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    Recently i re-visited and examined the mysterious past history of the symbol of the The Hooked X via the geologist and author Scott Wolter's book ..."The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America- the book tells the story of a secret symbol first found on an inscribed slab of rock, dated 1362, unearthed by a farmer in Minnesota in 1898. This mysterious symbol inspired the author to pursue a nine-year investigation on both sides of the Atlantic that led to the discovery of other artifacts and clandestine documents indicative of secret trips to North America long before Columbus. The trail of evidence led to a deep plunge into the shadowy areas of Freemasonry and the Knights Templar that most brethren of these orders are unaware of. This incredible true story reveals untold secrets of North America that weave from medieval times through today, forever changing history as we know it" ...

    Note this story was also further investigated via a TV/Docu program called 'America Unearthed' - The Templar's American Secrets (2013) in which i found very fascinating and compelling in its telling ... It most definitely stirred my own cellular memories, and i found it to greatly resonate with my own intuitive/speculations into the probabilities that Jesus's 'Holy Grail' was not a cup - But was literally his own living bloodline.



    I share below for your inspection (this now classic) Red Ice Radio podcast (2013) in which Scott Wolter (in his own narrative) dives into the depth of his has ten years studying the Kensington Runestone and its mysterious hooked X symbol.


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    "Geologist Scott Wolter has authored eight books and has been president of American Petrographic Services since 1990 and is responsible for the independent petrographic analysis testing laboratory where the Kensington Runestone was brought for investigation in 2000. He's been the principal petrographer in more than 5,000 investigations throughout the U.S. and around the world, including the evaluation of fire damaged concrete at the Pentagon following the attacks of September 11, 2001. He joins us to discuss the latest discoveries and evidence about the Kensington Runestone. We'll discuss errors in the accepted story of the Vikings and the runestone. Then, we'll discuss The Hooked X - The Secret History of North America. Scott explains how the origin of "the hooked x" symbol lies within the coded alphabet of secret societies that have been in existence since at least the early part of the twelfth century right through today. We'll discuss America's untold history also tying in the Knights Templar and the bloodline of Jesus. Later, Scott addresses those who say the Kensington Runestone is a fake."


    Scott Wolter - The Kensington Runestone, The Hooked X & Templars In America



    Red Ice TV
    Published on Jun 2, 2013


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    Extraterrestrial Revelation & Disclosure | Patrick De Haan


    About: "Patrick De Haan was born in Queens, New York USA and worked for three decades in commercial insurance, living along the way in Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Colombia. In 2014 at the age of 50 he started to channel and in 2014 he channeled the book The Alien Handbook."

    "The book includes information about highly evolved life forms from other worlds in our galaxy that are visiting and observing Earth. There are channeling sessions between the author and his guardian angel guides and extraterrestrials in general and sessions with aliens visiting and observing Earth during the time the book was written―2014 through early 2016."

    Website: http://www.theamendment.net/

    UFO HUB
    Published on May 5, 2019


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    What No One Says About "Identity Politics"


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    Here's what the left and right don't tell you about identity politics.
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    If we forget we are all humans first and utmost ...
    Then we will surely reap what is sown.



    The Rise of the Right: Populism in Germany - BBC News

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    Published on May 7, 2019
    A new wave of far-right politics is sweeping across Europe, promising to smash the ruling elite, end migration and shake-up the EU. But are these parties fuelling hate?

    The Nine’s Europe Correspondent Jean Mackenzie travels across the continent, to find out why these movements are surging - meeting the people celebrating their rise and those fighting to stop them.

    The first in this series comes from Germany, where the far-right party the AfD is now Germany’s main opposition. We ask whether their place in Parliament is emboldening more extreme groups.
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    "Newly obtained details from the president’s tax returns reveal a decade in the red,
    with $1.17 billion in business losses" ...



    5 Takeaways From 10 Years of Trump Tax Figures

    By Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner

    May 7, 2019

    "Since the 2016 presidential campaign, journalists at The New York Times and elsewhere have been trying to piece together Donald J. Trump’s complex and concealed finances. Now The Times has obtained 10 years of previously unrevealed figures from the president’s federal income tax returns. The tax numbers, for the years 1985 through 1994, paint a far bleaker picture of Mr. Trump’s deal-making abilities and financial condition than the one he has long put forth.

    Mr. Trump became an unprecedented president — a businessman and reality television star with no government experience — and he broke with decades-old presidential tradition by refusing to release his income tax returns. Questions about what secrets they may hold — about his recent business dealings and the sources of his financing — only intensified with the Russia inquiry, and the Trump administration is now locked in a battle with House Democrats demanding the last six years of the president’s returns. On Monday, the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said he would not give a House committee access to the returns.

    The newly revealed tax information covers an earlier period of Mr. Trump’s business career. And The Times did not obtain Mr. Trump’s actual tax returns. But it obtained printouts from his official Internal Revenue Service tax transcripts, with the figures from his federal tax form, the 1040, from someone who had legal access to them. They represent the fullest and most detailed look to date at the president’s taxes. And they show that during a tumultuous decade of fevered acquisition and spectacular collapse, Mr. Trump’s core businesses — largely casinos, hotels and retail space in apartment buildings — ran up $1.17 billion in losses.

    The White House’s response to the findings has shifted over time.

    Several weeks ago, a senior official issued a statement saying: “The president got massive depreciation and tax shelter because of large-scale construction and subsidized developments. That is why the president has always scoffed at the tax system and said you need to change the tax laws. You can make a large income and not have to pay large amount of taxes.”

    On Saturday, after further inquiries from The Times, a lawyer for the president, Charles J. Harder, wrote that the tax information was “demonstrably false,” and that the paper’s statements “about the president’s tax returns and business from 30 years ago are highly inaccurate.” He cited no specific errors, but on Tuesday added that “I.R.S. transcripts, particularly before the days of electronic filing, are notoriously inaccurate” and “would not be able to provide a reasonable picture of any taxpayer’s return.”

    Mark J. Mazur, a former director of research, analysis and statistics at the I.R.S., said that, far from being considered unreliable, data used to create such transcripts had undergone quality control for decades and had been used to analyze economic trends and set national policy. In addition, I.R.S. auditors often refer to the transcripts as “handy” summaries of tax returns, said Mr. Mazur, now director of the nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in Washington.

    In fact, the source of The Times’s newly obtained information was able to provide several years of unpublished tax figures from the president’s father, the builder Fred C. Trump. They matched up with Fred Trump’s actual returns, which had been obtained by The Times in the earlier investigation.

    If the new tax information does not offer a new narrative of Mr. Trump’s career, its granular detail gives a precise accounting of his financial failures and of the constantly shifting focus that would characterize his decades in business. Here are some key takeaways.

    1. Mr. Trump was deep in the red even as he peddled deal-making advice


    “Trump: The Art of the Deal” came out in 1987. It became a best seller — and a powerful vehicle for the self-spun myth of the self-made billionaire that would ultimately help propel him to the presidency.

    Mr. Trump has long attributed his first run of business reversals and bankruptcies to the recession that hit three years later, in 1990. But the new tax information reveals that he was already in deep financial distress when his master-of-the-universe memoir hit the shelves.

    For Mr. Trump, the 1980s were a frenzy of acquisition and construction, buoyed by hundreds of millions of dollars of borrowed money. In 1985, for the first time, Forbes’s “rich list” included Mr. Trump individually, independent of his father. But his estimated net worth according to the magazine, $600 million, included the real estate empire Fred Trump still owned.

    With Mr. Trump’s vast debt and other expenses on his properties — among them Trump Tower and the Grand Hyatt hotel in Manhattan, and two Atlantic City casinos — his fortunes were already on the way down. In 1985, his core businesses reported a loss of $46.1 million; they also carried over a $5.6 million loss for earlier years.

    Because those businesses were generally created as partnerships, they did not pay federal income taxes themselves. Instead, their gains, and their losses, flowed onto Mr. Trump’s ledger. To put his results in perspective, The Times compared them with detailed information that the I.R.S. compiles on an annual one-third sampling of high earners. Most of them appeared, like Mr. Trump, to be businessmen who received what is known as pass-through income.

    For 1985, the I.R.S. information indicates this: Only three individual taxpayers in the sampling reported bigger losses than Mr. Trump.

    2. In multiple years, he appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual taxpayer

    The tax results for the years that followed trace an arc of continued empire building — and gathering loss.

    He bought the Eastern Airlines shuttle for $365 million; it never made a profit, and he spent more than $7 million a month to keep it flying. His new Trump Taj Mahal Hotel and Casino, opened in 1990 with more than $800 million in debt, sucked revenue from his other casinos, pulling them along into the red.
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    And so, year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual taxpayer, according to the I.R.S. information on high earners — a publicly available database with taxpayers’ identifying details removed. Indeed, in 1990 and 1991, his core businesses lost more than $250 million each year — more than double those of the nearest taxpayers in the sampling for those years.

    The tax code allows owners of commercial property to write down the cost of their buildings — a valuable tax shelter known as depreciation. In “The Art of the Deal,” Mr. Trump cited one of his Atlantic City casinos to show how it works. Built for $400 million and depreciated at a rate of 4 percent a year, he said, it could allow him to shelter $16 million in taxable income annually. But Mr. Trump’s example, meant to demonstrate the magic of depreciation, shows something else: Depreciation alone cannot account for the hundreds of millions of dollars in losses he declared on his taxes.

    3. He paid no federal income taxes for eight of the 10 years


    Business owners like Mr. Trump may also use their losses to avoid paying taxes on future income. Over the years, those losses rolled into a $915.7 million free pass, known as a net operating loss, that appeared on his 1995 tax returns, pages of which were mailed anonymously to The Times during the 2016 campaign.

    The new tax information shows how Mr. Trump’s net operating losses snowballed, reaching $418 million in 1991. That was fully 1 percent of all the losses that the I.R.S. reported had been declared by individual taxpayers that year.

    And the red ink continued to accumulate apace. In all, Mr. Trump lost so much money that he was able to avoid paying any federal income taxes for eight of the 10 years.

    4. He made millions posing as a corporate raider — until investors realized he never followed through


    For a time, Mr. Trump was able to stave off his coming collapse with the help of a new public role: He traded on his business-titan brand to present himself as a corporate raider. He would acquire shares in a company with borrowed money, suggest publicly that he was contemplating a takeover, then quietly sell on the resulting bump in the stock price. An occasional quote from a high-profile associate helped burnish the myth.

    “He has an appetite like a Rocky Mountain vulture,” his stockbroker, Alan C. Greenberg, told The Wall Street Journal in 1987. “He’d like to own the world.”

    From 1986 through 1989, Mr. Trump declared $67.3 million in gains from stocks and other assets bought and sold within a year.

    But ultimately, the figures show, he lost most, if not all, of those gains after investors stopped taking his takeover talk seriously.

    5. His interest income spiked in 1989 at $52.9 million, but the source is a mystery


    Amid the hundreds of figures on 10 years of tax transcripts, one number is particularly striking: $52.9 million in interest income that Mr. Trump reported in 1989.

    In the three previous years, Mr. Trump had reported $460,566, then $5.5 million, then $11.8 million in interest.

    The source of that outlier $52.9 million is something of a mystery.

    Taxpayers can receive interest income from a variety of sources, including bonds, bank accounts and mortgages. Hard data on the workings of Mr. Trump’s businesses is hard to come by. But public findings from New Jersey casino regulators show no evidence that he owned anything capable of generating that much interest. Nor is there any such evidence in a 1990 report on his financial condition, prepared by accountants he hired at his bankers’ request.

    Mr. Trump’s interest income fell almost as quickly as it rose. By 1992, he was reporting only $3.6 million."


    Source:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/u...x-figures.html

    [Read The Times’s investigation here.]
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    What No One Says About "Identity Politics"

    Is that Teal Swan in disguise...


    "Cultural Marxist agitators"... The primary group IS responsible for imposing 'otherness' which is the genesis of identity without politics involved. Will we ever get past that? I certainly hope so.
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    'Spiritual Beings or Economic Tools – Just Who Are We?'

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    Peter Strother discusses his book 'Spiritual Beings or Economic Tools – Just Who Are We?'

    In much of the modern world we are trapped in a loop of work, consume, sleep, repeat. Those conscious of this soul-destroying cycle are often even more dejected and disillusioned than those who blindly bow to the demands of consumerist culture, pursuing desires which are not their own, slaves to the opinions of others, and more afraid of the unknown than of hollow, haunted subsistence. Empty and unfulfilled, billions trudge wearily towards a death subconsciously feared but still denied throughout a life deemed to be devoid of either meaning or purpose.

    But in the early 21st Century, converging economic, political, social and environmental crises are making the grinding routine of business-as-usual increasingly impossible. Frustration and broken promises are boiling over in increasing unrest, violence, and destruction of both the system and the self. The first steps towards breaking free of the tyranny of comfort and complacency are self-awareness, self-knowledge, and self-mastery, all of which are actively discouraged in the matrix of mindless media, digital distractions, junk food, and instant gratification. Through choice or by force, and sooner rather than later, we will all have some difficult decisions to make as the world we persist in taking for granted simply disappears.
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    "I Am the Night, Color Me Black"
    in 8min30sec; Twilight Zone


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    When fiction becomes non fiction via other's dimensional delusions ...

    The VEEP/Colbert Crossover Episode

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
    Published on May 9, 2019
    Stephen Colbert interrupts an episode of 'VEEP' to warn Selina Meyer
    and her staff that their behavior is infecting other realities.
    3:08 minutes

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    Quote Originally posted by giovonni View Post
    "I Am the Night, Color Me Black"
    I remember that episode...I also remember back in the early 80's the highly respected National Enquirer conducted a poll asking if public executions should be allowed. Over 70% of the respondents said yes. I knew we were screwed even then.
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    Statist

    Someone who believes in the practice or doctrine of giving a centralized
    government control over economic planning and policy.

    A statist believes in extremely heavy government intervention in personal matters and
    moderate to high government intervention in economic matters. They generally believe
    in a centralized state with a social safety net and strong laws restricting personal liberty.

    Jesus Was an Anarchist so Statist Christians are Fake Christians

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    Anarchast Ep.463

    Topics include: Anarchism from a Christian perspective, the gun in the room of statism, Keynsian coercion, Mises and Christianity, agnosticism, religion compatible with Anarchism, peace and love is the way, the golden rule, the 'social contract' vs voluntary contracts, freedom in the religious life, generosity, life under law is sin, grace and freedom, the kingdom of God is voluntary
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    The Good Samaritan

    Parable #24 — Luke 10:25-42 —

    On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” He answered: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.” But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

    In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him.The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’ “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers? ”The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
    Jesus is Just Alright

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