Sir Fred Goodwin is not a banker

[Angry Cat]

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Good Lord!
Surely, it comes as no surprise that Fred is a Mason or, even a Knights Templar.

He obviously had assistance from 'Brothers' in high places...

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Ok so according to you New Zealand no is no longer a major exporter of lamb because of the Masons ? the wheat and butter mountains and milk and wine are being wasted because of the Masons ?
Yes you are right there were and are very prominent Masons, the Duke of Kent is in fact the Grand Master and will be until his demise.
Yes Michael Baigent is the Editor of Freemasonry today, I actually have a copy on my desk as I type.
Yes there is a Knights Templar and I bet you didn't know that is also a Ladies order of Freemasonry.
What I can tell you is that the majority of Masons (I cannot speak for all as I don't know all) meet up once a week and practice their ceremonies for about an hour and the rest of the evening have a drink or six, then they have their quarterly meetings, where they perform their ceremonies and raise money for charity and generally enjoy themselves, most of them go home a little the worst for wear and a bit better for the wine.
Does that make them bad people.... no I think not, they are NOT cooking up plots to starve the world nor break the banks, they are pure and simply groups of men, enjoying the company of other men and raising money for charity at the same time.
The ladies lodge do exactly the same, I should know I have the hangovers to prove it.

No problem there I think, its pure and simple, people raising money for charity, simples.

Put it another way, some people like to join a tennis club, shooting club, swimming club, go to football, rugby or just play cards together, are they responsible for banks closing, jobs disappearing, food being wasted, no of course not, the only difference between those clubs and the Masons is ...
a) you cannot apply to join, you have to be asked
b) the majority do not have an initiation ceremony
c) Masons chose to keep their membership and ceremonies secret to preserve their privacy.

[Angry Cat]

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According to the world wide web, his Lodge is Morton Lodge #89
Registered membership number FK37349GN

[Garlok]

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The problem lies Sapphy with the fact that the Masons have no policy of justifying their actions or inactions. It is not conspiracy theory at all. You want a copper-bottomed example, then take Michael Baigent who IS a freemason at quite senior level in fact I believe he was or is the editor of their in-house magazine. This is purchasable by anyone at the likes of W H Smith. Yet you will find that he was a co author of "The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail", he is also the author of the "Jesus Papers". He maintains with absolute authority that these are not works of fiction but the result of many years of painstaking research. Yet I have heard many dismiss these as being rubbish conspiracy theory of less worth the real works of fiction emitted by the likes of Dan Brown.

Freemasonry used to be a very overt thing, now it is ultra secret. George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin were co-authors of the American Constitution, only one was not a freemason. the others were overt in their beliefs. However as the years have gone by the excuse for secrecy has been fear of persecution. Maybe but only in Soviet Russia and under the Third Reich, they had nothing "to fear" here or in North America after the War of Independence. Yet slowly but surely they have become more and more secretive and it is well known that the likes of the De Rothschilds and the Bilderburgs ( probably between them the world's most powerful bankers) are prominent Freemasons. As is the House of Windsor I might add.

There is no absolute proof about Goodwin but it is most probable that he is a fraternal brother at the level he got to in the banking world. And as to the conspiracy theory, I am not a theorist in this line by the way, all you really have to do is look around you at what is actually going on and even with an open mind on these matters you can see many things which are not right or just but which do fit neatly into the prophesies of the Masonic World. Why do Chancellors of the Exchequer and Finance Ministers run like guilty schoolboys when the great Masonic families in the banking world snap their fingers?

Ask yourself why New Zealand is no longer a world exporter of meat?
Ask yourself why food is short and getting shorter to the point of crisis? Yet we have paid out millions in "set aside" to farmers to take land out of food production. The EU have poured milk and wine down the drain. Wheat mountains and butter mountains have been destroyed. All at the behest of a small group of powerful Masonic banker families. Of course there is going to be speculation once what is perceived to be a cover up happens like the Goodwin affair.

De Rothschilds are ON RECORD as saying that give them control of a country's currency they will then control completely the politics, judiciary and people of that country.

And like I say I am NOT a conspiracy theorist, I am open minded and NOT prepared just to take propaganda in like a council wheely bin.

regards
Garlok

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Ok so you are saying that Sir Fred is a Mason ? What proof have you of that ? In fact what proof have you at all that the masons are involved in the whole thing ?

I'm sorry to say this but it bemuses me that whenever anything goes tits up in this country there are conspiracy theories that always include or actually blame the Masons. Next you'll be saying that Seb Blatter and the rest of FIFA have their own lodge.

[Garlok]

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Nothing wrong at all Sapphy, UNTIL it starts to move into the sinister realms of corruption and cover up as has clearly happened in the Goodwin case and others.

It is a sad fact that although this particular organisation has laid claim to altruistic principles and all pay lip service to never using it for personal gain, most members are in it for just that and exactly that ---- poersonal gain. Just look at Goodwin alone. Look at he size of his payout. The last figures I could get for Masonic charitable contributions were for 2004. They amounted to a total of £12m and some siginificant proportion of that went to their own charities. If, as is assumed, there are approximately 1 millioin members in the UK as a whole, and many many of that number are in the very highest ecehelons of wage earners. At 12 quid a head that makes the likes of Goodwin et al very generous people indeed does it not? Or does it?

Perhaps those who doubt should flog up on Albert Pike, his writings and beliefs and as for the illuminati, forget Dan Brown altogether rubbish, look up Adam Weishaupt and his successors well inot the twentieth century.

With an open mind there is case for some concern at the very least as to what is actually going on. On purely the banker front as we are discussing Goodwin here, why is Bilderburg kept so secret? why was one particular years worth of minutes from the Iron Mountain Conferences removed from the internet three times by the CIA? Why now does the very existance of the Iron Mountain conference be denied? If the banks wish to return to a position of trust and respectability, then they will have to be more transparent, honest and deal with the likes of Goodwin in such a way that justice is seen to be done not hidden by a veil of secrecy and superinjunctions. Without any conspiracy theory what has gone on and is going on leads to the conclusion that at the very least some form of collusion is happening when it mpost definitely should not.

regards
Garlok

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"grips as they known DO exist as a sign of recognition and seniority beween fraternal brothers of the Masonic leaning.

Yes they do, so do signs and words, they are so that Masons can identify other Masons, there's nothing wrong with that at all.

[Garlok]

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Good

Because the seriousness of the Goodwin affair for all us should open all avenues.

perhaps you don't believe about the abuse in care homes for vulnerable adults exposed by the BBC last night either!

And for your information "secret" handshakes or "grips as they known DO exist as a sign of recognition and seniority beween fraternal brothers of the Masonic leaning.

regards
Garlok

[leclerc]

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Garlok, when you wrote about the JFK speech it was about "secret societies" so there is only one speech on that topic by JFK that is always quoted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZk8ronces
You can compare and contrast the text that I have given you the link to.

I haven't read Barry Smith's analysis but from seeing his belief in the Illuminati then I am unfortunately mainstream in my views, ie I don't believe in New World Order(unless it the Hulk Hogan WCW wrestling thing) or secret handshakes. Others can do and that is their bag, but I don't. Anyway, I am sure you all want to talk about Sir Fred rather than JFK so I'll desist further from this topic and probably this thread.

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For the avoidance of doubt the Freemasons are not a Secret Society it is actually a Society with Secrets, yes they have initiation ceremonies and they are very careful who they admit, and as you probably know you cannot apply to be a Mason you have to be asked.
Also I would tell you that the Freemasons are the biggest charity givers in the world and have raised millions of pounds over the years.

[Garlok]

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With respect LC, I would disagree as many many better commentators and researchers than I have clearly drawn the conclusion that I have passd on. For example a lifelong researcher, writer and New Zealand evangelist one Barry R Smith made a detailed analysis of this particular speech if indeed this is the correct speech, ("Better than Nostradamus") and in keeping with most other researchers and analysts made a concurring conclusion as I put forward above. In the particular case noted it is alleged by some that part of his life was spent in hiding as a result of an "underworld" contract being placed on his head.

As to your dates fine but it was a very short time in fact in the great scheme of things.

regards
Garlok

[leclerc]

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Apologies for off topic content but JFK was assassinated in November 1963 and the speech was made to the American Newspapers Publishers Association in April 1961 which was at the start of his Presidency. The title of the speech was "The President and the Press"
The President and the Press: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961 - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum


The above has the full text of that speech which might give a little bit of context to the quote which is misquoted many times by many people to suggest he was talking about Masons, etc, etc, clearly he wasn't.

[Garlok]

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No CC I have NOT and AM NOT! However as my family is steeped in the tradition (and still are) I know far too much for my own good about this organisation. Right thro Craft (Blue Lodge) European esoteric, Chapter, Knights Templar, The Order of St John of Malta (Hospitallers), Rosicrucians etc etc.

What I am aware of are Masons who are concerned about the abuses and I am also aware of Masons who now insist on the words of the OLD oath being used in initiation rites which include the words "any ordinance of the land" and not the more modern version which gives them a get out clause for fellow member transgressors.

I am not a catholic either, but it should be noted that John F Kennedy made a speech in 1961, not long before his assassination which referred to this "odious organisation" having no place in modern civilised society. No organised Christian Church (including the Anglicans) has found compatibility with christian ethics in it and that is despite the fact that the God of the Rosicrucians must be a christian God yet freemasonry in itself allows for any god (a member must want to be freemason, must be of sound body and mind, and must be believe in a god any god).

For the more politically minded is it not strange that a"deal" has been done between the Catholic church (Opus Dei) and the Masonic movement after centuries of implaccable enmity?

regards
Garlok

[Angry Cat]

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Worshipful Master;
Past Master, Fred...

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Yes. It has to be remembered that an awful lot, approximately 1 million of them list membership of very secretive organisations amongst their extra curricular activities particularly those that class themselves as "professionals".

Therefore a significant proportion of the judiciary CANNOT by oath ("on pain of death") be independent and objective where a fellow member is concerned.

You've never been a Freemason, have you?