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by Susan Maureen Brandt
Published here: Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Wes Penre's comment on the following article: The context of this article is mainly channeled material and therefore I can't provide any real references. Still, I want to put this to people's attention as something that may be considered in full or in part. As ususal, if it doesn't ring true to you, just discard.
Please forward this around the world and maybe we will all finally wake-up to what's really going on. It is long but under twenty pages, and the history is 100% verifiable. People can still celebrate Christmas with their loved ones, but for the RIGHT REASONS instead – giving, sharing, and helping each other to make this a better world!
NOTE: Please do NOT read the following e-mail if you want to remain a believer in Christianity or the Christmas Holiday. I do not want to upset people who are totally happy and content with their religion and how religion has affected the world.
Here is the true history of Christmas:
Some people think it's bad that Christmas has become so commercial. But the truth behind Christmas is so shocking that it makes the traditions of giving too many presents to friends and family while eating too much rich food seem like not such a bad way to spend a day in late December.
Many people have heard about how the Christian holidays were placed on the same dates as pagan holidays as a way of converting pagans to the new religion of Christianity. When a normal person looks around and sees the dominance of Christianity on the Earth, it seems obvious that those old-fashioned pagans were successfully converted to the new religion.
There is another logical reason, however, for Christian holidays being on the same dates and having some of the same customs as pagan holidays. The so-called pagans invented Christianity and the story of Jesus as a way to weaken most people while keeping the powerful occult secrets to themselves. The word 'pagan' originally meant 'of a country, or connected people'. 'Occult' simply meant 'completely hidden'. Thus, Christianity is a belief system or form of spirituality that is put out in the open, for anyone from any country to give up much of their personal power to, while people of one 'country' keep their true beliefs completely hidden.
Jesus was actually a Roman named Lucius (pronounced LOO-shus). His mother was Julia the Elder, the daughter of Augustus Caesar (the king of Rome) and Scribonia. Lucius' father was a relative of King Herod. Both the Caesars and King Herod's family, the Agrippas, were members of the one ruling family of Rome. Yet, King Herod's father had been a high-ranking official for the Jewish king. The Agrippas were Greek, not Jewish, but had merely converted to Judaism in order to gain power within the Jewish royal family. King Herod became 'King of the Jews' by a Roman proclamation, then had the real Jewish king's nephew executed. Herod even managed to marry the Jewish king's niece to make himself seem more like the rightful ruler of Israel. But he was still a Greek relative of the Roman rulers, and later even founded the city of Caesarea!
The Romans were trying hard to gain control over the Jews, because the origin of the Jewish people was a secret the Romans wanted to keep well hidden. The Romans didn't dare try to kill all the Jews, because they were afraid of the magical powers they believed the Jews to have. It was as if the Jews were protected by a powerful force no one could entirely defeat. (The close relationship between the Jewish high priests and the Roman rulers is not easy to understand or accept, but it helps explain a lot.) A weakness of the Jews was that they believed in ancient prophesy. In 600 BC, they had been taken to Babylon and held captive. The same family ruling Babylon went on to rule Greece, Rome, and Egypt at the time of Jesus' birth. (They would later move to Byzantium, in Turkey, then to the palaces of Europe, and now control the governments of every country in the world.) When the Jews were first taken captive, they spoke Hebrew and had no written language or books. When they left Babylon more than fifty years later, they spoke and read the language of the Babylonians, called Aramaic, and had a written 'history', called the 'Torah', or law (or the Old Testament). Were the Babylonians just being helpful? No. The same ruling family was playing a terrible trick on the Jews, all in an effort to keep them powerless, distracted, and unaware of their true origin. With a little planning, it is not that difficult to predict something will happen in the future, and then make it happen. The prophesies in the Old Testament foretelling the future savior of the Jewish people were easily fulfilled by Jesus because his family knew what they had predicted 600 years earlier!
The story of the Jews' origin is written in the book of Genesis in the Bible. But the beginning of Genesis is actually describing something opposite to what so many people have believed. It is NOT the story of how the Creator made the Earth, but of how one group of people began a new 'world' for themselves by stealing land from the original occupants. These criminals were the ruling family of Atlantis before it sank completely 10,000 years ago, after being damaged 20,000 years before. The story of Noah's Ark is not about an old man gathering pairs of every kind of animal from around the entire Earth, but of the king of Atlantis gathering enough mating pairs of PEOPLE from Atlantis to populate their new land once they'd stolen it. The Mediterranean region was certainly flooded and the sky around the world turned stormy for forty days and forty nights, but it was due to the massive explosions and tidal waves caused when the Creator destroyed the wicked continent of Atlantis. This is why cultures around the world tell a similar ancient tale, and why the Atlanteans truly fear the Creator. In the Bible are many stories of wicked, greedy kings who are frightened by one truly spiritual person with armies of non-physical beings protecting them. The Atlanteans understand that they have only been allowed to get rich and powerful under the condition that they spread religion in many forms around the Earth, even falsified religions, so that people everywhere have a chance to think about the Creator, and to find the truth within their own mind, body, and soul. In this way, we will only be able to do away with the wickedness of the Atlantean descendants when kind, innocent people are ready to give up their own desire for greed and revenge, and work together to let the truth be as it is, with no strings attached.
Atlantis might seem like a fairytale, but to understand the REAL history of human existence, it's important to have your mind open to how well these people have hidden the truth of what they've done, while bragging about it! They have used fake languages (Greek, Latin, English) made out of the languages of the other original races (the white Nordic people, the brown Mirian people, Africans, and Asians) to hide in code the story of their lost continent and fallen glory. As the Atlanteans' skin was reddish-brown in color, they use RED as a proud symbol. They also flaunt their genes for a large, arching nose, now mixed with the brown hair of the Mirians and the white skin of the Nordics. Many celebrated 'beauties' in the world have large noses or red hair, as proof that they are Atlantean. Even the names of angels, pixies, elves, and fairies are referring to the Nordics whose own northwestern European homeland was taken over by driving them back into the wilderness where they had to hide for fear of being killed or raped – their names originate from the 'Angles' and 'Picts' people; the latin for white, 'albus'; and 'fair', for very light-skinned. European history is full of attacks by 'brutes' or 'barbarians'. Brutus was an Atlantean who landed in Britain, i.e., the land of the Brutans, about 3000 years ago, after the royal Atlanteans left or got kicked out of Troy, rightfully the Tur people's city. (London's first name was 'Trinovantium'. That's latin for 'New Troy City'. London itself comes from 'Ludinium', meaning 'Lud's City', a later name.) 'Barbarian' meant 'foreigner'. The hidden truth is that the Nordics were simply fighting back to try to defend and regain their homeland from the Greek/Roman/Egyptian invaders who went on to write the history books! To complicate matters, the western coast of Nordica had long been used by the Atlanteans as a place to get slaves and steal resources, leaving behind a trail of red-haired, freckled offspring with large noses. In fact, they'd been doing that all over the Earth for hundreds of thousands of years, which is why they don't want their modern European descendants, including Americans and Canadians, to understand that human history goes back that far. The Bible was an attempt to convince the 'new' race of Europeans that the Earth was only created after the selfish Atlanteans had finished Part One of their master plan. The entire genealogy of the bible, and the Greek myths, are alternative versions of the Atlantean family tree. Noah and Cronus are the same forefather, Japeth is Jupiter or Zeus, Shem meant 'seed' or 'semen', Ham meant 'together', and so on.
The justification for the Atlanteans stealing two continents is a poor-me tale that explains why they were so hated by all the Earth's people. The Earth's true Creator smashed apart their original homeland in a series of catastrophes, from 30,000 to 10,000 BC, because they would not stop aggressively attacking and attempting to dominate everyone in every land! They adored their luxurious, indulgent lifestyle, and thought they were clever for figuring out how to get slaves to do all of their chores for them. The Mirians, on the other hand, had lived simply and peacefully on their beautiful Pacific continent, enjoying the honest pleasures of loving one another while tending to the plants and animals that gave them food and the materials for shelter, until their continent slipped under the ocean when the magnetic poles shifted location around 40,000 years ago. This, it can be judged from the end result, forced them to seek refuge in many corners of the world, thus spreading their humble spirituality in the same way the Atlanteans spread their wickedness and greed. The Mirians were so spiritually aware that they had received plenty of warning that a shift would occur, and were able to transport their written history, plants, and domesticated animals when they left. Many of these records are hidden in high mountainous regions around the world, although the modern Mirian descendants don't have much reason to share what they know as long as Atlanteans are ruling the world. If you look in an English dictionary under 'mir-' or 'mer-', virtually every word is connected to the Mirian people: their warm, fertile, low-lying (therefore damp and marshy) continent; their true mastery of peaceful spirituality, agriculture, and the keeping of sheep and goats; their brown skin, gently rounded faces with piercing dark eyes and dark hair; and their disappearance into the sea.
It's said that this polar shift caused Atlantis to become much hotter than the comfortably warm climate the Atlanteans were used to. This is why they grew even more aggressive against other lands, and more cranky, in the ten thousand years between the shift that sunk the Pacific continent and the first partial destruction of Atlantis around 30,000 years ago. Even if they blew themselves up trying to fire through the center of the Earth in a bizarre attempt to attack Asia, as some believe they did, it's hard to do a better job than your brain will let you do. Many of us carry the Atlantean genetics within us, so it is only through our SOUL that we will possibly do any better than them at working together and giving up our selfish greed.
By the time of the final destruction of Atlantis around 20,000 years later, the Atlantean rulers had had lots of time to conspire. The humiliation of being reduced from an unstoppably dominant culture to wanderers with no home was the fuel to put in place a manipulative scheme they are still devoted to today. Like a child, resentful of being punished rather than changing their ways and becoming kinder, gentler, or less demanding that others do their work for them, they dug in their heals, vowing revenge.
Yet, who were they getting revenge on? The Creator, for stopping them from ruining the balance and harmony of the four other original races? Or themselves? The obvious answer was to declare themselves to be gods, slander the Earth as a violent, temperamental woman who distrusted her brutal husband, and the Earth's people as disobedient children who didn't give their Father-God enough respect. The easiest way to begin cracking their codes is to look for any word meaning 'red' or 'father' or 'sun' or 'house' or 'world', because they see their red-skinned ancestors from the sunny homeland of Atlantis as a father who made the whole world into a house for his family. The words 'God', 'gods', 'goddesses', and 'Lord' are their favorite names for themselves, which is why Christianity is a bully demanding total subservience and unquestioning belief. They also love to retell the story of how they disguised themselves and murdered people to acquire 'golden fleece' (blond hair), finally becoming 'the fairest of them all'. They name everything after their ancestors, including children, cities, planets, constellations, days of the week, entire countries, and oceans. It doesn't leave much, does it? They represent themselves with a big ram (a aggressive male sheep whose children are innocent white lambs), their personal god as a bull or ox (silent, brooding, and more powerful than all others), and the Creator as a goat (I don't even want to explain this one).
Myths and legends aside, they were still a hated people. Their uniquely reddish-brown skin, black hair, and hawk-like noses made them instantly recognizable. And by now, every continent on the Earth was expecting them to launch a violent attack. But without a homeland, they lacked the resources to invade anyone effectively, especially now that many groups were working together to stop them. Their only refuge was in areas of the Mediterranean which had been cleared of inhabitants by the widespread tsunamis and flooding that occurred when Atlantis was destroyed, and in northern Africa where pre-Egyptian Atlantean colonies had previously forced the original African people out. ('Egyptian', 'Roman', and 'Greek' all mean 'wanderers', through anagrams of the Mirian-Nordic 'Tur' language. Ancient murals and artifacts found in the Mediterranean region clearly show people with reddish skin and large noses involved in trade, rituals, and a wealthy, indulgent, hedonistic, royalty-obsessed lifestyle.)
Thus, they chose to disguise themselves through breeding with as many white-skinned and brown-skinned people as necessary to hide their true identity (except in Egypt and neighboring regions of Africa), and also by constructing new cultures and languages. The legend of Zeus and Europa is a metaphor for the Atlantean royalty raping a blond-haired, blue-eyed Nordic princess to create a new 'race' of Europeans, and the bible story of the Tower of Babel is a metaphor for their ongoing success at stopping Earth's people from working together to make a 'world' better than theirs.
It is easy to spot the Atlanteans' most successful conspiracies: all best-selling books, blockbuster movies, anyone who is a billionaire, all world leaders, and all the major religions. They poisoned the Jewish religion, originally based on the brown-skinned Mirian people's loving knowledge of one Creator, harmony with nature, and simple living, by mixing it with the greed, terror, and ritual sacrifice of Atlantis. Because they are BOTH descended from a mixture of the same three original races, the Atlantean Europeans and the Jews look virtually the same. The bible story of Esau and Jacob describes the cruel Atlantean practise of 'sorting' the children they had with the blond-haired, blue-eyed Nordics they abducted, and the brown-skinned Mirian tribes they liked to enslave. They made 'gods' of the children who had the lightest coloring, were athletic, clever, and manipulative, were willing to be bloodthirsty in war but remain loyal to their family, and who retained the prominent Atlantean nose. They made armies and slaves of the rest, cursing them to a life of suffering. In truth, they were all genetically equal. (Ever heard the one about the Atlantean royals living in Russia who suddenly converted to Judaism, headed for the bible lands, and blended right in? How about the more logical alternative that Moses was actually BORN to that Egyptian princess, along with his older brother, Aaron? Kind of makes sense then why the 'cohen', the NEW high priests, demanded their followers bring them gold and their best young animals to be sacrificed only on the steps of the temple, where Mr. Cohen conveniently lived, rather than at their own homes in the country. As for circumcision being demanded by God, well, let's just say I wouldn't want to be an Atlantean on the day the male Jewish population figures out that it was actually demanded by their royal cousins for the shockingly petty purpose of lessening the sexual pleasure of Jewish males, which, along with stern rules to avoid all other things that lead to enlightenment, kept them from discovering the Atlantean 'secret' of using sexuality as a method of increasing the body's capacity for expressing the powerful and creative energy of the human soul. At least no one will mind finding out they weren't forced to drink daily cups of fresh goats' blood.)
Now, Christianity is, at its darkest, about producing a passive population who go to work, do what they're told, and don't let themselves get angry enough to rebel or take revenge on those who have trespassed on their homeland and then taken it over altogether. (The story of Jesus, however, is a remarkable tale of someone standing up to the evil they were born into and trying with all their strength to free people from the oppression they've also been trapped into.) Islam, unfortunately, was also invented by these people, for one of the worst reasons possible. The Catholics wanted a standing army that would invade Jerusalem when told to, in order to get back control of it from the Jews. The Atlantean royalty, hiding in the RED costumes of the Catholic church, knew that the truth of their identity was buried in underground vaults in Jerusalem. That was the very reason the city had been founded, to hide the Atlanteans' scrolls, books, and other documents smuggled out of all parts of the Earth. The massive library at Alexandria, in Egypt, had been built under the guise of sharing knowledge with foreign scholars, but in truth it was a device to collect as many texts and books as possible, so that the Atlanteans could erase or hide away any remaining records of life on Earth before 10,000 BC. Also, every ship docking in the harbor at Alexandria was searched for books. Any book found was taken and a COPY returned to the owner! Did I mention that Egypt was under the rule of Alexander the Great's family, the Greek Ptolemy dynasty, at the time? Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Babylonian, British. An Atlantean ruler by any other name still smells the same. For the 300 years from founder Alexander to his Greek descendent, Cleopatra, records of humankind's knowledge were collected, censored copies returned to the original owners, and the whole lot sorted. In an act of preparing for the invention of the modern world, knowledge was taken apart so that no one other than the Atlantean rulers could learn the whole truth of the five original races, the physical Earth, the non-physical spiritual realm, and everything in between. The important documents were hidden in vaults beneath the Atlanteans' monuments to themselves. Then Julius Caesar, while hanging out with his girlfriend, Cleopatra, 'accidentally' set fire to the library by intentionally setting fire to several of his ships as they sat in the harbor. (The Atlanteans have a habit of building things for the sake of filling them up with records they want to destroy. The World Trade Center Towers were built to be demolished, taking records of trade and international finance with them. The nearby Building 7 that mysteriously fell perfectly down was a warehouse for secret documents. In 1666, a bit of a suspicious date, the Great Fire of London destroyed homes, St. Paul's cathedral, a castle, a prison, the Royal Exchange, and the Justice House.) Jerusalem was originally 'Rusal-ium'. 'Rusal' means 'red', easily confused with 'rosi', as in Rosicrucians, or the Rosy Cross, which means 'dew', a euphemism for semen. The cross, I hesitate to admit, is the shape made when an erect phallus is laid on the belly and admired by its owner. The testicles form the crossbar, and the root of the phallus is the top section. Also, the cross is a representation of the man himself, with his arms out-stretched, as well as a symbol of the 'little man' contained in the semen. This is the true meaning of the Catholic-created Trinity: the father is the man himself, his phallus is the son (it also resembles a man with his arms at his sides), and the ejected semen is the 'Holy Spirit' (which made Mary pregnant, of course). Just because the sex-obsessed Atlanteans put all this sexual symbolism into Christianity, including building cathedrals and churches that each resemble a phallus ejecting a crucifix of semen drops, doesn't mean that good, kind, innocent people have been wrong to go to church on Sunday (which literally means 'sun god'). Ignorance is bliss. If any religion has helped anyone to be more loving, forgiving, and grateful for all the earthly creations of our Creator, that's a good thing. Sometimes it's just time to wake up and open our eyes, so we can start making better choices for how we really want to live our lives.
Buried documents don't need to be found to prove that disguised and evil rulers from Atlantis have successfully screwed-up the Earth for their own supposed glory. They brag about it all the time. William Shakespeare was the offspring of the teenaged Elizabeth I and the occult De Vere family, both of Atlantean royal descent. (Elizabeth, known as the 'virgin' queen as she was unmarried her entire life, had many children, including, possibly, twins William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, and Sir Francis Bacon; the writer Christopher Marlowe, who was conveniently the same age as the fictitious Shakespeare and may have pretended to be him while his brother, Edward, did the actual writing; a girl named after her mother's sister, Mary; and twins John Donne and Ben Johnson.) So, when 'Shakespeare' was writing about King Lear, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet (Roman histories contain a member of the Caesar family, i.e., Romeo, and a Julia the Younger, i.e., Juliet, marrying as teenagers in 0 BC), Hamlet, and so many others, he was writing about his family to ensure people would applaud them, celebrate them, and emulate them for centuries to come. We're so used to every famous story having the same themes that we can't even see how similar they are anymore. Now that people are beginning to realize that all the major religions use the very same details as many, many other religions, perhaps the people of the Earth will start to wise-up and realize that it's good to love your neighbor, but maybe not so good to let him get away with stealing your house, raping your wife, and throwing his pollution in your backyard. Actually, an Atlantean is far more likely to frame someone else into appearing to have done those things, while he dresses up as a policeman and pretends to come to your rescue. Then he locks up your innocent neighbor, tortures him in a jail cell, comes back to your house, seduces your wife, adopts your children and forces them to participate in frightening rituals so they'll be scared enough to do anything he tells them to do, and then he takes over the whole town as his Worshipful Lord of Everything, all just for the sport of it.
Every major event of the Christmas story is based on something real, but they did not all happen to Jesus, nor did they happen exactly as they're described. Some details are coded, so that the people who wrote it can brag about things that would otherwise spoil the story for normal people.
The Three Kings, or Three Wise Men, visiting with expensive gifts for the baby Jesus, are a clue that he was born into a royal family; relatives had high expectations for what he might accomplish. The Star of David is a metaphor for what they hoped Lucius would be, a star-performer who'd 'fool' the royal descendants of David into proclaiming him their special king. The barn and manger are forceful ways of hiding that it was a royal birth, 'establishing' that Jesus was very Mirian in character rather than a rich Atlantean prince, though by later taking him to India to study, a land populated by Mirian immigrants, he became, hopefully, a genuinely nicer person. (At this stage, I'll settle for the guy developing a conscience.) The farm animals are a convenient way for the Atlanteans to keep pounding in the message that sheep are great, shepherds are geniuses, goats don't exist, and oxen stay out of the way whenever you need them to.
The character of Mary is based on Herod Agrippa's wife, Maryam. She was only thirteen when Herod took her as a wife in order to win more Jewish votes, as she was the niece of the Jewish king. King Herod loved his virgin bride, and she gave birth to several sons. But he was so paranoid and nuts that he feared his sons would kill him in order to inherit the throne from him, so he killed them, and Maryam, when the sons were grown. This is why the Christmas story has Mary and her husband taking the baby Jesus to Egypt to hide from Herod. When he finds out, he orders all the infant boys to be killed. This is a metaphor for what he did to his own sons, and a reminder of the gruesome and manipulative story of the first Passover.
The Caesars were just as paranoid as Herod. Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar are said to have produced no sons of their own. It's more likely that they killed any infant sons to avoid being overthrown by a natural heir. They preferred to let their sisters or daughters have sons, then they could choose, say, a nephew and adopt him as a son, to insure a loyal and capable heir. This is why Mary is said to have been visited by an angel telling her that Jesus wasn't Joseph's baby. Augustus Caesar's only child, Julia, was told by her father, when her second son, Lucius, was born, that he was adopting her two small sons, even though they had a father, her husband, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa. That was the real importance of Jesus' birth. Augustus Caesar finally chose his successors, Gaius and Lucius, his grandsons, and in his mind, Gaius would become the Roman king after Augustus died, his younger brother would sneak his way in as King of the Jews, and together they would establish a religion that would succeed at oppressing every non-royal in Europe. The Christmas story, and naming the year of Lucius' birth as 'Year One' (even though the dates of all these events have been garbled and manipulated wildly) is therefore truly important to the Atlanteans (even though things didn't go quite as planned). As the Caesars thought they were gods (better than everyone else due to their talent for being vicious bullies), or at least descended from gods (their Atlantean forefathers), Lucius, fictionalized as Jesus in story and song, was naturally proclaimed to be the son of God. Or rather, the son of Augustus Caesar. (Or, possibly, it all happened years before when Julius Caesar, Augustus' great uncle/adoptive father, got his new girlfriend, Cleopatra, pregnant. Her son, Caesarian, disappears from the history books around 21, just like Gaius and Lucius. The argument for Lucius is a bit stronger, however, as his name sounds like Lucifer, the name of the Antichrist, which really just means anyone who's opposed to the behavior or presence of the royally-anointed Atlanteans. Because, if you read the bible from a slightly different perspective, Jesus himself is a bit anti-Christ-ian by the end of the whole charade. Yes, he lets some woman cover his head in oil. But he doesn't sound happy about it.) (By the way, 'satan' is a Jewish word for 'an enemy who plots against' you.)
Julia the Elder, the real mother of Jesus, is not storybook material. She had already had two childless marriages, with husbands who were executed, by the time of her marriage to Jesus' father. In later years, she was kicked out of Rome and sent to live on an island with her mother because she liked to party so much and had so many lovers that there was a growing fear an outsider would manage to create an heir within the Caesar family.
When Herod was about to die, he had been acting crazy for so long and had executed so many of his family members, that he knew he wouldn't be missed. So he ordered his henchmen to murder numerous great and beloved men the moment he died, so that there would be an outpouring of grief timed to his own death. He is said to have truly loved his young Jewish bride, Maryam, (his third wife was named Maryam II), even though he executed her himself in later years. So, naturally, she was substituted for Julia the Elder as the sweet, docile, Jewish, virginal Mary. ('Maryamne' means 'rebellion', which matched the character of the Jewish people at the time, but is similar to a word meaning 'prostitute', which is why Jewish texts say Jesus was the son of a Roman soldier and a whore.) As Jesus was both a Caesar and an Agrippa, to this day his close relative, King Herod, is getting the last laugh as millions of Catholics worship the wonderfulness of his beloved murdered wife.
Jesus is called the 'Savior' because the Atlanteans were hoping he'd save them from being discovered for who they were and what they'd done. The name 'Christ' arises from the Atlanteans' refusal to let the dead body of their king rot into dirt like everyone else. To prevent the decaying process from beginning, they poured strong plant-based chemicals over the skin of the king while he was still alive. When the king died, bacteria couldn't feed off the dead tissue because it was soaked with such strong chemical substances. They cut the king open, removed his organs and soaked them too, soaked the inside of his body, removed his brains by pulling them out of his nose with a hook, soaked them in jars, repacked the organs into his body, and sewed the king back up. The pyramid is an amazing shape that somehow prevents things from rotting, so by burying their chemical-soaked king in a pyramid-shaped tomb, the Atlanteans were stopping themselves from having to face the fact that even a king is just a monkey with a creative soul, made of dirt and meant to rot back into dirt. The entire process of using substances to stop a body from rotting is called anointing, from the same root word as 'ointment'. 'Christ' comes from the Greek word meaning 'anointed one'; therefore, the one chosen to be king. Jesus, when he knows he is going to be crucified, has his head soaked by a woman (raised in the royal family also) much to the horror of his friends, who are seemingly unaware of the meaning of anointing. They just think it's very expensive stuff that should be sold to raise money to help the poor. What Jesus says in return, about the poor always being with us, gives away that he, or the man writing the dialogue, grew up wealthy. (There is a theory that the New Testament was written, in whole or in part, by a member of the Piso family, Atlantean descendants living in Rome, a few hundred years later, which would have, in the least, been upsetting for the people following spiritual philosophies based on his teachings. As there are so many similarities between versions, it's likely that the writer would've had an easier time if he had access to firsthand accounts. In the conventional Roman history, Augustus Caesar was once so ill that he thought he was about to die. He summoned two men. To one, whose last name was Piso, he handed over a complete accounting of the holdings of the Roman Empire. He didn't die, and I realize it doesn't prove anything, but then again, what truly can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt?)
When they're in their early twenties, Lucius and his older brother, Gaius, are said to have died. Was Lucius taken to India by secret members of the royal Caesar family, so 'Jesus' could acquire learning and abilities that would later make him seem superhuman and wise? (And was Gaius taken elsewhere?) When he returned to the Mediterranean at thirty, he had been renamed as Yesho, after the name of a pottery 'magic bowl' common in Jewish society at the time, the Bowl of Vitality. This is also the meaning of the Holy Grail symbolism. The magic bowls were yet another thing they acquired from the Babylonians, along with a belief in evil spirits and awful demons, which the bowls were used to catch or keep away. Some bowls were said to get rid of sickness and disease, to keep marriages happy, etc. The Bowl of Vitality suited the Roman's purposes because it was the simplest idea of all: the physical body is a container in which the soul resides. The recent explanations of the Holy Grail as the royal bloodline descending from Jesus is only a partial truth, meant to distract or satisfy people who are likely to finally become suspicious that the Earth is being controlled by a terrible group. The most important lie being maintained, while a few nasty secrets of the Catholic Church are offered up, is that Jesus was a person who had some special quality that normal humans do not. That is the same lie that the Greek myths and Hollywood continue to push on us – that there is a big difference between humans and 'gods'. In many cases, gods are the members of the Atlantean royalty (movie stars, too), while mankind is anyone on the outside. The myth of Prometheus and the story of the Garden of Eden are both telling the same tale. There was a disagreement between the Atlantean rulers as to how they should go about disguising themselves. As it had to involve having kids with people outside of their own race, they chose the 'best' ruling families of other cultures to remain as royal as possible. The biggest threat, however, was if the Atlantean men shared with their new wives how to use sex to increase personal power. This could lead to the wife and her relatives starting to become as powerful as the Atlanteans, who ultimately did not have any special powers; they were just greedy enough to hide away the truth if it would give them an advantage somehow, and vicious enough to kill anyone who seemed to have discovered their own strength and inner wisdom. The biggest enemy to someone trying to take over everyone is people who can think for themselves, and who aren't scared to push the pause button on personal comfort for a moment to search for the truth.
There are certainly many accounts in the Bible, and in all religions, of the true Creator and the powerful nature of the human soul as an immortal source of acceptance and love. But if a religion contained nothing but the truth, it wouldn't be called a religion, it would be called the truth. There is a constant flow in the Bible between true spirituality, which helps people to learn the lessons their soul desires from their lifetime on Earth, and the false worship of 'gods', or the Atlantean rulers. It can be hard for honest, kind people to face the idea of such a terrible deception. But looking at it from the Atlantean point of view, they were just feeling whatever terrible people feel when their Creator destroys their home. Just as a child who is punished by a parent might turn around and hit a sibling out of anger and shame, rather than learning his lesson and trying to be a better person in the future, the Atlanteans turned around and wrote religion after religion, demanding other groups do what they said or the Creator would punish them. They were bitter, resentful bullies in denial that they had ever done anything wrong. If the whole world hates you, either someone's launched a long-term campaign to mislead the world into hating you, or you ARE a terrible person who takes what you want with no regard for how it causes others to suffer. Yes, the Atlanteans suffered the loss of their homeland. Yes, they'd been making others suffer for millions of years. (That's right, millions.) And yes, they worked hard for thousands of years to execute a plan to take control of every continent so they could never be punished in such an obvious and effective way again. And yes, kind, honest, innocent people have fallen for many of their tricks. Their downfall, however, is written all over the entire planet. They've been bragging, in code, about their clever accomplishments ever since. They'll never be able to hide all the evidence against them once people learn to read their myths, legends, books, bibles, religions, histories, theories, philosophies, newspapers, magazines, web sites, song lyrics, and fiction for what they are.
The story of the Tower of Babel, as I mentioned, describes one Atlantean way of stopping humans from working together: force people who share a common language to start speaking different languages, kill anyone who doesn't obey, and within a few generations the original language will be forgotten. Along with it will disappear the stories of history. The idea that the history of human civilization extends back only 10,000 years is a pure Atlantean invention, honoring the beginning of their evil plan to reinvent themselves as New Europeans, to live in the New World, and so on. Guess what? There was an old world. Africans, Asians, Nordics, and the brown-skinned Mirian people, who scattered around the world when their own continent was flooded about 40,000 years ago, all hold records of the truth, if the Atlantean royal descendants haven't snuck into their record rooms and destroyed them or stolen them already. The Creator made the human species about four million years ago, as an advanced primate body that would be capable of housing a creatively-willed soul. Before that, the so-called Entity Souls or Creative Souls had lived on Earth in androgynous bodies that were more energy than flesh, for about three million years. Up until seven million years ago, the story goes, Entity Souls were floating around Earth both in a joyful way and a meddlesome way. The Entity Souls themselves had been created around the time of Earth beginning to fill with simple life forms. Earth was not the only planet the Creator had made or put into motion. Entity Souls, begun as a trillion sparks of the Creator's being, are free to explore and interact with all aspects of the universe, and can live physical lives in any of the Entity Soul Vehicles designed by the creator to let us live and learn, feel and fail, until we are satisfied that the soul will always suffer due to the nature of separation and isolation from our source, the Creator.
The birth of Jesus is celebrated by goodhearted Christians today because they feel that Jesus helped the people of the Earth to be more loving unto one another, which feels good to the human soul, a being made of the energy of accepting and appreciating all things, as our true Creator does and is.
Unfortunately, in this one sentence I've just written – 'The birth of Jesus is celebrated by goodhearted Christians today because they feel that Jesus helped the people of the Earth to be more loving unto one another, which feels good to the human soul, a being made of the energy of accepting and appreciating all things, as our true Creator does and is.' – there are many code words that make the Atlanteans feel they control the Earth and are worshiped for it.
'the birth of Jesus' – when Augustus Caesar, after likely murdering all of his own infant sons, decided to proclaim the heirs to his royal throne by adopting his grandsons, Gaius and Lucius, at the time of Lucius' birth
'celebrated' – this means we show our approval of the Atlantean 'stars', their 'celebrities', who often have blond hair, a sign of their success in breeding with the true owners of Europe, the Nordic people, and the large arching nose they have kept as their one cherished piece of proof that they still have Atlantean genes, after having to hide, disguise, or eliminate their reddish-brown skin color, their native Atlantean language, and their culture and rituals
'goodhearted' – we use expressions like this without realizing that the word 'good' is giving approval for the 'gods' of Atlantis, and the concept of love being shown as a heart is a reference to the Atlantean ritual of removing the heart from a living being and eating it (the true 'color' of love, as represented by the heart chakra of the human soul, is green)
'Christians' – every time this word is used, an Atlantean hears the public approval of the mummified kings of Atlantis and their fondness for being dipped in chemicals so they can 'keep' their body in the afterlife, instead of fertilizing the soil like normal people; a Christian is, unfortunately, an 'Anoint-ian', someone who agrees with the Atlanteans' self-proclaimed right to rule people by whatever sick, unnatural methods they choose
'today' – the days of the week and the months of the year have kept the names of ancient myths, rituals, rulers, and numbers because the ancient people who came up with them are still in charge of how we spend our days and even of how we think of time (you can tell you've been brain-washed by Atlanteans if you feel powerless as a person, especially if you feel powerless to decide for yourself how to live your life, and powerless to fight back in order to protect yourself and those you care about)
'Jesus' – the name Lucius Caesar was forced to use, Yesho, when he was pushed by his conspiring Roman family to enter into Jewish culture and to pretend to fulfill the prophesy about a Messiah, meant 'Bowl of Life' in the culture of Jewish magic, thus the search for the Holy Grail is the search to attain a human body capable of performing magic/'natural' miracles such as healing illness, communicating with the dead, possessing inner truth and wisdom, and thus 'getting' fame, wealth, power, and a lasting legacy
note: It also is a play on words, signifying what Jesus' and Christianity's roles would be in the Atlanteans' scheme. 'Yah' was the Egyptian name for the Moon God, which represented the feminine energy, originally. 'Shua' was a Babylonian name for the Sky God, which was the Mirian (and later the ancient Turkish) idea of the Creator as having the sky for its face, and the sun and the moon as its eyes. Therefore, 'Yesho' being altered into Yahshua was a statement that he would be used as an alternative to the aggressively male energy of the sun-worshiping Romans. Christianity is feminine (passive, nurturing, and receptive) with a large helping of the original Mirian spiritual understandings. Because of this, Christianity can be a wonderfully healing source of wisdom and truth. The name Jesus was further altered through Greek, Latin, and finally English. Interestingly, its final form is made by alternating sounds from 'Julius' and 'Caesar', i.e., J + aes (eez) +us = Jesus.
'loving' – the true translation of the English word 'love' is 'the Great Work of the Father-God of the (Royal) House (of Atlantis)', from the concept of the egg containing all of life, a metaphor for the life's work of a great person; altered after 'Jove', which is short for Jove-pater or Jupiter, meaning God-Father; combined with the Nordic word for 'roof', as in, the Atlanteans covered themselves with white skin to shelter themselves from everyone's hatred, and instead became the beloved rulers of Europe
As shocking as it may be for any previously unaware person to begin to grasp the massive impact the Atlanteans have had on the modern world, it's important to keep in mind that there is a limit to their power. Every time a baby is born, the truth of its human nature and the nature of its soul is contained within it. The Atlanteans may try to poison it, scare it, fool it, damage it, or destroy it, but they can't take human nature out of humans. Every human has the ability to do one amazingly powerful thing: Be silent. It's that simple. Just for a moment, when you're in a quiet place. If a person simply becomes still, then breathes slowly and deeply, an odd thing will happen. They will calm down, be able to know without thinking, and feel something that can't be described with words but is so wonderful and limitless and pure: the human soul.
As all Entity Souls come from the same original energy within the Creator, there is no difference in the 'substance' of the kindest person's soul and the cruelest person's soul. We are here to become trapped in lives that fool us into learning all sorts of difficult lessons we would have avoided otherwise (as souls floating around in the cosmic cosmos of benevolence) and to see if, before we die, we can find our way back to the truth!
In the words of Jesus, we may not be hearing God or a god or even a great person speaking. But if we listen with our souls, we might just hear that however his life was used when he was alive and has been used since his physical death, he was a human struggling to do the right thing in a world that made that very difficult indeed. How many rich people give away all their money because they choose to live simply, in touch with the Earth? How many beautiful celebrities set down their make-up and hairspray and luxurious clothing, because they want to live honestly as they truly are?
When Jesus is asked by the Jews if they should pay the taxes Caesar is demanding, which goes completely against the rules of their religion, or refuse to pay in protest and risk their own destruction, Jesus answers that they should give what is Caesar's (a coin with Caesar's picture stamped on it) to Caesar, and give to God what is God's.
This statement quickly led the Jewish leaders to declare him a fraud and demand for him to be sentenced to death as a political criminal, because they were assuming the Messiah would have a better answer than 'Don't worry, be happy.' Whether he actually died on a cross, or was just put up by his fellow Romans for show, then taken down while still alive and sent off to a distant land once he'd healed, the important fact is that his being on the cross was a sign of his refusal to incite a war for the sake of being successful as a impostor Messiah. The reason why the Catholic church has kept Lucius Caesar up on that cross all these years, starving, naked, and bleeding, is because he really, really disappointed them. All he had to do was say, Refuse to pay! Your religion is worth dying for! Declare war!
Instead he said quietly, You know what? Money doesn't matter. It's just a stupid illusion. A piece of metal with a picture, a name, and a number. It's as pretend as this stupid religion. Nothing is worth killing for. Nothing is even worth telling one lie for. I'm done. The Creator knows what's real. The soul knows what's real. Done is done.
He was stressed-out and tired of living a lie, throwing up his hands in painful exasperation at the crushing conflict in genuinely wanting to help people find spiritual truth while having to hide the truth of who he really was: Lucius Caesar, the second-born grandson of Augustus, forced by his family, by an entire lost continent of folks who don't know when to quit, to con his way onto a throne that didn't belong to him.
An interesting thing happened after the crucifiction. Gaius and Lucius got themselves written into 'The History of the British Kings' as, you guessed it, British kings. Ludus and Cassivalaunus were living in a castle with their wives and families when, years later, Julius Caesar showed up to invade Britain. The timing of this isn't quite right, of course, as Julius Caesar was Augustus Caesar's great-uncle (though Julius made Augustus his chosen successor by adopting him as his son). But let's guess that the man who owns the printing press can change a date or two in the history books.
Cassivalaunus or Cass (Gaius) is the elder and Ludus or Lud (Lucius) is the younger. They are both in their forties, and are either far away from Rome through their choosing or because they have been assigned to rule over Britain. Either way, what follows is understandable as a basic family drama that might occur years after a father or grandfather forced his sons to go into the crooked family business, with terrible results. Lud refuses to see him. Cass wants to kill him. Lud's teenaged son, perhaps bored of living on a damp and dreary island, overhears his father and uncle talking, and races to warn his grandfather (or great-grandfather) that Cass is going to kill him. Caesar prepares himself, and when a furious Cass attacks him, it's Caesar's guards who fight him off, injuring but not killing him. Cass manages to take Caesar's gold sword, according to legend, but dies of his wounds within a week or two. Caesar gives up trying to talk to his bitter sons and heads for home, Lud's son joining him, apparently tempted by the power and wealth waiting for yet another generation of Atlanteans to seize and enjoy.
And that's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.


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Love those shoes. I guess this was the day for currently posts too! I see a few of my favorite reads all posted currently posts today :). Great minds! Our town pools close except for the weekends next Friday!!! Can you believe that. Which is just one more reason why we will go back to school. If we're going to be stuck inside we might as well do something.ReplyDelete
I think summer has a way of getting us behind on all the hobby type things, reading and blogging. Too much! Not enough hours in the day. Love the slides! And the water camera.ReplyDelete
I hear you on wishing your hubby could take more days off with you in the summer- I was just telling my husband he needs to take some days off asap!ReplyDelete
I like the shoes! I am thinking of writing my first "currently" post next week...ReplyDelete
Love those sandals! And having a pool makes all the difference!ReplyDelete
I'm feeling so behind too! Its not a feeling I like so its really stressing me out! Not helpful as Kinsey goes back to school in a week(!!!) and I'm trying to get her into bed earlier and adjust my sleeping schedule also, aggghhhh! There just isn't enough time in the day ;)ReplyDelete
I feel SO BEHIND too. Always behind. Like now, I think this post was from yesterday or technically, for you now, 2 days ago. I don't know what happened this week, but I'm just so behind. I feel terrible about it too, but I guess when life calls, something has to go on the back burner. I feel like I just need a week to catch up on things in general.ReplyDelete
I understand the feeling of being behind. I cannot keep up with my blog, reading others and cleaning the house and all the memorybook/babybook I want to work on! Three is not enough hours in the day! haha!ReplyDelete
I so want an underwater camera! And I'm a huge PLL fan too!ReplyDelete
I am with you on being behind. I actually just marked every single post read in Bloglovin' and plan to pick 5-10 blogs and just read their posts because my list was at 73 and I don't have time for all of that.ReplyDelete
Love this post and found myself nodding in agreement to so many of them! I am so behind, too! I am trying to spend this morning catching up on blogs and then I will tackle my email. I am loving your underwater camera photos. Pretty Little Liars - love that show! Did it not come on last week? I started watching PLL when it first came on! I usually watch it while Nate is at work, but watched an episode while he was out fishing one evening. He came in, looked at the tv and says "Do they not know who A is by now??" I just cracked up laughing!ReplyDelete
Also, do you have a process that you use for finding music for slideshows? I feel like I am always racking my brain to come up with songs. Sometimes I listen to Pandora for inspiration. Just wondering if you have any little secrets for finding music. ;)ReplyDelete

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Canadian wedding: Tanessa + Sheldon
Two words: Llama farm.
How many weddings include a herd of llamas? Kay, we're focusing on the wrong thing, but we didn't want that little detail to go unnoticed. Tanessa and Sheldon were married in a little wooden church in Cloverdale, British Columbia. And then had their reception at The Barn on The Mountain in Abbotsford. It is a stunning barn if we do say so ourselves. On 40 acres with huge wooden doors open to look over the entire valley, anyone who's planning to get married up that way should most definitely check it out.
This wedding just feels so true and so heartfelt. Of course all the weddings we feature are heartfelt, but something about the tiny wooden-walled church, crammed full of close friends and family makes you sit down and pay attention.
Tanessa made her hairpiece and her mom made her veil. Her grandmother made apple pies for the reception and Sheldon's sister Jaylene and cousin Jody arranged the flowers they purchased from a local dahlia farm.
And now if this isn't the most epic DIY project ever, not sure what is… Tanessa (with the help of her friend Monica) designed the programs to look like a classic novel. She spent months collecting old novels and used their covers to bind the programs. Such a beautiful idea!
So in love with this intimate photo of their ceremony. They had a bunch of friends serve as musicians and everyone sang old gospel songs that Tanessa and Sheldon chose. Amazing.
Llamas!!! (Or maybe alpacas? We don't know the difference).
They decorated their reception tables with old books and antique picture frames filled with black and white photos of their family heritage.
Beautiful venue…
So pretty, you two! The sentiment really comes through. And those programs are unbelievable. Congratulations!!!
Photography: James Moes (you can see lots more photos on his blog) / Ceremony venue: Historic Christ Church / Reception venue: The Barn on The Mountain / Catering: Savoury Chef / Band: The Sumner Brothers
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Janice on Dec 9, 2009
That is one beautiful wedding--the photos are stunning + so intimate. L-O-V-E the wedding programs--such a wonderful touch. This is a beautiful part of the country. When one drives through here in the summer months it is filled with a lushness that is hard to describe. Janice
Lara on Dec 9, 2009
the flowers are amazing! i'm in love with the colors. gorgeous!
Shayna on Dec 9, 2009
Alpacas! They got married on an alpaca farm! I am SO IN LOVE with this idea that I'm not really sure what to do with myself. The knitter and the bride in me are at long last thrilled about the same thing!
Ashley on Dec 9, 2009
Love this wedding!!! What a stunning dress. And the bouquets are amazing... dahlias are my absolute fave. How great that she bound all the programs; that is a great keepsake.
Heather on Dec 9, 2009
What an amazing wedding! I love the gospel singing, the kneeling and walking through their friends raised hands. What a unique wondrous occasion! Love it!
Lisa Marie on Dec 9, 2009
Stunning. One of the loveliest I have seen lately. Really like the family heritage framed photos scattered throughout the reception. Wonderful! p.s....Alpacas are sweet, gentle, shy creatures who, fittingly, prefer to be with at least one other & never alone. Perfect! Thank you for sharing & congrats to Tanessa & Sheldon!
Meg @ Sienna Wedding on Dec 9, 2009
Very cool wedding! Also, congrats on being #1 blog in Brides magazine, that's awesome!
magnolia on Dec 9, 2009
gorgeous. where did those bridesmaid's dresses come from?
Annie Nilsson on Dec 9, 2009
Oh! what a wonderful wedding! So many genuinely lovely details. I love love the programs. And having everybody sing gospel songs... the only word I can come up with for that is joyous.
laura on Dec 9, 2009
love the shot with the yellow cardigan
[email protected] Belle Bride on Dec 9, 2009
The details on her dress are so pretty! PS CONGRATS - Just saw your shout out in Brides magazine! yay!
jen jafarzadeh on Dec 9, 2009
such a sweet wedding! that program idea is amazing! reminds me of this restaurant in paris where I ate that had their menus in vintage books. these photos are fantastic!
kara s. on Dec 9, 2009
what a fun idea!! i love the fun details, I made the same bridesmaid dress for a wedding that i was in recently!! such a exquisite pattern!
ruthyg on Dec 9, 2009
I am in love with these photographs...my favorite is the ceremony one where they are kneeling...just breathtaking
Camille @ STYLE NOTES on Dec 9, 2009
That is truly one of the most gorgeous hair pieces I've ever laid eyes on... Tanessa, you are an artist! So elegant.
boone on Dec 9, 2009
looks fantastic james!
Ati @ Gekd Boutique on Dec 9, 2009
Those programs are just fabulous! I ♥ those so.
Chocolate Butterbean on Dec 9, 2009
Oh, wow - that all looks amazing. Looks like the kind of wedding I'd want to attend! Those programs are perfection and you can really see their heart in all of the details and the fellowship in the beautiful pictures.
Pensacola Beach weddings on Dec 10, 2009
Everything about this wedding was beautiful. I love the inscription about their parents. That was so touching. And the alpacas were cute. Or was it llamas? The promenade thru the outstretched hands looked like fun.
Molly on Dec 10, 2009
where are those green bridesmaids dresses from? love them!
Timeless Pearls on Dec 10, 2009
This could not be anymore beautiful.
kara s. on Dec 10, 2009
molly, the one with the ruffled collar is simplicity pattern #2497 its pure gorgeous!! http://www.simplicity.com/p-3055-misses-dresses.aspx
kara s. on Dec 10, 2009
molly- i think that i found the other one too!! they are gorgeous!! also a simplicity pattern!! http://www.simplicity.com/p-1545-misses-dresses.aspx
koozies on Dec 11, 2009
It seems that U had a wonderful and marvelous wedding which every girl wish to reach
Bali Beach Bunny on Dec 11, 2009
wow, this is one of the best the wooden church, the misty air, the casual aisle walk and cool hat of the groom retro fabulous seriously, this wedding, and this blog ROCKS thanks for giving me so much inspiration for my restaurant in bali can't wait to get open and hold wedding parties there grrrrrr
Lele on Dec 14, 2009
The photography is so far and above what you usually see with wedding photography
Lele on Dec 14, 2009
Outstanding photography!
bret cole on Dec 14, 2009
absolutely love this wedding!! and James Moes did a wonderful job capturing it!! so sweet...
Dina on Dec 14, 2009
i loved these photos! so much love and genuine feeling in them!
Christine on Dec 14, 2009
Gorgeous venue!
Ashley on Dec 14, 2009
I am more than excited that this is a local wedding for me! I live seven minutes away from the reception venue. I think I'll be copying this entire wedding! It is truly more beautiful than any of the ones I've seen on some of the other wedding blogs. There is so much personality, and uniqueness. It is sensational!
Grand Palladium Lady Hamilton Weddings on Dec 16, 2009
A very unique and well-thought out wedding celebration.
Nicocracle Photography on Dec 21, 2009
Please, please. PLEASE tell us who made her wedding dress... I am so in love with that dress!
wedding on Dec 29, 2009
Wow, this wedding is definitely an original, simply gorgeous!
Megan Dunham on Dec 29, 2009
Where did you get your wedding dress - it's beautiful!
Amber on Jan 1, 2010
I have looked at this wedding over and over since you first posted it. I believe it is my favorite of all the weddings I have read about or attended. There is an intimacy and trueness to this love. It is obvious there is a family of support around them. I love the photo of the groom excitedly greeting a friend as he comes down the aisle and of the family praying over the couple. This is not a show, this is a ceremony. And gospel hymns, amazing. Thank you
Leah on Jan 12, 2010
Any chance of finding out the binding process on the programs? They are lovely and would very much like to copy!! :)
JESSICA on Jan 18, 2010
Erika Unbehaun on Jan 25, 2010
I'm loving the dahlia bouquet. They're great for a fun, loving and vibrant bride.
kim on Jan 27, 2010
Dahlias are one of our favorites! They're gorgeous and so perfect for summer brides here in the Northwest. We grow stunning dahlias locally!
Destin Beach Wedding on May 1, 2010
Thanks for the beautiful wedding pictures, love the hair piece..
Kim on Jan 30, 2012
Wow, beautiful wedding and photography! I am very curious about this is reception venue as Im looking into some venues for my own wedding. The link "The Barn on the Mountain" doesnt connect. Anyone know?
David on Mar 14, 2012
What a cool place. The Barn on the mountain. How can I find out more about this venue. Just got engaged and would love to get merried at this place. Can't find any web sight please help! Thanks Dave
Kiyomi on Jun 26, 2012
I love the venue! Any chance you can pass on the details for the barn? It is just what we're looking for!
mardz on Sep 14, 2012
i love the venue. can you give me more details about it if you have any? much appriciated... thanks
michelle on Feb 5, 2013
where exactly is this location? adress website under construction. photography is amazing


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Not close, no cigar: When the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine met in Paris on Monday in the so-called Normandy Format, they didn't get very far. The talks did not yield a much-desired immediate agreement to an expanded ceasefire zone, nor a concrete commitment by Russia to disarm Kremlin-backed militants, report David Herszenhorn and Rym Momtaz.
(Tiny) steps forward: Instead, the leaders recommitted themselves to an existing ceasefire, and agreed to work on three new areas for troop withdrawals and to continue de-mining efforts. In perhaps their most concrete steps, they called for opening new crossing points along the line of contact within 30 days, and to work toward a new prisoner exchange by the end of this year.
Landing zone: "We have totally opposing views with the Russian Federation president," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a late-night press conference. Read the full details from David and Rym here.
ANOTHER UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTION: The EU's new top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has urged EU foreign ministers to up their game. In a letter, seen by POLITICO, Borrell wrote that as "we see the rebirth of geostrategic competition," notably between China, Russia and the U.S., the EU "has the option of becoming a player, a true geostrategic actor, or being mostly the playground."
What does that mean to Borrell? "First and foremost, we must anchor solidly the Western Balkans within the EU." Jacopo Barigazzi has more on the letter, sent ahead of Borrell's first Foreign Affairs Council in his new role on Monday. He also has an update on the results of said meeting: The EU is to prepare a Magnitsky-style human rights sanctions regime.
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EXPECTATIONS VS. REALITY: Brussels is in a pre-summit and pre-Green Deal mood. But expectations for both events may be higher than what they will be able to deliver, due to a crucial but mutually unfavorable interdependence.
It's about the money, money: Wednesday's Commission announcements (first in Parliament, then in the press room) of how the EU is going to go about dealing with climate change depend heavily on how much money leaders will eventually agree to disburse during the next seven-year budget cycle starting in 2021 — and they just won't agree on that on Thursday. Diplomats expect that everybody will read out their well-known positions again during the European Council meeting, but real negotiations have yet to begin.
Climate conundrum: Which puts into question even the one potential success of the EU summit: an attempt to agree on the EU's collective aim to be climate neutral by 2050. Poland and its likeminded buddies say they need financial help to achieve that goal — but any promises to that regard would mean everybody else committing to a part of the EU's next Multiannual Financial Framework ahead of crunch time.
Here's your homework: Try to square that circle. If you send your formula to Charles Michel, do CC Playbook.
PREPARE FOR A LONG DAY: EU affairs ministers will likely spend quite some time together today, as all their best-selling issues are on the agenda: preparation for the European Council in general, and the MFF in particular. Then, there's also the rule of law.
Two hours on Hungary: A formal hearing of Hungary's government is foreseen as part of the laborious Article 7 process, which hasn't led anywhere so far in Hungary's case in particular — actually, there were fresh protests as recently as Monday as the government moved to what was perceived as an attempt to censor Budapest's famous theater scene. Reuters has more. About half an hour will be dedicated to Poland's (more advanced) case, according to diplomats.
BUT BACK TO BRUSSELS: Hungarian hopes and expectations that under the new Commission and with Frans Timmermans both removed and freed from his old portfolio, the affair might be dropped, may be premature. The Commission's Věra Jourová will attend her first General Affairs Council today in her new role as the vice president tasked with work on the rule of law — and she told Playbook that "this does not mean a new start."
A note to Warsaw and Budapest: "The processes initiated by the previous Commission including Article 7 and infringements will continue, and this is what I intend to discuss at today's debate," she said. "My message will be clear: The rule of law is our foundation and can never be compromised." She added that she'd like to hear from both Warsaw and Budapest as "some recent news we received [is] quite concerning — so I expect to hear how the governments intend to implement the rulings of the European Court of Justice or, in case of the Polish government, the ruling of their Supreme Court."
Turning upside down the Polish argument that the government is only rectifying remnants of the country's communist past, Jourová said that the "politicization of the judiciary or giving unchecked powers to individuals in power today is very dangerous. My part of Europe — Central and Eastern Europe — have tried that before 1989 and my generation remembers that this does not restore the feeling of justice among society — on the contrary."
The way forward, as announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: An annual "rule of law mechanism" covering all EU countries — Poland, Hungary, and everybody else, too. In a mid-term perspective, "I would like to see a mature debate about the rule of law with all the European countries," Jourová told Playbook. "Our mission would be to strengthen the prevention aspects, so we don't start discussions when the problems are big, but when they are still in a nascent form."
MEANWHILE, IN MALTA: Protestors blocked access to Malta's government building for five hours on Monday, demanding the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. The Times of Malta has more, including pics and video.
And in Brussels: The "Maltese community" is holding a protest on (Council Summit) Thursday in front of Valletta's permanent representation.
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FIGHTING CANCER: "Cancer is no longer just the responsibility of the health sector," Commissioner Stella Kyriakides will say today during her first speech on cancer since taking office, at a conference organized in Parliament. She is going to issue a call for "all hands on deck," according to her prepared notes, seen by Playbook.
Here's a date for your diary: "On 4 February — World Cancer Day — we will start a discussion on Europe's cancer plan," Kyriakides will say, adding that she wants the discussion to be "as inclusive as possible" — meaning that the disease cannot only be tackled in the laboratory or in the doctor's surgery. "It must also addressed in schools, in the workplace, through public health policies, and with healthy lifestyle choices."
DOWN THE VALUE CHAIN: The Commission's competition authority approved plans to funnel billions of euros of public cash into a multi-country battery project — part of an effort to set up an industry that can compete with dominant Asian producers. The aim is to keep an important part of the added-value of electric cars in Europe — and it may even be a preview of more to come in a future industrial strategy.
Many parents: "We have found the right recipe for our 21st century industrial policy," said Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič, who saw his baby, an EU battery alliance, take its first steps. The plan to promote battery cell production in Europe, which turned into a project for the who's who of European industry, builds on a Franco-German initiative from economy ministers Bruno Le Maire and Peter Altmaier, and needed (and got) state-aid blessing from Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager.
Stay tuned: There might very well be a second one of those mega-alliances announced, known to state aid geeks as a project of common interest schemes, very soon. The prospective for those two projects to get the Commission's blessing was the one glimmer of hope during an otherwise pretty gloomy conference of the automotive suppliers' industry in Brussels last week.
There was more for Altmaier and Le Maire to be happy about: It's about time Brussels reviews its rulebook on market definition, Vestager said on Monday. That will be music to the ears of those who have asked the EU to take a more global view of competition cases. But Vestager warned that the Siemens-Alstom merger, which she blocked earlier this year, is "a very poor example" of why the review is being conducted.
Further reading: Josh Posaner and Hanne Cokelaere have the details of the battery project for you; and POLITICO Competition, Mobility and Tech Pros can read more about Vestager's statements here and here courtesy of our new competition reporter, Giorgio Leali.
SPANISH UPDATE: Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez is looking to the far left in an attempt to break the country's political gridlock. But his attempts to paper over his differences with Podemos could backfire, writes Guy Hedgecoe.
NOT AT THE TABLE: Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the U.K.'s general election is happening on Thursday, Boris Johnson will not attend the European Council summit in Brussels — and nor will he send an official or envoy in his place.
PODCAST DU JOUR: There's a special edition of POLITICO's EU Confidential podcast devoted to the U.K. general election. The podcast crew runs through the likely scenarios and what they would mean for the U.K. and the EU, plus there's an on-the-ground report from a battleground constituency and a breakdown of digital campaigning.
COMEDY ELECTION ADS: Johnson has one thing on his mind ahead of the ballot. (Where he could have possibly gotten the idea from?) Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, is all about the mean tweets.
GETTING SCOTCHED: Once dominant in Scotland, the Labour Party is headed for a near wipe out, reports Jamie Maxwell.
WAKE ME UP WHEN DECEMBER ENDS: Think this election will spell the end for the U.K.'s Brexit civil war? Think again, writes Otto English. "It's hard to fully grasp the scale of acrimony that now exists in the British Isles. The result of the EU referendum seeps into everything. Brexit has turned family members and friends against each other. It suffocates the news. The country has not been so divided since the days of Oliver Cromwell, and nobody is going to kiss and make up any time soon."
YOU DOPES: The World Anti-Doping Agency slapped Russia with a four-year ban from international sports, including the Olympics, after Moscow was accused of manipulating athletes' doping records and falsifying drug lab data. More details from our resident sports fan Ali Walker.
NEW JOB: Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton has hired fellow Frenchman Valère Moutarlier, a director of the European Commission's Taxation and Customs directorate-general, to lead his Cabinet, a Commission official told POLITICO's Laura Kayali.
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The standard approach to monitoring and analysis work is largely transferable from one company to the next. The basics are straightforward—setting up search terms and monitoring keywords, assessing content that is pulled in, and determining things like sentiment and messaging within identified content.
There are some industries that present additional challenges for monitoring and analysis work, either because they are highly technical, or they have a wide array of stakeholders and target audiences to consider, or they are global and operate in a number of countries, which adds to monitoring and analysis complexity.
The energy industry, broadly speaking, matches all three of these challenging conditions. There are complex interactions between differing audiences, because many energy companies are both consumer brands and wholesale suppliers. Fossil fuel and nuclear industries have vocal environmental critics, but alternative energy sources have critics too. Balancing reputational and shareholder expectations can also be challenging. There are regulatory considerations to take into account, along with site concerns, and all forms of energy are developed using highly technical engineering processes that can be difficult to communicate clearly in layman's terms.
The first challenge: search terms
Technical fields, like science, engineering, and medicine have an interesting challenge at the outset: the terms they commonly use in-house are not often the same words or phrases used by the media or general public. In these situations, a two-pronged approach to designing good search terms is best. First, develop a list of search terms of issues that need to be monitored. Then, set aside time for a manual "reverse" search—read articles and blog posts about those topics and see how similar phrases are being used by the public and media. Commonly used industry-specific acronyms are a great example—go to an energy company website, and you'll likely find an alphabet soup of acronyms that make perfect sense to anyone in the industry—but few outside of it.
Your monitoring objectives need to accurately map to the types of publications you will be searching. The best way to ensure that you'll find what you need is to use the forwards-and-backwards method of designing search terms mentioned above.
The second challenge: using sentiment measurement effectively
Sentiment analysis is one of the most commonly used baseline measurements. It's fairly straightforward and easy to understand, and automated analysis is improving in accuracy, making it an attractive metric for time-pressed communications professionals. There are several issues with measuring sentiment in the energy industry, especially when including social platform data:
- Negative perceptions arising from a news story about one company often mention the entire industry, with no mention of varying policies or behaviors of other actors in the same space;
- Some energy firms are highly diversified, and negative perceptions of one line of business with positive perceptions of another line can confuse sentiment results;
- High-profile issues bring forth strong opinions, with defenders and opponents battling online, causing volume spikes and wildly varying degrees of sentiment, making baseline analysis difficult; and
- Sentiment can be difficult to assess for different communications aspects of the business. CSR efforts, public affairs programs, and investor communications target different audiences, so sentiment is sometimes being assessed through multiple lenses.
There are a couple of approaches that can address the above issues. One is a simple solution—have different monitoring accounts for different objectives. This provides each communications strategy the flexibility to assess sentiment in a manner that is consistent with how they view the clip.
If multiple accounts are not an option, another way to view sentiment is by looking not just at the raw sentiment data, but how volatile sentiment is. A monitoring tool that allows for a custom scale of sentiment, such as a five-scale (positive, somewhat positive, neutral, somewhat negative, negative) or even a seven-scale (add very positive and very negative to either end of the five-scale) is helpful for this type of measurement. A change that can show how the volatility of sentiment is either declining or increasing is potentially more useful than just knowing the percentages of positive and negative sentiment.
The third challenge: global scope
Energy companies have some of the farthest-reaching issues of any industry—their concerns literally are spread the whole world over. From exploration and discovery to geopolitical issues to global commodities markets, the energy industry exists as part of a complex web of interdependent forces.
Consider this: an event that affects the supply chain of oil in one country can lead to a surge in the per-barrel cost in the global commodities market, which can then spark an interest in investing in renewables as a hedge against price spikes. This in turn can lead to increased demand for wind turbines or photovoltaic panels. Adding in factors like tracking international treaties to reduce emissions, restrictions on nuclear energy production due to waste disposal concerns, trade, and strife in energy producing regions and it's not hard to see how the mountain of information that energy companies must keep on top of can present a monitoring challenge.
The need to keep abreast of regional news in not just the countries in which a company operates, but also in countries that could have an impact presents an enormous analytical challenge. Expertise in the industry should be paired with language fluency to get the most comprehensive analysis. This is sometimes addressed by having local expertise within the company, paired with regional analysts at corporate headquarters—and there are probably as many paths to address this issue as there are global energy companies.
Meeting these challenges
One way to address these challenges is to break up the monitoring and analysis into manageable chunks. This can work to an extent, but also brings with it the potential to operate in informational silos. A comprehensive picture is difficult to come by when working off of multiple resources deployed across the company. Another way is to pull the most critical elements together—this is more comprehensive, but could miss some detail.
Energy companies determining what the best fit is for their situation should consider the elements listed above when looking for a monitoring and analysis solution that is as comprehensive as they need, with the detail that they may want to have on hand.
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President Donald J. Trump has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President Donald J. Trump, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office.
By David Swanson, FireDonaldTrump.org August 28, 2017


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Message in a Bottle Game
- Learning toy with bottle, wax, and cork
- Notes and instructions in nautical graphics
- 8 X 2 1/2 X 2 1/2 inches
Known to have traveled half the globe, message bottles are still sought out by young and old. This message in a bottle kit comes with bottle, message, cork, and a map of the currents to see where your message may go. A fun learning project and toy for your little explorer.
In the early 20th century, it was common for children, some as young as four, to work in America's factories, mines, fields, canneries, and tenement sweatshops. In 1910, children under the age of 15 made up 18.4 percent of the nation's workforce. Outraged reformers began a campaign to end child labor in the United States. By 1915 , several states had passed child labor laws. Congress twice enacted legislation that the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional. A constitutional amendment restricting child labor passed Congress in 1924, but the necessary number of states failed to approve the amendment. In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed, prohibiting most children under age 16 from working in industry. Agricultural and domestic labor were excluded.
More information about child labor can be found within records of rights, a National Archives permanent exhibit, following the history of the ongoing struggle of Americans to define, attain, and protect their rights.


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CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson wide receiver Justyn Ross had surgery Friday for a congenital fusion in his spine that will keep him off the field this upcoming season.
Ross said on social media that the operation "went great" and he was ready to get to work to return to football.
Ross was hurt in March during spring workouts with what looked like a shoulder injury. But X-rays revealed that two vertebrae in his spine were fused and he had a bulging disc, according to Clemson coach Dabo Swinney.
Ross is a 6-foot-4 sophomore from Phenix City, Alabama led the Tigers with 66 catches last season for 865 yards and eight touchdowns. He was expected to become Clemson's featured receiver after Tee Higgins left for the NFL after this past season.
Ross first made his mark as a freshman, catching 12 passes for 301 yards and three touchdowns in Clemson's two College Football Playoff games on the way to the national championship.
Ross was projected as a top-10 selection in the next NFL draft before the injury.
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Universal Pictures has won a bidding war for "Agent 13," and is finalizing a deal to acquire the red-hot package WME took out this week that has Charlize Theron attached to star and Rupert Wyatt attached to direct from a script by T.S. Nowlin.
Theron will produce the sci-fi action pic with her Denver and Delilah Prods. partner Beth Kono, as well as A.J. Dix, who recently joined the company from Tower Hill Entertainment. Sean Daniel and Jason Brown will produce for the Sean Daniel Company, which is behind Universal's planned reboot of "The Mummy" franchise. Union Entertainment, which reps the rights holders of the source material, will also produce.
Should a deal close, Theron would be back in business with the studio behind her summer tentpole "Snow White and the Huntsman." All of the other major studios except for Disney chased the project.
Story, which is based on an obscure series of novels from the 1980s by David Marconi and Flint Dille, is said to involve an inter-dimensional border patrol. While plot details remain under wraps, sources familiar with the project tell Variety that Theron will not play the title character, who is male.
Coming off strong reviews for her perf in the Denver and Delilah-produced "Young Adult," Theron next stars in Ridley Scott's "Prometheus." Wyatt recently directed the 20th Century Fox blockbuster "Rise of the Apes," while Nowlin is writing "Wild Guns" for Gianni Nunnari's Hollywood Gang Prods.
Universal's next action-adventure pic, "Battleship," is set to open stateside on May 18.
WME reps Theron, Nowlin and Wyatt, who is also repped by Independent Talent Group. Caliber Media manages Nowlin.