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Koskoff is the attorney who successfully sued Remington after a stolen rifle, manufactured by the Remington family of firearms, was used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack

He didn’t win it in court - Remington had a winnable argument but their insurance company caved.

The families don’t likely have a winnable case either, so we can probably expect more legal or insurance clownery - which will always be spun as a big win for gun control………..I mean, “keeping us all safe.”

American jobs - good.

Profits to EU globalists - not good.

U.S.-based companies should get preferential treatment. There are plenty of American shipbuilding companies that aren’t owned by the European Union.

https://www.marineinsight.com/naval-architecture/major-u-s-shipyards/

post #2 - The Third Temple, Freemasons, Jesuits, secret societies

Identical numbers across all four ciphers:

223 is the normal way of writing March 22 in many countries (day/month); March 22 - Knights Templar date.

Skull and Bones, also known as The Order, Order 322 or The Brotherhood of Death, is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

It has also been referred to as Skull and Crossbones.

Order 322 - if we’re wondering where the name comes from (since it’s origin is not explained) - we can identify 3 -2 - 2 —- as the date given in 1312 AD that the Knights Templar ceased to exist. March 22…3/22…322.

The influence of both the Templars and Hospitallers, separate or combined - was significant.

The Wikipedia entry for the Knights Hospitaller was also edited yesterday - same as the entry for the Templars. Oh well. The excerpt below is one I posted on 4/28. It’s been deleted from Wikipedia.

The Hospitallers and the Knights Templar became the most formidable military orders in the Holy Land.

Many of the more substantial Christian fortifications in the Holy Land were built by the Templars and the Hospitallers. At the height of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other estates in the area.

The previous entries for both orders - at least on 4/28 - did mention the other order. Neither entries now - Templars and Hospitallers - mention the other, even though it appears they worked closely together. I guess this doesn’t fit the mainstream narrative…

I believe that the Gaza floating pier was built not for humanitarian aid, but for reasons having to do with building the Third Temple.

The other key point is that The Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller clearly influenced the Freemasons, Jesuits and other secret societies like the Bavarian Illuminati - out of which it is believed the Skull and Bones order formed.

During this time of war and unrest in Israel, we can look at the histories of these secretive and powerful orders, and perhaps get some insight as to what might be in store. The fact that the histories are being whitewashed in the mainstream - isn’t a good sign.

As for the Freemasons and the Third Temple, we might conclude that they will have influence - since their history is building - and they have plausible roots in the Holy Land.

We're going to see more symbolism related to the building of the Temple in the months ahead.

It is plausible that what’s going on now in Israel/Gaza has prophetic meaning - and has to do with the building of the Third Temple.

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

from Chabad.org

Gematria in Kabbalistic and Chassidic texts

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

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

Gematria and numerology point us in a direction relating the Gaza floating pier to Jerusalem and the Third Temple.

The estimated final cost for the project is$ 320 million. Jerusalem and Templars equal 32 in the Reduction cipher. They also match in the Ordinal cipher.

Fraught with logistical, weather and security challenges, the pier project — expected to cost $320 million —

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a French military order of the Catholic faith, and one of the wealthiest and most popular military orders in Western Christianity. They were founded c. 1119, headquartered on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and existed for nearly two centuries during the Middle Ages. The order ended on 22 March 1312 .

The Hamas attack took place during the Supernova music festival.

from an Oct 10, 2023 BBC article:

Supernova festival: How massacre unfolded from verified video and social media
10 October 2023 By Sean Seddon, Joshua Cheetham & Benedict Garman,BBC Verify

They had gathered in a remote area of southern Israel for the Supernova festival - an event that had promised dance, music, art and drinks at a secret location.

Back to the Templars...

On April 28 I posted a reply on a thread about healthcare. My reply was about the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar. On that day the excerpt below was at Wikipedia:

Knights Templar: Active c. 1119 - c. 22 March 1312.

After their dissolution in 1312, several secret societies formed which eventually evolved into organizations such as the Freemasons and the Reconstituted Order of Christ.

This has been removed from Wikipedia, in fact the page on the Knights Templar was last edited yesterday:

This page was last edited on 21 May 2024, at 13:58 (UTC).

The one posted on 4/28 is likely more accurate, but modern Freemasonry doesn't want to even insinuate that it could have been at least a loosely organized (if not more formal) initiate secret society back when the Templars and Hospitallers were running the Holy Land.

So now the entry contains:

Freemasonry has incorporated the symbols and rituals of several medieval military orders in a number of Masonic bodies since at least the 18th century.

So what's a few hundred years, give or take...

More about the Third Temple, Freemasons, Jesuits and secret societies in post #2

So the pier was built to expedite humanitarian aid to Gaza, because land routes were problematic.

Now the sea route is problematic. No one could have anticipated this. 🤔

In 2024, logistics has become a fine science. The people who control transportation routes and warehousing all over the world are brilliant at making sure things get where they're supposed to - unless there is an accident, natural disaster or a blockade. Now all of a sudden nobody knows what they're doing; in wartime no one looked ahead and saw this coming. Maybe they figured if they kept their fingers crossed it would be ok.

The pier may end up not being temporary; perhaps there will be other uses for it. In fact, humanitarian aid was possibly a pretext to build it, and its real purpose is yet to be revealed.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-05-16/us-military-says-gaza-strip-pier-project-is-completed-aid-to-soon-flow-as-israel-hamas-war-rages-on (May 16)

Because land crossings could bring in all the needed aid if Israeli officials allowed, the U.S.-built pier-and-sea route “is a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist,” said Scott Paul, an associate director of the Oxfam humanitarian organization.

Despite the desire on both sides of this issue to grab headlines, it is one that Judaism continues to struggle with.

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/in-vitro-fertilization-legal-and-ethical-considerations/

There may well be a Jewish legal and ethical distinction between a fertilized egg in a test tube and a fertilized egg in a uterus. The question of the possible independent existence of a zygote has legal import. Jewish law requires the desecration of the Sabbath to preserve the existence of an embryo in the mother’s womb even less than forty days old. If there is no human fetal life outside the uterus, a superfluous fertilized ovum could be disposed of by any means, such as flushing down the drain.

An alternative course of action would be to refrain from supplying nutrients to the ovum, thereby allowing it to perish. One can redefine the question in terms of whether or not an unfertilized egg may be deemed to be of ethical import as potential life. Since the vast majority of unfertilized sperm and eggs are never fertilized and do not constitute new life, only a fertilized ovum might be considered as potential life. If a fertilized ovum were equated with human life, Jewish law would even require the expenditure of substantial sums of money to transport a superfluous fertilized ovum great distances, if necessary, for implantation into a nonovulating woman.

The Committee on Medical Ethics of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York concluded that a fertilized egg not in the womb, but in an environment–the test tube–in which it can never attain viability, does not have humanhood and may be discarded or used for the advancement of scientific knowledge.

It can't be understated that sacred geometry points to the heavens.

Wikipedia

Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) believed in the geometric underpinnings of the cosmos. Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau expressed a belief in the centrality of geometry in 2010: "Lest one conclude that geometry is little more than a well-calibrated ruler – and this is no knock against the ruler, which happens to be a technology I admire – geometry is one of the main avenues available to us for probing the universe. Physics and cosmology have been, almost by definition, absolutely crucial for making sense of the universe. Geometry's role in this may be less obvious, but is equally vital. I would go so far as to say that geometry not only deserves a place at the table alongside physics and cosmology, but in many ways it is the table."

The number 270 has significance in esoteric circles.

When we look at a lot of news stories, we can find names, dates and numbers with symbolic significance.

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

from Chabad.org:

Gematria in Kabbalistic and Chassidic texts

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

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

The phrase UAP Transparency Act equals 270 in the Reverse Ordinal cipher. It's interesting how Tim Burchett's full name equals the two numbers that surround 270 - 269 and 271.

Timothy Floyd Burchett (born August 25, 1964) is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 2nd congressional district, based in Knoxville, serving since 2019.

The 270th day of the year is September 27. It was on that day in 1540 that the Jesuits became an official Catholic order - from a charter granted by Pope Paul III.

Wikipedia:

Ad maiorem Dei gloriam or Ad majórem Dei glóriam, also rendered as the abbreviation AMDG, is the Latin motto of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), an order of the Catholic Church. It means "For the greater glory of God."

The significance of the phrase "squaring the circle" is a little more involved. It is a foundational concept in Freemasonry, both for reasons having to do with geometry, sacred geometry, and more spiritual reasons having to do with striving to perfect the man/Mason.

The fascinating video below at around six minutes gives a better understanding of the concept of 'squaring the circle.'

Squaring The Circle | Pyramids | Freemasons | Hiddin In Plain Sight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cliEsJDzBo

It looks to be an excerpt of the video below - Secrets In Plain Sight By Scott Onstott - It's All By Design - just under 4 hours. It explores how sacred geometry has been used in the building of human civilization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8hlYypDgUI

270 days is kind of interesting.

To accommodate the growing energy needs of the state, Texas must reevaluate the isolation of its power grid and its strategy to provide affordable electricity.

The article conveniently ignores the massively energy-consuming bitcoin mining industry.

The article below is critical of the bitcoin mining industry in Texas, and points out how, when it comes to regulators and government, it's "hands-off."

https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-mining-texas-energy-grid/

Texas residents have complained that industrial-scale bitcoin mines are driving up energy prices and destroying the quality of life of those living nearby. Meanwhile, politicians are demanding clarity over crypto mining’s impact on both the environment and the stability of the ailing Texas energy grid.

The lawsuit is just the latest flareup of a broader fight over bitcoin mining in Texas. Detractors and government agencies trying to understand the industry’s full impact have so far been forced to scrape together only “piecemeal information,” says Adrian Shelley, an energy policy expert and branch director of consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.

The bitcoin mining industry in Texas claims that details of its energy usage are proprietary. To tell you how much power they have over regulators and politicians - the government backed off. ERCOT could easily provide this information - and they don’t want to either.

It may seem harebrained to invite industrial-scale consumers of power onto an already-creaking grid

Why yes it does, regardless of the counterintuitive nonsense that the bitcoin industry tries to peddle.

The state of Texas was sold (or encouraged the sale of) a bill of goods, because bitcoin mining has not provided the “failsafe” that it was supposed to. Its real purpose was to make gobs of money for mining companies, which could then be shared with Texas energy regulators and politicians - all at the expense of the people who live, work and pay taxes there. I bet if we looked into the ownership of those companies, we would find substantial foreign influence, and not just everybody's favorite boogieman, China.

In June 2021, Abbott signed a new law that established a formal legal definition for virtual currency and set clear rules for businesses handling it, which he described as part of a “master plan” to attract crypto firms to the state. The following November, in an interview with the TBC, Abbott declared his intention to turn Texas into the “centerpiece” of the bitcoin industry.

...a long queue of companies, representing around an additional 32 GW of consumption, are either awaiting approval for new mining installations or beginning construction. ERCOT declined to provide up-to-date figures.

The prospect of more miners tapping the Texas grid has sparked concern among stakeholders who believe, variously, that the influx of mining activity will lead to blackouts, increase the price of energy for consumers, drive up carbon emissions, and damage Texans’ quality of life.

Others argue the state’s strategy of paying bitcoin miners not to mine when the grid is under heavy load is nonsensical. “The most important thing a regulator can do is match assets and liabilities—match supply and demand,” says Ed Hirs, an energy fellow at the University of Houston. With the deterioration of the state’s fleet of fossil fuel plants, he says, allowing large-scale mining facilities to increase demand on the grid can only “exacerbate the situation” and invite further instability.

In Texas, claims Hirs, crypto mining is primarily an energy arbitrage business, the profitability of which is dependent on the ability to purchase energy cheaply in bulk and sell it back to the grid at a premium when demand is high. These operations are effectively double-subsidized by residents, says Hirs, whose taxes provide both the funds for buying energy from the miners in periods of peak demand and the fees paid to miners for participating in demand response. Hirs likens miners to parasites, calling them “the tapeworm on the ERCOT grid.”

Before the recent surge in the price of bitcoin, which has made mining more profitable, news reports noted that some firms made more money by switching off and collecting fees when the grid was under pressure than they were through mining bitcoin. In August 2023, when a Texas heatwave led to a surge in energy demand, Riot said it earned $31.7 million through its participation in grid stabilization programs and only around $10 million from mining.

Opponents of inviting more mining facilities into Texas have been stymied by the absence of data showing the extent of the additional burden on the grid. Other than the miners themselves, nobody currently knows quite how much energy is devoted to mining in the state or the wider US. The EIA says it has “developed general estimates,” but can’t piece together an accurate picture due to the “difficulty of identifying cryptocurrency mining activity among millions of US end-use customers.”

This one sounds like a whopper. The U.S. government can get any information it wants, anytime. In 2024, everything, including all electrical grids, are managed and controlled. The information exists somewhere, even if the gov't wants to pretend it doesn't.

Critics of the mining industry have interpreted the move to squash the EIA survey as a cynical attempt to preserve a shroud of secrecy. “The last thing a parasite wants you to know is how bad it is going to become,” says Hirs. But the mining industry says it had every reason to object, as evinced by the sympathy of the judge, who stated in a ruling that the government’s justifications for expediting the survey—that a rise in crypto prices would incentivize more mining activity and, if the weather were to turn, destabilize power grids—“fall far short” of the necessary level of risk.

The bitcoin mining industry has carte blanche - not only in Texas, but everywhere else. It steamrolls into rural areas, compromising quality of life for millions of Americans. It raises electricity rates for consumers, and devours electricity. It ignores the government at no detriment. It's unregulated and untouchable. You really have to wonder why.

The article completely ignores The Beast - a.k.a. the Texas bitcoin mining industry.

On the heels of the hangings of two Iranian women...

https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-hangs-2-women-as-surge-in-executions-intensifies-group-says/7617516.html

No one should be executed for what this young man did. He has the misfortune of living in a country that likes to execute people.

IHR says it has tallied at least 223 executions this year, with at least 50 so far in May. A new surge began following the end of the Persian New Year and Ramadan holidays in April, with 115 people, including six women, hanged since then, it said.

Iran carries out more recorded executions of women than any other country. Activists say many such convicts are victims of forced or abusive marriages.

Iran last year carried out more hangings than in any year since 2015, according to nongovernmental organizations, which accuse the Islamic Republic of using capital punishment to instill fear in the wake of protests that erupted in autumn 2022.

"The silence of the international community is unacceptable," IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam told AFP.

"Those executed belong to the poor and marginalized groups of Iranian society and didn't have fair trials with due process," he said.

The article Klaus Polkehn wrote is sympathetic to the Jewish people, but not to the Zionists who took advantage of them. He makes an argument that the Jewish people - especially the working classes - were left out to dry, both by the Zionists, and by the Jewish upper classes, who could afford making the payments to get out of Germany.

Why were the Jews only allowed to emigrate to Palestine? There were Jewish populations in countries all over the world, and especially in the U.S. - where they would have been safe and free from harm.

If the Zionists wanted to be open and up front about what really transpired during the Nazi regime - they would release the historic documents that are “under lock and key” in Israel.

Antisemitism makes you stupid and traitor spreading literal communist propoganda

Rather than calmly debate this issue, you - like so many, especially here at FR, would rather resort to hyperbolic insults. Which accomplishes nothing.

When people don’t have a rational argument to make about Israel - it always ends up with accusing someone of antisemitism. Every time. How can you accuse someone of antisemitism when they don’t say anything bad about Jewish people…when in fact they are sympathetic to the plight of the many Jews who were ignored by powerful people who decided that instead of being allowed to emigrate, they would perish in the gas chambers?

World history has always been about the struggles of the powerless against the powerful. The story of the Holocaust, the Zionists and Nazi Germany - and all of those who perished because they weren’t given any choices - will never be told in the mainstream. So we have to look for it elsewhere.

As a postscript: when discussing the Holocaust, it is only fair to acknowledge the millions of non-Jews who also perished. From ilholocaustmuseum.org:

It is best when referencing the total number of victims of the Holocaust to say 6 million Jews and millions of others. All Holocaust organizations are making a united move to adhere to this message, and we must maintain a consistent record as a center of Holocaust education.

Put down the communist and Islamist propoganda and learn history.

Good advice. Here's a scholarly, heavily footnoted (partial) history of Zionist complicity with Nazi Germany.

THE SECRET CONTACTS: ZIONISM AND NAZI GERMANY, 1933-1941 / KLAUS POLKEHN

https://archive.org/details/KlausPolkehnTheSecretContacts-ZionismAndNaziGermany1933-1941/mode/2up

Anti-Semitism became official German government policy when Hitler was named Chancellor of the German Reich on January 30, 1933. The spring of 1933 also witnessed the beginning of a period of private cooperation between Zionism and the German fascist regime to increase the inflow of German Jewish immigrants and capital to Palestine. The Zionist authorities succeeded in keeping this cooperation a secret for a long period, and only since the beginning of the 1960's have criticisms of it been expressed here and there. The Zionist reaction has usually consisted of declarations that their onetime contacts with Nazi Germany were undertaken solely to save the lives of Jews. But the contacts were all the more remarkable because they took place at a time when many Jews and Jewish organizations demanded a boycott of Nazi Germany.

To question the reaction of the Zionist movement to German fascism, which in the course of its twelve-year rule murdered millions of Jews, is a taboo in the eyes of the Zionist leaders. Only rarely is it possible to come across authentic evidence or documents concerning these occurrences. The following enquiry consists of information gathered up to this date about some important aspects of the cooperation between the Zionists and the fascists. It remains in the nature of things that this enquiry does not present a complete picture. This can only be possible when the archives (above all those in Israel), in which the documents concerning these events are under lock and key, are made available for scholarly research.

In the spirit of understanding the history of Nazi Germany and how it relates to the current war...

https://archive.org/details/KlausPolkehnTheSecretContacts-ZionismAndNaziGermany1933-1941/mode/2up

THE SECRET CONTACTS: ZIONISM AND NAZI GERMANY, 1933-1941 / KLAUS POLKEHN

Anti-Semitism became official German government policy when Hitler was named Chancellor of the German Reich on January 30, 1933. The spring of 1933 also witnessed the beginning of a period of private cooperation between Zionism and the German fascist regime to increase the inflow of German Jewish immigrants and capital to Palestine. The Zionist authorities succeeded in keeping this cooperation a secret for a long period, and only since the beginning of the 1960's have criticisms of it been expressed here and there. The Zionist reaction has usually consisted of declarations that their onetime contacts with Nazi Germany were undertaken solely to save the lives of Jews. But the contacts were all the more remarkable because they took place at a time when many Jews and Jewish organizations demanded a boycott of Nazi Germany.

To question the reaction of the Zionist movement to German fascism, which in the course of its twelve-year rule murdered millions of Jews, is a taboo in the eyes of the Zionist leaders. Only rarely is it possible to come across authentic evidence or documents concerning these occurrences. The following enquiry consists of information gathered up to this date about some important aspects of the cooperation between the Zionists and the fascists. It remains in the nature of things that this enquiry does not present a complete picture. This can only be possible when the archives (above all those in Israel), in which the documents concerning these events are under lock and key, are made available for scholarly research.

It will bring identity theft to a whole new level.

This should be called, “How to rig an election outcome to give an incumbent who loses an additional 2 years in office”

The SNAP recipients I know are elderly, disabled, or both. The program is a lifeline for them.

Too bad that systemic fraud is rampant, because it turns people away from understanding the need for public assistance. Limited public assistance - is a workable idea, providing the rules are followed and enforced.

You stay behind your keyboard and leave reality to real men

Now you’re an expert on “real men?” 🤣

like your comrades….those tough guys in the video? The ones holding up a woman’s lingerie? Or the ones stealing jewelry…?

I guess you’re going to bring that monumental intellect of yours with you. Too bad - we’ll have to do without your clever replies and repartee. ☹️