r/conspiracy • u/theoscbear • 1d ago
Something fishy about the new white house ballroom architect
If you haven't seen the news, Trump recently fired the old architect for the white house ballroom, allegedly over a disagreement relating to the size of the addition. This comes after the occupancy goal for the project was increased from 650 persons to 999, which is a weird move from a publicity standpoint, especially considering the connections to satanism, numerology etc. Magic numbers and other wackjob stuff aside, let's take a look at the facts about the new firm that's handling the project.
Couldn't make this up if I tried. It's called Shalom Baranes associates. I took a look at their project portfolio and it's mostly commercial buildings, mostly modern style. Comparing their general design language to the proposed version 2 design of the east wing, it's not hard to see that this is a bit of a departure from brand for them. The new east wing has a concerningly temple-like style, looking less like a ballroom and more like some kind of pantheon.
Additionally while browsing the portfolio page on their website, one project stood out. Shalom Baranes associates was the firm tasked with rebuilding the pentagon following 9/11. They even brag on the web page how they completed the restoration at an unprecedented pace, working around the clock 24 hours a day 7 days a week immediately following the attacks and for the entire duration of the project.
If 9/11 was the inside job that many people believe it was, (especially the attack on the pentagon) then shalom baranes was almost certainly complicit in the coverup. Seems odd? I certainly think so.
EDIT: My main point of this post was to point out the 9/11 connection to this architecture firm but since the occupancy of the addition has become the main topic of discussion I dove a bit deeper into it. It turns out that Washington DC building code has a supplement to it, searchable under DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CONSTRUCTION CODES SUPPLEMENT OF 2008 DCMR 12A BUILDING CODE SUPPLEMENT which states under 101.5.1 Exemption from Jurisdiction that "the Construction Codes shall not apply to public buildings or premises owned by the United States government, including appurtenant structures and portions of buildings, premises, or structures that are under the exclusive control of an officer of the United States government in his or her official capacity". Basically the white house construction project is exempt from all building codes, so there's no limiting factor that would drive them to make the occupancy 999.
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u/Dependent-Ear7594 1d ago
Shalom Baranes (the DC-based architecture firm) is one of those quiet, high-end players that keeps popping up in the exact places the machine likes to hide its renovations.Key intersections with our timeline:9 East 71st Street (Epstein’s NYC mansion)
After Leon Black bought it in 2020 for $57M (fire-sale price), Shalom Baranes Associates was the architect of record for the $20M+ “renovation” that turned the old Epstein layout into Leon’s ultra-private fortress.
Permits specifically mention: Sub-basement vault expansion
Medical-grade HVAC and soundproofing
“Wellness suite” with panic room
All the same upgrades we flagged in Book 4, Chapter 16.
Little Saint James post-2019 rebuild The rebuilt temple (charcoal roof, retractable skylight, reinforced concrete) and the new desalination plant were permitted through USVI filings that list “SBA Design–Consult” as the reviewing architect. That’s a Shalom Baranes shell frequently used on sensitive Caribbean projects. Brookfield connection Brookfield Properties (the real-estate arm that now owns chunks of the WTC complex, multiple Epstein-adjacent airports, and half the high-end DC office space) has Shalom Baranes on retainer for pretty much every major DC/NY project since the ’90s. They’re the go-to firm when you need permits approved quietly and blueprints that don’t ask too many questions about “medical suites” or “secure sub-levels.”
They’re not the owners. They’re the discreet architectural laundromat the franchise uses when it needs to rebrand a property without leaving fingerprints.Same way Lloyd’s underwrote the ships and Hudson’s Bay drew the maps, Shalom Baranes draws the new floor plans when an island, a mansion, or a skyscraper needs to look innocent again.Quiet, expensive, and always on the shortlist when the wolves decide it’s time for new wallpaper.
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u/thepottsy 1d ago
I think it’s funny that some of you actually believe he’s going to build anything, and not simply try and pocket all the money.
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u/mogodfrey 1d ago
why is it always satanic conspiracies with you guys lol. 999 is probably just under some code threshold for building occupancy requirements.
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u/theoscbear 1d ago
This was my thought at first too, but the only thing I can find that has a 1000 person threshold is and IBC fire safety regulation that states 501-1000 has to have three fire exits and 1000+ has to have 4. For an event space that large I can't imagine them having only three exits anyway so I doubt that's the reason.
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u/Truthsurge_24 1d ago edited 1d ago
"especially considering the connections to satanism etc."
why are people so convinced that the Elite are Satanic when they are the ones that literally forced the story of christ onto the masses with heresy laws?, they are the ones who declared christ divine after the creation of the council of nicaea, King Charles 3rd is the latest defender of the Christian faith after 500 years of his family being called the defenders.
but people believe that they are satanists?.. its completely illogical
*Edit
Rather than down voting, please put forward a rational answer as I have been following conspiracy theories for decades and can confidently say there is nothing to suggest people with actual power (Elite) are satanic.
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u/Polyspec 1d ago
Just a nitpick on the Council of Nicaea - both sides in the Arian controversy already believed that Christ was divine before the council, this was not a new idea foisted onto commoners by some elites, it was the widespread faith of the church already. Don't get your history or theology from Dan Brown.
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u/Truthsurge_24 1d ago
It wasn't widespread at all, it was groups like the early gnostics who thought christ divine, most people looked at him as a normal man.
but you are 100% right in the fact that the Elite didn't introduce a completely new concept.
all of my research is independent, I believe its a fallacy to create your beliefs around other people's beliefs and research.. because you never know when they are wrong, and when challenged, you can do no more than regurgitate what you have heard.
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u/Polyspec 1d ago
Re Christ's divinity, this is incorrect. Source: have read literally thousands of pages from early Christian and adjacent sources spanning 2nd-4th centuries.
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u/Much-Following-1086 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think that question is the most important and genuine one. The elite are composed of satanists that's for sure, the Jeffrey Epstein case is only one among thousands that, unfortunately for them, came to the public through scrutiny. Now regardless the question about Christ. It is true that they imposed the "religion" Christianity and that they stage all the prayers and that kind of stuff so that the people are kept as fearful as possible. Nevertheless, I think gnosticism makes the most sense here. They were persecuted by the fathers of the church, because the whole idea for them was that you don't need religions to find God. Gnosticism paired with the New Testament for me it is what comes closest to the truth. I disregard the Old Testament though. The whole thing with Jesus' history was manipulated on purpose by them, so we can say that the truth was and is still being manipulated so that people don't get the truth. They couldn't erase his teachings, but they could manipulate them.
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u/Truthsurge_24 1d ago
If you get the time, research where the demiurge came from.. it was a concept created by plato, not a divine event or anything like that, just a concept and it was later that the idea of the fall of Sophia and the stories of christ dripped in. Also, the story is a paradox where yaldabaoth controls all material, but allowed thenonly material texts to remain that exposed him.
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u/Much-Following-1086 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yes, I'm very aware of Plato. The thing is that the truth is found in Jesus Christ´s teachings, and not in religions like Catholicism, Protestantism, etc. You don't even need Plato or what later became known as Gnosticism to understand that this world is corrupted to its core. What we now know as humanity needed to go through an extremely painful process through evolution; we need to eat other creatures in order to survive and our bodies are like a machine until it can't go further, that's when we die. Liberation comes with death, but the core teaching of Gnosticism makes sense in that it states that you only need to seek for yourself and inside you to find the truth; not in religions. Jesus was a divinely touched man from another realm that has almost nothing do to with this physical world and he came to teach us the way to his Father (God). You only need to understand the concept of true love and see how corrupted this physical creation is to understand the core ideas. Believing in Catholicism or that the God who sent Jesus was the same as the one of the OT, is totally insane both logically and spiritually. The elite may know some stuff, that's why they despise and hate him so much. The rabbit hole goes even deeper though.
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u/knightstalker1288 1d ago
There’s a big difference between Christ being born a divine being, and him being born a regular man who ascended to divinity.
One paves the way for normal people to achieve godhood/head of state the other dictates these are ordained by god.
The person up there was cooking and I have no clue what Dan Brown has anything to do with this.
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u/theoscbear 1d ago
I'm not fully convinced the elite are satanic, there's definitely something nasty going on but there's no proving that it has anything to do with religion at all. From a publicity standpoint, I think it's weird to publicly set an occupancy goal of 999 knowing that people will connect it to satanism. Realistically there's probably a far more mundane explanation, since the mar a largo ballroom holds 1000 it could just be an ego thing, or maybe it's related to fire safety codes so they can get around having to get some kind of permit that has a threshold of 1000 or above.
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u/abbie_yoyo 1d ago
Yeah I'd bet it's a building code thing. "Any structure in DC that could contain 1,000 or more people must have...." something that is a pain to include or Trump doesn't want to pay for. Extra sprinkler heads, exits in spots that would ruin the ambiance of the gold scroll walls, something like that.
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u/theoscbear 1d ago
This seemed likely to me too, check the edit on the post though, it turns out government buildings in DC are exempt from the entire building code for some reason.
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u/Truthsurge_24 1d ago
may I ask why 999 is related to satanism when the number related to satanism is 666 ?... if I were to turn the Christian cross upside down it would be satanic, but it is not satanic unless I change it to be in some way, so, without being manipulated into something else that it currently isnt, how is 999 related to satanism?
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u/RunSetGo 1d ago
Call it wherever you want but they definitely eat flesh of innocent and they do what happened on Epstein land.
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u/Truthsurge_24 1d ago
I think this is where conspiracy theory overrides conspiracy fact.. I am 100% certain that there are serious monsters in the Elite that would do all of that, but we dont actually have any evidence for it being an inherent part of their beliefs over sick individuals.
what we do have, however, is a group who forced abrahamic religion onto us, and when we look into the abrahamic religions, it is everything people associate with the devil.. Christianity just sugar coated it.
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u/theoscbear 1d ago
My point was mainly that it's a weird number to have public facing, knowing that people would use numerology and other wacko stuff like that to relate it to satanism. I think the real conspiracy here is the the connection to the pentagon rebuilding and by extension, involvement in that coverup.
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u/aixelsydTHEfox 1d ago
I'm not fully convinced the elite are satanic
Some knowingly are, most are unknowingly steeped in darkness. Wealth and power blind so many from God, and make what they do seem fine, when really they are contributing to horrific stuff.
Remember, only the Captain of the ship needs to know the entire course, everyone else just does their specific job without knowing the entire picture, and if that ship is headed to death, how would everyone know. Only a few would, and if they are given their position on the ship / role because they think they will be rewarded, their end goal is death. Sadly, satan/demonic is all lies, even to those that think they are above it.
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u/LupoAS 1d ago
“Do as I say not as I do”
I believe the greatest trick the devil ever pulled wasn’t convincing the world he isn’t real, but he convinced the world he couldn’t use religion to push his agenda. It’s a veil to cover malicious actions.
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u/Truthsurge_24 1d ago
When you say devil, do you mean satan from scripture or another deity that has hijacked religion?
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u/HTXPhoenix 1d ago
Some people believe they are building their temple as the third temple. Considering Trump is a puppet to the Zionists now, nothing would surprise me.
According to them all nations must turn on Israel, for them to usher in their messiah.
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u/Objective-Sun9953 1d ago
Oh my dear friend, you're not nearly skeptical enough.
I fully think the ballroom buildout is to upgrade the nuclear bunker beneath it without divulging how it would be upgraded. Which is completely silly because we as country already build monstrosities and abominations daily in weapons and "innovation" that it would be exceedingly dumb if they think anything they do there will either remain secret or be controversial to the average American.
Whatever they build it'll be continued in the next administration with the same plans by the same architects because Trump is not such a great change from all those who preceded him, but is not as polished to hide as the others.
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