Monday, November 02, 2009

EU Proposes Global Wealth Redistribution


Written by James Heiser
Thursday, 10 September 2009 18:30


Member states of the European Union may soon find that the joys of environmental self-righteousness quickly fade when the bill comes due. According to a report from BBCNews, the European Commission is proposing that the EU provide billions annually to poor countries for climate-change adaptation. Yet the amounts proposed are a relatively small part of what the United Nations says poor nations will need and are considered insufficient by environmental alarmists:

The UN estimates that poor nations will need about $100bn (£60bn) per year for climate adaptation, with much of that coming from levies on carbon trading.

The [European] commission hopes its proposal will stimulate negotiations leading up to December's UN summit in Copenhagen. Campaign groups say the sums are less than the EU ought to be spending.

"With less than 90 days before Copenhagen, we need to make serious progress in these negotiations," said commission president Jose Manuel Barroso.

"I am determined that Europe will continue to provide a lead, but developed and economically advanced developing countries must also make a contribution."

The commission is proposing that the EU’s “share” of the $100 billion would be somewhere between $2 and $15 billion. Given the usual natural expansion of all governmental programs, one can easily imagine how such a figure will be adjusted upward time and again in the coming years if the precedent of making such transfers is established.

What must be understood is that what is being proposed is essentially a global welfare system that is inextricably linked to submission to the environmentalist ideology and administered by the United Nations. The entire program neatly combines several major tenets of the anti-Western creed: internationalism, radical environmentalism, and guilt-tripping over a history of Western/European “oppression.” It also means that even as the U.S. Senate is considering adoption of a “cap-and-trade” carbon-credit system which could further cripple the American economy, the United Nations is preparing to add its own level of carbon-credit taxation to further strip wealth out of the American economy and transfer it to “developing nations.”

With all welfare schemes, no matter how much wealth is transferred, the recipients — and their advocates — may be expected to lobby for more. Such is also the case with the proposed Copenhagen carbon-credit redistributionism. According to BBCNews:

Environmental groups have been pressing the EU to come up with a strong proposal, and were not impressed with the final figure.

"The EU is trying to get away with leaving a tip, rather than paying its share of the bill to protect the planet's climate," said Joris den Blanken, climate and energy policy director of Greenpeace-EU.

Environmental groups argue that western nations are historically responsible for causing man-made climate change, and so must bear the brunt of any "compensation money" for the developing world - a position that is shared by governments of many poorer countries.

Recently the African Union suggested that African countries alone should receive $67bn per year.

If $2 to $15 billion a year may be considered merely a “tip,” one may question what “bill” organizations such as Greenpeace-EU would like to see thrown at the European Union — and, in time, the United States. The bidding up of the price of imposing the environmentalist ideology on the entire world has only begun; one can scarcely imagine where it will be by the time of December’s conference in Copenhagen.

Photo of Jose Manuel Barroso: AP Images
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It’s Really All About God




Posted September 28th, 2009 by Nathan Brown
Review by Nathan Brown

In our increasingly pluralistic societies, one of the most urgent questions facing Christianity--and Adventism--is how we relate to those who believe differently. Too often, the traditional approach seems to have been to dismiss these others--anyone and everyone who does not believe as we do. But our increasing interaction with those of other faiths forces us to re-examine these assumptions. Life is often not as black-and-white as we might like it to be.

Samir Selmanovic is one voice who can help Christians--and particularly Adventists--wrestle with these issues. Writing overtly as a Seventh-day Adventist Christian and pastor, his book It's Really All About God is published by a large mainstream press, Jossey-Bass, but highlights a number of distinctly Adventist contributions to Christian faith and how these also connect beyond Christianity.

In his introduction, Selmanovic is careful to emphasise the Christian foundation for this project. He acknowledges that some of his friends claim they are able to embrace four faiths--Muslim, atheist, Jewish and Christian--simultaneously but expresses his doubts that this is either possible or sustainable. Instead, he acknowledges that he "would not have become or stayed Christian without the blessings of Islam, atheism, and Judaism."

Yet, at the same time, Selmanovic maintains that it is his Christian faith that inspires him to seek good in and for other believers. It is precisely because he seeks to follow Jesus that he reaches out to others and has something of value and beauty to share with them. Applying such basic Christian tenets as the Golden Rule, he urges that we use these principles to guide us toward treating other religions as we would like them to treat ours--listening with respect, learning from their wisdom, standing up for their freedoms and serving their needs. Rather than watering down Christianity, Selmanovic seeks a more radical, costly and sometimes difficult engagement with our faith and each other.

Selmanovic has sought to model this approach to those of other faiths in the form of Faith House Manhattan, a multi-faith ministry project he founded in New York City. Described as "an experiment in the kingdom of God," Faith House seeks to create a space in which believers from the world's three major monotheistic religions can worship together, learn from each other's traditions and serve together in the world.

As someone who has spent portions of his life in a number of these faith traditions, Selmanovic is not merely a philosopher or theologian. He grew up in a nominally Muslim family in then-Communist Yugoslavia. When he became a Christian and Seventh-day Adventist while completing compulsory military service, Selmanovic was expelled from his family for a number of years. He eventually completed doctoral studies at Andrews University before pastoring on both coasts of the United States, including ministering in New York City at the time of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

It's Really All About God takes its narrative direction from this story, with Selmanovic's own realisation of God, growth in faith, slowly repairing relationship with his family and life experience escorting readers through a similar journey. As such, the book is part spiritual memoir but with added depth of reflection and engagement with other religious traditions and literature. Appropriately, the narrative climax of the book is perhaps a seemingly small moment bringing together Selmanovic's family and church family, reading of which is rendered more poignant in light of his father's recent death.

It's Really All About God is both deeply philosophical and profoundly pragmatic. One of the book's recurring statements is "Life wins," meaning that our beliefs or theories about life and God must have practical applications and benefits, or risk fading into irrelevance. Written and published primarily for a Christian readership, It's Really All About God might have helped some readers by a more direct engagement with some of the Bible references used to launch the "exclusive claims" of Christianity--but Selmanovic's aim is to outline a vision more than argue apologetics.

Although it's easy to be distracted, It's Really All About God is really a book about God--as the title suggests. Any authentic discussion about religion must ultimately be about the God we are seeking to worship and serve, and what He is like. And that is the book's greatest achievement.
Through his sometimes funny, sometimes moving and sometimes poetic reflections, Selmanovic points us back to a God Who embraces, Who stoops to serve, Who pursues us relentlessly but lovingly, Who weeps at the tragedies, heartaches, fear and brokenness of our world, and Who is truly "our Father" to all His children. This is the God Who calls us to join with Him in serving our world, to value each other and to participate now in the wonderful and mysterious kingdom He offers to us all.

It's Really All About God: Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian by Samir Selmanovic, Jossey-Bass, 2009, hardback, 320 pages.



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Psychological Warfare

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There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling


Psalm 91


1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

3Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

4He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

5Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

6Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

7A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

8Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

9Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

10There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

11For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

12They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

13Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

16With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.


Sunday, November 01, 2009

US sovereignty and the Climate Summit


October 21, 2009



Not content with his humiliation at Copenhagen this past September, President Obama will be traveling again to the Danish capital in December to attend the U.N. COP15 Climate Change Conference. This agreement would commit the United States to punitive and expensive greenhouse gas regulations dictated by the United Nations without recourse.


COP stands for "Conference of the Parties" and the December Copenhagen conference will be the 15th under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), hence COP15. According to their website, it will be one of the largest conferences ever held outside the New York or Geneva headquarters, with an anticipated attendance of over 10,000 people, including governmental representatives from 189 countries, industry groups, and other non-governmental organizations.


The theme of the December 7 - 18 conference is "Hope," so perhaps Mr. Obama will have more luck this time. Instead of soliciting the International Olympic Committee with trite cliché and no payoffs, he will be doing something much easier: selling out our country. After all, ceding power, relinquishing billions in U.S. tax dollars and destroying U.S. economic competitiveness is a pretty easy sell to the countries that will benefit, and he has had a lot of practice doing the same thing here at home. He will have a hard time screwing this one up.


The Hope site optimistically pronounces:
On 7 December, leaders from 192 countries gather for U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and decide the fate of our planet...


Decide the fate of our planet... Do these people have any idea how mindlessly grandiose they sound? Of course not. They are out to save the planet, just like Nancy Pelosi! It is hard for a normal person to imagine making such proclamations without embarrassment. But this is today's political class


This agreement will cede U.S. sovereignty permanently and irrevocably to the United Nations. So said British Lord Christopher Monckton at an event at Bethel University in St Paul, Minnesota this past Wednesday, October 14th.


Lord Monckton was former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's science advisor. He has lectured and written extensively on the issue, including an in-depth scientific critique to the 50,000 member American Physical Society, a serious side-by-side comparison slap-down of Al Gore's global warming assertions, and a recent summary of the global warming issue. In introducing his topic at Bethel University, he states unequivocally:
...and I am going to show you the latest science, which now doesn't leave the question unsettled any more, this is now settled science, it is now settled science that there is not a problem with our influence over the climate. The science is in, the truth is out, and the scare is over.


You can watch his entire 1 hour 35 minute presentation here - well worth the time if you can spare it. The slideshow he frequently points to in this presentation can be viewed along with the video, here. Lord Monckton presents a series of statistics, charts and studies making a compelling case that not only is global warming insignificant - if it exists at all - but is likely not manmade, and more importantly, that the global warming alarmists have repeatedly, blatantly, deliberately lied, suppressing the facts to promote the myth.


Despite his effective refutation of manmade global warming, his closing remarks about the Copenhagen treaty are chilling:
I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word "government" actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfaction of what is called, coyly, "climate debt" because we've been burning CO2 and they haven't. We've been screwing up the climate and they haven't. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.


So, thank you, America. You were the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege merely to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free. But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your humanity away forever. And neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back. That is how serious it is. I've read the treaty. I've seen this stuff about [world] government and climate debt and enforcement. They are going to do this to you whether you like it or not.


Watch him make his powerful concluding remarks in this Youtube video. (4 mins.)

You might call it a bit of rhetorical overkill, but given everything else this administration and Congress have already done, only a bit. As Monckton later stated in a Q & A session, for such a treaty to be ratified requires a positive vote from a two-thirds majority in the U.S. Senate.
It seems difficult to imagine Democrats convincing seven Republicans to assist them in committing national suicide that way. Indeed, a recent Wall Street Journal article quoted Senate Republicans as saying that whatever deal Obama cut at Copenhagen would be dead on arrival:
Wisconsin Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the top Republican on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, predicts "a repeat of Kyoto -- namely an environmentally ineffective agreement that cannot be ratified" by the Senate.

However, perhaps an easier option would be for Democrats to pass legislation enacting some or all of the proposals. The House has already passed the Waxman-Markey (Cap and Trade) bill. This onerous legislation calls for an 83 percent reduction in greenhouse gasses from 2005 levels by 2050. That means almost complete elimination of carbon based fuels, and parallels the goals identified in COP15, which asks participating countries to reduce global emissions 50-85% by 2050.


Such reductions would essentially bring our economy to a screeching halt, as Lord Monckton states in his speech. Even the more modest goal for 2020 of a 17 percent reduction will force radical changes in how we do business and conduct our daily lives.


Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and the increasingly addled Lindsay Graham (R-SC), put out an Op-Ed in the New York Times last week, under the frighteningly Obamanoid title "Yes We Can," indicating that perhaps Senate Republicans shouldn't be so sanguine either. Their article concludes thusly (emphasis added):
We are confident that a legitimate bipartisan effort can put America back in the lead again and can empower our negotiators to sit down at the table in Copenhagen in December and insist that the rest of the world join us in producing a new international agreement on global warming.
So if Kerry and Graham get their way, not only is America going to agree to U.N. global warming regulations, we are going to lead the charge in getting them imposed!

And the U.N. panel is fully anticipating a more conciliatory approach from the U.S. Recognizing Kerry's efforts, as UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, stated:
I think that a major shortcoming of Kyoto was that the official delegation came back with a treaty they knew was never going to make it through the Senate. And this time I have the feeling that the communication is much stronger, that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, through John Kerry, is really expressing strongly what they feel needs to be done in Copenhagen.


Thank you, John Kerry.


The U.N. website states the following about COP15 (emphasis added):
This [the 2009 Bangkok climate change talks] was the penultimate negotiating session before COP15 in Copenhagen in December, at which an ambitious and effective international climate change deal is to be clinched.


Before COP15, there will be a final round of negotiations November 2-6 in Barcelona, Spain at the Barcelona Convention Center.


The most recent UNFCCC Working Group report (181 pages) can be accessed here in PDF format. Much of it references earlier documents, of which there are many. To fully assess the ramifications of this proposal would likely require referencing these earlier documents as well.
While the prospects for Senate ratification of this treaty are probably in doubt, it seems likely the U.S. Congress may try to pass Waxman - Markey or some other hybrid legislation using the same underhanded tactics now in play on healthcare. All the more reason to redouble our efforts at getting them out in 2010.

Suffice it to say that if the carbon reduction targets already discussed are adapted by this country, never mind whatever other onerous provisions are in this treaty, we might as well all buy a horse and buggy - sorry, rickshaw; horses create methane - because we will be headed back into the 18th century.


Additional Resources:
UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol: Guide to Climate Change Negotiations (2008)


SourceWatch: UNFCCC summary, listing all participating parties, all COP meetings past and scheduled, and other useful information


Businessman and Examiner.com columnist Jim Simpson is a former White House staff economist and budget analyst.. You may read more of his articles on his blog, Truth and Consequences.



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Ongoing Projects in Interreligious Dialogue


High Schools

Jesuits and their colleagues in the United States are committed to the integral development of students in Jesuit high schools. We know that this maturity involves well-grounded intellectual, moral, and religious development, and that in today's pluralistic world this too involves the ability to interact thoughtfully and maturely with people of other religious faiths, their beliefs, practices, and traditions. The High School Committee first compiled data on religious pluralism and interreligious dialogue in 2001-2002. In the summer of 2007 Carol Corgan conducted surveys and discussed religious pluralism at the JSEA meeting. At our annual fall meeting of 2007 the project was further revived and is headed by Carol Corgan ccorgan@gonzaga.org and Ray Bucko, S.J. mailto:ccorgan@gonzaga.org. We have undertaken four projects:

Networking:In order to expand participation in our discussion list and to more effectively gather data about religious pluralism in Jesuit school we have asked teachers in Jesuit high schools to recommend themselves and colleagues to join our discussion list and provide data. Our group is expanding gradually and we hope for fuller participation and to serve as a resource and network hub among the different Jesuit schools.

Discussion List:Our committee sponsors a discussion list for teachers and administrators at Jesuit high schools interested in issues of religious pluralism, teaching about other religions, and interreligious dialogue in Jesuit high schools. Any employee of a Jesuit high school is welcome to join this list. Please contact mailto:ccorgan@gonzaga.org for information.

Guides to Teaching Religious Pluralism in Jesuit High Schools:We have begun updating a chart showing each Jesuit High School and indicating their courses related to interreligious dialogue taught at Jesuit Institutions. Our hope is that this guide will serve as a resource for others at Jesuit schools and elsewhere interested in teaching about different religions on a high school level.

Religious Pluralism and Campus Ministry:In 2001 Frank Clooney, S.J. sent letters to the campus minister(s) at each Jesuit high school to ask how religious pluralism is incorporated into the life of the school. He received 11 replies which are now quite dated. We plan in the future once our grass roots network is stronger to revive this project and ask campus ministers about religious pluralism and their ministry at the schools.

Survey on Religious Pluralism:Once our network is stronger we also plan to conduct a survey to better portray the realities of religious pluralism at Jesuit High Schools. We we ask demographic questions about the religious makeup of our schools including faculty and staff, students and the surrounding region, teaching about religious pluralism (already partly covered in our guide), and best practices among the schools that have helped advance interreligious understanding and dialogue.

High School Religion Departments and Campus Ministry
Offices

Anthony Azzarto, S. J., St.
Peter's Preparatory School
Sharon Bilodeau, Boston College
High School
Jay Coleman, Rockhurst High
School
Carol Corgan, Gonzaga College
High School
Peter Corrigan, St. Xavier
High School
Evelyn Coupe, Loyola Blakefield
David Dixon and Sr. Frances Thibodeau,
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School
Patrick Lynch, S.J., Red Cloud
Indian School
Martin Kilbridge, McQuaid High
School
Gary Menard, S.J., Rockhurst
High School
Thomas Pipp, S.J., St. John's Jesuit
High School
Joseph Stickney, Brophy College
Preparatory

The Study of Religions and Dialougue

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It is essential today to engage in interreligious dialogue in the context of a contemporary understanding of the sources, histories, and conceptual complexities connected with religions and the study of them. This broader context involves the humanities, but also perspectives developed in the social sciences, including anthropology, sociology, and political science. This project, to be undertaken in a conversation among scholars in Theology and Religious Studies Departments at Jesuit colleges and universities, will highlight resources and trends in the study of religion that will be of use among those interested in dialogue and its conceptual bases.

As part of our research into programs geared towards cross-religions understanding and interreligious dialogue the committee has compiled a list of courses in World Religion Courses taught as part of the core curriculum and a list of World Religion courses taught as part of an undergraduate major in theology and/or religious studies.


Engaging Particularlites: Interreligious Dialouge among Theology Students

An initiative of the Board designed by Francis X. Clooney, S.J. and doctoral student Tracy Tiemeier, "Engaging Particularities: New Directions in Comparative Theology, Inter-Religious Dialogue, Theology of Religions, and Missiology" has built a tradition marked by camaraderie, scholarship, and connection. This graduate student conference, held annually at Boston College, brings interested students from Jesuit theology and ministry departments together with learning communities from other theology departments, seminaries, and divinity schools to explore over a spring weekend the history, current trends, and future directions of the emerging inter-religious academic fields. You can also access conference papers dating back to 2006.


Interreligious Dialogue and Ministry among Native Peoples

Jesuits Discuss Importance of Native American Ministry John Borelli

Interfaith Marriages

As part of Fr. Clooney's work as Coordinator for Interreligious Dialogue in Jesuit-related ministries in the United States, he would appreciate hearing from readers of this web page their reflections on interfaith marriages, i.e., marriages between Catholic and non-Christian persons. General commentaries welcome but also specifically: If you have counseled couples planning such marriages, what kinds of problems have arisen, and what kind of advice has been helpful? If you have helped plan or presided at such a ceremony, what issues have arisen regarding the ceremony? If you are a spouse in such a marriage, what have you learned about religious harmony and differences from the experience? Responses may be sent to Fr. Clooney, S.J. in writing (Jesuit Community, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3802) or (preferably) by email (clooney@bc.edu). Collated responses will be posted on this web site.Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

Articles

Rita George Tvrtkovic When Muslims and Christians Marry. Electronically reproduced with permission of America Magazine.

Work with Interfaith Couples As America becomes more culturally and religiously diverse, opportunities to meet and marry across religious boundaries increase. Yet there are few resources for interfaith couples, especially Christians and Muslims.


Web Sites

Muslim/Christian Marriage Support Group: This internet site, representing an organization located in England, announces itself as: "A Network for people involved in or affected by Muslim / Christian Marriage".

The Jesuit History Project

Our contemporary efforts in developing the potential for interreligious dialogue and cooperation in Jesuit-related ministries around the United States is a new initiative, but one with deep roots in Jesuit history and tradition. Beginning with St. Francis Xavier, Jesuits in the first centuries of the Society pioneered the study of religions and cultures around the world, and contributed greatly to the development of modern understandings of religions. Much research has been done on individual missionaries in various parts of the world - the Jesuits in China, for instance, have been well studied - but this project, aimed at a wider audience and not just at specialist scholars, will aim at integrating the wisdom we learn from the worldwide Jesuit tradition. Here we list just several resources for this anticipated project:


a) "A Charism for Dialogue: Advice from the Early Jesuit Missionaries in our World of Religious Pluralism," an essay by Francis X. Clooney, S.J

b) A brief bibliography from the above forthcoming essayc) The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents Project

c) The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents Project


Campus Ministry

Campus ministry at Jesuit universities and colleges offers a vital arena in which Roman Catholics work together with people of other faith traditions and others who share many of the values and commitments cherished in the Catholic and Jesuit traditions. The relationship between dialogue and campus ministry is a major agenda item for the national meeting of Jesuit Campus Ministries in March 2002 in Phoenix, Arizona Many initiatives are already occurring under the auspices of these campus ministry offices, and our hope is to locate here information from the different campuses which can be of help to all of us around the United States. Here we list thus far just several resources:

Rev. Alexei Michalenko, Sr. Dorinda Young, SSJ, Rabbi Mark Robbins Campus Ministry To All The Nations

Goddess in the Classroom: Is the Promotion of Religious Diversity a Dangerous Idea?

Francis X Clooney, S.J.

This essay was written for an issue of Conversations in Jesuit Higher Education (Fall 1999) commemorating the deaths of the six Jesuits, their cook and her daughter in El Salvador in 1989; the issue had the general title, Do Ideas have Dangerous Consequences? In this essay Frank Clooney puts forward the thesis that we are better off if we attend positively and attentively to the religious diversity that flourishes on Jesuit campuses today.

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Source:http://groups.creighton.edu/sjdialogue/projects/projects.htm

Is Digital Music Affecting Your Health?


Is Digital Music Affecting Your Health?
By: John Diamond, MD


HUMAN STRESS PROVOKED BY DIGITALIZED RECORDINGS:
JOHN DIAMOND, M.D.,
D.P.M., F.R.A.N.Z.C.P., M.R.C.Psych., F.I.A.P.M., D.I.B.A.K.


(First published 1980, modified and with a postscript, 2003)


Music is one of the great therapies. Throughout recorded history in all parts of the
world, music has been used as therapy. In fact, of all factors that have been
investigated, probably none enhances the Life Energy and reduces stress more
effectively than music.[1] Perhaps the most obvious example of this is the fact that
at the age of seventy, when some 50% of American males are already dead, some
80% of musical conductors are still alive, healthy, and productive. The tremendous
therapeutic power of music has always been recognized, and it has been the subject
of many discourses, from the time of Pythagoras to Moses Maimonides and
beyond.[2] To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not mere entertainment or amusement
(the absence of the muse), but therapy. It is one of the most potent modalities that
exists for actuating what the Greeks called thymos, what Hippocrates called the vis
medicatrix naturae, the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.
There are still many cultures in which there has been no divorce between music and
healing. For example, in many so‐called primitive societies, the healing shaman is
nearly always a musician, and music and incantation are as important as all the
other aspects of his profession. The only remnant we see of this in our society is the
use of music in religious ceremonies, a custom which dates back to a time before the
separation in our society of medicine and religion. And thus throughout the
centuries and today, over and above the usual satisfaction or the more physical
enjoyment we may derive from music, there is another quality, and it is this other
quality, this Life Energy enhancing quality to which I have devoted a major part of
my research over the years.

I have tested many thousands of phonograph recordings recorded over a period of
over eighty years, and it has been found that almost without exception this music
has been therapeutic,[3] often highly so. In fact, it has been used for stress
reduction, relaxation, general tonification, analgesia, as part of modified
acupuncture techniques, and as adjunctive therapy in drug withdrawal programs.
Music has also been used in programs to overcome fears and phobias, alleviate
insomnia, and even for the "tranquilization" of acutely disturbed psychotic patients.
In 1979 this changed. I suddenly found that I was not achieving the same
therapeutic results as before, that playing records of the same compositions to the
same patients was producing a completely contrary effect! Instead of their stress
being reduced and their Life Energy being actuated, the opposite was occurring.
Music examples that I had long used to promote sleep now seemed to be actually
aggravating the insomnia. And I found in one case that instead of the music helping a
patient withdraw from tranquilizers, it seemed to increase his need for them.
Special tapes for businessmen to use during their rest periods seemed suddenly to
increase rather than reduce their stress. These findings were very alarming.
When I investigated these paradoxical phenomena, I found that in all cases they
were related to the use of digital recordings. These were vinyl records made from
digital masters.[4] When I substituted analog versions of the same work, sometimes
even with the same performers, the positive therapeutic effects were again
obtained. There seemed to me little doubt that something was "wrong" with the
digital process. Apparently the digital recording technique not only did not enhance
Life Energy and reduce stress, but it was actually untherapeutic ‐ that is, it imposed
a stress and reduced Life Energy. Through some mechanism of which I am not
aware the digital process was somehow reversing the therapeutic effects of the
music!

In a number of instances I had analog and digital performances that we could easily
compare. One was of Zubin Mehta conducting Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto. The
digital performance (on London) had a stress‐inducing effect whereas the old analog
performance (on Vox) did not. Also the early LP transfers of Caruso and McCormack
were Life Energy enhancing whereas the Soundstreamed digital versions had the
opposite effect. Yet these were records of the same performance. The only
difference was the digitalization process. And this was apparent even though the
original recordings had been made nearly seventy years ago. Other examples were
the Japanese Denon PCM recordings of various Czech performers whose earlier
versions were on the Supraphon label. They were the same performers and the
same works. The only difference appeared to be the digital process.
As a part of my work and as one of my research tools, I employ muscle testing, in a
modification of the standard Applied Kinesiology testing. It is modified as I first
presented to an ICAK conference in 1977. See the description of my study with Dr.
Florence Kendall in my Kinesiology Report Number 10, December, 1977. At the
request of Dr. Goodheart, I demonstrated this again at the ICAK conference in Monte
Carlo in 1995.

If you play a digital recording, it will be found that the muscle that was previously
testing strong and could easily resist the pressure, will be unable to do so ‐ that the
digital effect has so stressed the subject that he cannot resist. Something has
happened. Some stress has been introduced which is now manifest in this negative
response. Perhaps even more striking are the differences in stress effects found
upon testing a recording session in which digital and analog recordings were made
simultaneously.[5] Similar effects are also apparent with the human speaking voice
using this newer digital recording process.[6]
This effect obviously is not due to the performer nor to the composer, since other
recordings, analog, of the same performer and the same composer do not have this
effect. In fact, they are therapeutic ‐ that is, they reduce stress and enhance Life
Energy on testing. There is a yet‐to‐be‐identified factor involved in the digital
technique which is causing this stress. At some level the ear is perceiving a signal
which it recognizes as being unnatural and alarming. This instantaneously causes a
stress reaction which is manifest in the loss of muscle response on test.

Many audiophiles and engineers state that they have noticed that they can discern
something vaguely "wrong" with the digital recording process but cannot quite
pinpoint the problem. Using the test, it can easily be shown that, using the same
playback system, the difference between analog and digital recording does exist.
While we certainly enjoy the benefits of this major technological breakthrough,
there are subtle physiological effects still to be considered.

It is important to emphasize that this is not a test of muscle strength. It is a test of
the integrity of the acupuncture system. Through it flows the electromagnetic
energy of the body. A heavy, powerful testing is a test of muscle strength, not of Life
Energy, and it is, in essence, a different test. When I demonstrated my findings at the
Audio Engineering Society conference in Los Angeles in May 1980, I was accused of
pushing too hard when the subjects were failing when the digital records were
being played. In point of fact, pushing "too hard" if anything will fail to demonstrate
the effect. It is not, I repeat NOT, a test of muscle strength. Hence the testing
requires considerable expertise. It is not for casual and amateurish usage. It is a
professional discipline.

This test has been performed both by myself and others under double blind test
situations on many occasions, and the results always tend to be about the same,
with many provisos. In particular, I wish to emphasize that for accurate testing
there are many variables that must be controlled, many more than I can elaborate
upon in this short presentation. Furthermore, as I have previously stated, for
accurate interpretation I test not just at the one superficial level of testing that I
have described above, but in at least twelve deeper levels as well. It is only when all
the variables are accurately controlled and testing is carried out at all levels and
parameters that the findings are meaningful.

I am more aware than any pro‐digital advocate of the shortcomings of the test. And I
would like nothing more than to be able to read a meter instead. However, although
many electronics experts have tried to help me to design such an instrument, they
have never been successful. They finally realize that perhaps the body itself may be
a better test device than any instrument that we can make. Will we ever measure the
difference between violins, or poems?

I personally believe that the proper research tool can be designed, but it will not
ultimately be related to any muscle test. It will involve measuring the change in
electromagnetic activity in that part of the body where is situated what we may call
the acupuncture central processor, because it is the electromagnetic disturbance
there which is manifested as a weakening of the test muscle. And it is there,
centrally, that the stressful effect of the digital recordings occurs, being then
reflected in a diminished acupuncture energy flow to the specific meridian feeding
the muscle being tested.

What if my findings and those of my colleagues are correct? For many years now,
nearly all recordings of otherwise therapeutic music have been made using the
digital process. The implications of this, both for today and for our future, are very
disturbing. If the major therapeutic recording artists of today are recorded for
posterity using the present digital technique their efforts will be valueless for us and
valueless for future generations. No more will we be able to call upon the
therapeutic powers, the true healing powers, of the musicians of our day as we have
called upon the musicians of the past. This will mark the end of the therapeutic era
of recorded music. The great technological advance of being able to bring the
greatest performers into our homes for true entertainment, and much more
importantly, to raise our Life Energy, will have been destroyed.

When a man comes home stressed after a day's work and puts on a record of a
Schubert piano sonata to help him re‐energize, the opposite will occur. He will
become more stressed. And he will learn over a period of time that music does not
help him to relax as he had expected. Or a person who as part of his religious pursuit
plays a record of the Bach B Minor Mass will perhaps recognize that he is further
removed from his goal ‐ that instead of serenity, instead of holiness, instead of a
feeling of life enhancement, the opposite has occurred. The music has become
untherapeutic, contrary to its true nature.
It is no longer Music!

We will then cease to regard music as being what it is: one of the great therapies.
Our recorded musical heritage will still satisfy the brain but will do nothing for the
rest of the listener. Our true recorded musical heritage will be at an end.

I have frequently been in the position where discoveries first made through
"unscientific" means have later been validated by what would be called the more
usual scientific methods, and I have no doubt that in the future it will be recognized
that the findings concerning digital recordings will be validated. But by that time, it
may be that many works of our great artists will have been preserved in an
unacceptable form.

By correcting the digital technique, we may actually now be able to make recordings
more therapeutic than they have ever been before, more so than analog. By
discovering the central problem in existing digital recording techniques, we may be
in a position then to so improve them that we ultimately have advanced the
therapeutic benefit to mankind.

Postscript, May 2003
Finally, about two years ago, I was contacted by several of the major recording and
electronic companies who said that they never forgot my address to the Audio
Engineering Society in 1980. They said they knew then that I was right with what I
had presented about the negative effects of the digital process, but unfortunately it
was released anyhow. They asked me to help in finding a solution to what they were
now calling “digital fatigue.” Over the years I have tried many methods but all
without success – until now.

Back then in 1980, I had only digitally recorded and/or mastered vinyl LPs to test.
The arrival of CDs a few years later increased the problem. As with LPs, but more so,
the stress leads after a certain time (different for each individual) to a reversal of
their usual ethical and medical standards of belief. The effects of this profound
change that I have now investigated for some twenty years are I believe a very
important etiological factor in the increase in childhood and adolescent
disturbances, (witness the soaring rate of Ritalin prescribing), and in the escalating
violence in our society.

Especially when we recall that the digital process is no longer confined to recorded
music but is now affecting us nearly all day: TV, radio, telephones etc. It is we who
have become digitalized!

With the advent of Direct Stream Digital (DSD) recording, it is now possible to
conclude that the negative effects I have stated above are due not to the digital
process per se but to the mode of achieving it, Pulse Code Modulation (PCM). For
DSD recordings do not have these negative effects.

Although it was suggested, unfortunately the record industry did not make analog
backups of their digital (PCM) sessions. So now there is a (very expensive) twenty
year hiatus. Hence some SACDs (the CD format for DSD) are being released which
have gone through the PCM process and are as negative as regular CDs.
Increasingly over the years, music lovers are turning against PCM – they are feeling
what I first demonstrated nearly a quarter‐century ago. And they are resisting –
proclaiming that it doesn’t sound like, feel like, analog. Cold, no heart. That is to say,
untherapeutic.

(We must remember that a generation has probably rarely heard non‐PCM music –
for it is now so pervasive in concerts halls as “digital reinforcement” as well.)
Perhaps now there will be a change. We all know something is wrong – and the
solution is available.

I write this not only as a music lover, and a believer in the therapeutic power of
music, but even more so as a doctor gravely concerned with the increasing
disturbance in our society, especially in the children. The very essence of Music is
the expression of peace, of comfort – of love. And this PCM has destroyed, even
reversed!

As a very experienced sound engineer and producer lamented, "Music has lost its
Spirit." That’s it – exactly! And a generation has grown up not knowing it any other
way: not knowing the higher dimension of music – the True Music.
And if their music has lost its spiritual dimension – then so have they!
We have lost our love of Music because we no longer feel loved by It. We must get it
back – and we can.

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America - At the Point of No Return!


Volume XXVIII Issue XI November 2009
Last Trumpet Ministries, PO Box 806, Beaver Dam, WI 53916
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America - At the Point of No Return!



"Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at naught all my counel, and would none of my reproof; I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices."

Proverbs 1:24-31

"While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: That the saying of E-sa'-ias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord who hath believed our report? And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? Therefore they could not believe, because that E-sa'ias said again, He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them."

John 12:36-40


"Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord."

Matthew 23:38-30


In this issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, we will consider a very sobering subject of the utmost urgency. We have watched for years how our government, educational systems, churches, financial institutions, and nearly every other endeavor of man has increasingly entertained the agenda of Satan in its many faceted forms and guises. The conspiratorial forces of antichrist have been working for so long now that the original purposes of these institutions are hardly recognizable, and their causes are long ago forgotten. What will happen next?

We know that the time line that we are moving through is measured by Bible prophecy. There really are no surprises as we have been warned by the Bible of the dangers of sin and its consequences. Everything foretold in prophecy is now coming to pass and right on schedule. The question that is so often asked is where are we right now? It is a fact that we live in a time that is unique in all of history. It is an electronic world connected by the internet, satellites, microchips, and spy devices. Along with all of this is the rising of a one-world Marxist-socialist government, disguised as democracy. It is a sad fact that the vast majority of people are in the depth of ignorance, and others are pickled in the brine of apathy. It is sad to watch the "common herd" of humanity being driven, corralled, and branded by the beast system. It is hard to live among a society that is so demonized that they accept homosexuality, immorality, and filth of every kind. When people are in this condition, they are easily managed because they have no character. Are we at the point of no return? There is such a point, and if we are not at it, we are most assuredly not far from it.

A book was once written by the late Ayn Rand, a mistress to the erstwhile Illuminati hierarch, Phillipe Rothschild. The book is titled Atlas Shrugged, and it is a comprehensive plan and blueprint for world takeover in the last days. Rand wrote of this takeover in somewhat cryptic form for her master, Rothschild, at his behest. On page 413 she wrote the following words: "When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."

Yes, there is a point of no return, and the Bible teaches us that only Divine intervention stops the evil that has been unleashed in the world. The return of the Lord Jesus Christ is just ahead, and Judgment Day will bring all things to light. Eternity will follow and we will all spend it somewhere. If you have not yet surrendered your heart, soul, and mind to the Lord Jesus, you must do so now, before you reach the point of no return. There is still time, but not much of it. The Saviour will accept you if you answer his call!

Dark Shadows in the White House!

On October 9th, 2009, in his ninth month in office, President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (1) In occult numerology, three 9's indicates finality. Three 9's are also an inverted 666. The world was in shock that a man who has really done nothing was given such an honor and high award. The question heard around the world that day was, "What did he do to deserve this award?" Why did he receive it? The answer is a spiritual one. This man who is literally worshipped by many of his subjects is now known as the "man of peace." The Scripture tells us that a man of "peace" would rise up in the last days and destroy many. In Daniel 8:25 we read as follows: "And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand." In Jeremiah 6:14, we also read the following: "They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying Peace, peace; when there is no peace." We must also take note of I Thessalonians 5:3 as follows: "For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." Here let it be noted that the Almighty gave us a definite sign to watch for regarding the coming of the man of false peace. He described the coming of this man with his destructive peace as a woman in travail and giving birth. The human gestation period is nine months, and Obama received the "peace prize" during his ninth month in office. It was also stated that Obama received the prize not for what he has done, but for what he is going to do. Obama is now being referred to by the news media as the "Seed of peace." (2) Obama has also been called by the news media, "the one who supplanted the bluster and obstinacy on the world stage." We know that the name Jacob means supplanter, and the final days of tribulation are known as Jacob's trouble. Jeremiah 30:6-7 ties this all together as follows: "Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it."

One more point that must be made regarding this is that Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize exactly thirteen weeks after his self-proclaimed "day of rest" on July 11th, 2009. In a previous issue of this newsletter, I referred to this regarding Obama's second one hundred days in office, which he said he would complete early-- by July 10th. Of the 11th day of July, he said, "I will rest." This Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Obama was planned well in advance. We also know that according to the worldwide news service, AFP, that three members of the committee of five in Norway were definitely opposed to giving the prize to Obama, but somehow, the decision emerged as unanimous. (3)

What strange and shadowy force is driving Obama and his adoring subjects? Why are children in public schools being taught to worship him as a god? Burlington Township, New Jersey, is one of many places where schools are teaching Obama praise songs to the children and have drawn protestors because of it. (4) In some schools, the religious hymn "Jesus Loves the Little Children" has been changed to the following words: "Obama loves the little children; all the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, all are equal in his sight Barack Obama loves the children of the world" If that song were sung the original way using the name Jesus, it would be a Federal crime! These are the days of antichrist!

Why is Barack Obama finding such a favored status to the extent that the U.S. House of Representatives has laid down the following rules, according to House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter: No member of Congress may call the President a liar or a hypocrite. They may not refer to his veto of a bill as cowardly. It is also illegal to refer to Obama as being intellectually dishonest, as giving aid and comfort to the enemy, or to allege sexual misconduct on the President's part. (5) I must say that it would be difficult to be accurate regarding Obama if we were forbidden to use these words. Obama and his team, however, are not very careful about how they speak. In a recent article that appeared in Politico by Kenneth P. Vogel, it was reported that an unusual amount of profanity has been emanating from the White House. (6) Terrible language is being used by Obama, Biden, and even Christina Romer, the economic advisor, that has shocked the members of the press and media. The notorious and repulsive "F" word is often heard, and reporters have wondered why there is such a profuse amount of profanity. The answer is simple. Wherever there is a concentration of demons and demonic activity, you will find profanity. In Psalm 139:20 we read of this as follows: "For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain."

Some people are beginning to wake up, and I believe more will rise up as conditions continue to worsen. Near Blue Springs, Missouri, there is a large billboard on Interstate 70 which says, "How do you like your change now? Obama Nation. They are coming for you! The Taxpayer, First and Second Amendments are in jeopardy. Live free or die." There is also a hammer and sickle on the billboard. (7) Another example of protest is coming from a small American clothing manufacturer that markets its clothing products in France. I am looking at the collar tag on the inside of the shirt, which contains laundering instructions and a brief message in the French language. The English translation of the collar tags reads as follows: "Wash with warm water, use mild soap, dry flat, do not bleach, do not dry in the dryer, do not iron. We are sorry that our President is an idiot. We did not vote for him." (8)

There are many questions that need to be answered regarding Obama and his administration. Why does First Lady Michelle Obama have twenty-six personal staff members and attendants? She is a figurehead only and has no assigned duties; however, she has twenty-six attendants being paid a total of $1,256,770.00 per year. This includes her Chief of Staff, Susan Sher, whose salary is $172,200.00. She also has a makeup artist, Ingrid Miles, and a hairstylist, Johnny Wright. All of this was reported recently in the Canadian Free Press. (9) Apparently, the multimillionaire Obamas, who are supposed to be for the poor and downtrodden, sure know how to live high and waste money!

Federal Management of the Human Body!

At this very moment, we are at a point of no return regarding health care in the United States. The Obama health care scheme does not have health care in mind at all. It is a clever system of control and micro-management of every human body in America. Here let it be noted that Mat Staver, Dean of the Liberty University School of Law, recently compiled a comprehensive list that explains what the new Obama health care system will really do to oppress the American people. There are over one thousand pages in this health care bill so I can only print some of the provisions in this newsletter. Consider the following: Page 22- All self-insured employers will have their books audited. Page 29- Your health care will be rationed. Page 30- A Government committee decides what treatment and benefits you will receive. Page 50- Health care will be provided to all non-U.S. citizens, illegal or otherwise. Page 58- A National ID Health Care Card will be issued, and the Government will have access to individual's finances. Page 126- Employers must pay for health care for part-time employees and their families. Page 427- The Government mandates a program for orders for end of life; the Government has a say in how your life ends. Page 429- "Advanced care consultation" may include an order for end of life plans, an order from the Government. Page 429- The Government will specify which doctors can write an end of life order. (10) There are so many other oppressive mandates that would make the United States worse than Soviet Russia and Red China ever were. Only God can help us; we are at the point of no return!

Another outrageous fact about the new health care bill, is that it would require everyone to buy into it or be fined up to $3800. (11) Conspiracy and treason is manifesting everywhere in Washington, D.C., and the reports of nefarious activity are constant. On September 23rd, 2009, Republicans tried to bring forth an amendment that would force the Senate Finance Committee to wait seventy-two hours before voting on the Health Care Reform Bill. The three days were needed to read and review the proposal, but this request for seventy-two hours was blocked by Obama's Democrat stooges. (12) On October 1st, 2009, the Republicans tried to introduce restrictions on abortion in Obama's Health Care Bill, which allows for full payment for abortions with no restrictions. The Republican effort was quickly defeated, and in response to this effort, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid put the Senate on notice that they "must move quickly to pass this bill." (13) On September 30th, 2009, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley stated the following: "The current law and the Health Care Bill under consideration are too lax and leave the door open to illegal immigrants defrauding the government using false or stolen identities to obtain benefits." The effort to block illegal immigrants from health care was also defeated, and the new law eliminates any requirement for ID if you are illegally residing in the United States. (14)

These are strange times when everything seems backwards and upside down. I must also mention at this point that the homosexual and other immoral lifestyles in America have done more to drive up the cost of health care than anything else. Immorality, pornography, homosexuality, lesbianism, and so much other unmentionable filth has infected the United States of America to epidemic proportions. In early October, nearly 200,000 sodomites marched on Washington, D.C., demanding equal rights and recognition. What a sad day in our history when these militant perverts, of the very type that God rained fire upon, would gather in such large numbers at the nation's Capital. The sodomite leaders clearly stated that they were no longer willing to wait for acceptance. (15)

Immorality and the sexual revolution are a conspiracy in and of themselves. The internet, Hollywood, television, and other media are all flaunting immoral activity as a primary project. Satan and his antichrist forces have been working for a long time to bring forth a one-world government. To accomplish this, he must bring all humanity under his infernal control. It is not enough to have a one-world money system, a one-world church, and a one-world government. Satan would also need to weld all of humanity together spiritually until they are one flesh. This is accomplished through forbidden sexual unions. In I Corinthians 6:16 we read the following shocking words: "What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? For two, saith he, shall be one flesh." Thus, Satan knows that when a person fornicates with another, they become one flesh. But they also become one flesh with every other person their partner was with. If a man has been with a harlot and she had been with ten other men and those men had been with ten other harlots and so on, it is possible that nearly all humanity could be networked and combined as one flesh. Here let it be noted that a recent study conducted by Lloyd's Pharmacy chain in Britain revealed some amazing results. The pharmacy used an online calculator to determine the risks of sexually transmitted diseases and found that the average British man has had nine sexual partners and the average British woman has had six. Computers were used to calculate all of the interactions submitted by volunteer participants and found that the average person had 2.8 million sex partners by extension. (16) This is not a misprint! The story was featured by the international news service AFP on September 23rd, 2009. Satan has found many willing participants to make his system work. If you are a true Christian, your past is removed, and you are washed by the saving grace of Jesus Christ.

In conjunction with the new Obama Health Care Plan, as if timed perfectly, is the H1N1 flu virus, sometimes called swine flu. I have covered this subject before, and there is more than enough evidence that this flu virus was intentionally manufactured in laboratories for the purpose of population control through fear. The flu vaccine is now out in both nasal mist live virus form or by injection. The Government claims that the vaccine is perfectly safe, but many people are not accepting that. In the state of New York, where it is mandatory for health workers to receive the immunization, there has been a massive revolt by the health workers. They are flatly refusing to accept the vaccine! Mass rallies and protests by the health care workers broke out in Albany. (17) Do they know something a lot of people don't know? On September 25th, 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that a recent study revealed that most parents in the United States are refusing to have their children immunized for H1N1 because they are concerned about the risks. Only forty percent said they would allow their children to be vaccinated. (18) Here let it be noted that an increasing number of people are becoming aware of the dangerous substances, such as mercury and rancid protein, that are found in vaccines. In two recent studies by the Government, it was found that autism among children has increased from 1 in 160 to 1 in every 100 children. (19) There is strong evidence that the many vaccines being given to children are causing this!

On September 21st, 2009, a press release revealed that the Verichip Corporation and its affiliates have been awarded two new patents. Patent numbers 7,504,364 and 7,469,076 are for a microchip system that can detect viruses by type in the human body, including the H1N1 virus. (20) The question that should be asked is how can a chip be programmed to detect viruses by name and type unless the plan for the virus already exists? In the future, people may well be getting calls from their health providers telling them that the detection and ID chip that was implanted in them has detected a virus, and they should report for treatment. It is later than you think!

Mismanagement and the Root of all Evil!

The Scripture tells us in I Timothy 6:10, "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." At a glance, we can see that the economy of the United States is a complete wreck, and the rise in stock market averages does nothing for the countless unemployed people. Everything is global and international now. The national debt continues to rise to astronomical levels, and the U.S. Senate is now being forced to raise the national debt ceiling above twelve trillion dollars ($12,000,000,000,000). (21) We know that light travels at approximately 186,000 miles per second, and at that fantastic rate of speed, light would travel a linear distance of six trillion miles, the measure of a light year. Our national debt is twice that number in dollars. Our economy has reached a point of no return, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Shalom Bernanke knows this is true. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which is already strapped because of the many bank failures, is reporting that additional bank failures could cost 100 billion dollars. (22) Remember, these dollars do not evaporate; someone gets them, and it is always those at the top of corporate conspiracy that come out ahead. The middle class is rapidly disappearing in America, and Obama is getting ready to finish it off. The current situation was caused by bank failures and crashes over the housing market. Next will come a major crash regarding commercial properties and businesses; then will come the big crash of banks over unpaid credit card debt. There are three great fiscal woes, and two are yet to come.

On October 3rd, 2009, Federal regulators closed down several more banks in Michigan, Colorado, and Minnesota; bringing the number so far this year to ninety-eight. (23) The signs of financial ruin are everywhere, and the people who are walking the desolate streets of America are near to the point of open revolt. When the G-20 Summit convened in Pittsburgh in late September 2009, they found massive numbers of angry people and mobs of revolutionaries worked up into a fever pitch. They were trying to make their voice known to the convention of crooks that are running the governments of twenty nations, including the United States. (24) Then, something happened that had never happened before on American soil. American forces used aggressive acoustic weapons on American people. These weapons had previously been used only in Iraq and other foreign war zones. These weapons delivered an ear-piercing sound exceeding 150 decibels, which is louder than a jet engine. It is accompanied by stern voice commands that penetrate the mind. (25) Very soon, what I have been saying for years will be proven true; that is, the greatest enemy of any people is its own government! History has verified this repeatedly!

On October 8th, 2009, the Associated Press featured a story about police officers randomly stopping and frisking people on the streets of our American cities. They call the program "stop and frisk" and have stopped more than one million people in various cities for absolutely no reason! (26) It could happen to you anytime the police get a notion to frisk you!

On October 6th, 2009, various OPEC nations announced that they were going to ditch the U.S. dollar. Immediately, the price of gold jumped to $1,038.65 per ounce, which was a record high. (27) On October 12th, 2009, Bloomberg News Service published a story stating that the U.S. dollar had reached a breaking point because central banks were snubbing the dollar and replacing it with euros and yen. (28) What is happening in the erstwhile great nation of America? Why has so much wealth flowed from America and into Red China? Economically, the Red Chinese have already taken over our country. Is it any wonder that the Red Chinese flag was raised over Washington, D.C., in September 2009? This was done in our nation's Capital to commemorate the anniversary of the communist takeover of China by Chairman Mao sixty years ago. What gives Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the right to offer the Red Chinese your property and mine as collateral against the debt owed by America to China? Here let it also be noted that on September 30th, 2009, the massive Empire State Building in New York City was lighted for three nights in the colors of red and yellow in honor of the communist Chinese revolution! (29) Do these Chinese Reds deserve any honor at all? In an article printed over a year ago in the St Petersburg Times, the nation of Red China is facing an unusual dilemma. For many years they murdered so many baby girls in favor of a stronger male population that now the ratio is 30 men for every one woman. The article goes on to say that the Red Chinese male work force is full of lustful men because of the shortage. (30) Now their eyes are on America!

Will the U.S. dollar collapse? On October 6th, 2009, the United Nations called for a new reserve currency to replace the dollar. (31) The Obama Administration has printed so much more money that the existing supply is worth continually less. It is a weak, thinned out, and watered down economy. Furthermore, existing goods and services will quickly absorb the excess money supply and inflation will rise to record levels. It is quite obvious that all of this is being done intentionally to bring forth new one-world electronic money. This will be the Beast system as mentioned in Revelation, chapter 13. According to the London Daily Telegraph on October 2nd, 2009, the World Bank will run out of money within twelve months. (32) We are that close to the end.

The signs of the times are everywhere. Many people have noticed that stores of every kind have been greatly cutting back on inventory because they just don't have the money to buy much. A prime example of the severity of the problem is the large fleet of empty cargo ships anchored just east of Singapore. It is called the Ghost Fleet, as reported with a full series of photgraphs by the London Daily Mail on September 28th, 2009. "It is the biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history. It is larger than the British and U.S. navies combined but have no crew, no cargo, and no destination." (33) I have no doubt that our U.S. money is cursed in many ways. It is interesting to note that a recent test conducted by a group of scientists involving U.S. currency from thirty American cities found that ninety percent of all bills contain traces of cocaine. (34)

Final Signs and Warnings!

At the very end of September through the beginning of October, just after the G-20 Economic Summit, disasters began to happen all over the world. In Sydney, Australia, a severe dust storm filled the sky and blanketed the city with an ominous red dust, described as deadly red by the London Daily Mail. (35) In California, massive wildfires broke out and turned the sky bright orange and red. The San Gabriel Mountains were on fire, charring 3,500 acres. (36) Then the earthquakes began to shake the earth. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there have been 454 significant earthquakes of magnitude 4 and above within the past 30 days as of October 14th, 2009. Many of these were strong quakes. (37) I have been watching the earthquake maps and statistics for twenty-eight years, and I have never seen this many before in such a short time. On October 1st, 2009, Indonesia was hit with a magnitude 7.6 quake, which caused widespread devastation and left thousands of people dead or missing. (38) At that same time, two more powerful quakes of magnitudes 7.6 and 6.6 struck near Samoa, sending a tsunami across the region, which left widespread destruction and thousands dead or missing. (39) The very creation is crying out against sinful man.

In early October, a strange, unique, and unexplainable halo appeared over Moscow, Russia. It glimmered with bright light and was captured on video. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. It was massive and appeared to be some sort of doorway or portal filled with brilliant brightness. (40) We must remember that the Lord Jesus told us to watch for the many signs that would appear just before His return to bring Judgment Day upon this wicked world. We must all watch and pray, for the time is at hand!

In closing, I want to thank all of you who pray for and support this end time prophetic ministry. We are always delighted to pray for you, and your requests always receive individual attention by our intercessors. Grace and peace be unto you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

David J. Meyer

Acknowledgements
01. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Oct. 10, 2009, Milwaukee, WI.
02. Ibid.
03. AFP News Service, Oct. 15, 2009, Oslo, Norway.
04. Associated Press, Oct. 13, 2009, Burlington Township, NJ.
05. Politico, Sep. 16, 2009, by Glenn Thrush, Washington, D.C.
06. Politico, Oct. 12, 2009, by Kenneth P. Vogel, Washington, D.C.
07. KCTV5 News, Oct. 1, 2009, Blue Springs, MO.
08. Official clothing label, received Oct. 7, 2009.
09. Canadian Free Press, Oct. 5, 2009. http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12652.
10. Report by Mat Staver, Liberty University School of Law.
11. Associated Press, Sep. 8, 2009, by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Washington, D.C.
12. Washington Times, Sep. 23, 2009, by Jennifer Haberkorn & Kent Rowland, Washington, D.C. 13. Wall Street Journal, Oct. 1, 2009, Washington, D.C.
14. The Hill, Sep. 30, 2009, by Jeffrey Young, Washington, D.C.
15. Associated Press, Oct. 10, 2009, by Andrew Miga, Washington, D.C.
16. AFP News Service, Sep. 23, 2009, London, England, U.K.
17. WCBSTV, Sep. 30, 2009, Albany, NY.
18. Los Angeles Times, Sep. 25, 2009, by Melissa Healy, Los Angeles, CA.
19. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Oct. 5, 2009, by Carla K. Johnson, Chicago, IL.
20. Yahoo Finance News Release, Oct. 5, 2009.
21. The Hill, Nov. 7, 2009, by Walter Alarkon, Washington, D.C.
22. Associated Press, Sep. 30, 2009, Washington, D.C.
23. Associated Press, Oct. 3, 2009, by Tim Paradis & Marcy Gordon.
24. Associated Press, Sep. 25, 2009, Pittsburgh, PA.
25. Associated Press, Oct. 1, 2009, by Joe Mandak, Pittsburgh, PA.
26. Associated Press, Oct. 8, 2009, by Colleen Long, New York, NY.
27. AFP News Service, Oct. 6, 2009, London, England, U.K.
28. Bloomberg News Service, Oct. 12, 2009, by Ye Xie & Anchalee Worrachate, New York, NY.
29. Associated Press, Sep. 30, 2009, by Marcus Franklin, New York, NY.
30. St. Petersburg Times, Mar. 2, 2008, by Kris Hundley, St. Petersburg, FL.
31. AFP News Service, Oct. 6, 2009, New York, NY.
32. Daily Telegraph, Oct. 2, 2009, by Edmund Conway, London, England, U.K.
33. Daily Mail, Sep. 28, 2009, by Simon Parry, London, England, U.K.
34. MSNBC News, Aug. 17, 2009, Live Science Report.
35. Daily Mail, Sep. 23, 2009, by Mail Foreign Service, Sydney, Australia.
36. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,Oct. 5, 2009, Wrightwood, CA.
37. US Geological Survey, Oct. 14, 2009, Iris seismic monitor.
38. Reuters News Service, Oct. 1, 2009, by John Nedy & Sunanda Creagh, Padang, Indonesia.
39. Daily Mail, Oct 1, 2009, by Mail Foreign Service, Indonesia.
40. Daily Sun, Oct. 11, 2009, by Vince Soodin, London, England, U.K.

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