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The banking system is and always has been owned and controlled by the elite families, claiming the mantle and becoming the unofficial heirs of the Templars - who invented banking.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38499883

The warrior monks who invented banking
(30 January 2017)

But that system was operated by the government. Templars were much closer to a private bank - albeit one owned by the Pope, allied to kings and princes across Europe, and run by a partnership of monks sworn to poverty.

But at this particular fair, gossip was starting to spread about an Italian merchant who was there, and making a fortune.

He bought and sold nothing: all he had was a desk and an inkstand.

Day after day he sat there, receiving other merchants and signing their pieces of paper, and somehow becoming very rich.

The locals were very suspicious.

But to a new international elite of Europe's great merchant houses, his activities were perfectly legitimate.

He was buying and selling debt, and in doing so he was creating enormous economic value.

But this web of banking services has always had a darker side to it.

By turning personal obligations into internationally tradable debts, these medieval bankers were creating their own private money, outside the control of Europe's kings.

Rich, and powerful, they had no need for the coins minted by the sovereign.

That description rings true even today. International banks are locked together in a web of mutual obligations that defies easy understanding or simple control.

They can use their international reach to try to sidestep taxes and regulations.

And, since their debts to each other are a very real kind of private money, when the banks are fragile, the entire monetary system of the world also becomes vulnerable.

We are still trying to figure out what to do with these banks.

We cannot live without them, it seems, and yet we are not sure we want to live with them.

Why did they pull your thread about worldwide debt being $255 trillion?

Nice try, but most of the people posting comments on the Juneteenth threads don’t care about its origins.

They prefer instead to make mocking and derogatory comments about black people.

And we thought we left elementary school decades ago..!

Feeding the polar bear cookies - another day in Russia

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Fj4PifRsA&pp=ygUSZmVlZGluZyBwb2xhciBiZWFy

California - The Golden Pedophile State

There should be federal legislation to prevent any private equity direct ownership in public institutions.

I guess the legislature is too busy voting on foreign aid bills....

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-gops-plan-to-build-the-third-temple
(Corey Sherman - October 7, 2022)

The GOP’s Plan to Build the Third Temple

Republicans are working with Kahanist activists to advance a violent vision of Jewish control over Jerusalem’s holy sites.

The Temple Movement’s influence—once largely limited to the most extreme settler groups in Hebron and Jerusalem—has been on the rise since 2010, the same year that US voters gave the GOP control over the House of Representatives. Since then, Republicans traveling in Israel/Palestine have repeatedly visited Al-Aqsa with Temple Movement escorts. A Jewish Currents review of travel filings with the House Ethics Committee revealed that Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan has met with Kahanists on more occasions than any other member of Congress, sitting down with them on four separate trips to Israel/Palestine—in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2020. In all, more than 40 Republicans—including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, and, following his time in office, former Vice President Mike Pence—have met with Kahanists since 2011, in Hebron and near Nablus as well as in Jerusalem. Many of these meetings occurred as part of privately sponsored Congressional delegations to Israel/Palestine that were organized and funded by Christian Zionist groups, including the United States Israel Education Association (USIEA) and Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN). (Under House rules, lawmakers are permitted to participate in privately sponsored trips like those arranged by Christian Zionist groups, and members of Congress are under no obligation to notify the State Department when traveling on such junkets.)

The movement’s GOP allies have publicly amplified a sanitized version of these goals, claiming that the Temple Movement’s aim is simply to end religious discrimination against Jews and give them prayer rights at Al-Aqsa. In 2014, after DeSantis and Maryland Rep. Andy Harris entered the esplanade with members of the Temple Institute in secret—concealing their identities as congressmen — Harris put out a video decrying the “discrimination against Jews above any other religion” at the esplanade.

Evicting Muslims from Al-Aqsa was one prong of the Kach Party’s genocidal platform—and the Temple Movement has carried it forward even after the party’s banning. The Temple Movement began in earnest in 1983, when Ariel, then the highest-ranking Kach Party member after Kahane, attempted to bore a tunnel beneath Al-Aqsa in an effort to physically seize the site. Israeli police arrested Ariel, who explained in a 2007 interview that he began planning for the creation of what would become the Temple Institute during his detention. Rather than wage violence in the open, he decided, the Temple Institute would use research and advocacy to influence public opinion, ultimately forcing the Israeli government to claim the site and rebuild the Jewish Holy Temple. Since the banning of the Kach Party, Ariel’s Temple Institute has become the Kahanist movement’s organizational fulcrum and publicity arm. Its reach is international: Americans can claim tax deductions by donating to Jerusalem Lights, a 501(c)(3) registered in Texas that is closely associated with the Temple Institute. The institute presents what Tatarsky refers to as the movement’s “friendly face,” arguing that the movement seeks only prayer rights for Jews at the Holy Esplanade.

When leaders of the movement bring members of Congress to Al-Aqsa, they appear to push a similar narrative. In 2018, for example, Chaim Richman, the Temple Institute’s former international director, escorted West Virginia Rep. David McKinley and then-Colorado Rep. Scott Tipton on a tour of Al-Aqsa as part of a trip sponsored by the Christian Zionist organization Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, which pursues complete Jewish control in Israel/Palestine based on the belief that it will bring about the end of days and the second coming of Jesus Christ. Though the Jewish activists don’t share this theological endgame, their aims align with those of the Christian Zionists in the immediate term. On the tour, Avi Abelow, an American-born settler who recorded the excursion and posted the video to his Facebook page—and who also works with Beyadenu—explained that the Temple Institute’s strategy was to “generate the awareness necessary to prepare the Jewish people to be ready to then declare sovereignty [over Al-Aqsa].”

Should the GOP return to power in this fall’s midterms, the Temple Movement’s allies in Congress will be in an even better position to continue chipping away at the diplomatic consensus, to the benefit of the political fringe. Although the House can’t unilaterally usher in the changes that the Temple Movement demands, Republican leaders like Jordan could, for example, pass Congressional resolutions calling on the US to revoke its support for the status quo at Al-Aqsa, or condition congressional appropriations on such moves. These would represent a challenge to President Biden, who has said that hesupports a Palestinian state, though his administration has made no effort to start talks between Israelis and Palestinians. If nothing else, the GOP could use such measures to put the Temple Movement’s vision into wider circulation—just as both chambers of the US Congress in 1995 overwhelmingly passed a resolution to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, decades before Trump actually did so. “The Temple Movement knows how to build power,” Tatarsky said. “Evangelicals and Congressmen provide the movement with access to funding and political support.” Both sides seek total Jewish sovereignty in the area, if for different reasons, he said. “Both groups are using each other for their own goals.”

The practice of Gematria - calculating and using numeric values of letters - originated in ancient times, most notably using the Greek and Hebrew alphabets. It is a fundamental concept in Kabbalah - Jewish mysticism.

from Chabad.org

Gematria in Kabbalistic and Chassidic texts

Gematria is an integral element of sod, the concealed aspects of the Torah. Kabbalah makes frequent use of gematria as a way of crystallizing a teaching.

Gematria using English has numerous ciphers, the base four are Ordinal, Reverse Ordinal, Reduction and Reverse Reduction.

The floating pier story has been interesting because there was no need to build it. So it probably has another purpose - one we may never be able to directly verify.

Deciphering the numeric elements in a story can give us insight about things that don't outwardly appear to be - but are in fact - related; that names are created, like Trident pier, because they match numerically with other elements of the story.

Wikipedia:

On 14 May 1948, the day the British Mandate over Palestine expired, the Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation, in which it declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel."

Trident pier and Eretz Israel match in three out of the four base Gematria ciphers.

The Temple of Solomon - is relevant to the building of the Third Temple. It appears - numerically at least - that the pier is relevant to the Third Temple.

more on the Third Temple in post #2..

A few hundred million here, a few hundred million there..

It isn’t common knowledge that Marx was a Freemason.

Karl Marx is the father of modern Communism. Although some Masons have rejected him, Marx is believed to have been a 32nd degree Grand Orient Freemason.

The image below illustrates the hand sign they need to do in order to go into the second veil, as shown in Duncan’s Masonic Ritual and Monitor:

The young lady's name is a match in 2 Gematria ciphers with Darwin's full name.

Darwin Awards potential.

I suspect Washington himself would have been insulted by “Apotheosis”.

Agree.

Recycled plastic is used to make a lot of products.

So the claim that "it all ends up in a landfill" - may not be completely accurate.

Requiring residents to sort recyclables means that the companies who use recycled plastic to make these products don't have to - that most of their work in this initial step is done for them.

It might be claimed that they get it from the ocean. Then the transportation costs would probably be higher. So it's more likely that they use domestic plastics provided by residential waste collectors - that's already sorted.

More on the fasces symbol

Fasces (/ˈfæsiːz/ FASS-eez, Latin: [ˈfaskeːs]; a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fascis, meaning 'bundle'; Italian: fascio littorio) is a bound bundle of wooden rods, often but not always including an axe (occasionally two axes) with its blade emerging. The fasces is an Italian symbol that had its origin in the Etruscan civilization and was passed on to ancient Rome, where it symbolized a Roman king's power to punish his subjects, and later, a magistrate's power and jurisdiction.

The fasces, as a bundle of rods with an axe, was a grouping of all the equipment needed to inflict corporal or capital punishment. In ancient Rome, the bundle was a material symbol of a Roman magistrate's full civil and military power, known as imperium. They were carried in a procession with a magistrate by lictors, who carried the fasces and at times used the birch rods as punishment to enforce obedience with magisterial commands.

Plutarch, in his Life of Publicola, describes an incident in which Lucius Junius Brutus, the first consul, has lictors scourge with rods and decapitate with axes – components of the fasces – his own sons who were conspiring to restore the Tarquins to the throne. After Brutus' alleged death in battle, Publicola then passes reforms subordinating magisterial use of fasces for coercion to the people: consuls would lower the fasces before the people during speeches and there would be appeal to the people against a magistrate ordering capital or corporal punishment.

In the Oval Office, above the door leading to the exterior walkway, and above the corresponding door on the opposite wall, which leads to the president's private office; the fasces depicted have no axes, possibly because in the Roman Republic, the blade was always removed from the bundle whenever the fasces were carried inside the city, in order to symbolize the rights of citizens against arbitrary state power.

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The Apotheosis of Washington is the fresco painted by Greek-Italian artist Constantino Brumidi in 1865 and visible through the oculus of the dome in the rotunda of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

George Washington is draped in purple, worn by generals of the ancient Roman Republic during their triumphs.... and the goddess of Liberty to his right....She holds a fasces in her right hand...

A few other examples..

All examples with axes. Yet...

The Apotheosis of Washington depicts George Washington sitting among the heavens in an exalted manner, or in literary terms, ascending and becoming a god (apotheosis). Washington, the first U.S. president and commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, is allegorically represented, surrounded by figures from classical mythology.

Extraordinary - as it relates to violence and subjugation - imagery for a constitutional Republic founded on the ideals of human liberty. Or was it...

Words have meaning

Fascism - the word deriving from fasces.

The fasces has a curious history. It is a symbol of imperial Rome - and of authoritarian, coersive, even violent rule.

It is a constant in U.S. government, military, and other institutions' symbols, seals and representations. It's found in many federal buildings and monuments. An interesting choice for a constitutional Republic founded on the ideals of human liberty.

The ancient Romans in both the Republic (as far back as one can trace) and Empire made a familiar and highly effective spectacle out of bundling wooden rods and a single-bladed axe with leather straps into a “fasces.” They presented this instrument as a mobile kit for punishment, one intended to induce feelings of respect for the relevant authority, as well as fear.

Sandy Hook CT isn’t the only Sandy Hook in the eastern U.S.

Sandy Hook VA, and Sandy Hook NJ (this is a barrier-split in Monmouth County NJ, not a town).

There is also another Sandy Hook Elementary School - in Strasburg Virginia.

The elementary school in Strasburg, and Sandy Hook VA - are both not far from McLean VA - location of Langley, CIA HQ’s.

Below - the lower red pin is Sandy Hook VA; upper right red pin above Arlington marks McLean VA; green pin in upper left marked “Front Royal” - is Strasburg VA, where the other Sandy Hook Elementary School is located.

The practice of Gematria - calculating and using numeric values of letters - originated in ancient times, most notably using the Greek and Hebrew alphabets. It is a fundamental concept in Kabbalah - Jewish mysticism.

from Chabad.org:

Gematria in Kabbalistic and Chassidic texts

Gematria is an integral element of sod, the concealed aspects of the Torah. Kabbalah makes frequent use of gematria as a way of crystallizing a teaching.

Gematria using English has numerous ciphers, the base four are Ordinal, Reverse Ordinal, Reduction and Reverse Reduction.

Sandy Hook CT and Sandy Hook VA - have matching Gematria across all four ciphers

about the 2012 mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut

This is repeated constantly in news articles but is wrong.

Sandy Hook Elementary School was not located in Newtown, CT. It was/is part of the Newtown School District, but is - and always has been - located in Sandy Hook, CT.

For 12 years, no media outlet has cleared this up. It can't be an oversight.

According to the USPS Sandy Hook zip code is 06482; Newtown zip is 06470. Two separate and distinct towns.

Wikipedia

Following the shooting, both the Lanza family home and Sandy Hook Elementary School were demolished, in 2013 and 2016 respectively; a new school being rebuilt in the same place.

Believing Alex Jones or not believing him isn't the issue. The issue is that there are legitimate discrepancies in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that have never been resolved. After 12 years there are still questions about the story, timeline, and participants. Intentionally repeating an incorrect location for such a notorious crime raises a big one.

What a mess the city is.