Newt Gingrich

"JUDAS GOAT" CFR-member, 33rd Degree Mason, Pro-Abort
Newt "NAFTA-NWO" Gingrich @ CPAC- still misleading uninformed Christians

Why is World Net Daily promoting CFR-member, 33rd Degree Mason, NAFTA-salesman Newt Gingrich,
False-conservative "Judas-goat," and agent for the New World Order ?
(see below WND's Feb 27 promo piece for Gingrich @ this weekend's CPAC conference in Wash DC)

"... Mr. Gingrich is numbered among the most ferocious enemies of American sovereignty."
Circle of Intrigue­The Hidden Inner Circle of the Global Illuminati Conspiracy, page 171

2006 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Membership Roster
(including current and/or past positions of some members)
www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/CFRMembers.html
CFR List entry:  "Gingrich, Newton L "Newt' (R-Georgia) - former Speaker of the House"


Circle of Intrigue—The Hidden Inner Circle of the Global Illuminati Conspiracy
www.texemarrs.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=catalog&Product_Code=bbtm_circle_of_intrigue

Judas goat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_goat
"In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared. 
Judas goats are also used to lead other animals to specific pens and on to trucks."


The Saviour said (Matthew 7:15, 16a, KJB):     

"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.    
  Ye shall know them by their fruits."   

Steve Lefemine
February 27, 2009
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CFR-member, 33rd Degree Mason Newt "NAFTA-NWO" Gingrich is a wolf-in-"conservative" sheep's clothing.
DO NOT BE DECEIVED INTO BELIEIVNG HE IS A "CONSERVATIVE" (whatever that means these days).
WE NEED CONSTITUTIONALISTS*** IN OFFICE - HE IS NO CONSTITUTIONALIST.

*** WE NEED CHRISTIAN CONSTITUTIONALISTS; AND WE NEED MEN WHO FEAR GOD (2 Samuel 23:3)

Council on Foreign Relations:

2007 -2008 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Membership Roster
(including Current and Historical Rosters of Directors and Officers)
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/CFRMembershipRoster200708.pdf


The CFR controls American media
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPlvdSQ6cAM
Video (4:32)  Views: 131,843


Sovereignty and globalisation
www.cfr.org/publication/9903/sovereignty_and_globalisation.html
Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
February 17, 2006


CFR Annual Report requests
www.cfr.org/about/membership/


Treasonous agenda of the Council on Foreign Relations
www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=30874
Posted: June 17, 2005


See a concise overview article about the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on the internet at:
"The Definition of Tyranny," The New American (May 15, 1995), by John F. McManus
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/CFR-TNAart.doc
"Formed in 1921 by Edward Mandell House, President Woodrow Wilson's right-hand man,
the CFR's purpose has been undeniably clear from the start: to submerge our nation into
a socialist, one-world government."

     "Never forget that the CFR was formed to bring about socialism and world government.
Its increasing domination over America's affairs amounts to a conspiracy the grip of which must
be broken by an informed and alarmed American citizenry. If CFR influence over our federal
government isn't soon broken, America will be reduced to a mere province in a socialistic
world government where freedom has disappeared and national sovereignty is but a dim memory.
And James Madison's worst fear -- tyranny reigning in this land -- will become a reality. The time to
 expose the CFR and its grip on this land is now."
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/CFR-TNAart.doc


TWO-SIDED McCAIN FLYER FOR PRINT-OUT AND DISTRIBUTION
Side 2 - The Definition of Tyranny (CFR)
             The New American - May 15, 1995
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/McCainflyerside2.pdf



Newt on NPR to Discuss the Importance of Moderates in the Republican Party
Day to Day
National Public Radio  August 30 2004
Newt Gingrich   Alex Chadwick  
www.newt.org/backpage.asp?art=1229
[ This link is no longer available on "Wolf-in-"conservative"-sheep's-clothing" Newt Gingrich's website ]

Mr. GINGRICH:  "Well, first of all, this is the most diverse Republican Party, the broadest coalition since Theodore Roosevelt was president.
I don't think Republicans should apologize for bringing out -- you know, we have -- the four largest states have Republican governors.
Governor Pataki, Governor Schwarzenegger happen to be moderates on things like abortion. But they're fiscal conservatives; they're
Republican activists. And I think we should be proud of them.  [emphasis added]


Newt Gingrich's Skeleton Closet
"Mr. Family Values" (Newt Gingrich) is amazingly similar to Bill Clinton - both are pot smoking, draft-dodging adulterers
from poor Southern families.  Click on the allegation of your choice:  www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm
[emphasis added]


Newt Gingrich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich
Gingrich has been married three times. He married his first wife, Jackie Battley, in 1962, and divorced her in 1981. He informed his wife,
Jackie, of his intent to divorce her while she was in the hospital, recuperating from cancer surgery. Gingrich married his second wife,
Marianne Ginther, in the fall of 1981. They divorced in 1999, after revealing that he had been having an affair with a House aide,
Callista Bisek. Gingrich and Bisek were married the following year.
[emphasis added]


State Children's Health Insurance Program - 1997 [CFR-member Clinton (D) signed into law, with REPUBLICAN majority
in US House, led by CFR-member, 33rd Mason, "conservative" Judas Goat for the NWO, Speaker Newt Gingrich]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_goat
- The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is a United States federal government program that gives matching funds to states
in order to provide health insurance to families with children. The program was designed to cover uninsured children in families with incomes
that are modest but too high to qualify for Medicaid.   At its creation in 1997, SCHIP was the largest expansion of taxpayer-funded health insurance
coverage for children in the U.S. since Medicaid began in the 1960s. The statutory authority for SCHIP is under title XXI of the Social Security Act.
It was sponsored by Senator Ted Kennedy in a partnership with Senator Orrin Hatch with support coming from First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
during the Clinton administration.
- As a part of the fallout from the failed 1993 Clinton health care plan, both Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy and the Clinton administration were looking
for smaller health care initiatives that could gain bipartisan support.
- Organizations from the Children's Defense Fund to the Girl Scouts of the USA lobbied for its passage, putting public pressure on Congress; Hillary Clinton
was pushing for it as well, with Kennedy urging her to use her influence within the White House. SCHIP was then passed and signed into law by Bill Clinton
on August 5, 1997 as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, to take effect the following month. At a press conference following the signing, Kennedy thanked
Hatch, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Children's Defense Fund head Marian Wright Edelman, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton. About the latter,
Kennedy said, "Mrs. Clinton ... was of invaluable help, both in the fashioning and the shaping of the program and also as a clear advocate."
- SCHIP is located at Title IV, subtitle J of H.R. 2015 [105th] Balanced Budget Act of 1997. H.R. 2015 was introduced and sponsored by Rep John Kasich [R-OH]
with no cosponsors. On 25 June 1997, H.R. 2015 passed House Vote Roll #241 mainly among partisan lines, 270 ayes and 162 nays, with most Democrats in the
House of Representatives in opposition. On the same day, the bill passed in the Senate by unanimous consent. After further resolution of the bill, passage in both
House (Roll #345) and Senate (Roll #209) became more bipartisan.
- Like Medicaid, SCHIP is a partnership between federal and state governments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Children's_Health_Insurance_Program
Giving Hillary Credit for SCHIP
www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/giving_hillary_credit_for_schip.html



SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program) Expansion - 2009 [Obama (D) signed into law]
Thursday, February 5, 2009
[excerpts, emphasis added]

WASHINGTON ­ President Barack Obama signed legislation Wednesday to expand publicly funded health insurance for children,
marking a historic shift in Washington's political landscape and providing the White House its biggest victory since Obama took office.

Less than 18 months ago, President George W. Bush had blocked similar bills by congressional Democrats, labeling the proposed
expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program as a step toward government-run health care.

The children's health bill was an early benchmark in the planned Democratic campaign to reshape the nation's health-care system
over the next two years.

"The way I see it, providing coverage to 11 million children … is a down payment on my commitment to cover every single American,"
Obama said before signing the bill in the White House.

SCHIP, as the program is called, was created in the late 1990s when President Bill Clinton and a Republican Congress*** addressed
concerns that families who earned too much to qualify for public assistance through Medicaid nonetheless could not afford insurance for their children.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-kids-health-care_thufeb05,0,30310.story

[***CCL note: 
In US House, led by CFR-member, 33rd Mason, "conservative" Judas Goat for the NWO, Speaker Newt Gingrich]

"... Mr. Gingrich is numbered among the most ferocious enemies of American sovereignty."
Circle of Intrigue ­ The Hidden Inner Circle of the Global Illuminati Conspiracy, page 171
www.texemarrs.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=catalog&Product_Code=bbtm_circle_of_intrigue


Fred Thompson - another CFR-member for president
Should Fred Thompson enter the 2008 presidential race, he would become the fifth member of the globalist,
NWO's Council on Foreign Relations to do so, joining fellow CFR-members, US Senator John McCain,
(former VA) Gov. Jim Gilmore, (NM) Gov. Bill Richardson, and US Senator Chris Dodd. Furthermore,
former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich, also a member of the CFR, is also considering
entering the presidential race later this Fall (perhaps if enough conservatives don't take the bait and
swallow the lie that globalist, First Amendment free-speech enemy Fred Thompson is a "conservative")
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/Thompson07-01.doc


James Dobson & co. platform pro-aborts, CFR-members McCain, Gingrich, and Frist
Upcoming '2006 Values Voter Summit' called 'The Washington Briefing,' at the Omni Shoreham Hotel,
Washington, DC - September 22-24, 2006 - sponsored by the "pro-family" organizations led by James Dobson,
Tony Perkins, Gary Bauer, and Don Wildmon.
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/DOBSON-06-01.DOC

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USA Financial Crisis: "WHEN THE WICKED BEARETH RULE, THE PEOPLE MOURN"

"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice:
but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn."   Proverb 29:2, KJB

Why is World Net Daily promoting CFR-member, 33rd Degree Mason, pro-NAFTA-pusher Newt Gingrich,
False-conservative "Judas-goat," and agent for the New World Order ?
_________________________________________________________________

WORLD NET DAILY EXCLUSIVE
Gingrich: Obama revitalizing conservatives [sic]
DeLay says Republicans have chance to regain Congress in 2010
Posted: February 27, 2009
www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90249
[excerpt, emphasis added]

 

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich agreed in his CPAC speech today before a central ballroom so packed by the
conference's record 8,500 attendees that adjoining meeting rooms had to be opened for live television feeds.

Entering the room to an extended standing ovation, Gingrich began by taking exception with Attorney General Eric Holder's
recent comment that the U.S. is a nation of cowards on the subject of race.

"I welcome an opportunity to have a discussion with you about cowardice – anywhere, anytime, anyplace," Gingrich challenged.
"This is a nation courageous enough to not be ruled by people who won't tell us the truth.

"If the attorney general thinks we are a nation of cowards, the Obama administration is just plain dumb."

Gingrich is general chairman of American Solutions for Winning the Future, self-described as "a non-partisan organization designed
to rise above traditional grid-locked partisanship to provide real, significant solutions to the most important issues facing our country."


[ CCL Translation:  NEWT GINGRICH IS A "BIG TENT" FALSE CONSERVATIVE, RINO "REPUBLICAN" ]


Gingrich, who considered running for president in 2008, called for a revival of the Reagan revolution, agreeing with
DeLay in characterizing the Obama budget plan as "the boldest effort to create a European socialism we have ever seen."


[ CCL Translation:  THIS IS WHAT THIS IS ABOUT - PREPARING TO LEAD CHRISTIAN TO THEIR POLITICAL 'SLAUGHTER"
ONCE AGAIN IN 2012, JUST AS HAPPENED IN 2008 WITH CFR-member JOHN "McAMNESTY" McCAIN. ]


Gingrich ridiculed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's performance on camera in the House chamber as Obama delivered his address
to Congress earlier this week.

"Pelosi reacted hyperactively to Obama's speech," he said. "She was standing to applaud even before President Obama completed his
sentences.

"She even applauded when President Obama attacked CEOs of bailout companies who continue to use private airplanes," he taunted,
to loud applause. "Why should the speaker of the House have a private airplane at taxpayer expense? She should have the same opportunity
to encounter TSA as the rest of us."

Gingrich also ridiculed Obama's congressional address, saying he is "such a master of language that I didn't entirely understand what
he was saying."

"How is it we are not going to raise taxes on anybody who makes under $250,000 a year – unless you use electricity, or buy gasoline,
or buy heating oil, or use natural gas?" Gingrich asked rhetorically.

"The group that will be least taxed under President Obama's budget may end up being the Amish in central Pennsylvania," he quipped.

"I believe we should leave here with the goal of making the elections of 2010 the most consequential in history," Gingrich challenged the
CPAC audience.

"What we are being offered by the Democrats is higher taxes, bigger government, more corruption," he stressed. "We have every right to
go to the polls and defeat the vision of the Democratic left-wing machine, even if it means running conservative Democrats in congressional
districts certain to vote Democratic in the next election."

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The Bible says:  "Where there is no vision, the people perish:..."   Proverb 29:18a, KJB    

We need a Christian nation, a nation that acknowledges the Sovereign rule of Messiah as King of all the earth
(Psalm 47:7,8), governor among the nations (Psalm 22:28), and King of kings and Lord of lords (1 Timothy 6:15);
and we need a nation whose constitutional and statutory law is consistent with the eternal, authoritative, Law of God.
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AMERICA - A NATION UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT.

Psalm 33:12; Proverb 14:34; Psalm 9:17; 2 Kings 24:1-4; Jeremiah 19:3-5; Psalm 106:37-42

"America repent" (music video)
"Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvu6hHLSpzk


"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God."
 
Psalm 9:17, KJB

"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."

Psalm 94:15, KJB


Biblical "Separation" for a Nation
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion
hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement
hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be
their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,..." 2 Corinthians 6:14-17a (KJB)
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE - IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent
respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. The Declaration of Independence
is part of the organic law of the United States of America United States Code Annotated http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2007/10/biblical-separation-for-nation.html


The people of Iraq have far greater freedom to enshrine their national religion of Islam in the legal structure of their country than do Americans
to honor Christianity and Biblical Law in the United States.  Christianity was by far the predominant faith of the founding generations of America,
from Jamestown in 1607 to the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and beyond, as the historical record clearly shows:

No King but King Jesus!    ((Yeshua Messiah)
Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America’s Colonial Charters, State Constitutions,
and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc


The Sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams (son of John Adams, the Second US President, and a signer of the
Declaration of Independence), said: "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the
principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."  and "From the day of the Declaration... they (the American people)
were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct." 
Tragically, today in 2008, American law has become exceedingly anti-Christian.  Witness the government-protected murder of
One Million pre-birth human beings each year (www.ldi.org).

The Constitution of the United States should be amended as first proposed by the National Reform Association in 1864, with a Christian Amendment: 

Confession of the Saviour (Messiah) as the Ruler of Nations, including America, by amending the Preamble to the United States Constitution
In 1864, the National Reform Association advocated amending the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States to read, in substance:
     "We, the people of the United States, humbly acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power
       in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among the nations, his revealed will as the supreme law of the land,
       in order to constitute a Christian government, and in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic
       tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the inalienable rights and the blessings
       of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to ourselves, our posterity, and all the people, do ordain and establish this
       Constitution for the United States of America."  http://candst.tripod.com/nra.htm


Explicitly Christian Politics: The Vision of the National Reform Association
www.crownandcovenant.com/product_p/ds380.htm
"Since 1864 the National Reform Association has advocated an explicitly Christian approach to politics.
In this book their vision of politics, based on the mediatorial reign of Jesus Christ over the nations, is explained for a new generation."

THE NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.;
CONVENTION IN PITTSBURG ON INSERTING A RECOGNITION OF DEITY IN THE CONSTITUTION.
February 5, 1874, Wednesday
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D06E3DF173DE43BBC4D53DFB466838F669FDE
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D06E3DF173DE43BBC4D53DFB466838F669FDE&oref=slogin

Further articles on the National Reform Association
http://www.puritans.net/news/natlreformasso113004.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reform_Association_(19th_century,_U.S .)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200110/ai_n9003100


"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."  Matthew 16:18
    Yeshua Messiah

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dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 794-6273
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A Comment

From http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-alex-jones-show-l-i-v-e-dec-18-with-texe-marrs-gerald-celente.html

StopIncitingHatred Says: December 20th, 2008 at 12:05 pm


for alex and texie and all those who need to wake up to reality…here is a little info for you.Texe Marrs is a total anit-semite. He is a “Christian Identity” Jewish hater! Any so-called Cabala hespeaks about is garbage that has been usurped by Luciferians. The Jewish people and ALLthe legitimate Rabbis and Kabbalists are AGAINST this “Cabala” Marrs speaks about! This Cabalawas made by the Luciferians! It comes from the British! Read “Race Over Grace” by Pastor CharlesRoberts - it will enlighten you to what is going on. He was on Dr Stanley Monteith’s radio show onDecember 9th. You can download the show. Also the junk Jones and Tzarion talk about Moses isabsolutely incredible lies! Alex talks about the “Old Testament” which is the Torah and ChristianNew Testament and Jesus being fine, BUT the Torah CAME through Moses! The idiot ideas about the Jewish people being Babylonian are totally meant to get people to hate the Jewish people! ThePharaoh which Jones and Tzarion lie about who believed in one G-d has been thought to havebeen influenced by the Jewish belief’s in one G-d - NOT the other way around! Then the Egyptian/Babylonian NWO types Alex and Tzarion speak about are the ones who actually had thethat Pharaoh killed. They TWIST everything around to try and harm the Jewish people.The Jewish religion, from the Torah is AGAINST Babylonian beliefs, ideas, idols, and practices! If you actually read the “Old Testament” you will see that! The Babylonians KILLED people regularly for HUMAN sacrifices!ALSO the Jewish people were told not to marry outside their religion because they are NOTsupposed to be like the the idol worshipping, luciferian, human sacrificing peoples.Do you anti-semites condemn the Quakers for not marrying outside their religionbecause they do not want to become part of this awful materialistic society? Doyou condemn the Amish for not marrying outside their religion because they wantto survive the coming NWO luciferian made apocalypse?! G-d told the Jewishpeople to stay pure to keep ETHICAL, MORAL, laws to be a light to the Nations!NOT to mingle with the NWO. Do YOU want to marry them?! The Torah is a GUIDE BOOK against the NWO.Wake up before it is too late!The people who call up the show and say to believe everything Alex says are the ones who wantyou Patriots to fail! Alex mixes truth with lies! I sincerely hope he is only deluded and is notdoing it on purpose, because IF he is doing it on purpose instead of only being deluded orfilled with lies from anti-semitic hate garbage which he has mistakenly taken in, then he wouldbe part of the NWO as well. I pray that he is not and that he wakes up and that you all wake upbefore it is too late.
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Observer Says: December 22nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I’m not a Jewish person and I’m certainly not into Kaballah. I do like Alex Jones and I think he is a good man with integrity who loves America. But some of the stuff that Texe Marrs said just isn’t correct or grounded in fact whatsoever. And it was a turnoff listening to it.
First of all, most Jewish Rabbis and traditional Jewish people practicing their faith do not like or approve of Kabbalah for a variety of different reasons. However, by the same token, Kaballah has nothing to do with the New Age or magic or sorcery of any kind. It’s a type of Jewish mysticism.
http://www.kabbalah.info/engka.....t-kabbalah
And Madonna does not engage in some sort of nefarious rituals in her stage act. This is nonsense. (Her ticket prices are too high however.) Such ludicrous speculations about Kaballah only brings down Alex’s show and remind me of nutty fundamentalist Christians I have come across that label everything, except themselves and their actions as evil. Most Christians, thank goodness are neither nutty or fundamentalist but are good people of faith who have built hospitals, universities, supported charities and have helped make the planet a better place.
The fact that Jews often but not always wanting to marry their own kind does not make them racists either. In pagan times, God did not want the Israelites marrying other ethnic groups lest they introduce His chosen people to idolatry etc. Southerners like to marry Southerners, many African Americans prefer to marry other African Americans. None of this makes people racists. People of the same ethnic origins tend to gravitate to each other because of shared a culture, language and cuisine. As long as there is love and tolerance for those different than them, it does not make Jews or anyone else with similar ideas a racist. This is kind of a black and white mentality. Much of life has gray areas in it with a lot of nuance.

As for the Talmud, there is definitely some blasphemous things in there towards Jesus and Christians are right to be upset about this garbage. Jesus is the promised Messiah of the Old Testament fulfilled in the New. Yeshua Ha’ Massiach.
While most Jewish people do not believe in Jesus’ messiahship, that is not to say that they adhere to the Talmud’s allegations against him either. Most Jewish people who practice their faith put an emphasis on the Torah-Mishnah or the Law over the Talmud and that’s good.

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Promise Keepers

http://web.archive.org/web/20070601170944/www.sxws.com/charis/pagan.htm

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20070206073145/www.intotruth.org/pk/pkmm1.html

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20070206073215/www.intotruth.org/pk/pkmm2.html

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20070206072828/www.intotruth.org/pk/pkmm3.html

The Vatican and the Nazis

From http://web.archive.org/web/20070525223314/http://sxws.com/charis/history-6.htm

The Vatican and The Nazis

Some time ago, I wrote an article examining the atrocities suffered by non-Catholic peoples living in the Balkans during the years of the Second World War. In this paper, Life Under Rome's Umbrella, I documented some of the activities of Fransiscan death camp commandants and priest-commanders of murderous Ustashe ethnic cleansing units. The article documented some of the support they received from princes of the Roman Catholic Church, including the Pope himself. In a more recent report, I recalled some of the wartime activities of Croatian archbishop Alojzije Stepinac, who was beatified recently by Rome's god maker, John Paul II. I included a few facts concerning the goings-on of another new "Venerable", Slovenian Bishop Anton Martin Slomsek in a third report It has been more than half a century since the end of World War II and the numbers of people with contemporary knowledge of events as they happened in the Balkans are dwindling. For some time now, Vatican spin doctors have been busily creating a revised history that paints an image of RCC involvement in ethnic cleansing and other atrocities far different from documented reality. I do not doubt that, one day, history books will record how loving Franciscan priests willingly gave their lives to protect Croatian Jews, Serbs and Gypsies who came to them for help. One day people may speak in awed whispers of the selfless sacrifices of Catholic popes and bishops who gave their all to shelter the intended victims of Nazi pogroms. One day, perhaps, but for now the truth is still available for those willing to examine it with open minds. The horrors of the Hitler's Holocaust have been well-documented and are part of the collective awareness of the modern history of the western world. At least they are now. There was another holocaust, in every way the equal of Germany's. This reign of terror, centered in the puppet state of Croatia, is virtually unknown except to those who bear the scars in their bodies and in their hearts. The recent apology by Pope John Paul II holds little weight with the heirs and few elderly survivors of one of the bloodiest chapters in the Roman Catholic Church, the 1941-1945 atrocities by the Croatian Nazis known as the Ustashe. In April 1941, multi-ethnic Yugoslavia fell to the Nazis who wasted no time in installing the fanatical Ante Pavlic's Catholic Ustashe in power in Croatia. With the blessing of the Roman Catholic Church and the active participation of clergy, especially Franciscan monks, the Ustashe killed 750,000 Serbs, Jews, and Roma in an orgy of violence that shocked even some of the Germans and revolted their Italian allies.[1] "Active participation of the clergy?", one might ask. "Just how involved were those priests and monks?" They were drenched in innocent blood right up to their armpits. "Nearly half of the 22 concentration camps in Fascist Independent State of Croatia, during WWII were headed by Croatian Roman Catholic clergy."[2] "Led by Archbishop Stepinac, the Catholic Church was deeply involved in the Holocaust in Yugoslavia - its bishops and priests openly supported the murderous regime of Ante Pavelic, the wartime Croatian leader who pursued a ruthless policy of "kill a third, deport a third, and convert a third" of all the Serbs, Jews and Roma of Croatia and Bosnia. Abbot Marcone [the de facto Papal Legate in Croatia] was Pavelic's confessor and Archbishop Stepinac, [were] convicted of war crimes after the war. Several members of his clergy were involved in the genocide at Jasenovac - notably the Franciscan priest, Pater Miroslav Filipovic, who was one of the commandants of the camp. Stepinac recorded in his diary on 3rd August 1941 that "the Holy See (the Vatican) recognized de facto the independent State of Croatia."[3] Some might argue that the above statements are pure emotionalism; that they cannot be true, else the world would know about these events. While it is true that few ever heard of Croatia or the Ustashe before the recent troubles in Yugoslavia, that is changing. One historian described Catholic Ustashe rule in Croatia as: "an act of 'ethnic cleansing' before that hideous term came into vogue, it was an attempt to create a 'pure' Catholic Croatia by enforced conversions, deportations, and mass exterminations. So dreadful were the acts of torture and murder that even hardened German troops registered their horror. Even by comparison with the recent bloodshed in Yugoslavia at the time of writing, Pavelic's onslought against the Orthodox Serbs remains one of the most appalling civilian massacres known to history." [4] Not surprisingly, the Vatican claims to have been ignorant of all that was going on in Croatia. This, despite the fact that the Pope's legate, Msgr. Marcone, frequently traveled between Zagreb and the Vatican. What Pius XII supposedly was unaware of seems to have been common knowledge among senior members of the Catholic hierarchy. "Pius Xll could not plead ignorance of what was going on in Croatia by bringing forward the excuse of the obstacles of war. Communication between Rome and Croatia was as easy and as free as in peacetime. From the very beginning of hostilities the Nazi Ambassador at the Vatican was treated as of far greater importance than all the Allied diplomats. In 1940 the Vatican was on the most cordial terms with Hitler. Political and religious Ustashi leaders came and went between Rome and Zagreb as freely as did the Germans and Italians, the Ustashi State then being a satellite of Nazi Germany, and hence a province of the Nazi Empire. Moreover, the Pope knew what was happening in Croatia, not only through the Hierarchical administrative machinery, which kept him up to date on all Croatian events, but also through other reliable sources. They were: "(a) The Papal Legate. Pius XII, it should never be forgotten, had a personal representative in Croatia, whose task was to implement Vatican policy and coordinate it with that of Pavelic, as well as reporting on religious and political matters to the Pope himself. The Papal Legate to Croatia was Mgr. Marcone, who openly blessed the Ustashi, publicly gave the Fascist salute, and encouraged Catholics (e.g. when he went to Mostar) to be "faithful to the Holy See, which had helped that same people for centuries against Eastern barbarism" -- that is say, against the Orthodox Church and the Serbs. Thus, the Pope's official representative openly instigated religious persecution, as well as praying for victory "under the leadership of the Head of the State Pavelic," against the Yugoslav National Liberation Army in 1944 - 5. (b) Cardinal Tiseran [sic], head of the Holy Congregation of Eastern Churches. This congregation's specific task was to deal with Eastern Churches. Cardinal Tiseran received detailed reports of every forcible conversion and massacre in Croatia. Between April and June 19 over 100,000 Orthodox Serbs were massacred; yet Cardinal Tiseran on July 17, 1941, had the audacity to declare that Archbishop Stepinac would now do a great work for the development of Catholicism in "the Independent State of Croatia...where there are such great hopes for the conversion of those who are not of the true faith." (c) Ante Pavelic, who, by his representative to the Vatican, through whom Pius XII sent "special blessing to the Leader (Pavelic)," forwarded regular reports, at times straight from the Minister of Religions, about the "rapid" progress of the Catholicization of the New Croatia. (d) Last but not least, Archbishop Stepinac himself, who in person visited Pius XII twice, and who supplied His Holiness with figures of the forcible conversions. In an official document, dated as late as May 8, 1944, His Eminence Archbishop Stepinac, head of the Catholic Hierarchy, in fact, informed the Holy Father that to date "244,000 Orthodox Serbs" had been "converted to the Church of God." [5] Support for the above allegations is provided by a letter written in March of 1942 by Cardinal Eugene Tisserant to the Croatia representative to the Vatican. "I know for a fact, that it is the Franciscans themselves, as for example Father Simic of Knin, who have taken part in attacks against the Orthodox populations so as to destroy, the Orthodox Church. In the same way, you destroyed the Orthodox Church in Banja Luka. I know for sure that the Franciscans in Bosnia and Herzegovina have acted abominably, and this pains me. Such acts should not be committed by educated, cultured, civilized people, let alone by priests." [6] As anyone who has ever seen a English movie involving partisan activity in Europe knows, the BBC incessantly bombarded the airwaves with coded messages to freedom fighters and propaganda/news reports. Given the Catholic Church's widespread interests, I cannot believe that there was not someone in the Vatican monitoring these broadcasts and passing what they heard up the chain of command. What picture did these broadcasts paint of the goings on in Croatia? See for yourself. The following was transmitted on February 16, 1942: "The worst atrocities are being committed in the environs of the archbishop of Zagreb [Stepinac]. The blood of brothers is flowing in (the) streams. The Orthodox are being forcibly converted to Catholicism and we do not hear the archbishop's voice preaching revolt. Instead it is reported that he is taking part in Nazi and Fascist parades" [7] A report published by the United States Department of State in June of 1998 unequivocally states that the Vatican was aware of the atrocities in Croatia: "The Vatican, which maintained an "Apostolic visitor" in Zagreb from June 1941 until the end of the War, was aware of the killing campaign, which started with the internment of most of the 35,000 to 45,000 Croatian Jews in the spring and summer of 1941, and continued with the flight of up to 5,000 Jews from the German-occupied areas of the Croatian state to the Italian portion of the protectorate, and the deportation to Germany of all remaining Croatian Jews beginning in July 1942. Croatian Catholic authorities condemned the atrocities committed by the Ustashi, but remained otherwise supportive of the regime. During his March 1943 visit to Croatia, German Interior Minister Heinrich Himmler demanded that the few remaining Jews be deported to Germany (including those who had been baptized Catholics or married to Catholics). Germany continued its efforts throughout the War to compel the Italians to deport those Jews who had found sanctuary in Italian-occupied Dalmatia. Many of them ultimately found safety on the island of Rab off the Dalmatian coast. The German occupiers boasted that the Jewish population of Croatia had been wiped out by early 1944 (except for those who managed to gain Italian protection or escaped to join the Partisans).[8] The Catholic Ustashe were not content to merely brutalize, torture and murder Jews, Gypsies and Orthodox Serbs. They also looted their possessions, stealing gold, jewelry and other valuables worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Some of this plunder went to Germany, some of it was recovered after the war ended and some of it disappeared from sight. It bears mentioning that not a lot of the recovered loot was returned to the descendants of those from whom it was stolen. Most apparently went into the treasuries of the victorious powers and a few "neutral" nations. Not an inconsiderable amount of gold ended up in the Vatican. Among the documents recently released by the United States government was a memo sent to Harold Glasser, Director of Monetary Research, U. S. Treasury Department. The memo, dated October 21, 1946, reads as follows: "The following report has been recently received from a reliable source in Italy. It is sent to you in the belief that it may be of interest. "The Ustascha organization (a Croatian fascist organization, headed by Ante Pavelis) removed funds from Yugoslavia estimated to total 350 million Swiss francs. The funds were largely in the form of gold coins. "Of the funds brought from the former Independent Croat State where Jews and Serbs were plundered to support the Ustascha organization in exile, an estimated 150 million Swiss Franks [sic] were impounded by British authorities at the Austro-Swiss frontier; the balance of approximately 200 million Swiss Francs was originally held in the Vatican for safe-keeping. According to rumor, a considerable portion of this later amount has been sent to Spain and Argentina through the Vatican's "pipeline," but it is quite possible this is merely a smokescreen to cover the fact that the treasure remains in its original repository."[9] Was the Vatican actually involved in hiding Ustashe fugitives and their plundered treasure? The Vatican, as is to be expected, denies any knowledge of such activities. Against Vatican denials of complicity stand a large number of American and other nations' intelligence reports that appear to prove otherwise. Many of these intelligence documents are referenced in the June, 1998 State Department report. Under Secretary Stuart Eizenstat, announcing the publication of the report, told reporters that it "reflects a solemn commitment by the United States and by the Clinton Administration to confront the largely hidden history of Holocaust-year assets after five decades of neglect."[10] The report implicates the Vatican in the disappearance of the treasury of the wartime Nazi puppet state of Croatia. Early in 1998, a major weekly news magazine asked the question: "Did gold stolen by Croatian fascists reach the Vatican?"[11] The article points out that the Vatican absolutely refuses to grant investigators access to its secret archives. The folks at the Vatican may be keeping mum, but investigative reporters now have a wealth of recently-declassified intelligence reports to examine. Those reports have provided information concerning the priest the reporters call the "most significant player of all." "The Rev. Krunoslav Dragonovic, a Franciscan, had been a senior official of the Ustasha committee that handled the forced conversion of Orthodox Serbs. In 1943, the Ustasha arranged for the Croatian Catholic Church to send Father Dragonovic to Rome. There he served as secretary of the Instituto San Girolamo, a seminary for Croatian monks that was in fact a center of clandestine Ustasha acivity. Dragonovic also became Ustasha leader Ante Pavelic's unofficial emissary to the Vatican, and de facto liaison to the Pontifical Relief Commission, a Vatican organization that aided refugees during and after the war." [12] The State Department, drawing on American intelligence reports, also identifies the College of San Girolamo degli Illirici as center of Ustasha covert activity. The report declares that: "British intelligence information of March 1946 also identified San Girollamo as the church for the Ustashi managed by a brotherhood of Croatian priests, the "confraternita di San Girolama." This brotherhood issued identity cards with false names to the fugitive Ustashi, allowing them to evade arrest or detention by the allies. [13] "Monsignor Juraj Madjerec, identified in intelligence reports as an Ustasha supporter, was head of the College, but the prime mover behind this Ustasha activity in Rome was the secretary of the College, Father Dr. Krunoslav Stefano Dragonovic, who was also an Ustasha colonel and former official of the Croat Ministry for Internal Colonization," the agency responsible for the confiscation of Serb property in Bosnia and Hercegovina. "Regarded by U.S. intelligence officers as Ante Pavelic's "alter ego," the Croatian-born Father Dragonovic had been Professor of Theology at Zagreb University. In 1943 he went to Rome allegedly as the representative of the Croatian Red Cross, but probably to coordinate Ustasha affairs in Italy. Taking advantage of contacts inside the International Red Cross and other refugee and relief organizations, Dragonovic helped Ustasha fugitives emigrate illegally to South America by providing temporary shelter and false identity documents, and by arranging onward transport, primarily to Argentina. U.S> intelligence reports make much of Father Dragonovi's role in helping the Ustashi who sought protection in Rome after the War.He was also reportedly entrusted with the safeguarding of the archives of the Ustasha Legation in Rome, which he hid somewhere in the Vatican, as well as with all the valuables brought out of Croatia by the fleeing Ustashi."[14] Dragonovic may have been a devoted Catholic and committed to the Croatian cause, but he apparently was not unwilling to take advantage of the times and his own unique position to make a buck or two. "Dragonovic may also have personally profited from his illegal activities, charging refugees as much as $1,500 for false documents and realizing $625 from each refugee he helped transport to Argentina.[15] Some of the stolen money that remained under Catholic control – whether Ustashe or Vatican – was used to support Ustashe hiding in Rome and elsewhere. A U.S. intelligence agent reported, in a document recently declassified, that a Croatian priest living at San Girolamo dispensed a monthly allowance equivalent to about $2,700 today.[16] The money followed after fleeing Ustashe war criminals even after they had made their way out of Europe. "Croatian Catholic officials were funneling money to war criminals even after they escaped to Argentina, documents show. According to cable intercepts cited in a 1947 U.S. diplomatic report, Pavelic excaped in November of 1947 to Buenos Aires, where he is said to have been met by a retinue of Catholic priests. Newly declassified documents salso show that Bishop Rozman was funneling money to South America from a Swiss bank account set up "to aid refugees of the Catholic religion." U.S. military attache' Davis Harrington reported on March 9, 1948, that Rozman "is going to Bern to take care of these finances. The money is in a Swiss bank, and he plans to have most of it sent to the Ustashas in Argentina."[17] Many of the fugitives were able to evade capture and flee Europe by passing along a "rat line" operated by sympathetic priests. This underground railroad was established by the American Counter Intelligence Corps to facilitate bringing scientists, espionage agents and defectors out of nations under Communist control. "According to secret reports from the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps (CIC), written just after World War II and since declassified, Draganovic and his collaborators at San Girolamo provided money, food, housing and forged Red Cross passports for a number of Ustasha war criminals seeking to escape justice. Through an underground railroad of sympathetic priests, known as the "ratline," the Ustashas could move from Trieste, to Rome, to Genoa, and on to neutral countries – primarily Argentina – where they could live out their days unpunished and unnoticed. Along the ratline, virtually then entire Ustasha leadership went free. "All these people were escaping – and this at a time when just getting a meal in Rome was a major accomplishment," recalls William Gowen, a CIC officer in Rome after the war."[18] The barbarous leader of the Independent State of Croatia, Ante Pavelic, emigrated to Argentina in November of 1948.[19] Where did Pavelic, a wanted war criminal, hide out between the end of the war and his departure from Europe aboard the Italian motor vessel Sistrire? Wherever he may have been before, he reached Rome in late 1946, disguised as a priest and carrying a Spanish passport. According to intelligence reports, he spent the next two years living in San Girolamo and other quarters in Rome.[20] "Other quarters in Rome>" Don't you just wonder where those other quarters may have been? According to official British sources, one of those other places was the Vatican itself. "Other reports mention Ustashas meeting with Vatican officials or even living in the Vatican. The British Foreign Officer reported in January 1947 that Pavelic himself was living "within the Vatican City." An earlier report by Gowen, in October, 1946, noted that Pavellic was in Rome and in contact with Draganovic. "Documents include accounts of Ustashas being hidden at the pope's summer residence at Castel Gandolfo and being seen driving around in Rome in cars with Vatican license plates."[21] Reports from non-governmental agencies corroborate "official" accounts of Vatican involvement in helping war criminals escape from Europe: "The Simon Wiesenthal Center says the Vatican set up 22 committees after the war to help Nazis escape from Europe, and claims the gold looted by the Croats may have been used to finance the operation, known as the "rat-line." Among those who escaped was Ustashe leader Ante Pvaelic, who made his way to Latin America using papers allegedly provided by the Vatican, and disguised as a Catholic priest."[22] The survivors of Catholic-supported atrocities in Croatia and the Ukraine and their heirs have begun a court battle to recover property stolen from them. Chicago-based court reformer Sherman H. Skolnick reports on the lawsuit: "In apparently the first legal action of its kind, the Vatican Bank has been sued by World War Two victims and their heirs and beneficiaries. Brought as a class action in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the initial plaintiffs are Ukranians and ex-Soviet citizens, but the affected class includes Serbians, Roma, anti-Fascist Croatians, and Jews."[23] Easton & Levy, California lawyers representing victims and their organizations, filed the original complaint November 15, 1999 and the First Amended Complaint on January 21, 2000. The Franciscan Order was served on a Croatian Franciscan priest in Oakland, California on Tuesday, March 15, 2000. The Vatican Bank was served in Rome on Friday, March 17th.[24] "The lawsuit is seeking restitution from the Vatican Bank, the Franciscan order and several unnamed private banks, all of which allegedly profited illegally from the Holocaust by accepting valuables stolen by the Nazi-backed Ustashe regime…" "The suit alleges that gold and other assets worth about $170 million today, not including interest, were looted by the Ustashe and safeguarded by the Vatican after World War II. Vatican officials in Yugoslavia allegedly collaborated closely with the Croatian-led Ustashe, which also wreaked havoc in Ukraine." [25] Is this lawsuit only about money? Money is a major issue, of course, but there is more to it. Families of victims and survivors of this "hidden" Holocaust want the world to know what went on in Yugoslavia during the years of Nazi domination. And they want closure. Thomas Easton, the attorney who filed the lawsuit, made that clear. "Our lawsuit is basically about the loot, but the people who are plaintiffs are interested in some recognition of this hidden Holocaust, " Easton said. "It's a Holocaust that has been largely unreported in our history books."[26] Additional information concerning this class action lawsuit and claim forms are available at the Easton & Levy website. [27] End Notes: 1. Seán Mac Mathúna, The Vatican, Croatia and the Nazi Gold, Flame, Issue 3, Winter, 1999 2. Edmond Paris, Convert…or die: Catholic persecution in Yugoslavia during WWII, Chino, Ca (1993), p. 167 3. Seán Mac Mathúna, The Role of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia's Holocaust, Flame, Issue 4, Spring, 2000 4. John Cornwell, Hitler's Pope:The Secret History of Pius XII, Viking Press:London (1999), p. 249 5. Avro Manhattan, The Vatican's Holocaust, Ozark Books:Ozark, Mo., pp. 100-104 6. John Cornwell, Op. cit., p. 259 7. John Cornwell, Op. cit., p. 256 8. U.S. State Department report: U.S. and Allied Wartime and Postwar Relations and Negotiations With Argentina, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey on Looted Gold and German External Assets and U.S. Concerns About the Fate of the Wartime Ustasha Treasury, June 1998 Supplement to Preliminary Study on U.S. and Allied Efforts To Recover and Restore Gold and other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany During World War II 9. letter from Emerson Bigelow, Strategic Services Unit (SSU), to Harold Glasser, U.S. Treasury, October 21, 1946, RG 226, Entry 183, Box 29, 1946. The SSU was the postwar successor in the War Department to the Secret Intelligence (SI) Branch of the OSS. According to published sources, Emerson Bigelow served as a financial expert/consultant in pre-war years to the U.S. Government. During the War he was responsible for establishing and maintaining an operation to provide funds for both overt and covert OSS operations, and continued to provide financial advice to the Defense Department and the CIA for several years after the War. See in particular The American Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. 53, pp. 184-185. In 1946 Bigelow was in the SSU, and was responsible for liaison with the Treasury Department. Bio data from: U.S. State Department report, Op. cit., footnote 11 to Chapter "The Fate of the Wartime Ustasha Treasury". 10. Stuart Eizenstat, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, On-the-record briefing upon the release of the report, U.S. and Allied Wartime and Postwar Relations and Negotiations With Argentina, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey on Looted Gold and German External Assets and U.S. Concerns About the Fate of the Wartime Ustasha Treasury, Washington, DC, June 2, 1998 11. Susan Headden, Dana Hawkins, and Jason Vest, A vow of silence, U.S. News (March 30, 1998) 12. Ibidem 13. British Public Records Office, War Office Files, WO 204/11574. The British intelligence file identified Croatian priest Dominc Mandic as the Vatican representative to San Girolamo. 14. U.S. State Department report, Op. cit. 15. U.S. State Department report, Op. cit., footnote 42 to Chapter "The Fate of the Wartime Ustasha Treasury". 16. Susan Headden et al, Op. cit. 17. Ibidem 18. Ibidem 19. U.S. State Department report, Op. cit. 20. Information Report, Subject: "The Organization of Ustashis Abroad," November 4, 1946 (date of information is October 1946); Information Report, Subject: "The Vatican as an Asylum for War Criminals,"mAugust 8, 1947 (date of information is July 1947); Information Report, Subject: "Reported Arrival of Ante Pavelic in Argentina,: December 2, 1948, all in CIA Operational Files. Aarons and Loftus, The Unholy Trinity, pp. 77-78, indicate that Pavelic joined most of the former Ustasha regime in Buenos Aires, including nearly every surviving Cabinet Minister. Data from: U.S. State Department report, Op. cit., footnote 34 to Chapter "The Fate of the Wartime Ustasha Treasury". 21. Susan Headding et al, Op. cit. 22. Patrick Goodenough, Vatican Faces Lawsuit for Alleged Nazi-Era War Crimes, Cybercast News Service , November 23, 1999 23. Sherman H. Skolnick, Vatican Bank Sued for Alleged War Crimes, © 2000. 24. Easton & Levy press release, Pope's Apology too little, too late for Victims of Roman Catholic Ethnic Cleansing, March 29, 2000 25. Andy Altman-Ohr, Vatican Bank faces S.F. lawsuit over looted Nazi gold,Jewish Bulletin News (February 4, 2000) 26. Ibidem 27. http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com/ *********** Additional reading: Ilija Ivanovic, "Witness to Jasenovac's Hell," Dallas Publishing Company (2002)

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