Sweets for My Sweet, Sugar for My Honey: Pour Some Sugar on Me (Part 2/4)

A strange and weirdly connected tale of Willy Wonka, Skittles®, The Trayvon Martin Murder,

and the Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey Team Scandal

Rainbow Politics

I mentioned in Part 1 [The Candy Man Can!] that like the color purple, the rainbow is also an emblem of Gay Pride. It appears irrefutable at this point that Ride the Rainbow candy giant Skittles® welcomes the association of its trademark with Gay Pride, otherwise the corporation would distance itself from the implications. If these associations are unwanted, company attorneys might at least issue a stern warning to Gay Pride activists to stop the unauthorized use of the rainbow trademark, in the same way that Kleenex® brand tissues and Xerox® brand copiers are so very protective of their branding as Kleenex® and Xerox®.

The fundamental question for purposes of our inquiry is whether Skittles® is actively promoting the LGBT Agenda and, if so, should we be concerned? Indeed, Skittles® is promoting the LGBT Agenda and not in a casual way, as we shall see. Some activists are rightly concerned about this in that the LGBT Agenda is heavily impacting our culture here at home and, even more importantly, influencing US foreign policy abroad. Now, that’s some CLOUT!

Precisely how does Skittles® promote the LGBT Agenda? For several seasons now, Skittles® has featured an extended advertising theme issuing a call to action focusing on the rainbow. If the rainbow refers to the LGBT community, then Skittles® is urging young consumers to Touch the Rainbow, Taste the Rainbow, Ride the Rainbow, and even Deceive the Rainbow. Deceive the Rainbow is Skittles®’ latest oddly-styled marketing campaign that revolves around a disturbing television commercial in which an adolescent girl is making out with a walrus. Is Skittles® subtly advocating interspecies mating rituals concealed as outré humor? Truly, one must ask the question.

 

 

Skittles: What the Devil Is it?

 

Skittles is the forerunner of ten-pins or bowling, a game in which the players thrust a ball—having holes into which the fingers are inserted—down a long alley to strike the intended target in an explosion of flying pins to achieve a score. The pin or skittle is shaped somewhat like a vase with a long neck and a knob at the top of the pin. Especially interesting to me was the discovery that bowling balls originally had only two holes. As we so often find in sports, the terms used above to describe the game of bowling lead a double life as sexual metaphors.

 

The etymology of the word skittles is quite fascinating, at least to those with an interest in linguistics. For reasons related to the continuing evolution of language, a skittle or bowling pin is associated with a key. Keep this important fact in mind, as we will return to it later. Following is the short version of that etymological history, which provides some of the critical background information necessary to understand the interpretation that will follow.

 
 

Linguist Anatoly Liberman observes that:

 

"Students of English have given up the etymology of key as hopeless, but the word often appeared in German and Dutch scholarly sources, in which it was compared with [German] Kegel ‘skittle, ninepin.’ The first vowel of [Old High German] kegil ‘nail, pin’ is the product of i-umlaut (kegil < *kagila), and the cognates of *kag- are well-known. [...] Schmid mentioned it but could not think of a better comparison than Swabian Kag ~ [Latin cavus] ‘hollow.’ [...]. In English dialects, the most widely-known meaning of key is twisted […]. The verb key means ‘twist, bend,’ used especially with reference to the legs twisted by illness [injury, or deformity] Key was then ‘a stick (pin, peg) with a twisted end.’  

Scyttel(s) and forescyttels testify to other Old English words for ‘key.’ They […] designated a bar […] and were thus ‘shot’ across the door like modern bolts [like a shuttle]. The disappearance of [Old English] scyttel(s) is probably due to the fact that it was used too broadly: it also meant ‘dart, missile, arrow.’” (Liberman, Anatoly, "An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2008, pp 130-31)

Thus, we have the Latin cavus >> German kegel >> Old English scyttel >> English skittle/shuttle, all pointing to the seemingly unrelated concepts of:

 

•  a cave or something hollow (cavus);

•  twist/bend or twisted/bent (key)

•  key (kegel)

•  shooting; shot; dart, missile or arrow (skittle);

•  moving back and forth, or across (shuttle or sliding bolt); and

•  an oddly-shaped bowling pin with a “knob” on a slender neck (kegel/skittle)
 

Considering the association of skittles with key, an extremely interesting Tweet from Skittles® reads thus:

 

Mention Someone You Wanna Be Close With,

The dude with the combo to the Skittles® Vault.

                Lace the Train Bro/Retweet the Rainbow



This one is fairly easy. In the above Tweet, combo obviously refers to the combination lock numbers or key (kegel/ninepin/skittle) to the Vault (cavus, hollow place).

 

Keys unlock doors and gateways and secret hiding places. Do Skittles® unlock doors and gateways and secret hiding places? What about this one:

 

 

Do you have a hiding spot secret enough for your Skittles®?

                       Encase the Faint Glow/ReTweet the Rainbow

 

 

Can any of these concepts for skittle that we discussed above be harmonized? Is there a common theme, and if so, what is it? I believe there is and hope to explain it all to your satisfaction.

The common themes associated with the root words from which the word skittle derives tell a story. We piece them together considering them as a whole, to form a narrative. When we do so, the occult or esoteric meaning of skittle becomes clearer.

 

Perhaps the best way to explain the relationships among these concepts is to look at how the word skittles is used in modern parlance. Today skittles is no longer associated with bowling, except in the most archaic sense of the word; however, the term has acquired new meanings that have significance primarily to the underground or counterculture, specifically the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered community (LGBT). With apologies in advance for the graphic nature of the forthcoming descriptions, I beg the reader to stay with me; this information is critical to our understanding of the philosophy and lifestyle that Skittles® is promoting.

The term skittles relates primarily to the LGBT community and to reproductive and excretory organs and outlets and their bodily fluids and detritus. For example, according to Urban Dictionary, it can mean:

— n. the clitoris;

— n. a gay male or one who is bicurious;

— n. a mixture of semen and flavored beverage, usually juice, that is blended entirely within the mouth;   

— v. to soil the underwear by passing a small amount of feces, as in “You’ve just skittled your pants;”

 

The following Skittles® Tweet appears to confirm, by innuendo, the association of Skittles® with reproductive organs and functions.

 

Put your Skittles® where your mouth is.

Lace the Train Slow/Retweet the Rainbow

 

 

Be reminded of the clear association of skittles with otherness. Recall, in particular, that embedded in the word skittle is the idea of a bent or twisted thing, a deviation from the norm or an inversion or perversion of that which is orthodox. As an example, consider the discipline of Heraldry. This body of knowledge describes all elements that appear on the left of the shield (outside the norm) as sinister. Perhaps there is good reason for that. In the philosophy known as the Western Occult Tradition, the unorthodox or anti-orthodox is frequently referred to as the Left-hand path.

 

Suffice it to say that the gaily-colored Skittles® trail leads directly down unorthodox paths—the road less travelled, if you will, where the path becomes twisted. If it is understood that twistedness is associated with that which strays from the norm, then I have accomplished my objective.

 

Part 3 will explore this concept of otherness more fully. For further clarification of what is meant by twisted and how this notion might help to illustrate the general concept, the links below represent various situations in which the term twisted is used in context:

 

Twisted Oaks Tattoo and Occult Books

Pope Benedict XVI Held Forth Twisted Cross Crucifix During His Installation Ceremony: Adoring Masses Bowed to this Satanic Symbol 

Gabrielle Giffords  Shooting: Frightening, Twisted Shrine in Arizona Killer Jared Lee Loughner's Yard

Kanye West Says Twisted Fantasy Will Have Five Different Covers: First Cover Image of Winged Woman Straddling Him Represents Artist's "Truest Vision"

Dark Matters: Twisted but True

Twisted Aquarian Gospel

 

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End Part 2. Stay Tuned for Part 3: Sweets for My Sweet, Sugar for My Honey—Ravage the Rainbow!

 

Sweets for My Sweet, Sugar for My Honey: The Candy Man Can! (Part I/4)

 

 

A strange and weirdly connected tale of Willy Wonka, Skittles®, the Trayvon Martin Murder,
and the Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey Team Scandal
 

  

 

To set this up, it's important that you watch this brief introductory clip first. I first saw this last year as a commercial for Wonka® Exceptionals chocolate candy bars. I understand the provenance of this clip may be the 1975 movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, although I don’t know that for a fact.

 

 

 

Please accept my apologies for the surprise ending of the clip. Obviously this is a departure from the original, but you get the point of the commercial—chocolate pond, chocolate waterfall, stirring chocolate, saturated in chocolate. Judging from the producer’s editorial at the end, he is doing a bit of free association with the chocolate metaphor. As much as we love chocolate, it has a secondary and rather unsavory connotation that is not often discussed—not in polite company at least.  Given that the original clip is an advertisement for Wonka® chocolates, however, let's take a closer look at Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and some of its imagery.

 

 

A Case of the Willies

 

One reviewer notes that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is "a cheesy film with weird songs that don’t make sense to normal humans, such as Oompa Loompa and the sickening Cheer Up Charlie."

 

Along these same lines, in a post at PrisonPlanet Forum entitled Bizarre New Kurt Cobain Revelations: CIA Mind Control, “Dronethunk” asks a salient question: "Why do strange cryptic little films like My Own Private Idaho reach cult status when virtually no one normal can figure out what the hell is going on?" He then provides the answer: "the term cult status is a hell of a lot more descriptive than you think." 

 

The above are astute and accurate observations: such films don’t make sense to "normal" humans. They don’t make sense because they’re not supposed to make sense to the uninitiated. The entire conceptual framework of such movies—the dialogue, the plot, the songs—turn on codespeak. In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, our immediate subject, the codespeak relates to a particular argot found within the “alternate lifestyles” community only, as we shall learn.

 

Before we proceed, let’s have a look at origins:  the name Willy Wonka reminds me of Wee Willie Winkie, the Mother Goose nursery rhyme—all w's and l's and k's and i's. I have no proof that Wee Willie Winkie is the source of Willy Wonka other than an immediate impression. This is simply how the name strikes me. Recall, in the nursery rhyme Wee Willie Winkie goes running about town in his nightgown telling the children it's time to go to bed. Salacious little bugger.

 

This naturally leads to a consideration of the term Winkie, or Winky. Probably the best-known use of Winkie/Winky is the slang term for the male reproductive organ, as in Captain Winky. Looking up other similar terms, we find the following:

 

•  Wee Willy Winky
•  Willy
•  Willy the one-eyed wonder worm
•  Willy Wonka
•  Winkster
•  Winkie
•  Winky

 

Which came first, I wonder—Willy Wonka the fictional character or Willy Wonka the slang term? That I do not know. What I do know is that the Mother Goose rhyme Wee Willie Winkie is a few hundred years old.

 

Considering that they are both little pet names for a body part and that Wee Willie Winkie may possibly be the origin of Willy Wonka, let's use the much older term Wee Willie Winkie for the moment and look at the initials: WWW. When I began considering this, I understood immediately that WWW is code. It means Vav, Vav,Vav in gematria, and has a value of 6,6,6 (666). Interesting little factoid, that.

 

Now, let's move along to Willy Wonka, the fictional character of film. Willy Wonka, the mild and ambiguously unctuous character portrayed by Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, is invested rather heavily in the public mind with sexual overtones and even undertones. As with Wee Willie Winkie of rhyme, we find that he’s exceptionally sexual! To be specific, Willy Wonka either:

 

•  Has an implied secret sex life off-camera that inspired the expression, "Willy Wonka"

                   

— Used as a verb, Willy Wonka means to have sex (with); a term used by younger teenagers in 2001; the phrase comes from the name of a character in a Roald Dahl story and 1971 film based on it: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory;

 

•  Is gay

 

— "It says so in his purple velvet coat and large bowtie;"

 

— [T]he hottest male actor [Johnny Depp's portrayal of Willy Wonka, in this case] having intimate relations with small indian Oompa Loompas that sing gay overrated songs, which by the way creep you out;"

 

•  Is a pedophile

 

— Willy Wonka: Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

 

— Tinker: Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen, we dare not go a hunting, for fear of little men! You see, nobody ever goes in and nobody ever comes out!

 

— Willy Wonka: Everything inside is eatable, I mean edible, I mean you can eat everything.

 

— Veruca Salt: I want it now, daddy.

 

— Willy Wonka: Well, fortunately, small boys are extremely springy and elastic. So I think we'll put him in my special taffy-pulling machine. That should do the trick. [To an Oompa Loompa:] To the taffy-pulling room.  

 

The above quotes are samples of dialogue from the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. For those whose vocabulary does not extend to the weirdly inventive street language of sexual license, taffy-pulling is a reference to male masturbation.

 

Before moving on, the name Veruca Salt is rather interesting in the context of sexual metaphors. It’s an odd name, to be sure, and one rife with innuendo, particularly when we look at certain anagrams derived from the name. Note especially the references to vault and vat:

 

•  A Crave Slut (whore/prostitute with a burning desire)

 

•  A Raves Cult (Rave parties are organized underground parties involving music, dance, colored lights, drugs, alcohol, and sex; all night parties involving the same)

 

•  A Vast Lucre (sex for profit, pimps; the sex industry)

 

•  Care Vaults (body cavities involved with sexual intercourse)

 

•  Caves La Rut (see Care Vaults; rutting)

 

•  Scare Vault (reference to penetration anxiety)

 

•  Secular Vat (liberated, guilt-free piece of meat)

 

 

Purple Passion

 

Willy Wonka's wardrobe signals strongly to the alternate lifestyles community. He's simply mad about the color purple! But what does it all mean?  For those who aren’t in the know, purple—and the rainbow, as well, about which more will be said in Part II [Pour Some Sugar on Me]—are symbols of Gay Pride. For instance, we encounter these examples:

 

•  Purple Power, a reference to the growing political power of the gay community. “In the late 1960's the color purple (or, more accurately, lavender) became popularized as a symbol for gay pride.”

•  The Color Purple with its themes of incest and underage sex is regarded as a "Gay Movie."

•  Barney the Purple Dinosaur is thought by many to be a pedophile. This link is only one example from the many I have researched.

•  Tinky Winky (there's that Winky term again) the gay, purple Teletubbie

•  Purple Haze

— In addition to its original reference to a variety of cannabis, we find this reference to "A purple haze of support for LGBT youth on Spirit Day"

— "Millions expected to dress in purple on Spirit Day"

•  Purple Rain

— Prince’s hit tune is associated with homosexuality and/or pedophilia

 

It might surprise the reader to learn that Lavender Linguistics is a term used by some linguists to describe the study of the specialized language or argot within the LGBT community.

 

Mmmmmmm, Chocolate!

 

Having established to my own satisfaction that Willy Wonka’s wardrobe preference for the color purple, among other indicators, identifies him as a distinguished member of the gay community, further reflection on the Wonka® Exceptionals advertising clip seen earlier brings us right to the crux of the matter. Consider this bit of dialogue from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory:

 

Willy Wonka: [T]hat pipe doesn't go to the marshmallow room! It goes to the fudge room!

Mrs. Gloop: You terrible man!

 

What is this "fudge room?" As should be obvious to the reader by now, it is a slang term for the excretory apparatus and outlet of the human anatomy. Other euphemisms of which the general public may not be aware include:

 

•  Cadbury Road

•  Chocolate Channel

•  Chocolate Chimney

•  Chocolate Donut

•  Chocolate Factory

•  Chocolate Starfish

•  Chocolate Lovers Hole to Happiness

•  Chocolate Whizwag

•  Hershey Highway

 

Fudge-packer, of course, refers to a male homosexual. There is little doubt at this point that Willy Wonka is a gay man with an inordinate affection for little children, at the very least.

 

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END PART 1. STAY TUNED FOR PART 2: Sweets for My Sweet, Sugar for My Honey—Pour Some Sugar on Me

It's Not Who Votes That Counts ...

It is said that all politics is local. Those who serve in public office nationally emerge first on the local level. It would seem, then, that vigilence at the local level is our first line of defense against corruption and criminal activity by those who aspire to "serve the people" at the national level. After all, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilence," warned Thomas Jefferson.
 
Suppose, however, that our most vigilant efforts to promote, financially support, and elect the best possible candidates simply aren't enough. Josef Stalin, early dictator of the Soviet Union, informs us that, "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."
   
This cynical observation puts a whole new spin on the electoral process. Let us inquire, then, into who counts those votes. Following a nagging hunch, this sleuth conducted a quick check of the net using the search terms "poll workers" and "Eastern Star," which yielded a mother lode of data:
 
•  Janice I. Mansell, 1933-2010, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Schuylkill County election poll worker and member of the "former Saint Clair Order of the Eastern Star; in death Mansell remains connected to her fellow craft—her body lies at rest in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Saint Clair, PA. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/schuylkill/obituary.aspx?n=janice-i-mansell&pid=143620169
   
•  Clara Seward Gale, 1899-2002, Hampton, New Hampshire, ballot clerk at the Hampton polls working every election for 72 years and member of the Orient Chapter and Tide Mill Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star and the White Shrine; Gale served as grand organist of the Grand Chapter of New Hampshire, and was a member of Oceanside Grange No. 260 and East Rockingham Pomona Grange No. 11. A tree was planted on the premises of St. James Lodge F&AM of Hampton in honor of her 100th birthday. One oddity is this item concerning Gale's wartime service "as a member of the Police Auxilliary, making certain that residents in her patrol district observed the 'black-out' rules imposed during WWII." http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us/hampton/biog/obits/galeclara.htm
  
 •  Sylvia Schwartz Brown, 1903-1996, Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford poll worker for more than 50 years and served as past noble grand of the Princess Rebeka Lodge No. 68 as well as service to the Order of the Eastern Star. Scwartz also served for more than 20 years as the secretary of the Hartford branch of the Salvation Army. http://articles.courant.com/1996-05-21/news/9605210258_1_salvation-army-hartford-woman-magazine-west-hartford
 
•  Olive Harriet Ramsay, 1915-2011, Jacobsburg, Ohio, Belmont County poll worker and member of Weyer Chapter #515 Order of Eastern Star; http://www.toothmanfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1341530&fh_id=13792
   
•  Mary Alice Hamilton, 1917-2008, Ashland, Ohio, poll worker for the Ashland County Board of Elections and member of Eastern Star Ashland #92 in addition to volunteer service with the Ashland Red Cross and Gray Ladies; http://www.heylfuneralhome.com/obits/obituary.php?id=112207
 
•  Marie Fuente, 1913-2001, Plant City, Florida, poll worker at the election booth in Dover and a member of Eastern Star of Turkey Creek; http://www.sptimes.com/Archive/101801/Obits.shtml
 
•  Ida Wheeler Ervin, 1917-2002, Andrews, South Carolina, assisted the community with voter registration and served as a poll worker for the Bloomingvale Precinct of Williamsburg County; Ervin was a member of Ester Chapter No. 289, Order of the Eastern Star where she served as Past Worthy Matron, Worthy Matron and secretary. http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Ervin_Ida_245857266.aspx
 
•  Mary Lou Norton, 1928-2011, Franklin, Indiana, a longtime election poll worker and member of Order of the Eastern Star and Ladies Elks; http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/obit/4019/
 
•  Margaret Elizabeth Hawkins, 1917-2012, Mannington, West Virginia, served as a poll worker in Precinct 66 and was an active member of the Augusta Chapter No. 6, Order of the Eastern Star;  http://www.hutsonfuneralhomes.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1403289&fh_id=12310
 
•  Lucille Glisson, 1929-2012, Benton, Kentucky, an election worker at the Hardin voting poll and a member of the Eastern Star, Hardin chapter; http://paducahsun.com/pages/full_story_free/push?article-Lucille+Glisson%20&id=18733250&instance=obituaries
 
•  Alma Louise Nichols Jolly, 1926-2011, Lawrenceville, Kansas, served as poll worker for the Mercer County Board of Elections and was a member of Sunflower Chapter 58 of Order of Eastern Star for over 50 years; http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/trenton/obituary.aspx?pid=150184962
 
•  Katharine Piester Bauer Mathison, 1914-2009, Boulder, Colorado, an election poll worker and "Life" member of Eastern Star No. 9, Elks Ladies, and Mother Advisor for Rainbow Girls;  http://www.dailycamera.com/obits/ci_13734309
  
•  Eloise L. Lowther, 1921-2010, Wooster, Ohio, 30 years of service as a poll worker and was a member of Wooster Chapter of Order of Eastern Star; http://www.the-daily-record.com/obituaries/2010/06/22/eloise-lowther
  
•  Georgia Mae Kyle Winton, 1924-2007, Lacey's Spring, Alabama, voter registrar, voting poll worker, and a dedicated member of the Eastern Star; http://www.currentobituary.com/Memory.aspx?Memory_ObitdID=43915
  
•  Jeannette Elizabeth Duclos Heidenreich, 1921-211, Poteet, Texas, Republican poll worker in Atascosa County and member of the Order of the Eastern Star and the Knights Templar Social Order of the Beauceant; http://www.hurleyfuneralhome.com/services.asp?page=odetail&id=1514&locid=
  
•  Martha Dowdell Golden, 1929-2010, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, poll worker for Anderson County Election Commission and member of the Excelsior Grand Chapter of the Eastern Star;  http://obit.weatherfordmortuary.com/obitdisplay.html?task=Print&id=763754
  
•  Helen Marie Rumsey, 1919-2011, Carrollton, Georgia, voting poll  worker and member of the Eastern Star;  http://www.times-georgian.com/view/full_story/11127780/article-Helen-Rumsey?instance=obits_leadstory
  
•  Margey Meyer, 1925-2012, Swanton, Ohio, poll worker for more than 50 years for the Lucas County Board of Elections and a 59-year member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Wauseon; http://www.toledoblade.com/Deaths/2012/08/27/Margey-Meyer-1925-2012-Ex-poll-worker-took-joy-in-family-friends.html
  
Among the living, we find:
  
•  Vivian Beech, Chatom, Alabama, honored for her service in the Washington County, Alabama online Hall of Fame, April 19, 2002; Beech worked many years as a certified Poll Worker in Chatom and is a member of Order of Eastern Star Santa Fe Chapter No. 505, Jackson, AL, a member of Daughters of the Nile Naiad Temple No. 109, and a member of Scottish Rite Foundation of Alabama;  http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alwchgs/connections/hall_of_fame/2002/beech_sv_2002.htm
  
•  Ashley Baker, Cumberland, Maryland, served as Chief Book Judge for the Allegany County Elections Board from 2008-2010, with duties that included contacting election poll workers prior to Election Day to verify and confirm arrival and daily duties; Baker was also accountable for pickup and return of polling books, as well as all voting materials for Election Day and is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, International Order of Rainbow for Girls, and contributes to Masonic charities.
http://www.indeed.com/r/Ashley-Baker/0cb945aa21f5384a
  
•  Irma Bowles, Livermore, Maine, receipient of the National Association of Secretaries of State Medallion Award, poll worker and Registrar of Voters for the Town of Livermore for 29 years and member of the Eastern Star, as well as volunteer work for years with the Grange, 4-H, and other organizations.
    
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By no means does the above constitute a scientific study of the distribution of Eastern Star members among the general population of poll workers. The examples are offered only to illustrate the strong connection between Order of the Eastern Star and the voting process that was found so easily through a keyword search of the internet. Are we beginning to see a pattern here?
    
Surely we can all appreciate these fine ladies for their extended civic service to their communities. They all appear to be or have been devoted wives and mothers and true exemplars of the volunteerism that so typified the American heart, mind, and spirit when we were a more noble people. My concern, therefore, is not with these extraordinary women, but with an organization that appears to have captured a considerable amount of control over our electoral process at the local level and for extended tenures of service. Truly, it is remarkable! 

One might argue, plausibly, that Eastern Star is a civic organization, after all. Once appointed to the position of poll worker, perhaps they recruit and recommend their friends to staff the polls. While it is true that Eastern Star is a visible presence in civic affairs, it is equally true that poll workers in general are a tight-knit bunch who remain in their positions for decades, as many of the obituaries of these Eastern Star members testify.

      
The Order of the Eastern Star: A Civic Organization? 

The Eastern Star originated in order to introduce the daughters, wives, and other relatives of Master Masons to a basic Masonic world view with the understanding that the Master Mason himself as head of the household will fill any remaining gaps. In other words, Masonic appendant organizations ensure that the personal environment of the Mason (mothers, wives, children) becomes a support and encouragement for his own involvement in Masonry.
  
The Order exists to give practical effect to one of the beneficent purposes of Freemasonry, i.e., to provide for the welfare of the wives, daughters, mothers, widows, and Master Masons. In the initiation ceremony, the ritual is stated thus: "Here we may share with the Masonic brother in promulgating the principles of Brotherly Love, Relief and Truth. Here we may aid, comfort and protect each other in our journey through the labyrinth of human life, and by cheerful companionship and social enjoyments, lighten the burdens of active duty."

The Order has a religious patina and uses the Christian Bible in its ceremony. But is it Christian? Not according to Rev. Phillip Lochhaas, who points out that the Order of the Eastern Star is, as it claims, a religious institution, but it is not the religion of Holy Scripture to which this “religious” refers. Omitting the central doctrines of Scripture—sin, redemption, grace—it offers religious instruction to men and women of all creeds, promoting “faith in Divinity” and “brotherly love." In spite of obvious good that may be done by its moral standards and demands for purity, the Order’s distortion of the central message of the Bible cannot be approved.  All men are not brothers, they are widely divided from one another and separated from God by sin.  Non-Christians cannot stand before God proud of their moral achievements, for without Christ these “profit nothing” I Cor. 13:3.  The convinced Christian man and woman, constrained to testify to the unique redemption in Jesus Christ, cannot participate in the ideals, purposes and programs of the Order without compromise of faith and public denial of Christ.

    
Emblem, Ritual, and Oath
 
The inverted, five-pointed star or Pentagram, is the emblem of the Order of the Eastern Star. This particular signet is known by many other names in occult circles, such as Sirus, the Blazing Star, and the Pentalpha. This star is not the star of Bethlehem, as one might expect, given the name of the order in question,  but is commonly used in ritual magic. It's prince is not Jesus Christ, but the prince of darkness. It is the symbol of Baphomet of Mendes, (the Satanic Goat), created by occultist Eliphas Lévi in 1854. This inverted star also represents the Egyptian god-king Osiris. As the centerpiece of the Order of the Eastern Star, we may well ask why this organization chooses to use an emblem with such obvious associations not to the Light, but to the Darkness.
 
To the Mason and Eastern Star, the East has special importance, not as the Star of Bethlehem, but as a guiding star or deity that leads the initiate towards advanced understanding or an arcane and hidden wisdom. Being the direction of sunrise and a Cardinal point as well, the East symbolizes the majestic light of the sun that represents Power and Knowledge in the Hermetic Tradition.

In Eastern Star ritual, the Woman in the East represents Knowledge, while the Man in the East symbolizes Justice. (Shirley Plessner, Symbolism of the Eastern Star, Chicago: The Charles T. Powner Co., 1956, pp. 50-51).
  
What of the oath taken to protect and succor one another? Some researchers interpret the oath to "protect and succor" to mean "protect and cover" for one another, and there is credible evidence from numerous sources to substantiate this conclusion.

 
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee

Precisely because secret societies such as Order of the Eastern Star, no less than the churches, are firmly fixed in the public mind as do-gooder organizations, membership therein provides an opportune niche from which to work one's way into positions of leadership, both within the organization and externally, within the community at large. What may not be so apparent at a passing glance, however, is that they provide a perfect front, as well, for subversive activities. The potential for abuse in the absence of failsafe mechanisms to detect and control abuse of the system is more than a little troubling.

 
System Dynamics: All Power Rises to the Top
  
The hierarchical, pyramid organizational structure of secret societies is the ideal construct to shield the inner workings of the magisterium at the top of the heap from the pedestrian masses at the bottom who are no doubt sincere devotees who believe fervently in the work and who trust, believe in, and support the stated goals and ideals of the organization. In Behold a Pale Horse, William Cooper warned us in no uncertain terms of these secret societies, however: "I tell you now that Freemasonry is one of the most wicked and terrible organizations upon this earth. The Masons are major players in the struggle for world domination. The 33rd Degree is split into two. One split contains the core of the Luciferian Illuminati and the other contains those who have no knowledge of it whatsoever." (page 78) It should be clear at the very least that the top-down hierarchical structure of the secret societies assures that those in the lower tiers remain ignorant of what transpires at the lofty summit.
 
 
Interlocking Networks, A Force Multiplier
 
Of great concern, too, is the interlocking nature of these pollworkers' affiliations with multiple secret societies and their auxiliaries. For example, among these individuals listed above we find multiple associations with lodges, sister fraternal and charitable and relief organizations connected with health, aging, and child development and welfare. Taken together, these form a vast interconnected network of which most of us are unaware, with the same individuals performing multiple roles in our civic, social, and charitable organizations. Is this not troubling?

Not one given to Pollyanna Politics, I question the wisdom of vesting such enormous power as the election process in the hands of secret society poll workers serving in multiple secret organizations simultaneously, who swear a mutual and binding oath to protect and succor each other and to advance the stated goals of their organizations without question, no matter how squeaky clean they may appear on the surface. As if in mockery of the "great unwashed," the Fabian Society socialists went so far as to adopt the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing as their emblem!
  
We know from recent political experience that neither Presidents Bush nor Obama nor their immediate predecessors, for that matter, were who they held themselves to be. We know now, all too well, that appearances deceive and that foxes do indeed guard hen houses. Let us not be blind to the lessons of history!  

Imposter Syndrome

Reactionary is a term customarily associated with Conservatives. It signifies a kind of nostalgic longing for a return to principles and a paradigm of the past. Astute observers might be noticing a new kind of reactionary on the scene, however—one that nobody is talking about. This is the Democrat reactionary. A Democrat reactionary continues to believe that the Democratic party of today somehow equates to the Democratic party of yesteryear.
  
It doesn't. And it won't. Not for a very long time to come, if ever again. The Democratic party is as long gone and sold out as the Republican party is long gone and sold out. And it's not coming back, no matter how much we may long for it and hope for it.
    
There's a new kid in town. His name is Neo Liberal Democrat. He is the little known "evil twin" of Liberal Democrat, an imposter masquerading as the original. By stealth and under cover of darkness, Neo Liberal Democrat abducted Liberal Democrat, bound him, trussed him, stuffed a gag in his mouth, and threw him into a dark closet in an abandoned building, never to be seen again.
  
A mere handful were shocked to hear of his brutal murder, but in general the demise of Liberal Democrat has gone largely unnoticed by his friends. There was no fanfare—his obituary was buried on page A-42 of the New York Times. Rest in peace, Liberal Democrat (1950-2000).

With virtually no one the wiser, the imposter Neo Liberal Democrat cunningly stepped into the shoes of Liberal Democrat and took over Liberal Democrat's former activities, appropriated his life and persona, and even his friends and followers, too. Very few, if any, within Liberal Democrat's circle of friends even noticed the difference. After all, Neo Liberal Democrat looked so much like Liberal Democrat on the surface, and the name was still Democrat, wasn't it? That was all that really mattered. No one suspected a switch had occured, though indeed it had.
  
It is a sad tale, and true, and one that Conservative Republican knows all too well. Or rather, he would tell you the same—if he were alive. You see, the same thing happened to Conservative Republican when the imposter Neo Conservative came to town and usurped the family name Republican. That's where the whole thing started, right there.   

Little Shop of Horrors: US Foreign Policy, the United Nations & the New World Order

The Past Is Prolix 

When President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law, he declared afterwards, "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
 
 
Feed Me, Seymour!
  
We should know and understand that the pathocracy plans in 5-, 10-, 20-, 25-, 50-, and even 100-year increments. It is a difficult concept to grasp for those who have not so much as a six-month plan in place for achieving their desired personal goals. Nonetheless, the Architects of the Planet retain continuity of power from generation to generation through strategic alliances of intermarriage among the elite families. These alliances among their own kind are what enable the 1% to perpetuate their power and pass it forward among themselves to the succeeding generation. This is how the system works.

The New World Order is the pinnacle of intergenerational planning among the ruling elite. It is a phased global plan that has been implemented incrementally over many, many decades. Here in this hyperlinked State Department document by President Harry S. Truman, Our Foreign Policy, State Department Publication 3972, released September, 1950 you will read how the infrastructure for this New World Order was erected more than 60 years ago. In President Truman's own words, we are able to catch a glimpse of his vision of the incipient New World Order, the seeds of which were sown even long before World War II. Those seeds have grown prodigiously over the ensuing decades, sending forth their shoots and tendrils to become a loathsome, carnivorous, "Venus Flytrap" of a political system we know as Novus Ordo Saeclorum.
 
It is entirely possible that men and women such as Wilson and Truman actually believed the propaganda they were fed by the globalist cabal and its henchmen, through whom the cabal achieves its aims through deception and trickery. Not everyone knows that Wilson had a handler, "Colonel" Edward Mandell House, who was no more a colonel than "Colonel" Tom Parker, the handler of MK victim Elvis Presley. As with government and politics, handlers seem to be the norm in the music and entertainment industries, as well.
 
 
Dog-Whistle Politics
 
Interdependence as used in Our Foreign Policy does not mean that the fates of the nations rest and rely on one another. Rather, interdependence is a code word. Like the word sustainability, it is a deceptive weasel word that has an entirely different and unexpected meaning than that which is assigned to it by the general public. Dog-whistle politics and the NWO Agenda thrive on the use of codespeak. Only through lies and deception can the pathocracy induce the people of the world to accept this tyrannical new system about to be imposed upon humankind.
 
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Newspeak Dictionary

Dog-Whistle Politics (n.) —  putting out a message that, like a high-pitched dog-whistle, is only fully audible to those at whom it is directly aimed

Interdependence (n.) — the abolition of national sovereignty by treaty that cedes powers of the state to the United Nations
 
Sustainability (n.) — the conservation, management, exploitation, and disposition of resources, both natural and human, for the benefit of the ruling elite

Sustainable Development (n.) — a condition or system of complete control under UN Agenda 21 engendered through a radical environmental initiative to redefine personal property rights, redistribute wealth, and reinterpret the value and meaning of "individual" and "family," all for the benefit of the ruling elite and its assignees in perpetuity; also known as "smart growth" (Examples: sustainable development, sustainable agriculture, sustainable asset)