tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7978660227550187932024-03-12T22:24:58.805-05:00A Time, Times, and a Half a TimeA space dedicated to reporting on the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Initiative. It is my belief that this initiative is to be vehicle used by the New World Order to make war against the saints and those who keep the commandments of God as foretold in Daniel 7:23-26Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-37333326341416842782016-09-26T20:12:00.002-05:002016-09-26T20:12:51.623-05:00Interfaith Dialogue in Practice
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">King Abdullah II of Jordan plays a key role in Alliance of Civilizations’
and related interfaith dialogue initiatives. These initiatives have a global
reach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They come with a heavy price for it
involves “finding the balance between free speech and religious freedom”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In practice, free speech is always sacrificed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This <a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/jordan-writer-in-anti-islam-case-shot-dead-at-court/ar-BBwB4w3?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=ieslice" target="_blank">recent headline</a> perfectly illustrates this
balance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/jordan-writer-in-anti-islam-case-shot-dead-at-court/ar-BBwB4w3?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=ieslice"><span style="color: #0563c1;">Jordan
writer in anti-Islam case shot dead at court</span></a> </span></b></div>
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The Jordanian government clearly
had no interest in protecting this man and it’s subsequent condemnation of the
killing rings hollow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The fact that this writer’s free
speech is criminalized perfectly illustrates what free nations should come to
expect as the United Nations’ governmental structures attempt to reconcile
Islam with the West through its Alliance of Civilizations and related social
cohesion initiatives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>President Obama
joined the United States to the initiative in 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The AoC initiative is a key component of the
U.S. global counter-terrorism strategy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Note that Mr. Hattar was charged
with inciting sectarian strife and insulting Islam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2005, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said
during the launch of the Alliance of Civilizations initiative that no one
should have the right to criticize Islam.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The UN Human Rights Council promptly introduced the Defamation of Religion
resolution intended to criminalize such free speech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Western nations rejected that proposal then and
every time it was subsequently re-introduced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Council changed strategy and reintroduced the resolution, this time
on steroids, with a different name:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Resolution
16/18.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The face given the Resolution is the
Istanbul Process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Process was
launched by the Organization of Islamic Co-operation (OIC) for the Islamic
world, Hillary Clinton for the U.S., and High Representative Catherine Ashton
for the European Union.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is what is envisioned for the
West as penned by the OIC:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The OIC has
always upheld its unwavering commitment to freedom of expression but has never
held back in expressing caution and concern of its misuse and abuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like all other rights, the right of freedom
of expression is not absolute and that cannot be exploited to infringe on the
rights of others or to incite violence and hatred to endanger human lives by
engaging in blatant insult, denigration and mockery of the deep seated
religious beliefs and symbols and personalities sacred to religions and their
followers.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(See <span style="color: #0563c1;">Fifth
OIC Observatory Report on Islamophobia</span>)<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Any depiction of God is prohibited
in Islam” and could “incite” violence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So while the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled that the burning of a flag is an expression of free speech, we have yet
to see whether a new Court shall follow the recommendations of the OIC and
Hillary Clinton that the burning of Koran is not protected speech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I personally view actions as disgusting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevertheless, relinquishing our free speech
rights to accommodate Islamic law or those who are thin skinned does not serve
the best interests of the western world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-21410017156571391372010-09-19T05:56:00.017-05:002010-09-20T12:05:46.508-05:00Fanning the Flames<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkkZj8a-ffC3uoZzvJa2bip4OBjxaZ2TIsVM44-ppCG5OjTDHDn9mjoKVm0ZYf2rMmDNF-fBKwnNIaYSEDyV4ITip5xnQIFwcRND_lE9_AcL1YwnVCh7FQ9p_vKDQcbSYwmqEE2YjNnHXs/s1600/FanningTheFlames.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519038432268367266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 46px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkkZj8a-ffC3uoZzvJa2bip4OBjxaZ2TIsVM44-ppCG5OjTDHDn9mjoKVm0ZYf2rMmDNF-fBKwnNIaYSEDyV4ITip5xnQIFwcRND_lE9_AcL1YwnVCh7FQ9p_vKDQcbSYwmqEE2YjNnHXs/s400/FanningTheFlames.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#000000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">These past weeks have proven productive for those who seek gain from a good crisis. Seemingly unrelated events appear more interconnected as I trace their origins and those who will ultimately benefit from the crisis. Amidst the Cordoba Mosque controversy, a new crisis has added fuel to the fire. The accelerant: the global media attention which focused on a church in Gainesville Florida and its 30-50 member congregation who planned to burn Korans on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.<br /><br />While the press remains perplexed how it</span> <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/how-did-the-media-lose-control-of-the-koran-burning-story/1120868">lost control of the Koran burning story</a><span style="color:#000000;">, inquiry should guide them to the conclusion that they were manipulated. United Nations’ Secretary General</span> <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/content/view/524/200/lang,english/">Ban Ki-Moon blames Pastor Terry Jones as the one who “hijacked” the media</a><span style="color:#000000;">. But it was not Jones who kept feeding the media frenzy; it was those sympathetic to the Alliance of Civilizations continually added fuel to the flames. How could an event having next to nothing for financial resources­­—one which promoted itself on YouTube—have gained worldwide attention? Hmm, “I wonder when there will be a Koran burning event” is hardly something I would ever have imagined people tying into their YouTube search engines. It is worth taking a closer look at those fanning the flames of this crisis.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">None of us would have known anything about the Dove World Outreach Center’s plans until the September 6 online edition of the</span> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703713504575475500753093116.html">Wall Street Journal</a> <span style="color:#000000;">quoted General Petraeus as saying that the Koran burnings would endanger U.S. troops. Incidentally, Petraeus is now</span> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2010/0908/Should-Petraeus-have-weighed-in-on-Koran-burning-General-defends-himself.">defending himself against Pentagon officials</a> <span style="color:#000000;">who charge he crossed the civilian-military line. The very next day following the Journal’s report, the International Crisis Group posted a </span><a href="http://www.globalexpertfinder.org/media-alerts/petraeus-condemns-quran-burning">media alert</a> <span style="color:#000000;">on the Alliance of Civilizations’ Global Expert Finder web site. The International Crisis Group functions as a crisis management tool within the AoC network. The purpose of the Global Expert Finder is to provide journalists with information on how to report on issues surrounding cross-cultural and inter-religious tensions.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Petraeus’ statements have consequently generated debate on whether free speech needs to be balanced against safety concerns for U.S. military personnel. I could not help but remember the Alliance of Civilizations’ High Representative’s</span> <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/docs/Dr%20Sampaio-%20OSCE-ASTANA-%20June%202010%20%20def.pdf">speech that our rights need to be balanced</a><span style="color:#000000;"> to achieve global social cohesion. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><div><span style="color:#000000;"><blockquote><span style="color:#000000;">"…to build inclusive and cohesive societies we need to find the right balance between the rights of cultural communities and the need to maintain social cohesion respecting the principles of human rights that bind together all countries worldwide.</span><br /></blockquote></span></div></span></span><div></span></div><span style="color:#000000;">And if Petraeus hadn’t already drawn international attention to Terry Jones, the attention directed towards them by Attorney General</span> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jntDAJWXE4vEgzygYk7YCNBwo5ww">Eric Holder</a><span style="color:#000000;">, Secretary of State</span> <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/09/clinton-calls-koran-burning-plan-outrageous-urges-church-to-cancel.html">Hillary Clinton</a><span style="color:#000000;">, and</span> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20016074-503544.html">President Obama</a><span style="color:#000000;"> was certain to destine this as an international crisis. Considering that the Obama Administration has incorporated the Alliance of Civilizations into the United States’ political landscape, the spontaneity of this controversy started to resemble the cartoon crisis. This prompted me to take a closer look at you know who and, not surprisingly, their signature is there.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Could it be merely a coincidence that</span> <a href="http://www.army.mil/rv5_downloads/misc/Akbar%20Ahmed%20BIO%20January%202010.pdf">Akbar Ahmed</a> <span style="color:#000000;">who serves as an advisor to Petraeus published a piece in CNN International which</span> <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/20/ahmed.quran.burning/#fbid=Pm9M3oBIb6P&wom=true">directed the world’s attention to “Burn Koran Day</a>” <span style="color:#000000;">or that Ahmed is active with the Dialogue Among Civilizations which is the framework the Alliance of Civilizations used for its launch? Akbar Ahmed and the Ground Zero Mosque Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf are both involved with the </span><a href="http://www.danielpearl.org/about_us/index.html">Daniel Pearl Foundation’s</a><span style="color:#000000;"> interfaith dialogue. Ahmed is also a</span> <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/experts/ahmeda.aspx">Bookings Institute Senior Fellow</a> <span style="color:#000000;">for the global governance think tank.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">I believe the Pearl family is sincere in their dialogue efforts to combat the extremist ideology which led to the murder of their son. And while I do not wish to cause the Pearl family any additional pain, I’ve noticed that they have become integrated with Alliance of Civilizations’ personalities. Whether they understand and share the Alliance’s ideology I cannot say for sure, but I strongly urge them to closely examine the interfaith objectives and how the Alliance’s definition of extremism slates countless innocent people as terrorists.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Imam Rauf claims himself as a moderate as he can profess to be Jewish, Christian, and Muslim.</span> <a href="http://hurryupharry.org/2010/08/20/on-imam-rauf-and-being-a-jew/">One of the best critical assessments I’ve read on this statement and interfaith dialogue</a> <span style="color:#000000;">is written by an atheist. Rauf is able to make this claim because his belief system teaches that Jews and Christians are, in fact, Muslims who have not yet realized who they are. But when these faiths reject this belief system, according to the Koran and the Alliance of Civilizations, they become “exclusivist” extremists against whom they intend to conduct a war. </span><p align="center"><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VvZhrvy87kc?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VvZhrvy87kc?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></p><div></div><div><span style="color:#000000;">The Alliance of Civilizations and the Organization for Islamic Conference are</span> <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/rioforum/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/III-UN-Alliance-of-Civilizations-ForumSUMMARY.pdf">politically partnered</a> <span style="color:#000000;">organizations who jointly call for restrictions on free speech. This past April, the OIC-Alliance action plan for combating Islamophobia cited Terry Jones’ as an example of one whose speech incites violence and discrimination against Muslims. The OIC envisions legislation such to Ireland’s anti-defamation law as a model for combating Islamophobia. Per the report: </span></div><div></div><div><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><blockquote><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;">“On July 10, 2009, Ireland passed the Defamation Bill. One of the aspects of this bill would make it illegal to criticize religion, any religion under penalty of fines up to 25,000 Euros. It was a most important development in conformity with OIC’s call for effective normative and legal frameworks to deal with the grave threat posed by Islamophobia. The following are some excerpts from the Blasphemy Clause:<br /></span></span></span></span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;">(1) A person who publishes or utters blasphemous matter shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding €100,000[Amended to €25,000] </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;">(2) For the purposes of this section, a person publishes or utters blasphemous matter if (a) he or she publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion, and (b) he or she intends, by the publication or utterance of the matter </span><span style="color:#000000;">concerned, to cause such outrage.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><br /> </p></blockquote></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#000000;">The Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue issued a</span> <a href="http://dicid.org/english/news_website_details.php?id=61">statement on Terry Jones</a> <span style="color:#000000;">which reiterates this position on free speech: “We believe that all laws protect freedom of expression unless it constitutes to an act of insult, and abuse of others.”<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">While I believe book burnings is disgusting, I do believe it to be consistent with the U.S.</span> <a href="http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/flagburning.htm">Supreme Court’s ruling that flag burning</a><span style="color:#000000;"> is a constitutionally protected form of speech. If a burning were to take place outside a place of worship or its intent one of intimidation, I would view that differently. It is clear, though, that to make Islamic culture socially cohesive with the West, the Alliance seeks to adjust our freedoms to accommodate Sharia law. At this year’s Cordoba conference on religious freedom, the Alliance indicated it is watching to see which will win out: the Protestantisation of religion or Islamisation of Christianity? For they conclude that Protestantization of religion will let secularization prevail while Islamization of Christianity will create a totally new agenda.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">As with the Ground Zero Mosque controversy, the Koran burning crisis is being used to instigate a “clash of civilizations” which ultimately serves the Alliance of Civilizations’ political agenda. And as a tool they are using the First Amendment as a double-edged sword.</span> </div><div><br /><a href="http://www.unaoc.org/content/view/523/200/lang,english/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519041109820213186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 194px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhymib41IX66ssT6YTcd7m1kpf36SMaMnaZjKKD_YiSTCYIxQ7Vgd9CtvapSv-fqroA5qBMnBNpgp0YCIFMyBaj9b78XSZZjVjGTR8tOGlZBjPFUbrssHNthqs12FexHzrqF6wepBndkTx_/s400/Aoc+%26+Florida+Church.png" border="0" /></a></div><div><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Terry Jones, agent provocateur or unwitting dupe? I suspect the latter. Either way, Jones’ actions has served the interests of the Alliance of Civilizations in labeling Christians as extremists and emboldened others</span> <a href="http://www.southernpoliticalreport.com/storylink_912_1595.aspx">to identify Christianity with terrorism</a><span style="color:#000000;">. Once again, as in the cartoon crisis, the benefactor of this controversy is the Alliance of Civilizations. </span></div>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-81109391264677106262010-09-02T17:16:00.014-05:002010-09-03T20:08:59.260-05:00An Alliance Temple<p align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcNann8NqBb8g-7uQQF4idtJBlBFytNUVEzl4Dm1BvqQ8B9RxARbWvRrh3kqG9vTjsVEGNHADycG0zKVpH22lEmueewPew4_I32HF9nGDv6jrHkcR-fw1WLeLY0t-nnwsUJDaormFkJmTH/s1600/CordobaMosque.png"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 241px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 282px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512446997816018882" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcNann8NqBb8g-7uQQF4idtJBlBFytNUVEzl4Dm1BvqQ8B9RxARbWvRrh3kqG9vTjsVEGNHADycG0zKVpH22lEmueewPew4_I32HF9nGDv6jrHkcR-fw1WLeLY0t-nnwsUJDaormFkJmTH/s400/CordobaMosque.png" /></a></p><span style="color:#000000;">Recent mosque controversy</span> <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/20100818/downtown/63-percent-of-new-yorkers-oppose-ground-zero-mosque-poll-says">polling data</a> <span style="color:#000000;">shows around 61% oppose while 27% favor the Cordoba Mosque construction. </span><a href="http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/08/reporters_should_address_americans_concerns_about_islam.html">Media reaction</a> <span style="color:#000000;">has been mixed. The majority have portrayed Americans as intolerant despite polling data which shows the majority of mosque opponents say the Cordoba Initiative has the constitutional right to proceed with construction. I also agree with this position. And while I would not attempt to infringe upon the Cordoba Initiative’s First Amendment rights, I do believe the public is entitled to an unobstructed view of its political platform. The builders can construct the store [mosque] but we don’t have to shop there. So, caveat <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">emptor</span>.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">I had my eye on the</span> <a href="http://www.cordobainitiative.org/">Cordoba Initiative</a> <span style="color:#000000;">for nearly as long as I’<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">ve</span> been observing the</span> <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/">United Nations Alliance of Civilizations</a> <span style="color:#000000;">initiative. It was in 2006 that the Alliance appeared on the world stage to calm Mideast tensions which resulted from the</span> <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/subjects/d/danish_cartoon_controversy/index.html">Danish cartoon crisis</a>.<span style="color:#000000;"> For one to understand the Cordoba Initiative one must gain insight into the Alliance of Civilizations. The two are mutually-reinforcing, partnered initiatives. Cordoba’s web site, which has changed extensively over the past few weeks, still displays the Alliance of Civilizations as a</span> <a href="http://www.cordobainitiative.org/?q=content/ci-partners">partner organization</a><span style="color:#000000;">. Noticeable omissions include organizations such as the United Religions Initiative, Karen Armstrong’s Charter for Compassion, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-error">CAIR</span>), and others. I suspect Cordoba scoured affiliations from its web site not only to lessen the severity of its own <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">scrutinization</span> but also prevent shifting it to others. For <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">scrutinization</span> of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">CAIR</span> would lead one to find the</span> <a href="http://www.aim.org/guest-column/fbi-severs-cair-ties-groups-credibility-takes-a-hit-from-holy-land-terror-t/">FBI severed ties with the organization</a> <span style="color:#000000;">due to its affiliations with terror group <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error">Hamas</span>. Alliance of Civilizations’ High Level Group member Karen Armstrong no longer is listed as the Cordoba Board’s most significant contributor. She is now only a board member.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">As a bridge builder having the mission to facilitate intercultural and interfaith dialogue, tolerance and understanding, the Cordoba Initiative surely must have known that placement of the mosque so close to the Ground Zero Twin Towers would be received as insensitive and as anything but understanding. Moderate <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">Moslem</span> critics say this defies logic and call the mosque confrontational and in bad faith. They are questioning what is going on here? </span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"></span><span style="color:#000000;"></span><br /><br /><p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;"><object style="WIDTH: 280px; HEIGHT: 329px" width="280" height="329"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/73UvB7XG0dM?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/73UvB7XG0dM?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></p></span><span style="color:#000000;">I have found Cordoba’s partner, the Alliance of Civilizations, to be confrontational from its very inception. While they use nice words such as social inclusion, social cohesion, human family, ad <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">nauseum</span>, they speak with forked tongues. For this initiative has mobilized to facilitate a cultural divide—to build a new civilization. This crisis reminds me of a passage from new age writer Peter <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_9" class="blsp-spelling-error">Lemesurier</span>’s Armageddon Script, Prophecy in Action where he describes a time when the old religions would be manipulated and set against one another: “the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_10" class="blsp-spelling-error">wisdoms</span> of all ages and cultures will be called upon to surrender their most precious secrets…The masses of the Old Age, however, will be unable to check their headlong onrush. In large measure they will go on to destroy each other in a massive, mutual venting of long pent-up aggression”.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">This Cordoba mosque crisis is somewhat reminiscent of the 2006</span> <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2007/10/01/revisiting-the-danish-cartoon">“spontaneous” Danish cartoon crisis</a> <span style="color:#000000;">which firmly rooted the newly formed Alliance in a global political role. The cartoon crisis was the result of a Danish newspaper’s publication of caricatures which depicted the prophet <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" class="blsp-spelling-error">Mohammed</span> as a terrorist. Violence erupted four months later when these images were published in newspapers throughout the Mideast. The three most inflammatory caricatures seen in the Mideast’s had never been part of the Danish newspaper’s collection. The Alliance was soon to become the United Nations’ response to Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” theory which subsequently accused the West of insensitivity and placed blame for the clash squarely upon the West. The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_12" class="blsp-spelling-error">High Level Group</span>Final Report attributes no positive values to the West. So why would the Islamic world seek to join an Alliance with the West?<br /><br />This Cordoba crisis further exhibits the Alliance’s anti-western bias. Rather than accepting responsibility for their own insensitivity, High Level Group (<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_13" class="blsp-spelling-error">HLG</span>) members are actively guiding <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_14" class="blsp-spelling-error">Moslems</span> to feel victimized by an intolerant, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_15" class="blsp-spelling-error">Islamophobic</span> West.</span> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/07/19/esposito.muslim.center/index.html">John <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_16" class="blsp-spelling-error">Esposito</span> is using this controversy</a> <span style="color:#000000;">to bolster the Alliance’s position that Christianity and the political right are anti-democratic. It is ironic the Alliance would even argue this with a straight face.<br /><br />The Alliance’s response to the cartoon crisis was a collaborative effort with the Organization of the Islamic Conference (<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_17" class="blsp-spelling-error">OIC</span>) which, at that time and ever since, called for the West to</span> <a href="http://archive.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=77773&d=14&m=2&y=2006">place restrictions on free speech</a>. <a href="http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/043ytrhc.asp?pg=1">Defamation of Religions resolutions</a> <span style="color:#000000;">intended to restrict religious criticism and free speech were introduced to UN governing bodies. The resolutions are pillars of the Alliance’s framework. </span><a href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/09/129164.htm">Hillary Clinton addressed this at the Roosevelt Institute</a> <span style="color:#000000;">last year stating that the United States would never agree to such resolutions. Within weeks President Obama and the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_18" class="blsp-spelling-error">OIC</span> co-authored an anti-defamation resolution which contains the same language as what Clinton opposed. This proved a bit much for even the</span> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eugene-volokh/is-the-obama-administrati_b_307132.html"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" class="blsp-spelling-error">Huffington</span> Post which cried foul</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">The Alliance of Civilizations calls for the establishment of a review board and accreditation for journalists who wish to report on areas involving cross cultural and political-religious tensions.<br /><br />High Level Group member</span> <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/repository/armstrong_interview.pdf">Karen Armstrong has long portrayed Christianity and the political right as anti-democratic</a>. <span style="color:#000000;">As a “religious historian” she has no regard for historical accuracy and is known to</span> <a href="http://telicthoughts.com/karen-armstrong-and-the-fabricated-quote/">fabricate quotes</a>.<span style="color:#000000;"> As most significant contributor to the Cordoba Board, I suspect she was aware opportunity would be found in this emotionally-charged crisis they have created. While people are re-living the traumatizing events of the 9-11 attacks, the Cordoba controversy is being used to aggressively attack them as anti-democratic and opposed to religious freedom.<br /><br />The Alliance says that global governance will require nations to accept a redefinition of national sovereignty. They </span><a href="http://pineline.blogspot.com/2007/12/dictator-at-door.html">define democracy</a> <span style="color:#000000;">as an evolutionary process where national parliaments no longer serve as the monopolist voice of the people. That voice is to be shifted to non-governmental organizations which are better positioned to represent the people. Terms often used to describe this new style are “safe”, “participatory”, and sometimes “anticipatory” democracy. </span><br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 433px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 308px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512446112217762098" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaNhQtiwVJpe2hPyBrqoiMZQmjuJ_qFn8Db1C_oxLMj893my7gvK12-IMlpLmNiNqPkNwWr95QIC0RXLwnN7wesLMKE5mqWMisFkWzu7I4chl0NSG_E4PyOS_Mnr2t7_fA9TVTJAXhS-ZJ/s400/armstrong.png" color="#000000" /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Religious freedom is also redefined. Both Cordoba and the Alliance interlock with Karen Armstrong’s Charter for Compassion. The Charter’s intent is to provide global</span> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N809ghf7ou0">“guidelines” for the interpretation of religious texts</a>. <span style="color:#000000;">An indication of where this is headed can be found in Armstrong’s thesis on Genesis where she argues that the serpent was more truthful than God in the garden. Armstrong is an apologist for Islam.</span> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/print/armstrong_print.html">According to Armstrong</a>:<br /><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><blockquote><span style="color:#000000;">“Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death…<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_20" class="blsp-spelling-error">Mohammed</span> was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength. But against the West, it’s been able to make no headway...whatever they do, they cannot seem to get Muslim history back on track, and this has led some, and only a minority, it must be said, to desperate conclusions.”</span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></blockquote></span><span style="color:#000000;">The United Nations spiritual foundation’s writings indicate that their political-spiritual leader</span> <a href="http://kingsgarden.org/English/Organizations/OMM.GB/WomenWriters/AliceBailey/SevenRays/Rays/rays1283.html">will lead all “true <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_21" class="blsp-spelling-error">Moslems</span>” to spiritual victory</a>.<span style="color:#000000;"> Iran has significantly shaped Alliance of Civilizations initiative.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">The Alliance of Civilizations uses</span> <a href="http://www.fund-culturadepaz.org/BarnaDOC/Executive_Report_Rio_Conference.pdf">Cordoba as a model</a> <span style="color:#000000;">for the global governance of the culture. It portrays Cordoba as a <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_22" class="blsp-spelling-error">utopian</span> society and ignores the suffering of non-<span id="SPELLING_ERROR_23" class="blsp-spelling-error">Moslems</span> under the </span><a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/56319/sec_id/56319">system of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_24" class="blsp-spelling-error">dhimmitude</span></a>.<span style="color:#000000;"> The Alliance of Civilizations supports integration of Sharia law into Western democracies.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">There is no Christian or orthodox Jewish representation on the Alliance of Civilizations.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;">Outwardly the Alliance and Cordoba Initiatives argue they favor bridge building and religious pluralism through interfaith dialogue. In practice they advance Universalism. The two are distinctly different. While pluralism requires tolerance, the Alliance’s <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_25" class="blsp-spelling-error">Universalist</span> value system rejects belief systems which make exclusive truth claims and refuse to adopt the mindset that we all worship the same God but follow different paths to the Almighty. Christian adaptation of Universalism constitutes apostasy. John <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_26" class="blsp-spelling-error">Esposito</span> has said that if one believes their religion to be right and another to be wrong, that person has adopted the “theology of hate” which is a root cause of terrorism. The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_27" class="blsp-spelling-error">HLG</span> refers to this as religious fundamentalism. Georgetown University, an Alliance think tank which houses <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_28" class="blsp-spelling-error">Esposito</span>’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, defines fundamentalism as “those with an absolute conviction in the fundamental principles of their faith to the exclusion of other beliefs.”<br /><br />Combating religious fundamentalism is the basis of the Alliance of Civilizations’ framework. The Alliance is the United Nation’s “mother tongue” and the core component of the UN global counter-terrorism strategy.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">NATO’s</span> <a href="http://csis.org/files/media/csis/events/080110_grand_strategy.pdf">Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World</a> <span style="color:#000000;">includes combating of religious fundamentalism as well. The</span> <a href="http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/2006/p06-150e.htm">Alliance of Civilizations is now part of the NATO framework.</a> <span style="color:#000000;">Secretary General </span><a href="http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2009/04/new_nato_chief.php">Rasmussen represented NATO</a> <span style="color:#000000;">at the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_29" class="blsp-spelling-error">AoC</span> Istanbul Conference</span>.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">The <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_30" class="blsp-spelling-error">Albright</span> Group (as in Madeline, former Secretary of State) is a</span> <a href="http://www.usmuslimengagement.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=44">supporter of the Cordoba Initiative</a>. <span style="color:#000000;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_31" class="blsp-spelling-error">Albright</span> participates on NATO’s Group of Experts which is implementing a</span> “<a href="http://www.nato.int/strategic-concept/index.html">New Strategic Concept</a>”.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">The White House announced</span> <a href="http://www.armenianweekly.com/2009/06/18/obama-appoints-vartan-gregorian-to-the-president%E2%80%99s-commission-on-white-house-fellowships/">United States’ partnership with the Alliance of Civilizations</a> <span style="color:#000000;">on May 20, 2010.<br /><br />Carnegie Corporation President <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_32" class="blsp-spelling-error">Vartan</span> Gregorian serves on the President’s Commission on</span> <a href="http://www.armenianweekly.com/2009/06/18/obama-appoints-vartan-gregorian-to-the-president%E2%80%99s-commission-on-white-house-fellowships/">White House Fellowships</a>. <span style="color:#000000;"><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_33" class="blsp-spelling-error">Vartan</span> is active with the Alliance of Civilizations and a bridge between the White House and the Alliance.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;">During the initial planning process the Alliance of Civilizations envisioned placement of Alliance temples in every major city throughout the world. The Cordoba mosque may well be a starting point. This “clash of civilizations” appears deliberate having a political objective. Again, as Jean Monet chair for European Integration once said, the United Nations has proven itself to be actually dangerous. This time, it appears, they have provoked a national controversy within one of its member states.</span>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-1699005745562725552010-06-13T15:30:00.015-05:002010-06-13T17:34:07.201-05:00Religious Freedom in Context of the Alliance of Civilizations<span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://pineline.blogspot.com/2008/03/americas-future-engagement-with.html">It was clear to me back in 2008 </a>that unless the people of the United States woke up to the Alliance of Civilizations’ agenda that this country would partner with this vile thing. And so it has. On May 13 the State Department announced <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/05/141812.htm">U.S. membership in the UN Alliance of Civilizations Initiative</a>.</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/alliance_of_civilizations"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 271px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482359375913794162" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAl8fVLrWhLVI_dbBHzWop1f-1B_upGPgO5ci3tZ4l-Qe3fgZfFST7q9s9wWiknoj-aCLq7GzqHGMil_89JUtYrmZ97srhZpB3qC9AG5eFHi3k8b1PiNqMLXjnlzeWuOzx-Y_Z92U_TIkQ/s400/US+Joins+AoC.png" /></a><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Worse yet is that this partnership happened with the help of the National Prayer Breakfast sponsored by the Fellowship Foundation, a.k.a. “The Family”. The 2010 breakfast featured Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero as its keynote speaker who professed Spain’s commitment to religious tolerance and pluralism along with its rejection of "exclusive ideology" and uncompromising fundamentalism. Zapatero's speech was a sales pitch for the Alliance of Civilizations. He was given a forum to introduce the United States Congress to what has become our new new strategic direction. Spain's reaction is not surprising...<br /></span><br /><a href="http://themoderatevoice.com/62052/u-s-prayer-breakfast-zapatero-in-the-kingdom-of-heaven-el-confidential-spain/"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 262px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482360854431425954" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjazA5t7EYeVM9uyc9Tfliufea25x6cVI6RYkwaEwqGC7VVS9qVnTN06xzby9wcMyCyM7Oxkc6OkO7YrNd91L0yhZ-MKaNS66UxtAU1inIzqfUywnLmKZ6mDGgyWVz3Q2h7OwRiZ3FN-EZj/s400/Spains+Response+to+Breakfast.png" /></a><br /><p><span style="color:#000000;">Zapatero was not the first keynote speaker to direct the U.S. Congress down the Alliance's path. In 2009, Alliance implementation partner <a href="http://www.tonyblairoffice.org/speeches/entry/full-text-of-tony-blairs-speech-to-the-national-prayer-breakfast/">Tony Blair advanced the ideology</a> that anything other than Universalism amounts to extremism. For Blair western democracies' long standing principles of religious tolerance is not enough. For if one rejects "the Other's" faith as not equally valid, then one becomes "intolerant" and is identified with extremism. This intolerance will not be tolerated. The basis of interfaith dialogue—“all [religions] different, all [outcomes] equal”—is absurd. For this requires that faiths discard their core teachings and favor of a “common spiritual value” which, as a result, redefines them. I have noticed that both Tony Blair's and President Obama's speeches echo the words of AoC High Level Group member Karen Armstrong.<br /><br />Now would be a good time to review the Fellowship Foundation which has shown itself to be bedfellows with the Alliance of Civilizations. And in light of Spain's recent conference on religious tolerance within the framework of the Alliance of Civilizations, a review of this framework would also be timely.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Constance Cumbey’s research provides invaluable insight into why a “Christian” foundation would support an initiative which seeks to destroy Christianity and religious orthodoxy. One of her most disturbing discoveries was that the Fellowship Foundation had received $1.777 million from Institute of Noetic Sciences’ co-founder Paul Temple.<br /></p></span><p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 118px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482362128954777570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiNPOy2bFCxLYDqQuHsiiGVuhBjeCVZ6CEBOpyDNA95y4vLIULmGEcJgjmNH7ytT9d7uk503a3I0C_qFL-pF-IcE8HRkse2CBlt336W8Hxh0KCZhCZTmBS-M94CUfn5XzgX5jHyYo6ZeFC/s400/PaulTempleContributions.png" /></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The Institute of Noetic Sciences is a group of conscious evolutionists! They believe that they have evolved to a higher, super human species called <a href="http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j19/white.asp">homo noeticus</a>. Barbara Marx Hubbard refers to this species as homo universalis. They call for the extinction of the lower--or "egocentric" species. Where in not-too-distant history have we heard this before?</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">I have provided the following links to Mrs. Cumbey’s work on the Fellowship Foundation. </span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://cumbey.blogspot.com/2008/05/harmonic-convergence-of-evangelicalism.html">The Harmonic Convergence of Evangelicalism and Noetic Science</a></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance22.htm">"The Family" and its Hijacking of Evangelicalism (Part 1)</a></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance23.htm">"The Family" and its Hijacking of Evangelicalism (Part 2)</a></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance124.htm">"The Family" and its Hijacking of Evangelicalism (Part 3)</a></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance125.htm">"The Family" and its Hijacking of Evangelicalism (Part 4)</a></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance126.htm">"The Family" and its Hijacking of Evangelicalism (Part 5)</a></span></li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;">And finally, it is important to show exactly what it is the Fellowship Foundation, a.k.a., “The Family” and the Alliance of Civilizations supports. Presenting Religious Freedom within the Context of the Alliance of Civilizations.<br /></span><br /></p><p align="center"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VSdUMajuHIA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VSdUMajuHIA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;"></p></span>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-31052883801764697892010-02-21T21:42:00.006-06:002010-02-21T22:12:29.053-06:00Biometrics - RFID Agenda<span style="color:#000000;">Constance Cumbey has described New Age politics as a continuum. For those of us watching the New Age over the years, those words have proven to be so true. Even though political power changes, each party has demonstrated they have globalists ready to advance us ever closer towards an Orwellian 1984 vision of horror which depicts the state as “Big Brother” which has seized absolute control.<br /><br />As I’ve watched this continuum, one objective appears remarkably like the “Big Brother” description as portrayed by Orwell and the warnings contained in the Book of Revelation. That objective is the use of RFID-biometric identification systems for use in the “global governance of the culture”. Many of us Wisconsin residents were embarrassed to have to admit Tommy Thompson was from this state. Recall that while Thompson served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Bush Administration</span> <a href="http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/tommy-thompson-pres-bid.html">he called for the micro chipping of all Americans<span style="color:#000000;"> </span></a><span style="color:#000000;">in the interest of implanting us with our medical records.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">I became even more concerned when I read the Club of Madrid’s global counter-terrorism</span> <a href="http://summit.clubmadrid.org/">outcome documents </a><span style="color:#000000;">which calls for the use of biometrics. In 2005, under the honorary presidency of Bill Clinton, the Club of Madrid charged Kofi Annan with turning its recommendations into a global counter-terrorism strategy, a.k.a. “The Strategy”. The Strategy’s central organization responsible for setting the “global conscience” in the war on terror is none other than the Alliance of Civilizations. I noticed early in the Alliance’s formation there were calls to create a database of families who were sympathetic to the initiative.<br /><br />The announcement of the FBI’s</span> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jan/15/world.ukcrime">Server in the Sky </a><span style="color:#000000;">database further demonstrated how serious the globalists are about exercising total control. The FBI database </span><a href="http://whereismydata.wordpress.com/category/3-data/fingerprints-3-data/page/3/">interlocks with its European cousin<span style="color:#000000;"> </span></a><span style="color:#000000;">known as the</span> <a href="http://no-racism.net/article/69/">Schengen, a.k.a. “Big Brother</a>” <span style="color:#000000;">System</span>.<br /><br /><p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440911406032843778" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIG4_b6TT0ftVs3Pz0UlhnRIu-rai9SjUik8NBwwoWBRZMH99fLzCoExT9N76M8ZbgDWshDERoQZq54czIy0sNbLCkpxmPHTDlwgxdcAn2iw3mPqyH1v71kjKAccz6iqaUr4IIDBlPAMO1/s400/Server+in+the+sky.png" /><span style="color:#000000;">Revelation 13 warns of a corrupt leader of a world governmental system who “causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:<br /><br />“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name”.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">New Age visionary Barbara Marx Hubbard envisions this mark as a positive--a “loving birth”. She writes in the Book of Co-Creation that “in the negative scenario, John foresaw the possibility of total domination of humanity by a dictator who wields the power of science and technology to control rather than to emancipate.” The emancipation she refers to is the new social body’s liberation from the “dark karmic forces” or, in other words, the monotheistic faiths.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">The intent of this blog post is to draw attention to the biometrics aspect of the movement and to welcome much needed research in this area. The new blog is called</span> <a href="http://jd-thedevilisinthedetails.blogspot.com/">The Devil is in the Details </a><span style="color:#000000;">written by JD. JD and Suzanna have done some EXCELLENT research and have documented the agenda behind the proposed U.S. health care overhaul which may ultimately demand we all be micro chipped. I have added a link to JD’s blog on my links and his first post follows. I am having trouble copying over the hyperlinked material from his blog so I recommend reading this from his site and visiting the blog regularly. Welcome JD.</span></p><p></p><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Traceability in a Sustainable World:<br /></span></strong><br />A look into the very real RFID agenda ensnaring the earth<br /><br />Part 1: Introductions<br /><br />Picture a future where your right to privacy is a thing of the past. Where your government, doctor, retail stores, your home, your neighbor, and you keep accurate details of every transaction you make, whom you associate with, the amount of every and any goods you use, where you worship, your impact on the planet, your impact on your community, and any other piece of data that can be recorded as it pertains to your life. Many of us have seen articles and books that advocate for just such a world. Many more of us have read opinion pieces, and heard rumors of plans for such societies. Most recently as the Healthcare debate was heating up here in the United States, a group promoting Congressman Ron Paul published an article on it's website claiming that such a system via microchipping had been written into the Healthcare Reform Bill. Is any of this true? If so, who's behind it? If so, how far has such an agenda spread? How close are we to implementation of such a systematic society? A short time ago, I asked Susanna, a research associate, to help me dig into these questions. What was found during our investigation will shock some, and will be hard to believe by others. In this article, and those that follow, I will attempt to answer all of these questions and many more. Our investigation will show that such an agenda not only exists, but is far more advanced than anyone had imagined. We will explore the history, funding, and implementation of the many arms of this agenda, as well as some that have taken hold under our noses while no one noticed. Over the course of this series of articles we will cover many subjects from U.S. Politics to Social Media, from international treaties to social services, from iPhones to Echelon. The full scope will take time to explore, and may take a few of these articles to become 100% clear to some. While others may begin to immediately see the bigger picture. As is suggested by the title of this part, this article is a introduction to the overall agenda. Here we will begin with the outline of the subject, which is global in nature. As I have found, one of the reasons this agenda went unnoticed is because many don't know what to look for and if they have seen it, it was not recognized for what it was. This is no fault of the average observer. There have been slick redefinitions of terms that have allowed this agenda to remain under the radar for as long as it has.<br /><br />No place can this be better witnessed than within the constructs of a United Nations sanctioned not for profit organization called GS1. Before we get into the redefinitions we must first understand what GS1 says about itself, its duties, and who makes up the organization. According to GS1: "GS1 is a leading global organisation dedicated to the design and implementation of global standards and solutions to improve the efficiency and visibility of supply and demand chains globally and across sectors. The GS1 system of standards is the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world. " http://www.gs1.org/<br /><br />So in a nut shell GS1 is a organization that sets standards for supply chains internationally. This doesn't sound too bad does it? What though are the standards that GS1 wishes to have set? One of these is the GS1 Global Traceability Standard which requires everything produced for any use be tagged and identifiable via varying means, from bar-coding to RFID chipping. Among the Traceability Standard we also find that any machine used in production of materials must be identifiable in the same way. The same can be said for trucks, planes, or boats shipping the goods, crates which goods are packaged in, stores where the merchandise is sold, as well as any other aspect which influenced the production or sale of the product. The products range from cell phones, to fresh produce, to automobiles, to clothing, as well as anything else that can be produced or sold. In a normal world this is where a supply chain ends. However, in the GS1 dictionary, supply chain means from start of production to the end of a products life. This means they want continual information on the product long after you have purchased it. Another aspect that must be taken into account is the traceability standard that states the system must incorporate real time identification of parties, items, and events that have had a relationship with the product within its life. Did you catch that? Parties!!! According again to GS1 and their standards, parties refers to any individual involved in production, shipping, sales, or purchasing of a product. How was it GS1 proposed to identify things within the supply chain? Does GS1 have different systems in place to identify these parties? No they do not. GS1 proposes to identify YOU the same way they want to identify every other object, through RFID.<br /><br />Now that we have established a desire by a group to do such a thing, one is left wondering is this fanciful talk or a viable threat? To answer this, let's look at who is working to implement GS1 standards. Driving forces for GS1 include North Atlantic Treaty Organization, World Trade Organization, World Health Organization, and World Customs Organization. Partners of GS1 include corporations influencing all walks of life including, Microsoft, Baxter, GM, IBM, Pfizer, Walmart, Google, and many many more. So many more that the odds are much better of you guessing who is on the list than who isn't. GS1 has branches in many of the countries which have agreed to implement their standards, these include India, Japan, China, Russia, the EU, and the United States. In the United States, GS1 has partnered with the US Chamber of Commerce, FDA, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense and many others to see to the implementation within the US. In June 2009, the EU GS1 launched the Transatlantic Traceability Infrastructure (TTI) Project. This part of the project was designed to fast track RFID implementation across Europe. What has remained quiet is that TTIP is a collaborative agreement between the US and the EU to fast track implementation in both. The projects of GS1 take into account anyway someone may purchase a product. This includes a section on Ecommerce which by its own definitions would make the Internet of Things a reality. There are also provisions for ordering products over the phone, which we will explore in more depth in a upcoming article. Now that you have a basic understanding of GS1, you may ask how far out is full implementation? GS1 has available on its site implementation projections which are sobering. According to GS1, 2009 was to be the year of preparation. All products and pieces of infrastructure were to be developed and in place by the end of 2009. Again according to GS1, this goal was met ahead of schedule. GS1 also claims 2010 as the year full implementation and operation is to begin, and again GS1 is ahead of schedule. There are still a couple of sectors where work needs to be done for this to be achieved. One of these is the healthcare industry, is it a coincidence that the Healthcare Reform Bill would make the healthcare industry in compliance with GS1 standards? This subject we will be looking at in depth in a upcoming article. Now that you understand the part of this international organization in implementing a complete RFID infrastructure, we can now go forward in upcoming articles and look at pilot projects, funding, the politics behind the agenda, and much more.<br /><br />This agenda is real, and its implementation will forever alter life as we know it. The provisions within GS1 cover all aspects of business. There are numerous connections to be made, which will take us from captains of industry, to US politicians, deep into the Green movement, to some of the richest men on the planet, to those that were bailed out due to their "bad practices". My upcoming articles will explore these connections and how we got here. While we slept, a trap has been set, one that will soon ensnare the earth. My goal with these articles is to educate those reading in such a way that you will recognize the agenda when you see it. Only then can you be able to educate others. I encourage questions and discussion and will do my best to answer any directed my way. Susanna is well educated on this subject as well, and I must convey a great deal of thankfulness for her help on this project. Without her this project would not be as full of information as it is. To all others who have sent me information or have expressed an interest in this agenda, I thank you as well and hope this first article has been educational. For the rest of you, stay tuned as we are just getting warmed up!</span>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-52741588041681959082009-12-27T16:00:00.008-06:002009-12-30T10:14:16.381-06:00Maitreya's Star<p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">It has been awhile since I've posted and my intent was to post a new YouTube video of a powerpoint presentation. But YouTube has a new policy of only 10-minute uploads. I need to decide how I want to break down a one hour and 10 minute presentation and then I will post it. In the meantime, I am posting a response to a couple of editorials which ran in the Medford paper. I have posted sections of those in the blog comments.</span></span></span></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420045152156637010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 235px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2z3dWyHRmTmEY14EuvGmXNgWlIq8JgCkuye8SwizLck8KKBa8hxoJHzJhSYkfsFVG8oPIVaGn1RRHZ19UisI7Dk4uPZ8GJbdoWa1p7wXUPeocCC5Z7m_LqlwGZHlPoR5M_CC5JNg1r0RG/s400/Sprial.png" border="0" /><span style="color:#000000;">Once again Linda Osolkowski is portraying her political opponents as religious and political extremists by attempting to associate their ideology to that of the Taliban, a regime which governed by blurring the line of church and state. She presents the Iraq war as an exhibit of such extremism. Osolkowski’s revisionism is remarkable. She omits that many democrats voted for the war. Of course their decisions were based upon faulty intelligence reports, the same reports republicans were asked to consider. The intelligence was provided by Britain’s Tony Blair, President Bush’s closest friend and ally. Tony Blair and George Bush are both globalists so it is important to examine their actions through the prism of the global lens, i.e., new age politics.<br /><br />Once the United States was well into the Iraq war, Blair’s message shifted from regime change to <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/bf9be01c-fe3c-11d9-a289-00000e2511c8.html">advocacy for the Alliance of Civilizations </a>initiative. Blair called for an <a href="http://www.gees.org/documentos/Documen-01718.pdf">alliance for global values</a> to straighten out the “clash about civilizations”. His change of opinion was not sudden for he had long held new age views. Blair had undergone a rebirthing ceremony to become “One” with “Mother Earth”, a.k.a., the goddess Gaia. Both <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9GzIx-qJ5U">Bush and Blair are on record as Universalists</a>, a doctrine, though hostile to Christianity, has been welcomed into many of the apostate churches. The Universalist value of “we all religions worship the same God but follow different paths” is part of the global value system. Today Blair’s <a href="http://www.tonyblairfaithfoundation.org/pages/universities">faith foundation</a> is housed at Yale University where he teaches Alliance of Civilizations doctrine. The Bush Administration was also a supporter of the Alliance.<br /><br />As long as there is religious freedom homosexuality and abortion will be debated as moral issues. But for new age politics expression of those views are considered to be an assault against the new civilizations’ “common value system”. Opposition is portrayed as “hateful” ideologies which lead to violent radicalization. This strategy steps beyond the suppression of legitimate debate for UN counter-terrorism measures labeled dissenters as “strategic terrorists”. Everywhere within “the Strategy” one can find these well-defined goals: set aside the separation of church and state; and, through interfaith dialogue, “use religion to combat religion”. The Nazis are known for their attempts at eliminating confessional divides and converging religion.<br /><br />While Osolkowski’s portrayal of Christians as extremists reflects the New Age political strategy, it might behoove her to examine her support of the <a href="http://www.spiralgoddess.com/Kali.html">goddess cosmology</a> which openly calls for global genocide. A good starting point would be with the most influential organizations in shaping the global spiritual-political landscape. I refer to Lucis Trust, the United Nations’ spiritual foundation, which intricately ties liberation of the goddess to the “<a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/externalisation/exte1121.html">doctrine of the coming one</a>”. The coming one—Maitreya—has a mission: unite humanity with the fallen goddess and in the process fulfill all religions’ messianic expectations. Universalism will have served its role as religions are required to converge into “One”. Maitreya’s opposition-- the resistant form—must be destroyed. As written in the <a href="http://www.greatdreams.com/invctn.htm">Great Invocation</a> “Let Light and Love and Power and Death fulfil the purpose of the Coming One”. The process of destruction is what the New Age visionaries say is an integral part of “conscious evolution”.<br /><br />December was a good month for Lucis Trust initiates. They are proclaiming the <a href="http://www.share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_starsign.htm">star which heralds in Maitreya’s arrival appeared</a> over the Norwegian skies. While the <a href="http://dvice.com/archives/2009/12/spooky-light-in.php">press reported this “star” spiral as a failed Russian missile</a>, Theosophists and Gaia hopefuls insist it was one of several spaceships placed around the world. Perhaps immature Pleiadians (the goddess’ keepers) could not wait for their 2012 cosmic party to razzle and dazzle with their props. Some point out that the timing coincides with the mid-2009 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-KcrSqSAo">World Invocation Day</a> which called upon Maitreya’s arrival and the ushering in of his 1000 year Reich (oops, era of peace, light, and love).<br /><br />Some world leaders point out that 2010 is the first full year of global governance (which Maitreya is supposed to lead). The country that architected of the Alliance of Civilizations is to preside over the European Union’s rotational presidency during the first semester. <a href="http://www.euractiv.com/en/opinion/spain-vows-take-backstage-role-eu-president/article-188494">Spain has announced it intends to advance existing clearly-defined objectives</a>: replacement of the world’s existing economic system; strengthen the United Nations; and solidify the Alliance of Civilizations’ power. The envisioned economic system is “earth-centric” and requires those participating to recognize “Mother Earth”—the goddess—as creator.<br /><br />One might be inclined to dismiss this New Age politic because it is so bizarre. Doing so would be a mistake. The Alliance of Civilizations has been incorporated into NATO military doctrine and some of its aspects can be found in U.S. military doctrine. NATO is scheduled to announce a <a href="http://natostratcon.info/">new strategic concept</a> in 2010. I’ve seen an emblem incorporates the EU and NATO flags, a fragmented U.S. flag, and three sixes (the number of initiation which New Age visionaries have been teaching is a requirement for transcendence). </span><span style="color:#000000;"><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif5CMv_xq50A42uzv_-hibJ8-ju_gDEJZZ7ifMUeHvAFhw-kMeJVZLme-CeruLHfglJgGeR6UgSBX2Z3la_Rr-Hq1oe9Lejs_ZmUKdqoempbeQMZQdGbUqZMRT-jc37A5RQdcfYtND2bbX/s1600-h/NATO.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420043445023626450" style="WIDTH: 199px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 254px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif5CMv_xq50A42uzv_-hibJ8-ju_gDEJZZ7ifMUeHvAFhw-kMeJVZLme-CeruLHfglJgGeR6UgSBX2Z3la_Rr-Hq1oe9Lejs_ZmUKdqoempbeQMZQdGbUqZMRT-jc37A5RQdcfYtND2bbX/s400/NATO.png" border="0" /></a></p><br /><p>What the Alliance of Civilizations proposes is fascism in its ugliest form. Osolkowski’s ideology reflects much of the same. One could say she has more in common with Bush and Blair than she could have imagined. Then perhaps she may be what I refer to as one the nice New Agers—the uninitiated; the hypnotized—who is just coming to the realization of what is involved with conscious evolution. </span></p>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-27096833698446050382009-10-29T20:19:00.006-05:002009-11-02T19:52:19.907-06:002010: Year of Bridezilla?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWPqPXN_SnPzyA3RZQUoMVAOI___sW2rZv8P3CYNvnGzUY_snYMCmL9SRsj5oJ-l6R6CLwCwSHDIHFXfJAMSuWdipyllprnp0YUEBKwX71hH5S6FvIqqTk0gHhtHy4EAX2Lbq7frJJuXQR/s1600-h/Bridezilla.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399688928910709394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 92px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWPqPXN_SnPzyA3RZQUoMVAOI___sW2rZv8P3CYNvnGzUY_snYMCmL9SRsj5oJ-l6R6CLwCwSHDIHFXfJAMSuWdipyllprnp0YUEBKwX71hH5S6FvIqqTk0gHhtHy4EAX2Lbq7frJJuXQR/s400/Bridezilla.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><p><span style="color:#000000;">Barbara Marx Hubbard’s words that the resonating core groups are blending and merging to do the <a href="http://www.theosophical-society.org.uk/">'one work</a>' </span><span style="color:#000000;">have no better evidence than the upcoming</span> <a href="http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=39761&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html">2010 International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures</a><span style="color:#000000;">. In 2010 we are to witness many of the interlocking</span> <a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001826/182616E.pdf">initiatives we’ve discussed here converge</a> <span style="color:#000000;">and become the legal basis for global governance. Among these core initiatives include the</span></p><ul><li><a href="http://www.securitycouncilreport.org/atf/cf/%7b65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3-CF6E4FF96FF9%7d/UNRO%20S2005%20567.pdf">Dialogue [Parnership] among Civilizations</a>; </li><li><a href="http://www.wcrp.org/news/press/un-decade">Promotion of Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation for Peace</a>;</li><li><a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/LegalIssues/bg2206.cfm">Combating Defamation of Religions</a>;</li><li><a href="http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/religion.htm">Elimination of all Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief</a>;</li><li>etc, etc. </li><li></li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;">With names indicative of peace how could anyone oppose these initiatives?<br /><br />When I was young I worked for a family who farmed—Harold and Elaine Wells. Harold was a World War II veteran. One year he decided to take Elaine to Europe and travel the places he had been during the War. This meant that the couple would spend some time in East Germany which, then, was part of the communist bloc and divided by the Berlin Wall.<br /><br />When the couple returned Elaine described to me how she disliked East Germany. They were permitted to see only what their guide allowed. While in a downtown district their guide stopped the group in front of a shop where Elaine saw the most beautiful dress. She said she had to buy it and before the guide could stop her, she had opened the shop door. What she saw was not a store, but a room filled with machinery.<br /><br />These initiatives are exactly what Elaine saw—nice window dressing and machinery. The machinery, of course, is designed to</span> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N809ghf7ou0">combat monotheistic religion</a><span style="color:#000000;">. As these initiatives blend and converge, we are certain to find the Alliance of Civilizations to be the core resonating group. The Alliance’s initial planning documents say that UN reform IS the successful implementation of the AoC initiative. The timeframe is to move from preparatory phase into activation mode in September 2009. </span><a href="http://www.un.org/ga/64/generaldebate/pdf/ES_en.pdf">Speaking before the 64th UN General Assembly Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero said</a>:<br /></p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">"Now we must move a step further. The Alliance of Civilisations, which structures and implements those principles and values in the United Nations, should form part, structurally, of its main organs and at all levels. The moment has come for this General Assembly to approve a Resolution to provide the Alliance of Civilisations with that structural dimension. Spain and Turkey and the Friends of the Alliance will work together so that this Resolution may be endorsed before the end of autumn this year. I am sure that it will contribute highly positively to the task that is being developed by organs such as the Human Rights Council, the Economic and Social Council and, even, the Security Council. The dialogue of civilizations must become the mother tongue of the United Nations."</span></li></ul><span style="color:#000000;"><div></span></div><span style="color:#000000;">Make no mistake: this is just a formalizing of what has already taken place. All relevant UN organizations have already made entry points into the Alliance of Civilizations.<br /><br />This resolution will essentially crown the Alliance queen. I expect in 2010 we will see the gathering together the “collective whole”. This is what the Gnostics refer to as the “world soul” which will become “one” with the earth (the goddess, the divine Sophia) and take her seat as the true bride of Christ. I tend to see her more as</span> Bridezilla<span style="color:#000000;">, the bride of the antichrist.<br /><br />“Through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.” – Daniel 8:25</span>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-75820161956963981442009-10-15T17:35:00.008-05:002009-10-15T17:45:13.976-05:00Masters of Deception<span style="color:#000000;">The Alliance of Civilizations has never received such high level support from the United States as it is presently enjoying from the Obama administration. Even though the Bush administration’s Secretary of State <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Condolezza</span> Rice expressed enthusiasm for the Alliance, the level of support appeared somewhat measured. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhklHCUehWuvwFs9F1H4cay7Xwi6pxNS07bSakBYTXlA1MC6dbXigmhSscaz8w_cIX7QWuCYPVzWn3JftTrdhO6lbLAFeEqQlO4btcAv-9Xsq7-2HfiThGzwKljql3NETewQu9HmQIagkTb/s1600-h/Rice+Letter.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392960412651510210" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 191px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhklHCUehWuvwFs9F1H4cay7Xwi6pxNS07bSakBYTXlA1MC6dbXigmhSscaz8w_cIX7QWuCYPVzWn3JftTrdhO6lbLAFeEqQlO4btcAv-9Xsq7-2HfiThGzwKljql3NETewQu9HmQIagkTb/s400/Rice+Letter.png" border="0" /></a></p>It is not yet clear to me whether Rice recognized the many problem areas contained within the Alliance of Civilizations’ final report, but the Alliance had complained that it was difficult to advance with such low level representation from the U.S. government. Even so, I have archived materials showing the Bush administration privately endorsed the initiative. But the tide has turned. The Obama administration, being fully aware of the Alliance’s problematic areas such as freedom of speech and religion, welcomes the initiative.</span><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6rDKUU7tWmu5-s2zYnvEdGYVDCXpmD4adsiJg8jLPlHRcAnccEUe_RXOjTk7Xhu0pRvzWLngBW95LHL0aFWRd7eclgwMFY6CjWhHvl489Va-0EEljQLJ7csKKzI3cJq4eShzZaO9vbTU3/s1600-h/Obama-Clinton.PNG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392960679425546354" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 248px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6rDKUU7tWmu5-s2zYnvEdGYVDCXpmD4adsiJg8jLPlHRcAnccEUe_RXOjTk7Xhu0pRvzWLngBW95LHL0aFWRd7eclgwMFY6CjWhHvl489Va-0EEljQLJ7csKKzI3cJq4eShzZaO9vbTU3/s400/Obama-Clinton.PNG" border="0" /></a></p><p align="left"><span style="color:#000000;">While speaking at the Roosevelt Institute,</span> <a href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/09/129164.htm">Hillary Clinton delivered tough words</a> <span style="color:#000000;">to the Alliance regarding restrictions on free speech and religion. Clinton said: </span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">“Now, some claim that the United Nations can best protect the freedom of religion by adopting what is called an “anti-defamation” policy that would restrict the freedom of expression and the freedom of religion. I, obviously, strongly disagree. An individual’s ability to practice their religion should have no bearing on others individuals’ freedom of speech. The protection of speech about religion is particularly important since persons of different faiths will inevitably hold divergent views on religious questions. And these differences should be met with tolerance, not suppression of discourse. And the United States will stand against the idea of defamation of religion in the United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council.”<br /><br />“President Obama and I are committed to defending the Freedom of Expression on the new terrain of the 21st century…Similarly, we wish to stand firmly on the side of the freedom of religion</span><a name="religion"></a><span style="color:#000000;">.” </span></li></ul><span style="color:#000000;"><p>Normally Clinton’s words are ones I would have applauded, but I cannot in light of President Obama’s subsequent</span> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eugene-volokh/is-the-obama-administrati_b_307132.html">co-authorship of a resolution</a> <span style="color:#000000;">before the Human Rights Council. This resolution contains</span> <a href="http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/043ytrhc.asp?pg=1">similar language as that used in the anti-defamation resolutions</a> <span style="color:#000000;">which are intended to curtail free speech. The strategy all along has been to convince people that they are operating within the framework of Human Rights. As such, a person’s words that might offend or insult another might be construed as a violation of another’s Human Rights. The Responsibility to Protect initiative indicates clear guidelines are to be posed in public places so civil society understands the expectations placed upon them.<br /><br />Clinton’s speech appears disingenuous. Being aware of the Alliance’s major problem areas, why welcome the initiative at all? It’s like inviting a group of thugs to a formal dinner and as they are being seated they are given one caveat: their salad forks have been removed. Even though they have one less instrument there is no complaint as they proceed and reach for their dinner fork.<br /><br />Hillary Clinton surely must be aware that Britain is an Alliance of Civilizations implementation partner. In the interest of protecting free speech she has received a high profile </span><a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=98027">appeal from radio talk show host Dr. Michael Savage</a> <span style="color:#000000;">who has requested her assistance to get his name removed from the “Banned from Britain” list for voicing dissenting, “extremist” political views. To my knowledge Clinton has done nothing to intercede on behalf of Michael Savage and, by extension, free speech.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">When the Michael Savage story broke Constance <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Cumbey</span> and I warned today Michael Savage—tomorrow any one of us. Tomorrow has arrived. Today we see that Christian</span> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6257116/Christian-preacher-refused-entry-to-Britain-under-rules-intended-to-fight-extremism.html">televangelist Benny <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Hinn</span> has been banned from Britain</a> <span style="color:#000000;">for having “extremist” views. Britain appears to be implementing the Alliance of Civilizations “shared security” doctrine and is starting by isolating foreign “extremists”. The next step is to look internally. Some British government officials are already calling for population reduction to one-half of its present level. The British people had to combat Nazi ideology during the second world war--today those adopting this same ideology are setting Britain’s policy.<br /><br />The Alliance of Civilizations has been a master of double speech. They support national sovereignty—redefined; freedom of speech—with restrictions; freedom of religion—with guidelines. It appears that British and U.S. heads of state have mastered the same. Clinton’s tough words appear to be an attempt to publicly placate the Alliance’s critics.</span></p>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-54662689586463472112009-09-21T21:17:00.016-05:002009-09-26T23:31:24.278-05:00Riders of the Pale Horse<span style="color:#000000;">From time to time I encounter people who attempt to build the case that Nazi doctrine was rooted in Christianity. Even in the small community of Medford, I've publicly debated this with a new ager. I have never read anything in the Bible which would support the notion that a super human race is going to consciously evolve. I have read the new age literature which twists the Bible to make this case. Conscience evolution was a core belief of the Nazis. Robert Jay Lifton, author of The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, writes:</span><br /><br /><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">“Part of the cure is the experience of transcendence: of a psychic state so intense that time and death disappear. The cure must maintain, or at least evoke periodically, that psychic experience. One’s own sense of transcendence merges with the image of the endless life of one’s people. In that experience—or promise—of ecstasy, one may be ready to kill, or at least to sanction killing.”</span><br /></li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;">Transcendence--or conscious evolution--is also a new age doctrine. There are variations of how the "new species" is labeled, from</span> <a href="http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j19/white.asp">homo noeticus</a> <span style="color:#000000;">to</span> <a href="http://www.evolve.org/pub/doc/chrysalis02_barbaraCall.html">homo universalis</a><span style="color:#000000;">, but this is the same coin, different sides.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The other day as I visited You Tube, a link on extremism caught my attention. The link disappeared as quickly as it had appeared but I fortunately had time to click on it. The link was from the</span> <a href="http://www.cedartree.net/">Cedar Institute</a> <span style="color:#000000;">dedicated to the intolerance of intolerance. The site is typical new age. Same agenda, different address. I did notice a cartoon which made me decide to give this site additional attention. The cartoon perfectly illustrates the Lucis Trust teaching the</span> <a href="http://kingsgarden.org/English/Organizations/OMM.GB/WomenWriters/AliceBailey/SevenRays/Rays/rays1283.html">Sealing of the Door Where Evil Dwells</a>.<br /></p><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9PjdhjE3z6MYkVwTlsTIRNHaKEZIqFZqEnkvZ2QManyUjZMV62czmFhukiORA8LwDo_JDbBMrJV8Ne0lK2VlQ_ILIEEM4o3PbrvRQor4Zs3JwJJqqOcq-q03wPcFYHDBG2iiAQbjv6H5x/s1600-h/CedarInstitute.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384112422091989218" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 249px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9PjdhjE3z6MYkVwTlsTIRNHaKEZIqFZqEnkvZ2QManyUjZMV62czmFhukiORA8LwDo_JDbBMrJV8Ne0lK2VlQ_ILIEEM4o3PbrvRQor4Zs3JwJJqqOcq-q03wPcFYHDBG2iiAQbjv6H5x/s400/CedarInstitute.png" border="0" /></a></p><span style="color:#000000;">This organization is clearly attempting to incite hatred towards monotheistic religion and also place the blame of Nazism on Christianity. The site deserved additional attention. I was able to identify the site's registration through the internet tool WhoIs. It belongs to Lloyd Bokman.</span><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6xbB5LLmhK2-7lmd0SqRE2G_siUJYrVX6GP0RlPQwowsTVmOCyMKPahlcq0flalJ_Vja1_Ob4b-_LgNdVUyN51p6ZT9i7_pLFHQpfXQKvCLZDobHl3WXh-NItV5VvLMrq2SMqb7trdVPU/s1600-h/WhoIsCedartree.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384114418051144914" style="WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 193px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6xbB5LLmhK2-7lmd0SqRE2G_siUJYrVX6GP0RlPQwowsTVmOCyMKPahlcq0flalJ_Vja1_Ob4b-_LgNdVUyN51p6ZT9i7_pLFHQpfXQKvCLZDobHl3WXh-NItV5VvLMrq2SMqb7trdVPU/s200/WhoIsCedartree.png" border="0" /></a></p><br /><br /><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;">It turns out that Lloyd Bokman is a higher education trainer for FEMA. Note the address on WhoIs and FEMA's site.</span><br /></div><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoeW9yLUd697n1ljZdRFi67-7OJaeLjKOtXZhrwo7DDDPcsBpSDzCzwO98sTGedmLfNBlw_raI2U4ggVx4llh0I2Rh1xA6zNQR33BxWtv6MD2AZS_fR0ATtdbf18bzFr5i7MTnaemWGiG1/s1600-h/FemaTrainer.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384113967589607570" style="WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 179px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoeW9yLUd697n1ljZdRFi67-7OJaeLjKOtXZhrwo7DDDPcsBpSDzCzwO98sTGedmLfNBlw_raI2U4ggVx4llh0I2Rh1xA6zNQR33BxWtv6MD2AZS_fR0ATtdbf18bzFr5i7MTnaemWGiG1/s200/FemaTrainer.png" border="0" /></a></p><p align="left"><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Also noteworthy is that</span> <a href="http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/odp/">FEMA, part of the Department of Homeland Security</a><span style="color:#000000;">, has incorporated the Alliance of Civilizations into its </span><a href="http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu/ARRPT/Nov%2014,%2006.doc">higher education curriculum</a><span style="color:#000000;">. I don't know about you, but I thought FEMA was already a disaster given its response to Hurricane Katrina and now the Alliance of Civilizations! If you haven't listened to <em>After the Flood</em>, I highly recommend that you</span> <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1097">listen to the testimony of these Katrina survivors</a> <span style="color:#000000;">who sought shelter fearing for their lives knowing they were under a shoot-to-kill curfew. Exactly what they needed during time of disaster, huh?<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">So I conclude and direct the Cedar Institute's attention to true extremism: those calling for the "activation" of conscious evolution. The</span> <a href="http://globalspirit.org/">World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality</a> <span style="color:#000000;">is stacked with heavy-hitting commissioners who follow a</span> <a href="http://globalspirit.org/pages/mission.php">blueprint </a><span style="color:#000000;">for the future “activation” of the evolutionary process. The average reader will most likely find the blueprint bizarre and not understandable. I suspect it was purposely written that way to avoid public scrutiny. They have a stupid notion that we cannot understand what they are saying. The blueprint is classic Barbara Marx Hubbard style, so to help explain it I have put up excerpts from the Book of Co-Creation. </span></p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRNiPmqye23NRM870i-tnVzGc2OuUFbxz0-PcwxmvoTflVh64GDNG6CmEldqI9_2sMIWkUfuWkwY9D0kGn1fE_NUAYjoEYgOGYEzcs-qpsgkzo5KU0ASb-jFSaZ_sUw8zk4o_Bil3FN_ON/s1600-h/cocreation1.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384113722255874002" style="WIDTH: 154px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRNiPmqye23NRM870i-tnVzGc2OuUFbxz0-PcwxmvoTflVh64GDNG6CmEldqI9_2sMIWkUfuWkwY9D0kGn1fE_NUAYjoEYgOGYEzcs-qpsgkzo5KU0ASb-jFSaZ_sUw8zk4o_Bil3FN_ON/s200/cocreation1.png" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxyhZe5-sp1Kpt2b0BUbtmw9JtgP94E34ZZvKLIhKmSRS4jPXpqcztNMAjAcIUsaZGP8ALpvT4oSR6aLKzMhEhjvHpFEm0EqT-P6HCdBSfIRN9SVYdNV8ogMSa3VyDUazMohRUXjfWXCTx/s1600-h/cocreation2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384113515640407826" style="WIDTH: 158px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxyhZe5-sp1Kpt2b0BUbtmw9JtgP94E34ZZvKLIhKmSRS4jPXpqcztNMAjAcIUsaZGP8ALpvT4oSR6aLKzMhEhjvHpFEm0EqT-P6HCdBSfIRN9SVYdNV8ogMSa3VyDUazMohRUXjfWXCTx/s200/cocreation2.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizQAfeuBqO3MBWiWtQk_vLUXbeyfgoDf8pvtE1qoop4bOrZ0SudI6iE1HkIcW83DBjeoGL8JfOohs6ypfB7vQ9qB1CwlODJeBzMvH2rJExoFrhrB5iFHbljx44g7mUojJSullpBwzmQZY9/s1600-h/cocreation3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384114640090490802" style="WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 178px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizQAfeuBqO3MBWiWtQk_vLUXbeyfgoDf8pvtE1qoop4bOrZ0SudI6iE1HkIcW83DBjeoGL8JfOohs6ypfB7vQ9qB1CwlODJeBzMvH2rJExoFrhrB5iFHbljx44g7mUojJSullpBwzmQZY9/s200/cocreation3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbQ1wpDX_0Aw9lYIvBbxs6GTJO9ro8sqAmaKWNIk9_QmjUpEgqxzoRmgZNfRfUjsD8vwFJBhbtSSAknf8iqIvTv1vjD9OoLiwMGp4o4lZ6isbbDNkO7X9Ewl2ydLjTQJpTTW1zr48Izd20/s1600-h/cocreation4.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384114808732042770" style="WIDTH: 138px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbQ1wpDX_0Aw9lYIvBbxs6GTJO9ro8sqAmaKWNIk9_QmjUpEgqxzoRmgZNfRfUjsD8vwFJBhbtSSAknf8iqIvTv1vjD9OoLiwMGp4o4lZ6isbbDNkO7X9Ewl2ydLjTQJpTTW1zr48Izd20/s200/cocreation4.png" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPWbbqgUqvgskz9-uI-x8nOxe0hAWW7197bGHXE1_RCq0HB5GxaYYU6dg8P6_R9fsaMoa6h7bX9gpiy4j8dbtqOVc126BxjWElDskrYHDx2AdF8ZmYcy4DMbCLDR88b-A1ac3btGPLgTz8/s1600-h/cocreation5.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384114974658052578" style="WIDTH: 144px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPWbbqgUqvgskz9-uI-x8nOxe0hAWW7197bGHXE1_RCq0HB5GxaYYU6dg8P6_R9fsaMoa6h7bX9gpiy4j8dbtqOVc126BxjWElDskrYHDx2AdF8ZmYcy4DMbCLDR88b-A1ac3btGPLgTz8/s200/cocreation5.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">*** See</span> <a href="http://timextimes.blogspot.com/2007/12/use-notice-utilice-el-aviso.html">use doctrine <span style="color:#000000;">here</span> </a><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">“Those who induced Germany to embrace the swastika are not dead. They are still among us, just as they have been in every era, and doubtless will continue to be until the Apocalypse. National Socialism was for them but a means, and Hitler was but an instrument. The undertaking failed. What they are now trying to do is to revive the myth using other means.” - The Occult and the Third Reich, Jean-Michel Angebert</span>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-14434731507616576262009-07-25T17:09:00.015-05:002009-07-25T18:28:15.961-05:00Lifting the Burden off the Media: the Alliance of Civilizations' Global Expert Finder<span style="color:#000000;">One goal of the Alliance of Civilizations is to create a journalist review board which requires reporters covering cross cultural issues be board accredited. Of course op-ed pieces will be distributed by the Alliance for reporters' consideration in covering a story. As I was looking at the Alliance of Civilizations'</span> <a href="http://www.globalexpertfinder.org/about.php">Global Expert Finder </a><span style="color:#000000;">when I found this blog post from the Atlas Shrugs which is linked to my blog. I do have some differences of opinion with the author of this article. One difference is that I do not believe the Alliance of Civilizations is an arm of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. I believe the Alliance is an arm of the European Union--the globalization of the Barcelona Process--which has been lent to the Organization of the Islamic Conference until such a time that Western freedom has been subdued. It was the EU's High Representative <a href="http://www.osce.org/publications/sg/2006/03/18565_569_en.pdf">Javier Solana who initially called for restrictions on free speech </a>where religious criticism is concerned. Overall, the article is very good. I borrow from and once again give credit to the blog </span><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/">Atlas Shrugs</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/07/islam-the-war-of-propaganda-makes-huge-gains.html">Islam: The War of Propaganda Makes Huge Gains</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Islam is unique in that it is the only religion with a propaganda arm. No other religion advocates for propaganda, deception and disinformation. It is a powerful weapon in their war on the enemy (non-Muslims). </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">The media is indispensable in this aspect of Islam's war on the West (education is too, of course). Sophisticated and well packaged, Islamic objectives are served well. The assault is global and national. And pretenses are being dropped. Al Jazeera (the English version) is now being live streamed to our intelligence and State departments. It is the worst kind of bias, but every employee can livestream it.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">In the global landscape, the Alliance of Civilizations (arm of the OIC, the Organization of the Islamic Conference), is "connecting experts with journalists" through the UN. Get it?</span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><br /></span><a href="http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/?q=en/node/4438" target="_blank">UN-Sponsored Service Connects Journalists with Experts Around the World</a><br /><br /><br /><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">The United Nations' Alliance of Civilizations recently revamped and relaunched the</span> <a href="http://www.globalexpertfinder.org/" target="_blank">Global Expert Finder</a> <span style="color:#000000;">(GEF), a searchable database of commentators, analysts and academics who have expertise in many topics, including politics, law, education, women's rights, human rights, terrorism, globalization, religion, and art.</span> <a href="http://www.ijnet.org/ijnet/training_opportunities/un_sponsored_service_connects_journalists_with_experts_1" target="_blank">IJNet recently interviewed</a> <span style="color:#000000;">the UN's Daanish Masood about GEF and how journalists can benefit from the service.</span></li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;">Daanish Masood is a</span> <a href="http://www.asmasociety.org/mlt2006/organizers.html" target="_blank">"Muslim Leader of Tomorrow"</a> <span style="color:#000000;">(here): Here's his bio - all the buzzwords are there.</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">Daanish Masood is currently Executive Coordinator at ASMA Society, a non-profit religious and educational organization dedicated to building bridges between the American public and American Muslims through culture, arts, academia and current affairs. Previously, Daanish worked as Outreach Coordinator for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee where he developed a program to increase civil rights awareness in New York's Arab and South Asian immigrant communities. Over the last few months, he has been dedicated to organizing and developing programmatic content for the Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow forum. Daanish's main interest is in the political economy and economic anthropology of the Middle East and South Asia, particularly the issues of foreign labor in the Gulf region. He wrote his undergraduate thesis on the Saudi government's Saudization program, and hopes to pursue a doctoral degree in this area in the near future. Daanish graduated New York University with honors in Analytic Philosophy and Middle Eastern Studies. His language skills include: Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Hebrew. Born and raised in Saudi Arabia to Lukhnavi parents, he has been living in New York for the past eight years.</span></li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Masood was the contact person at the</span> <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/content/view/347/200/lang,english/" target="_blank">Istanbul Forum for the Alliance of Civilizations </a><span style="color:#000000;">(which </span><span style="color:#000000;">Obama in his Muhammadan mode attended on his European apology tour). One of the initiatives of the conference was:</span><br /><br /><br /></p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">“Restore Trust, Rebuild Bridges”, a cluster of Euro-Mediterranean projects, led by the Alliance and the Anna Lindh Foundation, to be developed by a number of partners, aimed at restoring trust and rebuilding bridges in that region in the wake of the Gaza crisis.</span></li></ul><p><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/bat-yeor-on-buraq-obamas-muslim-speech.html" target="_blank">Bat Ye'or said of Obama's speech in Cairo</a> <span style="color:#000000;">concerning the Alliance of Civilizations:</span></p><p></p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">The president’s speech is similar to many such declarations by European leaders. The question it raises is how much the West is ready to forgo truth and its basic principles in its supplication for obtaining peace with Islam. Clearly, the full Islamization of the West is the quickest way to obtain it. Obama’s political program in connection with the Alliance of Civilizations conforms to an OIC strategy that has already been accepted by the EU. In history, this policy has a name: the dhimmitude syndrome. </span></li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;">And President Barack Hussein Obama is fully on board: UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations Jorge Sampaio "welcomed the bold vision set forth by the American President to inaugurate a new era of peace and cooperation between the "Muslim world" and the West based on mutual respect, trust and partnership." </span><br /><br /></p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">"From the Alliance of Civilizations' perspective, this approach provides a strong framework, not only for advancing Muslim-Western relations, but also for engagement between diverse communities and cultures around the world. It constitutes our best hope to turn tides of mistrust that have beset us in past decades and forge a new beginning.</span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">"President Obama's speech provides a clear path for constructive engagement with the Muslim world, a path that doesn't attempt to paste over differences, but builds on common aspirations. Most importantly, he emphasizes the need to address the various sources of tensions - including violent extremism and the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians - and join forces to confront them. </span></li></ul><span style="color:#000000;">Back to the propaganda article: </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">The database currently has 120 experts but expects to include around 300 in the next year. Most of the sources speak English, but many are bilingual and can speak with journalists in multiple languages. </span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">In times of a crisis or important breaking global news, GEF also sends media alerts directly to a subscribed list of journalists, containing brief biographies and contact details for experts able to comment on the topic.</span></li></ul><span style="color:#000000;">Propaganda is taqiya, lies to advance Islam. Like this from their June 29th meeting:</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">'U(nderstanding) + R(espect) = U(nited) S(takeholders) for Good Governance of Cultural Diversity, Education for Social Cohesion, Respect and Peace,' </span></li></ul>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-78511525048652704142009-07-09T07:14:00.005-05:002009-07-11T16:06:35.209-05:00Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Conservatism Radio BroadcastUPDATE: This archive of this broadcast is available by clicking <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lifelibertypursuitofconservatism">here</a>.<br /><br />Be sure and catch Constance Cumbey's broadcast next Tuesday (7/14) where she will discuss with <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff329.htm">CLIFF KINCAID ON POPE BENEDICT XVI'S EVIDENT ENDOSEMENT OF NEW WORLD ORDER MACHINERY AND SYSTEM</a>.<br /><br />This evening I have been invited to be a guest on Life, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lifelibertypursuitofconservatism">Liberty & the Pursuit of Conservatism </a>to discuss the Alliance of Civilizations with hosts Babe Huggett and Warner Todd Huston. The program info is below. This broadcast starts an hour after Constance Cumbey's My Perspective broadcast. Hope you can join.<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356432906897464626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 330px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnPiIlms7Bnr2g3sQdY9KGYTO0fi3slYsGW-gN3jN6O3imTnuAnlUkxOQd-tAN6Xdm9xizBo_NbmNcmrLZOJAOyVmyd1WAL5aaKVojhwrwsCKgKU6BiA0R-sxexbJeMaXQDr1k_BR-VkCG/s400/Life&Liberty1.JPG" border="0" /><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356433717438386258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 329px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 176px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQH55HBwNA8E5ryngNT58UiOtIRGC3BMkUNZlJMvucE8V5nfAPAl1SHfEIXcdi6lMIx1YfdbXiddL7abSVjy3ovT80kgaQw8-b5ikrum0iI5TDb65fbpDYb6NRrKyHkPFF18ciWFBdVf1h/s400/Life&Liberty2.JPG" border="0" /><br /><div><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-48664477425759923612009-07-08T00:07:00.001-05:002009-07-08T00:29:41.467-05:00Bjorn's Other Blog<span style="color:#000000;">I am writing this blog post to acknowledge several of the emails regarding Bjorn (Farmer) and present my position on the controversy surrounding his Blue God Star blog. Portions of this may be hard for some to read, but it has to be said so one can understand how I have arrived at my conclusions.<br /><br />Late Friday evening as I checked my e-mail, I found a message waiting which contained a link to a blog called the</span> <a href="http://bluegodstar.blogspot.com/">Blue God Star</a><span style="color:#000000;">. The email indicated that it was Farmer’s new blog. As I read, my initial thoughts were that this is not Farmer’s blog, but then the author identified himself as Farmer. I decided to look at the various posters and found one named</span> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/15292401369027583221">Arrowsmith</a>. <span style="color:#000000;">Arrowsmith writes a blog called the</span> <a href="http://blackdogstar.blogspot.com/">Black Dog Star</a>.<span style="color:#000000;"> There I became even more stunned to find not even subtle Satanism and supportive posts by Farmer under various screen names of Bjorn (farmer); Freiberg; and Far More.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">After reading the</span> <a href="http://blackdogstar.blogspot.com/2009/05/star-of-shiva.html">Star of Shiva</a> <span style="color:#000000;">and</span> <a href="http://blackdogstar.blogspot.com/2009/05/nature-of-beast.html">Nature of the Beast</a> <span style="color:#000000;">as well as Farmer’s posts, I sat silently for awhile overwhelmed by a sense of sadness and disbelief. I honestly did not want to believe this of Bjorn, he knows better. The Star of Shiva is about earth’s purification</span>, <a href="http://freiberg.blogspot.com/2008/08/gaia-needs-ethnic-cleansing-from-us.html">a doctrine Bjorn himself has written about</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Some have characterized Constance Cumbey’s latest post exposing Farmer’s writings as a witch hunt. I do not see it that way. Farmer’s post ended with the words “stay tuned for…far more”. He fully intended to continue writing.<br /><br />I find it reasonable that Constance Cumbey, an accredited author who has dedicated 30 years of her career combating the new age, would react as she did. After all, a person whom she trusted and one whom she linked her web site to recently launched a blog which honored Shiva. Constance had more than adequate reason to act as she did. I would have done the same.<br /><br />I said on Constance’s blog that if attention were brought to Bjorn which was different in nature, one related to sin other than following a different god, Bjorn’s integrity as a anti new-age researcher would not have been compromised. As of last Friday night, I honestly do not know for which side Bjorn is a watchman.<br /><br />I have decided to read much of Bjorn’s academic material in hopes of ascertaining what he really believes. This is not a witch hunt. I will let the evidence guide my conclusions. We cannot be compromised in ways our readers don’t know what we believe.<br /><br />Bjorn, I hope you understand why I have taken this position. I say these things not to embarrass you. This is a very hard truth to say to you as I don’t want you to run away from Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. I still care about you very much and hope and pray that we will be able to forget this and celebrate together at the Lord’s table.<br /><br />Rich</span>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-13641325992487042662009-06-17T20:39:00.009-05:002009-06-18T06:23:35.504-05:00Time for Action<span style="color:#000000;">"Their script is now written, subject only to last-minute editing and stage directions. The stage itself, albeit as yet in darkness, is almost ready. Down in the pit, the subterranean orchestra is already tuning up. The last-minute, walk-on parts are even now being filled. Most of the main actors, one suspects, have already taken up their roles. Soon it will be time for them to come on stage, ready for the curtain to rise. The time for action will have come." - <em>Peter Lemesurier,</em> <em>The Armageddon Script</em><br /><br />"No more delays. No more reports. No more meetings to agree on what has been agreed upon for years...It is time for action." <em>- Federico Mayor Zaragoza,</em> <em>Alliance of Civilizations</em><br /></span><br /><p align="center"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/N809ghf7ou0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/N809ghf7ou0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><p align="left"> </p><p align="left">"Thou shalt have no other gods before me." <span style="color:#000000;"> - Exodus 20:1-3<br /></span></p><p><br /></p><br /><br /><p align="left"></p><br /><br /><br /><p align="left"></p>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-41216418411221206182009-05-19T21:34:00.007-05:002009-05-21T13:50:04.344-05:00Michael Savage, An Alliance of Civilizations Trial Run?<p><span style="color:#000000;">From its earliest stages, the Alliance of Civilizations initiative found itself an ally named Britain. Tony Blair,</span> <a href="http://www.psychicdirectory.co.uk/tony-blair.php">reportedly a new <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">ager</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">, gifted the Alliance with</span> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/jul/27/uksecurity.terrorism1">Britain’s approval</a> <span style="color:#000000;">before the initiative had even launched. The </span><a href="http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=6abeabb1-6e8c-45ea-aab8-18c5eb363ab2">spontaneous cartoon crisis</a> <span style="color:#000000;">yielded further British endorsement when Charles, Prince of Wales, called for the “at-one-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">ment</span>” of all the world’s faiths through adoption the </span><a href="http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/pdf/TiesThatBind.pdf">Alliance of Civilizations and Interfaith Reconciliation</a><span style="color:#000000;">. “At-one-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">ment</span>” is a new age doctrine said to join together individuals attuned to a collective global consciousness whereby religious and political ideologies which cause separation are to be set aside in favor of a common value system. This common set of values is to become the foundation upon which the new civilization is built. The </span><a href="http://www.isesco.org.ma/english/publications/Patrimoine/P8.php">Alliance of Civilizations is one such interfaith initiative</a> <span style="color:#000000;">responsible for defining that common value system. The difference between the Alliance and other interfaith efforts is that the Alliance has been incorporated into military strategy thus giving it lion’s teeth. The Alliance has set forth to establish a global conscience which UN signatory nations are to adopt in implementation of the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. The Alliance has focused a great deal of effort attempting to</span> <a href="http://www.acommonword.com/index.php?page=media&item=263">unifying Islam with the West</a> <span style="color:#000000;">by heaping heavy scorn upon the West while praising Muslim nations for their contributions to modern civilization.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">UK</span> <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldhansrd/text/80715w0004.htm">Parliamentary records</a> <span style="color:#000000;">further exhibit Britain’s participation in the Alliance of Civilizations and calls for other nations to follow their example. British Minister for International Development</span> <a href="http://www.sourceuk.net/article/11/11181/alliance_of_civilisations.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Shahid</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Malikis</span> is Britain’s representative</a> <span style="color:#000000;">for the Alliance of Civilizations. According to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Malikis</span>, the </span><a href="http://www.funci.org/en/2008/issues/the-uk-and-the-alliance-of-civilisations/">UK favors tackling radicalization</a> <span style="color:#000000;">and that “true Islam is a key part of the solution to extremism in the name of Islam”. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Malikis</span> statement reminds me of the Alice Bailey doctrine on the partial</span> <a href="http://kingsgarden.org/English/Organizations/OMM.GB/WomenWriters/AliceBailey/SevenRays/Rays/rays1283.html">sealing of the door where evil dwells</a> <span style="color:#000000;">which says:</span></p><span style="color:#000000;"><ul><li></span><span style="color:#000000;">“…Palestine should no longer be called the Holy Land; its sacred places are only the passing relics of three dead and gone religions. The spirit has gone out of the old faiths and the true spiritual light is transferring itself into a new form which will manifest on earth eventually as the new world religion. To this form all that is true and right and good in the old forms will contribute, for the forces of right will withdraw that good, and incorporate it in the new form. Judaism is old, obsolete and separative and has no true message for the spiritually-minded which cannot be better given by the newer faiths; the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Moslem</span> faith has served its purpose <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>and all true <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Moslems</span> await the coming of the Imam Mahdi who will lead them to light and to spiritual victory</strong></span>; the Christian faith also has served its purpose; its Founder seeks to bring a new Gospel and a new message that will enlighten all men everywhere…”</span></li></ul><span style="color:#000000;"><p></span><span style="color:#000000;">Bailey’s “true <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Moslems</span>”, I believe, are those practicing Islamic mysticism, the Sufis. Today, Sufism is being portrayed to the westerners as the peaceful</span> <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/01/25/mystical_power/">moderates of Islam who are valuable allies in the war against extremism</a> <span style="color:#000000;">which dismisses the</span> <a href="http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=299">Al-<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Qaeda</span> ties to Sufism</a><span style="color:#000000;">. (Additional criticisms of Sufism may be found </span><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004940.php">here</a><span style="color:#000000;">,</span> <a href="http://www.islam-watch.org/Others/Sufi-moderate-Al-Ghazali.htm">here</a><span style="color:#000000;">, and</span> <a href="http://www.islam-watch.org/Others/Sufi-moderate-Al-Ghazali.htm">here</a>.)<br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">This would leave one to wonder why some of the British leadership would turn to “the most ferocious soldiers of Islam” and embrace a set of “common values” which are being defined by individuals who are hostile towards the West. One British MP of specific interests is counter-terrorism </span><a href="http://www.minhajoverseas.com/en.php?tid=7933">Home Secretary Jacqui Smith who praised the Sufis for providing a template of values</a> <span style="color:#000000;">in which we can live.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Smith made recent headlines when she</span> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/16-banned-from-britain-named-and-shamed-1679127.html">included U.S. talk radio host Michael Savage among terrorists</a> <span style="color:#000000;">who are not permitted to enter Britain. Here are links to the</span> <a href="http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/managingourborders/exclusion-uk-individuals/exclusion-uk-individuals?view=Binary">official exclusion list</a> <span style="color:#000000;">along with the Smith’s</span> <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm081028/wmstext/81028m0001.htm#08102850000004">announcement</a> <span style="color:#000000;">to Parliament.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Michael Savage is known for his conservative views and his opposition to global governance, communist ideology, illegal immigration, homosexual behavior, etc. Savage is a defender of national sovereignty. Overall, Michael Savage does not appear to share the Alliance of Civilizations values system and world view. Savage’s ideology is one which the Alliance considers exclusionary; intolerant; and violently radicalizing.<br /><br />As I read Smith’s statements why she banned Michael Savage from Britain, I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">couldn</span>’t help but notice the identities in her language and the corresponding Alliance of Civilizations’</span> <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/repository/Terms%20of%20Reference%20for%20HLG.pdf">Terms of Reference</a><span style="color:#000000;">. According to Alliance, </span><span style="color:#000000;">“to guide this initiative, the Secretary-General, in consultation with the co-sponsors, has established a High-level Group of eminent persons with the following objectives:</span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">To provide an assessment of new and <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>emerging threats to international peace</strong></span> and security <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>in particular the political, social and religious forces that foment extremism</strong></span>;</span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">To identify collective actions, at both the institutional and civil society levels, to address these trends;</span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">To recommend a practicable programme of action for States, international organizations and civil society aimed at promoting harmony among societies.”<br /><br />“Toward this end, the High-level Group will consider practical strategies:</span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">To <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>strengthen</strong></span> mutual understanding, <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>respect and</strong></span> <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>shared values</strong></span> among different peoples, cultures and civilizations;</span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">To <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>counter the influence of groups fomenting extremism and the exclusion of others</strong></span> who do not share their worldviews;</span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>To counter the threat to world peace and stability posed by extremism</strong></span>;</span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">To foster awareness in all societies that security is indivisible and is a vital need for all, and that global cooperation is an indispensable prerequisite for security, stability and development.</span></li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;">As I read Smith’s rationale for naming Savage amongst terrorists, I began to suspect she had applied Alliance of Civilizations’ guidelines which guided her to the conclusion he is a terrorist. According to Smith:</span></p><span style="color:#000000;"><ul><li>"I think it's important that people understand the <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>sorts of values and sorts of standards that we have</strong></span> here the fact that it's a privilege to come and the sort of things that mean you won't be welcome in this country," </li><li></span><span style="color:#000000;">"Coming to this country is a privilege. If you can't live by the rules that we <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>live by, the standards and values that we live by</strong></span>, we should exclude you from this country and, what's more, now we will make public those people that we have excluded. </span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>"This is someone who has fallen into the category of fomenting hatred, of such extreme views and expressing them in such a way that it is actually likely to cause inter-community tension or even violence if that person were allowed into the country”</strong></span> </span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">"If people have so clearly overstepped the mark in terms of the way not just that they are talking but <span style="color:#cc0000;"><strong>the sort of attitudes that they are expressing to the extent that we think that this is likely to cause or have the potential to cause violence or inter-community tension</strong></span> in this country, then actually I think the right thing is not to let them into the country in the first place. Not to open the stable door then try to close it later," Ms Smith said. </span></li></ul><span style="color:#000000;"><p>What about individuals presently living in Britain who violate these shared values? It may be worth taking a second look at Gordon</span> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5950442.ece">Brown’s advisor who recently called for the UK population be reduced</a> <span style="color:#000000;">by one half.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Noteworthy is that dissenting voice in Britain named</span> <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/454956/slouching-towards-dhimmocracy.thtml">Melanie Phillips has also noticed the Alliance of Civilizations influence over British politics</a>.<span style="color:#000000;"> Phillips writes “much of the problem is that the government’s advisers and civil servants have had their heads filled with the revisionist and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">ahistorical</span> rubbish about Islam produced by authors such as Karen Armstrong or John <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Esposito</span>.” Incidentally, </span><a href="http://www.article19.org/pdfs/press/malaysia-18-books-banned.pdf">Malaysia banned Karen Armstrong and John <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Esposito</span>’s books</a><span style="color:#000000;"> citing reasons that they disrupted peace and harmony.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Michael Savage has raised an excellent question:</span> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8037025.stm">how did his name reach the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s desk</a><span style="color:#000000;">? For now, I can only speculate. Yet as I look at people and organizations I believe may share an interest in seeing Michael Savage disappear from the air waves, one common connection keeps coming up. That is the Alliance of Civilizations.<br /><br /><strong>United States Department of Homeland Security<br /></strong></span><span style="color:#000000;">Michael Savage has named Homeland Security Secretary Janet <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Napolitano</span> in a</span> <a href="http://www.findinternettv.com/Video,item,1238459372.aspx">lawsuit</a> <span style="color:#000000;">charging her with violation of Americans’ civil rights by subjecting them to unfavorable treatment based upon their political ideologies. Under the Bush Administration the United States privately supported the Alliance of Civilizations yet sent no high-level representation to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">AoC</span> forums. President Obama’s has changed the tone by personally attending a dinner where he was expected to speak at the Second Alliance of Civilizations Forum. The Alliance of Civilizations’ doctrines are already noticeable in U.S. counter-terrorism materials.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Council of American-Islamic Relations</strong><br />The Council for American-Islamic Relations (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">CAIR</span>) is an organization which has pursued interfaith dialogue as a means to resolve the clash among civilizations. Some of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">CAIR</span>’s speakers favor Sufism and present it as the more peaceful aspect of Islam. Citations from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">CAIR</span>’s material can be found in Alliance of Civilizations’ reports. The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">CAIR</span>-Alliance relationship is most noticeable in its associations with</span> <a href="http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk/articles.php?id=1&art=65"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">Shaykh</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">Hamza</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Yusuf</span></a> <span style="color:#000000;">and Alliance High Level Group members</span> <a href="http://canadiancoalition.com/CAIR20060824/CAIR_USandCanada_HostingKhatami.html">Mohammad <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">Khatami</span></a> <span style="color:#000000;">and</span> <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4965">John <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">Esposito</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">CAIR</span> is a signatory of a</span> <a href="http://www.acommonword.com/index.php?lang=en&page=signatories">Common Word</a> <span style="color:#000000;">which interconnects with Religions for Peace and the Alliance of Civilizations initiatives.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">CAIR</span> is an organization having a contentious relationship with Michael Savage. Despite</span> <a href="http://www.cair.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?ArticleID=25941&&name=n&&currPage=1&&Active=1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">CAIR</span>’s claims that it does not support Britain’s ban</a> <span style="color:#000000;">of Michael Savage, it is behind</span> <a href="http://www.cair.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?mid1=777&&ArticleID=15185&&name=n&&currPage=1">Hate Hurts America</a>, <span style="color:#000000;">an interfaith dialogue organization calling</span> <a href="http://www.hatehurtsamerica.org/viewpage.php?page_id=3">upon companies to withdraw advertisements</a> from <span style="color:#000000;">Savage broadcasts for his criticisms of Islam. The</span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/30/fbi-cut-ties-cair-following-terror-financing-trial/"> FBI has recently severed ties with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">CAIR</span></a> <span style="color:#000000;">for its involvement with a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">Hamas</span> a terrorist organization.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Bill <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">Moyers</span><br /></strong>Michael Savage posted on his web site an</span> <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/michael_savage_banned_in_the_u.html">article by the American Thinker</a> <span style="color:#000000;">which questions whether Bill <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">Moyers</span> “helped to set the stage for the latest UK-based <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">demonization</span> of Savage” by portraying him an extremist who promotes violent radicalization. </span><a href="http://www.integrativespirituality.org/postnuke/html/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=420&theme=Printer">Bill <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">Moyers</span> is an advocate of interfaith dialogue</a><span style="color:#000000;">. Among his</span> <a href="http://www.thelavinagency.com/speaker-karen-armstrong.html"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">advisors</span> is Karen Armstrong</a><span style="color:#000000;">, High Level Group member of the Alliance of Civilizations.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;">In the upcoming days, we will hopefully learn of Jacqui Smith’s decision-making process to include Savage on Britain’s terrorist list. Regardless of how it happened, we are witnessing a fore shadow of what we might expect from the Alliance of Civilizations’ global conscience, global counter-terrorism efforts. Michael Savage is among the first to find himself within the Alliance of Civilizations’ domain which it has claimed for itself. Savage is a major media personality standing at the intersection of politics and religion.<br /><br />May the Lord help Michael Savage. May the Lord help us all.</span></p>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-26631696536001731182009-05-03T16:46:00.005-05:002009-05-03T21:10:17.894-05:00Free Speech in Fetters<span style="color:#000000;">The Second Forum of Alliance of Civilizations has passed and the American media coverage has amounted to little more than</span> <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/09/did-president-obama-attend-the-alliance-of-civilizations-forum-or-not/">did or did not Obama attend the Forum?</a> <span style="color:#000000;">One might have expected better media coverage with questions ranging from what is the Alliance of Civilizations to what is United States’ interest in this initiative. Instead, the media expressed confusion despite Turkey’s Foreign Ministry had published</span> <a href="http://www.byegm.gov.tr/DUYURULAR/DUYURU_ARSIVI/2009/nisan/obama-canliyayin-bilgi-ing.doc">President Obama’s itinerary</a> <span style="color:#000000;">on its web site. The itinerary shows President Obama was expected to give a speech at the forum.<br /></span><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGoefHbP6Swr5o0D_Ov8VqKSEdHvi6VwUIWsPCsqTaquH7vNAj8R5WB_Ubo2-fFgYkvHTRbcJ9j8DMw6-yqs4SvlhNfsXicV2S_vYm1VPZFfvpQUPP4Gd4W_-W82_qq3Qb7zUEc6VtmjlF/s1600-h/IstanbulSchedule.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331719579620163698" style="WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 248px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGoefHbP6Swr5o0D_Ov8VqKSEdHvi6VwUIWsPCsqTaquH7vNAj8R5WB_Ubo2-fFgYkvHTRbcJ9j8DMw6-yqs4SvlhNfsXicV2S_vYm1VPZFfvpQUPP4Gd4W_-W82_qq3Qb7zUEc6VtmjlF/s320/IstanbulSchedule.png" border="0" /></a> </p><span style="color:#000000;">Heritage Foundation writer Brett <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Schaefer</span> contacted both the White House and the Alliance of Civilizations seeking confirmation that the President would indeed address the conference. The White House said it simply did not know. The Alliance responded it would neither confirm nor deny the President’s attendance. If what the Alliance has planned for us is such a good thing, why not be more forthcoming? Why does the media neglect to give this coverage? In Hitler’s Germany, a resistance group known as the White Rose wrote in their</span> <a href="http://www.shoaheducation.com/firstwhiterose.html">first pamphlet</a>:<br /><span style="color:#000000;"><blockquote><span style="color:#000000;"></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="color:#000000;"></span></blockquote><ul><li>"Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be governed without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct. It is certain that today every honest German is ashamed of his government…by means of gradual, treacherous, systematic abuse, the system has put every man into a spiritual prison. Only now, finding himself lying in fetters, has he become aware of his fate."</li></ul><p></span></p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;">This eerily describes present day governments whose politicians have eroded them giving favor to global governance, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">doesn</span>’t it? These days, I believe the media is contributing to similar treacherous, systematic abuse. Yet, along with the rest of us, the media, too, shall soon learn of its fate. What a shock it should be as they learn they assisted in sealing it.<br /></span><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;">This September the UN General Assembly will vote whether the Alliance of Civilizations initiative moves from that of preparatory to activation stage. The Alliance openly calls for tight controls on free speech. A Media Rapid Response force has been established to provide newspapers and television stations reporting “guidelines” during times of crisis, particularly in the area of where politics and religion intersect. Given the system of global governance intends to unify religion and the state rather than maintain separation, everything now falls within this intersection. To ensure that media coverage adheres to a code of conduct, the Alliance of Civilizations has called for journalistic accreditation as well as a review board which will monitor news coverage. The Alliance, to show it upholds the principles of a free press, says that the he media will be “self-regulating” although it acknowledges that “regulation is not possible without pressure to bear”.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">There are two individuals whom I would like to credit for recently drawing attention to the Alliance’s global gag on free speech. These articles are by</span> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/25/alliance-of-civilizations-opinions-columnists-obama-un.html">Claudia <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Rosett</span> writing for Forbes</a> and <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/internationalorganizations/wm2339.cfm">Brett <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Schaefer</span> writing for Heritage Foundation</a><span style="color:#000000;">. These journalists get it. Claudia <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Rosett</span> has clearly spent time reading the Alliance of Civilizations materials. Quoting from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Rosett</span>:</span><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">“…the Alliance in 2005 set up a secretariat in New York, and enlisted a founding panel of 20 "eminent persons" to further shape its agenda. This group, heavy on eminences from Islamic states, included Iran's <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Khatami</span>--proposer of the original Dialogue. ..And in the four years since it morphed into existence as the latest phase of the Iranian-sponsored Dialogue, the Alliance has become another megaphone for some of the U.N.'s most troubling campaigns. In deference to Islamic anti-blasphemy laws, the Alliance favors a global gag on free speech. ....”</span></li></ul><span style="color:#000000;"><p></span></p><span style="color:#000000;">Among the latest attacks on free speech include the</span> <a href="http://www.humanrights.ch/home/upload/pdf/090327_HRC_Religion09.pdf">resolution to combat defamation of religion</a> <span style="color:#000000;">which was voted on by Human Rights Council last March</span> (<a href="http://europenews.dk/en/node/21043">analysis here</a><span style="color:#000000;">). This defamation of religions framework has its way of appearing throughout the interlocking UN initiatives. The Alliance of Civilizations is committed to making it a high priority.</span>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-31860313546867198942009-04-15T22:21:00.008-05:002009-04-17T23:22:25.851-05:00Incompetence with Confidence<p><span style="color:#000000;">The cat was let out of the bag this week as Americans received a dose of reality from</span> <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/14/federal-agency-warns-of-radicals-on-right/">United States Department of Homeland Security Report on Rightwing Extremism.</a> <span style="color:#000000;">I found no surprises in the report. This is what I have been writing of for quite some time. For those new to this blog, the DHS strategy is consistent with the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in which you will find the Alliance of Civilizations as the centerpiece. Below are links to the counter-terrorism pieces I published earlier: </span></p><span style="color:#000000;"><ul><li></span><a href="http://pineline.blogspot.com/2007/12/killing-with-clear-conscience.html">Killing with a Clear Conscience</a> </li><li><a href="http://pineline.blogspot.com/2007/12/dictator-at-door.html">Dictator at the Door</a> </li><li><a href="http://pineline.blogspot.com/2007/12/big-brother-on-stage-what-kind-of-actor.html">Big Brother On Stage: What Kind of Actor is the EU</a> </li><li><a href="http://pineline.blogspot.com/2008/01/purposes-and-principles-of-shadow.html">The Purposes and Principles of the Shadow Government</a> </li><li><a href="http://pineline.blogspot.com/2008/02/enemy-of-civilization.html">Enemy of the Civilization</a> </li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;">Who are the targets of the Department of Homeland Security? It is none other than individuals who politically dissent and/or who believe in an “end of days” theology. Imagine that. I find it incredible that the people in these counter-terrorism positions are shocked that one might believe in an “end of days” scenario. Karen Armstrong, for example, bitter over her life in a convent seeks to incite hatred against Christians by leveling false charges of anti-Semitism and accusations that Christians oppose democracy. It’s quite an absurd notion that Christians would oppose a form of government that permits religious freedom. It’s the Alliance’s form of democracy—a safe democracy—which Christians oppose as its intent is to unify the state and religion into one cohesive unit. No more separation of church and state there. One might look at Barbara Marx Hubbard who presented her</span> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CAR4eirTaY">Citizens Solutions Councils to be incorporated into the Office of the Presidency.</a><span style="color:#000000;"> </span><span style="color:#000000;">Hubbard’s writings are terroristic in nature as they intend to incite violence against the “egocentric” one half of the world’s population and advocates destruction of this “defective seed” from the social body. But let’s not go overboard here, that couldn’t possibly be reason for concern.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Janet Napolitano stands behind the content of the Department’s report. Let’s look a bit further at who is on the list of political enemies or those prone to violent radicalization:</span></p><span style="color:#000000;"><ul><li>Individuals concerned with Second Amendment rights (right to bear arms);</li><li>Veterans;</li><li>Individuals critical of the first black president’s policies;</li><li>Individuals concerned with single issues such as abortion, gay marriage, etc.</li><li>Individuals who believe the old conspiracy theories of the ‘90s—that a “New World Order” would emerge following an economic crisis; etc. etc. </li></ul><p></span><span style="color:#000000;">Wait! I fit several of those categories. But I’m starting to feel a little more at ease that I may be able to remove myself from the conspiracy theory category. It looks like I might be able to banish it back into the ‘90s and start to relax in the peace and security of these present moments. But first I need to verify, one can’t be too careful. So I decided to search various web sites for “global governance”. The world body of the United Nations might be a good starting point in seeking that comfort. Hmm, no comfort there: 1,710 documents found containing the words global governance and 410 containing new world order.</span></p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325125499042305442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 144px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeO7ZiPvxNAi5NR_QyxtB4sAXK2o5SpBZpUGpGPNj1zdOpixXC7eLEjC_tzpwSrxoez8_Zg6c2JGeVjr9w929UACn4y33m-XdeDu8BBxFJ_JkC-fgwI-F4Y89MGKkqxIxqgkh97iX7ABZn/s400/UNGlobalGov.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325125685499079138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 144px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe7nU3qka7yQA7GxoTDt9Qu5KYoILK9Y81i9h_x7SMjrFK6ceoqx1tEovaUGHoPHl3Vht_KNQSq2eoFqVda840D_-pUO7nPmJ-cXucl04FKvJZ7P2eVI05LCs0X_qWPC6cBmPabCaBiv42/s400/UNNWO.JPG" border="0" /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Disappointed, I decided to travel down the electronic boulevard to the Brookings Institute because I know they are in “the know”. No comfort there either—2,140 documents related to global governance. And they’re more concerned about securing the world than the Department of Homeland Security. Don't you just really feel secure knowing these people are securing the world?</span><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325125854826682626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 241px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtqTol_B6Zqvo5wmQjrZ3HTFQFPOFVop-CF4jOrzXXVK1OCx2xsYWIxvt1KEppqEI_JmZfLD6wyX7zK9fM96Lpm_iOhH5ACFz-a4_5G3A2SlUWfDj4h15WjnI5f1fLAnQjQVjMJ5S-wyEv/s400/brookings.JPG" border="0" /></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;">By now I’m feeling let down. Perhaps Janet Napolitano is plain incompetent. Well, at least she’s confidently incompetent. But heck, maybe the United Nations and the Brookings Institute are conspiracy theorists too, so she deserves maybe one final chance. I decided to head over to the electronic Main Street of Amazon dot com. There I found 6,561 publications on global governance. Sorry Janet, you don't know what you're talking about on this one.</span><br /></span><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325126005653505010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 387px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheJzcWXB3gNQnKQNGjUDYvv3U0odwIFSUV0lqmMladY5GD3ZemBw9wVG6Lg6QBzwH4-qmuQjUQ2_1Z9X5zgtqLhVlXj7t-inj2QouDg5du4ebRI9jrE6YsaiTA1BzubBoMTWdvSjkxTECz/s400/Amazon.JPG" border="0" /></p><p></p><p>Responding to heavy criticism, the Department of Homeland Security's response somewhat resembles this...</p><p align="center"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw3e8DROcw3KKKSc3KmxaVIsk1R51FGR0njSL-tVAUtxSdLzVQ3NyfeBP-yd-3EHhpFK6kq01L3G6QRYgxplQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></p>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-77547212055052835822009-04-03T01:08:00.005-05:002009-04-03T01:24:03.239-05:00Obama to Attend Istanbul Alliance of Civilizations Forum<span style="color:#000000;">Newspapers throughout the Middle East are excitedly proclaiming that a new era of relations have begun as President Obama is to take part in the Istanbul Alliance of Civilizations forum.<br /><br />Read the articles</span> <a href="http://www.metimes.com/Security/2009/03/19/obama_to_visit_turkey_april_6-7/7f05/">here</a>, <a href="http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1981951&Language=en">here</a>, <a href="http://www.trthungarian.com/International/newsDetail.aspx?HaberKodu=2544108d-b329-403a-a6ab-e3f9858206b2">here</a>, <a href="http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11343430.asp">here</a>, <span style="color:#000000;">and</span> <a href="http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=38237">here</a>.<br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320343525375995810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 350px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmwRXQQwn_HMIKN1NyiQo3o27hOkaeuLCOMIlmBesDs8K5zRYSmNsgMnaxelt_fwK2v8yFdTTgItU3RBByKEWKw-nuRshIwpCK-RfygnSfwknCY6ZZsfk2G5ahFkihkiwwdxIBkBos3oc8/s400/Obama2AttendAoC.JPG" border="0" /><span style="color:#000000;">Yet the major news media in the United States reports the visit to be a roundtable discussion with students. See</span> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/28/obama-unveils-packed-agenda-overseas-trip/100days/">Fox</a>, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29972593/">NBC</a><span style="color:#000000;">, and</span> <a href="http://a.abcnews.com/Politics/story?id=7222244&page=1">ABC</a> <span style="color:#000000;">news coverage</span><span style="color:#000000;">.</span> <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/25/alliance-of-civilizations-opinions-columnists-obama-un_print.html">Forbes Online</a> <span style="color:#000000;">is the only U.S. media giving the Istanbul Conference the<span style="color:#000000;"> accurate</span> coverage it deserves--<span style="color:#000000;">good work Forbes!</span> It looks as though the big three are merely</span> <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Press-Briefing-via-Conference-Call-on-the-Agenda-for-the-G20-Summit-NATO-Summit-and-EU-Summit/">reporting what the White House has provided</a>.</p><p><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320344122758425282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 102px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhexuyVW4ARVk__vDzswFszqOEeF3K_g1m8RCjxdJVwrgOiWHQnCXeSx9BPUgC881Iwr8K5s9y8uo20fw8wLCm3E8Sgi48ebpwea52ipS__8nAb0IdswAsN9D7MfEqK0QNdtLRSc332W2NR/s400/WhiteHouseIstanbul.JPG" border="0" /><span style="color:#000000;">It appears as though the White House wants to keep a low profile within the United States where the Alliance of Civilizations is concerned. President Obama may be having a roundtable with students, but I expect his audience will look more like this.<br /></span><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320344296524583538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 152px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipL_suWWlkBHdZXPfGBP9BGt6vV_YRlbnHXHOyY_6AnqHnY2uCuqwqJ7HyebtNLjtQnMmj9fbL7L7S0NLfmc4DNX-ozOUj9EvKRzw741MoSshTDf6uFhhLwbf6uKbwm7FHnKTB7XCJ8iH0/s400/2008AoCForum.JPG" border="0" /></p>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-26933757423754001372009-03-29T14:25:00.015-05:002009-03-30T19:04:01.465-05:00EU-US Integration and the More Equal Citizen<p><span style="color:#000000;">A recent</span> <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/030-50188-054-02-09-903-20090223IPR50187-23-02-2009-2009-false/default_en.htm">European Union Parliamentary press release</a> <span style="color:#000000;">called for President Obama to politically and economically integrate the United States with the European Union. The measures would create two councils: the Political Council, charged with setting a common foreign security policy; and the Economic Council overseeing unification of the markets. I expect integration would also include changes in citizenship based upon the </span><a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/citizenship/guide/documents/EACEA_2008_0185_en.pdf">EU Citizens Programme</a> guidelines. The programme <span style="color:#000000;">creates a global citizen, or an EU citizenship which is “</span><a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/citizenship/guide/documents/EACEA_2008_0185_en.pdf">open to the world</a><span style="color:#000000;">”.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Expected to preside over the Political Council would be EU High Representative for Common Foreign Security Policy, a position presently held by Javier Solana. The role of the U.S. Congress would be that of “making proposals” rendering it as powerless as the European Parliament. Should this integration take place, global governance stakeholders will have achieved what Alliance of Civilizations’ Giandomenico Picco called for at the 2005 Madrid Counter-Terrorism Conference—a “Safe Democracy”—one in which national parliaments no longer are the “monopolist voice of the people”. Bear in mind that the UN Alliance of Civilizations initiative is the globalization of Solana’s social cohesion policies.</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The press release also called upon the U.S. to ratify and accede to the Rome Statute of the </span><a href="http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC/About+the+Court/">International Criminal Court</a><span style="color:#000000;">. Ratification would subject American citizens to prosecution by the world court for human rights violations. Stakeholders in the global governance apparatus openly tell us what they consider to be human rights violations: political dissent; monotheistic religious belief or belief systems not condusive to sustainable development; separatist or divisive thought; etc. Anything identified as interfering with the “common humanity’s” joining into a “collective whole” has been declared to be an “enemy of the civilization”. For example: </span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">“UNESCO promotes respect for all dimensions of cultural diversity since it is the very fabric of humankind and the “common heritage of humanity”, as stipulated in the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity…the Declaration is dedicated to preventing segregation and fundamentalism which, in the name of cultural differences, could sanctify those differences and in doing so, counter the message of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As we can read…No one may invoke cultural diversity to infringe upon human rights guaranteed by international law, nor to limit their scope.” – Rosa Guerreiro, UNESCO</span> <a href="http://www.coe.int/t/e/legal_affairs/legal_co-operation/fight_against_terrorism/8_conference/Conf%20Prev%20Terr%20(2007)%2021%20E%20only%20Guerreiro%20presentation.pdf">Why terrorism</a><span style="color:#000000;">? Strasbourg April 25-27, 2007 </span><br /></li><br /><li><span style="color:#000000;">“Religion as a social force can be harnessed to build bridges or manipulate to erect walls. How religion functions in society depends upon a number of factors, among them, the political, economic, and cultural environment in which the particular religion operates. Justice, love and compassion – values that are highly cherished in any religion…Since these values are universal, religion, which serves as a conduit for them, should also be preached and practised in a genuinely universal manner. This is what one expects the practitioners of religions to do in the coming century to counter the challenge of globalization. They should discard the narrow, exclusive concept of religion, which often confines virtue and goodness to one’s own kind. Justice and compassion in this exclusive approach seldom transcend one’s own religious boundaries. We should eliminate forever such religious exclusivists.” – Dr. Abduljalil Sajid,</span> <a href="http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2003/09/697_en.pdf">The Role of Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue in Fighting Terrorism, Extremism, and Intolerance and Resolving Conflicts</a>;<span style="color:#000000;"> Organization for Security and Cooperation of Europe.</span></li></ul><br /><p><span style="color:#000000;">The New Order has been guaranteed Rome Statute governance powers even in nations that do not ratify the statute. The UN initiative called</span> <a href="http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/963-1/">Responsibility to Protect</a> <span style="color:#000000;">, or</span> <a href="http://www.isis-europe.org/pdf/2008_artrel_173_esr39-r2p.pdf">R2P</a><span style="color:#000000;">, redefines nations’ sovereignties as shifting “from sovereignty as control to sovereignty as responsibility”. A nation, under the R2P framework, is subject to military intervention should it be unwilling or unable to prosecute individuals who violate international human rights laws. The rationale is that R2P’s function is to protect the human rights of the global citizen (“we the peoples of the United Nations”) which gives it the right to suspend an uncooperative nation’s sovereignty. The UN has gained support for R2P by presenting the case that it needs a mechanism to stop and prevent crimes such as genocide, an objective which is difficult to argue. It is the underlying pieces that pose the problem. The United Nations has built a case in which it has declared half of the world’s population to be terrorists. What is it that they intend to do with this population? In the interest of counter-terrorism measures, could the crime of genocide committed by the UN's hand be considered just? Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has said the intent is to redesign the internet and use it as a weapon against "terrorists". He also said measures would be taken to remove "terrorists" from the world’s financial system. </span></p><p align="left"><span style="color:#000000;">EU-US integration is not new. Military integration already has taken place and is recognizable in the form of the 2003 Berlin-Plus Agreement. This agreement ensures the transfer of American assets to the EU’s Political Security Committee—a committee presided over by Solana—should it be needed for crisis management. Solana interprets this to include American service personnel.</span><br /></p><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318693495762524386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 378px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu35myc_uT13DdHWI4hKq72wUABsghfrOSBhK-4fIwwNUF5DzDqSnP_1owIVw56ax15-y_DwlA1c9ntIwEBlGe67JPaQl2i8SKXaPE59wGNbnj6sSipmrKWnTSEdHiI9waIZ1gnvSVuDn3/s400/BerlinPlusAgreement.png" border="0" /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">I suspect, based upon the past and present behavior of the United States, that our leadership plans to pursue integration to avoid becoming a failed state. R2P characterizes an economically collapsed nation as a sem-failed state. A failed state is where degredation occurs to the point a government is no longer able to control the population within its borders. Last year while the banks were announcing failure, Bush Administration Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217_pf.html">integration of 20,000 Rapid Reaction Forces</a> <span style="color:#000000;">into every major U.S. city would be forthcoming.</span> <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97495430">Gates’ has continued his role as Defense Secretary</a> <span style="color:#000000;">under the Obama Administration. These Rapid Reaction Forces appear very similar to </span><a href="http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cmsUpload/Battlegroups.pdf">Solana’s Headline Goal Battlegroups</a>. <span style="color:#000000;">Already, within the United States, there are signs that UN’s Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy language is now being incorporated in counter-terrorism training materials. </span><a href="http://www.kansascity.com/116/story/1086524.html">Missouri law enforcement counter-terrorism training materials have emerged</a> <span style="color:#000000;">indicating that the police should look for signs such as third-party political bumper stickers, political dissent, etc. in identification of terrorist suspects.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">I can think of many reasons why we should not integrate, but those who have already experienced intregration pains best tell the story. Consider </span><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5950412.ece">EU rotational President Vaclav Klaus' warnings </a><span style="color:#000000;">that the European Union’s governance structures resemble that of former Soviet-era dictatorships. Or from the South American-EU integration process we have</span> <a href="http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/5/3/6/0/p253600_index.html">Rita Giacalone’s warnings</a><span style="color:#000000;">. Dr. Giacalone, Professor of Economic History and Coordinator of the Group of Regional Integration, tells us that South American countries have entered into association agreements with with the EU out of necessity and not conviction. She conveys that integrating countries have drawn that “the EU, under the name of democracy and good governance, is imposing “a complex system of domination and management of the non Western world” and that the European project is inherently antidemocratic.</span>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-30286966407465943622008-12-23T10:44:00.015-06:002008-12-23T18:03:47.611-06:00Fuhrer Rising<div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color:#000000;">In May 1982 a man named Benjamin Crème published full page ads in newspapers throughout the world proclaiming “the Christ is Now Here”. That ad campaign was intended to prepare the population to accept the Theosophical teaching that Maitreya (a messiah rooted in occultism) and his entourage (the masters of wisdom) were about to step forward and govern the earth. According to the ads, Maitreya was to make his appearance within two months. That never happened. Maitreya’s delayed career caused embarrassment for many Theosophical circles. Crème subsequently changed the name of his organization to</span> <a href="http://www.share-international.org/background/bcreme/bc_main.htm">Share International</a>.<br /><br /></div><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSzZFUj_0l9By_V-zD0OSs1EgnuXsPZrKTmTdQKBkyVTw17BFNXImK1jhDLFMmgif7it9eHM5JprMXHNh2fsGw1Kn_sbRqdK7hNvE4PCSQ3HJAH4dz58EQZ3W8dH6ZLt73RQi0VR3CdW2v/s1600-h/1982ChristIsNowHereAd.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283027757150141538" style="WIDTH: 311px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSzZFUj_0l9By_V-zD0OSs1EgnuXsPZrKTmTdQKBkyVTw17BFNXImK1jhDLFMmgif7it9eHM5JprMXHNh2fsGw1Kn_sbRqdK7hNvE4PCSQ3HJAH4dz58EQZ3W8dH6ZLt73RQi0VR3CdW2v/s400/1982ChristIsNowHereAd.png" border="0" /></a></p><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Crème later explained that Maitreya’s delay was because humanity had not been adequately conditioned to accept his teachings. Hence Maitreya would occupy himself working to lessen the severity of natural disasters until conditions are right for his emergence. We learned the masters of wisdom would further condition humanity and emit stronger “initiatory rays of enlightenment” upon the earth. Those attuned to those impulses would receive them and be prepared for transcendence. Perhaps this conditioning is best portrayed in a prayer called the</span> <a href="http://www.lucistrust.org/en/service_activities/the_great_invocation__1">Great Invocation</a><span style="color:#000000;">—when recited aloud is believed to quicken Maitreya’s arrival: “let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which the masters know and serve”.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">And shortly thereafter more aggressive conditioning did take place. A key Theosophical doctrine that all religions worship the same god but follow different paths to the Almighty was being projected everywhere: books, talk shows, entertainment, and even church pulpits. We were flattered with how wise we are because our souls were old and had passed through many life cycles. This “wisdom” had prepared us for the coming earth changes, or</span> <a href="http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j19/white.asp">conscious evolution</a><span style="color:#000000;">. Corporations everywhere required employees to attend “diversity training” where we were introduced to meditation. According to Theosophy, meditation, along with initiation, is the glue that binds together the new civilization. While many people consider meditation to be contemplation, the new age forms desire an outcome which leads to altered states of consciousness or a self-induced hypnotic state. Once one becomes accustomed to entering in and out of hypnotic states, I cannot help but believe that person has become vulnerable and easily manipulated by another trained hypnotist. Benjamin Crème has said that when Maitreya emerges he will appear on television and telepathically communicate to each of his followers in their own language.</span> <span style="color:#000000;">This claim brings to memory old film footage I've watched of Hitler's Germany where people appear to be locked in a trance.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Should we dismiss Crème’s writings because he erred in 1982? I believe doing so would be a mistake. Crème, once again, is publishing press releases with a renewed vigor. His latest, which may be read on the online edition of the </span><a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Share-International-Reveals-Christmas-Miracle/story.aspx?guid=%7b9A9C5B6B-E962-411A-B219-B5A559182416%7d">Wall Street Journal</a><span style="color:#000000;">, indicates that Maitreya is ready to start his career and build upon the earth a “brilliant new civilization”. </span><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLROa6_pnp-B_zoYrO2QfYNtOCMkT0D9x7fsB9n4fW_ojCZj_M2U-GQD2R7HWvJVHlXSrn-T-GEKbE89cHsTpQ9t7McSsZzZIri-aeWgIlio6EL-oxAbZtjIdGu96g5k_M0O01vigtilOl/s1600-h/2008ChristIsNowHereAd.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283028248264396898" style="WIDTH: 261px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLROa6_pnp-B_zoYrO2QfYNtOCMkT0D9x7fsB9n4fW_ojCZj_M2U-GQD2R7HWvJVHlXSrn-T-GEKbE89cHsTpQ9t7McSsZzZIri-aeWgIlio6EL-oxAbZtjIdGu96g5k_M0O01vigtilOl/s400/2008ChristIsNowHereAd.png" border="0" /></a></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"></span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;"></span> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;">This press release concerns me because over the past year I’ve noticed a significant level of cooperation between Crème’s Share International, the United Nations’ Alliance of Civilizations, and the</span> <a href="http://www.aquaac.org/un/found.html">Aquarian Age Community</a><span style="color:#000000;">. The Aquarian Age Community—the spiritual foundation of the United Nations—also recognizes Maitreya as the coming world spiritual and political leader. Both Crème and the Aquarian Community have expressed the opinion that the Alliance of Civilizations is the vehicle which will be used to materialize the new civilization.</span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><br />According to the press releases, Maitreya is to be the Christ to Christians, the Imam Mahdi to Muslims, Krishna to Hindus, the Messiah to Jews, and Maitreya Buddha to Buddhists. Many people who subscribe to this universalist doctrine may find themselves in a bit of a dilemma. Does Maitreya fulfill your prophetic expectations or do your religious texts portray something altogether different? Is your Christ really Maitraya? If you reject the universalist doctrine, according to the Alliance of Civilizations you have an “exclusionary” ideology and are prone to violent radicalization and have terrorist leanings.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">In the Armageddon Script, Theosophist Peter Lemesurier wrote that they have studied all the world religions and intend to fulfill all religions’ prophetic expectations so they can get on with the business of creating a new heaven and earth of their own devising. Share International has consistently said that Maitreya would not appear until the United States has</span> <a href="http://www.einterface.net/gamini/economic_collapse.html">economically collapsed</a> <span style="color:#000000;">and the world feels the pain of a global economic meltdown. I cannot help but believe the </span><a href="http://pineline.blogspot.com/2007/09/zapatero-and-alliance-of-civilizations.html">economic collapse was assisted with a push</a><span style="color:#000000;">. The Alliance of Civilizations has said it could not implement its agenda until the United States’ sovereignty was redefined and subject to global governance.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Throughout 2008 Alliance of Civilizations’ Co-chair Federico Mayor’s message has been “no more delays. No more reports. No more meetings to agree on what has been agreed upon for years.</span> <a href="http://www.maitreyainfo.com/archivos/crisis_mundial/fm_tiempodeaccion.htm">It is time for action</a>”. <span style="color:#000000;">It is time for action; these words sound familiar to those of us who have read Peter Lemesurier’s Armageddon Script: “Their script is now written, subject only to last-minute editing and stage-directions. The stage itself, albeit as yet in darkness, is almost ready. Down in the pit, the subterranean orchestra is already tuning up. The last-minute, walk-on parts are even now being filled. Most of the main actors, one suspects, have already taken up their roles. Soon it will be time for them to come on stage, ready for the curtain to rise. The time for action will have come.”</span> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Let us remember the</span> <a href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=nazi&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#q=occult%20third%20reich&hl=en&emb=0">history</a> <span style="color:#000000;">of what happens when man attempts to become God.</span></p>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-39480925800451417432008-10-26T11:09:00.013-05:002008-12-04T22:18:15.195-06:00Obama's Socialist Vision?<p align="center"><span style="color:#000000;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwsvGgNkBGYm7zsATDlYK4g9TLksVPzwdqZuFwSeX1DCvU365mnS9tq1q969UQcAFtyZLD6F8ofZOcoCYrChQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></p><span style="color:#000000;"></span><p align="left"><span style="color:#000000;">In 2007 European Union High Representative Javier Solana launched an initiative called</span> <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/projects/mgi.aspx">Managing Global Insecurity</a> <span style="color:#000000;">saying “the aim of this project is ambitious and urgent: to launch a new reform effort for the global security system in 2009”. At that time, Solana told the United States that we will enter into the system of global governance by year end 2008. This initiative is ambitious. It bridges multiple interlocking security initiatives for use in the administration of global governance. Most notable is the Shared Security doctrine which aims to incorporate civil society and the military into one security apparatus. The idea is that in a world without borders traditional threats to nations no longer are other states; rather they come from radicalized individuals who reside within the nation. This is the core of the United Nations global counter-terrorism strategy. Nations therefore need to practice “responsible democracy” to ensure protection of the global citizenry— “we the people of the United Nations”—and root out terrorists from within. Solana refers to this as</span> ‘<a href="http://www.securitydefenceagenda.org/Portals/7/Reports/2006/SDA_Utility_of_Force_General_Smith.pdf">war amongst the people</a><span style="color:#000000;">”. The result is to be a global human security zone.<br /><br />Spearheading the </span><a href="http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:MvDuAS8gyzYJ:www.madridaocforum.org/aoc/pEspanhol/AOC/Statement%2520Religeous%2520Leaders%2520(English%2520only).pdf+%22alliance+of+civilizations%22+%22advancing+shared+security%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us">implementation of Shared Security</a> <span style="color:#000000;">is an organization which I have monitored from its beginnings—the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. The Alliance of Civilizations professes its mission to be “the global governance of the culture”. Its foundation is traceable to the European Union’s social cohesion policy—the</span> <a href="http://www.aui.ma/PresidentsCabinet/aui-communitylearners-rapport-en.pdf">social dimension of the Barcelona Process</a><span style="color:#000000;">—as architected by former Marxist and present socialist Javier Solana. Solana’s social cohesion strategy was formed to “straighten out the clash of civilizations” by creating a new common civilization based upon a system of “shared values”. The new civilization will be realized once it has successfully</span> <a href="http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=6589">combated religious fundamentalism worldwide</a><span style="color:#000000;">. In 2006 Solana’s vision moved a step closer to reality when Kofi Annan made the Alliance of Civilizations the</span> <a href="http://www.globalct.org/images/content/pdf/Remarks/er_vienna_symposium.pdf">central organ of the United Nations global counter-terrorism strategy</a><span style="color:#000000;">. The work of the Alliance includes the establishment of a global ethic and identification of those radical ideologies which lead to terrorism.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Despite Alliance of Civilizations’ claims that they seek religious tolerance, the opposite is true. As one takes the time to read what the Alliance is saying, it becomes glaringly clear that the initiative is openly hostile towards religion, in particular the three monotheistic faiths. Angelo Santagostino</span> <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/jm/more/confglobal06/contribution_santagostino.pdf">Chair of European Economic Integration describes the initiative as “offensive and unjustifiably hostile<span style="color:#000000;">”</span></a><span style="color:#000000;"> towards religion. The Alliance’s governing body, the High Level Group, attributes religious fundamentalism and extremism to those who refuse to agree with a Universalist world view that we all worship the same God but follow different paths. Those individuals, they say, have adopted ‘exclusivist” ideologies which are violently radicalizing. Political dissenters who oppose globalization also fall into this category. Organizations such as Hezbollah are now considered reasonable because they practice “tactical terrorism” meaning that they have a political wing with which negotiations are possible. Karen Armstrong, apostate nun, “religious historian” and Alliance of Civilizations High Level Group member earlier this year announced that she is writing guidelines for the interpretation of religious texts. The High Level Group has said that they have conducted a pedagogical exercise in truth which they will provide the civilization in mid 2010 and it is only extremists who will reject it. One might expect Armstrong’s guidelines to reflect her personal theological arguments such as Christians have perverted religious texts by adopting a belief in Christ’s divinity; the serpent was more truthful than God in the garden; that God has an evil impulse and that, being a good thing, is something we need to embrace; Mary, upon learning of her pregnancy, broke into song of the coming new world order, ad nauseum.<br /><br />The Alliance of Civilizations and Shared Security have been given teeth. Solana envisions his global model of Civilian Military Co-operation (CIMIC) which subjects civil society to military rule to be implemented in the event of a crisis. Solana, being a former Secretary-General of NATO, has incorporated the Alliance of Civilizations and the Barcelona Process into the NATO framework through the </span><a href="http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/2006/p06-150e.htm">Riga</a> <span style="color:#000000;">and</span> <a href="http://www.nato.int/docu/pr/2002/p02-127e.htm">Prague</a> <span style="color:#000000;">Summit Declarations. Solana has repeatedly said the goal is to utilize American assets. The</span> <a href="http://www.nato.int/shape/news/2003/shape_eu/se030822a.htm">Berlin-Plus Agreement</a> <span style="color:#000000;">signed by President Bush gives Solana control of American assets in the event of a crisis situation. Solana’s</span> <a href="http://ue.eu.int/uedocs/cmsUpload/2010%20Headline%20Goal.pdf">Headline Goals</a> <span style="color:#000000;">which highly militarizes the European Union is scheduled to be fully functioning in 2010. Solana speaks the language of peace while preparing for war.</span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><br /></p><p></span><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261495667329691010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 198px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiavvcUgaXXaXAt3w-WjoWri9CKK9ISvoxC0F6_Hselv0OIaC360y3AxNxOQ7sMhQwhRCajMFeR_kYWJmCJFbDZykZLXCuPn28y5QjZxip11BthLtwupCZzqDZRV2cpzgbaoB3nmqj8kyFw/s320/WhatKindOfActorIsTheEU.JPG" border="0" /> <span style="color:#000000;">I write this because America is about to step deeper into this mess. I, as do other Americans, desire change but not at the cost of implementing a version of European socialism which has wreck havoc on world before. We are already witnessing the</span> <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95700786">nationalization of the banking system</a> <span style="color:#000000;">and not only within the United States, but</span> <a href="http://www.wgntv.com/landing_national/?European-leaders-pushing-for-new-global-=1&blockID=105669&feedID=24">at a global level</a><span style="color:#000000;">. This may be the global crisis the Solana seeks to turn into opportunity.<br /><br />In the upcoming elections, what I am finding troubling is that on Barack</span> <a href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/charlespenny/CGCSn">Obama’s blog one may find his support for the Alliance of Civilizations</a> <span style="color:#000000;">initiative. He has said that in the interests of the common humanity, he will spend $5 billion annually during the first three years of his presidency implementing a</span> <a href="http://www.cgdev.org/doc/blog/obama_strengthen_security.pdf">Shared Security doctrine</a>. <span style="color:#000000;">I would ask of Barack Obama to carefully re-examine his affiliations and in particular the Alliance of Civilizations initiative. It is worth heeding Angelo Santagostino’s warning that “the UN has been often under attack as a useless institution. This time it has shown itself to be not so much useless but actually dangerous.”</span></p><p></p><p>Here is the slightly different version of the above article published by the Central Wisconsin Star News.</p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSPgDsKI4hbihlKtzlZellJ_jIVIrf9RK5_euJRVqzLq-b1IHLrT16LY9D_is5sy4c2IFJ4fYfLgZis8dK9yX7ekNmEd3UuLCOVOmes32qkUTFvvfj2P9TOjJp8Felii1Zo8IYmD8SO5J/s1600-h/StarNewArticle1.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276149121988384402" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 319px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaSPgDsKI4hbihlKtzlZellJ_jIVIrf9RK5_euJRVqzLq-b1IHLrT16LY9D_is5sy4c2IFJ4fYfLgZis8dK9yX7ekNmEd3UuLCOVOmes32qkUTFvvfj2P9TOjJp8Felii1Zo8IYmD8SO5J/s400/StarNewArticle1.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCsAqxoEsBdVwA4VRFUwrQF62_6zcOSDKiBLlH1orB6muiOpLQhHgqVSNfZ8xmHE4fYSr5itztOjdtOtQdT-XXJuZHnByRy23M1y3JM2UBZCyFRjtI80KmPi22fdPWftVI4Ka-Arb06x_J/s1600-h/StarNewArticle2.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276149331758282114" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 123px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCsAqxoEsBdVwA4VRFUwrQF62_6zcOSDKiBLlH1orB6muiOpLQhHgqVSNfZ8xmHE4fYSr5itztOjdtOtQdT-XXJuZHnByRy23M1y3JM2UBZCyFRjtI80KmPi22fdPWftVI4Ka-Arb06x_J/s400/StarNewArticle2.png" border="0" /></a>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-63603194744299870462008-08-06T22:55:00.012-05:002008-10-20T21:07:49.120-05:00An Open Letter to Politicians Regarding the Alliance of Civilizations Initiative<span style="color:#000000;">Early in my research I couldn’t help but notice New Zealand’s heavy participation in the Alliance of Civilizations initiative. New Zealand is strategically important to the Alliance of Civilizations in that it is considered to be the bridge between Asia and the West. New Zealand planned the advancement of the Alliance of Civilizations throughout the Asia-Pacific during its</span> <a href="http://www.mfat.govt.nz/downloads/security/AOC-071107.pdf">2007 Auckland Symposium</a><span style="color:#000000;">. What a thrill it must have been for Javier Solana as he witnessed first hand the</span> <a href="http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/asean/conference/arf/state0708-3.html">Association of Southeast Asian Nations (AESAN) officially incorporate his Alliance of Civilizations</a> <span style="color:#000000;">social cohesion policy into its framework during the</span> <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.bn/news/20070802a.htm">40th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231620003721570242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzdbgxh8zxfceBL0Bm-8q4WXIEph9n5n_aLqnRlgy9HNZupNTP1pAfwvdqX-v_U3u_41BlFk2BlAFYOGwnLEdE_utJF3xkQOBEnyg6WdooczVNdWZQ_WEo7Zja0NYiPtk10Plcjp7N60Yn/s400/ASEANRegionalForum.JPG" border="0" /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">One morning early this year as I started my routine of coffee and checking e-mail, I noticed a letter from one of my New Zealand readers. This gentleman asked for my opinion on a letter he had received from his country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs </span><a href="http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/MPP/MPs/MPs/d/1/1/48MP13701-Peters-Winston.htm">Winston Peters</a><span style="color:#000000;">. Mr. Peters’ letter addressed an inquiry questioning why New Zealand had financially supported an initiative such as the Alliance of Civilizations which sought to syncretize religion. As I read Mr. Peters’ letter I was troubled by his assurances that Christians need not worry as we have representation by respected “Christian” theologians and historians on the High Level Group. I thought to myself you are going to have to do better than that. Giving Mr. Peters the benefit of the doubt, I proceeded to provide my reader with educational materials he might pass along to Mr. Peters if he were so inclined. To date, Mr. Peters has not responded. I’ve been told not to expect a response from Mr. Peters anytime soon as he is preoccupied with a </span><a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10525785">financial scandal</a> <span style="color:#000000;">for failure to disclose a $100,000 gift.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">What follows is Winston Peters’ letter regarding the Alliance of Civilizations. Click on the files to expand them. Following that is the letter that was sent to Mr. Peters. This letter is not only for Mr. Peters, but to all politicians who may be mislead and involved with the Alliance of Civilizations initiative. To those, I urge you to examine the evidence and reconsider your positions.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMVNuU1kKUrzgDdui509LehJkG4R04a3diBwNiGi-NrIucVaPPPk4_vFIKzP1t_EF1qC0TPm79k4r9kt07U549LXXMpsTl1O49ytg0520iFuZKOtRZ3-W7FVV_qTpvMBTINxyAVdcauAN/s1600-h/PetersLetter1.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231624763088325938" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMVNuU1kKUrzgDdui509LehJkG4R04a3diBwNiGi-NrIucVaPPPk4_vFIKzP1t_EF1qC0TPm79k4r9kt07U549LXXMpsTl1O49ytg0520iFuZKOtRZ3-W7FVV_qTpvMBTINxyAVdcauAN/s320/PetersLetter1.png" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx51Sq9RTCNdTMS66Pmd7emnX4048mK9ybkl67ruGGH7tnGEDWr1lfCZs9tPGVIe6mJjDUc69mRxED1O1_OvXDozd487WXltuLKxhAGkg-Df_Jw8PskLoLBZ0bMoeQTTIcCrTh5sA1F6b7/s1600-h/PetersLetter2.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231622241841241874" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx51Sq9RTCNdTMS66Pmd7emnX4048mK9ybkl67ruGGH7tnGEDWr1lfCZs9tPGVIe6mJjDUc69mRxED1O1_OvXDozd487WXltuLKxhAGkg-Df_Jw8PskLoLBZ0bMoeQTTIcCrTh5sA1F6b7/s320/PetersLetter2.png" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4P21yscwSYXfEVNc1ly_8Cp-rctCiRrPcM9M-sNDPjDRYIixrMP54IX_Ho4-mFwHivTmk3kSaHfSs7SiNE_RNfaqwcVSekreTlzxwKmV-auWyX4HEbMR_Qhvfpu8HTCoWEB4rvyhIf1e0/s1600-h/PetersLetter1.png"></a><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Follow up letter to Mr. Peters or whomever this may apply:</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Dear Rt Hon Winston Peters:</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Thank you for your response to my inquiry regarding the Alliance of Civilisations (AoC) initiative. I believe you have correctly stated that New Zealanders are concerned with countering violence and terrorism as well as avoiding Samuel Huntington’s theorised “clash of civilisations”. However, I believe that once New Zealanders become aware of some of the underlying aspects of the AoC initiative that they will call for a different solution to the problem. The purpose of this letter is to alert you to some of those aspects which you may not be aware.<br /><br />A paper prepared for the August 2007 Clash or Cooperation of Civilizations Workshop questioned why Spain choose to introduce the Alliance of Civilisations initiative to the United Nations rather than the European Union?1 It concluded that the European Union already has an alliance of civilisations in the form of the Barcelona Process and that implementation of the initiative at the international level would globalise Spain’s social cohesion policies. The social cohesion dimension of the Barcelona Process was first developed and introduced by Javier Solana in 1995 while he served as Spain’s rotational president on the European Council. The social dimension has the objective to create a common civilisation through cultural integration and the combating of religious fundamentalism worldwide2. Approaching its10-year anniversary in November 2005, the Barcelona Process appeared to be a European embarrassment and destined for failure.3 Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had warned a month earlier that the EU could not become a global power without the Alliance of Civilisations.4 During the Barcelona +10 Conference, Javier Solana took measures to strengthen the Process by partnering the Anna Lindh Foundation with the AoC5. The Process of social cohesion was solidified as a result of the cartoon crisis in which Javier Solana, Zapatero, Erdogan, and the AoC High Level Group (HLG) were able to act quickly and turn crisis into opportunity.6<br /><br />Solana’s social cohesion policy objective to combat religious fundamentalism is one that deserves scrutinisation and definition. A thorough examination of AoC’s writings begins to show we are presently at a dangerous intersection of state regulation vs. religious freedom. The AoC has said that rather than ban religion, it should bring it under the control of a centralised governing authority.7 The Final Report of the High Level Group calls for registration of all religious schools8 as well as a requirement that they teach “sound” interpretation of their texts9. The Alliance of Civilisations has said that it has conducted an exercise in truth and intends to provide that truth to all individuals. Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero has said that religion is the “tobacco of the people”.10 His government’s contribution to the initiative directs the Alliance to counter “those who feed on exclusion and claim sole ownership of the truth”.11 This direction ought to make one pause especially since the HLG has been placed in the position of formulating the global conscience for the United Nations’ Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy12. HLG member John Esposito has said that any person who believes their religion to be true and another’s to be false has adopted the “theology of hate” which Esposito continues on and associates them with terrorism.13 It escapes Esposito’s attention that every religion makes an “exclusive” truth claim, including the theology currently being advanced by High Level Group.<br /><br />I would like to briefly discuss Karen Armstrong as you indicated she provides Christian representation on the HLG. Karen Armstrong, a former Catholic nun, after leaving the church identified herself as an atheist. Following a television career in which she says she attempted to destroy religion, she had what she describes as a mystical experience. This is reflected in her approach to religion. Armstrong is openly sympathetic to and espouses Share International’s14 “Maitreya the Christ is now here” doctrines15 which are anti-Semitic, anti-fundamentalist, and anti-Catholic. In a recent Share International interview, Armstrong launches various attacks against Christianity and, in particular, the core theological foundation of Christian belief, i.e., Christ’s divinity.16 Having been a former nun, surely she must realise this would be considered heresy by Vatican’s standards.”17 It is these types of inflammatory remarks that the AoC claims to avoid. It appears this may be a doctrine derived from the AoC’s exercise in truth and may foreshadow what we might expect of “sound religious interpretation” to be provided to Christians. Armstrong further accuses Christians of anti-Semitism for opposing mandatory “baptism” which Share International refers to as mandatory “initiation.”18 She also incorrectly accuses Christians of opposing democracy. Perhaps she has confused Christians’ opposition to democracy with that of Giandomenico Picco’s AoC-advanced “safe democracy” which calls for the exclusion of the people and national parliaments from the political process.19<br /><br />Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s has advanced the same theological arguments. Along with his attacks on Christian and Muslim theology, he has aligned himself with extremist organizations. An example may be found in Desmond Tutu’s service on the World Commission on Global Consciousness & Spirituality20 which seats individuals such as Barbara Marx Hubbard who openly calls for planetary genocide to be conducted through what she identifies as a “selection process”.21 By Hubbard’s account, one is given the opportunity to undergo planetary “initiation” or face personal extinction. Hubbard says that ‘we come to bring death…we do this for the sake of the planet…the riders of the pale horse are about to pass among you…they will separate the wheat from the chaff…this is the most painful hour in earth’s history.”22 Clearly Hubbard’s writings epitomise extremism and violent radicalisation. Should not Archbishop Tutu denounce such extremist theology rather than align himself with it?<br /><br />Finally, the AoC, the Helsinki Process and Religions for Peace have jointly introduced the doctrine of “Shared Security”23 which incorporates the doctrines of Canadian-architected Responsibility to Protect and the European Union’s Human Security. On the surface these doctrines appear benign, but an in-depth examination shows a security model in which the military polices the civilian population. A summary of this model may be found in Javier Solana’s Human Security Doctrine for Europe where he calls for “the human security response force should be multinational with national military building blocks not below battalion level.” 24<br /><br />In conclusion, the AoC’s formation to counter “cross-cultural polarisation” involves a militarised interlocking network comprising mainly of NATO, the EU, and UN “peacekeeping” forces. As Australian Dr. Mike Ellis has correctly observed regarding the AoC’s mission to address cross-cultural polarisation, “Is this not indeed, a euphemism, for the involvement of the military using "dual-use" technology in law enforcement affairs in secular society?” 25 These are but a few criticisms of the Alliance of Civilisations initiative. As Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration Angelo Santagostino has concluded “the UN has been often under attack as a useless institution. This time it has shown itself to be not so much useless but actually dangerous.”26<br /><br /><br />1. Koussay Boulaich, “The Alliance of Civilisations: a global project or a key aspect for the European Foreign Policy?”, College of Europe,</span> <a href="http://www.ccis.aau.dk/GetAsset.action?contentId=2158460&assetId=2361376">http://www.ccis.aau.dk/GetAsset.action?contentId=2158460&assetId=2361376</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">2. Magda El-Ghitany, “Partnership in Question”, Yale Global Online, </span><a href="http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=6589">http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=6589</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">3. Álvaro de Vasconcelos, Director IEEI Lisbon, “Summit Drama – and Beyond”, EuroMeSCo e.NEWS,</span> <a href="http://www.euromesco.net/images/enews_2_en.pdf">http://www.euromesco.net/images/enews_2_en.pdf</a><span style="color:#000000;">, December 2005</span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><br />4. “Turkey Rejects Latest EU Proposals”, China Radio International, </span><a href="http://english.cri.cn/2239/2005-10-3/51@275026.htm">http://english.cri.cn/2239/2005-10-3/51@275026.htm</a><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">5. “The Euro-Mediterranean Summit in Barcelona and the Anna Lindh Foundation”, EuroMed,</span> <a href="http://www.assemblee-nat.com/europe/euromed/anglais/doc1.pdf">http://www.assemblee-nat.com/europe/euromed/anglais/doc1.pdf</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">6. Bertrand De Crombrugghe, “The cartoon issue: Turning crisis into opportunity”, OSCE Magazine, April 2006</span> <a href="http://www.osce.org/publications/sg/2006/03/18565_569_en.pdf">http://www.osce.org/publications/sg/2006/03/18565_569_en.pdf</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">7. Gaspar Martinez, “Report of the Hearings with the International Community & Civil Society regarding the United Nations High Level Group for the Alliance of Civilisations”, United Nations Alliance of Civilisations,</span> <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/repository/hearings_report.pdf">http://www.unaoc.org/repository/hearings_report.pdf</a><span style="color:#000000;">, 17 July 2006, pg. 29</span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><br />8. “Report of the High Level Group, VII. Recommendations, Section 3”, United Nations Alliance of Civilisations,</span> <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/repository/HLG_Report.pdf">http://www.unaoc.org/repository/HLG_Report.pdf</a><span style="color:#000000;">, 13 November 2006, pg. 34</span><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;"><br />9. “Report of the High Level Group, Section 4.15”, United Nations Alliance of Civilisations,</span> <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/repository/HLG_Report.pdf">http://www.unaoc.org/repository/HLG_Report.pdf</a><span style="color:#000000;">, 13 November 2006, pg. 14</span><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;"><br />10. Angelo Santagostino, “Alliance of Civilisations and Solidarity Between Civilisations: A Lost Occasion for Europe”, Global Jean Monnet Conference ECSA-World Conference, </span><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/jm/more/confglobal06/contribution_santagostino.pdf">http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/jm/more/confglobal06/contribution_santagostino.pdf</a>, <span style="color:#000000;">23/24 November 2006, pgs 4-5</span><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;"><br />11. MINISTERIO DE ASUNTOS EXTERIORES Y DE COOPERACIÓN, “Alliance of Civilizations”, United Nations Alliance of Civilisations, </span><a href="http://www.unaoc.org/repository/statement_foreign_ministry_english.pdf">http://www.unaoc.org/repository/statement_foreign_ministry_english.pdf</a><span style="color:#000000;">, November 2005, pg. 10</span><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;"><br />12. Eric Rosand, “Symposium on ‘Advancing the Implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy’”, Center on Global Counter-Terrorism Cooperation, </span><a href="http://www.globalct.org/images/content/pdf/Remarks/er_vienna_symposium.pdf">http://www.globalct.org/images/content/pdf/Remarks/er_vienna_symposium.pdf</a><span style="color:#000000;">, pg. 2</span><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;"><br />13. “The Doha Debates Special: Extremism”, “The Doha Debates”, </span><a href="http://www.thedohadebates.com/output/Page59.asp">http://www.thedohadebates.com/output/Page59.asp</a><span style="color:#000000;">, 18/19 March 2006</span><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;"><br />14.</span> <a href="http://www.share-international.org/">http://www.share-international.org/</a><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">15. Constance E. Cumbey, “Karen Armstrong and the Alliance of Civilizations”, News With Views,</span> <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance15.htm">http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance15.htm</a><span style="color:#000000;">, 12 October 2007</span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><br />16. Andrea Bistrich, “Discovering the common ground of world religions”, Share International, </span><a href="http://www.unaoc.org/repository/armstrong_interview.pdf">http://www.unaoc.org/repository/armstrong_interview.pdf</a><span style="color:#000000;">, Vol. 6, No. 7 September 2007</span><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;"><br />17. Catechism of the Catholic Church, Chapter Two, I Believe In Jesus Christ, The Only Son of God, Vatican,</span> <a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1D.HTM">http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1D.HTM</a><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">18. Constance E. Cumbey, “Karen Armstrong and the Alliance of Civilizations”, News With Views,</span> <a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance15.htm">http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance15.htm</a><span style="color:#000000;">, 12 October 2007</span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><br />19. Giandomenico Picco, “Who is Knocking at the Door of Democracy”, Club of Madrid,</span> <a href="http://pineline.blogspot.com/2007/12/dictator-at-door.html">http://pineline.blogspot.com/2007/12/dictator-at-door.html</a><span style="color:#000000;">, March 2005</span><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;"><br />20. </span><a href="http://globalspirit.org/pages/wc_members.php">http://globalspirit.org/pages/wc_members.php</a><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">21. Barbara Marx Hubbard, “Chapter 3, The Selection Process”, Happy Birth Day Planet Earth – The Instant of Co-Operation, 1986 Ocean Tree Books, pg. 22-29</span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><div><br />22. Barbara Marx Hubbard, The Book of Co-Creation: An Evolutionary Interpretation of the New Testament: Part III, The Revelation: Alternative To Armageddon, a three part self-published manuscript, 1980, Distributed/sold by Barbara Marx Hubbard</div><div><br />23. </span></div><a href="http://wcrp.org/news/sg-update/april07">http://wcrp.org/news/sg-update/april07</a> <div><br /><span style="color:#000000;">24. Presentation to Javier Solana, “A Human Security Doctrine for Europe – The Barcelona Report of the Study Group on Europe’s Security Capabilities”, </span><a href="http://www.centrodirittiumani.unipd.it/a_laurea/esami/ppsuenu/HSDoctrineEurope.pdf">http://www.centrodirittiumani.unipd.it/a_laurea/esami/ppsuenu/HSDoctrineEurope.pdf</a><span style="color:#000000;">, 15 September 2004, pg. 23</span></div><span style="color:#000000;"><div><br />25. Dr. Mike Ellis, “Commentary - Time To Act”, New Paradigm Journal Vol. 2, Issue 2,</span></div><a href="http://www.newparadigmjournal.com/Oct2007/timetoact.htm">http://www.newparadigmjournal.com/Oct2007/timetoact.htm</a><span style="color:#000000;">, October 2007</span> <div><span style="color:#000000;"><br />26. Angelo Santagostino, “Alliance of Civilisations and Solidarity Between Civilisations: A Lost Occasion for Europe”, Global Jean Monnet Conference ECSA-World Conference, <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/jm/more/confglobal06/contribution_santagostino.pdf">http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/jm/more/confglobal06/contribution_santagostino.pdf</a></span>, <span style="color:#000000;">23/24 November 2006, pg. 13<br /></span></div>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-14470907758990556152008-07-24T21:04:00.006-05:002008-07-24T21:37:16.111-05:00Pillars of the "Alliance of Civilization" The Earth Charter<span style="color:#000000;">I had intended to copy into my blogspot for some time now an excellent piece from Constance Cumbey's pen. <em>Pillars of the "Alliance of Civilization" The Earth Charter</em> is one of the best articles I've read on the topic and one I find useful as a reference. I post it here for those researching the Alliance of Civilizations.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">By: Constance Cumbey</span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">January 10, 2007<br /><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance1.htm">NewsWithViews.com</a></span><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance1.htm"> </a><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">A primary source for what was to become known as the</span> <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/aoc.php?page=39">Alliance of Civilizations</a><span style="color:#000000;">, was the “</span><a href="http://www.fund-culturadepaz.org/spa/03/2006/ENTREVISTAS/Carta%20de%20la%20Tierra.pdf">Earth Charter Initiative.</a><span style="color:#000000;">” Some chroniclers trace it back only as far as the 1987 Brundtland Commission. The Earth Charter Declaration contains language startlingly reminiscent of its salvation-based religion baiting precedents, Humanist Manifesto and the Humanist Manifesto II. One prominent Earth Charter proponent, Maurice Strong, was quoted saying that the Earth Charter would become as important as the Ten Commandments. Conflicting histories have been given and it appears that it was in progress, per Maurice Strong, much earlier than the 1987 Brundtland Commission. </span><br /><br /><br /><ul><li><em><em><em><span style="color:#000000;">"The whole question of an </span></em><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050310124537/"><em>Earth Charter was in fact on the UN Agenda at Rio</em></a><em>.<span style="color:#000000;"> We didn't quite make it. We did make some progress. At the Stockholm Conference, which was the </span></em><a href="http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/about/speech/strong/mstrong.htm"><em>United Nations Conference on the Human Environment</em></a><em><span style="color:#000000;"> in Stockholm in 1972, governments agreed to a historic declaration, which moved the world community towards what we now call an Earth Charter. Then, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, as the Secretary General of that conference, I challenged governments to produce an Earth Charter.</span></em><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance1.htm#_ftn1#_ftn1"><span style="color:#000000;">[</span>1]</a> </em></em></li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;">This obvious phase of implementation of what former UN Assistant Secretary General Robert Muller and Maurice Strong alike would acknowledge was “The Plan” was being developed on Muller’s Costa Rican turf in 1995.</span><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance1.htm#_ftn2#_ftn2">[2]</a> <span style="color:#000000;">For me 1995 was an interesting year. It was then I discovered the existence of another interesting “eminent personality,” in the form of one Dr. Javier Solana. He also has had enormous input in the “Alliance of Civilizations.” </span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">If the declared agenda of the Alliance of Civilizations of regulating religious schools and their curriculums seem potentially draconian, its incorporated “Earth Charter” is even stranger. It had a Vermont eerie coming out party, complete with drums and masks, preceding on September 9, 2001. This happened at</span> <a href="http://www.arkofhope.org/">Shelburne Farms, Vermont</a><span style="color:#000000;">. “Eminent personalities” who were part of that party included Dr. Steven Rockefeller, Jane Goodall. New Age musician Paul Winter and “peace walker” Satish Kumar. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Clearly, their Moloch was not appeased. Only two tragic days later the Eastern USA skies were aflame. The Twin Towers burned, the Pentagon burned, and an assaulted plane crashed and burned over Pennsylvania. The ritual masks and pagan drumbeat to usher their version of a 21st Century “</span><a href="http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=ArkOfHope">Ark of the Covenant</a><span style="color:#000000;">” clearly had not inoculated the world against war. </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Another source of both Alliance of Civilizations and The Earth Charter inputs include Mikhail Gorbachev’s Green Cross. Author Wayne Peterson, a former United States State Department official and Fulbright Scholar executive wittingly or unwittingly reveals much of the possible agenda. He claims to personally knows Mikhail Gorbachev to be open devotee of “Maitreya, the Christ.” </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">This may be entirely possible. The Earth Charter website says it was “restarted” by Strong and Gorbachev “with the assistance of the government of the Netherlands.” Many New Age guides to Europe in my personal library say Holland is the New Age capital of Europe. Apart from the obvious Findhorn Community (Scotland) claims, this may well be true. As early as 1903 a major Theosophical world congress was held in Amsterdam. During the 1920’s Theosophists were vigorously working to smooth the way for world acceptance of a “Day of Declaration.” Jiddhu Krishnamurti was anointed by Annie Besant, then Theosophical Society leader to be the “new Christ” and lead the world into a “New Order.” Dutch Queen Wilhelmina was an open devotee of Krishnamurti and eagerly awaited that “Day of Declaration,” offering Dutch national radio to broadcast the awaited Maitreyan acceptance speech. World theosophists flocked to the Theosophists Holland Camp Ommen. There they camped and shared vegetarian picnics out while taking part in convocations with “sacred fires.” </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">At Eerde, Holland, Krishnamurti had a lavish castle formerly belonging to a member of Dutch nobility. There he spent pre-Day of Declaration days with his Annie Besant and other followers. Several years later, in World War II, the Nazi warriors used Camp Ommen as a concentration camp. After Krishnamurti failed to deliver the acceptance speech, or so the official version goes, Annie Besant supposedly dissolved the “Order of the Star” connected with the “Christ’s reappearance.” Reportedly, she returned moneys to donors. I say supposedly, because despite these historical representations, I have amassed a collection of Order of the Star publications going through the mid 1930s and it appears that meetings were going on in Holland as well. Perhaps it was God who was not ready rather than Krishnamurti who expressed regrets from time to time in later life that he had not fully fulfilled his role as “the vehicle for the Christ.”</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">This is the</span> <a href="http://www.earthcharter.org/innerpg.cfm?id_page=106">Earth Charter Initiative’s own version</a> <span style="color:#000000;">of the time and events:</span><br /><br /></p><ul><li><em><span style="color:#000000;">The World Commission on Environment and Development (aka "the Brundtland Commission") called for “a universal declaration” and “new charter” to set “new norms” to guide the transition to sustainable development. (Our Common Future, 1987)</span></em></li><li><em><span style="color:#000000;">A draft UN Earth Charter was developed for the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, but the time for such a declaration was not right. The Rio Declaration became the statement of the achievable consensus at that time.</span></em></li><li><em><span style="color:#000000;">In 1994, Maurice Strong (Chairman of the Rio Summit) and Mikhail Gorbachev, working through organizations they each founded (Earth Council and Green Cross International respectively), restarted the Earth Charter as a civil society initiative, with the help of the Government of the Netherlands. The initial drafting and consultation process drew on hundreds of international documents. </span></em></li><li><em><span style="color:#000000;">Messrs. Strong and Gorbachev convened an independent Earth Charter Commission in 1997 to oversee the final development of the text and to come to agreement on a global consensus document.</span></em><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance1.htm#_ftn3#_ftn3"><em><span style="color:#000000;">[</span>3]</em></a><em><br /></em></li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;">Bottom line: As one primary pillar of the now shaping Alliance of Civilizations, we have an Soviet atheist turned New Ager combining with an equally fervent Canadian billionaire devotee, both true believers in an alleged “Maitreya the Christ,” the latter particularly working openly with Lucis Trust, the offspring of Alice and Foster Bailey’s original “Lucifer Publishing Company.” </span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">That such is taken seriously in more than esoteric circles is easily proved. One illustration is an article in the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law on December 2, 2001. Had a Christian or Jew dare suggest that this was God’s judgment on an idolatrous world, the outcry would still be heard. However, this suggestion that we all join in common earth worship passed at least the scrutiny of editors of what was supposed to be a respected legal journal: </span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">World tragedies necessitate the reaction of a united global society dedicated to responsible action and committed to peace. Identifying a common motivation and mode of communication to which all individuals can relate is a prerequisite component to avoiding destruction and moving towards progress. Humanity's dependence upon the planet earth serves as the natural primary connection between all people. By joining this undeniable truth with the notions underpinning the Earth Charter,</span><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance1.htm#_ftn1#_ftn1">[1]</a> <span style="color:#000000;">a blue print for building a new foundation to address our current reality can be identified. </span></li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;">Where this is heading and where environmentalists and New Agers alike are harmonically converging is clearly in the direction of earth worship and beyond to universe/cosmos adoration. Bundled in with the concept is one of gratitude to [gasp!] Lucifer himself, whom Benjamin Crème proudly proclaimed on one unwilling radio debate he did with me in the early 1980s, “made a tremendous sacrifice for our planet.” Evidently Lucifer, per Crème, ran a Garden of Eden intervention challenging God to see that we properly “evolved” rather than vegetate in a tropical garden. As a result, per Crème, Lucifer is the “prodigal son.” It is startling in personal conversations I have had with some in those circles that God is expected to welcome Lucifer back with open arms. A related belief is that those forever barred from the new Utopian Eden are those who stood in Lucifer’s way. This is a strange perversion of Judeo/Christian theology, widely published from sources such as Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard and David Spangler. Lucis Trust has offered to cap it all off by allowing the world to use their “Great Invocation,” presumably a forced replacement to “The Lord’s Prayer” and “23rd Psalm.” </span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">Such idolatry is condemned across the board by traditional monotheistic theology. Catholics as part of their baptismal rites say, “Do you reject Satan? The congregation is expected to answer, “I do.” “And all of his works? I do” </span></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">The biblical Book of Revelation contains a stern warning in chapter 14 that all should “fear God and give glory to Him for the hour of his judgment is come. Worship God who created the heaven, the earth, the seas, and the fountains of waters.” The Earth Covenant and its new bible called “the Book of Temenos” frighteningly reverse that command to one that inverts it to the very worship condemned: “If any man worships the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation.” Those worshiping the “beast and his image” and receiving the mark of his name were to “have no rest day nor night.”</span><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance1.htm#_ftn4#_ftn4"><span style="color:#000000;">[</span>4]</a> </p><p><span style="color:#000000;">An even earlier proponent, working even closer to the time of the Krishnamurti era envisioned a scenario startlingly close to what now appears to be full process. H. G. Wells wrote in his 1928 book, THE OPEN CONSPIRACY; BLUEPRINTS FOR A WORLD REVOLUTION: </span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">"Whenever possible, the Open Conspiracy will advance by illumination and persuasion. But it has to advance and even from the outset where it is not allowed to illuminate and persuade it must fight . . .in the face of unscrupulous opposition creative ideas must become aggressive, must define their enemies, and attack them. . . . The Open Conspiracy rests upon a disrespect for "nationality . . ." </span></li></ul><p><span style="color:#000000;">Again, I say, "fasten your seatbelts, friends. We are in for a bumpy ride. Keep the faith!"<br />Footnotes: </span></p><p><br /><a name="_ftn1"></a><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance1.htm#_ftnref1#_ftnref1"></a><span style="color:#000000;">1, See "</span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050310124537/">Earth Council: Papers</a>" <span style="color:#000000;">and</span> <a href="http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/about/speech/strong/mstrong.htm">here</a>.<a name="_ftn2"></a><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance1.htm#_ftnref2#_ftnref2"></a></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">2, In his UN retirement, Robert Muller moved to Costa Rica to chair the UN University there.</span></p><p><a name="_ftn3"></a><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance1.htm#_ftnref3#_ftnref3"></a><span style="color:#000000;">3,</span> <a href="http://www.earthcharter.org/innerpg.cfm?id_page=106">Origin and history of the Earth Charter</a><a name="_ftn4"></a><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/Cumbey/constance1.htm#_ftnref4#_ftnref4"></a></p><p><span style="color:#000000;">4, See Revelation (Apocalypse) Chapter 14, verses 6 through 12).</span><br /></p>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-33485765529719085262008-07-13T15:35:00.021-05:002008-07-17T19:10:26.066-05:00The Devil in Drag<div><span style="color:#000000;">In the small town where I live attacks against Christians regularly appear in our local newspaper. The new agers love to use the term crisis = opportunity. As I read these attacks I think of them as hostility = opportunity. One writer in particular despises Christians and places all of the world's ills at our feet. That being said, it is her latest opinion piece which leads me to this next blog post which will be published in this Thursday's newspaper.</span><br /><div>.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVkZ-t0zl1STKrkFpBS0b3XGrFLrU-Z-AOUo517chW0ugyn9mg01rSMd4xsYTI7rBYjzk34Eg4B7gnX_5CpXQS3lCE58FWJIjTFRiMqLOGEW9r1sIwC5I_z8Osyc31XSa9TB8oyxp0pkkm/s1600-h/LOEditorial.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224139509978359362" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVkZ-t0zl1STKrkFpBS0b3XGrFLrU-Z-AOUo517chW0ugyn9mg01rSMd4xsYTI7rBYjzk34Eg4B7gnX_5CpXQS3lCE58FWJIjTFRiMqLOGEW9r1sIwC5I_z8Osyc31XSa9TB8oyxp0pkkm/s400/LOEditorial.png" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div></div><span style="color:#000000;">It looks as though Linda Osolkowski wants to talk about religious extremism and silly beliefs. In her latest vox pops she ridiculed Dr. Uhri for having what she considers a ridiculous belief system. She goes as far as to sarcastically suggest Dr. Uhri believes gravity to be only a theory. It is not uncommon for Osolkowski to publicly mock Christians as in past posts she has ridiculed doctrines such as the rapture while touting her “goddess” worship as being firmly based in reason. So it is time to further examine her new age mindset and the theology which surrounds the goddess.<br /><br />The goddess identifiable by many names was known to the Egyptians as Isis, the Greeks as Demeter-Persephone, to the Romans Diana and, at present, is commonly known as Sophia-Gaia. Gaia is most recognizable to people as “Mother Earth”. Although the goddess’ theology varies amongst Sophiologists the core belief system remains common. Hence I will present the goddess from the perspectives of her story tellers, those credited with heralding in the new age and popularizing her in the west, namely H.P. Blavatsky and Rudolph Steiner.<br /><br />In the beginning God existed as one in the form of a polarity: the divine masculine and the divine feminine (Sophia). Together they co-created the universe. Each entity was a conjoined triune deity, the male being the Father, Logos and Holy Spirit and the female being the Mother, Daughter and World Soul. In the goddess’ zeal to create, she formed the cosmos independently of her male counterpart resulting in a mistake which caused the divine feminine to separate from the divine masculine. Upon her descent Ialdabaoth, the God of Israel, taunted her so she gave her light to the sun and became the earth where she remains in the depths of the under world longing to reunite to the divine masculine. The universal prayer to the goddess opens as “our Mother, who art in the depths of the under world”. Her only hope to reconnect to the divine masculine has been to facilitate humanity’s evolution to its final stage by emitting evolutionary impulse streams through her spiral vortexes. It is only when humanity becomes attuned to her impulses and by adopting a global consciousness—the World Soul—that the goddess will become redeemed and able to reunite to the divine masculine. The final earthly stage of human development is considered to be the most painful period in earth’s evolutionary process because not everyone is attuned to the goddess’ impulse streams. Those individuals, primarily monotheists and political dissenters, are considered to be the World Soul’s karmic opposites which inhibit the goddess’ redemption. Shirley McClain, among many, explains that their karmic opposites soon await their fate in “karmageddon”. Once the “World Soul” eliminates its karmic opposites, it will have become divine and transcend thereby bringing an end to time and death. This transcended humanity will move forward to become co-creators with the rejoined godhead culminating its journey partaking in the Vulcan stage of cosmic evolution wherein they will realign the cosmos by transforming the earth into a new sun.<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwbX8brgaQtV9_SVKe08IEvg79c8ajBfalZtZCitsq3dxhnvwvqxxtQ9n0riqoVu6LJDs7YeT5xoxKikZpV8HB2nHk1e__FVhdpzqysyWGv5xv33U0J-bnhk6UowJtYPEysiZGeOu5rQXF/s1600-h/DevilWearsPrada.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222764923634680802" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwbX8brgaQtV9_SVKe08IEvg79c8ajBfalZtZCitsq3dxhnvwvqxxtQ9n0riqoVu6LJDs7YeT5xoxKikZpV8HB2nHk1e__FVhdpzqysyWGv5xv33U0J-bnhk6UowJtYPEysiZGeOu5rQXF/s200/DevilWearsPrada.JPG" border="0" /></a>It would be remiss of me not to mention Mother Earth’s (Gaia’s) keeper—the Pleiadians—as they too emit impulses through her vortexes. The Pleiadians, from the planetary star Alcyone, are hosting in honor of Gaia’s redemption a cosmic party to commence on December 21, 2012. They have chosen to communicate their agenda by channeling their writings through Barbara Hand Clow’s Pleiadian Agenda. They do so as they recognize some goddess worshippers have been lazy and not adequately expanded their levels of consciousnesses by focusing their meditative energies into the reptilian forces. According to the Pleiadians, not everyone has an invitation to the cosmic party—only those who recognize that Lucifer lives within them and are willing to undergo a Luciferic initiation. This is a common theme in new age literature and one which is problematic for the world’s monotheists as they recognize Lucifer to be none other than Satan. As clearly presented throughout their writings, Blavatsky and Steiner agree that Satan and Lucifer at the same. They however exhibit great admiration for him. Per Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine, “In this case it is but natural…to view Satan, the Serpent of Genesis, as the real creator and benefactor, the Father of Spiritual mankind…” Blavatsky also identifies the goddess Sophia and Lucifer to be one and the same—Lucifer’s female persona. Maybe the devil really does wear Prada. The Pleiadians tell us how to recognize the start of the cosmic party—it will commence when their mother ship enters earth’s atmosphere. As one can see, “goddess” theology is based upon "solid scientific inquiry".</span><br /><div><br /><div><span style="color:#000000;">Although I disagree with theologies such as the goddess, I would defend anyone’s right to believe it. It is when governments—such as the new global order and its governmental structures—demand that individuals shift their religious beliefs to one centered around earth-worship and the acceptance of their political-spiritual cosmic Christ that they have crossed the line into dictatorship and have themselves adopted an ideology of religious extremism. Global governmental organizations such as the Alliance of Civilizations, Gorbachev’s Earth Charter, the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality, etc., etc. openly portray such a system. They have formulated a strategy to rid themselves of dissenters by identifying those individuals as religious extremists who are prone to violent radicalization. Osolkowski attempted to do the same in her latest vox pops. The Alliance of Civilizations has said that it is a sovereign United States which presently stands in its way of globally deploying its new spirituality. It has further called for the abolition of national parliaments worldwide. At least in the United States, despite our flaws, we can voice our opinions without the threat of death. There are visible signs that this too is shifting as leadership in both the Republican and Democratic parties rush towards handing over our national sovereignty in the interest of global governance. So if Linda wishes to further discuss religious extremism and silly religious beliefs we too are willing to participate in that discussion.</span></div></div></div>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-28734089912195573692008-05-31T16:58:00.007-05:002008-06-01T19:49:32.582-05:00The Xtian Theology of Desmond Tutu<p><span style="color:#000000;">Each year during the Christmas season I see advertisements for Xmas gifts, Xmas trees, etc. I tend to offer those stores year round consistency and X them off as places I will ever shop. As I see it, how is it they show contempt yet expect us to support them? I use this analogy to illustrate a point. Earlier this year a reader forwarded me a letter he received from his country’s minister of foreign affairs regarding the Alliance of Civilizations. This minister, addressing issues raised about the AoC, assured the individual that there was no cause for concern because there is Christian representation on the High Level Group. The names provided were Desmond Tutu and Karen Armstrong. I nearly laughed when I read this section of the letter and said aloud “who do you think you’re fooling”. Thus, I decided to devote blog topics to these High Level Group members and provide readers with a glimpse of their theologies. Let us begin with Archbishop Desmond Tutu.</span></p><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgycnaVxirHShmxO3L8d-QddGjQIi9twc62EZqIUZo5VxJyhleAOBku7thFinaB3hua5d78LUt8405rIsBRBjFAgmSIcAWh8jCZbEk_K5N3q8iiQt63Yb6NSJtk9VZfqfDxQluhBP2Rs2u6/s1600-h/GodHasDream.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206666041508511650" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgycnaVxirHShmxO3L8d-QddGjQIi9twc62EZqIUZo5VxJyhleAOBku7thFinaB3hua5d78LUt8405rIsBRBjFAgmSIcAWh8jCZbEk_K5N3q8iiQt63Yb6NSJtk9VZfqfDxQluhBP2Rs2u6/s320/GodHasDream.JPG" border="0" /></a>Before I read Desmond Tutu’s book <em>God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time</em>, I was puzzled by his participation as a High Level Group member of the Alliance of Civilizations. After all, my impressions of the man were initially favorable. In his book <em>Forgiveness</em> he described some of the most awful of atrocities carried out by South Africa’s apartheid regime. He appeared to be a man who condemned violence, government oppression, genocide, and human rights violations. So how is it this man became a participant in the system of world government—a system which he ought to recognize and heed the scriptural warnings? Could it be he isn’t aware of the global government’s population reduction agenda or its required “initiation” of the masses? After reading the</span> <a href="http://www.awakeningmind.org/wc/wc_blueprint.php">blueprint</a> <span style="color:#000000;">of the</span> <a href="http://globalspirit.org/">World Commission on Global Consciousness & Spirituality</a><span style="color:#000000;">—a commission on which Desmond Tutu serves—I removed any doubts that Desmond Tutu knows exactly what he is supporting</span>.<br /><span style="color:#000000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">As one reads the Commission’s blueprint, it is clear that they intend to “activate” an “evolutionary” process in which they will reckon with “pathologies” (individuals) whom they consider to be of a lower species (egocentric mind) and unite and transcend their more highly-evolved (universal mind) civilization. As found in history’s not-too-distant past, the portrayal is of an advancement of a superhuman race. Although the blueprint’s views are not isolated to any one individual commissioner, this identical theme may be found in Commissioner Barbara Marx Hubbard’s writings. Hubbard’s book <em>Happy Birthday Planet Earth</em> which is quite small yet filled with threats, provides an overview of the impending “selection process”. </span><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206666346451189682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyyykkQFXJvJcmlX9Jm2IMGcrbJGTwMzL8KgYm-xZKNMRmSyj_3Fuq4u92wZCxk2xsXYftwqGGpf8PQgYrwF6siS-j2uEQwWjHHdlWs8sKUm1DeZgURSs-FioQX098FUiyCdb5HGotGZS/s400/HappyBirthdayEarth.JPG" border="0" /> <span style="color:#000000;"></span><br /><p><span style="color:#000000;">We are instructed that everyone on the planet is to be given a choice—either transcend with the collective or face personal extinction. This is a theology which Desmond Tutu ought, and still has the opportunity, to denounce.<br /><br />I would encourage Desmond Tutu to look at Commissioner Hubbard’s materials and in particular those related to the “activation” of the selection process. <em>The Book of Co-Creation: An Evolutionary Interpretation of the New Testament Part III</em>, provides insight. Here Hubbard’s explanation of Revelation 13: 16-17, I suspect, would make Karen Armstrong proud as Hubbard leaves this piece of scripture giving it a “charitable interpretation”. Revelation 13:16-17 reads: </span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark on their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” </li></ul><p>Throughout Hubbard’s writings, the interpretation applied to this scripture is one of liberation—that of a loving birth: </p><ul><li>“In the negative scenario, John foresaw the possibility of total domination of humanity by a dictator who wields the power of science and technology to control rather than to emancipate…for the science and technology has only now emerged, to be used or misused according to which scenario your generation chooses—Armageddon or loving birth.” <em>Book of Co-Creation Part III</em> - Pg. 127 </li></ul><p>This alone ought to make Archbishop Tutu pause and recognize the system in which he has become entangled. I’m not holding my breath on that one though as the archbishop tends to have contempt for literalists and those who do good and seek their rewards in heaven. </p><ul><li>“Often we focus too much on concrete images of God and on overly literal readings of the Bible…The Bible is not something that came dropping from heaven, written by the hand of God. It was written by human beings, so it uses human idiom and is influenced by the context in which whatever story was written. People need to be very careful. Many tend to be literalists, people who believe in the verbal inerrancy of the bible, who speak as if God dictated the Bible, when in fact God used human beings as they were, and they spoke only as they could speak at that time. There are parts of the Bible that have no permanent worth—that is nothing to be sorry about, it is just to say that it is the Word of God in the words of men and women.” <em>God Has A Dream</em> – Pg. 105-106 </li><li>“A church that tries to pacify us, telling us not to concentrate on the things of this world but of the other, the next world, needs to be treated with withering scorn and contempt as being not only wholly irrelevant but actually blasphemous.” <em>God Has A Dream</em> - Pg. 65 </li></ul><p>The entire foundation of Christianity is based upon Christ’s bodily resurrection. It is noteworthy to recognize Archbishop Tutu’s position here: </p><ul><li>“But when we say Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, you don’t believe that he got into a kind of ecclesiastical lift that took him into the stratosphere. This is language that is being used figuratively because the realities that are being described are not human realities, they are supranatural realities. When we speak even about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is not the revivification of a corpse.” <em>God Has A Dream</em> – Pg. 107 </li></ul><p>Desmond Tutu has clearly made his choice—a new spirituality for a new age. </p><ul><li>“I knew it was important to cultivate an authentic spirituality of transformation in that transition period of flux, bewilderment, violence, and turbulence. This authentic spirituality of transformation is the basis for any true and lasting transfiguration in our world…we are all meant to answer God’s call to be His partners in transfiguring the world.” <em>God Has A Dream</em> – Pg 108-109 </li></ul><p>But whose world is Desmond Tutu working towards? For its conclusion is: </p><ul><li>“Even if God’s dream were to come true, there would still be pain in childbirth, torment in illness, and anguish in death. Sadness, longing, and heartache would not disappear.” <em>God Has A Dream</em> – Pg 72 </li></ul><p>which is significantly different than that promised by the Most High: </p><ul><li>“And there shall no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it, and His bond-servants shall serve Him;” Revelation 22:3</span> </li></ul><p><br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Response to Desmond Tutu’s theology:</span><br /></span></strong><span style="color:#000000;">As an additional note, I cannot exit this post without providing a scriptural response to Archbishop Tutu’s “Christian” theology. Regarding statements on:<br /><br />The value of scripture:</span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">"All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness” 2 Timothy 3:16 </span></li></ul><span style="color:#000000;"><p>The next world: </p><ul><li>“By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance…for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God…But as it is, they desire a better country, that is a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.” Hebrews 11:8-15 </li></ul><p>Christ’s bodily resurrection: </p><ul><li>“Then He said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand, and put it into My side; and be not unbelieving, but believing.” Thomas answered and said to Him, Lord and my God!” John 20:27-28</li></ul><p></span></p>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-797866022755018793.post-77021736679283550612008-04-28T21:02:00.014-05:002008-04-28T21:40:02.377-05:00"Minding" Our Youth through a Children's State<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYGI83dsNdfzBtNBYkfD7nSTf6F1CjhW8FbrpgBUKtaSON2pH_ejoa8xJk6bJmtWzFu7xDydC-HaKOfkWFH5RYBXd8JXpXmYYmigwIA_cfyKUnromY4MPS44RnPtRIGBf0d3513WdnblQ6/s1600-h/ChildrensStateLogo.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194484017559281650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYGI83dsNdfzBtNBYkfD7nSTf6F1CjhW8FbrpgBUKtaSON2pH_ejoa8xJk6bJmtWzFu7xDydC-HaKOfkWFH5RYBXd8JXpXmYYmigwIA_cfyKUnromY4MPS44RnPtRIGBf0d3513WdnblQ6/s400/ChildrensStateLogo.JPG" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#000000;">This article is the last of three in a series which compares the legal and cultural changes being made by today’s global government to those made by Hitler’s Third Reich. Part I,</span> <a href="http://pineline.blogspot.com/2008/03/ghost-of-nazi-past-ghost-of-nazi.html">Ghost of Nazi Past, Ghost of Nazi Present</a> <span style="color:#000000;">focused on cultural, media, parliamentary, and judicial manipulations. Part II, </span><a href="http://pineline.blogspot.com/2008/04/mobilising-people-and-actions-for-war.html">Mobilising People and Actions for War</a> <span style="color:#000000;">focused on science, religion, religious education and spiritual mobilization. This last section is about the shaping (or reshaping) of young minds or, as the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality refers to it, activating the “science of minding”. Again I draw comparisons to the Third Reich from </span><a href="http://www.richardjevans.com/">Richard Evans</a><span style="color:#000000;">’ book The Third Reich in Power with my citations indicated by bold type.<br /><br />During the second world war the Nazis had successfully undermined the role of family through an organization called the Hitler Youth. <strong>“These days parents have nothing more than the duty to feed and clothe their children; educating them is in the first place the task of the Hitler Youth’”</strong> complained one parent. And another, <strong>“‘the worst is…that you’ve got to watch yourself in front of your own children.’”</strong> (Pg. 279) These words ought to serve as a warning against any cultural move in which the state or otherwise attempts to gain control over the lives of young people. I wrote of such conditioning in an earlier post called the</span> <a href="http://pineline.blogspot.com/2007/10/formation-of-alliance-youth.html">Formation of an Alliance Youth</a><span style="color:#000000;">. As presented by the </span><a href="http://www.osce.org/documents/sg/2006/06/19739_en.pdf">OSCE Contribution to the Alliance of Civilizations</a><span style="color:#000000;">, the objective is “sustaining youth as a fundamental element in promoting comprehensive security…[through] greater activation and engagement through advocacy and exercise of political rights and the creation of youth councils.” This reinforces the</span> <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/repository/HLG_Report.pdf">Alliance of Civilizations’ Final Report</a><span style="color:#000000;"> that, “it is extremely important to recognize youth not only as a source of mobilization, but as autonomous actors and partners.” There is no doubt that the intent is to connect children into an ideology sympathetic to the building of their new civilization, a civilization which has already identified religious freedom and political dissent as the “</span><a href="http://pineline.blogspot.com/2008/02/enemy-of-civilization.html">enemies of the civilization</a><span style="color:#000000;">”.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">One possible model which may be used to advance these objectives is Children’s State and Children’s United Parliament of the World (CUPW). Children’s State is a global internet state having a parliamentary assembly which convenes annually. According to the organization’s</span> <a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=208">Strong Announcement</a><span style="color:#000000;">, it “gives a new identity, dual nationality and international identity number for the children and young people of the world…[and] has a central role taking the lead of mankind in the new generation.” Among the</span> <a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=140&Itemid=280">supporters of Children’s State</a> <span style="color:#000000;">are organizations such as UNICEF, Save the Children, SOS Children's Village, Plan International and, of particular interest, </span><a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=225&Itemid=220">the European Union</a><span style="color:#000000;">: </span></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194483068371509186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiNi4mmVdzSK8ade7Ml_xucBpx0CHlwaJWQugNU_zF7rJejLgweytk8zRyiALp3OJd__lpWX2B94GuFZwIU298xfW14Q3WoBrLDW2srIwHZ_hzUNL2Ae0eq72NbdwUd6AlD6JS-Ee-THDc/s400/Solana-ChildrenState.JPG" border="0" /><span style="color:#000000;">Most interesting is</span> <a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=225&Itemid=280">Javier Solana’s support</a> <span style="color:#000000;">of the Children’s United Parliament of the World and the CUPW’s </span><a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=121&Itemid=212">demands that nations demilitarize</a> <span style="color:#000000;">and allocate those resources to civilian-crisis management programs—a militarized security model formulated by Solana. These two initiatives appear to be mutually reinforcing. As I look at the above picture the thing that most saddens me is the young girl. She is obvously a young lady who makes her parents proud. I believe that she is participating in what her convictions tell her is a good cause. My hope for her is that one day she is able to objectively evaluate the entire underlying political agenda behind Children’s State. As one reads through the Children’s State web site, a picture emerges that portrays a cross between Jonestown and the Hitler Youth.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"><strong>Overall Vision</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">According to the Children’s State vision statement, “The Children's United Parliament of the World is an international umbrella organisation for local and national children's parliaments…Organisation has been established to promote children's active citizenship, and their social and international partnership. In 2001 the General Assembly of the children’s parliament established an internet state, the Universal Childrensstate, that has today its own constitution, hymn and flag.”<br /><br />“We educate children to become globally and locally responsible active citizens who wish for world peace. At the moment adults and decision-makers do not listen to children’s wishes enough, and thus children’s parliament provides a legal ground for children to act in their own societies as well as internationally….“Children do not need to be taught what to think, but rather how to think and act both critically and constructively.”<br /><br />If only promotion of world peace and responsible citizenship were the actual goals rather than euphemisms for ideological instruction! Already we see groundwork which will require parents to relinquish control in educating their children. Interesting to note is that the Hitler Youth also had their own hymns.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color:#000099;">Principles & Declaration of Independence</span><br /></strong></span><span style="color:#000000;">Children’s State has a</span> <a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=220">Declaration of Independence</a> <span style="color:#000000;">which says that “Citizens of CHILDRENSSTATE are all the children of the earth under the age 18.”</span> <a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=231">Children’s State’s principles</a> <span style="color:#000000;">require that:</span> </p><ul><li><span style="color:#000000;">The Children shall have the right to free decision making and opinion. </span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">The Children shall be equal to adults. </span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">The Children shall have the right to vote. </span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">The Children shall have their own ID code. </span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">The interests of Children shall be equally considered. </span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">The Children shall have the right to their own values. </span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">The Children shall have the opportunity to free communication. </span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;">The Children shall have the right to grow completely as per their own personality. </span></li><span style="color:#000000;"></ul><p></span><span style="color:#000000;">There ideology is a totalitarian regime’s dream come true. Clearly this is intended to undermine the family structure. One begins to get a sense that if parents were to resist co-operating with Children’s State, penalties similar to those carried out by the Nazis might be reintroduced:<br /><br /><strong>“After 25 March 1939, membership was legally binding from the age of ten, and parents could be fined if they failed to enroll their children, or even imprisoned if they actively tried to stop them joining.”</strong> Pg 272<br /><br /><strong>“Idealism undoubtedly played a role in committing many young people to the cause in defiance of their parents’ wishes.”</strong> Pg 274<br /><br /><strong>“One Hitler Youth leader himself admitted, ‘the leadership encourages amongst many boys a kind of megalomania that refuses to recognize any other authority.’”</strong> Pg 281<br /><br /></span><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;">Power Structure</span><br /></strong><span style="color:#000000;">Although children are told that they execute the highest authority of the Children’s United Parliament of the World, this is questionable. Similar to the European Union’s governance structure where the Council presents the parliament with legislation for its rubber stamp, it is the Council of the Future and Secretary General who submit legislation to the CUPW assembly. One astute</span> <a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=220&Itemid=212">16 year old correspondent</a> <span style="color:#000000;">who attended a Children’s State function reported:<br /><br />“Whilst the adults were not emitted inside the room, their thoughts and opinions were heard from the teenagers’ comments. It was easy to notice that the groups had practised their speeches quite well in advance. So it is questionable, how much of what was spoken really came from the children.”<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Schirach proclaimed that ‘the principle of self-leadership’ would apply as it had in the old youth movement, but in practice the organization was effectively run by grown-ups.”</strong> Pg. 276<br /><br /><strong>“…it was emphatically a top-down organization, run not by young people themselves, as the old youth movement had been, but according to the leadership principle, by the Reich Youth Leadership under Schirach…All those who joined had to swear a personal oath of allegiance to Hitler. Their training was compulsory and legally binding.”</strong> Pgs. 273-274<br /><br /></span><span style="color:#000099;"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Parental Rights</span><br /></strong></span><span style="color:#000000;">Apparent in</span> <a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=223">Article 8 of the Children’s State Constitution</a><span style="color:#000000;">, the primary role of parents is to supply their children with basic human development needs. The state will be in the position to determine whether the parent is suitable to meet the educational and emotional needs of the child.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">“The child shall enjoy the benefits of social security. He shall be entitled to grow and develop in health; to this end, special care and protection shall be provided both to him and to his mother, including adequate pre-natal and post-natal care. The child shall have the right to adequate nutrition, housing, recreation and medical services… The child shall, wherever possible, grow up in the care and under the responsibility of his parents…”<br /><br />“Nowadays, childless couples are often congratulated by parents on their childlessness. These days parents have nothing more than the duty to feed and clothe their children; educating them is in the first place the task of the Hitler Youth.” Pg. 279<br /></span><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;">Currency</span></strong><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Children’s state has its own bank, the</span> <a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129&Itemid=212">State Bank for the Universal Childrensstate</a><span style="color:#000000;">, and currency, the Kyper, which is valued at a ratio of 1:1 Euro.</span></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194483411968892882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfj5dg6kzUgQtYkG52HzOPikyQxOIGr06slSmK2q-F06SdD0qllXr6FKZUKCQKg07fuoW8q5LZ9Fir30ef29bQ-FccYsVM8TtJeQnqbXH0EteapbHXpydNGriV7l6xHePct7CfCImkpGiy/s400/kyper.JPG" border="0" /><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Children’s State Capital</span><br /></span></strong><span style="color:#000000;">Children’s State is to have</span> <a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=207&Itemid=212">KyperLedCity</a><span style="color:#000000;">, Tunisia as its capital. Plans for construction of the capital city have been submitted to the government of Tunisia.</span></p><p><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194483686846799842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0wPiG_K8x6o9HTwBRvQQZhfISnUBHAw2XmG1EPUTJqkqy6cu_rdIXxsqSqESUQ4Xc0QF3csrj0PfsskQYCh4izENG1OO6YLpYuxOoqCm0fUJUFR6TZEaXa1jTAD-k2zAbAlMbJAqbwzYI/s400/kyperledcity.JPG" border="0" /> <span style="color:#000000;">According to Children’s State</span> <a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=208">Strong Announcement</a> <span style="color:#000000;">“After filling out the application of citizenship, under 18-year old person gets immediately dual citizenship, international ID number and a right to process the passport for one self. The passport is valid until the age of 26-years, and it entitles the person to act in CHILDRENSSTATE.”<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">If a parent wishes to visit their child in Children’s State they must get approval as such: “Adults need to apply for the visa from CHILDRENSSTATE's commission, to be able even to visit at children and young people of the world state.”<br /><br /><strong>“The Order Castles (Ordensburgen) were the next stage in the system of Party-based education dreamed up by Schirach and Ley. They were intended exclusively to teach graduates of the Adolf Hitler Schools…the Order Castles in turn functioned as training centres for numerous Nazi Party officials on short courses.”</strong> Pg. 286<br /><br /></span><strong><span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;">Disciplinary Action</span></strong><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Children’s State has developed measures known as the</span> <a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=234">Internet Prison and Black List</a><span style="color:#000000;"> intended for discipline whenever necessary.<br /><br />“Children's United Parliament of the World and the Commission have authority, in the name of the children of the world, to punish the people who destroy the future of the children of the world by putting them to the Universal Childrensstate prison.”<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Children are prohibited from interfering in any areas where disciplinary action is being taken by the Children’s State.<br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=240">Article II, paragraph 7 of the Charter</a><span style="color:#000000;">: “All Members shall give the every assistance to the Children’s United Parliament of the World in any action it takes in accordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any instance against which the CUPW is taking preventive or enforcement action.”<br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.childrensstate.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=245">Article 25 of the CUPW Charter</a><span style="color:#000000;">: “The Children’s United Parliament of the World may also recognise those individuals, institutions and companies that operate against to the moral principles of the Charter, and place them on a Black List. The CUPW recommends children not associate themselves with those on the Black List.”<br /><br />Children’s State is only one of many initiatives aimed at conditioning youth to adopt a global governance mindset. I have critiqued Children’s State because of its apparent relationship with the European Union. I would further like to add that I believe there are individuals involved with Children’s State who have not fully examined its underlying politics. I would encourage those people to honestly examine the evidence and determine whether the entire global governance agenda—along its various components designed to control society at every level—is something worthy of your participation and support.</span></p>Rich Peterson - Medfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12091118320364576176noreply@blogger.com13