Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 2568 Location: One breath from Glory
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: Tony Blair joins Yale, Skull & Bones University
I presume the only way to become a Skull and Bones member is to actually work or study there. Well Mr Blair now has the opportunity.
Blair 'nervous' about teaching career
Tony Blair
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has admitted to being 'a bit nervous' about starting his teaching career at Yale University.
Mr Blair will lead his first seminar group as part of a semester-long 'faith and globalisation' course.
In an interview with the university's Yale Daily News, Mr Blair said: 'I'm sort of a bit nervous for it, really.
'I was never a star student, and I'm coming along mixing with a whole lot of people who I'm sure are a whole lot more clever and smarter than I am.'
He said he was partly drawn to the university after his son Euan graduated from there earlier this year with a master's degree in international relations.
'The chance to actually come to such a great institution as Yale and be able to interact with students - for me, it's a tremendous privilege,' Mr Blair said.
The course will explore the issues concerning the public roles of religious faiths in the context of globalisation.
According to the newspaper, hundreds of 'eager students' applied for admission to the course.
Following his first seminar, Mr Blair will take part in a larger question and answer session from Yale students and staff.
Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 2568 Location: One breath from Glory
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject:
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Mr Blair will lead his first seminar group as part of a semester-long 'faith and globalisation' course
faith and globalisation sounds rather like the one world religion that many believe the Book of Revelation speaks about. _________________ JO911B.
"for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits in high places " Eph.6 v 12
What is he teaching? The "History of the Third Reich"? Or "The committing of war crimes" possibly? Or "Murder Made Easy"?
These would be very appropriate Spiv, except they'd be wrapped in module titles such as:
Semester 1: IR2003: Power, Violence and International Relations
and
Semester 2: IR2004: Globalization, Regimes, Governance and International Relations
I studied these MA Hons Intl Relations modules at St Andrews Uni:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/intrel/media/IR_school_handbook.pdf
but found the whole doctrine of IR to be dominated by the very acceptance of Globalisation as fact as opposed to being a concept that although presently dominant could be challenged by other ideologies if they were given more attention. IR is arrogant in its assumptions of the successes of globalisation and is forever justifying it.
In the first year when we received our reading list we were told to read: Baylis & Smith's "The Globalisation of World Politics-An introduction to IR" 2nd Edition. The book is full of concepts singing the praise of the "Triumph of Capitalism" ...you'd be flabbergasted at the number of times that the world "globalisation" or "Global" is used.
What fascinates me is that no other prominent schools of political thought seem to exist or get serious attention in the West. OK IR theory acknowledges other challenging ideologies, but they are written about as if they are very much in the past due to their failures or they are exemplified as that of no consequence.
I Think Blair will be great at tutoring: "Power, Violence and International Relations". Oh to be a student in that tutorial...you could ask him some amazingly awkward questions like:
"Mr Blair, could false-flag terrorism be included amongst the many examples of power and violence which are highlighted in this module?...How about 7/7, 9/11 etc etc?"
Mr Blair..."Hmmm, Harrh"...goes very quiet...subject changes rapidly.
Later said student: Classed as disruptive and provoking off-topic subjects not covered in the theory of IR.
Sounds familiar and very predictable... although an IR book burning session in the campus quadrangle is warranted once we've laughed at Kissinger's rubbish condoned by Western IR depts.
Is there any wonder future politicians are brainwashed to the hilt.
Hilz _________________ "The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him[her] wrong."
- - Harry Segall
"The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves." Lenin 1917
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:24 pm Post subject: Blair's US office next door to Skull & Bones
Blair, his 'sexy' Catholic aide... and their new Yale HQ near her Opus Dei father's office
By SHARON CHURCHER in New York and SIMON WALTERS in London
Last updated at 1:15 AM on 04th January 2009
Tony Blair is setting up an American office for his religious charity in a move that sheds new light on his close links with Ruth Turner, his controversial former Downing Street aide.
Ms Turner, 38, who was at the heart of the cash-for-honours inquiry in 2006 and 2007, was chosen by the former Prime Minister last spring to run his new Tony Blair Faith Foundation.
It has become a highly lucrative vehicle for the ex-premier, concentrating its activities at America’s Yale University, where Mr Blair teaches a course on ‘faith and globalisation’ – and where Ms Turner’s British-born father, Denys, is a theology professor.
Yale, which is one of America’s top three universities, has paid the foundation more than £127,000 since it appointed Mr Blair as its Howland Distinguished Fellow.
A recent posting on the foundation’s website announced that ‘a small team of staff’ will be based on the campus to ‘extend the [foundation’s] reach across North America’.
Yale maintains that Mr Blair’s post has nothing to do with Ms Turner’s father. But yesterday the university confirmed that the foundation’s office will be in the picturesque neo-Georgian divinity school complex, where Ms Turner’s father is based.
The foundation insists it wants to promote understanding between world religions. But The Mail on Sunday has been told that several of its key figures are Catholics.
Mr Blair converted to Catholicism in 2007 with his wife Cherie, a Catholic, as his sponsor. It is less well known that it is a faith he shares with Ms Turner and her father. Sources close to the Blairs say that Ms Turner was one of the figures in whom Mr Blair confided as he decided whether to convert to Catholicism.
Professor Turner is a prominent writer and scholar who once described himself as a ‘Marxist Catholic’. And intriguingly he is a former member of Opus Dei, a conservative Catholic lay organisation shrouded in mystery with rituals that include wearing a cilice – a spiked chain strapped around the thigh.
Author Dan Brown is accused of exaggerating its alleged secretive sadomasochistic practices in his best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code. According to Catholic magazine The Tablet, Professor Turner was a member of Opus Dei for eight years and faced threats that he would ‘lose his soul’ when he left.
The magazine said that Professor Turner believed Opus Dei ‘traded on the instinct which Catholics had for obedience, exercised a kind of mind control and cultivated a psychology of dependence’.
The article continued: ‘He des-cribes leaving as a catastrophic experience for him and was told he would lose his soul over it.’
Ms Turner accompanied Mr Blair to Yale last month for his seminars on faith and globalisation. And breaking her silence about her association with him for the first time, she contributed to an article about him in New York magazine.
Speaking warmly about Mr Blair’s devotion to the new charity, she declared: ‘You can make the case extremely convincingly for why religion is an absolutely terrible thing, and you’ll be right in every respect. Except for the fact that it’s not only like that and, anyway, it’s not going to go away.’
She disclosed that she is so close to him she can predict his choice of clothing when he visits his old haunts in the North-East of England. ‘Whenever he goes back, it’s fantastic,’ she said gushingly. ‘He wears a tracksuit all day.’
Ms Turner was born in Dublin in 1970 and spent her childhood moving between university towns as her father’s career took off. He was a professor of theology at Cambridge before his appointment at Yale.
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Ruth Turner accompanied Blair to Yale for his seminars on faith and globalisation in support of his new religious charity
She is a committed socialist and launched the Northern version of Big Issue magazine, where she earned a formidable reputation for using her charm to raise big sums of money from businesses. It was when she joined Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee in 2000 that she caught the eye of Mr Blair, who promptly recruited her to No 10. A former Downing St aide said: ‘Ruth is clever, sexy and has a sparkling personality. Everybody loved her at No 10. Underneath it all, she is very tough, but she has this delicate vulnerable look that makes you want to put your arm round her.’
He displayed fierce loyalty to her when she was arrested and quizzed by police in the cash-for-honours row, and took the unusual step of issuing a statement defending her. ‘Ruth is a person of the highest integrity for whom I have great regard and I continue to have complete confidence in her,’ he said.
After being cleared in the scandal, Ms Turner remained loyal to Mr Blair. When he left No 10 in 2007, she was top of the list of Downing Street staff he wanted to take with him.
Professor Turner told The Mail on Sunday that he had gone to great lengths to avoid any connection to Mr Blair’s activities at Yale. ‘I have been careful to be sure that my relationship with Ruth is kept entirely out of the way of her professional relationship with Tony Blair,’ he said.
Explaining why he left Opus Dei, Professor Turner said: ‘I moved in a pendulum-like way into a rather opposed position politically and eventually the pendulum settled down in the middle somewhere.
‘I am a Catholic, but I wouldn’t describe myself as a Marxist now. I’ve been through that phase and came out of it at the other end.’
A spokesman for Mr Blair said yesterday: ‘Professor Turner is a highly respected member of the [Yale] faculty but he had no role in establishing the partnership between Yale and the foundation.’
Asked about the foundation’s expansion plans and whether Catholicism played a role in it, his spokesman drew attention to an article on its website, which said: ‘As Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair was officially an Anglican. Unofficially, though, he was a practising Roman Catholic.’
It goes on to quote Mr Blair as saying: ‘My wife’s Catholic, my kids are brought up as Catholics, I’ve been going to mass for 25 years,’ and it comments: ‘In a way, Blair’s foundation is the culmination of his life as a double agent.’
Nice picture of Ruth Turner and interesting article.
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Yesterday the police moved in on Blair’s confident-in-chief, Ruth Turner, arresting her at 6.30 am to question her for several hours over the Cash for Peerages scandal. This should be seen by Number Ten as another shot across their bows - following the arrest of Blair’s primary fund-raiser, Lord Levy (both were released several hours later on police bail). This all hints at the possibility that Blair will be the first sitting Prime Minister to be arrested.
I have said before that if Blair is found guilty of breaking the rules on party finance (which certainly appears to be the case), then he should face the severest punishment. To have operated outside the law, and indeed outside of the normal Labour Party structure, Blair has been incredibly reckless with the reputation and integrity of The Labour Party. Indeed, if the party hierarchy believes that Blair has broken party rules and acted beyond his remit, then they should discipline/sue him. This would dislocate the Party from the illegal and irresponsible actions of a few egotists at the top of the organisation.
Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 2568 Location: One breath from Glory
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:08 pm Post subject:
The full story is very bizarre. You would have thought with 75 cctv cameras it would be as easy to trace the murderer as it was to spot a boeing hitting the Pentagon. _________________ JO911B.
"for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits in high places " Eph.6 v 12
In relation to Blair's conversion to Catholocism in 2007 and some of this topic's previous posts regarding Blair's links to JP Morgan and his post at Yale...well, a new slant which I have found very interesting is that the Catholic Church/Vatican could be and has been pulling many of the strings for God knows how long and that the Roman Empire still rules today.
If you've not seen this Google video entitled: "Roman Empire Rules Today" then it might just make the picture somewhat clearer.
Link _________________ "The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him[her] wrong."
- - Harry Segall
"The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves." Lenin 1917
I'm close to dumbfounded, the news makes me feel a little sick. I think this could well be his way into the skull & bones society. The poster who made the reference to Revelation is spot on too, not many people know how close we are to the fulfillment of Bible prophesy. _________________ New Doors Costa del sol wedding Travel blog Edinburgh bed and breakfast accommodation
Hmm, the picture is coming together for me folks, although it has already been staring us all in our faces for a long long time.
ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME, literally. _________________ "The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him[her] wrong."
- - Harry Segall
"The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves." Lenin 1917
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