Tuesday, 8 December 2015

The Bible

The Bible
The Holy Scriptures are one of the two great foundations of the faith and here is what our church holds and teaches concerning it. The word of God is not contained in the Bible alone, it is to be found in tradition as well. The Sacred Scriptures are the written word of God who is the author of the Old and New Testaments containing nothing but perfect truth in faith and morals. But God’s word is not contained only in them, there is an unwritten word of God also, which we call apostolic tradition. We receive the one and other with equal veneration.

The canon of the Ethiopic Bible differs both in the Old and New Testament from that of any other churches.
List all books. As a whole, books written in the Geez language and on parchment are numerous. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has 46 books of the Old Testament and 35 books of the New Testament that will bring the total of canonized books of the Bible to 81.

These are the following
A. The Holy Books of the Old Testament
1. Genesis
2. Exodus
3. Leviticus
4. Numbers
5. Deuteronomy
6. Joshua
7. Judges
8. Ruth
9. I and II Samuel
10. I and II Kings
11. I Chronicles
12. II Chronicles
13. Jublee
14. Enoch
15. Ezra and Nehemia
16. Ezra (2nd) and Ezra Sutuel
17. Tobit
18. Judith
19. Esther
20. I Maccabees
21. II and III Maccabees
22. Job
23. Psalms
24. Proverbs
25. Tegsats (Reproof)
26. Metsihafe Tibeb (the books of wisdom)
27. Ecclesiastes
28. The Song of Songs
29. Isaiah
30. Jeremiah
31. Ezekiel
32. Daniel
33. Hosea
34. Amos
35. Micah
36. Joel
37. Obadiah
38. Jonah
39. Nahum
40. Habakkuk
41. Zephaniah
42. Haggai
43. Zechariah
44. Malachi
45. Book of Joshua the son of Sirac
46. The Book of Josephas the Son of Bengorion

B. The holy books of the New Testament
1. Matthew
2. Mark
3. Luke
4. John
5. The Acts
6. Romans
7. I Corinthians
8. II Corinthians
9. Galatians
10. Ephesians
11. Philippians
12. Colossians
13. I Thessalonians
14. II Thessalonians
15. I Timothy
16. II Timothy
17. Titus
18. Philemon
19. Hebrews
20. I Peter
21. II Peter
22. I John
23. II John
24. III John
25. James
26. Jude
27. Revelation
28. Sirate Tsion (the book of order)
29. Tizaz (the book of Herald)
30. Gitsew
31. Abtilis
32. The I book of Dominos
33. The II book of Dominos
34. The book of Clement
35. Didascalia

The Ethiopic version of the Old and New Testament was made from the Septuagint. It includes the book of Enoch, Baruch, and the third and fourth Esdras. In the international Bible studies there are certain books belonging to the class usually designated pseudepigraphic. The whole Christendom and whole-learned world owes a debt of gratitude to the church of Ethiopia for the preservation of those documents.

Among these books is the book of Enoch which throws so much light on Jewish thought on various points during the centuries immediately preceding the Christian era. The book of Jubilee (Kufale, i.e. Division) otherwise known as the Little Genesis has also been preserved entire only in the Ethiopic version. The preservation of yet one more book in its entity, namely, the Ascension of Isaiah, is to be remembered to the credit of the Ethiopic Church.

But books, which should be considered for higher education and could be prepared carefully in order to suit modern thinking, are the following.

1. Theological books such as the following
- Haymanote Abew or the Faith of the Fathers in which other writings of the Apostolic Fathers and also of the Eastern Orthodox Church fathers are to be found.
- Works of St. Cyril and many other writers.
- The exegesis of the letter to the Hebrews by St. John Chrysostom.
- The pastoral work of St. John Chrysostom.
- Severious of Asmunage – a collection of twelve exegetical works, which prove the teaching concerning God.
- A book that proves the existence of God Hilawae – Melekote
- The book of Hawi, which proves the teaching concerning God.
- Book of the mystery by Abba Georgis containing arguments and evidence about the mysteries.
- Religious documentary book by Jacob of Elbaredia.
- The true faith (written during the reign of Zera Yacob)
- The five pillars of the Sacraments (as Catechism).

M E I L A D
2. Books that have the orders of the church
- The liturgical book with the 14 Anaphora
- Ghitsacwa –Lectionaries or a list of annual reading of the scriptures during the liturgical service and other prayer hours.
- The book of the Sacrament of Matrimony (Metsehafe Teklil)
- The book of Baptism
- The book of Ordination
- The book of Covenant
- The prayer book for the dead
- The prayer book of the Incense
- The book of Canon
- The prayer book of purification

3. Books on Church administration and on counseling
- A big book on the Synod of the Apostles in four parts
- The Didache and Abthulis
- The book on the Synod of Nicea
- The book on the Synod of Galatia
- The book on the Synod of Antioch
- The book on the Synod of Lethokia
- The book on the Synod of Kerthica
- The book on the Synod of Esrskousia
- The book on the Synod of Srethia
- The book of Fetha Negast
- Spiritual Medicine (Fewse Menfsawi)
- Exegesis on the meeting of clergy (Tikbe Kahenat)

4. Scared books
Most of these books are written in sections or parts for bindings, these are
- The old & The New Testaments
- The Books of the scholars of the Church
- Metsehafe Menequsat (book of the Monks)

5. Hymn books, mostly by St. Yared
- Digua
- Thesome Digua
- Mieraf
- Zimare
- Mewasiet
- Zik
- Mezmur
- Liturgy (Kedasie)
- Saatat (of ABBA Giorgis)

6. Books on Calendar
- Book of Abushakir
- Sid, the Son of Batrik
- Mark son of Kenbar
- Leader of Blind – by Demetros
- Mathematics concerning calendar by the Monastery of Bizen

7. Historical Books
- First writing on Zion
- Biography (Gedle) of Lalibela
- History of the Kings of Axum
- History of the Kings of Zagwe
- On the treasure of the kings
- On the honor of the Kings
- Tefut
- Biography (Gedle) of Tekla Haimanot
- George the son of Amid
- History of Alexander
- Works of the brothers – Part II
- Books on preaching

8. Compositions (works) on the virgins (celibates)
- Writings (compositions) on the woman who anointed Jesus
- Compositions (writings) on the Samaritan woman
- Writings on the birth of Christ
- Writings on Epiphany
- Writings on the Resurrection etc.

9. Writings that describe the biography of the martyrs
Biography and works of St. George
“ “ “ St. Kopnious
“ “ “ St. Irenaeus
“ “ “ St. Gelwdewos
“ “ “ Forty soldiers of Heaven

10. Different philosophical books
- Wogris the Wise (philosopher)
- Angare Felasfa (collections from philosophers)
- Thoughts and commentary of Zera Yacob of Axum

11. Books on the tradition and culture of the country
- On old age and adolescence
- Customs and traditions of Ethiopia

12. Books on nature and science
- Books on nature and science Part II and I
- Aximaros
- Phisalgos on animals and others

13. Books, which show writings of compositions
- The composition or writing of one of the criminals (outlaws), who was hanged with Jesus
- On the Miracles of St. Mary and many other apocryphal books are to be found.

14. Ancient grammatical books
There are very many grammatical books written by different people and found at different places in the world. The above noted are but a very few examples from among the different books numbered by the thousands that the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church has. In the past, at present and even in the future either in the church or at the schools what the church uses for educational services was and will not be outside of these books.

In the past, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church had not much opportunity to expand and propagate the above, noted doctrine and orders of the church inside and outside the nation; this is because of the different circumstances prevailing in the surroundings of the country. Because of the advent of European Colonialism upon its neighboring African countries and the great monetary support that other religious groups received to convert Africans. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church had no other choice but to defend on and preserve all here Christian legacy. Henceforth, she was unable to raise her apostolic voice louder among her African brothers and sisters. Nevertheless, the sense of freedom that the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church maintained for centuries being, the torch of freedom to all Africa has enabled Africans to be aware of their freedom.

In this 20th century, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church is conducting many apostolic missions – that is organizing church councils and founding clergy training programs within the country; and carrying on her apostolic missionary activities.

CANON LAW
The canons, regulations of Christian instruction and worship of the Ethiopian Church, are contained in the Sinodos and Didascalia, two compilations of ancient church canons, dating from the second period of Ethiopic literature. These canons are closely associated with the New Testament.

The Sinodos, classed as part of Ethiopic New Testament, is composed of various elements: Constitutions of Apostles, the Statutes of the Apostles, the Canons of the Apostles, the canons of Various councils-Nicaea, Gangra, Sardica, Antioch, New-Caesarca, Aneyra, Laodienea – and various theological and pastoml treatises. Eight books make up the Sinodos. Sinodos is the Corpus juris Ecclesiastic of the Church. The various discourses and treaties included in this Corpus are:
1. An exposition of the dialogue ascribed to St. John Chrysostom.
2. On the Essence of the Holy Trinity.
3. On the fear of God.
4. On the ancient people and a refutation of the Jews.
5. A discourse of St. Gregory of Armenia against the Jews.
6. Hortatory discourse to believers who desire to walk in the paths of wisdom and knowledge.
7. Hortatory discourse to believers who desire to walk in the paths of wisdom and knowledge.
8. The discourse of the Nicene Fathers on the Holy Trinity.
9. The penitential canons of our Lord to Peter.

The Didascalia a document well known in the Christian Church originally composed in Greek probably in the middle of the third century, a discourse on Church life and society. The whole work was afterwards, somewhere in the fourth century, incorporated in the Apostolic Constitutions. It has Latin, Arabic and Syriac versions, which differ among themselves and from the Ethiopic version with regard to the subject matter. The Ethiopia Didascalia contains the first seven books of the Apostolic Constitutions and it represents a form intermediate between the shorter Syriac Didascalia and the complete work of Apostolic Constitutions.

Briefly the contents of the document are: Questions of morality, the duty of studying the Scriptures and observance of the Seventh Commandment, mutual duties of husband and wife, offices and duties of Christian ministers; the duties of widows; the method of baptism, laymen not to baptize; vows of virginity; the duties of the faithful towards the martyrs; observance of Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy week and method of calculating the date of Easter; warning against heresy; respect to be shown to the faithful departed; prayers to be used on specified and unspecified occasions.

“Glory be to the Almighty God,” Amen.
Source
A short history, faith and order of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, published by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Holy Synod, Addis Ababa 1983.
Edited by Aymero W and Joachim M., The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, published by the Ethiopian Orthodox mission, Addis Ababa 1970.

THE ETHIOPIAN CHURCH

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ETHIOPIAN CHURCH
By Professor Sergew Habele Selassie
1. PRE-CHRISTIAN TIMES

Traditional Sources
According to traditional sources, paganism as well as Judaism were practiced side by side in Ethiopia before the introduction of Christianity. Both were the result of contact with Middle Eastern countries through commercial channels. It believed that at an early stage of Ethiopian history, the worship of the serpent was widespread and the Ethiopians offered sacrifices to it. This is confirmed to some extent by archaeological evidence found at Axum: on one of the stelae at Axum an engraving of serpent is still visible today. Though the worship of serpent was spread through almost all the countries of Middle East, we have reason to believe that this cult was introduced directly to Ethiopia from Persia. The description in Avesta, the sacred book of Persia, concerning the worship of serpent, is identical with the tradition found in Ethiopia.

Archaeological Sources
The Sabaean migrants who crossed the Red Sea in the first millennium B.C and settled in Ethiopia brought with them their own religion. They were polytheists, and worshipped different gods of heaven, the earth and the sea. Almouqah (Elmouqah), for example, was the principal god of the south Arabian pantheon, and was retained as such in Ethiopia. Other Sabaean gods, like Astar (Astarte), corresponding to Aphrodite and Venus of the Greek and Roman world, sin the moon god shams the sun god, were widely worshipped in Ethiopia. Later, with the introduction of Greek culture into Ethiopia, worship of the Greek pantheon became widespread. In the well-known Greek inscription, left at Adulis by an anonymous Ethiopia Emperor, mention is made of Zeus, Poseidon and Aries. On the reverse of the monument appear engravings of another Greek god and demi-god, Hermes and Hercules, Aries was in fact the personal god of the Ethiopian Emperors of the pre-Christian era, as shown in the frequent references made to him in epigraphic inscriptions.

After the third century, with the development of more purely Ethiopian civilization, Ethiopic names evolved for the gods then worshipped. This can be observed in the pre-Christian Ge’ez inscriptions of Emperor Ezana, where Ethiopic names replace the Sabaean or Greek names. Mahrem corresponds to Aries, Baher to Poseidon, and seamy to the Sabaean god Almouqah.

Temples, altars and statues were dedicated to gods. In Yeha there is a well-preserved temple dedicated to Almouqah. This temple was created before fifth century; it is rectangular in form with a double wall and single door. A similar temple to the same god existed at Hawlti-Melazo, near Axum, but it is now in ruins. A temple dedicated to Aries is found in Axum itself. Altars to the gods were also erected in various places. For example, at Kaskasse about eight kilometers northeast of Matara, there is an altar with a Sabaean dedicatory inscription to god sin, engraved with the symbols of the crescent and disc. There are also many altars bearing dedications in Sabaean to Almouqah. After his victory over the Beja people on the northern frontier of his domain, the Emperor Ezana erected status in gold silver and bronze to the god Aries.

Monotheism
Information about the introduction of Judaism into Ethiopia is found in the kebre Negest, (The Glory of the king). The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon in Jerusalem is recounted there. On her return to Ethiopia she had born him a son, whom she named Menelik. When Menelik grew up he visited his father in Jerusalem, and came home accompanied by many Israelites, the sons of Levites and bringing with him the Ark of the Covenant, which he had obtained by subterfuge. From then on, Judaism was practiced in Ethiopia. It is side by some authorities that the Falasha tribes of northern Ethiopia, who practice a form of Judaism to this day, are descendants of the Israelites. The form of Judaism professed in apparently a development of a pre-Talmudic type of worship.

2. THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY
St. Frumentius and the Conversion of Ezana c. 330 A.D
Although Christianity became the official religion of the Aksumite kingdom in the fourth century, the religion had been known in Ethiopia since a much earlier time. In the Acts of the Apostles, VIII: 26-40, we are told of a certain Eunuch, the treasures of Queen Candace of Ethiopia, who went to Jerusalem to worship the God of Israel. There he met Philip the Deacon and was baptized by him. Ethiopian tradition asserts that he returned home and evangelized the people. In his Homily on Pentecost, St. John Chrysostom mentions that the Ethiopians were present in the Holy City on the day of Pentecost. Later, when the Apostles went out to preach the Gospel, Matthew was allotted the task of carrying the good news to Ethiopia, where he suffered martyrdom. Ethiopian sources, such as the Synaxarium, make no mention of this, however; on the contrary, Ethiopians believe that received Christianity without shedding apostolic blood. Nevertheless, Christianity without certainly known in Ethiopia before the time of Frumentius, being the faith practiced by many of the merchants from the Roman Empire Settled in the Aksumite region. In important cities, such as Axum and Adulis, these Christian merchants had their prayer houses and openly practiced their religion.

The introduction of Christianity as the state religion of Ethiopia came about not as the result of organized evangelical activity from outside the country, but because it was the desire of the king. The story of the conversation of the Axumites has come down to us in the work of the contemporary Church historian, Rufinus (d 410 A.D). Meropius, a philosopher from Tyre, set out to visit India accompanied by two young relatives, Frumentius and Aedesius, Apparently they followed the usual itinerary of the time along the Africa coast of the Red Sea. In the course of their journey they run short of provisions and put in at a port of the African coast. The local inhabitants, however, were hostile to Roman citizens, as they massacred Meropius and all aboard the ship, sparing only the two boys, who were taken to the king. They soon gained his interest and won his confidence. The younger, Aedesius, he made his cup-bearer, while the elder, Frumentius, who showed signs of wisdom and maturity, become his treasurer and secretary. The king died early, leaving his wife with an infant son as heir to the throne. Now the dying king had given Frumentius and Aedesius leave to return to their own country if they so wished, but the Queen-Mother who was left as Regent, begged them to remain to help her administer the kingdom until her son should grow up. The young men agreed, and stayed to carry out the task faithfully.

The thought of Frumentius then began to turn towards matters of faith. He sought out Christians among the Roman merchants settled at Axum, and encouraged them to establish meeting-places for prayer, helping then in every way he could, according them favours and benefits, and gradually spreading the seed of Christianity among the people. The young king himself became a convert. When he was old enough to rule the country alone, Frumentius and Aedesius asked him for permission to leave Axum. Aedesius returned home to Tyre, but Frumentius went to Alexandria and laid the whole affair before the newly- appointed patriarch, Athanasius, begging him to appoint a bishop to minister to the needs of the growing Christian community at Axum. The patriarch summoned a council of priests to consider the matter. It was agreed that Frumentius himself should be consecrated as the first Bishop of Axum. Thus he returned to propagate the faith in the land he knew so well so well. Although Rufinus does not specify the name of the country to which Frumentius went, other sources are more specific in this respect. A letter from the Emperor Constantius, written in 356 A.D to his “precious brothers”, Aezana and Saezana, rulers of Axum, concerns the Bishop Frumentius. Furthermore, the inscriptions and coins of the Emperor Ezana testify to his adoption of Christianity. In his earlier inscriptions he styles himself “Son of unconquered Mahrem”, but in the inscription after his victory over Nubia the employed anew terminology, speaking of “the Lord of heaven and earth”, and describing how he had destroyed the “images in their temples”, thus affirming his dissociation from paganism. A recently discovered Greek inscription belonging to Ezana leaves no doubt on this matter. It begins: “in the faith of God and the power of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost”. Likewise, the coins minted in the early part of Ezana’s reign bear the pagan symbol of the crescent and disc, while those minted in the later part of his reign bear the sign of the cross.

The introduction of Christianity as the state religion marked a turning point in Ethiopia history. Christianity does not constitute a purely religious phenomenon on the country, but plays an integral role in all aspects of national life. The Church is not only a religious institution, but has for many centuries been the repository of the cultural, political and social life of the people. The true feeling of the people who first received Christianity seems to have been expressed in the names they bestowed upon Frumentius, which are Abba Salama. Kassate Berhan, “Father of peace and Revealer of light”. It is interesting to note that Ezana and Saezana appear to have baptized with names also signifying illumination – Abreha (He illuminated) and Atsbeha (He brought the dawn).

In Ethiopia, the diffusion of Christianity did not follow the same pattern as in the Graeco-Roman world, where Christianity was confined to the lower levels of society for three centuries, and utterly rejected by the ruling classes. Only at the beginning of the fourth century did it begin to gain a few converts among members of the imperial family. In Ethiopia the converse was true. Christianity was introduced first in to the royal court, and from there gradually penetrated among the common people. Likewise, in the Roman Empire, the Apostles and later the Church fathers were actively engaged in the evangelization of the people; in Ethiopia, Christianity was voluntarily adopted.

The birth of Ethiopian Church took place at a time when the Arian heresy was at its peak. When Frumentius was consecrated, the Patriarchate of Alexandria, under the leadership of Athanasius, “the Column of Orthodoxy”, was the stronghold of the Nicene faith against Arianism. Constantius expelled Athanasius, however and installed an Arian, George of Cappadocia, in his place. The first ecumenical Council, where Arius was condemned as a heretic, took place in 325, Shortly before the establishment of the Ethiopian church, but the decision of the Council was nevertheless regarded as binding, and Ethiopia stood by Athanasius, and the Nicene Faith. In vain, Constantius, the son of Constantine the Great, tried to bring Ethiopia onto the heresy of Arius. It was for this reason that he addressed the orthodox group of any support, and ensures international recognition of Arianism. A certain Theophilus, a priest from Socotra, highly respected for his impeccable moral character, was entrusted with this mission to Axum, but he was apparently not even allowed to enter Aksumite territory. His mission failed, and Frumentius remained in Axum, to continue the teaching which he had learnt from Athanasius. The Ethiopian church holds Athanasius in special veneration. He was canonized as a saint, and his work, The Life of Saint Anthony, was translated into Ethiopic. One of the fourteen Anaphora’s of the Ethiopian Church is attributed to Athanasius. The 318 Father who participated in the First Ecumenical Council are also specially venerated, and another Anaphora of the Liturgy bears their name, as the Anaphora of the Three Hundred Fathers.



THE EXPANSION AND CONSOLIDATION OF CHRISTIANITY C. 350 TO 650 A.D.
Evangelistic Activities
According to the chronological lists of the Ethiopian bishops, Frumentius was succeeded by the Bishop Minas. He was apparently of Egyptian origin. From this time onward began the peculiar Alexandrian jurisdiction over Ethiopian Church, which was to last for sixteen hundred years. Throughout this period Ethiopians were not considered to be eligible for consecration as bishops. Minas left certain literary works concerning his missionary activities but the major contribution in the missionary field was that of the nine Saints. They came to Axum about 480, and well received by the emperor Ella Amida and by the inhabitants of the city. The most outstanding figures among the Nine Saints were Za-Mikael Aregawi, Pantalewon, Afse, and Garima or Isaac (Yeshaq). As their names indicate, they came from different parts of the Eastern Roman Empire, such as Constantinople and Syria. They were all adherents of the same doctrine, however it seems that they left the countries of their origin because of religious differences; they were anti-Chalcedonian, and thus were persecuted by the roman emperor, who was an ardent supporter of the Chalcedonian doctrines. They went first to Egypt, and lived some years at the monastery founded by Pachomius, before proceeding to Ethiopia. In Axum they studied the language and became familiar with the people and customs. After this preparation they set out in different directions to proselytize and to introduce monastic institutions. Only two of them, Abba Libanos and Abba Pantalewon, remained near Axum itself, the others went further east of the capital and founded hermitages in the old pagan centres. Za-Mikael went to Debra Damo where the worship of the serpent had long flourished. He succeeded in eradicating the cult, and founded a monastery there. Abba Pantalewon transformed a pagan temple into a church. Abba Afse went to Yeha, the renowned Sabaean center, and likewise transformed the famous temple there into a church. The Afse went to Yeha, the renowned Sabaean center, and likewise transformed the famous temple there into church. The efforts of the Nine Saints to wipe out paganism did not result in their persecution, as had happened in the Roman Empire, since in Axum they had the protection and support of the sovereign.

The Nine Saints also contributed greatly to the development of the Ge’ez liturgy and literature. They introduced terms and vocabulary into Ge’ez, such as Haymanote, Religion, qasis, priest, and ta’ot, idols. But their major contribution was undoubtedly their great work of Biblical translation into Ge’ez. The work of translation had begun in part during the time of Frumentius, at that time only a few of the basic Books for worship, such as passages of the psalms, had been translated as revealed in contemporary inscriptions. The Nine Saints undertook the massive task of translating the whole Bible. Since they were familiar with both Syriac and Greek, they used a Syrio-Greek text for this purpose. Most probably each of the Nine Saints translated one portion of the Bible. This is why the Ethiopic version reveals considerable differences in style from one Book to another. The Ethiopic version is one of the earliest Bible translations, and as such it is great importance in textual criticism and in establishing the original text.

The Nine Saints also translated a number of basic religious works into Ge’ez. These are of both doctrinal and literary content. Under the title of Qerllos (Cyril) were translated dogmatical treatises and homilies of the Church Fathers, in particular the work known as de Recta Fide by St.Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria. On this book which was translated from the Greek text, is based the teaching of the Ethiopian Church. Other works translated at this period include The Ascetic Rules of Pachomius, which still today regulate the monastic life of Ethiopia, and the Life of Saint Anthony by St, Athanasius, which is still widely read in Ethiopian Church circles.

Music and Art
The coming of the Nine Saints inaugurated a new era in the liturgical life of the Ethiopian Church and in cultural development in general. Music and art Flourished. To Yared, an Aksumite scholar of the time, is attributed the creation of Ethiopian church music. He was a disciple of the nine saints, probably of Aregawi, and composed music in three modes, which is still used in the Ethiopian church. The hymnary attributed to him is rich in inspiration and expression: perhaps it is one of the best of its kind in the orient. The influence of the nine saints extended also to art and architecture. The ruins of basilicas found in the ancient cities of Axum, Adulis and Hawlti may show a resemblance to Syriac churches. Of Aregawi at Debra Damo is the oldest existing example of Christian architecture in Ethiopia, and traces of this influence can be seen in it.

Church Organization
After the expansion of Christianity there was at least four dioceses in Ethiopia, each headed by a bishop. The chief of these was obviously the metropolitan of Axum. The second most important diocese was Adulis; it was through this ancient port that Christianity was first introduced to Ethiopian. As we have already mentioned, all the bishops were of Egyptian origin. They were closely associated both dogmatically and judicially with the Coptic patriarch of Alexandria. The latter sent Egyptian bishops to Ethiopia whenever necessary until the rise of Islam. To perpetuate his Egyptian suzerainty over the Ethiopian church, it became necessary to adduce legal justification. The Egyptians therefore inserted the forty-second Pseudo-Canon of the Council of Nicea, prohibiting the Ethiopians from occupying hierarchical positions. The authenticity of this Article was highly suspect to the Ethiopian clergy, but was nevertheless respected until the thirteenth century, when a new wave of independence arose. Once again it become necessary for the Egyptians, who did not wish to relinquish their prerogative, to renew the prohibition, and the same Article was inserted in the Fetha Negest, the politico- religious code under which the country was governed for more than six hundred years. Thus, an Egyptian bishop always remained at the head of the Ethiopian Church from its foundation up to the second half of the 20th century. This is a unique phenomenon in the history of the Christian Church.

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Written by Professor Sergew Hable Sellassie and Professor Tadesse Tamerat
“THE CHURCH OF ETHIOPIA A PANORAMA OF HISTORY AND SPIRITUAL LIFE”
Addis Ababa –December 1970. A publication of the EOTC

Answers to 5 Lutheran Statements

Answers to 5 Lutheran Statements

Martin Luther said and wrote many heretical things, but here are a mere five quotes, along with Biblical passages that disprove them.
1. “For reason is directly opposed to faith. This is why you must let reason go. It must be killed and buried in believers.” [1]
(Answer: Proverbs 14:15, Colossians 1:9, Colossians 4:5-6, 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22)
2. “..[A Christian] could not lose his salvation, however much he sinned, unless he refused to believe. For no sin can condemn him save unbelief alone.” [2]
(Answer: Hebrews 10:26-27)
3. “Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. …No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day.” [3]
(Answer: Psalm 4:4, Matthew 5:48, Hebrews 10:26-27)
4. “It is good that we have such a man [Jesus Christ], because God in himself is cruel and bad.” [4]
(Answer: Psalm 51:1, Jeremiah 9:24, Jeremiah 31:3)
5. “I miss more than one thing in this book [Revelation, aka Apocalypse], and this makes me hold it to be neither apostolic nor prophetic…and [I] can nohow detect that the Holy Spirit produced it. …My spirit cannot fit itself into this book.” [5]
(Answer: Revelation 22:19)
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References:
1. Luther’s Sermon on Matthew 19:13-15. “What Luther Says,” 1:485-486 (entry 1440). [link]
2. [link 1, link 2]
3. Let Your Sins Be Strong: A Letter From Luther to Melanchthon. Translated by Erika Bullmann Flores. [link]
4. [link 1, link 2]
5. M. Reu, Luther’s German Bible: An Historical Presentation Together with a collection of Sources (Ohio: The Lutheran Book Concern, 1934) 174-175 [link]

Monday, 30 June 2014

Are They Illuminati?



What is the Bilderberg Group And What Are They Doing? Are They Illuminati? Do They Control The World?
What is the Bilderberg Group?

Do the Bildergerg members seek to form a One World Government? Are they engaged in nefarious activities? Who are the Bilderbergers and what do they do at their meetings? Does the Bilderberg Group actually exist or are they just a part of some conspiracy theory?
After researching the Bilderberg Group, it is a fact that they exist. They also seem to be very influential on business and financial endeavors. They also involve themselves in politics all over the globe, they make decisions as to whether a Nation is engaged in war or live in peace. The Bilderberg Group controls the majority of the globes resources, they also have control of most Nations currencies.
It was in 1954 that the Bilderberg Group, which includes some of the most powerful people in the world as members, met for their first meeting. The meeting took place in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, the subject of the meeting was a debate on the worlds future. At that time the members agreed to hold an annual meeting that was to be kept secret.

The "All Seeing Eye". the Eye of Horus, An important symbol to many secret societies.
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Who are the Bilderbergers?

The members of the first meeting decided to call themselves the Bilderberg Group, their members consisted of some of the most powerful people on the planet. The membership was comprised of members from Nations worldwide. There are members from The United States of America, Canada, and many Nations in Western Europe.
Many of the members are well known throughout the world. Names such as David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, Lloyd Blankfein, George Soros, Donald Rumsfeld, Rupert Murdoch, the membership also includes many Leaders of Nations, prominent Senators, several Congressmen, and members of British Parliament.
Also included in the membership are Pentagon and NATO brass, royalty from European countries, and powerful media moguls. There are also individuals that attend the meetings by invitation. Some of these individuals that attend by invitation, attend very quietly, such as Barack Obama and many of his highest ranking administration officials.
Another list of Bilderberg Group meeting attendees include members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, members of the Trilateral Commission, the European Union, and some of the most prominent central bankers from the Federal Reserve, the European Central Banks Jean-Claude Trichet and Mervyn King of the Bank of England.

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How was the Bilderberg group exposed?

For fifty years, not one note of the Bilderberg agenda or any of the topics that are discussed was made available to the public. The Bilderbergers do not allow any press to cover any aspect of their meetings. The meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule which has its origins at the Chatham House. (which is an independent policy institute that is based in London) This rule was implemented to keep all members anonymous and advocates openness and the ability to participate in sharing information.
People that attend these meetings by invitation are sworn to secrecy. Daniel Estulin has dedicated his lifes work to revealing the secrets of the Bilderberg Group as an investigative journey.
Estulin has said that

"Slowly, one by one, I have penetrated the layers of secrecy surrounding the Bilderberg Group, but I could not have done this without the help of "conscientious objectors" from inside, as well as outside, the Group's membership."

In return for their information, Daniel Estulin has agreed to keep all of the informants names confidential. Without certainty of the groups initial mission, the Bilderberg Group is currently a secretive and shadow world government. Whether or not the Bilderberg Group is associated with the Illuminati is a subject that is often discussed.
For more information on the Illuminati!
The fear of many people concerning the Bilderberg Group is that they are a threat to the removal of our Rights to control our own future. This would result in the creation of a very frightening reality which would have harmful effects on the welfare of the worlds' population.

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Bildergerg Agenda!

The theory concerning the Bilderberg Agenda is that they would like to create a borderless world. This would mean eradicating the indivudual Nation States Sovereignty with a very powerful Central Global Government. This Central Global Government could also be called a New World Order!
They would like to see this government controlled by corporations and protected by military police. This would be a private club for Presidents, Prime Ministers, International Bankers, and Military Leaders to congregate and network among themselves. They could be chaperoned by the new Royalty to ensure peace is upheld. The entities that are in control of the wars, the stock markets both in Europe and America would be able to speak things that they would never dare speak in a public arena.
When the Bilderberg Group was first formed, the group had already decided to create an "Aristocracy of Purpose" through Europe and America, This would be done for the purpose of achieving agreement on matters to rule the world using policy, economics, and strategic maneuvers.

Aristocracy of Purpose!

The global elitists have created an "Aristocracy of Purpose". This purpose is to retain control over the currency and the resources of the entire planet. The Aristocrats that developed this "Aristocracy of Purpose" have concentrated their energy, for the reason that without energy, currency quickly loses its value.
With petroleum becoming more and more valuable, the global elitists are frantically working to solidify control of this resource. They are striving to eradicate any National Sovereignty by creating a global governance which would leave all Nations incapable of being self-reliant and maintain the ability to survive on its own.
The Global Elitists also have the belief that the world is over-populated and the reduction of the worlds' population is part of the Bilderberg Agenda. They would like to return the population back to the numbers that existed before the industrial revolution. One of the schemes that is discussed to reduce the population is by the destruction of the economies of the world.

Violations of the Logan Act!
The Logan Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 953 [1948]) is a Federal Statute making it a crime for any citizen to converse with foreign governments against the interests of the United States. Specifically, it prohibits citizens from negotiating with other nations on behalf of the United States without authorization from congress.
Does a citizen attending a Bilderberg group meeting without authorization from congress violate the Logan act?
Exact wording of the Logan Act!
Any citizen of the United States, it does not matter where he is or who he may be, who, without acquiring authority of the United States, whether directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or diplomatic relations with any foreign government or any officer or agent of a foreign government , with the intention to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
This section shall not abridge the right of a citizen to apply, himself or his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects.
How can the Bilderberg Group control the world?

The creation of NATO was a central part of the Bilderberg plans. Using a never-ending state of war combined with the ability to blackmail Nations combined with the threat of nuclear weapons. The next part of their agenda would be to acquire everything of value from the globe to attain enormous wealth and power. They also maintain the ability to destroy any challenges to their control mechanisms.
Not only is military dominance part of the plan but the true ability to control the world comes from the power to control the worlds' currency. Having control of a Nations money supply guarantees that the Nation remains subservient to the controlling elite. This is something that the Rothschild family discovered early in the Nineteenth century.
Amschel Rothschild the patriarch of the Rothschild Empire was once reported as saying:

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws."

For more information about the Rothschild family.
The Bilderberg Group is the most exclusive club on the planet. An individual cannot even buy their way in to the group. The Bilderberg Groups Steering Committee makes all decisions as to who to invite to the meetings. In every case anyone admitted in to the meetings are willing to succumb to a One World Government, that is to be controlled by the worlds most powerful elite.

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Who attends Bilderberg meetings?

The Bilderberg Groups Steering Committee has very strict rules for invited guests. They must attend the meeting alone, they are not even allowed to bring their wives, girlfriends, husbands, even their bodyguards are not allowed in the meetings.
Any personal assistants, bodyguards, whether CIA or even Secret Service staff are refused the ability to enter the meeting. They cannot attend the conference and must even dine in a separate room from the meetings attendees.
Another rule applicable to Bilderberg guests is that they are forbidden from granting any interviews to journalists. Nor can they ever make public the activities or discussions of the meetings.
Whatever Nation that hosts the meeting is responsible for all security and to keep away any potential intruders. At least one third of those that attend the meetings are political figures.
The rest of the attendees come from industry, finance, academia, labor and communications. The procedures of the meetings are issued through the Chatham House Rules. These rules allow those in attendance to have freedom to express their opinions within an ambiance of relaxation in the knowledge that anything said in the meeting will never be quoted or divulged to the public.

Those that are invited or are members of the Bilderberg Group are some of the planets most elite and powerful people!
Those that are invited or are members of the Bilderberg Group are some of the planets most elite and powerful people!
What is the benefit in being associated with the Bilderberg Group?

Discussion in the meetings are uninhibited, this does not mean that every discussion ends in unanimous decisions. The Groups membership is comprised of around eighty of the most prominent figures in the world, they regularly attend these meetings annually.
There are many others that attend the meetings by invitation due to their knowledge of, or involvement in, topics that are relevant to discussions which are part of the meetings' agenda. Some of the invited guests receive invitations to attend future meetings, other attendees that are present at their first Bilderberger Group meeting are selected for the possibility that they may prove useful in the future.
One example of a first time attendee that has been invited to other meetings is Bill Clinton. He attended his first meeting in 1991 as Governor of Arkansas. It was at this first meeting in 1991 that David Rockefeller explained to Bill Clinton that the "North American Free Trade Agreement" was a major priority to the Bilderberg Group. Bill Clinton was told that the Bilderbergers would require that he would support the Treaty!
It was the very next year that Bill Clinton achieved the role of President of the United States, it was on January first 1994 that the "North American Free Trade Agreement" was put in place. There are many other examples which hold a resemblance to this occurrence. Many of the attendees of the Groups meetings are chosen to be placed in powerful positions, within politics, military and other prominent positions.

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What are the goals of the Bilderberg Group?

One of the main pursuits of the Bildergerger Groups agenda is the creation of a One World Government that would be controlled by a global conglomerate of corporations. This One World Government would consist of one unified global market which would have the One World Governments military to provide policing for the globe. This would put the entire globe under control of this New World Order which would be financially regulated by a One World Central Bank that would use a new unified global currency.
The Bilderberg Groups agenda has a list of goals in which they are attempting to achieve. The list begins with a goal that is the creation of one International identity that would recognize a single set of universal values. They would also like to bring in central control of the population of the globe through mind control techniques. Meaning that they are seeking forms of control that would create and influence public opinion.

The New World Order would turn the majority of the globes population in to slaves!
The New World Order would turn the majority of the globes population in to slaves!
The Bilderberg group is attempting to create a class of ruling elite!
The Bilderberg group is attempting to create a class of ruling elite!
What are some of the plans of the Bilderberg Group?

There is also the plans of a New World Order that would contain no middle class in the population. There would be only two classes of people, those that are rulers and those that are servants. This New World Order would eliminate any forms of Democracy. This would create a zero growth society with the removal of any individual prosperity or the ability for the individual to progress. There would only be an accumulation of greater wealth and power for those in the ruling class.
All this can be accomplished by fabricating crisis and infinite wars. The Group also holds ambitions to have complete control of all forms of education. By controlling the mind of the public it would be easy to train their servants to perform assorted functions.
They would also like to have a centralized control of all policies, both foreign and domestic, a global unification. The United Nations would be for all practical purposes a world government with the ability to collect a United Nations global tax on what would become the worlds' citizens.
Also on the list would be the expansion of both the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would become the Global Military. There would also be the establishment of a universal legal system.
The creation of a global welfare state would also be part of the agenda. Under this Welfare State the submissive servants (slaves) would receive rewards while those that refuse to comply with the New World Order would be marked for termination!

The Council Of Foreign Relations is a Secret Government!
The Council Of Foreign Relations is a Secret Government!
The Trilateral Commission operates in secret!
The Trilateral Commission operates in secret!
What does the Council On Foreign Relations have to do with the Bilderberg Group?

When it comes to partners of the Bilderberg Group, many of the members identities are secret. In the United States, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is a preeminent partner to the Group.
For more information on the Council on Foreign Relations!
One of the main figures which created the Council on Foreign Relations in 1921 was Edward Mandell House. Mr. House was a preeminent adviser to President Woodrow Wilson. Rumors exist which state that Edward Mandell House held the actual power in the nation from 1913 through 1921.
It was during the Edward Mandell House reigns of power that the Federal Reserve Act was passed and signed in to Law in the year 1913. This Act gave the power to print money to international bankers. The Sixteenth Amendment was sanctioned in February which was the basis for the creation of the Federal Income Tax. This Amendment was enacted to provide a revenue source for the Government for the reason to repay the service on the debt of the Country.
For more information on the Federal Reserve Act.
From the time of its inception, the Council on Foreign Relations' main goal was to usher in a One world Government, which would have as its basis a Centralized global system of financing. In the modern world the Council on Foreign Relations has a membership in the thousands, with many of its members being some of the most important and influential people In the United States.
Many of the members of the Council on Foreign Relations also belong to the corporate media, as well as many other powerful positions within the political and private sector. The Council on Foreign Relations remains discrete, and extremely secretive concerning its actual agenda.
There are people that consider the Council on Foreign Relations to be a "front organization for the heart of the American Establishment". The Council meets in private and only reveals to the public the knowledge that it desires for the population to be aware of existing.
.All of its members are American.

Mindless robotic citizens.
The Bilderberg Group uses mind control techniques to control public opinion!
The Bilderberg Group uses mind control techniques to control public opinion!
What does the Trilateral Commission have to do with the Bilderberg Group?

The Trilateral Commission, a group similar to the Council on Foreign Relations also holds secretive meetings concerning the combination of the worlds elite in to one body, controlling the globe.
For more information on the Trilateral Commission.
The Trilateral Commission was founded by David Rockefeller, who is also a member of the Bilderberg Group, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations. He still holds an emeritus position on all three boards as well as continuing to give financial support.
Based on past and present members of the Group, it is easy to see the power behind the "think tanks". Members of these secretive groups amass great power. This list would include almost every single Presidential candidate, regardless of party affiliation. It would also include some of the most powerful Senators and Congressmen. Many of the most powerful figures in the media, as well as the most prominent figures that belong to the FBI, CIA, NSA, as well as the rest of the defense establishment.
Even leading Government agencies are infiltrated. This would include employees of the Department of State, the Department of Commerce, even the Judiciary, and Department of Treasury. Leading figures in these departments have all been members of these Secretive Societies.
It is as though the entire Nation of the United States has been penetrated by Secret Society members, whose allegiance is unknown. Are they sworn to allegiance to their secret group? Does their Oath of Office have any merit in their life?

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What are some of the things that the Council on Foreign Relations involved in?

Since its inception, the Council on Foreign Relations has served as an employment agency for the Federal Government of the United States. It does not matter what party the individual belongs to, many CFR members are offered high ranking positions within all aspects of Government, media, and control of major corporations.
It makes no difference which political party resides within the White House, the Council on Foreign Relations has not lost any power or altered their agenda since it was founded in 1921.
The Council supports the Global unification of a superstate, one in which the United States of America and all other Nations of the world would be required to surrender their Nations Sovereignty to a unified and centralized power.
The founder of the Council on Foreign Relations, Paul Warburg was previously a member of Franklin Roosevelt's "brain trust". This "brain trust" was a group of advisers to FDR during his first Presidential campaign. In 1950, Paul Warburgs son John said to the Senate Foreign Relations' Committee;
"We shall have world government whether or not you like it - by conquest or consent."
Later, during a 1992 Bilderberg meeting, Henry Kissinger told the members of the meeting that;

"Today, Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow, they will be grateful."

This statement would be true if Americans believed there was a threat from enemies. Whether the threat was real or fabricated was irrelevant, as long as the American people held the belief that there was a threat to their existence.

United Nations
An entity that was designed to act as a One World Government!
An entity that was designed to act as a One World Government!
When did the plans for a One World Government begin?

Through threats to our safety whether real or simply fiction, both would end in the same result. Once a threat is perceived the population of the world will beg for the leaders of the world to save them from this perceived evil.
To guarantee safety many individuals would happily give up their Rights for the feeling of security. The population would eagerly consent to a One World Government if they felt that such a Government would keep them and their families safe.
It was the Council on Foreign Relations that started the planning for a New World Order before 1942. The United Nations inception began with a cartel of CFR members which was called at the time the "Informal Agenda Group."
It was this group that created the framework for the original United Nations proposal. The group presented the proposition to Franklin Roosevelt. The President made the announcement of the United Nations the following day.
When it was founded in 1945, the Council on Foreign Relations was composed of over forty United States delegates. The Council on Foreign Relations performs its agenda in small groups containing around twenty-five people. These groups concentrate on leaders from six different conspiratorial categories, these categories are industrialists, financiers, ideologues, military, professional, specialists.
There were lawyers, medical doctors and members of organized labor which were brought together for the reason of engaging in detailed discussions on a wide variety of topics concerning Foreign Affairs.
The Council on Foreign Relations, although not financed by Government, works so intimately with the Government it is extremely difficult to differentiate between actions performed by the Council from Government actions done through Sovereign decisions.

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During the 1930's through the 1940's, the United States of America was the most self sustaining country on the planet. It was during the great depression that this fact was recognized.
In 1937 an author named Eugene Staley that made statements concerning raw resources:

"United States is more nearly capable than any other great power (besides the Soviet Union) of meeting its normal demands from resources within its boundaries."

Those in power used the Council on Foreign Relations to fortuitously pursue a distinct consideration concerning the interests of the United States of America.
This attitude did not have any basis in reality concerning the overall concerns of the citizens of the United States. Instead it was more meaningful to the capitalist economic system which was under their control and gave advantage to those who wielded the most power in the nation.
The theory behind the actions of the Council on Foreign Relations is that the United States of America would require more space to place inhabitants. This acquisition would need to be accomplished while perpetuating the prevailing system. Without the need of altering the foundations of the Nation into a Socialistic Society.
One of the Planning Council members, Mr. Henry R. Luce said quite candidly in an interview with Life magazine in 1941 that:

"Tyrannies may require a large amount of living space. But Freedom requires and will require far greater living space than Tyranny."

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How is the Bilderberg Group financed?

The most significant form of revenue comes from major corporations and key foundations. To name just three of the foundations are the Rockefeller, the Carnegie, and the Ford Foundations all of which are administered by essential corporate officers.
A major executive at CBS news gave an explanation as to what the medias role is in the New World Order would be, he stated:

"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have."

CBS among many other giant media conglomerates have control over everything that we see, everything we hear, and everything we read. They use tools such as television broadcasts, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, films, and a large part of the Internet to maintain this control.
Many top executives and journalists are regular attendees at Bilderberg Group meetings. Their agreement with the Bilderberg Group is that nothing that takes place within the meetings are ever reported through any media sources.
The Rockefeller family still holds a tremendous amount of power. In fact the families' patriarch David Rockefeller is in his mid 90's and nearly at the end of his worldly dominance. This does not change the fact that the Rockefeller family, led by David holds major control over the media in general.
With this power the Rockefeller family accumulated a huge supremacy over the opinions of the public. With this control over public opinion it gave the family the opportunity to accumulate a huge influence in the field of politics.

David Rockefeller
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How does the Bilderberg Group and Council of Foreign Relations control the world?

Once the control of American politics was complete, these groups are seizing dominion over the Nation itself. Once that goal is achieved control of the world will be the next step on the agenda.
The Bilderberger-Rockefeller tactics is to assure that their beliefs become so tempting by disguising them, that they will eventually become public policy. They can then use their dominance to compel the leaders of the world to succumb to the wants and needs of the 'Masters of the Universe.'
The free world press is their mechanism to publicize their "agreed-upon propaganda." The Council of Foreign Relations control of the Presidents cabinet aided in the passage of "The National Security Act of 1947." This act created the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Since its inception, fourteen Department of Defense Secretaries have been members of the Council of Foreign Relations. From 1940 to the present only one Secretary of State (James Byrnes) has not had a membership either in the Council of Foreign Relations or the Trilateral Commission.

Global Domination!
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Over the past eighty years, nearly every major United States National Security and Foreign Policy Adviser has held membership within the Council on Foreign Relations. Almost every key General and Admiral have also been members of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Even the majority of Presidential candidates either were members, or are current members of the Council on Foreign Relations. These candidates would include Herbert Hoover, Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter (who also happened to be one of the initial Trilateral Commission members), George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and John McCain.
A large number of the directors of the Central Intelligence Agency were members or are still current members of the CFR. This list would include Richard Helmes, James Schlesinger, William Casey, William Webster, Robert Gates, James Woolsey, John Deutsch, George Tenet, Porter Goss, Michael Hayden, and Leon Panetta.
The majority of Treasury Secretaries also are either former or current members of the Council on Foreign Relations. This list would include Douglas Dillon, George Schultz, William Simon, James Baker, Nicholas Brady, Lloyd Bentsen, Robert Rubin, Henry Paulson, and Tim Geithner.
When a President appoints a candidate for the Supreme Court, the Council on Foreign Relations has a "Special Group, Secret Team" of advisers which scrutinizes the candidates for reliability. It is standard operating procedure that United States Presidents are instructed by global elitists as to who should be designated to both the highest and lowest Courts in the Nation.

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Programming the Public Mind!

The sociologist Hadley Cantril stated in 1967 in his book titled, " The Human Dimension - Experiences in Policy Research", that governments

"Psycho-political operations are propaganda campaigns designed to create perpetual tension and to manipulate different groups of people to accept the particular climate of opinion the Council of Foreign Relations seeks to achieve in the world."

Another author from Canada Ken Adachi said that:

"What most Americans believe to be 'Public Opinion' is in reality carefully crafted and scripted propaganda designed to elicit a desired behavioral response from the public."

Alex Carey, an Australian intellectual and advocate revealed the three most crucial advancements in the twentieth century was;

"The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."

The numerous think tanks, foundations, media outlets, and other powerful organizations which form a web of control are mostly staffed with members of the Council on Foreign Relations. The majority of lifelong members of the Council also hold membership in the Trilateral Commission as well as the Bilderberg Group, they carry on their operations in secret and hold a tremendous amount of power over the United States and global proceedings.
David Rockefeller which founded the Trilateral Commission stated in his memoirs;

"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

Working in collusion with the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission engages in an essential part in the New World Orders' plot to use the prosperity which is consolidated by a very small percentage of the worlds population, to exercise control of the world.

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The Trilateral Commission!

Members of the Trilateral Commission hold mutual beliefs which are all affiliated with the complete and unconquerable command of the world.
The Trilateral Commission was established in 1973 with its headquarters based in Washington D.C. Its members are comprised of some of the most powerful figures from the United States, the European Union, and East Asia. Their aims are the acquisition of its central originating goal, which is the establishment of a "New International Economic Order" or as it is currently called, a "New World Order." This NWO would be controlled by the global elitists that emanate from these three parts of the globe. Lower ranking members would be allowed to join from other nations.
As read on the Trilateral Commissions website:

"Each regional group has a chairman and deputy chairman, who all together constitute the leadership of the Committee. The Executive Committee draws together a further 36 individuals from the wider membership."

These members are distributed to represent the United States, the European Union and East Asia at the time of the Commissions inception, it has more recently been broadened to cover the globe.
The committee meets a number of times annually for the purpose of holding a discourse and collaboration of their agenda. The Executive Committee is the body that appoints new members. There is an average of around three hundred and fifty members whose membership exists for a three year period.
All members are accomplished insiders who have a proficiency in business, finance, politics, the military, or the media, this list would include past United States Presidents, Secretaries of State, International Bank Financiers, Executives of several Foundations and think tanks, Presidents of Universities, and other figures which are prominent in the Academic field. There are also former Senators and Congressmen, as well as many others.

Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Does the Trilateral Commission operate in secret?

Even though the Trilateral Commission offers its annual reports for sale, the inside operations and the present agendas are kept very secret, for a good reason. Their intentions which would cause damage to the public can not be divulged for fear of repercussions from the population of the world.
Author Antony Sutton wrote in his book "Trilaterals over Washington":

"This group of private citizens is precisely organized in a manner that ensures its collective views have significant impact on public policy."

Another author Holly Sklar stated in her book "The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World", how notable people from America, Europe, and East Asia allow:

"The rich....safeguard the interests of Western capitalism in an explosive world - probably by discouraging protectionism, nationalism, or any response that would pit the elites of one against the elites of another,"
in their prevalent pursuit of the domination of the globe.

The Trilateral Commissions co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski said in his book "Between Two Ages - America's Role in the Technotronic Era":

"People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations. (The Constitution is) inadequate....the old framework of international politics, with their sphere of influence....the fiction of sovereignty....is clearly no longer compatible with reality...."

Bilderberg 2011 secret agenda leaked by Jim Tucker thru a mole
Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, The Bilderberg Group, why all the Secret Societies?

The present Trilateral Commission is now a body which serves the entire world, with members from various countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Turkey, Ukraine, Israel, Jordan, China as well as Russia.
Author Antony Sutton stated his beliefs in his book "Trilaterals Over America" that the Trilateral Commissions goal is to conspire with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Group in:

"Establishing public policy objectives to be implemented by governments worldwide."

He also said in the book:

"Trilateralists have rejected the US Constitution and the democratic political process."

The truth is that the Trilateral Commission was instituted to oppose a "Crisis in Democracy" (a report written for the Trilateral Commission by Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington and Joji Watnuki in 1975), too much Democracy was detrimental to try and keep it enclosed.
The report "Crisis in Democracy" contemplated the political situation of the United States, Europe and Japan, it stated that the quandary of governance in the United States:

"Stem from an excess of democracy" which led to the promotion "To restore the prestige and authority of central government institutions."

A recognized report from the Trilateral Commission was nervous about:

"The increased popular participation in and control over established social, political, and economic institutions and especially a reaction against the concentration of power of Congress and of state and local government."

To manage this problem the media had to become subservient to the global elitists for the purpose of wielding:

"Restraint on what newspapers may publish and what would be reported on television and radio broadcasts."

In the July of 1974 issue of Foreign Affairs, which is a Council on Foreign Relations publication, Richard Gardner said that the Council on Foreign Relations leaders need to make "an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece," until the entire conception is eradicated from public dialogue.
For the Bilderberg Group, the Council of Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission to succeed in their goals, they need to find:

"A way to get us to surrender our liberties in the name of some common threat or crisis."

Global Masters
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It is for your own good?

The Educational Institutions, the various Foundations, and the analytical Think-Tanks that support these societies benefit them by providing funds to create research studies to be used to validate their debauchery.
The reasons change, but the goal remains consistent, the Liberty of the individual, our Liberty among other things! What the Bilderbergers, the Trilateralists and the Council on Foreign Relations members all desire is "an all-encompassing monopoly" covering money, industry, government, and possessions that would be "self-perpetuating and eternal."
In his book, Confessions of a Monopolist, Frederick C. Howe explained how this would work in practice:

"The rules of big business: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you. So long as we see all international revolutionaries and all international capitalists as implacable enemies of one another, then we miss a crucial point....a partnership between international monopoly capitalism and international revolutionary socialism is for their mutual benefit."

Gary Allen wrote in his book "The Rockefeller File":

"By the late nineteenth century, the inner sanctums of Wall Street understood that the most efficient way to gain a monopoly was to say it was for the 'public good' and 'public interest.' "

The Rockefeller family handed down knowledge from one generation to the next, one piece of this knowledge is that competition is to be despised and incessantly strove to eradicate it. David Rockefeller took this knowledge to the extreme by pursuing it on a global scale by dedicating his life to the creation of a New World Order.
During the decades of the 1970s and 1980s, Trilateral Commission and CFR members worked together on an undertaking known as the "1980 Project". This scheme was started in 1973 and was the largest Council on Foreign Relations crusade designed to manipulate world events:

"Toward a particular desirable future outcome which would involve the utter disintegration of the economy."

The goal of this project was the strategy of "controlled disintegration."

Controlled Disintegration

“Controlled Disintegration” is a specific plan that will fundamentally initiate am economic crisis on a global scale. This crisis will be enacted for the exclusive intention of acquiring greater authority over the commerce of the world, as well as the entire population of the world.
The “1980s Project” contains plans for invoking an outline for a governing body to control the world. This governing body would be very similar to what was being advocated by both Bertrand Russell and H.G. Wells.
The Council on Foreign Relations has declared that the next advancement of their agenda would be the most substantial venture in the history of the world.


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Why would they want to do this?

During the decades of the 1950's and 1960's, more countries were becoming industrialized and competition was growing very quickly. Industrialization was what countries were seeing as their best chance at prosperity and the global elitists felt that this "had to be strangled in the cradle" or at least it needed to be quickly suppressed.
In the 1980's this trend was in full force. What has happened as a result of these policies is that the largest share of the globes' wealth has been transferred from the very poor to the very rich. The middle class has dwindled in numbers, and eventually the plan is to eliminate this class all together.
The conception of a North American Union materialized under the Reagan Administration beginning early in the decade of the 1980's.
Ronald Reagan was advised by three people, David Rockefeller, George Schultz and Paul Volker all three telling the president that Canada and the United States could be combined under One Government using one economic model within fifteen years. There was only one problem, they did not think that the French speaking people of Quebec would consent with the merger.
Did they have a solution? Of course they did! The solution would be to have a Bilderberg controlled Prime Minister elected in Canada. Then that Prime Minister would administrate the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country of Canada. Once complete Canada could be annexed as the fifty-first State of the United States!
They came very close to accomplishing this goal. The end of their devious plan was the Canadian people defeating a 1995 secession referendum by a very close, 50.56% to 49.44% electoral defeat, this did not end the plans of merging the countries though.
On March 23rd in the year 2005 there was a meeting in Waco, Texas. This meeting contained three major players, George Bush, Mexico's Vincente Fox, and Canada's Paul Martin, it was during the meeting that the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) was initiated. The Security and Prosperity Partnership came to be known by the name of the North American Union (NAU).
There was a very reserved and secretive Independent Task Force of North America Agreement. This group was put together by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Council on Foreign Relations.
The group was planning the following objectives:
(1) Avoid the Legislatures of all three Countries involved while completely ignoring their Nations Constitutions!
(2) The elimination of any knowledge of these actions being prematurely revealed to the public.
(3) The proposition of increased United States, Canadian and Mexican economic, political, social, and security assimilation with several groups working covertly to frame a scheme that would be non-debatable, with no ability to alter by vote any agreements. All agreements would be binding and irreversible!

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North American Union

The simple aspects of this plan are easily revealed. There is/was a plan for an overthrow of the Governments of three Nations by a small group of Corporate Elitists. Destroying the sovereignty of all three countries. There will be a very formidable militarized Police Force implemented to fortify this new Nation-entity against resistance.
If this plan is brought in to fruition, it will eradicate all National borders on the North American Continent. The entire continent will be placed under corporate authority. This will eliminate all impediments to trade or the free flow of capital for the corporate conglomerates. Mostly this would benefit those corporations that are currently existent in the United States. It will also allow essential resources to have easier passage throughout the continent. This would include the fresh water and oil that can be found in abundance in Canada.
There has been over three hundred covert Security and Prosperity Partnership(SPP) initiatives that have been conceived. These initiatives would integrate the administration of the food, drugs, energy, security, manufacturing, immigration, the environment, and the health of the public of the entire continent. This would also involve the combination of all three Nations military forces to be used to install a form of Martial Law.
The SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP (SPP) epitomizes the ascendancy of the Bilderberg Groups agenda for a New World Order! The plan is to successfully accomplish this One world Government through small increments at a time.

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Steps taken to unify the globe under a New World Order!
Maastricht Treaty

Completing the unification of the European continent was also a step that would be used to achieve the Groups goals. The realization of this goal came in November 1, of 1993, it was through the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty that the European Union came in to existence. Thoughts of the formation of an EU began after the ending of the Second World War!
The Maastricht Treaty was accepted on the Tenth of December in the year of 1991 by the leaders of the Twelve countries in the European Community which formed the fellowship. It included the economic and monetary sections of the Treaty on European Union. This Treaty was formally signed on February 7, 1992 by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, and was applied after each Nation ratified it by their individual processes in 1993.

European Coal and Steel Community

The unification of the European Community was arranged through various Treaties and agreements on economic policies. In December of 1951, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), was put in place by six nations. This Treaty was signed in Paris, it included the Nations of France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg combined to form an association of commonality.
The goal of the Treaty was the establishment of a way to move coal and steel and allow free passage to the sources of production. It also created a mutual higher authority to monitor the market, maintain the honor for competitive rules and the lucidity of prices. It was this Treaty that was the source of the establishment as we know it today.

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Treaty of Rome

It was in March of 1957 that six European nations signed the Treaty of Rome, which was the basis for the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC). This union subsequently was renamed as the European Union. Also called the Treaty of the European Community (TEC), all the ensuing European Treaties have been based upon or modified the Treaty of Rome. The foundation of the Treaty of Rome remains the greater part of European Union Treaty Law to this day. The Treaty concentrated for the most part on an economic alliance, but it was also the beginning of a more progressive political perception for an ever closer Union that would eradicate all barriers that would separate Europe.

European Atomic Energy Community, (EAEC) also known as Euratom

The European Atomic Energy Commission (EAEC) was created by the second Treaty of Rome. The EAEC was created in combination with the common market at the same time as the Treaty of Rome. The common market allowed for the freedom of movement of goods, capital, and people, including the allowance of the free movement of workers as well. Signed in 1957, the EAEC began being enforced on January 1, 1958.
Euratom is the bureaucratic agency of the European Atomic Energy Community, which had as its basis the European Atomic Energy Treaty.

European Court of Justice
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European Court of Justice

In October of 1957, the European Court of Justice was established to resolve any disagreements regarding trade throughout the territory. The Court of Justice of the European Communities, also known as the Court was established through the ECSC Treaty in 1952. The Court is located in Luxembourg. The purpose of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is to guarantee that the clarification and exercise of the Treaties Law is observed. It verifies that all European Union (EU) legislation is clarified and applied equally throughout all countries that are members of the EU. It confirms that there are no National Courts that would come to a different ruling on the same matter.
The Court also guarantees that the Member States of the European Union and Institutions follow the Law as it is written. The Court holds the power to resolve any and all legal disagreements between EU Member States, EU Institutions, and also between businesses and individuals.

European Free Trade Association (EFTA)

In May of 1960, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was established by seven European countries. Norway and Switzerland was two of the original founding Member Countries of the (EFTA). Finland signed on to the agreement in 1961, Iceland signed on to the agreement in 1970, in 1991 Liechtenstein was also added. Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein are also Member States of the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement with the European Union (EU). Switzerland is a party to a set of bilateral arrangements with the (EU).
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) included seven Member Countries, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The association was altered in 1973 when the United Kingdom and Denmark both broke away from the (EFTA) to join the European Commission (EC). Following the UK and Denmark's precedent, Portugal broke away in 1986 followed by Austria, Finland, and Sweden in 1995. Today the Member States of the EFTA are Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
Even though the four Member States signed on to the European Free Trade Association agreement are not large countries, they lead the world in numerous sectors which are essential to the economy of the globe.
The two Alpine Nations, Liechtenstein and Switzerland are universally prominent financial centers and the location of some giant companies and multinational conglomerates. Both of the EFTA Nordic countries, Iceland and Norway excel in the fishing industry, the metal industry, and the maritime shipping industry.

EU - The Facts
The EFTA Nations desired a growth in the amount of trade done everywhere on the globe. It was designed to create an infrastructure for the liberalization of chattels traded between Member states.
The EFTA also served the purpose of being an economic counteraction to the more politically motivated European Economic Community (EEC). The affiliation with the EEC, later the European Community (EC), and the European Union (EU), was the central purpose of the EFTA actions from its inception.
During the 1970's, the member states of the EFTA completed free trade agreements with the EC. In the year of 1994 the EEA Agreement was put in to place. During the decade of the 1990's, the EFTA has earnestly courted trade relations with other Nations within Europe and outside of its borders. The first associations began with the Central and Eastern European Nations. Later, nations in the Mediterranean region followed. Recently, the EFTA's structure of free trade agreements has included Nations across the Atlantic and Asia.

European Economic Community (EEC)

In July of 1967, the European Economic Community (EEC) consolidated the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC), and the European Economic Community (EEC), in to a single entity. The European Economic Community was based upon a 1958 treaty that had been signed in 1957 by Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, the Netherlands, and West Germany (which is now a unified Germany).
It was usually referred to as the Common Market. The European Economic Community (EEC) was perhaps the most important of the three Treaty Organizations that had been combined in 1967 to shape the European Community (EC) as it was called since the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, the European Union.
The EEC was formed to achieve the goal of an ensuing economic unification of its Member States which would inevitably produce a political union as well. It was successful, as it allowed for the free movement of both labor and capital. Another result was the eradication of trusts and cartels. Yet another benefit was the advancement of both collective and corresponding policies on social welfare, labor, transport, agriculture and trade to foreign Nations.

Control of the media allows the Group to sway public opinion!
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European Customs Union

In 1968, the European Customs Union was established to rescind duties and to enact uniform import taxes throughout the Member States that were party to the (EEC). It was the EU Customs Union that can be regarded as the first step in the creation of the European Union itself. This Union eradicated the customs duties at the borders within the Member States. All border control within the area to be designated as the European Union (EU) was abolished, leaving only custom officers on the outside borders of the (EU). This permitted trade among Member States to move freely. All customs checkpoints within the borders of the European Union were eradicated by 1993.
The European Customs Union created one trading region, this resulted in a more unified Europe. This region allowed for trade of goods that were produced in Europe, and goods produced outside of the region. What this means is that a computer produced in Sweden can be sent to Hungary with no need to pay any duties. A computer produced in Japan will pay duties upon entering the European Union, but will not be forced to pay duties if shipped to other Nations within the confines of the European Customs Union region.

European Currency Unit (ECU)

The European Currency Unit (ECU) was established in 1978. It was the European Currency Unit (ECU), that was the forerunner to the Euro. European Unions' Member States all use the same form of currency. Although the Euro is the authentic currency of the European Union, the European Currency Unit was a fabricated currency which had been established by the earliest Member States of the (EU). This money was used for centralized accounting calculations.
The ECU was introduced for circulation in 1979 by the European Economic Community, which was the precursor of the European Union. It was in 1999 that the ECU was substituted by the Euro, in equality. The term Euro was accepted in December of 1995. It began circulation in January of 2002 and took the place of the European Currency Unit (ECU). The Euro is now the certified form of currency in sixteen of the twenty-seven Member States of the European Union.

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Single European Act

In February of 1986 the Single European Act was a modification of the 1957 Treaty of Rome. This Act laid the foundation for the creation of the Common Market which was established for the 31'st of December in 1992.
The Single European Act (SEA) was the first considerable effort of the Member States to alter the agreements achieved through the Treaty of Rome. Even though the European Community was active for almost thirty years, it had not accomplished its goal of creating a consistent Common Market. The Single European Acts' primary goal was to establish a definite date for the introduction of a fully synchronized single market by 1992.
The Single European Act (SEA) was formed primarily to allow for a stronger alliance. This would make it more effortless to have Laws passed by creating a more powerful European Union Parliament. It would also provide the fundamental groundwork for European Foreign Policy. The passage of this ACT also took the development of European Unification on a much quicker course for the accelerated alterations which would take place in the decades of the 1990's and 2000's.

NORTH AMERICAN UNION
Member Countries of the European Union Surrender Their Sovereignty!

It took the previous fifty years for the prior mentioned actions to cost the Member States of the European Union their sovereignty. All the above mentioned actions resulted in the Member Nations giving up what individual jurisdiction they once held. All power was centralized gradually through incremental steps.
Seventy to eighty percent of all Laws passed in the European Union are now just approved regulations that are created by bureaucrats in "working groups" in Brussels or Luxembourg. The Member States themselves have little power over their own Nations.
Both the European Union and the proposed North American Union share similar characteristics:
  1. A unification of economic and political actions.
  2. A much more strict security force. For Europe the eradication of wars within the continent between Member States of the European Union.
  3. The formation of a consolidated consciousness to replace Nationalism.
  4. The eradication of borders and the creation of a centralized unified governance, a virtual Superstate!
  5. Covert agreements to hide the actual intentions of said government.
  6. The introduction of a common currency which would lead to a single global currency.
Although some of these actions sound like a well thought out and beneficial plan for the Nations involved. It also eradicates the People from holding on to their heritage and their country. If an individual today is not content in the country in which they reside, they are free to relocate to a country that would be more to their liking. After the New World Order comes to fruition that option is destroyed. It is in the Bilderberg Meetings that many of these ideas are brought to the table. What do the Bilderbergers discuss in their meetings? The only people that are aware of these facts are the attendees themselves.

BILDERBERG 2012 NWO Busted- Man who exposed Bilderberg
Back To The Bilderberg Group!

Now many will say that the Bilderberg Group is nothing more than a discussion group for the worlds' elite with no actual power or influence, others think not. The suggestion that this Group may be controlling global events for its own purposes is usually just laughed off by many.
Is it possible that the banking elite could not foresee the financial collapse that has occurred? Could they actually be behind the scenes manipulating events? Is it wrong, or even dangerous to contemplate such things? Is there an actual conspiracy going on behind the doors of the Bilderberg meetings?
The supporters of the Bilderbergers will tell you that the meetings are not about a secret government. It will be said that the meetings are for the purpose of a mutual exchange of ideas, including a way for the elite to understand each other better.

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To say that a Group which has such powerful attendees does not influence policy and governments worldwide is simply ridiculous. If they are just gathering for tea and cookies why is the secrecy concerning the meetings so overwhelming? Why have the meetings been kept secret for so long? Would the Group ever have revealed their existence if they were not outed by true investigative journalists?
It is very suspicious to see the politicians, media moguls, royalty and other business leaders meeting in a covert way as anything but nefarious. The Bilderberg Group is rumored to be a Machiavellian front for anti-democratic elitists!
Here is a small list of attendees:
CEOs like Microsofts Bill Gates, Googles Eric Schmidt are attendees.
Banking Elites such as Barclays Marcus Agius, Goldman Sachs Peter Sutherland Have also been present at meetings.
Royalty figures such as Prince Charles of England, Prince Phillipe from Belgium and many others have been to Bilderberg meetings.
Henry Kissinger, Timothy Geithner, Sandy Berger, and countless other United States politicians have been attendees at these meetings. To see a complete list of attendees Read Here:
These powerful figures do not sit down at meetings with Presidents, Prime Ministers, giant media owners, members of National Parliaments, and United States government officials, to discuss the weather. They will not attend a four day meeting for the purpose of trading recipes. They attend Bilderberg Group meetings to form a global consensus and a plan to follow through on any plans agreed to during the meetings.

Paul Watson Reports Former Nato General Admits Bilderberg Sets Global Policy Part 1
Paul Watson Reports Former Nato General Admits Bilderberg Sets Global Policy Part 2
What influence does the Bilderberg Group have?

In fact, this statement was validated by former NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg Group member Willy Claes, who stated that when the meeting is over a summary report is put together and “The participants are then obviously considered to use this report in setting their policies in the environments in which they affect.”
The truth is that the Bilderbergers reach global agreements concerning the Groups agenda. This agenda is then to be executed by each of its members in the host countries of each Bilderberg member. These procedures hold more power than the agreements in an individual Treaty.
Bilderberg Group reaches a general agreement during the meeting which covers a wide spectrum of policy areas. Everything from energy, to the state of the environment, the waging of wars, and even the economy, are discussed and agreements achieved during these meetings. This is clearly apparent when there are policies that are later brought to fruition after originating during the Bilderberg Group meeting.
It is also evident that the Bilderberg Group influences National elections and the choosing of Presidents and their Vice-Presidents, Prime Ministers, as well as leaders of the European Union. Bilderberg was a central instigator in the adoption of a single European currency, this currency became reality several years ago.
The majority consensus agrees that members of the Bilderberg Group and the Global Elite knew of the pending economic crash of 2008. There was information revealed after the Groups meeting in 2006 which clarifies that the Bilderberg Group not only knew of the housing bubble but was also precariously part of the formation of said bubble. In other words, the Group knew there would be a burst in the housing bubble, for the simple reason that they had created the bubble itself!

Paul Watson Reports Former Nato General Admits Bilderberg Sets Global Policy Part 3
Paul Watson Reports Former Nato General Admits Bilderberg Sets Global Policy Part 4
The Bilderberg Group knew of the looming Economic Crisis?

One of the investigative journalists that has covered the actions of the Bilderberg Group for many years had stated in 2006 that:

“Bilderberg expects interest rates to rise and many Americans to lose their homes in the months ahead.”

Overheard at the Bilderberg Conference in Ottawa, Canada in June 2006 was future United States Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. Timothy Geithner, who was at the time of the meeting the President of the New York Branch of the Federal Reserve, envisioned a rise in interest rates and much misfortune for those families that had secured loans with an adjustable interest rate. This prediction also stated that many of these families would lose their home to foreclosures due to a rise in the rate of interest. The families which would keep their homes would see their mortgage payments rise by hundreds of dollars per month. Timothy Geithner said that most listened calmly while others seemed concerned, yet one was overheard saying that:

“stupid Americans deserve their fate.”

The economic decline resulted in an extended and continuing false solution of greedy globalism. This also included the revising of the Financial International Order. After the 2009 Bilderberg Group meeting in Greece, there was some details leaked from within the meeting. This information disclosed the intents of the Global Elite that attend these meetings.
These Global Elitists were determined on advancing a deceitful accounting of an economic global recovery. This charade was portrayed for the purpose of defrauding investors into reinvesting their wealth back into the Stock Markets. All this being done even though the Elites knew for fact that a second economic collapse was looming on the horizon.
Now that the globe is heading for a double dip recession, we can see that this is literally what has happened. If an individual could repeat what was discussed behind closed doors of the Bilderberg meetings, all economic collapses could be easily foretold with stark accuracy.

Bilderberg Sleuth Jim Tucker: Globalist call for $7 a gallon by the end of 2012
BILDERBERG - You know, the nazi lodge created by SS officer prince Bernhard in 1952
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands

The Bilderberg Group can trace its origins back to Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, this Prince founded the Group. Another thought provoking aspect of Prince Bernhard is that he was a former member of the Nazi Party!
It has been revealed that this Prince held membership in the German Nazi Party until the year of 1934. This was just three years before his wedding to the future Queen of the Netherlands, Princess Juliana. Annejet van der Zijl, who is a Dutch historian has actual membership documents from Humboldt University in Berlin that prove that Prince Bernhard joined Deutsche Studentenschaft, a National Socialist college fraternity! He was also a member of the Nazi NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), as well as the Sturmabteilung, the paramilitary wing of the NSDAP.
Upon leaving the University in 1934, Prince Bernhard resigned from all of these groups. He was then employed by the huge German chemical company, IG Farben. Prince Bernhard vehemently denied ever being part of the Nazi Party, he did admit though that he was sympathetic with the regime of Adolf Hitler. In 2004, during one of his last interviews, Prince Bernhard stated:

"I can swear this with my hand on the Bible: I was never a Nazi."


Bilderberg Group and the Illuminati, are they the same thing?

There are individuals that have researched the details of the Bilderbergers, these individuals have stated that this Group is controlled by a 10 man Inner Circle of the Illuminati. These statements include claims of a covert conspiracy to construct an agenda for the control of the worlds' population.
Groups like the Bilderbergers would inevitably become the Global Masters of this New World Order. Humanity would come under control of this Order and become nothing more than chattel to their new masters. The population of the globe would have a future to exist as pawns, or slaves of the Illuminati.
Claims have been made by researchers that the fundamental goal of global domination has already begun. The Bilderberg Group is a central key to this domination, their paramount aspirations include:

  • That the United States of America must quickly repay all debts to the United Nations. The U.S.A. will be requested to grant billions of taxpayer dollars to the (IMF) International Monetary Fund. This disbursement of wealth will lead to U.S. citizens being drained of their own fortunes.
  • (NATO) North Atlantic Treaty Organization will be modified to act as a military force for the United Nations. This will result in United States Armed Forces to fall under command of foreign officers belonging to NATO!


Illuminati Hand Gesture!
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Will this all lead to Corporate Governance?

What is Corporate Governance? Corporate Governance is a term that concerns the rules, processes, and laws on which the business community uses to function, administer, and manage. The system of government that would allow corporations to control a government is also known as corporate fascism!
Once implemented, Corporate Governance will eliminate National Sovereignty, it will also bring the entire globes corporations under a central corporate order. All businesses and corporations will fall under this central control mechanism, taking all power to regulate these industries away from National and local oversight.
This will give the mega-corps of finance the ability to ignore all laws and rules enacted by all governments of the world. This would include the government of the United States of America!
Just as we enter a new millennium, a new form of fascist government will materialize under a facade of free-trade policies, this New World Order will be under command of the Illuminati!
The People's Republic of China is the economic model supported by the Bilderberg Group. This economic model is to be used as the accepted form of government for the development of a European Superstate and the United States. It is being implemented through incremental steps of governance.

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Like the People's Republic of China, all nonconformist individuals will be dealt with swiftly and placed in forced labor camps. Another term for a forced labor camp is PRISON! There is currently a form of these forced labor camps that have already been implemented within the United States private prison system.
To read more about the new form of slavery within the United States prison system.
A few more things that could develop once the Bilderberg Groups agenda is implemented:

  • A Universal Bio-metrics Identification Card will be issued to each global citizen. This is already being discussed within some Nations. Biometric technology already exists, this technology will be used to decode and pattern a physical feature of a human being. Retina scanners, fingerprint scanners are a couple of examples of this technology.
  • A Police State will be unveiled, a Police Force similar to the Nazi Gestapo will be used to enforce the policies and procedures of the Illuminati/Bilderbergs New World Order!
For more information on a Police State.

Further Research!

Thank you for taking the time to read this article on the Bilderberg Group. There will be expansions on many topics discussed. Please keep checking for more information provided by Reality Bytes.
This article has barely scratched the surface of the emerging New World Order. There is an emerging One World Government that is under construction as you read. Do your own research on these issues and come to your own conclusions. The Bilderberg Group does exist, that is a fact. What goes on during their meetings is only known to those that attend the meetings.
There is no hiding the fact that many global elites crave the power that would result from a centralized government. There are also plans for population reduction that is not only nefarious but outright EVIL!

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