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Brexit ‘still hammering’ UK food and drinks exports, report shows – The National

Posted: June 3, 2022 at 12:20 pm

BREXIT is hammering theeconomyat the worst possible time, theSNPhave said in response to figures revealing a significant drop in food and drink exports.

A report released by the Food and Drink Federation on Wednesday showed that exports to the EU in the first quarter of the year are down by 17.3% more than 600 million on the same period in 2019.

Salmon has been hit especially hard, the figures show, with a drop of 25%. Whisky, however, is performing strongly, with an increase of 9.7%.

Exports to the rest of the world have increased since 2019 by 10.7%. However, this gain (around 222m) is not enough to cover the losses made on trade with the EU post-Brexit (around 628m).

Comparing the first quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2019 overall, UK exports of food and drink are down by 7%. However, imports from the EU have actually increased by 13.3%.

The SNP's shadow secretary for environment, food and rural affairs, Deidre Brock MP, said: "The damage of the Tories' extreme Brexit knows no bounds with new figures revealing a plunge in food and drink exports to the EU in just the first three months of this year alone compared to the same period in 2019.

"Brexit is continuing to hammer households and businesses at the worst possible time - with Scotland and the UK being hit with rising food prices, increased paperwork and delays, and drop in exports.

"While scandal-ridden Boris Johnson attempts to distract the public with pounds and ounces, the reality is that Scotland's world-leading food and farming sector is being sold out and Brexit continues to cost our economy.

"The only way for Scotland to escape the long-term damage of Brexit is to become an independent country and re-join the EU and the biggest single trading bloc one which is seven times bigger than the UK market."

The UK Government has been approached for comment.

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Explainer: France’s Brexit residency cards and foreign travel – The Connexion

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Travelling with a WA (Withdrawal Agreement) Brexit residency card can bring some minor issues or complexities, such as which queue to go in at airports or whether your passport should be stamped.

Parents with Brexit residency cards who travel with children (under 18s) can find it more difficult as the child will not have their own titre de sjour before their 18th birthday in most instances.

British nationals who were living in France before the end of 2020 were able to apply for a Brexit residency card (a titre de sjour portant la mention 'Accord de retrait du Royaume-Uni de lUnion Europenne') to ensure that they maintained similar rights as other EU nationals living in France.

Around 165,000 such cards have been issued to Britons in France.

We look at some of the rules and issues that can arise when travelling with WA cards.

You should as a general rule carry your French residency card with you at all times, if possible, in case of a police check. This document can also be used as an identity document for internal flights in France.

If you are leaving France, even to another EU country, you should also take your passport with you as the residency card is not sufficient on its own. You will not necessarily have your passport checked if you drive across the border to, for example, Spain, but you should have it with you in case.

When you are leaving France or re-entering you should proactively show your WA card to border agents so that they know that you are a French resident and not a British tourist. Do not expect to be asked for this card.

Frances national police has told The Connexion that British citizens (whether they are WA card holders or not) are eligible to use rapid e-gates set up at certain airports and train stations in the country. This is where you get your passport checked electronically using a machine. It only works for biometric passports.

These e-gates are set up in airports such as Paris Charles-de-Gaulle, Orly, Bordeaux, Nice, Marseille and Lyon (see full list here), and the train stations Gare du Nord (Paris), St Pancras (London), Coquelles (Calais) and Folkestone (UK).

The system of using the electronic passport checks, called Parafe, can be used by EU citizens, British citizens, US citizens, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and more (full list here).

Once a British person has scanned their passport at one of these gates, they must still see a border guard who will check their documents, the spokesperson for the French police said.

This is where a non-WA-card holder will have their passport stamped, and where a WA card holder will show the border guard their card to prove that they are a French resident.

In places where the Parafe system is not in place, British people entering France will have to queue in the lane marked for all passports, or the lane that is not exclusively for EU/EEA/Swiss citizens.

Passport checks are subject to change in the near future when the EUs new Entry/Exit system (EES) is introduced, which is planned for this autumn. See more on this later in the article.

Read more: France-UK travel and passport lanes for British nationals post Brexit

People who have a WA card should not have their passports stamped when they enter France but there have been reports of it happening.

A British Embassy spokeswoman previously confirmed to The Connexion that if they are stamped, it will not have any impact on the rights of the holder in France.

EU law does not prevent border guards from stamping passports but the European Commission has stated that there is little practical use in stamping passports of Withdrawal Agreement beneficiaries.

Passports are generally stamped so that border guards can ensure that the person entering the country does not remain in the country longer than they are legally permitted.

This is related in particular to short stay visits which are limited to 90 in 180 days now for British tourists and second-home owners.

Read more: Can you start a French visa while already in the country?

If a person with a WA card has their passport stamped returning to France and then leaves again more than three months later - the legal period of time a British person who is not a French resident is allowed to stay in the country - there will be no legal consequence.

Read more: I hold a Brexit residency card: Why was passport stamped at border?

If you are a holder of a WA residency card and you travel out of France with your child who is under 18 and does not yet have their own residency card, you may find that their passport is stamped upon returning to France.

As is the case with adults whose passports are stamped, this should not be an issue as the child is within their legal rights to remain in France for as long as their parent or guardians visa is valid.

If your childs passport is stamped on the way in, it could be worth bringing proof of your relationship to the child the next time you leave the country, such as a livret de famille or the childs birth certificate.

This is just in case the border guard asks for extra proof that the child is covered by the parent or guardians WA card.

It is possible for children from age 16 to apply (under certain conditions) for a carte de sjour if they plan to work in France and want a card as proof of their right to do so. See more about that here (in French).

Child travelling alone outside of France

If the child is going to travel alone out of France, it might be worth getting a document called a DCEM, which stands for document de circulation pour tranger mineur (travel document for a foreign minor).

This document can be helpful if a young person is going to be travelling away from France, to provide proof of residency when they return. It attests to their legal residency in France.

It is not obligatory, although it might be worth getting one just for peace of mind or to save any potential hassle or confusion.

A parent or guardian can apply for this document online at this link or from their local prefecture, in person, by letter or email, depending on local procedures.

The document is free for EU, EEA and Swiss citizens, listed under the heading of parent europen on the French governments website.

For the majority of other citizens not from these countries, listed under parent tranger en situation rgulire, it costs 50. You must pay using timbres fiscaux worth 50 (select the option Titre pour trangers).

The Connexion believes that British citizens, even those holding WA residency cards, fall under the category of parent tranger en situation rgulire. We have contacted the French interior ministry for confirmation and are awaiting reply.

To get the DCEM, the parent will need to fill out the form cerfa no.11203 and also provide several more documents such as (list not exhaustive):

Parents birth certificate (acte de naissance du demandeur)

Parent and childs passports

Livret de famille

Carte de sjour

Marriage or divorce certificates

Childs proof of enrollment in French education (certificat de scolarit) or any other document proving the child lives in France

Proof of address (justificatif de domicile)

Two photos of the child

Form cerfa no.11203

Timbres fiscaux worth 50

For more information on the documents required, see this link here (in French).

Read more: Does my under 18 need a DCEM travel document for travel from France?

EES

The EU is scheduled to begin implementing a digital passport checking system called the Entry-Exit System (EES) EES from the end of September or the beginning of October (although doubts have been raised over the feasibility of this start date).

The system will involve the collection of information about non-EU citizens entering the Schengen area and is intended to eventually remove the need for passport stamps.

This may resolve problems with border guards stamping the passports of people who hold Withdrawal Agreement residency cards.

Read more: Dover Port boss warns of safety issues and delays with new EU checks

Etias

From early 2023, non-EU travellers will also have to apply online for travel authorisation under Etias (European Travel Information and Authorisation System) before travelling.

Currently, people with visa-free access to the EU can enter the bloc without any travel authorisation. This will change with Etias, which will require these people to apply online for an Etias before travelling. There is a 7 fee.

However, people who hold Withdrawal Agreement residency cards will be exempt from Etias, as they already have a visa allowing them to live in France and Etias is only for people without a visa.

Holders of Brexit residency cards issued in France (or any other EU country) will also be able to travel around the EU without having to pay for an Etias.

Read more: Etias: What is new EU 7 entry process and how might it affect you?

UK passport not stamped on exit from France: Will this cause problems?

Post-Brexit travel healthcare: What is a UK CRA Ehic card?

Britons in France: What is the benefit of EU long-term resident card?

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Manufacturing growth slows as Brexit and cost-of-living problems weigh – Bridport and Lyme Regis News

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The expansion of the UKs manufacturing sector slowed to a seven-month low as inflation ate into household spending and exports dropped in part due to Brexit.

According to an influential survey, the sector struggled to keep up its growth in May.

Businesses blamed weaker growth in demand from within the UK, fewer export orders, troubled supply chains, rising costs and the war in Ukraine.

As a result the S&P Global/CIPS UK Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) hit 54.6 in May, down from 55.8 in April.

Anything above 50 means that the manufacturing sector is growing in the UK. If the score falls below 50 it is shrinking.

Although it notched up its 24th consecutive month of growth, the data shows a clear weakening for manufacturers.

A significant part of this is the consumer goods industry. For the first time in 15 months production actually fell, the researchers found when studying survey responses.

The contraction is in part linked to the consumers that are the end target for those goods. Recent inflation means many are struggling to keep up old spending habits.

Household demand slumped in response to the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, said Rob Dobson, director at S&P Global Market Intelligence.

With both input costs and selling prices rising at rates close to Aprils peaks, the surveys suggest that there is no sign of the inflationary surge abating any time soon.

Manufacturers continue to report issues getting the right materials, at the right time, for the right price, and energy prices remain a major concern.

New export orders dipped for the eighth time in the last nine months, the survey participants revealed.

Companies said that this was due to Brexit difficulties, delays in transportation, shipping disruptions and orders being cancelled due to the Ukraine war.

The cost that companies had to pay rose substantially in May, although dipped slightly from April when inflation was at near records.

As a result they were forced to raise their own prices. Selling prices rose almost as fast as in April, a record high.

Forward-looking indicators from the survey suggest that a further slowdown may be in the offing, Mr Dobson said.

Business optimism dipped to a 17-month low and weaker demand growth led to surplus production, meaning warehouse stock levels are rising.

Any reversal of this stock-building trend could reinforce the drag of other headwinds and add to downside risks to the outlook.

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BIM’s Brexit initiative now open for applications – Highland Radio

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Bord Iascaigh Mhara has today confirmed the Brexit Blue Economy Enterprise Development Scheme is officially open for applications.

The 25 million scheme offers grants to enable coastal communities to restructure, reconfigure, retrain, and diversify post-Brexit, with companies and communities within 10km of the coastline qualifying.

Marine Minister Charlie McConalogue says the scheme will help strengthen and rejuvenate coastal communities.

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Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), Irelands Seafood Development Agency, has today(Friday 3 June, 2022)announced the Brexit Blue Economy Enterprise Development Scheme is officially open for applications for grant funding to enable coastal communities to restructure, reconfigure, retrain, and diversify post-Brexit.

An initiative of the Government of Ireland, and administered by BIM, the Brexit Blue Economy Enterprise Development Scheme aims to counter the adverse economic and social consequences of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on businesses operating in the blue economy and located in communities within 10km of the coastline.

The Scheme, the largest of its kind ever, will have a 25 million budget available for the years 2022 and 2023, funded under the EU Brexit Adjustment Reserve.

The Scheme will be delivered through the existing Fisheries Local Action Groups (FLAGs). The Fisheries Local Action Groups uniquely focus local development funding specifically for areas within 10kms of the sea around the entire coast, precisely the communities that are most impacted by Brexit.

The Scheme is one of the recommendations of the Seafood Sector Taskforce, established by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue T.D. in March 2021 to mitigate against the impacts of Brexit on the wider Irish seafood industry and coastal communities.

Welcoming todays announcement theMinister Charlie McConaloguesaid:

The blue economy is the beating heart of Irelands rural coastal communities. This new Scheme is designed to help strengthen and rejuvenate those communities by giving businesses an opportunity to apply for funding for their blue economy activities in areas including seafood, coastal tourism, boat building and maintenance, marine recreation, and renewable energy initiatives.

Stimulating entrepreneurial activity, providing mentoring to help businesses adapt and find new opportunities and helping people train or retrain to allow them to keep and use their marine skills within the blue economy will enhance the profitability and economic viability of these communitys post Brexit. Grants of up to 200,000 are available and can be used to cover capital investment projects, along with mentoring and training.

In Ireland, 1.9 million people live within 5km of the coast and many communities along the Irish coast depend on industries including tourism, fishing and aquaculture. Launching the SchemeJim OToole, CEO BIM, referred to the unique identity of Irelands coastal communities and how this latest scheme will help to stimulate already established businesses, and new business ideas, in these communities.

The seafood sector is an important contributor to Irelands coastal communities and combined with other blue economy activities, gives Irelands coastal communities a unique and rich heritage for those who live and work in them and for those who visit. This new scheme will help these communities adapt to new market realities in the post-Brexit landscape by stimulating further growth of the blue economy.

Full details about theBrexit Blue Economy Enterprise Development Scheme, including how to apply can be found onbim.ie

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Johnson and Sunak to give joint speech on post-Brexit insurance reforms – City A.M.

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Tuesday 31 May 2022 10:58 am

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are preparing to give a joint speech on planned post-Brexit reforms to the EUs Solvency II insurance regulations.

The speech will be concentrated around the UKs opportunities post-Brexit and will come after the governments plan to scrap a series of EU regulations on the City was announced in the Queens Speech.

The Sun reports that the pair will do the speech in June in an attempt to reset Johnsons faltering government.

A government taskforce last year estimated the retained EU Solvency II law which makes insurance firms hold a certain amount of capital to ensure they can survive potential economic shocks is holding back 95bn of investment into the British economy.

City minister John Glen earlier this year said the government would slash Solvency IIs risk margin, which will ensure firms need to hold less capital in reserve.

He said there would be a cut of between 60 to 70 per cent for life insurance firms, while the regulation will also be relaxed to allow firms to invest in long-term assets like infrastructure.

Government figures have also said that easing Solvency II, and freeing up billions of pounds for investment, will help complete the governments agenda to level up the Midlands and the North.

Johnson and Sunaks speech will likely also include mentions to other planned changes to the Citys rulebook in a bid to ensure the financial services sector maintain its global competitiveness post-Brexit.

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Echoes Throughout Europe The Impact of Brexit on Germany – Global Banking And Finance Review

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By Stewart Beer, Site Manager atElectrix International.

When the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, it saw economic repercussions almost instantly. As the results from around the UK flooded in, the value of the pound suffered its biggest single-day slump in 31 years. This meant it was down over 7% against the Euro.

The result of the referendum has greatly impacted the relationship between the UK and countries within the European Union. One of the countries that has seen the greatest change in their UK relationship is Germany.

In this article, well explore how Brexit has affected Germany.

One of the biggest hits Germany has taken as a result of Brexit has been the change in trading. Prior to the Brexit vote, the trading relationship between Germany and the UK was very strong. In 2015, German exports into the UK were operating at over 89 billion in 2015 but fell under 79 billion in 2019.

Imports of products and goods from the UK also suffered thanks to the additional costs and rules of EU-UK trading. Destatis, Germanys statistical office, reported that imports dropped to 32 billion in 2021. This is an overall drop of 8.5% from the previous year and saw the UK lose its status as one of the top five largest trade partners for Germany. The London School of Economics has predicted that trade with EU countries could decrease by around a third over the next 10 years.

Germany responded to this change in trading relationships with the UK by looking to trading partners within the EU and further afield. There was a rise of 16.8% in exports from Germany to other EU countries and a 20.8% increase in exports to China. Overall, there was a wave of goods imports into Germany that resulted in a 17.1% rise to 1.2 trillion in 2021. Turning to neighbouring countries for things like car parts and stainless steel enclosures helped to maintain their aerospace industry.

When the Brexit plan was initiated on 31st January 2020, the UK surrendered its involvement in the freedom of movement within the EU. This means that UK citizens travelling into Germany dont require a visa so long as their stay isnt longer than 90 days, and within that time, they dont have access to economic activity such as getting a job. This could discourage British citizens from taking opportunities to work and live in Germany and vice versa.

With the events of the last few years and the changes to travel for British citizens, the tourist arrivals in Germany have taken a huge hit. Between 2019 and 2022, the intake of tourists into the country has decreased by well over half. The impact of COVID can obviously be seen in these results but the uncertainty surrounding travel as a result of Brexit cant be understated.

One group this has a particular impact on is young people. Having the option for free movement and the opportunity to work and live in a different country and immerse yourself in the local culture helps in finding yourself. This was made even more difficult when the UK then made the decision to withdraw from the Erasmus+ scheme. This offered grants to help fund international studying for those who wouldnt be able to afford it otherwise.

Britains exit from the European Union has a huge economic impact on the remaining countries. An analysis by the European Commission in 2021 estimated that as a result of this event, Germany could be set to lose 35 billion.

While part of the EU, the UK was the second-largest contributor to the EUs budget. In the last full year as part of it, the UK contributed a gross of around 18.9 billion to the EU before being rebated 4.5 billion. As a result, the expectation falls on the remaining countries to pick up the pieces, and that task falls to Germany as the next largest contributor, with a reported 28 billion given to the budget in 2020. Combining Brexit with the impact of other world events from the past few years has seen the German government act.

The council of economic advisers brought their forecast for economic growth for 2022 from 4.6% down to 1.8%. This is to account for the increase in natural gas and oil prices, as well as the already delayed supply chains struggling further. However, they do expect the countrys GDP to see an increase of 3.6% in 2023.

The overall effects of Brexit didnt just echo throughout the UK. The stark impact it had on countries throughout the EU cant be understated, particularly in Germany. Trade and travel have taken a huge hit from the change, losing a lot of revenue from these streams. With the UK leaving the EU, a lot of responsibility in terms of the Unions budget has fallen to Germany as the next largest contributor. Combining an increase in responsibilities budget-wise alongside maintaining the countrys individual economy has meant a reduction in their expected growth. However, with neighbouring European countries and China upping their trading with Germany, weve seen an impressive turnover which leaves us positive and hopeful for a prosperous future.

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Opinion: Are we fooling ourselves to say we’re a nation of laws? – Yakima Herald-Republic

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We like to say were a nation of laws.

It has a nice, noble ring to it. It suggests civility, safety, justice some of the most important values that have kept our diverse nation together for more than two centuries.

But are we saying one thing and doing another? Are we eroding our own principles?

Look deep into your heart and consider these questions honestly. We wont judge:

Youre not hurting anybody, right? You havent committed murder or armed robbery or something. Whats the big deal?

Were just talking about lesser infractions here victimless crimes, you could argue. Maybe nothing worth worrying about.

Lately, though, it seems like our disregard for laws has edged up a notch or two.

Police are seeing it, too.

A news story the other day noted that more and more drivers are simply disregarding officers orders to pull over.

In the first four and a half months of 2022, Washington State Patrol records showed 934 motorists failed to stop when troopers turned on their lights.

Somethings changed. People are not stopping right now, WSP spokesperson Sgt. Darren Wright said. Its happening three to five times a shift on some nights and then a couple times a week on day shift.

Local police and sheriffs offices around the state echo that frustration.

Just this week, Chief Matt Murray described how a suspect fled from Yakima officers who realized the suspect and a woman were standing next to a stolen car on North First Street. In that case, the 30-year-old suspect opened fire on officers as he ran across North First and he kept running even after hed been hit when police returned fire.

Its the fourth time this year local police have met violent resistance when confronting a suspect.

Theres an alarming trend of violence against police officers, Murray said.

A number of law officers blame a law the Legislature passed last year House Bill 1054 for the increased disregard of authority. The law, passed in response to the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, bars high-speed police pursuits in most circumstances and attempts to curtail racial disparities in policing.

Many police associations and agencies say it goes too far, though that it unintentionally ties law enforcements hands.

We certainly wouldnt dismiss that possibility. House Bill 1054 is ripe for revisiting. But it seems like all this shrugging off of laws goes deeper than that.

Perhaps its symptomatic of a cynical, but widespread, national contempt for government, for laws.

After all, its been barely a year and a half since an angry crowd that refused to accept defeat in a fair election violently stormed the very seat of our nation: the U.S. Capitol.

On the other hand, what extremes might abortion-rights advocates go to if the Supreme Court formally overturns Roe v. Wade in the coming weeks?

It seems to us like it all comes back to that how well were living up to that nation of laws notion.

Truth be told, no matter what we say, deep down, most of us really dont want to be told what to do. By anyone. Look at the collective meltdown mask mandates caused during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Still, we expect other people to toe the line especially politicians, judges, business executives, church leaders and, of course, police themselves. When they dont, it undermines everybodys principles.

Our expectations might be hypocritical and unfair, but even so, the more laws we all ignore, bend or outright defy, the weaker our claim of being a nation of laws gets.

Maybe thats the worst crime of all.

Yakima Herald-Republic editorials reflect the collective opinion of the newspapers local editorial board.

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He Owns This City: How Jon Bernthal Gave the Performance of the Year – Decider

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I make big money / I drive big cars / Everybody know me / Its like Im a movie star. You wouldnt expect Wayne Jenkins, the Baltimore Police Department supercop in We Own This City, to play a Geto Boys song anywhere, much less in his squad car. But there he is, blasting Mind Playing Tricks on Me through his loudspeaker, rocking his body and rapping along with the lyrics.

Theres an irony to ita cop enjoying music about the kind of people its allegedly his job to bustthat he appears to appreciate; theres a twinkle in his eye, an edge to his smile, like he knows hes doing something slightly mischievous. But heres the thing about Wayne Jenkins: In the world of the BPD, he really is like a movie star. He moves through the world like he can do no wrong, knowing that in the eyes of his superiors, as long as he brings in guns, drugs, and arrests in large quantities, he really can do no wrong.

In terms of his portrayal of Jenkins, neither can actor Jon Bernthal. Already well known for playing bruisers and rogueshe carried Netflixs surprisingly strong Marvel series The Punisher on his back, just for instanceBernthal is at the peak of his powers in David Simon, George Pelecanos, and Reinaldo Marcus Greens based-on-a-true-story tale of rampant police corruption We Own This City.

The show, which aired its finale this week, is a well-intentioned but flawed look at the endemic failures of modern-day policing, embodied by Jenkins and his Gun Trace Task Force. The GTTF was a police unit that effectively operated as a stick-up crew, robbing money and drugs from the very people they arrested, then distributing the spoils amongst themselves. In a city where scrutiny of murderous cops caused a department-wide work slowdown, the simple fact that Jenkins and company continued to make busts made them heroes in the brasss eyesand, for a time, led them to look the other way in the face of rumors of Jenkins and companys corruption.

But in that time window, Jenkins was the rock star of the department, and Bernthal plays the role to a tee. With the face of a prizefighter and the loping walk of a gunslinger, you might expect him to be a brute at all times, but Bernthal doesnt play it that simply. In his hands, Jenkins is a good-time guy, a glad-hander who rewards himself and his men in, if not quite equal measure, amply enough to keep everyone happy.

And hes happiest of all. Whether hes lecturing the force about his methods in a special class, taking a stripper into a clubs back room and then robbing her blind, or protesting his innocence when hes finally brought in for his many crimes, Jenkins appears to be having the time of his life.

Bernthal makes it clear that Jenkins does not see himself as a dirty cophe reacts in horror several times when this allegation is madebut rather as a resourceful one, a guy who sees all the angles and commits a series of victimless crimes. The fact that innocent people are routinely brutalized and, in the case of one high-speed chase, accidentally killed during the course of his work doesnt really concern him. He feels he meant well, and thats all that matters.

Thats a tall order for any actor to convey, but Bernthal somehow makes it look easy. From underneath a series of world-historically unfortunate haircuts, his dark brown eyes radiate a sort of idiot good cheer. (When that good cheer goes away at the end of the story, those same eyes become the dim dark eyes of a hit dog, wondering what went so wrong.)Bernthal gives a physical performance that indeed makes Jenkins look like he owns this city and everyone in it. Indeed, hes often polite to the point of comedy to the very people he arrests, robs, and/or frames. Why wouldnt he be? Hes a good guy, right? Call itnoblesse oblige, call it whatever you want: Bernthal radiates a lethal who, me? charm even at his characters most brutal moments.

And to Bernthals credit, Jenkinss belief in his own fundamental righteousness only collapses when he realizes all his friends and colleagues have turned on him. While pleading guilty in courtin large part to avoid having his dalliances with sex workers entered into the public record and sullying his image as a family manhe cries what seem to be sincere tears of regret. Those tears stem from the shock of recognition: He really is the dirty cop so many have accused him of being, and he cant hide from it behind his wall of swaggering, bull-rushing bravado anymore. Watching Bernthal shed those climactic tears is like watching a magician pull a rabbit out of his hat. Who knew he had it in him?

Without question, Bernthal benefits from We Own This Citys lack of interest in establishing other characters with Jenkinss level of charisma, nuance, and depth. With few exceptionsa Jamie Hector here, a Josh Charles there, a Wunmi Mosaku at timesmost of the other based-on-real-people characters in the show exist to spew facts and figures about Baltimores horrible police culture.

But that takes nothing away from what Bernthals actually doing here. His Wayne Jenkins is a villain for the agesa perfect match between actor and role, like Hector and Marlo Stanfield or Idris Elba and Stringer Bell in Simons The Wire. After watching We Own This City, its hard to imagine anything Bernthal cant do. Your minds not playing tricks on you: Jon Bernthal is a genius.

Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) writes about TV for Rolling Stone, Vulture, The New York Times, and anyplace that will have him, really. He and his family live on Long Island.

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Guest Commentary: The Truth about Reisig – The Peoples Vanguard of Davis

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Chief Deputy District Attorney Jonathan Ravens recent Nextdoor posts contain misinformation and are otherwise problematic with regard to the current Yolo DA race.

First, there is the claim that his boss, current DA Reisig, is innovative because he created a neighborhood court in Yolo County, and that it is the second such program to exist in the state, after San Francisco. But actually, neighborhood court is just another name for victim-offender reconciliation programs that have existed for at least three decades in California, and Reisig is quite late to that game.

Fresno created such a program over 30 years ago; Oakland, also around 30 years ago. Many other cities and counties in California have such programs. However, an important difference is that most refer cases that involve much more serious offenses than the Yolo program did for many yearssuch as home burglaries, for example.

Reisigs office primarily refers victimless crimes to the program, such as college age drunk-in-public offenses. It is also perplexing why Reisigs office maintains control of the program here in Yolo, which in most counties is a community based and controlled program.

The Yolo mental health court, meant to divert and provide services to those whose mental illnesses lead to offenses and criminal charges, is a good start, but the problem is that, practically speaking, few get diverted to that program each year.

A good program which is rarely used is not innovative, but rather window dressing to make oneself appear innovative and progressive on criminal issues.

In fact, Reisig himself has ranted about San Francisco progressives in a recent debate with his opponent, Cynthia Rodriguez, so he clearly can choose to paint himself as progressiveor notwhere and when it suits his purposes.

Closer to home, in a context where the qualities of transparency and accountability are being invoked as the crown jewel of the current DAs priorities, relational history paints quite a different picture: Jeff Reisig has a bad habit of retaliating against those who oppose him.

As an example: Pat Lenzi, a former Yolo County Deputy District Attorney who challenged Reisig in 2006, was intimidated by him to the point that she no longer lives in the county.

Then when challenger Larry Eichle, also a Yolo County Deputy DA at the time, announced his candidacy for the position in 2018, he ended up fired or quitting and actually left the entire state.

Deputy Public Defender Dean Johansson then threw his hat into the 2018 race, only to be smeared with a so-called confidential (and thereby completely unknown to Johansson) decade-old police report relating to a family matter involving his son.

This so-called report was released and posted by a victims rights organizationwhile Reisig sat on their board. Reisig claimed he had provided Johansson with diversion to the charges on that matter, but no charges had in fact ever been filed, no diversion was ever providedthat was a complete lie.

Even more shamefully, after that election, Reisig went after Maria Grijalva, a Latina community activist in West Sacramento, who had provided significant assistance to Johanssons campaign. He filed campaign finance violation criminal charges against her, something that is usually only filed civilly by the Fair Political Practices Commission in California (the FPPC never took action against Ms. Grijalva).

Maria had to expend considerable funds to hire a defense attorney, only to have Reisig withdraw all the charges at her arraignmentclearly actions designed to send an intimidating message.

Reisig consistently opposes almost all the criminal justice reforms that the voters in Yolo County have favored over the yearswhich is entirely unrepresentative of the wishes of his own constituency here in our county.

And it should be noted again that, in light of yet another tragic school shooting in Texas, our innovative DA Reisig lent his namewhile purporting to represent the people of Yolo Countyto a conservative amicus brief opposing the City of Chicagos attempts to restrict gun ownership and use in that city.

Do we really want such a person that does not reflect our values in Yolo County to continue as our DA? Or is it time for a change?

* For personal reasons the author of this piece asked to be anonymous. The Vanguard granted that request.

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Lucis (Lucifer) Trust Exposing Satanism and Witchcraft

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In this article, the first of an ongoing series, we present a dossier of some of the principal institutions and individuals behind this evil New Age movement. The reader will learn, how behind the oh-so-nice U.N. brochures and talk about peace, some of the leading figures of this grouping have been exposed as practicing the most obscene homosexual and child pornography rituals imaginable. Take the notorious case of Canon Edward West, the coordinator of the American association of the Most Venerable Order of St. John. Eyewitness accounts indicate that during the 1980s, he was a frequent participant in obscene sexual rituals at homosexual S&M clubs in Manhattan, including the Mineshaft and the Hellfire Club (named after an 18th-century English secret Satanic society). Favorite entertainment at the Mineshaft included having children urinate on the patrons. In the mid-1980s, the club was shut down, following an investigation by the New York Police Department, which found links to organized crime circles, including those of John Zaccaro, the husband of 1984 Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro.

The evil friends of Bishop Moore

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the medieval temple of the Episcopalian Archdiocese of New York, has become the mother institution of the New Age movement in the United States, whose goal is to eclipse the Age of Pisces (Christianity) with an Age of Aquarius ( Lucifer). The presiding bishop of the cathedral, Bishop Paul Moore, whose family is heir to the Nabisco company fortune, has been in the forefront of creating this Satanic new world order, since at least the late 1950s, when, as a priest in Indianapolis, Indiana, he gave the Peoples Temple cult of Jim Jones its start.

Later in 1977, Bishop Moore rocked the Christian world, when he ordained a militant lesbian, Ellen Marie Barrett, who told Time magazine that it was her lesbian love affair that gave her strength to serve God. Bishop Moore claims that the ordination of lesbians, and his other Gnostic heresies, are merely part of the ongoing revelation of Gods truth to man by the Holy Spirit, which had been prophesied by the Disciple John.

With this dissembling rationale, Bishop Moore has transformed the Cathedral of St. John the Divine into a Gnostic stronghold for such organizations as: The Lucis Trust, founded in 1922 by Alice Bailey, a disciple of Theosophist Madame Helena Blavatsky. Originally named the Lucifer Trust, it became a mother institution of the modern New Age movement; The Temple of Understanding, which is headquartered at the cathedral under its president, the Very Reverend Dean James Parks Morton, dean of the cathedral. It has turned the cathedral into a harbor for Gnostic religions ranging from Tibetan Buddhism to Sufi Freemasonry; The medieval village of Lindesfarne, New York, which is to be the model for a New Age lifestyle, once the Earth has been purified of its billions of non-white souls; A special ministry to Sufi Freemasons who were a historical deployment against Ibn Sina and the Arab Renaissance, and whose modern-day cathedral affiliates have been linked to the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat; The Zen Center, which teaches meditation to the elite of the Liberal Establishment; gay and lesbian organizations, which seek to legitimize their sin by arguing that the beloved disciple John had a homosexual affair with Christ, or else by creating Mother Goddess religions in the cathedrals crypts; a medieval chivalric order known as the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John, which, under the direction of the Duke of Gloucester of the British Royal Family, has inculcated the Episcopagan American Establishment in such Gnostic evil as the necessity to spread Shiite fundamentalism under the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, because the Shah had sinned by trying to industrialize his nation.

The serried ranks of the dead among Jim Joness Peoples Temple cult, who had consumed cyanide-laced Kool-Aid on orders from Jones, are merely the more public casualties of the Age of Aquarius, when those bearing the Mark of the Beast (666) are to be unleashed upon the Earth once again. Throughout the United States, the Satanic New Age movement has grown to become a major threat to the Judeo-Christian tradition upon which our republic was founded. Among the more recent signs of this upsurge are the Atlanta child murders, the case of New York child-beater Joel Steinberg, and the mass murder of school children in Stockton, California by a drug addict wearing a Satan T-shirt.

The Soviet connection

There is a national security dimension to the growth of the New Age movement. Starting in 1982, Bishop Moore returned from the Soviet Union to warn that unless the Anglo-American Establishment carried out appeasement of the Soviets, the Russians would launch a thermonuclear first strike. Moore, who entered the 1970s peace movement by visiting with the Vietcong-controlled, underground peace movement in Vietnam, had by 1983 joined with the pro-terrorist Institute for Policy Studies and the U.S.A.-Canada Institute of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, to mobilize the American peace movement to stop the Strategic Defense Initiative. Thirty top Soviet intelligence officers, who were joined by Bishop Moore, gave marching orders to the American peace leadership to this effect in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1983.

Last February, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine hosted a February Fling, sponsored by the Temple of Understanding, which brought together top Soviet officials to meet with their counterparts in the West. Through Fr. Luis Dolan, who travels to the U.S.S.R. every six weeks to get marching orders from officials of the CPSU International Department-controlled Soviet Peace Center, the Temple of Understanding overlaps the Center for Soviet-American Dialogue, which is involved in extensive exchanges, whose purpose is to remove the enemy image of the U.S.S.R. being an evil empire. Father Dolan also works with Wainwright House, which has several programs along the same lines and which hosted a U.S.-U.S.S.R. Citizens Summit. Spokesmen for the Lucis Trust believe that Mikhail Gorbachov may be the premier world leader in their Externalized Hierarchy, giving impetus to a Plan for a new world order of Luciferian values and behavior. The Lucis Trust also carries out exchanges with the Soviet Union, where they believe Triangle Cells pray the Great Invocation for the coming Age of Aquarius. These Luciferians welcome Gorbachov, who bears the Mark of the Beast on his forehead.

Isis priestess of the Aquarian Age

The New Age movements enthusiasm for Gorbachov is really no surprise. The roots of this movement date back to the 1870s, when Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (nee Princess Hahn in 1831 in Ekaterinoslav, Georgia) was deployed by a combination of Black Hundreds forces that included the Okhrana (Czarist secret service) and the Russian Orthodox Church, to destroy Augustinian Christianity in the West, through the creation of a Satanic ideology known as Theosophy, which was a syncretism of Eastern religions. As one Theosophical Society brochure made clear, its goal was to oppose the materialism of science and every form of dogmatic theology, especially the Christian, which the Chiefs of the Society regard as particularly pernicious.

The deployment of Madame Blavatsky into the West had been part of the same effortcalled the Dostoevsky Project by the Theosophically-inspired Frankfurt Schoolwhich led the Okhrana to unleash the Scottish Freemasonic forces of the liberal Alexander Kerensky, then the dark forces of the Bolsheviks (many of whom, including V.I. Lenin, had been trained on the Isle of Capri in the cult beliefs of the Emperor Tiberius, who murdered Christ), for an assault upon the Petrine state. Among those principally responsible for deploying the hashish-addicted Blavatsky into the West were: Count Alexander Ignatiev, one-time head of the Okhrana as interior minister, whose family later joined with the Bolshevik Revolution; Imperial Privy Councilor Prince Aksakov, whose correspondence with Blavatsky reveals him to be a key controller; Fyodor Dostoevsky, whose writings have regained popularity under Gorbachov, because they were a19th-century revival of the Russian Orthodox Churchs blood-and-soil doctrine [a Luciferic throwback to previous evolutionary epochs] that Moscow would become the Third and Final Rome; and, Mikhail, Vladimir, and Vsevelod Soloviev, who, from such bases as the St. Petersburg Ecclesiastical Academy, propounded the doctrines of Spiritualism that are being revived in Russia today, and who profiled Blavatsky as Tentacles of the Blavatsky deployment extended quickly through the West:

United States In 1873, Blavatsky traveled to the U.S., where with the Spiritualist Colonel Olcott, she founded the American Theosophical Society, whose headquarters became Pasadena, California. Colonel Olcott had been involved in seances at this time on a farm in Chittenden, Vermont, with Mary Baker Eddy, who founded Christian Science as co-extensive with Theosophy. Later, Olcott accompanied Blavatsky to Adyar, India, which became the spiritual center of the cult.

Great Britain In 1883, Blavatskys disciple Annie Besant, who later assumed Blavatskys mantle as High Priestess of Theosophy, was a co-founder of the British Fabian Society (predecessor of the Labour Party) together with Gnostic Christians and Spiritualists, including the Spiritualist Frank Podmore, later British Prime Minister J. Ramsay Macdonald, Soviet agent Lord Haldane, Lord and Lady Passfield, the Freemason William Clarke, Earl Bertrand Russell, Viscount and Viscountess Snowden, Lord Sidney Oliver, Lord Thomson, and others. In the same year, Scottish noble Douglas Dunglas Home, who had sponsored Blavatsky as early as 1858 and given seances for the Czar, returned to Great Britain, where with support of the Cecil family, he founded the Society for Psychical Research, whose members included Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Balfour, Lord Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, and William James.

Another excrescence of Theosophy was the explicitly Satanist Edward Aleister Crowleys Order of the Golden Dawn (or, Stella Matutina), which overlapped the predominantly Anglo-American Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) and the Thule Society in Munich, which gave birth to the Nazi Party through the good offices of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Karl Haushofer, Rudolf Hess, and the Wagner Kreis.

Germany Blavatskys co-controller, Count Aksakov, established in Leipzig, Germany a Theosophical magazine, Psychische Studien, which was influential upon the careers of Sigmund Freud and especially Carl Jung. It also influenced the schismatic Theosophist Rudolf Steiner, who founded in 1913 the Dornach, Switzerland-based Anthroposophy sect, which has lately been a leading influence within West Germanys Free Democratic Party, and also the seed-crystal in southern Germany of the fascist Green party. [2] Meanwhile, in the 1920s, a Berlin-based Theosophist, Graf von Reventlow, founded a European network of the Cominterns Baku Conference of Oppressed Peoples, which sought to merge Marxism with Sufism.

Switzerland The Ascona, Switzerland secret base of Theosophycentered around a cult of Astartewas the spiritual center of the Frankfurt School, which overlapped the Soviet GRU (military intelligence) through such founders as Hede Massing, Richard Sorge, and Max Horkheimer, who developed the Authoritarian Personality dogma to target and destroy those who based their behavior upon natural law. Ascona was also a spiritual center of the Children of the Sun gay and lesbian networks, which overlapped the Philby, Burgess, Maclean spy network in Great Britain. Finally, Ascona was the religious center for the Theosophical psychiatrist Carl Jung, popularizer of the Gnostic Bible. Among Jungs disciple-patients were: Mary Bancroft, the mistress-secretary of Allen Dulles, who was OSS chief in Switzerland during World War II; and Mary and Paul Mellon, who, on their return to the U.S. in 1939, founded the Bollingen Foundation to propagate Gnosticism and a study center on witchcraft at Princeton University. Also, Lenin himself participated in cult dances on Monte Verita in Ascona.

Alice Bailey and the Lucis ( Lucifer) Trust

Alice La Trobe Bateman was the founder in 1920 of the Lucifer Trust, which represented a syncretism of Gnostic Christianity with Blavatskys Theosophy. Baileys Gnostic doctrine transformed God into Nietzschean Will, while Christ is considered merely a lowly part of the many Ascended Masters, who form a Hierarchy, that is eventually to be externalized to carry out a Plan for a new world order that is otherwise known to Baileys disciples as the Age of Aquarius or Age of Maitreya. The Lucis Trust, which today has Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) status at the United Nations and has been given legitimacy by the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, has spawned an array of New Age fronts, including the Temple of Understanding.

Born in Britain, Alice was raised an Episcopalian, before separating from her first husband, a drunken missionary to the United States, who beat her frequently. Relocated from Britain to the West Coast, she was recruited into the Pacific Grove Lodge of Theosophy in 1915. By 1920, she became editor of the American Theosophists newspaper, The Messenger. In this same year she married Foster Bailey (a Scottish Rite Freemason and Co-Mason), and she launched a fight with Annie Besant for control of Theosophy, which Alice Bailey lost, when Besants man, Louis Roger, was elected president. Immediately after the dust settled, Alice and Foster Bailey founded their own Tibetan Lodge, then the Lucifer Trust, whose name was abridged in 1922 to its present Lucis Trust.

By the 1930s, Bailey claimed 200,000 members, and her faction of Theosophy grew even more rapidly after Krishnamurti in 1939 denounced Besants scheme to promote him as the Messiah. Throughout these years, Bailey spent her summers in Ascona, Switzerland, where along with Mary and Paul Mellon, she attended Jungs Eranos Conferences. Bailey established a series of fronts, which include:

The Arcane School Founded in 1923, the school gives correspondence courses in meditation from its branches in New York, Geneva, London, and Buenos Aires. A brochure states: The presentation of the teaching adapted to the rapidly emerging new civilization stresses the training of disciples in group formation, a technique which will characterize the discipleship service in the Aquarian Age.

World Goodwill Founded in 1932, the organization is recognized by the United Nations today as an NGO. Ever since the dropping of the atomic bomb (which is seen by these kooks as a spiritual manifestation of Luciferian light), Lucis Trust has sought to give the U.N. a monopoly over nuclear weapons with which to impose a one world federalist empire upon sovereign nations. World Goodwill works directly with the world federalists, and is part of the work to Externalize the Hierarchy of Illumined Minds, which will usher in an Age of Maitreya, otherwise interpreted by Bailey to be the return of Christ prophesied in the biblical book of Revelations.

Triangles Founded in 1937, Triangles is the name for a global network of cells, whose members pray a Great Invocation, especially on the night of the full moon, when members of the Triangle can be influenced by the astrological signs of the zodiac. Findhorn This is the sacred community of the New Age movement, based in Great Britain. Bailey disciple David Spangler, another explicit Luciferian, became co-director of the Findhorn Foundation, when he formed the Lorian Association. He sits on the boards of directors of Planetary Citizens, the secretariat of Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose (launched at the Cathedral of St. John in 1982), and is a contributing editor to New Age Magazine.

But, Lucis is not limited to low-level Satanists. When he was Secretary of Defense in the early-1960s, Robert McNamara prayed to the full moon along the Potomac River, according to journalist Edith Roosevelt. The Lucis Trust endorsed McNamaras tenure as head of the World Bankwhich is hardly surprising, since Lucis believes in the Blavatskyian Great White Brotherhood, which is consistent with the neo-malthusian aim of the International Monetary Fund to exterminate darker-skinned races. [3] Not only does Bailey explicitly seek to destroy the nation state, which she equates with the idealism of the Age of Pisces, but in her 1954 work Education in the New Age, she also endorses Nazi eugenics and sex hygiene to purify the race. Apart from U.N. Secretary General Javier Parez de Cuellar, spokesmen for Lucis view Mikhail Gorbachov as the greatest world leader externalizing their Plan today.

The Temple of Understanding

The Lucis Trust in 1963 founded a more distanced front group, the Temple of Understanding, which also has NGO status and worked out of the U.N. premises directly, until in 1984 it shifted headquarters to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The Lucis Trust and the Temple remain covertly entwined to this day.

While the chairman of the Temple is Judith Dickerson Hollister, those involved with its founding were: the late Isis Priestess of anthropology, Dame Margaret Mead of the Order of St. John; Order of St. Johns Canon Edward West; U.N. deputy secretary general Robert Muellar, who had been involved as well with the Lucis Trust; and one Winifred McCulloch, leader of the New York-based Teilhard de Chardin Society.

Dormant for several years after a major expose by Edith Roosevelt, the Temple was revived at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1984 at a ceremony presided over by Bishop Paul Moore and the Dalai Lama. According to the past executive director, Priscilla Pedersen, its present board overlaps that of David Rockefellers Trilateral Commission. Recent activities of the Temple include:

Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival. Held in Oxford, England April 11-15, 1988, its luminaries included the Dalai Lama, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Carl Sagan. Co-organizers of the Global Forum were the Temple of Understanding and the Global Committee of Parliamentarians on Population and Development, which latter advocates neo-malthusian population reduction as the solution to the worlds ills. Present also at the conference were four Soviet Communist Party Central Committee members, including Dr. Evgenii Velikhov, Vice President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. At the Global Forum, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, founder-director of the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications, agreed with Velikhov to set up an institute to gather the Judaica of Russia.

In January 1990, the Oxford Global Forum will be followed by a Temple of Understanding event in Moscow, which is being sponsored by the Russian Orthodox Church, the Supreme Soviet, and the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The main thrust of the follow-on conference will be to get world religious and political leaders working together on such neo-malthusian ecological schemes as the greenhouse effect hoax. This is merely a global replay, which has the backing of the Soviet Union, which agreed to a Dartmouth Conference proposal in the 1960s to promote ecology in exchange for unilateral Western arms control deals.

The North American Interfaith Network It was established last year to bring together the major religions in a theocratic institutional network. Its director is Rev. Daniel Anderson, a Lutheran, who was recently coopted to be executive director of the Temple, working out of the Cathedral of St. John. The Wichita North American Assisi Conference This conference, held Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1988 in Wichita, Kansas, was in preparation for the 1993 celebration of the centennial of the launching of the New Religions movement by Chicago Round Tabler William T. Stead. Like the Global Forum, the Wichita conference brought together American Indians, Sikhs, Sufis, Buddhists, Islamic fundamentalists, and Jews.

February Fling This was a two-week celebration at the Cathedral of St. John in 1988, to promote 100 prominent Soviets. It was co-sponsored by the Temple of Understanding and the Center for Soviet-American Dialogue. Catholic priest Fr. Luis Dolan, who sits on the board of both institutions, was the organizer of the tour. Father Dolan is head of the Citizens Diplomacy Center of Wainwright House, which sponsors a multitude of East-West exchange programs oriented toward removing the enemy image of the U.S.S.R. as an evil empire.

Wainwright Houses Institute for Spiritual Development was directed by Judith Hollister, the founding chairman of the Temple of Understanding. Through Father Dolan, Wainwright House has pledged to work on four East-West projects in 1989 with the Temple. Among these is a project on ecology, for which Wainwright House has received funding from Lawrence Rockefeller to promote.

Another board member of the Temple is the Rabbi Arthur Schneier, self-described as the Jewish Armand Hammer. Rabbi Schneier controls the question of emigration of Jewish Refuseniks, and a colleague states that he has lined up with Edgar Bronfman to call for repeal of the Jackson-Vanik trade amendment, because under Gorbachov, Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union has increased.

Center for Soviet-American Dialogue

The Center is a major back channel between the New Age movement and the U.S.S.R., and has been taken over by New Age leaders including:

Barbara Marx Hubbard. She is a founding member and co-director of the Soviet-American Council for Joint Projects. She co-founded Win-Win-World and is President of the Foundation for Co-Creation. Her name was placed in nomination for the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket in 1984. Hubbard, who entered the New Age movement under the influence of Teilhard de Chardin, created a human front in 1967 of those sharing a belief in transcendent consciousness, which became the Committee for the Future. Hubbard called this transcendent consciousness supra-sex, and she has an extensive network of congressmen involved in the process of haruspication.

Willis Harman, president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Senior Social Scientist at the Stanford Research Institute International. The Institute for Noetic Sciences has worked closely with the Temple of Understanding, while SRI has had among its trainees such figures as former Secretary of State George Shultz, who believes not only in global-power sharing New Yalta arrangements with the U.S.S.R., but also in convergence through a New Age based upon cybernetics. Harman is the brains behind Marilyn Ferguson, whose book The Aquarian Conspiracy sought to popularize Luciferian Gnosticism. Harman is also a founding member of Hubbards Soviet-American Council for Joint Projects, and he is chairman of the Independent Commission for a Viable Future. Harmans own 1974 The Changing Image of Man coined the phrase paradigm shift to describe the sought-after transformation from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius.

James A. Garrison, executive director of the Soviet-American Exchange Program at the Esalen Institute, which has been linked directly to Soviet psychic espionage activities of the KGB and GRU, penetrating the U.S. military and intelligence communities. This is the modern work of the Blavatsky-Okhrana intelligence deployment, which works today through the likes of Soviet spoonbender Yuri Geller.

Notes (not in original article)

[1] Posted version revised 11/18/01. The version previously posted contained errors due to the fact that I obtained it from http://www.omphalos.net/files/anti/EI R_SAT1.html, which is missing quite a bit of information. I did the best I could at filling in the missing information, but I left some of it blank, and some of what I filled in turned out to be wrong. By sheer luck, I downloaded it again from the aforementioned source on impulse, and again on impulse opened it with Corel Wordperfect 8.0. To my amazement, the missing information appeared highlighted in red, although somewhat garbled. With a little work, I was able to reconstruct it.

[2] Steiner broke from the Blavatsky-Besant-Bailey brand of Theosophy because it had been hijacked by various forces with selfish and evil agendas. He indicated that his mission was to purify Theosophy. It appears to me that his teachings are being misused to convey an aura of authority on certain movements which take them out of context.

[3] The term white in this case refers to a class of initiates, not skin color, although I share Thompsons mistrust of Baileys guides and doubt that they were members of this benevolent class.

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