Baphomet Statue Unveiled at the Satanic Temple Detroit Chapter

""The Satanic Temple is at it again. Driven by stories of religious symbolism on state and federally owned property, the Satanic Temple Detroit Chapter is about to join movements across the country to erect a statue honoring the Dark Lord soon.

The church plans on unveiling a nine-foot-tall bronze Baphomet statue like the kind in the picture — similar to one planned for Oklahoma that was unveiled last month.

The statue is “intended to complement and contrast the Ten Commandments monument that already resides on Oklahoma State Capitol grounds.” (This new one is planned for Detroit, 14 News reports.)

It will serve “as a call-to-arms” to kick off a fight “in the name of individual rights to exercise against self-serving theocrats,” the Temple told the news site.

A separate report from KXAN notes that the statue will be closer to “8 1/2 feet” and weigh close to 3,000 pounds.

Lucien Greaves, the group’s co-founder, did not reveal where the Satanic Temple statue would be placed, stating that would come on the day of the event, and that “details will be sent to ticket holders only.”

“Tickets are going to be pre-ordered to cut down on harassment… people threatening to burn the venue down. We’ve gotten those kinds of messages,” Greaves said before adding, “If people don’t want to come, they don’t need to come.”

Jex Blackmore, the chapter founder, pointed out that the Satanic Temple had chosen Detroit as a place of unveiling because of its “strong community” of supporters.

“We just have a good community over there,” he said.

Bert’s Market Place in Detroit’s Eastern Market district was the original unveiling location, KXAN adds, but owner Bert Dearing refunded the group’s $3,000 deposit when he discovered what they were going to do.

“Detroit is a very religious area,” said Dearing. “When I rented the place, I just thought it was a church. I didn’t know about the unveiling of a statue. We weren’t aware they were into devil worshipping.”

Just what does “devil worshipping” mean to the Satanic Temple?

It doesn’t appear to be the kind you’ve heard about in horror movies. According to thegroup’s website, being a “Satanist” means one should “strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason” and that beliefs should conform to our best scientific understanding of the world.”

“We should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit our beliefs,” the group’s tenets state. “People are fallible. If we make a mistake, we should do our best to rectify it and resolve any harm that may have been caused. Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.""

http://www.inquisitr.com/2258036/satanic-temple-readies-satan-statue-for-detroit-christians-react/

True Operations Purpose Of The TPP Trans-Pacific Partnership has been Released by WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks Reveals The True Purpose Of The TPP Trans-Pacific Partnership. From Their Press Release:

""WikiLeaks releases today the “Investment Chapter” from the secret negotiations of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement. The document adds to the previous WikiLeaks publications of the chapters for Intellectual Property Rights (November 2013) and the Environment (January 2014).

The TPP Investment Chapter, published today, is dated 20 January 2015. The document is classified and supposed to be kept secret for four years after the entry into force of the TPP agreement or, if no agreement is reached, for four years from the close of the negotiations.

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks editor said: “The TPP has developed in secret an unaccountable supranational court for multinationals to sue states. This system is a challenge to parliamentary and judicial sovereignty. Similar tribunals have already been shown to chill the adoption of sane environmental protection, public health and public transport policies.”

Current TPP negotiation member states are the United States, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei. The TPP is the largest economic treaty in history, including countries that represent more than 40 per cent of the world´s GDP.

The Investment Chapter highlights the intent of the TPP negotiating parties, led by the United States, to increase the power of global corporations by creating a supra-national court, or tribunal, where foreign firms can “sue” states and obtain taxpayer compensation for “expected future profits”. These investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) tribunals are designed to overrule the national court systems. ISDS tribunals introduce a mechanism by which multinational corporations can force governments to pay compensation if the tribunal states that a country’s laws or policies affect the company’s claimed future profits.

In return, states hope that multinationals will invest more. Similar mechanisms have already been used. For example, US tobacco company Phillip Morris used one such tribunal to sue Australia (June 2011 – ongoing) for mandating plain packaging of tobacco products on public health grounds; and by the oil giant Chevron against Ecuador in an attempt to evade a multi-billion-dollar compensation ruling for polluting the environment. The threat of future lawsuits chilled environmental and other legislation in Canada after it was sued by pesticide companies in 2008/9. ISDS tribunals are often held in secret, have no appeal mechanism, do not subordinate themselves to human rights laws or the public interest, and have few means by which other affected parties can make representations

The TPP negotiations have been ongoing in secrecy for five years and are now in their final stages. In the United States the Obama administration plans to “fast-track” the treaty through Congress without the ability of elected officials to discuss or vote on individual measures. This has met growing opposition as a result of increased public scrutiny following WikiLeaks’ earlier releases of documents from the negotiations.

The TPP is set to be the forerunner to an equally secret agreement between the US and EU, the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership).

Negotiations for the TTIP were initiated by the Obama administration in January 2013. Combined, the TPP and TTIP will cover more than 60 per cent of global GDP. The third treaty of the same kind, also negotiated in secrecy is TISA, on trade in services, including the financial and health sectors. It covers 50 countries, including the US and all EU countries. WikiLeaks released the secret draft text of the TISA’s financial annex in June 2014.

All these agreements on so-called “free trade” are negotiated outside the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) framework. Conspicuously absent from the countries involved in these agreements are the BRICs countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China."" -WIKILEAKS

https://freedomfighterreports.com/2015/03/29/boom-wikileaks-reveals-the-true-purpose-of-the-tpp-trans-pacific-partnership/