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• Rethink urged on freemasons issue - Scotland's justice minister will be asked to review guidelines requiring judges to declare membership of the freemasons. A majority of MSPs on Holyrood's Justice 2 Committee said they were not satisfied that the existing oath of office or new appointment procedures for judges would provide sufficient transparency. They were considering a petition calling for new and existing members of the judiciary to declare whether or not they were members of the freemasons.

• Lifting lid on judges' secret society - An unprecedented legal hearing into a secret society which boasts some of Scotland's top judges among its members opened in Edinburgh yesterday amid claims the judges' membership breaches human rights law.

• Freemason 'closed shop' blocked me, says barrister - A BARRISTER claims his application to become a judge has been turned down because he is not a freemason.  Roger Everest says he was told 30 years ago that he would never get on in the legal profession after turning down an invitation to join the Dinas Llandaff lodge of the Freemasons in Cardiff.

• Masons CHIP in to help fight child abductions - LUNENBURG -- The town's public schools for the first time will be participating in a child-identification program offered by the local police department and the local chapter of the Freemasons of Massachusetts.

• Inductee shot dead at L.I. Masonic lodge rite: Secretive ceremony was designed to create 'a state of anxiety' - PATCHOGUE — A secretive initiation ceremony in the basement of a Long Island Masonic lodge went "tragically wrong" when a member mistakenly pulled out a loaded weapon and fatally shot an inductee in the face, police said Tuesday.

• Jews and Freemasons controlled war on Iraq, says No 10 adviser - Tony Blair decided to wage war on Iraq after coming under the influence of a "sinister" group of Jews and Freemasons, a Muslim barrister who advises the Prime Minister has claimed.

• Freemasons dragged UK into Iraq war – Blair’s adviser - Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair decided to invade Iraq after coming under pressure from a "sinister" group of Jews and Freemasons, the Daily Telegraph reported, citing Ahmad Thomson, one of Blair's advisers.

• Ukrainian Opposition Unveiled Masonic Conspiracy - Ukrainian opposition is to make a sensational exposure. As leader of Ukraine-s Social Party Alexander Moroz says, about 300 high-ranking officials in Ukraine are members of a Masonic lodge which representative office is located somewhere abroad. These are Ukraine-s prosecutor general, chief of the Ukrainian security service, the minister of defense, the first president of Ukraine and parliament deputies. As LIGA online informs, Alexander Moroz says it is abnormal that ?Ukraine-s prosecutor general is at the same time a chevalier.

• 'Are you Masons?' challenge to judges - Three judges yesterday refused to reveal whether they were Freemasons after being challenged by a veteran human rights campaigner.

• Rowan Williams apologises to Freemasons - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has been forced to apologise to Britain's 330,000 Freemasons after he said that their beliefs were incompatible with Christianity and that he had rejected them from senior posts in his diocese.

• 'Satanic' Brotherhood with Clergymen in its Ranks - Freemasonry describes itself on its website as the "UK's largest secular, fraternal, and charitable organisation". So why does the new Archbishop of Canterbury think it is a secret society with dubious spiritual credentials? And why does Dr Rowan Williams also believe that Church of England ministers should not belong to the Brotherhood, an organisation he describes as incompatible with Christianity?

• Top judge backs secret Masons' membership - The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Bingham, has said he sees no reason why judges should declare their membership of the Freemasons.

• Robbie the Pict in 'secrecy' challenge - Three judges will today consider whether a "secret society" of senior figures in the Scottish establishment is undermining the impartiality of the judicial system.

• Kit puts digital spin on child ID programs - Allentown's Freemasons sponsor event that creates a video file for parents. Using mini-compact disc video technology and applying the simplest of techniques to collect DNA, the Pennsylvania Freemasons have brought child identification programs into the 21st century. On Saturday, CHIP, the Freemasons' Child Identification Program, made its first appearance in Allentown, inviting area parents to receive a kit that can provide speedy information to law enforcement officials should a child be missing.

• Scottish parliament rejects inquiry into freemasonry - The Scottish Parliament Wednesday rejected a petition calling for an inquiry into how many Freemasons there are in the police and the judiciary. Sidney Gallagher brought forward the petition to the Public Petitions Committee was reported to have been thrown out of the Edinburgh-based parliament after shouting at its MPs. Convener Michael McMahon said there had been a number of petitions on the topic in the past and had referred them on to the Justice Committee, which then carried out a full inquiry. "I don't think this petition adds anything to that inquiry. I don't think there's any value in taking it forward," McMahon was quoted waying by PA News. The committee simply agreed to note the latest petition, Gallagher, described as a 66-year old joiner from Glasgow, shouted that he wanted justice before being led out by security staff. Police were said to have later questioned the petitioner, who later revealed he had been sentenced to six years in prison for attempted murder, claiming that two officers, who gave evidence against him, were Freemasons.

• Shoe Rapist kept store of stilettos as trophies - A company manager and "pillar of the community" has been exposed after 20 years as a serial sex attacker known as the Shoe Rapist. James Lloyd, 49, a long-standing Freemason who took the footwear of his victims as trophies, was finally caught through advances in DNA techniques. Police later found more than 100 pairs of stiletto shoes hidden behind a trap door at the printing works where he was employed. Lloyd, who is married with an 11-year-old daughter and 17-year-old son, yesterday admitted four rapes and two attempted rapes.

• OUR ARCHIVE:  The Dunblane Shootings - Contains mainstream media reports pertinent to this archive - This opens into a new window.

• Authorities Again Looking Into Murder Of 'God's Banker' As Investigation Leads Right Into The Belly Of The Beast, The Vatican, As Well As Masonic Lodges - The Vatican Bank scandal of the 1980's may open up clues to the death of Pope John Paul I, as well as turning up the 'real culprits' behind the murder of Roberto Calvi, the prominent Italian financier and P2 Masonic Lodge member found hanging from the Blackfriars Bridge in London.

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MUST SEE: The Masonic CHIP Program is the most comprehensive service of its kind anywhere. CHIP is provided free of charge to the public, though most families make a donation to help continue the program for other families. All of the identifying items generated during CHIP are given to the child's family. The Child Identification Program (CHIP) addresses the alarming fact that over 1,000,000 children are reported missing in the United States each year. While most are found, many are not, and the abduction of children is both under-reported and rapidly increasing in our society.

CHIP provides parents and guardians the means to quickly get vital information to emergency responders. The digital video and digital still photo on the mini CD is compatible with the Pennsylvania Amber Alert System.

• Tell Me More About Albert Pike - Very few outsiders know about the intimate plans of Albert Pike and the architects of the New World Order. In the 19th Century Albert Pike established a framework for bringing about the One World Order. Based on a vision revealed to him, Albert Pike wrote a blueprint of events that would play themselves out in the 20th century, with even more of these events yet to come. It is this blueprint which we believe unseen leaders are following today, knowingly or not, to engineer the planned Third and Final World War.

• MASONS AND OTHER OCCULTISTS REVERE THE NUMBER '33' ABOVE ALL OTHER NUMBERS. MANY ACTS OF WAR, MURDER, AND ASSASSINATION HAVE OCCURRED ON OR NEAR THE 33RD DEGREE PARALLEL. IS IT COINCIDENCE BAGHDAD, IRAQ IS LOCATED ON 33RD NORTH PARALLEL?