Happy Holidays Everyone

Blessings and joy to you all. May your end of this year be grand and the new year be wonderful for all of you. This is the last transmission of the 2009 season.

D.E.H.

A Thanksgiving Thought

A Thanksgiving Thought

* If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof
overhead and a place to sleep ... you are richer than 75% of this
world.

* If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in
a dish someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

* If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ... you are
more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.

* If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation... you
are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

* If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest,
torture, or death ... you are more blessed than three billion people in
the world.

* If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very rare, even
in the United States.

* If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful
... you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.

* If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on the
shoulder ... you are blessed because you can offer healing touch.

* If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that
someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than
over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.


Isn't this a wonderful day to give thanks?

Famous Quotes by President John F. Kennedy

Photo: President Kennedy with children John Jr. & Caroline.

America's 35th President was John F. Kennedy. Along with his acknowledged charm and wit, good looks, and classic male apparel, he loved football, golf, sailing,and literature. One of his favorite novelist was Ian Flemming, the creator of James Bond. He himself was also a writer and won critical acclaim for his book, "Profiles in Courage".

He was also an officer in the Navy and commanded PT 109 during WWII. After he became elected and early in the Vietnam war he initiated the Navy Seals for our military. His speeches deserve attention even today as he clearly warns the nation of some of the dangers we would face in the future if they were ignored. These are some of his most famous quotes. "Jack" as his friends called him was assassinated by gunshot(s)on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy - Risk - Action

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy - Negotiation - Fear

And so, my fellow Americans.. Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy - Action - America - Questions - Encouragement

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy - Education - Great - Hopes - Dreams - Strength

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy - Freedom - Growth

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger-but recognize the opportunity.
John F. Kennedy - Risk - Crisis - Opportunity

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy - Ideas - Death

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises.. it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.
John F. Kennedy - Encouragement - America - Challenges

A man does what he must.. in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures.. and that is the basis of all human morality.
John F. Kennedy - Risk - Challenges - Ethics

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy - Change - Life - Motivational

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy - Forgiveness

Two of my personal favorites are listed below.

...if by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.”- John F. Kennedy, September 14, 1960

On November 22, 1963, the day he was assassinated in Dallas, John F. Kennedy was scheduled to give a speech in which he would have said:

“We in this country, in this generation, are – by destiny rather than choice – the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of ‘peace on earth, goodwill toward men.’ That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago, ‘except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.’”

John F. Kennedy is not only remembered by his remaining immediate family but by the extended family of ever faithful men and women who also have high hopes.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone All Over the World - D.E.H.

A Whole New Form of Goverment?

As far back as 1980, perhaps before, Dave Emory has been sharing his anti-fascist research with the population. Being an appreciator of public broadcasting I ventured one evening to stay awake and listen to his one hour broadcast on KPFK in Los Angeles. I’ve been hooked ever since. He is precise with his deliberation, consistently well researched, and reminiscent of some of my best college professors in that the information he shares is always outlined with plenty of resources and begs the question, “why”.

Today he has the internet and he has archived his works for the past twenty plus years at www.spitfire.com for you. You will be overwhelmed by how many tag or subjects there are available for research. But what I love about his work is that he is able to tie together the players, the settings, the time-frames, thus giving the listener a whole new appreciation for the unpleasant side of history.

In light of the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, I’d like to spend a few moments in his memory. I listened to a discussion between Dave Emory and writer Mr. Paris Flammonde, author of one of the best and earlier books, “The Kennedy Conspiracy”, 1969. It was one of the first books to reveal separate facts from fiction and lay solid ground for the thesis that the Warren Commissions conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald, the lone nut who shot the President, was false.

Paris and Dave got together for a meeting of minds to discuss what has America become since that assassination in the year 2008. To listen to the one hour interview go to www.spitfire.com and search for archive FTR 626 titled, “A Whole New Form of Government”.



There are several eye-popping facts brought out in this interview that I think few people know, but should. Before I list them you need to understand that the launch-point for these two researchers agreement that America is not what it used to be, and in fact has evolved into something wholly different from where President Kennedy was leading it, begins with an interrogation back in 1963, a few days after the President was announced dead, between the Warren Commission and Jack Ruby.

The moment was used a key scene in Oliver Stone’s hit film, “JFK”. During that interrogation, Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner in Dallas, and reputed made man, asked the commission to move him to Washington, D.C. He would tell them what he knew, but he couldn’t discuss there. He hinted that soon a “whole new form of government” was about to take over. In other words, the assassination was not a revenge plot to satisfy old political and big business beefs. It was a coup d’etat. A change of government.



Those of you who have been paying attention to your country know can sense the changes even if it is difficult to articulate what they are. We know for example that President Kennedy wanted to remove our troops from Vietnam prior to 1970. McNamara’s visit to the region and report firmly indicated that we could not win that war. However, the war was wanted, needed, by other powerful entities. President Kennedy’s bill to end that war was reversed within days of his assassination.

If he had succeeded in ending that war one may concur that his efforts would have stifled military budget increases and expansion substantially. If he had not been killed war making policies would doubt remained limited to involvement of wars we should be involved in instead of wars we should not be fighting.

According to Paris Flammonde, today the U.S. State Department has 600,000 troops, serving in 135 countries. It also has 6000 buildings spread over a total of 30,000,000 acres. A small building is estimated to be one valued at $800,000,000!

From these little ditties alone one can make a strong case that our military's expansion across the world is a far cry from what President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King had hoped for.

Many people also know that President Kennedy upset the apple cart by trying to return our monetary system to sovereign backed gold system. With his demise that effort was obliterated and we now see what being an debtor nation looks and feels like. He wanted to crush the CIA into little splinters. We know that the CIA has grown into a very ominously powerful,and rich organization today. One item few people may know about is that President Kennedy wanted to create “oil depletion allowances” to stave off future unaffordable barrel prices that are breaking the backs of American’s at the gas pumps.



Photo: Time Magazine.

That must have angered some very rich and powerful oil people and companies too. For today we consume more oil than all other countries. Soon distributors and manufacturers will serve countries like China and India whose demand will surpass ours. The cost of distribution will be less expensive since it is easier to deliver to those countries from the oil fields of the middle-east than it is shipping by boats overseas to us. Most importantly, our consumption levels and dependence is lowering our prestige and leverage in the world.

A crucial point to know is that Iraq has the worlds second largest oil reserves. Has anyone noticed that as the violence worsens since our military pullout the cost of a barrel as risen too? Did you know the U.S. controls 80% of the worlds wealth, but has only 1.5% of the worlds population? Do you wonder sometimes why foreign countries refer to us as imperialist?

If you are under 40 years of age everything may seem alright to you. I highly recommend you talk to your elders with interest on the impact of the changes they have witnessed since the death of President Kennedy. You may be surprised by what you really learn.

To conclude Dave made a very interesting comment about where he thinks America is today since the assassination. He sadly thinks that our country is little more than a marketing concept where soldiers are used to make sure our multi-national interest are implemented around the globe in behalf of the biggest conglomerate of them all, the United States of America. Corporatism is a word Mussolini used to define fascism.

Are we moving in the right direction? Are you comfortable about our prospects as a nation? What do you think?

THAT WHICH WAS, IS, AND WILL BE - II

Recently there have been efforts by some to promote quatrains by Nostradamus indicating that December 21, 2012 would be the end of what we know about the Earth and civilization.

I responded to an online offer to see what one of these publishers had to say. It was a very nicely written article about Nostradamus, the quatrain in question, and and offer to better prepare us for that time.

The assumption is of course that lots of bad things will suddenly happen and change every aspect of life as we know it.

I personally do not care to find value in Nostradamus. The Bible has already shown me and many others about future times although it does not provide a specific date. So we live by faith and our patients is nurtured by it also. Our intuition or instinct become sharpened by the Holy Spirit, which is ever invisible and ever present.

Now unfortunately the publisher offered information that would help you and I prepare for 2012, but he wants us to pay for this information. So it is a commercial enterprise. More significant was the fact that it used numerology to render value to their premise. December 21, 2012 or 12, 21, 2012. 1+2 = 3, 2+1 = 3, 2+0+1+2 = 5. Adding 3+3+5 = 11. In the numeric values of numerology the number 11 is a divine and cannot be changed by adding 1+1 together.

However, the said publisher of the 2012 debacle indicated the 1+2 = 3, 2+1 = 3 and 1+2 (as in 2012 or 12) was 3. Add 3+3+3 together and you get the number 9. Which is incorrect. You cannot use a numerological value from 2012 and ignore the first number 2. So the theory that that publisher has derived at from their use of numerology is incorrect. In that year, day and month it will not add up to a number 9, but instead number 11.

Assuming that I am correct and that this period will have some significance by the calendar numbers: what will be the end as we know it?

This question has been on my mind for decades. Like a puzzle and yet all one need do is look at history. If there is going to be some cataclysmic out come December 12, 2012 it will not be the first, nor something humans have not seen and endured before.

To assume that it will be an economic collapse is a strong notion. And it appears that this may be occurring to the extent that the rich will be alright but the working people and the poor might suffer greatly. Again this is not new. The depression of my mother's time was far worse than anything we have experienced since that time. So a global economic collapse would not be new.

To think that the world will be at war, and rumors of war is not new either. We been in small and big wars fairly regularly since WWI. Note* they are arranged, and declared in interesting numerical intervals now at an increasing rate. About 20 years had passed between WWI and WWII. Then the Korean War occurred about 10 years later. Within 7 years of that ending we were openly involved in the Vietnamese problem. From that point there have been less publicized smaller wars primarily in the middle-east and insurrections in Africa, as well as S. America and other parts of S.E. Asia. My point is war is not new.

Perhaps a plague or virus will be the thing to look forward too. Well, that is not new either. The Black Plague, Polio, Tuberculosis, Aids/HIV, Cancer have all weighed in the taken many lives. So this is not new either.

Even the event of a "superior race of extraterrestrials revealing themselves as the saviors of these prospective desperate times would not be altogether new since, according to Dave Emory of www.spitfire.com, a phenom of conspiracies theories past and present, according to a Gallop poll in 1997 72% of college students believe that there are extraterrestrials amongst us. We can include that many people believe that they have been here amongst us for many years, and that they come and go as they please, have been seen, and have very human features. My point is that not even a highly political advent like a broadcast of E.T's colonizing our planet would be new since so many people believe it is already happening, and there are cults that believe we will be saved by "them".

There is only one aspect of human development that we have not accomplished yet globally that would absolutely change life as we know it. Do you know what that is?

In the the book of Genesis we read that God created man and woman in his image, beginning of course with Adam and Eve. If this is true then this means that we are like God in many ways, but most importantly, we are spirit!

In the New Testament Jesus comes and reinforces this fact by say: "Seek ye the kingdom of Heaven first, and the rest shall be given to you". Meaning again that by being and living as Godly spirits our first purpose of living is to seek God in ALL aspects of our life: from this food, clothing, money, shelter, spouses, family will be given to you.

It is very clear to me that our civilization, from the beautiful mountains and plains, rivers, lakes, valley and fields of America, to Europe, Russia, China, S.E. Asia, Africa, and the middle-east, the one thing man and woman has not universally done is live by the spirit that God made them. This cannot occur by a one-world-religion, but merely by a real change of heart in men and women around the world.

This is in part due to the god of this earth who prefers that we live in just as we are living. Confused, doubtful, fearful, reckless, deceitful. We build our identities up by the value of what we have and own. We presume our profession says a lot about who we are, and in some ways for some people this is true. But unless we are seeking the kingdom of heaven first we will never come to the center of what we are and live as magnificently as God wants.

As 12-21-2012 = the number 11, which is a divine number I presume that this date, if it has any significance at all will ring in a period whereby billions of people will see and know for the first time in the generations of their ancestors the meaning of God. God will become bigger than any Multinational corporation, any military might, any sporting event, any new political power, any false prophet, and any false gods. In Taoist I Ching hexagram numbers 11 is synonymous with : PEACE.

Even with suffering, hunger, poverty, violence, political intrigues, disease and famine, God's people will standout in awesome and unrecognizable numbers to denounce to cloak of deception that prevails and covers the minds-eye of many otherwise good people.

It is by this occurrence the god of this earth works feverishly 24/7 to dissuade and confuse us to this powerful truth. This fact is not new either. For the god of this earth has been using these ploys from ancient times up to today. This could ring in the time of peace that the book of Revelations prophecy. If so we know that this time signals not a true peace but the beginning the a presence of the god of this earth, the rapture of God's saved people, and the tribulation.

That's my guess in any case.

THAT WHICH WAS, IS, AND WILL BE I

Yesterday online there was a story about a young man in Florida who was fired from his job for wearing a button that refers to God and our country. The major chain he worked for has a policy about not wearing religious oriented slogans on buttons or graphics on clothing.

In recent years courts have had to adapt to people suing municipalities, and public property for having statues magnifying God for all too see. Amendments in our Constitution allow some people prejudiced or offended by public display of Godly items or even public prayer to be over ruled and removed or discontinued.

As a nation we have fallen so low from a cohesive morality to a point that not long a boy children shot other children holding prayer prior to entering school. I personally cannot forget the the boys who shot the young girl in her face when she admitted loving Jesus Christ during the infamous Columbine incident.

Today some people enjoy their new emancipation from seeming moral. I recall while running down Ocean Park Boulevard in Santa Monica, a young women passing by wearing a t-shirt that read "Fuck U of M". She looked dead at me as I jogged by here as if to say notice me. I doubt that she would understand that my disgust had to do with the use of profanity written across her breast than her hatred for U of M.

Some people have been shocked when I ask them to stop cursing when the are talking to me. Or to cease referring to a women under discussion as "cunt", or "bitch" or "cock-sucker". It find regular conversation that includes profanity offensive. My entire family does. We've all grown up that way. But today more and more people seem to rely on the lowest levels of language to communicate seriously important issues, and wonder why it falls on deaf ears.

I don't need to be the best Christian or a perfect man to see with great clarity that this country is on a downward spiral. Sadly this fall is taking place during continued political upheaval in the middle-east, and economic miasma world-wide, with a pending perpetual global food crisis, and unpredictable catastrophic weather patterns, a last but not least potential pandemics. I know it is hard for the non-believer to understand what I mean when I say: This is the time of the Anti-Christ!



We hear that name frequently, but evangelical radio and television shows have stepped their teachings in New Testament Prophecy at the risk of loosing ardent followers who often send donations. The truth is not even some baptized Christians can accept without denial the fact their is a growing darkness across in entire land.
So they go to other more pleasant ministries.

If the true believer of Biblical teaching does not speak up for Jesus, and in turn our country, then politically, economically, legally, and spiritually we are headed for hell. It should be obvious by now, but it's hard to get hard-headed people to listen and hear the word.

During WWII there was Pius XII or Pope Pacelli, a pious man, the Vicar of Christ on Earth. As the war continued and the Third Reich began shipping Jews to camps the Pope got news of these actions. Many people, including Christian Nazi's and Italian Catholics under Mussolini's rule, would have done more to stop the extermination if so powerful a man as Pope Pacelli had spoken out and mentioned in writ and orally his distaste for Hitler's Final Solution.

As the years rolled on and Great Britain, the United States were well aware that millions of Jews from around Europe were being worked to death, starved, gassed, shot, and used as laboratory experiments, leaders admonished and waited with bated breath of the Pope to speak up. The idea was that if the Pope would not condone the Nazi's activities then the U.S, Britain and others could back him up politically and militarily from a moral standpoint.

However, he didn't say a word. When he did mention something about it he did so in writing and never mentioned Hitler, the Nazis, or what was happening to Jewish people in Europe, in Rome, even those who had converted to Catholicism. Some scholars believe one reason for his remaining mum was due to his concern that if the Nazi's were forced out of power then Stalin's army would definitely swarm into Germany and take over. He had already seen what the communist do to churches and religious professionals, and to his thinking continuous open dialogue with Hitler was the not the worse of the two evils. The end result was after the war Pope Pacelli was tagged with the name "Hitler's Pope". That was during a period where more people were converting to Catholicism around the world than before!

Ironically, I have read that the International bankers that funded Hitler also secretly funded Stalin, and hence pitted them against each other. I have never been taught nor read that any historian thinks Stalin should be considered an anti-Christ because he killed upwards to 70,000,000 folks. Keep that in mind as you apprehensively watch world events unfold today. And don't blame the messenger for trying to open your mind to the reality.



I reiterate, we are on a morally downward momentum. We're too accepting of violence and death, lovers of decadence and putridity. Some of us have become so obsessed with these qualities we do them too ourselves. Thus our society has become overwhelmingly self-destructive. Any banker, elite, or oligarch who wants control of the masses can easily see that our civilization is almost sitting ducks. By our own mistreatment of ourselves we're practically giving away our souls while they steal everything else.

Martin Luther King said, our civilization is dysfunctional. It has gotten worse since his death over 40 years ago. The earth is sick too. Why is it most Christians can clearly see the world's demise coming and others cannot? The Bible. If an organism or entity remains dysfunctional or sick for too long you know what the outcome is. I don't believe we can really blame anyone one else for this debacle accept the "god of this planet." I know people who considered selling their souls to him for fame, money, power, women because the knew others who had taken that path before them.

There is a price for everything we do. The god of this earth offers riches, beautiful people, power, fame to you because he cannot give you eternal life. In fact you lose your soul, which is really the best thing you have going for yourself right now. Your spirit lives within you and is waiting to be magnified by Jesus, but don't know that yet. The god of this earth doesn't want you to know it either. He'd rather blind you with bling-bling, big booties, power lunches.

Jesus on the other hand shows us the way to the Kingdom of Heaven, which in turn enlivens our spirits to LIVE, which is a verb and action, so that your soul will live on after your flesh rots away. Why is it so important for your soul to be saved? Well pick up your Bibles, go to Bible classes with that friend who's been invited you, ask the Lord to come into your life and revolutionize it now and forever. Then you'll find out. You will be changed! Its all free.

In conclusion, if Biblical prophecy bares up, as it is doing with great accuracy, then all of us are going to be lulled or forced into believing and serving the lies of the anti-Christ. The only real chance we have to keep him away from your valued soul is accepting Jesus. This too is a historical fact.

**Source: "Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, by John Cornwell, Viking/Penguin Group, 1999.

The Economic Crisis in Europe

Photo: Greek Farmers Protest earlier this year.

As an addendum to my previous article about the U.S. financial crisis I thought it would be best to add excerpts and photos of this article from Robert Morley of www.Trumpet.com.

I think anyone who is vitally interested in the direction the world is going now needs to find Christian historians who have proven their ability in relating old world history with today's events. You don't have to be a Christian to start wising up.

I've included some photos from other sites from earlier this year so that you can see that this financial crisis is no small order and will not be solved overnight. It is worldwide. Understand now, that most things, political, economic, social, are global. What happens here can have good or bad affect on other countries and their people.

The Unseen Danger in Europe’s Economic Crisis

From the January 2009 Trumpet Print Edition

Europe’s history is a series of crises and Germany’s crucial reactions to them. That history is not over yet. By Robert Morley


America’s banking crisis tore into Europe with shocking ferocity. Governments from London to Berlin are assessing the carnage and scrambling to prop up collapsing banks. With more failures expected, and unemployment rising, Europe may be facing its gravest crisis since the 1930s. And when Europe is faced with crisis, history says we had better beware: Earthshaking events often soon follow.

The global depression of the 1930s was not just an economic crisis; it was a political and social one too. That disaster sowed the seeds for the rise of radical nationalistic and totalitarian movements around the world. In Russia and elsewhere, it emboldened communism. In Japan, it empowered the Cult of the Emperor. In Italy, Mussolini’s fascists rose to the fore, in tandem with the Falangists of Spain. In France, it was the Croix-de-Feu.

In Germany, it was the Nazis.

People were desperate, and leaders with radical solutions gained power.

The current global economic crisis is creating desperation in Europe again. We need to take notice: The last worldwide financial catastrophe left more than dead banks. The Great Depression only ended when the world went to war. That economic crisis ended in a global bloodbath!



Photo Image: Google Image: Russian Protest

A Series of Economic Shocks

Right now Europe is shaken. After Lehman Brothers fell in America in September, dominoes across the Continent began cascading. UK mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley came crashing down; so did Iceland’s three largest banks, eventually plunging the small Nordic nation into bankruptcy negotiations. In Germany, Hypo Real Estate Holdings, the largest commercial property lender in the nation, had to be propped up by the government in order to keep it from falling and taking a whole lot of people with it.

Then, the biggest shock to that date hit Europe. Fortis, the 300-year-old bastion of Flemish finance, narrowly avoided tumbling into oblivion by a Dutch and Belgian nationalization on September 28.

The next day, Dexia, a financial company whose roots stretch back to 1860, was felled and hurriedly propped up again by the French, Belgians and Luxembourgers. In Switzerland, banking giants UBS and Credit Suisse are teetering on the edge, and it is unclear whether even the Swiss government possesses the resources it would take to save them from falling. In Denmark, a host of smaller banks are ready to tip over.

But the dramatic nature of the European crisis was made most clear after Ireland issued what the Telegraph called the “most radical bank bailout” in years—a blanket guarantee covering its entire banking sector (Oct. 5, 2008). Irish taxpayers are now responsible for $400 billion, twice the nation’s gross domestic product. Then Germany went one step more radical and announced it would federally guarantee all private savings accounts, thus setting off a rush of other European governments to guarantee their respective financial industries.

The European banking sector resembles the carnage in America. The Telegraph claimed the European Central Bank may be losing control. “The ecb is no longer able to inject liquidity because the money is just coming back to them again,” said Hans Redeker, currency chief at France’s bnp Paribas (Sept. 30, 2008). UK economist Barry Gills explained that “there is no expectation that loaning money will be profitable and not loss-making” (EUobserver, Sept. 30, 2008). As a result, European banks are taking emergency loans from the ecb, but instead of lending it out to cash-strapped individuals and corporations, they are hoarding it to protect themselves—at the safest place possible: in money accounts at the ecb.

In reality, the European economy is faltering. The eurozone economy shrank during the second and third quarters of 2008. France and Germany are already in recession, and the European Commission expects Britain and Spain to enter recession soon too. Meanwhile, eurozone unemployment hit 7.5 percent in August, and Germany is now expected to join France, Italy and Spain in the ranks of those with growing numbers of unemployed.

Historically, Europe, especially Germany, facing an economic crisis is not a good sign.



Photo Image: Google Image: Protesters Clash with police in Reykyavik, Iceland.

Does A U.S. Economic Crisis Still Loom?

Photo Image from: Atlantic Magazine, May 2009. Also see www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice.

Economy May 2009 Atlantic

The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time.

by Simon Johnson

This is a very strong warning about the serious potential of the U.S. economy failing amidst a desperate attempt to save it. It is uncomfortable to read or hear. While on the one hand some economic advisers are saying the economy is improving and will recover, President Obama has continued to stay with his knowledge and advise that we are still potentially threatened by a potential depression! He has been ridiculed by political opponents who disagree with his negative outlook. While others view his opinion and policies as nothing more than 'telling it like it is'.

In 2006 I worked for a small mortgage firm. Most of the applications for refinance loans were by people who had low credit scores. It seemed as though the good credit market, known as the prime market, had been exhausted. Lenders were tightening up. Where it seemed relatively easy to get a loan approval the winter and spring of 2006 by summer few loans were being processed at all.

One summer evening that year I overheard a meeting between a loan agent for a large lender and my employer. She warned him that the projections for 2007's mortgage year were falling through the toilet. Basically she suggested he get out of business. Which is what he did. During that time the previous White House administration was keeping the same national profile: Everything is okay and we're seeing modest growth.

As I continued to call homes around the country the following year (2007) the lay-offs from individuals gradually increased throughout the year. Eventually I'd talk to business owners who were downsizing or closing down permanently. Eventually our economic recession became a major news item with buzz words like BAILOUT becoming focal point as more lay-offs from the Big Three auto companies loomed in the not too distant future.

This past spring and summer economic projections seem to have flip-flopped as much as the Dow Jones. One week there is a rally worth jumping into, the next week the major indexes drop so significantly small fortunes are lost. When you read the first paragraph of this article by Simon Johnson and you have to ask yourself, 'does anyone really know what's going on?'

Assuming that the former Chief Economist for the International Monetary Fund knows what they are talking about you may need to know what a oligarchy is? Webster Dictionary Definition:

A form of government with the ruling power belonging to a few.

What Mr. Johnson is suggesting is despite the known description of our free enterprise democracy being pluralistic by its nature, where the government is for and by the people, the truth is today our economy is being run by a few from Wall Street who have taken over the government and hence dictate our monetary policy.

One of the key criticisms the Producer, Mr. Jones, of the video "The Obama Deception", accused the White House of doing was filling seats of the administration with Wall Street players, a.k.a. oligarchs.

In the article Mr. Johnson uses examples from experience in dealing with third-world countries, and Banana Republics who have had to come to the I.M.F. for loans to help them bail themselves out of economic miasma. None of them like visiting the I.M.F. for help. It's like going to an oncologist when you think you have symptoms for Cancer.

Apparently some of the problem stems from the oligarchs of those countries using their power, their connections, to use the country's money riskily in ventures they hope will turn a gigantic profit. In years past sometimes it has worked, sometimes not. When it doesn't work these oligarchs can use their high-level connections to get help from private investment, the banking system, corporations, and government before their is a collapse. Sometimes this help works, sometimes it doesn't. The oligarchs run to the I.M.F. when their risk have failed and no one else will help them. Mr. Johnson writes:

"The reason, of course, is that the IMF specializes in telling its clients what they don’t want to hear. I should know; I pressed painful changes on many foreign officials during my time there as chief economist in 2007 and 2008. And I felt the effects of IMF pressure, at least indirectly, when I worked with governments in Eastern Europe as they struggled after 1989, and with the private sector in Asia and Latin America during the crises of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Over that time, from every vantage point, I saw firsthand the steady flow of officials—from Ukraine, Russia, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, and elsewhere—trudging to the fund when circumstances were dire and all else had failed." (1)

Mr. Johnson goes on the write that:

"Almost always, countries in crisis need to learn to live within their means after a period of excess—exports must be increased, and imports cut—and the goal is to do this without the most horrible of recessions. Naturally, the fund’s economists spend time figuring out the policies—budget, money supply, and the like—that make sense in this context. Yet the economic solution is seldom very hard to work out. No, the real concern of the fund’s senior staff, and the biggest obstacle to recovery, is almost invariably the politics of countries in crisis." (1)

From this perspective it seems that the criticism of President Obama's negative warnings about the economy are a real attempt to face the harsh reality in order to find a solution. In the meantime his critics are taking a political stance and steering Citizens from the truth. That truth is this may not be one of those recessions that ends in 18 months before the good times roll again. If this country is being run by oligarchs whose risk promulgated our economic problems via the mortgage industry, then we may still have problems unless the oligarchs change their ways.

Continuing with Mr. Johnson's writing:

"Typically, these countries are in a desperate economic situation for one simple reason—the powerful elites within them overreached in good times and took too many risks. Emerging-market governments and their private-sector allies commonly form a tight-knit—and, most of the time, genteel—oligarchy, running the country rather like a profit-seeking company in which they are the controlling shareholders. When a country like Indonesia or South Korea or Russia grows, so do the ambitions of its captains of industry. As masters of their mini-universe, these people make some investments that clearly benefit the broader economy, but they also start making bigger and riskier bets. They reckon—correctly, in most cases—that their political connections will allow them to push onto the government any substantial problems that arise."(1)

Squeezing the oligarchs, though, is seldom the strategy of choice among emerging-market governments. Quite the contrary: at the outset of the crisis, the oligarchs are usually among the first to get extra help from the government, such as preferential access to foreign currency, or maybe a nice tax break, or—here’s a classic Kremlin bailout technique—the assumption of private debt obligations by the government. Under duress, generosity toward old friends takes many innovative forms. Meanwhile, needing to squeeze someone, most emerging-market governments look first to ordinary working folk—at least until the riots grow too large.
(1)
Up to this point I've been quoting Simon Johnson's article. I will stop at this here to make a final conclusion and leave the link to this four page article for you to continue reading yourself. From the last quote Mr. Johnson uses Banana-Republics as another example where oligarchs have run economies into difficult times. Most important is the fact to Mr. Johnson's expert eyes America today looks remarkably like a Banana Republic economy. Despite our more advanced military, economy, and technology we also have a unique debacle: our oligarch is bigger and more complicated. Surmise the problem for yourself.

To continue reading this worthwhile article please go here:


http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice/1

Rest Well Senator 'til We Meet Again

Photo: Robert, Edward, & John. UPI.com

"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life." John 5:24.



Photo: Edward and the family at JFK's grave memorial. UPI.com

"Most assuredly, I say to you the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the vice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live." John 5:25



Photo: Ever alert Sen. "Ted" Kennedy. UPI.com

"For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself (v.26)"and has given Him authority to execute judgment also because He is the Son of Man." John 5:27



Photo: Ted leaving the hospital, happy and surrounded by family and friends. Google Images.

"Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming which all who are in the graves will hear His voice (v.28) "and come forth--those who have done good, to the resurrection of life...John 5:29

When God awakens Ted from his divine sleep and Ted looks around for his loved ones, his friends, will you have done good so that you will be resurrected in life, in order to be with Ted again?

Farewell Senator. Until we meet again.

The Global Food Crisis

Photo: www.impactlab.com Ethiopian Children.

For the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy in your land. Deuteronomy 16:17

Thomas Robert Malthus once postulated in his Essay On the Principle of Population, 1798 that there is a direct correlation between conflict among people and available resources. In other words as the population numbers rise and demand for valuable resources increases shortages of those resources promulgates conflict. For this reason he suggested that food relief should not be given to all but the poorest because of their vast numbers and the world’s limited ability to produce enough for everyone. Food relief to other less impoverished populations would encourage childbirth into economic misery. His research indicated that populations increase geometrically doubling every 25 years if unchecked, while food production increases arithmetically very slowly.

This attitude was view as harsh and it ultimately lessened Malthus’s thesis and its impact on the world. Lately food scientist are beginning to finally understand why Malthus held his unpopular position without shame.

According to writer Joel K. Bourne, National Geographic, June 2009, The Global Crisis of Food, The End of Plenty, between 2005 to 2008 the price of wheat, rice, and corn rose so high worldwide that it caused food riots in two dozen countries and pushed 75 million people into poverty. The problem? For the past decade the world has consumed more food than has produced. For years countries have relied upon stockpiles of food to feed their countries. In 2007 the second lowest shortage of all time lasted for 61 days thus causing the prices to increase.



Chart: www.news.monga.com/bioenergy/2008

In the same report Joachim Von Braun, the Director General of the International Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. warns that “agricultural productivity growth is only one or two percent a year. This is too low to meet population growth and increased demand.

I think Mr. Braun took the thesis right out of the mouth of Mr. Malthus. Basic economics teaches us that high prices are a sign that demand has outpaced supply. In the world today food shortages and even lower prices are causing agricultural inflation which burdens the poorest billion people on the planet. Many of these people live in the poorest countries and spend 50-70 percent of their low incomes on food.

Mr. Braun’s and his group of consulting groups are world renowned for having figured out ways to increase the output of wheat, corn, and rice production between the 1950’s and 1960’s. As the population increased to 6 billion there was enough food to go around. There success was dubbed the Green Revolution. However, the population is expected to skyrocket to 9 billion by 2030; meaning they will have to double production in half the time.

With the industrialization of other countries in recent history, like China, for example, billion of people have not only enjoyed being regularly fed, but have increased the production of meat products to their dinner plates. Today China uses a good deal of pork for all types of meals, but pigs need to 5 times more grain than people do in order to grow big and healthy and ready for butchering. The same can be said for the U.S. love of beef products. The fact is to keep beef production levels high enough to handle current demands for our growing population we need to grow big, healthy cows , which consume 10 times more grain than people do. A person can feed themselves more efficiently by eating the grain themselves. In China pork consumption increased 45% between 1993-2005. That is certainly a lot more pigs consuming a lot more grain to feed a lot more people. Our need for pork, lamb, and beef, is a double edged sword because as our need for it grows it helps shorten the supply of grains for future consumption by people.

Add to this debacle increase world consumption of oil for heating and transportation, rising cost, shorten supplies, and the need to use corn for bio-fuel production. The need to find ways to turn other grains into fuel is putting humans in the midst of a real problem that analyst are saying will cause perpetual hunger in the world. Will we strive to help each other through this problem or will we choose conflict?



Photo: www.nastyish.com Wordshinobi does not support the views of this website, but their photo is nonetheless compelling enough to use for this article.

Free and At Rest, Amen.

For he who has died has been freed from sin: Romans 6:7



Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another: Romans 14:19



For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also: James 2: 26.



Take heart and mourn not for her passing, but rejoice for her life, for Eunice is not dead, but at rest. For as Christ died and resurrected she lived through him in works and faith that she may live again. In Memory of Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921-2009. Hail the True and the Brave. Hooyah!

All photos courtesy of the www.kennedylibrary.org.

July 4th 2009 Accident

At around 10:50 p.m. I heard a car approaching at pretty high speed. Then smash, revving engine, crash, screech! People gathered in front of the house where the car stopped very quickly. A young woman yelled up the street at the driver, "she deserve to have all her bones broken or to have her ass beat!"

Apparently several under-age teens had the keys to the car. They had been drinking 1800'. They came flying down this street until they lost control. Cars are expensive and dangerous in the wrong hands. So is alcohol. Don't drink and drive.

WHAT A DEMOCRACY IS NOT

4th of July Special


The last two articles, “What Is An American,” and, “A Lesson From Observing the Assassination”, dealt extensively with one of my greatest heroes former President John F. Kennedy. As I celebrate this 4th of July in 2009 by observing him and his legacy it seems appropriate to complete this third writing with his speech to West Berliners.

Amidst the Cold War and the need for Détente missile negotiations President Kennedy went to Europe on a foreign affairs trip.The German city had been divided by the giant wall which split the country into two political fronts: communist in the east, and democratic in the west. Berlin was the first city in Europe he visited and while the speech was not very long he nonetheless filled with the air with his passion for freedom and democracy. The speech does not explain what democracy is, however, it is a rally for what democracy is NOT nor must ever become.
An obstruction to the freedom of people.

“I am proud to come to this city as the guest of your distinguished Mayor, who has symbolized throughout the world the fighting spirit of West Berlin. And I am proud to visit the Federal Republic with your distinguished Chancellor who for so many years has committed Germany to democracy and freedom and progress, and to come here in the company of my fellow, American, General Clay, who has been in this city during its great moments of crisis and will come again if ever needed.

Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was “civis Romanus sum.” Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is “Ich bin ein Berliner.”

I appreciate my interpreter translating my German!

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand, or say they don’t, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass’ sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us. I want to say, on behalf of my countrymen, who live many miles away on the other side of the Atlantic, who are far distant from you, that they take the greatest pride that they have been able to share with you, even from a distance, their story of the last 18 years. I know of no town, no city, that has been besieged for 18 years that still lives with the vitality and the force, and the hope and the determination of the failures of the Communist system, for all the world to see, we take no satisfaction in it, for it is, as your Mayor has said, an offense not only against history but an offense against humanity, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to be joined together.

What is true of this city is true of Germany---real, lasting peace in Europe can never be assured as long as one German out of four is denied the elementary right of free men, and that is to make a free choice. In 18 years of peace and good faith, this generation of Germans has earned the right to be free, including the right to unite their families and their nation in lasting peace, with good will to all people. You live in a defended island of freedom, but your life is part of the main. So let me ask you as I close, to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, to the hopes of tomorrow, beyond the freedom merely of this city of Berlin, or your country of Germany, to the advance of freedom everywhere, beyond the wall to the day of peace with justice, beyond yourselves, and ourselves to all mankind.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines of almost two decades.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner.” End

We are a democratic country and therefore a free people. As a free people with leaders we vote for instead of kings or dictators to rule us we are blessed with the opportunity to challenge other countries by leading by our example. Still there are those who continue to rule their countries with tyranny, terrorist who kill the innocent for political attention, people in such need for democracy they will fight against ruling factions and risk their lives for freedom of expression. The election process of 2008, which brought President Obama to the White House revealed to the world how a country can progress beyond even its own expectations.

“We shall be judged more by what we do at home more than what we preach abroad.”
- JFK -

WHAT IS AN AMERICAN?

Photo from Esquire archive

What Is An American?
4th of July Special Edition

This 4th of July, 2009 is the 9th celebration of Independence of the 21st century. Our country has gone through so much to be so young, and yet there is so much more to go through. At this hour in all the homes across this land men and women strive to sustain control over their lives, seek deeper meaning to their existence, sustenance for their minds and bodies, shelter over their heads.

In this hour of our 223rd year of Independence as we cautiously prepare for change and pray for stability one may pause and ask the question, who are we? What is an American?

Not long ago a very young man home from active duty in the war spoke before people on July 4th, 1946 in Boston and described elements of the American character. His name was John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He could not have known that in the not too distant future he would be President of the United States of America.

Notwithstanding his ideas serve as a foundation, a creed, for us today as they did for him back then.

He wrote, ‘It is well for us to consider our American character, for in peace, as in war, we will survive or fail according to its measure.

JFK described Americans with four distinct characteristics: religious, idealistic, patriotic, and individualistic. For the sake of brevity I have copied much of this speech below. For a full view of his words and wisdom see the link at the end.

Religion.

On religion, he surmised that our deep religious sense is the first element of the American character. The informing spirit of the American character has always been a deep religious sense. Throughout the years, down to the present, a devotion to fundamental religious principles has characterized American thought and action. Our government was founded on the essential integrity of the individual. It was this religious sense which inspired the authors of the Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.”

Our early legislation was inspired by this deep religious sense: “Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion”.

Our first leader, Washington, was inspired by this deep religious sense: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”

Lincoln was inspired by this deep religious sense: “That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish on earth.”

How well, then as Detocqueville said, “You may talk of the people and their majesty, but where there is no respect for God can there be much for man? You may talk of the supremacy of the ballot, respect for order, denounce riot, succession, unless religion is the first link, all is vain.”

The cynics are wrong, for while there may be some truth in their interpretation, it does remain a fact, and a most important one, that the motivating force of the American people has been their belief that they have always stood at the barricades by the side of God.

Again, the cynics may supply the economic interpretation to this conflict: the industrial North against the agricultural South; the struggle of the two economies, say what they will, it is an undeniable fact that the Northern Army of Virginia and the Army of the Potomac were inspired by devotion to principle: on the one hand the right of secession, on the other, the belief that the Union must be preserved.

Idealism

In 1917, this element of the American character was stimulated by the slogan, “War to End War” and “a War to Save Democracy,” and again the American people had as their leader a man, Woodrow Wilson, whose idealism was the traditional idealism of America. To such a degree was this true he was able to say, “Some people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.”

JFK went on to discuss the difference between WWI and WWII and how our character, our idealism became tarnished due to extraordinary events. While the generation of Americans that faced WWI were morally supportive of that war WWII brought another generation new concepts like racial superiority, and monetarism, which made some less motivated and uncertain of our character.

It is now in the post war world that this idealism - this devotion to principle - this belief in the natural law - this deep religious conviction that this is truly God’s country and we are truly God’s people - will meet its greatest trial.

But, if we remain faithful to the American tradition, our idealism will be a steadfast thing, a constant flame, a torch held aloft for the guidance of other nations.

It will take great faith.

Our idealism, the second element of the American character, is being severely tested. Now, only time will tell whether the element of the American character will be true to its historic tradition.

Patriotism.

The third element of the American character that I would bring to your attention is the great patriotic instinct of our people.

From our pioneer days, perhaps because we were a people who developed from a beachhead on a tremendous continent, this American patriotism has always had as its core a strange and mystical love of the land.

From the birth of the nation to the present day, from the Heights of Dorchester to the broad meadows of Virginia, from Bunker Hill to the batteries of Saratoga, from Bergen’s Neck, where Wayne and Maylen’s troops achieved such martial wonders, to Yorktown, where Britain’s troops surrendered, Americans have heroically embraced the soldier’s alternative of victory or the grave. American patriotism was shown at the Halls of Montezuma. It was shown with Meade at Gettysburg, with Sheridan at Winchester, with Phil Carney at Fair Oaks, with Longstreet in the Wilderness, and it was shown by the flower of the Virginia Army when Pickett charged at Gettysburg.

In recent years it was shown by those who stood at Bataan with Wainwright, by those who fought at Wake Island with Devereaux, who flew in the air with Don Gentile. It was shown by those who jumped with Gavin, by those who stormed the bloody beaches at Salerno with Commando Kelly it was shown by the 1st Division at Omaha Beach, by the Second Ranger Battalion as it crossed the Purple Heart Valley, by the 101st as it stood at Bastogne, it was shown at the Bulge, the Rhine, and at victory.

Whenever freedom has been in danger, Americans with a deep sense of patriotism have ever been willing to stand at Armageddon and strike a blow for liberty and the Lord.

Individualism.

The American character has been not only religious, idealistic, and patriotic, but because of these it has been essentially individual.

The right of the individual against the State has ever been one of our most cherished political principles.

The American Constitution has set down for all men to see essentially Christian and American principle that there are certain rights held by every man which no government and no majority, however powerful can deny.

Conceived in Grecian thought, strengthened by Christian morality, and stamped indelibly into American political philosophy, the right of the individual against the State is the keystone of our Constitution. Each man is free. He is free in thought. He is free in expression. He is free in worship.

To us who have been reared in American tradition, these rights have become part of very being. Despite our desire for them to be universally exercised they are not. Still large sections of the world deny their people these rights as a matter of philosophy and as a matter of government.

We cannot assume that the struggle is ended. It is never-ending.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. It was the price yesterday. It was the price today, and it will ever be the price.

The characteristics of the American people have ever been a deep sense of religion, a deep sense of idealism, a deep sense of patriotism, and a deep sense of individualism.

JFK - 1946 Boston 4th of July speech. To view the entire speech and other essential Kennedy news go to http://theKennedys.wordpress.com.


May you have peace and prosperity with fewer problems.

A LESSON FROM OBSERVING the ASSASSINATION

Photo: From Google Images:JFK U.S. Naval Inspection, 1962

(4th July Special)

Over the years I’ve realized that there is a certain momentum of research continuing to surface from known and unknown journalist, scholars, conspiracy enthusiast and the like. I cannot say that I actually enjoy reading it or watching the videos either. But I feel it is my duty to try and learn as much about our country and people in my own time. When it comes to history I was taught to ask the question “why” instead of who. When it comes to the history of war Sun Tzu, the author of “The Art of War”, put it succinctly, “all warfare is a lie” (paraphrased).

My knowledge of deep politics began at some time during the 1990’s when one early morning before dawn I turned the radio dial to a Pacifica Radio Broadcast on L.A.’s Public Broadcasting Station. On Wednesday at midnight until 6 a.m. they ran a show dubbed Political Night whereby they play recordings and hold interviews of people devoted to seeking and finding out the truth.

From this program I discovered Col. Fletcher L. Prouty (deceased) who was the real Mr. X played by Donald Sutherland in Oliver Stone’s film, “JFK.” Prouty was a good lecturer and had awesome topics including his assessment of the JFK assassination, which goes far deeper than the feature film can reveal. He wrote the book, “J.F.K.: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, Carol Publishing Group. (See http://www.prouty.org)

I also became very familiar with Dave Emory who usually opened each program with an interview providing current information on an ongoing lecture about fascist around the world. He was the first person to inculcate the idea from valid sources that in 1943 the Nazis had planned to take their movement underground to continue their efforts to unify white people around the world, particularly in America. Because he uses history to bring the past to the present his lectures range from deep politics world-wide, economic issues, and intrigues. See (www.Spitfirelist.com).

More recently I came upon other writers and their assertions to the ongoing search for truth. For example: An author named James Shelby Downard wrote an article called “King Kill/33rd Masonic Symbolism in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy”.(1987) It is spooky theory about the hidden princes of freemasonry and their use of magic, like onomatology or the science of names. His theory is that JFK was ritually murdered as a right sacrifice in order to further the cause to ultimately gain control our nation. There are many Masons in the world and he doubts that any of them even know about this highly secretive elite order that has special training in occult sorcery. JFK was singled out because he was Catholic and it was obvious he would stand in the way of any plans to move the world in the direction it seems to be going. The name Kennedy in onomatology means “goat head or wounded head”.
(See http://www.hoffman-info.com)

Another fantastic tale by the Christian website Pacific Institute goes out on another limb and explains that JFK was killed because he wanted do two very important things. First, he decided to pull 1000 troops out of Viet Nam after “The Report of McNamara - Taylor Mission to South Vietnam“ after the report strongly indicated we could not win there before 1963.

Second, he wanted to remove the Federal Reserve from out financial system. He could see long ago that if they continued to be an instrument of finance in this country we would wind up just where we now are: an indebted nation! JFK used his Constitutional powers as President to create our own money so that we would forever remain a solvent and sovereign nation. Both of these two actions went against the will of your very own Order of Jesuits who had been the initiators of the Viet Nam war and the creators of our Federal Reserve. Within days of his death a National Security Memorandum No. 278 substituted his orders to pull the troops out of Viet Nam and instead keep them there. The Jesuit Order , they write, is the single most powerful and richest organization in the world. Their reach into all aspects of American life is ominous not to mention deeply secretive. (See http://www.pacinst.com/terrorist/chapter8/kennedy.html ).

There was another amazing article distributed in 1969 as a draft titled the “Gemstone Files.” This essay basically talks of Kennedy boys trying to end corruption, but putting their noses into all kinds of organized crime and deep political intrigue, and thus interrupting the ebb and flow of some gangsters revenue and business development. From Cuba, Viet Nam, to Vegas they wanted to clean house. Some will assert that the Kennedy cause was a noble one and others will say they were protecting their own business interest. One of their enemies became a Greek shipping millionaire who also happened to own a popular soda company located in Vietnam, which by the way, had never produced a bottle of soda, but seem somehow to produce and distribute hard narcotics, like heroin!

The writer says that this shipping magnate wanted to run all things from the top and under the table in America. But to do that he needed to own one man: Howard Hughes. Good ol’ Howard had all the nifty politicians, accept the Kennedy’s, in his back pocket at that time. And without them the shipping magnate would a White House and Congress blockading him from expansion. So he had Howard kidnapped, doped up, and after hiding him on some island, he created this whole media world with Howard as an aloof supra-paranoid man living in a Vegas penthouse surrounded by the shipping magnates men. No one could get in or see the real Howard for years. Anytime they needed to make a public spectacle of Howard they had double walk around with the parade of eleven or so men so that he was completely covered. They’d continue to use Howard’s signature, business plans, and so on to keep all those nifty politicians ignorant. When a few reporters figured out what was going on, whiff, they’d have an accident and die. The writer makes a point of referring to shipping magnates organization as the Cancer Mafia. In a nutshell it was the shipping magnate who secretly ran the country after having the Kennedy boys killed. When asked why the wife of the former President would later marry the man who killed her husband the writer of that essay wrote that in old world mafia the man who kills the king can take his wife. The situation reminds me of the line in the Godfather when Michael Corleone says, “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” Amen.

I’d like to refer you to that link as it is so fascinating, but the full-length version of that article has disappeared and now if you look up the title you find a ton of very brief synopsis, but no beef. Maybe someone optioned it for a movie deal.

Putting a cap on the bottle I’d have to say there are two key points that stand out to me reading all of these articles. First, JFK was probably viewed as a popular king by friend and foe. He was the head of a new time, a new way of thinking, and new way of doing things, from his foreign policy to domestic issues, like gender and race laws, and economics. In all of these categories America needed changes in order to progress, remain sovereign, and succeed into our future. Second, as President with a mind for the law and a Constitution he was using his established powers to help move those changes along. When he tried to act upon these powers in our system “outsiders” with influences on the inside took him and others out. Those sinister influences are not on hiatus. I recently read that since 1963, 115 witnesses have been killed, many by “accident”, others by “heart attacks” or “cancer”.

From 1990 - 1999 people I didn’t know, from Vegas to S. California would mention Jack to me. I was by this time, as you might imagine, worried about all kinds of things. I never got into talks with these people because I couldn’t tell if they really knew anything and wanted to share their feelings or prodding me to see what I know. I took the high-road and kept my mouth shut. I suspect there are a lot of “spooks” running around L.A. so its better to listen, smile and leave them with nothing. However, during my stay in Playa Del Rey a Greek deli owner found it fitting to say to me the following: “Jack thought he was the king, but he wasn’t, you see son?”

Finally, earlier this weekend I posted a link to another article from a man who has collected the names or professional military, science, engineering, and politicians who disagree with the findings of the government regarding what happened on 9/11. I also mentioned that some of the articles I’ve previously read suspect that that the assassination and 9/11 are not mutually exclusive. I did that because many of today’s articles seem to concur that the reason create fear that causes us to give up our freedom, and to destroy the Constitution. In the books of Daniel and Revelation of the King James Bible you will find prophecies that elaborate the fact a country like the U.S.A. will stand in the way of the Anti-Christ because of its Constitutional Amendments. That wonderful peace of paper and powers it induces is the linchpin keeping the world from going into deep chaos. If you are an atheist I’m not mad at you. I think you underestimate the volume of people from all statuses, genders, and races in this country who absolutely believe this country is blessed by God almighty. These people, past and present, feel this in their hearts.

So you see folks regardless of who the treasonous murderers might be; Mr. Devil cannot do his thing unless we are legally cut off from our freedoms. Once we have lost our freedoms no country in the world will be free.

Right now America stands out and leads many countries in Anti-Corruption categories (See http://report.globalintegrity.org/United States/2007. Try to focus your attention on who, what, and how politicians use words that undermine your freedoms. Strengthen your knowledge by reading the Constitution yourself. Maybe some of you will go on to do Constitutional Law. Perhaps some you will defend it by becoming Senators and persons of Congress. Remember freedom is not free.


Happy 4th of July. May you have peace, prosperity, and fewer problems