'Watermelon Roll': More Racism from 'Team Sarah

'Watermelon Roll': More Racism from 'Team Sarah'

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There is something very ugly happening out there in the hinterlands
these days--a brewing cauldron of racist anger being directed at
President-elect Barack Obama as he and his family get ready to move into
the White House. It's a mean-spirited bigotry that is finding its way
onto the internet and right-wing blogs across the country. It makes for
a troubling portrait of a significant cross-section of the American
polity as Obama prepares to take the oath of office as the 44th
President of these United States.

Nowhere have these tendencies been more out-front and prominent than at
TeamSarah.org <http://www.teamsarah.org/> , a website organized by "a
coalition of women dedicated to advancing the values that Sarah Palin
represents in the political process." Men, according to an exclamatory
notice, are welcome, too.

The web site is funded--and hosted--by the Susan B. Anthony List
Candidate Fund Project <http://www.sba- list.org/> , a national
right-wing, pro-life Political Action Committee headed up by one
Marjorie Dannenfelser, an ardent pro-life advocate. I know about
Dannenfelser and the Susan B. Anthony group because earlier this year,
the San Francisco Chronicle pitted Ms. Dannenfelser and me against each
other in an op-ed page debate over the qualifications of Governor Palin
to speak for families with special-needs children. Needless to say, Ms.
Dannensfelser
<http://www.sfgate. com/cgi-bin/ article.cgi? f=/c/a/2008/ 10/29/EDE213PJE8 .\
DTL> championed the activities of Governor Palin in this regard, while
I did not
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DTL> . I have a special needs child and I find the idea of Palin
speaking on my child's behalf an absolute outrage. No friend of special
needs families is she.

So I was not surprised to find that the Anthony group was behind the
Team Sarah web site. According to Ms. Dannenfelser "Team Sarah was
formed to capitalize off the enthusiasm of the Palin Vice Presidential
candidacy with the goal of reaching women voters and urging them to
support John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin. Our goal was to win the
Election. Several prominent women are involved with the project,
including D.C. veteran Barbara Comstock, former First Lady candidate
Jeri Thompson, FRC Action Vice President Connie Mackey, and actress
Janine Turner <http://http/ /en.wikipedia. org/wiki/ Janine_Turner> ,
formerly (appropriately) of Northern Exposure." Now they are carrying
the banner of Palin for President in 2012. (According to their website,
membership is 62,639 and counting.)

Nor was I surprised when I went to the site to find all sorts pro-life
and anti-abortion links, with lots of Christian hyperbole. There are
also links to "Catholics for Sarah," "Christians for Sarah," and, of
course, obligatory links to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. There's also a
good amount of "clinging to our guns and our religion" in rhetoric that
sounds straight out of the 17th century.

You can even find out why so many people hate Sarah Palin--"Her husband
is a masculine hottie ," writes Dana. "Now I'm a straight guy, but I
know when a guy is hott and Todd is hott. [sic] The left usually views
masculine hotties as wife beaters who oppress their woman." Okay. And
you are correct to presume that spelling and grammar do not seem to be
highly valued on the site. (And, because of that, all spelling from the
site is left exactly as it appears.)

There's also an incessant whine about the left-wing media bashing Palin,
especially on the Huffington Post. Says Ronald: "Most people (like the
media) who try to make others believe that Sara is dumb and stupid or
inexperienced actually fear her because of her faith and goodness." So
that's it.

But what's interesting is that there are actually more blog topics about
"Obama" than about "Palin." Of course, Obama's citizenship, birth
certificate, and alleged Muslim upbringing are constantly questioned,
along with his youthful drug use (though funny, Palin's admitted use of
marijuana is not, and we won't even mention Levi Johnston's mother).
There are also a lot of references to Obama being the anti-Christ: "He
is the antichrist sent here to destroy America. Nobody knows who he is
or where he was born."

And then there's some plain, downright nastiness and plenty of good ol'
fashioned racism that, well, certainly doesn't sound Christian, if you
catch my drift. When a blogger named James asks if anybody has bought
the new Obama coins, SavantNoir responds: "[Y]es James, and i melted it
down to see the look of agnoy on his face, made it a BB pellet and shot
it into a pile of shit."

On one blog Heather describes Election Day as the "most terrible" in
history and asks "how long until obama is shot??????" Josie responds:
"There are plenty of people that would like to see Obama end that way."

Nice. Then there's the "Obama the Snowman" song:
Obama the Snowman
Was a very scary soul
With a marijuana pipe
And two eyes made out of skoal
Obama the Snowman
Is a Kenyan they say
He liked his white nose snow
But the Americans know
How he stole their country one day

And guess what? It sounds exactly like the kind of racist remarks that
were being sent recently on State of Alaska government emails
<http://www.huffingt onpost.com/ geoffrey- dunn/racist- emails-on- state-of_ b\
_151971.html> .

Under a post entitled "Police prepare for RIOTS," by one BarbaraJo, one
concerned blogger named Tommygun responded:
"For people in urban/Obama areas--do this now: 1. Stock up on some basic
supplies--food, health and hygiene, water, etc. 2. Keep track of where
your family members are. 3. Work up meeting points in your community for
your family (different spots in town where members are to go if problems
occur). 4. Check and prepare any weapons you may have."
In response, a blogger named Johnny got more to the point:

"Well niggers will occasionally chimp out like this, am I right?"
While several Team Sarah members condemned that particular post, it's
remnants are still up on the web site.

Then there's the probing political analysis you can find on Team Sarah:
"Funny thing, when voters are offered the chance, they always vote to
ban gay marriage. What I really find hilarious though, is the gays
supported Barry Obama in force. And yet, thanks to Barry's "blackness"
the negroes came out in force in California to vote for him! And negroes
are pretty conventional when t comes to values. Most are rather
conservative, which is why I can't understand for the life of me why the
vote for democrats."
There's also a lot of Michelle Obama bashing, too, where she is often
referred to as "Bitchelle." Take this current thread:

GaryP: This Obama worship has got to stop! Politico is now saying that
since Michelle "gave up so much", that she should get a salary as well!

Biruta: She should be paid millions of counterfeit money, just as fake
as her husband and as worthless as herself.

AmericanDog: Pay her the sum of $1.oo and then tax her at the rate of 53
% to appease her husbands new tax plans. And she would still be over
paid.......

Ava M: I have never actually HATED anyone in politics before now....She
is stupid, mean, power hungry, manipulative, corrupt, essentially
ignorant--a poster girl for Institutionalized Black Racism and
Agression, a take-no-prisoners warrior for Political Correctnes aka
Socialist Realism and a racially driven Communist fellow traveller. Let
her go run an African country. She doesn't fit in here with the American
People.

Apparently, she, like her husband, isn't one of us. Sound familiar?

Then there was the musing about the Obama Inaugural, first reported in
the Alaska Dispatch
<http://www.alaskadi spatch.com/ tundra-talk/ 1-talk-of- the-tundra/ 343-team\
-sarah-out-for- blood.html> by its fine reporter, Amanda Coyne:
Wendell: I just can't wait to see the Inaugeral ball... I heard the
Presidential Waltz will be replaced by Barack and Michelle "Crumpin".

tami: I am sure michelle will dance like a horse

Wendell: followed by the new cabinet break dancing...

Christopher: Not trying to get too racial, but I have never met a black
woman who could not dance.

tommykb3grz: the 4th of july watermellon roll on the south lawn

Wendell: a 4-inch diameter Presidential Seal in gold hanging from
Obama's neck

Surely, by now, you get the point. And just when you think you've seen
it all, "Team Sarah" member Jarhead comes up with this:
"Aside form Obama being an utter Moron I suppose he is a nice enough
person. I personally put his happy little smile on every Terrorist face
in Rainbow six [a video game], just before my cross hairs line up..."

So much for Christian charity. As for Sarah Palin herself, she has yet
to officially sign up for the web site, though she did send a note to
the founders of the organization. "I received the packet of letters
through Team Sarah and am inspired!," she wrote. "Thank you for all you
are doing for women, families, children... America!"

Atlantis and Lemuria

Let us examine our past of which many of us have been denied. Let us see how far back does our history really go back despite being taught that the knowledge of human recorded history only goes back a few thousand years. Some of the evidence is in what follows.

Do You Believe In Atlantis? After reading this I would love some feed back.

'Lemuria' (a French word that means "Land of The Moors") is an antediluvian nation (A nation that existed before the Great Flood) that memory of has been retained by various cultural traditions. In Western terms, Lemuria is supposed be a continent that was once where the Pacific Ocean is now located. It connected India, East Africa, and South America. It is also referred to as Gondwanaland, the lost continent below the Pacific. Lemuria is supposed to be the most ancient of nations and the original birthplace of humanity. When this continent sank due to cataclysmic Earth changes, a remnant of humanity was saved and founded what is known as Atlantis. Atlantis is considered another antediluvian nation. Ancient Egyptian civilization is supposed to be the offspring of Atlantis, a remnant escaping its cataclysmic sinking to the bottom of where the Atlantic Ocean is currently located.

Most of the Western World's knowledge of Antediluvian cultures comes from the Greek Philosophers Aristotle and his mentor Solon. Solon learned of Atlantis while studying with the priests of Sais - the school of priests within lower Kemet. These Kemetic Priests recounted to Solon the story of a great and mighty nation whose power and authority stretched around the entire planet. This nation was destroyed by a cataclysmic Earth change that caused massive flooding. However, before recounting these historical accounts to Solon, they ridiculed him and Greek history, for they considered Solon and his kindred 'children'.

O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are but children… As for the genealogies of yours, which you have recounted to us, Solon, they are no better than the tales of children; for in the first place; you remember one deluge only, whereas there were many of them….

This statement is very important when considering Atlantis and Lemuria. If Solon's source for information on Atlantis and Lemuria is Kemetic, Egyptian historical accounts should be explored for a more accurate overstanding of these antediluvian nations.

What Does Kemetic Sources Reveal of Antediluvian Culture?

'Egyptologists' like to paint the picture that Kemetic High Culture sprang up suddenly with the 1st Dynasty of Menes/Aha around 3100 BCE (some say 4240 BCE). However, Kemetic accounts of their history date back around 33,000 to 52,000 years before the First Dynasty was founded.

One source is referred to as The Royal Papyrus of Turin, which lists all of the Kings who ruled Kemet from Menes through the New Kingdom of the 18th Dynasty. However, before this royal list, they have recorded the rule of Ten 'Neter' - Ptah, Ra, Shu, Geb, Asar, Set, Heru, Tehuti, Maat, and Heru who reigned on the planet. These Neter were said to have collectively ruled for 23,200 years. Following the rule of Gods are Nine Dynasties of Shemsu Hor: 'Followers of Heru'. The Followers of Heru are depicted as Demi-Gods; immortal humans who were the children of the Neter. They ruled for 13,420 years before the reign of Menes. The Papyrus of Turin as a result accounts for 33,620 years of 'pre-history'.

Diodorus of Sicily, in his Library of History, says that Kemetic sources he spoke to chronicled a rule of Gods and Heroes that lasted 18,000 years. Divine Humans then ruled for a span of 15,000 years, for a span of 33,000 years of culture before the reign of Menes.

Herodotus chronicles a reign of 340 Dynasties of King

and High Priests who ruled Kemet before Hellenistic occupation. He says that the Kemetic Priests he spoke to said, "...On four separate occasions, the Sun moved from its wonted course, twice rising where it now sets, and twice setting where it now rises...." This is reference to the Precession of the Equinoxes, a phenomena caused by the Earth's wobbly rotation. The wobble in the Earth's rotation causes the zodiacal constellations that are on the Eastern Horizon at Sunrise on the Equinox to change over time. It takes about 2,160 years for the Equinox sunrise to process through one sign, and about 25,690 years to move 360 degrees through all 12 signs of the Zodiac. This means that the Kemites have a chronology that dates back about 52,000 years (two full Precessions {Precession is a change in the orientation of the rotational axis of a rotating body. In an appropriate reference frame it can be defined as a change in the first Euler angle, whereas the third Euler angle defines the rotation itself.} of the Equinox).

There is more: Manetho chronicles 15,150 years of 'Divine Dynasties and 9,777 years of mortal Kings before Menes. This totals 24,927 years of History. Another Kemetic chronologer of antiquity - George the Syncellus, recounts that the Kemites possessed a tablet that chronicled thirty dynasties preceded by a reign of Neter - all of which occurred during twenty-five "Sothic Cycles". Sothic Cycles are also known as the "Long Year", which records the movement of the helical rising of Sirius through the dates of the civil calendar. Every four years, the helical rising of Sirius (the day Sirius is on the Eastern horizon as the Sun rises) occurs one calendar day later. This occurs because a civil calendar year is 365 days; but a solar year is actually 365 ¼ days long. Therefore, if a 'leap year' were not incorporated into the civil calendar, solar events (Equinoxes/solstices/ helical risings of stars) would occur one day later every four years.

The Kemites tracked Sirius' helical rising as it moved through the civil calendar. They noted that if the helical rising occurred on July 23rd for example, it would take 1,461 years for the helical rising to occur on that date again. This 1,461-year period is the "Sothic Long Year".
25 times 1,461 years is approximately 36,525 years of chronicled History.

However, within all of these chronicles, there is no mention of 'Atlantis'. From where does the Kemetic root origin of this word spring? Gerald Massey in Ancient Egypt: Light of the World explores the language of the Nile Valley for a root of the Greek term Atlantis. He says that Atlantis is a compound word composed of two Kemetic terms: Atl-Antu. Atl is associated with water, and implies a limit or boundary marked by water. Massey says that Antu denotes a measure of land, nome, or mound. Therefore, the seven islands of Atlantis were the seven nomes of Kemet; canals and/or rivers defined the boundaries of these city-states. Massey continues:

And among the nomes of Egypt we find the nome of the Prince of Annu; the nome of the Prince of Lower Egypt; the nome of Supti (Sut); the nome of Sanhutit (Heru); the nome of Sebek; the nome of Shu; the nome of Hapi. Here then, if anywhere on earth, we find a geographical prototype for the Atlantis that was lost in seven islands, according to the records kept by the astronomers, which are preserved in the mythography…

So, in this sense, the Antediluvian Land is the Nile Valley topography from its origins in the Great Lakes South all the way North to the Delta; and Atlantis refers to a time before the Flood Waters in Kemet.

Reaffirming this perspective is an account of a 'Great Deluge' in Kemetic tradition that clearly identifies the antediluvian geography. In the Book of Coming Forth By Day (Egyptian Book of the Dead), Chapter CLXXV recounts the Destruction of Mankind by Ra-Temu. Ra-Temu is dismayed at humanity because some rebels were plotting to overthrow his supremacy. He ascends above the Earth's surface in his 'Ark of a Million Years', and commanded Sekhet the heavenly lioness to unleash the waters of heaven and flood the planet. Sekhet does so, and the waters flood the seven nomes of mankind from Henensu in Upper Kemet (Edfu, the Greek Herakleopolis) all the way north to the nome of Lower Egypt.

There is archeological evidence that supports that the Nile Valley has been completely inundated. For example, seashells have been unearthed in the sands right by the Great Pyramid of Giza. Moreover, the Sphinx of Giza shows definite signs of water erosion, even though it never rains in the Nile Valley. The pattern and position of the erosion

and High Priests who ruled Kemet before Hellenistic occupation. He says that the Kemetic Priests he spoke to said, "...On four separate occasions, the Sun moved from its wonted course, twice rising where it now sets, and twice setting where it now rises...." This is reference to the Precession of the Equinoxes, a phenomena caused by the Earth's wobbly rotation. The wobble in the Earth's rotation causes the zodiacal constellations that are on the Eastern Horizon at Sunrise on the Equinox to change over time. It takes about 2,160 years for the Equinox sunrise to process through one sign, and about 25,690 years to move 360 degrees through all 12 signs of the Zodiac. This means that the Kemites have a chronology that dates back about 52,000 years (two full Precessions of the Equinox).

There is more: Manetho chronicles 15,150 years of 'Divine Dynasties and 9,777 years of mortal Kings before Menes. This totals 24,927 years of History. Another Kemetic chronologer of antiquity - George the Syncellus, recounts that the Kemites possessed a tablet that chronicled thirty dynasties preceded by a reign of Neter - all of which occurred during twenty-five "Sothic Cycles". Sothic Cycles are also known as the "Long Year", which records the movement of the helical rising of Sirius through the dates of the civil calendar. Every four years, the helical rising of Sirius (the day Sirius is on the Eastern horizon as the Sun rises) occurs one calendar day later. This occurs because a civil calendar year is 365 days; but a solar year is actually 365 ¼ days long. Therefore, if a 'leap year' were not incorporated into the civil calendar, solar events (Equinoxes/solstices/ helical risings of stars) would occur one day later every four years.

The Kemites tracked Sirius' helical rising as it moved through the civil calendar. They noted that if the helical rising occurred on July 23rd for example, it would take 1,461 years for the helical rising to occur on that date again. This 1,461-year period is the "Sothic Long Year".
25 times 1,461 years is approximately 36,525 years of chronicled History.

However, within all of these chronicles, there is no mention of 'Atlantis'. From where does the Kemetic root origin of this word spring? Gerald Massey in Ancient Egypt: Light of the World explores the language of the Nile Valley for a root of the Greek term Atlantis. He says that Atlantis is a compound word composed of two Kemetic terms: Atl-Antu. Atl is associated with water, and implies a limit or boundary marked by water. Massey says that Antu denotes a measure of land, nome, or mound. Therefore, the seven islands of Atlantis were the seven nomes of Kemet; canals and/or rivers defined the boundaries of these city-states. Massey continues:

And among the nomes of Egypt we find the nome of the Prince of Annu; the nome of the Prince of Lower Egypt; the nome of Supti (Sut); the nome of Sanhutit (Heru); the nome of Sebek; the nome of Shu; the nome of Hapi. Here then, if anywhere on earth, we find a geographical prototype for the Atlantis that was lost in seven islands, according to the records kept by the astronomers, which are preserved in the mythography…

So, in this sense, the Antediluvian Land is the Nile Valley topography from its origins in the Great Lakes South all the way North to the Delta; and Atlantis refers to a time before the Flood Waters in Kemet.

Reaffirming this perspective is an account of a 'Great Deluge' in Kemetic tradition that clearly identifies the antediluvian geography. In the Book of Coming Forth By Day (Egyptian Book of the Dead), Chapter CLXXV recounts the Destruction of Mankind by Ra-Temu. Ra-Temu is dismayed at humanity because some rebels were plotting to overthrow his supremacy. He ascends above the Earth's surface in his 'Ark of a Million Years', and commanded Sekhet the heavenly lioness to unleash the waters of heaven and flood the planet. Sekhet does so, and the waters flood the seven nomes of mankind from Henensu in Upper Kemet (Edfu, the Greek Herakleopolis) all the way north to the nome of Lower Egypt.

There is archeological evidence that supports that the Nile Valley has been completely inundated. For example, seashells have been unearthed in the sands right by the Great Pyramid of Giza. Moreover, the Sphinx of Giza shows definite signs of water erosion, even though it never rains in the Nile Valley. The pattern and position of the erosion indicates that the lower portion of the Sphinx - from the base of the neck down - was under water.

Ta-Neter: The Kemetic Lemuria

Kemetic cosmology - the chronicling of creation and divine origins of humans - reveals more about Antediluvian High Culture. According to Kemetic tradition, their earliest ancestors were a people called the Anu. The Anu originated in the highlands of the Upper Nile region where the Blue and White Nile begin. The Anu, 'The Fish People', also known as "The Black-Headed", founded a nation in this Edenic region named Ta-Neter: Land of the Gods. The Kemites also called these regions Apta: 'The Summit of the Earth'. Apta is the Original Mountain of the Gods, the Kemetic Mount 'Hetep', the Hindu Mount Meru (Meroe), and the Greek Mount Olympus. This region is a vast plateau in modern Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, and Eastern Zaire. The average altitude of these regions is 5000 feet above sea level. The runoff of the Great Lakes in these regions is the source of the White Nile.

In Kemetic cosmology, Ta Neter is depicted as an Earthly paradise where the Hue-man Gods who lived there were immortal. This original Garden of Eden was a place where water and vegetation were in continual abundance. In this Kush oasis, fresh water perpetually wells up from Amen-ta - the Underworld.

According to the Kemetic Star Clock that measures the Precession of the Equinoxes, the Anu had to found Ta-Neter either 26,000 years ago or 52,000 years ago (Since the Anu are referred to as the 'Fish People', they probably founded their culture in the Age of Pisces, which last occurred from circa 26,000-24,000 years ago. The one prior was about 52,000 BCE).

Ta-Neter is more than likely the actual Lemuria - the very first antediluvian nation. Modern archeological and anthropological research into the origins of humanity all point to highland plateaus of Eastern Africa as the birthplace of humanity, verifying Kemetic chronicles and reaffirming the consistency of Lemuria being this land.

Ta-Seti: The Kemetic Atlantis

Kemetic cosmology chronicles that around 19,000 years ago, in the Age of Sagittarius according to the Precession of the Equinoxes, a nation called Ta-Seti was founded. Ta Seti literally means 'Land of Set'. It was also known as the 'Land of the Bow' and its icon symbol was the arched bow.

The land of the Bow was in Eastern-Central Africa north of Ta-Neter, but still south of Kemet Proper. This region of the White Nile begins when the 'Mountain Nile' of Ta Neter runs down to the plains of the Sudan. This begins abruptly at the sixth cataract, near modern-day Khartoum, Sudan. Ta-Seti extended north to around the 1st-2nd cataract, this northern extension ending at the southern frontier of Kemet.

More than likely, the nation of Ta-Seti is the mythical Atlantis. Several classical sources lend credence to this. Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History, says that the Ethiopians were originally known as the Atlantae.

As stated, much of what is known about Atlantis in the West comes from the accounts of Aristotle and Solon, the well-known Greek philosophers. Solon learned of Atlantis while studying with the priests of Sais - the school of priests within lower Kemet. The Priests relate to Solon that about 9000 years prior to Hellenistic times, a mighty nation arose which practically conquered the whole world. Its territory stretched throughout the entire African continent (Libya from the Straits of Hercules in the West to Kemet in the East). This nation also consumed "the whole of Europe and Asia".

According to Solon, the progenitor of Atlantis was a God: Poseidon. He mated with a mortal human and begot ten children. The last of the ten was named Atlas, whom became an immortal king over Atlantis. Solon said that for a long time, the Atlanteans were righteous. However, over time, they grew vain, weak, and greedy. It is said that Poseidon created a large island over the Atlantic Ocean for the rulers of Atlantis to reign from. They built elaborate palaces and temples that were covered in gold, silver, tin, and brass. The Atlanteans dug all manner of metal and stone from the Earth, including a special stone named orichalum. They were aggressive warriors with advanced technologies, and exploited the entire planet.

The God Zeus grew vex with Atlantean exploits, and in one day destroyed its world supremacy: "...Afterward there occurred violent earthquakes and floods, and in a single day and night of rain...the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared, and was sunk beneath the sea..."

Comparing Greek mythoforms to their original cosmological characters in Kemet, Poseidon corresponds to Nun: The male ruler of celestial and terrestrial waters. Nun was the national deity of the Nile Valley in distant antiquity, around 21,730-19,570 BCE during the Age of Capricorn according to the Precession of the Equinoxes. The Age of Capricorn is the Age prior to the Age of Sagittarius, (the Precession of the Equinoxes travels retrograde - backward through the zodiac) the age in which Ta-Seti (Land of the Bow) emerged. Therefore, Nun (Poseidon), being ruler of the previous age, is considered the Father of Atlas (Atlantis/Ta-Seti).

Therefore, it can be deduced from Solon's account of Atlantis that Ta-Seti was founded in the Age of Sagittarius, around 19,500 BCE. The nation was righteous for close to 10,000 years, at which time it grew corrupt, culminating in the catastrophic events Solon says occurred around 9000 years prior to Grecian times.

9000 years prior to Solon's age is about 9500 BCE. According to the Precession of the Equinoxes, this time frame would fall within the Age of Leo.

Placing a cataclysmic flooding in this Age would shed light on one of the great mysteries about Kemet: The Sphinx. The Sphinx is a Lion-Headed monolithic (one stone) monument found near the Great Pyramid complex in Giza, Lower Kemet. It is a known fact that the Sphinx was not constructed during Pharaohnic Kemet. It would be anachronistic (out of synch with time) to create a Lion-Headed edifice in the Age of Taurus, when Pharaohnic Kemet was founded. All edifices of this age were made in the image of a Bull, calf or cow. Moreover, there are no references to the Sphinx at all during the Early and Middle Kingdom Periods. It is not until the 18th Dynasty that Tutmosis IV had a dream in which the 'Khar' revealed himself and asked him to unearth him. Tutmosis did so and excavated the buried temple. He recorded the deed on a stone tablet around 1400 BCE, and this if the 1st reference to the Khar since Menes founded Kemet around 4240BCE.

Furthermore, it was stated that the erosion visible on the Khar is clearly caused by water, not sand or wind. Sand and wind erosion would cause randomly placed spots of erosion that would be most prevalent at the top of the structure. However, the sphinx has striated (lined) patterns of erosion that starts from the bottom and rises to the top. Only continual submersion in waves of water causes this type of erosion. Add to this that sea shells are found in the sand around this temple, it is almost conclusive that about 11,000 years ago - in the Age of Leo according to the Precession of the Equinoxes - there was a highly advanced culture in the Nile Valley that was submerged in a flood and subsequently buried in seas of sand.

There is yet another significant archeological piece of evidence that supports this: The Zodiac of Dendera. This is a circular set of mdu ntr that depicts in astrological symbols the nature of the historical ages in the Nile Valley. On the zodiac of Dendera, the Lion, symbol for Leo, is riding in a boat. This shows within Kemetic chronicling of the Ages, the Sign Leo is associated with a time of flooding.

Zulu Reaffirmations from Credo Mutwa

Credo Mutwa, the last Sangoma - Keeper of Culture - for the Zulu Nation, shares the Zulu account of Lemuria and Atlantis. He says this story comes from the 'The Wise Ones of the Bakongo [and] The Holy Ones of Kariba Gorge'. These are two African peoples who live in the original territory of Ta-Neter. They say that they - the Bantu (Anu) - are the first humans on the planet. They say originally everybody looked the same and spoke the same language. There was no giant Wa-tutsi, or short Ba-twa, yellow Khoisan Bushman, or long-bearded Arabi. There was peace in the sky, peace in the forest. Man was one with wild animals, and did not fear them. There were no feelings like anger and hate, greed or selfishness (Ancient Lemuria/Ta-Neter).

However, a terrible thing happened one day. A beautiful woman named Kei-Lei-Si gave birth to a deformed child. It had only one eye and one nostril. Its mouth was twisted to one side, with drool slobbering from it copiously. Its limbs were stumped and stiff, and its torso distended. The sacred birds of the land told Kei-Lei-Si to destroy the monster, because they sensed that - beyond looking beastly - the soul in this thing was pure evil. Kei-Lei-Si refused to believe her child could be evil, so she ran off with her spawn. This evil being is named Zah-Ha-Rrellel, The Wicked.

Kei-Lei-Si took her evil seed and fled to a cave. There, the two lived on crabs and fish that lived in an underwater stream. The evil Zah-Ha-Rrellel did not speak to his mother - the only sounds he made was a disturbing gurgling whistle while he breathed. However, one day Kei-Lei-Si left the cave for a while to gather some materials. When she returned, she heard Zah-Ha-Rrellel humming a bizarre tune. When she looked closely, she realized he was actually incanting a strange metallic being into existence. She screamed in horror, wishing she had listened to the Kaa-U-La birds. However, it was too late. The metallic zombie of Zah-Ha-Rrellel, a tokoloshe pounced on the defenseless mother. A strange needle-like object came out of it and plunged deep in Kei-Lei-Si's belly. It sucked out all of her ovaries, and with them the evil one generated thousands of demonic beast. Kei-Lei-Si's last sight before she died was four winged tokoloshes carrying Zah-Ha-Rrellel aloft out of the cave.

The Kaa-U-La birds, when they saw the wicked one and his army of zombie-demons leave out of the cave, amassed an army and waged war against them. However, the metallic claws and saber-like tails of the tokoloshe decimated the beautiful birds. As they slew the birds, the tokoloshes would suck the blood out of them, and then spawn hundreds more of their kind in the process.

Humanity knew not evil, they had no concept of war, fighting, and conflict. The first humans stood defenseless against the wicked one. Zah-Ha-Rrellel made himself King of the planet, and ruler of all people. The name of Zah-Ha-Rrellel 's Empire was called Amarire or Murire. He deceived humanity by saying that God sent him to uplift humanity out of primitive existence. He would build shelters for them, kill off all of the dangerous animals, and create metal slaves to cultivate the land. People no longer had to do anything to live - they did not have to grow their food, cook their food, light a fire, or even walk long distances. Everything they wanted was automatically provided for them.

However, laziness began to decay the health of these lavish-living people. They began to lose mobility in their limbs, and they grew grotesquely fat. Over time, they also lost the ability to reproduce. So Zah-Ha-Rrellel taught them wicked things - like how to take other people's body parts and the secrets of immortality through blood-sucking and genetic manipulation.

Ma, The 'Great Spirit that Lives in the Tree of Life' saw the wickedness of Murire, and decided to send them a message. She sent rain clouds to cover the whole planet and a great flood that submerged half of the Wicked Empire in one day. Zah-Ha-Rrellel commanded his metallic and sub-human tokoloshe to create giant ships - each one over a hundred miles long. On these floating masses the wicked one built cities of pure gold, and created an artificial Sun to light the sky below the clouds. He then did something inconceivable. Zah-Ha-Rrellel thought that if he could capture the Great Spirit that Lives in the Tree of Life, he would not only be ruler of planet Earth, but also ruler of Eternity and the Universe. So, he conjured up a metallic army of flying insects. They resembled giant horseflies crossed with hornets. Stingers came from out of the mouths and hind parts of these beasts. He then transported them to the celestial home of Ma. There they attacked and slashed until they separated the Great Mother of Heaven from her home. They then brought her back to Earth.

However, this was Zah-Ha-Rrellel's fatal move, for the mere presence of the Ma on the planet caused massive Earth changes to occur. Ma, in her anger and rage, called out to the planet to help her. Massive Earthquakes resounded, volcanic eruptions exploded, whole landmasses sunk. The chaos of the revolting Earth awakened the Tokoloshes out of their zombie-like enslavement. They rose up and rebelled against their evil oppressor. One in particular - Odu, took a double-headed axe and cut out the heart and lungs of Zah-Ha-Rrellel as massive waves of waters flooded out the remaining areas of the empire. Amarire was no more - Murire was destroyed completely.

The accounts of the Ba-Kongo and the Tonga-Ile (the Holy Ones of Kariba Gorge) are consistent with Solon's account of Atlantis, and have definite correspondences with Kemetic cosmology. Within Kemetic cosmology, Zah-Ha-Rrellel is the Kemetic Set. According to Kemetic cosmology, the Setians were once noble, and Set was a favored Neter of the Most High in Kemetic cosmology - Ra. However, over time Set's character became wicked, and depending on the age of the cosmology, Set is depicted in one of three ways:

Rebelling against Ra his Heavenly Father:
Engaging in perpetual warfare against his brother Heru;
Killing his brother Asar and abdicating his throne.

That fact that such a detailed account of Murire (Mu - Lemuria) that is consistent with the tales of Lemuria/Atlantis is found in the region that was formerly Ta-Neter - the Tonga-Ile are originally from Northern Zimbabwe near Lake Kariba; the Ba-Kongo stretch from these same regions East to the Crystal Mountains of the Congo River Basin - is very significant, and is yet another reaffirmation that antediluvian civilization was centered in Africa, not sunken continents in the Ocean.

The Wise One Of the Ba-Kongo and Holy Ones of Kariba as African-Crystal Earth Keepers

Another significant factor to consider when looking at the region of Ta-Neter/Ta-Seti as the center of Lemurian/Atlantean culture is that the contemporary inhabitants of these regions are crystal-keepers just like the fabled Atlanteans & Lemurians are portrayed as being.

The capitol of the Ba-Kongo Nation, Mbanza, is situated in a range of mountains called the Crystal Mountains. These are a range of mountains situated about 200 miles East of where the Congo feeds into the Atlantic. The priests of the Ba-Kongo maintained their shrines in giant crystal caves deep in the mountain - huge caverns that were walls of shiny quartz points. These caves were illuminated naturally. In these sacred vaults of the Earth, Ba'Kongo priests would create elaborate ancestral shrines and alters to various deities. They would perform rituals that kept the planet in balance with the space-time continuum, as well as combat the forces of wickedness and corruption on the planet. (For more in-depth reasonings on the Ba-Kongo, check out

"The Ba'kongo Nation from the Crystal Mountains of Congo, West-Central Africa: Little-Known

Ancestral Source of Crystal High Science among Africans-in-America").

The Tonga-Ila, also known as the Ba'Tonga, performed similar functions in crystal caves in South-Eastern Africa. The Ba'Tonga are considered the Elder branch of all Ba'ntu who live South of the Limpopo River. They are highly revered among the Ba'ntu throughout the Continent. Credo Mutwa says that the Tonga-Ila were "...famous for their power of settling disputes without using weapons, famous for their legends, their songs, and the degree to which they had developed the Great powers of the human brain... Tonga-Ila men could walk unmolested into the heat of a savage tribal fight and command both warring sides to lay down their weapons - and the fight would stop immediately..."

The Tonga-Ila lived in Kariba Gorge, a large, rocky outcropping that the Zambezi river runs through. Kariba is a most sacred land to the Ba'Ntu. They consider it "The Naval of the Earth" because they noticed that it was an equidistant migration from the land of Katanga, Nyasa, Mashona, and Zambia.

Moreover, Kariba Gorge was considered the Gates of the Underworld. There was a crevice of two rocks from which one could hear the raging of a Great underground river deep in the Earth. The river - Lulungwa Mangakatsi, or "The river that flows down below", led to the path to the spirit-world within the planet.

There was also a very sacred cave in Kariba known as "the Knot of Time". This cave was a place where the Past, Present, and Future all came together and was held in balance. It too was a crystal cave, where the sacred priests who maintained it could see the visions of time. (These sacred sites are referred to in the past tense because the wicked Cecil Rhodes commissioned a dam to be built on the Zambezi, which flooded the Kariba Gorge and displaced/killed, the Tonga-Ila. These sacred sites are now under Kariba Lake.)

Extraterrestrial Origins of African People

What does the Lemurian Seed Crystals have to do with the Ba-Kongo, the Tonga-Ila, and their sacred crystal caves? The answer lies in the extraterrestrial origins of African People.

African-centered scholars have not adequately explored the extraterrestrial origins of African people. A strange phenomena has occurred within the Ebony towers. African-centered scholars, in their zeal to claim the Nile Valley cultures of Kemet and Kush as Classical African civilizations, rejected any research that indicated that Kemetic civilization appeared extraterrestrial in its origin. The response was that this was yet another Euro centric attempt to once again deny the African a place in History; for if Europeans are not responsible for Kemetic culture, then extraterrestrials are.

This line of reasoning is contrary to the concept of African Deep Thought manifested by Dr. Jacob Carruthers, and it is particularly contrary to the beliefs and teachings of our African ancestors. For almost every indigenous African cultural group acknowledges that the first African Ancestors to walk this planet came from the stars.

Credo Mutwa says it clearly: "...The people of Rwanda, the Hutu people, as well as the Watusi people, state, and they are not the only people in Africa who state this, that their very oldest ancestors were a race of beings whom they called the Imanujela, which means "the Lords who have come". And some tribes in West Africa, such as a Bambara people, also say the same thing. They say that they came from the sky, many, many generations ago, a race of highly advanced and fearsome creatures, which looked like men, and they call them Zishwezi. The word Zishwezi means the dival or the glidal-creatures that can glide down from the sky or glide through water. Everybody has heard about the Dogon people in Western Africa who all say that they were given culture by the normal beings, but they are not-the Dogon people are but ONE of many, many peoples in Africa who claim that their tribe or their king were first founded by the supernatural race of creatures that came from the sky... The Zulu people, who are famous as a warrior people, the people to whom King Shaka Zulu, of the last century, belonged. When you ask a South African White anthropologist what the name of Zulu means, he will say it means "the sky" (laughter), and therefore the Zulu call themselves "people of the sky". That, sir, is non-sense. In the Zulu language, our name for the sky, the blue sky, is sibakabaka. Our name for inter-planetary space, however, is izulu and the weduzulu, which means "inter-planetary space, the dark sky that you see with stars in it every night", also has to do with traveling, sir. The Zulu word for traveling at random, like a nomad or a gypsy, is izula. Now, you can see that the Zulu people in South Africa were aware of
the fact that you can travel through space-not through the sky like a bird-but you can travel through space...

The Dogon of Mali are clear and explicit on the exact star system, which is our original homeland: the Sirius Star system. The Dogon dwell in a mountainous terrain near the border of Mali and Upper Volta in West Africa. The Dogon revealed some of their cosmological science through their interaction with two French anthropologists: Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen. Most of Griaule and Dieterlen's work has been translated into English in the two books, Conversations with Ogotemmeli and The Pale Fox. The Dogon have been the center of anthropological debate, for they have knowledge of the Sirius Star system that Western Scientist was able to confirm only by using high powered telescopes.

The Dogon say that the first eight Ancestors - the Nommo, amphibious beings who were like a cross between dolphins and humans - traveled from Sirius to Earth in a pyramidal-shaped craft called the Kora-Na. Beyond carrying the Unum (progenitors) of Hue-manity, the Kora-Na also contained the seeds of eight 'celestial grains' - millet, black rice, chickpea, teff, sorghum, wheat/kamut, brown rice, maize, and gungun /pidgeon pea. The Dogon say that the Kora-Na contained all of the materials, information and science hue-manity would need for making Earth's environment compatible and conducive for human existence.

The Lemuria, Atlantis & Egyptian Connection

Corrupt and Ill Illinois

Some of the Players Involved In the Illinois Political Scene

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Jesse Jackson, Jr. Jesse Jackson, Sr.

It would seem that with the recent events in Illinois and its political scene we should get an understanding of who are some of the players within the corrupt state of Illinois. This is not to say that any one mentioned here is directly involved with the corruption. I only want to take a closer look at the Illinois political scene, especially in Chicago, Illinois.
Of course we now know who Rod Blagojevich is, but for thos who need to be bought up to speed here we go again. According to the New York Times:

Rod R. Blagojevich, the governor of Illinois, was arrested on Dec. 9, 2008 on federal corruption charges. Prosecutors said that Mr. Blagojevich had conspired to profit from his authority to appoint a successor to Barack Obama, who resigned his Senate seat after being elected president.

Through a lawyer, Mr. Blagovjevich denied the charges.

Mr. Blagojevich was elected governor of Illinois in 2002 after campaigning as a reformer. He was re-elected in 2006 but soon became embroiled in a federal investigation that initially focused on members of his administration. Icy standoffs with the state Legislature (controlled by his fellow Democrats), combined with the steady stream of revelations from the investigation, drove his approval rating down to 13 percent in a Chicago Tribune poll in mid-2008.

Before winning the governorship, he was a member of Congress representing the North Side of Chicago and was seen as a rising star in the party. When he won the governor’s race in 2002, the Democrats had not been in the governor’s mansion since 1977.

The son of a Serbian steelworker and son-in-law of a powerful Chicago ward boss, Mr. Blagojevich used Chicago as a launching pad to higher political goals. With a populist touch, he ran for governor as a reform candidate promising to clean up the state’s messy politics and to change the mood after the previous governor, George Ryan, a Republican, was sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison for racketeering and fraud.

The federal investigation into influence peddling had led by mid-2008 to the indictment of 13 people, many with close ties to Mr. Blagojevich. But the greatest damage to his political standing came from the trial and conviction of Antoin Rezko, one of his closest supporters. Mr. Rezko was one of Mr. Blagojevich’s top fund-raisers, bringing his campaign more than $1.4 million from 2001 to 2004, according to the federal authorities.

Mr. Blagojevich denied any wrongdoing, but his name surfaced repeatedly in the trial. Witnesses told of conversations with him in which he spoke of or seemed to condone rewarding campaign contributions with jobs.

Joseph Cari, a former national Democratic fund-raiser who pleaded guilty to attempted extortion, testified that Mr. Blagojevich told him of plans to finance his dreams of higher office by rewarding donors with state contracts.

And Stuart Levine, the government’s star witness, who pleaded guilty to money laundering and fraud, said that when he went to Mr. Blagojevich to thank him for a state board appointment, the governor said, “Stick with us and you’ll do very well for yourself.”

In the case that led to his arrest, prosecutors say Mr. Blagojevich discussed gaining “a substantial salary” at a nonprofit foundation or organization connected to labor unions, placing his wife on corporate boards where she might earn as much as $150,000 a year and trying to gain promises of campaign money, or even a cabinet post or ambassadorship, for himself.

According to the statement from prosecutors, Mr. Blagojevich told an adviser last week that he might “get some (money) upfront, maybe” from one of the candidates hoping to replace Mr. Obama. That person was identified only as “Candidate 5.”

In an earlier recorded conversation, prosecutors said, Mr. Blagojevich said he was approached by an associate of “Candidate 5” with an offer of $500,000 in exchange for the Senate seat. Prosecutors later identified Candidate 5 as Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr. Mr. Jackson denied making any offer to Mr. Blagojevich or authorizing anyone to do so, and said he had been told by prosecutors that he was not the target of an investigation.

Since Obama is now the President-Elect let us examine him next being that he is a U.S. senator from Illinois. Shall we proceed?
Barack Hussein Obama II who was born August 4, 1961 is the President-elect of the United States, and the first African-American to be elected President of the United States. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 until he resigned on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the 44th U.S. president will start on January 20, 2009.
A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate in January 2003, won the Democratic-party nomination primary in March 2004, and was elected to the Senate in November 2004, defeating Alan Keyes. At the Democratic National Convention in July 2004 Obama delivered the keynote address.
Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, succeeding State Senator Alice Palmer as Senator from Illinois's 13th District, which then spanned Chicago South Side neighborhoods from Hyde Park-Kenwood south to South Shore and west to Chicago Lawn. Once elected, Obama gained bipartisan support for legislation reforming ethics and health care laws. He sponsored a law increasing tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare reform, and promoted increased subsidies for childcare. In 2001, as co-chairman of the bipartisan Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, Obama supported Republican Governor Ryan's payday loan regulations and predatory mortgage lending regulations aimed at averting home foreclosures.

Obama was reelected to the Illinois Senate in 1998, defeating Republican Yesse Yehudah in the General Election, and reelected again in 2002. In 2000, he lost a Democratic primary run for the U.S. House of Representatives to four-term incumbent Bobby Rush by a margin of two to one.
Americans are riveted by how Governor Blagojevich attempted to shake down would-be Obama replacements for personal gain.

But although the attention on Illinois's murky politics is cause for some embarrassment, it does reveal Obama to be a singularly talented politician: it gives an inkling of how very deftly he must have navigated his way through some shadowy public workings.

Given the state's culture of machine politics, it can be difficult for someone lacking any connections to break into the highest positions in government. But Obama managed it, without even being a Chicago-native. And while he can play the most aggressive brand of hardball politics, the president-elect has always seemed to operate beyond the fray. He has cleverly made use of machine characters, without ever being branded as one.

Survey the people at the top of the Illinois political hierarchy, and the usefulness of a familial connection fast becomes apparent. The mayor, Richard M Daley, is the son of the late Richard J "Old Man" Daley, who ruled Chicago for nearly two decades. Blagojevich is the son-in-law of a powerful local politician. Jesse Jackson Jr is the oldest son of one of the most famous African-American leaders in the US. And two people who are purported to be eager to settle into the governor's mansion – state attorney-general Lisa Madigan and state comptroller Dan Hyne – are respectively the daughter of the speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives and the son of a former Illinois state senate president. Chicago power brokers are often loath to let outsiders in the club. An idealistic young law student interested in campaigning for the state Democratic ticket in the 1950s was rebuffed with this phrase: "We don't want no one no one sent."

Obama overcame this bias against outsiders partly by cultivating powerful patrons. He became a protégé of sorts of state senator Emil Jones, a machine politician who has himself faced questions about the leveraging of influence in the legislature to funnel money and promotions to family members. Jones's support of Obama was crucial in the 2004 senate race that catapulted the young legislator into the national spotlight. In the primary, Obama faced Dan Hynes for the Democratic nomination. Jones's influence with the trade unions allowed Obama to ensure that some of these powerful groups either threw their support behind him or stayed neutral.

The president-elect may have occasionally forged alliances with operators such as Jones, but he has never been tarred for being of their ilk. That is in part the result of his public demeanor. He comes across as cool-headed and cerebral, ill at ease launching verbal attacks against his adversaries. During this year's Democratic primary contest, the American media continually chided Obama for not being more combative in his debates with Hillary Clinton. But behind the scenes, it was a slightly different story: he did not hesitate to throw elbows.

Playing the good cop while embracing aggressive tactics below the radar screen is a strategy Obama seems to be importing to Washington, DC. Just look at his decision to anoint Congressman Rahm "Rahmbo" Emanuel – the most intense, take-no-prisoners politician of his generation – as his chief of staff.

Emanuel made his political debut raising money for Mayor Richard M Daley; he was renowned for making phone calls to businessmen decades his senior berating them for not shelling out sufficiently. He broke fundraising records in that election, a coup that landed him a job with the nascent Clinton presidential campaign.

But even after his candidate was elected to the White House, it has been said that Emanuel didn't forget those who hadn't played ball: he ended a celebratory dinner vowing to exact revenge on politicians who had crossed Bill Clinton. After intoning each name, Emanuel plunged the blade of his steak knife into the table top, declaring "Dead man!" with each thrust.

It is unlikely that the incoming White House chief of staff will so publicly parade his animus in the years ahead. But his crack-the-whip disposition will certainly help muscle bills through Congress. Observers remarked that the Rahm appointment was a signal that the president-elect was intent on moving his agenda forward once installed in the White House.

And indeed, that is a strong Chicago tradition: one reason the Daley dynasty has maintained its lock on power in the city is because both father and son have ensured that government delivered for most voters when they were in charge.

It seems Obama did learn from the city's masters during his years in Chicago: while he eschewed the methods of obscenity-laced phone calls and corruption, he picked up how to win campaigns and muscle through legislative initiatives. He himself pointed to those years in that world during the presidential campaign.

"I'm skinny, but I'm tough," he reassured voters. "I'm from Chicago."

Are all Illinois Politicians are, like all Illinois Lawyers, and that most famous son - Al Capone - criminals? Maybe not, but the apparent culture of corrupt and ill politics in Illinois will more than likely be lurking around most if not all of those who come from this state that will go down in history as the most corrupt in the Union.

Bitter Republicans will more than likely use President-Elect Obama's Illinois background to never let us forget that he too might be corrupt.

Jesse Jackson, Jr. has been sucked into the current Governor of Illinois whether or not he personally or someone he sent or did not send tried to represent him by offering half a million dollars for Obama's now vacant U.S. Senate seat. His career as a politician might just be over.

Jesse Jackson, Sr has been involved in Chicago politics for some time now. He was a part of the movement there that helped Obama to lose an election to Bobby Rush. He was one of those who insisted that Obama was not "black" enough. Jackson Sr felt that Obama should not have run against Rush because of Rush past and that he was being disrespectful by even running against Rush.

Recently, in the Telegraph.co.uk an article by Alex Spillius goes as follows:

Sources close to the investigation said Rahm Emanuel, the new chief of staff, had conversations about the issue with Rod Blagojevich and John Harris, the governor's chief aide who is also facing corruption charges.

It is claimed that at one point he even gave them a list of acceptable candidates to take over the vacant seat.

Suspicion has grown that Mr Emanuel is the unnamed "Washington based adviser" mentioned in the 76-page prosecutors' affidavit that Mr Blagojevich ordered his chief of staff to contact.

Mr Obama, who takes office on Jan 20, has vehemently denied any of his staff were involved in deal-making and has promised to reveal any contact between members of his team and the governor's office.

The sources close to the investigation did not say Mr Emanuel had discussed any deals, but even being on receiving end of corrupt demands could be damaging to him and Mr Obama. The sources told Fox News that it was likely the discussions were recorded.

The President-Elect pledged a new brand of politics during his campaign and could be embroiled in the scandal if it turns out any illegal approaches were not swiftly reported to the police.

Any suggestion of wrongdoing could fuel drama and headlines for months as the new administration tries to settle in amid an economic crisis and two wars.

Meanwhile pressure mounted on the governor to resign, after Lisa Madigan, the Illinois attorney general announced she would ask the state's supreme court to declare him unfit to govern in "these extraordinary circumstances".

A leading Democrat yesterday criticised Mr Obama for not being more open about the situation. The president-elect's reaction has stretched out, beginning with a brief denouncement and denial, followed by a call for Mr Blagojevich to resign and then a pledge to reveal all.

Ed Rendell, the Governor of Pennsylvania, said: "The rule of thumb is whatever you did, say it and get it over with and make it a one-day story as opposed to a three-day story.

"Did Rahm Emanuel, who took Rod Blagojevich's seat in Congress, have contact with Rod Blagojevich? Of course he did," Mr Rendell said. "They may have thought he was the craziest S.O.B. in the world. But you still have to have contact with him."

Confronted by a reporter in Chicago, Mr Emanuel gave a testy response, saying: "You are wasting your time. I am not going to say a word about it to you."

It is highly unlikely that no one in the Obama camp knew that Mr Blagojevich was interested – as the secret recordings allege – in trading the senate seat for a well-paid position as the head of a charitable trust.

The November 10 conference call between the governor, his advisers and mystery advisers Washington concerned the possible appointment of "Senate Candidate 1", widely believed to be Valerie Jarrett, a long-time confidante and Chicago businesswoman who was Mr Obama's early choice to replace him. Two days later Mrs Jarrett announced she was taking herself out of the running. ~Last Updated: 9:36PM GMT 12 Dec 2008~

The following is a list of Chicago's politicians:

"Mayors of Chicago, Illinois",Past and Current

Richard M. Daley,Mayor of Chicago B Michael Anthony Bilandic Levi Boone Fred A. Busse Jane Byrne C Anton Cermak John Putnam Chapin Harvey Doolittle Colvin Frank J. Corr DeWitt Clinton Cregier James Curtiss D Richard J. Daley Richard M. Daley William Emmett Dever Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne

D cont. Thomas Dyer G Augustus Garrett Charles McNeill Gray Walter S. Gurnee H John Charles Haines Carter Harrison, Jr. Carter Harrison, Sr. Monroe Heath John Patrick Hopkins Thomas Hoyne K Edward Joseph Kelly Martin H. Kennelly L Alexander Lloyd M Roswell B. Mason Joseph Medill Isaac Lawrence Milliken Buckner Stith Morris

O William Butler Ogden David Orr R Benjamin Wright Raymond John Blake Rice John A. Roche Julian Sidney Rumsey S Eugene Sawyer Alson Sherman Francis Cornwall Sherman George Bell Swift T William Hale Thompson W Hempstead Washburne Harold Washington John Wentworth (mayor) James Hutchinson Woodworth τ

Chicago City Council A Edward Acevedo Valdas Adamkus Charles H. Aldrich J. Frank Aldrich John Peter Altgeld Frank Annunzio Isaac N. Arnold Carrie Austin B James Balcer Hiram Barber, Jr. Anthony Beale Hugh R. Belknap Carol Moseley Braun Lorenzo Brentano Frederick A. Britten John Broderick (politician) James R. Buckley Fred E. Busbey Emmet Byrne C George Cardenas Bernard G. Caulfield John William Chapman Chester A. Chesney Annazette Collins Marlow H. Colvin John Cullerton Barbara Flynn Currie Thomas Cusack D John P. Daley William M. Daley Tom Dart George R. Davis Monique D. Davis Richard A. Devine Arthur Dixon (Chicago alderman) Brian Doherty (politician) Francis E. Donoghue Thomas A. Doyle Ransom W. Dunham Kenneth Dunkin Allan C. Durborow, Jr. Martin Patrick Durkin E Martin Emerich Bernard Epton

E cont. Joseph Esposito (mobster) Timothy C. Evans F John F. Farnsworth Federation of Tamil Sangams of North America John J. Feely John F. Finerty Edward Rowan Finnegan Manuel Flores George Peter Foster Wilson Frost G Alexi Giannoulias Arthur Goldberg George E. Gorman Luis Gutiérrez H Leslie Hairston Greg Harris (Illinois) Neil Hartigan Charles Hayes Robert Healy (commissioner) Michael Howlett Morton D. Hull Daniel Hynes I James T. Igoe Michael L. Igoe J Jesse Jackson, Jr. Phillip Jackson (American politician) Sandi Jackson Edgar A. Jonas Lovana Jones Norman B. Judd K Edward A. Kelly Michael Kenna John C. Kluczynski Leo Kocialkowski L Anna Langford John V. Le Moyne Kimberly A. Lightford Neil J. Linehan William Lorimer (politician) Frederick Lundin Freddrenna Lyle M Lawrence E. McGann Larry McKeon Lisa Madigan Michael Madigan William F. Mahoney

M cont. Edward Maloney Charles Martin (Illinois) William E. Mason James T. McDermott Raymond S. McKeough James Meeks Deb Mell Abner J. Mikva Thomas J. Miller (diplomat) Daniel W. Mills Arthur W. Mitchell William Moxley Morgan F. Murphy Thomas W. Murphy (judge) N Patrick Nash Stephanie Neely O Barack Obama Thomas J. O'Brien (Illinois) Patrick O'Connor Barratt O'Hara Patrick O'Malley Ramon Ocasio III P Alice Palmer (Illinois politician) Charles H. Percy R Kwame Raoul Mel Reynolds Dan Rostenkowski Ilana Rovner Dan Ryan, Jr. S Edward S. Salomon Gus Savage Leonard W. Schuetz Timothy P. Sheehan Ira Silverstein Edmund J. Stack Heather Steans Bernard Stone T Abner Taylor Template:Chicago City Council Arthur Turner V Richard B. Vail W James Hugh Ward Elihu B. Washburne Christian K. Wedemeyer William W. Wilson