When we discuss over a few decades the goals of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA as sacking and looting---raping and pillaging our US government and people's pockets all mirroring the GREAT DEPRESSION in US and Western Europe/UK leading to WW2-----this is what we mean. Continuous wars by global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA TRIBE OF JUDAH have occurred throughout last century---but these wars were OVERSEAS done to install FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES to be filled with US CORPORATIONS now global multi-national corporations having no ties to being ALL-AMERICAN.
The VIETNAM WAR was just that and our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE were sick and tired of war and being DRAFTED as citizen soldiers. This SONG---WAR, WHAT IS GOOD FOR---ABSOLUTELY NOTHING was the feeling across all population groups. We were not against our TROOPS---we wanted our TROOPS HOME.
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Film Review
The Whistleblower Who Almost Stopped the Iraq Invasion
The Whistleblower Who Almost Stopped the Iraq Invasion
Keira Knightley gets into character as Katharine Gun in this still image from "Official Secrets." (IMDb)
Editor’s note: This article was initially published on Consortium News.
Two-time Oscar nominee Keira Knightley is known for being in “period pieces” such as “Pride and Prejudice,” so her playing the lead in the new film “Official Secrets,” scheduled to be released in the U.S. on Friday, may seem odd at first. That is until one considers that the time span being depicted — the early 2003 run-up to the invasion of Iraq — is one of the most dramatic and consequential periods of modern human history'.
We went to movies this weekend amidst the national FAKE NEWS promoting TRUMP as the MADMAN marching into WW3----this movie OFFICIAL SECRETS is called a true account of a UK SECRET SERVICE worker who released classified documents to STOP BUSH/CHENEY'S illegal war in IRAQ. The wold knew these reasons for war were FAKE NEWS. The IRAQI was an ILLEGAL WAR and BUSH/CHENEY were never charged and prosecuted as WAR CRIMINALS.
WHY AM I BEING HIT AND MADE PORN TOLD I AM A SEX SLAVE AND HAVE TO BE SILENT AND STAY IN MY HOME UNDER STANFORD TOTAL PRISON MODEL 24/7 ILLEGAL SURVEILLANCE?
Because like this MOVIE'S whistleblower---I am an ANTI-WAR US 99% WE THE PEOPLE.
War - Edwin Starr (Original Vinyl)
•Aug 11, 2011
Georg Ernst
Die Liveaufnahmen und die Fälschungen auf You Tube haben mir nicht so gefallen. Deshalb hier eine Studioaufnahme.
NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG are indeed a global banking 1% black market illegal surveillance VIDEO PORN MULE cartel---but they are working with OLD WORLD KINGS to MOVE FORWARD civil unrest civil war inside US AND CANADA. These surveillance networks inside people's living space were installed during CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA PREPARING for MADMAN TRUMP.
Our global banking 5% freemason/Greek players/pols black, white, and brown-----are those cultural arts STARS ----and JOURNALISTS creating FAKE NEWS media ----turning journalism into PROPAGANDA.
Aug 30, 2019 | Film Review
The Whistleblower Who Almost Stopped the Iraq Invasion
Keira Knightley gets into character as Katharine Gun in this still image from "Official Secrets." (IMDb)
Editor’s note: This article was initially published on Consortium News.
Two-time Oscar nominee Keira Knightley is known for being in “period pieces” such as “Pride and Prejudice,” so her playing the lead in the new film “Official Secrets,” scheduled to be released in the U.S. on Friday, may seem odd at first. That is until one considers that the time span being depicted — the early 2003 run-up to the invasion of Iraq — is one of the most dramatic and consequential periods of modern human history.
It is also one of the most poorly understood, in part because the story of Katharine Gun, played by Knightley, is so little known. Having followed this story from the start, I find this film to be, by Hollywood standards, a remarkably accurate account of what has happened to date — “to date” because the wider story still isn’t over.
Katharine Gun worked as an analyst for Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British equivalent of the secretive U.S. National Security Agency. She tried to stop the impending invasion of Iraq in early 2003 by exposing the deceit of George W. Bush and Tony Blair in their claims about that country. For doing that she was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act — a juiced-up version of the U.S. Espionage Act, which in recent years has been used repeatedly by the Obama administration against whistleblowers and now by the Trump administration against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange.
Gun was charged for exposing —around the time of Colin Powell’s infamous testimony to the UN about Iraq’s alleged WMDs — a top-secret U.S. government memo showing it was mounting an illegal spying “surge” against other U.N. Security Council delegations in an effort to manipulate them into voting for an Iraq invasion resolution. The U.S. and Britain had successfully forced through a trumped-up resolution, 1441 in November 2002. In early 2003, they were poised to threaten, bribe or blackmail their way to get formal United Nations authorization for the invasion. [See recent interview with Gun.]
The leaked memo, published by the British Observer, was big news in parts of the world, especially the targeted countries on the Security Council, and helped prevent Bush and Blair from getting the second UN Security Council resolution they said they wanted. Veto powers Russia, China and France were opposed as well as U.S. ally Germany.
Washington invaded anyway of course — without Security Council authorization — by telling the UN weapons inspectors to leave Iraq, issuing a unilateral demand that Saddam Hussein leave Iraq in 48 hours and then saying the invasion would commence regardless.
‘Most Courageous Leak’
It was the executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, where I work (accuracy.org), Norman Solomon, as well as Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg who in the U.S. most immediately saw the importance of what Gun had done. Ellsberg would later comment: “No one else — including myself — has ever done what Katharine Gun did: Tell secret truths at personal risk, before an imminent war, in time, possibly, to avert it. Hers was the most important — and courageous — leak I’ve ever seen, more timely and potentially more effective than the Pentagon Papers.”
Of course, no one knew her name at the time. After the Observer broke the story on March 1, 2003, accuracy.org put out a series of news releases on it and organized a sadly, sparsely attended news conference with Ellsberg on March 11, 2003 at the National Press Club, focusing on Gun’s revelations. Ellsberg called for more such truth telling to stop the impending invasion, just nine days away.
Though I’ve followed this case for years, I didn’t realize until recently that accuracy.org’s work helped compel Gun to expose the document. At a recent D.C. showing of “Official Secrets” that Gun attended, she revealed that she had read a book co-authored by Solomon, published in January 2003 that included material from accuracy.org as well as the media watch group FAIR debunking many of the falsehoods for war.
Gun said: “I went to the local bookshop, and I went into the political section. I found two books, which had apparently been rushed into publication, one was by Norman Solomon and Reese Erlich, and it was called Target Iraq. And the other one was by Milan Rai. It was called War Plan Iraq. And I bought both of them. And I read them cover to cover that weekend, and it basically convinced me that there was no real evidence for this war. So I think from that point onward, I was very critical and scrutinizing everything that was being said in the media.”
Thus, we see Gun in “Official Secrets” shouting at the TV to Tony Blair that he’s not entitled to make up facts. The film may be jarring to some consumers of major media who might think that Donald Trump invented lying in 2017.
Gun’s immediate action after reading critiques of U.S. policy and media coverage makes a strong case for trying to reach government workers by handing out fliers and books and putting up billboards outside government offices to encourage them to be more critically minded.
But Gun’s revelation showed that the U.S. and British governments were not only lying to invade Iraq, they were violating international law to blackmail whole nations to get in line.
Mainstream reviews of “Official Secrets” still seem to not fully grasp the importance of what they just saw. The AV Club review leads: “Virtually everyone now agrees that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a colossal mistake based on faulty (at best) or fabricated (at worst) intelligence.” “Mistake” is a serious understatement even with “colossal” attached to it when the movie details the diabolical, illegal lengths to which the U.S. and British governments went to get other governments to go along with it.
Gun’s revelations showed before the invasion that people on the inside, whose livelihood depends on following the party line, were willing to risk jail time to out the lies and threats.
Portrayal of The Observer
Other than Gun herself, the film focuses on a dramatization of what happened at her work; as well as her relationship with her husband, a Kurd from Turkey who the British government attempted to have deported to get at Gun. The film also portrays the work of her lawyers who helped get the Official Secrets charge against her dropped, as well as the drama at The Observer, which published the NSA document after much internal debate.
Observer reporter Martin Bright, whose strong work on the original Gun story was strangely followed by an ill-fated stint at the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, has recently noted that very little additional work has been done on Gun’s case. We know virtually nothing about the apparent author of the NSA document that she leaked — one “Frank Koza.” Other questions persist, such is prevalent is this sort of U.S. blackmail of foreign governments to get UN votes or for other purposes? How is it leveraged? Does it fit in with allegations made by former NSA analyst Russ Tice about the NSA having massive files on political people?
Observer reporter Ed Vulliamy is energetically depicted getting tips from former CIA man Mel Goodman. There do seem to be subtle but potentially serious deviations from reality in the film.
Vulliamy is depicted as actually speaking with “Frank Koza,” but that’s not what he originally reported:
The NSA main switchboard put The Observer through to extension 6727 at the agency which was answered by an assistant, who confirmed it was Koza’s office. However, when The Observer asked to talk to Koza about the surveillance of diplomatic missions at the United Nations, it was then told ‘You have reached the wrong number’. On protesting that the assistant had just said this was Koza’s extension, the assistant repeated that it was an erroneous extension, and hung up.
There must doubtlessly be many aspects of the film that have been simplified or altered regarding Gun’s personal experience. A compelling part of the film — apparently fictitious or exaggerated — is a GCHQ apparatchik questioning Gun to see if she was the source.
Little is known about the reaction inside the governments of Security Council members that the U.S. spied on. After the invasion, Mexican Ambassador Adolfo Aguilar Zinser spoke in blunt terms about U.S. bullying — saying it viewed Mexico as its patio trasero, or backyard — and was Zinser was compelled to resign by President Vicente Fox. He then, in 2004, gave details about some aspects of U.S. surveillance sabotaging the efforts of the other members of the Security Council to hammer out a compromise to avert the invasion of Iraq, saying the U.S. was “violating the U.N. headquarters covenant.” In 2005, he tragically died in a car crash.
“Official Secrets” director Gavin Hood is perhaps more right than he realizes when he says that his depiction of the Gun case is like the “tip of an iceberg,” pointing to other deceits surrounding the Iraq war. His record with political films has been uneven until now. Peace activist David Swanson, for instance, derided his film on drones, “Eye in the Sky.” At a D.C. showing of “Official Secrets,” Hood depicted those who backed the Iraq war as being discredited. But that’s simply untrue.
Leading presidential candidate Joe Biden — who not only voted for the Iraq invasion, but presided over rigged hearings on in 2002 — has recently falsified his record repeatedly on Iraq at presidential debates with hardly a murmur. Nor is he alone. Those refusing to be held accountable for their Iraq war lies include not just Bush and Cheney, but John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi.
Biden has actually faulted Bush for not doing enough to get United Nations approval for the Iraq invasion. But as the Gun case helps show, there was no legitimate case for invasion and the Bush administration had done virtually everything, both legal and illegal, to get UN authorization.
Many who supported the invasion try to distance themselves from it. But the repercussions of that illegal act are enormous: It led directly or indirectly to the rise of ISIS, the civil war in Iraq and the war in Syria. Journalists who pushed for the Iraq invasion are prosperous and atop major news organizations, such as Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt. The editor who argued most strongly against publication of the NSA document at The Observer, Kamal Ahmed, is now editorial director of BBC News.
The British government — unlike the U.S. — did ultimately produce a study ostensibly around the decision-making leading to the invasion of Iraq, the Chilcot Report of 2016. But that report — called “devastating” by the The New York Times–made no mention of the Gun case. [See accuracy.org release from 2016: “Chilcot Report Avoids Smoking Gun.”]
After Gun’s identity became known, the Institute for Public Accuracy brought on Jeff Cohen, the founder of FAIR, to work with program director Hollie Ainbinder to get prominent individuals to support Gun. The film — quite plausibly — depicts the charges being dropped against Gun for the simple reason that the British government feared that a high-profile proceeding would effectively put the war on trial, which to them would be have been a nightmare.
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Whether BIDEN----WARREN------SANDERS------as FAKE left DEMOCRATS or TRUMP as a FAKE right wing REPUBLICAN ---------ALL were tied to pushing these ILLEGAL CONTINUOUS WARS
.'Leading presidential candidate Joe Biden — who not only voted for the Iraq invasion, but presided over rigged hearings on in 2002 — has recently falsified his record repeatedly on Iraq at presidential debates with hardly a murmur'.
This short story is great at showing exactly what MOVING FORWARD did to US and our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE in this march towards bringing down one of the strongest in world history CIVIL SOCIETIES------
12 Things You Might Not Know About The Screwtape Letters
BY Mark Mancini
June 1, 2015
C.S. Lewis’s most popular non-Narnia novel is a delicious, perceptive treatise on the weaknesses of human nature. Here are 12 little-known facts about The Screwtape Letters, its development, and its enduring impact.
1. It Took Lewis A Little Over Six Months to Write All 31 Letters.
In July 1940, Lewis came up with the idea of a senior demon named Screwtape mailing trade secrets and frank pointers to his greenhorn nephew, Wormwood, who has been charged with corrupting a human soul. Inspired, the author worked at breakneck speed, frequently knocking out an entire letter in one sit-down session.
2. Originally, These Dispatches Ran as a Serial.
Having already submitted material to a now-defunct Anglican gazette called The Guardian, Lewis was in good standing with its editor, who released the first “Screwtape Letter” on May 2, 1941. Every week, another hellish correspondence would appear, until the last one hit the stands on November 28. Readers devoured them en masse, and before long, publisher Geoffrey Bles converted Lewis’ series into a book.
3. The Newspaper Proceeds Helped a Charitable Cause. The Guardian offered Lewis two pounds per letter. Refusing payment, he insisted that a fund dedicated to the widows of Church of England clergymen receive this money instead.
4. One of the Human Characters Was Probably Based on a Woman Lewis Lived With.
Lewis wasn’t the sort who would go back on a promise made to a fallen friend. In WWI, he and a comrade named Paddy Moore agreed that if either man should perish, the other would take care of his surviving parent (both had already lost one—Lewis’s mother succumbed to cancer in 1908). Paddy ultimately died on the French front, leaving Janie King Moore behind. After the war, Lewis moved in with and tended to her.
The overbearing Mrs. Moore could be a very difficult person. Lewis’ older brother, Warren, was disgusted by her manipulative, “insincere” personality. “She … interfered constantly with his work,” Warren recalled, “and imposed upon him a heavy burden of minor domestic tasks.” In The Screwtape Letters, Lewis’ fiction clearly borrowed from his reality. Wormwood’s mortal “client” has an exacting mother who’s described as “a positive terror to hostesses and servants.” Almost every C.S. Lewis biographer under the sun believes that she was also, in fact, a caricature of Mrs. Moore.
5. Some Readers Didn’t Understand That the Letters Were Satirical.
During their run in The Guardian, one angry clergyman canceled his subscription. Evidently, this fellow mistook Screwtape for an actual (and terrible) theologian doling out sincere spiritual tips. The outraged church official wrote the editor to complain that “much of the advice given in these letters … [seems] not only erroneous but positively diabolical.”
6. The Author Didn’t Enjoy Writing Them.“Of all my books,”
Lewis admitted in a 1963 interview, “there was only one I did not take pleasure in writing.” He found The Screwtape Letters “dry and gritty going. At the time, I was thinking of objections to the Christian life and decided to put them in the form ‘That’s what the devil would say.’ But making goods ‘bad’ and bads ‘good’ gets to be fatiguing.”
7. Their Success Prompted Lewis to Hire His Brother as an Aide. Screwtape’s newspaper premiere triggered a typhoon of fan mail. Since Lewis couldn’t keep pace with it all, the novelist asked Warren if he’d consider becoming his paid personal assistant. This turned out to be an excellent job for Warren, whose responses to these admirers were so clever and so well-composed that they could easily pass for his sibling’s handiwork.
8. The Book Version Is Dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien, Who Didn’t Appreciate the Gesture.
Published in 1942, it turned into a runaway bestseller destined for eight reprints before the year’s end. Crack open any copy today, and you’ll find “To J.R.R. Tolkien” inside. But truth be told, Lewis’ longtime friend found the story disturbing. Plus, Tolkien knew just how little his colleague personally thought of it. It should come as no surprise, then, that he was less than thrilled with this particular shout-out.
9. Lewis Considered Writing a Companion Novel from An Angel’s Perspective.
At first, the concept of some new messages detailing “archangelical advice to the patient’s guardian angel” delighted Lewis. But his standards were too high and that project never took off. “Mere advice would be no good,” Lewis lamented, “every sentence would have to smell of Heaven.”
10. A Brief Sequel Appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.
Lewis never penned another devilish letter, but when asked to do so by the Post, he did churn out a speech on behalf of his most sinister creation. In 1959's “Screwtape Proposes a Toast,” the demon gives a mealtime speech at the Tempter's Training College for Young Devils somewhere in Hell. Topics addressed include democracy, education, and—of course—religion.
11. Multiple Authors Have Written Unofficial Follow-Ups.
A certain fiend opines on everything from gossip to pornography in Screwtape Writes Again (1975) by Martin Walter. Then there’s The Screwtape Email (2006): a self-explanatory postscript courtesy of Arthur H. Williams Jr. But perhaps the best-regarded of all is The Snakebite Letters: Devilishly Devious Secrets for Subverting Society as Taught in Tempter’s Training School (1998) by Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft. “I’m sure Lewis wanted such ‘plagiarisms,’” proclaims Kreeft’s introduction. “The Screwtape Letters invented a new genre, a new species; all I’m doing is breeding another specimen.”
12. Calvin and Hobbes Included a Recurring Player Named After Screwtape’s Nephew.
Bill Watterson has acknowledged that Miss Wormwood (Calvin’s long-suffering teacher) was named for the naïve tempter, “as a few readers have guessed.” Lewis himself probably borrowed the moniker from a Biblical star mentioned in Revelations 8:11.
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When we watch this HOLLYWOOD movie about UK SECRET SERVICE and UK 99% of WE THE PEOPLE being ANTI-WAR----we want to remember-------EISENHOWER was OLD WORLD KNIGHTS OF MALTA and this US military complex which used to be a US PUBLIC MILITIA was taken to global banking 1% during last century's continuous wars.UK AND BLAIR as source of OLD WORLD KINGS KNIGHTS OF MALTA TRIBE OF JUDAH would have been more powerful in MOVING FORWARD these illegal wars declared by US Presidents working for these OLD WORLD KINGS.
This movie----OFFICIAL SECRETS leaves one feeling the UK----and its lawyers and judges are more tied to INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT JUSTICE----then our US lawyers and courts.
CS LEWIS with SCREWTAPE LETTERS was UK----OLD WORLD KINGS------and the VIETNAM WAR protests were ALL-AMERICAN 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens.
Today's OLD WORLD KINGS are tired of pretending they are religious-----continuous wars and the global corporate MARXISM MOVING FORWARD is simply getting rid of morals and ethics----bringing 3000BC HINDI-BRAHMIN-----TRANSHUMANISM as KING ARTHUR'S ROUNDTABLE OF KNIGHTS.
REMEMBER, TODAY'S WESTERN RELIGIONS WHETHER CATHOLIC, PROTESTANT, MUSLIM, JEWISH HAVE 5% FREEMASON/GREEK RELIGIOUS PLAYERS AS LEADERS-----THEY ARE NOT RELIGIOUS---
THEY ARE SCREWTAPE AND WORMWOODS.
'#OfficialSecrets #KeiraKnightley #KatharineGun'Official Secrets' Trailer
•Jul 30, 2019
hollywoodstreams
http://www.hollywood.com Based on the true story of a British whistleblower Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley) who leaked information about an illegal NSA operation. Also stars Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith, Rhys Ifans, MyAnna Burning, and more. 'Official Secrets' releases on August 30, 201'.
We notice the JESUITS/LOYOLA are those KNIGHTS OF MALTA-----without coincidence POPE FRANCIS being JESUIT and NOT RELIGIOUS.
WOODROW WILSON below knows of what he speaks since HE was the one to install US FED-------to kill our domestic sovereign banking economy.
U.S Presidents & Leaders Vowed & Pledged to Roman Catholic Knights of Malta (SMOM)
Amerika, Big Brother December 9, 2015
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Note Holy Sepulchre, reverse Swiss Flag and Double Eagle and Vatican Crown
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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something.
They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
– Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, The New Freedom, 1913
Please read all of the U.S. Presidents, Secretary of States, Military Brass, Mayors of major cities, etc. who have taken the pledge to server the Vatican first and foremost and members of the Knights of Malta, the militarized branch of the Vatican
The whorporate press refuses to out these treasonous traitors yet is critical knowledge to understand who really runs, and owns the power, in this country called USA INC. (a private corporation.)
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The Original 13th Article of Amendment
“If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.”
Presidents Getting Knighthood, Constitutional Breech of 13th Amendment
Newsday February 20, 2002 LAST WEDNESDAY, as protocol dictates, “bowing from the head, not the waist” to Queen Elizabeth, “Sir” Rudy Giuliani joined Billy Graham, Steven Spielberg, IBM’s Lou Gerstner, Ronald Reagan, Norman Schwarzkopf and other knightly relics of the British attempt to persuade Washington that the “special” relationship between the two countries means something more than Tony Blair’s doing what he’s told – sometimes even before he’s asked.
According to the Constitution, the members of the Order of Malta are divided into three Classes. The members are to conduct their lives in an exemplary manner in conformity with the teachings and precepts of the Catholic Church and to devote themselves to the humanitarian assistance activities of the Order.
Just look at the recent US Presidents:
George W. Bush (Mason and Skull and Bones)
Bill Clinton (Mason, CFR, Bilderberg, Trilateral)
George H.W. Bush (Mason, Committee of 300, Skull and Bones, CFR, Trilateral)
Ronald Reagan, (Mason, Knights of Malta)
Jimmy Carter (Mason, CFR, Trilateral)
Gerald Ford (Mason, CFR),
George Bush, former U.S. President, appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath by H.M. Queen Elizabeth. Portrait, George Herbert Walker Bush
Ronald Reagan, former U.S. President, appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath by H.M. Queen Elizabeth. Portrait, Ronald Wilson Reagan
Caspar Weinberger, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by H.M. Queen Elizabeth.
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Members of the First Class are Knights of Justice, or Professed Knights, and the Professed Conventual Chaplains, who have made vows of “poverty, chastity and obedience aspiring to perfection according to the Gospel”. They are religious for all purposes of Canon Law but are not obliged to live in community.
Vows of a Knight or Dame
------HMMMM, THAT DASTARDLY PLEDGING.
Upon the True Faith of a Christian, may God witness that I hereby vow and dedicate myself as a servant of Christ and the Poor, the first qualification of a True Knight.
I promise to be faithful and loyal to Christ and to be guided by the ideals of the Sovereign Order of St John of Jerusalem: to do everything in my power to contribute to it’s Glory, Protection, Prosperity, Support and Utility: to combat everything prejudicial to it’s well-being: never to act contrary to it’s Dignity, but to conduct myself always as a true Knight of Christ: a good Christian and a person of Honour.
Believing that Christ will grant me a special token of his favour, I therefore, in all Humility, Charity, and Respect agree to join with every sincere and Godly Christian of whatever Church, to bring about by prayer and deed the salvation of the Christian World by helping to promote a lasting Christian Unity.
I will adorn my Knighthood with true Charity, the mother and solid foundation of all virtues.
I will wear on my person the Christian Maltese Cross of eight points, to constantly remind me of my religious vow of always bearing in my heart the Cross of Jesus Christ, adorned with the virtues that attend it.
So help me God.
http://www.theknightshospitallers.org/vows.php
The members of the Second Class, by virtue of the Promise of Obedience, are committed to living according to Christian principles and the inspiring principles of the Order. They are subdivided into three categories:
HMMMMM, THAT WOULD BE GROUP SPEAK AND CHATTER.
Knights and Dames of Honour and Devotion in Obedience
Knights and Dames of Grace and Devotion in Obedience
Knights and Dames of Magistral Grace in Obedience
The Third Class consists of lay members who do not profess religious vows or the Promise, but who live according to the principles of the Church and the Order.
They are divided into six categories:
Knights and Dames of Honour and Devotion
Conventual Chaplains ad honorem
Knights and Dames of Grace and Devotion
Magistral Chaplains
Knights and Dames of Magistral Grace
Donats (male and female) of Devotion
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“The conspiracy to create a centralized global fascist state is orchestrated in the five-sense ‘world’ by a secret network known collectively as the Illuminati or ‘Illuminated ones’. They manipulate through secret societies and groupings like the Freemasons, Knights of Malta, Knights Templar and the Jesuits.
These and others feed carefully chosen recruits into the Illuminati and they are installed in positions of power throughout the world, infesting all colors, races, creeds and countries. It is not that everyone in the secret societies is aware of the plot; the overwhelming majority are not. The Illuminati operate like a cancer to infiltrate and covertly control other organizations. Most Freemasons never progress higher than the bottom three levels of degree, the so-called Blue Degrees and they don’t realize what their organization is being used for.” David Icke, “Tales From Time Loop”
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Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM)
http://vaticannewworldorder.blogspot.com/…/papal-orders-of-…
This is seeing Vatican puppets like the Knights of Malta in nearly all the most important positions..
In this following list I do name nearly 40! contemporary people mostly of the US SMOM branch that are not only connected by their offices in Government and Industry, but connected through the same subordination to the Vatican!
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Nazi German Maltese Cross
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Maltese Cross on KKK
Jesuits, Opus Die, Knights of Columbus, Knights of the Holy Selpulchure etc are not even included. The Knights of Malta? They are knighted by the Pope – so are all loyal to the Pope – that’s first.
(click on image for better view of timeline of Knights of Malta Initiation)
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SMOM Knights of Malta
Being a Knight of Malta is special. SMOM means “Sovereign Military Order of Malta”.
Cardinal Edward Egan (handler of U.S. Presidents)
Military Vicar: The American Branch of the Knights of Malta, The Knights of Columbus
The Masonic Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree
Archbishop of New York
Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in the US
Rudy Giuliani (command center in WTC 7)
SMOM Knight of Malta
2001 Mayor of New York
Presidential Candidate 2008
George Pataki
SMOM Knight of Malta
Governor of New York
Michael Bloomberg (wants to take away our guns)
SMOM Knight of Malta
Media Mogul
Mayor of New York
Rupert Murdoch
SMOM Knight of Malta
Media Mogul
Daniel Imperato
SMOM Knight of Malta
Presidential Candidate 2008
George Tenet
SMOM Knight of Malta
Jesuit Trained
Director CIA
Michael Chertoff (Israeli Dual Citizen)
SMOM Knight of Malta
Director of Department of Homeland Security
Emilio T. González
SMOM Knight of Malta
Under Secretary of Department of Homeland Security
Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/egonzalez-bio.html
Joseph Edward Schmitz
SMOM Knight of Malta
Opus Dei
CEO Blackwater
George H. W. Bush
SMOM Knight of Malta
Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Order of Skull and Bones
Shriner Freemason
CFR
Trilateral Commission
Committee of 300
Jesuit trained
Head of CIA
41st American President
Prescott Bush, Jr.
SMOM Knight of Malta
Chairman U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce
George W. Bush
Order of Skull and Bones
Knight of the Virign
Freemason, 33 Degree
43rd American President
Tony Blair
SMOM Knight of Malta
Freemason, 33 Degree
Bilderberger
British Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi
SMOM Knight of Malta
Italian Prime Minister
Robert Zoellick
SMOM Knight of Malta
Head of Worldbank
Deputy Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger
SMOM Knight of Malta
Shriner Freemason
CFR
Committee of 300
Bilderberger
P2
David Rockefeller
SMOM Knight of Malta
Shriner Freemason
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1998);
U.S. Legion of Merit (1945);
U.S. Legion of Honor (1945);
Italian Order of Merit;
Order of the Sun, Peru;
Order of the Cedar, Lebanon;
Order of the Crown, Belgium;
National Order of Ivory Coast;
Order of the Aztec Eagle, Mexico;
Order of the Southern Cross, Brazil;
Order of Francisco de Miranda, Venezuela;
Order of Humane African Redemption, Liberia;
The Grand Croix of the Legion d’Honneur (2000);
Grand Cordon, Order of Scared Treasure, Japan (1991);
Knight Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit, Germany;
Order of the White Elephant and Order of the Crown, Thailand;
World Brotherhood Award, Jewish Theological Seminary (1953);
Medal of Honor for City Planning, American Institute of Architects (1968);
The Hundred Year Association of New York’s Gold Medal Award: “In recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York” (1965).
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Banker, Statesman, Globalist, UN
CFR Director
Bilderberger
Trilateral Commission
Council of the Americas
…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller
Geoffrey T. Boisi
SMOM Knight of Malta
Goldman Sachs for 22 years, a senior general partner
Goldman Sachs, which was worth $43.3 billion in 2005, received a $25 million grant for promising to stay in New York. Goldman Sachs also recieved a $1.65 billion government-backed “Liberty Bond,” funded by the $20 billion in 9/11 relief that Hillary secured for New York. Goldman Sachs used the $9 million to build its luxurious new headquarters, located on prime real estate across from Ground Zero.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17495
Richard Torrenzano
SMOM Knight of Malta
spokesman for the New York Stock Exchange
http://www.neco.org/awards/recipients/richtorrenzano.html
Frank C. Carlucci
SMOM Knight of Malta
Ambassador to Portugal
Deputy Director CIA
Secretary of Defense
Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
Middle East Policy Council, Board of Directors
US-Taiwan Business Council, Chairman Emeritus
RAND Corporation, Board of Trustees
Advisory Board for RAND’s Center for Middle East Public Policy, founding co-chair
Wackenhut, Director
Carlyle Group, CEO
Frontier Group, Senior Member
Envion USA, Chairman
Raymond Flynn
SMOM Knight of Malta
Knight of the Supreme Order of Christ
Knight of St. Pius IX
Knight Commander of Saint Gregory the Great with Star
Knight of St. Sylvester
Knight of the Holy Sepulchre
Opus Dei
Ambassador to the Vatican
Mayor of Boston
Flynn is very close to Ratzinger
President of Catholic Alliance, a national lay Catholic political advocacy organization
Started and National Chairman of Catholic Citizenship
Endorsed Bush in 2000 through Catholic Alliance
In short, he is the most Papally-decorated American since the late Grand Master of the Knights of Columbus
Francis Rooney
SMOM Knight of Malta
Jesuit Trained Georgetown
Bush Sponsor
Ambassador to Holy See
100 Mio. Pentagon contracts 2003
Richard John Santorum
SMOM Knight of Malta
Opus Dei
US Senator
Senate Republican Conference, chairman
Ethics and Public Policy Center, Senior Fellow
Fox News Channel contributor
John Robert Bolton
SMOM Knight of Malta
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
Institute of East-West Dynamics
National Rifle Association
US Commission on International Religious Freedom
Council for National Policy (CNP)
Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf (CPSG)
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Federalist Society
National Policy Forum
National Advisory Board
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
New Atlantic Initiative
Project on Transitional Democracies
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice
Ambassador to United Nations
2001 – Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
Pat Buchanan
SMOM Knight of Malta
Jesuit trained Georgetown
CIA Project Mockingbird (Media Manipulation)
senior advisor to three American presidents, Nixon, Ford and Reagan
original host on CNN’s Crossfire
co-founded The American Conservative magazine
launched The American Cause, a paleoconservative foundation
political analyst on the MSNBC
regular on The McLaughlin Group
General Alexander M. Haig
SMOM Knight of Malta
Jesuit Trained Georgetown
Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (DCSOPS) Pentagon, staff officer
Military Assistant to Secretary of the Army
Military Assistant to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara
U.S. Army Four-Star General
U.S. Secretary of State
White House Chief of Staff
American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, co-chairman along with Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen J. Solarz
Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) Board of Advisors
Vice Chief of Staff of the Army – Kissingers Military Assistant
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)
Edward L. Hennessy, Jr.
SMOM Knight of Malta
Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher
Knight of St.Gregory
Legion of Honor, France
Milal-l-Quad-l-Azam, Pakistan
New York Stock Exchange, Director
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Director
Tri-County Scholarship Fund of the Diocese of Paterson, N.J., trustee and founding president
AlliedSignal Inc. (now Honeywell), chairman and CEO
http://inside.fdu.edu/otw/0704/alltext.html
John C. Gannon
SMOM Knight of Malta
Jesuit trained at Holy Cross
Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Member
ANSER Institute for Homeland Security, Board of Advisors
Intellibridge Corporation, Vice-Chairman
National Intelligence Council, Chairman
CIA, Deputy Director for Intelligence
CIA, Assistant Director of Intelligence for Analysis and Production
Directorate of Intelligence (DI), Office of European Analysis, Director
Burton Gerber
SMOM Knight of Malta
CIA, Officer
CIA, Station Chief in Moscow during the Cold War
CIA, European and the Soviet & East European divisions, Director
CFR
He was trained in various psychological and intellectual methods in order to perform his recruiting tasks. Gerber stated that the goal of this line of work is to “get things that can’t be gotten through any other means.”
http://www.assumption.edu/n…/newshp/current_news/gerber.html
General Vernon A. Walters
SMOM Knight of Malta
Jesuit trained at Stonyhurst
50-year military career officer
deputy director of the CIA
deputy director of the DIA
ambassador-at-large
multilingual interpreter for several presidents
high-ranking aide to Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan and G.H.W. Bush
Career Intelligence Medal
President’s Citizens Medal (from Reagan)
Medal of Freedom (from G.H.W. Bush).
http://archive.newsmax.com/archiv…/articles/…/4/103823.shtml
General Anthony Zinni
SMOM Knight of Malta
Papal Gold Cross of Honor
CFR
United States Marine Corps, four-star General
United States Marine Corps, Operations Division at Headquarters, Head of the Special Operations and Terrorism Counteraction Section
United States Marine Corps, Marine Air-Ground Task Force, Head of Concepts and Capabilities Branch
United States Marine Corps, Quantico Base, Marine Air-Ground Training and Education Center, Chief of Staff
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Commander in Chief
organized Operation Desert Fox, airstrikes against Iraq December 1998, with the stated purpose of degrading Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction program
Special US envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority
Virginia Military Institute, Department of International Studies, Instructor
Virginia Military Institute, Stanley Chair in Ethics
University of California, Berkeley, Nimitz Chair
University of California, Berkeley, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
Joint Forces Staff College, Hofheimer Chair
College of William and Mary, board of the Reves Center for International Studies
College of William and Mary, Harriman Professorship of Government
College of William and Mary, Department of Government, Instructor
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Distinguished Advisor
World Security Institute, Center for Defense Information, Distinguished Military Fellow
Zinni has been floated as a possible Vice Presidential nominee for Barack Obama, should he win the Democratic nomination
General the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank
SMOM Knight of Malta
N.M. Rothschild & Sons representative to the Trilateral Commission
Pilgrims Society
SAS, commander
Defence Staff, Chief
Gold Stick to the queen
and part-time unofficial warmongerer for the Anglo-Saxon empire
http://www.pehi.eu/introduction.htm
Edwin J. Feulner
SMOM Knight of Malta
President Heritage Foundation
trustee Mont Pelerin Society
IMF & World Bank insider
chairman Institute for European Defense and Strategic Studies in London
Bohemian Grove
roommate of neocon warhawk and military-industrial complex insider John F. Lehman
http://www.pehi.eu/introduction.htm
Col. Albert J. Wetzel
SMOM Knight of Malta
Knight of the Holy Sepulchre
Air Force Hall of Fame, Titan missile project
The Louisiana Commandery, the Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States
http://mofwla.com/index.html
Oliver North
SMOM Knight of Malta
USMC, Lieutenant Colonel
National Security Council
Freedom Alliance, Founded
Iran-Contra Scandal
still an important Bush/Clinton asset
Melquíades Rafael “Mel” Martínez
SMOM Knight of Malta
US Senator
Ted Kennedy
SMOM Knight of Malta
US Senator
Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr.
SMOM Knight of Malta
Republican Party chairman
American Gaming Association, president and CEO
Commission on Presidential Debates, founder and co-chairman
National Endowment for Democracy, founder, vice chairman and a board member
International Republican Institute, founder and board member
Pacific Democrat Union, chairman
International Democrat Union, vice chairman
John J. DeGioia
SMOM Knight of Malta
Jesuit Georgetown University, President
CFR, represents Georgetown
World Economic Forum, represents Georgetown
U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, Chair of its Education Committee
Greater Washington Board of Trade
Federal City Council
Peter G. Peterson
Shriner Freemason
Blackstone Group (pre 911 WTC7 mortgage lease), Chairman and co-founder
Federal Reserve Bank NY, Chairman
Strategic Alliance “Kissinger McLarty Associates”
CFR, Chairman of Board
Viet Dinh
Jesuit Georgetown University, Professor
Assistant Attorney General of the United States
U.S. Senate Whitewater Committee, Associate Special Counsel
Senator Pete V. Domenici, Special Counsel for the Impeachment Trial of President Clinton
Austrian and German Bank Holocaust Litigation, counsel to the Special Master
District of Columbia and U.S. Supreme Court bars
ChoicePoint, advisor on developing its US Government homeland security contracts
Transition Committee for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, board member
Association of American Law Schools, Section on National Security Law, member
American Bar Association, member section on Administrative Law
American Judicature Society, board member
Liberty’s Promise, board member
News Corporation, board member
Dinh was mentioned as a potential nominee to The Supreme Court of the United States in a Republican administration
Chief Architect USA Patriot Act
Antonin Scalia
Opus Dei
US Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas
Opus Dei
US Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Alito
Opus Dei
Knight of Columbus
US Supreme Court Justice
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Order of Skull and Bones
Chairman, co-founder Blackstone Group (pre 911 WTC7 mortgage lease)
Strategic Alliance “Kissinger McLarty Associates”
2007 Schwarzman celebrated his 60th birthday – Guests included Colin Powell, Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg, and Cardinal Edward M. Egan
In 2007, Schwarzman was listed among Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in The World
Joseph A. O’Hare
Jesuit Priest
Fordham University, 19 years President
Regis High School, a New York City Jesuit High School, President
Catholic weekly America, editor in chief between
Mayor’s Committee on Appointments, Mayor Edward I. Koch
Charter Revision Commission of the City of New York
Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, chairman
Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU), chairman
Campaign Finance Board, first chairman, reappointed twice in the 1990s by Giuliani, serving until 2003
Thomas Von Essen
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
FDNY Fire Commissioner 911
Now senior Vice President “Giuliani Partners”
Bernard Kerik
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
NYPD Police Commissioner 911
Jennifer Sims
Jesuit Georgetown University, Professor
National Intelligence Community’s Distinguished Service Medal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Coordination
Department of State’s first Coordinator for Intelligence Resources and Planning
Senator John Danforth, defense and foreign policy advisor
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, designee to
Richard Holbrooke
Freemason, 33 Degree
Committee of 300
2001 – Consultant to Council on Foreign Relations: Head of Terrorism-Workgroup
Jeb Bush
Knight of Columbus
Governor of Florida
Brother of George W. Bush
Cathy L. Lanier
Knight of Columbus
Office of Homeland Security and Counter-terrorism, Commander
Chief of Police of Washington D.C.
Frederick W. Smith
Order of Skull and Bones
FedEx Founder, Chairman, CEO
FedEx carried the Anthrax scare packages in the 911 aftermath
Joe M. Allbaugh
1984 George H.W. Bush – field staff of campaign
1994 George W. Bush Governor campaign
2000 George W. Bush President campaign
2001 Head of FEMA
after 2001
partner involved in New Bridge Strategies and Diligence-Iraq, a company founded by former CIA and FBI chief William Webster
Major Allbaugh Company clients include The Shaw Group and Halliburton subsidiary KBR
2006 Emergent Biosolutions (formerly BioPort /Anthrax Vaccine) Board of Directors
2007 Senior Advisor to the Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign
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Sidebar: Andrea Mitchell, ABC News reporter, married to Alan Greenspan, was the first to report that the 9/11 attacks were probably caused by Osama Bin Laden. (source)
So Greenspan gets knighted for his role in the attacks, and cover up of 9/11??
Fed Chief Greenspan to Be Knighted
Tuesday, August 6, 2002; 4:48 PM
WASHINGTON –– He won’t get to call himself “Sir Alan” but Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan – often known as the second most powerful man in the United States – will get another title: knight.
Queen Elizabeth II has approved an honorary knighthood for Greenspan’s “outstanding contribution to global economic stability,” the British Treasury announced Tuesday. A copy of the release was distributed in Washington.
Being ‘of Service’ to Whom Exactly??
WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is about to violate the U.S. Constitution by accepting an honorary knighthood.
Because Greenspan is not a citizen of the United Kingdom it will be an “honorary” knighthood and he will not be able to use the title “sir,” but the knighthood still comes under Article I, Section 9 of the U.S Constitution. “No person holding any office of profit or trust under [the United States], shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign state.”
Greenspan has been warned by the Southeastern Legal Foundation, an Atlanta-based constitutional public interest law firm, that he should “follow the letter and intent of the U.S. Constitution” before agreeing to accept an honorary knighthood from British Queen Elizabeth II.
“Mr. Greenspan, as the U.S. government’s appointed head for fiscal and monetary policy, must seek the consent of Congress before receiving a British title,” said Phil Kent, SLF president. “Our Founding Fathers were unequivocal when it comes to the matter of U.S. government officials receiving honors and titles from foreign powers – you just can’t do it, without the express approval of Congress, which serves as a check against potential conflicts of interest.”
Kent points out that former U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, as well as former New York City Mayor Rudolph Guiliani, received similar honorary knighthoods – after they left public office. “The rich history of British acknowledgment of American service to world freedom and prosperity should continue, but it must continue according to the U.S. Constitution, to which we owe our allegiance,” said Kent.
There is no word from Greenspan on his plans.
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Now, the UK with its KNIGHTS ---including all of our CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA crowd-----also TRUMP of course include GREENSPAN/GOLDMAN SACHS ---the TRIBE OF JUDAH ----along with those MOORISH MUSLIM from back in the good old times----the EASTERN SPICE AND SILK TRADE ROUTES. When we say global banking 5% gathered the slaves sent to colonial America----these same 5% came to colonial America to manage those slaves---the same 5% were there in post civil war reconstruction-----we are saying these same global banking 5% freemason/Greek players are those MOVING FORWARD CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA and sacking and looting of our US civil society.
So, these current secret societies are the same OLD WORLD VENETIAN merely rich merchants who were brought down when OLD WORLD KINGS FLIPPED THE EARTH'S ECONOMIC AXIS----from Eastern Hemisphere to Western colonial AMERICA.
#OfficialSecrets #KeiraKnightley #KatharineGun'Official Secrets' Trailer
•Jul 30, 2019
hollywoodstreams
http://www.hollywood.com Based on the true story of a British whistleblower Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley) who leaked information about an illegal NSA operation. Also stars Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith, Rhys Ifans, MyAnna Burning, and more. 'Official Secrets' releases on August 30, 201.
Official Secrets
Official Secrets (2019)
Cast | Glenn Kenny
August 30, 2019
It’s easy to understand why the true story that inspired the makers of “Official Secrets” might look like a good idea for a movie. Katherine Gun, the British whistleblower who uncovered U.S. efforts to dirty-trick the U.N. into approving the Iraq War, is an appealing figure whose findings should have been scandalous enough to unseat maybe two governments. They did not, the Iraq War was launched anyway, four years in 150,000 to a million were dead, including thousands of U.S. and British soldiers. Gun was a translator who received a memo she eventually shared with the British press—an apparatus that, like the U.S. press, took a notably non-skeptical view of the “weapons of mass destruction” line both U.S. and British power players fed the world in its quest to unseat Saddam Hussein.
Gun was put on trial in 2004 for violation of a British “official secrets” law. Anyone with a library card or Internet access can find out how things turned out for her, sure—but everyone knew how “All The President’s Men” was gonna turn out, and William Goldman and Alan J. Pakula and Gordon Willis and so on still managed to make that story into a crackerjack thriller and political parable.
But where that movie had a lot of indignant voltage running through it, “Official Secrets,” directed by Gavin Hood from a script by Hood, Gregory Bernstein and Sarah Bernstein (based on a book by Marcia Mitchell and Thomas Mitchell) feels both dutiful and dry. It begins with Gun, played by a deglamorized Keira Knightley, in the docket for her 2004 trial and flashed back to the fateful day at her job in a government translating service when that odd memo arrived in her email box.
Gun is already in a tizzy over the run up to war. Watching the news one evening, she yells at Tony Blair on her television: “Just because you’re Prime Minister doesn’t mean you get to make up your own facts!” Her husband, who’s a Turk and a refugee, tells her, as she already knows, “he can’t hear you.”
The memo ordering surveillance on U.N. Security Council member countries reluctant to play ball with the Bush and Blair Show give her a way to be heard. But it’s dynamite stuff. Not even her most committed activist pal wants to handle it. Along the way there’s a scene of a secret meeting in a parking garage that’s more realistic, maybe, than the shadowy one in “All The President’s Men,” but not nearly as gripping. This problem persists throughout.
While Gun tries to unload her info, in the offices of the British paper The Observer, one veteran firebrand reporter, Rhys Ifans’ Ed Vullaimy, is giving his bosses hell for being led by the nose by the ongoing spectacle. The memo Gun finally gets to Matthew Goode’s newsman Peter Beaumont underscores the essential falsity of the whole war enterprise. But the question of stopping the war becomes moot. The question of how Gun will be revealed and what will happen to her, and her husband, takes its place. The subsequent action, such as it is, reveals tensions at the very top of the ladder of Britain’s ostensibly gentlemanly, class-based power structure.
Ralph Fiennes plays a lawyer representing Gun, while Jeremy Northam is his politician friend who very stuffily prevaricates about how much he tried to prevent military action from going forward in Iraq.
The denouement of the relationship between these two characters puts a little sting in the tail of “Official Secrets,” but by this point it’s a bit like watching a patch of paint crack after you’ve spent a while witnessing it drying.
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As with the FALL OF VENETIAN EMPIRE----so too with the FALL OF UNITED STATES-----those 5% merely rich MERCHANTS----AKA CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA----are expected to go on the warpath.
THAT IS WHY GLOBAL BANKING 1% HAS INSTALLED DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE---PUBLIC SURVEILLANCE AND INSIDE OUR HOMES NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG.
Since global banking 1% through NSA/HOMELAND SECURITY cannot openly sexually assault ME inside my living space for having only been a REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE ANTI-WAR person---they allow what is a REAL black market global SEX TRADE cartel---NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG----do that HITTING.
Innovation
Why Innovators Should Study the Rise and Fall of the Venetian Empire
Piero Formica
January 17, 2017
Most organizations would be happy to last for centuries, as the Venetian Republic did. From 697 to 1797 AD, Venice’s technological acumen, geographic position, and unconventionality were interlocking advantages that allowed the Most Serene Republic to flourish. But when change comes suddenly, it can turn strengths into weaknesses and sweep away even thousand-year success stories.
Venice’s military technology and the city’s pivotal location on the main trade routes of the time gave Venice several strong, mutually reinforcing advantages.
The Arsenal, an advanced naval munitions factory that anticipated by several centuries the production-line method of manufacture, was the beating heart of the Venetian naval industry. From the thirteenth century on, the Arsenal nurtured creativity and spurred innovation and entrepreneurship in the construction of its galleys.
The city’s geographic location helped it to defend itself from both land- and sea-based invaders. This location, consisting of a series of islands in a marshy lagoon, also pushed it to develop a (then unusual) trading and moneylending economy, since there was little land to support agriculture. And its position at the top of the Adriatic Sea allowed it to become a vital trading hub, connecting the East with the West via the Mediterranean.
If, as Michael Porter wrote, competitive advantage stems from how “activities fit and reinforce one another….creating a chain that is as strong as its strongest link,” then strategic fit is something that the Venetian Republic had in spades.
But, like a lot of successful entities, Venice reached a point where it focused more on exploitation than exploration: Venetian traders followed existing paths to success. Entrepreneurs chose not to move away from traditional pathways. Established practices and preferences became more popular than exploration and speculation. Merchants and traders played the game of incremental innovation by focusing on efficiency and optimization. Determined to grow their own fortunes rapidly, they pressed their feet to the accelerator rather than charting new courses.
WE CALL THIS BLIND AMBITION BY GLOBAL BANKING 1% MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE TECHNOLOGY/ENERGY GRID.
But toward the end of the 16th century the world was changing in ways that would make Venice less relevant. The Arsenal’s focus on galley ships made sense when the Mediterranean was the most important trading waterway. Alessandro Barbero, professor of medieval history at the University of Eastern Piedmont, in Italy, notes that the galley remained for a long time the favorite vessel of Venetian navigators. But the invention of seafaring galleons allowed countries bordering the Atlantic to set up new trade routes that did not flow through the Adriatic.
This age of exploration triggered the beginning of Venice’s decline. One huge advance in technology — ships that could survive at sea for months, even years — weakened Venice’s competitive advantage and the strategic fit of its competencies.
The rise of the seafaring galleon meant Venice was suddenly disadvantaged by its location at the northern extremity of the Adriatic Sea. Moreover, its Arsenal was no longer at the cutting edge of naval technology. Venice’s economic importance had sharply contracted by the time Napoleon invaded, bringing the Venetian Empire to an official end.
What’s the lesson for entrepreneurs and innovators today? The stronger the assumption that the future will function as today does, the greater the gravitational force of the status quo. Organizations set in their ways slow down and never strive for new horizons. They are doomed to wither.
If you don’t want to be caught by surprise, you have to recognize that the future will be different from the past. The future is unfathomable, ambiguous, and open to every option. One major move by a competitor, or one new technology, is sometimes all it takes to end an empire. If your current business is like a carefully tended garden, with neat beds and high walls, that’s not enough. The next opportunity (or threat) may lie outside those walls, at the messy intersection of sectors and markets.
Entrepreneurs and innovators resist “success as usual” syndrome, exploring emerging technologies and new business models. They try to keep the big picture in mind and are wary of being too efficient and too optimized. This perspective helps them promote unconventional ways of thinking, solving problems, and challenging the status quo. They know the goal is not to chase a fixed horizon but to understand when and how the horizon moves as they approach it.
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We have discussed FRANZ VON PAPPEN as the source of installing HITLER to become the MADMAN after ROBBER BARON roaring 20s massive frauds. PAPPEN is a known KNIGHTS OF MALTA.
Today's far-right wing, global banking 1% CLINTON neo-liberals staging that same condition in US ----a CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS------as was used to advance the ABSOLUTELY POWER OF HITLER.
'The 4 Types Of Constitutional Crises | FiveThirtyEight
fivethirtyeight.com/features/constitutional-crisis
People have been talking about the possibility of a “constitutional crisis ” since before President Trump’s election. And in the wake of Trump’s executive order restricting the ability of people...' NEW YORK TIMES
Above we see FIVE THIRTY EIGHT-------as an ELECTION MEDIA outlet pretending all this TRUMP/CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS is REAL news.
'Is the US on the brink of a constitutional crisis?
| Trump ...www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2018/11/...
Is the US on the brink of a constitutional crisis? ... Republican strategist Rick Wilson hopes that the Democrats can hold Trump accountable across "a whole spectrum of issues". ... Al Jazeera News'.
Our 99% WE THE PEOPLE are always portrayed as being sick of all the criminality and extreme wealth when bring in these MADMEN------this why HITLER as TRUMP are being portrayed as POPULIST and not just another global banking 5% player.
This is why I am being HIT----HIT HARD---MADE TO BE SILENT AND STAY INSIDE MY HOUSE---by NOSY NEIGHBORS AND THE GANG-----global corporate FASCISM with its SPYING.
After 1929, however, two short-term factors brought Hitler to power:
8. Economic Depression
After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the US called in its loans to Germany, and the German economy collapsed. The Number of unemployed grew; people starved on the streets. In the crisis, people wanted someone to blame, and looked to extreme solutions – Hitler offered them both, and Nazi success in the elections grew.
Germans turned to Nazism because they were desperate. The number of Nazi seats in the Reichstag rose from 12 in 1928 to 230 in July 1932.
9. Recruited by Hindenburg
In November 1932 elections the Nazis again failed to get a majority of seats in the Reichstag. Their share of the vote fell – from 230 seats to only 196. Hitler contemplated suicide. But then he was rescued by Hindenburg.
Franz von Papen (a friend of Hindenburg) was Chancellor, but he could not get enough support in the Reichstag. Hindenburg and von Papen were having to govern by emergency decree under Article 48 of the Constitution. They offered Hitler the post of vice-Chancellor if he promised to support them.
Hitler refused – he demanded to be made Chancellor. So Von Papen and Hindenburg took a risk. On 30 January 1933 Hindenburg made Hitler Chancellor. He thought he could control Hitler – how wrong he was.
In the end, Hitler did not TAKE power at all – he was given it.
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This FAKE NEWS about all this TRUMP and CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS is being brought to us by BEZO AMAZON----owned WASHINGTON POST/NEW YORK TIMES owned by CARLOS SLIM-------and UK GUARDIAN-----
'Is the US on the brink of a constitutional crisis? | Trump ...www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2018/11/... Is the US on the brink of a constitutional crisis? ... Republican strategist Rick Wilson hopes that the Democrats can hold Trump accountable across "a whole spectrum of issues". ... Al Jazeera News'.
It is interesting that UK GUARDIAN includes today THE OBSERVER being that media outlet the MOVIE ----'OFFICIAL SECRET' WHISTLEBLOWER stolen secret was published.
The Guardian
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see The Guardian (disambiguation).
The Guardian
The Guardian front page on 15 January 2018
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers The Observer and The Guardian Weekly, the Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of the Guardian free from commercial or political interference".[4] The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for The Guardian the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders.[4]
- How to know when it's a US constitutional crisis - CNNPoliticswww.cnn.com/2019/05/08/politics/trump... The term "constitutional crisis" has been used repeatedly, including this week by Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman. Donald Trump's entire presidency, so far, has...
- Constitutional Crisis: What Does It Mean? – Rolling Stonewww.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/... A constitutional crisis only matters if someone in Congress is willing to do something about it. And so far no one has done much. ... which is the key difference between Trump and Nixon so far ...
- Trump says cries of 'constitutional crisis' are 'pathetically ...www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/12/... President Donald Trump decried Democrats' for claiming the nation is facing a constitutional crisis after the White House refused to comply with demands from Congress, which says it is trying to ...
- Are we in a constitutional crisis? Yes, no, or wrong question?slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/trump-barr... The true crisis is that on day one, Trump placed one hand on the Bible and crossed the fingers on his other behind his back. He swore to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed ’ but never...
- This Is Not a “Constitutional Crisis” | The New Republicnewrepublic.com/article/153894/trump-presidency... Trump himself, who never misses a chance to cynically strip the meaning from any phrase used against him, denied that there was a constitutional crisis and then insisted he was the victim of one...
As we see the FAKE NEWS media cover global banking 1% CATHOLIC, JEWISH, MUSLIM media outlets.
The Fix
Constitutional crisis?
What happens if Trump decides to ignore a judge’s ruling.
Pence defends travel ban, senators question Trump’s criticism of federal judge
Vice President Pence defends President Trump’s travel ban while senators question Trump’s criticism of the judge who temporarily blocked the ban.
(Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post)
By Aaron Blake
February 5, 2017
President Trump has spent the better part of the past 24 hours bashing a U.S. district judge's decision to temporarily halt his travel ban executive order.
First came a White House statement calling the ruling “outrageous” (the word was later taken out). Then came Trump's many tweets, which were scattered throughout the day Saturday and actually seemed to question the judge's authority. And then, in its appeal, the Trump administration said the lower-court judge shouldn't be “second-guessing” the president.
The administration is complying with the order. But Trump's increasingly alarming tweets and this type of rhetoric about the judge's authority leads us to a question: What if it didn't? What if Trump — or any president — decided too much was at stake or that he didn't recognize “this so-called judge's” authority?
It's something experts on executive authority have been chewing over. Given Trump's populist campaign, admiration for authoritarian leaders and expressed skepticism toward the political establishment, some think it's possible he takes on the judicial establishment, too.
“They're spoiling for a fight, and that’s what populists do,” said Daniel P. Franklin, a professor at Georgia State University. “And I think that’s the way it plays out — maybe not on this issue, but on something.”
I'll emphasize up front that the Trump administration has given no indication that they'll actually ignore this particular court order — or any other. (They're appealing, and the 9th Circuit declined to immediately reinstate the ban early Sunday morning.) Franklin said he's not aware of when a president “purposely ignored a direct court order.”
But sometimes presidents have interpreted court decisions in ways that lead to discord between branches of government, leading to the threat of constitutional crises.
The most oft-cited example of a president allegedly ignoring a court ruling involves the populist president that Trump's team seems most interested in comparing to Trump: Andrew Jackson.
After the Supreme Court and Justice John Marshall struck down a Georgia law that allowed for the seizure of Native American lands, saying it violated federal treaties, Jackson ignored it or at least initially declined to get involved — depending upon the account. He is remembered to have said, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it,” though there is debate about the accuracy of that quote.
While others consider the statement apocryphal, there is no doubt that President Jackson supported Georgia's claimed sovereignty over Cherokee land. The constitutional imbroglio was only averted when the impending nullification crisis convinced President Jackson that such a constitutional crisis was not in the national interest.
An earlier and plainer example also involved Marshall — and a Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson. Jeffrey Rosen wrote for PBS that a showdown between the two pitted Jefferson's views against Marshall's view of the Supreme Court's purview:
The culmination of Marshall's national vision came in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), in which he wrote an opinion for a unanimous Court upholding Congress' power to charter the Bank of the United States. Marshall resurrected the same arguments that Alexander Hamilton had used to persuade George Washington to charter the bank over Jefferson's objections: namely, that the Constitution gives Congress the authority to pass all laws “necessary and proper” for executing its constitutional powers, and that those words should be construed broadly, in a practical spirit. … Although the decision was popular in the middle and Northern states, it precipitated a backlash against the Court in the Southern and Western states.
Jefferson's reaction to McCulloch was especially peevish and extreme. He endorsed attacks on the decision published by the radical states' rights partisans Spencer Roane and John Taylor, agreeing that the Supreme Court had no power to review the constitutionality of state laws or to second-guess the decisions of state courts. Later, he seemed to deny entirely the Supreme Court's power to hand down binding interpretations of the Constitution. This proved too radical for Jefferson's protege, James Madison, who wrote to his patron that he had no doubt that the framers of the Constitution intended the federal courts to be a final arbiter of conflicts between federal and state law. On his deathbed, just before he expired on July 4, 1826, Jefferson criticized Madison for being too accommodating.
John Merryman, a state legislator from Maryland, is arrested for attempting to hinder Union troops from moving from Baltimore to Washington during the Civil War and is held at Fort McHenry by Union military officials. His attorney immediately sought a writ of habeas corpus so that a federal court could examine the charges. However, President Abraham Lincoln decided to suspend the right of habeas corpus, and the general in command of Fort McHenry refused to turn Merryman over to the authorities.
Federal judge Roger Taney, the chief justice of the Supreme Court (and also the author of the infamous Dred Scott decision), issued a ruling that President Lincoln did not have the authority to suspend habeas corpus. Lincoln didn’t respond, appeal, or order the release of Merryman. But during a July 4 speech, Lincoln was defiant, insisting that he needed to suspend the rules in order to put down the rebellion in the South.
Five years later, a new Supreme Court essentially backed Justice Taney’s ruling: In an unrelated case, the court held that only Congress could suspend habeas corpus and that civilians were not subject to military courts, even in times of war.
If Trump were to ever go down this road, Franklin said, the ultimate arbiter would be the other branch of government. He said Trump could be held in contempt of court, and it would then be up to the House of Representatives.
"[Contempt of court], in my opinion, is a 'high crime or misdemeanor' in the meaning of the Constitution, and he would be subject to impeachment,” Franklin said. “Whether or not the House of Representatives would see it that way is another question. It is at that point their call.”
Before we got to that point, though, we'd likely see wrangling between the judge and not Trump but the government officials working beneath him, said Joel Nichols, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas.
“The key to whether court orders are going to be obeyed isn’t about what President Trump does, but about how the judges respond to noncompliance and whether other non-Trump players decide to obey their orders,” Nichols said.
A judge would have to issue a “show cause” order if officials didn't seem to be obeying the order. If they still didn't obey, they could be held in contempt, and federal marshals could be dispatched to force them to do so or face jail time — which could also constitute a crisis.
“I think that some federal judges would be willing to issue a contempt order against [Trump], but I’m not sure they should or would, and they don’t need to,” Nichols said. “They only need to issue specific orders about laws and regulations, and then hold other government officials in contempt for not following the court order.”
Which gets to the other big question with Trump, should he opt to question the legal authority of a judge who runs afoul of him: whether the government agencies who would need to go along with Trump's decision would actually do so. Trump's defense and homeland security secretaries, for example, are military generals who are accustomed to a chain of command. Would they ignore a court order in favor of their boss, Trump?
IF TRUMP IS A GLOBAL CORPORATE FASCIST----AND OUR US FEDERAL AGENCIES ARE FILLED WITH CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA---WHO ARE GLOBAL CORPORATE FASCISTS----THEN EVERYONE IS ON THE SAME BOAT AS TRUMP.
It's all very hypothetical, but Trump's rhetoric — not just about the judge's decision, but the judge's actual authority — and his apparent desire to press his case for his own authority suggest it's not out of the question.
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