<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4b07aa18-2a52-4f39-86b2-b3667494fbf0/CFF0D68E-4CA3-4A67-823E-6CAFB95BD9A5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/HieronimusR1.php" href="http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/HieronimusR1.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.grahamhancock.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/HieronimusR1.php"><H2>When Symbol-Minded Becomes Simple-Minded: Defending America's Symbols <SPAN>By Robert R. Hieronimus, Ph.D.</SPAN></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/HieronimusR1.php"><P>Although in my new book I examine many of America's best-known myths and legends and reveal their historical hits and misses, I take particular offense when I see the denigration of the pyramid and the eye in the triangle, the subject of my doctoral dissertation. This symbol is the honorable reverse of the Great Seal of the United States, created in 1782, and it is also the core piece of evidence in the current Internet conspiracy theory that goes like this: There is a mysterious group of "Them," usually called the Illuminati, but known by many names, that controls the world behind the scenes. As clues to their existence this group enjoys sprinkling eyes and triangles and pentagrams all over the place in logos and public designs. They do this to identify themselves to one another, and to condition us, the miserably stupid populace, to accept the coming Antichrist.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CFF0D68E-4CA3-4A67-823E-6CAFB95BD9A5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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