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10 Signs The Global Elite Are Losing Control

Eric Blair, Activist Post, Sept. 8, 2013

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/09/10-signs-global-elite-are-losing-control.html

Karma is coming for the elite in a big way. As the Powers That Be head toward a devastating defeat in their war plans for Syria, signs are emerging that their rule over humanity is rapidly diminishing.

Over the last decade the global elite have been on a mad dash to consolidate power over the world. It’s always been their plan like some evil villain in a comic book, but after 9/11 the plan went into overdrive and then turbo charged during the financial crisis of 2008.

Yet it’s doomed to fail because humans are meant to be guided by their own free will, not controlled like livestock. The more the elite try to control humanity, the more entropy occurs. Entropy, for those who don’t know, is the lack of order or predictability; a gradual decline into disorder.

Although the elite still enjoy a huge wealth advantage over the masses, they are now resigned to behaving like tyrants to maintain control. This, in turn, exposes their dark side which has been cleverly concealed for ages. Not anymore.

People are waking up in droves, at least as fast as the elite can build their full-spectrum prison matrix. Let them try. To paraphrase Victor Hugo, “No army can stop an idea whose time has come.”

Here are ten signs that the elite are losing control over the people:

1. Official lies no longer effective: The lies they tell simply don’t work anymore. There was a time when official lies, especially about war and peace, were believed. Because, after all, how evil would it be to lie about such things? Generally people want to believe they are being told the truth when life and death is at stake. The boy who cried wolf has cried one too many times. Even if they told the truth at this point, very few would believe them.

2. No confidence in politics: US politicians have a paltry approval rating. The trust in government is at all-time lows here and around the world. Mainstream polls show only10% of the public has confidence in Congress. In other words, 90% don’t believe in them to be competent to govern.

Watch this Town Hall exchange below where a man threatens US Senator John McCain with arrest for treason to his face. This would have never happened just a year or two ago:

3. No confidence in media: The most recent polls show that 77% of the population no longer trusts corporate TV news. Is it any wonder why the establishment media failed to sell the lies about the alleged Syria chemical event? With all their monopoly might over the airwaves, they can no longer claim that black is white simply because officialdom says so.

4. Bankers rejected: Hungary recently became the first country to follow Iceland’s lead by shedding international bankers (IMF) and is considering pursuing prosecution of past prime ministers who enslaved the people with debt.

Look for this trend to continue even if nations decide to default to break free.

5. Vatican abruptly cleaning up its act: Under the previous Pope, Pope Benedict, scandals erupted from the Vatican ranging from covering up pedophile priests to money laundering and fraud. Benedict, in an unprecedented move, abruptly retired to make way for a seemingly much more likable Pope Francis. Pope Francis by all measures is working furiously to reclaim the church’s peaceful and humble reputation. Whether this is genuine or a PR move, it’s telling that the church was forced into such a drastic turnaround to save itself from losing all credibility.

Prtoestors hold signs outside the Rayburn House office building across from the US Capitol in Washington during a demonstration against US intervention in Syria on September 7, 2013. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

From RT.com – September 8, 2013

http://rt.com/news/worldwide-protests-syria-strike-564/

Protests were held across the globe on Saturday to speak out against a US-led strike on Syria, as world leaders ask Washington to wait for the results of a UN report before taking military action.

Around 200 people gathered outside the White House on Saturday to voice their opposition against a military strike on Syria and demand that Congress votes “no” on the issue.

Demonstrators chanted, “They say more war; we say no war” and carried signs stating that war on Syria would be “Built on a Lie.”

“There is a grass-roots uprising against the Democrats and the Republicans,” founder of the anti-war group Code Pink, Medea Benjamin, told AP. “We do not want another war,” she said, pointing to a broad anti-war feeling in the US.

Activists also hit the streets of New York, carrying signs which read, “No more wars for corporate profit” and “Cut the Pentagon, not food stamps.”

Prtoestors hold signs outside the Rayburn House office building across from the US Capitol in Washington during a demonstration against US intervention in Syria on September 7, 2013. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

Another 150 people gathered in Indianapolis. Other protests were reported across Louisiana and Michigan.

In Canada, a rally was held across the street from the US consulate in Toronto. People gathered to demonstrate against Washington’s recent efforts to garner support for a military strike.

The organizer of the protest, Sid Lacombe, said that people should not believe US claims that Assad’s government launched the August 21 chemical attack in a Damascus suburb.

“We are not going to support the United States government as it launches yet another incredibly brutal, immoral and illegal war based on lies,” Lacombe told The Canadian Press.

Demonstrations were also held in front of the US embassy in Ottawa, Canada.

Lebanese supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (portrait-L) flash the sign for victory as they wave their national flag, during a demonstration near the American embassy, east of Beirut against a possible US military strike on Syria on September 6, 2013. (AFP Photo)

Three-hundred people rallied outside the US embassy in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, where protests entered their second day.

Activists also gathered in the Philippines and Pakistan to voice their opposition to a US-led strike on Syria.

Pope Francis held a five-hour prayer vigil in Vatican City for peace in Syria, asking world leaders to remove their nations from a “spiral of sorrow and death.” He stressed that “violence and war lead only to death.”

Pope Francis attends a prayer calling for peace in Syria, in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican September 7, 2013. (Reuters/Tony Gentile)Pope Francis attends a prayer calling for peace in Syria, in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican September 7, 2013. (Reuters/Tony Gentile)

Pope Francis attends a prayer calling for peace in Syria, in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican September 7, 2013. (Reuters/Tony Gentile)

Syrian opposition speaks out against military strike

Rebel groups have voiced their opposition against a possible US-led strike on Syria, arguing that it would only serve American interests.

The Syrian Islamic Front posted a message on its Facebook page cautioning its followers against supporting a strike. The group stated that military intervention would only benefit Washington – not Syrians who are seeking to topple Assad.

Another group condemned the idea of a strike in a YouTube video, saying that “we reject Western military intervention in Syria and consider it a new aggression against Muslims.”

The statements go against the mainstream thinking of the Free Syrian Army, underlining the rift within the Syrian opposition.

Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama has been speaking to world leaders in an attempt to garner support for a military strike. He has also been seeking congressional approval.

The US says the Syrian government unleashed a gas attack on a Damascus suburb last month, killing over 1,400 civilians. The White House, which previously designated chemical warfare as a “red line,” is calling for “limited” action against the Assad regime – likely a series of air strikes.

The US Senate Intelligence Committee released on Saturday a compilation of 13 videos presented to the committee as proof of the alleged chemical attack.

In its latest remarks, the EU said the Syrian government was the likely perpetrator of the Damascus chemical attack, but that it will not be rushed into any military action before an official UN report is released.

Over the past fortnight, France and the UK have led calls for military response. Italy and Spain have assumed a waiting position, while Germany has proceeded with caution.

Demonstrators march after a rally on Times Square September 7, 2013 in New York City. (Ramin Talaie/Getty Images/AFP)

Activists burn a poster depicting former U.S President George Bush disguised as current U.S President Barack Obama during a protest against potential U.S. strikes on Syria, near the U.S. embassy in Awkar, north of Beirut, September 7, 2013. (Reuters/Hasan Shaaban)

Kansas City March

Yesterday I was listening to speeches made at a rally on behalf of the people of Egypt and Syria. I didn’t like what I heard.

I didn’t feel that the speakers had a commitment to truth. It appeared that they’d say anything that supported their cause, whether truthful or not.

That wasn’t really what I wanted.

However, when I consulted myself, I noticed something equally disturbing.

I noticed a thrownness within myself to want to represent myself as knowing something I actually did not know.

I know so little about what is really happening in Egypt and Syria that I’d best be silent on the matter. But there is at the same time a part of me that somehow wants to represent myself as knowing something. So there was a very minor war going on within myself.

The thrown part of me wants to be seen as knowledgeable and has been around since early adulthood. I think it rises up at a time when things are changing and often when things are changing for the better. I kinda relax and it bubbles up.

I once described it to the Arcturians in a reading with Sue Lie as a part of me that gets arrogant if I go too far, too fast in feeling confident or self-assured. They reassured me but I remain wary of that side of myself.

I’m not saying this to follow it up with some pat comment from the conventional wisdom. That doesn’t satisfy me either and is just Class B membership in the know-it-all club anyways.

I want more than that.

And I guess that’s the point. This lifetime has to be about more than just what I can get from managing my image, creating a persona that others may like and that wins me biscuits. It’s not a lifetime that’s about what I can get. It’s not a lifetime about me. I probably have had plenty of those kinds of lifetimes, but this is not one of them.

If it were, I’d feel that I’ve let myself down by selling out to image management.

What’s more important than what I know is how I feel about Syria and Egypt. And how I feel is immeasurably sad that people should be dying.

How I feel is immeasurably set against this violence and war continuing. And I feel distraught at not having answers to what may be required to have the bloodshed end. But that is a fact and I can’t dance around it. I don’t know what to do and I know I don’t know.

Archangel Michael has answers. Last Hour with an Angel he said that if all of us created a common intent to have war end in Syria, if all of us prayed together, it would end.

How to create common intent? I’ll have to stay with that. Numerous ideas come to mind.

But from this line of inquiry, what emerged for me is that I don’t know it all. I never will and probably don’t even want to.

This deeper sense of what calls to me, what moves me, what arises in me to be expressed, that for me is much more important. I’m moved by the thought of world peace. I’m called to stand for it. I’d even be willing to die for it.

What I’ve found from this inquiry is the ground under my feet, the ground I stand on, not what can be won through self-promotion and selling my image.

And with that comes – perhaps not peace for the world – but peace for me. It isn’t about me. It never has been and it never will be.

It’s about the outworking of the Divine Plan. The only way it could be said to be about me is that, having seen that Plan, (1) I accept it and thus it’s my Plan. I bend the knee to that Plan and work for its success.

Footnotes

(1) “Ch. 13 Epilogue,” The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment, athttp://goldenageofgaia.com/spiritual-essays/16244-2/the-purpose-of-life-is-enlightenment/ch-13-epilogue/.

Fault lines have been appearing in almost every Scottish diocese since the resignation of Cardinal O’Brien. Photograph: David Moir/REUTERS

By Catherine Deveney, The Guardian – September 7, 2013

http://tinyurl.com/kyazeqv

Scottish parishioners threaten a boycott and fellow clergy protest against bishop’s decree of removal

A Scottish Catholic priest, who has fought for 17 years to force the hierarchy to act against a fellow priest who abused him, has been dismissed from the diocese of Galloway while recovering from cancer and issued with a formal warning for talking to the Observer.

Father Patrick Lawson, who spoke out in the Observer in July using the pseudonym “Father Michael”, was sent a decree of removal by Bishop John Cunningham last Wednesday, forcing him to hand over the keys of his parish house within two days. The bishop had consistently refused to accept Father Lawson’s pleas, on the advice of doctors, to drop one of his two parishes – St Paul’s, Hurlford – while convalescing.

The case is a potentially explosive development in an increasingly tense relationship between the Scottish hierarchy and the laity over abuse and cover-up. There is now a standoff in Father Lawson’s other parish – St Sophia’s, Galston – with many parishioners telling the Observer that they will walk out of masses this weekend in protest, cancel their church subscriptions, and refuse to return unless the priest is reinstated.

Parishioner Manuela Kevan says around 200 people have signed a petition backing the popular, hardworking priest. “We know what this is really about.”

Significantly, there are now signs of rebellion among the clergy themselves. The Catholic church insists on silence and obedience from its priests but Father Gerard Magee of St Winin’s in Kilwinning, has written to the papal nuncio in London, backing Father Lawson and criticising the diocese. “What they are doing is underhand, malicious and sinister,” he writes. “They hide behind … canon law and, by doing so, they abuse the same law and make a mockery of it.”

Faultlines have been appearing in almost every Scottish diocese since the resignation of Cardinal Keith O’Brien in February, following Observer revelations about sexual misbehaviour with seminarians and priests. In the months following, the paper revealed historic abuse cases had been mishandled in Motherwell, national audits had not been carried out, and decades of abuse in the prestigious Catholic boarding school Fort Augustus Abbey had been concealed.

The Observer also reported claims of gay cliques of Scottish priests. Father Lawson’s case wove many of these strands together. He revealed that his parish priest, Father Paul Moore, abused altar boys and also made sexual advances to him in 1996 when he was a seminarian. Abuse-of-power sex scandals, it seems, were not confined to O’Brien

Father Magee says Moore also approached him sexually but he didn’t report it. Father Lawson’s removal, he believes, is punishment for going public. “They’re trying to get rid of him because he’s a whistle-blower. A lot of priests don’t like him because he spoke out. I don’t understand why some priests are more intent on protecting the criminal rather than the victim.”

In recent weeks, three bishops have sought to assure Scottish Catholics of transparency. Hugh Gilbert, bishop of Aberdeen, publicly apologised for Fort Augustus. Glasgow’s archbishop, Mario Conti, claimed that O’Brien vetoed publication of abuse audits, but a new review would show “the seriousness and competence” with which the church tackles abuse.

Meanwhile, Cunningham’s predecessor, Maurice Taylor, who dealt with Paul Moore, wrote to a Catholic paper defending his handling of the case. But behind the scenes Father Lawson’s case suggests secrecy, cover-up and turmoil remain.

“From the day Father Pat got ill he was given no support, yet they support an abuser priest,” says parishioner Brigid McMaster. “Father Moore was bought a house and is listed as a retired priest. He should have been defrocked.”

Old attitudes remain. Contacted by the Observer to ask if Moore should have been laicised, Taylor replied: “No, I don’t think so.” You couldn’t, he added, apply today’s standards to situations from 20 years ago. Is he in any doubt that it was a criminal offence to abuse a child in 1997? “I presume it was.”

Moore, it’s been claimed, was well-connected and protected. Despite publicly insisting that they were not close, Taylor now admits he holidayed with Moore, visiting Monsignor Peter Magee, then a Vatican diplomat. “We were asked separately. Because we were staying together, we travelled together.”

Monsignor Magee belongs to the Galloway Diocese and now heads the Scottish Interdiocesan Tribunal, dealing with marriage annulments and canon law cases like Father Lawson’s. “There is so much cronyism,” says one Galloway insider.

Bishop Taylor claimed he didn’t know Moore’s victims. Father Lawson insists he gave names, addresses and numbers. “I don’t remember,” says Taylor. Father Lawson recalls Taylor dismissing one victim as “a nutter”. “I cannot wash myself clean of that moment,” says Lawson. “It sticks in my gut.” Bishop Taylor says: “I don’t think I would have used that expression. I don’t remember.” One of Moores’s victims, Paul Smyth, confirmed that he has never been contacted by the church. “I would like an apology.”

A formal appeal for Father Lawson will be sent to Rome instead of the Scottish Tribunal. Meanwhile, this weekend will be the last mass at St Sophia’s for George and Christine Gardner, parishioners for over 30 years. “Father Lawson is a calm, courteous, understanding priest. I cannot attend mass when he has been removed,” says George Gardner. Remaining silent is no longer an option, agrees Father Gerard Magee. “The people will speak – and let them speak.”

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