First, prayers go out to all of those who have lost loved ones and have been deeply affected by the
awful tornadoes in Oklahoma.
Bible Prophecy is becoming more and more a reality with each passing year regarding all that is happening in the world the closer we get to the end times. (See
Matthew 24)
Jesus has a plethora of messages to us in Matthew 24. However, the following portion of the prophecy has been ratcheted up over the past 5 years:
Mat 24:9 "Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.
Mat 24:10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,
Mat 24:11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
Mat 24:12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,
Mat 24:13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Yes! God's ultimate plan for us will continue despite all of the attempts to thwart it. As Christians, it is our DUTY to watch, WORK, and wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ on the clouds of heaven! Part of that work is to warn others of the evil that is keeping them from being reconciled back unto God through Christ's sacrificial death on the cross at Calvary, His subsequent Resurrection from the dead, and ultimate Ascension into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father.
The Bible (NIV version) also informs us:
Mar 4:22 For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.
Mar 4:23 If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear."
And, please take heed of this (NKJV):
Luk 8:11 "Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Luk 8:12 "Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
Luk 8:13 "But the ones on the rock [are those] who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.
Luk 8:14 "Now the ones [that] fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
Luk 8:15 "But the ones [that] fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep [it] and bear fruit with patience.
Luk 8:16 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts [it] under a bed, but sets [it] on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light.
Luk 8:17 "For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor [anything] hidden that will not be known and come to light.
Luk 8:18 "Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him [more] will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him."
Keeping such Scripture in mind, we now proceed with this post.
All of the distractions being thrown out there in Obama Confusionland, thankfully, aren't working to stop the ongoing deeper investigation into the Benghazi Cover-Up. The following link provides exclusive information:
PJM EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama
Obama Lie Du Jour: 'I'm Not Familiar' with Whistleblowers Being
Threatened [Hat tip:
Commieblasters].
Copy of PJM Exclusive post:
More whistleblowers will emerge shortly in the escalating Benghazi scandal, according to two former U.S. diplomats who spoke with PJ Media Monday afternoon.
These whistleblowers, colleagues of the former diplomats, are currently securing legal counsel because they work in areas not fully protected by the Whistleblower law.
According to the diplomats, what these whistleblowers will say will be at least as explosive as what we have already learned about the scandal, including details about what really transpired in Benghazi that are potentially devastating to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
The former diplomats inform PJM the new revelations concentrate in two areas — what Ambassador Chris Stevens was actually doing in Benghazi and the pressure put on General Carter Ham, then in command of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and therefore responsible for Libya, not to act to protect jeopardized U.S. personnel
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Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, they will say, was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft.
Hillary Clinton still wanted to proceed because, in part, as one of the diplomats said, she wanted “to overthrow Gaddafi on the cheap.”
This left Stevens in the position of having to clean up the scandalous enterprise when it became clear that the “insurgents” actually were al-Qaeda – indeed, in the view of one of the diplomats, the same group that attacked the consulate and ended up killing Stevens.
The former diplomat who spoke with PJ Media regarded the whole enterprise as totally amateurish and likened it to the Mike Nichols film Charlie Wilson’s War about a clueless congressman who supplies Stingers to the Afghan guerrillas. “It’s as if Hillary and the others just watched that movie and said ‘Hey, let’s do that!’” the diplomat said.
He added that he and his colleagues think the leaking of General David Petraeus’ affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell was timed to silence the former CIA chief on these matters.
Regarding General Ham, military contacts of the diplomats tell them that AFRICOM had Special Ops “assets in place that could have come to the aid of the Benghazi consulate immediately (not in six hours).”
Ham was told by the White House not to send the aid to the trapped men, but Ham decided to disobey and did so anyway, whereupon the White House “called his deputy and had the deputy threaten to relieve Ham of his command.”
The White House motivation in all this is as yet unclear, but it is known that Ham retired quietly in April 2013 as head of AFRICOM.
PJ Media recognizes this is largely hearsay, but the two diplomats sounded quite credible. One of them was in a position of responsibility in a dangerous area of Iraq in 2004.
We will report more as we learn it.
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Hat tips:
Blue Letter Bible
Politico
PJMedia.com
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Update: My friend Donna sent the following information to me via email. Hat tip:
http://raymmax.wordpress.com/ [Note: It is a private blog site and permission needs to be granted by owner in order to see it.]
This is the former Deputy
Assistant Secretary that was working in the region of Benghazi. These two poems
highlighted in yellow seem to be his poetic statement of what happened. In the
first one he mentions a very low frequency which some have speculated that maybe
the military was communicating with the White House in something like Morse
Code. The Queens Henchmen sounds a lot like Hillary, don’t you think?
It is very
interesting……..
Benghazi-disciplined diplomat a prolific poet
Raymond Maxwell -- one of the four State Department officials
disciplined over security lapses that led to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in
Benghazi, Libya, last year -- is also a prolific poet. And he's been publishing
provocative verses since he was put on administrative leave December 18.
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for the
Maghreb Region Raymond Maxwell during a visit to Algiers, in a photo taken
sometime between November 2-5, 2011.
/ U.S. Embassy Algiers
Some of the poetry represents scathing commentary on the
post-Benghazi fallout and implies that he feels like he's been made a scapegoat.
In "Trapped in a
purgatory of their own deceit," Maxwell writes in part: "The web of lies they
weave / gets tighter and tighter / in its deceit / until it bottoms out - / at a
very low frequency - / and implodes...Yet all the while, / the more they talk, /
the more they lie, / and the deeper down the hole they go... Just wait.../ just
wait and feed them the rope."
It's a bold and almost shocking verse from the 20-year
foreign-service worker who was the well-respected deputy assistant secretary for
Maghreb Affairs in the Near East Bureau and former Chief of Staff to the
Ambassador in Baghdad. Fluent in Portuguese, Maxwell is also an ex-Navy
"mustanger," which means he leapt from enlisted ranks to commissioned
officer.
An African-American, Maxwell makes use of lynching imagery in
his poem entitled "Invitation," a commentary about being put on administrative
leave December 18th after the State Department's Accountability Review Board
(ARB) criticized pre-attack security in Libya.
U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other
Americans were killed in terrorist attacks at U.S. missions in Benghazi. Poor
security was faulted by the ARB review board. Former U.S. ambassador Thomas
Pickering, who led the review, was quoted in the final, unclassified report as
saying blame was fixed "at the assistant secretary level...where the
decision-making in fact takes place, where...the rubber hits the road." The ARB,
in essence, was seen to have cleared higher-ranking State Department officials,
including then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, of direct fault on the issue
of inadequate security.
It's unclear as to exactly what Maxwell and the other
disciplined managers allegedly did wrong or how they were chosen for discipline.
Three are on paid administrative leave. When asked for more details, the State
Department did not respond prior to publication of this report.
Maxwell declined an interview, saying his poetry best
expresses what he has to say.
Raymond Maxwell:
Former Deputy Asst Secretary Removed Over Benghazi Pens
a Poem
In December 2012, the NYT reported [see: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/us/politics/3-state-dept-officials-resign-following-benghazi-report.html?_r=1&] that four State Department officials were removed from their posts after an
independent panel criticized the “grossly inadequate” security at a diplomatic
compound in Benghazi, Libya, that was attacked on Sept. 11, leading to the
deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. According
to the report, the four officials “have been placed on administrative leave pending further
action” citing the State Department’s spokeswoman as
source.
The same report included a quote from
Thomas R. Pickering, a former ambassador (and former #3 at the State Department)
who led the independent review who said this: “We fixed it at the assistant secretary level, which is, in
our view, the appropriate place to look, where the decision-making in fact takes
place, where, if you like, the rubber hits the road.”
One of those four officials is Raymond
Maxwell; he is also one of the three Deputy Assistant Secretaries who were
thrown under the bus in the Benghazi fallout. He was the Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Maghreb (North Africa) Affairs at the Bureau of Near East Affairs
from 2011-2012. He advised the Assistant Secretary on the Maghreb and oversaw
development, coordination and implementation of USG policy in the region.
Previous to that, he was the Director of the Office of Regional and Multilateral
Affairs (RMA) also at the Bureau of Near East Affairs from 2009-2011. More here [http://raymmax.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/invitation/].
Mr. Maxwell is also a poet with hopes
of becoming “a music and poetry librarian in his next life.” This past April,
we became aware that he participated in the National Poetry Writing Month [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Poetry_Writing_Month] , an annual project in which
participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the entire month
(see his blog http://raymmax.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/invitation/). We think one of his poems,
“Invitation“is particularly striking. How
can we not appreciate the dark humor of BYOB … “because of the continuing
resolution?” Certainly, the poem is blunt and aims to shock but it also makes us
think that as as long as one is the boss of words, one is not totally helpless.
We received permission from Mr. Maxwell to republish the poem in this
blog.
Invitation [http://raymmax.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/invitation/]
– Posted
on April 1, 2013
© Raymond Maxwell
The
Queen’s Henchmen
request the pleasure of your company
at a Lynching – to
be held
at 23rd and C Streets NW
on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
just
past sunset.
Dress:
Formal, Masks and Hoods -
the four being lynched
must never know the
identities
of their executioners, or what/
whose sin required their
sacrifice.
A blood
sacrifice –
to divert the hounds -
to appease the gods -
to cleanse our
filth and
satisfy our guilty consciences.
Arrive
promptly at sunset –
injustice will be swift.
there will be no
trial,
no review of evidence,
no due process, and
no
accountability.
Dress
warmly -
a chilling effect will instantly
envelop Foggy
Bottom.
Extrajudicial.
Total impunity.
A kangaroo court in
a banana
republic.
B.Y.O.B.
Refreshments
will not be served
because of the continuing resolution.
And the
ones being lynched?
Who cares? They are pawns in a game.
Our game. All
suckers, all fools,
all knaves who volunteered to serve -
Us. And the
truth? The truth?
What difference at this point does it make?
In the
event of inclement weather,
or the Queen’s incapacitation,
her Henchmen
will carry out this lynching -
as ordered, as planned.
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*
Thanks to Raymond Maxwell for allowing
us to republish Invitation in this blog.
Hat Tip:
Diplo Pundit.com
Update:
Apparently, Raymond Maxwell's blog has been removed. Was he threatened by the current corrupt ObaMARXIST BADministration? I wouldn't doubt it!!!
raymmax.wordpress.com is no longer available.
The authors have deleted this site.
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The Blaze has an article about Raymond Maxwell:
The Blaze: Beat-Up Poet? One of the Men Punished Over Benghazi Security Failures Fights Back with…Scathing Verse
Copy of post:
Raymond Maxwell is one of the four State Department officials who was disciplined due to security lapses leading to the U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya, last year.
But after he was placed on paid administrative leave last Dec. 18,
CBS News says that rather than sulk in silence and shame, Maxwell has been publishing poetry about his ordeal–often scathing verse–that can’t be making officials in Washington, D.C. applaud (or snap their fingers, whatever the case may be).
CBS News calls attention to his “Trapped in a purgatory of their own deceit.”
Here Maxwell writes in part:
“The web of lies they weave / gets tighter and tighter / in its deceit / until it bottoms out – / at a very low frequency – / and implodes…Yet all the while, / the more they talk, / the more they lie, / and the deeper down the hole they go… Just wait…/ just wait and feed them the rope.”
It’s a bold and almost shocking verse from the 20-year foreign-service worker who was the well-respected deputy assistant secretary for Maghreb Affairs in the Near East Bureau and former Chief of Staff to the Ambassador in Baghdad. Fluent in Portuguese, Maxwell is also an ex-Navy “mustanger,” which means he leapt from enlisted ranks to commissioned officer.
Maxwell uses lynching imagery in his “Invitation,”
CBS News notes:
“The Queen’s Henchmen / request the pleasure of your company / at a Lynching – / to be held / at 23rd and C Streets NW [State Dept. building] / on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 / just past sunset. / Dress: Formal, Masks and Hoods- / the four being lynched / must never know the identities/ of their executioners, or what/ whose sin required their sacrifice./ A blood sacrifice- / to divert the hounds- / to appease the gods- / to cleanse our filth and /satisfy our guilty consciences…
You can check out more of Maxwell’s poetry on his
blog. [blog has been deleted]
Posts
from – http://www.examiner.com/article/clinton-asked-for-more-security-benghazi-obama-said-no
Clinton asked for more security in Benghazi, Obama said no
By Christopher Collins – Examiner.com – October 25, 2012
Last night, it was revealed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had ordered more security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi before it was attacked where four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens were murdered by Al-Qaeda but President Obama denied the request.
http://www.video.theblaze.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=25445923&source=THEBLAZE
The news broke on TheBlazeTV’s “Wilkow!” hosted by Andrew Wilkow, by best-selling author, Ed Klein (edwardklein.com) who said the legal counsel to Clinton had informed him of this information.
Klein also said that those same sources said that former President Bill Clinton has been “urging” his wife [Hillary] to release official State Department documents that prove she called for additional security at the compound in Libya, which would almost certainly result in President Obama losing the election.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ed-klein-bill-clinton-urging-hillary-to-release-benghazi-documents-that-would-exonerate-her-destroy-obamas-re-election-hopes/
Klein explained that everyone knew what was happening in Benghazi from the CIA to the National Security Agency and that there’s intelligence cables that have not been released.
Wilkow asked, “If everybody knew this including the White House, who would have given the order to go in and save the ambassador?”
Klein, “The President… he should have given the order to use the rapid reaction force…”
Wilkow, “Not Petraeus?”
Klein, “Well it has to come from the president.”
Wilkow also asked Klein about Valerie Jarrett who’s the Senior Advisor to Obama and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, and her role in this cover-up.
Klein said, “We don’t know but we can only assume that every action that the president takes, and he said so, he is on the record saying “I don’t take any actions without passing it by Valerie Jarrett”… so we have to assume that Valerie Jarrett whose also by the way, hooked into the Chicago campaign line… she has a direct line to David Axlerod, was a part of this whole cover-up in the White House.”
This latest news comes on the heels when the Paulding County Republican Examiner reported that former CIA officer, Clare Lopez was a guest on the Glenn Beck TV on Monday evening and told Beck, “They let our ambassador and others die. In real time, watching it happen, and they didn’t do anything about it.”
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Now, some people may not know much about Valerie Jarrett. She is the "in the dark shadows of the regime" so-called 'advisor' of BHO.