Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Jesus reads the Book of Isaiah in the Synagouge



14And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.

15And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.

16And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

17And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

19To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

20And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

21And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

22And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?

23And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

24And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

25But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

26But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.

27And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.


28And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,

29And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.

30But he passing through the midst of them went his way,

31And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.

32And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.


Luke 4: 14-32.



Isaiah 61


1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

2To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

4And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

5And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

6But ye shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.

7For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

8For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

9And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.

10I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

11For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

Monday, December 01, 2008

Dow drops nearly 680 on consumer spending worries


Monday, December 1, 2008



NEW YORK - The reality that the nation is indeed in recession and that the downturn may well be prolonged sent Wall Street plunging Monday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 700 points and wiping out more than half of last week's big gains. All the major indicators fell more than 7 percent, with the Standard & Poor's 500 index down nearly 9 percent.

The market spent the day absorbing a litany of bad news that convinced investors that the optimism that fed a 1,276-point gain in the Dow over five sessions was premature. Stocks first slid on initial reports that the first weekend of the holiday shopping season, while better than some retailers and analysts feared, saw only modest gains. That had Wall Street worried that the rest of the season would be disastrous, a troubling thought not only for retailers but for an economy that is dependent on consumer spending for its growth.

According to figures released by ShopperTrak RCT, a research firm that tracks total retail sales at more than 50,000 outlets, sales over Friday and Saturday rose just 1.9 percent.

Meanwhile, downbeat economic reports on the manufacturing sector and construction spending only added to investors' concerns. Speeches from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson also did little to assuage investors about the downturn.

The day's news reminded investors, who last week were buying on a burst of optimism, that the economy is still in serious trouble. Then, at midday, Wall Street got confirmation of what everyone has suspected for months, that the nation is indeed in a recession. The National Bureau of Economic Research, considered the arbiter of when the economy is in recession or expanding, said the U.S. recession had begun a year ago, in December 2007.

That assessment made the retail sales figures all the more unnerving.

"Unfortunately, two-thirds of the American economy is based on the spending of the American consumer," said Mike Stanfield, chief executive of VSR Financial Services. "When the consumer pulls back, it's very hard for the economy to gain much traction."

Investors had been hopeful that last week's rally - when the major indexes shot up by double digit percentages - was a sign that some stability had returned to a market badly shaken by months of discouraging economic data. But analysts expect economic concerns to weigh on the market for some time to come.

"Everyone knows the recession is on us, the question is now will it be short and shallow or long and severe," Stanfield said.

Chuck Widger, chief executive of investment management firm Brinker Capital, expects the volatility to continue until investors have better visibility on the future.

"Investors are looking for better data on the economy," he said. "We've got baked in pretty nasty assumptions for the economy this quarter. The markets are looking ahead to the first quarter for data that will confirm or deny the bad news."

Although Monday's plunge was notable because it cut short a five-day rally - the first such winning streak for the Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500 index since July 2007 - it also fit what has become a pattern on Wall Street. The market has made a number of big, optimistic moves higher, including triple-digit gains in the Dow, only to quickly give them back as another batch of bad news arrives.

According to preliminary calculations, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 679.95, or 7.70 percent, to 8,149.09. The S&P 500 index dropped 80.03, or 8.93 percent, to 816.21, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 137.50, or 8.95 percent, to 1,398.07.

Only 218 stocks were in positive territory on the New York Stock Exchange with 2,693 declining. Volume came to 1.62 billion shares.

The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 56.07, or 11.85 percent, to 417.07.

Bond prices rose. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 2.76 percent from 2.92 percent Friday. The yield on the three-month T-bill, considered one of the safest investments and an indicator of investor sentiment, slipped to 0.02 percent from 0.05 percent Friday. The lower the yield, the more anxious investors tend to be.

The market received no relief after a pair of speeches from Paulson and Bernanke about the economy.

Paulson said the administration is looking for more ways to tap a $700 billion financial rescue program and will consult with Congress and the incoming Obama administration. The program has distributed $150 billion out of the $250 billion earmarked to buy stock in banks as a way to boost their resources so they can lend more.

He said the administration is looking at other ways to utilize the rescue package, including alternatives for providing capital to financial institutions.

Meanwhile, Bernanke said in another speech Monday that further interest rate cuts are "certainly feasible," but he warned there are limits to how much such action would revive the economy. The central bank's key interest rate now stands at 1 percent, a level seen only once before in the last half-century.

Many economists predict policymakers will drop the rate again at their next meeting on Dec. 15-16. And, there have certainly been enough weak economic news to compel the Fed to make another cut.

There was no shortage of disappointing economic news on Monday. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing executives, said its index of manufacturing activity fell to a 26-year low in November. Meanwhile, the Commerce Department said construction spending fell by a larger-than-expected amount in October.

Stanfield also said investors have lost some confidence in recent moves by the government to bolster the financial system. "The financials are still lagging, which in my opinion shows a lack of confidence in (Treasury Secretary) Paulson and the undertaking of the Fed and the Treasury," he said.

Analysts say investors have been frustrated by the government's change in strategy as it implements its $700 billion financial bailout program; the Treasury originally said it would buy soured mortgage debt from banks, then decided to buy stock in the banks. Last week, with the rescue of Citigroup Inc., the government again said it was buying the bank's failed debt.

The government injected a fresh $20 billion into the banking giant and said it would guarantee up to $306 billion of the bank's risky assets. Banking stocks were among the biggest sectors pulling the overall market down on Monday.

Citigroup tumbled $1.84, or 22.2 percent, to $6.45. Morgan Stanley shares dropped $3.40, or 23.1 percent, to $11.35. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. fell $13.23, or 16.7 percent, to $65.76.

Retailers were among the day's poorest performers. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. fell $2.87, or 5.1 percent, to $53.01, while JCPenney Co. tumbled $2.44, or 12.8 percent, to $16.55.

Light, sweet crude dropped $5.15 to settle at $49.28 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after OPEC decided not to cut production at an informal meeting in Cairo on Saturday. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which accounts for about 40 percent of global supply, reduced output quotas in October by 1.5 million barrels a day.

The dollar fell against other major currencies. Gold prices also fell.

Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 1.35 percent. At the close, Britain's FTSE 100 was down 5.19 percent, Germany's DAX index was down 5.88 percent, and France's CAC-40 was down 5.59 percent.

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BARACK OBAMA: VENTRILOQUIST’S DUMMY-- ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: VENTRILOQUIST


BARACK OBAMA: VENTRILOQUIST’S DUMMY
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI: VENTRILOQUIST
By Webster G. Tarpley


Washington, DC — May 19 – In my book Obama – The Postmodern Coup: The Making
of a Manchurian Candidate, I argue that presidential candidate Barack Obama is a
wholly owned puppet of Zbigniew Brzezinski and his associates of the Trilateral
Commission, founded by David Rockefeller. As some have noted, Brzezinski has been
attempting to conceal his actual domination of the Obama campaign, for which he is the
chief guru and controller. Now a rhetorical outburst by Obama on the campaign trail in
Oregon has once again pointed to the reality that Obama is a ventriloquist’s dummy, with
the Russia-hating fanatic Brzezinski, a barbarous relic of the Cold War, acting as the
ventriloquist.


At a recent campaign stop in Oregon, Obama stated:
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72
degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say
OK,” Obama said. “That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen,” he added.
If India and China's “carbon footprint gets as big as ours, we're gone.” (AFP)


This remarkable statement reveals the true program of a future Obama administration:
savage austerity, brutal economic sacrifice, and a massive further reduction in the
standard of living of the depleted and exhausted US population – as demanded by David
Rockefeller, George Soros, and Obama’s Wall Street backers. This will be done under
left cover – through a global warming tax, a third world solidarity tax, and other
demagogic frauds, with the revenue going to bail out Goldman Sachs, Citibank, and JP
Morgan Chase. The tired, discredited post-9/11 “war on terror” slogans will be dumped.
Most interesting is that Obama’s sound bytes are actually a sloganized version of a key
passage from Zbigniew Brzezinski’s recent book Second Chance: Three Presidents and
the Crisis of American Superpower (New York: Basic Books, 2007), pp. 198-199. This
book contains Zbig’s desperate strategy for preserving the crisis-ridden US-UK world
empire, including by making the US “social model” more attractive to developing sector
publics. Zbig writes:


“In mutually compounding ways, material self-indulgence, persistent social
shortcomings, and public ignorance about the world increase the difficulty the
American democracy faces in formulating a globally appealing platform for
effective world leadership. Americans must recognize that their patterns of
consumption will soon collide head-on with increasingly impatient egalitarian
aspirations. Whether through the exploitation of natural resources, excessive
energy consumption, indifference to global ecology, or the exorbitant size of
houses for the well-to-do, indulgent self-gratification at home conveys
indifference to the persisting deprivations of much of the world. (Just try to
imagine a world in which 2.5 billion Chinese and Indians consume as much

energy per capita as Americans do.) That reality the American public has yet to
assimilate. To lead, America must not only be sensitive to global realities. It must
also be socially attractive. That calls for a broader national consensus in favor of
correcting the key failings of the American social model.”


Obama has thus unmasked himself as the exterminating angel of super-austerity dictated
by the elitist Trilateral bankers’ clique. Will he cut the current US standard of living by
40%? By 50%? When he does, will he still call it the politics of hope? Obama has been
trained to hate the American people through two decades of association with hatemongers
like Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Brzezinski himself.


For Rockefeller and Soros, Obama’s hatred of the American people is a positive
guarantee that he will enforce Wall Street’s austerity decrees with a vengeance. Forget
the utopian platitudes and the messianic rhetoric: Obama’s real economic program is now
clear for all to see. It is a path that leads to genocide against the US population, among
others.


Obama’s Oregon outburst needs to be read in the light of earlier unguarded statements by
Michelle Obama, who has said at various times in her stump speech: “…before we can
work on the problems, we have to fix our souls - our souls are broken in this nation. If we
can’t see ourselves in one another, we will never make those sacrifices…. We need a
different leadership because our souls are broken. We need to be inspired...to make the
sacrifices that are needed to push us to a different place…. The change Barack is talking
about is hard, so don’t get too excited because Barack is going to demand that you too be
different." Here the theme of purification and redemption by means of sacrifice and
economic austerity is clearly conveyed. Now Barack has begun to fill in the details.
Insiders have long recognized that Zbigniew Brzezinski (helped by his son Mark) owns
and runs Obama. David Ignatius has pointed to Second Chance as a scenario for a future
Obama administration. Ignatius commented over a year ago: “Zbigniew Brzezinski has
written a new book that might be a foreign policy manifesto for Barack Obama…. The
most intriguing part of Brzezinski's book is what I would describe as the Obama
manifesto.” (David Ignatius, “A Manifesto for the Next President,” Washington Post,
March 14, 2007) It has also long been known that Zbig does the thinking for Obama; the
London Economist last year hailed “a new brain for Barack Obama! It's 78 years old and
it still works perfectly. It belongs to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the peppery ex-national
security adviser to Jimmy Carter.” (“A New Brain for Barack Obama, Economist.com,
March 14, 2007)


Obama’s campaign has long been attacking Bush from the right, criticizing the current
regime for not exploiting 9/11 to impose savage economic austerity, as seen in Samantha
Power’s “monster” interview. We now have good evidence that Obama will flay the
American people alive with his elitist economic policies. Obama has committed a major
error by showing his hand. Will voters react in time to stop him?

BRZEZINSKI: OBAMA'S GLOBALIST "RASPUTIN"


By Patrick Briley
September 16, 2008

NewsWithViews.com

Zbigniew Brzezinski is Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisor. Brzezenski was the national security advisor for President Carter from 1977 to 1981. In 1988 he endorsed HW Bush for President and was Co-Chair of the HW Bush national security advisory task force. From 1987 to 1989 he also served on the HW Bush’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Clinton Secretary of State Madeline Albright was a student of Brzezenski.. GW Bush Secretary of State, Condi Rice (also a former national security advisor), who studied under Albright’s father, shares many of the same world government views with Brzezinski and Albright.

Zbigniew Brzezinski is an advocate of socialist world government, a goal he has promoted as a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and as a speaker at former Soviet Premier and Communist Mikhail Gorbachev’s first World Forum. Brzezinski is an architect of creating regions of global governance from independent nations to achieve world government. At the World Forum Brzezenski described the global regions that are now being put into place under Condi Rice: Israel and the Palestinians (now MEFTA, Middle East Free Trade Association), Iran as part of a Central Asian region, and China as part of a Far Eastern region. As a member of CSIS Brzezinski has guided their efforts to publish the North American Integration Monitor (2002) that calls for the loss of US sovereignty to a North American Union (NAU) as one of the regional global government blocks.

The proposals for global taxes by Obama have come with the recommendations of Zbigniew Brzezinski to pay for globalization and world government. Obama has proposed a global poverty tax in a US Senate bill. The Climate Change Control Bill strongly supported by Obama calls for an international governing regime to monitor and regulate carbon dioxide and “carbon footprints” from discovery, to production, to consumption at a cost of $50 trillion globally and at a cost of $8 trillion for US taxpayers, all to be paid for by a global tax, whose monies will be used to establish a world government body.

Obama, Brzezinski and Al Gore have worked closely with Communist backed environmental fronts led by Gorbachaev (proponent of Earth Charter, author of Manifesto for Earth), to promote the falsehood of significant global climate change due to manmade sources of greenhouse gases to scare the world and the US into paying such a global tax to “save the planet.” Prominent Republicans have bought into this scam including GW Bush, Condi Rice, John Warner, Joe Lieberman and John McCain who also have supported key provisions of the Climate Change Control bill as well as the Keyoto accords. The scam also leads to reduced oil production and greater dependence on foreign oil setting up the US for blackmail by Communist and Islamic nations who are increasing their oil production and exploration.

It is not an accident that Obama and Brzezinski are and have been in lock step with Communist and socialist world government plans. Obama’s longstanding ties with Communist, Marxist and Islamic terror mentors in the US have been well documented in the US and world press. What many do not know but need to know is that Zbigniew Brzezinski represents another one of these Islamic terror, socialistic, world government and Marxist mentors of Obama.

Brzezinski openly praises Marxism in his book Between Two Ages published in 1970. Incidentally Brzezenski’s father was an ambassador to Russia from Poland during Stalin’s reign and Zbigniew worked to protect and defend some East German intelligence agents of Stasi some of whose former members later worked to enable the 9/11 hijackers and other Islamic terrorists (Hamburg cell of Atta, Alshehhi and Jarrah). Like Obama, Brzezinski was not born in the continental US (born instead in Poland where he lived until near the age of ten before moving to Canada), and has dual US and Polish citizenship.

Zbigniew Brzezinski co-founded the Trilateral Commission (TC) with David Rockefeller in 1973 and was its first director. Brzezinski selected Jimmy Carter as a member while Carter was the governor of Georgia and before Carter became US President. TC is the primary organization managing the goals of globalization to achieve world government via manipulations of economies, politics and religions of nations around the world including the US.


According to Dr. Dennis Cuddy, Brzezinski, as TC director, advocated, in a 1973 memo, establishing means for social control over the world populations by deliberate “economic and political destabilization” so that later the debt leash could be used to “strangle a rebellious nation into submission (to global governance).”

Today the US government has socialized and nationalized Freddie Mac and Fannie May due to a deliberate and prolonged government neglect and corruption in US housing markets encouraged by the TC. The TC has also helped destabilize the economy by burdening it with huge welfare and educational and medical costs for a glut of illegal aliens and by eroding the incomes of Americans by the sending of high paying manufacturing jobs overseas. The TC, Rice and Brzezenski have actively promoted illegal immigration and non-enforcement of US immigration laws to advance the NAU. They have promoted foreign control of the US by facilitating the sell off of US infrastructure and companies to foreign governments including those from the EU, China, Russia and Islamic terror nations

Brzezinski, Rice, the TC and their socialist friends have intentionally helped destabilize the US economy by devaluating the US dollar through the sending of US jobs overseas and by creating the conditions for accelerating the outflow of dollars overseas to pay for more foreign oil. They are trying to control the US energy economy via the Climate Change Control bills and to prevent US energy independence (which would stop the devaluation of the dollar) by calling for curtailing and drastically controlling production of oil. Under Brzezenski’s guidance Obama has publicly called for “ending the age of oil in our time” and to reduce drilling for oil. Their plays to exclusive reliance on natural gas, “clean coal,” wind power and solar for national energy independence ring hollow while they suppress oil and nuclear. Oil and liquid fuels are still needed for commercial, civilian and military uses to fly plane, drive freight trucks, trains and tanks. Nuclear energy is needed to provide supplement electricity demands that wind and natural gas are not sufficient to replace alone.

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s contrived leash is not limited just to money and capital; it includes controlling populations, and nations by controlling their jobs, their immigration, their food, their water, their energy, their politicians and governments, and their religions.

The world government socialists like Brzezinski and Obama are promoting a “new order of religions,” an amalgamation of religions to unify and control populations and nations. They are including in their new order umbrella of religions Islamic aspirations for a world caliphate, Communitarianistic and New Age beliefs, the Gaia (“mother” Earth) religion of environmentalists exploited by the Communists, by Al Gore (the tree hugger) and by those who worship the created rather than the Creator. Many of these religious belief systems have persecuted Christians for standing in their way.

Oprah Winfrey, an ardent Obama supporter, is also an outspoken practitioner and promoter of the New Age religion (she has a year long course on the New Age religion on her website). It seems that Obama will “crawl into bed” with any religion to achieve his world government agenda, whether it be with the anti Christian “liberation” theology of the Reverend Wright, the New Age religion of Oprah Winfrey, the pagan environmentalist mother earth religion, or the anti-Christian beliefs of Islam. Obama and Brzezinski, like the Communists are exploiting the World Council and National Council of churches and have subverted their original Christian message to a world socialist doctrine through Marxist ministers and seminaries.

Another world government guise of Brzezenski and his protégés, Condo Rice and Henry Kissinger, has been their longstanding advocacy of rapproachmont with the Soviet Union, then Russia, and also Communist China. Brzezinski protégé, Condi Rice, in her address to the Republican National Convention in August 2000 outlined her plan for rapproachmont with China whereby she said the US would become more like China but China would become more like the US through free trade (yet unfair trade). Rice concluded the price was worth paying as she said it would lead to a new world order and a world peace (a phony claim for utopian world government!).

Brzezinski protégé Rice has ignored Russian and Chinese backing of Islamic terrorists around the world and inside the US as well as Chinese cheating on trade and violations of human rights to advance their detrimental world government rapprochement with China and Russia. Obama under Brzezinski’s guidance would have the same world government trade rapproachmont with China that would continue to ignore China’s support of Islamic terrorism and unfair trade cheating practices.


Brzezinski worked with Republican globalists like Kissinger and US Senator Henry Bellmon (OK) to give the Panama Canal away ultimately for Communist Chinese control (Carter-Torrijos Treaties). Under Carter, Brzezinski was responsible for the severing of direct US recogniton of Taiwan as an independent nation and recognizing only Communist China. For part two click below.

While under President Carter, Brzezinski advanced illegal technology transfers to the Communist Soviets and Communist Chinese. This will continue under Obama with Brzezinski. As soon as Carter became President Brzezinski started to illegally manipulate the export control list to enable advanced US computer, military (guidance systems), energy (nuclear; coal, oil shale, tar sands conversion and synthetic fuels) technologies to be transferred and sold by US companies (such as Control Data, GE and Union Carbide) to the Soviet Union. Many of these same US companies built manufacturing plants using these technologies inside the Soviet Union under Brzezinski and Carter. Dr. Miles Costick, President of the Institute on Strategic Trade, who knew lived behind the Iron Curtain and knew both Carter and Brzezinski, testified and wrote about (The Strategic Dimensions of East -West Trade) in 1978 about these illegal transfers and plant construction projects (that included military vehicle production) in the late 1970s. The practice was curtailed when Reagan first became President only to be resumed in the Reagan second term with the help of Brzezinski’s long-term associate HW Bush.

Aides for Carter and Brzezinski, Fred Weinhold and Roger D. Coloff, made phone calls from the White House in 1977 to FBI informants at the behest of Brzezinski’s Republican Panama canal giveaway treaty backer, Senator Henry Bellmon, bragging of Carter’s and Brzezinski’s manipulation of the export control list to illegally facilitate the transfer and sale of US “clean coal” and synthetic fuels technologies to the Soviets by US energy companies developed under DOE contracts. Interestingly enough, Bellmon and his friends also profited from shipping American wheat to Russia using US oil tankers. See the book, Brotherhood of Oil.

These same White House aides also directly threatened informants who went to the FBI in protest over these illegal practices. Carter and Brzezinski used the Carter appointed FBI director to squelch the attempts of FBI agents to stop the practice and protect the informants who had blown the whistle to the FBI. Brzezinski in concert with these same energy companies and the CIA destroyed the careers of the FBI informants by having them blacklisted in the US energy industry. One of the many energy companies involved was Occidental Petroleum, whose CEO Armand Hammer was a Communist enabler with long standing ties to Al Gore and his family. Another energy company involved was ABB (more on this below)

The specific “clean coal’ (and synthetic fuels) technology illegally transferred (and stolen from US taxpayers) to the Soviets under Brzezinski and Carter interestingly enough is now being touted by Obama in his national energy policy. The owner of the US Company engaged in the illegal transfer of the clean coal and synthetic fuels technology to the Soviets for Brzezinski and Carter is global giant ABB. ABB was used by HW Bush and his national intelligence board advisor Brzezinski (1988) to illegally transfer nuclear, biological and chemical weapons technologies, equipment and materials to Libya and Iraq and Iran in the 1980s with the help of CIA directors William Casey and William Studeman and Former GW Bush Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld (who worked for ABB). Casey had large holdings in coal in the US and was involved with Secretary of Commerce Malcom Baldrige and Brzezinksi protégé HW Bush of the Reagan administration in the profiting from US energy companies’ illegal collaboration with Soviets in coal, oil shale, tar sands and nuclear fuel breeder technologies development. The synthetic fuel and clean coal technology is being used even TODAY in a facility inside the former Soviet Union that was build by a US company who profited from the venture with the help and knowledge of Carter and Brzezinksi.

As noted already the practice of illegal transfers of energy technologies to the Soviets under Brzezinski was not limited to coal technologies, it also included nuclear technologies. In the late 1970s $800,000 of DOE R&D funds at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois were illegally used under the Carter Administration to wine and dine Russians under a Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor program to breed nuclear fuels. This was reported in detail to the FBI yet nothing was done under the Carter FBI director even though death threats were made to FBI informants by a man working under contract for the DOE director on the project at Argonne.

When one of the FBI informants was later interviewed for a position on missile defense, the interviewers told the informant that they knew he had been blacklisted for blowing the whistle to the FBI on the Fast Breeder program and on transfers of US synthetic fuels technologies to the Soviets by US companies and the Carter White House as part of Brzezinski (and VP HW Bush) policy. The interviewers chided the informant and used the blacklisting and destruction of his chemical engineering career as an argument to try to coerce him to work with the Russians on missile defense in US and Russian labs in the early 1980s. The interviewers told the informant that the position on missile defense would be his last chance to work as an engineer especially as a nuclear engineer. The interviewers made reference to the their inquiries with FBI and Naval intelligence. The informant did not accept the position and reported the incident to Dr. Miles Costick and Congressional authorities including a high level staffer for George Tenet, the then staff director for the Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman, David Boren.

Unfortunately, David Boren turned out to be a long time socialist protégé of Brzezinksi and like Obama and Brzezinski, an advocate of world government rapprochement with the Communist Chinese and a strong supporter of Islamic terror groups and their aspirations of a world Islamic caliphate. Boren is now the Chancellor of the University of Oklahoma (OU) where he has presided over the deliberate cover-up of numerous Islamic terror attempts emanating out of OU (9/11, OU Bombing) and raised support and money from the Chinese and Muslims to back Obama for President.


On February 2, 1979, Brzezinski wrote a memo to Carter falsely claiming that Islamic fundamentalism was not an imminent threat and would not gain prominence in the Middle East. Brzezinski was the architect of the formation of US CIA and Saudi training and funding for the Afghan mujaheddin network, some of which would later form the Taliban and would shelter Al Qaeda terrorists camps. Brzezinski, along with Clinton’s NSC advisor Anthony Lake, John McCain, Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich, was a proponent of using the Saudis and CIA to directly fund the AlQaeda and Iranian arming and training in and outside the US of Islamic terrrorists from Albania, Kosvo and Bosnia to kick out the Serbs and Croats. Some of these same terrorists became the 9/11 hijackers protected at OU by Boren and in California by Saudi governent royal benefactors. Carter and Brzinski are and have been “diplomats at large” along with Boren for Hamas terrorists in the Middle East and US as reflected in Obama’s pro-Islamic foreign policies.



Why should the public ever believe that the One World Government Trilateralist's (in the hands of Obama and Bzezinski) breaking of US laws and acts of treason on their march to world government will cease if they achieve their false utopian declarations paid for by global taxes imposed on Americans?

© 2008 Patrick Briley - All Rights Reserved


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Patrick Briley is a Navy Viet Nam era veteran who served on a Polaris ballistic missile nuclear submarine patrol in the Pacific. His Polaris submarine patrol in far East Asia near China was historically significant and exceptionally dangerous.

His Naval service was from 1968 to 1976 during the Viet Nam era. He was a battalion commander of his Naval ROTC unit and a Midshipman on board the ballistic missile submarine, SSBN 624, the Woodrow Wilson. He was chosen to serve under Admiral Rickover as a project engineer at Naval Reactors near Washington DC. Patrick Briley started research and investigation into terrorist attacks after the Oklahoma City bombing.

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Obama Names Hillary Clinton to State Post




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President-elect Barack Obama announces his national security team, including naming Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 1 -- President-elect Barack Obama Monday formally announced a national security team that is led by his onetime chief Democratic rival and includes a top member of President Bush's Cabinet -- a bipartisan group that he said shares his pragmatism and his commitment to strengthen America's standing in the world.


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In a news conference in Chicago, Obama introduced Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as secretary of state, bringing on board the candidate who battled him for the Democratic presidential nomination during a long primary season. As America's top diplomat, Clinton will be the face of Obama's efforts to remake the country's foreign policy.

Obama also announced that Bush's defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, has agreed to remain in the job in the new administration, providing continuity while taking on what the president-elect said would be a new mission: "responsibly ending the war in Iraq through a successful transition to Iraqi control."

In response to questions, Obama said, "I assembled this team because I'm a strong believer in strong personalities and strong opinions. I think that's how the best decisions are made." He vowed to counter the danger of "group-think" that precludes dissenting views and pledged to welcome "a vigorous debate inside the White House."

He stressed, however, that he will set policy, will be responsible for his administration's "vision" and will expect his team to implement decisions once they are made. "So, as Harry Truman said, the buck will stop with me."


As he introduced Clinton, Gates and other members of his team, Obama said that "in the 21st century, our destiny is shared with the world's" and that the United States has a stake in global events regarding such matters as financial markets, public health, climate change and security from terrorism.

"In this uncertain world, the time has come for a new beginning -- a new dawn of American leadership to overcome the challenges of the 21st century," Obama said. "We will strengthen our capacity to defeat our enemies and support our friends. We will renew old alliances and forge new and enduring partnerships. We will show the world once more that America is relentless in defense of our people, steady in advancing our interests, and committed to the ideals that shine as a beacon to the world: democracy and justice; opportunity and unyielding hope -- because American values are America's greatest export to the world."

He said the members of his national security team "share my pragmatism about the use of power and my sense of purpose about America's role as a leader in the world."

He hailed Clinton as a "tough campaign opponent" who knows many of the world's leaders and "will command respect in every capital." He added: "Hillary's appointment is a sign to friend and foe of the seriousness of my commitment to renew American diplomacy and restore our alliances."

Obama said that Gates, who took the helm at the Pentagon two years ago, has "restored accountability" during his tenure and "won the confidence of military commanders." Gates also has "earned the respect of members of Congress on both sides of the aisle for his pragmatism and competence," Obama said.

In the new administration, he said, Gates will shift the U.S. focus in the war on terrorism to Afghanistan, where a resurgent Taliban has been gaining ground and al-Qaeda poses a threat from safe havens across the border in Pakistan.

During this year's campaign for the Democratic nomination, Obama and Clinton had each claimed to be the best candidate to restore the nation's reputation abroad, end the Iraq war and engage the new global economy as president. Now, they will try to do that together, though under Obama's direction.


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Death Clouds Over a Lost Nation!


Volume XXVII Issue XII December 2008Last Trumpet Ministries, PO Box 806, Beaver Dam, WI 53916Fax: 920-887-2626 Internet: http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/


Death Clouds Over a Lost Nation!

"Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time."

I John 2:18
"I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive."

John 5:43
"Woe unto them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Baalam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Co'-re. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: carried about of winds, trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever."

Jude 11-13
In this issue of the Last Trumpet Newsletter, we will look with great shock and amazement at the United States of America as a nation in the dramatic arena of adverse change! Many and countless changes, some visible and many invisible, are now taking place in our nation since we now have a new President-elect. The entire campaign of Barack Hussein Obama, the junior Senator from Illinois, consisted of one word: change. Now that he is soon to be the President of the United States, we will see the true horrors of change. The simple word change has no guarantee of good contained in the six letters that make up the word. At face value it simply means: give me anything other than what I now have. A study of history will quickly reveal that Adolf Hitler and others of his ilk who were first elected to office and shortly after became dictators were also first elected to office on a campaign of one word and that word was change.

In ancient Israel, God's people made the same grave error. They demanded change. They entered into the spiritual auditorium of blind change, and it eventually destroyed them and brought them into Babylonian slavery and captivity. In Jeremiah 2:11-13 we read of this as follows: "Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water."

Satan thrives in the arena of ambiguous change. If Satan can keep people in a constant state of change, they never arrive at anything. Nothing is conclusive, there are no reference points, and eventually all indices of truth are lost. Change, in and of itself, means that nothing is certain!

Our nation of the United States of America is a lost nation. It is a nation that is now overshadowed by the death clouds of uncertainty. It is a nation that will stay lost as it spirals downward rapidly and draws ever closer to hell. The only change that would save our country is if our nation would completely repent and turn to the Lord Jesus Christ, the one true Saviour! This did not happen with the election of Barack Hussein Obama. We do know that individuals can have their lives changed by the Lord Jesus. If you do not know Him as your personal Lord and Saviour, now is the time to come to Him on your knees in serious repentance and with sincerest prayer. He will hear you and change you. You cannot vote for change; you must repent for change. On Judgment Day eternal salvation will be the only thing that has any value at all. You will be there one way or the other!

Profiles of an Antichrist!

On November 5th, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama was declared President-elect to become the 44th President of the United States of America in January 2009. The number of electoral votes needed to win the presidential election is 270, and Obama had 338 to McCain's 145. It had been a strange campaign and election with strange forces at work. Election fraud and corruption were evident everywhere in the United States. A corrupt organization working for and secretly with Obama is known as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or A.C.O.R.N. This foul outfit was giving cash and cigarettes to street people and then bringing them to register to vote as Democrats. Some individuals were registered as many as seventy-two times. (2) Obama was also raising vast amounts of money as hundreds of millions of dollars flowed into his coffers. He raised 150 million dollars in one month, which was the month of September 2008. (3) Vast amounts of these funds came from overseas, and they were from sources that refused to reveal their identity.

In the eight presidential elections I personally remember, going back to the time of the late John Kennedy, I have never seen anything like the Obama election. It was as if the world was electing him. Two hundred-forty nations were having wild and frenzied celebrations as the news reached them. In Kenya, the true birthplace of Barack Obama, wild ecstasy was everywhere, and people began slaughtering animals to celebrate. Pastor Washington Obonyo in Kenya said, "Senator Obama is our new President; God has answered our prayers." Then a jubilant Joseph Otieno said, "Because Obama has won, we will have change in the whole world. And for that I will slaughter a cockrel to celebrate with my family." (4)

Another thing that must be remembered about our new President-elect is that he made Chicago his home town, and he quickly made his way to the very center of the corrupt Chicago political machine. Many deluded people praised Obama, because during the early days after his nomination he refused taxpayer money for campaign funds. Because of that refusal, the Federal Election Commission cannot conduct an embarrassing audit of his campaign funds. (5) On the other hand, McCain's campaign coffers will receive a rigorous audit. Obama was able to raise unthinkable amounts of money and remain audit-exempt, so his refusal to accept taxpayer campaign funds was void of honorable intent. It was to cover his criminal activity!


Deceived people seem to have an affinity for deceptive leaders, and eventually they worship them. On November 10th, the International Herald Tribune reported that the name Barack has become a hot new name for babies, and that many parents are giving that name to their newborn sons. During the first week after the election in one hospital alone, twenty-three boys were born, and they were all named Barack. (6) In addition to that, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported on November 9th, 2008, that plans are now underway to add another national holiday to our calendar: The Obama National Holiday! (7) What has this man done to deserve any of this?

On Election Eve as Barack Obama was preparing to celebrate, one of the featured entertainers was the ever-popular Bruce Springsteen, who sometimes refers to himself as the Jersey Devil in reference to his home state of New Jersey. On Halloween night, just a few days before the presidential election, Bruce Springsteen posted a free download of a new song on his website entitled "A Night With the Jersey Devil." The song was about sixteen witches casting sixteen spells. (8) As a former occultist, this is no joke to me. In witchcraft, a coven usually consists of thirteen witches. When the number grows beyond that to reach sixteen, there is now a power of three beyond thirteen to begin forming a new coven. This is called hiving off, and thus, Springsteen was singing about the expansion of witchcraft in America. We must also note that there will be fifteen cabinet members, plus the Vice President, who will make up the Obama sixteen! Who is this strange new President-elect, who was raised as a Moslem, and upon coming to Chicago, joined a so-called "Christian" church that does not require a Moslem to renounce his faith to be a member? Who is this sixth post-war President to be left-handed, who has read every Harry Potter book? Who is this strange one who was raised on dog meat and snake meat, and who used many drugs as a teenager, including marijuana and cocaine? Why was he given the code name Renegade by the Secret Service? (9) Many answers to these and other questions will come forth soon.

We also know that Inauguration Day is January 20th, 2009. In astrology and witchcraft, that day is a high day, because it is the day when the sun enters the 11th sign of the zodiac, known as Aquarius. The rock group known as the Fifth Dimension had a hit song about the Age of Aquarius, when a new power would come in with a new harmony and understanding, and that it would be a time of "mystic crystal revelations." We must also remember that the word inaugurate comes from the ancient Roman Empire, where soothsayers were called augurs. The word inaugurate literally means to take omens. It is done while facing the giant 555 foot obelisk, called the Washington Monument. The architectural word obelisk literally means shaft of Baal, which is the erect reproductive organ of Baal, the sun-god. What could be more pagan than all of this?

On the day of his inauguration, Barack Hussein Obama must stand and say the following words: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." (10) But what is an oath to such a charlatan traitor, who in a speech clearly stated the following: "The Constitution is a fundamental flaw and blind spot….."

There is no doubt in my mind that Barack Hussein Obama was not born in the United States and is therefore ineligible to be President of the United States. His birth certificate has obviously been altered as was proven by a team of forensics experts. Even the certificate number in the upper right corner is completely blacked out. When Attorney Philip Berg of Pennsylvania filed a Federal lawsuit challenging Obama's birth records, he had hopes of getting to the truth of the matter. Shortly before the election, the court threw the case out! (11) This court was presented documentary proof that Barack Obama was born in Mombassa, Kenya, not in Hawaii. Even Obama's own paternal grandmother admitted this fact in the presence of numerous witnesses. One of the witnesses was Bishop Ron McRae, presiding Elder of the African Presbytery of the Anabaptist Churches, who filed a notarized affidavit with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. (12) It was all to no avail. We must also note that Obama's maternal grandmother, who had also been interviewed, became suddenly very ill and died on November 3rd, the day before the election. (13)

There are some very amazing spiritual aspects to Barack Hussein Obama, and none of them are good. Powerful evidence has now emerged regarding his ancestry. Eight thousand Beduin nomadic people say they have photographic and other documentary proof that Obama has Arab blood from the Beduin tribe and came from these tribes of nomadic Arabs of northern Israel. He is also one-quarter white and one-quarter Kenyan. (14) This Beduin connection would make him a descendant of Abraham through Ishmael and a descendant of Esau through the Idumeans and Edomites. The Herodian Dynasty came from this race, including Herod the baby killer, who ruled at the time when Jesus was born. This would make Barack Hussein Obama a prime candidate for the office of Antichrist! In Hebrew, the word "Barak" without the added letter "C" means lightning. When Revelation, chapter 13, tells us of the antichrist causing fire to come down from heaven, the Greek word used there for fire means lightning. Why did the news media on election night keep saying that America and all the other countries were "electrified by Obama's rise in the polls?" We also know that Obama's home state of Illinois has a state lottery with one game called "Pick Three." The numbers for the evening draw on the day he was elected were 6-6-6! (15) I personally believe that some of the same spirits that were in Adolf Hitler are now in Barack Obama. Why did Obama take his campaign to Berlin, Germany, and stand in the Tiergarten with his right arm stiffened and raised to 45 degrees in a Hitler-like salute? Why did thousands of Germans who gathered there return that salute, which is forbidden by law in Germany? Why did Obama give his one-world speech from a place in Berlin where five streets come together at a place called the Big Star? (16)

Barack Obama has made continual comments alluding to self-divinity. In one speech he said a light from above would shine down upon the voters, and they would experience an epiphany. They would then hear a voice from above saying, "Vote for Barack." Here let it be noted that the word epiphany means a revelation of the manifestation of a divine being! On October 22nd, 2008, Obama told the people of Virginia, "I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here." (17) In Lake City, Florida, a large sign was placed in the window of the Obama headquarters which read as follows: "To God be the glory, great things he has done." Under that quote, the sign said, "OBAMA - Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done." (18)

On November 6th, 2008, Obama picked Rahm Emanuel as his White House chief of staff. (19) The name Rahm in the Hebrew language means high and lofty one, and Emanuel means God with us, or God incarnate. Rahm Emanuel is a demonic genius, who cannot finish a sentence without going into excessive profanity. He makes frequent use of the infamous "F" word and frequently raises his middle finger in an obscene gesture. Obviously, this man has no class at all!

On November 10th, 2008, Georgia Congressman Paul Broun warned the people of the United States that President-elect Obama was setting up for a Marxist dictatorship. He gave the following warning: "I fear that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist Dictatorship. It may sound a little crazy or off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this National Security Force….." (20) On November 13th, just three days later, Representative Broun backpedaled and apologized. He stated that he "regretted putting it that way." (21) Have you ever noticed how many times someone in authority found temporary courage and stated the truth, only to cave in later? There is knuckle-busting in high places.

Is all of this really happening? On November 10th, 2008, it was reported that the co-chair of the Obama transition team, Valerie Jarrett, used some very interesting words on the Meet the Press program. She made the following declaration to Tom Brokaw: "Obama will be ready to rule on day one." She then repeated herself with the following words: "Given the daunting challenges that we face, it is important that President-elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one." (22) Since when are American politicians kings that rule from office? We also know that Georgia Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis made the following statement on election night: "Today's election was a non-violent revolution, and an unbelievable and unreal transformation of American politics." He said these words to news anchor Charlie Gibson. (23)

Are we, at this very time, in a metamorphosis and transition into a Marxist-Socialist and even Communistic state? Here let it be noted that on November 7th, 2008, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev stated in a news release that the Obama Administration needs to implement a far-reaching perestroika in the United States. The word perestroika is strictly a Russian Communist word that means restructuring! (24) We must remember that Mikhail Gorbachev after leaving office in the Soviet Union was given a new job and title by the global Illuminists. He came to the United States and was given an impressive office at the Presidio in San Francisco, California. He became the head of an organization designed to reshape the United States into an interdependant unit of a one-world government. His organization was called the State of the World Forum. I stood by his office in 1999, and we did verify that he was there, right next to the FEMA complex. We rebuked his office in the name of the Lord Jesus. Within a few days, an earthquake rattled his offices, his wife died, and he went back to Russia. Never underestimate the power of prayer, and always leave it all in the hands of the Almighty.

On November 9th, Obama's handpicked White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, revealed that Obama is set to push a reform package on the United States. Obama's new reforms have been referred to as the "big bang." (25) We must remember that the words "big bang" are used by the evolutionists to explain how the universe came forth with no God as a creator. Obama also stated that he will use executive orders for immediate impact. (26)

Rising of the 666 Money System!

The economy of the United States continues to collapse, and the signs of it are everywhere. Gains in the stock market are quickly lost, and the entire trend is downward. On November 6th, 2008, the Associated Press reported the following headline: "Stocks tumble, lose 10 percent in 2-day rout." (27) It is always an amazing thing when a trillion dollars are lost in two days! Where did it go? The sad fact is that the wealth is falling into fewer and fewer hands. The Federal Government is also continuing to shut down banks. On November 8th, 2008, two more large banks, the large Houston-based Franklin Bank, and the Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles, were shut down. Countless more are in grave danger of being shut down as well! (28) Why is all of this happening, even after the massive government bailout? The answer is simple. Even though the government told us they were going to buy the bad debts of the banks, they are in fact buying the banks themselves. Large stakes are being purchased in the major banks of the United States. (29) It is all a part of the plot to depart from the Constitution of the United States and force Marxist socialism upon the unsuspecting American people.

On November 10th, 2008, Bloomberg News reported that the Federal Reserve has flatly refused to disclose who received two trillion dollars of taxpayer money. (30) Remember, the bailout was supposed to be only 700 billion dollars, and that was bad enough. Suddenly, trillions of dollars are disappearing to undisclosed recipients. Obviously, the government is intentionally destroying our economy to make way for the new electronic beast money system. We are watching this systematically happen before our very eyes. Anyone with a properly working brain knows that you cannot repair our current system of credits and currencies. The Illuminati-controlled Federal Government has no intentions or expectations in that direction. They are preparing the way for the second beast of Revelation, chapter thirteen, who will cause everyone to receive the mark of the beast in order to buy or sell anything.

On November 15th, 2008, a G-20 summit was held at the White House in Washington, D.C. Twenty world leaders came together to discuss the worldwide financial crisis and to decide what to do about it. The meeting was short and simple. All twenty leaders agreed to cooperate with each other, and then they headed for the banquet table. Then the feasting began with entrees such as Fruitwood smoked Quail, Thyme-roasted Rack of Lamb, and Tomato, Fennel and Eggplant Fondue Chanterelle Jus. They washed all of this down with Shafer Cabernet Hillside Select 2003 wine at a cost of $500 per bottle. (31) All of that talk about conditions of economic failure and people living in poverty must have made them hungry. Meanwhile, millions of Americans remain jobless, homeless, and in the depth of poverty.

On November 13th, 2008, Mayor Daley of Chicago released a warning for his giant city to prepare for mass layoffs for both the private sector and government workers at city, county, and state levels. (32) Meanwhile, major cities throughout the United States are bankrupt and asking for bailouts. Billions of dollars are being requested by Atlanta, Phoenix, and Philadelphia. (33) The City Council of Detroit has requested 10 billion dollars in bailout money. (34) The state of California has also requested a loan of 7 billion dollars, which you can be sure will never be paid back. (35) We also know that the auto makers are crying for a massive government bailout under which the government would be buying significant portions of the auto industry. (36) Unless God intervenes, we will no doubt see the day when the strong socialistic Federal Government owns the auto companies, airlines, and all private industry. It is beginning to happen now!

Truly, we are seeing things happen that have never happened before. The United States Postal Service recently announced a massive cut of 40,000 jobs. It is their first layoff in history! (37) It is all quite amazing when we realize that our financial collapse and demise, as we now see it happening, could not have happened without computers. It takes computers to manage billions and trillions of dollars. It takes computers to manage debt of all types. Earlier this year, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) died. Before he died, the brilliant professor of computer science pronounced computers as devices of evil and called them anti-human. The professor, Dr. Joseph Weizenbaum, said that computer systems could be compared with National Socialism, Karl Marx, and Stalin. Dr. Weizenbaum also issued the following sobering statement: "How long will it be before what counts as fact is determined by the system, before all other knowledge, all memory, is simply declared illegitimate?" Dr. Weizenbaum also compared the internet to "one of those garbage dumps outside Bombay, India." Truly, the last days are upon us!

Global Sinning And Great Signs of the End!

Global sinning is constantly increasing, and this will continue until the very day of the return of our Saviour. In II Timothy 3:13 we read as follows: "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." We also know that the heavy and continual human rebellion against God, as humans fall into lock-step cooperation with evil spirits, also has a profound effect on the creation of God. The earth, sun, moon, and stars are all reacting to the horrifying extent of global sinning! In Romans 8:22 we read the following: "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." I have personally been watching and documenting the dynamic incidents of man's rebellion and God's reaction to it for many years.

On election night, November 4th, 2008, Proposition 8 passed in the state of California. The Supreme Court of California, which decided that sodomite couples had a right to marry, had their decision overridden by a narrow margin of voters. The sodomites went berserk with anger and began massive protests. There were already sixteen thousand sodomite couples in California, and many more planning to be married. Six days later, Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger of California made a speech on behalf of the sodomites telling them, "Don't give up!" The governor also pledged the support of his administration to help overturn Proposition 8 and not only reinstate sodomite marriages, but also "lead the country in that arena." (38) Then it happened! Just after making his speech promoting the abomination of homosexual marriage, fires began to break out. In Montecito, one hundred multimillion dollar homes were destroyed. (39) Then other fires broke out in the San Fernando Valley. Currently over one thousand homes have been destroyed in the blazing infernos whipped up by high winds. God is so willing to help and forgive if only people would repent; otherwise, there is much more judgment coming!

Another thing that happened on election night is that the state of Massachusetts decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. (40) This has opened a door for many evils and great demonic activity.

In Mexico City, Mayor Marcelo Ebrard announced that beginning December 1st, 2008, the city intends to provide free Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis to 112,000 men seventy years and older who live in his city. The mayor said the drugs would increase the happiness and quality of life of the elderly men. (41)

In Australia, the White Cockatoo Resort in Mossman is sponsoring a month-long nude "anything goes" party to combat the economic downturn. The local regional Mayor, Val Schier, has no objections to the event, and even though the hedonistic celebration doesn't begin until March 2009, the reservations are nearly filled. (42)

The earth is literally shaking under the influence of shameful sin. At this present time, we are still averaging nearly three hundred significant earthquakes every month of magnitude four or greater. These quakes continue non-stop according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Less than one month ago, a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 hit Chechnya, Russia, and completely destroyed 1,027 buildings. (43) Just before Election Day in America, a magnitude 6.1 quake rattled the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The entire region was shaken! (44) As I look at the earthquake maps, it is becoming obvious that the earth's crust is literally coming apart at the seams. How much more can it take? All of this was foretold in Matthew, chapter 24; Luke, chapter 21; and Mark, chapter 13!

Astronomers are now shocked as they look into the heavens, because powerful auroras, or glowing masses, are appearing around various planets of our solar system such as have never been seen before. A massive blood-red cloud of glowing gases now covers much of northern Saturn. I have in front of me a picture of the planet taken by NASA's Cassini space craft; and in my forty-six years of studying astronomy, I have never seen Saturn look like this. Cassini scientist Tom Stallard said, "We've never seen an aurora like this elsewhere." (45) The blood-red mass almost seems alive as it pulsates and glows!

There are also unprecedented changes taking place on our sun. NASA scientists are marveling because the sun is slowly starting to dim, and there were no sunspots at all for two months. That has never happened before. Scientists are saying that the sun is now on a dimmer switch -- solar winds have weakened, and the sun is cooler and less dense. (46) It is as if our sun is beginning to die early.

Many odd things continue to happen everywhere. On election night in the utmost east of our country, massive fifteen foot waves began to pound the coast of Maine at low tide. The residents of Boothbay Harbor thought it was the end of the world as three separate rounds of crashing giant waves came from nowhere and began to rip docks apart. The horrified residents were heard to cry out, "Oh my God, is this the end?" Scientists have been unable to explain the unusual event! (47)

In conclusion, I urge everyone to continue to pray the prayers of faith! Your requests are always welcomed here, and they receive individual attention. Never give up. No prayer is wasted! Thanks to all of you who support this prophetic ministry, which is now going into its 28th year of publication. Please remember to send in your renewal notice enclosed with this newsletter to be sure you are on the 2009 mailing list. God bless you exceedingly! Grace and peace be unto you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

David J. Meyer

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34. Detroit Free Press, Nov. 12, 2008, by Naomi R. Patton, Detroit, MI.
35. Los Angele Times, Oct. 3, 2008, by Marc Lifsher & Evan Halper, Sacramento, CA.
36. Associated Press, Nov. 13, 2008, by Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Washington, D.C.
37. KSLA News, Nov. 7, 2008, by Jonathan McCall, Shreveport, LA.
38. Los Angeles Times, Nov. 10, 2008, by Michael Rothfeld & Tony Barboza, Los Angeles, CA.
39. NBC News, Nov. 14, 2008, Los Angeles, CA.
40. Associated Press, Nov. 6, 2008, by Steve LeBlanc, Boston, MA.
41. Associated Press, Nov. 13, 2008, Mexico City, Mexico.
42. Reuters News Service, Nov. 13, 2008, Canberra, Australia.
43. Kazinform Russian News, Oct. 18, 2008, Moscow, Russia.
44. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 3, 2008, Milwaukee, WI.
45. London Daily Mail, Nov. 13, 2008, London, England, UK.
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47. Boston Globe, Nov. 5, 2008, by Megan Woolhouse, Boston, MA.

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The Final Warning


The Final Warning.

"I saw another angel come down from Heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." "And I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." [REV. 18:1, 2, 4.] {GC88 603.1}

This scripture points forward to a time when the announcement of the fall of Babylon, as made by the second angel [REV 14:8] of Revelation 14, is to be repeated, with the additional mention of the corruptions which have been entering the various organizations that constitute Babylon, since that message was first given, in the summer of 1844. A terrible condition of the religious world is here described. With every rejection of truth, the minds of the people will become darker, their hearts more stubborn, until they are entrenched in an infidel hardihood. In defiance of the warnings which God has given, they will continue to trample upon one of the precepts of the decalogue, until they are led to persecute those who hold it sacred. Christ is set at naught in the contempt placed upon his Word and his people. As the teachings of Spiritualism are accepted by the churches, the restraint imposed upon the carnal heart is removed, and the profession of religion will become a cloak to conceal the basest iniquity. A belief in spiritual manifestations opens
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the door to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils, and thus the influence of evil angels will be felt in the churches. {GC88 603.2}

Of Babylon, at the time brought to view in this prophecy, it is declared, "Her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." [REV. 18:5.] She has filled up the measure of her guilt, and destruction is about to fall upon her. But God still has a people in Babylon; and before the visitation of his judgments, these faithful ones must be called out, that they "partake not of her sins, and receive not of her plagues." Hence the movement symbolized by the angel coming down from Heaven, lightening the earth with his glory, and crying mightily with a strong voice, announcing the sins of Babylon. In connection with his message the call is heard, "Come out of her, my people." These announcements, uniting with the third angel's message, constitute the final warning to be given to the inhabitants of the earth. {GC88 604.1}

Fearful is the issue to which the world is to be brought. The powers of earth, uniting to war against the commandments of God, will decree that all, "both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond," [REV. 13:16.] shall conform to the customs of the church by the observance of the false sabbath. All who refuse compliance will be visited with civil penalties, and it will finally be declared that they are deserving of death. On the other hand, the law of God enjoining the Creator's rest-day demands obedience, and threatens wrath against all who transgress its precepts. {GC88 604.2}

With the issue thus clearly brought before him, whoever shall trample upon God's law to obey a human enactment, receives the mark of the beast; he accepts the sign of allegiance to the power which he chooses to obey instead of God. The warning from Heaven is, "If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation." [REV. 14:9, 10.]
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But not one is made to suffer the wrath of God until the truth has been brought home to his mind and conscience, and has been rejected. There are many who have never had an opportunity to hear the special truths for this time. The obligation of the fourth commandment has never been set before them in its true light. He who reads every heart, and tries every motive, will leave none who desire a knowledge of the truth, to be deceived as to the issues of the controversy. The decree is not to be urged upon the people blindly. Every one is to have sufficient light to make his decision intelligently. {GC88 605.1}

The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty; for it is the point of truth especially controverted. When the final test shall be brought to bear upon men, then the line of distinction will be drawn between those who serve God and those who serve him not. While the observance of the false sabbath in compliance with the law of the State, contrary to the fourth commandment, will be an avowal of allegiance to a power that is in opposition to God, the keeping of the true Sabbath, in obedience to God's law, is an evidence of loyalty to the Creator. While one class, by accepting the sign of submission to earthly powers, receive the mark of the beast, the other, choosing the token of allegiance to divine authority, receive the seal of God. [SEE APPENDIX, NOTE 13.] {GC88 605.2}

Heretofore those who presented the truths of the third angel's message have often been regarded as mere alarmists. Their predictions that religious intolerance would gain control in the United States, that church and State would unite to persecute those who keep the commandments of God, have been pronounced groundless and absurd. It has been confidently declared that this land could never become other than what it has been, the defender of religious freedom. But as the question of enforcing Sunday observance is widely agitated, the event so long doubted and disbelieved is seen to be approaching, and the third message will produce an effect which it could not have had before.
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In every generation God has sent his servants to rebuke sin, both in the world and in the church. But the people desire smooth things spoken to them, and the pure, unvarnished truth is not acceptable. Many reformers, in entering upon their work, determined to exercise great prudence in attacking the sins of the church and the nation. They hoped, by the example of a pure Christian life, to lead the people back to the doctrines of the Bible. But the Spirit of God came upon them as it came upon Elijah, moving him to rebuke the sins of a wicked king and an apostate people; they could not refrain from preaching the plain utterances of the Bible,--doctrines which they had been reluctant to present. They were impelled to zealously declare the truth, and the danger which threatened souls. The words which the Lord gave them they uttered, fearless of consequences, and the people were compelled to hear the warning. {GC88 606.1}

Thus the message of the third angel will be proclaimed. As the time comes for it to be given with greatest power, the Lord will work through humble instruments, leading the minds of those who consecrate themselves to his service. The laborers will be qualified rather by the unction of his Spirit than by the training of literary institutions. Men of faith and prayer will be constrained to go forth with holy zeal, declaring the words which God gives them. The sins of Babylon will be laid open. The fearful results of enforcing the observances of the church by civil authority, the inroads of Spiritualism, the stealthy but rapid progress of the papal power,--all will be unmasked. By these solemn warnings the people will be stirred. Thousands upon thousands will listen who have never heard words like these. In amazement they hear the testimony that Babylon is the church, fallen because of her errors and sins, because of her rejection of the truth sent to her from Heaven. As the people go to their former teachers with the eager inquiry, Are these things so? the ministers present fables, prophesy
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smooth things, to soothe their fears, and quiet the awakened conscience. But since many refuse to be satisfied with the mere authority of men, and demand a plain "Thus saith the Lord," the popular ministry, like the Pharisees of old, filled with anger as their authority is questioned, will denounce the message as of Satan, and stir up the sin-loving multitudes to revile and persecute those who proclaim it. {GC88 606.2}

As the controversy extends into new fields, and the minds of the people are called to God's down-trodden law, Satan is astir. The power attending the message will only madden those who oppose it. The clergy will put forth almost superhuman efforts to shut away the light, lest it should shine upon their flocks. By every means at their command they will endeavor to suppress the discussion of these vital questions. The church appeals to the strong arm of civil power, and in this work, papists and Protestants unite. As the movement for Sunday enforcement becomes more bold and decided, the law will be invoked against commandment-keepers. They will be threatened with fines and imprisonment, and some will be offered positions of influence, and other rewards and advantages, as inducements to renounce their faith. But their steadfast answer is, "Show us from the Word of God our error,"--the same plea that was made by Luther under similar circumstances. Those who are arraigned before the courts make a strong vindication of the truth, and some who hear them are led to take their stand to keep all the commandments of God. Thus light will be brought before thousands who otherwise would know nothing of these truths. {GC88 607.1}

Conscientious obedience to the Word of God will be treated as rebellion. Blinded by Satan, the parent will exercise harshness and severity toward the believing child; the master or mistress will oppress the commandment-keeping servant. Affection will be alienated; children will be disinherited, and driven from home. The words of Paul will be literally fulfilled, "All that will live godly in Christ Jesus
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shall suffer persecution." [2 TIM. 3:12.] As the defenders of truth refuse to honor the Sunday-sabbath, some of them will be thrust into prison, some will be exiled, some will be treated as slaves. To human wisdom, all this now seems impossible; but as the restraining Spirit of God shall be withdrawn from men, and they shall be under the control of Satan, who hates the divine precepts, there will be strange developments. The heart can be very cruel when God's fear and love are removed. {GC88 607.2}

As the storm approaches, a large class who have professed faith in the third angel's message, but have not been sanctified through obedience to the truth, abandon their position, and join the ranks of the opposition. By uniting with the world and partaking of its spirit, they have come to view matters in nearly the same light; and when the test is brought, they are prepared to choose the easy, popular side. Men of talent and pleasing address, who once rejoiced in the truth, employ their powers to deceive and mislead souls. They become the most bitter enemies of their former brethren. When Sabbath-keepers are brought before the courts to answer for their faith, these apostates are the most efficient agents of Satan to misrepresent and accuse them, and by false reports and insinuations to stir up the rulers against them. {GC88 608.1}

In this time of persecution the faith of the Lord's servants will be tried. They have faithfully given the warning, looking to God and to his Word alone. God's Spirit, moving upon their hearts, has constrained them to speak. Stimulated with holy zeal, and with the divine impulse strong upon them, they entered upon the performance of their duties without coldly calculating the consequences of speaking to the people the word which the Lord had given them. They have not consulted their temporal interests, or sought to preserve their reputation or their lives. Yet when the storm of opposition and reproach bursts upon
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them, some, overwhelmed with consternation, will be ready to exclaim, "Had we foreseen the consequences of our words, we would have held our peace." They are hedged in with difficulties. Satan assails them with fierce temptations. The work which they have undertaken seems far beyond their ability to accomplish. They are threatened with destruction. The enthusiasm which animated them is gone; yet they cannot turn back. Then, feeling their utter helplessness, they flee to the Mighty One for strength. They remember that the words which they have spoken were not theirs, but His who bade them give the warning. God put the truth into their hearts, and they could not forbear to proclaim it. {GC88 608.2}

The same trials have been experienced by men of God in ages past. Wycliffe, Huss, Luther, Tyndale, Baxter, Wesley, urged that all doctrines be brought to the test of the Bible, and declared that they would renounce everything which it condemned. Against these men, persecution raged with relentless fury; yet they ceased not to declare the truth. Different periods in the history of the church have each been marked by the development of some special truth, adapted to the necessities of God's people at that time. Every new truth has made its way against hatred and opposition; those who were blessed with its light were tempted and tried. The Lord gives a special truth for the people in an emergency. Who dare refuse to publish it? He commands his servants to present the last invitation of mercy to the world. They cannot remain silent, except at the peril of their souls. Christ's ambassadors have nothing to do with consequences. They must perform their duty, and leave results with God. {GC88 609.1}

As the opposition rises to a fiercer height, the servants of God are again perplexed; for it seems to them that they have brought the crisis. But conscience and the Word of God assure them that their course is right; and although the trials continue, they are strengthened to bear them.
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The contest grows closer and sharper, but their faith and courage rise with the emergency. Their testimony is, "We dare not tamper with God's Word, dividing his holy law, calling one portion essential and another non-essential, to gain the favor of the world. The Lord whom we serve is able to deliver us. Christ has conquered the powers of earth; and shall we be afraid of a world already conquered?" {GC88 609.2}

Persecution in its varied forms is the development of a principle which will exist as long as Satan exists, and Christianity has vital power. No man can serve God without enlisting against himself the opposition of the hosts of darkness. Evil angels will assail him, alarmed that his influence is taking the prey from their hands. Evil men, rebuked by his example, will unite with them in seeking to separate him from God by alluring temptations. When these do not succeed, then a compelling power is employed to force the conscience. {GC88 610.1}

But so long as Jesus remains man's intercessor in the sanctuary above, the restraining influence of the Holy Spirit is felt by rulers and people. It still controls, to some extent, the laws of the land. Were it not for these laws, the condition of the world would be much worse than it now is. While many of our rulers are active agents of Satan, God also has his agents among the leading men of the nation. The enemy moves upon his servants to propose measures that would greatly impede the work of God; but statesmen who fear the Lord are influenced by holy angels to oppose such propositions with unanswerable arguments. Thus a few men will hold in check a powerful current of evil. The opposition of the enemies of truth will be restrained that the third angel's message may do its work. When the final warning shall be given, it will arrest the attention of these leading men through whom the Lord is now working, and some of them will accept it, and will stand with the people of God through the time of trouble. {GC88 610.2}

The angel who unites in the proclamation of the third
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angel's message is to lighten the whole earth with his glory. A work of world-wide extent and unwonted power is here foretold. The Advent movement of 1840-44 was a glorious manifestation of the power of God; the first angel's message was carried to every missionary station in the world, and in some countries there was the greatest religious interest which has been witnessed in any land since the Reformation of the sixteenth century; but these are to be far exceeded by the mighty movement under the last warning of the third angel. {GC88 610.3}

The work will be similar to that of the day of Pentecost. As the "former rain" was given, in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the opening of the gospel, to cause the upspringing of the precious seed, so the "latter rain" will be given at its close, for the ripening of the harvest. "Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord; his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." [HOSEA 6:3.] "Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God; for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain." [JOEL 2:23.] "In the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh." "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." [ACTS 2:17, 21.] The great work of the gospel is not to close with less manifestation of the power of God than marked its opening. The prophecies which were fulfilled in the outpouring of the former rain at the opening of the gospel, are again to be fulfilled in the latter rain at its close. Here are "the times of refreshing" to which the apostle Peter looked forward when he said, "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out [in the investigative Judgment], when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and he shall send Jesus." [ACTS 3:19, 20.]
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Servants of God, with their faces lighted up and shining with holy consecration, will hasten from place to place to proclaim the message from Heaven. By thousands of voices, all over the earth, the warning will be given. Miracles will be wrought, the sick will be healed, and signs and wonders will follow the believers. Satan also works with lying wonders, even bringing down fire from heaven in the sight of men. [REV. 13:13.] Thus the inhabitants of the earth will be brought to take their stand. {GC88 612.1}

The message will be carried not so much by argument as by the deep conviction of the Spirit of God. The arguments have been presented. The seed has been sown, and now it will spring up and bear fruit. The publications distributed by missionary workers have exerted their influence, yet many whose minds were impressed have been prevented from fully comprehending the truth or from yielding obedience. Now the rays of light penetrate everywhere, the truth is seen in its clearness, and the honest children of God sever the bands which have held them. Family connections, church relations, are powerless to stay them now. Truth is more precious than all besides. Notwithstanding the agencies combined against the truth, a large number take their stand upon the Lord's side. {GC88 612.2}



The Great Controversy, E. G. W., pp. 603-612.