BLACK TERROR WHITE SOLDIER PART 44

Conspiracy Theory Part 2

Black was convicted in 1981 for attempted armed overthrow of the government of the Dominican Republic, in violation of the US Neutrality Act. He was sentenced to three years in prison, during which time he learned computer programming, which led him to establish Stormfront. Stormfront featured the writings of William  Luther  Pierce and  David Duke, as well as works by  Carto’s  Institute for Historical Review (IHR). In a 2001 USA Todayarticle, journalist Tara McKelvey called Stormfront “the most visited white supremacist site on the net.” ¹¹ By June 2008, the site was attracting more than 40,000 unique  users each day. ¹²

Despite some dubious supporters, Paul attracted a wide following by saying a lot of the right things, particularly to the conspiracy-minded crowd. As noted by James Kirchick,   who was the first     to break the story  of Paul’s newsletter in an article in The New Republic, “If you are a critic of the Bush administration, chances are that, at some point over the past six months,   Ron Paul has said something that appealed to you.”¹³ As Kirchick further describes, “Antiwar conservatives,            disaffected centrists, even young liberal activists have all flocked to Paul, hailing him as a throwback to an earlier age, when politicians were less mealy-mouthed and American government was more modest in its ambitions, both at home and abroad.” ¹⁴ But Paul and his associates published a number of newsletters, particularly in the period between 1988 and 1994 when Paul was no longer in Congress, dwelling on conspiracy topics like “industrial-bankingpolitical elite,” the  Bilderberg Group, the  Trilateral Commission, and the  CFR, praising anti-government militia movements and warning of coming race wars. The newsletters offered praise for  David Duke and other controversial figures. On his website,           Duke boasts of the endorsements         and kind words he received from Paul in his newsletters and in turn endorsed Paul for president. During his 1996 congressional election, Paul said the material had been taken out of context, but in later years claimed the articles were ghostwritten and that he was unaware of their content. Paul’s former staffer Eric Dondero said Paul was not telling the truth. ¹⁵ Likewise, Paul’s former secretary said, “It was  his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the           final product… He would proofit.” ¹⁶ Paul continued to deny the accusations and to disavow the material.

Dondero related that Paul’s newsletter was a joint effort between Paul and another popular political commentator,  Lew Rockwell, and others joined in later on. ¹⁷ Rockwell is an American libertarian and proponent of the Austrian School of economists, such as  Friedrich  Hayek. He formed the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, which Paul still has a close working relationship with. Ludwig von  Mises (1881 –1973), a member            of the Mont  Pelerin society, who was born to            wealthy Jewish parents in the Ukraine, was another Austrian school economist who had a significant influence on the         libertarian movement in the       US. He had also become one of the closest economic advisers of Engelbert  Dollfuss and Otto  von  Habsburg of the Knights of   Malta as well as Mont Pelerin, who were both in  Coudenhove-Kalergi’s  synarchist  Pan- European Union.

Rockwell was closely associated with a student of  von Mise,   Murray Rothbard, his teacher and colleague. Rothbard was born in the Bronx, the son of Jewish immigrants from Poland. In 1954 Rothbard, along with several other students of Ludwig   von Mises, such as George Reisman and Ralph Raico, associated with novelist  Ayn Rand. Rand was the author of two best-selling  novels, The Fountain head and Atlas Shrug ged, which offered a philosophy of selfishness,            which is the  basis   of libertarianism and  neoliberalism. According to Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism, the proper moral purpose of one’s life is the pursuit of one’s own happiness (or rational self-interest) and the only social system consistent with this morality is complete respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire  capitalism. Rothbard also made use of the insights of fascist theorists Gaetano  Mosca and Robert  Michels to build a model of state personnel, goals, and ideology.

Rockwell’s political ideology, like Rothbard’s, combines a form of anarchocapitalism with cultural conservatism and the Austrian School of economics. Rothbard considered the monopoly force of government the greatest danger to liberty, labeling the state as “the organization of robbery systematized and writ large,” and concluded that          all social services could be provided more efficiently            by the private sector.  Rothbard also lent support to the concern among conspiracy buffs about the pernicious role of the  Federal Reserve. ¹⁸ As well, Rothbard also reflected the inherent racism that afflicts much       of conservative policy. In a 1963 article, Rothbard wrote that “The Negro Revolution has some elements that a libertarian must favor, others that he must oppose. Thus, the libertarian opposes compulsory segregation and police brutality, but also opposes compulsory integration and such absurdities as ethnic quota systems in jobs.” ¹⁹ In a 2003 Southern Poverty Law Center essay, Chip Berlet commented that Rothbard was            “a man who complained  that    the Officially Oppressed’ of        American society (read, blacks, women and so on) were a ‘parasitic burden,’ forcing their ‘hapless Oppressors’ to            provide ‘an endless flow  of benefits.’” ²⁰

The Southern Poverty Law Center also lists the  Ludwig  von Mises Institute as a neo-Confederate organization. Thomas E. Woods Jr., a member of the institute’s senior faculty, is a founder of the secessionist group the League of the South, and the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, a pro-Confederate, revisionist tract published in 2004. Paul reviewed the book positively, saying that it “heroically rescues real history from the politically correct memory hole.” ²¹ As Kirchick describes:

 The people surrounding the  von Mises Institute—including Paul—may  describe themselves as libertarians, but they are nothing like the urbane libertarians who staff the Cato Institute or the libertines at Reason magazine. Instead, they represent a strain of right-wing libertarianism that views the Civil War as a catastrophic turning point in American history—the moment when a tyrannical federal government established its supremacy over the states. ²²

According to a Reasonmagazine article on the Paul newsletters, “ Rockwell and the prominent libertarian theorist  Murray Rothbard championed an open strategy of exploiting racial and class resentment to build a coalition with populist ‘paleoconservatives’…” ²³ After Paul garnered only 1 percent of the vote in a presidential run as leader of the  Libertarian Party, libertarians had searched for ways to broaden their appeal. Rockwell and Rothbard advocated a coalition of libertarians and so-called “paleoconservatives,” who unlike war-mongering “neocons” were socially conservative, noninterventionist and opposed to what they viewed as state-enforced multiculturalism. ²⁴ A detailed  description of the strategy was presented in an essay Rothbard wrote for the January 1992 Rothbard-Rockwell Report, titled “Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement,” which is summarized by Sanchez and Weigel:

Lamenting that mainstream intellectuals and opinion leaders were too invested in the status quo to be brought around to a libertarian view, Rothbard pointed to  David Duke and  Joseph  McCarthy as models for an “Outreach to the Rednecks,” which would fashion a broad libertarian/ paleoconservative coalition by targeting the disaffected working and middle classes. (Duke, a former Klansman, was discussed in strikingly similar terms in a 1990  Ron Paul Political Report.) These groups could be mobilized to oppose an expansive state, Rothbard posited, by exposing an “unholy alliance of ‘corporate liberal’ Big Business and media elites, who, through big government, have privileged and caused to rise up a parasitic Underclass, who, among them all, are looting and oppressing the bulk of the middle and working classes in America.” ²⁵

Paul’s newsletter’s outlook showed sympathy for the cause of the radical Patriot Movement, where armed revolution against the federal government was seen as  justified.  In January 1995, three months before right-wing militants bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, a newsletter listed “Ten Militia Commandments,” describing “the 1,500 local militias now training to defend liberty” as “one of the most encouraging developments in America.” ²⁶

Ron Paul has given extensive interviews to the magazine of the  John Birch Society, and has frequently been a guest of the radio show of  Alex Jones, a representative of the   Christian  Patriot Movement and the most popular propagandist of the conservative version of conspiracy. The  Patriot Movement are in complete denial of the   Masonic roots of the American Revolution and of its purpose against  Christianity in creating secularism. They have created a cult out of the “Founding Fathers,” and by denouncing the  CFR and other “Globalist” organizations for distancing the United States from the “ideals of the Constitution,” their “libertarianism,” which celebrates the cause of “ Liberty,” is a merely a call for  neoliberalism. But in following the program of the  CNP, JBS and the  Christian Identity ideology of the  Patriot Movement, Jones is also exposed to its latent white-supremacism. Therefore, Jones repeats the excuse put forward by the movement which has rebranded itself as not being against other races, but being “for” white pride, and sees the “conspiracy” as being intent on exploiting minority issues to undermine the rights of pro-gun and “freedomloving” white Americans.

Thus, by serving as the unwitting mouthpiece for their hidden neo- Nazi sympathies, Jones is acting to popularize the racist  Aryan theories that ultimately tie the conservative movement to the  New Age. Though the  New Age denies its close relationship to  Nazism, it nevertheless shares with it its roots in the thought of  Blavatsky, as expressed by Alice  Bailey. Both the  New Age and Nazism hold in common the belief in the creation of an  Aryan race by extraterrestrials on  Atlantis, which has become the basis of the  UFO phenomenon. Presented        as a fulfillment of Bailey’s “ Externalization of the Hierarchy,” and  the  Age of Aquarius, extra-terrestrials are “ Ancient Aliens” who have guided humanity throughout the centuries, and who will now come forward to lead the establishment of a  New World Order according to a  one-world religion.

Between 2005 and 2007, the Esalen Institute held three annual conferences to gather the Council of Nine. They were composed of eight channelled discarnate entities and one still living being, who included  Goethe,  Hegel, William James, Alfred North  Whitehead,  Rudolf  Steiner, Sri  Aurobindo,  Carl Jung,  Teilhard de Chardin and the  Dalai Lama.²⁷ According to Palden Jenkins, editor of the 1992 The Only Planet of Choice, a book of channeled information from The Nine by way of Puharich associate Phyllis Schlemmer, which has had an unprecedented influence over the New   Age,    an increasing number       of channellers are realizing that the real source of their wisdom is The Nine.  According to the entity named Tom, in a description reminiscent of the Gnostic idea of the battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness, the Earth was created as a battleground to enable The Nine to confront the Others, the Pleiadean followers of the Beast on a physical plane. Every being in the universe must be incarnated on Earth to experience the delights as well as challenges of free will, which exists nowhere else in the universe, hence the title, The Only Planet of Choice.

The Nine are supposedly guiding the genetic evolution of mankind by the Alteans and the Hoova, who arrived in our solar system 1.6 million years ago, to found the civilizations of  Tibet and Atlantis. They claim that they left a store of knowledge hidden beneath the  Giza plateau, which was to be used as apart of the   final    “awakening” to raise man to a new level of   spiritual awareness to the point where we as a race would be welcomed into a benevolent galactic federation. All the races of the earth are therefore part extra-terrestrial, or “divine,” except the Blacks however, who are the only truly indigenous race of Earth. According to James Hurtak in The Keys of Enoch, his guides Enoch and Metatron advised him not to allow his “…seed to marry with the fallen races of the earth.” ²⁸ Hurtak claims that Islam    has been influenced by   the “Fallen One,” and refers to Muslims as the “Children of Darkness.” According to Tom the Holocaust as a sad tragedy necessary for the creation of the state of Israel, an important part of the plan for Earth: “The greatest portion of these six million came at that time          to sacrifice self, to        make  your planet  aware  that there   were those who would attempt to rule and control humanity.” ²⁹ Ultimately, according to Tom,   Jesus and Jehovah are one and the same, and have a special relationship to The Nine.  Jesus was “the last of us to visit planet Earth.” The Second Coming will be a mass landing of extra-terrestrials, when   Jesus will return as the Messiah of the Jews.

James Hurtak, who was director of the Institute for Noetic Sciences ( IONS), where Willis Harman was president, established himself as a New Age guru, travelling the world giving workshops on his book of channelled revelations from The Nine, The Keys of Enoch.One disciple described him reverently as “almost the Messiah.” ³⁰ Hurtak was also associated with the  Human Potential Foundation, founded in 1989 by Senator  Claiborne Pell, who as well was a member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences ( IONS). Also a member of the   CFR, Pell         was a very powerful figure in Washington,       having served as Chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee from 1987 to 1994. Pell was also a  leading member of the  Club of Rome as well as friend of Aurelio  Peccei. ³¹ Pell  was also a close friend of  BCCI figure Clark Clifford. Pell was mentor to former Vice-President  Al Gore, with whom he shares an avid interest in the paranormal, with both supporting government-funded research into the matter. In 1988, Pell introduced a bill to acquire government funding for the new age group the National Committee on Human Resources, of which  Al Gore was a co-sponsor. The resolution was to establish the Center for Human Resource Development and spoke of the “normal aspiration of all citizens to more fully achieve their potential in body, mind and spirit… [and] there is a role for government to assist in research and education on techniques that promote the… fuller realization of human potential.” ³²

The  Human Potential Foundation’s president was one of Pell’s aides, C. B. “Scott” Jones, a veteran of US Navy intelligence. According to researcher Jim Schnabel, “Scott was in touch with a ring of psychics around the United States, who he occasionally put      in touch wit various intelligence officials on operational matters.” ³³ The  Human Potential Foundation also received funding from  Laurance Rockefeller. Its employees included Dick Farley, who resigned over concern that the  Council  of       Nine exercised  increasing  influence over politicians and decision-makers. He wrote that the Nine “maintain a working network of physicists and psychics, intelligence operatives and powerful billionaires, who are less concerned about their ‘source’ and its weirdness than they are about having every advantage and new data edge in what theybelieve is a battle for Earth itself.” ³⁴

IONS was founded by former astronaut  Edgar Mitchell, who has become one of the chief authorities on the supposed government “cover-up” of extraterrestrial contact. Mitchell has publicly expressed his opinions that he is “90 percent        sure that  many of            the thousands of        unidentified flying objects, or  UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets”³⁵ and that  UFOs have been the         “subject of   disinformation in order to deflect attention and to create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out.” ³⁶ He offered  his opinion that the evidence for such “alien” contact was “very strong”  and  “classified”       by  governments,  who were  covering up visitations  and           the existence of alien beings’ bodies in places such as Roswell, New Mexico. He further claimed that  UFOs had provided “sonic engineering secrets” that were helpful to the US government. ³⁷

An important promoter of the myth of alien-constructed structures on Mars  first proposed by  Hurtak is  David M. Myers, who is another channeller of  The Nine, also in contact with Tom. Myers is co-author with Britain’s  David S. Percy of Two-Thirds, a history of the galaxy and the human race according  to Myers’ other-worldly      contacts. Percy touts himself as an award-winning  film and television producer, member of the Royal Photographic Society, and is best known as a champion of the “Face on Mars” and the moon-landing hoax theory. He was involved in the making of two Moon Hoax movies, Dark Moon:  Apollo and the Whistle-Blowersand What Happened On the Moon?The “face” on Mars refers to an unusual photograph taken by Viking 1 probe in 1976 when in Mars’ orbit.

The other major proponents of the “monuments” of Mars and their alleged connection with ancient Egypt is Dr.  Richard Hoagland, who bills himself a former  NASA consultant and CBS News advisor, who has promoted this idea since 1973. In 1971, it was Hoagland who came up with the idea he passed on to Carl Sagan, of equipping the Pioneer 100,  the first space probe to leave the solar system, with a plaque bearing symbolic information about human civilization, and a diagram indicating the Earth as the third planet from the Sun. He  was also instrumental in  the campaign to name the first          space shuttle “Enterprise,” inspired by his friend Gene Roddenbery, creator of Star Trek.

In 1983, Hoagland was working for the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) on a project concerning the rings of  Saturn, and while studying photos from the Viking archive, found what he believed to be a pyramid complex near the “face” on Mars, in the Cydonia region. When Hoagland decided to set up a project to study the features further, he approached the Institute for the Study of Consciouness, founded by Arthur M. Young, who introduced him to Lambert Dolphin Jr., who had headed the SRI expedition to  Giza in the 1970s. Hoagland and Dolphin then formed the Independent Mars Mission, with funding from SRI. The American and European Director of Operations for Hoagland’s Mars Mission were, respectively, David Myers and David Percy.

According to Uri Geller, the Face on Mars had been discovered by remote viewing in the early 1970s. ³⁸ In fact, Hoagland’s interpretation of the “monuments” of Mars comes directly from  The Nine. Hoagland’s writings claim “the Face on Mars” is part of a city built on Cydonia Planitia consisting of very large pyramids and mounds arranged in a geometric pattern, which must be trying to “tell us something.” According to Hoagland:

For it is now clear… that, if appropriately researched and applied to many current global problems, the potential “radical technologies” that might be developed from the “Message   of Cydonia”  could  significantly  assist the world in a dramatic transition to a real “new world order”…  if not a literal New World. ³⁹

Hoagland described his theories in The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge  of Forever, and co-authored the book Dark Mission: The Secret History of  NASA, a New York TimesBest Seller. Hoagland claims that advanced civilizations exist or once existed on the Moon, Mars and on some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and that   NASA and the United States government have conspired to keep these facts secret as explained in the “the  Brookings Report.” Among Hoagland’s other claims are that the US government has covered up the presence of  extraterrestrials, that the Space Agency murdered the  Apollo 1 astronauts, that  NASA missions to Mars are a “well documented interest of the Bush  family,” ⁴⁰ and that there is a clandestine space program which uses antigravity technology reverse-engineered from lunar artifacts and communicated by secret societies. He goes on to say that  NASA is suppressing knowledge of an ancient civilization on the Moon, and that the advanced technology of this civilization is lying around on the Moon’s surface. ⁴¹

All related to the communications from The Nine, and the research of the SRI and ARE at   Giza in Egypt, these authors are characterized by Picknett and Prince, in Stargate Conspiracy,as part of a conspiracy for the “manipulation of beliefs about the origins and history of human civilization, in particular of beliefs about the existence of an advanced civilization in the ancient past and its influence        on  the  earliest known    historical civilizations, primarily            that  of Egypt .” ⁴² Expressed through     a number of popular pseudo-scientific non-fi            ction   works            of a    field known as “Alternative Egyptology,” the            best-known names in this conspiracy are  Robert Temple,  John Anthony West,  Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock, whose works have been instrumental in arousing interest in the “mysteries” of ancient Egypt.

In 1990, Dr. Zahi Hawass granted a license to John Anthony West and Robert Schoch, known as the Schoch Project, backed by the University of Boston, where Schoch was a professor. Also            influenced by Schwaller de Lubicz, in 1993 West’s work with Schoch was presented by Charlton Heston in a NBC special called The Mystery of the Sphinxthat won West an News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Research and a nomination for Best Documentary. Investors in the project included Dr Joseph M. Schor, one of two leading members of  ARE,  whose  aim was to  fulfill  the prediction  made  by  Edgar       Cayce in 1933 that a secret chamber would be discovered under the Sphinx that contained the so-called “Hall of Records,” a repository of Atlantean knowledge. ARE had also arranged a scholarship for Dr. Zahi  Hawass at the University of Pennsylvania, where he gained his PhD in Egyptology, before going on to become Egypt ’s Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. The project’s main discovery was water erosion on the Sphinx, but it also undertook seismographic tests to detect the possible existence of chambers beneath the Sphinx. According to Bauval and Hancock, a total of nine chambers in all were discovered, which they called the Genesis chamber. Also enthusiastic about these discoveries was Dr. Zahi Hawass, who suggested they may represent the symbolic “tomb of Osiris.” ⁴³

Also in  1993, Rudolf Gatenbrink famously sent a robot fitted with a camera to explore shafts in the pyramid of  Giza. Bauval seized upon the opportunity to interpret Gatenbrink’s data to suggest that the southern shaft of what is called the Queeen’s Chamber would have been aligned to the star Sirius in around 2450 BC, which therefore must have been the date of its construction. However, Bauval’s claim had nothing to do with the research of Gatenbrink, who rejected Bauval’s theory, but was rather developed  from ideas    first proposed by James Hurtak and derived from   Masonic literature dating back at least to the late nineteenth century. ⁴⁴

One of the many recurring themes in several of Hancock’s works has been an exposition on the “ Orion Correlation Theory” (or OCT). It was the subject of a bestseller, The  Orion Mysteryby  Robert Bauval, as well as a BBC documentary, The Great Pyramid: Gateway to the Starsin 1994. The OCT proposes  that the layout and formation of the pyramids of  Giza correspond to the stars in  the constellation of  Orion. This is taken as evidence by the authors of advanced knowledge of the stars, which would purportedly indicate the extra-terrestrial origins of its builders.

The book that launched Hancock’s career as a bestseller was The Sign and the  Seal (1992), where, following clues found in the Bible, the Grail epic of  Eschenbach and the Knights Templar, he traces the location of the Ark of the Covenant from its supposed source in ancient Egypt, to Jerusalem, and from there to its final resting            place  in Ethiopia.   In Fingerprints  of the Gods(1995), without stating so explicitly, Hancock attempts to prove the historical accounts of Theosophy, by attempting to prove that a universal cataclysm took place, presumably the sinking of Atlantis, and that numerous cultures of the ancient world report the occurrence of “white gods” who taught them the arts of civilization, the proof of which are the various enigmatic monuments around the world.

Hancock has since updated his Ancient Aliens hypothesis by marrying it with the entheogen thesis, by suggesting that “supernatural” entities such as aliens and fairies are actually transdimensional beings encountered by human beings under altered states of consciousness, most likely achieved by ingesting psilocybin  mushrooms or ayahuasca. It was through such “contact,” he proposes, that early human civilizations learned advanced skills from their encounters with these beings.

These authors started forming expectations about a  Giza discovery around year 2000, which was supposed to herald the Age of Aquarius. The source of these predictions were not only the visions of Edgar Cayce, but the traditions of  AMORC. Spencer Lewis claimed to have inside knowledge about  Giza derived from the “Rosicrucian Archives” which formed a major part of  AMORC’s beliefs. These ideas formed the bedrock of Bauval’s Project Equinox 2000, announced in 1998, and based around a group of twelve authors in addition to himself, whom he referred to as the Magic 12. It originally included GrahamHancock, John Anthony West, Andrew Collins, Robert Temple, Michal Baigent, one of the authors of the Holy Blood   Holy Grail, and Christopher Knights and Robert Lomas, authors of the Hiram Key, which contains a radical hypothesis regarding the origins of Freemasonry, seeking to demonstrate a heritage through the Knights Templar to the Jerusalem Church and Pharaoic Egypt.

The Magic 12 were to hold a series of conferences held on the equinoxes and solstices throughout the year 1999, at locations regarded as the major Hermetic sites of the world, such as  Giza, Alexandria, Stonehenge and San Jose, the headquarters of  AMORC. According to Bauval, the purpose was to perform a global ritual symbolizing the return of the Hermetic tradition to Egypt. The year’s rituals were to culminate on New Years Eve, when the 12 authors would deliver their “message to the planet” in front of the Sphinx, and which would mark the “return of the gods” to Egypt.

Hawass, who is also linked to  AMORC, had announced that a ceremony of blatant  Masonic symbolism was also to take place, where a gold capstone was going    to be  placed on the top   of the      Great Pyramid, but the event was finally cancelled due to overwhelming protests. Hawass has received widespread publicity internationally, and was the subject of a reality television series in the US, Chasing Mummies. But his links to business ventures and the   Mubarak regime have caused controversy. In connection with the awarding of a gift shop contract at the Egyptian Museum and alleged smuggling of antiquities, he was sentenced to a prison term, which was later lifted.

Most recently, the pseudo-history of these authors, as well as the ancient astronaut theorists Zecharia Sitchin and Erich von Däniken, has been popularized in another History Channel documentary, called “ Ancient Aliens.” Von Däniken was convicted of several financial crimes  including  fraud shortly after      publication   of his  first book, but later became a co-founder of the Archaeology, Astronautics and SETI Research Association (AAS RA), which produces the Legendary Times magazine, published by Giorgio Tsoukalos, the Consulting Producer for the “ Ancient Aliens” series. However, in Debunking Ancient Aliens, Chris White does an excellent job of not only making evident the dreadfully poor scholarship demonstrated by many of these authors, but also in several cases, the very bold mendacity employed in making many of their claims.

Effectively, the plot to promote  Bailey’s  New Age philosophy takes place on many fronts, even among the most vehement opponents of the “ New World Order.” One such example is the highly popular David  Icke. As revealed in another excellent documentary by Chris White, called David  Icke Debunked,  Icke claims to be imparted with insights from a spiritual entity named  Rakorski, who he also identifies with   the name St Germain. Rakorski is none other than Bailey’s Master Rakoczi, one of the  Ascended Masters of  Theosophy, Lord of Civilization, whose task is the establishment of the new civilization of the  Age of Aquarius. Icke calls him the Lord of All Creation, saying that he is “directly responsible for the changes the earth will undergo.” Essentially,  Icke, like other conspiracy researchers such as Jordan Maxwell, Michael Tsarion, and Acharya S,is an ardent critic of the  Illuminati, but presents the myriad speculations of  Theosophy as the truth being suppressed. All his main teachings are  Theosophical.

In 1989, Icke began to feel a presence around him, and in 1990 a voice told him to look in a bookstore at a particular section of books, one of which was by Betty Shine, a psychic healer. When he met her, Shine told him that she had a message for him from Wang Yee Lee, a being who she said looked like a Chinese mandarin and had Socrates standing next to him, that Icke had been sent to heal the Earth and that the spirit world was going to pass ideas to him. Icke decided in 1991 to visit the pre-Inca Sillustani burial ground near Puno, Peru,      where he became  fixated at a          certain mound in a circle of stones, and felt a number of powerful sensations and new ideas began to pour into him. He described it later as the “kundalini,” exploding up through his spine, activating his brain and his Chakras, triggering a higher level of consciousness. He returned to England and began to write a book about the experience, which he titled Truth Vibrations. Icke wrote that he had been channeling for some time, and had received a message through automatic writing that he was a “Son of the          Godhead,”   interpreting “Godhead”   as the “Infinite Mind.”

Michael Barkun has described Icke’s position as “New Age conspiracism.” To  Icke, the  Illuminati are the enemies of the  New Age. The  Illuminati, to Icke, are descended from ETs, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, reptilians humanoid beings from the constellation Draco, and who live in tunnels and caverns inside the earth. In his book on the reptilians, Children of the Matrix, Icke also made extensive use of Maurice  Doreal’s translation of the so-called Emerald Tablets, where he presented dire political warning about a Serpent Race. According to   Icke, the tablets were found in a   Mayan temple where they had been deposited by Egyptian priests. Their supposed author,  Thoth, had written them thirty-six thousand years ago in an Atlantean colony in Egypt. Based on the influence    of Zecharia   Sitchin,  Icke argues that the reptilians are the race of gods known as the Anunnaki in the Babylonian creation myth, Enuma Elish.

One of the main sources for David  Icke’s  reptilian hypothesis is a woman who goes by the name of Arizona Wilder. But on her Facebook page, she apparently retracted anything she confessed to  Icke, claiming she was deliberately programed for the interview. ⁴⁵ Another of David  Icke’s sources for the  reptilian theory is Stewart Swerdlow, who claims to have been a victim of a mind control operation at Montauk Point from the age of 14 in the early seventies, when he was one of the so-called “Montauk Boys.” He claims to have personally witnessed Lawrence Gardner, author of Bloodlines of the  Holy  Grail, and conservative pundit  William F. Buckley, shapeshift into  reptilian form            during a human sacrifice ritual. Swerdlow also claims his great-uncle, Yakov Sverdlov, was the  first president of the  Soviet Union, and that his grandfather helped found the Communist Party in the United States in the 1930s. To ensure his loyalty to the US government, he says, he was  “recruited” for specific government       mind-control research,            including 13 years  at the  Montauk Project, which was supposed to have enhanced his natural abilities.⁴⁶ Janet Diane Mourglia-Swerdlow, Swerdlow’s wife and partner in offering their psychic healing services, “sees and hears frequencies on all levels,” an ability she ascribes of her mix of American Indian and Celtic ancestry, as well as her lineage from  Mary Magdalene, which extends back through to the Waldensian heretics.⁴⁷

Icke is a classic example of the  Aryan    racism that   typifies the channeled information of the occult.   Icke teaches that Martians came to Earth and founded the  Aryan race, which the reptilians used as a vehicle to overtake the planet, and that the  Aryans who inhabited  Atlantis were blond giants whose skin glowed white. As  Atlantis was destroyed, our ultimate objective is to reattain the powers we once had. According to  Icke, we will enter the  New Age by rediscovering our hidden psychological potential.  Icke said, “Many of you will remember the Atlantean times, you will remember you communicated with, say, dolphins and whales, you understood these sentient creatures, you could levitate, you could manifest things, you could cause spontaneous combustion by not miraculous means at all.” ⁴⁸

Icke is gifted with an affable charm that is the key to his popularity, and gives every impression that he is sincere. According to Nicholas GoodrickClark, author of  Black Sun:  Aryan Cults, Esoteric  Nazism and the Politics of Identity, “it is clear from   Icke’s book that he is a transmitter of this information rather than its originator. …Who is then guiding  Icke and his  New Age following toward the beliefs of the  millenarian-conspiracy cults?”⁴⁹ He remarks that recent investigations by Matthew Kalman and John Murray of Open Eyemagazine suggest that far-right and neo- Nazi groups are exploiting   Icke to penetrate the Green and  New Age movements.

In his book The Robots’ Rebellion,   Icke praised the popular  New Age magazine Nexus, which has been exposed for its far-right links. Nexus’range of topics cover “prophecies,   UFOs, Big Brother, the unexplained, suppressed technology, hidden history and more.” Although formerly concerned primarily with Green issues and  Third World causes,  Nexustook up the subject of the US  Patriot movement under its new editor Duncan M. Roads. Roads visited Qadda fi  in  Libya in 1989, and is a close friend of the right-wing   Qaddafi supporter and convert to  Islam, Robert Pash. In the late 1970s, Pash was the Australian contact for the US-based  Aryan Nations and distributed material of the  Ku Klux Klan. As chairman of the Australian Peoples Congress, Pash is also closely involved with the Australian League of Rights, an ultra-right anti-Semitic organization. Among Pash’s other introductions to  Libya is John Bennett, president of the Australian Civil Liberties Union, and an associate of  Holocaust denier David Irving and Willis  Carto. Bennett serves on the editorial committee of  Carto’s Journal of Historical Review. Nexus’British agent is also an admirer of Irving and a  Holocaust denier.50

The London-based  New Age magazine Rainbow Ark            maintainsan  influential  relationship with  Icke, printing excerpts of his work and helping to organize his lectures and meetings. The magazine betrays a wide range of far-right links. In particular is Donald Martin, the anti-Semitic publisher of Bloomfield Books,   who is the leader of the British League of Rights. Donald Martin represents the Australian League of Rights that Robert Pash is involved in. Martin has also run the ultra-right British Federation for European Freedom and the UK armof the  World Anti-Communist League ( WACL). Donald Martin has published in Spearhead, the magazine of John Tyndall, leader of the British National Party, who regards Martin as his ally in opposing immigration. Tyndall, an admirer of Sir  Oswald Mosley, was a former deputy to  Colin Jordan of the neo- Nazi National Socialist Movement in the early 1960s, and corresponded with  Savitri Devi. In 1963, Tyndall eventually fell out with Jordan over Françoise  Dior who, though originally engaged to Tyndall, hastily married Jordan who had been released from prison before him, to avoid being expelled from Britain as an undesirable alien.

In 2004, Tyndall joined in signing the   New Orleans Protocol, written by David Duke. In 2004, Duke organized a weekend gathering of “European Nationalists,” in the spirit of white nationalism in Kenner, Louisiana. In an attempt to overcome the divisiveness that had followed the death of William Pierce in 2002, Duke presented a unity proposal for peace within the movement. His proposal, now known as the New Orleans Protocol, pledged adherents to a pan-European outlook, recognizing national and ethnic allegiance, but stressing the value of all European peoples. The Protocol was signed by and sponsored by a number of white supremacist leaders and organizations, including Don Black and Willis  Carto.

The editor of Rainbow Arkhas steered  Icke toward meetings with militant  US patriots,            and recommended Bloomfield Books. The same editor has hinted at their manipulation of  Icke, by suggesting Icke wasn’t “ready for this yet,”  referring to a spoof document entitled Further  Protocols,outlining plans of  “secret  Zionism” for the “Goyim.”

Ultimately, David  Icke’s message like that of the  New Age itself, spells consequences with fascist overtones, foreboding a new holocaust intended for the “fundamentalists” of  Islam,  Christianity, and  Judaism, who refuse to adapt their age-old faiths for the ecumenism of the  New Age movement. According to  New Age or occult interpretation, the Atlanteans were destroyed because of their transgressions. Likewise, despite their wishy-washy claims of universal brotherhood and tolerance, the  New Age warns of a coming confrontation with all those who resist the transformation promised by the  Age of Aquarius. Betraying these same fascist tendencies, according to Alice   Bailey, “…let us never forget that its the Life, its purpose and its directed intentional destiny that’s of importance; and also that when a form proves inadequate, or too diseased or too crippled for the expression of that purpose, it is—from the point of view of the Hierarchy—no disaster when that form has to go. Death is not a disaster to be feared; the work of the Destroyer is not really cruel or undesirable… Therefore, there is much destruction permitted by the Custodians of the Plan and much evil turned into good…” ⁵¹ Similarly, according to David  Icke:

I do not seek to hide the severity of this period of fundamental change. It will be tough for every one of us… Many will return to light levels (die) in the wake of the physical events and the quickening vibrations. The Earth Spirit is already rising up the subplanes, and through the years ahead she will progress through the whole frequencies in her journey back to  Atlantis and beyond… Those who cannot quicken their own vibrations through love         and balance will find themselves out of  synchronization with the environment around them. This process is already apparent. ⁵²

Conspiracy Theory Part 3

Another popular author who employs the conspiracy genre to preach a  New Age doctrine is  Jim  Marrs.  Marrs is a prominent figure  in  the  JFK conspiracy press and his book Crossfi re, which reached the New York Times Paperback Non-Fiction Best Seller list in 1992, was a source for Oliver Stone’s film JFK. Marrs’ Rule By Secrecydescribes a conspiracy linking the  Round Table, Skull and Bones, the   Trilateral Commission, the  Illuminati, and the   Templar, as making use of the knowledge of the ancient mystery schools, revealed to ancient civilizations by extra-terrestrials. In support of his claims, Marrs resorts to the new Egyptologists, as well as David  Icke,  von Däniken,  Sitchin and even the prophecies of  Edgar Cayce. He quotes  Icke as an authority, according to whom humans were creations engineered by extra-terrestrials, who are “a race of interbreeding [‘royal’ reptile-human hybrid] bloodlines… were centered in the  Middle East and Near East in the ancient world and, over the thousands of years since, have expanded their power across the globe… creating institutions like religions to mentally and emotionally imprison the masses and set them at war with each other.” ⁵³ Marrs also quotes  Masonic historian Manly P. Hall, “The ancient knowledge was given to early man by “their progenitors, the Serpent Kings, who reigned over the Earth. It was these Serpent Kings who founded the Mystery Schools… and other forms of ancient occultism.” ⁵⁴

To Marrs, the   Templars were “non-conformists” mistreated by the evil Catholics, and preserved these traditions that were inherited by the  Freemasons and other secret societies. Therefore, Marrs concludes: “Since it has been clearly demonstrated that this knowledge—or view of the world—is still tightly held within the inner sanctums of the secret societies, there appear to be but three possibilities: the small inner elite continues to accumulate wealth and power in the hope of contacting our ancient creators (nonhuman intelligences); or they have already achieved such contact and are being guided or controlled; or they are the ancient creators, the Anunnaki, the Serpent Kings.” ⁵⁵

These claims are similar to those put forward by   Dan Brown in his latest novel, The Lost Symbol. Throughout all his books we are teased to believe that the secret societies have been preserving a hidden truth contrary to the teachings of the organized religions. Similarly, in The Lost Symbol, we are pulled into a labyrinth of plot twists only to discover, after all, that the “Lost Symbol,” the Holy  Grail as it were, the great secret that has been kept from us over so many centuries, is the  Bible ! But,   Dan Brown explains, it’s not the   Bibleyou or I read, and he quotes from occult artist  William Blake who confessed, “Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.” In other words, the secret is in an inverse  Gnostic or Luciferian interpretation of the  Bible, the hidden esoteric interpretation of the  Kabbalah . And what is that? That there is no God outside of ourselves and that, allowed to discover our true “potential,”  we will find that            we possess   “divine” powers to be able          to perform works of magic, by which we will become like “gods” and, supposedly, transform our world for the better.

Effectively, it would seem, what is being prepared is the revelation of the expected messiah, known as  Maitreya, the  Mahdi,  St. Germain and Christ, the “King of the  Jews” of the  Protocols, the proposed leader of the  New World Order, who will come down to earth in, as the ancients ignorantly described,  a flaming chariot, which in actuality, we are to believe, will be         a  flying            saucer. This scenario mirrors allegations presented in 1994 by Quebecois journalist and conspiracy theorist Serge Monast. Monast claims to reveal a secret plot known as  Project Blue Beam, with the assistance of  NASA, to attempt to implement a  New Age religion with the Antichrist at its head and start a  New World Order, via a technologically-simulated Second Coming. The image of God speaking in all languages will appear in a gigantic “space show” with laser projections of multiple 3-dimensional holographic images worldwide. The project was apparently supposed to be implemented in 1983, but was postponed several times, first to 1995, 1996, and finally by the year 2000.

As absurd as this prognostication may appear to be, these are precisely the expectations of many New Agers, and who knows what other groups, which may include secret societies,  UFO religions,   neo- Nazis and so on. And, given the success of the  2012 hullabaloo, we may wonder to what extent these same expectations         will filter to the rest of society,   and to what effect.           

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BLACK TERROR WHITE SOLDIER PART 43

Islam & Democracy Part 2

At the farthest fringe is  Irshad Manji, the lesbian Muslim “refusenik” who first wrote The Trouble With  Islam, and has since created a website called Project  Ijtihad. “Manji” is a common Ismaili name, and her family are originally from Uganda, which was heavily settled by Ismailis. But Irshad denies the connection, as it would obviously undermine her crusade against Islam.

But likely the most recognized modern proponent of the renewal of  Ijtihadis  Tariq Ramadan, the son of   Said Ramadan, and grandson of Hassan  al Banna, the founder of the  Muslim Brotherhood, currently Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University. Reflecting  some  of    the prerogatives outlined in the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Project,” and completely disregarding the traditions of the Madhhabs, Tariq Ramadan believes that Muslims in the West must create a “Western  Islam,” just as there is a separate “Asian  Islam” and an “African  Islam,” which supposedly take into account cultural differences. European Muslims, he believes, must reexamine the fundamental texts of  Islam and interpret them in light of their own cultural  background,            but influenced by European society.          Blah,   blah,   blah…

The American strategy to manipulate the topic of  Ijtihadwas laid bare in a conference in 2004, sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace ( USIP), which was created by Congress as a non-partisan, federal institution and publishes works on  interfaith dialogue and peacebuilding. The conference was titled, tellingly enough, “ Ijtihad: Reinterpreting Islamic Principles for the    Twenty-first Century.”  The  four  presenters,  all    considered  “experts”     on Islamic law and interpretation, included Muzammil H. Siddiqi, a member of the Fiqh (Islamic Law) Council of North America who teaches at California State University and Chapman University; Imam Hassan Qazwini, director of the Islamic Center of America, based in Detroit; Muneer Fareed, associate professor of Islamic studies at Wayne State University; and Ingrid Mattson of the Islamic Society of North America ( ISNA), a  Muslim Brotherhood front.

ISNA developed from the American branch of the Muslim Students Associations ( MSA),  both  affiliates of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Munich Islamic Center. The  Muslim Brotherhood trio of  Tontonji,  Barzinji and  Altallib, after study in Britain, had left for the US in the 1960’s, settling in Indianapolis, evidently in pursuit of the goals of “The Project.” They used Saudi  money  to build a national headquarters  in            Plainfield, Indiana. There            they created several  Muslim Brotherhood fronts: the North American Islamic Trust, used to provide  Shar iah“compliant” mortgages for mosque construction and expansion; the Muslim Student Association ( MSA); and   ISNA, which became the largest Muslim advocacy group in the US. ¹² In 1980, they also branched into the Council on American-Islamic Relations ( CAIR), America’s largest Muslim civil liberties advocacy organization, created in 1994. However, in 2007 the organization was named by US Federal prosecutors in a list of unindicted co-conspirators in a   Hamas funding case involving the Holy Land Foundation, which caused the  FBI to cease working with  CAIR outside of  criminal investigations.

Despite the  USIP conference attendees’ known ties to Islamic extremism, it included on its board the rabid Islamophobe, the son of neoconservative Richard Pipes,  Daniel Pipes, who was appointed to the  Middle East Forum by  George W. Bush in 2003. Pipes was named in a 140-page report titled Fear, Inc.: The  Roots of the  Islamophobia Network in Americaby the Center for American Progress as one of five who form   a “small, tightly networked group of misinformation            experts guiding an effort that reaches millions of Americans through effective advocates, media partners, and grassroots organizing.” Other than Pipes, they include Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, David Yerushalmi of the Society of Americans for National Existence, Robert Spencer of  Jihad Watch and Stop Islamization of America, and Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. The group received more than $40 million from the typical Rockefeller and  CIA-connected right-wing donors, like  Richard Scaife, the  Bradley Foundation and others who also fund   Zionist activities. Despite confessing to not known which tradition is truer to the Quran —traditional Islam, Islamism or “moderate” Islam —Pipes has written, “It’s a mistake to blame  Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant  Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant  Islam is the problem, but moderate  Islam is the solution.” ¹³

The  USIP study was co-chaired by Radwan Masmoudi and David Smock. Smock was a past staff member of the  Ford Foundation and executive associate to the president of the United Church of Christ, which places high emphasis on worldwide interfaith efforts. Masmoudi is president of the Center for the Study of  Islam and Democracy (CSID). According to Masmoudi, paraphrased in the USIP report, the closing of  Ijtihad“was the beginning of the decline of Muslim civilization. Since then, Islamic law has become increasingly detached from reality and modernity. Old interpretations no longer provide suitable answers to the difficult questions facing the Muslim world.”          Likewise, another panelist was Muzammil H. Siddiqi, a member of the Fiqh Council of North America, who was educated at the University of Medina, the preeminent  Wahhabi institution. According to Siddiqi, there cannot be true  Ijtihadunless scholars are free to express their opinions and therefore, that the “democratization” of Muslim societies is necessary for the process to work. Siddiqi also proposes undermining the authority of the  Madhhabs, suggesting that students should learn from all of  them, but then further dilute the process through the study as well of comparative  religion, modern logic, philosophy and history, economics and political theory.  As the report summarizes:

As Masmoudi pointed out, all four panelists mentioned the lack of freedom and  democracy as serious impediments to  Ijtihad. Without freedom and  democracy, which are sharply limited in the Muslim world and particularly in Arab countries,  Ijtihadcannot be performed. Democracy is the key to opening up  Ijtihad, and  Ijtihadis the key to solving the principle problems confronting the Muslim world today. ¹⁴

Despite the earnest sounding calls for reform and  democracy, they serve to disguise plans for Western imperialism. CSID program         officer Aly Abuzakuk was a founding member of the National Front for the Salvation of  Libya (NFSL), a  group  dedicated  to assassinating Muammar Qaddafi  and overthrowing        his regime. According to several sources, the NFSL was supported by  Saudi Arabia and the  CIA. ¹⁵ On March 16, 2011, Masmoudi was signatory to a letter to President Obama requesting him to “assume a leading role in halting the horrifi      c violence being perpetrated by       Colonel Qaddafi’s  forces,” urging him to create a coalition to impose  a        no-fly  zone  over Libya. ¹⁶ The rebel forces in  Libya were led by Abdelhakim Belhaj, who had fought with the  Mujahideenin  Afghanistan, before being arrested by the  CIA in 2504 who “renditioned” him back to  Libya, where he underwent “deradicalization.” Belhaj and his associates formed the “Islamic Movement for Change” and called for  NATO to intervene on the rebels’ behalf.¹⁷

Evidently, the goals of the modernists and the fundamentalists are not too far apart, but converge in their use of “democracy” as a revolutionary principle to  upturn  their governments,  in fulfillment of       the     neoconservative plan for            the wholesale reorganization of the Middle East. Thus, the American invasion of Iraq was just a prelude where the neoconservative ivory tower commandos would brazenly exploit the lives of young Americans in the advancement of their  Zionist ambitions in the region, continuing the use of “freedom” as a  Noble Lie to topple the various governments of the  Middle East, now known as the  Arab Spring.

Ledeen prescribed that a destructive dynamism would transform the Middle East, not only Iraq, but also  Syria,  Saudi Arabia,   Iran, and beyond. According to  Ledeen, the governments of all these countries must be overthrown, either by a US-supported internal rebellion or by outright military invasion.  Ledeen predicted:

Our unexpectedly quick and impressive victory in  Afghanistan is a prelude to a much broader war, which will in all likelihood transform the  Middle East for at least a generation, and reshape the politics of many other countries around the world.¹⁸

Similarly,  Richard Perle’s book An End to Evil: How to Win the War on  Terror, coauthored with fellow neoconservative   David Frum, son of wellk nown Canadian journalist and broadcaster Barbara Frum, in 2004, criticized  American bureaucracy, suggesting that “we” as “Americans” must “overhaul the institutions of our government to ready them for a new kind of war against a new kind of enemy” including the  FBI,  CIA, armed forces, and State Department.¹⁹ The book also defends the 2003 invasion of Iraq and outlines

important neoconservative aspirations, including ways to abandon all IsraeliPalestinian peace processes, invade  Syria, and implement strict US domestic surveillance, with biometric identity cards and public vigilance to hinder potential terrorist immigrant or terrorist sympathizer threats. Perle and Frum conclude, shamelessly: “For us,  terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause… There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.”²⁰

Evidently, the countries  Ledeen lists in the  Middle East do not present a “clear and present” danger to the United States. All these abstract articulations were designed to hide the ignoble pursuit of Israeli foreign policy objectives, as outlined in the  Clean Breakstrategy. Acts of “preemption,” as it prescribed, would therefore include  Israel engaging   Hezbollah,  Syria, and  Iran, by confronting their proxies in  Lebanon. Political commentator Phyllis Bennis pointed to the obvious similarities between the strategies outlined in the Clean Breakand the subsequent 2006  Israel- Lebanon conflict. ²¹ Already in  September 2006, Taki of The American Conservativereported:

…recently,  Netanyahu suggested that President Bush had assured him Iran will be prevented from going nuclear. I take him at his word. Netanyahu seems       to be the main         mover in America’s official adoption of the 1996 white paper A  Clean Break, authored by him and American fellow neocons, which aimed to aggressively remake the strategic environments of Iraq,   Palestine,  Lebanon,  Syria, and   Iran. As they say in boxing circles, three down, two to go.

Shortly after, Joshua Muravchik, a self-confessed “dyed-in-the-wool, truebeliever neocon,” outlined the pretext for America spreading “ democracy” at the point of a gun. Speaking for the  neoconservatives:

We agreed on the need to address the root causes of  terrorism, but for us that root cause was the political culture of the  Middle East. Political culture did not mean  Islam. Rather, it meant a habit of conducting politics by means of violence. At the time of the attacks, not one of the region’s rulers (apart from  Israel’s) had been freely elected to his post.  All relied on force and intimidation.

     The neocon solution involved overhauling the way the region thinks about politics so that  terrorism would no longer seem reasonable. This was a wildly ambitious idea, of course, but similar transformations had occurred in Europe and much of Asia over the previous half-century. If democracy had shown its potency in discouraging war elsewhere, it stood to reason that it also could be a cure to  terrorism in the  Middle East.²²

The eradication of  terrorism and the imposition of  democracy is of course a pretext. The numerous regimes of the  Middle East are clearly not democratic, but corrupt and often brutal. However, these countries all originated in divisions \imposed by the British and French after the dissolution of the  Ottoman Empire following  World War I, and often in support of   Zionist ambitions. And, these puppet regimes have been headed by dictators who have all achieved and have since maintained power over the years through American support.

The upheavals of the  Arab Spring fall within the context of  George W. Bush’s Greater  Middle East Project, proclaimed after 2001 to bring “ democracy” and “liberal free market” economic reform to the Islamic countries from  Afghanistan to Morocco. ²³ In advance of the several revolutions of the   Arab Spring, as the Wall Street Journalwas already reporting in 2007, the State Department’s intelligence unit organized a conference of  Middle East experts to examine the merits of engagement with the  Muslim Brotherhood, particularly in Egypt and  Syria.            According to            officials, US diplomats and politicians have also met with legislators from parties connected to the  Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan,  Egypt, and Iraq, to hear their views on democratic reforms in the  Middle East.²⁴

As William Engdahl was reporting in April 2011, “contrary to the carefully-cultivated impression that the Obama Administration is trying to retain the present regime of  Mubarak, Washington in fact is orchestrating the Egyptian as well as other regional regime changes from  Syria to Yemen to Jordan and well beyond in a process some refer to as ‘creative destruction’.” ²⁵ As Engdahl reveals, the template for such covert regime change was developed by the Pentagon, US intelligence and various think-tanks such as the ubiquitous RAND Corporation. Kefaya was at the center of the unfolding Egyptian uprisings, with the  Muslim Brotherhood involved in the background. The word “Kefaya” translates to “enough!” The formal name of Kefaya is Egyptian Movement for Change, founded in 2004 by several Egyptian intellectuals at the home of Abu‘l-Ala Madi, leader of the al Wasat, a party reportedly created by the  Muslim Brotherhood.26

RAND Corporation has conducted a detailed study of Kefaya, sponsored by  the  Office  of the  Secretary      of Defense, the Joint Staff,  the  Unified        Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies and the defense Intelligence Community. The study notes that while the invasion of Iraq showed questionable success, “indigenous reform movements are best positioned to advance democratization in their own country.” ²⁷ In 2008, the  RAND National Security Research Division’s Alternative Strategy Initiative includes, in its own words, “research on creative use of the media, radicalization of youth, civic involvement to stem sectarian violence, the provision of social services to mobilize aggrieved sectors of indigenous populations, and the topic of this volume, alternative movements.” ²⁸

In May 2009, just before Obama’s Cairo trip to meet  Mubarak, US Secretary of State  Hillary Clinton hosted a number of the young Egyptian activists in Washington under the auspices of  Freedom House, another “ human rights” Washington-based NGO, with a long history of involvement in US-sponsored regime change operations from Serbia to Georgia to Ukraine. Clinton and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, met the sixteen activists at the end of a two-month “fellowship,” organized by  Freedom House’s New Generation program.²⁹

Freedom House and US government-funded NGO, National Endowment for Democracy ( NED) are the key actors behind the so-called  Arab Spring. Two subsidiary organizations of the  NED are the International RepublicanInstitute and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, mentioned by the  RAND document study of Kefaya as recommending carrying training of reformers. The  NED is active in all the countries that have experienced “spontaneous” popular uprisings: Tunisia, Egypt , Jordan, Kuwait, Libya,  Syria, Yemen, and            Sudan. As the architect and first head of the NED, Allen Weinstein told the Washington Postin 1991, “a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the  CIA.” ³⁰ The late political analyst Barbara Conry noted that “ NED has taken advantage of its alleged private status to influence foreign           elections, an           activity  that is beyond  the scope of AID or  USIA and would otherwise be possible only through a  CIA covert operation. Such activities, it may also be worth noting, would be illegal for foreign groups operating in the United States.” ³¹

While the upheavals of the  Arab Spring were represented in the media as popular demands for  democracy, they were manufactured by the US as a means to reorganize the  Middle East, by employing the  Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis who, unbeknownst to    Westerners, in their own    way, have characterized the same uprisings as Islamic revolutions. Therefore, on February 18, after the 2011 Egyptian “revolution,” Friday prayers were led in Tahrir Square for an audience estimated to exceed two million Egyptians by Yusuf al  Qaradawi.

A partner with Youssef Nada in the founding of Bank al Taqwa, today Qaradawi is best known for his TV program, ash- Shar iah wal-Hayat(“ Shariah and Life”), broadcast on Al Jazeera, which has an estimated audience of sixty million worldwide. He is also the founder of a popular website, Islam Online, for which he now serves as chief religious scholar. Given his media profile,            Qaradawi’s views tend to be contradictory so as to, at times, attempt to appease Western criticisms of  Islam, while at others exemplifying the type of extremism on which those same criticisms are founded.     This is often  reflective of the      Muslim Brotherhood ’s varying political aspirations. Because they seek success through the democratic process in Egypt, the  Muslim Brotherhood are unable to express their more radical views openly, despite their support for  terrorism elsewhere. Similarly, Qaradawi has been guilty of anti-Semitic pronouncements and of denouncing suicide-bombing, unless perpetrated by Palestinians. He condones suicide attacks on all Israelis including women, since Israeli society is “completely military” and does not include any “civilians.” ³²  He also considers pregnant women and their unborn children to be valid targets, as the babies could grow up to join the Israeli Army.³³ And yet,  Qaradawi has spoken in favor of  democracy in the Muslim world. On February 22, 2011, he held an exclusive interview with OnIslam.net, dismissing the allegation that he wanted a religious state established in Egypt :  “On the contrary, my speech supported establishing a civil state with a religious background, I am totally against theocracy. We are not a state for mullahs. ³⁴

The Muslim brotherhood won the Egyptian elections on 24 June 2012. Mohamed Morsi became         the  first president-elect  of  Egypt  after the            2011 Egyptian revolution, backed by the  Muslim Brotherhood.

Similarly, on behalf of the Americans, armed and   Saudi-funded  Salafi s have been brought in to help destabilize the government of  Iran’s strategic ally in the region,  Syria. ³⁵ According to the Wall Street Journal, the  CIA have been working with  Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and other allies, in helping the opposition Free Syrian Army (FSA) develop logistical routes for moving supplies into  Syria and providing         communications training. US officials  have   also been considering sharing intelligence with FSA, to allow the rebels to evade pro-Assad  forces. ³⁶ The New York Times      reported that, according to American offi cials and Arab  intelligence  officers,  CIA officers inside of  Turkey  have       been  providing support  to Syrian opposition fighters. The weapons,      including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and some antitank weapons are being transmitted by way of a network of intermediaries including  Syria’s  Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey,  Saudi Arabia and Qatar. “ CIA officers are there and they are trying to make new sources and recruit people,” said one Arab intelligence official. ³⁷

American subversive activities in  Syria have been coordinated through a Muslim Brotherhood -connected organization, the National Salvation Front (NSF), which unites liberal democrats, Kurds, Marxists and former Syrian officials in an effort to transform President            Assad’s regime. The founders of the NSF were Ali Sadreddin Al Bayanouni who took over as president of the Brotherhood’s Syrian arm in 1979, and Abdul Halim Khaddam,  Syria’s vice president until 2005 who            criticized Assad’s   rule and fled            to Paris. Initial contact between the White House and the NSF was forged by Najib Ghadbian, a University of Arkansas political scientist, who suggested the US work with his group and its contacts, including the Muslim Brotherhood. Ghadbian began meeting with the deputies of prominent neoconservative and former  Iran Contra operative  Elliot Abrams, the White House’s chief  Middle East adviser in 2006. Through these intermediaries, as the Wall Street Journalreported, “the White House exhorted the NSF to build a wide coalition of opposition groups and to run it in a transparent and democratic manner.” ³⁸

As noted by Charlie Skelton in The Guardian, “Indeed, a number of key figures  in  the Syrian  opposition movement      are  long-term exiles who           were receiving US government funding to undermine the Assad government long before the Arab spring broke out.” ³⁹ Generally recognized as “the main opposition coalition” is the Syrian National Council ( SNC). Also a part of the NSF group, The Washington Timesdescribed the  SNC as “an umbrella group of rival factions based outside  Syria.” ⁴⁰ The most senior of the  SNC’s official spokespeople is the Paris-based Syrian academic Bassma Kodmani, who in 2012 attended her second  Bilderberg conference. In 2005, Kodmani was working for the  Ford Foundation in Cairo, and in September of that year, was made the executive director of the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI), a research program of the  Council on Foreign Relations ( CFR). More specifically, the  ARI was initiated by a group within the  CFR called the “US/ Middle East Project,” chaired by General (Ret.)  Brent Scowcroft, a former national security adviser to the US president, also listed in Sibel Edmond’s “State Secrets Privilege Gallery.” Sitting alongside Scowcroft was  Brzezinski. Earlier in 2005, the CFR assigned “financial oversight” of the project to the Center for EuropeanReform (CER). The CER is overseen by Lord Kerr, the deputy chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, a former head of the diplomatic service and a senior adviser at      the influential British think-tank,  Chatham House. ⁴¹

Another oft-quoted  SNC representative is Radwan Ziadeh, a senior fellow at the  USIP. In February 2012, Ziadeh joined in signing a letter calling on Obama to intervene in  Syria, along with former head of the  CIA  James Woolsey,  Karl Rove, and Elizabeth Cheney, former head of the Pentagon’s Iran- Syria Operations Group. In 2009 Ziadeh became a visiting fellow at Chatham House, and in June of 2011 was featured on the panel at one of their events, “Envisioning  Syria’s Political Future,” sharing a platform with fellow SNC members Ausama Monajed and Najib Ghadbian. Along with Kodmani and Ziadeh, Monajed is one of the most important  SNC spokespeople. He is the founder and director of Barada Television, a pro-opposition satellite channel based in Vauxhall, south London. According to the Washington Post’s         report: “Barada TV       is closely affiliated  with the Movement for Justice and      Development,  a London-based            network of Syrian  exiles.  Classified US          diplomatic cables show that the state department has funneled as much as $6 to the        group since 2006    to operate the satellite channel and finance          other activities inside  Syria.” ⁴²

In a USA Todayop-ed written in February 2012, Ambassador Dennis Ross declared: “It is time to raise the status of the Syrian National Council,” urging for the creation of “an aura of inevitability about the  SNC as the alternative to Assad.” ⁴³ One of the most widely quoted western experts on  Syria and a proponent of western intervention is Michael Weiss. Weiss is also the director of communications and public relations at the Henry Jackson Society, whose international patrons include leading   neoconservatives like  James Woolsey, Michael Chertoff,  William Kristol,  Robert Kagan and  Richard Perle. Weiss is the author of the influential report Intervention in  Syria? An Assessment of Legality, Logistics and Hazards, which was endorsed by the  SNC. Hamza Fakher, a Syrian pro- democracy activist, is the co-author with Weiss of Revolution in Danger, a “Henry          Jackson  Society  Strategic  Briefing,”  published  in February of            2012.            Fakher is the communication manager of the London-based Strategic Research and Communication Center (SRCC), founded by Ausama Monajed. On the board of the SRCC is Murhaf Jouejati, a professor at the National Defence University in DC, “the premier center for Joint Professional Military Education (JPME)” which is “under the direction of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.” ⁴⁴

Ideally, Muslims will soon awake to the deception, as next on the neoconservative agenda is  Iran. As he once cried wolf about the Soviet sponsorship of international  terrorism,  Ledeen now rails against Iranian  terrorism in his recent book The Terror Masters: Why It Happened. Where We Are Now. How We’ll Win. According to the Pacifi c News Serviceof May 19,   Ledeen gave a speech at a  JINSA policy forum on April 30, 2011, titled “Time to Focus on  Iran—The Mother of Modern Terrorism.”

Conspiracy Theory Part 1

However, for those astute enough to recognize that the mainstream media are purveyors of lies, and that conspiracies do exist, just as there are left-wing intellectuals to manipulate the debate, so too is the information on conspiracies rife with disinformers to corral the curious into particular beliefs systems and ideologies. At every step of the way as a person advances towards the truth, there is a new snare to deceive him. As a Hadithrelates: “The Messenger of God [Mohammed] drew a line for us and then said: ‘This is the Straight Path of God.’  And he drew lines on the left and right of it, and then said: ‘These are paths of which there is not one except that there is a devil upon it calling towards it.”

As noted by Ernie Lazar, a researcher focused on exposing the lies and sordid connections of modern conspiracy theorists, “We all know that conspiracies exist”:

However: the entire purpose of most political conspiracy theories is NOT to carefully present evidence and then use reason and logic to  arrive at sound,  verifiable conclusions. Instead,  most political conspiracy theories are primarily an intellectual device by which individuals and organizations identify and demonize their perceived enemies whom they propose to vanquish. ¹

The intensity of the propaganda against the “threat” of communism has bullied the Left almost into submission, who have had to reinvent themselves, now instead calling themselves “progressives.” However, much like the “noncommunist left” deployed by the CIA of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) and Operation Mockingbird, today’s Left serve as “gate-keepers,” who are willing the chastise America for its “imperialism” and various other abuses, as long as these critiques don’t slip into the realm of “conspiracy theory.”

Regrettably, the Left have enforced upon themselves a sort of self censorship,           where they have confined themselves  to a    listof tenets  that    are believed to conform to “progressive” dialogue. These are a set of neo-Marxist criticisms of the state and economy, combined with the gamut of “liberal” values, denounced by the Right as “political correctness,” such as women’s rights, same-sex marriage, abortion, and denunciations of racism. However, the concerns of the Left, while often valid, are also for the most part formed from prejudices against religion. The trick of liberal values is they appeal to a sense of compassion, but those who have chosen to exercise concern for others are too easily duped into upholding ideas which they vainly assume are in defense of the wrongly oppressed.

As such, it becomes easy to recruit “progressives” into justifying the same American imperialism, with the false claim that military action is carried out with the purpose of coming to the defense of human rights. The propaganda machine of the  CIA is then marshaled to spew forth a barrage of either fabricated or largely exaggerated incidents, to elicit the liberal sympathies of the American populace. A well-known case is the  Nayirah Testimony which provided much of the pretext for America’s initiation of the  Gulf War of 1990-91. In a testimony given before the non-governmental Congressional Human Rights Caucus, a female calling herself Nayirah, stated that she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers taking babies from incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, and leaving them to die. It was later revealed that she was the daughter of Saud bin Nasir Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, and that her testimony was organized as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations campaign, which was run by Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government.

Likewise, the Left can be easily mobilized to oppose nuclear energy for the sake of the oil industry, who in turn are denounced as “Big Oil,” who supposedly oppose the controversy of human-induced  Global Warming, a cause they have in fact themselves fostered. As revealed by Alexander King in The First Global Revolution, a report from the  Club of Rome, in 1993:

The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit       the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself. ²

And according to Stephen Schneider, a Stanford University scientist and co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with former Vice President Al Gore:

…we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts… Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. ³

Today, Noam  Chomsky, like  Michael Moore and Amy Goodman, are among the leading left-wing intellectuals who continue to deny the numerous suspicious facts surrounding 9/11. Chomsky has been described as a prominent cultural figure, and          was voted the “world’s   top public intellectual” in  a 2005 poll. Suspiciously, he views himself as a libertarian socialist or anarchosyndicalist or communist anarchist, in the tradition of Bakunin, Kropotkin and others.  Chomsky has been a Senior Scholar at the   Tavistock-affiliated Institute         for Policy Studies ( IPS), which has stage-managed the Left since the 1960s.  In his book The Conspirator’s Hierarchy, Dr. John Coleman named  Chomsky as a deep cover  CIA agent working to undermine social protest groups. With reference to  Chomsky, Canadian journalist Barrie Zwicker, author of Towers of Deception,recalls that  Redstockings had asserted: “one major  CIA strategy” during the Cold War “was to create or support parallel organizations which provide alternatives to radicalism and yet appear progressive enough to appease dissatisfied      elements of  the society.” According to  Zwicker:

A study of  Chomsky’s stands on particularly dreadful actions such as JFK’s assassination, 9/11, and with regard to the roles of the  CIA and FBI, shows   Chomsky to be a de facto defender of the status quo’s most egregious outrages and their covert agency engines. He conducts his de facto defence of the Empire he appears to oppose through applying the very propaganda methods against which he has warned, including use of the derogatory phrase “conspiracy theorist,” which in one context he has characterized as “something people say when they don’t want you to think about what’s really going on.⁴

Michael Moore’s Farenheit 9/11was a farce, which utterly failed to make light of all the information surrounding the attacks that was being circulated by the alternative media, particularly with regards to the scheming of the neoconservatives. When Austin Texas radio host  Alex Jones questioned Moore on why he wasn’t willing to ask more penetrating questions, Moore rudely dismissed Jones and said “…That would be un-American.” ⁵ Worse still, Moore’s recent message to the Syrian people is presented alongside clips from President Obama and Hilary Clinton denouncing the atrocities of the Assad regime and defending the people’s aspirations for “freedom” and “democracy.” ⁶

But for those who are not intimidated into denying the darker realities, just as there are left-wing intellectuals to manipulate the debate, so too is the information on conspiracies rife with disinformers to corral the curious into particular beliefs systems and ideologies. The Christian Right, in particular, continues to maintain some disturbing connections with advocates of white supremacy.  Influential  is Willis  Carto who helped found the Populist Party that served as an electoral vehicle for neo- Nazi and  Ku Klux Klan members such as  David Duke in 1988, and  Christian Identity supporter Bo Gritz—on whom the movie character of Rambo was modeled—in 1992.  Carto’s current American Free Press (AFP) continues in the spirit of the  Liberty Lobby’s The Spotlight, running  columns by  Joe Sobran,  James Traficant, Paul Craig Roberts, and presidential candidate  Ron Paul. Writers for the newspaper also include  Michael Collins Piper, and James P. Tucker, Jr., a longtime Spotlightreporter known for this coverage of the  Bilderberg Group. AFP focuses on conspiracy theory, nationalist economics, and anti- Zionism. It continues to promote alternative theories to the 9-11 attacks and supports presidential candidates favoring individual liberty.

William  Luther  Pierce, who  Carto had recruited to his National Youth Alliance, and who went on to become leader of the National Alliance, later became infamous for his authorship of The Turner Diaries, which depicts a violent revolution which leads to the overthrow of the United States government, nuclear war and ultimately to a race war. It includes a detailed description of “the Day of the Rope,” referring to mass hangings in the streets of Los Angeles of “race traitors,” especially  Jews, homosexuals and those in inter-racial marriages, followed by the systematic ethnic cleansing of the entire city. This violence and killing is called “Terrible yet Absolutely Necessary.” The novel has been associated with a number of violent crimes committed by white separatists, and is believed to have inspired Timothy McVeigh, the perpetrator of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. ⁷

Eventually writing for  Carto’s magazine Barnes Reviewaround the end of his life was  National  Renaissance Party member Eustace  Mullins, the well-known author of the Secrets of the  Federal Reserve, considered a classic of conspiracy research. In 1987,  Mullins wrote a strange work called The Curse of Canaan, which regurgitates ideas expressed by  Christian Identity minister William Potter  Gale.  Mullins followed the course of history as a battle between the descendants of Shem against the descendants of Canaan. The descendants of Canaan are polluted through interbreeding with a “ pre-Adamite” population, who are black-skinned, and with demons from the time of the  Sons of God of Genesis. Throughout history they represented parasitical merchants, beginning with the  Phoenicians and to the Black Nobility of our time. The descendants of Shem, or Semites, he believes, should not be confused with the  Jews, who are impostors descended from Edomite   Khazars. The descendants of Shem are the builders of civilization, and ancestors of the Irish. Thus, explains  Mullins, “the history of mankind for the past three thousand years has been the history  of struggle between the fair-skinned descendants of Shem and the darkerskinned descendants of his brother, Ham, yet you will not find this struggle defined          in any historical work.”

The other well-known critic of the  Federal Reserve system is  Edward G. Griffin, author of the 1994 book, The Creature from Jekyll Island. Griffin was also involved in the network of paleoconservatives around  George Wallace run for President in 1968, serving as a writer for Wallace’s vice presidential candidate, Curtis LeMay, a retired General of the Air Force. He has been a member and officer of the John Birch Society for much of his life and a contributing editor to its magazine, The New American.  Griffin’s work stresses the point which Federal Reserve chair Marriner Eccles made in Congressional testimony in 1941: “If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn’t be any money.”⁸ In 2002,  Griffin founded Freedom Force International, a libertarian activist network.        The organization’s position regurgitates  neoliberal prerogatives, that the exclusive role of government is to protect people’s rights and property, not to provide services like welfare, reflecting Griffin’s          view that collectivism and freedom “are mortal       enemies.” ⁹ He endorsed  Ron Paul for President in the 2008 elections.

Similarly, Don Black, former  Ku Klux Klan leader and white nationalist activist, told the New York Timesthat it was  Ron Paul’s newsletters that inspired him to become his supporter. ¹⁰ Black created  Stormfront.com, which started as an online bulletin board system in the early 1990s, before being established as a website in 1995 which popularizes the ideas of  Esoteric Hitlerism. Black was a  member of the  American  Nazi Party in the 1970s, when it was headed by  Matt Koehl who, drawing on the teachings of  Savitri Devi, began to suggest that National Socialism was more akin to a religious movement than a political one. Koehl espoused the belief that  Hitler was the gift of divine providence to rescue the white race from gradual extinction caused by a declining birth rate and racemixing.  Hitler’s death in 1945 was viewed as a type of martyrdom, that looked forward to a future spiritual resurrection of National Socialism.