tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85951220762100694152024-02-21T10:03:15.809-05:00Living FreeYou can live free, or you can live afraid. You can't live both free and afraid.John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-29853220434933091152016-08-16T08:10:00.000-04:002016-08-16T09:59:55.830-04:00Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and the Ghost of Roy Cohn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">From
2005 to 2014, Donald Trump's Campaign Director Paul Manafort was a political
advisor to Ukrainian </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";">President </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Viktor F. Yanukovych</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"> who
was staunchly pro-Russian. In 2014, </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Yanukovych</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"> was driven from office. Hand-written ledgers in the
offices of </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Yanukovych's political party
contain entries of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";">$12.7 million in previously
undisclosed cash disbursements to Manafort.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"> When
asked for comment about these entries Mr. Manafort stated that: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial";">“The suggestion that I accepted cash payments
is unfounded, silly and nonsensical,” Manafort said, adding that he never
worked for the governments of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:country-region>
or <st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region> and that he
stopped working in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country-region>
after the October 2014 elections there."</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> Mr.
Manafort's response is an adroit non-denial denial. There is no indication in
the ledger as to what the cash disbursements were for. The issue is whether
cash was disbursed at his direction and, if so, for what purpose. Roger Stone is
a longtime political operative and partner of Manafort. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> There
is an incident in 1980 in which Stone was involved that illustrates just how
evasive Manafort's non-denial may be. The basic facts of the incident were
reported by Matt Labash in <i>The Weekly
Standard</i> in a profile of Roger Stone.<a href="file:///C:/docs/LIT/TRUMP/Blog/Manafort%20and%20cash.doc#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Some underlying facts which fill in gaps of the story I can fill in from
confidential sources in the Liberal Party which was the supposed object of a
$125,000 cash bribe. It was gathered by Roy Cohn and delivered in an unopened
valise to an attorney associated with the Liberal Party by Stone. The intent
was to purchase the endorsement of the Liberal Party for John Anderson as an
independent candidate for President.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> The
Liberal Party did in fact endorse <st1:city w:st="on">Anderson</st1:city> and
the <st1:city w:st="on">Anderson</st1:city> vote on the Liberal line allowed Reagan
to carry <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>
with a plurality (not a majority of the vote).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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is fairly clear that the attorney who received the bribe money was the late Ray
Harding. <span style="background: white; color: #333333;">In 2009, </span><span style="background: white;">he
pleaded guilty<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333;">to charges that he had taken $800,000 for doing favors
for Mr. Hevesi. He had acted as a sham intermediary for associates of the
comptroller who were awarded lucrative contracts to manage the state’s $141 billion pension
fund. He also had schemed to secure a State Assembly seat for Mr. Hevesi’s son.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> According
to one source what Cohn and Stone were paying for was "garbage." The leadership
of the Party was totally uniformed of the bribe. The vote occurred within two
days of delivery of the cash to Harding.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> The
reason the purported bribe was garbage was that the leadership had already decided
to endorse <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Anderson</st1:place></st1:city>
because despite much lobbying by the Liberal Party, the Carter White House had
been unresponsive to Liberal Party complaints about the outsourcing of US jobs
to foreign countries. This was over a decade before NAFTA. The Liberal Party
was actually the creation of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York
City</st1:place></st1:city> garment center unions. Saving NYC garment center
jobs was paramount to those unions. Despite weeks of lobbying, the Carter
Administration offered no support to the Union demands. The <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Anderson</st1:place></st1:city> vote was foreordained before the
Cohn-Stone $125,000 bribe.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> I
have noted on occasion, that in my opinion the first and greatest politician of
all time was Chanticleer, the rooster
who crows so that the sun may rise.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> Here's
what this tale has to do with Paul Manafort and his non-denial denial: Did Roy
Cohn receive a cash payment? Did Roger Stone receive a cash payment? They may
have conspired to bribe the Liberal Party, but they both could argue they were
only conduits for cash payments, not the recipients. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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bottom line is this: Manafort's carefully worded denial tells us nothing and
may be technically true. The issue might be to whom did he either deliver or direct
the payments to? That might be something that keepers of the register would
have wanted to keep secret.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> Hear
the laughter? It's Roy Cohn's ghost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-80176863482151080712016-08-15T06:24:00.000-04:002016-08-15T06:24:47.149-04:00Putin's "fold em" moment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">The NY Times which came in second to the Washington Post on the Watergate
scandal just took the lead in what will become a race for the Pulitzer with a
documented story on the financial interests and probable corruption of Donald Trump's Campaign Director Paul Manafort
in his dealings with the </span><st1:country-region style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">
AND some hint of his relationship to Russian President Vladimir Putin.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">See<a href="http://nyti.ms/2b9zmzf"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #1155cc;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1155cc;">"Secret
Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief"</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Yesterday
morning, I posted about my concerns that the activities of Russian intelligence
agencies posed a clear and present danger for the integrity of the November 8,
2016 US Presidential election. There is still danger for mischief without doubt
but the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Times<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>story raises substantial issues of
criminality for Manafort and ultimately Trump that may moot Putin's cleverest
plans. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">When it comes
to the survival of US democracy I think an appropriate metaphor might be the
Battle of Gettysburg (July, 1863) and Picket's charge when an over-confident
Robert E. Lee gambled on an all or nothing attack on the heavily defended Union
center. He lost his gamble. I remember a legend that after the Confederates
were repulsed, Union commander George Meade rode the line horseback yelling
"The Union is saved." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Putin is a
brilliant strategist intent on Russian world hegemony. He has bet the house on
undermining the November 8, 2016 election in order to elect Donald Trump.
Yesterday, I warned that the sky is falling. Now, given who Paul Manafort is, and
Trump's reputed $700 million debt to the Russians, Hillary's lead in the polls
will undoubtedly stiffen or rise. I doubt that Manafort will be making too many
TV appearances. There is in the <i>Times</i>
links to Putin's own finances. Perhaps it's time for Putin to heed the advice
of Kenny Rogers. When it comes to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> Presidential election.
"it's time to fold 'em"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Problems of
electronic ballot security remain but today, reading the <i>NY Times</i>, my only thought is: The Union is saved!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-30349458718663694632016-08-14T07:03:00.000-04:002016-08-14T08:30:29.416-04:00PUTIN and TRUMP: Will the American Dream end on November 8, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">I do not
mean to sound like Henny Penny warning that the sky is falling, but it may very
well fall on November 8, 2016 and effectively extinguish American democracy. It
is under assault from two directions and like any good assault, there is strong
evidence that the two prongs are acting in coordination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">One of
those prongs is the campaign by Vladimir Putin to seek Russian world hegemony by
supporting right-wing fascist groups. His <st1:place w:st="on">first goal is </st1:place>to break-up and destroy both NATO and the common market of the European
Union. The British BREXIT vote was a triumph for that policy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">It may
never be possible to determine to what extent Putin intervened in the
BREXIT referendum. However, actions of hackers linked to Russian intelligence
attacking the Democratic Party raise an interesting question: to what extent
did those same Russian intelligence assets intervene in the BREXIT vote. One
problem is that there were no exit polls for the BREXIT voting on referendum
day to give us a clue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
sophistication and targeting of the Russian effort is illustrated by its focus
on an individual who might not seem to be a prime target of Russian intelligence
until you understand just what this individual was doing: investigating the
connections of Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign director who in fact has strong
connections to the Russian oligarchy that surrounds and enriches Putin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><i>Clear and
Present Danger</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The second
prong is the Trump campaign whose director, Paul Manafort has known ties to
Putin's Russian oligarchs. Trump last week claimed that the only way he would
lose <st1:state w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:state> would be if the <st1:state w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:state> vote was stolen by <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Clinton</st1:place></st1:city>. He urged his supporters to organize
and watch the polling places to prevent "fraud." What's really odd,
and thus disturbing, is the simple fact that according to the Real Politics
index of polls, the last four polls in <st1:state w:st="on">Pennsylvania</st1:state>
have <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Clinton</st1:place></st1:city>
leading by double digits and the combine average for the last six polls is a
lead of 9.6. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">What's
terribly disturbing is the make-up a large segment of Trump's shrinking voter
base: armed militias and armed supporters of "The Second Amendment," who
Trump says must protect us from a Clinton Presidency. The Supreme Court has
remarked that the Constitutional right to free speech does not include
"the right to falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater." Metaphorically, that is what Trump is doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">One
apparent object of the Russian hacking operation was Alexandra Chalupa. On May
4, 2016, she wrote a colleague at the DNC that ever since she began collecting
information on Trump campaign director Paul Manafort, she had been<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #02141f;"> </span></span>receiving
daily security warnings from Yahoo<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #02141f;"> </span></span>that her personal account may have
“been the target of state-sponsored actors.” Such notifications are routine
when an internet or email provider suspects that a user may have been hacked or
is likely to be hacked. <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/25/fbi-suspects-russia-hacked-dnc-u-s-officials-say-it-was-to-elect-donald-trump.html">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/25/fbi-suspects-russia-hacked-dnc-u-s-officials-say-it-was-to-elect-donald-trump.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
combination of Russian intelligence operatives and Trump's strange claim that
only fraud will prevent him from winning a state where he trails badly in the
polls, auger badly for election day in Pennsylvania and probably other states.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I am
afraid that the sky is falling, I might just be right. I only hope I am wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Wiki Leaks
posting on communication between Chalupua and the DNC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #093a41; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Re: You saw this,
right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">From:ChalupaA@dnc.org To:
MirandaL@dnc.org Date: 2016-05-04 01:56 Subject: Re: You saw this, right?
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">A lot more coming down the pipe. I spoke to a
delegation of 68 investigative journalists from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country-region> last Wednesday at the
Library of Congress - the Open World Society's forum - they put me on the
program to speak specifically about Paul Manafort and I invited Michael Isikoff
whom I've been working with for the past few weeks and connected him to the
Ukrainians. More offline tomorrow since there is a big Trump component you and
Lauren need to be aware of that will hit in next few weeks and something I'm
working on you should be aware of. Since I started digging into Manafort these
messages have been a daily occurrence on my yahoo account despite changing my
password often: [image1.JPG] Sent from my iPhone On May 3, 2016, at 10:50 PM,
Miranda, Luis <mirandal dnc.org="" mailto:mirandal="">> wrote:
http://www.politifact.com/global-news/article/2016/may/02/paul-manafort-donald-trumps-top-adviser-and-his-ti/
[SigDems]<http: www.democrats.org="">Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee 202-863-8148 –
MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:mirandal dnc.org=""> -
@MiraLuisDC<https: iraluisdc="" www.twitter.com=""> <o:p></o:p></https:></mailto:mirandal></http:></mirandal></span></div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-27040075445597985622016-08-06T10:20:00.000-04:002016-08-06T13:51:02.732-04:00Roy Cohn's Spirit infuses the Trump Campaign<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like Jacob Marley in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Roy Cohn is dead and gone. Now his ghost is paying us a visit in the context of Donald Trump's candidacy for President. There are some differences. Marley's spirit sought to warn Scrooge to mend his ways; Cohn's spirit, in the form of his protégé Roger Stone, is the apparent advocate of the worst of Trump's rhetoric including his claim that the November election is rigged and threatening a revolution if Trump loses the rigged election. See </span><a href="https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/05/trump-confidante-roger-stone-pushes-clinton-aide-911-conspiracy-claims-trump-views-rnc-chairman/212214" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/05/trump-confidante-roger-stone-pushes-clinton-aide-911-conspiracy-claims-trump-views-rnc-chairman/212214</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Roy Cohn is immortal. In Angels in America, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama, the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg tells us so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ETHEL ROSENBERG: You're immortal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> ROY: I'm immortal. Ethel. (He forces himself to stand) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have forced my way into history. I ain't never gonna die.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Angels' America is a bleak surreal plain, where lost souls teeter on the brink of apocalypse. Cohn is a metaphor for the seductive, dark side of the American dream. Awash in intransigent denial, the playwright limns Cohn's audacious ego, cunning seductiveness, brutal transcendent power and helplessness against ravages of AIDS. It is a chilling, provocative portrait. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As black as the playwright's perception may be, the reality of Cohn's life is darker still. His career embodies the confluence of two primeval forces of our day, organized crime and rabid anti-communism, into a single, swift current. Those forces manifested themselves in Las Vegas casinos, Havana gambling palaces, the Bay of Pigs, Dealey Plaza, Watergate and beyond. While Roy Cohn was not solely responsible for these events, or clearly a direct participant in all of them, so much of the current of his life runs through each of them, that the study of his life and power enlightens the causes and effects of many of the most significant events of our times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is an excellent posting this week which relate Stone's involvement with Trump's campaign. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/08/jacob_weisberg_s_classic_new_republic_profile_of_trump_adviser_roger_stone.html">http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/08/jacob_weisberg_s_classic_new_republic_profile_of_trump_adviser_roger_stone.html</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another posting warns of Russian interference in our election process on Trump's behalf.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/07/an_interview_with_anne_applebaum_on_the_russian_hack_of_the_dnc.html">http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/07/an_interview_with_anne_applebaum_on_the_russian_hack_of_the_dnc.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I would also recommend Wayne Barrett's <i>Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention</i> which has been updated and reissued for this campaign year. It's available in E-Book format or paperback on all major internet bookseller pages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As Bob Dylan sang:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing."</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">There is an old saying among loan sharks: I loan you $10 you owe me $10. I loan you $100,000, I own you.</span></div>
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Donald Trump and his various enterprises are indebted to the Russian oligarchy for millions of dollars. Donald Trump Jr. has remarked that they are disproportionately reliant on Russian money. That's because US banks won't deal with him after all Trump's bankruptcies. There is no question but that Putin is the "boss" of the oligarchs and gets a cut of their profits. The simple point is that Putin owns Trump.</div>
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Russian intelligence agencies have hacked into the databases of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign. They have released through WikiLeaks items that embarrass the Democrats and Clinton with more to come.</div>
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What bothers me is not the embarrassing stuff. Trump can try to take all the advantage he wants from the Russian leaks. It's the potential for election day result tampering that bothers me.</div>
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Sometime ago when I was active as a Vice-Chair of NYS New Democratic Coalition (NDC) I ran across Dick Morris who was then a young Democrat Turk who master minded a takeover of the NDC on the Westside of Manhattan. They weren’t all bad and actually some of them were quite good. However, Morris became bipartisan and sold his talents to both Republicans and Democrats. He was a member of the Clinton administration until he became involved in a sex scandal, sharing state secrets with a prostitute.</div>
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Among his activities as I recall was helping to monitor the fairness of elections in the Third World. One of the checks they utilized was election day exit polls. If there were significant deviations between the polls and the announced results it was an indicia of fraud.</div>
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By the 2000 election, Morris having left the Clinton administration had become a straight Fox News expert. When there was a disparity between the Florida exit polls and the announced results, he attacked the accuracy of exit polls. We later learned that in just one area, West Palm Beach which was strongly liberal there was a butterfly ballot which confused voter and many more votes were counted for Pat Buchanan than might be expected - far more than Bush's margin of victory.</div>
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What really bothers me, is given the fact Trump is in Putin's pocket, and given the expertise of Putin's intelligence services in hacking, those areas of the United States where there is electronic voting with no printed ballot in the process, this election may very well be stolen iin those areas.</div>
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In NYS, we vote by marking a printed ballot and then having it scanned and the results recorded electronically. The printed ballots are a protection against fraud.</div>
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This weekend, Trump has acted very unusually. He made an appearance in Colorado on Friday but then cancelled an event scheduled for Florida on Tuesday. The odd thing about Colorado is that Clinton has scaled back some activities in Colorado, because her internal polls place her 10 points ahead and the resources may be better spent elsewhere. She and Kaine (and Bill and Ann) are busing through through battleground states PA and Ohio,</div>
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The Russian oligarchs own Trump. Trump has undercut US policy in the Ukraine and the Baltic states. He favors a virtual break-up of NATO. He has become Putin's puppet. I am afraid. I am very afraid.</div>
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On the other hand there is also FDR. "We have nothing to fear but fear itsel" - as long as we have the courage to act,<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">This is not a promo for my book Quantum Christ but you can find out about it at:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://johnklotz.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-coming-of-quantum-christ-has-arrived.html">http://johnklotz.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-coming-of-quantum-christ-has-arrived.html</a></span></div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-32545778323833047312016-07-24T11:03:00.000-04:002016-07-30T06:49:37.814-04:00Can Democracy survive the Internet?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I suppose I
should be complimented. I seem to be getting a lot of hits on my blog from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Somehow, however, when I check the stats from Google, the individual hits do
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">However,
there is an old saying: even paranoids have enemies. I have one in particular
who quite skilled at Internet stalking. He is quite angry at me for my success
in preserving a news stand site for an Indian imagrant that he wanted. I get
these terrible comments for my page that I delete and do not allow to be
posted. One of them claimed that a departed relative was burning in Hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Today there
is story in Slate which really bothers me and I connect it to a Wiki-leaks
story yesterday revealing hacked and embarrassing E-Mail from the Democratic
National Committee. Then there is a story about how Putin intervened in
European elections to aid ultra-right candidates Prime examples are Marie Le
Penn in <st1:country-region w:st="on">France</st1:country-region> and
Berlusconi in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Of course Berlusconi was ousted eventually and Le Penn has yet to win control
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Putin is
the new Stalin seeking to expand his influence. I do not think there is any
limit to his ambition. One of his goals to break-up the unity of Europe (and
the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>).
That seems to be okay with Trump.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The
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voters away from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Clinton</st1:place></st1:city>.
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Frankly,
I'm scared. Saturday afternoon, I saw Tim Kaine get and deliver a knock-out
performance in <st1:city w:st="on">Miami</st1:city> when introduced by <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Clinton</st1:place></st1:city>. While, I am bit
to his left, he is supporting the Democratic platform to be adopted at the DNC
and that is more than enough for now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">But, there
is no question that Trump in his statements about the NATO and the Baltic
states (<st1:country-region w:st="on">Estonia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Lithuania</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latvia</st1:place></st1:country-region>) is music to Putin's ears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I have at
times metaphorically tabbed Trump the Anti-Christ because of his blatant
narcissism and his disdain for nuclear non-proliferation. It now seems clear
that he is at best a tool for a real Anti-Christ, his pal Vladmir Putin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Then there
is story on why all the Brexit vote wrong. When I first became
involved in <st1:place w:st="on">Bronx</st1:place> reform politics in 1969, I
was told that "We have to win by 10% because anything less they
steal." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://johnklotz.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-coming-of-quantum-christ-has-arrived.html">http://johnklotz.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-coming-of-quantum-christ-has-arrived.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-17186946752232573232016-07-15T08:26:00.001-04:002016-07-15T08:26:46.387-04:00Empathy and Nice, FR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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in Nice and Orlando and San Bernadino and …and …and the reaction to them bring
to my mind a poem I first read more than six decades ago as a Freshman at Syracuse
U. It's not the failure to react that bothers me, it's the cheap shots that
some politicians make about terrorism without an ounce of sincere empathy. The Trump reaction: build a wall!, Ban Imigaion. It was the
death of a </span><st1:country-region style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
father and his 11 year old son in Nice that brought to my mind the Auden poem.</span></div>
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even grotesque joy of the <st1:place w:st="on">ISIS</st1:place> adherents to
the suffering they impose on others.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana";">About suffering they were never wrong,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana";"><br />
<span style="background: white;">The Old Masters; how well, they understood<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Its human position; how it takes place<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">While someone else is eating or opening a window
or just walking dully along;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">How, when the aged are reverently, passionately
waiting<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">For the miraculous birth, there always must be<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Children who did not specially want it to
happen, skating<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">On a pond at the edge of the wood:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">They never forgot<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its
course<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and
the torturer's horse<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how
everything turns away<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman
may<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">But for him it was not an important failure; the
sun shone<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">As it had to on the white legs disappearing into
the green<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must
have seen<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.</span></span></div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-32308977929344324252016-07-04T15:10:00.000-04:002016-07-04T16:01:07.721-04:00For the Fourth of July: A Mystery and History solved<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maybe this is a little self-indulgent but a few weeks ago I heard a Shaker hymn in a Catholic Church which I found intriguing because it appeared to be the theme I remembered from long ago for a news program. Yesterday we sang it again and today I decided to solve the mystery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The theme as I heard it decades ago was played full symphonic. The first version I found today was sung by four young girls dancing and singing in front of a Melrose Church in 18th or 19th century costume. Having identified the source of theme I checked further and found that "Simple Gifts" was a theme adopted by Aaron Copeland for <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">a movement for his ballet </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">"</span> Appalachian Spring. "<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">Simple Gifts."</span> begins simply but he then reiterates it five or six times, each time increasing in complexity until the last iteration goes full symphonic as I remembered from all those years long ago. It only takes a minute and a half in toto..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the Fourth of July. Somehow I think to listen to this melody and how it developed into a majestic symphonic movement maybe analogous to the remarkable development and growth of our nation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Happy Fourth of July. We have come a long way but we have much farther to go.</span><br />
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may be some who read this who welcome the results of the BREXIT vote in the
tenuously "United" Kingdom and/or support the erratic Presidential
campaign of Donald Trump, the concurrence of BREXIT vote and Trump campaign is
continuing evidence of the apocalyptic nature of our times where climate change
threatens the extinction of humanity. Although he eschews the word
"Apocalypse" Pope Francis has recognized the selfish instincts which threaten the survival of our
posterity. The drought and fires in the western US and the epic floods in </span><st1:state style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">West Virginia</st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> are just
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The BREXIT
vote in particular has drawn me this Sunday to one poem that has affected me
deeply and guided my thoughts for decades: William Butler Yeats <i>The Second Coming"</i> published in 1919.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fall part" Yeats wrote. "the centre cannot
hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world . . . The blood-dimmed tide is
loosed … The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate
intensity."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my book <i>The Coming of the Quantum Christ</i>
I wrote of an Apocalypse of Selfishness. Trump is the embodiment of
selfishness. When a horrible massacre occurred in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Orlando</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Florida</st1:state></st1:place>,
Trump's first message did not reflect sympathy and concern for the victims and
their families but how everybody was congratulating him for being right about the
threat of Islam. He was actually in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Scotland</st1:place></st1:country-region> the day after the BREXIT vote
"trumpeting" the beautiful amenities of his two Scottish golf courses
until he was directed to the BREXIT, the results which has embraced. Indeed, Trump remarked that because BREXIT is devaluing the British Pound Sterling, his resorts will do well, The devaluation of the pound makes US dollars more valuable and will attract more US visitors to Scotland. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"> He expressed no sympathy for British pensioners whose pensions will be devalued along with the pound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Is it any wonder that I earlier
asked tongue not entirely in cheek whether he was the Anti-Christ? Pope Francis
has made it abundantly clear that in his view that selfishness is the driving force
of climate change. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">On
May 21, 2014, he lamented “If we destroy creation, creation will destroy us.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Only by
united, unselfish actions can we ameliorate the extreme result of climate
change: the extinction of humanity. Trump and the BREXIT vote are material manifestations
of selfishness in action. I read the last stanza of Yeats poem to be not an
inquiry about Christ but the Anti-Christ:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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but now I know<br />
That twenty centuries of stony sleep<br />
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,<br />
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another attack on the LBGT community thwarted yesterday in </span><a href="http://www.salon.com/2016/06/12/attack_on_west_hollywood_gay_pride_parade_thwarted_suspect_arrested_with_explosives_and_guns/" style="font-family: Arial;">Santa
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Wesley Howell reportedly traveled from </span><st1:state style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on">Indiana</st1:state><span style="font-family: "arial";">
to attack the Southern California LGTB event" There is a disturbing
resonance with the </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Orlando</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial";">
attack. In his car were three AR-15 assault rifles with high capacity
magazines. Yesterday on my Facebook page, I noted that there seemed to be an
emerging pattern in the "lone nut" attacks that indicated inspiration
from an </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on">ISIS</st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";"> standard operating procedure
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important and deadly: the AR-15s and the high capacity magazines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">My main point is that we are going to hear a lot about what we can do to
thwart the <st1:place w:st="on">ISIS</st1:place> self-motivated terrorists. Frankly
we had done something in the wake of the attempted Assassination of Ronald
Reagan the Brady Bill. A key feature of the bill was struck by the Supreme
Court. Because of the perceived power of the National Rifle Association no progress
has been made in protecting the American public from gun violence. Congress
even defeated an Obama proposal that gun sales to individuals on the terrorist watch
list be banned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In some states, like <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>
the sale of high capacity magazines has been banned. But <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state> is helpless to the importation of
AR15s and high capacity magazines from
sister states. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Orlando</st1:place></st1:city>
massacre will become an issue in the Presidential campaign. Donald Trump has
already congratulated himself for his foresight in demanding an end to ANY Muslim
entering the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>
although the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Orlando</st1:place></st1:city>
assassin was a native born American citizen. The problem with ISIS inspired
lone wolf attacks is that the supply of disaffected individuals seeking a place
in the sun who are native born US citizens while not unlimited is undoubtedly
quite large.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It's time to ban high capacity magazines nation wide and adopt reasonable
restrictions of assault rifles. Sales to individuals on the terrorist watch
list must also be banned although any individual who feels unjustifiable denied
a gun ought to have a right to appeal. One candidate for President (and I
expect one sitting President) will raise that issue. Another candidate for
President having pledged his fealty to the NRA will oppose any remedial gun
control legislation. His claim will be that his Mexican wall and barring any
Muslim immigration is the answer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and might have happened in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Santa
Monica</st1:place></st1:city>. For a relevant essay on the topic see Edgar
Alan Poe and The<i> Masque of the Red Death</i>.
Or maybe this time the mask is orange.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today is the 72nd anniversary of the Normandy invasion. My cousin Billy Hundshamer didn't go ashore with the first wave but was killed a few weeks later in the hedge row fighting on the Cherbourg peninsula. Given the madness of the current Presidential campaign (or at least one major party candidate), you might you might be interested in a remembrance of mine posted decades ago about Billy and my family.</span></div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-74394487077794682552016-06-04T13:43:00.001-04:002016-06-04T14:12:00.924-04:00Is Donald Trump the Anti-Christ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In Chapter 16 of my book "the Coming of the Quantum Christ: The Shroud of Turin and the Apocalypse of Selfishness (Quantum Christ) I wrote:<br />
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Among the hymns sung Christmas is the French hymn Canitque Noel (O Holy Night). It captures the mystery of the night and its enduring message of Jesus birth in these words:<br />
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“Long lay the world in sin and error pining,<br />
‘til he appeared, and the soul felt its worth.”<br />
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Chapter 15 identified the soul with the reflective consciousness described by Teilhard de Chardin. It also identifies “original sin” as selfishness, one of the driving forces of evolution. Before humanity evolved with a reflective consciousness, there was no sin. Metaphorically, the first sin was Cain’s murder of Abel, an angry selfish response to God bestowing favor on his younger brother, an honor that Cain thought should have been his.<br />
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The “sin and error” that the caused the world to pine were the bitter fruits of selfishness which, like the paths of glory, lead but to the grave. In Chapter 16, "The Triumph of Love," I opined that Christ was crucified because he preached unselfish love that the devotees of selfishness could not tolerate. In Chapter 17, I wrote that humanity faced possible extinction through an Apocalypse of Selfishness.<br />
If the Apocalypse is upon us, and Christ is coming again, where you might ask is the Anti-Christ? Have we not heard his voice although some of you of conservative bent may object loudly. All I ask is that you choose your words carefully. There is so much at stake.<br />
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In Chapter 17, I specifically identified two Apostles of Selfishness. One was Friedrich Nietzsche, the other was Ayn Rand. One of the individuals who worshiped Ayn Rand was Alan Greenspan whose catering to the interest of Wall Street as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board was among the causes of the collapse of the economy circa 2007- 2008. Still, Greenspan is unrepentant about his opposition to regulation of the financial derivatives markets.<br />
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In his campaign for President, Donald Trump has exhibited narcissism that borders on the psychotic. He knows more about ISIS than the Generals. He believes he can deal on equal footing with the most despicable tyrants of our CURRENT time in North Korea and Russia. He would abrogate the agreement which is denying nuclear weapons to Iran. He would tear-up the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and would encourage Japan to arm itself with nuclear weapons. His tax plan if you read the fine print would in fact reduce taxes on the top 1% while gutting programs to aid the poor. Can anyone who finds God, in Christ, Moses or Bhudda actually applaud the already executed reductions of food stamps?<br />
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Trump is like the Pharisee who stood at the alter thanking God he was not like a tax collector who was in the back of the synagogue begging forgiveness because he was a sinner.<br />
In my recent research I have dealt with the levels of existence. No matter how many ways you slice it, either way it begins and ends with what the scientists call a singularity which is a mathematical equation of infinite value. The easiest way to realize such an equation is one I learned in my high school Algebra class: divide one by zero. You can try it on your computer. Window has calculator that can handle it as much as it can be handled.<br />
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Some scientists limn a future Utopia where artificial intelligence surpasses human capacity. Perhaps that is ultimate selfishness. For I foresee that future not as utopian by dystopian. To understand what that means I reference two movies: Blade Runner and The Matrix.<br />
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Whatever your religious preference, be it Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist or atheistic humanist, the way to Utopia is not selfishness but unselfishness. When you listen to Trump, you will not hear the voice of Isaiah which defines the Utopian vision for all humanity upon the Second Coming:<br />
And He will judge between the nations, And will render decisions for many peoples; And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not liftup sword against nation, And never again will they study war.<br />
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Pope Francis has called upon the world to shed its selfish exploitation of the poor and the environment. He is a Pope of All Humanity; Trump's campaign is grounded in selfishness and will lead only to the grave.<br />
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Sometime years ago, while riding the subway from Riverdale to Manhattan, I can across an article in the N.Y. Times speculating on gravity and other scientific problems. It appeared that contrary to the standard model, light could vary in speed.<br />
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I composed a little couplet, one line too long for a haiku:<br />
Space being curved,<br />
Time varying in speed,<br />
Whom do we heed?<br />
Him.<br />
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As for me: "I ain't gonna study war no more."<br />
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I believe but I am not be totally sure that NY Times piece that "inspired" my couplet is this one: "New Directions in Physics: Back in Time," NY Times, August 21, 1990.<br />
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I was a consultant on a new video by David Rolfe, producer of the 1978 BAFTA award winning movie about the Shroud of Turin, Silent Witness. The new video is: A Grave Injustice: An investigation into The First Selfie. http://www.shroudenigma.com/ " It's free.<br />
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If you are interested in Quantum Christ, you can read reviews and order a copy (Either E-Book, Kindle or four color hard copy at http://johnklotz.blogspot.com/2015_01_01_archive.html<br />
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The most extensive Internet resource which is https://www.shroud.com/<br />
Its editor Barrie Schwortz was documenting photographer of the 1978 Shroud of Turin Research Project. If you have interest in the Shroud of Turin, it's the best place to start.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">David Rolfe and Pam Moon have published on the web an intriguing video entitled Grave Injustice: An Investigation into "</span><a href="http://www.shroudenigma.com/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The First Selfie." ("Grave Injustice) </a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The video is narrated by James Phelps, better known to some as Fred Weasley of the Harry Potter films. The subject is the Shroud of Turin. The Shroud has been labeled the "First Photograph" by an historian. Is it also then the "First Selfie?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The first photograph - ever?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Given the fact that the first photograph is generally credited to Joseph Nicephore Niepce ("Niepce") in 1826, it would be a stretch to even credit the Shroud of Turin as the "first photograph." Yet that is precisely what Professor Gail Buckland has done. If that is an acceptable tag for the Shroud, then tagging the Shroud as the "first selfie" is certainly appropriate. Let me explain why.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the story of a black and white photograph taken of the Shroud in 1898 that caused a religious, historical, and scientific controversy that persists to this day. Part of the controversy is that the subject of the photograph contains an image which is itself a negative image and appears as a positive image in photographic negatives of the Shroud. <i>Sacre bleu!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1839, Sir John Hershel coined the word "photograph." It was a combination of the Greek word for light "photo" and the English word "graph" for a written depiction. The process of producing photographs became photography. The principal instrument of producing photographs was the photographic camera. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For more than 150 years, the principal method of taking and preserving photographs was a three step process that involved the capturing of an image of an object by a camera that recorded a negative image of black and white gradations of tone that were reversed. The printing of that negative to media reversed the negative image to positive and a true image could be printed. Color photos were subject to the same process. Until the advent of digital cameras in the mid nineteen-seventies that electronically stored images, that image to negative to positive process was the dominant mode of photography. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For nearly 500 years, a piece of ancient yellowed linen cloth has been kept in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy and venerated as the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. If you were to measure the cloth in the ancient Assyrian metric system it would be 2 cubits by 8 cubits. Measured in the English system it is approximately 14 feet 3 inches long by 3 feet 7 inches wide. Measured in the modern metric system 4.4m by 1.1m. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The most important feature of the Shroud is a faint, mysterious image front and back of a man who appears to have been a victim of crucifixion. Close examination reveals red stains that give the appearance of blood. A fire in 1532 caused holes and scorches that were repaired two years later and had been visible as white triangles with thin black edges that are the scorch marks. In 2002, the patches were removed in a controversial restoration of the Shroud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Secondo Pia photographed the Shroud in 1898. He was astounded to discover that the body image captured on his photographic glass plate was not a "negative image" but a "positive" one. It could only mean that body image on the Shroud was a negative image. That was impossible. Unheard of! Pia was so startled by the positive image of Jesus in his photograph negative that he nearly dropped the glass plate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1980, Professor Gail Buckland of Cooper Union, an expert on the history of photography, wrote concerning the Shroud image on the linen: "If it is authentic, then this is the first photograph of a man who lived almost two thousand years ago." Professor Buckland concluded that that image on shroud was a negative it: "[I]s a positive print of the shroud as it appears to the naked eye and resembles a photographic negative. ... [A]ctual photographic negatives taken of the shroud ... appear to be positive."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following image on the left shows the face of the man in the Shroud as it appears in negative form on the Shroud. The image on the right is an actual photograph of the same face image on the Shroud. Because the image of the face on the Shroud is a negative, the photograph presents the image as a positive image. Note that red blood stains on the Shroud appear red but on the photograph they appear white. That means that only the body image itself was the negative image on the Shroud. The rest of the Shroud and its markings are natural colors and appear in negatives of photographs as a negative image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Was Professor Buckland designation of the Shroud as the first photograph metaphorical – or is the image on the Shroud in fact a photographic negative? To understand why this is an insightful comment on the nature of the Shroud image and its importance, we must first have understanding of the history of photography. Whether the Shroud dates to circa 1355 CE when it was first exhibited in Lirey, France by French Knight Geoffrey I de Charney (hereafter "Geoffrey I") or circa 33 CE when Christ was crucified, it clearly was not created by a photographic camera. The first photographs taken by a camera date to the early nineteenth century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even if the Shroud wasn't Christ's authentic burial cloth, but a medieval forgery, it would still be at least metaphorically the "first photograph" because the Shroud with its image dates to no later than 1355 CE when it was exhibited in Lirey. There is ample evidence for the shroud's existence before 1355.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1453, Duke Louis of the House of Savoy had obtained the Shroud from de Charney's granddaughter. Eventually, it was permanently kept and closely guarded by the Savoy's in their capital, Turin where it was from time to time exhibited. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1848, the Statuto established the House of Savoy as the royal family of Sardinia and ultimately all of Italy. In 1898, to celebrate the Statuto's 50th anniversary, King Umberto of Savoy authorized a public exposition of the Shroud at the Cathedral and Secondo Pia was designated to take the first photographs of the Shroud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Was Pia in fact photographing the First Selfie? Was the selfie "photographer" the Deity, itself?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When someone has died and there is a question about the cause of death, a medical expert will conduct an examination (autopsy) of the deceased's body and from the conditions (facts) observed draw conclusions about the circumstances of death. Those facts are scientific findings by scientists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The autopsy is conducted by a qualified forensic pathologist who is a doctor and has training and experience in the conduct of autopsies, the analysis of the conditions observed and the determination of what those conditions mean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a matter of fact, the Shroud image possesses enough sharp detail to allow for just such an examination and has been examined by eminent qualified pathologists and scientists. Among them were Paul Vignon, Pierre Barbet, Robert Bucklin, Malcolm Cameron, Giuseppe Caselli, R. W Hynek, G. Judica-Cordiglia, Francesco La Cava, Hermann Moedder, Anthony Sava, David Willis, and Fredrick Zugibe. Generally, they are in significant agreement as to the facts concerning of the man in Shroud: death by crucifixion in manner described by Scripture including a post mortem spear wound below his heart, the a cap of thorns, and nails being driven through his wrists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While they cannot directly answer the question of what happened to his body, they can identify the time period at which it parted company from Shroud. In fact, the image was formed in a microsecond, most likely at the time the Shroud and the time the body parted company </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The late Robert Bucklin, who performed thousands of autopsies in his career, appears in Grave Injustice. A complete report of an autopsy of the image on the shroud performed by him appears on the Internet at <a href="http://www.shroud.com/bucklin.htm">http://www.shroud.com/bucklin.htm</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Doctor Bucklin concluded after a thorough examination:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“It is the ultimate responsibility of the medical examiner to confirm by whatever means are available to him the identity of the deceased, as well as to determine the manner of this death. In the case of Man on the Shroud, the forensic pathologist will have information relative to the circumstances of death by crucifixion which he can support by his anatomic findings. He will be aware that the individual whose image is depicted on the cloth has undergone puncture injuries to his wrists and feet, puncture injuries to his head, multiple traumatic whip-like injuries to his back and postmortem puncture injury to his chest area which has released both blood and a water type of fluid. From this data, it is not an unreasonable conclusion for the forensic pathologist to determine that only one person historically has undergone this sequence of events. That person is Jesus Christ."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The scientific evidence of the crucifixion</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is available on the internet an excellent analysis by Pam Moon of the injuries inflicted on Jesus as described and/or predicted by scripture and the Shroud's physical evidence of their infliction on Jesus. <a href="http://www.shroudofturinexhibition.com/Shroud_of_Turin_exhibition/Biblical_Injuries_of_Jesus_1.html">http://www.shroudofturinexhibition.com/Shroud_of_Turin_exhibition/Biblical_Injuries_of_Jesus_1.html</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are two important scientific observations that establish the time frame for the creation of the image: (1) the experts found that the image is in a state of rigor mortis and (2) there was no evidence of putrefaction by products staining the Shroud that result from the decay of the body. The two are related. Rigor mortis is caused by the stiffening of the muscles of the body in the position they were in at the time of death. Generally speaking the rigor mortis releases (relaxes) approximately 48 hours after death. That release is caused by the decaying (putrefaction) of body tissue including the muscles. The lack of putrefaction byproduct stains on the Shroud and the state of rigor mortis both indicate that the body image was created within 48 hours of death. That would be before three o'clock Sunday afternoon if the time of death was as scriptural accounts indicate Friday at 3:00 PM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a positive feedback to the issue of the authenticity of the Shroud and the state of the body image. The presence of rigor mortis and lack of putrefaction stains indicate the image was formed by the body of a crucified man and the image would then probably place the time of it's creation at sometime before 3:00 PM Sunday. Scripture claims the body was discovered missing by Mary Magdalene shortly after daybreak on that Sunday. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If the Shroud image is a forgery, the forger must have been one of the most learned persons of the Middle Ages, circa 1355.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As John Walsh wrote in<i> The Shroud:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“Only this much is certain: The Shroud of Turin is either the most awesome and instructive relic of Jesus Christ in existence - showing us in its stark simplicity how He appeared to men - or it is one of the most ingenious, most unbelievable clever, products of the human mind and hand on record. It is one or the other; there is no middle ground.” </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>C.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Skeptical fallacies: CNN loses Jesus</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Teilhard de Chardin in The Phenomenon of Man anticipated a convergence of science and religion leading to a scientific analysis of the actions and direction of God in creating the existence that we know. Nowhere is that convergence more evident than in the study of the Shroud of Turin. There is a trio of intellectual disciplines that must be included in any analysis: Science, History and Theology. Any one who attempts to address the issue of the Shroud's authenticity who doesn't understand this trio is akin to one of the blind men describing an elephant: It's a snake, no it's a tree, no it's a wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyone seeking to comment on the Shroud must not just nod to the trio, he or she must develop some understanding of each as it relates to the Shroud. An unfortunate example of the blind men error is the first episode of CNN's "Finding Jesus" broadcast Sunday, March 1, 2015 that addressed the issue of the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, was a concoction of largely blind men (and women) defining an elephant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There were three principal elements in the skepticism expressed on the program that reflect the thrust of skeptical dismissal of the Shroud authenticity: (1) the carbon dating; (2) a fantasy that it could be a photograph created by medieval photographers; and (3) the lack of history of the Shroud prior to its first display in Lirey in 1355. Let's examine these skeptical claims in that order.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Art historian Thomas de Wesselow wrote this about the carbon dating of the Shroud:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"The carbon dating of the Shroud will probably go down in history as one of the greatest fiascos in the history of science. It would make an excellent case study for any sociologist interested in exploring the ways in which science is affected by professional biases, prejudices and ambitions, not to mention religious (and irreligious) beliefs." </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By calling it a fiasco, he may have understated his case. <i>Grave Injustice</i> explains how the carbon dating labs sabotaged the protocols for the carbon dating process and eliminated the plans for concurrent scientific examination by the Shroud of Turin Research Project ("STuRP).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">STuRP conducted the only comprehensive scientific examination of the Shroud in 1978. STuRP proposed a new series of tests to the Vatican in 1982, which included carbon dating by seven laboratories including Oxford, Tucson and Zurich and four others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Harry Gove was director of one of the seven labs: Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory at the University of Rochester. Gove was proud of his remarkable accomplishments but he was a man who in one observer's words: "Had an ego that arrived a half hour before he did." He wrote a memoir that included vivid description of the efforts by the C14 labs to exclude STuRP from any further examination in the process. His ego appears to have clouded his self-awareness of the process he was describing. For example he clearly documented a conflict of interest. Michael Tite was selected to referee the activities of the three C14 labs at the same time he was seeking an appointment at one of them (Oxford) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are five individuals who played central roles in debunking the carbon dating tests: Sue Benford, Joe Marino, Barrie Schwortz, Ray Rogers (with several scientist-associates) and Pam Moon. Sue Benford and Joe Marino were a husband and wife team who first developed the hypothesis that the corner of the Shroud had been subject to repairs by a method of invisible reweaving, obtained expert advice that they were correct and then reported the same to Shroud Conference in Orvieto, Italy. Schwortz published the results on the Shroud.com webpage and received an angry telephone call from Ray Rogers who angrily asked what he was doing publishing something from the "lunatic fringe" and that he could prove them wrong in "five minutes." Schwortz told Rogers that if he could do it, he would publish it on Shroud.com. Rogers did not call back in five minutes, it was several hours. His report was just two words: "They're right."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rogers, who was suffering from end stage cancer, devoted the last three and a half years of his life to research and examination of fibers from the Shroud, including some from the sample area. He passed away in 2005.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was controversy and skeptics who denied the validity of Ray's work. In 2014, Pam Moon obtained the copy of a picture of the Oxford sample and obtained expert opinions that verified the work of Rogers. The C14 tests were thoroughly rebutted – not for the quality of the C14 tests but because the samples were taken from the "worst possible place."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>(2) The utter nonsense of the medieval photograph hypothesis</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Barrie Schwortz was the documenting photographer of the 1978 STURP examination of the Shroud who would in 1996 establish the most widely used Shroud resource on the internet: Shroud.com. The genesis of Shroud.com occurred when a friend called him and said that he had read that the Shroud of Turin was a medieval photograph created by Leonardo DaVinci. That was absurd and its absurdity inspired Schwortz to create a web page so that there would be on the Internet a place where accurate information and materials could be made available</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The absurdity of the photograph claim did not die however. For in the <i>Finding Jesus</i> CNN devoted substantial time to the work of South African art historian Nicholas Allen who claimed to have replicated the Shroud of Turin image by using a camera obscura and chemicals available in the Middle Ages. There were even several minutes of time devoted to reenacting how a group of conspirators might have done it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is absolutely NO evidence that the record of the use of a camera obscura and photosensitive materials until the eighteenth century and it was not perfected until the nineteenth. In 2000, Schwortz published a detailed rebuttal of the Allen hypothesis including pictures of his "photographs." </span><a href="http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/orvieto.pdf">http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/orvieto.pdf</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Da Vinci has been tagged as the greatest genius in the history of humanity. He documented his ideas and discoveries in voluminous texts. Photography historian Josef Maria Eder credits him as being the true discoverer of the camera obscura. There is no record of da Vinci or anyone else prior to the mid 1770's experimenting with photo sensitive chemicals and the camera obscura.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>(3)The historical record of the Shroud</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">None are so blind as those that will not see. Those that claim that there is no history of the Shroud prior to Lirey exhibition are clearly those that have eyes and will not see. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a repetitious pattern of the four small burn holes on the Shroud that form an “L” that changes from right to left configuration twice, indicating that the Shroud was folded in four parts when the burning incident (whatever it was) occurred. The configuration is less distinct on the bottom layers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is in the National Library of Budapest a manuscript referred to as the “Pray Codex” named for Jesuit priest György Pray, who discovered it in 1770. It is the oldest example of Hungarian literature in existence and was produced circa 1192-1195 CE. The Pray Codex is not a great work of art. However, it is an important marker in the history of the Shroud for it establishes the existence of the Shroud years before the earliest date allowed by the controversial 1988 carbon dating. </span><br />
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[N]ot only do we yet again see the awkward arm crossing, this time, most unusually, Jesus is represented as totally nude, exactly as on the Shroud. Again exactly as in the case of the Shroud, all four fingers on each of Jesus’ hands can be seen, but no thumbs. Just over Jesus’ right eye there is a single forehead bloodstain. Delineated in red, this is located in exactly the same position as that very distinctive reverse ‘3’-shaped stain on Jesus’ forehead on the Shroud that we noted earlier. Exactly as in the case of the Shroud, the cloth in which Jesus is being wrapped is of double body length type, the second half, as known from other versions of the same scene, extending over Joseph of Arimathea’s shoulder. If all this is not enough, the cover of what appears to be the tomb is decorated with a herringbone pattern in which can be seen four holes in an identical arrangement to the so-called ‘poker-holes’...” (Emphasis added)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The origin of the four burn holes is a mystery for others have discerned that they are not “poker holes.” It has been suggested that the Shroud was subjected to a trial by fire. Chemist Ray Rogers and others hypothesize that they may have resulted from burning incense having dropped on the Shroud at some point in time. Whatever that point of time is, the Pray Codex necessarily predated the time frame claimed by the labs which dated the Shroud to 1250 at the earliest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this enlargement of two of the burn holes on the Shroud, we can see the charred circle surrounding the hole and underneath the pattern of the Holland Cloth that was added as a backing to the Shroud circa 1534. It is not charred</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The repetition makes perfect sense if the Shroud had been folded in four and something burned through the four layers the lowest layer burn holes would not be as sharply defined as the first. Because the Shroud was folded, the angle is as two different orientations (left or right). The clearest burn holes appear on the dorsal (bottom) part of the image while those on the ventral (top) are less distinct. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While the technique of the monk who drew the Pray Codex is not refined, his two representations of the set of four burn holes are consistent with burn holes on the Shroud. Many copies of the Shroud with the representation of the four burn holes do not indicate one important attribute of the burn holes – the charged edges of the burn holes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unless the artist had seen the Shroud, what are the odds that an ancient artist drawing a representation of Christ being entombed would draw a Shroud with burn holes that match the Shroud more than a century before the Shroud’s first public exhibition and decades before the earliest date allowed for the linen by the flawed carbon dating? Coincidence?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By themselves, the evidence of the burn holes may not be conclusive but it is certainly persuasive along with all the other circumstances of the Codex that the artist who created the Codex at some time must have seen the Shroud or a painting of the Shroud. No painted representation of the Shroud contains burn holes with actual charred edges. The painted representations of the Shroud are copies of an original or copies of copies. The holes in the Shroud are clearly real holes in the linen cloth encircled with a charred ring from the instrumentality that caused the burn holes. That original Shroud is the shroud now in Turin. The burn holes are the Shroud’s fingerprints. The "finger prints" on the Pray Codex predate the time period for the existence of the linen determined by the carbon dating. They are evidence of the Shroud's existence before 1260 the earliest time compatible with the carbon dating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other Evidence of the Shroud's existence before 1260 was marshaled by David Gibson and Michael McKinley in the printed version of their book Finding Jesus which was the basis for the CNN television series. Gibson and McKinley are the co-creators and consulting producers to the CNN Finding Jesus series. Multiple other sources place the Shroud in Constantinople not later than 944 CE. (Ian Wilson and Dan Scavone) and as early as early as 574 CE. (Jack Markwardt)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both Markwardt and Wilson describe the dramatic change that depictions of Christ underwent in the sixth century. According to Markwardt:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"In the late sixth century, the portrayal of Jesus as a mature and bearded man suddenly achieved ascendancy over all other depictions of him, and two eminent scholars, completely without any reference to the Turin Shroud, concluded that this ascendant portrayal derived from an archetype image. Hans Belting, an eminent modern art historian, believes that this archetype was selected from “a convenient repertory” of extant Jesus images and that its unremarkable origin was concealed behind legends of miraculously-produced acheiropoietos [not made by the hand of man] images. On the other hand, the estimable eighteenth-century historian, Edward Gibbon, believes that this archetype was itself a recently-discovered acheiropoietos image which was propagated by Christians, desirous of establishing a standard likeness for Jesus, “in the camps and cities of the Eastern empire” This archetype is identifiable through artistic and textual evidence." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The new artistic portrayal of Jesus depicted him as a mature and bearded man having parted hair flowing in two different directions, with one part coming to rest on a shoulder and the other disappearing behind his neck – one of hallmarks of the Shroud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"With regard to art, the new “Pantocrator Type” portrayal of Jesus depicted him as a mature and bearded man having parted hair flowing in two different directions, with one part coming to rest on a shoulder and the other disappearing behind his neck. The most notable examples of such portrayals have Constantinopolitan roots, including an icon located in the St. Catherine Monastery" (Citations omitted) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Byzantine Emperor Justinian II caused a coin to be minted, one face of which was a depiction of Christ that exhibited the same unique markings that appear on the Shroud. Note the flow of the hair in two different directions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is more: an eyewitness account of exhibitions of a linen shroud that is more than arguably the Shroud of Turin. The witness was a French knight who participated in a siege of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade which ended with the "Christian" knights looting Constantinople and stripping it of all its cherished relics that could be carried away. Among them was the linen cloth that was the Shroud of Turin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is how Gibson and McKinley described it their book<i> Finding Jesus</i>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"In 1203, a Flemish knight named Robert de Clari, fighting with the Fourth Crusade then camped in Constantinople, noted that a church within the city’s Blachernae Palace put on a very special exhibition every Friday. On display wasn’t just the holy image of the face of Jesus, but the actual cloth in which Christ had been buried. In 1205 de Clari composed a more detailed account: 'There was a Church which was call[ed] My Lady Saint Mary of Blachernae, where there was the shroud (syndoines) in which Our Lord had been wrapped, which every Friday, raised itself upright so that one could see the form (figure) of Our Lord on it, and no one either Greek or French, ever knew what became of this shroud (syndoines) when the city was taken [by the Crusaders].'" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What happened to the Shroud after Constantinople was looted by the French? Wilson has favored the idea that it came into possession of the Order of the Knights Templar in France. The Order was suppressed in 1307 by French King Philip the Fair. On March 19, 1314, its Grandmaster, Jacques deMolay along with the Order's Master of Normandy Geoffrey de Charny were burned at the stake. That Geoffrey may have been related to the Geoffrey de Charny who was the documented owner of the Shroud in 1355. Others argue that after the looting of Constantinople by French knights during the Fourth Crusade it came into the possession of Orthon de ls Roche who eventually removed it to France. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is not a complete recitation of the reported history of the Shroud prior to 1532. Yet when someone baldy states that there is NO evidence of the Shroud's history before Lirey, he, or she, is simply, and demonstrably, wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>D.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Harry Potter, Magic and the Resurrection</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>“Who knew reality could be so mysterious? Why has this been kept such a secret? It’s fascinating. I want to find out more!” </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> James Phelps, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There may be a mysterious synergy at work between Harry Potter and the Shroud. Harry Potter veteran James Phelps is the narrator of <i>Grave Injustice</i>, which begins with a clip from the recently released movie Risen. In the movie, Roman Tribune Clavius is tasked by Pontius Pilate to find the body of Jesus of Nazareth, which has disappeared from its tomb.. Tom Felton, who was Draco Malfoy in the Potter series, is an aide to Clavius.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Conservative Christians have been scandalized by the Potter series because they believe its emphasis on magic endangers the young to the influences of the Devil. Catholic reaction has been mixed, even drawing a favorable review from <i>L’Osservatore Romano</i>, the Vatican newspaper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those whose minds are straight-jacketed by what they believe science to be are missing where science is headed. Concepts such as Teilhard de Chardin's noosphere or Carl Jung's collective unconsciousness where once regarded with scientific disdain. Now some scientists hypothesize "Quantum information of the universe." Stuart Hameroff suggests that near death experiences are that when a person dies, the brain unload s its consciousness into the Quantum information of the universe but the information is recalled when life is resuscitated. Something like cloud computing. Are we not on the verge of the magical when we deal with such concepts?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When my adult son Michael lost his long struggle with kidney disease in 1977, I inaugurated my blog Living Free with a piece in which I used "event horizon" as a metaphor for death. It was entitled: <i>Reflections on Mourning: Coping with the Ultimate "Event Horizon</i>. I also used a quotation from Tennessee Williams to metaphorically analogize love to "Quantum Entanglement." I am not so sure it's a metaphor any more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Isabel Piczek is a physicist and an artist. She has described the Shroud image as an "event horizon." It is perhaps an image of the dead Jesus created in a nanosecond as He was entering new dimension or stage of existence that we call the Resurrection. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The atheist or the committed agnostic will never accept the possibility of the Resurrection and reject it out of hand as magical thinking! Shroud scholar Russ Breault asked the question in the video The Real Face of Jesus: "Is it possible that the 14 foot piece of linen cloth captured the greatest paranormal event of all time?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is the Shroud scientific evidence of a magical event? So? What we don't understand we may reject, but that doesn't mean it is unreal just because it appears to be magical. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maybe the Harry Potter fans will understand.</span><br />
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Places, and Phenomena as Captured for the First Time by the Camera (MacMillan,
New York 1980)</span></span></span></div>
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and <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=graph"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=graph</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Meacham, William, </span></span>The Authentication of the Turin Shroud:
An Issue in Archaeological Epistemology, http://www.shroud.com/meacham2.htm.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Walsh, John, Preface, xi-xii,
The Shroud, (Random House, New York, 1963<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De Wesselow, Thomas, The Sign:
The Shroud of Turin and the Secret of the Resurrection (p. 172). (Penguin Group
New York, 2012) ( Cited hereafter as “de Wesselow”)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Harry E Gove. Relic, Icon or
Hoax?: Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud (Kindle Location 3492). Kindle Edition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><st1:place w:st="on">Eder</st1:place>, Josef Maria, <i>History of Photography ,</i> translated by Edward Epstein (Columbia
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">De Wesselow, Thomas, The Sign: The Shroud of <st1:city w:st="on">Turin</st1:city> and the Secret of the Resurrection (Penguin Group <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>, 2012) (p. 172).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ian Wilson (2010-03-20). The Shroud (Kindle Locations
3409-3418. Random House <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Kindle Edition).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Turin Shroud," p.<span style="letter-spacing: -1.8pt;"> </span>24<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/stlmarkwardtpaper.pdf</span><span style="mso-text-raise: 6.5pt; position: relative; top: -6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gibson, David; McKinley, Michael, p. 219, <i>Finding
Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery: Six Holy Objects That Tell<span style="letter-spacing: -1.1pt;"> </span>the Remarkable<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Story<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Gospels</i> (<st1:place w:st="on">St.<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Martin</st1:place>'s<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>Press.<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">
</span>Kindle<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>Edition<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>2015)<span style="mso-text-raise: 6.5pt; position: relative; top: -6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cesar Barta,” Orthon de la Roche” BSTS News Letter, October
5, 2008 (<a href="http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/n67part6.pdf">http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/n67part6.pdf</a>).
Orthon de la Roche is a French knight who became Duke of Athens as a reward for
outstanding services during the <st1:place w:st="on">Constantinople</st1:place>
sack. De La Roche was the great grandfather of Jeanne de Vergy, Geoffrey 1’s
wife. If true, when Geoffrey I’s (and Jeanne de Vergy’s) daughter married Orthon
de la Roche’s great grandson (reinforcing the blood-line ownership of the
Shroud) and then moved the Shroud to the de la Roche castle, the Shroud was returned
to a previous home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of The Shroud of Turin Education Project Inc. and host of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.shroudencounter.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #1155cc;">www.ShroudEncounter.com</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Additional Resources</b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Shroud of Turin Website</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Barrie M. Schwortz, Editor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.shroud.com/">https://www.shroud.com/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cold Case: The Shroud of Turin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">($3.00 fee to rent for 30 days).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/ondemand/coldcasetheshroudofturin">https://vimeo.com/ondemand/coldcasetheshroudofturin</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">David Hines</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shroud Knows Details of the Crime Scene </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnfU5Ei-zcY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnfU5Ei-zcY</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">de Wesselow, Thomas, The Sign: The Shroud of Turin and the Secret of the Resurrection (Penguin Group New York, 2012)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Coming of the Quantum Christ: </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>The Shroud of Turin and the Apocalypse of Selfishness.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Klotz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Information on purchasing:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://johnklotz.blogspot.com/2015_01_01_archive.html">http://johnklotz.blogspot.com/2015_01_01_archive.html</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Critique of CNN's Finding Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Klotz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/klotzcnn.pdf">http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/klotzcnn.pdf</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Friday, February 19th, Risen, a big budget movie with an all star cast opened domestically and was second in gross US revenues for the weekend. Depending on one's perspective it is (a) a brilliant retelling of the Easter story; (b) a flawed but compelling historical fiction retelling of the story or (c) nothing but Christian claptrap for the deluded. One thing is clear: Joseph Fiennes gives an Oscar caliber performance as Clavius, a Roman tribune directed by Pontius Pilate to find the body of Jesus which has disappeared from its tomb. Tom Felton of Harry Potter fame is his aide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's dispose of (c) first. It is apparent from some reviews in some of the mainstream press (i.e. the New York Times) that some reviewers will not like Risen because to give Risen any benefit would challenge their world view. The Times reviewer likens it to Monty Python's Life of Bryan. On the other hand, religiously inclined reviewers may welcome it with open arms as Sr. Rose Pancetta did in the National Catholic Reporter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To this reviewer, despite some important and annoying flaws, it is in many ways a triumph. It is of course an historical fiction in that although it is based upon the story as told in Scripture, it goes far beyond the details of Scripture and reports on something that Scripture does not report but is not an unreasonable projection: that when the body of Jesus was reported missing from the tomb both Roman and Jewish authorities would have tried to discover where it was. One piece of projected verisimilitude: the search would have been frantic because one of the concerns was that they find the body before it rotted beyond recognition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And there is one important break through: two cameo appearances by the shroud of Jesus with an image on it that is obviously the Shroud of Turin. In one brief scene, Clavius is seen inspecting the image and then reaching out to touch it with his hand. The concept that a Roman tribune would have had possession of the shroud is contrary to both scripture and tradition which has Peter discovering the burial cloths in the tomb. Would he have left them lying around for the Romans to take possession?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is one serious objection this reviewer has to the depiction of Mary Magdalene in the film. When Clavius learns that Mary Magdalene is the one who reported Jesus risen from the dead, he learns she is a prostitute and he goes into the Roman barracks and asks whether any of the soldiers know Mary Magdalene. At least half raise their hands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The concept of Mary Magdalene as prostitute is disputed by many biblical scholars. Gnostic Christians regarded her as royalty. Some claim she was Christ's wife. While her true position may be clouded by the mists of time, it is doubtful by the time she became a follower of Jesus that she was an active prostitute. It is also doubtful, as some believe, that she fled to France with His son after the crucifixion. Really doubtful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scripture provides scant information about Jesus' activities in the forty days between the Resurrection and his claimed ascension into heaven. One of the most detailed is the account of his greeting the apostles from the shore when they were fishing. It is dramatized in Risen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christians, non-Christians, agnostics and atheists will find much to debate in the telling of the Resurrection story in Risen. But there is much to enjoy and savor too. Whatever your view of the Scripture story, put aside any skepticism for its hour and a half run time. Enjoy the trip and savor Joseph Fiennes bravura performance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His anguish when coping with the Resurrection is the anguish of all humanity. He is us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Risen Trailer:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucUbAAMEF8M"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #006621; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucUbAAMEF8M</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some people when they hear the word <st1:city w:st="on">Coventry</st1:city> will recall the salacious legend of
Lady Godiva riding naked through the countryside to protest taxes. However
there is another <st1:city w:st="on">Coventry</st1:city> legend whose truth is
also a disputed legend that has relevance to the controversy over the
responsibility, or lack thereof, of Ex-President George W. Bush for the success
of the terrorist attack on the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">World</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Trade</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place>
on 9/11/2001.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That legend is the deliberate decision by Churchill to not
reposition RAF squadrons to protect <st1:city w:st="on">Coventry</st1:city>
when he was informed by MK-Ultra code breakers that the Nazis were preparing a
massive raid on aircraft production facilities in <st1:city w:st="on">Coventry</st1:city> in 1940. One of the most closely
guarded secrets of World War II was the fact that the British (with help of Polish Ex-Patriots) had broken the
most secret German codes and were well-informed of the Nazis plans before they
were executed. Should the Nazis have discovered that secret, then they would
have been able to alter their codes and the incredible advantage of the MK-Ultra
program would have been lost. There is no question that Ultra was an important
part of the Allied victory in World War II. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p>That's the legend and it is disputed but there is a terrible
logic to it. See <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11486219">http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11486219</a> Then again, many legends
which distort, or completely lack truth, can provide lessons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is one thing that is not a legend: that from the day of George Bush's inauguration in January 2001, his administration was looking
for war with <st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place>.
There is another fact: that in August 2001, more than a month before 9/11, the
CIA sent an official to the Bush ranch in <st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place> where GWB was vacationing and warned
him that some action by Osama bin Laden was imminent. According to the courier
Bush said "You've covered your a** and went back to cutting brush."
There is no evidence of any attempt by the Bush administration to take any
action in light of the warning. In fact, there had been attempts by bin Laden
terrorists to hijack planes, one of them in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region> had been recently
thwarted in 2001. Lax security at <st1:city w:st="on">Boston</st1:city>'s <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Logan</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Airport</st1:placetype></st1:place>
was a necessary component of Al Qaeda's 9/11 plans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Did the Bush administration ignore the warnings of an
imminent attack by Al Qaeda because it was in fact looking for an excuse to go
to war with <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>
and oust Saddam Hussein? <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-sought-way-to-invade-iraq/">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-sought-way-to-invade-iraq/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You do not have to be either a Democrat or someone addicted
to conspiracy theories, to conclude that the Iraqi war launched by the Bush
administration was one of the biggest follies of American foreign policy in history.
The thousands of fatalities both of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians, the
tens of thousands of horribly wounded American soldiers who are with us today
and the chaotic conditions in the </span><st1:place style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" w:st="on">Middle East</st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
all date from the Bush administration's Iraqi fiasco.</span></div>
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for our unpreparedness on 9/11 on GWB's shoulders. Trump has made many
spectacularly false charges and fanciful proposals. There's an old saying that
even a broken clock is right once a day. Trumps charge of Bush's culpability of
unpreparedness before for 9/11, is his one time to be right.</span><br />
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-210785832899759172015-12-31T09:25:00.001-05:002015-12-31T10:47:17.222-05:00The Apocalypse is Now!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background: #FDFEFF; color: #001320; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be
fair weather for the sky is red.’ </span></i></span><i><span style="background: #FDFEFF; color: #001320; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And
in the morning, 'There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and lowering.'
You know then how to discern the face of the sky, and can you not know the
signs of the times</span></i><i>?”</i>Matthew 16:2-4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I read yet another story about the grim news of
climate change. I am not waiting for an Apocalypse because there can be little doubt
now that the Apocalypse of Selfishness of which I have written is the
Apocalypse of Now. The changes in climate that herald a drastic change in the Earth's
climate that has welcomed humanity are now accelerating at an unprecedented
rate and severity. </span></div>
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of what was happening. Are the Climate Change Deniers guilty of the same shortsightedness
and is the result going to be an ever acerbating destruction of humanities'
habitat?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I read and hear the rhetoric of the Republican candidates
for President (all of them) I am reminding what <st1:place w:st="on">Jefferson</st1:place>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I tremble for my county, when I reflect that God is
just." Make that tremble for the world. Of course the irony is that
slaveholder <st1:place w:st="on">Jefferson</st1:place> never acted personally
to alleviate the evil that brought the greatest destruction in his country's
history.</span></div>
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Easter. It is the hope of Resurrection that fueled the growth of Christianity
but Pope Francis has recognized that God's mercy and forgiveness is not just
for those baptized Christians. It is for all humanity. There is always hope for
survival, if not for the entirety of humanity, at least for each and every of
humanities' members. Let us pray Francis is right. </span></div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-7075158061646303932015-12-24T16:43:00.002-05:002015-12-31T09:33:14.828-05:00Christmas Eve: A holy night indeed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight is Christmas Eve when we celebrate the Nativity of
Jesus Christ. The date was arbitrarily established a millennia and a half ago. It is more than
likely he was born sometime in late winter or early spring. However, the magic
of this night are attending Midnight Mass; I remember the snow crunching beneath
my boots as we walked from the car to the church. Many times it was to hear my
aunt Pauline sing she was an outstanding soprano and once sang at </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" w:st="on">Hyde Park</st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for Eleanor Roosevelt.</span><br />
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this Christmas Eve I will share it with you. It celebrates the transfiguring
nature of the Christian myth where human nature is joined by the divine. There
are a couple of lines that truly nail it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pope Francis has astonished the world by preaching a
universal message of love and mercy. He blurs the distinctions between
Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and almost every other religion. He has
become in many ways the Pope of All Humanity. This Christmas let us pray for
the success of his mission and give thanks that he is with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not a promo for my book "Quantum Christ" but if you are interested:</span></div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-10485720935268426132015-12-22T12:17:00.000-05:002015-12-22T12:25:02.463-05:00The Reichstag fire and Lee Harvey Oswald<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have been asked about my take on
the Reichstag fire on Facebook and I thought I had answered it last night but somehow it didn't load. Now
a slightly expanded response. It's not something I have studied
extensively but I think I know enough to make the following comment. I analogize
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The Reichstag, the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>'s capitol building in <st1:state w:st="on">Berlin</st1:state> was devastated by a fire in 1933 just
when the Nazi's had gained control of the Germany Bundestag and Hitler had
formed a government. Wikipedia has an entry on it in
case you want some details. It corresponds to what I had read some years ago
but goes deeper.</div>
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The issue is whether the person
accused of setting the fire was an agent of the international communist conspiracy
through the Comintern, a loan nut, or a false flag patsy planted by the Nazis.
The result redounded to the benefit of the Nazi's who used as an argument for justification of giving dictatorial powers to the newly elected Chancellor,
Hitler. From the Nazi's viewpoint it was
either a total success of a devious plot or gift from heaven (or hell).</div>
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time in Lee Harvey Oswald. Was he a lone nut assassin? Was he a Fidel Castro operative?
Was he a foil or patsy for hidden (barely) <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region>
interests who regarded Kennedy as a traitor for his settling the Cuban Missile
crisis without war and indicating that he was prepared to withdraw from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region>? To the
extent the plotters may have wanted war with Castro, it didn't work. To the extent they
wanted continued intervention in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region>, it did. </div>
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The military-industrial complex profited
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In 1935, Sinclair Lewis wrote a
novel called "It Can't Happen Here" which was a satire about a hypothetical
rise of fascism in the <st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place>. Well that didn't happen
here. Or did it?</div>
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When I look at the Trump message of
exclusion and bias and cozing-up to the despot Putin and I realize just how much
he is echoing the bias and prejudices of a significant number of Americans, I
am concerned. Trump is not anti-Semitic. But his dream of a white restoration
to power echo's the Nazi's anti-Semitism. He appeals to our worse impulses.</div>
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This is not a promo for my book
"Quantum Christ" but if you are interested:</div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-60464192432850233572015-11-22T08:21:00.001-05:002015-11-22T10:57:55.817-05:00Yet again, JFK [and the Shroud]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">I am
working to update and mold the material in <i>Quantum Christ </i>into a new book
tentatively entitled "The Pope and the Apocalypse [and the Shroud?] Distractions
abound including four matters that are still in litigation at one stage or another.
Also, current events of an apocalyptic nature including the refugee crisis are
a necessary distraction but a component of what I will be writing about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">However,
today on Salon.com is a lengthy excerpt about a newly published book on the JFK
Assassination that echoes into my life, my family and my abiding interest in
the UNSOLVED mystery of the assassination. Also, my belief that those of the scientific
community who used the discredited carbon dating of the Shroud to impeach the
authenticity of the Shroud are like those who support the conclusion of the
Warren Report the Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone nut without co-conspirators. See:
<i>Why the Media Want the Inquiries to End,</i>
<a href="http://www.johnklotz.com/new-jfk.htm">http://www.johnklotz.com/new-jfk.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">My late
brother Herman was a longtime employee of the CIA. I was careful to never plumb
Herman for sensitive information that might be classified. Nonetheless we did
have a few careful conversations about JFK. Herman initially echoed the CIA
back-up story that Castro did it. Indeed, in my opinion one of the aims for the assassination was war with Cuba. At one point I had a question about something
of CIA protocol totally unrelated to the JFK thing: it concerned the protocol
for the hiring of an agent (the subject had defected to the Russians). In
response, I received a telephone call from David Atlee Phillips who, if you
read the citation at the end of this post was a central figure in most "CIA did
it" theories. It was brief conversation of no relevance to JFK.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This
morning there was published on <i>Salon </i>an excerpt from a new book by David Talbot.
David is not only the founder and first editor of <i>Salon</i>; he has spent a lifetime
digging deep in the JFK assassination. I thoroughly recommend the <i>Salon</i>
posting. And the next time some scientific expert or skeptic derides the authenticity
of the Shroud as being disproved by the "evidence," think JFK and the
Warren Report. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.915px;">This is not a book promo, but if you are interested in: "The Coming of the Quantum Christ: The Shroud of Turin and the </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 18.915px;">Apocalypse</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18.915px;"> of Selfishness.</span></span></div>
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It includes a 15% discount code on the printed copy which is beautifully illustrated.</div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-60153402631718032792015-11-16T07:11:00.002-05:002015-11-16T07:39:58.093-05:00Do Unto Others<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">I am
working on a couple of items concerning Pope Francis but the Paris atrocity has
taken center stage and on my Facebook page, a relative called me out because I
had previously posted a message about our moral obligations to the displaced of
the Middle East who are also victims of ISIL. After </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">, how could I now defend my position?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">What
follows is my response. It's a bit harsh, but Christians envision a judgment of God much
harsher than any words I can write.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In my
opinion, anyone who claims to be a Christian who can turn his or her back on
the plight of those being driven from their homes is at best a hypocrite. At
the worst they should await the judgment: "Depart from me, you cursed,
into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I
was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, <b><i>I was
a stranger and you did not welcome me.</i>..<span class="woj"><span style="background: white;">"</span></span></b><span class="woj"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span>Matthew 25: 41-43<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In the
parable of the Good Samaritan, all of the "good" people passed by the
stranger in distress, no doubt fearing that he may be a robber or some such.
The Samaritans were a people despised in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> because their religion was a
heretical hodgepodge of Jewish and pagan belief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I have had
Moslem-American clients. They were hard working Americans and some were quite successful.
Many of them began running newsstands and some of them wound-up owning
restaurants. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">There was a
very touching story about the impact of the <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city> atrocity on American Moslems published
on the Huffington post: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/message-of-support-for-muslims_56479bfbe4b08cda34891bcf">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/message-of-support-for-muslims_56479bfbe4b08cda34891bcf</a>
Read and weep. Many did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">That
doesn't mean we should clasp vipers to our bosom. It does mean that we should
vet as carefully as we can those who seek shelter. I would think we should get
their fingerprints, their picture of sufficient resolution and maybe even a DNA
sample before admittance. That will take some work and expenditure. Maybe some
will object but we do require visas of even casual visitors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">But the
sleeping giant of an issue is climate change because the dislocation of
millions of people has started and will become the greatest challenge of the next
generation. It is predicted that by 2100 the <st1:place w:st="on">Persian Gulf</st1:place>
area will be uninhabitable because temperatures will be in the range of 170 F or so.
That's about 80 million who will be displaced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I don't
have to worry about that except that I have grandchildren who I care about who
may be around then (Or their children if they as lucky as Rene and I).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This is not a book promo, but if you are interested I have written a book: "The Coming of the Quantum Christ: The Shroud of Turin and the Apolypse of Selfishness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://johnklotz.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-coming-of-quantum-christ-has-arrived.html" style="color: #223344;">http://johnklotz.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-coming-of-quantum-christ-has-arrived.htm</a></span></div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-64601266517723257202015-09-28T07:24:00.000-04:002015-09-28T07:27:28.493-04:00Rachel Maddow nails it<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Obama has
always been an eloquent speaker with the ability to explain complex issues. He
is a world leader in sounding the alarm on the issue of client change. However,
sometimes he talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. Two examples: Shell
giving license to drill in the <st1:place w:st="on">Arctic</st1:place> and his
reticence to bit the bullet on the Keystone Pipeline.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Among the
facts about the Keystone are these: It is designed to transmit oil wrenched
from tar sands in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region> to
refineries in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:state>
for export internationally. It's a lose lose proposition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Last week
on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow really nailed it and came-up with an alternative job
producing program which would solve an enormous environmental crisis, create
jobs and make every one safer: upgrade and revitalize existing pipeline and
transmission facilities for oil (i.e. railroads) the aged condition of which is
currently causing death and pollution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Win win. We
create jobs and ameliorate, if not totally cure, the environmental disaster of
current oil transmission whether by railroad or pipeline.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">This is not
a book promo but is you are interested:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-30475452579029702252015-08-29T09:37:00.000-04:002015-08-29T10:42:30.066-04:00Coming Events in 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As some of you may remember
I have published a book: The Coming of the Quantum Christ. There are two YouTubes
that has just come on line that relate to my book Quantum Christ. One is a trailer for a movie to be released by
Sony Pictures in 2016 concerning a centurion directed by Pontius Pilate to
search the missing body of Christ. The other concerns a conference scheduled
next spring on "The Science of Consciousness."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The movie is fiction of
course but the events are projections of what is reported in the Gospel. Included
is one brief tantalizing scene in which someone is examining a cloth that
appears to be the Shroud of Turin. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s9g7s8hH9Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s9g7s8hH9Y</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The second is a promo for a
conference to be held in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Arizona</st1:state></st1:place>
next spring about the Science of Consciousness. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJMYzeSwSGU&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJMYzeSwSGU&feature=youtu.be</a>It is not currently about the Shroud at all but when you view the trailer the
relationship should be obvious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The relationship? The
conference organizer is Stuart Hameroff who makes an appearance in Quantum
Christ. The conference not about the
Shroud, but Isabel Piczek is an artist who is a trained physicist has described
the Shroud as an Event Horizon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">To paraphrase John Muir (and
Now Pope Francis): Everything is connected. Hold on to your hats. Next year is
going to be a big year for the Shroud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This not a book promo but if
you are interested:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://johnklotz.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-coming-of-quantum-christ-has-arrived.html">http://johnklotz.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-coming-of-quantum-christ-has-arrived.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-3832704487616222632015-08-19T15:15:00.001-04:002015-08-20T08:09:40.890-04:00Apocalypse Now<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For most of my life, from time to time, I have seen cartoons in
magazines satirizing street corner prophets of an apocalypse. The usual
caricature is of a scruffy man, in a shabby robe with a long scraggly beard
carrying a sign which reads "The End is Near" or some such.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Well, it's early morning and I am not carrying a placard as I
start this piece. I am in a robe (bath) but I don't have a long beard although
I am as of yet unshaven. I don't have a placard but I do have a blog and a
computer. However, I have just read a piece on the web from the morning<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://nyti.ms/1J2MuC0"><i>New
York Times</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by Thomas Friedman</a>,
and so here's my message: "The End is Near."</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Four years ago I began work on my book<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Coming of the Quantum Christ.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>At the very end of my introduction,
I described Science as being both Christ and Anti-Christ and raised the
question of whether the scientific study of the Shroud of Turin could be the
"Coming of a Quantum Christ." It was a rhetorical question. By the
time I got to Chapter 17 of the book in the spring of 2014, the question was no
longer rhetorical because there was in 2014 a flood of scientific reports from
a wide variety of sources that climate change was real and its devastating
effects were already being felt in a multitude of places. Time is running out.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Today, as I read Friedman's article my conclusion is that while
time may not have completely run out, the end is fast approaching. I crammed a
great deal into Chapter 17 because the principal focus of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Quantum Christ</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is the authenticity of the Shroud and,
if authentic, its meaning. One of the items I touched on in that chapter was
the claim that climate change was causing war. Some are dubious. Be dubious no
more.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Friedman's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Time's</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>piece is dealing with the
unprecedented heat wave that has struck the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place w:st="on">Middle
East<span class="apple-converted-space"></span></st1:place> </span>this year with a
heat index as high as 163°. Millennia old sources of water are drying-up and
disappearing. Governments in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region><span class="apple-converted-space"></span></st1:country-region> and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>,
among others, seem to be powerless. Electricity, and thus air conditioning, is
rationed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am not a fundamentalist Christian. If anything, I guess I am a
disciple of paleontologist and Jesuit priest Peirre Teilhard de Chardin. To a
certain extent so too is Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and, I surmise, Francis,
the first Jesuit Pope.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Michelle Bachman is a former member of Congress, briefly a 2012
candidate for President, and professed fundamentalist Christian. In a radio
interview last April, she rejoiced that Obama was actually bringing on the
"End of Times" [the Apocalypse] and what a privilege it was to be
alive at this moment.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Needless to say, I am not as "rapturous" as Ms. Bachman
about the onset of the Apocalypse. I do believe that Pope Francis is a prophet
of apocalypse and is endeavoring to avoid it. His prophecy Laudato Si is
addressed not only to Roman Catholics but to all humanity. His message has
reached, and been embraced by some fundamentalists, Jewish rabbis, Buddhists
and humanists. On Tuesday, August 18, Islamic leaders from 20 countries
after a two day symposium issued an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://islamicclimatedeclaration.org/islamic-declaration-on-global-climate-change/">Islamic
Declaration on Global Climate Change.</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Echoing Pope Francis prophetic <i>Laudato Si</i> but
placing it in an Islamic context it began:</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"<i>God
– Whom we know as Allah – has created the universe in all its diversity,
richness and vitality: the stars, the sun and moon, the earth and all its
communities of living beings. All these reflect and manifest the boundless
glory and mercy of their Creator. All created beings by nature serve and
glorify their Maker, all bow to their Lord’s will. We human beings are created
to serve the Lord of all beings, to work the greatest good we can for all the
species, individuals, and generations of God’s creatures."</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">To my fundamentalist brothers and sisters in Christianity: Do not
rejoice in "End of Times" but continue to ameliorate the miseries
visited on humanity with the self sacrifices that so many of you have
demonstrated. The message of our Gospel is that ultimately we will be judged
not by what we do for ourselves but what we do for our neighbors who are in
need. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Christ made clear that helping
those in need was not limited to co-religionists. Our "neighbor" is
all humanity.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">JFK said in 1961 "on this Earth, God's work must truly be our
own." Shakespeare wrote in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Julius
Caesar<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>some 400 years before:
"The fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves." I take my
prophets and prophecies where I find them.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">This post is not intended as a sales pitch for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Quantum<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Christ, but if you are interested
in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Quantum Christ</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>check out<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://johnklotz.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-coming-of-quantum-christ-has-arrived.html">http://johnklotz.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-coming-of-quantum-christ-has-arrived.html</a></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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John Klotzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15181625838012053416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8595122076210069415.post-84227917535640503512015-08-17T15:00:00.000-04:002015-08-18T11:26:09.024-04:00Riding the Red Horse of War<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The opposition expressed by
Senator Charles "Chuck" Schumer and Congress Member Eliot Engel to the
nuclear accord with </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> evokes
memories of the 2002 debate over the Joint Resolution authorizing George W. Bush
to commence war in </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">.
The war that was authorized by that vote led to 5,000 military deaths, tens of
thousands of wounded veterans and the death of more than a hundred thousand Iraqi
civilians. It has cost an estimated three trillion dollars and counting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Schumer's opposition to the
Iranian accord is uniquely challenging. He is the designated successor to Harry
Reid as leader of Senate Democrats when Reid retires at the end of his current
term.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Among the Democratic
Senators who voted for the 2002 war resolution were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry,
John Edwards and Schumer. Engel was one of 81 Democrats in the House of
Representatives who supported the war authorization while 126 Democrats,
including Nancy Pelosi, opposed it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the 2004 Presidential
Election, the Democratic ticket consisted of war "liberals" Kerry and
Edwards. By that time, the antiwar movement had grown geometrically. Barak
Obama, an <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:state>
state legislator who had opposed the war, electrified the 2004 Democratic
Convention and went on to win election to the United States Senate. In 2008, his
early opposition to the war played a major role in mobilizing his support and in the defeat
of his pro-war opponent Hillary Clinton.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The vote for or against the
Iranian accord is ultimately another vote for or against war. The same forces
that cowed Kerry, Clinton, Edwards, Schumer and Engel into supporting the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> war
authorization are now at work opposing the Iranian accord. That accord was the
result of years of painstaking negotiations. John Kerry was its principal
negotiator; Hillary Clinton has announced her tentative support but Chuck Schumer
and Eliot Engel have announced their opposition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The opposition is based upon
fantasies spun by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu who also supported the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place>
war. The defeat of the Iranian accord may very well be more devastating, than
the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>
vote. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
weapons of mass destruction were a myth swallowed whole. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s program
to build a nuclear bomb is not. Other than war, the consensual Iranian accord is
the only path open to stopping <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>
obtaining nuclear weapons short of war. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The international sanctions
regime was carefully crafted under the United States' leadership. Included were Germany and the five
permanent members of the United Nations Security Council among them Russia and
China. If the the accord is defeated those sanctions, other than the United Sates, will collapse. So will <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> pretense to international leadership in the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle East</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lined-up in support of the
Iranian nuclear deal are an impressive array of three dozen retired Generals
and Admirals<a href="file:///C:/docs/LIT/Blogger/Israel/Red%20Horse%20of%20War.doc#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
and 29 scientists including several <span style="background: white; color: #282828;">Nobel Prize winners.<a href="file:///C:/docs/LIT/Blogger/Israel/Red%20Horse%20of%20War.doc#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #282828; font-size: 12pt;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The opposition includes in
addition to Tea Party "know nothings" the Republican leadership of
the House and Senate who are committed to making Obama fail whatever the cost
to the nation. Powerful pro-Israeli and Netanyahu lobbying groups give the
appearance of a unified Jewish community but that is hardly the case. According
to a national poll of self-identified Jews conducted by LA <i>Jewish Journal </i>in July, more Jews supported the Iranian accords
than opposed it.<a href="file:///C:/docs/LIT/Blogger/Israel/Red%20Horse%20of%20War.doc#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On August 17th, 340 US Rabbis
issued a statement supporting the Iranian accords that was published in the <i>National Catholic Reporter</i>.<a href="file:///C:/docs/LIT/Blogger/Israel/Red%20Horse%20of%20War.doc#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
Among other things they noted that "[w]e've seen many of the leaders of
Israel's military and intelligence community declare that this deal is the best
path for Israel moving forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In 2001, I was Chair of a
Sierra Club task force that reported on the relationship of terrorism to the
environmental movement in the wake of 9/11. I also was allied with those in the
Club who sought to have the Club oppose the 2002 war resolution. When Nancy
Pelosi opposed the resolution, the San Francisco Chapter sought to honor her
for her decision but was forbidden to do so by the national Club leadership.
Ultimately, the Club leadership belatedly opposed the war ‑ but it was too
late. Kerry and Clinton had already supported it and in 2004, I believe that
Kerry and Edwards paid a price for their early war support. Certainly in 2008, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Clinton</st1:city></st1:place> did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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only if they lose. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Should the opposition to the
Iranian accord fail, whether by senate filibuster or failure to override a threatened
Obama veto, it is likely that neither Schumer nor Engel will suffer for their
opposition. Already, some Senate supporters of the accord state for the record
their support for Schumer apart from his opposition to the Iranian accord. But
what if Schumer and Engel stumble to a win for their position? What if their
opposition does drag enough Democratic legislators with them to defeat the
Iranian accord?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If the Iranian accord is
defeated inevitable chaos will ensue in the already chaotic <st1:place w:st="on">Middle
East</st1:place>. The international sanctions regime that brought <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> to the
negotiating table will evaporate. The door to Russian and Chinese hegemony in the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle
East</st1:place> will be opened wide. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Israel</span></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;">'s only remedy will be to attack <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>. That
seems to be Netanyahu's aim, but the blood will be on the hands of Engel and
Schumer. Neither of them have any record of military service nor scientific
training. That may seem a harsh judgment but that is what is at stake. Eventually,
that blood may very well be American as well as Muslim and Israeli.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Listen! Can you hear them?
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are riding; they are just beyond the horizon,
but they are fast approaching. Their horses are white, black, pale and red.They embody pestilence, famine, death and war.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Red Horse symbolizes War. Too many people,
often for their own selfish reasons, are eager to follow the rider of the red horse.
In another context recall <i>Moby Dick </i>and
the crazed decision of crew of the <i>Pequod</i>
to follow Captain Ahab to their extinction. Only the narrator Ishmael survived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quantum Christ tackles questions such as: </span><br />
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Is science bringing Christ back?</div>
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If authentic, is the Shroud of Turin the most important object on the face of the Earth with possible exception of nuclear weapons?</div>
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Has Pope Francis prophesied an Apocalypse?</div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daniel Porter,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Editor, shroudstory.com<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"It is the best book ever written about the Shroud.
Actually, it is not just about the Shroud. <i>The Coming of the Quantum Christ </i>is
about what the Shroud is about. It is about the confluence of streams of human
understanding that meet in the study of the Shroud. Religion converging with
science is one. Our history meeting our future is another. This book makes us
think."<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">David Rolfe, Independent Movie Producer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Winner, BAFTA Award for <i>The Silent Witness<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"John Klotz brings a lawyer's mind to an analysis of
the Shroud and what, if genuine, it might mean for us. His assembly of the
evidence for authenticity is meticulous and he relays it in an unfolding
chronicle which also reveals the twists, turns and human frailties that have
bedeviled the Shroud’s reputation and left it in limbo to anyone who has never
taken the time and trouble to dig a little deeper. It is far reaching in its
scope and conclusions. Hold on to your hats.”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Joe Marino<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Author, <i>Wrapped Up in the Shroud<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"John
Klotz has made a most impressive case for the argument that the Shroud of Turin
is the actual burial cloth of Jesus. He thoroughly summarizes the history of
the Shroud, including the politics involved in the controversial 1988 C-14
dating, as well as the scientific evidence that has been gathered since the
late 19th century, including how the latest cutting-edge theory of quantum
mechanics applies to the cloth. Heavily footnoted and lavishly illustrated with
both color and black & white photos, this book should be in the collection
of anyone interested in the Shroud, whether a novice or a trained
scientist."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Annette
Cloutiér,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Author,
<i><span style="color: #333333;">Praey to God: A Tasteful Trip Through
Faith<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Rarely
does a book centered on one specific subject, in this case the Shroud of Turin,
mirror a true integration of life. John Klotz’s genius in writing <i>The Coming
of the Quantum Christ </i>is that he carefully and freely managed to integrate
the whole of our current society and wrap it around the Shroud of Turin. The
result of which <i>The Coming of the Quantum Christ </i>is the most
exhilarating book ever written thus far on the investigations and the
implications of the Shroud of Turin <i>vis à vis </i>the human condition. It is
a clear and concise literary masterpiece, a must read for everyone interested
or even just curious about the Shroud of Turin, Christ, and Life itself."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Documenting Photographer, 1978 Scientific Examination of the Shroud<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222;">"Meticulously researched, thoughtfully written and handcrafted with love and respect for the subject matter, this book is a must read for anyone fascinated by the Shroud of Turin and what it might mean to the world."</span></span><br />
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