

October 1, 2007

from AftermathNews Website

“The Knights of Malta are the militia of the Pope, and are sworn to total obedience by a blood oath which is taken extremely seriously and to the death. The Pope as the head of the Vatican is also the head of a foreign national power.”

-”Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences” by Albert G. Mackey 33rd degree Mason, published by the Masonic History Company, Chicago, New York, & London, 1925: (Volume One, pp. 392-95)

“The painful saga of modern Arab-Muslim history evokes the battles fought in Crusades of the 11th century – when the Knights of Malta began their operations as a Christian militia whose mission it was to defend the land conquered by the Crusaders. These memories return violently to mind with the discovery of links between the so-called security firms in Iraq such as Blackwater have historic links with the Order of Malta. You cannot exaggerate it. The Order of Malta is a hidden government or the most mysterious government in the world.”

- Jordanian MP Jamal Muhammad Abidat, from an editorial in the United Arab Emirates daily Al-Bayan entitled “The Knights of Malta - more than a conspiracy”. Abidat describes the role played by the Knights of Malta during the Crusades, and that the Order is playing a similar role in the Middle East today, citing the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.



Successor to Fascist Dictator Francisco Franco and Knight of Malta, King Juan Carlos,

with Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Andrew Cardinal Bertie, 2000



Blackwater is more than just a “private army”, much more than just another capitalist war-profiteering business operation.

It is an army operating outside all laws, outside and above the US Constitution and yet is controlled by people within and outside our government whose allegiance is primarily to the foreign Vatican state. In other words, Blackwater is a religious army serving the Pope in Rome through the Order of Malta, which is itself considered under international law, as a sovereign entity with special diplomatic powers and privileges.

Like Blackwater, the Order of Malta is “untouchable” because it is at the heart of the elite aristocracy.

Knight of Malta Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1744–1812)



The Knights of Malta is not merely a “charitable organization”.

That’s just an elaborate front, as should become clear to you later. As the name Sovereign Military Order of Malta confirms, it is a military order based on the crusader Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem and is interwoven with Freemasonry. Most people have never even heard of SMOM, much less that it is a part of Freemasonry. But that is the way the aristocratic elite like it.

One of the symbols of the military orders of the Vatican, the masonic double-headed eagle emblazoned with the Maltese cross, signifies omnipotent royal dominion over both East and West. The orb signifies temporal dominion over the globe of Earth, and the scepter signifies control over the spiritual and religious impulses of humanity.

This eagle symbol is used in the masonic rite of Memphis and Misraim , under which it reads, “Order Out of Chaos”, the Hegelian method of crisis creation. It is found on the seals of many European and Eurasian nation states including that of Russia, indicating direct Vatican control over those countries.

It symbolizes the desire of a predatory elite with virtually unlimited resources, to totally dominate the entire world under a New World Order global government system using secrecy, manipulation, coercion and terror with the ends justifying the means.





Double-Headed Eagle Symbol



The two-headed eagle emblem of the Byzantine Empire (Roman Empire) on a Red Shield was adopted in 1743 by the infamous goldsmith Amschel Moses Bauer. He opened a coin shop in Frankfurt, Germany and hung above his door this Roman eagle on a red shield.

The shop became known as the “Red Shield firm”. The German word for ‘red shield’ is Rothschild. After this point, the Rothschilds became the bankers to kings and pontiffs alike, among the richest families in the world.

Ever since, they have financed both sides of every major war and revolution using the Hegelian Dialectic to engineer society toward their New World Order.

The Rothschilds and their agents, such as the Rockefellers , have been engineering America and its foreign policy almost since its inception.

They and their Skull and Bones Wall Street partners staged and funded both sides in WWII, and out of that hellish nightmare was born their infant global government, the United Nations, and their tool of tyranny, the CIA.

The father of the CIA, “Wild Bill” Donovan, was a Knight of Malta. In order to be a director of the CIA you must be a crusading Knight of Malta and it doesn’t hurt if you are a member of Skull and Bones either.

In order to reach the highest levels in the Pentagon establishment, you must be an illuminated Freemason and/or a Knight of one order or another. Notable US military members of SMOM include top crusading generals such as Alexander Haig , William Westmoreland , and Charles A. Willoughby , an admitted Fascist.



Other notable members include:

Allen Dulles

Augusto Pinochet

Avery Dulles

David Rockefeller

Edward Egan (Archbishop NY)

Francis L. Kellogg

Frank C Carlucci

Franz von Papen (Hitler enabler)

Fritz Thyssen (Hitler’s financier)

George H.W Bush

Giscard d’Estaing

Heinrich Himmler (Nazi war criminal)

Henry Luce

J. Edgar Hoover

Joseph Kennedy

Juan Carlos (King of Spain and Jerusalem)

Kurt Waldheim (Nazi war criminal) Licio Gelli

Nelson Mandela

Oliver North

Pat Buchanan

Phyllis Schlafly (Dame)

Precott Bush, Jr.

Reinhard Gehlen (Nazi war criminal)

Rick Santorum

Ronald E. Reagan

Rupert Murdoch

Ted Kennedy

Thomas ‘Tip’ O’Neill

Tony Blair

William F. Buckley, Jr.

William Randolph Hearst

Such a list should make you sit up and pay attention, but it is only the tip of the iceberg unfortunately.

Then we come to another SMOM member, important to what is transpiring in Iraq. Educated at the Jesuit Georgetown University, former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Edward Schmitz, Blackwater’s operations chief, is a member of both SMOM and Opus Dei.

Former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Edward Schmitz quit in 2005 to work for Blackwater. He is a member of Opus Dei and Knights of Malta.





The Knights of Malta in Iraq?



Malta Star Sep 29, 2007



An American investigative journalist compared the US firm Blackwater, the biggest security services provider in post war Iraq, to the Knights of Malta.



The company is currently in the midst of a controversy after some of its 20,000 personnel stationed in Iraq killed a number of civilians.



In his book, ‘Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army’, Jeremy Scahill links the modern security firm to the Knights of Malta.



The writer argues that “Blackwater’s employees… share the same religious zeal of ancient crusaders”, the Egyptian weekly newspaper Al-Ahram reported.

All the top Nazis in our government are connected in some way to the Vatican , Jesuits and Knights of Malta and have been for decades, as were the Italian Fascists and German Nazis of WWII.

After all, what was their favorite symbol after the swastika? The Maltese Cross of course!



Catholic Nazi Connections

These SMOM knights are behind most of the trouble in the world and they must be exposed as the criminals that they are. They are not nice people helping the poor, though they use good people in the lower ranks as useful idiots.

They are behind:

...and seek to completely enslave the human species in a global Big Brother totalitarian regime as they kill off the majority of us in the process.

In fact, all of it has either come to pass or is in the process of being implemented. We are on the brink of WWIII which has been entirely staged by these profoundly evil men. Therefore, we have no time left for pussyfooting around.



But don’t take my word for it, do you your own research, find out and expose them yourself before these dirty Blackwater mercenary thugs are allowed to patrol American streets and confiscate guns during the next staged disaster.

We can’t let this happen in America.





BlackWater Coming to A Disaster Near You



Further Google the following:

Combine these in various searches to uncover the linkages.

The highest levels of Freemasonry , including and especially, the Knights of Malta and the Royal Orders of Chivalry are guided by the Vatican , the hub of both religious and temporal power on planet Earth.



Order of The Knights of Malta

See also: Freemasonry in Malta .



Many knights of the Order of St. John and some of the Maltese nobility were freemasons. In 1756, the Grand Master of the Order was a freemason named E. Pinto de Fonseca.

De Rohan, who was Grandmaster of the Order of St. John between 1775 and 1797, is reported also to have been a freemason, and is said to have helped the spread of freemasonry in Malta… This lodge noted in its petition that the most important members of the Order of St. John ranked amongst its membership.

The lodge obtained an English warrant as the Lodge of St. John of Secrecy and Harmony .







The Rite of Misraïm



Since 1738, one can find traces of this Rite filled with alchemical, occult and Egyptian references, with a structure of 90 degrees.

Joseph Balsamo, called Cagliostro , a key character of his time, known how to give it the impulse necessary for its development. Very close to the Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of Malta, Manual Pinto de Fonseca, Cagliostro founded the Rite of High Egyptian Masonry in 1784.

He received, between 1767 and 1775, from Sir Knight Luigi d’Aquino , the brother of the national Grand Master of Neapolitan Masonry, the Arcana Arcanorum, three very high hermetic degrees.

In 1788, he introduced them into the Rite of Misraïm and gave a patent to this Rite.



SMOM Nazis

Movers and Shakers of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Identity of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Connections of those in power related to the Knights of Malta and affiliated groups



The picture that proves ‘torture flights’ are STILL landing in the UK (and Malta)

The European Parliament report describes these as shell companies operating as subsidiaries of Blackwater USA,

‘an important contractor for the CIA and the US military’ which bases the planes in Malta (click below image).

Tracking technology shows that the plane was en route from Canada to Greenland two days before it was sighted at Mildenhall: the internet software does not extend beyond American airspace, but the expert explained that its route would be consistent with a refueling stop in the Arctic - it only has a range of about 2,000 miles - followed by a further refuel in East Anglia, before heading to Malta.





Malta ‘is Blackwater’s operational base ’

A European Parliament working document drawn up by Giovanni Claudio Fava has claimed,

“Malta is the operational base of Blackwater, the organizer of private military militia which are increasingly taking on more and more roles which used to be undertaken by US forces in Iraq and elsewhere”.

In 2004, Cofer Black passed from CIA to the State Department and thence became Blackwater’s vice-president.

While still in the CIA, Black was in charge of the “special extraditions” organizing the secret transfer of prisoners from Iraq or Afghanistan to countries less rigid against the practice of torture, such as Poland, Romania, Egypt, and so on. These planes, which traveled between Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and Afghanistan often made stopovers in many European countries such as the UK, Italy, France, Germany and Malta many times without the countries themselves being informed what was going on.

Now the Swiss procurator Dick Marty has sent documents regarding the “CIA’s flying prisons” to the European Parliament and names two Blackwater subsidiaries:



Blackwater’s Owner Has Spies for Hire

Ex-U.S. Intelligence Operatives Dot Firm’s Roster

Cofer Black

First it became a brand name in security for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan . Now it’s taking on intelligence.

The Prince Group, the holding company that owns Blackwater Worldwide, has been building an operation that will sniff out intelligence about natural disasters, business-friendly governments, overseas regulations and global political developments for clients in industry and government.

The operation, Total Intelligence Solutions, has assembled a roster of former spooks - high-ranking figures from agencies such as the CIA and defense intelligence - that mirrors the slate of former military officials who run Blackwater.

Its chairman is Cofer Black, the former head of counterterrorism at CIA known for his leading role in many of the agency’s more controversial programs, including the rendition and interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects and the detention of some of them in secret prisons overseas.





Bush’s Shadow Army

Blackwater has repeatedly cited Rumsfeld’s statement that contractors are part of the “Total Force” as evidence that it is a legitimate part of the nation’s “warfighting capability and capacity.”

Invoking Rumsfeld’s designation, the company has in effect declared its forces above the law - entitled to the immunity from civilian lawsuits enjoyed by the military, but also not bound by the military’s court martial system.

While the initial inquiries into Blackwater have focused on the complex labyrinth of secretive subcontracts under which it operates in Iraq, a thorough investigation into the company reveals a frightening picture of a politically connected private army that has become the Bush Administration’s Praetorian Guard.





Blackwater’s impunity

Neither Iraqi nor U.S. laws apply to its contractors , so a controversial shooting may go unpunished.

" They can get away with murder" has been the cry of critics of hiring private companies such as Blackwater to provide security for the U.S. military and diplomats in Iraq and other war zones.

Now it looks as though the critics may be right - and in the worst way.







Knights of Malta



The Sovereign Military Order of Malta , also known as the original Sovereign Military Order of St. John of Jerusalem, is a closed fraternity of the Roman Catholic Church (click below image).

Pope Benedict with SMOM Grandmaster Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie

Its initiated members must be Catholic and have served in the military. They participate in secret ceremonies and feudal ritual dress, and embrace a strong class/caste mentality as part of their initiation into Rosicrucian dogma.



The upper grades are fastidiously aristocratic and must be able to display a family coat-of-arms dating back at least 300 years in unbroken succession from father to son. The Sovereign Grand Master of the order is recognized as a head of state, and his authority is ensured by his secular ranking as a Prince, and his ecclesiastical ranking as a Cardinal.

Under international law this organization has independent Sovereign status, which assures nationalistic loyalty from its members, above and beyond allegiance to their own country - they also have Permanent Observer status at the United Nations . The current Grand Master, Andrew Willoughby Bertie, is descended from Mary Stuart (Mary Queen of Scots) which places him firmly in the Sion/Grail historical scenario.



The order and its members have been proven to be linked with the “Rat Run”, the post-WWII escape route used by high-ranking Nazis and death camp scientists from defeated Germany to the Americas.

Sovereign Knight of Malta passports were issued with false identities that allowed escape from prosecution for war crimes.





The privatization of security in Iraq threatens more than innocent civilians

The killing of 11 civilians in Baghdad two weeks ago has once again put Blackwater on the spot.

The US security firm first came into the public eye in early April 2004, when four of its personnel were killed and mutilated by mobs in Falluja. Although Iraqi religious parties denounced the attacks at the time, Bush gave the town four days to deliver the perpetrators before ordering an all-out attack, one in which thousands of Falluja inhabitants perished.

In his book, Blackwater - The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army , American investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill links the modern security firm to the Knights of Malta, an offshoot of the Knights Templar.

Blackwater’s employees, he argues, share the same religious zeal of ancient crusaders.





US Theocons Fight Battle in Iraq

Many has been written about the privatization of the Iraq war, but in his new bestseller book Jeremy Scahill sheds much needed light on the ideological roots of the largest US private mercenary firm and its links to the theocons and the Christian militia Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

Prince, writes Scahill, shows how,

“politically powerful Christian fundamentalists and Neocons are pressing forward with their battle for what they call ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy.’”

He has connections with conservative Catholic groups and funds rightwing organizations through his Freiheit Foundation .

Senior Blackwater executives such as Joseph Schmitz do not only subscribe to the theocon ideology but are also members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a Christian militia that had a mission of defending territories the Crusaders captured from Muslims.



Schmitz, says Scahill,

“comes from one of the most bizarre, scandal-plagued, right-wing political families in US history.”

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta began as a Christian charity in Al-Quds in 1080 to provide care for poor and sick pilgrims to the Holy Land.

After the conquest of the holy city in 1095 during the First Crusade it became a Catholic Military Order. After the Muslims restored Al-Quds, the Order operated from Rhodes and later from Malta where it administered a vassal state under the Spanish viceroy of Sicily. The Order’s fighters, known as the Knights Hospitaller, helped the Crusaders in raids on Muslim countries near the coasts of Italy, including Tunisia, Libya and Morocco.

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta is now a state located in Rome and is recognized by 50 countries worldwide.





BLACKWATER CHIEF JOSEPH E. SCHMITZ - KNIGHT OF MALTA



Joseph Edward Schmitz is the son of the late John G. Schmitz, former California State Senator, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. Presidential candidate (1972).

Columba Bush’s sister is married to John P. Schmitz, a beneficiary of the fellowship programs subsumed under the Carl Duisberg gesellschaft and the brother of Joseph Schmitz, currently the head of the Blackwater security outfit.

John P. Schmitz has close links to the elder George Bush , the 9/11 milieu…





Ex-Pentagon IG Joseph Schmitz At Prince/Blackwater

Joseph Schmitz is active in the Washington Lawyers’ Chapter of the right-wing Federalist Society, the same group with which the new Chief Justice John G. Roberts was affiliated.

Schmitz is also a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Schmitz was accused of covering up several investigations into fraud, waste and abuse within the Rumsfeld Pentagon.





Joseph E. Schmitz: Georgetown, Opus Dei and Sovereign Military Order of Malta

Joseph Edward Schmitz is an American lawyer, former Inspector General of the Department of Defense and executive with Blackwater USA, a private contractor providing security services to the U.S. military.

Schmitz attended Catholic schools as a child and Georgetown Preparatory School while his father served in Congress. He is a member of Opus Dei and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.





General Joseph Schmitz member of the Sovereign Order of Malta

In addition to Prince,

“ A number of Blackwater executives are deeply conservative Christians, including corruption-smeared former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz, who is also a member of the Sovereign Order of Malta, which Scahill describes as ‘a Christian militia formed in the eleventh century [to defend] territories that the Crusaders had conquered from the Moslems,’” Chris Barsanti wrote in a review of the book for In These Times.

Blackwater USA is the brainchild of Erik Prince - a former Navy SEAL and son of Edgar Prince, a wealthy Michigan auto-parts supplier - described by Scahill as a “radical right wing Christian mega-millionaire” who is a strong financial backer of President George W. Bush , as well as a donor to a host of conservative Christian political causes.



In the 1980s “the Prince family merged with one of the most venerable conservative families in the United States,” when Erik’s sister Betsy - nine years his senior - married Dick DeVos, whose father Richard, founded the multilevel marketing firm Amway.

The two families exercised enormous political influence both inside and outside Michigan.

“They were one of the greatest bankrollers of far-right causes in U.S. history, and with their money they propelled extremist Christian politicians and activists to positions of prominence,” Scahill writes.

Crusades and terror

Enemy bodies were brutalized for plunder , not pleasure; cannibalism was caused by starvation, not hatred; and crusaders happily had consensual sex with Muslim women in all the towns they captured