Finding The Truth In An Age Of Lies And Distortions.

The truth is getting harder and harder to find these days. 

As a disclaimer, I personally have no strong opinion on who is really behind the situation which is currently evolving in the Ukraine. There is one school of thought that Putin is attempting to regain control of the old Soviet Union and Europe as well, in Hitler style aggression - and now we are seeing things that are very similar to the world in the late 1930's. There is another school of thought that the "west" is behind these events, much like the U.S. instigated turmoil in Libya, Egypt and Syria and Russia is being portrayed as evil, unfairly, and in this scenario the world is shaping up exactly as it did in the pre-WWI days. 

Who knows in this age of lies and distortions. The truth may be somewhere in the middle. Either way, the following two articles are worth reading for some deeper insight:

The Greatest Crisis

Today former US Treasury official, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, warned King World News that the world is now facing the greatest crisis in the history of mankind.  Dr. Roberts also warned that the United States is in danger of being wiped off the face of the Earth.  The interview also contains an ominous warning for humanity.  Below is what Dr. Roberts had to say in this remarkable and timely interview.

Dr. Roberts:  “That government (in Ukraine) is conducting extraordinary propaganda against Russia, claiming that Russian troops are massed on the border and are going to invade Ukraine.  So they are creating this image which helps foment war.  Here’s the great danger in all of this....

“What does this do to Putin?  Putin has been very low key.  He’s been very diplomatic.  He sits there and watches this and he says: 

“What are these Americans up to?  Here they bring a direct strategic threat to Russia, right here in my backyard.  They are trying to put Ukraine in Nato so they can put missile bases on the Russian border with Ukraine.  They tried to grab Russia’s only warm-water naval base, the port we’ve had since Catherine the Great in the 18th century.  Why are they doing this?  Why these amazing provocations against Russia?”

... So that’s what the idiots in Washington have brought about.  They’ve convinced a nuclear power that can wipe the United States off the face of the Earth, and certainly Europe, that they cannot be trusted.  

They’ve made it impossible for the Russian government to work with them.  They are demonizing Russia, trying to isolate it, trying to punish it for doing nothing -- except not collapsing before American aggression.  And so what can he (Putin) do?  Prepare for war.  This is extremely dangerous.

Any government that is so reckless as Washington is, to create this impression in the government of a strategic nuclear power, any government that would do this is insane.  This is a form of recklessness and irresponsibility on the part of the Obama regime and its European puppets that is insane.  The whole world is at stake.”

Eric King:  “What about Russia’s relationship with China?  That’s strengthening and they seem to be aligning against the West.  Is China with Russia?”

Dr. Roberts:  “China realizes it has the same enemy that Russia has -- it’s Washington.  Washington is doing the same thing to China.  The pivot to Asia is the construction of all these new American naval and air bases, in order to surround China and to control the flow of resources through the South China Sea.

China can see clearly that this is directed at them, despite the fact that the United States announces periodically, ‘This has nothing to do with China.’  What does it have to do with? (laughter ensues)  What does the United States need these naval and air bases in the South China Sea for, except to interfere with China?

So China sees that.  And they see the lies -- No one believes the account given of the Ukraine, outside the United States and parts of Western Europe.  Nobody else in the world believes a word of it.  China can see Russia is being set up as the bad guy.  In fact, they (China) have spoken out in favor of Russia.

I think the same thing will happen with India and Brazil.  So you will see a quicker formation of the BRIC’s, and a quicker move toward leaving the dollar, and creating their own separate international monetary system.  This will then reduce the financial imperialism of Washington because it will exclude half the population of the world.”

Dr. Roberts added:  “Obama is now ridiculing Russia, saying they are ‘weak.’  Why do you want to gratuitously offend a militarily powerful country for?  What is the purpose of it?  It shows that the President of the United States is not fit to be in office.  He doesn’t have enough sense to be there.  He’s dangerous.  He’s provoking confrontation that could blow the whole world up.”

How Much War Does Washington Want?

The American, UK, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, EU propaganda machine has blamed Putin for all the trouble. But so far the Russian government has not had to do anything except comply with the self-determination of the people in the Russian areas of Ukraine. Much of Ukraine, as it exists or existed today, consists of Russian territories added to Ukraine by Soviet rulers.

When Ukraine became independent with Russia’s agreement when the Soviet Union collapsed, had the Russian territories first been put back into Russia from whence they came, Washington’s coup would not have resulted in the same level of crisis.

Instead, under Washington’s pressure, the Russian territory was retained by Ukraine, and in compensation Russia was given a 50-year lease on Sevastopol, Russia’s Black Sea naval base.

The purpose of the Washington financed and orchestrated coup in Kiev was to put Ukraine, with its artificial boundaries, into the EU and NATO and to evict Russia from its
warm water port and ring Russia with US missile bases. Washington and its European puppets described this as “bringing democracy to Ukraine.”

Ukraine already had democracy, a young one trying to put down roots, and Washington destroyed it. As Russian President Putin observed, overthrowing a brand new democracy destroys democracy. Washington’s coup established for Ukraine the precedent that force and propaganda rule, not democracy.

But Washington cares not for democracy, only for its agenda. And Russia, China, and Iran are in the way.

This year 2014 is the 100th anniversary of World War 1. As my Oxford professor, Michael Polanyi, said, this was the war that destroyed Europe. He meant culturally and morally as well as physically. As John Maynard Keynes made clear in his prediction, the propagandistic way in which World War 1 was blamed on Germany and the “peace” that was imposed on Germany set up World War 2.

We are witnesses today to the same kind of propagandistic lies with regard to Russia that caused World War 1. In The Genesis Of The World War, Harry Elmer Barnes quotes the French chief editor of a French account of the organization of propaganda in France during World War 1. The French built a massive building called La Maison de la Presse. In this building images of people were created with hands cut off, tongues torn out, eyes gouged out, and skulls crushed with brains laid bare. These images were then photographed and “sent as unassailable evidence of German atrocities to all parts of the globe, where they did not fail to produce the desired effect.” Also provided were “fictitious photographs of bombarded French and Belgian churches, violated graves and monuments and scenes of ruins and desolation. The staging and painting of these scenes were done by the best scene-painters of the Paris Grand Opera.”

This vicious propaganda against Germany meant that Germany could be blamed for the war and that all of President Woodrow Wilson’s guarantees to Germany of no reparations and no territorial loss if Germany agreed to an armistice could be violated. The propaganda success guaranteed that the peace settlement would be so one-sided as to set up the Second World War.

Russia has observed Washington’s strategic moves against Russian national interests and Russian sovereignty for two decades. What does Putin think when he hears the vicious anti-Russian propaganda based 100% in lies?

This next article is for interest only. It assumes more interest for those who believe that the biblical false prophet will be located in Rome and perhaps a Pope or the current Pope could end up serving as that figure. Additionally (and again for interest only - these are somewhat tangential issues) if you do a little digging into "Project Bluebeam", and/or believe that the UFO story will have prophetic significance, this story gains more interest. Otherwise, I have no idea if this means anything but it is potentially significant and can't be ignored:

 Vatican Astronomers Ramp Up Their Search For 'Brother Extraterrestrial'

Why in the world is the Vatican searching for extraterrestrial life?  Does the Catholic hierarchy know something about alien life that the rest of us do not?  Why is the largest religious organization on the planet spending so much time and energy looking for “brother extraterrestrial”?  Earlier this month, the Vatican Observatory cosponsored a major conference on extraterrestrial life that brought together 200 of the leading astrobiologists in the world.  One of the organizers stated that one of the goals of the conference was to figure out “how we can find life among the stars within the next two decades“.  Certainly it would not be unusual for a group of astronomers and astrobiologists to get together and discuss such things.  But why is the Vatican seemingly obsessed with this stuff?  As you will see below, there are some high profile Vatican astronomers that seem quite confident that “something” is out there.  In fact, one has stated that once it is revealed, “everything we think we know” may have to “be thrown out”.

Normally, a conference that brings together several hundred scientists is not going to make headline news.  What makes this one different is the involvement of the Vatican.  The following is how this conference was described on NASA’s website…

Motivated by the rapidly increasing number of known Earth-sized planets, the increasing range of extreme conditions in which life on Earth can persist, and the progress toward a technology that will ultimately enable the search for life on exoplanets, the Vatican Observatory and the Steward Observatory announce a major conference entitled The Search for Life Beyond the Solar System: Exoplanets, Biosignatures & Instruments.

The goal of the conference is to bring together the interdisciplinary community required to address this multi-faceted challenge: experts on exoplanet observations, early and extreme life on Earth, atmospheric biosignatures, and planet-finding telescopes.

In recent years, the Vatican has really taken a position of leadership in the search for extraterrestrial life.  The current head of the Vatican Observatory, José Gabriel Funes, does not believe that there is any conflict between his faith and his search for life beyond this world…

José Gabriel Funes, an Argentine Jesuit priest and astronomer, and the current director of the Vatican Observatory says there is no conflict between believing in God and in the possibility of extraterrestrial civilizations perhaps more evolved than humans.

“In my opinion this possibility exists,” said the Reverend José Gabriel Funes, current director of the Vatican Observatory and a scientific adviser to Pope Benedict XVI, referring to life on other planets.

In fact, Funes sounds quite optimistic about the possibility of finding “brother extraterrestrial” someday…

Asked if he was referring to beings similar to humans or even more evolved than humans, he said: “Certainly, in a universe this big you can’t exclude this hypothesis.”

“Just as there is a multiplicity of creatures on earth, there can be other beings, even intelligent, created by God. This is not in contrast with our faith because we can’t put limits on God’s creative freedom. Why can’t we speak of a ‘brother extraterrestrial’? It would still be part of creation.”

Funes, who runs the observatory that is based south of Rome and in Arizona, held out the possibility that the human race might actually be the “lost sheep” of the universe. There could be other beings “who remained in full friendship with their creator,” he said.

Wow.

So Funes is actually suggesting that when we do encounter extraterrestrial beings, they may not have fallen into sin like humanity has.

The implications of this are staggering.  Just check out what researcher Tom Horn recently had to say about this…

This is an argument that they continue to make and they’re becoming more and more adamant about it, that what we know about ourselves is that we are fallen, right? But we cannot necessarily assume the same thing about our space brethren, and if they’re unfallen, they’re closer to God than we are. Therefore they have a better understanding of the Gospel and of the Godhead and of the nature of God. And when they started out three years ago, Funes was saying “I’d like to baptize an alien into the Catholic faith.” Well that’s not what they’re saying today. What they’re saying now is that they [aliens] are coming here and they’re going to baptize us into their faith and it is going to require us to make changes to our knowledge, to our understanding, of the Gospel. In fact, some of their deepest theologians have said, “Perhaps everything we think we know about the Gospel is going to have to be thrown out.”

Another prominent Vatican astronomer, Guy Consolmagno, has publicly suggested that aliens could actually be the “saviors of humankind“…

Captivating comments from Jesuit priests like Guy Consolmagno—a leading astronomer who often turns up in media as a spokesman for the Vatican who has worked at NASA and taught at Harvard and MIT and who currently splits his time between the Vatican Observatory and laboratory (Specola Vaticana) headquartered at the summer residence of the Pope in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, and Mt. Graham in Arizona. Over the last few years, he has focused so much of his time and effort in an attempt to reconcile science and religion in public forums specifically as it relates to the subject of extraterrestrial life and its potential impact on the future of faith that we decided to contact him. He agreed to be interviewed from Rome, and over the numerous exchanges that followed he told us some things that seemed beyond the scope. He even sent us a copy of a private pdf, a literal goldmine of what he and the Vatican are considering regarding the ramifications of astrobiology and specifically the discovery of advanced extraterrestrials… in which he admits how contemporary societies will soon “look to The Aliens to be the Saviours of humankind.”

So what would happen someday if “aliens” showed up and claimed that they seeded life on this planet, guided our evolution and are now here to lead us into a new golden age?

And what would happen if the Catholic Church gave those aliens their stamp of approval?

That sounds absolutely bizarre, but there are very important Vatican officials that are apparently thinking very hard about these things.