Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Michael S. Rozeff from Lew Rockwell
Think about this basic finance rule in terms of government spending.
"Any person or enterprise that has cash inflows and cash outflows reaches financial ruin when the cash inflows are not enough to pay the obligated cash outflows. Clearly the risk of ruin is lower when the entity has higher cash inflows, as from income and revenues, and lower cash outflows, as from spending and debts. Just as clearly, the risk of ruin rises when spending and borrowing are increased, while income and revenues are going lower."
"Any person or enterprise that has cash inflows and cash outflows reaches financial ruin when the cash inflows are not enough to pay the obligated cash outflows. Clearly the risk of ruin is lower when the entity has higher cash inflows, as from income and revenues, and lower cash outflows, as from spending and debts. Just as clearly, the risk of ruin rises when spending and borrowing are increased, while income and revenues are going lower."
Robert Higgs on Lew Rockwell
"Everybody knows that the only way to find out who your true friends are is by noting who stands by you when you are down and out. Political principles work the same way. If you are prepared to throw them out the window when times are tough, then you never really held them in the first place. Principles are intended especially to guide our behavior in difficult circumstances. If they don't do so, then our proclaimed principles stand revealed as having been nothing but rhetoric in the worst sense of the word."
- Think about this quote in terms of scriptures and commandments.
- Think about this quote in terms of scriptures and commandments.
Gerald Celente on Lew Rockwell
Click Here and listen to a 12 minute radio interview with Gerald Celente. Then do a little research on who Gerald Celente is. He's pretty accurate in his reading of economic and political trends.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Greg Evensen:
"For many, Christmas this year will carry a new and almost forgotten meaning. We are painfully reminded that in the end, the only thing that really matters is the memory of that tiny child born unto Mary so that we who have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God, may seek His forgiveness, and have a perpetual place in his unending, unscarred Kingdom. Thank you, Lord, for sending your Son Jesus, to save us from this wicked, fallen world. We are rich indeed this December after all. In spite of the situation we find ourselves in, help one another, do the right things in the right way for the right reasons, and remember……….you can still make a positive difference that alone is worthy and honorable."
Thomas Jefferson:
“I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero:
“The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.”
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Jim Sinclair's Mine Set:
"This is it, and it is now.
Now it is out of control.
Now we enter the Collapse of Confidence period.
Then we begin the Weimar Experience."
For the full article Click Here.
Now it is out of control.
Now we enter the Collapse of Confidence period.
Then we begin the Weimar Experience."
For the full article Click Here.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer
"When cheering for someone turns into adulation, something is wrong."
For the rest of the article Click Here.
For the rest of the article Click Here.
Ex-Hitler Youth's Warning to America
"The role of God in human society is the decisive issue for this generation . . . 'as I am, so is my nation.'"
For a link to this article Click Here.
For a link to this article Click Here.
Gerald Celeste - Trends Research Institute
Do a little research on this guy. He's got a pretty amazing track record at predicting economic trends.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Bob Chapman, Nov 5 in the International Forecaster:
The people "are conditioned to come bleating to the voting polls on Election Day to cast their vote for reprobate A, or for reprobate B. They think they are making a choice, but for most part, in the important campaigns like President of the US and many other major state and federal elective positions, the choice has already been made for them. Pick Illuminist Skull and Bones candidate A, or pick Illuminist Skull and Bones candidate B, ala Bush against Kerry. Either way, we win. Candidate A will promote items "a" through "m" of our agenda, and candidate B will promote items "n" through "z" of our agenda. Thus, ergo, our agenda is always moving forward, no matter who gets into office."
Monday, November 3, 2008
Worse than the Great Depression:
For a pretty interesting comparisson of the Great Depression to what is happening today:
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Precious Metals
"There may never be a better time to buy gold and silver than right now,"
To find out why read this article:
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To find out why read this article:
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Pocket Change
There’s a word that you may have heard this past year. In fact, it’s on everyone’s mind because of its recent usage by miracle-promising presidential candidates. This magic word appears in almost every political ad campaign and certainly every speech and televised debate. It even appears in the parodies and satires of those same debates and speeches. The pundits discuss it ad nauseam and try to determine which candidate has the divine right to use the term. It’s been seized by the one candidate, only to have the other grab hold and scream “MINE!” like a threatened child. It’s bandied about by the masses as if it were the fabled Elixir of Life, destined to save the dying Republic – and who knows? It could be. My thought is that, like the Hula-Hoop, the word is a fad, frivolous and an exercise in political vanity.
As this particular mantra is bludgeoned into our consciousness through the blunt trauma of incessant repetition, has anyone actually paused to consider what it will take? There was a time in the United States when Free Speech was a right, not something to be exercised in certain “zones” cordoned off far from any listening ears. People arrested for crimes were once presumed “innocent till proven guilty,” instead of instantly convicted by prime time’s Nancy Grace. An arrested person also could hope for a trial within a reasonable amount of time, instead of years’ worth of procedural delays and appeals.
Long ago the military was forbidden from policing city streets, until they stationed an army brigade to patrol within our own borders. In times gone by one could rest assured that the government wouldn’t force a religion on you – but it was also believed they wouldn’t stop you from practicing the once you had. It’s even rumored that doctors once spent a few minutes listening and looking before prescribing, and the dollar was strong enough to pay for their services. We used to go to war only in self defense, with people returning to their jobs and homes after hostilities had ended, instead of never-ending conflict and strife. . .
This list of problems could get as long and tedious as the political ads promising to solve them. The point is that we all know there are problems; we FEEL it, and our souls clamor for some kind of remedy. The question is this: does the Self-anointed One or the Prisoner-of-war Patriot really offer any kind of solution? Recovery isn’t going to be instantaneous on November 4th – much to the chagrin of the winning candidate’s supporters. It’s going to take sacrifice, grit, values and some re-prioritizing. We’re going to actually have to THINK, and not just talk about doing it “outside the box.” We’re going to have to compromise and come together, which means an end to finger pointing and hand wringing.
There’s plenty of determination to be found in this land of ours. We really can return to the principles and ideals that called out to the hopeless and downtrodden of the world. Our ancestors came here searching for the outline of a dream. Some of the points of that dream are found on a yellowing scrap of paper called the Constitution. You may have heard of it, it used to get the campaign buzz until we started longing for Change.
As this particular mantra is bludgeoned into our consciousness through the blunt trauma of incessant repetition, has anyone actually paused to consider what it will take? There was a time in the United States when Free Speech was a right, not something to be exercised in certain “zones” cordoned off far from any listening ears. People arrested for crimes were once presumed “innocent till proven guilty,” instead of instantly convicted by prime time’s Nancy Grace. An arrested person also could hope for a trial within a reasonable amount of time, instead of years’ worth of procedural delays and appeals.
Long ago the military was forbidden from policing city streets, until they stationed an army brigade to patrol within our own borders. In times gone by one could rest assured that the government wouldn’t force a religion on you – but it was also believed they wouldn’t stop you from practicing the once you had. It’s even rumored that doctors once spent a few minutes listening and looking before prescribing, and the dollar was strong enough to pay for their services. We used to go to war only in self defense, with people returning to their jobs and homes after hostilities had ended, instead of never-ending conflict and strife. . .
This list of problems could get as long and tedious as the political ads promising to solve them. The point is that we all know there are problems; we FEEL it, and our souls clamor for some kind of remedy. The question is this: does the Self-anointed One or the Prisoner-of-war Patriot really offer any kind of solution? Recovery isn’t going to be instantaneous on November 4th – much to the chagrin of the winning candidate’s supporters. It’s going to take sacrifice, grit, values and some re-prioritizing. We’re going to actually have to THINK, and not just talk about doing it “outside the box.” We’re going to have to compromise and come together, which means an end to finger pointing and hand wringing.
There’s plenty of determination to be found in this land of ours. We really can return to the principles and ideals that called out to the hopeless and downtrodden of the world. Our ancestors came here searching for the outline of a dream. Some of the points of that dream are found on a yellowing scrap of paper called the Constitution. You may have heard of it, it used to get the campaign buzz until we started longing for Change.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Winston Churchill:
"Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
Friday, October 24, 2008
If I could beg you . . .
So I know I can overkill, but Naomi Wolf was on KUER Wednesday and I really think it would be beneficial if you listen to her. It's 45 minutes, she's well spoken and has some great ideas.
The link is to the KUER website and you can click on the little media "play" button to listen. It comes through very clearly.
Click Here
The link is to the KUER website and you can click on the little media "play" button to listen. It comes through very clearly.
Click Here
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Naomi Wolf Interview - You should watch this 30 min video:
I don't agree with some things Naomi says, but she articulates some important points in this video, especially about what's going on in the US today. Her book is also fascinating, The End of America. I haven't read the second book she talks about in the interview.
Friday, October 17, 2008
A Giant Pyramid Scheme:
"A Ponzi scheme is a form of pyramid scheme in which new investors must continually be sucked in at the bottom to support the investors at the top. In this case, new borrowers must continually be sucked in to support the creditors at the top. The Wall Street Ponzi scheme is built on "fractional reserve" lending, which allows banks to create "credit" (or "debt") with accounting entries. Banks are now allowed to lend from 10 to 30 times their "reserves," essentially counterfeiting the money they lend. Over 97 percent of the U.S. money supply (M3) has been created by banks in this way. The problem is that banks create only the principal and not the interest necessary to pay back their loans. Since bank lending is essentially the only source of new money in the system, someone somewhere must continually be taking out new loans just to create enough "money" (or "credit") to service the old loans composing the money supply. This spiraling interest problem and the need to find new debtors has gone on for over 300 years."
- Ellen Brown, Global Research
- Ellen Brown, Global Research
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Floating Exchange Rates Devalue Dollars
"The main role of money is to be a trusted anchor for pricing. People's holding of cash as a "store of value" has always been insignificant. As to a medium of exchange: it fulfills this function properly only when people trust its stability. When the dollar plunges in terms of other currencies by 40% to 60% within few years, and when street vendors in emerging countries refuse dollar bills or accept it at deep discounts, as now happens, it becomes less of a medium of exchange. True, the dollar remains the reserve currency of choice because other countries mismanage their currency too. But relying on the mistakes of strangers is not a good policy. People want to understand that a promise to be paid 5% on U. S. Treasury represents 5% in their own currency too-- rather than, suddenly, minus 10%. When this happens, everyone speaks the same standard monetary language."
Reuven Brenner, Financial Post, 10/01/08
For the rest of the story Click Here.
Reuven Brenner, Financial Post, 10/01/08
For the rest of the story Click Here.
Sam Mathid 10/15/08:
"The construction of the collapse was loosely as thus:
1. Governments inflated their currencies.
2. Malinvestment resulted
3. To cope with the problems of malinvestment, governments inflated their currencies more.
4. Huge malinvestments resulted.
5. To cope with the problems of huge malinvestments governments inflated their currencies hugely.
6. Currencies utterly collapsed (still playing out).
1. Governments inflated their currencies.
2. Malinvestment resulted
3. To cope with the problems of malinvestment, governments inflated their currencies more.
4. Huge malinvestments resulted.
5. To cope with the problems of huge malinvestments governments inflated their currencies hugely.
6. Currencies utterly collapsed (still playing out).
Ludwig Von Mises:
"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved."
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Words from Bob Chapman's International Forecaster
"The heart of the current crisis is the quadrillion plus derivative market. Roughly half of these derivatives are listed on exchanges, but the other half are on the totally unregulated, totally opaque, poorly documented and mostly naked (no reserves or collateral given to secure performance) OTC derivatives market. The subprime and Alt-A mortgage debacles, and the soon to be recognized prime mortgage debacle, are little more than a side show with what will become their one to two trillion in losses which the Phony-Fraudie nationalization and the Paulson Ponzi Plunder Plan are meant to address, albeit futilely. However, the real estate derivative problems created by these debacles have been important catalysts leading to the loss of confidence that is preventing banks from lending to one another, because these problems, like a Zippo lighter on high flame, metaphorically speaking, have lit the fuse leading to the quadrillion dollar powder keg waiting to blow any day now, and Hanky Panky and Helicopter Ben are running around like raving, corporatist, fascist lunatics trying to stomp out the lit fuse before the whole world financial system goes up in a blaze of glory.
It is this powder keg that has everyone trembling with fear and foreboding, because the inevitable losses will be catastrophic, with losses which may exceed the entire world's GDP, thus obliterating the balance sheets of every major Wall Street commercial bank, including the Fed itself, while virtually every major bank and financial institution in nations throughout the world join them on the receiving end of a destructive juggernaut of loss, insolvency, failure and bankruptcy. In the aftermath, most will be nationalized. All of Western Civilization is about to become a smoldering collection of fascist police states. The entire world financial system is headed for oblivion, and there is nothing on earth that can stop it."
It is this powder keg that has everyone trembling with fear and foreboding, because the inevitable losses will be catastrophic, with losses which may exceed the entire world's GDP, thus obliterating the balance sheets of every major Wall Street commercial bank, including the Fed itself, while virtually every major bank and financial institution in nations throughout the world join them on the receiving end of a destructive juggernaut of loss, insolvency, failure and bankruptcy. In the aftermath, most will be nationalized. All of Western Civilization is about to become a smoldering collection of fascist police states. The entire world financial system is headed for oblivion, and there is nothing on earth that can stop it."
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
FEMA sources confirm coming martial law
Wayne Madsen
WMR
October 8, 2008
WMR has learned from knowledgeable Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sources that the Bush administration is putting the final touches on a plan that would see martial law declared in the United States with various scenarios anticipated as triggers. The triggers include a continuing economic collapse with massive social unrest, bank closures resulting in violence against financial institutions, and another fraudulent presidential election that would result in rioting in major cities and campuses around the country.
In addition, Army Corps of Engineer sources report that the assignment of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) to the Northern Command’s U.S. Army North is to augment FEMA and federal law enforcement in the imposition of traffic controls, crowd control, curfews, enhanced border and port security, and neighborhood patrols in the event a national emergency being declared. The BCT was assigned to duties in Iraq before being assigned to the Northern Command.
On April 3, 2008, WMR reported on a highly-classified document regarding the martial law scenario: WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources within the US financial community that an alarming confidential and limited distribution document is circulating among senior members of Congress and their senior staff members that is warning of a bleak future for the United States if it does not quickly get its financial house in order. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among those who have reportedly read the document. The document is being called the "C & R" document because it reportedly states that if the United States defaults on loans and debt underwriting from China, Japan, and Russia, all of which are propping up the United States government financially, and the United States unilaterally cancels the debts, America can expect a war that will have disastrous results for the United States and the world. "Conflict" is the "C word" in the document. The other scenario is that the federal government will be forced to drastically raise taxes in order to pay off debts to foreign countries to the point that the American people will react with a popular revolution against the government. "Revolution" is the document’s "R word.
WMR
October 8, 2008
WMR has learned from knowledgeable Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sources that the Bush administration is putting the final touches on a plan that would see martial law declared in the United States with various scenarios anticipated as triggers. The triggers include a continuing economic collapse with massive social unrest, bank closures resulting in violence against financial institutions, and another fraudulent presidential election that would result in rioting in major cities and campuses around the country.
In addition, Army Corps of Engineer sources report that the assignment of the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) to the Northern Command’s U.S. Army North is to augment FEMA and federal law enforcement in the imposition of traffic controls, crowd control, curfews, enhanced border and port security, and neighborhood patrols in the event a national emergency being declared. The BCT was assigned to duties in Iraq before being assigned to the Northern Command.
On April 3, 2008, WMR reported on a highly-classified document regarding the martial law scenario: WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources within the US financial community that an alarming confidential and limited distribution document is circulating among senior members of Congress and their senior staff members that is warning of a bleak future for the United States if it does not quickly get its financial house in order. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among those who have reportedly read the document. The document is being called the "C & R" document because it reportedly states that if the United States defaults on loans and debt underwriting from China, Japan, and Russia, all of which are propping up the United States government financially, and the United States unilaterally cancels the debts, America can expect a war that will have disastrous results for the United States and the world. "Conflict" is the "C word" in the document. The other scenario is that the federal government will be forced to drastically raise taxes in order to pay off debts to foreign countries to the point that the American people will react with a popular revolution against the government. "Revolution" is the document’s "R word.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
MSN: 8 Ways to Stay Healthy
6. Don't ask for antibiotics
If you're suffering from a head cold, sinus infection, earache, bronchitis or the flu, don't assume your doctor will prescribe antibiotics. In fact, antibiotics in some cases can make things worse. A study reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases estimated that 142,000 emergency-room visits each year are due to adverse reactions to antibiotics, ranging from rashes to life-threatening allergic reactions. And for the common cold, flu, and many minor infections such as bronchitis, antibiotics don't seem to help. Overuse and overprescribing of antibiotics also has led to the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria that have become a serious public health concern, especially in hospitals. Your doctor is the best one to judge whether your illness needs an antibiotic. It's better to be cautious and not assume an antibiotic is necessary.
If you're suffering from a head cold, sinus infection, earache, bronchitis or the flu, don't assume your doctor will prescribe antibiotics. In fact, antibiotics in some cases can make things worse. A study reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases estimated that 142,000 emergency-room visits each year are due to adverse reactions to antibiotics, ranging from rashes to life-threatening allergic reactions. And for the common cold, flu, and many minor infections such as bronchitis, antibiotics don't seem to help. Overuse and overprescribing of antibiotics also has led to the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria that have become a serious public health concern, especially in hospitals. Your doctor is the best one to judge whether your illness needs an antibiotic. It's better to be cautious and not assume an antibiotic is necessary.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Hmm . . .
Today two-thirds of the water supply in this country is fluoridated.
Think about this: One of the most over-prescribed drugs today is Prozac, which is 94 percent fluoride.
Think about this: One of the most over-prescribed drugs today is Prozac, which is 94 percent fluoride.
Jim Marrs from a radio show:
"I think most people understand about communism and bald-faced socialism. Where they’ve gotten really thrown off the track again is this infiltration of neoconservatism within the Republican party particularly and among the nation’s conservatives. Most people who consider themselves conservatives, if you really talk to them, they are constitutional conservatives. They want less government, balanced budgets, border security, family values, less government. And yet they are confused today because they keep voting for these people like the Bushes who claim to be compassionate conservatives, and all they get are more and more socialistic programs plus foreign wars of adventure."
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
OBLIGATION TO WARN OF FINAL WARS
"IS IT NOT THE DUTY OF THE EDLERS OF ISRAEL TO SPEAK OF THESE THINGS WITH A WARNING VOICE? SHALL WE CLOSE OUR EYES AND OUR EARS AND SEAL OUR UNDERSTANDING SIMPLY BECAUSE SOME THINGS ARE UNPLEASANT TO THE EAR AND TO THE EYE? SHALL WE REFUSE TO RAISE A WARNING VOICE WHEN DANGER APPROACHES, WHEN TROUBLE IS NEAR, WHEN DESTRUCTION IS AT OUR DOOR? SUCH A COURSE WOULD BE COWARDLY IF WE KNEW THE TRUTH. WE CANNOT CRY “ALL IS WELL” WHEN DANGER LURKS ON EVERY SIDE. WE MUST NOT LULL THE PE OPLE TO SLEEP IN FALSE SECURITY. PRESIDENT WILFORD WOODRUFF DECLARED THAT “NO MAN THAT IS INSPIRED BY THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF GOD CAN CLOSE HIS EARS, HIS EYES, OR HIS LIPS TO THESE THINGS!”
Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, 3 volumes. Edited by Bruce R. McConkie. Vol. 3 page 48.
Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, 3 volumes. Edited by Bruce R. McConkie. Vol. 3 page 48.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
National Vaccine Information Center
I think this is an important link for those of you with children.
Click Here
Click Here
Friday, August 1, 2008
Hitler from Mein Kampf
"The great mass of people may fall victim to a great lie rather than a small one, since they themselves also lie sometimes in little things but would certainly be too ashamed to tell a great lie. Thus, it would not enter their heads to tell a great lie, and they would not believe that others could tell such an infamous lie; indeed, they will doubt and hesitate; even after learning the truth, they will continue to think there must be some other explanation; therefore, just for this reason, some part of the most impudent lie will remain and stick, a fact which all great lying artists and societies of this world know all too well and therefore villainously emply."
Propaganda
"Media manipulation in the United States today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth."
-Mark Crispin Miller; NYU professor who specializes in propaganda and media.
-Mark Crispin Miller; NYU professor who specializes in propaganda and media.
Hmmm . . .
"To oppose the policies of a government does not mean that you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the feurer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them.
- Media critic Michael Parenti
- Media critic Michael Parenti
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Book Recommendation:
End of America by Naomi Wolf. I just finished it last night . . . excellent!
It compares what's going on in America today to the rise of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, the American Revolution, Chile (1973 under Allende/Pinochet), etc.
It compares what's going on in America today to the rise of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, the American Revolution, Chile (1973 under Allende/Pinochet), etc.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Why 9/11 matters . . .
Though compared to the importance of accepting and daily living the truth and ordinances of the Gospel, the truth about 9/11 isn't as critical . . . maybe it's not so unimportant as people think.
Freedom (the right to exercise our Free Agency) is the entire "just cause" of the Book of Mormon and the book's main topic aside from Christ. It's the entire reason for the War in Heaven, the reason this nation was established by God Himself AND the historical victim of ALL tyrannical regimes throughout history. It's the one thing Satan wants to deny us, and the first thing his henchmen go after (the King Men, Hitler, Stalin, etc).
Moroni raised the Title of Liberty not only in defense of the actual lives of his people, but also in defense of their RIGHTS - and he raised that very title against those working from WITHIN to topple the nation, destroy the church and establish a king.
So as our nation crumbles because most people are "uninterested," maybe there's some accountability there. Will anyone care when the next fake attack happens, an attack that triggers complete martial law and ends Constitutional government?
The Nephites mourned when the secret combinations destroyed their government. But those same secret combinations only succeeded because the people either ignored them or, worse, actively built them up and supported them (Helaman 6:38).
"Wherefore, O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that these things should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain—and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be."
Freedom (the right to exercise our Free Agency) is the entire "just cause" of the Book of Mormon and the book's main topic aside from Christ. It's the entire reason for the War in Heaven, the reason this nation was established by God Himself AND the historical victim of ALL tyrannical regimes throughout history. It's the one thing Satan wants to deny us, and the first thing his henchmen go after (the King Men, Hitler, Stalin, etc).
Moroni raised the Title of Liberty not only in defense of the actual lives of his people, but also in defense of their RIGHTS - and he raised that very title against those working from WITHIN to topple the nation, destroy the church and establish a king.
So as our nation crumbles because most people are "uninterested," maybe there's some accountability there. Will anyone care when the next fake attack happens, an attack that triggers complete martial law and ends Constitutional government?
The Nephites mourned when the secret combinations destroyed their government. But those same secret combinations only succeeded because the people either ignored them or, worse, actively built them up and supported them (Helaman 6:38).
"Wherefore, O ye Gentiles, it is wisdom in God that these things should be shown unto you, that thereby ye may repent of your sins, and suffer not that these murderous combinations shall get above you, which are built up to get power and gain—and the work, yea, even the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be."
Going after the chief judge . . .
Food for thought . . .
Why does the Book of Mormon mention the assasination(s) of the chief judges and kings so often?
Why does the Book of Mormon mention the assasination(s) of the chief judges and kings so often?
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Just thinking out loud . . .
I've been wondering why people have such a hard time even thinking about the POSSIBILITY that 911 was controlled demolition. There are so many reasons why it would be hard for people to even look at with an open mind; it made me think of this:
If the shooting of an apparently healthy individual, by a known criminal is captured on video and shows the bullet hitting the victim's upper right shoulder (far from the heart), most viewers would assume the wound would not be fatal.
BUT if the person does die, then the viewer would assume that it was the shot after all, despite the fact that normally such a shot wouldn't be life threatening.
The viewer assumes the shot killed the person because A) It is obviously a traumatic event, and B) from the viewer's current perspective, it is the only possible cause.
Now, if a well respected doctor comes to the scene and proclaims the bullet responsible for the victim's death, the viewer's opinion is set in stone. Not only did the viewer see the bullet (on video) hit the victim, but his assumptions are cemented by an "authoritative source," who couldn't POSSIBLY have ulterior motives.
But what if some viewers learn that no autopsy was performed, that the doctor did have nefarious motives and that there was much evidence for another (more plausible) cause of death.
The viewers that learn the truth will have a devil of a time convincing other viewers because of the fixed "paradigm" that has been set and the conventional wisdom that has taken over - ESPECIALLY if the public has already taken the "obvious" assailant to court, found him guilty and sent him to prison.
Add to the difficulty when the original video is replayed, the doctor's testimony is oft-quoted and the unconvinced viewers are ridiculed.
Re-examining our basic worldviews and admitting that we may be wrong is one of the most difficult things possible, especially when there's an emotional reason to cling to the original, more comforting suppositions.
If the shooting of an apparently healthy individual, by a known criminal is captured on video and shows the bullet hitting the victim's upper right shoulder (far from the heart), most viewers would assume the wound would not be fatal.
BUT if the person does die, then the viewer would assume that it was the shot after all, despite the fact that normally such a shot wouldn't be life threatening.
The viewer assumes the shot killed the person because A) It is obviously a traumatic event, and B) from the viewer's current perspective, it is the only possible cause.
Now, if a well respected doctor comes to the scene and proclaims the bullet responsible for the victim's death, the viewer's opinion is set in stone. Not only did the viewer see the bullet (on video) hit the victim, but his assumptions are cemented by an "authoritative source," who couldn't POSSIBLY have ulterior motives.
But what if some viewers learn that no autopsy was performed, that the doctor did have nefarious motives and that there was much evidence for another (more plausible) cause of death.
The viewers that learn the truth will have a devil of a time convincing other viewers because of the fixed "paradigm" that has been set and the conventional wisdom that has taken over - ESPECIALLY if the public has already taken the "obvious" assailant to court, found him guilty and sent him to prison.
Add to the difficulty when the original video is replayed, the doctor's testimony is oft-quoted and the unconvinced viewers are ridiculed.
Re-examining our basic worldviews and admitting that we may be wrong is one of the most difficult things possible, especially when there's an emotional reason to cling to the original, more comforting suppositions.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
Pre-emptive war
If you simplify the concept of "preventive" or "pre-emptive" war to a dispute between two individuals . . .
John has a problem with Tom. Tom has made several extremely serious threats against John and his family, and John is ALMOST sure that Tom has purchased a handgun and "knows" Tom would use it.
So John decides that the only way he'll ever be safe is if he shoots Tom first, before Tom has the opportunity to harm John's family.
(If the immorality of John's decision isn't obvious - read on)
John then walks accross the street, aims the gun at Tom . . .
A. Tom is killed because he actually did not possess the suspected gun to defend himself - thus John is a murderer.
B. Tom is killed because he did own a gun, but wasn't fast enough to retrieve it - John is still a murderer.
C. Tom does own a gun, he sees John on his property, approaching with the loaded gun and shoots first. John is still morally at fault because Tom is NOW acting in self defense - John is the aggressor.
By going on the offensive John loses all claim to the moral high ground (thus the protection of God), and so do we as a nation. What then is John's solution? I think the answer starts in Alma 48:15.
John has a problem with Tom. Tom has made several extremely serious threats against John and his family, and John is ALMOST sure that Tom has purchased a handgun and "knows" Tom would use it.
So John decides that the only way he'll ever be safe is if he shoots Tom first, before Tom has the opportunity to harm John's family.
(If the immorality of John's decision isn't obvious - read on)
John then walks accross the street, aims the gun at Tom . . .
A. Tom is killed because he actually did not possess the suspected gun to defend himself - thus John is a murderer.
B. Tom is killed because he did own a gun, but wasn't fast enough to retrieve it - John is still a murderer.
C. Tom does own a gun, he sees John on his property, approaching with the loaded gun and shoots first. John is still morally at fault because Tom is NOW acting in self defense - John is the aggressor.
By going on the offensive John loses all claim to the moral high ground (thus the protection of God), and so do we as a nation. What then is John's solution? I think the answer starts in Alma 48:15.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Dwight D. Eisenhower:
"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing."
Friday, June 27, 2008
H.L. Mencken:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Interesting:
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, former CIA director, at his first staff meeting in 1981.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Another quote from "They Thought They Were Free"
"The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God."
From a German citizen remembering Hitler . . .
"Your "little men," your Nazi friends, were not against National Socialism in principle. Men like me, who were, are the greater offenders, not because we knew better (that would be too much to say) but because we sensed better. Pastor Niemoller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke (too modestly of himself) and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but, after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing: and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something - but then it was too late."
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
U.S. School District to Begin Microchipping Students
David Gutierrez
June 17, 2008
A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags.
The Middletown School District, in partnership with MAP Information Technology Corp., has launched a pilot program to implant RFID chips into the schoolbags of 80 children at the Aquidneck School. Each chip would be programmed with a student identification number, and would be read by an external device installed in one of two school buses. The buses would also be fitted with global positioning system (GPS) devices.
Parents or school officials could log onto a school web site to see whether and when specific children had entered or exited which bus, and to look up the bus’s current location as provided by the GPS device.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has criticized the plan as an invasion of children’s privacy and a potential risk to their safety.
"There’s absolutely no need to be tagging children," said Stephen Brown, executive director of the ACLU’s Rhode Island chapter. According to Brown, the school district should already know where its students are.
"[This program is] a solution in search of a problem," Brown said.
The school district says that its current plan is no different than other programs already in place for parents to monitor their children’s school experience. For example, parents can already check on their children’s attendance records and what they have for lunch, said district Superintendent Rosemary Kraeger.
Brown disputed this argument. The school is perfectly entitled to track its buses, he said, but "it’s a quantitative leap to monitor children themselves." He raised the question of whether unauthorized individuals could use easily available RFID readers to find out students’ private information and monitor their movements.
Because the pilot program is being provided to the school district at no cost, it did not require approval from the Rhode Island ethics commission.
June 17, 2008
A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags.
The Middletown School District, in partnership with MAP Information Technology Corp., has launched a pilot program to implant RFID chips into the schoolbags of 80 children at the Aquidneck School. Each chip would be programmed with a student identification number, and would be read by an external device installed in one of two school buses. The buses would also be fitted with global positioning system (GPS) devices.
Parents or school officials could log onto a school web site to see whether and when specific children had entered or exited which bus, and to look up the bus’s current location as provided by the GPS device.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has criticized the plan as an invasion of children’s privacy and a potential risk to their safety.
"There’s absolutely no need to be tagging children," said Stephen Brown, executive director of the ACLU’s Rhode Island chapter. According to Brown, the school district should already know where its students are.
"[This program is] a solution in search of a problem," Brown said.
The school district says that its current plan is no different than other programs already in place for parents to monitor their children’s school experience. For example, parents can already check on their children’s attendance records and what they have for lunch, said district Superintendent Rosemary Kraeger.
Brown disputed this argument. The school is perfectly entitled to track its buses, he said, but "it’s a quantitative leap to monitor children themselves." He raised the question of whether unauthorized individuals could use easily available RFID readers to find out students’ private information and monitor their movements.
Because the pilot program is being provided to the school district at no cost, it did not require approval from the Rhode Island ethics commission.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Hmmm . . .
If you had gone into business on the day Jesus was born, and your business lost a million dollars a day, day in and day out, 365 days a year, it would take you until October 2737 to lose a trillion dollars.
The U.S. Congress has done seven times this damage to their constituents in a little over eighteen years!
The U.S. Congress has done seven times this damage to their constituents in a little over eighteen years!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
This quote is pretty matter-of-fact:
“The United States is not the kingdom of God, neither is England, Germany, or France….Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the governments as far as the Lord will permit him. That is why there is so much strife, turmoil, and confusion all over the earth. One master mind is governing the nations….it is Satan himself.” (Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, Vol. 3, pp 314-15)
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
Lewis Smedes:
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008
McCain Promises Preemptive War
Reuters
April 10, 2008
WESTPORT, Connecticut (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain said on Wednesday he would not rule out launching preemptive wars against future enemies.
President George W. Bush, in launching his 2003 invasion of Iraq, said it was necessary to forestall possible future attacks from a country that was developing weapons of mass destruction.
None of the weapons he alleged were in Iraq were subsequently found.
McCain, who has wrapped up his party’s nomination to run for the White House in the November election, has maintained support for Iraq war and has said frequently that he would rather lose an election than a war.
When asked at a town hall meeting about the Bush policy on preemption, McCain said: “I don’t think you can make a blanket statement about preemptive war because obviously it depends on the threat that the United States of America faces.”
April 10, 2008
WESTPORT, Connecticut (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain said on Wednesday he would not rule out launching preemptive wars against future enemies.
President George W. Bush, in launching his 2003 invasion of Iraq, said it was necessary to forestall possible future attacks from a country that was developing weapons of mass destruction.
None of the weapons he alleged were in Iraq were subsequently found.
McCain, who has wrapped up his party’s nomination to run for the White House in the November election, has maintained support for Iraq war and has said frequently that he would rather lose an election than a war.
When asked at a town hall meeting about the Bush policy on preemption, McCain said: “I don’t think you can make a blanket statement about preemptive war because obviously it depends on the threat that the United States of America faces.”
Random Health Facts
1) Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding .08.
2) Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
3) In some parts of the world, they protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
4) The word ‘gymnasium’ comes from the Greek word gymnazein, which means ‘to exercise naked.’
5) There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee; of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
6) The average American eats at McDonald’s more than 1,800 times in their life.
7) There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
8) According to U.S. FDA standards, 1 cup of orange juice is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs, but only 2 maggots.
9) You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
10) It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily.
11) Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
12) You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening.
13) During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food -- that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
2) Banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.
3) In some parts of the world, they protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
4) The word ‘gymnasium’ comes from the Greek word gymnazein, which means ‘to exercise naked.’
5) There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee; of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
6) The average American eats at McDonald’s more than 1,800 times in their life.
7) There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
8) According to U.S. FDA standards, 1 cup of orange juice is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs, but only 2 maggots.
9) You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
10) It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily.
11) Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
12) You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening.
13) During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food -- that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Beware - Answer to Kirk's Riddle
Norwegian Dane Brit German Swede
yellow blue red green white
cats horses birds fish dogs
water tea milk coffee beer
Dunhill Blends P/Mall Prince BlMstr
yellow blue red green white
cats horses birds fish dogs
water tea milk coffee beer
Dunhill Blends P/Mall Prince BlMstr
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Vaccination Dangers to Children
In 1976, children received 10 vaccines before attending school. Today they will receive over 36 injections . . .
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Natural Salt vs. Processed Table Salt
This is why I buy unprocessed salt. The article is promoting Himalayan salt, but the general ideas are things that I've read from many sources.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
New Power for the Fed?? Hmmm . . . .
Don't know if you're watching the news these days . . . Analysts are calling the changes the biggest financial regulatory changes since the Great Depression.
Paulson offers sweeping rule changes
Treasury chief wants to overhaul how Wall Street is regulated. Among the ideas: Widening Fed's reach and creating a federal regulator for mortgage industry.
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Paulson offers sweeping rule changes
Treasury chief wants to overhaul how Wall Street is regulated. Among the ideas: Widening Fed's reach and creating a federal regulator for mortgage industry.
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Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'
Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation
By Geoffrey Lean
Sunday, 30 March 2008
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.
It draws on growing evidence – exclusively reported in the IoS in October – that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.
Earlier this year, the French government warned against the use of mobile phones, especially by children. Germany also advises its people to minimise handset use, and the European Environment Agency has called for exposures to be reduced.
Professor Khurana – a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years, has published more than three dozen scientific papers – reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones. He has put the results on a brain surgery website, and a paper based on the research is currently being peer-reviewed for publication in a scientific journal.
He admits that mobiles can save lives in emergencies, but concludes that "there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours". He believes this will be "definitively proven" in the next decade.
Noting that malignant brain tumours represent "a life-ending diagnosis", he adds: "We are currently experiencing a reactively unchecked and dangerous situation." He fears that "unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps", the incidence of malignant brain tumours and associated death rate will be observed to rise globally within a decade from now, by which time it may be far too late to intervene medically.
"It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking," says Professor Khurana, who told the IoS his assessment is partly based on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide, three times as many as smoke. Smoking kills some five million worldwide each year, and exposure to asbestos is responsible for as many deaths in Britain as road accidents.
Late last week, the Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana's study as "a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual". It believes he "does not present a balanced analysis" of the published science, and "reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews".
By Geoffrey Lean
Sunday, 30 March 2008
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.
It draws on growing evidence – exclusively reported in the IoS in October – that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.
Earlier this year, the French government warned against the use of mobile phones, especially by children. Germany also advises its people to minimise handset use, and the European Environment Agency has called for exposures to be reduced.
Professor Khurana – a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years, has published more than three dozen scientific papers – reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones. He has put the results on a brain surgery website, and a paper based on the research is currently being peer-reviewed for publication in a scientific journal.
He admits that mobiles can save lives in emergencies, but concludes that "there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours". He believes this will be "definitively proven" in the next decade.
Noting that malignant brain tumours represent "a life-ending diagnosis", he adds: "We are currently experiencing a reactively unchecked and dangerous situation." He fears that "unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps", the incidence of malignant brain tumours and associated death rate will be observed to rise globally within a decade from now, by which time it may be far too late to intervene medically.
"It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking," says Professor Khurana, who told the IoS his assessment is partly based on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide, three times as many as smoke. Smoking kills some five million worldwide each year, and exposure to asbestos is responsible for as many deaths in Britain as road accidents.
Late last week, the Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana's study as "a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual". It believes he "does not present a balanced analysis" of the published science, and "reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews".
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Why exactly is MSG bad for you?
In hundreds of studies around the world, scientists were creating obese mice and rats to use in diet or diabetes test studies. No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, so the scientists have to create them. They make these morbidly obese creatures by injecting them with MSG when they are first born. The MSG triples the amount of insulin the pancreas creates; causing rats (and humans?) to become obese. They even have a title for the fat rodents they create: "MSG-Treated Rats" . . .
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Interesting . . .
John O. Edwards, NewsMax.com
Friday, Nov. 21, 2003
Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
Franks, who successfully led the U.S. military operation to liberate Iraq, expressed his worries in an extensive interview he gave to the men’s lifestyle magazine Cigar Aficionado.
In the magazine’s December edition, the former commander of the military’s Central Command warned that if terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.
Discussing the hypothetical dangers posed to the U.S. in the wake of Sept. 11, Franks said that “the worst thing that could happen” is if terrorists acquire and then use a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon that inflicts heavy casualties.
If that happens, Franks said, “... the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we’ve seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.”
Franks then offered “in a practical sense” what he thinks would happen in the aftermath of such an attack.
“It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps, very, very important.”
Franks didn’t speculate about how soon such an event might take place.
Already, critics of the U.S. Patriot Act, rushed through Congress in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, have argued that the law aims to curtail civil liberties and sets a dangerous precedent.
But Franks’ scenario goes much further. He is the first high-ranking official to openly speculate that the Constitution could be scrapped in favor of a military form of government.
Friday, Nov. 21, 2003
Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
Franks, who successfully led the U.S. military operation to liberate Iraq, expressed his worries in an extensive interview he gave to the men’s lifestyle magazine Cigar Aficionado.
In the magazine’s December edition, the former commander of the military’s Central Command warned that if terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.
Discussing the hypothetical dangers posed to the U.S. in the wake of Sept. 11, Franks said that “the worst thing that could happen” is if terrorists acquire and then use a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon that inflicts heavy casualties.
If that happens, Franks said, “... the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we’ve seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.”
Franks then offered “in a practical sense” what he thinks would happen in the aftermath of such an attack.
“It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps, very, very important.”
Franks didn’t speculate about how soon such an event might take place.
Already, critics of the U.S. Patriot Act, rushed through Congress in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, have argued that the law aims to curtail civil liberties and sets a dangerous precedent.
But Franks’ scenario goes much further. He is the first high-ranking official to openly speculate that the Constitution could be scrapped in favor of a military form of government.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Dr. Alexis Carrol, two-time Nobel Prize winner:
The staple foods may not contain the same nutritive substances as in former times....Hens have been compelled, by artificial diet and mode of living, to enter the ranks of mass producers. Has not the quality of their eggs been modified? The same question may be asked about milk, because cows are now confined to the stable all the year round, and are fed on manufactured provender. Hygienists have not paid sufficient attention to the genesis of diseases. Their studies of conditions of life and diet, and of their effects on the physiological and mental state of modern man, are superficial, incomplete, and of too short duration. They have, thus, contributed to the weakening of our bodies and our souls. And they leave us without protection against the degenerative diseases, the diseases resulting from civilization.
Alexis Carrel, Man Unknown (New York: Harper & Brothers, Halcyon House, 1938), .p. 116
Notice the date!!! How much worse is it now?
Alexis Carrel, Man Unknown (New York: Harper & Brothers, Halcyon House, 1938), .p. 116
Notice the date!!! How much worse is it now?
George Albert Smith on Pork:
There is another subject under consideration, which weighs very heavily upon the minds of the Saints. The Word of Wisdom recommends us to use the flesh of animals sparingly. The law of Moses prohibited Israel the use of swine's flesh; but in the Gentile world at the present day it is considered superior, as food, to almost every other kind of flesh. And even among us, with the education and training that we have received, there is a great deal of it used. . . . For some reason God, by special law, prohibited its use to the children of Israel; and it certainly seems desirable that we should also discontinue its use, as within the past few years in some countries where a great amount of pork has been consumed the people have been afflicted with a kind of pestilence - a disease which is considered incurable. It is therefore wise and prudent for us to adopt plans to procure supplies from other sources.
Journal of Discourses12:198-199
Journal of Discourses12:198-199
Remember what I've been saying about grass fed beef?
The beef fed upon our mountain grasses is as healthy food as we need at present. Beef, so fattened, is as good as wild meat, and is quite different in its nature from stall-fed meat. But we can eat fish; and I ask the people of this community, Who hinders you from raising fowls for their eggs? ...Fish is as healthy a food as we can eat, if we except vegetables and fruit, and with them will become a very wholesome diet.
Journal of Discourses 12:54-55
Journal of Discourses 12:54-55
Interesting quote from Brigham Young on pork:
A thorough reformation is needed in regard to our eating and drinking, and on this point I will freely express myself, and shall be glad if the people will hear, believe and obey. If the people were willing to receive the true knowledge from heaven in regard to their diet they would cease eating swine's flesh. I know this as well as Moses knew it, and without putting it in a code of commandments. When I tell you that it is the will of the Lord to cease eating swine's flesh, very likely one will tell you that it is the will of the Lord to stop eating beef and mutton, and another that it is the will of the Lord to stop eating fowl and fish until the minds of the people become bewildered, so that they know not how to decide between right and wrong, truth and error.
Journal of Discourses 12:54-55
Journal of Discourses 12:54-55
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