Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Central Banks' 2% Plan to Impoverish You



 
By Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog:

The 2% target is low enough that the household frogs in the kettle of hot water never realize they're being boiled alive because the increase is so gradual.

A comment by correspondent David C. suggested the importance of demonstrating the impoverishing consequences of central banks reaching their 2% inflation target. David observed: "That central bankers aren't all hanging by their necks from lamp posts everywhere is a testament to how scarce are those who grasp exponents and compounding."
 
Anyone with basic Excel skills can calculate the cumulative impoverishment caused by central banks' "modest" 2% annual inflation. Here is my worksheet:
 
Column 1: year
Column 2: index starting with 100
Column 3: annual inflation sum (2% of previous year's total index)
Column 4: cumulative total index
 
1    100.00  2.00  102.00
2    102.00  2.04  104.04
3    104.04  2.08  106.12
4    106.12  2.12  108.24
5    108.24  2.16  110.41
6    110.41  2.21  112.62
7    112.62  2.25  114.87
8    114.87  2.30  117.17
9    117.17  2.34  119.51
10  119.51  2.39  121.90

Ten years of modest 2% inflation robs households of nearly 20% of their purchasing power. What was $100 in year 1 costs about $122 after 10 years of "modest" 2% inflation. Put another way, $100 in year one is only worth $81 in year 10.
 
11  121.90  2.44  124.34
12  124.34  2.49  126.82
13  126.82  2.54  129.36
14  129.36  2.59  131.95
15  131.95  2.64  134.59
16  134.59  2.69  137.28
17  137.28  2.75  140.02
18  140.02  2.80  142.82
19  142.82  2.86  145.68
20  145.68  2.91  148.59

Two decades of "modest" 2% inflation robs households of one-third of their purchasing power. What was $100 in year 1 costs about $150 after 20 years of "modest" 2% inflation. Put another way, $100 in year one is only worth $66 in year 20.
 
Even when central banks fail to reach their 2% annual-thievery target, incomes decline across the entire spectrum. The middle class (however you define it) lost roughly 10% as of 2012. In Japan, famous for essentially no inflation, wages have fallen by 9% in real terms since 1997.
 
 
While wages go nowhere, costs continue lofting ever higher as central banks print and pump money and credit:
 
Imagine central banks overshoot their 2% theft per year target and reach 3% annual inflation. If 2% is good, 3% must be even better, right?
 
In one decade of 3% annual inflation, the purchasing power of $100 declines to $73, and after 20 years of central bank inflation, it drops almost in half to $54. The central banks' inflation is a steady transfer of wealth from households to the banking sector and those holding ballooning assets like stocks. This is why central banks cling to their target so vociferously: their reason to exist is to enrich the banking sector at the expense of the rest of us.
 
The 2% target is low enough that the household frogs in the kettle of hot water never realize they're being boiled alive because the increase is so gradual. The central banks assume their 2% plan to impoverish us all escaped our notice. Apparently it has.
 

Chain Reaction of Problems Coming In 2015: “Collapse Will Be On A Scale That Is Many Magnitudes Greater Than 2008″


This article was written by Mac Slavo and originally published at SHTFplan.com


If you’re like most Americans, then you are absolutely loving the price you paid this week for a gallon of gas. Just a couple of years ago it was not uncommon to see a $75 price tag for filling up your car. Today, you might be driving off for half that amount.

On the surface the recent drop in the price of oil has been a huge boost to America’s pocket books. But according to some analysts we shouldn’t be to quick to celebrate. The U.S. Oil and Gas industry has seen incredible job growth during the recession, with nearly 800,000 new jobs being attributed to domestic fracking and drilling expansion. At over $100 barrel, there was plenty of money to go around.

But with a sub-sixty dollar price point, it’s quite possible that all economic hell is about to break loose.

For many it has already begun.

Thousands of recently highly paid workers have been laid off after the oil price plummeted 50 percent in 2014. At least four American oil-producing states are already facing budget problems due to decreasing oil revenues.

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In a study published last year, the Council on Foreign Relations warned the largest job losses caused by sharp decline in oil prices are going to take place in North Dakota, Oklahoma and Wyoming, where the number of drilling rigs is decreasing.

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According to Tom Runiewicz, a US industry economist at IHS Global Insight, if oil stays around $56 a barrel till the middle of the next year, companies providing services to oil and gas industry could lose 40,000 jobs by the end of 2015, while oil and gas equipment manufacturers could slash up to 6,000 jobs.

These workers can earn more than $1,700 a week, much higher than the average $848 a week payment for other workers, the WSJ reported. When experienced workers lose their highly paid jobs, they stop paying their bills.

Source: RT

Those are the conservative estimates and they are based on a $56 price point, which is almost exactly where we are today. But Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations have suggested the price could drop to $40 or even as low as $20.

In such a scenario we could easily see widespread layoffs in an industry that currently employs over 10 million Americans.

But that’s not even the worst of it.

While losing 50,000 or even a million jobs will have a major impact on consumer spending, and thus the economy, the real problem is the massive amount of leveraged bets and debt currently in the system. There are trillions of dollars of derivatives and leverage at play in financial markets, much of it centering around the oil & gas industry. Should the price of oil remain at these levels or go even lower then a lot of major financial institutions are going to be in trouble.

In a recent interview with King World News, John Ing says that not only did Congress remove financial safeguards when they passed their latest budget bill, but by doing so they left America susceptible to a disaster that will make 2008 look like a dress rehearsal.

While everybody appears to be celebrating the record highs on Wall Street, we are also seeing a loss of public trust. One key example of this loss of public trust is when you look at the $1.1 trillion spending bill in the U.S., where there was the dilution of the Dodd-Frank Act which now allows for bail-ins in the United States… This will lead to disastrous consequences…

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Meanwhile, the derivatives monster has gotten even bigger. With the drop in the oil price we have yet to see the impact of the credit default swaps and what this will mean for the stability of the global financial system.

This will certainly set off a chain reaction of problems in 2015.

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The 2008 collapse was just a dress rehearsal compared to what the world is going to face this time around. This time we have governments which are even more highly leveraged than the private sector was.

So this time the collapse will be on a scale that is many magnitudes greater than what the world witnessed in 2008.

Full Interview: King World News via Steve Quayle

On top of all the other problems being faced by Americans – low wages, lackluster job growth, increased medical care costs, rising prices on essential goods, and more taxes to name a few – could the sudden drop in the price of oil could be the trigger that sends the whole thing crashing down?

As we saw in 2008 it can happen quickly. Within a matter of a few weeks trillions of dollars in wealth were vaporized and America fell into it’s worst recession since the 1930′s.

This time, as John Ing notes, the magnitude of the crash will be significantly worse and even the U.S. Treasury Department has warned that the system is so volatile that should there be even a single hiccup in our government’s ability to borrow money it would lead to a catastrophic effect lasting more than a generation.

America sits on the brink of the largest financial and economic collapse in the history of the world and the recent drop in the price of oil could be the Black Swan no one saw coming.

Those who fail to position themselves accordingly could experience serious damage to their wealth and well-being if and when this happens. Time is running short and now is the time to prepare. After the panic starts it will be too late.


The Seduction of America


Cover of Brain-Washing: A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics, as published by the Church of Scientology in 1955America the Battlefield – by Timothy A. Pope

Do you want to know how it all happened? Do you really want to know the cause behind the rapid deterioration in the United States of America from a domestic cold war of incremental democratization, into a hot totalitarian socialist State? Aside from an abject hatred for religion and morality, one of the root causes of the accelerated decline is “psychopolitics,” the art and science of asserting and maintaining dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of individuals, officers, bureaus, and masses, and the effecting of the conquest of enemy nations through “mental healing.”

Psychopolitics, at its very core, is the Soviet art of brainwashing. Since 1933, the United States has been subject to a far-reaching and comprehensive campaign of psychopolitical warfare aimed at subverting and destroying our Constitutional Republic, and according to the Lucille Miller case of 1950, to “recruit every agency of the nation marked for slaughter into a foaming hatred of religious healing.”  

“During the past few years, I have noted with horror the increase of psychopolitical warfare upon the American public. First, in the brainwashing of our boys in Korea [who fought on behalf of the United Nations (source) by unlawful Executive authorization of President Harry S. Truman], and then in the well financed drive of mental health propaganda by left-wing pressure groups, wherein many of our states have passed Bills which can well be used by the enemies of America to subject to torture and imprisonment, those who preach the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and who oppose the menace of Communism.” ― Kenneth Goff, Congressional Report to the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities, regarding his infiltration of the Communist Party of the United States from 1936-1939.

Most Americans don’t know that in 1933 a large group of American students, university professors, doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists were all sent by the major tax-free and scholastic foundations in this country to Moscow ― the home of International Socialism ― in the Soviet Union to begin their indoctrination.

The following is a portion of a speech delivered to these Americans in the Soviet Union, who then came back to the United States and became the core of the socialist/communist cells which have been working ever since to overthrow this great nation and destroy it from within, just as Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said they would.

They have grown and magnified in numbers beyond your comprehension, and they are now solidly in control of every level of our society and government.
Lavrentiy Beria (1899-1953) was Marshal of the Soviet Union, state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and the First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union during the postwar years.

The following is a November 1933 address by Beria to the congregation of American academicians in Moscow in its entirety [blogger’s emphasis]:
“American students at the Lenin University, I welcome your attendance at these classes on Psychopolitics.
Psychopolitics is an important if less known division of Geo-politics. It is less known because it must necessarily deal with highly educated personnel, the very top strata of ‘mental healing.’
By psychopolitics our chief goals are effectively carried forward. To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. At least a weary populace can seek peace only in our offered Communist State, at last only Communism can resolve the problems of the masses.
A psychopolitician must work hard to produce the maximum chaos in the fields of ‘mental healing.’ He must recruit and use all the agencies and facilities of ‘mental healing.’ He must labor to increase the personnel and facilities of ‘mental healing’ until at last the entire field of mental science is entirely dominated by Communist principles and desires.
To achieve these goals the psychopolitician must crush every ‘home-grown’ variety of mental healing in America. Actual teachings of James, Eddy and Pentecostal Bible faith healers amongst your mis-guided people must be swept aside. They must be discredited, defamed, arrested, stamped upon even by their own government until there is no credit in them and only Communist-oriented ‘healing’ remains. You must work until every teacher of psychology unknowingly or knowingly teaches only Communist doctrine under the guise of ‘psychology.’ You must labor until every doctor and psychiatrist is either a psycho-politician or an unwitting assistant to our aims.
You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation. You must achieve such disrepute for the state of insanity and such authority over its pronouncement that not one statement so labeled could again be given credence by his people. You must work until suicide arising from mental imbalance is common and calls forth no general investigation or remark.
With the institutions for the insane you have in your country prisons which can hold a million persons and can hold them without civil rights or any hope of freedom. And upon these people can be practiced shock and surgery so that never again will they draw a sane breath. You must make these treatments common and accepted. And you must sweep aside any treatment or any group of persons seeking to treat by effective means.
You must dominate as respected men the fields of psychiatry and psychology. You must dominate the hospitals and universities.You must carry forward the myth that only a European doctor is competent in the field of insanity and thus excuse amongst you the high incidence of foreign birth and training. If and when we seize Vienna, you shall have then a common ground of meeting and can come and take your instructions as worshippers of Freud along with other psychiatrists.
Psychopolitics is a solemn charge. With it you can erase our enemies as insects. You can cripple the efficiency of leaders by striking insanity into their families through the use of drugs. You can wipe them away with testimony as to their insanity. By our technologies, you can even bring about insanity itself when they seem to resistive.
You can change their loyalties by psychopolitics. Given a short time with a psychopolitician you can alter forever their loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.
However, you labor under certain dangers. It may happen that remedies for our ‘treatments’ may be discovered. It may occur that a public hue and cry may arise against ‘mental healing.’ It may thus occur that all mental healing might be placed in the hands of ministers and taken out of the hands of our psychologists and psychiatrists. But the Capitalistic thirst for control, Capitalistic in-humanity and general public terror of insanity can be brought to guard against these things. But should they occur, should independent researchers actually discover means to undo psychopolitical procedures, you must not rest, you must not eat or sleep, you must not stint one tiniest bit of available money to campaign against it, dis-credit it, strike it down and render it void.For by an effective means all our actions and researches could be undone.
In a Capitalistic state you are aided on all sides by the corruption of the philosophy of man and the times. You will discover that everything will aid you in your campaign to seize, control and use all ‘mental healing’ to spread our doctrine and rid us of our enemies within their own borders.
Use the courts, use the judges, use the Constitution of the country, use its medical societies and its laws to further our ends. Do not stint in your labor in this direction. And when you have succeeded you will discover that you can now effect your own legislation at will and you can, by careful organization of healing societies, by constant campaign about the terrors of society, by pretense as to your effectiveness make you Capitalist himself, by his own appropriations, finance a large portion of the quiet Communist conquest of the nation.
By psychopolitics create chaos. Leave a nation leaderless. Kill our enemies. And bring to Earth, through Communism, the greatest peace [absence of opposition] Man has ever known.
Thank You.”

Lavrentiy Beria (1899-1953) First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet UnionWhere does all of the present-day ultra-diplomatic and politically correct thinking come from? It comes from our universities. It comes from psychiatrists and psychologists. It comes from the erroneous belief that there is one sane state and one sane personality, and all others are deviations or psychoses; and are in fact unacceptable.

And so we are all being indoctrinated by increment. The buzz words abound on the television, throughout the controlled establishment press and in the mouths of our politicians and government bureaucrats. Anyone who disagrees with the accepted establishment idea and point-of-view of what an American citizen is supposed to be, is called by the puppet psychopoliticians a kook, a conspiracy theorist, anextremist, a fundamentalist, a religious cult, a white supremacist, a racist or an anti-Semite.

You see, because if you are labeled any of those things, then you are therefore insane. You are not to be listened to. You are not to be given any credit or credibility or a voice. Your ideas and philosophies and principles are to be discarded out of hand and eventually criminalized.

For instance, on April 7, 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis issued the document, Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment. It was labeled “for official use only,” and warned federal and local officials to expect “terrorism” by gun owners, fundamentalist Christians, Libertarians, Constitutionalists and returning veterans in response to planned firearms restrictions, job losses, home foreclosures, a collapsing economy, and protests to illegal immigration, abortion and other reasons. This DHS document was designed primarily to radicalize local law enforcement and convince individual police officers that citizens opposed to violations of the Second Amendment, draconian gun legislation and illegal immigration are “terrorists” capable of committing acts of violence against them.

The DHS’ Rightwing Extremism report came under scrutiny and critical observation in the wake of a strategic state police report distributed by the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC), entitled The Modern Militia Movement, dated February 20, 2009, instructing the Missouri police to be on the lookout for militia-influenced “terrorists.”

Also, the 2009 Terrorism Threat Assessment, a 215-page “law enforcement sensitive” report by the Virginia Fusion Center and the Virginia State Police, intended for distribution to law enforcement, intelligence and military organizations, which listed “anti-government” militia extremists, constitutionalists and sovereign citizens in the same list as members of Al-Qa’ida, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, in a perceived threat matrix of groups of “home-grown terrorism” which are supposedly expected to be actively recruiting on U.S. soil.

Whereas, the government of the United States of America IS the Constitution for the United States of America, and the pre-existing body which is lawfully charged with supporting and defending the government IS the unorganized militias of the several states ― not the federal military forces or National Guard, but the whole of the People.

The legal precedent and criterion for the unorganized militias of the several states is clearly defined in the law and beyond misinterpretation:
And this just barely scratches the surface of the well-established lawful supremacy of the constitutional militias in this country to “execute the laws of the states and the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions.” But it just goes to show that the Supreme Law of the Land of the United States is not in effect, and is being subjugated at the highest levels. It also shows that any American citizen who holds to the law and supports and defends it is being criminalized by the very institutions tasked with guarding it against insurgency.

Likewise, in a hit list dated April 2010, entitled Meet The Patriots, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) profiled 36 individuals at the heart of the resurgent [patriot] movement. The SPLC, founded by pedophile Morris Dees, has strong ties to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Khazarian brotherhood of B’nai B’rith, which were both founded by communists and New York crime families, including Meyer Lansky and the mob’s factor bank, Sterling National [1][2].

In every single domestic conflict this nation has ever had, by an overwhelming majority it was primarily the citizens’ militias who won the battles and wars, not the federal military and naval forces.

This plot to subjugate our lawful system of justice was exposed by KGB defector, Major Anatoliy Golitsyn, when he warned the CIA in the early 1960’s what would be carried out by the global Communist Party to bring America to its knees. In Golitsyn’s 1998 book, The Perestroika Deception, he detailed the long-term top secret plan engineered by the Communist Party to morally, financially, and militarily weaken the United States of America in order to bring the nation into a global communist New World Order. No, George H.W. Bush was certainly not the first person to utter that famous phrase. He just brought it back into the light.

Also, former GRU spy, Colonel Stanislav Lunev, the highest-ranking Soviet military officer to defect from Russia to the United States, published a memoir, Through the Eyes of the Enemy, which describes his work as a Soviet spy to sabotage the United States of America from within. Lunev remains in the FBI’s Witness Protection Program.

There was also ex-KGB officer and Soviet defector, Yuri Bezmenov, who decided to openly reveal the KGB’s psychological war of deception and subversion against western society as a whole. In a history-making 1984 interview conducted by author and researcher G. Edward Griffin, Bezmenov explained how Marxist cultural ideology was employed to destabilize the economy and purposefully push the United States into numerous crises so that a “Big Brother” style tyranny could be put into place in Washington. Needless to say, the plan was successful. Bezmenov also explained how the majority of Americans don’t even yet realize that they are under attack, and that the normal “parliamentary procedures” in America will not alter the federal government’s direction to merge with the Soviet Union.

H. Rowan Gaither, President of the Ford Foundation, which is one of the tax-free foundations that sent the erudite future mental health professionals to Moscow, said in 1953:
“We at the executive level here were active in either the OSS [Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA], the State Department, or the European Economic Administration. During those times, and without exception, we operated under directions issued by the White House. We are continuing to be guided by just such directives [National Security Decision Directives], the substance of which were to the effect that we should make every effort to alter a life in the United States as to make possible a comfortable merger with the Soviet Union.”
Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev’s November 1987 book, Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World, unwittingly exposed the massive communist deception. The word “Perestroika” means “restructuring,” and outlined the renovation of the Soviet body politic and the reformation of the Communist Party, not its downfall. The perceived fall of the Soviet Union was a psychopolitical deception inflicted upon the West in the name of peace and Glasnost (openness). And now, old Gorbie resides at the Presidio in California, where he runs his international socio-political foundation, Green Cross International, precipitating a massive import of International Socialism into the U.S. government.

If it wasn’t for Golitsyn, Lunev, Bezmenov, and thankfully even the expository words of socialists Gaither and Gorbachev, we may never even have known about the plan to destroy us from within. Then again, who could forget Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev prophesying that the communists would bury America without firing a shot?

Additionally, according to Ezra Taft Benson, the Secretary of Agriculture during the Eisenhower Administration, Nikita Khrushchev said:
“You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you, we will so weaken your economy until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.”
Christian Identity Reverend Kenneth Goff, according to his biographical material, infiltrated the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) from May 2, 1936, to October 9, 1939. He then testified before the House Un-American Activities Dies Special Investigation Committee regarding his findings. Rev. Goff claimed that while in the CPUSA he infiltrated youth organizations under the alias “John Keats,” he worked for Communist front organizations, maintaining links with Communist leaders both in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., whose agenda was to lay the groundwork for Communist revolution within the United States.

Here is a transcript of Kenneth Goff’s analysis, as recorded in the Congressional Record, of the treatise on communist brainwashing, which has been published and republished since the 1930’s. This textbook on Russian psychopolitics, entitled Brain-Washing: A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics, was used as a primer here in America to teach communist agents how to brainwash people, and, in fact, how to subvert entire populations. Sometimes the textbook was referred to as The Communist Manual of Psycho-Political Warfare or the Communist Manual of Instructions of Psychopolitical Warfare. Thankfully, it was published by the Church of Scientology in 1955, and the secret “science” henceforth entered into public scrutiny.

Lavrentiy Beria said in a June 1937 speech during the communist purges of the politically turbulent Transcaucasian Republic, “Let our enemies know that anyone who attempts to raise a hand against the will of our people, against the will of the party of Lenin and Stalin, will be mercilessly crushed and destroyed.”

And anyone in the United States today who raises a hand against the party; who engages their Constitutionally-guaranteed freedom to think, speak and act to oppose corruption and evil; who goes against the status quo; who speaks out against the socialistic direction of nihilism this nation is headed ― the way of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) party ― is labeled a domestic threat to the agenda and therefore an enemy in the way of “progress.”

And now you see exactly how it works. And it does work, I assure you.

It works so well, in fact, that most Americans are totally under the control of the psychopoliticial system, and they don’t even know it. Most are being manipulated by lies and deceptions on a daily basis, and they aren’t even aware of it. Adolph Hitler exposed the psychopolitical technique in his autobiographical manifesto, Mein Kampf, when he wrote, “…thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie.”

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was mystified by the American people’s willingness to be deceived in the face of the big lie. The Elks Magazine quoted Hoover in its August 1956 issue as saying, The menace of communism in this country will remain a menace until the American people make themselves aware of the techniques of communism. No one who truly understands what it really is can be taken in by it. Yet the individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst.”

Why does the psychopolitical big lie work so well on us? An example: “Anchoring” is a Pavlovian technique of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) that enables one to make available mind states; stimuli that can call-forth states of mind, thoughts or emotions. “Programming” in NLP is behavioral patterns learned through experience which can be altered to serve an agenda. You didn’t think that your favorite mainstream news personality is called a news “anchor” for nothing, did you? And it is definitely not called television “programming” for nothing.

A program is defined as a plan of action to accomplish a specified end; a plan or schedule of activities, procedures, etc., to be followed; or a planned, coordinated group of activities, procedures, etc., often for a specific purpose. One does not need to be a rocket scientist to acknowledge the glaring fact that the controlled establishment media serves the mouthpiece of the communist psychopolitical agenda. Ted “Turncoat” Turner’s CNN didn’t earn the monicker “Communist News Network” for engaging in honest and unbiased journalism.

The next time you watch your favorite news anchor, a speech by the president or other politician, or a commentary by a famous television personality or talk show host, ask yourself if you see all the earmarks of a psychopolitician. That is why nearly all established American news anchors ― despite political affiliations ― are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, which was founded by international bankers and predecessors of the secretive Rhodes Trust, the elite round table group which runs the United States on behalf of Britain’s communist Royal Institute for International Affairs.

So, again, how did it all happen? It happened because so-called Americans allowed it to happen. Whereas real Americans who love freedom for all people; who support and defend the Constitution for the United States of America against all enemies both foreign and domestic; who cling tirelessly to the principles and ideals that made this great nation a refuge for the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, have since abdicated responsibility and submitted to the god of mammon. America, as a majority, no longer considers the moral foundation of this country worth fighting and dying for. And after all, as I recently enunciated, any principle or ideal or moral foundation not worth fighting and dying for is no principle or ideal at all, and is of no use or consequence whatsoever.

Puppets on a string, one and all. And when the puppet master pulls the string and plays the tune, the puppet will dance. Because that’s what puppets do.

Time to grow up, America. Even Pinoccio became a real boy.
“I believe the day has come when we can combine sensory deprivation with drug hypnosis and astute manipulation of reward and punishment to gain almost absolute control over an individual’s behavior. It should then be possible to achieve a very rapid and highly effective type of positive brainwashing that would allow us to make dramatic changes in a person’s behavior and personality.” — James V. McConnell, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, quoted from his article entitled Criminals Can Be BrainwashedNow, in the April 1970 issue of Psychology Today.
“The way we’re going to win over the long term is not just militarily; we’ve got to win over hearts and minds. What that means is that we’ve got to invest in countries that have no educational infrastructure and have no means for young people to get ahead. We’ve got to give them a stake in creating the kind of world order that all of us would like to see.” — Barack Hussein Obama, in an appearance on the David Letterman Show on CBS on September 10, 2008 [1][2][3][4].
“Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system. If the elite is ruthless they may simply decide to exterminate the mass of humanity. If they are humane they may use propaganda or other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite. — Theodore Kaczynski, the “Unabomber”, from his 35,000-word manifesto as submitted to The Washington Post and the New York Times in June of 1995.
“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state.”James Jesus Angleton, Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Counterintelligence Staff from 1954-1975.
“…when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people . . . will hate the new world order . . . and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so, of malcontents . . . many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.” — H.G. Wells, in his book, The New World Order, January, 1940.
http://americathebattlefield.blogspot.com/2014/12/psychopolitical-warfare-soviet-brainwashing-of-united-states.html

Monday, December 29, 2014

Now is the time to squirrel away as much powder as possible.

By Mike Vanderboegh:

Unum Necessarium. "Now was the time to squirrel away as much powder as possible." Ghostly echoes of history from 1774-1775 to 2014-2015, Part One.

"A rebellion must have arms." -- Jeffery Record, Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win.
Fort William and Mary in 1705.
On the 19th of October, in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Four, George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith (and so forth and so on) issued a confidential Order in Council forbidding the export of arms and powder to America. Like most royal secrets at the time, this one quickly leaked to operatives of Sam Adams and the Boston Sons of Liberty. (Funny how tyrants always think in similar terms and use identical actions. Indeed, it is their actions that make them as tyrants -- then and now. As I have written before, history rarely exactly repeats itself but it often echoes.)
The King was reacting to his understandable fright caused by the Powder Alarm, when in the immediate aftermath of the 1 September seizure by General Gage of the gunpowder at Charlestown, thousands of Massachusetts militiamen had marched on Boston and Cambridge, and mob action forced Loyalists and some government officials to flee to the protection of the British Army. The run-up to the Powder Alarm is described by Robert P. Richmond in his book Powder Alarm, 1774:
As the colonists' defiance grew, it became evident that it would be only a matter of time before the British Government prohibited the exportation of gunpowder and military stores to America. Now was the time to squirrel away as much powder as possible. The colonists were within their legal rights in withdrawing, town by town, the powder that had been allotted to each town according to population. The system of storing powder necessary for local self-defense in centrally located powderhouses throughout the province had been a safeguard against the French and Indians. Now, however, Gage realized that this powder intended for defense would quite likely be used against his troops. . .
For their part, the colonists knew that there was virtually no indigenous powder production, and the lack of gunpowder could cripple their resistance if the issue came to shots, as it did the following year at Lexington and Concord. The colonists turned to smuggling, of course, but their powder purchases in Europe and elsewhere could not make up the difference, especially in the short run. Indeed, when Washington arrived to take control of the militia army in front of Boston and learned how little powder was actually on hand, he was quite speechless for a considerable period of time.
What was terrifying (in 1775) was the picture of an America fighting with no weapons . . . the country was as naked and defenseless as a shucked oyster. The colonies were in the nightmare situation of trying to fight the strongest nation in Europe almost barehanded. . . The crying need was for gunpowder. There had been a few powder mills in the country, but they were long out of use. -- Helen Augur, The Secret War for Independence, 1955.
I am currently reading Kevin Phillips' book, 1775: A Good Year for Revolution. In his chapter on "The Global Munitions Struggle, 1774-1776," he writes:
Although both sides made many mistakes during 1774 and 1775, neither underestimated the central role of ammunition. Adapting a term from Christian theology, Samuel Adams candidly proclaimed gunpowder as the "unum necessarium" -- the one thing needful.
If powder importation was to be prohibited, then, the powder existing in the magazines of the two sides became the critical item of contention in the run-up to war. When the Boston Sons of Liberty learned of the Order in Council, they feared that the Regulars would make another attempt to seize colonial stores. Wikipedia reports:
Patriots in Rhode Island moved munitions from the fort at Newport inland for safe keeping without incident. In Massachusetts, rumors flew that troops from Boston were headed to reinforce Fort William and Mary and seize its powder and arms. On December 13, 1774, four months before his more famous ride in Massachusetts, Paul Revere rode to Portsmouth to sound the alarm.
So, 240 years ago this month, the colonists in New Hampshire seized the powder at Fort William and Mary.
On the morning of December 14, Patriots from the town of New Castle unsuccessfully attempted to take the gunpowder at Fort William and Mary by trickery. Meanwhile, John Langdon made his way through Portsmouth with a drummer, collecting a crowd to descend on the fort. Several hundred men responded to his call, setting out for the Castle by way of the Piscataqua River. Only one provincial officer, Captain John Cochran, and five provincial soldiers were stationed at Fort William and Mary. Despite the odds against them, they refused to capitulate to Patriot demands. When Langdon's men rushed the fort, the defenders opened fire with three cannon and a volley of musket shot. Patriots stormed the walls and Cochran's men engaged in hand-to-hand fighting before being subdued by an overwhelming number of raiders. Langdon's volunteers not only broke open the powder house and absconded with about 100 barrels of gunpowder but, to three cheers, hauled down the fort's huge British flag. Several injuries but no deaths occurred in the engagement, and Cochran and his men were released after about an hour and a half of confinement.
The next day, additional rebel forces arrived in Portsmouth from across the colony, as well as from Maine. Led by John Sullivan, the rebels returned to the fort late on the night of December 15, overran the post without gunfire and removed muskets, military supplies and 16 cannon marked as the property of the King. British authorities declared the raids - for which Sullivan later received a stipend from the Continental Congress - high treason.
Unfortunately, the colonists didn't have the foresight, or the means, to remove all the heavy artillery and military stores at the fort, and these were later recovered by the British navy. Too bad, they would have come in handy at the siege of Boston. Grandpa Vanderboegh's Rule No. 32 applies here: "If God gives you a cake, take the whole damn thing. You might get hungry later."
Note that this took place a full FOUR MONTHS before the General Gage's ill-considered gun raid of 19 April 1775. This was not merely armed civil disobedience, but high treason -- theft of Royal property and an attack on the King's lackeys. This is in part what I meant during my speech on the steps of Connecticut state capitol in April of last year when I said that the Founding Fathers "did what was required."
But this post started out with the promise in the header to find parallels between 1774-1775 and 2014-2015. Why, you might ask, do I begin with the one certain contradiction to what the Founders faced and the situation as we find it today? For it is an absolute given that we, today, live in the most highly armed society in history -- ever. We have no lack of arms, no lack of powder and shot, no lack of ammunition, nor do we have at the moment any impediment to obtaining more. (Although we should always remember Kipling's dictum that you can NEVER have TOO MUCH ammunition.)
I begin with the one major difference between then and now because I apparently need to remind those of us who are timid and fearful, those of us who exaggerate the power of the federal government and minimize our own innate power, those of us who immediately crouch in the submissive position of compromise, THAT WE HAVE THIS ONE HUGE ADVANTAGE OVER THE FOUNDERS. All other comparisons between the two periods must take this fact into account up front. Whatever the other parallels that I will discuss in further installments of this series, remember that THIS is our reality, not the poverty of means faced by the Founding generation. How, then, can we do less than they? Only by means of failures of our own will, failures of our own imagination, failures of our own courage. We have the means to secure our own liberty and property and lives. We have but to recognize it.
I also begin this series with the indisputable fact of the greatest armed society in history as a warning to the analysts of the federal three-letter paramilitary police organizations and to the so-called "fusion centers" and their state-paid but federal-directed lickspittles -- in the hope that they communicate it to the various tyrant-wannabes that they serve. Clausewitz, I would remind them them, offered this truth among many: "In military affairs, quantity has a quality all its own." Try to keep that in mind, you insignificant tax-fed carbuncles. Try not to piss off the largest, most heavily armed and accoutered, armed citizenry in the history of the planet. Take my advice in the loving admonition with which it is offered. You'll live longer.
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Prepare first your heart for repentance and determine to obey all of God's law as His mercy is all that will save you.  Our country has been taken over by our enemies to be turned over completely to them, but this is the judgement of a Righteous God on a sinful people. 

This first prep is the most important, the unum necessarium - repent.  Any failure here will result in all your other preps being turned over to your enemy, making your enemy rich with your goods and lives.  You will be storing up goods that another will take and you will be defeated.  You will hand over your wives and daughters to save your life.  You will run at the sound of a leaf falling.  The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.

Read Deuteronomy 28:15-68.  Unless we repent now, these are the things we can expect to befall us.

The international kabuki theater now being played out is just to give our enemies the proper cover and provocation to execute their plans against us - with the full cooperation of those in our government, in both parties.  But do not be deceived, no such plan of treachery and treason could be successful against a righteous people under the protection of a righteous God.  This country has rejected the Law of God, and His protection, bringing only His wrath upon us.

Before you squirrel away powder, before you store up food and water for your enemy, before you make any plans, REPENT.  And beg God for mercy; perhaps He will relent for the sake of His great mercy and look at our return to His law before He destroys us completely.

Humble yourselves before Him, NOW.


When in Mumbai

By David Codrea @ JPFO:


“When in Rome, do as the Romans do,” is a quote attributed to St. Ambrose, a Fourth Century bishop of Milan, derived from a Latin quote translated “If you should be in Rome, live in the Roman manner; if you should be elsewhere, live as they do there.”

The admonishment to not offend the customs of a country in which you find yourself has been expressed in a manner critical of U.S. citizens’ behavior abroad with the term “The Ugly American,” derived from a 1958 novel (and later movie) condemning “loud and ostentatious” behavior of government employees assigned to a foreign land, and generally understood to refer to arrogant ethnocentric behavior viewed by the host country as rude.

It makes sense, if you think about it, to not offend people in their own home, and to be sensitive to customs and mores that may be unfamiliar or alien to us but are natural and simply good manners to the culture in which we place ourselves. If we find we cannot abide by such customs, unless part of a compelled government presence, in which case prudence should preside, no one is forcing us to go there.

One does not even need to travel abroad to realize a “progressive” anti-gun urbanite referring to gun rights advocates as “rednecks” or worse in internet comments would do well not to wear such an attitude on his sleeve when traveling though the rural south. If for no other reason, note if his car breaks down to whom he must turn, as chances are such matters are beyond the ken of lofty “intellectuals.”

As is often the case, that street can run one way. Plenty of foreigners raised in cultures that do not recognize a right to keep and bear arms have taken up residence here, and many have made a point of broadcasting their hostility to the Second Amendment, and their advocacy of edicts to eviscerate it, demanding that U.S. gun laws conform to those of their native country. 

Rejina Sincic would be your Lord and Master



That appears to be the case with one Rejina Sincic, “an Indian film director and screenwriter based in San Francisco,” who released one of the more ridiculous anti-gun PSAs yet produced, titled “Stop Gun Violence.” Her scenario, of course, does not include any violent criminals who perpetuate violence using guns, but rather, attacks what appears to be a typical suburban household that includes a mother and a teenage boy.


Long story short, a hoplophobe kid steals his mother’s gun and turns it in to his teacher, possibly adding to her laundry load in the process. There’s no need to provide a blow-by-blow script synopsis here, as the video is embedded in this column and you can watch it for yourself, but here are some of the points that stuck out for me, as I related on my The War on Guns blog: All kinds of gun handling rules are ignored and laws are being broken in the fictional scenario, revealing Sincic is either incompetent at or uninterested in recognizing true “common sense gun safety,” opting instead to go for the goal of all gun-grabbers, that of no citizen having a gun. It would be interesting to determine if all actual laws were observed in the physical production of her misnamed “PSA” (because the dangerous and illegal practices she demonstrates are hardly a service to any but those who would disarm the public, making it yet another “progressive” Opposite Day example), as the end credits say the video was shot at North Oakland Community Charter School.


Sanjay Sanghoee, another Indian would be.



The thing is, Sincic is hardly alone among high-profile Indians with access to U.S. media who advocate citizen disarmament. One whom I’ve commented about before on my blog, but who was perhaps best skewered by colleague and fellow JPFO contributing writer Kurt Hofmann, is author Sanjay Sanghoee, who chastises U.S. gun owners for “blind adherence to a hopelessly outdated Constitutional Amendment.” Another is “journalist” Rekha Basu, “[b]orn in India to United Nations parents,” who ... well, pick a place to start and see for yourself.

With Rekha and Sanjay and Sincic, and recently-confirmed Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and untold prominent voices in the Indian-American community stumping for Indian-style “gun control” here, it might be instructive to look at “gun control” there, and especially at its results.

GunPolicy.org, a project of the Sydney School of Public Health, which, while decidedly anti-gun, nonetheless provides instructive and useful compilations of gun laws from around the globe, documents “The regulation of guns in India is categorized as restrictive.” Despite registration and licensing and a host of regulations, homicides in India are still numbered in the tens of thousands, and importantly, only around 6,3 million guns are registered, with an estimated 33.7 million held “illegally.”

Of the guns that are owned legally, a caste system of sorts appears to be remaining in place with politicians and their cronies well-armed, including female ministers. The less-well connected women, if they can afford it, can resort to absurdities like electric shock underwear to deal with the rape crisis there, and to highlight an observation by Abhijeet Singh, author of “Gun Ownership in India.”

(And, of course, it’s more than rape. “Delhi lives in terror as gun crimes rise,” a 2008 report in The National observed. It was still “on the rise” in 2013, per Daily Mail India.)

“[L]egislation was...formulated based on the Indian Government's innate distrust its own citizens [and] gave vast arbitrary powers to the ‘Licensing Authorities,’ in effect ensuring that it is often difficult and sometimes impossible for an ordinary law-abiding Indian citizen to procure an arms license,” Singh noted.

Talk about disdain for true egalitarian power-sharing. Why that sounds as primitive, colonial and unjust as, say, the concealed carry permitting system in Los Angeles, or New York City. And it helps explain why, just as domestic mass killers can rely on so-called “gun-free zones” to guarantee no shortage of unarmed targets of opportunity, a massacre in Mumbai was so “successful” (by the criteria of the attackers).

“[P]erhaps the most troubling question to emerge for the Indian authorities was how … just 10 gunmen could have caused so much carnage and repelled Indian security forces for more than three days in three different buildings,” The International Herald Tribune concluded.

“How indeed,” I observed in my June, 2009 GUNS Magazine “Rights Watch” column. “Per another Tribune report, ‘The Oberoi Group employs many plainclothes security officers in its hotels, but these are unarmed … Obtaining a license for even a single officer to carry a gun is extremely difficult in India, which has tight gun control laws.’”

That’s not to say there isn’t hope.

“Everyone’s life is precious. And everyone has the right to defend their life and liberty,” National Association for Gun Rights in India founder and previously-mentioned author Singh insists. His group is “fighting to make sure one day every Indian gets the right to bear arms –American style.”

And there’s further progress, with the development of the “Nirbheek, a .32 bore light weight revolver, India's first firearm designed for women.” Give good people choices, and they’re capable of making them.

Perhaps one day, applying St. Ambrose’s admonishment to Mumbai will mean JPFO members will feel right at home with a “gun culture” that supports the dignity of all peaceable human beings by not infringing on their choices. That’s the beauty of freedom, and something “Ugly Indians” seem incapable of grasping, as they use their media megaphones to demand colonial mindset defenselessness be imposed on the country that welcomed them in.

No one is forcing them to own guns. If they feel safer in that ridiculous anti-rape underwear mentioned above, they should go for it, as long as they stop trying to force that absurd and degrading admission of helplessness as the only choice the rest of us should have. Heck, maybe Sincic could even promote that alternative defense strategy, with Sanjay and Rekha modeling available styles in another of “PSA”...

Note: Since writing this piece the day before Christmas, Sincic, in true “progressive‘ fashion, took her video down from You Tube and re-posted it with comments disabled, so people couldn't tell her how profoundly stupid they thought her little production was. So much for Opposite Day “progressives‘ wanting us to have a “national conversation on guns.‘ Ladd Everitt, of the usefully kooky Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, even said he "smelled a rat" and insinuated she is a "plant" – as if the anti-gun movement could have any more of an embarrassing, loon-attracting distraction than CSGV for diverting funds, resources and energies from actual effective tactics.

David Codrea is a field editor at GUNS Magazine, penning their monthly "Rights Watch" column. He provides regular reporting and commentary at Gun Rights Examiner and blogs at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. David Codrea's Archive page.


India's view of future America - Calcutta

Spirit Tap – How the Manipulators Steal Your Fight


Zen Gardner

Ever wonder about all these rousing freedom fighting movies and “outnumbered little guy gets back” scenarios? Don’t they seem counter-productive to the cause of the contained control world we’re being shoe-horned into by the hour?

In a world of manipulation and social engineering, why would so many heavily promoted dramas regarding rebellion against totalitarian control, and even specifically against a mechanistic, fascist future, be so prevalent?

Think about how you feel after one such moving media event. Spent. You might identify with Braveheart or Leonidas and the 300 and every sinew in your body is pulsing with getting back at the Man. You feel vindicated in your convictions. “Yes, it’s always been this way and we too shall stand and fight to the finish!”..yada yada.

Do you see that happening? Why do you think the droids of Orwell’s 1984 were not just allowed but encouraged to participate in the “2 minutes of hate” against the staged enemy of the day?

Think maybe they knew this innate craving to rebel had to be vented? Sure don’t want it directed at the Elite PTBs now, do we?

 
Siphoning the Spirit

This is how religion works, or erudite phony intellectualism and the like for that matter. Seeming self expression and empowerment nicely encapsulated in an innocuous little bundle of self-absorbtion. Won’t hurt anybody, too much self loathing and original sin think going on. “I’m innately bad, carnal and easily misled. I’m wrong by default. But oh how I love living vicariously through the machinations of others!”

Brilliant, no? The theatre of the mind, easily reinforced by literal cinemas and scripts thrown about in revisionist history, the nightly news and the readily manipulated false reality shoved in front of our faces via mass media spectacles.

Hell, I’m Spartacus too. Who isn’t?

These fuckers really know how to wrap humanity up in itself, using its innate intuition and conflicted, compromised issues in dastardly ways.


Channeled hate toward an external threat
 
Glorified, But at Arm’s Length

And how do you work this innate rebellion against tyranny born in the hearts of any normal human? You deftly set it aside. It’s either classified as historical information for a day gone by, or would-be-nice romanticism that’s really not for the real world. In effect, it’s being mocked as futile, but most would never recognize that. Or it’s directed at a pre-designed enemy that works for the PTB’s favor.

Again, clever clods.

Don’t you find it ironic that so much of this type of expression to fight for personal freedom is set in either bygone days, or a futuristic, off-the-charts surreal setting?

Point is, it’s not now! Now is eviscerating any attention or even memory of the recent Occupy movement. “Now” is government’s suppressing dissent in ways not seen in so-called developed countries ever before. “Now” is drones, surveillance, check-points, tracking and invasive monitoring such as the world has never experienced.

Reality check, please. (But you won’t get it from “them”. They don’t like to make the connection.)

 
So Why the Heroic Rebellion Movies? Emotional and Spiritual Exhaustion.

I can tell you’re starting to catch on.

We’re wonderfully, marvelously human. We have hearts, we have empathy, we have love, we have consciousness. That they could be this cold, evil and manipulating is something we’re catching on to at an exponentially accelerating rate, but we’re getting it. It’s not in our nature to behave in such dark ways, but they’re forcing us to face their ugly temporal reality for the sake of survival.

That’s good and part of our communal spiritual evolution.

This is yet another wake up for those ready for it. They’re tapping humanity’s innate craving for freedom and love, allowing us our emotional outpouring, but in controlled conditions. That’s what it amounts to. It doesn’t propel people to want to rebel and stand up for a cause. It thwarts it.

Instead, it emotionally and spiritually spends them and effectively exhausts them. Sad but true.

Cinemas and TVs are spiritual sucking stations. As you suspected, toxic and to be avoided in almost every case.

But don’t despair. The Truth is there. The real channeling of information and empowerment is amongst the alternative research community. Granted it too is compromised somewhat but that can be expected. Don’t be naive. And certainly not so much you won’t find the Truth you need to spur your soul.

 
Conclusion

I want to encourage you to keep heart, keep hope and keep your eyes wide open. Not necessarily in a paranoid or wary state, although that should be a hefty part of looking at today’s world.

But know we’re what they fear the most. We are their enemy. An awake and aware populace is their living nightmare, hence all the drugs and deliberate pollution of everything, from our air, water and food to the electromagnetic vibrations surrounding us.

Don’t let them distract or disempower you emotionally, spiritually or otherwise.

Stay awake and aware and alive and conscious and in synch with the Universe and you WILL fulfill your purpose.

As will I.

Much love,

Zen

www.zengardner.com

Friday, December 26, 2014

2300 Days of Hell


 


The 70 Shabua of Daniel


 


Yahovah's Sabbaths: the Covenant, the Sign and the Test

A Sign of a Perpetual Covenant - Exodus 31:12-17

12 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 13 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that you keep my sabbath; because it is a sign between me and you in your generations that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you. 14 keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall profane it, shall be put to death: he that shall do any work in it, his soul shall perish out of the midst of his people. 15 Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day [Saturday] is the sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this day, shall die. 16 Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant 17 Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.

"Rest" in the Scriptures is always connected to Yahovah, and we see the phrase "rest in the Lord" many times in them.  "Rest" therefore means more than just to cease working; it means to stop what you are doing and seek communion with God.  Also, the word "holy" means separated from what is common.  To keep the Sabbath holy, is to keep it from what is common, and to "sanctify" means to keep it to Yahovah.
And a Test - Exodus 16:4

4 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you; let the people go forth, and gather what is sufficient for every day: that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law, or not.

This Sabbath Covenant was given before the Covenant at Mount Sinai, which includes this covenant and explains all of the Lord's Sabbaths, the weekly, the Sabbath Feasts, the Sabbath years and the Jubilee.  All of these are the Lord's Sabbaths.  When we think of keeping His Sabbaths, we must think of all of these, not just the weekly Sabbath.  Keeping these in mind will guild our work and play habits, and is the reality of keeping His Law "as frontlets between your eyes," and our obedience in working this out in our daily lives is the reality of "a sign upon your hand."

Deuteronomy 11:18 -
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

We know from Scripture that both God and the enemy place their marks on a person on their forehead or on their hand.  That is how they think and how they live.  Our attention to Yahovah's Law and our obedience to it, is His mark on both our head ("between our eyes" - where our attention is focused) and our hand (what we do - our obedience to Him).

We have here both the Covenant, the Sign and the Test.  If we obey, we have the Covenant, the Sign and the blessings.  If we disobey, we've broken Covenant, lose the Sign for a different sign and the reap curses that follow.

Today we are cursed for breaking Covenant.

We must repent and obey, or death will follow.

WARNING!:
 
No amount of preps are going to save you from the judgement of an ANGRY GOD.  You cannot even imagine what is about to come upon the United States and the UK and her provinces; and even if you could, you could not prepare for it - it is total devistation and annihilation.  The last "blood moon" was also a harvest moon, as many have noted.  This indicates a judgement against our crops and food is coming next and food prices are going to sky-rocket out the reach of most people, mass starvation and cannibalism will follow, with pestilence. 

"And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee,..."  Deuteronomy 28:53

All that can be done now is true repentence, in TOTAL humility, confessing your sins, the sins of your fathers, the sins of your country, and begging for mercy from Yahovah.  And then following His Law in every detail, not just the so-called "moral laws" that you and your fathers have broken, but ALL of His Laws listed in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.  
 
Keep His Sabbaths - the weekly Sabbath, the Sabbath Feasts, the Shmita years and the Jubilee.  These are the key to your deliverance.  Understand these, their meaning and their prophecy by practising them, doing them and thinking about them.  Our time left is very short.  By 2020's end, seven very bad years from now, there will be no United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia or New Zealand, but before then these catastrophes will plague you, all those listed in Deuteronomy 28.  
 
Our only hope is in the mercy of Yeshua as these things come to pass.  Make your preps, but unless your heart is prepared first, all your preps will go to your enemies.