THE GODS OF GLOBALISM: THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

THE GODS OF GLOBALISM: THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS

By CJ Graham
June 28, 2008

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The Constitution of the United States of America-Preamble

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The Gods of Globalism will require a new Preamble. Perhaps this one will do.

We the people of the Integrated Western Hemisphere, in order to form a more harmonized union, redefine justice, socially engineer domestic tranquility, redistribute wealth for the social good and higher purposes, encourage hemispheric welfare, and confiscate the blessings of liberty from our former selves to our new and more desired posterity, do abstain from any former sovereign constitutions and embrace a new social order under the guise of democracy.

I have been made aware of two pieces of legislation, thanks to the constant vigilance of the patriots at SOSUSA.US. I send my most sincere thanks to them, for bringing it to my attention, so that I might bring it to yours. This legislation has just confirmed the opinion I have long held that members of our congress have either lost their damn minds, are complete incompetents, or are intentionally complicit in the destruction of our national sovereignty. Either way, I am tired of being the hog tied, blindfolded, gagged passenger in a vehicle driven by suicidal maniacs.

Yet another piece is being added to the framework, set in place for the demise of our national sovereignty. I hope, by now, you have read my past article The Demise Of Our American Identity, which exposes and explains that a deeply embedded program is already in place to move our nation into a fully integrated Western Hemisphere.

This framework strives to harmonize our nation with international law through the United Nations, the Summit of the Americas, The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American System and has been moved progressively forward by way of NAFTA, the SPP and the soon to come NAU which will finally complete the permanent dissolution of our nation into a hemispheric conglomerate where all knees shall bend to the Gods of Globalism and a new social order shall reign supreme. God help us all.

The following are just a few excerpts from one more piece of the integration puzzle. As you are reading, what is obviously the bankrupting of our nation, think of the lives that have been lost for the cause of our liberty. Think of the past generations who suffered and struggled to bring us to the comfort, security and national wealth we have all enjoyed and often taken for granted. Think of our soldiers fighting and dying, even now, in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Then, think of your children and grandchildren. Read the words that will enslave and impoverish them. Our children will not be free as we have been. They will never know the liberty we have known. They will never know the prosperity that was possible for us, if we worked hard and studied and applied ourselves to our successful endeavors. They will not be Americans, as we perceive America, unless this generation wakes up, pays attention and makes significant changes, quickly. Time is short.

If you are waiting for someone else to rush in and save the day, stop waiting. This is your country, your sovereignty, your freedom, you home, your family and your future. This is your problem. You must be a part of the solution or you have no one to blame but youself.

The move to Progressive socialism marches on and we are woefully behind is stamping it down. To make changes, you must understand the plan. Remember; this is just ONE piece of the puzzle.

(Excerpts)
Social Investment and Economic Development for the Americas Act of 2007
Senate Bill 2120
OCTOBER 1, 2007
Mr. MENENDEZ (for himself, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. BIDEN, Mr. LUGAR, Mr. DODD, Mr. COLEMAN, Mr. SALAZAR, Mr. KERRY, Mrs. CLINTON, Mrs. BOXER, Mr. NELSON of Florida, and Mr. CARDIN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

A BILL

To authorize the establishment of a Social Investment and Economic Development Fund for the Americas to provide assistance to reduce poverty, expand the middle class, and foster increased economic opportunity in the countries of the Western Hemisphere, and for other purposes.

(3) The United States contributes, on average, $820,000,000 in bilateral development assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean each year and has continued to strengthen its commitment to promoting our shared values, heritage, and culture while confronting the common challenges we face.

(4) The United States has also contributed through the Millennium Challenge Account more than $269,000,000 in development assistance.

(5) Poverty and inequality remain historic and persistent problems in the region, which undermine progress on social and economic development. These problems contribute to the rise of populist ideas and add to inequality.

The President, acting through the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development and working with foreign governments and civil society, shall provide increased and sustained assistance to reduce poverty, expand the middle class, and foster increased economic opportunity in the countries of the Western Hemisphere by helping to—

(1) improve the quality of life and invest in human capital, specifically by promoting education, improving health and disease prevention, and increasing the access to and quality of housing;

There is established within the United States Agency for International Development an advisory committee to be known as the Western Hemisphere Economic Investment and Development Advisory

They are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this chapter, including for purposes of reducing poverty, expanding the middle class, and fostering increased economic opportunity in the countries of the Western Hemisphere, in addition to amounts of United States Foreign Assistance Funds (Function 150) otherwise authorized and appropriated and the $820,000,000 in bilateral development assistance provided by the United States, on average, to Latin America and the Caribbean each year, the following amounts:

$50,000,000 for fiscal year 2008.
$75,000,000 for fiscal year 2009.
$100,000,000 for fiscal year 2010.
$125,000,000 for fiscal year 2011.
$150,000,000 for fiscal year 2012.
$150,000,000 for fiscal year 2013.
$150,000,000 for fiscal year 2014.
$150,000,000 for fiscal year 2015.
$150,000,000 for fiscal year 2016.
$150,000,000 for fiscal year 2017.

The Inter-American Development Bank Act

The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director at the Bank to use the voice, vote, and influence of the United States to urge the Bank to establish an account to be known as the ‘Social Investment and Economic Development Fund for the Americas

The Fund shall be used to provide assistance to reduce poverty, expand the size of the middle class, and foster increased economic opportunity in the countries of the Western Hemisphere by helping to:

(3) leverage personal remittances and reduce the cost of remittances sent to Latin America and the Caribbean, for the purpose of advancing economic and social development by

(A) increasing access to financial institutions for the poor, and working with local financial institutions to reduce fees and other costs associated with sending or receiving remittances;

(B) working with local financial institutions to develop programs whereby personal remittances can be used as the basis for credit for mortgages and loans for small business, microenterprises, housing, and other enterprises;

(C) providing matching funds for private entities in the United States that send donations for development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean; and

It is the sense of Congress that—

(1) the amounts authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act and the amendments made by this Act should be used to help countries in Latin America and the Caribbean focus on improving indicators in the area of investing in people, as that term is used in section 607(b)(3) of the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7706(b)(3)), and consistent with the transformational development program of the Department of State; [Read]

(1) the Multilateral Investment Fund, which was fully established in 1993 as part of President George H.W. Bush’s Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, has been successful in promoting inclusive economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean;

(4) as stated in section 499L of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as added by section 3, amounts authorized to be appropriated pursuant to the amendments made by this Act for a fiscal year for initiatives to reduce poverty, expand the middle class, and foster increased economic opportunity in the countries of the Western Hemisphere are in addition to amounts that would be allocated or projected in the President’s budget request for Latin America and Caribbean for such fiscal year. [Read] [Read]

There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Treasury $51,000,000 for payment to the Inter-American Development Bank of arrears owed by the United States to the Multilateral Investment Fund. [Read]

You might wonder if the members of the House will save us from the insanity of the members of the Senate sponsoring this legislation. It will not be reassuring to learn that the House has its own version of this monstrosity.

HOUSE VERSION
H.R.3692
(introduced 9/27/2007)

Sponsor Rep Eliot Engel and thirty co-sponsors

Title: To authorize the establishment of a Social Investment and Economic Development Fund for the Americas to provide assistance to reduce poverty, expand the middle class, and foster increased economic opportunity in the countries of the Western Hemisphere, and for other purposes.

Citizens of the United States of America, we can no longer entrust the sovereignty of this nation to most of those who are now in positions of power in our government. Our best interests are not being served. I pray that Americans will finally understand the consequences of our apathy or lack of understanding and will begin to step forward into the political arena and replace those disgraces that now hold our national sovereignty by the throat.

Until we see the truth and understand it, until we vote these scoundrels out of office and replace them with constitutionally directed candidates, we are on a collision course with disaster. Our future leaders are out there somewhere, maybe even reading this now. If so, I am asking that they step forward, trust in the citizen of this nation to see their value, and begin to bring our nation back towards a sound, sane foreign policy.

We can defeat this insanity and we must. The very survival of our nation now depends on all of us. Do all that you can to support candidates who will defend our constitution. Send the rest of them back to the obscurity they so deserve. They should hang their heads in shame for the disservice they have done this nation and our citizens. Unfortunately; I don’t believe shame is a part of their DNA.

It is time for the awakening of our citizens. Do your part.

Godspeed and God Bless the USA

Additional Resources:

1 - SOSUSA (website)
2 - Organization of American States (website)
3 - Summits of the Americas (website)
4 - Inter American System (website)
5 - North American Development Bank (website)

© 2008 CJ Graham - All Rights Reserved

DECEPTION! SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW?

DECEPTION! SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW?

By Betty Freauf

June 7, 2008

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It will be all over the radio talk and television shows for days to come. It’s being written about on blogs and websites and in the mainline press. Yes, it’s all about former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s book. He writes about the deception in the George W. Bush White House, but I ask, “So, what else is new?” Old snaggle-toothed Satan invented deception in the Garden of Eden, and Adam, would you believe, blamed the woman? Deception and blame have been around forever. (Rev. 12:7-9)

McClellan’s book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception has critics on both sides and all have come out swinging, lying and covering for their political friends. While some people are selling blood to buy gas, with the exception of a rare few, we have nearly all dipsticks in Washington, D.C.

Humanists believe everyone is basically good but our wise Founders knew better. They gave us a Constitution to put restraints on elected leaders of our Republic and as long as they stayed under the Constitution’s umbrella of protection and obeyed their oath of office, things would go well for our country. Ben Franklin said, “We’ve given you a Republic IF you can keep it.” The first great propaganda slogan for World War I was, “To make the world safe for democracy.” Deception. We should have been working to make the world safe FROM democracy! Author Arno Froese in his book, How Democracy Will Elect the Antichrist writes that it is striking to see that the Devil’s amazing master plan for deception is not only allowed by God, but even sealed by Him with the words: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie because they continuously refuse to listen to the truth and reject the love of Christ. (2 Thes. 2:11)

Perhaps one of the biggest lies began in the mid-1800s with the Civil War. History books have been written indicating it was to free the slaves but in actuality, it was the beginning of centralized government. I wrote this article, “The Constitution Has Been Under Attack Since Lincoln” in July 2003. As you read it in 2008, you’ll see that it was rather prophetic and what Lincoln did was similar to what President George W. Bush did after 9-11 to “secure our safety” by taking away our liberties – more deception. Wasn’t it amazing how soon after the Oklahoma City bombing and the attack on the World Trade Center that the crime scenes were cleaned up and the evidence hauled away? More deception.

From the Civil War, let’s fast forward to February 3, 1913, when the 16th Amendment (IRS) to the U.S. Constitution was allegedly ratified - more deception. Astute historians digging through the Archives found that the required number of states never properly ratified it. The super rich have tax-free foundations, so the IRS became the incredible bread machine, collecting taxes primarily from the Middle Class workers, through force and making businesses become the tax collectors.

Also in that same year, we found that when many Congressmen and Senators had left Washington, D.C. for the Christmas holiday, the unconstitutional Federal Reserve was created and what has happened to our money since -- we no longer have gold or silver to back up our paper money – INFLATION! Essentials such as food prices are skyrocketing and gasoline prices are out of control. We have had boom and bust times, all manipulated by the Federal Reserve -- a small group of unelected individuals that work completely in seclusion. Whoever controls the purse strings has a great deal of political influence and great power to shape the thinking of the voting public.

While people are learning about the international banking cartel called the Federal Reserve, how many know it was German-born financier Paul Warburg, who more than anyone, was the Fed’s actual architect? He remarked to Edward Manell House, the omnipresent adviser to President Woodrow Wilson, “Well, it hasn’t got quite everything we want, but the lack can be adjusted later by administrative process.” The author of the article says, “Here we had a classic example of getting something on the books that could later be made quietly more powerful.”[1]

This caused me to remember a May 1986 conference in Portland, Oregon entitled, “Oregon’s Agenda for the 1990’s: Children Youth and Families.” and the Federalization of Children by gradual child abductions . At that conference, one person recommended their draft should be “purposely vague” so that people don’t pay attention to it and they can “write in what they want later” and they “wanted to write things in a way that the conservatives wouldn’t know what they were doing….” Deception!

On April 18, 1991, President George H.W. Bush announced his plan for AMERICA 2000, which would allow the federal government to play an even larger role in reforming public education, which had been especially failing the students since the creation of the centralized Department of Education under Democrat President Carter. It had been created at the behest of the National Education Association (N.E.A.) that is listed as a friend on the Communist Party USA's website. Carter also delivered the environmentalists another unconstitutional agency called the Department of Energy.[2]

The government caused the problem in education and then they offer another failed solution.

Then along comes Bush Jr. with his “No Child Left Behind” and knowing full well the powerful N.E.A., with its paid lobbyists, fight to block the much needed genuine reforms. Educators have chosen quite consciously to de-emphasize the teaching of intellectual skills in favor of the inculcation of social awareness. Even Catherine Barrett, the former president of the N.E.A., stated in a March 1972 Saturday Review that “we will need to recognize that the so-called ‘basic skills,’ which currently represent nearly the total effort in elementary schools, will be taught in one-quarter of the school day.” The rest of the day is used for indoctrination – weaning the children from traditional Western values taught in their homes by most parents and moving away from retention of facts and teaching them to become more “tolerant” world citizens.

Dr. J. Gresham Machen of Princeton Theological Seminary testified before Congress on Feb. 25, 1926, opposing the creation of a Department of Education. This good man said that people are not like Ford cars -- that they can be “standardized” and rolled off assembly lines and that the personal, free and individual character of education could not be preserved when we have a Federal Department laying down standards, which become more or less mandatory to the whole country. He felt it would be much easier to prevent the formation of some agency than it would be to try to destroy it after it is once formed.

Contrary to the drivel many conservative talk show hosts use for President Reagan’s election, one of the reasons he was elected was because he promised to eliminate the Department of Education. He not only allowed it to continue but he signed an education treaty with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to merge the two education systems. Charlotte Iserbyt in her book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America says the most important education agreements negotiated between The Carnegie Corporation and the Soviet Academy of Science, and those signed by President Reagan and Gorbachev in 1985, remain in effect to this day. Have you heard any of the conservative talk show hosts that think Reagan walked on water expose these agreements? Deception!

Joan Veon attends many U.N. meetings. She said in a March 20, 2003 Wisconsin Report that Reagan relied heavily on the tax-exempt Heritage Foundation, the “conservative” think tank used to bring in the foundational changes in the structure of government through privatization and Fabian Socialism. Many conservative talk show hosts also rely heavily on Heritage and are promoting the meeting that will be held after the November election in Washington, D.C. for elected officials. It’s founder, Paul Weyrich, also formed the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress – both groups were instrumental in setting up U.N. Regional Government. [3] Then there was the now defunct 26-member Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR) that had a branch in every state capitol and was yet another force behind the change to U.N. Metropolitan Regional government, which broke the power of the state. [Raed] The ACIR was a mail order legislative mill created by Congress in 1959 and approved by Republican President Eisenhower. It prepared legislation to advance policies of the very rich. And you thought all those laws were the ideas of your elected officials? Deception! Check out Joan’s website.

Now let's move into the spiritual realm where the communist ACLU deceived Christians into believing we had “separation of church and state” while all along, the Bible was being changed to emasculate the basic tenets of Christianity. The stock market is now more important than the Scriptures. Billy Graham and his friends have long disregarded doctrine and subsequent acceptance of every aberration that goes by the name of Christian; necessary for the eventual unification of all religious thought. Therefore, opposition to deception in the Church is being stifled under the pretense that those who expose deceivers are sowing discord among brethren and hindering unity, when in actuality, they are just trying to warn others.[4] The Lord said in the last days even the elect would be deceived.

Matthew 24 warns about false teachers and false “Christs” and even Oprah and friends are teaching a Course in Miracles on the New Age Christ. This is more deception but only a few would dare call Oprah, the richest woman in the world, a deceiver. But people are flocking to her Course on the radio and her TV show has been waning in popularity, but is still the top rated talk show. Allegedly polls show 86% of Americans believe in God, but I ask, “Which god?”

Even Mel Gibson, the producer of The Passion of Christ was surprised that so many evangelicals were receptive to his movie. He said, “The film is so Marian” (Catholic) and even though the “Marian and Eucharist Theme” were intentionally interwoven into the film, the evangelical leaders wanting “unity,” encouraged their Protestant followers to attend the movie. Martin Luther must have turned over in his grave.

Recently the Vatican’s chief astronomer, Father Jose Gabriel Funes, said there is a certain possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and that such notion “doesn’t contradict our faith.” On May 21, 1992, Henry Kissinger, an adviser to many presidents said, “Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being, granted to them by their world government.” Deception.

Our Constitutional government and national sovereignty hang by a thread. The time could be approaching when the question will not be whether America can be saved but whether America is worth saving. Sodom and Gomorrah were not! We will not learn because we do not want to know. Visitors to Communist China questioning the false information they had given during the year of the great cultural revolution were told: “Yes, we deceived you, but you wanted to be deceived.” The goal of the Communists has always been encirclement of the United States and, ever so quietly, they are accomplishing that goal. Democrat President Carter gave them control of the Panama Canal. Democrat President Clinton arranged to make sure the Chinese got the Long Beach Naval Base on the west coast, just as he gave part of our beautiful Presidio to Mikhail Gorbachev's Foundation. While Americans line China's pockets by purchasing their goods, all the while helping to build up their military, we are basically buying the rope that will hang us! Ever so strategically, China is moving into a position to come against us. Mr. Clinton thought the U.S. and China would be part of a wonderful global alliance. Only in Clinton’s misguided and obviously confused dreams!

Footnotes:

1 - The New American Feb. 4, 2008 by John F. McManus
2 - A National Party No More (P.214) By Democrat Senator Zell Miller
3 - Washington Times Newspaper 10/24/84
4 - Book: Billy Graham and his Friends (P.465) By Dr. Cathy Burns

© 2008 Betty Freauf - All Rights Reserved

THE WORST IS YET TO COME

THE WORST IS YET TO COME

By Paul Proctor

March 26, 2008

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In a recent report, the Associated Press asked the disturbing question: How Deep Is The Economic Abyss? Although few are prepared to answer that due to the ambiguity, complexity and impropriety at work, I find it strangely amusing that the mainstream media is finally admitting publicly that such an abyss exists and indeed poses a threat, now that we're hanging off the proverbial edge.

Until recently, such discussions have been considered doom and gloom rhetoric by the celebrated experts of our time rendering writers like yours truly not ready for prime time in much the same way the compromised church leaders of our day dismiss their dissenters as fundamentalist crackpots for insisting on the mention of Hell in our evangelical discourse.

But you can only hide the obvious for so long. It becomes increasingly difficult to persuade panicking passengers aboard your foundering vessel that everything is OK when you're thrashing about in seawater sporting a life preserver.

Since the turn of the century, I have dedicated almost one article a year to addressing the declining economy in one way or another for the sole purpose of warning my readers about those things the evening news anchors (pardon the pun) wouldn't. In 2000, it was an article titled The Age Of Illusion In 2002 it was, Enron: The Inverted World of Sin and Debt. In 2003, I wrote about A Fusion of Delusion. In 2004, I questioned the patriotic cliché, In God We Trust. In 2006, I reported that Gasoline Is Not Going Up. And in 2007, I pondered our country's future with a little piece titled, When America is Gone followed by a 2008 assessment of how our priorities will drastically change When The Stock Market Crashes.

Frankly, I can't answer the question the AP posed either; but I've been keenly aware of the approaching abyss for at least ten years and have been preparing for it since that time. Though the economic pain is starting to spread far and wide, I believe we have a long way to go before finding bottom.

In the near term, I suspect there will be a lot of talk that the worst is all behind us and that things are starting to look better in certain segments of the economy. This kind of propaganda is likely to be repeated over and over again on the evening news to try and prop up consumer confidence in the face of rising prices, declining demand and plummeting profits.

As I see it, the greatest challenge facing the Fed right now is keeping it all afloat through the election. And whoever is voted in as president in November will in no way be remembered by history as a winner because they will be the designated scapegoat when it all comes crashing down on their watch - the public not realizing that the stage for this coming disaster was set many presidents ago with a fiat currency and a global agenda.

You see, it's all just borrowed money - created out of nothing - backed by nothing and good for nothing apart from the blind confidence of those who hold it. When that confidence eventually wanes, as it is already beginning to overseas, so too will the illusion of prosperity and freedom we thought was ours.

"The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender." - Proverbs 22:7

© 2008 Paul Proctor - All Rights Reserve

IT'S NOT AN OIL PROBLEM

IT'S NOT AN OIL PROBLEM

By Paul Proctor

June 24, 2008

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As I was driving around town the other day, running errands and taking care of business, I noticed trucks, vans and SUVs, very similar in size to mine, absolutely everywhere – many jammed full of kids, soccer moms, businessmen and blue collar workers, sitting in traffic between red lights with cell phones hanging off their heads.

Knowing that their urban assault vehicles required at least as much gas as mine, I wondered: How in the world does a family paying a mortgage and a couple of car payments get by these days with prices being what they are? I’m not a tightwad by any stretch of the imagination, but I scratched one of the things I needed that day off my shopping list for one reason and one reason only – it wasn’t worth the gasoline it would take to drive across town and buy it.

The store that sold the item I needed wasn’t more than twenty minutes away, but the fuel it would have required to get there and return home again made it too expensive. I admit this because I’m quite certain I’m not the only one out there whose priorities are changing dramatically where gasoline is concerned.

And that can’t be good for business.

In an article I wrote a couple of years ago titled Gasoline Is Not Going Up, I tried to explain the illusion of “inflation” we are under and the real reason the things we buy, including gasoline, are getting so ridiculous. If you haven’t read it yet, I hope you’ll take a few minutes and click on the above link to do so. Newcomers to this column might find it a real eye-opener. The only things in the article that have changed since it was published are the prices I cited. And change, they have!

You see, I began the piece by stating, “For the first time in my life I put $70 worth of gas in my car.”

Well, as outrageous as that seemed at the time, it’s a bargain now because just the other day I filled up that same vehicle with $67 worth of gas (same grade) – but my tank was only half empty when I pulled up to the pump. In fact, I generally start looking for a gas station at around half a tank now because I haven’t found one yet that will let me have $100 or more in fuel on a single credit card purchase. Don’t bother asking the gas station attendant why. They’ll just plead ignorance or tell you it’s your credit card company that’s limiting the purchase.

You see, it was reported just last week in an article titled Some Gas Stations Say No More To Credit Cards that gas stations are being charged higher processing fees for larger credit and debit card purchases, meaning the bigger the sale, the less they profit – which may explain why many gas pumps automatically limit the size of your fuel purchase to under $100. But, with prices skyrocketing at the rate they are now, a half tank today is probably going to be considerably less painful than a full tank tomorrow.

Oh sure, I tried paying with cash for about a month or so earlier this year, but to do that you have to burn even more gas driving around to ATM machines, some of which have lines in front of them, especially during lunch or rush hour. It’s either that or you go get in line at the bank to cash a check.

And remember, this is just for gasoline!

Now, if you don’t want to do that and you have to fill up a couple of times or more a week, that means you’ll need to carry around a big wad of cash in your pocket, maybe a third of your paycheck or more, which really isn’t very safe. Then when you get to the gas station, you’ll have to go inside and get in line at the counter to pay for your purchase in advance – then go back outside to fill up your car – all the while hoping the attendant remembers to reset the pump – and then go back inside when you’re finished to get in line again for a receipt and/or any change they might owe you for the difference.

I believe they call these places “convenience stores.”

And here’s a little word to the wise: The price of gas being what it is now, I wouldn’t recommend you wad carriers out there with a tendency towards impatience, skip that last step and drive away with a full tank and no receipt. It’s your word against theirs and the burden of proof will be on you when the police come knocking on your door at home bearing a license plate number and a vehicle description some cunning or confused gas station attendant gave them that happens to match yours.

Better to get a receipt now than a phony felony charge later.

Anyway, the point is this: Prices obviously haven’t improved since I wrote that article two years ago and, as you well know, they are accelerating upward at a rather alarming rate – so much so that many of our other buying habits are being adversely affected as well.

At the current rate stations are charging for mid-grade gasoline, which is required in vehicles like mine, it now takes $128.34 to fill up my tank from empty. I really feel sorry for you guys out there driving diesel pickups.

Two friends of mine just recently told me they had parked theirs because they couldn’t even afford to drive them to work anymore, much less anywhere else; and they can’t sell them because nobody wants to buy a vehicle that requires a near $5 a gallon fuel to drive it.

Now they’re making loan payments and paying mandatory auto insurance on vehicles they can no longer use; and in many cases the trucks aren’t even worth what they owe on them; so they’re stuck and turning to motorcycles and scooters now to get them where they need to go.

Who knows how they’ll get around when winter returns.

And, because so much money is going into gas tanks, major department stores, shopping malls and high-end restaurants here in the Nashville area are closing their doors due to a dearth of customers. And we all know what that means.

In fact, The Tennessean recently reported that “the state's unemployment rate saw the biggest one-month jump ever recorded.”

Ever is a long time, ya’ll.

And we’re in one of the better parts of the country, economically speaking. In fact, my county is one of the wealthiest in the nation. Not only that – Nissan just moved their North American headquarters here. That’s how commercially attractive this region is.

Even so, three well-known regional banks with branches spread across the southeast, all very prominent in this area, are struggling right now to survive due to the ongoing real estate and credit crisis. So, I can only imagine what it’s like for people in other areas of the country that have been hit much harder and financially depressed much longer.

And what are those in Washington and the mainstream media telling us about the economy?

Well, about 3 months ago, in an article titled The Worst Is Yet To Come, I said this:

In the near term, I suspect there will be a lot of talk that the worst is all behind us and that things are starting to look better in certain segments of the economy. This kind of propaganda is likely to be repeated over and over again on the evening news to try and prop up consumer confidence in the face of rising prices, declining demand and plummeting profits.
Then, a few weeks later, Yahoo News posted an article in their finance section titled (are you ready for this?) The Worst Is Behind Us.

It began this way:

With Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Merrill's John Thain chiming in, there's now near unanimity of opinion on Wall Street: The worst of the credit crisis is over.
Are we that stupid or are they that incompetent? I mean these guys get paid a lot of money to figure this stuff out. They’re supposed to be experts.

So, what’s going on here?

As if that wasn’t enough, a month later, the Associated Press said this in an article titled Wall Street's Credit Crisis Heads Into Second Year:

With each passing quarter, Wall Street's top bankers have indicated that the worst of the market turmoil was over - only to face more pain months later.
Now compare what is being said here in America to what is being said about America overseas:

Central Bank Body Warns Of Great Depression:

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the organisation that fosters cooperation between central banks, has warned that the credit crisis could lead world economies into a crash on a scale not seen since the 1930s.
RBS Issues Global Stock and Credit Crash Alert:

A report by the bank's research team warns that the S&P 500 index of Wall Street equities is likely to fall by more than 300 points to around 1050 by September as "all the chickens come home to roost" from the excesses of the global boom, with contagion spreading across Europe and emerging markets.
Well, I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions; but more than anything else, what I hope readers will gain from all this as they fork over more and more for less and less in the coming days, is an understanding that it is not an oil problem we’re facing – it is a money problem. But, those in charge of the money don’t want you to know that. They want you to aim your angst at everyone else involved from gas station owners, to commodities speculators, to radical environmentalists to big oil companies to OPEC – anyone and everyone but the fractional reserve lenders who relentlessly devalue your dollars and mine by printing and circulating too many of them.

You see, OPEC has been radically raising the price of their oil because they know something your government and media aren’t telling you – that the dollar we buy their oil with, along with everything else, is plummeting in value here and around the world.

It’s just that simple.

And that Stimulus Check you got from Uncle Sam that’s supposed to make you feel better and save our economy?

Well, that’s like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet hole.

You can only live it up so long on borrowed money.

Sooner or later, the party’s over.

“Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” – Revelation 3:17

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Make no mistake about it; Christianity is almost illegal in America.

VOTING FOR BUGS

By Coach Dave Daubenmire
July 10, 2008
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Make no mistake about it; Christianity is almost illegal in America.

Oh, they let us stay in our churches and sing songs, but they are hell-bent on making sure that we don’t take our faith outside of the four walls of our stained-glass fortresses. Christians think they have impact but it is a façade. For the most part the modern evangellyfish church is a toothless tiger. John McCain throws Christians under the bus.

Our Founders were brilliant men. When they wrote the First Amendment to the Constitution they used the phrase “or prohibiting the free-exercise thereof.” They knew what any back-woods football coach knows…use it or lose it. If you don’t exercise the muscle then it loses its power. Exercise is the key to strength. If we can’t freely exercise our faith, then we might as well not have it.

Free-exercise has been slowly removed by judges. They have told us that we can believe what we want as long as we don’t exercise that belief. Free-exercise means free-exercise. “Shall not be infringed” means shall not be infringed. You don’t need a law degree to understand the meaning of those words. Unless you wear a black robe. Then the words mean what YOU say they mean. So much for “endowed by our Creator” rights. (Notice, a capital “C” in Creator.) Now they have become “court restricted rights.”

Am I the only one ticked off?

True, Bible-believing Christians are the new endangered species. We have fewer rights than the polar bears….and for the most part the churches appeal to the politicians for the crumbs off of the table. “Please let us pray before graduation, your honor!”

I’m sick of it. I’m sick of sissy leaders, I’m sick of sissy Christians, and I’m doubly-sick of sissy Christian-politicians who allow the courts to run rough-shod over the God-given rights of those who trusted in them enough to put them in office.

Back in the days when real-Christians were real-men there would have been a whole lot of tar and feathering going on for any official foolish enough to question whether a child could pray in school or a father could carry a gun to defend his family. Instead, today, our Christian-leadership sits around, folds their hands, and prays that the Lord will “move upon the hearts” of the terrorists in black robes and convince them to allow us to exercise the rights that the Creator alone granted to us.

Folks, forty-four-per-cent of the Supreme Court do not think God gave us the right to own guns! They think THEY grant that right. Who the heck are these tyrants?

How stinkin’ cowardly are we? Don’t you know the Second Amendment was put in place to protect the First Amendment? Today some churches are leading the battle to limit guns! Guns don’t kill people…cowardly leadership kills people!

Think I’m wrong? How many babies never saw the light of day because our Christian-leadership turned yellow when “the judges” said that a woman had a right to murder the most helpless creature under the sun? They found the “right” to “choose” in the “penumbras” of the Constitution. God said “Thou shall Not Murder.” He didn’t hide the truth in the shadows.

Oh, the churches peeped for a while, until the Legislature passed the unconstitutional F.A.C.E. Act. That law claimed a women’s right to murder a baby superseded the right of others to freedom of assembly and expression…both guaranteed by that troublesome First Amendment.

And how did our leadership respond? “Vote Republican! They’re pro-life!” Yeah right. Next thing you know they’ll tell us that Democrats are for the little guy.

The scoundrels on the bench ruled that “sodomy” was a protected right. For six-thousand years it was a capital crime. Millions are dead from AIDS because of the abdominal behavior. What do the Christian-leaders do? Why they lament how “liberal” the court is. Liberal my butt, they are un-Godly. They spit again in the face of God. David cried “who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” Today’s church raises money to treat the disease rather than outlawing the cause.

Who are those uncircumcised Philistines declaring righteous the thing the Lord called an abomination? We need some leaders with some stones.

I wonder what The Black Regiment would have done? Compare Jonas Clark to the government-fearing sissies we have today. (Can you say Faith-based initiatives?) I know this, when they decide to round the “Christians” up I bet I’m higher on the government list than Joel Osteen and Rick Warren.

Face it Church, we are not free. We have to ask government permission to pray to the Creator who gave us the right.

Should I go on?

We have followed our “leaders” and look at what we have. Obama verse McCain. Tweedle Dee vs Tweedle Dumb. Leftist Communism vs Mainstream Communism.

David ran towards evil. Today we are told to vote for the lesser evil. “At least he’s better than Obama. We can’t let Obama pick the new Supreme Court justices.”

Really? Seven of the current Dwarfs were appointed by Republicans. Six of the seven on the California Supreme Court are Republicans. They gave us homo-marriage.

Well I ain’t drinkin’ the Kool Aid.

Follow the drift; Reagan, Poppa Bush, GW Bush, and now McCain; each more socialist than his predecessor. They shoot horses don’t they? The Republican Party is a dead horse and I ‘m not climbing back on that nag….no matter how “conservative” Hannity tells me they are.

“You’ll just through away your vote.” The Kool Aid drinkers tell me. “A third-party candidate can’t win.”

They’re probably right but I will not abandon my conscience. Voting for either one of those phonies gives me the heebie-geebies.

I had Alan Stang on my show Monday night. He said something to me that I couldn’t shake. You can listen for yourself, but allow me to repeat it as I recall it. Talking about the two parties and their candidates he said:

“It is like lying under a huge bug. Down on the ground where the bug’s feet are it looks like McCain and Obama are two different feet. But the farther up the legs you allow yourself to look you begin to realize that they really are nothing more than two legs connected to the same body.”

Unfortunately, the bug is a blood-sucker.

So here it is. I’m constantly hearing that all of the evil we see descending around us is nothing more than what Jesus told us would happen in the end. To fight it, is to fight the will of God. As a result, instead of fighting evil they sit inside their churches and pray for financial blessings to store up before Jesus returns. It never made sense to me. They fight to get stuff that they cannot keep, yet refuse to fight for what they must not lose.

Well, I’ve had enough of it. I ain’t voting for any more bugs. I figure that way maybe we will get the evil they have been waiting so long for. It will speed along the return of Jesus.

Maybe there are right….worse is better. No sense fighting the Lord.

Boy, I hope they’re right. If Obama gets in, we might get some judges who spit on the Constitution and perhaps take away the church’s tax exemption.

But, that might be a good thing. Taking the churches money might get the sissy boys riled up. Abortion didn’t do it and sodomy didn’t do it. But money….well now the government is messin’ where it don’t belong.

Maybe worse is better. Persecution can be a good thing. “But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.” Bring it on.

I ain’t votin’ for no bugs.

THINK YOU HAVE A CHOICE?

THINK YOU HAVE A CHOICE?

By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
June 30, 2008
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[Note: Why would the power elite want Senator Barack Obama rather than Senator Clinton as the Democrat nominee for President? It may be so that Senator McCain will win. Sen. Obama has a tremendous amount of “baggage.” In 1995, there was a fundraiser for Obama held at the home of William Ayers (Chicago Police Department mug shot IR 213710 on August, 27, 1968) and his wife Bernadine Dohrn (Chicago Police Department mug shot IR 246022 on August 26, 1969). Ayers is an unrepentant domestic terrorist and Obama must have known this. One of Obama’s fellow community organizers in Chicago, Mike Kruglik, said Obama was “the undisputed master of agitation” (THE NEW REPUBLIC, March 19, 2007). Relevant to the power elite’s “managers” of Obama, one of his prominent advisors looking for his vice-presidential running mate is Richard Danzig (Rhodes Scholar and former Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, and law clerk for Rhodes Scholar and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White). Danzig was also Secretary of the Navy under President Clinton – so much for Obama’s theme of “change,” about which we constantly hear. It reminds one of Jimmy Carter’s ad in 1976 which said: “In the beginning, Jimmy Carter’s campaign was a lonely one.

But through the months, more and more people recognized him as a new leader, a man who would change the way this country was run – a competent man who can make government open and efficient, but above all an understanding man who can make ours a government of the people once again. Jimmy Carter – a leader for a change.” Since we know the disastrous “change” Carter brought us, the power elite could set up Obama to lose to McCain, who pleased the power elite (PE) on June 20, 2008 while addressing the Economic Club of Toronto by signaling his support for the Security and Prosperity Partnership. He said the next president will add to the “security and prosperity of North American.” He also referred to our “security partnership,” the “integration of our economies,” and our “shared destiny.” He further indicated he would “defend NAFTA without equivocation,” and that the U.S. should “deepen its partnerships throughout the hemisphere and the world.” Because of upcoming national economic difficulties, McCain would serve only one term. Then the power elite could bring Hillary back in 2012. Regarding the future, on ABC News June 19, 2008, was reported that Basra is an Iraq “success story.” This is important because according to H.G. Wells in THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME (1933) Basra, not Baghdad or any other city in the world, is where a global conference will establish a world government.]

In Carroll Quigley’s book TRAGEDY AND HOPE (1966) about Cecil Rhodes and the PE, he expresses his support for the PE and says there really should be no significant differences between the two major political parties. Similarly, Skull & Bones (SB) member William Whitney in the late 19th century developed a plan whereby the PE would finance both major political parties and have them alternate power so the public thinks it has a choice when it really doesn’t.

The first SB member to be elected president was Republican William Howard Taft a century ago in 1908. His opponent, Democrat William Jennings Bryan was also acceptable to the globalist PE because he promised tariff reduction and favored beginning the income tax.

In 1912, SB member Taft ran again, but was defeated by Democrat Woodrow Wilson who was a PE puppet managed by its agent Colonel Edward M. House, a promoter of “socialism as dreamed of by Karl Marx.” This is because the PE was interested in establishing a Federal Reserve to get the country in debt.

Wilson was re-elected in 1916 with the theme “He kept us out of war,” although secret plans had already been made to enter World War I on the side of Britain and the Allies. This was discussed by Lord Esher (a member of Cecil Rhodes’ secret Society of the Elect) and a chief Wilson financial backer and PE member, Henry Morgenthau. Wilson’s opponent, Charles Evans Hughes, was guaranteed to lose because he failed to renounce support from German-American and Irish-American groups critical of Wilson’s pro-British policies.

In 1920, Warren Harding was elected president. Although he was a patriotic nationalist opposed to the League of Nations, he was controlled by party bosses “owned” by the PE. His opponent, James Cox, was acceptable to the PE because of his support of the Covenant of the League of Nations.

Calvin Coolidge was elected president in 1924 with the support of the PE, who approved his advocacy of a World Court, arms limitation, and international cooperation to maintain peace. His opponent, John Davis, was also acceptable to the PE because he advocated disarmament and the League of Nations.

In 1928, Herbert Hoover was elected president because he continued Coolidge’s foreign policy. His opponent, Al Smith, was also acceptable to the PE because his protégé was PE puppet Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). Although Hoover was acceptable to the PE, he was defeated in 1932 by FDR who was greatly influenced by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). On November 21, 1933 FDR wrote PE agent Col. House that they both knew the PE “owned” the U.S.

Colonel House’s promotion of socialism fit with FDR’s policies, which were described as socialist by Al Smith in 1936. In that year, FDR won re-election over Alf Landon who proposed no alternatives to FDR’s socialist programs, thus ensuring his defeat during those hard times.

Similarly, in 1940 the PE (J. P. Morgan interests and Lord Lothian of Cecil Rhodes’ secret society) had Wendell Willkie run against FDR so that Roosevelt’s re-election would be assured. After the election, Willkie went on missions for FDR and wrote ONE WORLD (1943) advocating world government.

FDR won re-election again in 1944 after doing the PE’s bidding by making a secret deal with Stalin on December 1, 1943 to give the Soviets Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, etc. after World War II. FDR’s opponent, Thomas Dewey, was also acceptable to the PE because he, like FDR, advocated an international organization (UN) to maintain world peace.

In 1948, Harry Truman was elected president. Though most people remember Truman as an all-American fellow, he was actually a supporter of world government, carrying in his pocket Lord Tennyson’s poem “Locksley Hall” about a “Federation of the World.” This made him acceptable to the PE, as was his 1948 opponent, Thomas Dewey, mentioned already.

In 1952, Dwight Eisenhower was elected president and, like Truman, he is perceived as a strong nationalist. Actually, he was puppet of PE managers and CFR leaders John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen Dulles. “Ike” was chosen by the PE because he was a globalist, advocating a “global flag” according to the July 24, 1951 CHICAGO TRIBUNE. His opponent, CFR member Adlai Stevenson, was also a globalist who wanted to continue FDR’s New Deal programs, thus making him acceptable to the PE.

Eisenhower was re-elected in 1956, later supporting a federal Atlantic Union and an international school “purged of national bias.” His opponent was again Adlai Stevenson.

In 1960, John Kennedy became president and was acceptable to the PE because he was a globalist, advocating complete disarmament, deferring to a new UN peace force. His opponent, Richard Nixon, was also a globalist and CFR member who supported a federal Atlantic Union as desired by the PE. In 1947, Congressman Nixon had introduced a resolution to allow the UN to enact, interpret and enforce world law. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson won the presidency, expanding the PE’s no-win Vietnam War that diminished patriotic values among American young adults. His opponent was Barry Goldwater, who was a rarity, not acceptable to the PE, which conducted a major media campaign scaring the public that Goldwater would start a nuclear war if elected.

In 1968, Nixon became president after writing in the CFR’s FOREIGN AFFAIRS of nations’ disposition “to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a new world order,” a key element of Cecil Rhodes’ secret society’s plan “to take the government of the whole world.” Nixon further endeared himself to the PE by telling Rhodes Scholar reporter Howard Smith that he (Nixon) was a Keynesian (socialist) in economics. Nixon’s opponent, Hubert Humphrey, was acceptable to the PE because he had supported FDR and LBJ’s policies regarding the Vietnam War.

Republican Nixon won re-election in 1972 against George McGovern, whom the PE set up to lose overwhelmingly because of his extreme anti-war views. This was necessary at this time because the PE wanted Nixon to open the door to Communist China via PE agent and CFR member Henry Kissinger. In 1976, it was time for the PE’s “alternation of power” mentioned at the first of this article. Democrat Jimmy Carter became president, winning over Republican Gerald Ford who had simply filled out Nixon’s second term and wasn’t very knowledgeable, though he was a CFR member and also acceptable to the PE. The PE had groomed Carter as a globalist, having Trilateral Commission (TC) director and CFR member Zbigniew Brzezenski become his National Security Advisor and many CFR members part of his administration.

Ronald Reagan defeated Carter in 1980 and is perceived as a nationalist. However, the PE “persuaded” him to have globalist and SB member George H.W. Bush (who sponsored a federal Atlantic Union in Congress in 1969) as his vice-president. The PE also knew Reagan had been a member of the World Federalist Association, and during a May 28-30, 1983, G-7 Economic Summit, Reagan pleased the PE by claiming “only a world currency will work.” This assured his re-election the next year (1984) against Walter Mondale, who was also acceptable to the PE because he was a CFR and TC member.

In 1988, globalist George H.W. Bush became president and proclaimed the need for a “new world order.” Once again, the PE provided a soft opponent in Michael Dukakis, whom the PE had surrounded with CFR advisors (seven of his eight foreign policy advisors).

In 1992, it was once again time for the PE’s “alternation of power,” as Republican Bush lost to Democrat Bill Clinton, who was mentored at Georgetown University by Prof. Carroll Quigley mentioned earlier. Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar who supported world government. The PE wanted NAFTA, GATT and the World Trade Organization, and Clinton unlike Bush could persuade enough Democrats to vote for them.

Bill Clinton won re-election in 1996 over Bob Dole who was endorsed by Rhodes Scholar and CFR member James Woolsey, former Clinton CIA director. Dole was also acceptable to the PE as he was greatly beholden to globalists such as Dwayne Andreas, head of Archer-Daniels-Midland, which was founded by SB member Thomas Daniels.

Alternating power once again, SB member and globalist George W. Bush became president in 2000, defeating Vice-President Al Gore. Gore’s father was vice-president of Occidental Petroleum under Armand Hammer, who was close to all Soviet dictators. Vice-President Gore was also acceptable to the PE, and on October 12, 1998announced his globalist “Declaration of Interdependence.”

In 2004, the PE saw to it that Bush’s re-election was assured as his opponent, fellow globalist and SB member John Kerry (CFR member), ran a lack-luster campaign.

Regarding the 2008 presidential election, I have in recent articles already explained how Senators John McCain and Barack Obama are both acceptable to the PE and are surrounded by CFR advisors. The point is that in election after election, the people think they have a choice but they really don’t.

In 1912, Woodrow Wilson said: “…We have come to be… one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world – no longer a government of conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men….” The PE have been in control ever since and are currently manipulating events to bring about a world currency. In the June 6, 2008 ASIA TIMES, Hossain Askari and Nourredine Krichene wrote “Time Overdue for a World Currency,” in which they stated: “The world economy is suffering from high inflation stemming from overly expansionary policy in the United States.” Their proposed solution – a world currency! Just what the P.E. wants.

© 2008 Dennis Cuddy - All Rights Reserved

MARRIAGE IS THE KEY TO SAVING OUR CIVILIZATION

MARRIAGE IS THE KEY TO SAVING OUR CIVILIZATION

by Alan Stang
July 4, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

Many women, some womanoids and a few men are responding to my pieces on feminism. What you have been reading all these months, doing double duty as magazine articles, are sections from my next book, a companion volume to Not Holier Than Thou: How Queer Is Bush? You may recall that my wife, the Love Priestess, demanded I write that one, about the sodomite infiltration of the Republican Party.

This new one is entitled Why Women Are So Crazy: Not In Their Place. Yes, it’s mealy-mouthed – I admit that – but because the subject is so explosive, I am trying to avoid controversy. The Love Priestess has demanded the right to do a Foreword, but there is nothing to fear; I shall get the last word in a Preface. Meanwhile, let’s suggest some practical remedies.

We know that one of the main purposes – maybe the main purpose – of the conspiracy for world government is to destroy marriage, the real thing, joining one man and one woman. That is why the conspiracy is frenetically promoting all kinds of perversions and calling them “marriage.” The conspiratorial purpose is to destroy the idea – if it is everything, it is nothing – and the scheme is working. Marriage is already shaky. It will be gone when a man can marry a (male) giraffe.

The conspiracy for world government wants to destroy marriage because without it you have government-owned women and government-owned children raised in Nazi dormitories. Hitler and Stalin tried versions of this, but because they were amateurs compared to our domestic conspirators, and lacked the necessary technology, they could not make it stick. We are much closer than they ever were, as Child Kidnapping Services, unfamily court and the recent mass abduction in the former Texas demonstrate.

At this late stage in the conflict it will be a massive job to turn the horror around. The conspiracy got where it is, within a narrow breadth of victory, a mere breath at a time. It can be routed, but only in the same way. Nothing is guaranteed, except that if you do nothing about it, you will lose for sure. Look at all the little things the conspiracy has done. Each by itself is inconsequential, but they add up to victory.

For instance, women used to have various titles, a situation related to the fact that they have many names. A man is born with a name and it remains his name throughout his life. Even the most stable women have more than one name, so until recently we used titles to describe their status. A Miss was an unmarried woman. A Mrs. was a married woman. A Mrs. John Smith had a living husband. A Mrs. Jane Smith was a widow.

Yes, I know that most of you know all this. I am not patronizing you. There could be some young people among us and, believe it or not, they do not know it. Today, on the contrary, all women are Ms. I want to write the plural here but don’t know how. What is the plural of Ms.? Where did Ms. come from? As far as I can tell, it came from the magazine of the same name.

That would mean Gloria Steinem, lifelong CIA agent, and the moron author of the classic line, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” After ruining the lives of God alone knows how many vulnerable women, lonely and childless because they didn’t need a man, CIA agent Gloria got married – to a man. Which may prove she’s a fish. Do you really want to think like a fish?

Which recalls that Gloria’s kind of womanoid doesn’t take her husband’s name because it is a man’s name; so she keeps the name she was born with, which she gets from her father, a man. In recent years, I have had occasion to talk with people in England, which in most respects is even more in the toilet than we are, but even the corrupt English appear to have retained Misses and their married counterparts.

When the Love Priestess found mail in our box addressed to a “Ms.,” she routinely would throw it in the garbage. I’m sure we lost a lot of perfectly good mail like that; maybe that’s why it doesn’t seem to happen any more. Imagine the result if everyone did something like it.

In a related phenomenon, newspapers used to enter a lady’s correct title to indicate her status, when printing her name. Now, they do not even use the bastardization “Ms.” Rather, they call her by her last name like a man. I haven’t been able to find the origin of this disrespect.

I suspect the New York Times, where the reporters put their pants on backwards for easy access and have been exposed as liars again and again. They have done everything they could to impose Communism around the world. Do you really want such people to govern your language? The good news is that the nation’s red newspapers – even the Times – are in the toilet.

We saw in an earlier lesson that a gentleman is a gentle man. A gentleman seats a lady at dinner. You do that by pulling her chair from the table, and gently pushing it forward when she sits down. You do this as an expression of respect. I do it routinely at home when the Love Priestess and I chow down. What? You do it when just the two of you are eating? Who would know what you did? We would. We do it for ourselves.

By the way, you should also rise from the table when she leaves to “powder her pretty nose,” and rise again when she returns. Another expression of respect, which is why the art no longer is taught. So arcane has this civilized practice become that, were you to do it today in public, some people at your table, puzzled, would probably remark, “Are we leaving already? We just got here.” Be discreet. If the other men at your table are ignorant, you don’t want to show off.

So much has been lost and must be restored. There used to be arbiters of manners, foremost among them Emily Post, who in a volume as hefty as Roberts Rules explained the nuances of etiquette. Did you know that even meeting a lady is an art? If she extends her hand perpendicular to the floor, take hold of it, but don’t squeeze it like a man’s. If she extends it palm down, it’s okay to kiss it.

Sure, pal, you laugh, but the kissed lady will feel an electrical impulse from the soles of her feet to the tips of her hair. Try it. Sometimes, she will extend her cheek. Go ahead and kiss it. Some Christian ladies will expect a light, brotherly kiss on the lips. Always, the lady decides.

Guess what, girls, it’s okay to be a woman. It’s okay to wear a dress. It’s okay to be feminine. If it’s okay to be a bull dyke, it’s okay to be a homemaker. It’s okay to have lots of babies. Don’t apologize. See lots of Maureen O’Hara movies and read Taylor Caldwell’s Growing Up Tough. If you are that kind of woman, you will attract a man you can lean on, who is more than a mere metrosexual wimp.

Today’s marriage in so many cases has been denigrated to the status of a passing whim. It used to be a solemn contract, something really important. When it was really important, people took it seriously. They worked at it. Today, when the slightest thing goes wrong, the participants bail without another thought. The governing principle appears to be what each partner can get from the other, rather than what they can do for each other. Our leaders have done this to us.

The Love Priestess was pregnant for years. For months at a time, she couldn’t see her feet. She was an ocean liner; I was her tug boat. I used to get down on a knee to put her shoes on and take them off. Today, when she says she wants something, I jump up and try to get it. I derive intense joy from doing things for her, serving her. I don’t translate what she does for me into points. For the same reason, when I want something, she runs for it. When my shoe lace is untied, she ties it. When I want a glass of wine, I bang on a glass and yell, “Bartender!” and she brings it.

There is a four letter word for all this. By the way, I don’t tell you all this to show off, but because obviously our experience is closer to us than anyone else’s. You have your own. All of these minutiae make a real marriage. In the communist government schools and the communist media, the conspiracy for world government is replacing it with paltry, casual sex. The conspiracy tried to replace God’s government – marriage – with Nazism and Communism, both of which the conspiracy created. They are trying to do the same thing here today.

Here, at no additional charge, is a technique guaranteed to maintain the excitement in your marriage. On special occasions like her birthday and Mother’s Day, you now give your wife a gift. Nothing wrong with that; it’s good. But however nice your gift is, your wife, eminently practical, thinks, “Sure, a couple of dozen roses are nice. But he had to do that! It’s my birthday.” If you didn’t you would be standing in deep kimchi.

Pick a day when absolutely nothing is happening, a day when you don’t have to do anything. On that day, shoot in a couple of dozen roses, or maybe a box of chocolates. You only need to do that a couple or three times to arouse a condition I call Creative Neurotic Anticipation, in which she is always on edge, always wondering whether this is the day.

Don’t overdo it, or it will become routine and lose its excitement. By the way, since you are smart enough to be reading this, you probably already know it, but, just in case, you will get much better results from CNA if no one else’s lipstick is on your collar when you make a presentation.

Again, the conspiracy for world government deserves to be where it is. It has worked assiduously for many decades, undermining marriage, the basic unit of civilization, using perverts for the purpose. We can only win with the same application, a dozen roses at a time, restoring genuine marriage to the supreme status it deserves.

P.S. The Love Priestess says most of this is nonsense, and she will correct it in her Foreword to the book.

[Announcement: Alan Stang's new radio show, The Sting of Stang, will debut on Monday, July 14th, 7 to 8 a.m., Central, M-F, via Republic Broadcasting Network. To listen, go to republicbroadcasting.org and click on Listen Live. Call in is 800 313-9443. If you can't listen at that time, do so via the archives, which are free. I'll be talking about the various manifestations of the conspiracy for world government, its tactics, such as the illegal alien invasion, its purposes and its players, from Jorge W. Boosh on down.]

SCARLET IS OUR COLOR

SCARLET IS OUR COLOR

By Jim R. Schwiesow

May 12, 2008
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Time is fleeting and every second, minute, hour and day hurtles this nation closer to a time of retribution, a time so horrific that the mind cannot comprehend the magnitude of the fiery fury that will descend upon this nation and the people in it. The Eternal is moving against this country with purpose and terrible resolve, like small fingers of flame the preliminary pestilences signal a rapidly advancing holocaust.

The worst of heathen have come to possess the offices of our government, the halls of our institutions and the minds of our people. The land is in the terminal stages of a great spiritual disease. We are an adulterous people and a scarlet A has been emblazoned upon our land.

With regularity one hears it parroted that God’s blessings are upon this nation, those who give lip service only to the God of all creation continually wring their hands in despair over the removal of God from our coins, prayer from our schools and the Ten Commandments from our public institutions. One can only wonder where these same people were when sexual perversity and the teaching of social filthiness invaded our schools. Where were they when derelict and avaricious politicians and government agents incrementally and systematically dismantled the Constitution and destroyed the individual liberties of the people? Under what rock were they hiding when the killing of live babies was sanctioned and a host of soul killing perversions were institutionalized?

Why would a supposed God-fearing people allow such to come to pass? The truth is that the more than one-half of the people of this country who call themselves Christian, a great majority of which are ashamed to utter the name of Jesus Christ in public, have done more spiritual damage than the totality of the non-religious, the atheists and the agnostics who reside in the country.

God’s blessings were withdrawn from this nation years ago, if that were not the case why is it that our vaunted power came to naught in wars with such small peanuts on the international scene as North Korea and North Viet Nam, two tiny two bit nations with little in the way of sophisticated weaponry at the time of their conflict with the United States. Some will bristle and bridle at this and many will alibi the defeats with any number of excuses none of which will explain away the fact that they won and we lost.

That God has broken our pride in our power is not the worst of it, we are seeing increasingly the punishments for our national sins and our refusal to keep faith with the Eternal God our creator and our master. Perversions lie upon this land like a filthy blanket. The land stinks of the rottenness of the lusts that prevail. We now find ways to make iniquitous pursuits seem righteous. With the passing of statutes and a stroke of a pen, Walla! We have made despicable sins acceptable or at least we think that we have. We may fool the fools that pander after the lusts of the flesh that Satan has put into their hearts, but we have not fooled the all-knowing omnipotent God. Those who think that they have are in for a very rude awakening indeed.

We have delivered our children into an ignorance of their origin by prostelyzing for Satan and promoting his religion of evolution. Some like to call it evolutionary science, but I do not because it is not a science, it is an ignorant supposition or theory and those who embrace it denigrate the Holy God and call Him a liar. Many, who call themselves Christian, are ignobly timid and faint-hearted in the face of the blustering of those who believe that they have an absolute right to force their nescient theories upon an entire nation of people. So these pusillanimous weak-kneed Christians genuflect to Satan’s agents in an attempt to placate them by urging an alternative evolution theory the substance of which is that God used evolution to create mankind. Its fine if they want to believe that, but if they do they ought not to call themselves Christians. God’s word specifically states that the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. There is no equivocation here and there is certainly no compromise with the devil and his demons who know quite well that man is not a product of a successive morphing of primitive species.

The dam has been breached in regard to the rapid delivery of the nation unto ever escalating catastrophes, manmade and natural, a trickle of such has turned into a deluge.

The dollar has all but collapsed; the economy is on its deathbed and kept barely alive by snake oil remedies that only prolong its inevitable demise. Corporations and industry moguls have discerned the depth of the sickness that they have contributed to and like rats off a sinking ship they are abandoning the country of the birth of their enterprises and moving their wealth and their assets to foreign lands. Crime flourishes; serial killers and others of criminally debased minds stalk the land. The cities are immoral cesspits and simmering racial tensions fed by illegal immigration and shattered family units portend rapidly approaching riots of an astronomical and deadly potential.

It used to be that natural calamities were relatively rare occurrences, we now see deadly and super destructive natural phenomena strike almost daily somewhere in the United States and the areas of destruction are more widely spread. Devastating widespread flooding, thousands of violent tornadoes, hurricanes of magnum strength and completely unseasonable weather patterns are rapidly becoming the norm rather than the exception. The 10 most deadly natural disasters ever in the United States have all happened within the past 10 years.

The secularists who make up the majority of the scientific community and the national media would have us believe that all this havoc is caused by men and the changes they have wrought in regard to atmospheric conditions. They cannot be expected to know the real source of these anomalies since they have no spiritual base whatever, even if they would open a Bible they would be completely mystified by the contents. They prattle on thinking that they are wise. They do not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for it is foolishness to them; and they cannot understand these things because they are spiritually discerned. Those who are enlightened and who do dissent in regard to the global warming myth are bullied and threatened into silence, just as those who question evolution are stifled by threats of loss of tenure, censure and loss of jobs. The agents of deception who serve the dark spirits cannot allow the light of truth to be shined upon the lies that they spin, and since they have not the truth to rely on they resort to smearing those who will not assent to their prevarications. A smirk, a sneer, a curled lip of disdain and churlish commentary are the tools of their trade and a gullible public is their ally in the transforming of their outright lies into fictitious truths.

The unrighteousness of our people, the moral degradation upon the nation, the rebellion against Almighty God and the rejection of His rule have brought us to the cusp of absolute destruction. Repent is not in our vocabulary and humility does not inhabit our soul, foolishness is forever on our lips and pride and arrogance mark our character.

The ignorance of our leaders and the delusion upon the people has made way for the institution of the elements of our own destruction. Our cities are teeming with forty million illegal foreign nationals with no allegiance to, or regard for, our safety or our domestic tranquility. They see the American people as intruders and interlopers on lands that they covet as their own. We allow unfettered access to many thousands of Islamic militants each year and have allowed them to establish hundreds of Mosques throughout the country, which serve as sovereign citadels for subversion and truculence. In deference to political correctness we have undermined our social underpinnings and delivered up our schools and other institutions to moral bankruptcy. Only a nation that has been cut-off by Almighty God could have been handed over to such great vulnerability.

We have foolishly expended our resources and frittered away our assets. Auguries of a coming food shortage are upon us. We are diverting our crops to the making of fuel and food reserves are at a thirty-year low. Food inflation has become more serious than the rising cost of fuel. Given the unnatural weather patterns that are upon us it is inevitable that we will in the very near future experience massive crop failures through drought and other weather related developments. Famine will bring us to riots of unthinkable dimensions. The cities will erupt with the fires of such and the toll in death and destruction will be fearsome. But, the end is not yet.

The cataclysmic events described heretofore will weaken the nation and render us completely vulnerable to attacks by belligerent nations. At the present time the fuse has been lit in the middle east that will ignite most definitely a third world war. But, it will not be the Islamic nations that will put an end to us. It will be the nations, our former enemies of Europe, who have risen like a Phoenix from the ashes of their defeat and been reborn in their nazi fascist image that will make an end of us.

Many have written to me and bewailed what they see as a failure by me and other columnists with NewsWithViews.com to provide solutions to the problems that we describe. They concede that we have accurately identified the degradation that it upon our nation, but they want someone to provide the answers that will deliver the nation from a seemingly imminent demise. The truth is that there are no secular solutions that will deliver this nation. No resolution other than a nationwide confession of sin and repentance thereof will save this nation.

In one of my articles I quoted the following scripture and noted that some took umbrage over my application of this scripture to the United States. Protestations to prophetic scripture will not prevent the fulfillment thereof.

“How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. Revelation 18:7-8”

© 2008 - Jim R. Schwiesow - All Rights Reserved

A CITIZENS' AUDIT OF AN AMERICAN ELECTION

A CITIZENS' AUDIT OF AN AMERICAN ELECTION

By: Devvy
July 10, 2008

© 2008 - NewsWithViews.com

I have been writing about vote fraud since 1993 when I ran for Congress the first time. You see, I had read a book titled, Vote Scam: The Stealing of America, and the light bulb went on about incumbents getting "reelected" for decades - incumbents the voters wanted gone. How could these buzzards continue to "win" elections when the electorate didn't want them? Vote Scam pinned it down for me. I realized our elections had been stolen from the late 1960s.

Of course, when I "lost" in 1994 and 1996, and brought up the issue of vote fraud, it was a case of "sour grapes" or "sore loser." I knew better and have stayed on this issue ever since. My many columns are available, just use any search engine and they will pop up. Those dozens of columns are filled with links about provable vote fraud. The stealing of our elections via electronic machines and scanners is real. Due to the Herculean efforts of thousands of Americans, we have brought this issue to the fore front and made huge gains in getting rid of ALL electronic machines and scanners. However, the job is far from over.

Regular readers of my columns know I would never vote for Al Gore, John Kerry, George Bush, Barack Hussein Obama or Juan McCain, if my life depended on it. What's important here is that vote fraud hurts everyone. The rigging of our elections isn't just at the presidential level, it affects votes for Congress, sheriff, judges, mayors, ballot measures and the electoral college. Our Founding Fathers gave we the people the ballot box to get rid of rotten, corrupt, incompetent politicians and the bullet box to back it up if necessary. Gasp! Yes, that actually happened in what is known as the Battle of Athens (Tennessee) in 1946.

Progress has been in made in getting rid of these easily rigged voting machines, but replacing them with scanners is just as bad. Electronic voting on-line is stupidity in its highest form. If you click here you can watch a video showing how a scanner recorded a zero vote in the test, but after the ballots were fed in, the final count was upside down. After my alleged loss to Congressman Wally the Waffle Herger [R-CA] in March 1996, I wrote my booklet, Blind Loyalty. It is a damning portrait of how our elections were being stolen. Over the years, outstanding organizations like BlackBoxVoting.org have done nothing short of remarkable work in proving massive vote fraud.

The biggest mistake the shadow government made regarding vote fraud was the 2000 Bush v Gore election and the State of Florida. However, while that mess thrust the issue of vote fraud to the forefront, that didn't stop the chicanery and the 2004 presidential "election" was just as corrupted.

Richard Hayes Phillips, a former college professor, has written a new book titled, Witness to a Crime: A Citizens' Audit of an American Election. This monstrous undertaking covers the 2004 election results in the State of Ohio. Remember, the chief executive for the biggest vote fraud machine operation in this country said he would deliver Ohio to Bush. He did. What makes Phillips investigation so compelling is the book is filled with concrete proof that the voters of Ohio were robbed of their right to fair and impartial elections. The amount of work that went into this investigation is staggering: 30,0000 images of forensic evidence, then personally examining 126,000 ballots, 127 poll books and 141 voter signature books from 18 counties in Ohio. This is the definitive and documented evidence of crimes that cannot, must not be ignored.

One thing that showed up in his findings was the same thing I wrote about back in 1996: discrepancies in the numbers during the voting process - where are they? If you click here and go to page seven of my findings, you'll see what I'm talking about. I knew what happened: vote rigging and it was done by the machines. We saw the same thing repeat itself during this last phony primary season. A recount was paid for and done in the State of New Hampshire. The so-called final audit of the numbers did not agree with the results as recorded on primary night. Of course, the numbers continue to change for weeks after a primary or election; I've covered this in previous columns in detail.

What is the current status in NH? To my knowledge, while Bev Harris has done a great job out there, nothing has happened to bring this to an official investigation. Nothing will happen unless the people of New Hampshire demand a criminal investigation by their Attorney General. I filed a Right to Know request in an effort to get some documentation. The first box of documents I received weighed a hundred pounds. In the box wasn't a single thing I requested, just a ton of tally sheets. Two weeks ago I received more documents. These are copies of pay vouchers for New Hampshire State Police regarding the escort of the ballot boxes for the recounts, which I did not request. The rest of my Right to Know request has been ignored altogether:

- All records, memos, directives, correspondence, phone memos, hand written communication, computer generated documents and email by you or any personnel in your office pertaining to the recount cited above.

- Any written or electronic communications, hand written communications, memos or directives, to include phone memos, computer generated documents and email between you or any personnel in your office with Attorney General Kelly A. Ayotte, or any personnel in her office.

- All correspondence, electronic, hand written or computer generated, memos, directives and phone messages between you or any personnel in your office with an entity or persons known as 'Butch & Hoppy,’ who transported the ballots to the location where the recount is being conducted.

- All correspondence, records, memos, phone records, electronic, hand written or computer generated between you or any personnel in your office with Colonel Frederick H. Booth, Director, Division of State Police or any personnel in his office pertaining to the transporting of the ballots for said recount.

I live 2,000 miles from Concord, New Hampshire, the capitol. Ron Paul supporters were justifiably incensed about the results of their fake primary. The only way justice will be done is if a large enough group of them force the issue with the Attorney General. I know Bev Harris is working on some further documentation, but in the end, it has to be the voters who raise enough hell for an investigation. I can tell you that if I lived in the State of New Hampshire, I would have already made this a major issue with the General Court (legislature), the AG and the media. This issue is too important to simply drop. Fair and impartial elections are the only way we have in booting out those who are destroying this country.

If we had real newspapers in this country, the vote fraud issue and the repeal of the insidious Motor Voter Law of 1993, would be resolved by now. The American people would realize how they're being cheated and descend on their state capitols, regardless of party. I'm excited to say that the first edition of USA Tomorrow is now out and being delivered to 1.5 MILLION households in selected areas of Northern California and Houston. A full color, 24 page newspaper with the truth reaching our fellow Americans without computers and to those who have a PC, but aren't getting on the right web sites. One American put up a king's purse to get this new publishing venture on its way, which is also helping Americans earns extra income delivering the papers. If you would like a complimentary copy of the first edition, just click here.

The US~Observer is a 16-year old newspaper that has had tremendous impact on the Southern Oregon area and the politicial landscape. Just imagine if all 67 distributorships are up and running in all 50 states by November, the impact it would have on local issues as well as the elections at all levels! Like our Founding Fathers, we have to have real newspapers to change the direction of this country. If you would like to become part of newspaper history, please contact the US~Observer (Tedd Peck) at 928-777-8851 or their offices in Oregon at 1.541.474.7885.

Americans want their newspaper as well as the Internet. No censorship, just hard hitting facts right into American homes. Recently, I told Ed Snook, owner of the US~ Observer, that the shadow government must be praying to Satan that these two ventures fail because they are a huge threat to their plans for world domination. Time is short as we all know. The noose continues to tighten as both parties in Congress not only continue to pass draconian laws, the drums for war grow louder for another unconstitutional military action (using another resolution instead of the required Declaration of War) against Iran. Many of you have seen the report from Congressman Ron Paul that members of Congress want to simply nuke Iran! Does anyone see this bloody situation spiraling out of control by this mad man in the White House and these crazies in Congress?

If you're a state legislator, county commissioner, county board of supervisor, mayor other elected official, you should get Phillips book and share it with your colleagues and stop all electronic machines and scanners from being used in November 2008. This book also contains a CD; order here.

America: Don't let your state legislator or local official tell you machines and scanners are "cheaper." BULL. They are grossly expensive and have destroyed fair and impartial elections. How many tens of millions have been spent on lawyers over the presidential elections, lawsuits against the states, etc.? Here's the facts about that weak argument. Who wants 'fast food' elections? I want accurate, fair elections. How about you?

No matter your political party, we must return to hand counted paper ballots with no electronic machines or those easily pre-programmed scanners. No exceptions. No machines in any form. Every county in the country MUST purge their voting rolls of illegals. These hand counted paper ballots must be counted in the precincts in front of anyone who wants to watch. As a candidate for Congress, I can tell you, I would rather have waited 2-3 days to find out the real results than to be cheated by machines. All those wonderful people who supported me, both financially and with their time, were also cheated and that is not the American way.

TODAY'S CHRISTIANS: NO HOPE IN GOD'S WAY

TODAY'S CHRISTIANS: NO HOPE IN GOD'S WAY

By Chuck Baldwin

July 9, 2008

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I ask the indulgence of my non-churched readers, as this column is specifically designed to challenge the hearts and minds of professing believers.

The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah faced a generation that is very similar to the one we face today, I am afraid. Political and corporate leaders had given themselves over to corruption and duplicity. The fundamental underpinnings that founded and supported the nation were being dismantled. And the spiritual leaders seemed to be powerless to do anything about it.

Accordingly, Jehovah God told Jeremiah to give this message to the people of Israel:

"At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

"If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

"And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

"If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

"Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

"And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart." (Jeremiah 18:7-12 KJV)

When these Hebrews said, "There is no hope," they were not saying, "It's all over. We are all doomed. It is helpless." No, they were not saying that at all. What they were saying was, "Doing it God's way offers no hope. We will do it our way. We will rely upon our own devices, wisdom, and strength. We can get ourselves out of this mess." That is the spirit these people possessed.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I submit that this is exactly the same spirit that many professing Christians display today.

Most everyone, including Christian people, realize that our country is in a mess. They readily agree that a divine healing is needed. They even use the great stories and examples of the Bible to teach our boys and girls how to obey and trust God. They extol the examples of Daniel, the three Hebrew children, Simon Peter and the Apostles, etc. They use these stories to illustrate the importance of putting obedience to God and God's principles above the machinations and demands of men.

When it comes to voting for and supporting candidates who have proven themselves to be unfaithful to the fundamental principles of liberty and good government, however, these same Christians suddenly become enamored with "the lesser of two evils," and pragmatism. Doing right gives way to being "practical," and standing for principle gives way to "not throwing my vote away."

Had Daniel been "practical," he would have stopped praying for a few weeks and stayed out of the lions' den. Had the three Hebrew children been "pragmatic," they would have given a symbolic bow to the statue of Nebuchadnezzar. And I can just hear Christians living in the First Century talking about how they would vote for Nero over Caligula, as he would be "the lesser of two evils."

And from our own history, had America's Founding Fathers heeded the advice of the "experts" and pundits, they would never have signed the Declaration of Independence and fought a war for independence. Absolutely no one gave those brave patriots any chance--any chance--of victory.

Yet, both secular and sacred history are replete with the examples of brave men and women who were willing to defy the conventional wisdom and understanding of their times to stand boldly and courageously for the principles of truth and freedom. In fact, people who dared to defy the accepted wisdom of their age almost always accomplished the truly great exploits of history. Christians, among all people, should know this best.

How has it happened, then, that Christians cannot find the courage and resolve to support principle above political partisanship? How is it that we have come to embrace "the lesser of two evils" as a legitimate philosophy of voting? How is it that our spiritual leaders seem to be more concerned about being politically correct than they are about being Biblically correct?

I believe that God is waiting for His people in America to do what He told Jeremiah's generation to do: live and act according to His principles and trust Him with the result. Instead, many of us seem to be doing exactly what Jeremiah's generation did: we want to be pragmatic and wise in our own eyes and do it our way.

Think what God might do in our land today if every Christian, every God-fearing man and woman in America, would simply vote their principles every time they walked into a voting booth, even if the candidate had "no chance" of winning and whether he or she was told they would be "wasting" their vote or not. I wonder what God might do? (Besides, when we vote for evil, what exactly have we "won," even if they are victorious?)

I am reminded of one of my all-time favorite quotes spoken by John Quincy Adams. He said, "Duty is ours; results are God's."

When people--especially Christian people--start doing their duty and standing for truth and principle, whether it is considered politically incorrect, or unpopular, or "naïve," or anything else; then, and only then, will God give us the results that will bring healing and restoration of our land.

So, how many of us will determine to do our duty? Or, how many of us will say, "There is no hope in doing it God's way; I will rely upon men's devices and do it their way"? The way we answer that question will largely determine America's future--for good or for bad.

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© 2008 Chuck Baldwin - All Rights Reserved

THE ENERGY DEPRESSION

THE ENERGY DEPRESSION
From: The Daily Reckoning (June, 2008)

The crisis that began last year seems far from over.

But the big losses, yesterday, were in gold. The yellow metal was down $27 yesterday – to $871. Investors must have figured that gold was doomed – now that the Fed has turned its big guns to an inflation-fighting position.

Now, the dollar will strengthen...(it went up to $1.54 per euro yesterday)...inflation rates will go down...oil will go down – everything will be okay. Really. Honest. No kidding.

But the big question is: how can the Fed really fight inflation, after the biggest jump in unemployment in 22 years? How strongly can the Fed really resist inflation?

We don’t know, but it might not have to. American consumers are buying less from the rest of the world. This leaves less U.S. money in the hands of foreign central banks...and less reason for them to inflate their own currencies. Less demand = less inflation = lower prices. But the price of lower prices is high. It means a worldwide slump...which brings down oil, commodities, gold, employment – and equities. This is not the sort of world in which the Fed raises rates. The Fed’s “fight” against inflation is likely to succeed, in other words, only if it doesn’t need to fight at all.

*** “What’s your solution?” asked a reader in response to Friday’s Daily Reckoning. “Or isn’t there one? If the world’s population is going to implode will that be through mass starvation/dehydration? Or will we run out of beer and all end up killing each other? Or will a terrorist bomb wipe us all out first? Will technology save the day? Isn’t the whole thing survival of the fittest? Is survival of the fittest really the best way of describing it for the human race? Or is it more ‘luck’... Is there a solution, or do we just sit back and watch the world fall apart?”

*** Comes no answer, but more thoughts, from our Pittsburg correspondent, Byron King:

“‘Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor,’ go the words to a sturdy old Anglican hymn.

“Well, at $138 per barrel of oil, I think we are about to find out how dear those prayers really are. This, plus the impending agricultural disaster due to low planting levels and other bad weather, will spell impoverishment for large swaths of the American middle class.

“In the United States, the poor and working poor are already marginalized. Now, with the ongoing melt-up in oil prices the middle class is being financially suffocated.

“Just on Thursday and Friday of last week, wholesale gasoline prices went up 33-cents. No typo. That’s 33 cents, in two days. So let’s round it out and add another $500 to the annual gasoline bill to operate one average automobile in the US of A. If you are a two-car household, make that number $1,000. Just from a two-day spike. And that does not count the impact on diesel (killing trucking & agriculture) and jet fuel (killing airlines).

“We are seeing the rapid evisceration of the guts of the U.S. economy. We are seeing the beginnings of an Energy Recession, if not an Energy Depression.

“Back in the Great Depression of the 1930s, it was different. There were ample natural and energy resources, but the factories were closed. There were factories, of course, but the workers were laid off. There were workers, but no one could afford to hire them. The banks had failed due to lack of funds. Overall there was just not enough money priming the pump to get things moving.

“Problem now? The resources are depleted. Many of the factories are gone and not replaced. Indeed, we have a manufacturing-averse culture in many respects. (The faux-environment movement has not helped.) Our educational system has produced a lop-sided labor force, such that there are critical skills shortages all through key parts of the economy (like energy...).

“And there’s too damn much ‘money’ floating around. Actually, it’s just excess U.S. currency in the form of credit instruments. Much of it has floated into the hands of people who are not ‘us.’ A few key resource-producing areas, along with overseas governments and sovereign wealth funds, have control over immense levels of global cash flow. With the rapid run-up in energy prices they are draining the daily capital out of the United States.

“So the overall view is.... not enough resources, not enough productive capacity (especially, with energy), not enough skilled labor, and a decapitalized-indebted-illiquid-insolvent financial system that cannot get traction to move ahead.

“And when you don’t move ahead, you fall behind.

“Start praying...”