The Origin Of Christmas (Short verison)

Christmas is a holiday shared and celebrated by many religions.
It is a day that has an effect on the entire world.
To many people, it is a favorite time of the year involving gift giving, parties and feasting. Christmas is a holiday that unifies almost all of professing Christendom.
The spirit of Christmas causes people to decorate their homes and churches, cut down trees and bring them into their homes, decking them with silver and gold.
In the light of that tree, families make merry and give gifts one to another.
When the sun goes down on December 24th, and darkness covers the land, families and churches prepare for participation in customs such as burning the yule log, singing around the decorated tree, kissing under the mistletoe and holly, and attending a late night service or midnight mass.
What is the meaning of Christmas? Where did the customs and traditions originate?
You, as a Christian, would want to worship the Lord in Spirit and in truth, discerning good from evil.
The truth is that all of the customs of Christmas pre-date the birth of Jesus Christ, and a study of this would reveal that
Christmas in our day is a collection of traditions and practices taken from many cultures and nations.
The date of December 25th comes from Rome and was a celebration of the Italic god, Saturn, and the rebirth of the sun god.
This was done long before the birth of Jesus.
It was noted by the pre-Christian Romans and other pagans, that daylight began to increase after December 22nd, when they assumed that the sun god died.
These ancients believed that the sun god rose from the dead three days later as the new-born and venerable sun.
Thus, they figured that to be the reason for increasing daylight.
This was a cause for much wild excitement and celebration. Gift giving and merriment filled the temples of ancient Rome, as sacred priests of Saturn, called dendrophori, carried wreaths of evergreen boughs in procession.
In Germany, the evergreen tree was used in worship and celebration of the yule god, also in observance of the resurrected sun god.
The evergreen tree was a symbol of the essence of life and was regarded as a phallic symbol in fertility worship.
Witches and other pagans regarded the red holly as a symbol of the menstrual blood of the queen of heaven, also known as Diana.
The holly wood was used by witches to make wands.
The white berries of mistletoe were believed by pagans to represent droplets of the semen of the sun god.
Both holly and mistletoe were hung in doorways of temples and homes to invoke powers of fertility in those who stood beneath and kissed, causing the spirits of the god and goddess to enter them.
These customs transcended the borders of Rome and Germany to the far reaches of the known world.
The question now arises: How did all of these customs find their way into contemporary Christianity, ranging from Catholicism to Protestantism to fundamentalist churches?
The word "Christmas"itself reveals who married paganism to Christianity.
The word "Christmas" is a combination of the words "Christ" and "Mass.
The word "Mass" means death and was coined originally by the Roman Catholic Church, and belongs exclusively to the church of Rome.
The ritual of the Mass involves the death of Christ, and the distribution of the "Host", a word taken from the Latin word "hostiall" meaning victim!
In short, Christmas is strictly a Roman Catholic word.
A simple study of the tactics of the Romish Church reveals that in every case, the church absorbed the customs, traditions and general paganism of every tribe, culture and nation in their efforts to increase the number of people under their control.
In short, the Romish church told all of these pagan cultures, "Bring your gods, goddesses, rituals and rites, and we will assign Christian sounding titles and names to them.
When Martin Luther started the reformation on October 31st, 1517, and other reformers followed his lead, all of them took with them the paganism that was so firmly imbedded in Rome.
These reformers left Christmas intact.
In England, as the authorized Bible became available to the common people by the decree of King James the II in 1611, people began to discover the pagan roots of Christmas, which are clearly revealed in Scripture.
The Puritans in England, and later in Massachusetts Colony, outlawed this holiday as witchcraft.
Near the end of the nineteenth century, when other Bible versions began to appear, there was a revival of the celebration of Christmas.
We are now seeing ever-increasing celebrating of Christmas or Yule, its true name, as we draw closer to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ!
In both witchcraft circles and contemporary Christian churches, the same things are going on.

As the Bible clearly states in Jeremiah 10:2-4, "Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen; and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven. For the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain. For one cutteth a tree out of the forest. The work of the hands of the workman with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers that it move not."

So, what is wrong with Christmas?
1. To say that Jesus was born on December 25th is a lie! The true date is sometime in September according to the Scriptures.
2. Trees, wreaths, holly, mistletoe and the like are strictly forbidden as pagan and heathen! To say that these are Christian or that they can be made Christian is a lie!
3. The Lord never spoke of commemorating his birth but rather commanded us to remember the sacrifice of His suffering and death, which purchased our salvation.
Think about it! Can we worship and honor God by involving ourselves with customs and traditions, which God Himself forbade as idolatry? Can we convince God to somehow "Christianize" these customs and the whole pretense and lie of Christmas, so we can enjoy ourselves? Can we obey through disobedience?
So what is right about Christmas?  Nothing!

WHEN PEOPLE LOSE IT, THEY LOSE IT!!!

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In the WTF moment of the week, a deranged gunman goes postal at a Florida school board meeting. The man is identified as Clay A. Duke and State records show that he served a four-year prison sentence about a decade ago over aggravated stalking. It’s unclear what the man was upset about, but people in attendance citied he was either looking for a job for his wife or upset she had lost one.



At any rate, the man approaches the podium wall spray painting the letter V in red, then ordering everyone to leave the room except the board members. What I found curious was he had an opportunity to shoot a female board member Ginger Littleton who intervened, but spared her life. In the end, he ended up killing himself after getting wounded.






Americans have gotten to that boiling point of no return.

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OUR MOON IS MADE OF ARTIFICIAL CHEESE!

By Morbius

When we look up at the sky and see the moon, we can easily think nothing out of content. Mainly because its been there as far back as we all could remember (So we think). I would look at the moon and ask myself, "How did it get there?", some are quick to say "GOD". And that! I do agree with, yes it was God that made it, but only before it became our moon.. If your a bit confused, then allow me to clarify some more.

About 15yrs ago I began having vivid dreams of a huge ship blowing up our moon! And since then, my inner self tells me that something isn't right about the Moon.. 

After I conducted a profound investigation on how our moon came to be, what I found out was purely mind blowing! They are so many scientific and mathematical anomalies that can make any reasonable thinking individual, clearly understand that all what we have been taught about our moon, isn't accurate.

Keep in mind that, everything we are told by the scientific community are "THEORIES" not facts unless they put out a paper stating it is fact! Do Not let them fool you!

Everything I have posted as fact, will have links and references from academic sites based on what I will be explaining. 

All these facts and measurements I am also going to go over, are discovered by our top scientist, but sadly enough they will not publicly discuss it. You are going to notice scientific "Theories" that do not hold up to scientific data. Now, is it me or is that just flat out retarded!? Just to think that our taxes pays these people to feed us Bullshit! Anyway.

LET'S BEGIN~~~~>

Scientist tell us that there is a new theory of the moon's creation. The first one states, that a large planet strikes the earth. Unfortunately that theory didn't pan out, so now, they say that another large mass crashed into earth, twice! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2780399.stm) Huh?? that's a theory within a theory. So what's next? If that theory fails, then throw another planet to hit it again!?  

Now, strange things have been seen on the moon for centuries. Usually in flashes of light, lights that appear to move across the lunar surface, clouds, gasses, vehicle tracks, lunar terrain that appear alot like roads and bridges that crossed over carters 100's of miles long. These are known as transient lunar phenomena (TLP), these documents all have been dated from 1540 to 1969, which NASA confirms. The original web site was MUFOR.ORG but apparently the site was shut down. Shocker!

 

1. The first thing I found is that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun and the sun is exactly 400 times father away from the moon, which means that when there is a solar/lunar eclipse the moon covers the sun completely and the sun covers the moon perfectly making them look the same size! Wow!? What a coincidence!?

The next thing is, that the Moon and the sun travel exactly on the same trajectory through the sky on the Winter and Summer Solstice. But, their orbits are inverted, when the Sun moves across the sky on the Winter Solstice at night, the Moon is moving on the same orbit that the Sun takes on the Summer Solstice and vice averse (http://www.aaa.org/membersarticle).  If you really ponder on how precise the Moon's position to the earth and sun is, it just seems way too perfect!  As for me, that raised a red flag! 

Our scientist wants us to believe that the moon came to be formed from an event so extremely chaotic and random. However, the moon sits prefectly in a position causing particular cycles to occur, which has also  captivated and astonished cultures across the world to inspire worship and perform sacrifices for it. Particularly with the Mayan Aztec Inca ,where in old Aztec stories, they talk about how the moon was not even a part of our orbit and shares how it became introduced into our solar system. 

2. Then the obvious one, is that the moon doesn't spin on its own axis, only facing one side at all times as it orbits the earth. The Moon is the only satellite in our solar system that does not spin. Even looking at it doesn't make any sense! How is this possible?, It is suppose to spin with the earth according to how scientist state the moon was created. Theory has is that: When two objects spin on there axis, and revolve around each other at the same time, it will eventually make each other come slow to a stop.
Ok, if that's the case, then why did the moon has stop spinning and earth shows no signs of slowing down? I mean, scientist do go as far as to say that recorded time is based on thousands of years.  

And the fact that many scientist agree that our Moon is too big for our planet and its not relative to earths mass. (http://www.OriginEarthMoon) Just look at every other planet and its moon(s) and they are relative to there mass and they all SPIN ON ITS AXIS!! The Moon should be around 30miles wide based on the earths mass, but instead its over 2000 miles across!

3. When Apollo 13 was headed homeward, moments later the 15-ton spent third stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle, crashed into the Moon as planned. It occurred at 8:09 p.m. EST, April 14. The S-IVB struck the Moon with a force equivalent to 11 1/2 tons of TNT. It hit 85 miles west northwest of the site where the Apollo 12 astronauts had set up their seismometer. Scientists on Earth said, "the Moon rang like a bell."

 Back in November 1969, the Apollo 12 astronauts had sent their Lunar Module crashing into the Moon following their return to the command craft after the lunar landing mission. That Lunar Module struck with a force of one ton of TNT. The shock waves built up to a peak in eight minutes and continued for nearly an hour! The seismic signals produced by the impact of S-IVB were 20 to 30 times greater and four times longer than those resulting from the LM crash. Peak intensity occurred in 7 minutes. Nothing comparable happens when objects strike Earth.

Reminds me of a story I read from Credo Mutwa the most famous Zulu Sangoma (shaman) in the world (http://credomutwa.com/about/)! He told of a story that was passed down to him from the Sangoma of how his people was told by the gods how the moon came to be. They say it was a egg (Scientist say the moon has more of a egg shape! http://www.livescience.com/space/090614-moon-facts-1.html ) and the gods removed its yoke (Hollowed it out) and rolled it across the sky and this caused floods, earthquakes, tsunami.. etc    Hmmmmmmm??

4. The moon’s mean density is 3.34 gm/cm³ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_and_evolution_of_the_Solar_System ) whereas the Earth’s is 5.5. What does this mean? In 1962, NASA scientist Dr. Gordon MacDonald stated, "If the astronomical data are reduced, it is found that the data require that the interior of the moon is more like a hollow than a homogeneous sphere." Nobel Chemist Dr.Harold Urey suggested the moon's low density is because of large areas inside the Moon where is "simply a cavity". MIT’s Dr. Sean C. Solomon wrote,"the Lunar Orbiter experiments vastly improved our knowledge of the moon’s gravitational field... indicating the frightening possibility that the moon might be hollow." In Carl Sagan's Treatise, intelligent Life in the Universe, He stated, "A natural satellite cannot be a hollow object".

  

5. Curiously, the Moon's center of mass is offset from its geometric center by about 2 km in the direction toward the Earth. Also, the crust is thinner on the near side. Curiously, the Moon's center of mass is offset from its geometric center by about 2 km in the direction toward the Earth. Also, the crust is thinner on the near side. Curiously, the Moon's center of mass is offset from its geometric center by about 1 1/2 miles in the direction toward the Earth. Also, the crust is thinner on the side we see and thicker on the dark side of the Moon. (http://nineplanets.org/) 

That does not make any sense at all! That would mean the moon should have a serious wobble! And its shape? well, the law of gravity states that it should form its center of mass, in the "center", when the moon was first created if it were to be spinning, which it never did!

Curiously, the Moon's center of mass is offset from its geometric center by about 2 km in the direction toward the Earth. Also, the crust is thinner on the near side.6. The Tidal Force theory (NOT Tidal Waves) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_Force) This is pure nonsense, because if the moon is to be moving away from the earth an inch every year, then that means the force of the moon is not strong enough to effect our planet.


7. Lets do some math.....  the earth takes 366 days to orbit the Sun once and the Moon takes 27.32 days to orbit the earth. Crazy enough, the Moon is 27.32 percent of the earth, and the Earth is 366 percent of the moon! This indicates that their own orbit is relative to there sizes. People, this is not Normal! 

Another way of perceiving this is by saying that, while the moon takes 27.32 days to orbit the earth or 1/27.32 days, at the same time, the earth orbiting around the Sun takes 10000/27.32 days in a leap year!(http://freakyphenomena.com/)!!
And the acceleration of the Moon in its path around the earth is 0.273 cm/s²
Come on! You call that "Chance"!?
 More numbers to ponder on, are that of a human fetus which spends 273 days in side the womb and a females menstrual cycle is regarded to be 27.3 days. Calculate the moons orbit x10 = 273 = Human Gestation!
Why should the female cycle be so closely connected to the moon's orbit? Speculation used to be fairly mainstream that the moon somehow influenced the reproductive cycle. This is not coincidence but more like "Intelligent Design"!

 AS YOU SEE, ONCE YOU START TO PLACE ALL THESE THEORIES TOGETHER, THEY ALL END UP FALLING APART. CONCLUDING THAT THEY DO NOT HOLD UP TO SCIENTIFIC DATA WE ARE FEED.

TO GET INTO HOW? OR WHO MADE THE MOON?, I'D MUCH RATHER LEAVE THAT FOR YOU TO DECIDE.

I JUST WANTED TO PROVIDE YOU THE FACTS CONCERNING ABOUT WHAT'S FLOATING ABOVE IN OUR SKY.

There is much more that I wasn't able to touch upon on due to the endless amount of evidence. But that's how i see it! 

STAY UP MY PEOPLES...

HERE IS A LITTLE TRUTH TO GO ALONE WITH YOUR STUFFING! HAPPY "THANKS LIVING"!!

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It is a deep thing that people still celebrate the survival of the early colonists at Plymouth — by giving thanks to the Christian God who supposedly protected and championed the European invasion. The real meaning of all that, then and now, needs to be continually excavated. The myths and lies that surround the past are constantly draped over the horrors and tortures of our present.

Every schoolchild in the U.S. has been taught that the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony invited the local Indians to a major harvest feast after surviving their first bitter year in New England. But the real history of Thanksgiving is a story of the murder of indigenous people and the theft of their land by European colonialists–and of the ruthless ways of capitalism.

This piece is intended to be shared at this holiday time. Pass it on. Serve a little truth with the usual stuffing.

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In mid-winter 1620 the English ship Mayflower landed on the North American coast, delivering 102 exiles. The original Native people of this stretch of shoreline had already been killed off. In 1614 a British expedition had landed there. When they left they took 24 Indians as slaves and left smallpox behind. Three years of plague wiped out between 90 and 96 percent of the inhabitants of the coast, destroying most villages completely.

After the first colonies were establshed -- the Pequod war

The Europeans landed and built their colony called "the Plymouth Plantation" near the deserted ruins of the Indian village of Pawtuxet. They ate from abandoned cornfields grown wild. Only one Pawtuxet named Squanto had survived–he had spent the last years as a slave to the English and Spanish in Europe. Squanto spoke the colonists’ language and taught them how to plant corn and how to catch fish until the first harvest. Squanto also helped the colonists negotiate a peace treaty with the nearby Wampanoag tribe, led by the chief Massasoit.

These were very lucky breaks for the colonists. The first Virginia settlement had been wiped out before they could establish themselves. Thanks to the good will of the Wampanoag, the settlers not only survived their first year but had an alliance with the Wampanoags that would give them almost two decades of peace.

John Winthrop, a founder of the Massahusetts Bay colony considered this wave of illness and death to be a divine miracle. He wrote to a friend in England, "But for the natives in these parts, God hath so pursued them, as for 300 miles space the greatest part of them are swept away by smallpox which still continues among them. So as God hath thereby cleared our title to this place, those who remain in these parts, being in all not 50, have put themselves under our protection."

The deadly impact of European diseases and the good will of the Wampanoag allowed the settlers to survive their first year.

In celebration of their good fortune, the colony’s governor, William Bradford, declared a three-day feast of thanksgiving after that first harvest of 1621.

How the Puritans Stole the Land

Original inhabitants -- before the European invasion

But the peace that produced the Thanksgiving Feast of 1621 meant that the Puritans would have 15 years to establish a firm foothold on the coast. Until 1629 there were no more than 300 settlers in New England, scattered in small and isolated settlements. But their survival inspired a wave of Puritan invasion that soon established growing Massachusetts towns north of Plymouth: Boston and Salem. For 10 years, boatloads of new settlers came.

And as the number of Europeans increased, they proved not nearly so generous as the Wampanoags.

On arrival, the Puritans and other religious sects discussed "who legally owns all this land." They had to decide this, not just because of Anglo-Saxon traditions, but because their particular way of farming was based on individual–not communal or tribal–ownership. This debate over land ownership reveals that bourgeois "rule of law" does not mean "protect the rights of the masses of people."

Some settlers argued that the land belonged to the Indians. These forces were excommunicated and expelled. Massachusetts Governor Winthrop declared the Indians had not "subdued" the land, and therefore all uncultivated lands should, according to English Common Law, be considered "public domain." This meant they belonged to the king. In short, the colonists decided they did not need to consult the Indians when they seized new lands, they only had to consult the representative of the crown (meaning the local governor).

Training of the Massachusetts militia, 1637. The means of genocide and theft.

The colonists embraced a line from Psalms 2:8.

"Ask of me, and I shall give thee, the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."

Since then, European settler states have similarly declared god their real estate agent: from the Boers seizing South Africa to the Zionists seizing Palestine.

The European immigrants took land and enslaved Indians to help them farm it. By 1637 there were about 2,000 British settlers. They pushed out from the coast and decided to remove the inhabitants.........

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HOW MUCH DO YOU REALLY KNOW ABOUT HALLOWEEN?

Where did it begin?

It began over 2000 yrs ago with people known as the Celtics. They lived in what is today England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. This was also the beginning of the Celtic new year, a time to give thanks to the sun god for the harvest.

What is it all about?

Halloween, All saints day, All hallows eve or All souls day is a festival. It was held to honor the Samhain the so called "lord of death". It was a Druidical belief that on the eve of this festival Samhain, lord of death, called together the wicked spirits that within the past 12 months had been condemned to inhabit the bodies of animals.

It was a pagan belief that on one night of the year the souls of the dead return to their original homes, there to be entertained with food. If food and shelter were not provided, these evil spirits would cast spells and cause havoc toward those failing to fulfill their requests.

Sacrifices were offered on this night to the dead spirits because it was thought they visited their earthly dwellings and former friends.

There was a prevailing belief among all nations that at death the souls of the good men were taken possession of by good spirits and carried to paradise; but the souls of the wicked men were left to wonder in the space between the earth and the moon, or consigned to the unseen world. These wandering spirits were in the habit of haunting the living...But there were means by which ghosts might be exorcised.

To exorcise these ghosts, that is to free yourself from their evil sway, you would have to set out food and provide shelter for them during the night. If they were satisfied with your offerings, they would leave you in peace. If not, they were believed to cast an evil spell on you.

In modern day Satanism and Witchcraft covens, this is the day when Satan himself comes to "fellowship" with his followers. Many changes have occurred over the centuries, but one thing ha stayed the same, the practice of giving an "offering" has stayed the same. Oh we do it under the name of fun but what is the real meaning? Is it still the same as in the old days? I say the answer is YES.

The Christian Connection

The celebration in the Roman Catholic Church, which was later to merge with Samhain, was known as All Saints' Day. All Saints' Day originated in the 7th century when the Pantheon at Rome was wrested from the barbarians, made into a cathedral, and renamed the Church of the Blessed Virgin and All Martyrs. Thus, from honoring "all gods" (which is the meaning of the Greek word "pantheon") the Pantheon became the center for glorifying all saints.

This day that honored all the "hallowed" saints was first observed on the evening of May 13, and was known as the All hallows festival. The day was officially authorized in 835 by Pope Gregory IV after it was moved to November 1 to coincide with Samhain. It began on the evening of October 31, which was called All Hallows Eve.

Thus, without forcing the pagans to drop their pagan practices and accept Christianity, the Roman Catholic church merely made room to accommodate the barbarians.

Just as it confiscated the pagan Pantheon for its own uses, this church incorporated the customs of Samhain to further its mission to convert the known world to Catholicism.

The two celebrations made strange bedfellows: one in respect of evil spirits, the other honoring "saints."

Nevertheless, the joining of the two celebrations produced a hybrid of beliefs about what was supposed to happen in the spirit world. Souls in purgatory appeared as witches and toads to persons who had wronged them. Halloween fires took on a new meaning and now were used to comfort souls in purgatory as people prayed while holding burning straw in the air.

Even the idea of trick-or-treating by evil spirits took on an acceptable church flavor: costumed children went around on All Souls Day offering to fast for the departed souls in return for money or an offering.

As the Celts converted to the new religion, they did not forget their stories of the dead traveling to the afterworld on Halloween. Rather, exhibitions of this night became more evil and the observance adopted even more malicious overtones.

Where do Witches, Black cats and Jack-O-Lanterns fit in?

In America it's a pumpkin, but in Europe it was often a turnip, large beet, potato, rutabaga or even a skull with a candle in it. The fearsome face of the jack-o-lantern was representative of the god of the dead, Shamin, who would drive off less powerful evil spirits abroad that night.  As glimmering lights flickered over an English marsh or an Irish bog, people imagined dead souls had returned to earth. They would place the jack-o-lantern on posts and in windows to ward off the spirits of the dead on Halloween.

The word jack-o-Lantern is an abbreviation of "Jack of the Lantern." Jack is another name for joker or Satan. In the Irish tale, a man named Jack was fond of playing tricks on the devil. Annoyed, the devil tossed Jack a burning coal from hell. With the coal in his "lantern" Jack was condemned to walk the earth forever searching for rest.

The jack-o-lantern is a Halloween idol that keeps alive an ancient symbol of demonic superstition.

Witches and Black Cats

 A pagan practice that was not eradicated upon the coming of Christianity was witchcraft. The word "witch" comes from the Anglo-Saxon Wicca, or "wise one." Witches were thought to be possessors of magic.

Witches, who worship the deities of nature, have living talismans or symbols through which they derive their dark powers. They invoke evil spirits to enter the bodies of their talismans. Some have dogs, owls, snakes or swine for their talismans, but the most common are cats.

The broomstick is a symbol of the male organ, on which the witch mounts and leaps high around the fields to "teach" the crops how high to grow. The notion of flying witches relates to the fact that witches believed they could fly great distances to their feasts by smearing their bodies with ointments containing drugs. The drugs gave them psychedelic "trips" making them think they flew.

Witchcraft is demonic worship in diametric opposition to the worship of the Heavenly Father Yahweh. Yahweh minces no words about it. He told Israel through Moses, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" (Ex. 22:18). He says in Deuteronomy 18:10, "There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that uses divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch."

Cats have been closely associated with mystery religion from the Egyptians to the Norse. But the Celts had a particular fear of cats, believing they were humans who had been changed into feline form by evil powers. The black cat particularly was connected to demonic powers.

Black cats are the chief idol of the goddess of Wicca, Diana. In legend, she turns into a black cat to commit incest with her brother, Lucifer. Eventually the Druids themselves came to be regarded as witches. Witch hunting during Halloween became almost a national pastime in the colonial years of our nation. But that was yesterday. Halloween is regarded as the high "Sabbath" for practicing witches today.

Orange, black, and red, the devil's colors, are the colors associated with Halloween. Black prefigures black magic and demonic influence. The black of night is when these forces of evil are busiest, using the cover of darkness for their sinister works.

Skulls and Skeletons

The skeleton is a form of the god of the dead, the witches' "horned god." The Dictionary of Satanism by Wade Baskin says this about skulls and skeletons under "skull worship": "Skulls play an important role as sacred relics and as objects of worship among primitives. Among Polynesians and Melanesians, skulls of ancestors are worshiped in order to establish connections with the spirits of the dead. Like the head of Osiris in Egypt, the skulls of ancestors may also serve as tutelar deities. The head or its parts, each of which may stand for the whole, can be used as magical food or as a means of increasing the fertility of the soil." Under "Skull," the Dictionary of Lore and Legend says, "Symbol of death, often with crossed bones beneath."

  Is Halloween a TRICK or TREAT?

Most absolutely a TRICK. As you can see from all the above the real meaning of Halloween has been watered down. It is Satan's objective to get all to worship him.

Do not fool yourselves!! 

A TRANSIT POLICE BULLY TACKLES AND MANHANDLES A WOMAN!

  This was initially posted on YOU TUBE on September 16th 2010 out in D.C. The woman seems like she had a few beers in her system, but not enough to go ahead and blame it on reckless behavior. The cop pissed her off by telling her to take a cab and not allowing her to take the subway (reason unknown), saying that it was his station, as if claming territory. She obviously dissagreed by walking away saying, something like "This aint your Fucking station, come on lets go". Which triggered the cop to react how he did...But you be the judge.

THIS IS THE REASON WHY WE DON'T GET PERSONAL ON SOCIAL NETWORKS!! AND YOU SHOULDN'T EITHER!!

THIS VIDEO WILL SHOW YOU WHO IS REALLY WATCHING US!! AND IT ONLY MAKE YOU ASK... WHY?

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THE FEDS! THE FEDS! WHATCHA GONNA DOOO? WHATCHA GONNA DOOO? WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU!

Who the FUCk the FEDS think they are? Getting caught breaking laws and trying to get away with it!
People.....please read THIS and then gather what's going on!!

By Wilson Rothman


msnbc.com msnbc.com

updated 49 minutes ago 2010-10-08T22:36:11

   Several days ago a 20-year-old student discovered a GPS tracking device hidden on his car. After his friend posted a picture of it online, speculating about its ties to a secret FBI investigation, the feds themselves came a-knockin', according to Wired.com. They wanted their toy back.



Based on the discussion with the six FBI agents who arrived at his doorstep, Yassir Afifi believes he'd been under surveillance for three to six months. When Wired asked an FBI spokesman about the case, he did not acknowledge ownership of the device, but said that there was an "ongoing investigation."



Afifi says that he cooperated with the FBI and, according to Wired, "did nothing to merit attention from authorities." He is a U.S. citizen who lives in Santa Clara, Calif., where he attends Mission College.



Afifi's father, an Islamic-American activist, died a year ago in Egypt. It is not clear what the circumstances of his death were, or if this was the reason for the FBI's investigation of Afifi.



The gadget itself — a GPS receiver identified as a police-issue-only Cobham Orion Guardian ST820 tracking system, connected to a battery pack and radio transmitter — was magnetically attached to the car. A shot of it made its way around the blogosphere on Monday, after appearing on the community news site Reddit. After Afifi spotted an antenna sticking out during an oil change, the garage owner offered to yank it out. It apparently popped off quite easily.



The question of whether or not sticking a GPS on a car is legal is actually in the middle of a hot debate right now. One federal court recently said that it was legal, while another said that tracking for an "extended period of time" would in fact require a warrant. (For more on this, here's a great piece in Time written by lawyer and tech journalist Adam Cohen.)



Legality aside, the tactic itself might have been carried out with something less than precision. Simply put, tracking devices shouldn't be so easy to find. Wired talked to an agent who said that not only is the tracking device out of date, but state-of-the-art snoops hardwire the stuff directly to the car's electrical system, avoiding the need for a battery.



What's impressive is how quickly Afifi got an identification of the gadget by crowdsourcing it on the Web. On the flipside, that kind of exposure isn't good PR for the FBI. Surely the revelation of the magnetic tracker will cause many people to check under their own cars. Like many noble efforts to keep us safe from terrorism, this one may be turning out to not be so effective. After all, those who already know they're involved in illegal activity probably check their cars every day, rain or shine.



This piece originally appeared on Technolog. For more details on the Afifi story, read the report at Wired.com.



© 2010 msnbc.com Reprints

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NEW CYBERSECURITY BILL GIVES OBAMA POWER TO SHUT DOWN COMPANIES!

Paul Joseph Watson 
September 28, 2010

An amalgamated cybersecurity bill that lawmakers hope to pass before the end of the year includes new powers which would allow President Obama to shut down not only entire areas of the Internet, but also businesses and industries that fail to comply with government orders following the declaration of a national emergency – increasing fears that the legislation will be abused as a political tool.

The draft bill is a combination of two pieces of legislation originally crafted by Senators Lieberman and Rockefeller. One of the differences between the new bill and the original Lieberman version is that the Internet “kill switch” power has been limited to 90 days without congressional oversight, rather than the original period of four months contained in the Lieberman bill.

In other words, President Obama can issue an emergency declaration that lasts 30 days and he can renew it for a further 60 days before congress can step in to oversee the powers.

The new powers would give Obama a free hand to not only shut down entire areas of the Internet and block all Internet traffic from certain countries, but under the amalgamated bill he would also have the power to completely shut down industries that don’t follow government orders, according to a Reuters summary of the new bill.

“Industries, companies or portions of companies could be temporarily shut down, or be required to take other steps to address threats,” states the report, citing concerns about an “imminent threat to the U.S. electrical grid or other critical infrastructure such as the water supply or financial network.”

The only protection afforded to companies under the new laws is that they would have to be defined as “critical” in order to come under government regulation, but since the government itself would decide to what companies this label applies, it’s hardly a comforting layer of security.

“Even in the absence of an imminent threat, companies could face government scrutiny. Company employees working in cybersecurity would need appropriate skills. It also would require companies to report cyber threats to the government, and to have plans for responding to a cyber attack,” states the report.

As we have highlighted, the threat from cyber-terrorists to the U.S. power grid or water supply is minimal. The perpetrators of an attack on such infrastructure would have to have direct physical access to the systems that operate these plants to cause any damage. The recent Stuxnet malware attack, for example, was introduced and spread through a physical USB device, not via the public Internet.

Any perceived threat from the public Internet to these systems is therefore completely contrived and strips bare what many fear is the real agenda behind cybersecurity – to enable the government to regulate free speech on the Internet.

Handing Obama the power to shut down certain companies or businesses is likely to heighten already existing fears that the new cybersecurity federal bureaucracy could be used as a political tool.

As we reported back in March, the Obama administration’s release of the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, a government plan to “secure” (or control) the nation’s public and private sector computer networks, coincided with Democrats attempting to claim that the independent news website The Drudge Report was serving malware, an incident Senator Jim Inhofe described as a deliberate ploy “to discourage people from using Drudge”.

Senator Joe Lieberman appeared to admit that the legislation had more to do with simply protecting US infrastructure when he told CNN’s Candy Crowley that the bill was intended to mimic the Communist Chinese system of Internet policing.

“Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,” said Lieberman.

As we have documented, the Chinese government does not disconnect parts of the Internet because of genuine security concerns, it habitually does so only to oppress and silence victims of government abuse and atrocities, and to strangle dissent against the state, a practice many fear is the ultimate intention of cybersecurity in the United States.

The implementation of the cybersecurity apparatus would represent another huge expansion of the federal government, creating an Office of Cyber Policy within the executive branch and also “A new National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications (NCCC) within the Department of Homeland Security, led by a separate director who would enforce cybersecurity policies throughout the government and the private sector.”

Lawmakers have indicated that they intend to push through the bill before the end of the year, though with Congress set to leave Friday amidst deadlock on a number of issues, cybersecurity looks like it will have to wait until mid-November, providing its opponents with extra time to point out the inherent threats the legislation poses to free speech and free enterprise.



Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.


Not once had this report hit the media like it should, and if it does?

Then, the people should get the chance to be fully informed about the pros and cons of this new bill, and provide feed back as well.

Tyranny in this country, has to END!!

AFFORDABLE HIGH QUALITY VIDEO PRODUCTION!

The Sargonites usually get asked pretty often, "Who does your videos?" and the answer to that would be.....Morbius!

Apart from being behind the boards at the recording studio, Morbius manages to capture the moments behind the cameras as well. Filming has been a part of him since his early childhood days as it was for most reknowned directors in the industry today. Since then, his video production expertise through trial and error allowed him to perfect a young directors obvious learning set backs, while increasing his creative strengths. Thus, gained him respect and recongnition from several fellow independent artists, who currently have him lined up with project after project because of his gifted insight behind filming.

Film production can be quite costly due to many variables such as location, lighting, camera quality, 3D animation, added effects, editing, directing, green screening, plus much more! which is why for this reason many indie artists either minimize or don't even include videos as a selling point for themselves. On the average to have a complete music video done independently would typically include: A days shoot with four takes, filmed at one location, a camera, lighting and additonal background props (smoke machine, a car or a motorcycle etc.,) all adds up to a price of $2,000. Now, of course with some added locations, effects and more days to shoot, then it ranges from $5,000 to $10,000. Major labels usually spend on the average of about $15,000 to even $150,000. Numbers such as these for an independent artist (especially for one who is starting out) do not become appealing nor even encouraging to go ahead and get a music video done.


So, why is it that independent artists are headed towards Morbius's direction?

That's because Morbius provides a one complete video package that consists of: Directing, editing lighting and filming equipment (which includes eye catching transitional effects with color correction on high-end editing software for the final production), films on several interior and exterior location sites, suggestive scripted storyline, filmed on a HD camera, shoots WAY over four takes and all in one days shoot for: $350! 
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Check out the Promo video for the first single "Forgotten Ciphers" off our next album, "BLACK FLAG- The Sargon Chronicles-".. Dropping Jan 2011!!

 
Video drops late October!!

"CRIMINALS WITH BADGES"

Its seems to be that everyday across the country (even across the world) police brutality occurs on a daily basis. Several years back, as little as ten years ago, evidence of a civilians bruised up face or body along with a testimony was sufficient to persue an investigation towards an aggressive police officer(s). In today's modern world, security has reached new boundaries with the assitance of advanced technology, in hopes for a better and safer enviornment for society. Just New York City alone has over 3,000 livestream CCTV survelliance cameras, monitered around the clock by the NYPD , not to mention that, Europe has over 500,000! cameras themselves.



I then ask myself, If it took one bystander's videotaped footage of four LAPD officers on March 3rd, 1991 (The famous Rodney King Beating) to apprehend those police officers, then how come the courts are not locking up more of these abusive cops like wild fire on a daily basis??



Here's why: The public isn't OutRaged enough!! That incident caused so much tension between the black community in Los Angeles, as soon as it aired on the news. In fact, when the police officers were tried in a state court and were aquitted, that was enough to spark the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Then after a Federal trial for civil rights violations had found two of the officers sent to prison and then the other two aquitted.


  Im not implying that we should all go out rioting to get results when every little incident occurs, but we do need to be smart about our actions when taking it up with the courts. A mass of concerned individuals for their community with a loud voice, proof  and a valid point can make anything happen. The way these police officers take out their frustrations on people in accordance of "doing there job" well, these HD cameras with excellent zoom in & out capabilities can provide more than enough evidence to convict these criminals with a badge.


  Anger can mobilize our response for corrective action, however, uncontrolled anger can affect our personal and social well being.


"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade." ~ Sir James M. Barrie


Lets do something, rather than nothing!






  

9/10/10 The Sargonites we be preforming at The 911 Truth Conference in Jersey city, NJ

You are invited to the premiere of WeAreChange New Jersey’s new film:

2001: The Year We Made Contact

Come see first responders and survivors speak and hear their testimony! Network with people and educate yourself on the issues of the day. Although the event is FREE, there is limited seating. The venue can comfortably seat 50-75 people, so it is a good idea to RSVP ahead of time to reserve a spot. There is also a suggested donation of $5-10 to help cover the cost of the event. There will also be a merchandise booth where guests can purchase information, movies, music, and accessories at affordable prices along with some free hand-outs.
Please forward any questions or comments to iglooz@gmail.com or message Glenn Zarmanov on Facebook.

CLICK HERE TO RSVP ON FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140486589323683
Guest speakers include:

Glenn Zarmanov, Founder of WeAreChange New Jersey & Jersey City for 9/11 Truth
Erik-Anders Nilsson, Founder of Jersey City Peace Movement & 9/11 First Responder
Detective John Caroll, JCPD Officer & 9/11 First Responder
Michael Donly, Engineer for 9/11 Truth
Frank Agamemnon, 9/11 Truth Activist
…AND MORE!
Music performances by top hip-hop legends!
Stay tuned for surprise guests!
WHO:
WeAreChange New Jersey + BW Moving Images
WHAT:
Lecture, Movie Screening, Music Performance
WHERE:
Black Waxx Studios
280 First (1st) Street, APT #1
Jersey City, New Jersey 07302
WHEN:
Friday, September 10, 2010 (9/10/10)
from 5-10PM. Doors open at 6, event starts roughly around 6:30.
WHY:
To expose the lies of 9/11 nine years later, and to understand the various aspects of the New World Order that has emerged as a result.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MORBIUS!!!

FOX NEWS IS SOOOO STUPID!!!

Saudi Royal owns Fox News

Remarks by Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official, on Fox News this week led to a call to boycott the channel.

In an awkward moment on Fox News this week, a pundit suggested that a member of the Saudi royal family who has supported the bridge-building work of the imam behind a planned Muslim community center and mosque in Lower Manhattan “funds radical madrasas all over the world.” The awkwardness came from the fact — unmentioned by anyone on the Fox set — that the same Saudi,  Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, also happens to be the second-largest shareholder in News Corp., the parent company of the Fox News Channel.
During his appearance on Fox News on Monday, Dan Senor, a former Bush administration official, hinted darkly that Feisal Abdul Rauf — an imam who was first recruited to promote religious tolerance in the Middle East on behalf of the United States government by the Bush administration — had, in the past, received financial support from a Saudi foundation established by a man with supposed radical ties. Mr. Senor did not mention the prince’s name but said:

The Kingdom Foundation, so you know, is this Saudi organization, headed up by the guy who tried to give Rudy Giuliani $10 million after 9/11 that was sent back, funds radical madrasas all over the world.

Last week, Sam Gustin pointed out on AOL’s Daily Finance blog that the prince owns a good portion of the channel on which he was vilified:

The stridency with which Fox News personalities attack the downtown Islamic center — red meat for the millions who tune in each night — is an example of the often uneasy relationship and occasionally diverging interests between many of News Corp.’s properties, in this case Fox News and its parent corporation. For example, News Corp.’s second-largest shareholder, after the Murdoch family, is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the nephew of Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, and one of the world’s richest men.
Through his Kingdom Holding Co., Alwaleed owns about 7 percent of News Corp., or about $3 billion of the media giant.

Karl Jeffs/Getty Images News Corp.’s two largest shareholders, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and Rupert Murdoch, last year in the United Arab Emirates.

In an interview with Deborah Solomon of The New York Times Magazine in 2006, the prince said his attempt to give $10 million to victims’ families after the Sept. 11 attacks — which was returned because he also suggested that the United States should “adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause” — was part of his attempt “to bridge the gap between Christianity and Islam and Judaism.”
As John Cook explained on Yahoo’s Update blog, several Fox News anchors and guests have gone to great lengths in recent weeks to suggest that the Muslim center is a front for radicalism by insisting that we must “follow the money” of the people who might donate money to it:

The opponents of the proposed Cordoba Initiative Islamic center planned for Lower Manhattan are fond of suggesting, by way of lengthy and often confusing chains of causation and association, that its principal planner, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, is connected to terrorism.
“The imam has been tied to some shady characters,”  Fox Business Channel’s Eric Bolling recently said, “so should we worry that terror dollars could be funding the project?”

Mr. Cook noted that the implication that Prince Alwaleed’s foundation spreads radicalism seems to stem from its donations to projects like one undertaken last year by the Islamic Development Bank, which is building three community centers in Malawi, each of which will reportedly include a mosque, a health center and a primary school.
The same day that Mr. Senor appeared on Fox, another News Corp. property, The Wall Street Journal, reported that “Controversy over the community center, which will contain a mosque and other facilities, has helped fan anti-Muslim rhetoric in the U.S. far from Lower Manhattan in recent weeks.” Evan Kohlmann, a terrorism expert who monitors jihadist Web sites told the newspaper, “We are handing al Qaeda a propaganda coup, an absolute propaganda coup,” with the uproar over the center.
As my colleague Frank Rich pointed out several years ago, someone should really tell all journalists who think that they are emulating Woodward and Bernstein by repeating the mantra “follow the money” that the phrase was invented by the screenwriter William Goldman for the Hollywood version of “All the President’s Men.”
But taking the Fox pundits at their word, Jon Stewart suggested on The Daily Show this week that the best way to keep the Saudi prince from making money and then possibly using it to back the mosque project, is to boycott Fox News:

This is the proposed ‘terror mosque.’ We know that it’s a ‘terror mosque’ because the money may be coming from a bad guy, who definitely owns part of Fox News. Now, we know that he’s a bad guy because we just heard it on Fox News.
And by hearing it on Fox News, watching Fox News, I’m increasing their viewership. And their advertising rates go up. Now, part of that money goes to the bad guy we learned about on Fox because he’s their part owner — Prince Alwaleed bin Talal — allowing him then to make it rain, so to speak, on the ‘terror mosque.’
My point is this: If we want to cut off funding to the ‘terror mosque,’ we must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.