwarzman, Stephen A.
Shapiro, Sidney
Sheinwald, Nigel
Sigismund, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Archduke of Austria
Simeon of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Snowe, Olympia
Sofía, Queen of Spain
Soros, George
Specter, Arlen
Stern, Ernest
Stevenson, Dennis
Steyer, Tom
Stiglitz, Joseph
Strauss-Kahn, Dominique
Straw, Jack
Sutherland, Peter
Tanner, Mary
Tedeschi, Ettore Gotti
Thompson, Mark
Thomson, Dr. James
Tietmeyer, Hans
Trichet, Jean-Claude
Tucker, Paul
Van Rompuy, Herman
Vélez, Álvaro Uribe
Verplaetse, Alfons
Villiger, Kaspar
Vladimirovna, Maria, Grand Duchess of Russia
Volcker, Paul
von Habsburg, Otto
Waddaulah, Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin, Sultan of Brunei
Walker, Sir David
Wallenberg, Jacob
Walsh, John
Warburg, Max
Weber, Axel Alfred
Weill, Michael David
Wellink, Nout
Whitman, Marina von Neumann
Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
William Prince of Wales
Williams, Dr Rowan
Williams, Shirley
Wilson, David
Wolfensohn, James
Wolin, Neal S.
Woolf, Harry
Woolsey, R. James Jr.
Worcester, Sir Robert
Wu, Sarah
Zoellick, Robert
"Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves." –Walter Rathenau, 1909, founder of the mammoth German General Electric Corporation
The Committee of 300 is a product of the British East India Company's Council of 300. The East India Company was chartered by the British royal family in 1600. It made vast fortunes in the opium drug trade with China and became the largest company on earth in its time. Today, through many powerful alliances, the Committee of 300 rules the world and is the driving force behind the criminal agenda to create a "New World Order", under a "Totalitarian Global Government".
There is no need to use "they" or "the enemy" except as shorthand. We know who "they", the enemy, is. The Committee of 300 with its "aristocracy", its ownership of the U.S. Federal Reserve banking system, insurance companies, giant corporations, foundations, communications networks, presided over by a hierarchy of conspirators-this is the enemy.
Secret societies exist by deception.
Each is a hierarchy with an inner circle at the top, who deceives those below with lies, such as claiming a noble agenda; thus, duping them into following a web of compartmentalized complicity. The inner circle of the Committee of 300 is the Order of the Garter, headed by Queen Elizabeth Windsor II. It is interesting to note that the Windsor's changed their name from the Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha during WWI, because of anti-German sentiment.
The enemy is clearly identifiable as the Committee of 300 and its front organizations, such as the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), the Club of Rome, NATO, U.N., the Black Nobility, the Tavistock Institute, CFR and all its affiliated organizations, the think tanks and research institutions controlled by Stanford and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and last, but certainly not least, the military establishment.
The Committee of 300 is the ultimate secret society made up of an untouchable ruling class, which includes the Queen of the United Kingdom (Elizabeth II), the Queen of the Netherlands, the Queen of Denmark and the royal families of Europe.
These aristocrats decided at the death of Queen Victoria, the matriarch of the Venetian Black Guelphs that, in order to gain world-wide control, it would be necessary for its aristocratic members to "go into business" with the non-aristocratic but extremely powerful leaders of corporate business on a global scale, and so the doors to ultimate power were opened to what the Queen of England likes to refer to as "the commoners".
Through their illicit banking cartel, they own the stock of the Federal Reserve, which is a private for profit corporation that violates U.S. Constitution and is a root of the problem. The decadent American families of the unholy partnership, thoroughly corrupted and wallowing in tainted opium money, went on to become what we know today as the Eastern Liberal Establishment.
Its members, under the careful guidance and direction of the British Crown, and subsequently, its foreign policy executive arm, the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA), now known as Chatham House, located in England (across St. James's Square from the Astors), ran the United States from top to bottom through their secret upper-level, parallel government, which is tightly meshed with the Committee of 300, the ultimate secret society. That secret, all-powerful government is now more in control of the United States than ever before.
In the Committee of 300, which has a 150-year history, we have some of the most brilliant intellects assembled to form a completely totalitarian, absolutely controlled "new" society only it isn't new, having drawn most of its ideas from the Clubs of Cultus Diabolicus. It strives toward a One World Government rather well described by one of its late members, H. G. Wells, in his work commissioned by the Committee which Wells boldly called: "The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution".
Most of the Committee of 300's immense wealth arose out of the opium trade with China and India. Obscene profits went straight into the royal coffers, and into the pockets of the nobility, the oligarchs and plutocrats, and made them billionaires.
The ordinary people of China, India, and England profited nothing from "opium revenues". In the same way the people of South Africa, black and white, never profited from the gold mining industry, whose revenues were piped directly into the City of London banks and Merchant banks.
The Committee of 300 is responsible for the phony drug wars here in the U.S. These phony drug wars were to get us to give away our constitutional rights. Asset forfeiture is a prime example, where huge assets can be seized without trail and no proof of guilt needed. Also the Committee of 300 long ago decreed that there shall be a smaller-much smaller-and better world, that is, their idea of what constitutes a better world.
The myriads of useless eaters consuming scarce natural resources were to be culled by up to 99%. Industrial progress supports population growth. Therefore the command to multiply and subdue the earth found in Genesis had to be subverted.
This called for an attack upon Christianity; the slow but sure disintegration of industrial nation states; the destruction of billions of people, referred to by the Committee of 300 as "surplus population," and the removal of any leader who dared to stand in the way of the Committee's global planning to reach the foregoing objectives.
Not that the U.S. government didn't know, but as it was part of the conspiracy, it helped to keep the lid on information rather than let the truth be known. Queen, Elizabeth II, is the head of the Committee of 300. The Committee of 300 looks to social convulsions on a global scale, followed by depressions, as a softening-up technique for bigger things to come, as its principal method of creating masses of people all over the world who will become its "welfare" recipients of the future.
The current criminal agenda of the Committee of 300 is further evidenced by recently leaked Club of Rome documents, as they describe how they will use drugs to help stifle resistance to their New World Order scheme: "… having been failed by Christianity, and with unemployment rife on every hand, those who have been without jobs for five years or more, will turn away from the church and seek solace in drugs.
By then, full control of the drug trade must be completed in order that the government of all countries who are under our jurisdiction have a monopoly in place which we will control by controlling supplies reaching the market… Drug bars will take care of the unruly and the discontented. Would-be revolutionaries will be turned into harmless addicts with no will of their own…"The crowned cobras of Europe and their Eastern Liberal Establishment families will not tolerate any true war against drugs.
The war on drugs, which the Bush administration was allegedly fighting, was for the legalization of all types and classes of drugs. Such drugs are not solely a social aberration, but a full-scale attempt to gain control of the minds of the people of the United States.
At present, this is the principal task of the Committee of 300. Nothing has changed in the opium-heroin-cocaine trade. It is still in the hands of the same "upper class" families in Britain and the United States. It is still a fabulously profitable trade where what appear to be big losses through sometimes seizures of drug shipments are actually small interlopers trying to break into the preserves of the drug trade hierarchy, who sit in paneled board rooms in New York, Hong Kong and London over port and cigars and congratulate another success in the eradication of "competitors."
Included in the Committee of 300 membership are the old families of the European Black Nobility, the American Eastern Liberal Establishment (in Freemason hierarchy and the Order of Skull and Bone), the Illuminati, or as it is known by the Committee "MORIAH CONQUERING WIND," the Mumma Group, The National and World Council of Churches, the Circle of Initiates, the Nine Unknown Men, Lucis Trust, Jesuit Liberation Theologists, The Order of the Elders of Zion, the Nasi Princes, International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the United Nations (U.N.), the Central, British Quator Coronati, Italian P2 Masonry-especially those in the Vatican hierarchy-the Central Intelligence Agency, Tavistock Institute selected personnel, various members of leading foundations and insurance companies, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the Milner Group-Round Table, Cini Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Ditchley Foundation, NATO, Club of Rome, Environmentalists, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, One World Government Church, Socialist International, Black Order, Thule Society, Anenherbe-Rosicrucianists, The Great Superior Ones and literally HUNDREDS of other organizations.
In the case of John F. Kennedy, the assassination was carried out with great attendant publicity and with the utmost brutality to serve as a warning to world leaders not to get out of line. Pope John Paul I was quietly murdered because he was getting close to the Committee of 300 through Freemasons in the Vatican hierarchy. His successor, Pope John Paul II, was publicly humiliated as a warning to cease and desist-which he has done. As we shall see, certain Vatican leaders are today seated on the Committee of 300.
The Committee of 300 appears to base much of its important decisions affecting mankind on the philosophy of Polish aristocrat, Felix Dzerzinski, who regarded mankind as being slightly above the level of cattle. As a close friend of British intelligence agent Sydney Reilly (Reilly was actually Dzerzinski's controller during the Bolshevik Revolution's formative years), he often confided in Reilly during his drinking bouts.
Dzerzinski was, of course, the beast who ran the Red Terror apparatus. He once told Reilly, while the two were on a drinking binge, that "Man is of no importance. Look at what happens when you starve him. He begins to eat his dead companions to stay alive. Man is only interested in his own survival. That is all that counts. All the Spinoza stuff is a lot of rubbish."
The roots of the East India Company (chartered by Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600 and dissolved in 1873) sprout from the European Black Nobility. The Black Nobility are the oligarchic families of Venice and Genoa, who in the 12th century held the privileged trading rights (monopolies). The first of three crusades, from 1063 to 1123, established the power of the Venetian Black Nobility and solidified the power of the wealthy ruling class.
The Black Nobility aristocracy achieved complete control over Venice in 1171, when the appointment of the doge was transferred to what was known as the Great Council, which consisted of members of the commercial aristocracy, a complete triumph for them.
Venice has remained in their hands ever since, but the power and influence of the Venetian Black Nobility extends far beyond its borders, and today, is felt in every corner of the globe. In 1204 the oligarchic family parceled out feudal enclaves to their members, and from this epoch dates the great building-up of power and pressure until the government became a closed corporation of the leading Black Nobility families.
It is important to note that the European Black Nobility is responsible for the insidious entanglements of numerous secret societies, lodges, and organizations, which are backed with high finance and powerful political connections.
Such organizations include: Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group (German version of CFR), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), United Nations (founded by CFR), Illuminati order Skull & Bones (inner circle of the CFR), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Bank of International Settlement, Club of Rome, Chatham House (formally the Royal Institute of International Affairs – RIIA), Round Table, Tavistock Institute for Human Studies (England's psychological warfare think tank), Associated Press, Reuters (Rothschild owned news monopoly used for brainwashing the masses), and many others, all of which, whether they are dupes or adapts, work in favor of Great Britain's aristocracy and their one world government agenda.
Although there is a wide cross-section, all roads lead to the Queen of England. The technique for keeping their illicit scheme secret is compartmentalization. Only the people in the inner circle, who are part of the capstone at the top of the pyramid, know the entire extent of the fraud. Adepts are few and dupes many.
Typically, the dupes are told lies that their involvement is benevolent; thus, they become unwitting accomplices in crime. This is why it is imperative to expose this diabolical ring of power. Illicit secret societies cannot withstand the light of day. Once exposed, the cabal and their minions will fall like a house of cards.
The European Black Nobility earned its title through dirty tricks, so when the population revolted against the monopolies in government, as anywhere else, the leaders of the uprising were quickly seized and brutally hanged. They use secret assassinations, murder, the bankrupting of opposing citizens or companies, kidnapping and rape.
All the families listed are connected with the House of Guelph, one of the original Black Nobility families of Venice from which the House of Windsor and thus the present Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, descends.
What are the goals of the secret elite group, the inheritors of Illuminism (Moriah Conquering Wind), the Cult of Dionysius, the Cult of Isis, Catharism, Bogomilism? This elite group that also calls itself the OLYMPIANS (they truly believe they are equal in power and stature to the legendary gods of Olympus, who have, like Lucifer their god, set themselves above our true God) absolutely believe they have been charged with implementing the following by divine right:
1. A One World Government-New World Order with a unified church and monetary system under their direction. Not many people are aware that the One World Government began setting up its "church" in the 1920's/ 1930's, for they realized the need for a religious belief inherent in mankind to have an outlet and, therefore, set up a "church" body to channel that belief in the direction they desired.
2. The utter destruction of all national identity and national pride.
3. The destruction of religion and more especially the Christian religion, with the one exception, their own creation mentioned above.
4. Control of each and every person through means of mind control and what Brzezinski call "technotronics" which would create human-like robots and a system of terror beside which Felix Dzerzinski's Red Terror will look like children at play.
5. An end to all industrialization and the production of nuclear generated electric power in what they call "the post-industrial zero-growth society."
Exempted are the computer and service industries. United States industries that remain will be exported to countries such as Mexico where abundant slave labour is available.
Unemployables in the wake of industrial destruction will either become opium-heroin and or cocaine addicts, or become statistics in the elimination process we know today as Global 2000.
6. Legalization of drugs and pornography.
7. Depopulation of large cities according to the trial run carried out by the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. It is interesting to note that Pol Pot's genocidal plans were drawn up here in the United States by one of the Club of Rome's research foundations. It is also interesting that the Committee is presently seeking to reinstate the Pol Pot butchers in Cambodia.
8. Suppression of all scientific development except for those deemed beneficial by the Committee. Especially targeted is nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Particularly hated are the fusion experiments presently being scorned and ridiculed by the Committee and its jackals of the press.
Development of the fusion torch would blow the Committee's conception of "limited natural resources" right out of the window. A fusion torch properly used could create unlimited untapped natural resources from the most ordinary substances. Fusion torch uses are legion and would benefit mankind in a manner which is as yet not even remotely comprehended by the public.
9. Cause by means of limited wars in the advanced countries, and by means of starvation and diseases in Third World countries, the death of 3 billion people by the year 2000, people they call "useless eaters." The Committee of 300 commissioned Cyrus Vance to write a paper on this subject of how best to bring about such genocide.
The paper was produced under the title the "Global 2000 Report" and was accepted and approved for action by President Carter, for and on behalf of the U.S. Government, and accepted by Edwin Muskie, then Secretary of State. Under the terms of the Global 2000 Report, the population of the United States is to be reduced by 100 million by the year 2050.
10. To weaken the moral fibre of the nation and to demoralize workers in the labour class by creating mass unemployment. As jobs dwindle due to the post industrial zero growth policies introduced by the Club of Rome, demoralized and discouraged workers will resort to alcohol and drugs.
The youth of the land will be encouraged by means of rock music and drugs to rebel against the status quo, thus undermining and eventually destroying the family unit. In this regard The Committee of 300 commissioned Tavistock Institute to prepare a blueprint as to how this could be achieved. Tavistock directed Stanford Research to undertake the work under the direction of Professor Willis Harmon. This work later became known as "The Aquarian Conspiracy."
11. To keep people everywhere from deciding their own destinies by means of one created crisis after another and then "managing" such crises. This will confuse and demoralize the population to the extent where faced with too many choices, apathy on a massive scale will result. In the case of the United States, an agency for crisis management is already in place. It is called the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), whose existence I first disclosed in 1980.
12. To introduce new cults and continue to boost those already functioning which includes rock "music" gangsters such as the filthy, degenerate Mick Jagger's "Rolling Stones" (a gangster group much favoured by European Black Nobility) and all of the Tavistock created "rock" groups which began with "The Beatles."
To continue to build up the cult of Christian fundamentalism begun by the British East India Company's servant, Darby, which will be misused to strengthen the Zionist state of Israel through identifying with the Jews through the myth of "God's Chosen People" and by donating very substantial amounts of money to what they mistakenly believe is a religious cause in the furtherance of Christianity.
13. To press for the spread of religious cults such as the Moslem Brotherhood, Moslem fundamentalism, the Sikhs, and to carry out experiments of the Jim Jones and "Son of Sam" type of murders. It is worth noting that the late Ayatollah Khomeini was a creation of British Intelligence Military Intelligence Division 6, commonly known as M16, as I reported in my 1985 work, "What Really Happened in Iran."
14. To export "religious liberation" ideas around the world so as to undermine all existing religions but more especially the Christian religion. This began with "Jesuit Liberation Theology" which brought about the downfall of the Somoza family rule in Nicaragua and which is today destroying EI Salvador, now 25 years into a "civil war," Costa Rica and Honduras.
One very active entity engaged in so-called liberation theology is the Communist oriented Mary Knoll Mission. This accounts for the extensive media attention to the murder of four of Mary Knoll's so-called nuns in EI Salvador a few years ago.
The four nuns were Communist subversive agents and their activities were widely documented by the government of EI Salvador. The United States press and news media refused to give any space or coverage to the mass of documentation in possession of the Salvadorian government, documentation which proves what the Mary Knoll Mission nuns were doing in the country. Mary Knoll is in service in many countries, and played a leading role in bringing Communism to Rhodesia, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa.
15. To cause a total collapse of the world's economies and engender total political chaos.
16. To take control of all Foreign and domestic policies of the United States.
17. To give the fullest support to supranational institutions such as the United Nations (UN), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the World Court and, as far as possible, make local institutions of lesser effect by gradually phasing them out or bringing them under the mantle of the United Nations.
18. Penetrate and subvert all governments, and work from within them to destroy the sovereign integrity of nations represented by them.
19. Organize a world-wide terrorist apparatus and negotiate with terrorists whenever terrorist activities take place. It will be recalled that it was Bettino Craxi who persuaded the Italian and U.S. governments to negotiate with the Red Brigades kidnapers of Prime Minister Moro and General Dozier.
As an aside, General Dozier is under orders not to talk about what happened to him. Should he break that silence, he will no doubt be made "a horrible example of" in the manner in which Kissinger dealt with Aldo Moro, Ali Bhutto and General Zia ul Haq.
20. Take control of education in America with the intent and purpose of utterly and completely destroying it.
Much of these goals, which I first enumerated in 1969, have since been achieved or are well on their way to being achieved. Of special interest in the Committee of 300 program is the core of their economic policy, which is largely based on the teachings of Malthus, the son of an English country parson who was pushed to prominence by the British East India Company upon which the Committee of 300 is modelled.
Malthus maintained that man's progress is tied to the earth's natural ability to support a given number of people, beyond which point earth's limited resources would rapidly be depleted. Once these natural resources have been consumed, it will be impossible to replace them. Hence, Malthus observed, it is necessary to limit populations within the boundaries of decreasing natural resources.
It goes without saying that the elite will not allow themselves to be threatened by a burgeoning population of "useless eaters," hence culling must be practiced. As I have previously stated, "culling" is going on today, using the methods mandated in the "Global 2000 Report." — Dr. John Coleman, former British Intelligence Officer, The Conspirator's Hierarchy: The Committee of 300, http://www.coleman300.com
This committee of 300 is modeled after the British East India Company's Council of 300, founded by the British aristocracy in 1727.
Most of its immense wealth arose out of the opium trade with China. This group is responsible for the phony drug wars here in the U.S. These phony drug wars were to get us to give away our constitutional rights.
Asset forfeiture is a prime example, where huge assets can be seized without trail and no proof of guilt needed. Also the Committee of 300 long ago decreed that there shall be a smaller-much smaller-and better world, that is, their idea of what constitutes a better world.
The myriads of useless eaters consuming scarce natural resources were to be culled. Industrial progress supports population growth. Therefore the command to multiply and subdue the earth found in Genesis had to be subverted.
This called for an attack upon Christianity; the slow but sure disintegration of industrial nation states; the destruction of hundreds of millions of people, referred to by the Committee of 300 as "surplus population," and the removal of any leader who dared to stand in the way of the Committee's global planning to reach the foregoing objectives.
Not that the U.S. government didn't know, but as it was part of the conspiracy, it helped to keep the lid on information rather than let the truth be known. Queen, Elizabeth II, is the head of the Committee of 300.
The Committee of 300 looks to social convulsions on a global scale, followed by depressions, as a softening-up technique for bigger things to come, as its principal method of creating masses of people all over the world who will become its "welfare" recipients of the future.
The committee appears to base much of its important decisions affecting mankind on the philosophy of Polish aristocrat, Felix Dzerzinski, who regarded mankind as being slightly above the level of cattle.
As a close friend of British intelligence agent Sydney Reilly (Reilly was actually Dzerzinski's controller during the Bolshevik Revolution's formative years), he often confided in Reilly during his drinking bouts.
Dzerzinski was, of course, the beast who ran the Red Terror apparatus.
He once told Reilly, while the two were on a drinking binge, that,
"Man is of no importance. Look at what happens when you starve him. He begins to eat his dead companions to stay alive. Man is only interested in his own survival. That is all that counts. All the Spinoza stuff is a lot of rubbish."
Sources: HumansAreFree.com; PseudoReality; BibliotecaPleyades;


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A SWOT Analysis is a Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat Analysis. Here I am using an outline partly based on an unpublished paper I wrote for Marketing 5000 class last spring to create a SWOT analysis for the #12daysoftomsbeard project. My unpublished paper, titled "(Name of Fantasy Company) Marketing Plan" was based on an assignment and outline given to us by Webster University professor Dr. John Jinkner.
I'm going to publish a small portion at a time, because it will take some time to write. I hope you enjoy it!
I. Executive Summary
#12daysoftomsbeard is a conceptual art project engaged in by Carolyn (Me) and Tom Winkelmann as part of our annual Christmas tradition. This is a young tradition for us, having been recently practiced for only the second year in a row.
The activity was inspired by several things. I have a long history of engaging in conceptual art through Mail Art, the 'zine scene, and various art experiments involving photography, handmade books, ephemeral art installations, Pop Art, Dadaism, and more. There are two definitions of conceptual art in an interesting article I found, "If You Don't Understand Conceptual Art, It's Not Your Fault". One definition, the one I gave to my husband off the top of my head while I explained why I wanted to take pictures of him with things in his beard, is that conceptual art is a form of art where the idea is the art and the tangible object created is not considered important. The other definition in the article is that conceptual art is a set of plans or strategies (Kaplan).
Tom has been letting his beard grow more often and is frequently teased about his beard by his family. Last year I decided it would be fun to turn the teasing into humor and art so I showed up at Christmas Day celebrations with colorful paper circles and squares with a few collage elements on them and writing implements for family members to color and draw on to put in Tom's beard to take pictures of. The idea for hanging paper or art items from a beard is not original with me, there are people who use their beards as mini art galleries and vehicles for Christmas decorations.
I invited family members, many who I know like to paint and color, to use pens and markers to add to the paper pieces, which I then clipped to Tom's beard with mini clothespins. Then I took photos for Instagram and posted one each day for 12 days, with the hashtag #12daysoftomsbeard.
Since I like to art journal as a creative development and self-care activity, when I was done taking pictures of the paper pieces in Tom's beard the first year we did the project, the 2019-20 season, I mounted them on art journal pages, some of which I planned to exhibit in the then upcoming art show, Back To Our Roots which opened in February 2020 at the historic Arcade building in downtown St. Louis.
II. Environmental Analysis
There were several parts to the #12daysoftomsbeard project as executed in the 2020-21 holiday season. Since I was anticipating only distance Christmas activities due to the pandemic, I decided to send out tags and invite people to alter them and send them back to take picture of in Tom's beard.
1. I made a black and white version of collages that Tom and I made together to use in our Christmas cards, then had copies printed out on white cardstock. I traced shapes from Christmas cookie cutters onto the back of the cardstock and cut out shaped tags. I made stickers for the backs of the tags that explained the project and featured a QR code so that people could easily check the results of the #12daysoftomsbeard Instagram feed with smartphones if they wanted to.
2. I put tags in most of the Christmas cards we sent out. I also included in many of cards some scrap paper pieces and examples of faux postage that Tom and I made to use in Christmas artwork, for people who might want to join in but don't have a ready supply of art materials around. Some of the paper scraps were examples of Christmas faux postage that I've made on my own and with my husband so if people didn't end up using them in the project they might want them for some other craft or just something to look at as part of a Christmas greeting. For a few of the people that we hand-delivered cards and gifts to, we punched a hole at the top of a tag, attached a loop of cord for hanging, and put one on their doorknob.
3. I made a graphic to use as a social media header that included the QR code and images from last year's beard series to raise anticipation and awareness. I also wanted to cheer people up with some bright colors since I knew a lot of people who were feeling sadness over separation from loved ones and the loss of loved ones during the holidays. I know from personal experience that the holidays and winter are often difficult for many people even in more typical years depending on their current situation in life.
4. To help people get started sooner if they were eager, since we weren't as early as I would have liked getting our cards mailed, I made graphic that people could download and print out that had tag templates on it, instructions and the QR code.
I posted the template graphic in social media for download, and mailed and emailed a few copies to people I thought might be particularly interested.
5. In keeping with the theme of bright rainbow colors I had started, I prepared 12 little collages made from colorful upcycled hardware store paint sample cards so that I would have something to put in Tom's beard if no one sent me any art pieces to use. On some days I made extra items to fit the color theme of the day and also incorporated found objects if I was inspired. For example, those two guys in the right picture above were cut out from a piece of junk mail. Some of the paper pieces there were parts from older Christmas card designs.
6. When taking the pictures, I had a lot of fun experimenting with different eyeglasses on Tom and taping things to the lenses of my clear protective goggles to make crazy compositions. I installed some new photo filters on my smartphone to make the pictures even more fun and colorful before I posted them to Instagram.
7. Tom and I were feeling lonely over the holidays and thought that since we were staying home, it might be fun to have a New Year's Eve themed #virtualartparty, an ongoing series of online meetings I started when the pandemic began, with the purpose of cheering people up who were missing out on their usual social activities.
We ended up cancelling the New Year's Eve edition of #virtualartpary because our cat Griffin was terribly ill that day and we were sure we were going to lose her. Griffin has been with my husband for 21 years and Tom needed my support and attention so he could be with Griffin, and I thought we were going to be dealing with grief on New Year's Eve and not in the mood for a party. But to our grateful surprise, Griffin recovered and is doing very well now. At her age we know she won't be around that much longer, but we aren't eager to lose her any earlier than we have to.
Edit: Griffin passed away in February 2021 and our other cat Leo passed in the summer of 2022. We didn't get another cat but we did adopt a leopard gecko named GG in 2022.
I had been planning to talk about #12daysoftomsbeard on December 31 as part of the #virtualartparty, the timing made sense since I was taking a daily photo from December 25 through January 6. I made some sequential social media header graphics with colorful beard pictures and the hash tag #virtualartparty to help build interest. I didn't have time to make a header graphic for each of the 12 days, but maybe next year I should.
A. The Marketing Environment
Even though #12daysoftomsbeard is not a commercial activity, we do need to market the project in order to persuade people to participate.
1. Competitive forces. Other sources of entertainment, amusement or hobby activities are the main competition for the attention and time that potential participants might allow for just understanding what our #12daysoftomsbeard project is, much less time to participate. With the amount of time that people spend in front of a screen or with a smart device in their hand, it is difficult to get anyone's attention away from anything that isn't corporate in origin. It concerns me that synthesized culture designed to social engineer us is replacing genuine culture and whenever I can I'm trying to re-inject actual culture back into our lives. As Dr. Jim Taylor lamented in an article for Psychology Today, the nations of the former Soviet Union, Italy, Spain, Germany, nations conquered by the NAZIs, Cuba and North Korea have experienced decades of suffering because aspects of their authentic culture were abusively removed and replaced with a synthesized totalitarian culture (Taylor, "Popular Culture: We…"). I would add China and the United States to that list also. Dr. Taylor's article reminds us why there are so many organizations throughout the world dedicated to cultural heritage and cultural preservation – it plays a much bigger role in our well being than many realize. I quote Dr. Taylor in this excerpt:
"As individuals, a genuine popular culture instills a sense of ownership and empowerment in our society because each of us knows that we contribute to that culture. We are more likely to act in our society's best interests because we know that those best interests are also our own. An authentic popular culture also gives us a sense of shared identity, meaning, and purpose that transcends differences in geography, race, ethnicity, religion, or politics. All of these then encourage us to lead a life in accordance with our culture's values and norms because they are our own (Taylor, 'Popular Culture: We…')"
In other words, if we throw away our authentic culture for synthesized corporate culture we should not have to wonder why so many of our citizens have been programmed to serve the interests of large corporations so thoroughly that they are literally waging war on their behalf with people that they formerly were able to co-exist with. Many people trust screens far more than they trust friends, neighbors and even family members that they have known for decades. The manner in which many people experience the world is corporate-based with life beyond a screen regarded as if it is fiction. They allow corporations to tell them what the world outside is like instead of going out and finding out for themselves. People are told that their own judgement is not to be trusted and they need corporate "fact-checkers" to tell them what is ok to read or hear about. I overheard art teachers as far back as the 1980s trying to urge some of my fellow art students to use their own authentic experiences and senses of self to create art instead of just drawing corporate cartoon characters and corporate based entertainment characters and content. I know so many people, who if you removed corporate consumer culture from the topics they could talk or think about, there would be almost nothing there. Teaching art or trying to market an art activity without corporate branding attached to it is inherently very difficult. We know that children can't distinguish advertising from entertainment, that is widely acknowledged, but I don't know many people who admit that a lot of adults can't either. Most people I know aren't aware that when they are entertained they are actually being marketed to and they are not the end customer for the entertainment – the advertisers are the actual customer.
The #12daysoftomsbeard project is not completely devoid of corporate content because it includes found objects and some clothing with logos. However, by basing it on the universal human experience of personal grooming and running it from December 25 to the Feast of the Epiphany (the day we Catholics observe it, my understanding is it varies depending on tradition), I intended to bring attention to authentic human and authentic Christian culture and away from the corporate way of celebrating Christmas for just a little while, just to give Tom and I and others a break and a reason to look at each other while really seeing and interacting each other. What would my slightly weird Christmas cards look like next to other cards designed by corporations? What do people think when they see the resulting pictures? What did they think about while making an art piece to send back?
Works Cited
Kaplan, Isaac. "f You Don't Understand Conceptual Art, It's Not Your Fault." Artsy, 2016, www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-if-you-don-t-understand-conceptual-art-it-s-not-your-fault. Accessed 22 January 2021.
Mitchell, Grant. "Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threat (SWOT) Analysis." Dotdash, 2020, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/swot.asp. Accessed 15 January 2020.
Taylor, Dr. Jim. "Popular Culture: Too Much Time On Our Hands." Psychology Today, 2009, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-prime/200909/popular-culture-too-much-time-our-hands. Accessed 15 December 2020.
—. "Popular Culture: We Are What We Consume." Psychology Today, 2009, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-prime/200912/popular-culture-we-are-what-we-consume. Accessed 15 December 2020.


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Just look at the best of our nuclear scientists staring fascinated at Fukushima and the unpredictable series of events in the remainders of the power plant. Against their will, Fukushima and Japan turned into just another open air laboratory and a real life experiment. Remember, Japan already once served well to study the effects of nuclear power. What makes us separate the civic use of nuclear energy from its Siamese twin, the nuclear bomb? What makes us believe that nuclear power is a means to mitigate climate change? Is this indeed a valid opportunity, or is there a huge brainwashing machine at work?
I think it's necessary to understand this tragic nuclear catastrophe also as a challenge to re-evaluate our arguments. We have to compare what my skeptical friends call 'eco-dictatorship' with what my no-nukes friends call 'Atomstaat' (nuclear dictatorship) or what the sociologist Ulrich Beck calls 'risk society'. We have to compare the prize we have to pay; the prize Japanese people already have to pay (without ever being asked). Currently, no scientist in this world is able to reassure them that they are and that they will be safe. Again: how will nuclear science ever be able to regain the trust of the public?
addendum: Andrew Revkin on dot.earth has a great collection of articles and opinions which hit a similar tone. He collects some interesting remarks about what might happen when scientific knowledge meets different organizational cultures, such as in Japan. When Andrew Revkin visited in 1995 the reactors at the Indian Point nuclear power complex 50 miles north of Manhattan, he wrote:
'Robert Pollard, a nuclear engineer with the Union of Concerned Scientists, which focuses on energy and environmental issues, said that valves, cables and wiring at the plant and others like it have never been tested under conditions simulating emergencies. "If the public understood the risk from Indian Point, they wouldn't tolerate it," he said. "Instead they get fed this pabulum of cultural something-or-other that puts everyone to sleep." (...) If a new religion is being practiced by the 900 employees of Indian Point 3, then the 215-foot-tall concrete and steel dome encasing the reactor and related equipment is their cathedral.'
Here again the definition of Lysenkoism according to wikipedia:
Lysenkoism is used colloquially to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives.


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NEW YORK – New Zealander Trevor Loudon has just published an encyclopedic new 689-page volume, "The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress," to accompany his 668-page 2011 book, "Barack Obama and the Enemies Within."
In both volumes, Loudon has proved himself to be among the foremost experts in the world investigating and reporting the penetration of communists, socialists and the current group of "progressives" affiliated with Democratic Party politics who portray themselves as liberals.
In his 2011 book, Loudon presented documented evidence that Barack Obama's rise in politics was not an accident, but a conscious, decade-long effort by the radical left to promote a candidate with African roots. Obama, he said, was packaged as an engaging and seemingly harmless Trojan Horse radical, sent to Chicago to refine his skills running for office as a Democratic Party politician.
It is impossible to read "Barack Obama and the Enemies Within" without being convinced that Obama's education in communist ideology stretches from the extracurricular education he received from Communist Party mentor Frank Marshall Davis in Honolulu to his recruitment as a New Party candidate in Chicago, with strong ties to the Democratic Socialists of America.
Loudon continues naming names in his current volume, "The Enemies Within," which documents how extensively communists, socialists and progressives have penetrated the U.S. Congress, running on the Democratic Party ticket.
The goal of these radicals in Congress, Loudon demonstrates, is the same goal Obama announced when running for president in 2008, to transform the United States from the constitutional republic established by its Founding Fathers into a radical socialist state. The aim is to be achieved through passing extensive social welfare legislation designed to bankrupt a government adhering to concepts of private property and private enterprise.
In an insightful essay on the Democratic Socialists of America, Loudon emphasizes the impact on U.S. radicals of the late Italian Communist Party theoretician Antonio Gramsci, whose writings from prison declared that the "working class revolution" is a dead end, arguing instead that communism can best be achieved "by infiltrating civil society – political parties, churches, labor unions, universities, the media, community groups, etc., to turn them into revolutionary vehicles."
Similarly, Loudon documents how the Communist Party of the USA itself has adopted a stealth plan to achieve revolutionary goals by decisions made in the 1970s to infiltrate and manipulate the Democratic Party. The plan is to form alliances with the radical elements in organized labor in conjunction with radicals in the African-American community and the feminist movement to establish a progressive coalition on the left that could dominate the national political agenda for decades to come.
His essay on the Institute for Policy Studies provides extensive evidence that the IPS, operating today with the distinction of being oldest – founded in 1963 – and most influential of the far left "think tanks" in Washington, D.C., "works closely with several U.S. Marxist groups, but is particularly close to the Democratic Socialists of America."
The congressional profiles of current members of Congress provides extensive evidence of radical leftist ties in the backgrounds of top Democratic Party legislators, including Democratic Party Sens. Barbara Boxer, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, Barbara Mikulski, Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, Debbie Stabenow, Al Franken, Sherrod Brown, Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley, Patty Murray and Tammy Baldwin.
In the House of Representatives, Loudon profiles the radical left background of Democratic Party Reps. Nancy Pelosi, Louis Gutierrez, John Conyers, Charles Rangel, Marcy Kaptur, Peter DeFazio, Sheila Jackson Lee, Jim McDermott and dozens more.
Loudon's profiles of the radical lawmakers is extensively footnoted, complete with photos, news clips, website screen captures and quotations from published sources that leave no doubt as to the authenticity and accuracy of his allegations.
In documenting the success with which the radical left has captured the politically correct core of Democratic Party politics since the 1970s and the end of the Vietnam War, Loudon joins bestselling author Paul Kengor, who published in 2010 "Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Conservatives for a Century," followed in 2012 by "The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor."
What authors Loudon and Kengor show is that communism in America did not die with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is alive and well, with ties that run deep today with Barack Obama in the White House and the radical leftist Democrats serving in the halls of Congress.
Loudon will be in Washington, D.C., at the National Press Club Aug. 20 to participate in the all day conference "The Crisis in American Journalism and the Conservative Response," hosted by the public policy group America's Survival Inc.
Joining Loudon, who is listed on the program to speak about his book "The Enemies Within," will be Kengor, presenting his new book, "All the Dupes Fit to Print: Journalists Who Have Served as Tools of Communist Propaganda."


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This is a fun recipe to try using molecular gastronomy. The yogurt are made into almost spheres that pops.
This is one of the most fun thing I have ever done in my kitchen…as you might know (or not), I am a Pharm.D/biochemist by training, therefore I feel very comfortable in the lab, so when I heard about molecular gastronomy I was like "I need to try this…how come I have never thought of using my lab skills in the kitchen?" Anyway, to make the long story short, I did some reading through the internet and got myself some edible "reagents" and today I am so excited because I am sharing with you my very first "experiment". I am expecting more "reagents" therefore I will have more posts to share in the future.
If you are interested, you can read all about molecular gastronomy by searching the internet, which by the way, I still do not understand why it is called this way, since every method done in the cooking process requires change of molecules.
This recipe is very simple, it is adapted from here with lots of changes…in spite of the recipe calling for plain yogurt, specifically not to use non-fat or low fat yogurt, claiming that fat-free or low fat yogurt contain less calcium, which is critical for this recipe. I went ahead and still used fat free yogurt. I personally don't think that the calcium content of whole yogurt and non-fat yogurt would be that different being that calcium is water soluble and not fat soluble. Moreover, the difference in these yogurts should be the content of fat and not calcium.
Well, it was very interesting…when eating these spherical yogurt you feel the pop and a thin gelatinous membrane, almost like the salmon roes in sushi or the little balls filled with juices at frozen yogurt store.
Oh! One more thing…this method is called Reverse Spherification.
Alginate Bath
200 ml of filtered water
1 g sodium alginate
1 cup non-fat yogurt
Prepare the alginate bath by mixing the sodium alginate in water, until the sodium alginate is totally dissolved. You can use an immersion blender. Once the sodium alginate is dissolved, let the solution rest in the refrigerator for approximately 24 hours or until all the air bubbles disappear.
When ready to start the process of spherification, place the sodium alginate solution in a bowl and in another bowl place clean and filtered water.
Scoop the yogurt using a half sphere measuring spoon and carefully pour it into the alginate bath. Make sure that the yogurt spheres do not touch otherwise they will stick together (which I experienced)
Leave the yogurt spheres in the alginate bath for about 2 minutes and carefully remove them using a slotted spoon.
Place the yogurt spheres in the clean water bath. Remove the yogurt spheres and serve with fruit salad, or berry coulis.
I served my yogurt spheres with strawberry coulis.
I hope you enjoyed this fun recipe…for more Molecular Gastronomy recipe please look here.
Did you know that spherification is the process of shaping liquid in spheres by a thin gelatinous membrane? The main "reaction" is the forming of the gelatinous membrane by combining alginate and calcium.
Thank you for stopping by Simple Recipes [dot]me….have a colorful day!


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Catholic doctrine cannot speak "to man only of man"
Assumpsit Iesus Petrum, et Iacobum, et Ioannem fratrem eius, et duxit illos in montem excelsum seorsum: et transfiguratus est ante eos. Et resplenduit facies eius sicut sol: vestimenta autem eius facta sunt alba sicut nix. (From the Gospel for Ember Saturday in Lent and for the Second Sunday in Lent, Matthew xvii, 1-2: "Jesus took Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: and He was transfigured before them. And His face did shine as the sun, and His garments became white as snow.")
It is easy for me... to show that Catholic doctrine enjoys a superhuman moral efficacy, even as a consequence of the interaction which it keeps between man and God. ... Now, in virtue of what does Catholic doctrine operate this superhuman transformation in the soul? Is it directly? Is it simply because it says to us, "Be humble, be chaste, be apostles, be brethren"?
Ah..., but everyone says this to us more or less earnestly: there is not a man steeped in pride who has not invoked the humility of others; not a man drowned in sensuality who was not invoked the purity of his victims; not a man who has not invoked apostleship to propagate his ideas, and fraternity to establish his empire! But the ear of man remains closed to those invitations of selfishness, or to those dreams of reason; it listens to them without hearing; it hears, without obeying.
Catholic doctrine would have succeeded no better, if it had spoken to man only of man; if it had proposed to him, as the spring of its action, only his interest, his duty even, and his dignity. To render man humble, chaste, apostle, brother, it has taken its basis outside of him: it has placed it in God.
It is in the name of God, by the power of the relationship which it has created between God and ourselves, by the efficacy of its dogmas, of its worship, and of its sacraments, that it changes within us that corpse which rebels against virtue; that it reanimates it, resuscitates it, purifies it, transforms it, clothes it with the glory of Tabor, and having thus armed it from head to toe, sends it forth into the distress of the world, as a new man, still feeble by nature, but strengthened by God, towards Whom his unceasing aspiration ascends.
It is thus ... that the miracle of our transfiguration is accomplished in Catholic doctrine: humility, chastity, charity, and all the interior elevations which result from these are but effects of a higher virtue giving the movement to all the rest. Without religion, without the interaction of soul and God, the whole Christian edifice crumbles -- consequently, that interaction, which is the keystone of the arch, is efficacious in a superhuman manner, since it bears man above humanity.
...humility, chastity, the charity of apostleship and of fraternity, obedience, penitence, voluntary poverty...are but branches of a single stream. ... There is ... a stream into which merge all those scattered virtues which I have named: and that stream is sanctity.
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The Paladins of Dwimmermount
Now, it's true that, if one is going to treat Dungeons & Dragons as solely a product of gritty swords-and-sorcery, there's not much precedent for the class. For all my championing of the pulp fantasy roots of the game, even I don't argue that S&S is the only influence on OD&D. From the beginning, D&D's been assimilating all kinds of imaginative literature, to the betterment of the game's "DNA," in my opinion. It's a stronger game for having a more diverse genetic background, although that does sometimes mean its various parts don't always interact well with one another.
The paladin is a good case in point. The uptight, "do-gooder" image of the class is at odds with the way most D&D characters are played. That's part of why I suspect the class has a "bad reputation" with many gamers: a paladin in the party cramps their style. And of course playing a paladin properly is quite difficult, particularly if the referee is going to be a stickler when interpreting the lawful goodness of the character's actions.
My Dwimmermount campaign takes most of its cues from swords-and-sorcery literature. On first blush, paladins wouldn't seem to have a place in the setting. In actual fact, as my players are about to discover, paladins played a key role in the setting's history by spearheading many of the rebellions that overthrew the Termaxian-dominated Thulian empire. The Thulians had a state religion -- the Great Church -- made up of the temples of all the Lawful deities. That religion was subverted by the Termaxians once they rose to power, as Turms Termax had no clerics of his own. Instead, clerics of other gods were devoted to their own gods as aspects of Turms. In this way, the whole Great Church came to serve the cult of the Man-Become-God.
Paladins serve no known god. Indeed, they generally consider all gods to be, at best, merely powerful otherworldly beings and, at worst, demons masquerading as divinities. Paladins serve only Law, which they consider synonymous with Goodness. They take particularly umbrage at gods who claim to be Lawful and yet subvert Law for evil ends, like Typhon. Paladins travel the world singly or in pairs, spreading their particular interpretation of Law and rooting out cults devoted to Turms Termax, which they consider particularly dangerous, moreso even than the temple of Typhon. Interestingly, paladin do not shun those who do not share their beliefs, even Termaxians. Instead, they seek them out and often join their adventuring parties, hoping to use their unique abilities and charisma to sway the wayward to their cause.
No one knows where paladins come from, although rumors persist of a hidden fortress called simply "The Palace," from which they are sent out into the world. Likewise, paladinhood is not something one can aspire to; it is simply something one is. These facts, coupled with their penchant for traveling incognito makes paladins a mysterious group about whom many tall tales and legends have sprung up. Given their rarity and secretiveness, most people have no idea whether any of the stories are true, only that paladins are unusual fighting men, unlike any others in the world.
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An interesting means of incorporating paladins into a S&S setting. Your paladins remind me a bit of the Witch Hunter class in Arduin in terms of their attitude, if not their powers. You're giving me ideas...always a good thing.
As for paladins and pulp roots:
Holger Carlsen comes to mind immediately, as he's literally a paladin: one of Charlemagne's Douzeperes. Your take on them also reminds me of Solomon Kane.Oh, certainly Holger Carlsen is the paladin. The class was originally created to allow one to play someone like him.
Interesting that you mention Arduin's witch hunters. I have been reading Arduin again lately, so it's possible they've seeped into my brain. And, yes, Solomon Kane was certainly an influence here. He strikes me as a good pulp role model for the class.I remember someone had the hypothesis that the cleric had began as a "do gooder" and that when it lost that role the palladin was created instead. I thought it sounded odd (and I hope I'm not misrepresenting somebody, I couldn't find that post) and asked Rob Kuntz if he could remember anything like that from the original campaign in Lake Geneva. I remember that Rob thought it sounded like a gross misunderstanding.
Palladins are creatures of conflict apparently. Why they are disliked is something I claim is very easy to understand, they bring to the fore the folly of the brain damage that is the D&D alignment issue, which I have blogged about. Few old school D&D fans agree, I guess.I believe I sent you my chat with EGG on Paladins. I found it very insightful. The best way I could quickly describe Gary's view on Paladins, based off of the email (and other comments on them off forums), was that he saw Paladins much like most people see the Knights of the round Table. To Gary, the KotRT are cavaliers, but the Paladin knights are Paladins! Holy Roman empire was built from the ashes of the Roman Empire/Republic and offered the people civilization again - one large multi-national nation under one roof, one king, one sets of laws. Paladins were like Jedi knights from the Old Republic. They play that role as its guardians much like the KotRT do for Britain).
I just hate current definition of paladins as 'the holy warrior".
In a way, if the paladins defended a magical kingdom they should have arcane magic instead of divine (and maybe turn magical creations, like golems). Jedi could be than a version of psionic ones.
Under your Dwimmermount view of them; should you do the whole Balance stuff, like in Elric - than paladins would be an enemy force for any True Neutral themed campaign.The other "paladin" that springs to mind from the pages of literature would be Kane's adversary in "Cold Light" (from "Death Angel's Shadow") by the superb Karl Edward Wagner. An absolute fundamentalist in his pursuit of evil "...mercy is commendable to be sure, but when you seek to destroy
an absolute evil, you must destroy it absolutely. Show mercy in
expunging a blight, and you only leave seeds to spread it anew.
Kill them all."
Sorta sounds familiar in scary sort of way...I don't understand what you're getting at here; could you explain?
As presented, paladins have been "localised" to Dwimmermount. It is potentially limiting to reduce an entire class to a single organisation, in my opinion. Whether that is or is not the intent remains to be seen, an additional adjective might clarify the case, and my preference would be for paladin characters to not be limited to being "paladins of Dwimmermount".janes, didn't you once say you were using Lovecraftian type deities (old legends for flavor)? if so; than your "Law" Paladins make lots of sense since those LC baddies are like pure evil and chaos. usually when used those baddies pre-date a campaigns' realm, I notice.
I've dropped my Basic D&D game (lack of interest of it by players), so am doing a Pathfinder one. My paladins will just be a knight order which dates back to a Grand Republic (i.e. Rome), and continue in its successor states.
Actually I should thank you. You've given some good ideas for me to use with your observation on fallen empires and their successor states, Dwimmermount, and your views on Autumn; which is my theme. thanks man!clovis, I honestly don't mean to quibble, but as a crusades "buff," I feel I have to say that the quote you mention is usually attributed to a papal legate during the Albigensian Crusade in France. The Third Crusade never laid siege to Jerusalem. Sorry for being picky, but I think the quote was quite apt. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI never thought D&D was supposed to be a pulp simulation.
One of the things that makes the game so great is that it's neither Conan nor LOTR.
It's actually gravitated to a Lagrange point somewhere between the two, which is a huge part of its lasting appeal.
It's for this reason that I think classes like the Paladin, the Ranger and the Illusionist very much fit with the game, because it's not a sword and sorcery game.understand why Gygax created Paladins the way they are, but I was always found the class was sort of creatively limited and biased from the ruels he created for them simply because every religion has their own specialized class of "holy warriors" created to fight for the causes of their deity. Personally, it never effected my own games cause I allow anyone to play paladins of any religion, but I sure did have plenty of arguments over it countless times in the past with other gamers.
ReplyDeleteYears ago, I played a female paladin named Kara in a friend's campaign. She wore light armor (maile for situations where they knew there would be a lot of fighting rather than skulking), used a longbow whenever possible, and was quite the skulker and survivalist. The rest of the party assumed she was a ranger and that the hit points they got back when she healed them were just from some especially potent poultices. It wasn't until the first time she turned undead (on pretty much the first occassion that we encountered them) that they started to clue in.
I told one of my newer players about her, inspiring the player to do the same thing.
Gotta love the mysterious, shadowy exemplars of Law over the ones in shiny armor. They're just more fun to play.- AnonymousNovember 25, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Very nice job fitting paladins into your world.
As a player, I was never interested in playing one BITD; I think the closest I ever came was a CG half-orc fighter/cleric who always told everyone he was a paladin. The alignment thing was usually the deal-breaker; I don't remember ever playing in an AD&D party where everyone was G, and neutrals, especially CN, seemed to be dominant. We always assumed a paladin wouldn't adventure with evil or chaotic characters (which probably goes beyond what the books actually say, come to think of it).
Paladins always carried a lot of Christian baggage as read in the groups I played with too, & that doesn't gel so well with D&D. Even so, I never liked the idea of anti-paladins and especially don't like the 4th ed. notion that anyone can be a paladin, regardless of alignment. There already is a holy warrior class and it is called Cleric.
Reintroducing paladins as servants of Law/Goodness rather than a god/gods makes a ton of sense to me and should I ever run a game I'll steal your concept. Wonderful interpretation, thank you.
I think the Paladin tends to be resisted because it is seen as the only class that comes with an ethical system attached... which just goes to show that the ethical implications of the thief are unmarked. I love the fact that your Termaxian MUs are explicitly Thelemic, which makes this stance into a specific thing the players can recognise, rather than just falling into it unawares.
But: I worry that there's a large overlap with your rangers: their MOs seem very similar - wandering in ones and twos, opposing some very specific enemies, defending a largely abstract notion. I'm tempted to think of Paladins and Rangers as different interpretations of the "warrior with a cause," which I'm afraid opens the door for the anti-paladin and potentially any number of other variants (the Samurai or Ronin, the Wuxia, the albino cursed sorceror...). I'm guessing "ones and twos" means "master and apprentice:" I can also imagine them working in cells of 3-5, or ribats + messengers. I also don't really understand why rangers don't work in "crews" or small "hunting packs."
I do love the idea of a secret society of paladins, though: maybe they're Dunedain, or maybe they're Dogs in the Vineyard.
veriword: regra. Portuguese for "rule.">my favorite classes, yet so hard to fit in with a group of adventurers when portrayed as "holy warriors." I very much like the idea of paladins being like the dunadan or jedi, defenders of civilization and law<
Spaceships and light sabers aside,, the Jedi are no any different then any other Holy Warrior as they all follow the tenets of their deity. fight for it's causes, and even call upon their god when they have a need to use magic.
A Paladin of Set might be polar opposite of a Paladin of Jupiter, but the basic principles and viewpoints would be very much the same...So would a Sith Lord.
.considering the overwhelming appreciation for the paladin as described here (which I share) it makes me wonder, has anyone actually played the Sir-Colgate-on-a-white-charger-type paladin that we assume is the standard? or is that just for NPC cut-outs?
one of my PCs might have come close except that he found an elven cloak at about second level and became more of a diplomat than a warrior. of course I don't know if seeking out the strongest opponent for one-on-one combat would have maintained my interest, even if he had survived that way of life.@Brian
I have. More in solo games, but even in large group games. It's been a bit of a bother with groups that are primarily CN in alignment, but most of the time it makes for some good role playing. Mind you, with relatively mature role players...
The best experience with that was then the party thief and I spent the entire time trying to convert each other to our own point of view!It is potentially limiting to reduce an entire class to a single organisation, in my opinion. Whether that is or is not the intent remains to be seen, an additional adjective might clarify the case, and my preference would be for paladin characters to not be limited to being "paladins of Dwimmermount".
Well, my feeling at the moment is that the sub-classes ought to be limited in some fashion. I don't see any of them as sufficiently archetypal -- quite the opposite in the case of several -- to justify putting them on the same footing as the three LBB classes.
I realize this will probably be a contentious position and one that (obviously) AD&D fans would take exception to, but I think it's defensible, even if it's by no means definitive (not that I intend it to be anyway).I understand why Gygax created Paladins the way they are, but I was always found the class was conceived by him as sort of creatively limited as every religion has their own "holy warrior" to fight for the causes of their deity.
Every religion already has a "holy warrior" class for their use as it is; they're called clerics.But: I worry that there's a large overlap with your rangers: their MOs seem very similar - wandering in ones and twos, opposing some very specific enemies, defending a largely abstract notion. I'm tempted to think of Paladins and Rangers as different interpretations of the "warrior with a cause," which I'm afraid opens the door for the anti-paladin and potentially any number of other variants (the Samurai or Ronin, the Wuxia, the albino cursed sorceror...). I'm guessing "ones and twos" means "master and apprentice:" I can also imagine them working in cells of 3-5, or ribats + messengers. I also don't really understand why rangers don't work in "crews" or small "hunting packs."
All fair points and ones I'm wrestling with even now. At the moment, the big difference conceptually is that paladins are "born, not made," whereas becoming a ranger is something one can aspire to. Plus, rangers are a fair bit more morally "flexible" than paladins, as, unlike paladins, they're simply defenders of Law (i.e. civilization). Many rangers are indeed also devoted to abstract goodness but many are not.So where does this leave the AD&D bard, other than stuck in an appendix?
It's not something I've thought much about, since I'm not playing AD&D. That said, if I were going to add bards, they'd clearly be tied to an organization. That's already implicit in the way the class is structured anyway, with its tiered "colleges."I think the lesson I have to take from the 3E experience is that this intention gets wiped out by the interests from the publishing side of things. More money is to be made from publishing generic, campaign-detached stuff, upping player power indefinitely, and giving aid & comfort to player refusals to play along with a given campaign milieu.
I am fortunate not to be doing this from a publishing perspective. I actually still think the original 3e conception of prestige classes is a terrific one and I think 3e would have become a lot less noticeably "broken" if it had avoided making prestige classes such a core concept of the game that most supplements were built around them.Well, my feeling at the moment is that the sub-classes ought to be limited in some fashion. I don't see any of them as sufficiently archetypal -- quite the opposite in the case of several -- to justify putting them on the same footing as the three LBB classes.
I realize this will probably be a contentious position and one that (obviously) AD&D fans would take exception to, but I think it's defensible, even if it's by no means definitive (not that I intend it to be anyway).
I think if you expect to only ever see paladins through this particular organisational lens in your campaign it is fine, but the paladin is a broad enough archetype to possibly turn up in much the same guise in other locales, I think, at which point you may end up with too many subclasses, if you see what I mean. In the case of rangers, that is obviously more the case, given the source material.


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