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Vatic Note: This is a great series of very educational pieces on the entire issue of Mystery Babylon, the Great and it ties it all into the current group of psychopathic elites doing all this to the globe. It shows just how far back this goes, who its connected to and how we got here. The Bible says that "truth" at this time, has never been so important as it is now.
This first part is the introductory summary of what is to come. We will learn, finally, about the Cabbala and its role in all of this. This cleared up a lot of confusion for me since there is so much and connections were not clear, but this has taken care of those connections. One thing that gave me great satisfaction was the support I am finding here that the tribes of Israel are not part of these acts of greed and evil. We have been saying that for a long time now. But this explains why.....and who...!
This will be done in many parts over time in order to allow everyone time to digest what they are seeing and reading and allow our minds time to adjust as well and to connect the puzzle pieces into a coherent whole. Again, this is not a fast food information site, rather a serious attempt to educate on a deep level, so we may fully understand what we are up against and to discern how to deal with it.
In some of our early writings we picked up that this work, being blamed on "The Torah Jews", were not their doing. We even did a quote by the father of Zionism who hated the Jews (Judaens) as much as he hated the Christians. Hertzl said that the Judaens were weak and he held contempt to them.
From this, I got that we were right when we said "This is a spiritual battle", unlike anything before it in the history of the planet and the reason is, they have spent centuries, just infiltrating, training, recruiting and practicing this take over of the globe. They have decided that all is in place now to begin the journey on the final leg of their last attempt to control that which may well be uncontrollable.
Why? Because as they progress, more and more on this planet are coming to faith in a supreme Being who created us and watches over us and if we do as instructed for millennium, which is to live a life of service, faith, and love, then we will be saved, just as Noah was in his day. All is not lost, in fact, all is finally being found. Enough of my pontificating, since I usually don't do that, but I have had too many miracles doing this work, to not have solidified an incredible belief in the faith of the Son of God and man.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
As a rule, theories of a “Jewish conspiracy” for world domination condemn all Jews as megalomaniac conspirators and the enemies of mankind.
However, any treatment of a Jewish conspiracy must take into account the ancient schism that divided the nation of Israel in Biblical times. This division was precipitated by the apostasy of King Solomon, whose idolatry was afterward carried on by the northern tribes. This ancient schism has profoundly affected the subsequent history of the Jews and is the dynamic of the alleged “Jewish conspiracy” of the present day.
Following the death of King Solomon, the tribes of Israel separated into two independent kingdoms. The ten northern tribes formed the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin were thereafter called the kingdom of Judah.
The schism between Judah and Israel, from which the Israelites never recovered, is recorded in 1 Kings. The Daily Bible Study gives a brief overview:
“One of the most misunderstood subjects of Bible study involves the total political division of ‘Israel’ and ‘Judah’ that occurred at the time of King Rehoboam.
Before then, all twelve tribes of Israelites were a united kingdom through the reigns of David and Solomon, but after Solomon’s death they split into two completely separate and independent kingdoms - the southern kingdom of ‘Judah,’ consisting of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with part of Levi since the Levites were distributed among the other tribes (1 Kings 12:23) with their capital at Jerusalem, and the northern kingdom of ‘Israel,’ consisting of the other ten tribes (Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Ephraim and Manasseh (Joseph was divided into Ephraim and Manasseh), with part of Levi since the Levites were distributed among the other tribes), with their capital up in Samaria.
“Israel and Judah were never united again... Surprisingly, they even fought wars against each other from time to time... A very important fact that many do not realize is that Judah, that is, the Jewish people of today, are only one of the tribes of Israel - while all Jews are Israelites, not all Israelites are Jews.
“Because of their forsaking of Him, God permitted the two kingdoms to be destroyed. First, the northern kingdom of Israel was gradually conquered by the Assyrians,… and by 721 B.C. they had practically all been taken into exile to Assyria (2 Kings 17:1-23). The vast majority of them never returned, and have become known as the ‘Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.’
“Then, about 135 years later, by 586 B.C., the southern kingdom of Judah was completely conquered by the Babylonians,... and the people of Judah were taken into captivity to Babylon. The original Temple of God in Jerusalem was destroyed at that time... The people of the southern kingdom of Judah however did return after the Babylonians fell to the Persians..., and their descendants have become the Jewish people of today - but that return in the time of Nehemiah, or the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948, were not the fulfillment of the many prophecies dealing with the future (as the context of the prophecies clearly show) gathering of all of Israel, Israel and Judah.”
The designation “Jew” belonged exclusively to the southern kingdom of Judah, the very word “Jew” having been derived from “Judah.”
And so technically, only the kingdom of Judah was “Jewish” and the other tribes of Israel have no right to call themselves Jews. That this distinction was understood in the Old Testament is seen in II Kings 16:5-6 (KJV) where the people of Israel and the King of Syria fought against the “Jews” of the southern kingdom.
In the New Testament, in His message to the Church at Smyrna, the LordJesusChrist referred to a “synagogue of Satan”as “them which say they are Jews, and are not.”
In other words, there was a synagogue of Israel that was not Jewish:
“I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.”
(Rev. 2:9-10)
The “Synagogue of Satan” which is the subject of this series must not be confused with the “Remnant” of Jews, who will receive the LordJesusChrist at his second coming and be saved by him.
The Synagogue of Satan are an occult power elite which, having rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah of Israel, conspire to substitute another messiah made in the image of their master, Satan, and to establish a world kingdom under Satan.
The Synagogue of Satan claims Jewish descent, but does not fit God's definition of a Jew, either in the Old Testament or the New:
“But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.”
(Romans 2:29)
The Synagogue of Satan have contempt, not only for JesusChrist, his Church and the Gentile masses, but for the Jewish “Remnant” who are Torah-observant and anti-Zionist are, therefore, awaiting the kingdom of Israel to be restored when the Messiah appears, and not before.
As well, the Synagogue of Satan have conspired to eliminate all people, whether Jew or Gentile, who stand in the way of their world kingdom. To this end they have developed a staggering number of fronts, as well as the capacity to create blinds and diversions, to obscure the fact that they are Cabalist Jews with an anti-Christ agenda.
Through the centuries, the Synagogue of Satan have, by means of false identities, infiltrated Gentile institutions where they act as agents provocateurs - undercover agents who provoke violence and beget scandals, which are used to bring reproach upon JesusChrist and his church.
The division within Jewry is no longer neatly delineated along tribal boundaries; rather the lines have been spiritually drawn between the Synagogue of Satan and the Remnant of Israel
"I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.”
(Micah 2:12)
“The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”
(Zeph. 3:13; see also 2 Chron. 34:9, Isaiah 10:20, Jer. 6:9, 31:7, Ezek. 11:13)
Scripture is clear that the plans of the Synagogue of Satan shall utterly fail, and that they will ultimately be destroyed. What fraction of all Israel does the Synagogue of Satan represent?
The Old Testament prophets foretold their proportions at the time they attack Jerusalem, whose rescue and restoration will be accomplished by the Lord himself:
“The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah. In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem...
“And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.”
(Zech. 12:7-10; 13:8,9)
“In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.” THE CABALA Following the division of Israel and the Assyrian captivity of the northern tribes, the southern kingdom of Judah adopted the pagan traditions of the heathen nation of ancient Babylon.
These traditions, with their associated rituals which included human sacrifice, provoked God to judge the southern kingdom, which judgment the prophet Jeremiah forewarned the Jews for a period of forty years, to no avail. The Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem in three stages, from 605 to 586 B.C., in which year the Temple of Solomon was demolished and the remaining Jews were carried into captivity. During the Babylonian captivity, the prophet Ezekiel continued to reprove Judah for its apostasy from the God of Israel and their love affair with Babylon.
Note, in the following passage, the Jews’ admiration for the images of rich, brightly attired Babylonian princes, which evoke visual images of the elegant processions of the princes of the Roman Catholic Church attired in their rich and colorful vestments:
“...[Jerusalem] increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her...”(Ezek.23:14-18)
Moreover, as Matthew Henry noted in his commentary on this passage, the kingdom of Judah patterned its own worship after the pomp and pageantry of the Babylonians with whom they had become enamored:
“Thus she increased her whoredoms; she fell in love, fell in league, with the Chaldeans. Hezekiah himself was faulty this way when he was proud of the court which the king of Babylon made to him and complimented his ambassadors with the sight of all his treasures, Isa. 39:2. And the humour increased(v. 14); she doted upon the pictures of the Babylonian captains(v. 15, 16), joined in alliance with that kingdom, invited them to come and settle in Jerusalem, that they might refine the genius of the Jewish nation and make it more polite; nay, they sent for patterns of their images, altars, and temples, and made use of them in their worship. Thus was she polluted with her whoredoms(v. 17), and thereby she discovered her own whoredom (v. 18), her own strong inclination to idolatry.”
According to two authoritative sources, H.P. Blavatsky and the Jewish Encyclopedia, the Jews also acquired from the Chaldeans their doctrines of Eastern mysticism.
These were later developed into a written compendium of esoteric literature known as the Jewish Qabbalah or Kabalah, and in the Middle Ages as the Latin Cabala.
“Kabalah (Heb.) The hidden wisdom of the Hebrew Rabbis of the middle ages derived from the older secret doctrines concerning divine things and cosmogony, which were combined into a theology after the time of the captivity of the Jews in Babylon. All the works that fall under the esoteric category are termed Kabalistic.” (Blavatsky, Theosophical Glossary, p. 168) “The Pythagorean idea of the creative powers of numbers and letters, upon which the ‘Sefer Yetzirah’ is founded, and which was known in tannaitic times…is here proved to be an old cabalistic conception. In fact, the belief in the magic power of the letters of the Tetragrammaton and other names of the Deity…seems to have originated in Chaldea (see Lenormant, ‘Chaldean Magic,’ pp. 29, 43).
Whatever, then, the theurgic Cabala was …, the very fact that Abraham, and not a Talmudical hero like Akiba, is introduced in the ‘Sefer Yetzirah,’ at the close, as possessor of the Wisdom of the Alphabet, indicates an old tradition, if not the antiquity of the book itself… “The whole dualistic system of good and of evil powers, which goes back to Zoroastrianism and ultimately to old Chaldea, can be traced through Gnosticism; having influenced the cosmology of the ancient Cabala before it reached the medieval one… “The gradual condensation of a primal substance into visible matter, a fundamental doctrine of the Cabala, … is the ancient Semitic conception of the ‘primal ocean,’ known to the Babylonians as ‘Apsu’ (compare Jastrow, ‘Religion of Babylonia’), and called by the Gnostics βύθος = (Anz, ‘Die Frage nach dem Ursprung des Gnostizismus,’ p. 98).” The Chaldean religious tradition that was embraced by apostate Jews during their captivity in Babylon was delivered to subsequent generations by word of mouth. According to Blavatsky, these disseminators of the Chaldean tradition in the few centuries before Christ were known as Tanaim: “Kabalist. From Q B L H, Kabala, an unwritten or oral tradition. The kabalist is a student of ‘secret science’, one who interprets the hidden meaning of the Scriptures with the help of the symbolical Kabala… The Tanaim were the first kabalists among the Jews; they appeared at Jerusalem about the beginning of the third century before the Christian era… This secret doctrine is identical with the Persian wisdom, or ‘magic’.” (Ibid. p.167)
The dictionary defines the Medieval Latin cabala as derived from the Hebrew word “qabblâ” which means “received doctrine, tradition, from qibbl, to receive.” According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, Cabalists claimed to have received these oral traditions, not from ancient Chaldeans, but from the Patriarchs and Prophets “by the power of the Holy Spirit.” “Cabala comprised originally the entire traditional lore, in contradistinction to the written law (Torah), and therefore included the prophetic and hagiographic books of the Bible, which were supposed to have been ‘received’ by the power of the Holy Spirit rather than as writings from God’s hand... Each ‘received’ doctrine was claimed as tradition from the Fathers...to be traced back to the Prophets or to Moses on Sinai... The chief characteristic of the Cabala is that, unlike the Scriptures, it was entrusted only to the few elect ones;…’” Because of its heretical nature, the Cabala was not generally promulgated among the Jews but remained the “secret doctrine” of “elect” Jews. That is to say, certain Jews who were deemed worthy could comprehend hidden teachings in the written Torah and, through mystical techniques, make direct contact with “God.” Among these practices are rapid recitation of the “Holy Name of God” (YHVH, or Tetragrammaton), meditation on the 11 Sephiroth of the Tree of Life which are believed to be emanations of God, learning to use the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet as force-carrying energy patterns which serve as the building blocks of the cosmos, and, finally, transcending the space/time limitations of the physical world to realize one’s “inner divinity.” "This“secret doctrine”has been preserved throughout the ages to the present time by a spiritual brotherhood who progress individually to various stages of enlightenment and proficiency in the hidden wisdom - from “elect” to “adepts” to “wise men” to “adepts in grace”: “Cabala... The specific term for the esoteric or mystic doctrine concerning God and the universe, asserted to have come down as a revelation to elect saints from a remote past, and preserved only by a privileged few. At first consisting only of empirical lore, it assumed, under the influence of Neoplatonic and Neopythagorean philosophy, a speculative character. In the geonic period it is connected with a Mishnah-like text-book, the ‘Sefer Yetzirah,’ and forms the object of the systematic study of the elect, called ‘mekubbalim’ or ‘ba’ale ha-kabbalah’ (possessors of, or adepts in, the Cabala). These receive afterward the name of ‘maskilim’ (the wise), after Dan. xii. 10; and because the Cabala is called (‘Hokmah nistarah’ = the hidden wisdom), the initials of which are , they receive also the name of (‘adepts in grace’)(Eccl. ix. 11, Hebr.).” (Ibid.)
VN: This is foundational, and is the platform for the rest that is to come. Check back and continue to read if you really care about the truth. "Pharisees are next".
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Vatic Note: This was very interesting since I have one allele that is RH neg, so my food choices do impact me. Up until recently I did not have allergies of any kind to either food, or pollen, but lately I have, so now I am trying to find out more.
I have read the food or diet for "blood types", such as O, A, B and AB, but this is the first article I have come across about food diets based on the RH factor. That in combination with the blood types can solve so many of our problems just by changing our diet.
This is well worth the read along with his suggested reading for the diets for blood types as well. The two together can help us eliminate a lot of unexplained suffering that some of us go through, so its well worth the effort here. You read and decide.
Only about 15 percent of people in the world are Rh negative. Photo Credit Smith Collection/Stockbyte/Getty Images
The rhesus, or Rh, factor is a protein that is present on the surface of most people's red blood cells. According to the Nemours Foundation, about 85 percent of people are Rh positive. The Rh negative diet is largely the product of work by Dr. Laura Power, creator of the Biotype Diets.
According to Dr. Power, Rh negative blood, the red blood cells of which are without the Rh factor, developed only among the isolated communities of the French and Spanish Pyrenees and have the highest propensity for food allergies, necessitating a special diet.
Identification
The Rh negative diet is based on the other major classification of your blood, O, A or B. Dr. Power's Biotype Diets are designed primarily for these more common blood types. If you choose to develop your diet around your blood type, you should begin by focusing on your ABO blood type. In addition to the Biotype Diets, you might also refer to the D'Adamo Institute's blood type diets.
Biotype Rh-negative is a Basque biotype. This type has inherited a
Basque gene for blood type Rh-negative from ancient ancestors in the
Pyrenees Mountains of France and Spain. Their ancestors adapted to
their specific ecosystem over long periods of time in isolation, and
modern Rh-negatives have inherited those adaptations.
They fare best
with a temperate hunter-gatherer diet of Western European foods, such
as meats, poultry, seafood, roots, tubers, and European fruits and
vegetables, nuts and seeds.
The Biotype Research shows that blood type Rh-negative has more IgE
allergies than Rh-positive. In fact, Rh-neg has the highest rate of
immediate allergies of all blood types.
The graph above is an
example. This biotype especially reacts to nuts and beans, but also
to eggs, some meats, gluten grains and nightshades, as shown below.
Their worst allergen is peanuts, a native American food. IgE Scores
of 500-750 are mild, 750-1000 are moderate, and 1000-1250 denote
strong allergies.
Blood type Rh-negative also displays delayed
allergies, including: strong IgG allergens, and some T-cell allergens.
(Not shown.) For more on this type, see the Biotype Diets book.
Features
According to Dr. Power, the evolution of the
Rh negative blood in Western Europe explains why the blood type fares
best with Western European foods.
Within the directives of the ABO blood
type diet, Rh negative individuals should eat a variety of meats,
poultry, seafood, European fruits and vegetables, roots, tubers and
seeds.
But, in addition to the limitations imposed by the ABO blood
type, Rh negative individuals should also avoid certain foods in these
categories to which they may be allergic or hypersensitive.
Considerations
In a study published in a 2007 issue of the
"Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine," Dr. Power described
the results of her experiments on allergic responses to foods based on
blood type. According to the article, the results did in fact show
responses patterned according to blood type, vindicating the blood type
diet approach. Rh negative blood reacted most severely with eggs, milk,
cheese, nuts, beans and gluten. It was also consistently among the top
producers of immunoglobulin E (IgE).
Warnings
Dr. Powers' findings regarding IgE reflect
the fact that individuals with Rh negative blood are more likely to have
true food allergies. According to Medline Plus, true food allergies, in
which the body produces an immune response against molecules in certain
foods, are relatively rare--they affect less than 1 percent of the
American population.
The production of IgE antibodies in particular are
responsible for primary food allergy symptoms. Rh negative blood types
had the most severe response to peanuts, suggesting a propensity for
peanut allergy. Rh factor negative is also hypersensitive to beans.
Theories/Speculation
In addition to ABO blood types, you may be
interested in learning more about your genotype. Dr. Peter D'Adamo, a
pioneer in blood type diets, also developed a parallel diet system based
on genetic type rather than blood type.
According to Dr. Tom
Greenfield, a UK physician using the D'Adamo approaches to diet, Rh
negative individuals should make specific adjustments to their ABO diet,
and might have entirely different diets based on their genotype.
Greenfield quotes D'Adamo as recommending fewer grains for all Rh
negative individuals, fewer fruits for A negative and more protein for B
and O negative individuals.
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Vatic Note: My first question is "Where is the nearest Fusia center run by Homeland Security? If its in a reasonable distance, are these cops trained by the Federally funded Fusia Center through Homeland Security?" As we have discussed before on this blog, the foreign occupiers of Homeland Security are teaching our cops to be a police state and use brutal and barbaric techniques to try and intimidate and instill fear to control our rebellious population that is fully armed.
Remember, Bloomberg sent NY cops to Tel Aviv to be trained by Khazar domestic police and they use total brutality on their domestic population in order to intimidate them and control their reactions to the violations of their rights that they engage in regularly. This woman below had not had a trial, she was found guilty of nothing, and yet she was subjected to total animal barbaric behavior by these cops.
Given our history with our police, I believe its safe to say, they have recently been trained to act in the manner shown below, which is in direct conflict with our normal relationship with the police. We do not know if all the Fusia Centers all over the nation, are similarly engaged in such animalistic treatment of their unarmed and average citizens.
It started with the TSA fondling flyers private parts as well as children, and I believe that was to get them used to being handled, since pedophilia is on the rise primarily brought onto us by these foreign occupiers of our government. I believe its also now reaching into the Corporate environment as well.
Stay observant and do not let these police state thugs touch you in anyway that is inappropriate. It is especially important to protect the children. If any cop or TSA agent touches your child in an inappropriate manner, then file criminal charges against them with local authorities since such actions are crimes in most local communities. This is certainly one way to fight back.
Attorney: Police routinely engaging in "egregious constitutional violations".
An Indiana woman is suing the Floyd County Jail in New Albany after video emerged of police officers forcibly stripping her and locking her up, completely naked, in a cell full of pepper spray for seven hours.
Worse still, the woman’s attorney believes that this is routine procedure at the facility and has evidence that other women are consistently given the same treatment. (VN: watch video at the link just below this sentence)
Local news station WDRB obtained the footage and reports how Tabitha Gentry was arrested by a state police officer for disorderly conduct and resisting law enforcement, both misdemeanor charges.
Gentry, a mother of four, was booked into the Floyd County Jail in the early hours of March 30th. Her attorney Laura Landenwich says that the events that unfolded from there need to be reviewed by a court of law.
“Almost immediately upon entering the jail, she’s assaulted by four officers. They grab her around the neck, they grab her body,” Landenwich said, adding that the video shows cops moving Gentry into what they refer to as the “padded room”.
“They hold her down,” Landenwich said. “There are two male officers and two female officers and they forcibly remove her pants, her shoes, her underwear and her shirt and bra.”
“Terrified and humiliated, she’s banging on the door asking someone to give her her clothing and someone comes to the door and says, ‘If you don’t shut up, I’m going to pepper spray you,’ and sure enough, they open the door, spray pepper spray into the room and they leave — and they leave her in there for 40 minutes, naked, in a cell filled with pepper spray.” Landenwich adds.
The cops are then seen to allow Gentry out of the cell momentarily to wash the pepper spray chemicals out of her eyes and off her body. She is partially covered by a blanket, but otherwise paraded through the station for all to see. She was then led back to the cell and left there naked for five more hours before being given something to wear.
“Now this is a woman, who under our system of law, is innocent until proven guilty. She’s charged and she’s charged with a misdemeanor crime that’s not a violent crime,” said Landenwich.
The attorney also notes that this appears to be standard procedure at the facility. “What we also see on the video is there is another inmate also being held naked prior to her entering that cell,” Landenwich said. “These are egregious constitutional violations.”
A police report obtained by WDRB also has one officer noting “I struggled getting her to the ground to remove her clothing per jail policy.”
In addition, it is not the first time such allegations have been made against the jail. In 2012, another woman, named Ashley Storms, a cousin of Gentry, was allegedly stripped of her clothing by sheriff’s deputies, tazed and left naked in a cell for eight hours. That case was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
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Vatic Note: THEY WILL NOT LET ME PUT UP THE TEXT FROM THE VIDEO ONTO THIS SITE, so, go to the link and read it. This is a very good David Icke video done way back in 2011. We have done blogs proving much of what he says. We even did blogs early on, about the Tavistock group which he mentions. I like the format he used with the "City of London" inside the "City of London" used as a backdrop to his history lesson which was also very good indeed. Most importantly, it shows how much he knew before anyone else and he tried to tell us way back then, 3 years ago.
There is no doubt this is a daunting read, but an extremely necessary one if we are to truly know the full extent of our problems and sources of those problems, along with their tools used to gain control over the globes population. David also goes into "WHO" these people truly are. With that one you will have to listen and decide for yourselves.
Part of this very long and arduous video is an interview with someone involved with the Illuminati at a very close level and who was mind controlled and worked for them under that control, so its a good video to pay close attention to and keep an open mind. Do not decide what is truth until you have researched and checked it all out. I am doing that myself.
The detail with which he describes the historical path taken by these ancient psychopaths is impressive and well worth the time and attention that you will invest, in order to understand fully what is happening in your world as we speak. Some say that David is part of the cabal, but I have no evidence that is the case since much of what he says is provable.
I realize that the cabal is perfectly capable of truth telling, that suits them, and they can then use it to manipulate us into doing their bidding and our own demise when the time comes. I believe we are seeing some of that right now in 2014, which is 3 years later. Everything he is saying back in 2011, has come to pass or is in the process of coming to pass. So, I would not discount him just yet.
Even some of the comments on this video are very educational as well. David goes into some serious depth on this video. He even covers mind control, and mass manipulation of the public psychology. Unlike many analysts, David even carries the entire issue of mass mind control over into the military and how that affects us all. He covers "TRAUMA BASED MIND CONTROL" and explains the basis for it, and its good he did this because the illuminati use Trauma based mind control on their own children, to ensure they continue to carry on their agenda. That is why they are so insane, and its worse each generation.
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Vatic Note: As many of our regulars know, we periodically publish health info since weather manipulation is going on right now in the middle of spring and early summer, resulting in crop failures even before the first seedling has even come up. Its also a fact that alleopathic medicines are not only have harmful side affects, they actually kill people to the same numbers as national statistics of deaths by auto accidents.
Because of this manipulation of weather, it became important to rely on whatever is available to use to cure ourselves, or support our immune system etc. That is why we are doing this. I put up about Dandelions because they were in serious abundance this spring, and yet, no wild flowers came up at all this year. So, it became evidence that we needed to know more about the health benefits of weeds. Since Dandelions are weeds, they became our first subject.
This is very comprehensive, so take the time to extract what you need in information and how to's for preparing the plant for the different needs you may have. This article breaks it down into which part of the plant to use for which illness or support the body needs. So stick with it, print it out and use it as a reference for next year.
Dandelions are here to stay. Every springtime in temperate climates they deck fields, meadow, lawns, yards and gardens, with a sunny yellow blanket of bright flower heads. Much to the delight of children, they also throw up tufty seed heads that scatter like elegant fairies with the most gentle breath.
My favourite childhood drink was dandelion & burdock pop, a marriage made in heaven inspired by these much ignored wild plants. I remember eagerly waiting for the delivery man as he brought our weekly order of dandelion & burdock pop and I’ll never forget that refreshing taste as I gulped down a full glass after an afternoon’s work of making mud pies and wild rose perfume. And as for dandelions we used to blow the seed heads and play the game of ‘he loves/he loves me not’ for a bit of superstitious fun.
These days if you mention mention dandelions to most folk you’ll hear a bit of a mutter about how they keep popping up everywhere in the yard and how notoriously difficult they are to control. Dandelions are born survivors, so I like to think that they’re hanging in so that when we all come back to our senses and embrace them for the amazing gifts they bring, they will be right there waiting for us in plentiful supply. It’s often those little down trodden beauties that bring us the most divine gifts of all. I feel deeply thankful for the myriad of golden sun-like flowers that brighten the lawns and meadows in early spring time.
So What is a Dandelion?
Dandelion is a an excellent all rounder and should most certainly feature near the top of any healthy herb collection. They have a thick tap root that makes the perfect coffee substitute, whilst their leaves form a rosette shaped platter of highly nutritious leaves. Bright yellow flowers and tufty white seed heads grow from hollow milky stems, each part having a beneficial role to play for nature, animals and people.
The name dandelion come from the French word dent de lion, which translates to lions teeth. When we take a closer look at their saw shaped leaves, it all makes perfect sense!
How to Eat Dandelions
The flowers are edible both raw and cooked, especially if you take the yellow petals off the bulky head (the head is much more bitter). Dandelion flowers have however achieved particular popularity for their role in helping to create dandelion flower wine.
Leaves can be eaten just like spinach, raw in a salad, sandwiches, tossed in a stir-fry or soup. Most people prefer to use the youngest leaves, since they can get very bitter as they get bigger and mature throughout the season. One of the easiest ways to enjoy the benefits of dandelion is by making an infusion of tea with the leaves (either dried or fresh).
How to Make Dandelion Tea
You can make dandelion tea with either the yellow flower heads or with the leaves. I prefer to use the leaves, although it can look pretty doing it with flowers. The flowers taste more delicate whilst the leaves have an amazing this-is-really-doing-me-good taste!
Simply infuse the flower heads or a handful of leaves in boiling water in a pot for at least 3 minutes (and for as long as you would like after that). If you have a tea infuser ball you can make it straight in your mug. I would tear about 5 leaves for one mugful.
Use a strainer to pour a cup of tea and sweeten if desired (or enjoy it as it is if you like a a herby hit, like me).
You can usually buy dried dandelion leaves from a good health food store or herb shop to be used as a tea infusion.
How to Make Dandelion Coffee from Scratch
The roots are frequently used as a convincing coffee substitute. I am not really a coffee drinker myself, so I can only comment on what I’ve heard from friends who have used this.
Dig up the roots (which tend to be thicker later in the season).
Scrub clean (but don’t peel).
Use a sharp knife to chop them up as small as you can. Spread evenly on a baking tray.
Roast in the oven either on a low temperature over a long period or higher temperature until they’ve dried out completely (usually when they have turned a light brownish colour).
When fully roasted, grind in a nut mill, coffee grinder or with a pestle and mortar and use as regular coffee.
Or alternatively infuse like tea and then strain off the ground root before serving.
It’s worth noting that some people grind – some people don’t. Explore, experiment and just do what you find works best for you. You can also cheat and buy pre-ground dandelion root in good health food stores in the alternative coffee section.
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Vatic Note: Its time for all the sold out traitors to be kicked out of office and pronto. I don't care which party is at risk, since both parties have sold out to the powers that be, as we saw with Obama's continuation of the Bush Jr's policy of attacking the Bill of Rights with Obama finishing the job.
Remember, that Obama kept Gates as Secretary of Defence who was a Bush appointment. I asked myself "Why?". The only reason I could come up with is that Bush and Obama were on the same team and they needed Gates for continuity between the two leaders. I bet I was right.
Bush was the set up man and Obama was the hammer to bring it all down. Now there appears to be a battle occuring at the top of the evil ones pile. Rockefeller vs Rothschild. That has filtered down to the grassroots level and its beginning to show.
Its the only explanation for the 28 dead bankers. It will be worth the effort to track these candidates across the nation to determine if this is a result of fraudulent vote count or just another more elaborate scam with the teaparty candidate as the new Eric Cantor working for AIPAC and the khazar bankers. I trust neither party at all.
The exact same wave of revulsion that swept Europe this year is
sweeping the US. Liberals are doing poorly. As I have warned over and
over again, backing open immigration is a direct attack on workers who
are citizens and this is increasingly unpopular and then there is good
old global warming: this is roasting liberals badly especially as it has
been cooling lately.
The average person gets quite angry when, the
first week of the month, they stand in line in grocery stores with a few
items in the cart and worried about severe food inflation and a food
stamp person has a huge cartload of stuff and gleefully gets $150 in
groceries for free.
All this is due to the depression we have been in. Across the
planet, liberals backed open borders to let in floods of economic
refugees seeking jobs, social services and criminal opportunities in
first world nations.
This, in turn, has destroyed the working class in
these countries and now we are in a full scale backlash. We see in
Europe how the elites are now bombing civilians in Eastern Ukraine and
the billionaire ruler put in power there talking openly about launching
WWIII with Russia and our elites cheer this on, too.
The election in Virginia threw out the #1 AIPAC Republican, the
enforcer for that foreign lobby who hoped to be the first Jewish Leader
of the House. Instead, he was slapped down, big time, by conservatives
worried about open borders.
The real irony here is, Cantor HATES open
borders…in his home state of Israel. There, wall building and stealing
land is a great idea and no one can come there without permission of the
Jews here in the US.
What I like about the NYT headlines is the one saying, ‘Cantor’s loss
is not easy to explain’. HAHAHA. It is very easy to explain.
Immigration ‘reform’ was all about legalizing illegal aliens who were
brought in to force down wages and have compliant labor fearful of being
deported.
The ‘reforms’ are now dead. The Washington Post is wondering if
Democrats voted for the ‘bad’ candidate in the primary. In the
Confederate South, this is due to states passing laws allowing voting in
each other’s primaries mainly so GOP supporters can vote in really
awful candidates in Democratic primaries. Now, this is backfiring on
them as expected. Corrupting the concept of party loyalty is a true
boomerang.
I have run primaries against powerful, entrenched figures and won.
Elizabeth Holtzman’s first office in NYC was courtesy of my support, we
ousted a top Democrat who was head of the City Council, a very powerful
position. All you have to do is not have lots of money but lots of
street support. We frantically went around the community bringing our
supporters to vote in the primary, we even provided babysitting services
or drove people to the polls. It works like magic.
Brat is an economics and ethics professor at
Randolph-Macon College. He has an average rating of 3.4 from
RateMyProfessor.com… He got a bachelor’s degree in business from Hope
College, a Masters in Divinity from Princeton and a Ph.D. in Economics
from American University…
He’s a real stickler for attendance.
According to the course outline for a class he taught in 2004, he
required his students to submit “typed notes summarizing the day’s
reading to enter class,” while “Four misses in this class results in
automatic dismissal from the class.”
Brat has taught classes for a program sponsored by BB&T bank that
aims to spread Ayn Rand’s principles to college students. Brat got a
$500,000 grant from the bank to bring the program to Randolph-Macon
College and co-authored a paper titled “An Analysis of the Moral
Foundations in Ayn Rand.”
Cantor’s campaign labeled Brat as a “liberal economics professor,” however.
Eric Cantor deserves to be slapped down, big time. His ploy of
painting an obvious conservative as a liberal is typical GOP fear
mongering. The other funny thing is, this professor kept his classes in
line via severe punishments if they goof off and he forced them to
prove they studied for the class in a way I totally approve. Classes
are now a joke on many campuses where one can drink, have sex and be on
perpetual vacation while collecting money from the Feds. Which has to
be paid back and sadly, many young people don’t think about the future
much.
These Pinocchios think universities are Islands of Bad Boys. Then
they are turned into donkeys harnessed by a lifetime of heavy debt they
can’t escape, ever, not even in death if mom and dad sign the debt
papers for them.
Obama vows urgent action as children flock into U.S. illegally:
the hour that Obama and the Democrats said unilaterally that
immigration will do nothing if children are dropped off at the border,
thus letting them in, a flood of children were produced like magic.
They filled all the immigration holding systems and now army bases are
being opened for this tsunami of illegality. This is highly unpopular
and couple this with the huge jumps in electricity costs with zero
efforts to help people living in cold climates cope with blizzards, all
in the name of making it even colder in winter, will hammer liberals in
two years.
All the good liberal things are being drowned by the ‘let’s let in
all illegal aliens’ and ‘we are going to roast to death in winter!’
liberals. This disgusts me. For the right wing is very anti-civil
rights of full citizens, gays, women, blacks, etc. I am 100% against
this. And the US right unlike European right groups, is against social
services of any sort. No national socialists here. They are for the
primitive Victorian model forgetting that that model depended on…cheap
immigrant labor! And worse: SLAVERY which drove down wages of workers
very hard in the South.
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Vatic Note: When I read this, the first thing that came to mind was the gradualism in depopulation. When you look at the chemtrails, GMO food, Police murders of unarmed citizens, war, deaths from legal drugs, and now this below, you can't help but wonder. Is this really a way to cut expenses, or is it simply another way to conduct a "soft kill" on unsuspecting passangers?
Another possibility is using this tactic to scare the passangers before they ever fly. TSA was set up to intimidate and get passangers used to a police state environment, and get children used to being fondled without that message we used to give them that no stranger should be allowed to touch them in their private parts. In fact, when TSA does that to children, they are actually committing a crime in the state it happens in.
Lots of questions and no answers. Fox News is a Murdock globalist NWO guy, so why is he exposing this? That is what made me question the real motive behind this change in hiring policy that is more dangerous for the passangers, UNLESS its just to keep travelers from flying unnecessarily. Read this and see what you think. You decide. Be sure and watch the news report on the video. I could not get it up on the blog, so I have the link below above the photo so you can watch it there and then come back and finish reading.
PHOENIX (KSAZ) - When you climb into an airliner, you trust the pilot, the crew and air traffic controllers will keep you safe.
But FOX 10 News has learned the FAA recently changed the way it hires air traffic controllers.
Now no experience is necessary and many worry this could put the flying public at risk.
Every year in the U.S. Nearly a billion air travelers depend on the men and women in towers and radar centers to guide their plane safely to its destination.
You would think the FAA would want the best and brightest in these towers. But fox ten news has discovered that's no longer the case.
For 24 years, the FAA has relied on colleges and universities to prepare air traffic controllers through the collegiate training initiative or CTI.
ASU is one of 36 colleges around the nation training the next generation of controllers, people like Christina Delgado. "ASU prepares you to go into the work force ready to go," she said.
She graduated in 2010 and now works in the Deer Valley Tower.
"You walk in there, and you already have the knowledge of aircraft aircraft characteristics runway separation you know how to talk to airplanes because you've already done that through the simulation," said Delgado.
The program worked so well that two years-ago the FAA announced it would fill any future controller openings with military vets and graduates from CTI schools.
But then in January the FAA did a startling about face suddenly announcing it would begin hiring air traffic controllers "off the street" with no experience necessary.
Erin hogan is an ASU CTI graduate, she scored 99 on the AT-SAT test.
The AT-SAT, since 2002 it's been the gold standard for screening air traffic control applicants. But now, the FAA says Erin's AT-SAT score and years of schooling count for nothing.
So why would the FAA suddenly scrap a program that's providing it with top flight controllers, a program the FAA helped design.
Veteran FAA controller John Gilding spent 20 years in the tower. He's worked with controllers hired off the street as well as CTI graduates. We asked him, who's better?
"CTI students, much, much better. They're better trained better prepared they outperform the off the street hires," said Gilding.
Anthony Foxx is the head of the Department of Transportation that oversees the FAA. This is how he described the hiring changes to Congress in March. "The FAA took an opportunity to take a broad opening of the aperture if you will to try to get a larger universe of applicants into the program," he said.
"Opening the aperture", code for diversity. But just a year ago the FAA gave the CTI program a glowing review. Stating, "It is clear to the FAA that the FAA CTI schools are making great strides incorporate minority students and faculty into their programs."
Apparently the diversity numbers are not to the liking of some within the FAA. So to achieve an internal hiring goal, which has not been made public, the agency is passing over highly qualified candidates. Many of whom are women, minorities and military veterans.
"This social experiment that they've embarked upon needs to be stopped," said hogan.
In the meantime Erin Hogan and hundreds like her have seen their career dreams dashed.
"I don't see why you would want to just close that pipeline off completely and lose a lot of really good applicants," she said.
Erin estimates she's spent $32,000 earning her degree in air traffic control, and she's not alone.
Andrew Brigida is another top CTI graduate from ASU, he said he spent between $50,000 to $60,000.
"This is what I've been planning on the past four or five years, graduating college, doing some aviation work, and then becoming a controller," said Brigida.
The FAA now requires air traffic control applicants to take an online, biographical questionnaire as part of the testing process.
Comprised of 63 questions, such as "What has been the major cause of your failures?" and "(how many) high school sports (did you participate) in"?
"It has nothing to do with whether the have skills to be an air traffic controller, I was just shaking my head at the questions I was being given, they made no sense," said Brigida.
Brigida aced his air traffic control test, "I scored a 100% on the at sats," he said. But he flunked the biographical questionnaire, and he has no idea why. "they never gave you a grade they simply gave you a green check or a red x," said Brigida.
He's out of a job, and so is Erin hogan.
"I failed along with some very qualified people," said Brigida.
In fact, nine out of ten CTI graduates failed the biographical questionnaire effectively washing them out. Politicians are getting an earful from students and veterans who've been passed over for jobs, and now members of Congress are starting to ask questions.
"I want to understand what this biographical questionnaire is, I want to know why people are failing, not just that they're failing, and what this is adding to the quality of people were considering for this program," said
Beyond troubling, former air traffic controller John Gilding says it's compromising safety.
"If you're going to climb on an airplane and put grandma on the airplane and your kids on an airplane, do you want a well skilled highly competent talented person working that airplane, or do you want some high school dropout that's got his hat on backwards being the person guiding the airplane. I know what my answer is," said Gilding.
This comes at a time when the government is facing a critical shortage of air traffic controllers. The CTI schools like ASU have more than enough applicants in the pipeline right now to fill those jobs.
One other note hiring off the street is more expensive, because the government has to pay to train people many of whom wash out that do not make it.
Having colleges train air traffic controllers has saved the government over tens of millions of dollars.
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We also wish to thank everyone for all their support in reading, distributing and helping fund the blog at this most important time in our history. Vatic Note: Now this is a change of pace to some degree. We seldom discuss energy issues on here, but this fits with another rabbithole I am currently pursuing with respect to smart meters and utility grids, which are being justified by saying it was to save on energy use and waste.
This below shows just how much energy is used just to bring us a short term entertainment and sports event, and the smart meters will have no impact on these costs below, so I find it ironic that its even an issue with respect to our use of energy. Well, we all know it has nothing to do with energy, the smart grids are for spying and control so that blows their excuses all to hades.
Regardless, I thought this was very educational with respect to just how much we are willing to use our energy for sports while being stingy with normal use for household and job related purposes. Yet, no one says a word about this below. So I thought you should at least know about it for future conversations with those who think using a blow dryer on your hair for work, is too much.
Also, just a reminder, that most of the carbon footprint we are experiencing, according to many scientists is a result of Cosmic reasons, rather than just our use on this planet. The environment today is affecting all the planets in our solar system, which means it is not about local problems or reasons. Just keep that in mind when reading this.
Along with 3 billion other viewers around the world, I plan to tune in for the month-long World Cup to see whether the 22-year old Neymar can withstand the colossal pressure that has been put upon his shoulders to deliver a win for team Brazil.
Every time I turn on my television set, I’m using World Cup-related energy. And that’s just the start. Flying in teams, trainers, equipment, World Cup personnel and the estimated 500,000-plus fans will use enormous volumes of jet fuel.
Add to that powering the stadiums on game days, moving millions of spectators around host-country Brazil, and transmitting the event to billions of viewers worldwide, and you end up with millions of tons of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere.
So while the 2014 World Cup is going to be bigger than ever -- it’s shaping up to be the most watched, most lucrative and expensive tournament in soccer history -- it’s also going to be one of the biggest energy-consuming, greenhouse gas-spewing World Cups in history.
Think about this as the music blasts through the stadium and the fans cheer and scream and the players race up and down the field chasing the ball: The 2014 World Cup tournament will burn through enough energy before it’s over to fuel almost every one of the 260 million cars and trucks in the United States for an entire day, or the equivalent of what 560,000 cars use in a year.
Related Article: The Top 5 Non-Energy Sources of Climate Change
Estimating the total energy required to mount such a massive operation with any precision is a fool’s errand, but let’s take a look at some numbers to get a sense of scale. Image source: Oilprice.com
FIFA did its own fascinating study of the carbon footprint that will be created by setting up and running its broadcast television operation. It found that the biggest contributor – 60 percent – is international flights for staff members.
The other 40 percent comes from all the trucks needed to transport cables, cameras and furniture, and the energy required to operate all of the electronics.
All told, FIFA’s TV operations will contribute 24,670 tons of CO2 to the atmosphere – the same impact of burning 2.8 million gallons of gas, or 13,250 tons of coal.
FIFA also tried to estimate its carbon footprint for staging the tournament’s matches, which wraps in the electricity needed for stadiums, fan festivals, banquets, concession stands, training sites, travel for ticket holders, and team hotels. That number came to 2.72 million tons of CO2 equivalent.
That’s like using up 306 million gallons of gasoline or burning 1.46 million tons of coal. What’s the point of the study? FIFA says to figure out where it can do better next time. Just a 10 percent decline in international staff, for example, reduces the carbon footprint by 6 percent.
TVs and Tea Kettles
None of these numbers include other sources of Cup-related energy use, like building new transportation infrastructure and stadiums.
And speaking of stadiums, while everyone would probably love to attend the final match in Rio de Janeiro’s famous Maracana stadium, the vast majority of us will be watching at home. Which means we’re contributing to the Cup’s carbon footprint, too.
A spike in energy use is likely to occur in places when millions of people turn on their TVs at the same time to watch a match. For example, in the United Kingdom, the record for an energy surge during a TV program occurred during the 1990 World Cup, when England went to a shootout against West Germany in the semi-final. (Incidentally, West Germany prevailed and went on to win the trophy. West Germany’s title run was led by Jurgen Klinsmann, who is now coaching the U.S. national team.)
During that match, the UK National Grid experienced a spike of 2,800 megawatts of demand, as people across England tuned in to watch the game’s climax. Other significant power surges in the UK occurred during England’s 2002 quarter-final match against Brazil (2,570 MW surge), and the 2011 royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton (2,400 MW surge).
In fact, it’s relatively common for the UK to experience a spike in power demand during big soccer matches. National Grid operators have become accustomed to forecasting higher electricity demand during games, according to its operations manager, Jon Fenn.
Not only does electricity consumption spike from millions of TV sets, a surge is felt most acutely during halftime or just after the final whistle, when everyone heads to the kitchen to turn on electric tea kettles or grab a snack from the fridge.
“It must be one of the few jobs where watching World Cup matches is essential to your work rather than a distraction, because we need to know to the second when half time and full time occur to be ready for the surges in demand,” Fenn told The Telegraph in an interview before the 2010 World Cup.
The 2014 World Cup will be transmitted to every country in the world and could potentially be the most watched sporting event in history.
Now we know it could set new records in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, too.
By Nick Cunningham and James Stafford of Oilprice.com
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