Monday, November 17, 2008

International Forecaster November 2008 (#5) - Gold, Silver, Economy + More


By: Bob Chapman, The International Forecaster
-- Posted Sunday, 16 November 2008


The following are some snippets from the most recent issue of the International Forecaster. For the full 33 page issue, please see subscription information below.

US MARKETS



The Illuminati are double-dipping. Every time Congress raises the debt ceiling and issues new treasuries that are then sold to the Fed, at interest, in order to fund the various bailouts which taxpayers are having stuffed down their throats, another shadow bailout occurs that no one has taken note of. What are we talking about? We'll tell you what we are talking about. For instance, when the $700 billion Paulson Ponzi Plunder Plan was passed by Congressional traitors over their constituents' objection, another potential stealth bailout of elitist financial institutions was also under way for an additional 700 billion, making the Paulson Ponzi Plunder Plan a potentially cool $1.4 trillion dollar injection of extorted taxpayer largesse to elitist financial institutions. Have we lost our minds? No, we just notice things that no one else picks up on, which is why we have so many subscribers.



Whenever new treasuries are created to fund bailouts authorized by Congress, which must keep raising the national debt ceiling to accommodate such new issues, the Fed can buy them (a process which is called the monetization of treasury bonds), and charges the US government interest on these "loans" when it does, by adding digital money to the Treasury's account with the Fed, which the Treasury can then use to fund the various bailouts, such as the equity injections being given to elitist banks, some $125 billion to the Big Nine just for starters. The Fed can then include the treasuries so purchased as part of its general collateral, which it can then, in turn, use to conduct its various programs, which includes the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF). Thus, ergo, it can exchange those treasuries for toxic waste held by other elitist institutions pursuant to the TSLF, thereby debauching its own balance sheets with assets that are worth 10 to 30 cents on the dollar, but which the Fed lists at par value on its balance sheets.



Well yes, but those treasuries are borrowed and have to be returned at some point in exchange for taking the toxic waste back. WRONG! Those treasuries that have been received by banks in exchange for toxic waste can be used as collateral for loans or sold to raise cash. These loans of treasuries are being conducted just like gold and silver leasing by bullion banks. The items being borrowed or leased are being sold or pledged as collateral, and are never coming back. When the insolvent elitist banks that borrowed these treasuries go under, which most of them eventually will when the Derivative Death-Star finally and fully detonates, the treasuries that these insolvent institutions borrowed from the Fed in exchange for toxic waste will have to be liquidated in bankruptcy to pay off loans for which they were pledged as collateral or to pay off other debts of the bankrupt entity. Those treasuries, which were sold for cash will remain with their new owners. The Fed does not intend to ever get these treasuries back. The Fed will eventually be left holding a heap of toxic waste collateral, worth 10 to 30 cents on the dollar, and will be essentially bankrupt and in need of a bailout itself. If any private business entity could be deemed too-big-to-fail by our corrupt government, it would be the Fed itself, because it is your money they are loaning out in exchange for nearly worthless collateral. The Fed is now the central clearing house for toxic waste. It has become the Toxic Waste Storage Facility (TWSF), to coin a phrase.



If you include new treasuries added to the Fed's balance sheet along with the toxic waste collateral which the Fed has received for loans made under its lending authority through Buck-Busting Ben's various helicopter loan facilities, the Fed has added over $1.2 trillion worth of collateral to its balance sheets over the past several months, raising the amount it holds as general collateral from about $800 billion to over $2 trillion, which additions to its general collateral are essentially a Weimar-like, hyperinflationary increase to the supply of money denominated in US dollars. So a large and growing portion of treasury bonds monetized by the Fed are being loaned in exchange for toxic waste under the TSLF, to the tune of hundreds of billions thus far, while loans made under the Fed's lending authority are being collateralized with toxic waste as well. Hence, the Bloomberg lawsuit was commenced to find out who got the loans of treasuries and cash and what collateral was received in exchange. The Fed not only does not want you to know who is in danger of going under, they do not want you to know about the stealth bailouts we just mentioned, or about the pathetic collateral they are collecting in exchange for loans made pursuant to their lending authority. Now you know why the Fed is so reticent.



This also explains why the Paulson Ponzi Plunder Plan has done a deceptive about face on how the bailout proceeds will be used. First, the proposed toxic waste purchases were a red herring. The Illuminati never intended to use the proceeds to acquire toxic waste because they were already acquiring a lot of the toxic waste held by Illuminist banks and financial institutions through the Term Securities Lending Facility and other cash loan facilities being offered through the Fed, and would be able to continue to do so through the stealth bailouts we have just described. The Fed's toxic waste acquisitions avoid the valuation problems which would arise by via the government's purchase of toxic waste through special auctions because the toxic waste is not being sold, but rather, is being pledged as collateral. Also, the equity injections prevent the necessity of de-leveraging. Large commercial banks are leveraged at about 10 to 1, and for each billion that is injected, $10 billion in forced asset sales through de-leveraging is prevented. They did not, however, want to sell the Paulson Ponzi Plunder Plan to Congress in terms of equity injections, because the partial government ownership that resulted would look too much like communism, socialism or corporatist fascism, take your pick. So they disguised the plan as being some form of mere government financial handouts that were promoted as fully (or at least partially) collateralized loans to get banks to start lending to consumers again, instead of stating what the PPPP really was intended to be from the beginning, namely, the start of a complete government takeover of the financial and other business sectors, commencing with a partial nationalization of the financial industry, with the end game being to completely nationalize the financial industry along with many other sectors of our economy, like the auto and insurance industries.



And think of the implications for the dollar. The Fed's general collateral is supposed to secure the value of the dollar since we have been taken off the gold standard and our gold reserves have all been stolen, leased or otherwise hypothecated in any case. Let's be charitable and say that the toxic waste collateral is worth 30 cents on the dollar. That would mean that the Fed's general collateral, thus far, would be worth about 600 billion when fully debased by toxic waste. That is not even enough to cover the 700 to 800 billion of physical cash in the form of printed Federal Reserve notes in circulation. And never mind the additional $10 trillion of current debt, which the US government owes. And certainly never mind the additional $90 trillion on top of that which the US government owes on long term debt in the form of future entitlements and other such promises to pay that our morons in Congress have committed us to. That means that the US of A has become a mammoth hedge fund leveraged at almost 200 to 1. Is it any wonder that foreign holders of US treasury and agency paper are starting to get a little concerned? You have personally witnessed what has happened to many highly leveraged hedge funds and investment banks of late. In short, they were vaporized, and that is what is about to happen to our financial system as well. It is only a matter of time as you watch the US dollar do what Jim Willie appropriately described as the "US Dollar Death Dance." Gold and silver will rocket into outer space when the Dollar Death Dance reaches its climactic conclusion.



Due to the detonation of the Derivative Death-Star, the too-big-to-fail Fed, together with other major too-big-to-fail banks that are being created by mergers funded by taxpayer largesse right before our very eyes, will be merged into one egregious, corporatist, fascist super-entity, which will be given full regulatory power over all financial entities in the US, and which will rule our financial markets with an iron fist. If and when that happens, just bend over and kiss your derriere goodbye. The Illuminati will do whatever they please at that point and nothing short of a revolution will stop them.



We note in passing that American Express has joined Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in becoming a bank holding company so they can take advantage of Fed bailout largesse. CIT Group has now also applied for the same privileges. Who will be next, we wonder? We also note how the fane-stream media made a big deal out of the $29 billion quarterly loss by Fannie. That is $29 billion, with two trillion, $471 billion to go. These losses are laughable. It is a joke. We further note that while bank loan rates are going down, consumer loan rates are going up. This is how they increase spreads and rip off the public. The same is being done with gold and silver, where the public is forced to pay black market prices while the elitist commercial bullion banks get to pay wholesale prices that are 40 to 50% lower based on illegal paper manipulations. They get the gold mine, you get the shaft. That is the Illuminist plan in a nutshell.



We hope all of you are out of the general stock market with the exception of gold, silver, oil and gas stocks, and our selective short positions that have done so phenomenally well. Everywhere investors are bemoaning their losses as the market hits new lows predicted here in this publication. This is the worst drop since 1937, a fall from 14,100 to close to 8,000. Worse yet, the bottom is nowhere in sight. We see somewhere between 3,800 to 5,500 as a bottom, unless we see revolution in the streets of America or WWIII. Then the bottom will be lower.



In addition, central banks may be lowering interest rates, but rates in the real market are relatively unchanged or higher. In the securitized subprime and ALT-A securities sellers, when they can occasionally find a buyer, are getting $0.10 to $0.25 on the dollar for their bonds. Even quality AAA paper ranges from $0.25 to $0.65 with a few buyers in sight. Now ABS, asset backed securities, holding loans on credit cards, vehicles, mobile homes, swimming pools, etc., cannot find buyers. The market is almost frozen. Bonds from second and third world countries have fallen like stones. There are more than $42 trillion in losses still to be taken.



Bonds are still being carried at mark to model not mark to market, which is a fiction aided and abetted by the SEC. Those losses will be taken sooner or later. Either that or the taxpayer will pick up the bill. Either way, it is not going to be pleasant.



Those scurrying to the perceived safety of US Treasury paper are in for a big surprise. As we write the 10-year Treasury note yields 3.70%. Inflation has temporarily fallen from 13-5/8% to 12-1/2% leaving a net loss of some 8-3/4%, hardly a safe investment. This perceived safe paper has long and short-term obligations of over $100 trillion. This coming year the debt rating on Treasuries and Agencies will fall and further losses will ensue.



This coming year every institution will be trying to raise capital. In the coming fiscal year government will need to raise a fresh $2 trillion and we ask where will it come from? At best government will crowd commercial borrowers out of the market and drive interest rates higher. It will be a very competitive and difficult marketplace.



Our Treasury Secretary wants to expand the TARP program to help the consumer finance sector. That includes private-equity funds.



After five weeks TARP only has $60 billion left out of the $350 billion initial funding. Now it’s back to Congress for $350 billion more. Crony capitalism – better known as corporatist fascism – marches on. The looting continues with wild abandon before the S.S. America goes under. Wait until US Treasury and Agency losses their AAA ratings. The Ponzi scheme gets a little more unwound.



Professionals, never mind the public, have no concept of how buried in bad debt and derivatives banks, Wall Street and corporate America are. Overall debt is 40 times assets.



The public doesn’t understand that AIG took client premiums and used them as collateral to become derivatives dealers. GM and GE did the same thing and we are bailing them all out. GE would have gone under last month if Warren Buffett hadn’t come to the rescue. AIG is being bailed out by you the American taxpayer as is GE and GM.



These are the same characters, along with the Fed, BIS, IMF, the Counterparty Risk Management Group, the US Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization und and the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, which are manipulating world markets. There have been no free markets for years.



The NAR pending home sales index fell 4.6% in September. In the West sales rose 3.7%. They fell 0.7% in the Midwest, 7.9% in the South and 16.8% in the Northeast.



Foreclosures accounted for 18.6% of all sales nationwide last year.



December will be a brutal month for layoffs, as the economy worsens and more companies look for ways to cut costs. This is when executives scramble to hit profit targets and prepare budgets for 2009. Not only corporations will be cutting, but so will cities, towns, counties, municipalities and states. These cutbacks are already underway. State by state job cuts will vary from 2,000 to more than 100,000 in December alone. Wait until January when these unemployment figures are released. They’ll be shocking. Nationally unemployment officially has been rising at the fastest pace in 26 years. Construction, manufacturing and financials have been hit hardest. Next will be the white-collar world.




Bail-Out For The Big Boys?


Survival of the Fittest?

The Foreign Policy of an Obama Administration




Friday, November 14, 2008






by Rodrigue Tremblay



Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.”

Bertrand Russell



In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others.”

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (March 4, 1933)



I believe in a whole lot of things that make me progressive and put me squarely in the Democratic camp.”

Sen. Barack Obama, (July 8, 2008)



President-elect Barack Obama is a nice guy and a fresh political face. His election on November 4 (2008), as president of the United States, is a great personal achievement. At the very least, he deserves the benefit of the doubt. Indeed, President-elect Obama has received from the American electorate an unequivocal public mandate for change. It is fair to say that his election creates an opportunity for the United States to tackle a number of systemic problems that have beset this proud nation for a long while.



The most important revision that could be made is the way Americans see their country in the world. Is the U.S. an old-style empire that uses empty phrases to advance imperialistic interests through military force? Or is the U.S. rather the first country truly founded on the Enlightenment principles of equality of all human beings, of individual freedom and responsibility, and of the democratic system of government, as embodied in the U.S. Constitution? Which is it going to be under an Obama administration?



Since World War II, the United States has been obsessed with its military power. The fact that the U.S. played such a central role in defeating Nazi Germany and imperial Japan went to the head of most American politicians and of many American citizens. Suddenly, the U.S. saw itself as grander than nature, a messianic, self-appointed “leader of the free world”. It was a mission that the military-industrial complex was eager to embrace with enthusiasm.



Towards the end of World War II, General Motors CEO Charles Wilson advanced the fateful idea of a permanent war economy with ever increasing military expenditures, and with military bases all around the world. On April 14, 1950, Wilson's ideas were officially adopted by the U.S. government when National Security Council Document 68 was issued by the Truman administration. It was the framework for an amoral and costly foreign policy that propelled the United States upon a dangerous path and which, nearly sixty years later, is threatening to push it toward financial and moral bankruptcy. Indeed, it is because of this far-reaching policy that the United States today spends more on the military than all the other nations of the world combined and has been willing, under George W. Bush, to engage in a war of aggression.



Even before, however, numerous foreign military adventures, beginning with the Korean War (1950–53), followed the adoption of this militaristic policy. The worst blunder was undoubtedly the ill-advised and gratuitous Vietnam War (1959–1975), in which some 55,000 young Americans and more than one million Vietnamese lost their lives, all for naught. It was also a major component of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.



The obsession with anything military turned tragic in the 1980s, under Ronald Reagan, when propagandists began to present the United States as the “good empire” as compared with other “evil empires”. Of course, the most grotesque rendering of this delusion reached its zenith under George W. Bush, when the United States perceived itself as being above international law, in its self-appointed “mission” or “crusade” to impose American-style democracy and promote U.S. economic interests around the world with tanks and bombs.



This transformation of a law-abiding American republic into a somewhat rogue empire above the law was bound to have many dire consequences, for both itself and for the world.



In the past, the myth of a so-called U.S. "Manifest Destiny" under a divine authority, and of American exceptionalism, has often surfaced in American history, but rarely as intensely as it was witnessed during the last quarter century. Used initially by the Jacksonian Democrats to justify the extermination of the Indians and the conquest of the American West, the myth was promoted by the Republicans in the 1980s to pave the way for the ideology of an American world hegemony.



As if to corroborate historian Arnold Toynbee's 100 year cycle of imperial wars, the same myth had been used in the 1890s by members of the Republican Party to justify their seizure and occupation of former Spanish foreign colonies during the Spanish-American War of 1898. At that time, the United States embraced a policy of imperial conquests, with the occupation of the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Panama.



Recently, the powerful neo-conservative movement adopted the same ideology of American moral superiority, presenting the policy of militarism and of imperialism as something "good". The neocons, indeed, have been the principal proponents of total global military domination by the United States. They have been the main driving force within the Bush-Cheney administration behind the American-led war of aggression against Iraq.



Soon, in January 2009, a new Obama administration will be inaugurated. Normally, if it really wants to change things, a new administration must spell out clearly its agenda during the first 100 days, before everything becomes “business as usual”. This is a moment to be seized and not be wasted, especially with the type of widespread mandate the incoming administration has received.



Will President Barack Obama deliver on his promise of change and adopt new and bold progressive policies? Indeed, will he have the wisdom and courage to revisit a more than half-century old foreign policy that has outlived its pertinence, and dare bring forward a new vision and a necessary change of direction? —At the very least, the question deserves to be raised.



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Rodrigue Tremblay is professor emeritus of economics at the University

of Montreal and can be reached at: rodrigue.tremblay@ yahoo.com.

He is the author of the book 'The New American Empire'.

Visit his blog site at www.thenewamericanempire.com/blog.

Author's Website: www.thenewamericanempire.com/

Check Dr. Tremblay's coming book "The Code for Global Ethics" at: www.TheCodeForGlobalEthics.com/

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Posted, Friday, November 14, 2008, at 5:30 am


Source: http://www.thenewamericanempire.com/blog

The Fed has been forced to seek risk while other central banks seek safety


Posted on Saturday, November 15th, 2008

By bsetser

A global slowdown — likely a severe global slowdown — is now underway. Last week’s data erased any real doubt. US retail sales are down. US real goods exports fell in September, and the October ports data (and woes with trade finance) suggest that hope isn’t on the way. The dollar’s rally also won’t help — but that will only hit with a lag. Europe is slowing. Britain is slowing far more. And China is too.

Wang Tao of UBS argues — I suspect correctly — that the weak data on industrial production stems more from a fall in domestic activity, especially a fall in construction that reduced demand for steel and cement, than from a fall in exports. But if the polls on Americans holiday purchasing plans are accurate, exports are going to fall sharply. And this time it won’t just be the garment and toy factories that feel the pain; some of China’s newer export sectors (the ones that have kept y/y nominal export growth at 20% … ) will slump too.

It isn’t a pretty picture. But if nothing else it clarifies the need for strong policy action to offset what now looks to be a sharp and quite sudden fall in private demand.

The Fed’s balance sheet isn’t any prettier. Week after week it continues to expand. As jck of Alea notes, the Fed’s leverage ratio puts Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to shame. Of course, the Fed could always get more capital if it needed it. But the rise in the Fed’s leverage illustrates how it has facilitated the deleveraging of other parts of the financial sector. If it hadn’t acted, things could be worse. Really.

And for all the talk of how foreign central banks are intrinsically stabilizing forces in the market, the real heavy lifting has all been done by the Fed (with a bit of help from the Treasury). The world’s reserve managers may have been a stabilizing force in the currency markets in the third quarter — we will have to see what the IMF’s COFER data tells us (and read the tea leaves to guess what China has been doing; to stabilize the market it should be stepping up its purchases of euros, pounds and Australian dollars … ). But they clearly haven’t been a stabilizing force in the US credit market. In the first two weeks of November they added over $30 billion to their Treasury holdings at the New York Fed while continuing to scale back their Agency holdings. Paul Swartz of the Council’s Center for Geoeconomic Studies (check out its coverage of the Leaders 20) and I tried to illustrate how the Fed has been taking on credit risk even as other central banks have pulled back.





We plotted the y/y change in the Fed’s holdings of Treasuries (including Treasuries that have been lent out through the Fed’s securities lending facility) against the y/y change in foreign central banks holdings of Treasuries and Agencies. There is little doubt that Fed has been selling Treasuries — and other central banks have been big buyers.

It some sense, the Fed hasn’t just been facilitating the deleveraging of bank balance sheets. It also has facilitated a large and fairly sudden change in the composition of the balance sheets of foreign central banks, who have shifted out of Agencies toward Treasuries. Remember central banks were net sellers of reserves in October, so the recent shift toward Treasuries implies sales of other less secure assets.

Two additional points.

First, the New York Fed’s custodial holdings seem to capture about 90% of central banks holdings of Agencies, but more like 2/3s or 3/4s of central bank holdings of Treasuries — so total central bank purchases of Treasuries over the past year could be even higher than the now close to $400 billion increase implied by the Fed’s custodial accounts.

Second, we didn’t plot the surge in Treasury issuance associated with the supplementary financing account, i.e. the Treasury bills that have been sold to provide the Fed with additional funds to lend out to the financial sector. We just looked at what happened to the Treasuries that the Fed held a year ago as assets on its balance sheet. The amazing thing is that the Fed in effect needed to sell even more Treasuries that in held on its balance sheet (about $559 billion more) to finance its lending to the global financial system during this crisis.

This entry was posted on Saturday, November 15th, 2008 at 2:51 pm...



Source: http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/2008/11/15/the-fed-has-been-forced-to-seek-risk-while-other-central-banks-seek-safety/#more-4058

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Can You Smell What Barack Is Cooking?



"I am stepping down as senator to prepare for the responsibilities I will assume as our nation's next president"



YouTube (Presidential) message this past Saturday (11/15/08):






Sixty Minutes on CBS 60 Minutes yesterday, 11/16/08):




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It's like one big Obamapalooza,


Obama claimed that there was just one President at one time;
Yet, he's on a tour de force on the airwaves as if he were the sub-President in the wings, or the Man behind the man.


  • Will he have to give up his "Blackberry", for security?

  • Will he choose Hillary for his Secretary of State?


  • Will his Mother-in-law move into the White House with the Obamas?


And, the piece de resistance:

Will McCain finally , formally "bury the hatchet", when they meet for the first time today?




What a monotonous, dizzying ordeal this election has dragged out to be. It's truly nauseating when you listen to all this noise disguised as "information" (dis-information). The Controlled Media is really challenging the public's intelligence. Even a Caveman can see through all the charade, that what's ahead is more of the same.
While he portrays himself as the best thing since slice bread; The American Mahdi!

Status Quo. Quid pro quo.

Vini, vidi et vinci.

Finis.


Arsenio.

Benedict Says He wants Unity Faster


October 27, 2008

On October 6, 2008, Zenit, a Vatican news agency, reported that Benedict XVI sent a personal message to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II saying that modern times call for a hastening of the journey toward Christian unity. “Our times, marked so often by conflict and grief,” said the Pope through his emissary, “make it even more necessary to hasten the journey toward the full unity of all the disciples of Christ, so that the joyous message of salvation may be spread to all humanity.”

Notice that the Pope was not just speaking of the Russian Orthodox Church. He is referring to all churches in full unity with Rome.“On the path to unity,” said bishop Vincenzo Paglia of Terni, president of the Italian bishops’ ecumenism commission, “meetings between experts are no longer sufficient. Rather, ecumenism is a coming together of the Churches.”



Source: http://www.ktfministry.org/news/310/benedict-says-he-wants-unity-faster




Thy Word


Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.


Psalm 119:105

Saturday, November 15, 2008

"Secrets of the Jesuits" - Jim Arrabito


There are people saying that the Jesuits are taking over the world. They are really the ones that are behind the World Order and use people like Bush, Clinton, and the secret socities to do their work.

If that is hard to believe, then here is the pope calling for a new international order aka new world order.


Please go to link below to watch this "must see" video:

Entrée for the nouveaux riches


G20 SUMMIT


November 15, 2008

The G20 summit in Washington today offers some promise of a useful forum for thrashing out international economic problems, though it is unlikely to lead to anything as constructive as the Bretton Woods conference of 1944.

The old-money powers of North America and Europe are the prevailing forces in established institutions such as the G8 and the International Monetary Fund, but China, India and other members of the G20 also figure largely in the world's economic ills.

Most strikingly, the close but unbalanced relationship between the United States and China was one of the most powerful causes of the present global crisis. China's high rate of saving and the correspondingly high rate of consumption in the U.S. fed into each other. Chinese money seeking borrowers abroad flooded in, helping to keep U.S. interest rates very low, enticing low-income Americans to buy houses they could not afford for long, as well as to buy cheap Chinese exports subsidized by a deliberately undervalued currency.

Clearly, bilateral discussion was not enough. Some new, wider context for pleading, recriminations, negotiations and consensus-building is needed.

The G20 began in 1999 as a group of finance ministers and central bankers, led by Paul Martin and Lawrence Summers, the Canadian and U.S. finance ministers. In 2005, Mr. Martin proposed a more ambitious L-20, with "L" for leadership.

That idea's time has now arrived; the Washington meeting is bringing together heads of state and government, the most eager being the neo-Napoleonic Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Gordon Brown, a dour Scot re-energized by calamity.

In 1944, the conference at Bretton Woods, N.H., was in a position to remake a world desolated by war. Great figures were there: John Maynard Keynes from Britain, Dean Acheson from the U.S. and Pierre Mendès-France from France. The Canadian delegation, from Louis St. Laurent to Louis Rasminsky, was impressive, too.

Leading up to today's lesser meeting, the debate about free markets and regulation has been shadowboxing; all concerned favour degrees of both.

The nation-states of the G20 will not yield their sovereignty to a new international economic system, but they may agree to adopt fairly similar systems of regulation, lest any major country become a haven for highly leveraged banks.

Today, this one-day conference should at least set a helpful agenda.



What does the "G" stand for?


G7:

The G7 (also known as the G-7 or Group of Seven) is the meeting of the finance ministers from a group of seven industrialized nations. It was formed in 1976, when Canada joined the Group of Six: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States of America.[1] The finance ministers of these countries meet several times a year to discuss economic policies. Their work is supported by regular, functional meetings of officials, including the G7 Finance Deputies.



Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G7

G8:

The Group of Eight (G8, and formerly the (G6) or Group of Six) is an international forum for the governments of eight nations: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States; in addition, the EU is represented within the G8, but cannot host or chair.[1] The G8 can refer to the member states or to the annual summit meeting of the G8 heads of government. The former term G6 is now frequently applied to the six most populous countries within the European Union (see G6 (EU)). G8 ministers also meet throughout the year, such as the G7/8 finance ministers (who meet four times a year), G8 foreign ministers or G8 environment ministers.



G20:

The G-20 (more formally, the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors) is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 economies: 19 of the world's largest national economies, plus the European Union (EU). Collectively, the G-20 economies comprise 90% of global gross national product, 80% of world trade (including EU intra-trade) and two-thirds of the world population.[2]
The G-20 is a forum for cooperation and consultation on matters pertaining to the international financial system. It studies, reviews, and promotes discussion among key industrial and emerging market countries of policy issues pertaining to the promotion of international financial stability, and seeks to address issues that go beyond the responsibilities of any one organization.


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G7; G8; Now, G20; I don't see what all the scurrying about is for?


The New World Order is here, and we've been duped into thinking that they are going to fix things. No such luck; It's world government from now on. Currently, President Bush is hosting a 21st Century "Bretton Woods Conference" in Washington D.C.; While the world watches, and waits for the next shoe to drop: More bad economic news, more down-sizing, more lay-offs, more bankruptcies, more foreclosures; The dignitaries, and the international banksters make plans to monopolize the remaining wealth of the world's working people. Meanwhile, they dine on "Beijing Duck", Foie Gras, Caviar, and Escargots. And we pay the bill.


I think the "G" is supposed to stand for Global;

Yet, I think that it actually stands for gangsters.


Arsenio.

The Power of the Holy Spirit

Our Greatest need is for the power promised in the latter rain (a last day account of Pentecost).
Through the Holy Spirit many signs and wonders will take place. A mighty work will be done and thousands will accept Christ and be converted. Through the power of the Spirit even the uneducated will speak forth words with boldness and clearity. Just as in Bible times, simple methods inspired by God will bring powerful results. Through signs and wonders God will make it known to all that He is in control of finishing the work of the gospel. Under the power and direction of God the gospel will then be preached to the whole world and Christ will come.
Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me... Acts 1:8

And when they had prayed… they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness. Acts 4:31

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you... Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added [unto them] about three thousand souls. Acts 2:38-41

And as they spake unto the people… many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand. Acts 4:1,4

And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. …every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Acts 2:4-8

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. Mark 16:17-18

And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. Acts 2:43

The gospel commission will never be finished without the power of the latter rain.
…without me ye can do nothing. John 15:5 This is the word of the LORD… saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. Zechariah 4:6


Source: http://ourgreatestneed.org/powerhs.htm

Methodist Church continues downward spiral with "inclusive philosophy"


A religious watchdog organization says the recent unauthorized ordination ceremony for a lesbian and another woman who champions homosexual rights is evidence of the theological tailspin plaguing the historic United Methodist Church in Maryland.

Last month, a so-called "extraordinary ordination" was held at Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church in Baltimore. Organizers said the ceremony was sponsored by the Church Within A Church Movement, a Methodist group which bills itself as being the "inclusive church" and plants churches with the objective of providing ministry opportunities for "sexual minorities." Annie Britton and Jenna Zirbel were "ordained" on Sunday, October 19. Britton is legally married to her partner in Massachusetts, and Zirbel says she had been denied ordination previously because of her stated support of "gay and lesbian people in the church."

United Methodist Church (UMC) officials noted the ceremony was unauthorized. Mark Tooley with The Institute on Religion & Democracy believes organizers have a clear agenda.

"The Church Within A Church Movement is hoping that they are doing what the church as a whole will be doing in the near future," he contends. "I am more hopeful that the church, having said no, will continue to say no to the acceptance of openly homosexual clergy."

Tooley believes the denomination will eventually have to deal with the issue at its General Conference.


Source: http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/November14/1452.html

Now, that's what I call noose!



  • Puppy Cam


  • A Hypo-allergenic Dog needed for one of the Obama daughters.



  • Smoke and Mirrors instead of news.

  • That's what I call noose!


    With all the trouble in the world; Is this what the reporters and anchor-people dress up for; For this malarkey, they call news? Or is it, noose?


    Arsenio.

    "Brotherly Love"


    Let brotherly love continue.


    Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.


    Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.


    Hebrews 13: 1-3.

    Friday, November 14, 2008

    Too many interfaith dialogues: Vatican


    Pope Benedict XVI (R) shakes hands with the Muslim mufti of Bosnia (file)



    [ Monday, 10 November 2008 ]


    Saudi king heads to UN for interfaith session


    DUBAI (Reuters, AlArabiya.net)

    There are now so many efforts to improve relations between Christians and Muslims that they risk overlapping and creating confusion, the Vatican's top official for interfaith contacts said just days before a United Nations interfaith conference organized by the Saudi king was to start in New York.

    Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, said a conference between Catholics and Muslims last week was a fresh bid for mutual understanding that could become a "favored channel" for the Vatican.

    But there is now so much interest in Christian-Muslim dialogue that it is getting hard to see where it is going, said Tauran, who was preparing to fly to New York for United Nations talks linked to another drive led by Saudi King Abdullah.


    " The broader impact of interfaith dialogue remains to be evaluated "
    Gurharpal Singh, University of Birmingham
    The Saudi king and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon are organizing a special session of the U.N. general assembly on Wednesday and Thursday for talks on "interfaith" issues and the "Culture of Peace."

    "In my opinion, there are too many Christian-Muslim initiatives. Everybody's doing it," he told Reuters in an interview. "One doesn't know where this will go. That proves there is a great interest, but it shows a bit of confusion.

    "There's a risk of overlapping... It may be the price to pay for all this interest that interreligious dialogue incites."

    But Saudi liberals say such high-profile events pressure the conservatives at home who created the ideological environment that feeds Islamist militancy.

    "This hits at the extremists, who we say are wrong in terms of Islam," said Mohammed al-Zulfa, a liberal member of the consultative Shura Assembly. "There is opposition (to reform) from conservatives who have spent three decades controlling education, media, mosques and the street."

    Dialogue between Christians and Muslims is nothing new, but the Sept. 11 attacks and sharpened tensions between western and Muslim states have given it a new urgency and sparked concern about a growing gap between the world's two largest religions.

    A Common Word, an informal group of religious leaders and scholars across the Muslim world, gave interfaith dialogue a new impetus last year by inviting Christians to examine how both faiths have shared core principles of loving God and neighbor.

    On Nov 4-6, a Common Word delegation held an unprecedented meeting at the Vatican called the Catholic-Muslim Forum, a bilateral exchange due to be held every two years.

    But whether such interfaith dialogues will result in tangible results remains unclear, according to sime, since there are few ways to measure their impact.

    “As an ideal, an objective it’s a wonderful thing (interfaith dialogue), it’s absolutely imperative,” Gurharpal Singh, a political scientist working on issues of management of religious diversity at the University of Birmingham, told AlArabiya.net. “But at the point of impact it may not have policy objective in terms of changing attitudes and behavior at ground level.”

    He noted that after Sept. 11, 2001 Western countries adopted policies of engagement with faith leaders to put forth collective responses, which may have been more useful for reducing tensions but less so in the policy arena. “The broader impact of interfaith dialogue remains to be evaluated,” he said.



    Inaugural Catholic-Muslim dialogue affirms freedom of belief


    By Ecumenical News International
    11 Nov 2008

    The first meeting at the Vatican of a Roman Catholic-Muslim Forum has affirmed the right of individuals and communities to practise their religion in private and in public, while also rejecting terrorism in the name of religion - writes Luigi Sandri.

    "Genuine love of neighbour implies respect of the person and her or his choices in matters of conscience and religion," the 48 Catholic and Muslim scholars and leaders at the meeting stated in their final declaration released on 6 November after two days of discussions.

    Catholics and Muslims, they stated, "are called to be instruments of love and harmony among believers, and for humanity as a whole, renouncing any oppression, aggressive violence and terrorism, especially that committed in the name of religion; and upholding the principle of justice for all". Participants also noted, "We commit ourselves jointly to ensuring that human dignity and respect are extended on an equal basis to both men and women."

    The seminar was made up of 24 Catholics, chosen by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and by 24 signatories of an open letter from 2007 by Muslim scholars to Christian leaders, called "A Common Word". Five advisors from each faith also took part in the meetings.

    They met from 4 to 6 November 2008 to discuss the theme "Love of God, Love of Neighbour".

    The "Common Word" statement was sent to Pope Benedict XVI and to other Christian leaders, including the Rev. Samuel Kobia, head of the World Council of Churches. It said that world peace depends on cooperation between Christianity and Islam.

    This month's Vatican meeting came two years after a speech by Pope Benedict in Germany in which he quoted a Byzantine emperor who linked Islam and violence. The speech caused a furore in many parts of the Muslim world and the Pope stated afterwards that the words in his speech ascribed to the emperor did not represent his own views.

    The Vatican and Muslim leaders later agreed to create the forum.

    "As Catholic and Muslim believers, we are aware of the summons and imperative to bear witness and to the transcendent dimension of life, through a spirituality nourished by prayer, in a world which is becoming more and more secularised and materialistic," seminar participants stated.

    They agreed to explore the possibility "of establishing a permanent Catholic-Muslim committee to coordinate responses to conflicts and other emergency situations", and to organise a second seminar "in a Muslim-majority country yet to be determined".

    Pope Benedict received participants to the forum, inviting them to continue and strengthen their dialogue, but reaffirming that, for Christians, Jesus Christ is the Son of God made human, and rejecting "unacceptable" discrimination against believers.


    Final statement: www.zenit.org/article-24175?l=english

    [With acknowledgements to ENI. Ecumenical News International is jointly sponsored by the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, and the Conference of European Churches.]


    Source: http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/7940

    Should Christians Be Members of Secret Societies?


    "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty" (2 Cor. 6:14-18).

    The Lord's injunction, "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers" (2 Cor. 6:14), refers not only to the marriage of Christians with the ungodly, but to all alliances in which the parties are brought into intimate association, and in which there is need of harmony in spirit and action. The Lord gave special direction to Israel to keep themselves distinct from idolaters. They were not to intermarry with the heathen nor form any confederacy with them: "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee: but ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: for thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God" (Ex. 34:12-14).

    "For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers. . . . Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations" (Deut. 7:6-9).

    Again the Lord declares through the prophet Isaiah:

    "Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; ... Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us. For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread" (Isa. 8:9-13).

    There are those who question whether it is right for Christians to belong to the Free Masons and other secret societies. Let all such consider the scriptures just quoted. If we are Christians at all, we must be Christians everywhere, and must consider and heed the counsel given to make us Christians according to the standard of God's Word.

    Excerpt from:

    Selected Messages Book 2 (1958)

    (2SM)

    Ellen G. White

    pages 121-122.

    "One Nation Under God flyer"


    From the very beginning of the great controversy in heaven it has been Satan's purpose to overthrow the law of God. It was to accomplish this that He entered upon his rebellion against the Creator, and though he was cast out of heaven he has continued the same warfare upon the earth. Te deceive men, and thus lead them to transgress God's law, is the object which he has steadfastly pursued. Whether this be accomplished by casting aside the law altogether, or by rejecting one of its precepts, the result will be ultimately the same. ...

    In rejecting the truth, men reject its Author. In trampling upon the law of God, they deny the authority of the Lawgiver. ... No error accepted by the Christian world strikes more boldly against the authority of Heaven, none is more directly opposed to the dictates of reason, none is more pernicious in its results, than the modem doctrine so rapidly gaining ground that God's law is no longer binding upon men.


    Every nation has its laws, which command respect and obedience; no government could exist without them; and can it be conceived that the Creator of the heavens and the earth has no law to govern the beings He has made? ... But is it a graver offense to disregard the laws of states and nations than to trample upon those divine precepts which are the foundation of all government?



    It would be far more consistent for nations to abolish their statutes, and permit the people to do as they please, than for the Ruler of the universe to annul His law, and leave the world without a standard to condemn the guilty or justify the obedient. ...

    Those who teach the people to regard lightly the commandments of God sow disobedience to reap disobedience. Let the restraint imposed by the divine law be wholly cast aside, and human laws would soon be disregarded. ... If the law were not binding, why should any fear to transgress? Property would no longer be safe. Men would obtain their neighbor's possessions by violence, and the strongest would become richest. Life itself would not be respected. The marriage vow would no longer stand as a sacred bulwark to protect the family. He who had the power, would, if he desired, take his neighbor's wife by violence. The fifth commandment would be set aside with the fourth. Children would not shrink from taking the life of their parents if by so doing they could obtain the desire of their corrupt hearts. The civilized world would become a horde of robbers and assassins; and peace, rest, and happiness would be banished from the earth.

    Already the doctrine that men are released from obedience to God's requirements has weakened the force of moral obligation and opened the floodgates of iniquity upon the world. ... The vilest of criminals, when thrown into prison for their offenses, are often made the recipients of gifts and attentions as if they had attained an enviable distinction. Great publicity is given to their character and crimes. The press publishes the revolting details of vice, thus initiating others into the practice of fraud, robbery, and murder; and Satan exults in the success of his hellish schemes. The infatuation of vice, the wanton taking of life, the terrible increase of intemperance and iniquity of every order and degree, should arouse all who fear God, to inquire what can be done to stay the tide of evil.

    Courts of justice are corrupt. Rulers are actuated by desire for gain and love of sensual pleasure. Intemperance has beclouded the faculties of many so that Satan has almost complete control of them. Jurists are perverted, bribed, deluded. Drunkenness and revelry, passion, envy, dishonesty of every sort, are represented among those who administer the laws. "Justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter." Isaiah 59:14. ...

    Satan works through the elements also to garner his harvest of unprepared souls. He has studied the secrets of the laboratories of nature, and he uses all his power to control the elements as far as God allows. When he was suffered to afflict Job, how quickly flocks and herds, servants, houses, children, were swept away, one trouble succeeding another as in a moment. It is God that shields His chreatures and hedges them in from the power of the destroyer. ...

    Even now [Satan] is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitation are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast. "The earth mourneth and fadeth away" ...

    God never forces the will or the conscience; but Satan's constant restort — to gain control of those whome he cannot otherwise secuce — is compulsion by cruelty. Through fear of force he endeavors to rule the conscience and to secure homage to himself. To accomplish this, he works through both religious and secular authorities, moving them to the enforcement of human laws in defiance of the law of God. ... The lack of divine authority will be supplied by oppressive enactments. Political corruption is destroying love of justice and regard for truth; and even in free America, rulers and legislators, in order to secure public favor, will yield to the popular demand for a law ...



    There is more to the story. To request a free "Impending Conflict" CD or a free copy of the book, The Great Controversy, click here.

    The Impending Conflict


    A great crisis awaits the people of God. A crisis awaits the world. The most momentous struggle of all the ages is just before us. Events which for more than forty years we have upon the authority of the prophetic word declared to be impending are now taking place before our eyes. Already the question of an amendment to the Constitution restricting liberty of conscience has been urged upon the legislators of the nation. The question of enforcing Sunday observance has become one of national interest and importance. We well know what the result of this movement will be. But are we ready for the issue? Have we faithfully discharged the duty which God has committed to us of giving the people warning of the danger before them? {5T 711.3}

    There are many, even of those engaged in this movement for Sunday enforcement, who are blinded to the results which will follow this action. They do not see that they are striking directly against religious liberty. There are many who have never understood the claims of the Bible Sabbath and the false foundation upon which the Sunday institution rests. Any movement in favor of religious legislation is really an act of concession to the papacy, which for so many ages has
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    steadily warred against liberty of conscience. Sunday observance owes its existence as a so-called Christian institution to "the mystery of iniquity;" and its enforcement will be a virtual recognition of the principles which are the very cornerstone of Romanism. When our nation shall so abjure the principles of its government as to enact a Sunday law, Protestantism will in this act join hands with popery; it will be nothing else than giving life to the tyranny which has long been eagerly watching its opportunity to spring again into active despotism. {5T 711.4}

    The National Reform movement, exercising the power of religious legislation, will, when fully developed, manifest the same intolerance and oppression that have prevailed in past ages. Human councils then assumed the prerogatives of Deity, crushing under their despotic power liberty of conscience; and imprisonment, exile, and death followed for those who opposed their dictates. If popery or its principles shall again be legislated into power, the fires of persecution will be rekindled against those who will not sacrifice conscience and the truth in deference to popular errors. This evil is on the point of realization. {5T 712.1}

    When God has given us light showing the dangers before us, how can we stand clear in His sight if we neglect to put forth every effort in our power to bring it before the people? Can we be content to leave them to meet this momentous issue unwarned? {5T 712.2}

    There is a prospect before us of a continued struggle, at the risk of imprisonment, loss of property, and even of life itself, to defend the law of God, which is made void by the laws of men. In this situation worldly policy will urge an outward compliance with the laws of the land, for the sake of peace and harmony. And there are some who will even urge such a course from the Scripture: "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. . . . The powers that be are ordained of God."
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    {5T 712.3}

    But what has been the course of God's servants in ages past? When the disciples preached Christ and Him crucified, after His resurrection, the authorities commanded them not to speak any more nor to teach in the name of Jesus. "But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard." They continued to preach the good news of salvation through Christ, and the power of God witnessed to the message. The sick were healed, and thousands were added to the church. "Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, and laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison." {5T 713.1}

    But the God of heaven, the mighty Ruler of the universe, took this matter into His own hands; for men were warring against His work. He showed them plainly that there is a ruler above man, whose authority must be respected. The Lord sent His angel by night to open the prison doors, and he brought forth these men whom God had commissioned to do His work. The rulers said, Speak not "at all nor teach in the name of Jesus;" but the heavenly messenger sent by God said, "Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life." {5T 713.2}

    Those who seek to compel men to observe an institution of the papacy, and trample upon God's authority, are doing a work similar to that of the Jewish leaders in the days of the apostles. When the laws of earthly rulers are brought into opposition to the laws of the Supreme Ruler of the universe, then those who are God's loyal subjects will be true to Him. {5T 713.3}

    We as a people have not accomplished the work which God has committed to us. We are not ready for the issue to which the enforcement of the Sunday law will bring us. It is our duty, as we see the signs of approaching peril, to arouse to action. Let none sit in calm expectation of the evil,
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    comforting themselves with the belief that this work must go on because prophecy has foretold it, and that the Lord will shelter His people. We are not doing the will of God if we sit in quietude, doing nothing to preserve liberty of conscience. Fervent, effectual prayer should be ascending to heaven that this calamity may be deferred until we can accomplish the work which has so long been neglected. Let there be most earnest prayer, and then let us work in harmony with our prayers. It may appear that Satan is triumphant and that truth is overborne with falsehood and error; the people over whom God has spread His shield, and the country which has been an asylum for the conscience-oppressed servants of God and defenders of His truth, may be placed in jeopardy. But God would have us recall His dealings with His people in the past to save them from their enemies. He has always chosen extremities, when there seemed no possible chance for deliverance from Satan's workings, for the manifestation of His power. Man's necessity is God's opportunity. It may be that a respite may yet be granted for God's people to awake and let their light shine. If the presence of ten righteous persons would have saved the wicked cities of the plain, is it not possible that God will yet, in answer to the prayers of His people, hold in check the workings of those who are making void His law? Shall we not humble our hearts greatly before God, flee to the mercy seat, and plead with Him to reveal His mighty power? {5T 713.4}

    If our people continue in the listless attitude in which they have been, God cannot pour upon them His Spirit. They are unprepared to co-operate with Him. They are not awake to the situation and do not realize the threatened danger. They should feel now, as never before, their need of vigilance and concerted action. {5T 714.1}

    The peculiar work of the third angel has not been seen in its importance. God meant that His people should be far
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    in advance of the position which they occupy today. But now, when the time has come for them to spring into action, they have the preparation to make. When the National Reformers began to urge measures to restrict religious liberty, our leading men should have been alive to the situation and should have labored earnestly to counteract these efforts. It is not in the order of God that light has been kept from our people--the very present truth which they needed for this time. Not all our ministers who are giving the third angel's message really understand what constitutes that message. The National Reform movement has been regarded by some as of so little importance that they have not thought it necessary to give much attention to it and have even felt that in so doing they would be giving time to questions distinct from the third angel's message. May the Lord forgive our brethren for thus interpreting the very message for this time. {5T 714.2}

    The people need to be aroused in regard to the dangers of the present time. The watchmen are asleep. We are years behind. Let the chief watchmen feel the urgent necessity of taking heed to themselves, lest they lose the opportunities given them to see the dangers. {5T 715.1}

    If the leading men in our conferences do not now accept the message sent them by God, and fall into line for action, the churches will suffer great loss. When the watchman, seeing the sword coming, gives the trumpet a certain sound, the people along the line will echo the warning, and all will have opportunity to make ready for the conflict. But too often the leader has stood hesitating, seeming to say: "Let us not be in too great haste. There may be a mistake. We must be careful not to raise a false alarm." The very hesitancy and uncertainty on his part is crying: "'Peace and safety.' Do not get excited. Be not alarmed. There is a great deal more made of this religious amendment question than is demanded. This agitation will all die down." Thus he virtually denies the
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    message sent from God, and the warning which was designed to stir the churches fails to do its work. The trumpet of the watchman gives no certain sound, and the people do not prepare for the battle. Let the watchman beware lest, through his hesitancy and delay, souls shall be left to perish, and their blood shall be required at his hand. {5T 715.2}

    We have been looking many years for a Sunday law to be enacted in our land; and, now that the movement is right upon us, we ask: Will our people do their duty in the matter? Can we not assist in lifting the standard and in calling to the front those who have a regard for their religious rights and privileges? The time is fast approaching when those who choose to obey God rather than man will be made to feel the hand of oppression. Shall we then dishonor God by keeping silent while His holy commandments are trodden underfoot? {5T 716.1}

    While the Protestant world is by her attitude making concessions to Rome, let us arouse to comprehend the situation and view the contest before us in its true bearings. Let the watchmen now lift up their voice and give the message which is present truth for this time. Let us show the people where we are in prophetic history and seek to arouse the spirit of true Protestantism, awaking the world to a sense of the value of the privileges of religious liberty so long enjoyed. {5T 716.2}

    God calls upon us to awake, for the end is near. Every passing hour is one of activity in the heavenly courts to make ready a people upon the earth to act a part in the great scenes that are soon to open upon us. These passing moments, that seem of so little value to us, are weighty with eternal interests. They are molding the destiny of souls for everlasting life or eternal death. The words we utter today in the ears of the people, the works we are doing, the spirit of the message we are bearing, will be a savor of life unto life or of death unto death. {5T 716.3}

    My brethren, do you realize that your own salvation, as
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    well as the destiny of other souls, depends upon the preparation you now make for the trial before us? Have you that intensity of zeal, that piety and devotion, which will enable you to stand when opposition shall be brought against you? If God has ever spoken by me, the time will come when you will be brought before councils, and every position of truth which you hold will be severely criticized. The time that so many are now allowing to go to waste should be devoted to the charge that God has given us of preparing for the approaching crisis. {5T 716.4}

    The law of God should be loved and honored by His true people now more than ever before. There is the most imperative necessity of urging the injunction of Christ upon the minds and hearts of all believers, men and women, youth and children: "Search the Scriptures." Study your Bible as you have never studied it before. Unless you arise to a higher, holier state in your religious life, you will not be ready for the appearing of our Lord. As great light has been given, God expects corresponding zeal, faithfulness, and devotion on the part of His people. There must be more spirituality, a deeper consecration to God, and a zeal in His work that has never yet been reached. Much time should be spent in prayer, that our garments of character may be washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. {5T 717.1}

    Especially should we, with unwavering faith, seek God for grace and power to be given to His people now. We do not believe that the time has fully come when He would have our liberties restricted. The prophet saw "four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree." Another angel, ascending from the east, cried to them, saying: "Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." This points out the work we have now to do. A vast responsibility is devolving upon men and
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    women of prayer throughout the land to petition that God will sweep back the cloud of evil and give a few more years of grace in which to work for the Master. Let us cry to God that the angels may hold the four winds until missionaries shall be sent to all parts of the world and shall proclaim the warning against disobeying the law of Jehovah.



    Testimonies for the Church Volume Five (1882-1889)

    (5T)
    -Ellen G. White, pages 711-718.

    The Transformation of the Republic


    The Transformation of the Republic


    by C. T. Wilcox


    This letter was from a concerned citizen to Presidential Candidate, Abraham Lincoln, in 1860 just before his election, to warn him to be on the lookout for those who would want to do him serious harm. Other officials had already been murdered or suffered injury; this citizen had good reason to write his letter.


    Read his warning to Mr. Lincoln.






    The Transformation of the Republic:
    The Origins of the Religious Hi-Jacking of the American Government and the Truth Behind the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
    by author and actor, C.T. Wilcox



    Now available in paperback and E-book format at
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    Also available in a new greatly expanded 2nd edition in hardcover. 660 pages with more pictures, more documentation - a great research tool for anyone interested in history and wanting to know why we are in the mess we are. The expanded 2nd Edition is also available in paperback.

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    "Transformation", is a 375 page (375 in the original paperback version) expose of Vatican and Jesuit intriques and interference into the political structure of the United States and Europe. It contains shocking revelations and fully authenticated documentation, much of it hidden for almost 100 years, to support the conclusion that the United States has been transformed from a beacon of light and hope into an empire with beast-like tendencies.



    The people of the United States have been robbed of their own history. This is the worst kind of theft.



    Who REALLY murdered Abraham Lincoln and several other presidents?
    Did John Wilkes Booth act alone or was he simply one of a crew of specially hired hitmen who were chosen to further the aims of wicked men and desperate politicians dressed in religious costumes?
    What were the motivating factors of the U.S. Civil War; slavery, states' rights or something altogether different?
    Why did G.W. Bush use the word "Crusade" in reference to "The War on Terror"? Was this a simple error or a Freudian slip?
    What is the origin of the Moral Majority and what is it's true purpose?
    Is the United States being set up for another Civil War, this time using Mexican Immigration?


    "To [the principles of our government] nothing can be more opposed than the maxim of absolute (Catholic) monarchies. Yet from such we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the government they leave, imbibed in their early youth; In proprtion to their numbers they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its directions, and render it a hetrogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass. I doubt the expediency of inviting them by extraordinary encouragements." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of American Independence and Religious Liberty, Notes on Virginia


    Many Americans have heard of the Monroe Doctrine but most do not know how it happened to have come about.

    Many Americans have no sense of history, particularly their own, and have become shocked at the problem on the Southern Border without understanding that the same problems faced America in the 1800's and how those problems that were faced then relate directly to the problem today. Read how a Jesuit priest condemns illegal immigration policy of the US, in an interview with CNN's Lou Dobbs. He perverts illegal immigration by transforming it into a human rights issue.

    Most people have heard of the term the Shadow Government, "Global or Power Elite" and "New World Order." But, few actually know what it is or who it is comprised of. The CFR (Council On Foreign Relations) is the primary body that formulates government policy, both foreign and domestic. Immigration is one of these policies, foreign wars are another, and the USA is currently experiencing the direct result of deliberate CFR planning. Ultimately they answer to the Pope's Jesuit General. How many of these names do YOU recognize? 2006 CFR Annotated Membership Roster (PDF file) Several political, industrial and media CFR members are also members of the Bilderberg Group and the Illuminati.

    Why is Cardinal Roger Mahoney of L.A. bragging about "commanding" 5 million people to be lawbreakers? Does he think he's acting on historical precedence? Does he think the majority of Americans don't really care?

    The answers to these and many other important questions can be found in:

    The Transformation of the Republic

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