Quote; "UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26 – Britain, France and the United States
lashed out at Russia yesterday over the worsening carnage in Syria as
Syrian and Russian warplanes pounded Aleppo in one of the heaviest
bombing raids of the five-year war.
US Ambassador Samantha Power accused Russia of “barbarism” during a
Security Council emergency meeting called to demand that Moscow rein in
its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and halt the intense air
strikes.
“Instead of pursuing peace, Russia and Assad make war,” Power said.
“What Russia is sponsoring and doing is not counter-terrorism.
It is
barbarism.”
At least 124 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the
bombardment of rebel-held eastern Aleppo since the army on Thursday
announced an operation to take it, the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights said." Go to:
http://www.justreadonline.com/2016/09/26/us-condemns-russian-airstrikes-aleppo-barbaric/
*Barbarism"? When ones allies are apparently using nuclear weapons (an international war-crime),on the poorest of the poor? When one is knowingly allowing the people of that country no aid and succor in order to cover up the crime? When one has oneself already perpetrated
nuclear war by using weapons and ordnance manufactured using the toxic by-products of the industry required to manufacture nuclear weapons to bank-roll ones war for dwindling non-renewable resources (the consequences of which one has consistently conspired to ensure are never reported in the mainstream media)?
See; "Depleted Uranium "The Progressive Review" Go to:
https://gkhales.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/depleted-uranium-progressive-review.html & "Editorial Balance (re: Syria and the use of W.M.Ds)" Go to:
https://gkhales.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/editorial-balance-resyria-and-use-of.html
(Nb. The subject of the "Black" and "Grey" Flagging of events including the use of chemical agents and other munitions on the Syrian population is a complicated one I do not intend to investigate here -although it lurks somewhere in the miasma-, however like 9/11 the evidence is stacking up and again it doesn't look good)
None of which even bears on the subject of a narrative that consistently ignores the constraints of international law, flagrant hypocrisy such as;
“we have to insist that all parties recognize a
common humanity and that nations end proxy wars that fuel disorder,” Barack Obama, and the countless instances where it has been The Coalition that has been creating the collateral damage.
Not that any of this should make us apologists for "Gangster Putin" however one does not extinguish a fire by consistently hosing it down with raw crude. "Exceptional America" the only country to have (officially), used nuclear weapons in anger, the "World's Policeman" needs a vacation
both from the service and the international political discourse. The U.K and France (but especially the Brits), need to acknowledge the fact that we have associated ourselves with an endeavour (across the board in the middle east), that can only sully our reputations (formerly and deservedly for oppression and xenophobia -which most had hoped "we" had abandoned with the empires-), for moderation with that of recidivism! Our ludicrous Madame Tussaud's of a monarchy doesn't help and it's time we realised that (essentially), it has been these people keeping
them in power..
Quote; "Every July, some of the richest and most powerful men in the world
gather at a 2,700 acre campground in Monte Rio, Calif., for two weeks of
heavy drinking, super-secret talks, druid worship (the group insists
they are simply “revering the Redwoods”), and other rituals.
Their purpose: to escape the “frontier culture,” or uncivilized interests, of common men.
The
people that gather at Bohemian Grove — who have included prominent
business leaders, former U.S. presidents, musicians, and oil barons —
are told that “Weaving Spiders Come Not Here,” meaning business deals
are to be left outside. One exception was in 1942, when a planning for
the Manhattan Project took place at the grove, leading to the creation
of the atom bomb.
A spokesperson for Bohemian Grove say the people that gather there “share a passion for the outdoors, music, and theater.”
The
club is so hush-hush that little can be definitively said about it, but
much of what we know today is from those who have infiltrated the camp,
including Texas-based filmmaker Alex Jones. In 2000, Jones and his
cameraman entered the camp with a hidden camera and were able to film a
Bohemian Grove ceremony,
Cremation of the Care.
During the ceremony, members wear costumes and cremate a coffin effigy
called “Care” before a 40-foot-owl, in deference to the surrounding
Redwood trees.
Bohemian Grove’s spokesperson calls the ceremony “a traditional musical drama celebrating nature and summertime.”..."Philip Weiss, posed as a guest for seven days in 1989, when the waiting
list was 33 years long and the grove had several thousand members. Weiss
published the article “
Inside Bohemian Grove,”
writing: “You know you are inside the Bohemian Grove when you come down
a trail in the woods and hear piano music from amid a group of tents
and then round a bend to see a man with a beer in one hand ... urinating
into the bushes. This is the most gloried-in ritual of the encampment,
the freedom of powerful men to pee wherever they like," Go to:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/bohemian-grove-where-the-rich-and-powerful-go-to-misbehave/2011/06/15/AGPV1sVH_blog.html For full article.
..and from the same article by Phillip Weiss on "Before it's News", quote: "Weiss noticed “hundreds of cigars whose smokers had ignited them in
defiance of the California Forest Service’s posted warnings.”
The Bohemian Club’s all-male membership and guest list includes artists,
particularly musicians, as well as many prominent business leaders,
government officials (including U.S. presidents), senior media
executives, and people of power.
Members may invite guests to the Grove although those guests are subject to a screening procedure.
A guest’s first glimpse of the Grove typically is during the “Spring
Jinks” in June, preceding the main July encampment. Bohemian club
members can schedule private day-use events at the Grove any time it is
not being used for Club-wide purposes, and are allowed at these times to
bring spouses, family and friends, though female and minor guests must
be off the property by 9 or 10 pm.
After 40 years of membership the men earn “Old Guard” status, giving
them reserved seating at the Grove’s daily talks, as well as other
perquisites.
Former president Herbert Hoover was inducted into the Old Guard on
March 19, 1953; he had joined the club exactly 40 years prior.
Redwood branches from the Grove were flown to the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel in New York City where they were used to decorate a banquet room
for the celebration. In his acceptance speech, Hoover compared the honor
of the “Old Guard” status to his frequent role as veteran counselor to
later presidents.
The Club motto is
“Weaving Spiders Come Not Here”*, which implies that
outside concerns and business deals are to be left outside.
When gathered in groups, Bohemians usually adhere to the injunction,
though discussion of business often occurs between pairs of members.
Important political and business deals have been developed at the Grove.
The Grove is particularly famous for a Manhattan Project planning
meeting that took place there in September 1942, which subsequently led
to the atomic bomb.
The Cremation of Care ceremony was first conducted in the Bohemian Grove
at the Midsummer encampment in 1881, devised by James F. Bowman with
George T. Bromley playing the High Priest.
It was originally set up within the plot of the serious “High Jinks”
dramatic performance on the first weekend of the summer encampment,
after which the spirit of “Care”, slain by the Jinks hero, was solemnly
cremated.
The ceremony served as a catharsis for pent-up high spirits, and “to
present symbolically the salvation of the trees by the club …”
The Cremation of Care was separated from the Grove Play in 1913 and
moved to the first night to become “an exorcising of the Demon to ensure
the success of the ensuing two weeks.”
The Grove Play was moved to the last weekend of the encampment.
The ceremony takes place in front of the Owl Shrine, a 40-foot (12 m) hollow owl statue made of concrete over steel supports.
The moss- and lichen-covered statue simulates a natural rock formation, yet holds electrical and audio equipment within it.
For many years, a recording of the voice of club member Walter Cronkite was used as the voice of The Owl during the ceremony.
Music and pyrotechnics accompany the ritual for dramatic effect.
Though no woman has ever been given full membership in the Bohemian
Club, the four female honorary members were hostess Margaret Bowman,
poet Ina Coolbrith (who served as librarian for the Club), actress
Elizabeth Crocker Bowers and writer Sara Jane Lippincott.
Since Coolbrith’s death in 1928, no other woman has been made a member.
These honorary members and other women guests have been allowed into
the Bohemian “City Club” building and as daytime guests of the Grove,
but not to the upper floors of the City Club nor as guests to the main
summer encampment at the Grove.
Annual “Ladies’ Jinks” were held at the Club especially for spouses and invited guests.
In 1978 the Bohemian Club was charged with discrimination by the
California Department of Fair Employment and Housing over its refusal to
hire women employees." Go to:
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/07/bohemian-grove-will-the-world-wake-up-this-july-21st-22nd-and-23rd-3181138.html
*"Moloch" is not a member of either the Hindu, Wiccan or Norse (come to that), pantheons, not a "natural avatar" of any kind in-fact...quote;
"1. The Name:
The name of a heathen divinity whose worship figures largely in
the later history of the kingdom of Judah. As the national god of the
Ammonites, he is known as "Milcom" (
1 Kings 11:5,7), or "Malcam" ("Malcan" is an alternative reading in
2 Samuel 12:30,31; compare
Jeremiah 49:1,3;
Zec 1:5, where the Revised Version margin reads "their king"). The use
of basileus, and archon, as a translation of the name by the Septuagint
suggests that it may have been originally the Hebrew word for "king,"
melekh. Molech is obtained from melekh by the substitution of the vowel
points of Hebrew bosheth, signifying "shame." From the obscure and
difficult passage,
Amos 5:26,
the Revised Version (British and American) has removed "your Moloch"
and given "your king," but Septuagint had here translated "Moloch," and
from the Septuagint it found its way into the Ac (7:43), the only
occurrence of the name in the New Testament.
2. The Worship in Old Testament History:
In the Levitical ordinances delivered to the Israelites by Moses there are stern prohibitions of Molech-worship* (
Leviticus 18:21;
20:2-5).
Parallel to these prohibitions, although the name of the god is not
mentioned, are those of the Deuteronomic Code where the abominations of
the Canaanites are forbidden, and the burning of their sons and
daughters in the fire (to Molech) is condemned as the climax of their
wickedness (
Deuteronomy 12:31;
18:10-13). The references to Malcam, and to David's causing the inhabitants of Rabbath Ammon to pass through the brick kiln (
2 Samuel 12:30,31),
are not sufficiently clear to found upon, because of the uncertainty of
the readings. Solomon, under the influence of his idolatrous wives,
built high places for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom,
the abomination of the children of Ammon. See CHEMOSH. Because of this
apostasy it was intimated by the prophet Ahijah, that the kingdom was to
be rent out of the hand of Solomon, and ten tribes given to Jeroboam (
1 Kings 11:31-33).
These high places survived to the time of Josiah, who, among his other
works of religious reformation, destroyed and defiled them, filling
their places with the bones of men (
2 Kings 23:12-14).
Molech-worship had evidently received a great impulse from Ahaz, who,
like Ahab of Israel, was a supporter of foreign religions (
2 Kings 16:12).
He also "made his son to pass through the fire, according to the
abominations of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the
children of Israel" (
2 Kings 16:3).
His grandson Manasseh, so far from following in the footsteps of his
father Hezekiah, who had made great reforms in the worship, reared
altars for Baal, and besides other abominations which he practiced, made
his son to pass through the fire (
2 Kings 21:6).
The chief site of this worship, of which Ahaz and Manasseh were the
promoters, was Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom, or, as it is also
called, the Valley of the Children, or of the Son of Hinnom, lying to
the Southwest of Jerusalem (see GEHENNA). Of Josiah's reformation it is
said that "he defiled Topheth .... that no man might make his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire to Molech" (
2 Kings 23:10).
3. The Worship in the Prophets:
Even Josiah's thorough reformation failed to extirpate the
Molech-worship, and it revived and continued till the destruction of
Jerusalem, as we learn from the prophets of the time. From the
beginning, the prophets maintained against it a loud and persistent
protest." Go to:
http://www.biblestudytools.com/encyclopedias/isbe/molech-moloch.html For full article.
*Bold italics mine.
Let's hope it's a better hotel than this one..
