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Saturday, April 30, 2005

More Whoppers from "Brother Eric"

From the "sainted pen" of Eric Jon Phelps, a/k/a Jon Eric Phelps, a/k/a Jon Eric Felps
Phelps tries "AV1611" replay of long discredited Nazi Fire and Ice Theories

Well, dear blogspot readers. Thanks to one of my very good epals, I was directed to the latest on Eric Jon Phelps website. I saw a post that he allegedly believed in "hollow earth" theories, but I could not believe that even he would be dumb enough to post such proven fallacies. The Nazis had a well known belief in these theories. Their dogmatic belief in them probably cost the Nazis a possible World War II victory. These are also known as the Hans Horbiger fire and ice theories. Hitler comissioned a fleet to float up to the Arctic waters where he believed a subtropical sub-earth paradise to exist. Of course, they went without winter gear and icebreakers . . . Nobody dared say, "but the emperor isn't wearing anything" . . . and the rest is history. Now Eric Jon Phelps tells us on the one hand that the Jesuits controlled Nazi Germany. On the other hand, it is also the Jesuits seeking to keep us from believing the "truth"[NOT!] of these hollow earth, fire and ice theories.

Does Phelps want these theories to shipwreck us as they shipwrecked the Nazis? Is he telling the truth? Or is he simply playing one more round of the popular occult game, "Watch the Fundamentalists run!" You be the judges and I shall value your input, research, and comments! You may either go over to Bro. Eric's "VaticanAssassins.org" website and read it for yourself, or in case another popular New Age game of "Now you see us, now you don't", you may read it as Bro Eric wrote it below. Both the link and the text follows:
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/hollow_earth.htm

Dear Brethren and Friends,

The "hollow earth theory" is both Biblical and truly scientific. Moreso, the Jesuits have done much to suppress this knowledge. The Jesuit/Masonic/Rockefeller connection to Admiral Byrd in financing the Admiral's explorations, as well as Amadeo Giannini's connection to the Jesuit Order's wicked Bank of America spoken of below, further sustains the connection. Jesuit physicist and seismologist Jerome S. Riccard connected with the Archbishop of Boston William Cardinal O'Connell (Cardinal years being 1911-1944) further raises my suspicion of a massive Jesuit cover-up in order to keep from us the truth as to the proper functioning of the earth in relation to a geocentric creation. It is possible that between the two truths of the earth being fixed and thus "at rest," and the magnetic influences of this truly "hollow earth" we dwell upon, lie the secrets to understanding the law of gravity thus enabling the Jesuit Millita of the Black Pope to build anti-gravity aerodynes, i.e., UFOs.


This 1926 photo shows 1881 Boston College graduate William Cardinal O'Connell,
who as Boston Archbishop had encouraged the Jesuits to move their College
from the South End location, walking the grounds of the Chestnut Hill Campus.
He is accompanied by (R-L) Jesuit University President James Dolan, S.J.,
Director of Harvard (Beer) Brewing Company Walter Guyette of Lowell,
and Jesuit Vice Provincial James Kilroy, S.J. The Jesuit Order totally controls
the Pope's Roman Hierarchy in America. The Hierarchy, using its Papal Knights,
controls the Company's "trusted third party," in accordance with its Secreta Monita.
That "trusted third party" is the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations.
Select Council members, many of whom are Shriner Freemasons, Knights of Malta,
Skull and Bones and Opus Dei, are "elected" or appointed to key positions of power
within the Papacy's"Holy Roman" Fourteenth Amendment American Empire.
Through this chain of command the Black Pope utilizes all scientific discoveries
of note, monopolizes those discoveries if decided upon in secret council, and then
suppresses, upon pain of death, all who would seek to give high technology to
the White Nations of Western Civilization born out of the Lord Jesus Christ's
Grand and Glorious Protestant Reformation.

Sincerely in Faith,

Brother Eric"

Oh, and one more thing, Bro. Eric, please tell me where in the Bible pre or post AV1611, do I go to find these Hollow Ice Theories. The New Age bookstores have shelves full of them -- but you obviously read your bible much closer than I -- I couldn't find them?

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY



Javier Solana will be in Washington, D.C. May 2-3

Our 'very good friend' to be in Washington Monday and Tuesday!

Javier Solana will be in Washington on Monday. He will be meeting with Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor in her old job as National Security Advisor, Stephen Hadley. Additionally, he will be speaking to a House of Representatives Committee.

This will be an opportunity for Javier Solana, always the charmer, to make new American friends. He has lots of friends in the United States Senate, so this time he is concentrating on an important segment of the House of Representatives. I hope in listening that they don't get lulled to sleep over the most important item on his agenda -- that the EU is about to start allowing sale of arms to China.

Javier Solana has these ways about him. He sort of seems like:

Nevertheless, there are incredible things that come both from Solana's pen (or is it word processor?) and from his mouth. In 1999 he came to the United States to accept a Christian Herter Foreign Policy Award. In that speech he mocked George Washington's advice to the USA to "avoid entangling foreign alliances." "Why those entangling foreign alliances are good for you," said Solana. It takes a lot of cheek to come to a country and mock its national items. It appears that Solana has that type of cheek, but he says it with such good natured charm, that the audacity of what was just uttered appears to have escaped the usual scathing criticisms of the press corps -- it usually is not reported -- one has to read the speech to catch it.

At any rate, I wish I could be an invisible fly on a Washington wall next week! I hope our Congressmen, Secretary of State, our National Security Advisor and the person the latter two report to don't give away too much of the store in the give and take of next week's 'diplomacy.'

I will, as always, appreciate your comments. Enjoy your Saturday night!

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY

cumbey@gmail.com

April 30, 2005


Friday, April 29, 2005

Signs of the Times

SCHOOL PROBLEMS - THEN AND NOW

I've had a couple of busy days in court. I have had a mountain of emailings to answer from the online activity of the past few days. The person who sent me the VATICAN ASSASSINS book was strongly offended by my critical analysis of it. He wrote me saying in a near threatening manner, "your days are numbered." I wrote him back saying that indeed my days were numbered as were the very hairs on my head -- by my Maker. Nothing could happen to me until it was God's time that such occur; if it was God's time, there was nothing I could do to stop it. Needless to say, there is something terribly wrong with even the spirit behind uncritical belief in the contents in what to me is an obviously bad book, if people feel they must make threats to increase its acceptance.

Then after I opened my email, I saw a Yahoo! headline telling me that the United Methodist Church had rescinded the firing of an open sexually active lesbian. Just when I thought it was safe to go back to the Methodist Church! (Shameless takeoff on "just when you thought it was safe to go back to the water . . .")

http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050429/us_nm/religion_lesbian_dc

Next, blogspot Reader Tex Ayers emailed the following to me, saying "this should open your eyes." It certainly is an indicator of signs of the times:


The Top Public School Discipline Problems

Mid-'40s
1) Talking
2) Chewing gum
3) Making noise
4) Running in the halls
5) Getting out of turn in line
6) Wearing improper clothing
7) Not putting paper in wastebaskets


Mid-'80s
1) Drug Abuse
2) Alcohol Abuse
3) Pregnancy
4) Suicide
5) Rape
6) Robbery
7) Assault
(Source: Time Magazine, February 1, 1988)
Tex Ayers

Well, that's all folks! Enjoy your Friday night!

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY
April 29, 2005



Wednesday, April 27, 2005

More on Eric Jon Phelps a/k/a Eric Jon Felps

ERIC JON PHELPS AND HIS BOOK, VATICAN ASSASSINS -- IT CALLS FOR MASS EXTERMINATIONS!

What you are about read will hopefully shock you as much as it has shocked me. One of our readers did an internet search to see where Eric Jon Phelps book was landing. He was speaking in Israel -- that in and of itself was a shocker because if anybody would bother to read his book carefully in his own words, they would see that the very creation of Israel and its 6 Day War Victory were all machinations of the Jesuits, per Phelps. I was, however, unprepared for how very evil was the company of those using this Phelps (sometimes referred to in Luciferic circles) as Felps book. One of the very darkest sides of the New Age Movement is the Crowleyites and the Church of Process of the Final Judgment. Scientology devotees helped form that "church" and the church had 3 divisions: The Luciferians, the Jehovahists, and the Satanists. Phelps material turned up well synthesized and highly praised on the most evil site, I have ever viewed. Because the New Agers consistently play a successful game of "Now you see us, now you don't" in addition to the game I told you about of "watch the fundamentalists run", I have taken the pains to save the entire site to an Adobe Acrobat 7.0 file. This is what you call a pdf file.

This is the Eric Jon Phelps excerpt from the Lucifera book of that cult:

This is an accurate summary of Phelps work and if you go to that site, it is on page 34 of some of the strangest material you will hopefully ever view:

This is a 700 page richly illustrated title that adds to Malachi Martin’s accusations of Satanic ritualism in the Vatican, the accusations of the Vatican’s role in the Illuminati, assassinations, Usury and collaboration with the world’s most evil Capitalist cultists. Adam Weishaupt, for example, the founder of the Bavarian Illuminati was brought up by Jesuits and was also a Freemason. Phelps argues that the Vatican is behind a long history of assassination and the mystery cultism of secret societies, that would put the CIA narco-terrorists to shame. The Vatican, no matter how small the land that it takes up, is a ‘country’ with its own laws, its own police force and its own military intelligence through its secret societies. This is the Devil’s Army. And all these things, these Aryan religious hypocrites and their puppets do in the name of a Jewish Communist. Felps alleges that under the banner of the Cross of the Knights of Malta, the Vatican has its own Masonic style terrorist organisation. It is this Cross that according to Masonic author Byrne’s street maps of Paris, shows up in the street plans of Paris and in other the Templar cities, and the points of the Cross are places of importance to the cultists and tunnelers. The Vatican Mafia have real power among the Usuryists and Illuminated Masters of the world, and they are simply another corrupt MI6, CIA or Mossad, but in the name of Yeshiva, a Jewish Communist. It is also possible that the Satanists of the Vatican have access to Light technology. It must be made clear that these Satanists have absolutely nothing to do with Yeshiva or with the Communism and anti-propertyism of Yeshiva; on the contrary, these demons are hard core Usuryists and hypocrites, and they must be subjected to the same global Holocaust that their Nazi allies attempted to carry out against the Communists and Jews. The Revolution will not end until the last priest sheds blood from his neck and this is what must occur to all Usuryist collaborators and this is the Templar's method
http://www.luciferia.tv/2seal.htm (34 of 117)4/27/2005 9:18:33 AM

Did you read that carefully? He is calling for a global holocaust against Catholics! And if we are publicly praising that book, how much would that advance the obvious global war against fundamentalism -- remember one of Javier Solana's original Barcelona Conference objectives was to "battle religious fundamentalism, worldwide." Just as Jim Jones was a hard core New Ager, as soon as his kool-aid party took place, the New Agers sought to re-Christen him as a "fundamentalist." He was a fundamentalist, alright! A fundamentalist New Ager!

I had angry letters about my stance on Phelps yesterday. I also had encouraging letters. If you go look at the site, make sure your children are not present and please pray for divine protection before you do. This is easily one of the most diabolical things I have ever seen.

It is frightening how many good Christians started to be sucked into this game. I pray that the Restrainer will let them go no further! By the way, Phelps' book uses certain Eustace Mullins' books as sources. Mullins' book THE WORLD ORDER concludes by saying that the makers of the world order will be vanquished and the people will go on to build a new golden age. Mullins was referring in that book to the Jews. An amazing number of people bought into this because the thought the book was a manifesto against a New World Order rather than a recipe for the very ugliest of ones. Jews, Christians, and Moslems are targets of the New Age schemers. Mullins primarily targeted Jews in his THE WORLD ORDER. Phelps primary targets Catholics in his VATICAN ASSASSINS.

Folks, that's New Age Movement in just two more of its ugly forms. Lets not buy into those lies. I will be writing more on this later and in the meantime will appreciate your comments.

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY
Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

UN nominee Bolton's accuser is a New Age activist

IF THE NEW AGERS ARE THAT MUCH AGAINST HIM, HE MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT!

I have never met, to the best of my recollection, John Bolton. I know relatively little about the controversy surrounding him. As I said in previous columns, for various reasons, I'm hardly the biggest of George W. Bush fans. I've not met Cliff Kincaid face to face, either. However, we have chatted frequently -- online, on the radio, and by telephone. I respect Cliff Kincaid highly as a journalist and as apolitical analyst. I value his judgment. We don't always agree, but very often we do.

Needless to say, having written the first major critical book on the subject, The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow: The New Age Movement and our Coming Age of Barbarism, I do pay attention to the New Agers, their agendas, and their on-going vendetta against Monotheistic religion -- Jews, Christians -- both Catholic and Protestant, and even Moslems (except for the Sufis whom they rightfully number as their own). Not always, but most of the time when a New Ager is fervently against something or somebody, it is because they are perceived as an obstacle to implementation of the full agenda -- the implementation they figure has been overdue since at least 1982.

One of my most faithful readers who is also a highly talented researcher, emailed me a piece this morning about Lynne D. Finney. She is the lady who has made lots of headlines the last two days with accusations about Mr. Bolton allegedly harrassing her on a job in the early 1980s.

It appears that she was then and continues to be a New Age Movement activist, complete with "instruction by Tibetan monks", a guru named "Master Nome" and herself gives seminars on memory recovery using hypnosis. For these, she charges $90 per hour.

There have been extraordinary media attacks as of late on anything that smacks of evangelicalism and religious orthodoxy. Evangelicals and conservative Catholics, were dangerous, per the media, for having opposed the 'humane' starvation of the late Terri Schiavo. Even Hillary Clinton caught it on NBC this morning for daring to invoke the name of Jesus. Evangelicals, says the media, are entirely too powerful. Now, even Democrats are beginning to believe they must respect their beliefs.

Strangely, however, there has been media silence on New Age beliefs and their all powerful -- even documentably dangerous -- effect on both litigation and legislation. The Schiavo attorney, George Felos, who fought so desperately for the ordered judicial murder by starvation death of Terri was motivated by his own beliefs in meditation and 'telepathic communication.' While aggressively trashing Christian beliefs and outing those in government who might still have even a modicum left of them, he shamelessly and aggressively proselytizes his own. Nary a word from the ACLU!

I had no opinions on the Bolton situation until I read that such a deeply grounded New Ager as Lynne Finney sought Mr. Bolton's political hide. But now, I am starting to believe that if the New Agers so desperately don't want him at the United Nations, perhaps he is exactly the type of person who should be there -- particularly at this time when the New Agers claim that their new 'Christ' is about to make full 'emergence.' Just as Christian support is a reverse indicator for the New Agers, so is New Age opposition a reverse indicator for me!

I'm interested in your point of view. Have a great and productive day. Maranatha!

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY

Monday, April 25, 2005

UPDATED !!! Eric Jon Phelps and his book - I still recognize NEW AGE when I see it!

Note from Constance: Since writing this column, I came to my office where I have the Eric Jon Phelps book, Vatican Assassins: "Wounded in the House of My Friends" on my desk. This is what the author says:

"The author would like to acknowledge The Spectrum newspaper for having the courage to break this story when no one else would so so. Phone 877-280-2866, W.ebaddress. www.TheSpectrumNews.org.

Well, I hopped over there and to call it both neo-nazi and New Age are rather studied understatements. Particularly check out their "wisdom books" which include offerings by Eustace Mullins -- the most evil combination of deliberate New Age and Jew baiting I can possibly think of. Offered is Mullins' A WRIT FOR MARTYRS. That book details his close connection with the Bollingen Foundation people -- An Olga Froebe Kapteyn - Alice Ann Bailey - Mellon fortune combination. Mullins was following me around in the 1980s telling people he had more information on the New Age Movement than me -- he sure did -- from inside! Mullins claims to be a protege' of Ezra Pound, a prominent Theosophist turned fascist who made radio broadcasts for Hitler and Mussolini in the 1940s.

Folks, we need far better discernment than somehow it appears we've getting. Eric Phelps book on its very face is bad. Immediately on the credits page appears: "Category: "History/Non-Fiction/New Age". They told you it was New Age! But because this book was Catholic bashing, you all took it at gospel. Let's remember the biblical warnings that the deception would be enough to deceive even the elect. Sometimes a spirit of self-righteousness can blind us just as effectively as going to see Ramtha the 35,000 year old man!

THE ORIGINAL STORY

I have had three posts on my column on ABC and NBC heresies yesterday: ABC is shorthand for "Anything but Catholic" and NBC is shorthand for "Nothing but Catholic." I was told to go view the website of one Eric John Phelps.

Well, lucky for all you viewers, I was sent my very own copy of his book VATICAN ASSASSINS:. Wounded In The House Of My Friends -- complete with CD Rom. I did take a couple of hours of otherwise good billable time to go through it. I saw enough to tell you definitively, the book is a New Age book with a New Age agenda. What makes me say that?

I will devote more time to that book later, but for openers, it was freely employing some of the world's most evil resources, quoting them as gospel. What was employed?

1. ISIS UNVEILED by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Blavatsky once wrote a letter to her sister saying, "I am writing Isis, rather Isis is writing me."

2. OCCULT THEOCRASY by Lady Jane Queensborough. That book is a shameless attack on two out of three targets of the New Age Movement -- Jews and Christians. Lady Jane Queensborough meets head on, one major test of anti-Christ: A Denial of God the Father, per 1 John 2:22 (who is a liar, but he who denies Jesus is the Christ, he is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son). Lady Jane Queensborough in the very clearest of terms denies the father. She writes that the Jehovah of the Jews is not even worthy to be compared to Ahura Mazda of the Zoroastrians or Brahma of the Hindus!

I say, Lady Jane Queensborough is not even worthy to wrap your garbage in, let alone cite as solid historical and theological evidence! I own the book. I bought it at the local New Age bookstore in 1981. That was where the book belonged! So many Catholic and Jew bashing books buy into its thesis, hook, line and sinker, without bothering to see where the author was really coming from. Ditto with the works of Nesta Webster who freely confessed her own belief in reincarnation.

And, if you are going to accept Blavatsky as gospel, you have accepted naked the very devil himself. Blavatsky was the foundress of the Theosophical Society, the mothership of the New Age Movement. Her first magazine was called Lucifer!

'Nuf said, I am beginning to think that maybe Peter LeMesurier, the New Age writer was correct when he wrote that all they would have to do was turn the massed forces of the New Age Movement against each other.

I will be writing more on this later.

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY

Sunday, April 24, 2005

Of Catholic Bashing and of Protestant Bashing - What Constance Thinks!

This is a very short post, but something on my mind given the vehemence of some of the anti-Ratzinger posts. I wrote it to reply to a reader, but since it was an anonymous comment, I could not answer. So here is what I think for everybody and I will duck while the flak flies!

I believe personally that there are two enormous heresies floating about out there:

1. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be a member of the ABC Church and thou shalt be saved.
2. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be a member of the NBC Church and thou shalt be saved.

The first heresy is a Protestant one.
The second heresy is a Catholic one.

The truth is BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS LORD AND IF YOU CONFESS HIM WITH YOUR MOUTH, YOU SHALT BE SAVED.

Oh, and what do the acronyms ABC and NBC mean?

ABC=ANYTHING BUT CATHOLIC

NBC=NOTHING BUT CATHOLIC

Let's bear in mind at all times the New Age strategy -- to pit Old Agers against Old Agers! The test of anti-Christ was a denial that Jesus was the Christ and that Jesus Christ had come in the flesh. It was not an alleged overemphasis on Jesus mother or anything else. Some Catholics meet those tests, some don't. Some Protestants meet those tests, some don't. And certainly, we grafted in branches, whether Catholic or Protestant, were not to 'boast against the branches' (the Jews). Don't blame me. St. Paul wrote it in Romans Chapter 2; John wrote it in his epistles. At least for now, that's what Constance thinks. You are certainly entitled to your own opinions, although I think I agree with the former Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI -- there are not multiple truths. Seeing through glass darkly as we do, we may not know perfect truth -- probably none of us do, but to paraphrase the Apostle Paul, "if we all bite and devour one another" won't the New Agers and SqueakBoxes of this world have a field day!

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY


The Wicked Wikipedians -- What they are saying and doing today

Just a little Sunday afternoon diversion in case you wondered what the wicked Wikipedians are up to. We all know our "friend" SqueakBox who likes to come over here and post and has his own blogs:

www.squeakboxisalwaysright.blogspot.com
www.squeakboxisneverwrong.blogspot.com

These guys (provided there is more than one of them and provided that they are truthful, which is probably debatable) are saying some interesting things. First of all, Hierarchypedia (David?) has claimed that he is a member in good standing of the Bohemian Grove -- Hierarchypedia is either SqueakBox's sockpuppet, or they are VERY GOOD FRIENDS?? At any rate, since these fine guys are into 'illumination,' I thought I would shed a little more light on them than they sought by cut and pasting their online boastings about how they are getting the best of Yours Truly by not enticing her fully into their wicked wikipedia process -- is this something like saying "rubber baby buggy bumpers" 5 times real fast, or "how many chips could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chips?"

"You could try Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Cumbey; someone wanted to take it to arbcom a week back but then withdrew, and since then it is off the burner. In someone ways Cumbey is a pretty harmless nut. She can't be bothered to learn how to use the system, hence she never looked at your and my contribs, from which I am sure anyone could work out you are not my sockpuppet (if you made your first edit before 19/10/04 I would strictly be your sockpuppet) but it also means she doesn't know how to set up an Rfc herself alleging that you are my sockpuppet, without which noone will listen to her. Interestingly even if you were my sockpuppet that would have been okay by wikipedia rules before today because our paths have not crossed and I could not be accused of using you to unjustly affect wikipedia process. The idea that i would use you as a sockpuppet to influence a vote that doesn't need influencing in the keep direction (Constance E. Cumbey) is ridicuklous. I would describe Cumbey as a very lazy user who will never be capable of anything much, and that she just has to be tolerated. But if you want to take it to arbcom by all means have a go! --SqueakBox 22:02, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
Retrieved from "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Hierarchypedia"

The following is from Hierarchypedia's user page:

> I removed some of the names you put up as Bohemian Club members. They were only atendees of > Bohemian Grove (members of their respective camps). Not everyone who goes to Bohemian Grove is > a member of the club. --Hierarchypedia 13:11, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Could you provide a source for your claims?
In order to become a member of a camp, you have to be a member of the club, which owns the grove. You can be a guest to the encampment, but you do not become a member of a camp by becoming a guest.
My source of the members is the membership roster that is distributed among members only of which I am one. For example, Colin Powell is a Non-Resident member of the club, and is a member of the Mandalay Camp. Donald Rumsfeld and Walter Cronkite are also Non-Resident members of the club, while George H.W. Bush is an Honorary Member, while Robert Weir is a Professional Member. All four are members of the Hillbillies Camp. The late Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon were members of the Caveman Camp, and both were long-time members of the club.


Have fun boys! When you are ready to become adults, please let us all know!

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY


Wolves in Sheep's Clothing? The 'Evangelical' Struggle to keep you from the truth

Equipping the Saints? Or Disarming them? You be the judge!


There have been enormous efforts and huge sums of money spent to keep the Christian world from knowing the size and extent of the New Age Movement and its growing powers. I have kept silent most of the time on most of what I know not because I wanted to keep people from the truth, but because of Jesus' clear warnings that the wheat and the tares would grow together until the time of the end and to do nothing about the tares because in pulling up the tares, one might also harm the wheat. It is only when I see the wheat itself harmed that I speak out. I believe for people to now know what is coming, that they know how insidious this battle has been.

When I started my work against the New Age Movement in 1981, I thought it would be very simple -- Christian vs. Lions. It wasn't quite that easy. Some of who I believed were US were either apathetic or THEM. Some of THEM repented and became staunchly US. Some of the lengths gone to suppress -- even blackball me and my work -- were truly amazing. A Seattle, Washington Christian (Logos Bookstore) was selling many New Age books on its shelves. My book, THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF THE RAINBOW, then a #1 best seller on the Christian best seller list, was sold under the counter. It was packaged in a plain brown paper wrapper, stapled shut with a critical article on my work from Christianity Today inside. Matthew Fox authored (a Catholic apostate theologian, later removed by the new pope as Cardinal Ratzinger acting in his position as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) books were sold very openly.

I was asked to participate in a conference for Evangelical Ministries to New Religions at El Toro, California in December 1983. This was a time immediately after my father's death and I have detailed some of this in my second book, A PLANNED DECEPTION. In El Toro, I was asked to present my proofs on the existence of the New Age Movement. The panel behind me who was to comment on my work included CRI's Eliot Miller; Cornerstone Magazine's Eric Pement; Brooke Alexander of Spiritual Counterfeits Project; and Dave Hunt, who I then believed to be my ally.

In my main talk, I detailed the inroads Jeremy Rifkin had made in evangelizing evangelicals to the environmental paradigm shift of the New Age Movement. The question and answer period was truly amazing. I had no idea what would be thrown at me. I had packed one large book bag and it accompanied me that evening. Time after time I was accused both by members of the panel and members of the inquisitorial audience of taking the New Agers out of context. I would say, "well, let's read it together." I would pull the exact book from my briefcase. That I had the proper books with me to defeat their claims of misquoting can only be attributed to either extreme luck or divine intervention. It was statistically impossible given a library of my size to have had it happen accidentally. Of course, I believe it to be the latter. I obviously had help!

The next major thrust against me was what I term the "Denver Disinformation Conference" which took place at the Denver Seminary on March 14-15, 1985 in Denver, Colorado. I was not invited. A few days before, a cult research by the first name of Hugh called me. He said he had called to register, left his credit card number with Dr. Gordon Lewis' secretary at the Denver Seminary. The Denver Seminary is a Conservative Baptist institution. Dr. Lewis was coordinating the conference. Dr. Vernon Grounds was the Chancellor. People from that seminary were to play a major role in a unity conference with New Age leaders in conjunction with Doug Coe in 1987, but this was 1985.

At any rate, Hugh, my caller, said that he asked the registrar, Dr. Lewis' secretary a natural question, given that this was the first recognition in the Evangelical world that the New Age Movement even existed outside of the imagination of yours truly. "Would Constance Cumbey be there?" He said that she replied as follows: "This conference was called on account of Constance Cumbey" and we will have security guards present, just in case she decides to show up."

This was hard for me to take. I started crying. I said, "this time they've gone to a new low." My caller said, "you know, you could go anyway." I said, " no, I practiced law long enough to know that if they would go to those lengths, they would go even lower. They would trump a disturbance and blame me for it. They would like nothing better than for me to be sitting in a Denver jail -- I'm not going to give them the satisfaction."

God's timing is very interesting. I have never had anything like this happen without getting confirmation shortly thereafter. The very next morning I had a phone call from a man identifying himself as a producer for a Denver professor who had a popular religion oriented talk show on Denver radio each and every Sunday morning. He said that they had planned to give the time for the Sunday after the conference to a participant -- hopefully Ronald Enroth. He went on to say, that he had the professor had been talking and wondered out loud why at last there was an Evangelical conference on the existence of something that had been long denied -- and that the most recognized Evangelical figure on the subject was not a part of the conference. I recounted something unpleasant that had happened to me concerning Ronald Enroth. Then I told him what I had just heard the night before -- about the security guards.

"Why I know the person in charge of security," exclaimed the producer. His name is Mark Roggeman and he's a local policeman. Let's get him in on this conversation." Mark Roggeman joined the conversation in what became a three way conference call. He told me a most amazing story. Mark Roggeman was a Denver policeman who then and now was working on cult related issues. He is also a Christian. He said he was thrilled that after three years of denial, that finally there was Evangelical recognition of a New Age Movement problem. He heard they were seeking a Security Director and applied for the job. He said that upon hiring he was summoned into Gordon Lewis office and told his first, foremost and primary responsibility was to escort Constance Cumbey off the grounds, should she show up. Mark told me he said to Lewis, "that's how the cults operate." Lewis told him, "you want the job, that's the condition." Roggeman told me he decided to stick around and see what else they had up their collective sleeves.

"What else" included Dr. Gordon Melton, a rabid New Age follower in nearly all of its forms, including vampirism and Ramtha the 35,000 year old man deliver a paper, "A Christian Response to the Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow." He was wearing an ankh and selling his paper promoting astrology on the grounds.

I was offered radio time -- two national interviews -- on the Marlin Maddoux Show on the two days immediately preceding the conference. I gave the doings and their security guards more free advertising than they ever expected. I understand they ran around red faced and said it had not happend -- but it clearly happened.

I say all of this now because Gretchen Passantino published prominently on the web, a paper on urban legends. She includes as one "urban legend" the security guard story. I'm sorry to say it but Gretchen Passantino was close enough to the action on this gang to know better. It is bluntly -- a lie!

http://answers.org/apologetics/fantasy.html
http://answers.org/bookreviews/painted_black_rev.html
http://www.equip.org/free/DC825.pdf

Equipping the saints? I would say this bunch was disarming the saints. That's all for now. Enjoy the balance of your weekend!

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY
cumbey@yahoo.com

Saturday, April 23, 2005

The time I met and talked with Barbara Bush - bathing suit to bathing suit

The time I met and talked with Barbara Bush face to face and bathing suit to bathing suit!

Corrected as to dimensions of Detroit Renaissance Center, November 30, 2005

I've had some curious encounters in my lifetime -- some very unexpected. I guess its probably no secret that apart from SOME of the life issues of the current president, I'm not his greatest fan. I was disturbed by his lack of sensitivity on some capital cases while he was governor of Texas. (However, I do agree with him on abortion and euthanasia issues!) I frankly thought his brother, Jeb, was the brighter of the two and liked his hands-on in the Florida disasters last year. I was most disturbed when George Bush said that he wasn't worried about executing innocent people -- that this had never happened in Texas! Well, it happened about everywhere else, and the DNA innocence projects revealed that there were approximately 13 people sitting on death row in Illinois who were completely innocent. For that reason, Governor Ryan of that state suspended the death penalty until reliable controls were put in place. I am always alarmed when somebody shoots from the hip and I've suspected, perhaps rightly, perhaps wrongly, that this was the case with our present national administration.

Furthermore, I haven't been exactly thrilled about its position on Iraq. The "Shock and Awe" campaign was a horrific one to set and I would certainly hate to have this global precedent turned on the USA.

However, I must confess that I do like the President's mother who also happens to be the wife of a former president and the mother of Florida's Jeb Bush. I had the unexpected honor of meeting her once under very unusual circumstances. Here's what happened.

The year was 1980. My downtown Detroit law office was in the Renaissance Center. It was a four tower, 71 story massive complex attached to the Westin Hotel, with a rotating restaurant at the top. The complex featured theatres, shops, indoor hanging gardens, a health club, and a heated swimming pool. We lived downtown and most of my law practice as a young lawyer was downtown. It was then a good time to be in Detroit.

My clients didn't appreciate the facility as much as I enjoyed it. It was and remains difficult to navigate on foot -- they perceived it as some type of a big moat to cross to reach me. But at this time of my life which was stressful for reasons I am about to explain, it was good for me and my family.

My husband Barry suffered a traumatic accident in the fall of 1979. Retrieving his briefcase from the trunk of his Monte Carlo Chevrolet vehicle, the car behind his car was struck by new driver. She had just bought the car from a junk dealer. She had only the minimal Michigan insurance of $20,000 limits. This is, needless to say, is nothing for a life-changing disaster of this magnitude. It sent Barry's car into the car ahead and Barry was trapped in between. One leg was immediately severed at the scene. He was in surgery 7 hours that day and they tried to save the other leg. Nevertheless, it had to be removed 11 days later because of massive life threatening infection. He was now a double above-the-knee amputee. Between hospitalization and rehabilitation institute therapy, Barry was medically institutionalized for six months. In early April, 1980, the doctors suggested that as a reacclimation to medical discharge, that Barry take a day at home. We, of course, needed to move from our former downtown apartment to a building with an elevator. That hadn't happened yet. I did have my health club membership in the Renaissance Center, however, with my own permanent assigned locker. We had family privileges. Beverages and sandwiches were served. When we were done exercising, we could go to my office for Barry to see it (I had located there from another downtown office after the accident) and then take in a family movie before returning Barry to the Rehab Center.

We arrived at the health club. I was handed my usual towel and went into the ladies' locker room. The club was relatively empty. There was a very pretty girl inside who was badly sunburned. I looked at her and said, "oohh, where did you get that burn?" The girl answered, "in Houston." I said, "you need to get something like aloe vera on it immediately." I was recalling a bad case of sun poisoning I once brought home from the Bahamas a few years earlier. I went to my locker. At that point, a bathing suited woman came to me and asked if I could please show her how to set the sauna. I set the sauna. I finished my own change of clothing and headed for the sauna myself.

As I entered the sauna, the woman said, "Hello." I responded, "hello." "Where are you from?", she asked. "Right here, where are you from?", I responded. "Houston," was her answer. "Oh, are you here attending the electronic manufacturers convention," I asked, thinking of Texas Instruments and the notice of events for the day posted in the hotel lobby. "No, I'm here campaigning," she said. "I'm Barbara Bush and my husband George Bush is running for President. This is our daughter, Dorothy," she said, referring to the pretty sunburned blonde next to her.

We talked as if we had known each other all our lives. She said she had noticed Barry when she was coming in. She told me she had a sauna in her Houston home and missed not having one in Washington. She was, quite honestly, very refreshing by the standards of the many, many political people I had known in my adult life. After I broke to go swimming, I was sought out by the journalist Susan King who had since came to the pool and was likewise enjoying the tepid waters. Susan told me that Barbara Bush told her she had met a woman lawyer who had impressed her. Barbara Bush had impressed me.

I was not a bit surprised to hear a few years later that after George Bush lost his re-election to the presidency in 1992, that after they returned to Houston, she discharged her personal Secret Service agent, bought a Buick, and went wherever she personally wanted to go in Houston. She struck me as that type of person.

At any rate, this is not a heavy blog today. It is just something interesting that happened to me with a person I accidentally met who was very nice to me at a personally trying time in my own life. I still remember her fondly for it -- I just sort of wish it had been her other son who was president. Oh well!

That's it for today. My back stories, many of which in my biased mind have value, are available to you. Just type on archives which for a few more days are only "April."

Have a great day!

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY
April 23, 2005

Friday, April 22, 2005

Happy Earth Day - NOT!

NOW THAT EARTH'S DAY HERE, WHAT I WROTE ABOUT IT A FEW DAYS AGO, WITH A FEW MINOR ADDITIONS!

Of 'Earth Day', 'Deep Ecology', and assorted forms of False Knowledge

I have substantially survived the week -- although cash flow matches the economy -- very slow! I wrote the following last Saturday, but since "Earth Day" is today, it is worthy of reprint, at least in my opinion.

April 22, comes one of my least favorite holidays, 'Earth Day.' For the last 35 years, it has given me the creeps. I was both a student at Michigan State University and working for the Michigan House of Representatives as a speechwriter and "Legislative Analyst" when the first Earth Day was 'celebrated'. I will confess to you I did not like the Vietnam War -- most people in my generation did not, although we had lots of empathy for those in our age group drafted to fight in that 'conflict.' I had no trouble marching against that war. I also had no trouble marching for civil rights. I will confess to you now that I was an energetic young activist. I still treasure so many of the friendships and acquaintances I made in that era, including even Rosa Parks herself. I was running a mayoral campaign in Highland Park, Michigan in 1975 -- a successful campaign to unseat a sitting mayor. While sitting in a church service that we descended upon in what I now will concede was a shameless effort to gain votes for our side, I felt something tugging on the hem of my dress. I looked and there was Rosa Parks with thread and needle. She had noticed my hem was loose and she was in her usual unassuming manner, repairing same. About 8 years later, I was to meet Tony and Sue Liuzzo. Tony is the son of slain civil rights crusader, Viola Liuzzo. Although Viola Liuzzo turned Unitarian in her quest, Tony and Sue now share my traditional Christian beliefs. They remain close personal friends.However much I passionately participated in the first two events, as I did in the Eugene McCarthy presidential campaign of 1968, I could not and would not participate in the first Earth Day, even though so much of the crowd in the various peace and civil rights movements were there. I sat in my cubicle in the Speaker's Staff headquarters of the House of Representatives section of the Michigan State Capitol and literally shivered with creeps as I read the announcements for the day. I bought the books for research, but I frankly instinctively disliked all I was hearing. I could not tell you why until 1981, the year I first discovered the New Age Movement. Perusing literature of popular groups of the Movement starting with the Sierra Club and moving through Friends of the Earth and the scare projections of the Club of Rome, I had what the New Agers would probably label an "aha moment" and others might call "an epiphany." My thoughts went something like this:"They are talking about increasing living space, population reduction, mandatory abortion, licensing people to have children, encouraged and even forced sterilizations, terminating life supports -- My God -- that is what the Nazis were all about! So many nice people into this -- somebody's got to warn them." When I discovered the esoteric underpinnings of the movement which were almost universally talking about (a) a new 'messiah' coming; and (b) recognition of Lucifer as a benevolent planetary force (Theosophical Society; Lucis Trust; Benjamin Creme, et al ad nauseum), I knew that I was facing something for which I could not conscientiously keep silent. I remember saying to myself about the probable consequences for speaking out "professional suicide; political suicide"! But speak out I did.I was surprised over the years to see that much of my support came from places where I often least expected it and so much of my opposition came also from places where I least expected it. I will write more about that in future blogs, but for now1. I will not be celebrating Earth Day -- not this year -- not any year.2. I recommend you take steps to obtain a read a book by Bruce S. Thornton. I read significant portions of it today on a subscription service I employ, Questia. com. I plan to track the book down on Amazon.com and order same as soon as possible! Publication information is:Book Title: Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge. Contributors: Bruce S. Thornton - author. Publisher: ISI Books. Place of Publication: Wilmington, DE. Publication Year: 1999. "I frankly found the book tracking down sources where Javier Solana's mother was quoted. I rather doubt if Mr. Thornton caught her own 'false knowledge' which was an open profession of OSHO/Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh as her 'teacher.' He quoted her in a context of how false beliefs get started and are perpetuated. He skillfully identified so many, including the myths behind Earth Day, and the alleged 'civility' (NOT) of pre-Christian cultures

For an invaluable historic perspective on Earth Day, read Stephen Levy's THE UNICORN'S SECRET: MURDER IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS. It will give you the less stressed more seamy background of one of its major founders, Ira Einhorn of Philadelphia.


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Thursday, April 21, 2005

Our "European Allies"

Our "European Allies" -- The World According to Javier Solana


Rather than have the earlier post disappear into the archives where they are relatively hidden, I decided to build upon my earlier one today and rename it. There are lots of surprises from Javier Solana this week. He has been complaining publicly about American neo-conservatives supposedly making his drive for the New EU constitution difficult.

Just a sudden thought, wondering out loud after reading the following:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/04/20/opinion/edeu.html

" . . . Javier Solana, the head of foreign policy in the EU, told French students that "some American neoconservatives" are hostile to the constitution because it marked "a new rise in Europe's power."

In another surprise move, Solana even swallowed his secular, anti-clerical pride and issued public congratulations to the new Pope Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Ratzinger, a man Solana would most likely define as thinking in "binary terms." Maybe the "High Representative" was stung by criticism about talking about "the disappearance" of the new pope's predecessor. And finally, he announced, per Reuters News Service, that most definitely the EU is going to lift its arms embargo on China.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B706304.htm



In regards to Solana's complaints about US "neoconservatives" I wonder why Solana didn't tell the audience that many were not as nearly as worried about the Europeans having a single constitution as they were the fact that it put most of the power eggs in one basket -- and Solana's basket, at that?

But then, he has to blame somebody (other than himself), doesn't he? I predict, he will play another successful game of 'trust me.' I further predict, based on the Daniel prophecies (gasp!), that the EU Constitutional ratification may well go down as a NOT done deal.

The prophecy which is found in Daniel 2:42-43) -- referring to the ten toes "they shall not cleave one to another"). But they do, prophetically, end up handing over their power to the beast figure, whoever it ends up being. You bible scholars out there, look up Revelation 17:11-17). This is done to equalize those ten kings with another world power. It could well be the USA.

Is this how it will come down? Is Solana the one? Dunno -- time and events will tell, but again, he could be an educated guess.

Late for my day -- you have a good one!

Constance E. Cumbey
April 21, 2005


Constance E. Cumbey

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Said Solana, "Those Entangling Foreign Alliances are Good for you!"

Said Solana, "Those Entangling Foreign Alliances are Good for you!"

I am digressing this evening to research I did on Javier Solana starting on March 21, 1999.


"Why, those entangling foregn alliances are good for you!" exclaimed Javier Solana in accepting a 1999 Christian Herter Foreign Policy Award,in Boston, Massachusetts. Solana was referring, of course, to George Washington's Farewell Message to Americans. It takes a lot of "cheek" to come into a country and mock its national icons. It was no small demonstration of his self-confidence. Was there a basis in fact for it?

In the same speech, Solana confided that he had since January 30, 1999, exclusive authority to make military decisions for NATO, including, but not limited whether to bomb or not. "I don't intend to exercise it without checking in with the others, but nevertheless, the power is mine and mine alone," said he.

Solana indeed had an unusual grant of power from NATO. Usually the Secretary General of NATO plays a ministerial role, taking direction from its constituent members and then passing along that direction to the mlitary operatives.

Said Solana, "Those Entangling Foreign Alliances are Good for you!"

Madeline Albright noted on her State Department home page, "Solana has the power and has had it since January 30th [1999]. We are speaking with one voice through Javier Solana."

Much of my research has been done the "poor man's way" -- via television and the internet. Fortunately, if used appropriately, both give a much more accurate window on the world. On Sunday, March 21, 1999, I awakened with "the mother of all migraines." I planned to dress for church, but it was clear I was going nowhere in that condition. As I was nursing my headache, waiting for the Vanquish (my favorite headache remedy) to kick in, my husband switched on our bedroom TV to "Sunday Morning," the CBS news program that airs weekly from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Midway through the program, there was an unusual interruption: "We interrupt this program to bring you an important announcement," said the show's host. "Javier Solana, the Secretary General of NATO has just announced that the bombing of Yugoslavia may start as soon as the next few hours."

As soon as the headache sufficiently lifted, I did not finish dressing; I did not go to Church. Instead, I went downstairs to my basement computer and learned that all NATO nations were unanimously speaking with one empowered voice of their Secretary General. The NATO tail was literally wagging the dog!

I stayed in all that Sunday. That night, March 21, 1999, when millions were in church for Sunday night services, President Clinton came on national television. He talked about the incipient bombings. I was waiting for him to say something to the effect that "this is what WE have decided to do," . . . "this is what WE have decided would be in the best interests of the GLOBAL COMMUNITY" or some such phraseology. Those words were never used. Instead he sad, I AGREE WTH JAVIER SOLANA'S DECISION TO DO THIS." Interestingly, few Americans, including the more sophisticated media ever bothered to say, "WHO'S JAVIER SOLANA?!!"

Clinton also made several pointed references in that speech saying that he felt it terrible that the Yugoslavians were doing whatever they were supposed to have been doing "for religious reasons."

Kosovo was clearly the religious center of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It was lost to Turkish Moslem interests for many centuries. Not until the WW I era, was it regained by the Orthodox Serbs. It is sacred ground to the Serbs -- the equivalent of Jerusalem to the Jews -- their long-lost spiritual homeland.

Interestingly, the focus for condemnation of claimed Serbian behavior was religious. President Clinton repeatedly said, "It's horrible that they are doing this for religious purposes."

Even more interesting shedding, doubt on the entire basis for USA engagement, are Yossef Bodansky's well-documented claims in his book, BIN LADEN: THE MAN WHO DECLARED WAR ON AMERICA. He wrote therein part of Bin Laden’s rage against the USA was for this bombing of Kosovo. The Islamic residents saw it as an attempt by the USA to get to the Caspian oil fields – using the Kosovo protection issue as a ruse. This means in effect it was a win-win for Europe and a lose-lose for the USA in the EU/Barcelona Process drive to get the United States out of the Mediterranean.

I remember that bombing well. I remember hearing that the pope was sending emissaries to Brussels to seek a truce between the two Easters. Reportedly, he had the concurrence of Eastern Orthodox patriarchs who would join with him in the negotiating. On Good Friday, 1999, some newspapers carried headlines of "Pope Rebuffed."

I personally saw Michigan's junior Senator Spencer Abraham at a banquet a week after Easter. I asked him, point blank, "why did we hand Solana all that power." He told me candidly he didn't understand the Yugoslavian policy himself, but he thought perhaps it was 'Bill Clinton hiding behind Javier Solana.' "Things happen like that in politics," he said. I have been around long enough to KNOW that things happen like that in politics.

What Spencer Abraham, the junior USA senator from Michigan volunteered to me next stunned me. He told me he had met Javier Solana personally. I said, "oh?" He said that he and ALL THE OTHER UNITED STATES SENATORS had been flown to Brussels to meet Javier Solana.

I must tell you, that's when I started to get a little scared. If the junior first term opposite party Senator from Michigan went in a Democratic presidency year, all must have gone and been subjected to Solana's obvious low-key charms.

Just how much power does the guy have. Why is Solana so successful at convincing people he is everybody's friend.

Just asking? Have a nice evening!

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Pope Benedict XVI (the former Cardinal Ratzinger) vs. Alice Ann Bailey -- in his own words

Pope Benedict XVI (the former Cardinal Ratzinger) vs. cultural relativism including New Age Movement -- in his own words

http://www.acu-adsum.org/ratzrel.pdf

I have heard from many who insist that the former Cardinal Ratzinger was somehow a New Age syncretist. Nothing could be further from the truth -- if he was, he hid it very well from my radar, which my critics generally say is overactive. I have a link to a 1996 paper by him on religious relativism, complete with a discussion of Alice Bailey. Why don't we all read it together? Have a very nice evening!

Cardinal Ratzinger is Pope Benedict XVI -- and, personally, I couldn't be happier!

Cardinal Ratzinger is Pope Benedict XVI -- and, personally, I couldn't be happier!

The announcement has just been made. Cardinal Ratzinger is the successor to Pope John Paul II. Personally, I could not be happier about it. Although the New Age Movement was apparently running rampant in the Catholic Church in the earlier 1980s, things started to change in about 1988. That was the year Matthew Fox was "silenced" for one year. Cardinal Ratzinger played a most direct role in the entire change of direction of the Catholic Church from one of toleration to one of opposition to New Age doctrinal heresies.

Cardinal Ratzinger headed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Vatican. When I started my research on the New Age Movement in 1981, the Archdiocese of Detroit bookstore probably had as many New Age books as the local New Age book dealer. Points south such as Grailville in Loveland, Ohio were strictly New Age. The last I checked, they still were.

I remember that as a conscientious member of Highland Park Baptist Church in Southfield, Michigan, I thought I needed to educate people on the disturbing theological and political developments vis a vis the New Age Movement I was witnessing which could well have prophetic implications. My pastor then was Joseph B. Stowell who later became President of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Hoping he would carry the ball, I would buy duplicate sets of the evidence and hand then to Pastor Stowell. My recollection of those times was that he thereafter preached about 16 sermons on Jonah, looking disturbed as he did. We heard so many sermons on Jonah, various members of the congregation joked that if they heard one more, they would plan on wearing their bathing suits to church! Then one Sunday, the New Year of 1982, he reversed course, brightened and said, "well, everything's going to get better and better." My then young son said, "Mom, it looks like he considered everything you said and has now rejected it." I will tell you now the word on the New Age Movement got out with little or no thanks to Pastor Stowell. I requested my materials back and disturbed by his telling me he had not quite finished reading a book that he had obviously never opened, we had a meeting at his request in April 1982 just maybe two weeks before the New Agers ran their March 25, 1982 ads reading "The Christ is now here.” I was astounded when he told me that like me, he was very busy and had to delegate. He had asked a number of members of his staff and professional colleagues if they had heard of the New Age Movement. He said they had not and therefore he had to conclude it did not exist.

I told Pastor Stowell of a number of New Agers I knew of personally who had repented and broke from their involvement in the movement after seeing my collected materials. At that point, he said, "Connie, there must be something wrong with your message." I said, "why is that, Joe?" (We were on a first name basis!) He said, "too many Catholics and New Agers are responding to it." I was astounded. I said, "Joe, when Jesus was here, what was his pet peeve?" He said, "the hypocrites and the pharisees, why?" I said, "it's still his pet peeve." He said, "oh, no, that applied only to the Jews of Jesus' day -- why they were much more apostate than we are. I'm a child of God -- I've been transferred to the Kingdom of God." I said, "Were they? Are you? Have you? If you want my opinion, that's a pharisaical attitude right there." He said, "well, I don't agree." That night David Bryant treated the congregation to a shameless display of what I consider New Age proselytizing. I mentioned it in my first book, THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF THE RAINBOW. I will tell you right now that I got the word out on the New Age Movement with precious little help from Pastor Stowell.

Given the lack of evangelical concern at that point in time, I decided it would be more profitable to educate my client base -- those who respected me enough to pay for advice -- on the New Age Movement and its subtle threats both to their souls and to society in general. One day in September, 1981, , I had a call from a young local priest, Fr. Eduard Perrone (not to be confused with the published Italian Theosophist of the same name) wanting to know just what I had shown a former lapsed Catholic, a childhood friend of the priest, who came back to church after many years away, and then sought him out, telling him what he saw in my office. I invited that priest to come take a look. He came in early October of 1981, reviewed my materials and then said, "I can hardly believe I'm holding this in my hand." He finally said, "I have to accept the truth of what you have told me -- I saw too much of this going through the seminary to ignore it." He said something I will never forget: "We have a terrible job facing us -- how to wake people up without scaring them to death." I have tried never to forget that wise advice!

To make a long story very short, Fr. Perrone brought MANY people to see me at the office all with their own collections of prophetic fulfillment they were seeing. He and the fine ladies of his parish eventually organized regular Saturday afternoon speaking sessions for me at his church school’s library. They taped my speeches and disseminated those tapes. After a Detroit Free Press reporter converted of her own New Age involvement and wrote a very picture essay story about my work, my work became international.

There was then the disturbing aspect of tremendous infiltration of the Roman Catholic Church which still exists on some levels. (There was tremendous Protestant infilitration as well -- much of it coming from Jeremy Rifkin.)

In the fall of 1983, I spoke in Seattle. Afterwards, at the request of some who contacted me in Detroit, I furnished Seattle Catholic activists materials proving a Catholic priest, Fr. Matthew Fox (excommunicated as of 1993) was giving seminars with self-confessed witches, with headlines of “Starhawk teaches at Holy Names.” A Seattle banker who was present said he thought the Vatican should be notified. I said imprudently “save your breath – I’m sure they must know.” Nevertheless he sent the materials to Cardinal Ratzinger in Rome who according to Kitty Muggeridge’s book, YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT DESOLATE, as well as Matthew Fox's very bitter autobiography (incidentally which also assigns some blame to yours truly for his woes)thereafter opened a file on Matthew Fox and began his long investigation.Cardinal Ratzinger wrote beautiful detailed papers on the spiritual evils of the New Age Movement, carefully citing the Alice Bailey references, that others giving probable disinformation (e.g, Fr. Pacwa) were saying to disregard. I was told that teaching about the New Age Movement was now mandatory in the Italian seminaries, at least. I had a priest walk up to me in southern California when I was speaking at a Human Life International Conference in the early 1990s and ask me, “how does it feel to be the first Protestant to start a serious in-house Roman Catholic reformation.”

Just as the New Agers were 'ecumenical,' in short time we had our own ecumenical movement of sorts going -- we had regular meetings at the church school library of that priest with local pastors from many local denominations joining the discussion and warning their respective congregations about just what the New Age M. I had support from out everywhere and opposition from about everywhere. and had long discussions of the threats this movement posed both to Christianity and to the world at large. A local newspaper reporter converted out of the New Age Movement, running from it as though she had seen the devil. She wrote a major article on my work complete with pictures which ran on May 5, 1982, just a few days after the April 25th ads ran from New Agers proclaiming their "Christ is now here". From then on, I was called by Southwest Radio Church, Trinity Broadcasting and spent close to seven full years on the national lecture circuit, returning to my law practice in December 1988.

Along the way, I had encounters with Matthew Fox, who was successfully working Catholic circles, both liturgical and educational with his New Age agenda. I sent materials to Catholics who attended my lectures at Seattle University in November, 1983. The materials were copies of Circle Network News headlined "Starhawk teaches at Holy Names." It was about her work with Matthew Fox's Institute for Creation Centered Spirituality. She wrote "we danced the spiral, jumped the cauldron and found other new and innovative ways to express ourselves. Isn't it wonderful to find such a sympathetic spirit to paganism in the Christian world?"

The Seattle Catholics United for the Faith people sent the materials to Cardinal Ratzinger against my advice. (I was convinced everybody had to know and nobody would do anything about it.) Cardinal Ratzinger, I later learned both from Kitty Muggeridge's book about the crisis of faith in the Catholic Church, Your House is Left Desolate, and Matthew Fox's autobiography that this was when the Catholic Church began to investigate and then clamp down on the New Age Movement. Cardinal Ratzinger has taken, at least in the past, a firm stand against the New Age Movement and its denials of the exclusive divinity in Christ in "whom we alone have salvation." I have no reason to suspect he has backed away from these truths.

For those and many more reasons, I am happy that he, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger is the new Pope Benedict XVI. My prayers are with him and the church he will now be heading in what increasingly appears more and more to be apocalyptic times.

Thank you and good night.

Constance E. Cumbey
April 19, 2005

Sunday, April 17, 2005

Hopefully, this is fiction only -- a possible scenario



THE PLAN IS . . .

I wrote the following material 4 years ago as a fictional introduction to a book I was developing on European Union events. Any resemblance to any European character, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Or is it? Hopefully, I have misread the situation. I fear greatly I have not.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/09/content_398488.htm

"The Plan is," said the little European leader, "to use NATO assets with European control of those assets". The game was hegemony in the world resource department. Since Jacques DeLors' tenure in the European Union hierarchy, Europe had long been plotting resource wars against the USA. Sometimes it was whispered. Sometimes it was shouted. Most Europeans knew of it. Their purpose would be to dislodge the USA as a competing superpower in the scramble to control strategic necessities. Those resource wars were about to begin. The little man was organizing them. His self-conscious revival of the old Roman empire had officially begun at Barcelona in the late fall of 1995, Now it was rapidly coming to a head. The lions in the local arenas were hungrily awaiting their next meal of Christians.

That harmless looking little man was heading his growing European bureaucracy with the assistance of an even smaller, more harmless looking littler Frenchman. He was allowing many more powerful in personal appearance and charisma such as Tony Blair to take center stage and appear at "photo ops", While this was hapening, he, the little man himself, was running the show. His time for more public attention would come. One must be patient. It is bad to be too well known too soon.

His influence had spread among upper level echelons worldwide since those initial 10 days in November of 1995 when he quietly entered center world stage. All was not done through personal charisma. Most was not. After all, however, one could do a lot given a sufficient pile of Euro's as "foreign aid" combined with sufficient American stupidity. His forebears in the European Movement would be most proud of him. It's hard to keep a low profile while heading a super-powered NATO on steroids job. It's even harder when one is the acknowledged tsar of all European military and foreign policy. But with either the cooperation, avarice, apathy and/or stupidity of American media, he had managed to do just that. His name recognition among Americans was nearly nil. Ditto among Canadians. Strange, considering that it was he alone who had ordered Spanish warships against their country in 1995 in what were termed "The Great Fishing Wars" of that year.

He had long suppressed any personal outward expressions of rage against the USA. Its officials once had, after all, stupidly put him on their "subversive list" when he was a student activist there in the 1960s. They had blindly supported the Spanish Franco regime which had foiled his older comrades' earlier attempts to permanently install an anticlerical government During the glorious, but too short days of "The Republic", it had been cheap and convenient to gain a building for revolutionary causes. Republic government allies easily did this by confiscating convents and monasteries. Former churches made dandy meeting halls. Revenge with Franco for ending this revolutionary resource was accomplished by bandying about the word "Fascist." Nevermind that the pan-European movement of which our protagonist's family had a long part, had clearly traceable fascistic antecedents and goals of its own. Never mind that Generalissimo Franco had sheltered many more Jews than the United States and Canada combined. He, Franco,would be marginalized in history as a fascist. End of story. Those sacking convents and monastries, raping the nuns and murdering the ministers, deacons, and priests would be henceforth enshrined as "freedom fighters." Amen and shall it ever be.

The little man had learned that one could go far with smiles and hugs. An earlier attempt to install European "Unity" by one of his predecessors termed by others "a disciple" had failed. Part of that failure was due to one of the great unsolved mysteries of World War II -- Hitler had failed to reduce the Balkans before tackling the USA and Russa. This little man would not make the same mistake. He would use the USA and Russia to reduce the Balkans for him. He would set precedents in the Balkans useful for his aspirations. Controlling Jerusalem, as well as reducing the Vatican, was necessary to his future plans. Therefore, the precedent would be set by warring against and thereafter controlling Kosovo. What was sacred ground to the Serbian Orthodoxies would be surendered to the international commununity. This would be useful precedent for coercing a surrender of Jerusalem to his European interests cum 'international community," later.

Besides, he had Ian Paisley on the sidelines, obviously innocent of the man's anticlericalism, calling him "a devout Catholic." So, who would ever suspect his true agenda? These were necessary measures. After all, this little man with the obvious Napoleonic complex but tea party manners might well be later controlling the world.

But before that time, the USA needed to be dealt with. Our little man had the keys to the kingdom. Since his NATO tenure, he had lovely aerial photographs of the USA with its great military and industrial installations. He had toured the Pentagon with an honor guard, alighting from a stretch limousine bringing him there for that purpose. That was when the stupid Americans had returned his "subversive file" to him with comments on how foolish they had been to believe they couldn't trust him!

Now as the overseer of Europe's remilitarization, he had exhaustive knowledge of the NATO arsenal. He plotted his course from his "Sitcen". His Rapid Reaction Force was ready. There were 60,000 troops, 400 carriers and many planes at his immediate disposal. They could surround the arsenal. The NATO weaponry would then be exclusively theirs!

When the very missiles designed to protect America from foreign threats began to rain down upon it on that black day, America was taken by greater surprise than on September 11, 2001. The little man's time for action had come. Today it was the USA, tomorrow, Jerusalem, the Vatican and then the world. He had promised Europe he was working on a "permanent solution" for the Middle East problems. As they were with an earlier pan-Europeanist, a largely unaware Jewish community little realized that "permanent solution" was more likely merely a renamed "final solution."

In his New World Order, national sovereignty had disappeared. He was implementing his new international law of "humanitarian intervention", also originally suggested by him. He and he alone defined what was humanitarian and what was not.

The nations, including those stupid Americans, had been speaking through him "with one voice" The SHIRBRIG force he had helped the UN design and implement was ready. His "peacekeepers" were ready. They would globally, including in the Americas, implement his ominously named CIMIC structure. There would be "civilian military cooperation." The message to all would be clear -- "you will cooperate, you will enjoy!"

The little man's obvious plans had become fait accompli.

Part of the above scenario is so far fictional. The vast majority of it, unfortunately, is not. Will America, as well as the rest of the world, wake up in time? Is it already too late? This book is about those dangers -- and the possibilities."


Since I first wrote most of these words in late 2001, Javier Solana has been handed exclusive control of the Galileo Project (Europe's Space Surveillance Agency) and the remilitarization of Europe has proceeded rapidly. The Simon Weisenthal Institute's massive tome on the Holocaust has acknowleged the large contribution General Franco made to saving European Jewry when most others were reluctant to act. Solana is now actively working for the potential remilitarization of China with European weaponry. When, if ever will the USA wake up!?

I am most interested in your comments. Thank you and good night!

Saturday, April 16, 2005

I used to donate to Wikipedia -- Do as I do -- save your money for better causes

I have just come back from viewing the Alice in Wonderland, Mad Hatter venue of Wikipedia. Until things change over there mightily, I plan never to donate to its financial base again. I did three or four times -- maybe more in the past -- every time they had a fundraising appeal, I used Pay Pay on their behalf. With the editorial abuses I have seen, no more until further notice!

Of 'Earth Day', 'Deep Ecology', and assorted forms of False Knowledge

I am in a double trouble duo of preparing for a civil litigation trial on Monday and facing a very busy week that will include that trial, a major speech to deliver in the Detroit, Michigan, USA area on Wednesday, and judging a law school contest at Michigan State University on Friday night. So my writing, I'm afraid won't be as detailed as at least I would like -- that is unless I find something that sends me on another tangent as some of the Wikipedia affairs did last Thursday night.

Next week, April 22, comes one of my least favorite holidays, 'Earth Day.' For the last 35 years, it has given me the creeps. I was both a student at Michigan State University and working for the Michigan House of Representatives as a speechwriter and "Legislative Analyst" when the first Earth Day was 'celebrated'. I will confess to you I did not like the Vietnam War -- most people in my generation did not, although we had lots of empathy for those in our age group drafted to fight in that 'conflict.' I had no trouble marching against that war. I also had no trouble marching for civil rights. I will confess to you now that I was an energetic young activist. I still treasure so many of the friendships and acquaintances I made in that era, including even Rosa Parks herself. I was running a mayoral campaign in Highland Park, Michigan in 1975 -- a successful campaign to unseat a sitting mayor. While sitting in a church service that we descended upon in what I now will concede was a shameless effort to gain votes for our side, I felt something tugging on the hem of my dress. I looked and there was Rosa Parks with thread and needle. She had noticed my hem was loose and she was in her usual unassuming manner, repairing same. About 8 years later, I was to meet Tony and Sue Liuzzo. Tony is the son of slain civil rights crusader, Viola Liuzzo. Although Viola Liuzzo turned Unitarian in her quest, Tony and Sue now share my traditional Christian beliefs. They remain close personal friends.

However much I passionately participated in the first two events, as I did in the Eugene McCarthy presidential campaign of 1968, I could not and would not participate in the first Earth Day, even though so much of the crowd in the various peace and civil rights movements were there. I sat in my cubicle in the Speaker's Staff headquarters of the House of Representatives section of the Michigan State Capitol and literally shivered with creeps as I read the announcements for the day. I bought the books for research, but I frankly instinctively disliked all I was hearing. I could not tell you why until 1981, the year I first discovered the New Age Movement. Perusing literature of popular groups of the Movement starting with the Sierra Club and moving through Friends of the Earth and the scare projections of the Club of Rome, I had what the New Agers would probably label an "aha moment" and others might call "an epiphany." My thoughts went something like this:

"They are talking about increasing living space, population reduction, mandatory abortion, licensing people to have children, encouraged and even forced sterilizations, terminating life supports -- My God -- that is what the Nazis were all about! So many nice people into this -- somebody's got to warn them."

When I discovered the esoteric underpinnings of the movement which were almost universally talking about (a) a new 'messiah' coming; and (b) recognition of Lucifer as a benevolent planetary force (Theosophical Society; Lucis Trust; Benjamin Creme, et al ad nauseum), I knew that I was facing something for which I could not conscientiously keep silent. I remember saying to myself about the probable consequences for speaking out "professional suicide; political suicide"! But speak out I did.

I was surprised over the years to see that much of my support came from places where I often least expected it and so much of my opposition came also from places where I least expected it. I will write more about that in future blogs, but for now

1. I will not be celebrating Earth Day -- not this year -- not any year.

2. I recommend you take steps to obtain a read a book by Bruce S. Thornton. I read significant portions of it today on a subscription service I employ, Questia. com. I plan to track the book down on Amazon.com and order same as soon as possible! Publication information is:

Book Title: Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge. Contributors: Bruce S. Thornton - author. Publisher: ISI Books. Place of Publication: Wilmington, DE. Publication Year: 1999. "

I frankly found the book tracking down sources where Javier Solana's mother was quoted. I rather doubt if Mr. Thornton caught her own 'false knowledge' which was an open profession of OSHO/Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh as her 'teacher.' He quoted her in a context of how false beliefs get started and are perpetuated. He skillfully identified so many, including the myths behind Earth Day, and the alleged 'civility' (NOT) of pre-Christian cultures. But for understanding what is happening to our times, right after the Bible and a few other classics, it is an invaluable reference. Have a nice weekend and happy reading!

Friday, April 15, 2005

Even the Alexandria library probably had more than one book on a topic! The continuing Wikipedia wars saga

Wikipedia is an interesting concept -- "open information." Its founder was Jimmy Wales, better known in Wiki-land as "Jimbo Wales." There is information. Then again there is disinformation. Wikipedia functioned for awhile, in a sort of manner, as the first. It is obviously presently (and shall we dare hope not for long) controlled by a self-congratulating clique that seems more interested in disinformation than the open information flow they profess.

On Wikipedia, as I wrote before, I have had two primary tormentors: One a self-confessed Rastafarian, well familiar with Alice Bailey New Age works (and undoubtedly with Kazantzakis as well) -- that tormentor professes belief in Haile Selassie as "God." The other professes to be a Christian -- both have worked hard to remove anything from the article that might lead Christians to suspect that things were occurring that might be considered prophetic fulfillment. Since the 'World Christian' had the Bible College background necessary to advise on what facts should be deleted, clearly he is the more culpable of the two as opposed to the Rastafarian who believes Selassie is 'God.'

As I am preparing for a major speech in the Detroit area next Wednesday night, that will have to be prioritized along with my law practice, curtailing both blogging and Wikipedia time for the present; but for the record, here is a significant part of the information the Wikipedia Disinformation Duo of SqueakBox and One Salient Point tried to keep from the world:

"Solana has been placed at [[Number of the Beast (numerology)]] (by me with a bizarre admonishment of unprofessionality by Cumbey for having done so) and [[Antichrist]] already. Maybe one day someone will write an article here at wikipedia on the subject. I have no objection linking him to the 2 above articles through a sentence at the bottom of the article. Of course Cumbey didn't present her belief that he is the Beast here; she tried, in my opinion, to place evidences in the article that would confirm his candidacy of the Beast, and the disturbing evidence of his growing powers to get the Christians paranoid about him and the EU, which is an original concept from what I can see. I have found the Christian material about his beastliness is interesting to read as it has helped me edit Cumbey's thesis out of the article.

"I removed the 10 of the 10 nation Western European Union after reading that that is a critical part of some 10 horn prophecy."

Now notice that he, 'Squeaky' cum 'SqueakBox' did not say I said anything untruthful -- but that I allegedly 'planted evidences', i.e. reported it the way it was. He openly admits he removed EVIDENCES. Is removing evidences a heroic act? Is managing news an act of journalistic bravery or more likely one of journalistic cowardice?

Au contraire, in the legal world, the SqueakBox tactics are perhaps more accurately known as "Suppressing Evidence" and "Obstruction of Justice" especially if it is used to hide evidences of criminal acts from authorities.

I don't know, maybe SqueakBox and his higher-echelon allies at Wikipedia think I inputted the Columbia Encyclopedia (in existence for years!) on the Western European Union. Here's what my late 1990's hard bound volume says of it:


"The Western European Union has existed since 1954 and today includes 10 European countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. It has a Council and Secretariat formerly located in London and based in Brussels since January 1993, and a Parliamentary Assembly in Paris. The WEU has its origins in the Brussels Treaty of Economic, Social and Cultural Collaboration and Collective Self-Defense of 1948, signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and United Kingdom."

Wikipedia was conceived of by its founders with aspirations of replicating and exceeding the Alexandria library. It has now become a system open to manipulation with a hierarchy and deification of its founder as "god-king." I suspect Jimbo Wales himself might dislike that title as he reportedly bristled at people calling him a "benevolent dictator." All I know is that every time SqueakBox, "One Salient Oversight" and others take steps to keep the public from knowing facts that they think prophetic implications could be read into, they invoke Jimbo's name, claiming his alleged blessings?

Is it true? For the record, even the Alexandria library probably had more than one book and one perspective on an issue. Why should Jimbo Wales' claimed minions be able to book burn in his name? Is this truly open source? Or is it, more accurately, 'managed news.' You be the judge!

Constance E. Cumbey
Dated: April 15, 2005

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Hotel Rwanda cum Hotel Barcelona at Libya

I just finished watching a disturbing movie. I may have been one of the last to see Hotel Rwanda as I missed it at the theaters. Needless to say, it was disturbing. I followed the Rwandan events as they happened. I had suspicions (maybe justified, maybe not) that this was a segment of the population reduction aspirations and that for this reason, little had been done to stop it. Where was "humanitarian intervention" in that situation?

Now, Javier Solana says he is a big believer in humanitarian intervention. He is still numero uno in the Barcelona Process. Disturbing reports are coming out of Amnesty International that maybe the Barcelona Process may not be so humanitarian vis a vis Libya.

Libya has lots of oil (as does Iraq), but I'm sure that never entered anybody's head! (Sure! Sure!, as famous old Detroit trial lawyer John D. O'Connell would say as he did so often on successfully impeaching a witness and taking explanations after being trapped in their lies.)

Since Javier Solana is in the current process of making deals with Israel, maybe it would well behoove them to look carefully to Libya, to see how their rights might or might not be protected under a sort of Barcelona protectorate.

'Nuf said. I'm retiring for the night. If you want to read the Amnesty International warnings for yourself, click on the link below -- nah, since its a 'press release' rather than a copyrighted story, I'll reprint it here for you below. The link is embodied at the end of the body of the story.

News
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE
AI Index: MDE 19/044/2005 (Public)
News Service No: 087
12 April 2005
EU-Libya cooperation: No safeguards for refugees
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BRIEFING TO EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS MINISTERS
(Brussels, 12 April 2005) Amnesty International has today issued a briefing paper on the deplorable treatment of refugees and illegal immigrants in Libya in the lead up to this week's discussion at EU level about enhancing co-operation with Libya on illegal immigration.
"Immigration Cooperation with Libya: The Human Rights Perspective. Amnesty International briefing ahead of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, 14 April 2005" is available on
http://www.amnesty-eu.org from 09.00 12 April.
Amnesty International understands EU JHA ministers will discuss future co-operation with Libya on illegal immigration on the basis of a report by the European Commission following a mission to the country late last year. Amnesty International has called for this report to be made public to allow a dialogue involving all relevant actors including the European Parliament.
"The European Union must recognize that in Libya, there is effectively no guarantee of refugee rights. Libya does not allow the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to operate properly in the country and people forcibly returned to Libya from Europe risk degrading detention conditions and further expulsion to countries where they may face imprisonment and torture," Dick Oosting, Director of Amnesty International's EU Office said.


"In this context, deportations of 'irregular migrants' to Libya as carried out repeatedly by EU Member States, in particular by Italy and Malta, should be immediately halted as these removals may be in breach of Member States' obligations under international law," he said.
In its briefing paper, Amnesty International outlines its concerns about the EU and its Member States developing "ad hoc" cooperation mechanisms with Libya on illegal immigration without adequate human rights safeguards.

"This would in fact undermine the credibility of the EU's own 'Barcelona Process' with Mediterranean countries which, among other things, aims to enhance the respect for human rights throughout the region," Dick Oosting warned. "If the EU is to engage with Libya, the dialogue and cooperation at EU level should, as a minimum, include clear human rights conditionality."

For further comment/background and interviews:
Amnesty International EU Office (Brussels)
Tel: 32-2-5021499
Fax: 32-2-5025686
Email: amnesty-eu@aieu.be
Web-site:
http:// www.amnesty-eu.org


http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=80256DD400782B8480256FE00056B135

Wednesday, April 13, 2005

For the so-called 'seismologist' - Here's some proof

In response to the comments of the so-called "Seismologist" who denies the magnitude of the November 22, 1995 Eilat Quake

Late last night, stumbling home from the office after a very long and hard day, I was greeted by the second message from somebody purporting to be a government seismologist denying the strength and magnitude of the Eilat, Israel epicentered quake of November 22, 1995. He challenged me to post data, so I am dutifully complying -- now I challenge him to produce his. For my part, consider these:


Baer, G., Sandwell, D., Williams, S., Bock, Y. and Shamir, G. 1999 "Co-seismic deformation associated with the November 1995, Mw=7.1 Nuweiba earthquake, Gulf of Eilat (Aqaba), detected by SAR interferometry
Journal of Geophys. Res., 104:25221-25232

As readers will recall, A. Hofstetter of the Israeli Geophysical Institute had reluctantly admitted to me that the various observers had measured the quake at between 7.1 and 7.3 magnitude. It had a depth of 10 kilometres (Approximately 7 miles). Hofstetter told me in a private email that he personally had measured that quake at 7.2 mw and having 10,000 aftershocks. This quake came only two days after Javier Solana on behalf of the European Union and Shimon Peres on behalf of Israel signed the Treaty of Association between those legal entities.


http://www.springerlink.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=d933d721320c48fab4c4fbc2ad198c2c&referrer=parent&backto=issue,8,11;journal,9,33;linkingpublicationresults,1:100300,1
Journal of Seismology
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., Formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V.
ISSN: 1383-4649 (Paper) 1573-157X (Online)
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021206930730
Issue: Volume 7, Number 1
Date: January 2003
Pages: 99 - 114
Source mechanism of the 22/11/1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake and its aftershock sequence
A. Hofstetter1, H.K. Thio2 and G. Shamir1
(1) Geophysical Institute of Israel, P.O. Box 182, Lod, 71100, Israel
(2) URS Greingr, 566 El-Dorado St., Pasadena, CA, 91101, U.S.A

"Abstract The Gulf of Aqaba earthquake occurred on 22/11/1995 with M W = 7.2 and was the largest event to occur along the Dead Sea Transform in at least a century. We determined the source mechanism of the event based on the inversion of the P and SH waveforms observed by teleseismic stations. Our solution consists of 2 similar subevents, where the first exhibits a left-lateral strike-slip motion with a normal component and the second subevent shows an almost pure left-lateral strike-slip motion along the gulf major fault system. The total seismic moment is 7.7 × 1026 dyne-cm, with source duration of 15 seconds. The aftershock sequence was recorded by the regional broad band stations BGIO and JER, of the Israel Seismic Network, and KEG, of the MEDNET regional network for earthquakeswith M W > 4.0. Aftershock epicenter seems to cluster mainly in the Eilat basin and the Aragonese basin. The dominant mechanism indicates left-lateral strike slip motion along the gulf trend, similar to the mainshock.

http://www.springerlink.com/app/home/contribution.asp?wasp=d933d721320c48fab4c4fbc2ad198c2c&referrer=parent&backto=issue,8,11;journal,9,33;linkingpublicationresults,1:100300,1>


Interestingly, in Hofstetter's email to me, he had added a cryptic statement " But the public perception of it is 6.2 and that is where it shall remain." Hofstetter could not change the truth and neither can another claimed (let us see the critic's credentials/bona fides) who claims the quake is much less than it really was

Constance E. Cumbey
April 13, 2005

How do I remove -- or shrink -- the pictures?

Ok, you blog, internet geniuses. I put the picture up - but intended to put it in only one place and then MUCH smaller. How do I get it back down?

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

College Students -- Why are they rioting? And why aren't they rioting?

Thinking about loud about College Students and their tuition . . . Is it fair?

This is about college costs, but I'm going to ramble a little bit to get there.

My husband Barry likes to watch sports of all kinds. (When he was younger, he liked to play them as well). I like to avoid just about all of them but bowling of which I understand a little only for the reason that my late father had a bad investment in a bowling alley in my high school years. The only benefit was that I learned all about the game. I must confess to a distinct lack of athletic ability -- except for when I was in grade school in Fort Wayne, Indiana. At the neighborhood Weiser Park, I was fiercely competitive with the box hockey games. At that I could usually beat 'tall comers. At the volleyball, basketball, track, gymnastics, you name it, I was a disaster.

Opposites attract, but sometimes they have lots of differences. Here's ours, reinforced over 30 years of marriage:

-- Barry likes sports, I don't
-- Barry even likes boxing, I despise same
-- I would rather watch anything but a sporting event, Barry would rather miss anything but a sporting event.

And it is the aftermath of those sporting events which inspires the 'stream of consciousness' behind this column. Last Saturday night, Michigan State did something -- I frankly don't know if they won or lost, even if I am alumnus and my law school now resides on its East Lansing, Michigan campus. I don't know if they won or lost. Worse yet, to my husband, I don't care. Parenthetically, nothing infuriates Barry more than to hear me say as he goes into a blue funk over the particular score or move/mismove at the moment: "Barry, it's only a game!" Heck, at that particular moment in time and space, it's his life. A strange transition to me for him a social worker in his day job, but c'est la vie!

At any rate, they were rioting in East Lansing -- over what? They were rioting over the game. They sometimes riot when they win. They sometimes riot when they lose. It was looking like the end of the world in East Lansing. Innocent students even got tear-gassed in the cross-fire.

Now, this is what I can't figure out. I'm conservative in many of my views, but on education, I guess you would call me a flaming liberal. I think higher education is entirely too expensive. I think these kids are not given the opportunities my generation enjoyed to be able to work their way through school and graduate without being so deeply in debt that they have no hope of being able to start a family and/or purchase a home short of a family endowment or winning a major lottery.

I don't agree with everything the EU does, as you can tell from my other columns; however, I do applaud their providing free or reasonable higher education to their young people. Just where do we think compassionate caring doctors, EMS workers, Registered nurses, engineers, architects, and yes, even lawyers are going to come from to help us, the aging baby boomers?

WHY AREN'T THEY RIOTING OVER THE TUITION!!! NOW THAT'S A CAUSE I COULD UNDERSTAND. I'd even be tempted to go join them!

Now my generation (for those watching 60's movies, you remember 1968, "hell no, we won't go!) why they'd never have thought of doing that to us -- the college students of the 1960s and 1970s . Can't you just see it? There would have been sit-ins by the bursar's office, university officials would have been hung in effigy, and the next day the University President would have reading a statement announcing a TUITION DECREASE . . . They wouldn't have DARED tell us we had to pay anything even proportional to those simpler times what this overburdened generation has to pay now!

Ok, just my rambling thoughts for the evening, but I think we need to do something to either shave or share the costs of educating the generation that may well have to help care for us down the aging roads. What do you think? How are we going to have compassionate physicians if we have uncompassionate college costs?

That's my two cents worth. The tuition costs unfortunately, much more than that. Enjoy your night!

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY

Here is the pre-butchered Wikipedia article -- mostly as I wrote it

The (mostly) pre-Chop-Shop Solana article
by Constance Cumbey
April 12, 2005


Below, with a few minor modifications to restore it to the best of my current memory as it substantially was before SqueakBox and company started Wikipedia 'editing' cum chopping, is the former Wikipedia Article on Javier Solana. Solana clearly deserves a book, if not volumes, but this was an attempt to present salient facts over and above the very limited picture of himself he gave in his official biographies. A very similar version of the original Wikipedia article also appears on the Wiki Global Elite site for which I have side site links. I have also added back the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh material that SqueakBox evidently chopped in the hopes of making Solana and his family look more traditional than they really were. The footnotes/'External links' have been reformatted for your convenience in conforming to blogger limitation realities.

Javier Solana

Javier Solana (born July 14, 1942), the 1995-1999 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Secretary General, is, since late 1999, Secretary General of both the European Union and the 10 nation permanent member Western European Union. He also holds the title of the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU, a position created by the European Union's "Council of Vienna" in December 1998.

http://europa.eu.int/abc/doc/off/rg/en/1998/x0666.htm

Effective June 29, 2004, Javier Solana has been officially designated to serve as the new Foreign Minister of the European Union under its forthcoming expected new constitution, effective upon full ratification, planned for 2006.

http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-118090-16&type=News
As such he would combine the positions of Commissioner of External Relations (currently held by Benita Ferraro Waldner) and Common Foreign and Security Policy chief currently held by him. He has a cabinet of his own. That advisory body is expected to grow. It is expected that ratification of the constitution will be complete sometime in 2006. Under the new constitution, he would become a powerful figure in the EU government, having a power of initiative only shared with the presidency. He would also automatically serve as Vice President of the European Union.


Family history

Solana was born on July 14, 1942 in Madrid, Spain as "Javier Solana de Madariaga". On his maternal side, he is the grandson of famous Spanish diplomat/writer Salvador de Madariaga de Rojo (1886-1978). Salvador de Madariaga at various times served as Spanish ambassador to the United States and as chief of the Disarmament Section of the League of Nations. He also had a teaching career at England's Oxford University. Salvador de Madariaga was admiringly said to be one of the ten best conversationalists in all of Europe in his day. His writing career ranged from books about Christopher Columbus to analyses of what he considered to be the growing Communist threat to Latin America. Solana's maternal grandmother, Constance Archibald de Madariaga, was born Scottish. Like her diplomat-writer husband, she was also a well known scholar. She was professionally and academically known as an economic historian.
Javier is the younger of the two sons of de Madariaga's daughter Nieves (1917-2003). Solana's mother, like her more famous father, was also a recognized scholar and writer. Her full name at the time of her death was Nieves Hayat de Madariaga Mathews. She was employed for upwards of 20 years by the FAO (Food and Agricultural Organization), a United Nations agency headquartered in Rome. Her Yale University published book on the life of Sir Francis Bacon was released in 1996. The 606 page volume is entitled, Francis Bacon: The History of a Character Assassination.

http://www.sirbacon.org/nmathewsbook.htm

Nieves de Madariaga Mathews claimed in her acknowledgements that the book was suggested and blessed by "my teacher, Osho, who thought highly of Francis Bacon and gave the book his blessing." "Osho", Solana's mother's teacher was better known to Americans as the highly controversial Oregon compound cult leader, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. He was deported from the USA in 1987 and died in India in 1990.

http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/bhagwan_shree_rajneesh_osho.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/rajneesh.htm

As well as Rajneesh (Osho), Solana's mother was equally deeply and publicly influenced by the works of Immanuel Velikovsky. She devoted much time to her pursuit of both Velikovsky and Sir Francis Bacon literacy and causes.


Javier Solana's only maternal aunt is Isabel de Madariaga, a professor emeritus of Slavonic Studies at the College of London. A brilliant and thorough scholar, she has published extensive historical works, most notably about Russian empress, Catherine the Great.

Javier Solana is the younger of Nieves de Madariaga Mathews' two sons. His older brother Luis Solana is a retired Spanish telephone company chief executive officer; he was the first known Socialist party member to join the Trilateral Commission. He was ardently opposed to the Spanish presidency of General Franco and was reportedly imprisoned for his political activity. Like his older brother, Javier Solana, is an active member of the Trilateral Commission. Although not eligible for membership as he is not an American citizen, Javier Solana is a frequent speaker and enjoys excellent relationships with members of the prestigious US based Council on Foreign Relations Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) He is likewise active with the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) as well as the New York city based East West Institute.

On Solana's paternal side, his grandfather was Don Ezequiel Solana de Ramirez. He was reportedly a revered educator and text book author who died in 1931. His son, Francisco Solana was reportedly Luis and Javier's father.

Education, Early Career, and Associations

Javier Solana's most personally listed affiliation apart from the Socialist party is the Spanish chapter of the Club of Rome. On a personal level, he has been said to "eat little and sleep less;" his is reportedly "a monk's diet of fish and fruit." Some accounts state that although he is active in global disarmament efforts, his favorite personal hobby is "collecting guns".

Professionally, apart from his political careers, Solana holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry (Received in Spain in 1963), a Master's Degree obtained in Great Britain, and a doctorate in physics. Solana is fond of saying that "in a previous incarnation I worked as a professor in solid-state physics." He received his doctorate in 1968 while studying at the University of Virginia under a Fulbright Scholarship in the United States. He taught and worked as a researcher at the University of Virginia between 1968 and 1971. Solana left the USA in 1971 to return to Spain with one of his teaching mentors. There he was employed by Computense University in Madrid, Spain. Again, he was banished for political reasons, i.e. opposition to the Franco government. In 1975, Solana's political nemesis, Generalissimo Francisco Franco died. Thereupon Solana, expelled in his youth for anti-Franco rebellion, gained a Complutense University professorship. That year, also, he re-involved himself in Spanish political life. As a representative of a teacher's union, he ran and won election as the Socialist candidate for the parliamentary seat he was to begin occupying in July 1977.
Solana was officially a Marxist until September 29, 1979. He was also a member of the Spanish socialist party PSOE since 1964. That was the year as well that he joined the "Socialist Youth." In 1976, he represented the Socialists at an internation Socialist Congress held in the French province of Suresnes. He participated in the same Congress held in 1977 in Spain. Solana was designated secretary of Information and Press of the Federal Executive Commission of the PSOE. He was also active in the Teacher's Union, the Federation of Workers of the Education of the General Union of Workers (UGT). He was elected to the Spanish parliament as a representative of the Teacher's Union in 1977. He was continuously a member of the Spanish parliament and steadily advanced in the Felipe Gonzalez administration, steadily advancing through various cabinet positions.

Between 1982 and 1995, he held powerful positions in the Spanish government including that of the Minister for Culture, Minister of Science and Education and lastly as Minister for Foreign Affairs (1992-1995). For most of those years he was also the official spokesman for the Spanish government.

When it was Spain's turn to hold the rotating chairmanships/presidencies of the Council of the European Union and the Western European Union, Solana was designated by Spain to head those posts. Those dual posts coincided in 1995.

On November 20, 1995 during Spain's turn at the rotating six month presidency of the European Union, Javier Solana concluded a treaty between the European Union and Israel.

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2000/l_147/l_14720000621en00030156.pdf

Although originally scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 1997, the treaty was not officially ratified until June 1, 2000.

[According to Congressional Record speech of Senator Dodd of Connecticut in December, 1995, shortly after Solana's NATO appointment, Solana also taught physics at University of Chicago and at LaJolla, California. So far, I have been unable to independently verify this apart from the Congressional Record items. CEC]

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r104:S08DE5-237:
[If this link doesn't work, try cutting and pasting it into your browser and access it independent of this blog. CEC]


Role in NATO


On November 30, 1995, Solana was appointed as NATO Secretary General. His election was a surprise to many, including 52 United States congressmen who telegraphically protested his appointment because of his alleged Marxist and pro-Castro sympathies. He had once been on the USA's own subversive list. He had been best known, according to the Spanish press, as one of Spain's most vocal and prominent opponents of NATO. He had even once written a pamphlet, "50 Reasons to say NO to NATO."

The Secretary General of NATO usually has a ministerial role, passing on instructions from the member nations' consensus to its military components, but during his 1995 to 1999 NATO tenure, Solana was given powers to make military decisions over Yugoslavia. For example, on January 30, 1999, he was given the authority to make all further military decisions over NATO's Balkan operations, including whether or not bombings should occur. Madeleine Albright, USA Secretary of State then said by way of explanation, "Solana has the power and has had it since January 30th [ 1999]. We are speaking with one voice through Javier Solana". On March 21, 1999, USA President Bill Clinton told a national American television audience about the forthcoming bombings: "I agree with Javier Solana's decision to do this." The order to commence bombing against Yugoslavian targets was subsequently given by Solana.

USA General Wesley Clark, who as chief military officer of the NATO coalition reported to and took orders from Solana, reports in his book Waging Modern War that he once asked Solana the secret of his success. Solana reflected briefly and then answered, "First make no enemies. Then never ask a question to which you do not know or do not like the answer."

Roles in the EU and the Western European Union

Solana's NATO term was to have expired in December, 1999; however, he left that job two months early, in October 1999, to take the newly created position of Office of the High Representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (also more informally called "Señor PESC]]" ("Mr PESC", in Spanish media)- Post of European Security Commissioner). He was also given the title and responsibility of Secretary General of the European Union; this was to give continuity between the EU's various 6 month rotating presidential administrations. Solana was described by the European press as "tsar of European military and foreign policy."

On November 20, 1999, Javier Solana was also selected by the ten-nation core of the Western European Union (WEU) to be its pending Secretary General, pending unification with the European Union. However, on June 5, 2000, the ten nation WEU noted that under its governing treaties complete merger could not occur, and therefore they supported a proposal to have the WEU Secretary General and CFSP High Representative (both roles of Solana) preside over the PSC (Political Security Committee) and convene the Council of the European Union in the event of an emergency. (Such an emergency was declared after the March 11, 2004, Madrid train bombings.

The WEU appointment [of November 20, 2005] came on the same day as major world leaders were gathering for a major social event at deceased British author Sir Harold Acton's old Italian villa, owned by New York University's School of Law. The gathering was of the Third Way Movement. Solana was in attendance at the villa as were U.S. President and Mrs. Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, European Commission President Romano Prodi, and many other such distinguished transatlantic leaders.

Javier Solana presides over Europe's Political Security Committee (PSC). All those seated on that committee hold ambassadorial rank in the EU and serve at the pleasure of Javier Solana. All foreign ambassadors of the European Union entity (as opposed to its individual countries) as well as all EU military personnel are accountable to the Council of the European Union through Javier Solana. The EU's hope is that the pending new European constitution will strengthen and extend this European federal-type set of structures.
In December 2003, Solana released the European Security Strategy, "A Secure Europe in a Better World."

http://ue.eu.int/cms3_fo/showPage.ASP?id=266&lang=EN&mode=g

Before going to NATO, Javier Solana did most or even all of the spearheading and coordination of the Barcelona Process, the launching pad of the 27 nation "Barcelona Process" expected to lead to a Mediterranean free trade zone by 2010
. This conference was opened by him on November 27, 1995. He opened by declaring that it was auspicious that it began on the 900th anniversary of the calling of the first crusade by Pope Urban II, commenting "What a lot of intolerance and misunderstanding that led to." The conference concluded with the 27 nations signing the Barcelona Treaty.

Solana has also negotiated numerous "Treaties of Association" between the European Union and various Mideast countries. In his tenure with the European Union, Javier Solana has been relatively busy on the world stage negotiating various integration treaties with South American countries such as Bolivia and Colombia. He has also been a vital part of the Quartet for Peace in the Middle East along with Kofi Annan of the UN, a Russian representative, and a USA representative. He has been said to be a primary architect of "The Roadmap" itself issued by "The Quartet".

[This part was added by another, I'm not sure who, but it is most likely valid material. CEC] In November 2004, Solana assisted Britain, France, and Germany in negotiating a nuclear material enrichment freeze with the leadership of Iran. The EU through Solana stated it hoped to avoid another American-Iraqi style invasion through this and future negotiations.

Some British and American observers stated that perhaps the EU's motives were to dislodge the USA as the only superpower in the coming 21st century struggle for increasingly scarce global resources.

"Solania"

Solana claimed a pivotal role in unifying the remainder of the former Yugoslavian federation. Reportedly, he proposed accommodating the Montenegrine desires within the new loose union of Serbia and Montenegro (2003), instead of full independence of the parts. Solana claimed this was done to avoid a domino effect from Kosovo and Vojvodina independence demands. Local media sarcastically named the new country "Solania" . Still other observers have pointed to this as a probable "Balkan reduction," noting with alarm that one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of World War II was that Hitler failed to reduce the Balkans before taking on the USA and Russia.

Future


As of 2004, there is increased reliance on Javier Solana by the EU and the WEU. On June 29,, 2004 Javier Solana was selected by the Council of the European Union to be its first Foreign Minister under the new EU Constitution. Until formal ratification of the constitution occurs (planned for 2006), Solana is de facto exercising the defined powers of that future office as well as being responsible for the approximately upwards of 26 billion EURO budget (formerly reserved for the Commissioner of External Affairs). Solana no longer travels with the EU Rotating Presidency and the Commissioner of External Affairs as the reigning EU "troika" -- since the vote of the Council of Ministers, Solana now speaks and travels as the sole voice rather than one of three voices.

On July 20th 2004, Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declined to meet with Solana, saying that because of an EU vote against Israel at the UN Israel would not work with the EU, notwithstanding it's prominence on the Quartet for Peace in the Middle East. Solana stunned the world, Israel included, by replying that like it or not, both he and the EU were there to stay on the Israeli-Palestinian decision making processes. He is presently may be the major player in structuring a peace plan between Israel and Palestine, with Europe combining with other major players to guarantee regional security for the time any treaty achieved is in force. He is achieving this both through his "Barcelona Process" and the "Roadmap for Peace" in the Middle East, for which he is also acknowledged as a major architect.

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/03/e90a2e07-99cb-40e5-b459-a761590a4915.html

The Clinton White House announced in a press conference that Javier Solana was the fulfillment of Henry Kissinger's long stated wish to have only one phone number to ring up for Europe.

http://www.aegis.com/news/afp/2000/AF0005B6.html
http://www.usembassy.it/file2000_05/alia/a0052504.htm

Post June 29, 2004, many other sources were making the same observation -- that Kissinger (and anybody else) could ring up Europe by calling just calling Javier Solana. Some Solana-watchers are noting his rise to power with growing fascination. Solana has been criticised for his new powers, and has publicly downplayed his potential powers by saying that even under the new constitution the new Foreign Minister, with all its projected powers, can only be exercised if there is complete unanimity among EU member states. Given Solana's talents in securing consensus but also bringing pressure to bear where necessary, people are interested to watch how Solana and/or his successors in this office play out the role of the new EU Foreign Minister. In end of February Mr. Elmar Brok, German Christian Democrat deputy, and chairman of the European parliament's foreign affairs committee warned in Brussels that Solana "could become too powerful and could be put in charge of an "uncontrollable" new bureaucracy".

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/9309cc5a-88e2-11d9-b7ed-00000e2511c8,dwp_uuid=d4f2ab60-c98e-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.html

On 21 January 2005 Solana invited Ukraine's president-elect Viktor Yushchenko to discuss the possibility of a future EU membership. The report also stated that the EU's Executive Commission had no plans to consider Ukrainian entry into the EU.

Personality

As the anti-Franco activist in his youth and the anti-NATO activist in his 40s combined with his leadership of NATO in his 50s, Javier Solana has sometimes been called a "squarer of circles" (i.e. reconciler of opposites). Past illustrations of this (whether intentional or not) were his marriage to the daughter (Concepción Giménez) of a top Franco general and by his heading NATO in his fifties. He has also played an active role in the various Mideast peace processes at least between 1991 and the present time.

Javier Solana is married to Concepcion Giménez Solana, herself a teacher. They are the parents of two grown children: a son, Diego, and a daughter, Vega. Solana reportedly has never moved his immediate family - wife and children - to Brussels, his main residence since first taking his NATO post in December of 1995 and his European Union posts thereafter. He has admitted that his family life has suffered as a result of the schedules from his NATO post and EU jobs forward.



My last word (for now):

That is essentially the material intended for Wikipedia. You may check the links for yourself and judge its fairness and objectivity. Until later, I remain

Respectfully yours,

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY

Monday, April 11, 2005

Javier Solana's Powers

A LITTLE, NO A LOT, MORE DOCUMENTATION ON THE GROWING POWERS OF JAVIER SOLANA

April 11, 2005

I had so much response to my two postings dealing with Javier Solana, I thought it would be beneficial to place a broader knowledge base out there. Herb Peters has done an admirable job on his website, www.fulfilledprophecy.com, and I commend that as well. His book, Recommendation 666's title is based on this linked Javier Solana drafted and introduced bill of June 5, 2000: "Recommendation 666."


What Herb and I were later to discover was that this was not the first major 666 in Solana's political career. His very job, Office of the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union had also been created under a 666 banner:

http://europa.eu/generalreport/en/1998/x0666.htm

When you read the above "Recommendation 666", pay special attention to paragraphs 12, 15, and 18! I will write more about those aspects of Recommendation 666 in forthcoming blogs.

Very recently, I discovered that Javier Solana alone had the keys to the European Space Agency project, the Galileo Project headquartered at Torrejon, Spain (mentioned in Recommendation 666, paragraph 18). Interestingly, in determining that only Solana was fit to hold these powers over what is designed to be an all encompassing global surveillance system, they wrote something very similar to what Solana said about EU involvement in Israel in commenting about same last summer: "Like it or not, it has to be Solana." You may read about that on the link below:

http://www.newdefenceagenda.org/index.html?http://www.newdefenceagenda.org/news_detail.asp?ID=107&frame=yes~main

Despite all that, it appears we have suffered from a near news blackout in the USA about this man. There are no books so far specifically about him. His name recognition among Americans is very low.

Whether Solana turns out to be the ultimate "bad man" or not, anybody holding that much power certainly deserves closer scrutiny. His extensive powers have recently been vastly increased, even before ratification of the EU Constitution is complete. As Lord Acton once said, "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." It appears that as far as the EU is concerned, at least, Javier Solana is enjoying near absolute power. His EU sources have said with satisfaction that he is becoming a global reference point as well:

http://www.notre-europe.asso.fr/article.php3?id_article=31
http://www.iiea.com/files/efsp/issue15.pdf

By the way, the Wikipedia article, under my watch enjoyed extensive external links. In his effort to hide the truth from the readers, SqueakBox removed most of them and characterized their reinsertion as "vandalism." Below is the one such crucial link, the SqueakBox removed. You may read all about it here. I think you will find it interesting!

http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-118090-16&type=News

Until tomorrow, I bid my readers a restful night. I hope to have one.

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY

About the Wikipedia 'Edit Wars'

What I posted on My Wikipedia User Page this day about the Javier Solana 'edit wars' - FYI

Monday, April 11, 2005

"APRIL 11, 2005 -- A FEW WORDS FROM CONSTANCE CUMBEY

April 11, 2005: Most curiously (on Wikipedia, not here!) I tried to begin a column on my personal user page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cumbey

and found myself 'logged out' without having 'logged out' after visiting another Wikipedia page to obtain a link. The user pages of my two main tormentors on Wikipedia are internally linked as on Wikipedia as "SqueakBox" and "One Salient Oversight" and are externally linked as follows:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SqueakBox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:One_Salient_Oversight

These two, particularly SqueakBox (well named, isn't he?) have mercilessly worked to vandalize and delete my work even on other boards such as Wiki Global Alert. Then they added links to those going beyond my work to create a cartoon caricature effect of my work. Anytime I tried to defend myself on the board, Squeakbox and his numerous allies (dare I call them 'sockpuppets'?) came back whining about 'personal attacks' and erased my work while posting the curiously defective worded SqueakBox versions. I say curious because his true writing name has fully written articles with rich detail and properly spelled paragraphs and worded sentences, unlike his claimed 'machete blow to the head' handicap excuse here. http://www.marrder.com/htw/nov2000/cultural.htm

As a scholar on Solana, at this point, I may be without peer. I have read virtually everything written by him and much of it about him. I have read speeches by his brother, Luis Solana; his mother Nieves Matthews' book on the life and career of Sir Francis Bacon, several books by his grandfather, Salvador de Madariaga de Rojo, and a book by his Aunt Isabel de Madariaga on the life of Catherine the Great. I have followed his activities on nearly a daily basis via the internet since November 22, 1995, the night of an insomniac attack when I happened to discover his beginning Barcelona Process and a little more than a week later, the beginning of his NATO tenure.
Although Squeakbox, One Salient Oversight and the rest of their comrades have attempted to rewrite or obfuscate history, the following facts remain:
1. Solana's initial power base was the 15 nation European Union AND the TEN NATION WESTERN EUROPEAN UNION. Squeakbox claimed on one of his pages that he deleted the ten nation reference because it was "an evidence" that Christians could take as "the ten horns" of Daniel and Revelation;
2. Solana did conclude and sign a treaty with Israel on November 20, 1995, two days before I made his internet acquaintance.
3. Two days after the treaty was signed, the Red Sea resort area of Israel (Eilat) and surrounding Egyptian country was struck by a massive earthquake -- one like much of the material I have placed on Wikipedia, was evidently the recipient of historical revisionism. Within a week, the 7.2 mw quake was downgraded to one only 6.2 in strength.
http://www.elevator-world.com/magazine/archive01/9604-001.htm
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/jafi75/timeline8f.html#1

By the way, the actual strength of that quake was 7.2 as observed by the United States Geological Service in Golden, Colorado and the University of Michigan and University of Ohio joint seismic research center. The Ontario earthquake research center recorded its intensity as even a much stronger 7.3 mw. Its depth was such that it was considered a true global quake. If you would like to view those plates, email me your 'snail mail' address to cumbey@yahoo.com and I'll send you a PowerPoint Presentation CD Rom with that and many more interesting facts and references on Javier Solana.

Interestingly, the apparently Israeli based time line in addition to downplaying the true strength of the November 22, 1995 earthquake, also omits the November 20th signing of the Treaty of Association between Israel and the European Union, a vital component of the European Union's Barcelona Process and current European Neighborhood Policy. Why it was omitted is a matter of interesting speculation.

You may read all about the treaty and the Barcelona Process by clicking the link immediately below:

http://www.rferl.org/features/features_article_old.aspx?id=e90a2e07-99cb-40e5-b459-a761590a4915&y=2004&m=03



n the latter account was the Treaty signing of November 20, 1995.

I have placed these comments here for the benefit of those who believe Wikipedia to be a credible resource. I have noticed these things happening:

1. SqueakBox's personal attacks on me continue to stand.
2. My defenses are usually struck as 'personal attacks' on Squeakbox'
3. SqueakBox has been allowed to erase my work both on the Solana page and user comments with impunity;
4. When I deleted the personal attacks SqueakBox placed upon me, they were restored and my IP address was temporarily banned for 'vandalism' even though deleting personal attacks is allowed under Wikipedia policy (or so SqueakBox says if it is me writing about his considerable attacks upon yours truly).

This reminds me of episodes I had on Prodigy with a coven of on-line self-confessed pagans and witches back in the late 1980's. One of their number wrote me claiming to be a Christian who had read both my books. She urged me to jump to the Art section and post there, which I naively did. Then I was set upon by the community. The discussion centering about my posts grew quickly to one of the largest sections on all of Prodigy. Hours of time were wasted by me nightly in answering their verbiage cum garbage. Then somebody sent me a link to show where they were bragging about dissipating my energies and writing time by their antics. I hopped over there, and cut and pasted their comments to my private BBS. I decided to leave Prodigy and left them bewailing the loss of their fun.

For many of the same reasons, I have started my own column elsewhere on the web. No, it isn't a website. I have neither time nor resources to maintain it. You may find what I do have by clicking the following link http://www.cumbey.blogspot.com

I firmly expect that both the Rastafarians and the Christian false brethren will follow me over there. So be it. If ignorance reigns about Javier Solana, I don't want it to be my fault. If they want it on their eternal shoulders, that's their choice!

Oh, and by the way is Javier Solana either/or the 'anti-Christ' or the 'prophesied destroyer of the Jews of Daniel? Dunno -- your guess is as good as mine. It's just that from where I currently sit, he might be an educated guess. But then again, so was Hitler.

Only time -- and events -- will tell!

CONSTANCE E. CUMBEY

Sunday, April 10, 2005

New Age Morals -- Unborn Animal life vs Unborn Human life

New Age Morals


Animal life vs. Human Life -- HOW THE NEW AGERS ARE SEEING IT

Monday, April 11, 2005

My husband, Barry, and I are unashamed animal lovers. We are currently down to two dogs. Our remaining cat was one week shy of 20 when he died on Easter Sunday. We have had quite an assortment of cats and dogs over the 31 years of our marriage. We gained the confidence of two feral cats and tamed them to the extent that nobody might have guessed they were once totally and dangerously wild.

With that having been said, I am also an unapologetic pro-life Christian. The Dr. Kevorkians’ and George Felos’ (Mr. Schiavo’s death advocating attorney) of this world trouble me. So do the abortionists.

St. Augustine once wrote that before he became a Christian, he had more pity for the peach than for man for whom God had created the peach. There is an ideology I have been keeping up with for the past 24 years. It has collectively called itself by many names, depending on the flak it receives from its various successor identities: You may have heard it (or some of its prominent components) called any of the following names:

-- New Age Movement
-- New Religious Movements
-- New Consciousness Movement
-- New Wave
-- New Consciousness
-- The Green Movement
-- Radical Center
-- Radical Middle
-- Third Wave
-- Third Force
-- Holistic Movement
-- Wellness Movement
-- Transcendental Movement
-- Sustainability Movement
-- One World Movement
-- Planetary Citizenship
-- World Citizens

Those in these various movements share a popular slogan of “we are all one,” that is until somebody comes and points out their connectedness, at which point the slogan instead becomes “that’s them, not us” and alternatively, “we are all separate.” One popular agenda among the more intense of their number, including but not limited to Jeremy Rifkin and George Monbiot is advocacy of compelled vegetarianism.

Well, I was so pleased to see that some of the popular commentators in this movement have suddenly developed a sensitivity to intrauterine animal pain – pregnant animals being slaughtered and what pain might be felt by the unborn offspring of these hapless, helpless creatures. Maybe the anti-vivisectionist movement was developing a sensitivity for life that might translate soon to sensitivity for unborn human life!

http://www.medialens.org/articles_2002/viva_throwaway_lives.html

Concerned analysts have reported that New Age influences are steering the medical profession in the opposite direction from that projected for the animal kingdom, in which in the New Age worldview, pre-born animals have feelings, whereas pre-born people aren’t (people) until birth! You can read one such thoughtful analysis here:

http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/irv/irv_50newagetextbook1.html


The occultic, i.e. New Age, roots of Nazism are hard to deny. The Nazis, including but certainly not limited to Hitler himself, had enormous pity for animal life. Hitler himself was said to be a vegetarian. Animal experimentation was self-righteously condemned and banned. So what was left? So they wouldn’t be guilty of ‘speciesism” they had to experiment on something. So what was left? People!

Our New Agers of today have a similar mindset. Read one such site by linking here:

http://www.veganoutreach.org/starterpack/speciesism.html

With the New Age world view of life gaining such power and ascendancy can a reborn Dr. Mengele be far behind? The New Agers are for more than vegetarianism and anti-vivesectionism. They also believe that for the good of the planet, humans must reduce their numbers. An excellent discussion of the population reduction agenda of the very same New Age cum 'planetary perspective' crowd I have been personally studying since 1981 can be found below for those of you with more reading time than I enjoy tonight:

http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/sustainable_development.htm

What do you think?

Another massive Indonesian earthquake

New Earthquake strikes Indonesian Region -- Are we helping victims enough?

Sunday, April 10, 2005

Practically all of us remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard the first breaking news of the breaking Asian tsunami. It was December 26th and personally I was headed to Indiana for a family funeral. I called my husband who remained home and asked him to video record the breaking news.

Exactly one week before the tsunami tragedy, I had recorded accounts of meteoric activity in the same Sumatra - Jakarta region:

http://www.shadowresearch.com/Fireballs/fireballreports.htm#Meteor_Blast_Rocks_Jakarta_

A week to the day later, the region was devastated by water damage that some commentators say could only have been exceeded by the Biblical Great Flood itself.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42196

Since that initial disaster, a series of mind boggling quakes have struck the region that seem to receive only cursory reporting:

March 28th featured a massive 8.7 mw quake:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/28/indonesia.quake/

http://staging.hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/INDONESIA_QUAKES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-04-07-23-09-08

Today (Sunday morning here in Michigan), I heard radio reports that a 6.8 quake had again hit the besieged region.

I can hardly imagine the terror and the shock affecting what must by now be a numbed population. I once was in a 5.5 mw aftershock quake to the 6.2 Los Angeles area quake of October 1, 1987. That 5.5 quake was about all the earthquake I personally care to experience. What the inhabitants of the afflicted Indian Ocean regions have suffered is beyond my comprehension.

I say all of this wondering how the relief organizations are keeping up. It has been a numbing year in terms of disasters. Florida suffered tremendous hurricane damage last fall. I know the recovery continues there. There have been so many disasters and so little interval for recovery.

Are these disasters apocalyptic? I personally believe that given the confluence of other world events, that is a real possibility. Does that mean we sit back and do nothing? No! Are there people exploiting the disasters for personal gain? Probably. Does that mean we give to nobody? No! I am personally interested in knowing where is the best place to place disaster restoration resources? Do those heeding Matthew 24 warnings also heeding Matthew 25 ones?

Saturday, April 09, 2005

Javier Solana's Strange Condolences to the Catholic Church

Javier Solana's Strange Condolences to the Catholic Church

by Constance Cumbey

April 9, 2005:

Despite Ian Paisley's claims that Javier Solana is a devout Catholic, the truth is that he is instead more likely staunchly anti-clerical. His late grandfather, Spanish writer/Diplomat/Oxford professor Salvador de Madariaga was amused by claims that he, Madariaga, was Catholic. Salvador de Madariaga recounts in his memoirs, Morning without Noon (UK: Saxon House, 1973, See page 198), that he was so very amused to find himself on a list of Catholics teaching at Oxford. Madariaga wrote that he was so pleased that the author of the list was able to determine what he had never been able to determine for himself -- his religion, if any. Salvador de Madariaga was so determinedly anti-clerical that he never permitted the baptism of either of his two daughters, Nieves and Isabel.

http://wais.stanford.edu/Religion/religion_inmexsexandclergy4902.html

In 1983 when I was busy lecturing on the anti-clerical/anti-Semitic aspects of the New Age Movement, Javier Solana was at meetings giving Marxist salutes:

http://www.blessedquietness.com/solanamarxist.jpg

What increased the strangeness of this political gesture was that by his accounts, Javier Solana had resigned his Marxist causes effective September 29, 1979.

Nevertheless, even I was unprepared for his very strange statement issued April 3, 2005, the day after the pope's death. It gave 'condolences to the Catholic Church for the disappearance' of Pope John Paul II. "DISAPPEARANCE"?!

http://ue.eu.int/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/EN/declarations/84440.pdf

"I wish to express my deep sorrow and heartfelt condolences to the Catholic Church, and to the Holy See, for the disappearance of His Holiness, John Paul II. "The world - not just people of catholic faith - has lost an unforgettable spiritual leader, an enlightenedchampion of peace and solidarity for all. We will sorely miss a great European spirit of our times.”

That brought back some troubling memories from my earliest days of researching the New Age Movement. David Spangler had written in his book, REVELATION: THE BIRTH OF A NEW AGE that those who did not receive their New Age 'messiah' would disappear. They would be released from 'physical incarnation' to go to another dimension. Hopefully, this was not Solana's interpretation. However, considering that his mother was into Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cum "Osho" and his grandfather appeared on the same letterhead as with David Spangler as endorser's of Donald Key's (a former Lucis Trust administrator who worked with New Age pioneers Alice and Foster Bailey) Planetary Citizens, who knows?

Considering that Solana has flown his Club of Rome flags so openly on his official bios is another hint that he might have leanings sympathetic to this world of occult interpretation. Solana is a capable linguist and writer, employing equally capable linguists and writers. I am certain that he would not have given casual thought to a public statement issued on the death of what he called such a "great European" as the Pope? So, why did Solana choose the word "disappear"? I for one would like to know. Maybe there is an innocent explanation. Maybe not.

I for one would like to know. What does Solana say about it?

Friday, April 08, 2005

Cheer Up Evangelicals: Monbiot hates Catholics too!

by Constance E. Cumbey*
April 8, 2005


*For more background on author, see http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/bhl/mhchome/reaccess/CUMBEY.pdf

In my first two blogs, I wrote about two cheery personalities: George Monbiot and Bill Moyers. Both had harshly taken on the Evangelical world, branding them 'dangerous extremists.' I found their opposition somewhat hypocritical in view of their open evangelism of the far more bizarre and extreme New Age religions. Today on a very different search, I found a piece indicating that Monbiot had not taken on just what he calls "bonkers," i.e., fundamentalists. He hates Roman Catholics in general and the recently passed Pope John Paul II, in particular, going so far as to accuse the good Pope of "genocide" for what actions? For condemning condom use.

Read this particular pithy piece of Monbiot "wisdom" here:

"Every year the Pope kills tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people by the simple expedient of forbidding Catholics to use condoms. While his imprecations are dismissed by most churchgoers in the First World as a load of papal bull, in countries in which there is little access to alternative sources of information and in which women have few rights, every papal decree against contraception sentences thousands to a lingering death.
And what would 'gentle George' so appreciated by Bill Moyers have done to the good Pope who is now hopefully 'safe in the arms of Jesus'? Let him tell us in his own words:


"The Vatican wants to celebrate the year 2000 by canonising Pius XII for helping the oppressed. A better way to mark the millennium would surely be the indictment of John Paul II for crimes against humanity"

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/1999/10/07/the-pope-spreads-aids/


Aren't you glad these New Age 'reformers' (so-called) such as Monbiot and Moyers are for 'peace, light and love'? Whatever would they be like if they weren't? What wonderful equal opportunity haters they have turned out to be!


Again, I pose the question to George Monbiot? Just who’s calling whom ‘bonkers? My friend, methinks it's thee!

Thursday, April 07, 2005

Another great blogger with thoughts on Moyer!

April 7, 2005

I plan to awaken at 4:00 and watch Pope John Paul II's funeral. He took a firm stand against the New Age Movement and I am praying that his successor will go and do likewise. In the meantime, I found a link for another distressed Moyers' watcher. Here it is:

http://www.stonescryout.org/archives/2005/02/moyers_has_a_me.html

Signing off for the evening.

Constance E. Cumbey

Monday, April 04, 2005

Bill Moyers and George Monbiot -- Evangelists of a very different sort


WHAT CONSTANCE THINKS


IS THE FIFTH SEAL OPENING?
BILL MOYERS, MONBIOT, AND THE MARGINALIZING OF
CHRISTIANITY

April 2, 2005

Between my husband and myself, an extraordinary amount of reading is accomplished. Barry reads book reviews and mostly fiction. I read internet content and mostly non-fiction. We both read magazines. Barry listens sometimes sympathetically, sometimes not to my concerns. Occasionally, he hands me something substantiating them. This morning was one of those times. Barry handed me March 24th’s The New York Review. The number one featured story's headline read:

BILL MOYERS:
THE EVANGELIST
MENACE

American Christians who take the Bible as gospel truth send “shivers down my back” reported Moyers. He took somebody else as ‘gospel truth’ – somebody I analyzed in an earlier column at FulfilledProphecy.com: George Monbiot. This is in addition to his true canon of occult scripture, the now dead Theosophist, Joseph Campbell, whose occult beliefs and ridicule of Christianity Moyers helped evangelize over nearly the whole of television – both major networks and public broadcast stations.

Moyers has now joined Monbiot (to whom he concedes he is ‘deeply indebted) in storming Christian ramparts in a growing crescendo of a song sung to the tune of a popular Christian one with a similar name: Backward Christian Soldiers! We must be defeated, or our world view eradicated at minimum, to

1. Make the world safe for Moyers’ five grandchildren;
2. To defeat potential environmental degradation;
3. To insure global mental health.

There were seven seals of Revelation. my studied opinion is that we may (as opposed to 'we are') be further along the prophetic timetable than even Tim LaHaye might guess – that we could possibly even be in the time of the very seals themselves. The first five seals were:

1. The Rider on the White Horse – the antichrist going forth to conquer.
2. The Rider on the Red Horse – fighting and killing breaking out across the earth.
3. The Rider on the Black Horse – inflation – luxury for some amid poverty and shortages for others (‘but touch not the oil and the wine.’)
4. The Rider on the Pale Horse – death, plagues, more fightings and killings, devastation;
5. The bodies under the altar crying out, “how long Lord, how long?” They were given white robes and told to rest a little longer until “their fellow servants should be killed as they were killed.”

Where Tim LaHaye and I might differ is that we are taken out of here before any of these events occur, including but not limited to the emergence of the anti-christ. Otherwise, why might the Bible prophets of old have saved their pity for our generation, living as they did in such barbaric times themselves?

Knowing the history of World War II and how the campaign of marginalization preceded the slaughter of the Jews, it is frightening to see the campaign shape up here. Moreover, I am well acquainted with the contents of an important New Age book by English esotericist Peter LeMesurier. Published initially by the Findhorn community's Thule Press (note that was also the name of Hitler's initial esoteric affiliation), LeMesurier's THE ARMAGEDDON SCRIPT, was complete with a fake staged second coming of ‘Christ’ with sufficient detail to convince the average Jew and Christian it was the expected thing. LeMesurier's 'script' had roles for even participating 'cosmically conscious' agnostics and atheists educated in Jungian psychology, determined to exorcise ‘Christian archetypes’ from the global collective conscious. I am starting to more than suspect this is precisely what we are leading up to: global revulsion and repulsion against us. It was prophesied, it is happening. I am also starting to suspect that some in the Christian Reconstruction Movement, so-called have a secret society mentality and are agents-provocateurs in our collective Christian midst, always ready to supply excuse to wage war on the 'fundamentalisms' of the rest of us.

As regards the entire jihad cum 'Christian Reconstruction' mentality, I revert to increasingly marginalized Scripture as set forth in part in John 16:2:

"They will put you out of the synagogues (churches), yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. ..."

One more thing. THE ARMAGEDDON SCRIPT beautifully encapsulated a New Age strategy of which I have been aware for the last 24 years: pit the target groups off against each other, so that in a massive mutual venting of long pent up aggression, the ‘massed forces of the Old Age’ will go on to defeat each other.

What are these so-called ‘massed forces of the Old Age'? As defined in every New Age book I have ever read: Peoples of the Book – monotheistic worshippers. Jews, Christians, and yes, even Moslems. We point to extremist literature in their camp. All doing so should know about what we in the law call PRECEDENT. That precedent has now been established as our enemies just as gleefully point to our extremist literature with authors such as Rousas John Rushdoony, Gary Marrs, David Chilton, and Gary North calling for the extermination of all dissidents against their calls for physical slaughter of just about everybody disagreeing with them.

The book of Revelation, which yes, I do take unapologetically literally, reads: They overcame the beast by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death. Let us not play into the enemies hands in either a propaganda nor a physical war! We’ve got to trust God alone through this one – not what Gary North calls the “3 G’s” – gold, guns, and groceries.


Dear George(s) Monbiot and Felos -- Who's calling who 'bonkers'?

What Constance Thinks

Dear George(s) Monbiot and Felos -- Who’s calling whom ‘bonkers’ – The New Age (crack)pots calling the Christian kettles 'black'!

Marginalization of opposition is a time honored tactic. The first step in removing something unwanted in society is delegitimizing or dehumanizing it. I began speaking and writing against the New Age Movement in 1981. Although I have been accused of marginalizing the New Agers (which to an extent, I certainly hoped to do), my attention was called to them by their obvious active campaign of marginalizing us. It seems that in the New Age world, everything is good for one but monotheistic religion. All expectations of the future, no matter how bizarre are ‘hopeful,’ save for those we were told to expect by sacred scripture.

A bold shot was fired across the Christian bow in April 2004. George Monbiot, reportedly the son of an evangelical family wrote an article first appearing in London’s GUARDIAN UNLIMITED, being internationally googled that day, saying, “their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power.’ Monbiot held up to ridicule every legitimate prophesied Christian apocalyptic belief and expectation. He talked sneeringly about caricatured beliefs of a rapture as “flying nudists” and people flying out of their ‘pyjamas.’

In the United States, several million people have succumbed to an extraordinary delusion . . . Jesus will return to Earth when certain preconditions have been met. . . The legions of the antichrist will then be deployed against Israel, and their war will lead to a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon. The Jews will either burn or convert to Christianity, and the Messiah will return to Earth. . . . before the big battle begins, all "true believers" (ie those who believe what they believe) will be lifted out of their clothes and wafted up to heaven during an event called the Rapture. Not only do the worthy get to sit at the right hand of God, but they will be able to watch, from the best seats, their political and religious opponents being devoured by boils, sores, locusts and frogs, during the seven years of Tribulation which follow.


The true believers are now seeking to bring all this about. . . . and seeking to provoke a final battle with the Muslim world/Axis of Evil/United Nations/ European Union/France or whoever the legions of the antichrist turn out to be.

The believers are convinced that they will soon be rewarded for their efforts. The antichrist is apparently walking among us, in the guise of Kofi Annan, Javier Solana, Yasser Arafat or, more plausibly, Silvio Berlusconi. . .
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At the time of that writing, Monbiot had just released his own new book, Manifesto for a New World Order. It called for a proletariat led revolution. I purchased the book and read every page of it in the most appropriate room in my house for Monbiot’s own evidence of “bonkers” -- my bathroom!

Having long studied the New Agers and having debated so many of them over the years, I recall a 1982 radio debate I had with an Arlington, Texas New Ager. He listened politely for awhile and then said, “well, she doesn’t sound crazy, but what she is saying is perfectly absurd. Lady, you’ve got us all wrong – we’re not about that. We’re a cybernetics revolution. In the past, if I needed money, I had to go to the bank and present my driver’s license and other pieces of identification. Now all I have to do is go and present a card.”

I interrupted and said, “Yes, and next thing you know, all you will have to go and present is your right hand or forehead.”

He reacted swiftly and angrily. “Why most ministers no longer take that part of the Bible literally – besides, what’s the difference. You take a credit card now or for the sake of convenience for those who might lose those cards, you take a chip . . . what possible difference could that make? Only your silly religious beliefs could interfere with a convenience like that.”

I again interjected myself: “ ‘Silly religious beliefs’? Ok, let’s talk about some of yours – “Plant Devas”, “Luciferic initiations”, shamans, vibrations, healing crystals . . .”

The gentleman cleared his throat and said, “There’s kooks in every movement.” I said, “yes, but unfortunately, they’re running yours.”

I was thinking about that this morning and wondering if it was just ‘coincidental’ that George Monbiot wrote a positive book about his vision for a New World Order at the same time that New Agers I had been tracking since 1981 were bragging they were in final stages of implementation. So, thanks to the guys who invented google.com, I found that George Monbiot hardly had standing to call Christian religious beliefs bonkers. The folks he was openly hanging with had religious beliefs of their own that far surpassed the bizarre. Since I had trapped the Arlington, Texas gentleman with the Findhorn community evidence, I wondered if maybe I had only to venture that far to see where Monbiot was coming from as well. My hunch was correct! In fact, one notable soon forthcoming Findhorn conference (Findhorn being the main headquarters for the plant deva and ‘luciferic initiation crowed) dealt with ‘sex and magic.’ So, George Monbiot was hanging with the sex and magic(k) crowd?!

Other hecklers besides Monbiot have recently been exposed. As recently dredged from Florida press archives, another New Ager daring to ridicule traditional concepts of sanctity of life is one George Felos, Esq., attorney for recently eliminated Terri Schiavo's husband! That George claims to talk telepathically to the souls of those he would eliminate and stops planes by his thought in midair. What a candidate for superman! I would have love to have conducted that evidentiary hearing that Judge Greer evidently never permitted. The only legal difficulty would have been permitting the judge to allow me to call Felos as an adverse party witness!

George Monbiot is concerned that people who have what he calls these “bizarre beliefs” have access, limited as it may be, to the public square and media. And what of those with whom he hangs? What does he want to do about that problem? Always ready with the quip, George Monbiot pithily says:


“AN ACTIVISTS GUIDE TO EXPLOITING THE MEDIA”By George Monbiot”Every battle we fight is a battle for the hearts and minds of other people. The only chance we have of reaching people who haven't yet heard what we've got to say is through the media. We might, with good reason, regard the papers and broadcasters with extreme suspicion, we might feel cheapened and compromised by engaging with them. But the war we're fighting is an information war, and we have to use all the weapons at our disposal. Whether we use the media or not, our opponents will. However just our cause and true our aims, they will use it to demonise and demolish us, unless we fight back.
”EXPLOIT THE MEDIA, OR THE MEDIA WILL EXPLOIT YOU!”


George Monbiot successfully exploited the media and us. It is time we caught on. Just who is calling whom ‘bonkers’? How can people with these religious beliefs (or those who hang with people with such beliefs) call people with traditional beliefes 'bonkers'? One thing is certain -- both these Georges -- Monbiot and Felos -- have plenty of chutzpah as they seek to marginalize others, when they are so open for ridicule themselves!

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