'Breathtaking': Corruption cost in EU equals its annual budget

North Korea calls Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe 'Asian Hitler'

Seoul (AFP) - North Korea on Tuesday denounced Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as an "Asian Hitler" intent on amassing military power under the guise of ensuring regional stability.

The attack in an editorial carried by the North's official KCNA news agency followed commentary by the ruling party's newspaper Rodong Sinmun last month that described Abe as a "militarist maniac" for trying to amend Tokyo's pacifist constitution.

Abe said last month that Japan's pacifist post-World War II constitution, which limits its military to self-defence, could be amended by 2020.

The KCNA editorial, entitled "Is this the emergence of an Asian Hitler?" said the Japanese premier was fuelling fears of North Korea's missile and nuclear threats in order to justify his country's military expansion.

"Ultra-rightwing groups led by Abe ... are trying to shift the focus of international criticisms from Japan to somewhere else," it added.

"There is no difference between the fascist maniac Hitler, who waged battle against communists to justify another war, and the reckless Abe who is using confrontation with North Korea to justify Japan's new militarist ambitions," it added.

North Korea repeatedly harangues Japan over its failure to atone for its 1910-45 occupation of the Korean peninsula and for its claims to Korean island territory.

It also took exception to Abe's December visit to the Yasukuni war shrine that honours Japan's war dead including several high-level officials executed for war crimes after World War II.

The visit was widely condemned by regional neighbours South Korea and China as a slap in the face of victims of Japan's wartime aggression.

"The latest reckless behaviour that has stirred the region is reminiscent of Hitler, who worked so hard to encourage war in post-World War I Germany," KCNA said, calling on Abe to "wake up" from his "militarist fever."

The North's nuclear and missile programmes are of long-standing security concern to Japan, which is a member of the stalled six-party talks on Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.

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Prepare for what?

By Douglas J. Hagmann

3 February 2014: The opening of the halftime show for last night’s Super Bowl featured a group of children holding hands while standing in front of a large digital display flashing various images, beginning with portions of the American flag. The children began singing the lyrics from the song “Billionaire.” Well, not quite the exact lyrics, as they are neither suitable for children nor the venue.

They began with the second set of lyrics, modified to the following:


Oh, every time I close my eyes

I see my name in shining lights

Yeah, a different city every night

Oh, I swear the world better prepare, prepare, prepare.

As they sang the word “prepare,” the digital backdrop image changed from the American flag to the word “prepare” in large red letters, as shown here:



I’m certain that to the average person of normal sensibilities, the opening minute during which this was performed seemed nothing more than a lead-in to the performance of Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Something that a person would not think twice about, and certainly something that a “normal person” would not chose to write about. Except for one thing…

Knowing that every word, every on-air utterance, every on-camera movement is choreographed and done with much thought and for a specific purpose, this one-minute performance that specifically served to open the halftime show seemed contextually out of place.

Under “normal” circumstances, I would regard any reference, including my own, to this golden moment of the most watched event in America as misplaced paranoia of someone who sees conspiracies behind every event. In fact, I almost disregarded it completely, except that I received several e-mails from people watching the Super Bowl asking, nearly in unison, “what was that all about? Prepare for what?” The e-mails I received caused me to take another look at that opening performance in the context of the entire halftime show. I must admit that I am hard pressed to understand how this opening segment, one that sets the tone for the halftime show, logically fits within any sensible realm.

Given the performances we’ve seen from previous Super Bowls, including but not limited to the symbolism that some ascribe to covert agendas, I’ll be the first to take the risk by stepping out into the mainstream up and ask the question… What was that all about?


Credit to Hagmann and Hagmann report

Elite Insider Predicted Massive Crash in 2012: “Very Large Probability… Around March 4, 2014″

We understand that Doomsday predictions are aplenty these days, but given what’s going on around the world right now it may be time to revisit the eerily prescient forecast of an elite insider.

Image: NYSE (Wikimedia Commons).

Grady Means is a former advisor to Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, a former economist at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and has managed multi-billion dollar firms over his career. Back in October of 2012 Means penned a commentary and analysis for the Washington Times in which he noted that “America’s fall will take global economies with it.”

But he didn’t stop there. Means gave us a target date.

There is a very large probability that the real end of the world will occur around March 4, 2014.

The doomsday clock will ring then because the U.S. economy may fully crash around that date, which will, in turn, bring down all world economies and all hope of any recovery for the foreseeable future — certainly over the course of most of our lifetimes. Interest rates will skyrocket, businesses will fail, unemployment will go to record levels, material and food shortages will be rampant, and there could be major social unrest.

Any wishful thinking that America is in a “recovery” and that “things are getting better” is an illusion.

The central issue is confidence in America, and the world is losing confidence quickly. At a certain point, soon, the United States will reach a level of deficit spending and debt at which the countries of the world will lose faith in America and begin to withdraw their investments. Many leading economists and bankers think another trillion dollars or so may do it. A run on the bank will start suddenly, build quickly and snowball.

At that point, we will need to finance our own deficit, and we will not be able to do so. We will raise bond rates to re-attract foreign investment, interest rates will go up, and businesses will fail. Unemployment will skyrocket.

The rest of the world will fully crash along with us.

There’s a sentiment among those on Main Street, and as of today on Wall Street, that there is a major disconnect between company stock valuations and economic activity in the real world.

Despite their best efforts to convince us that we’re in a recovery, the establishment is running into a problem… reality.

This morning we learned that the Institute for Supply Management monthly report went kaboom, showing a large contraction in new production, indicating that retailers are pulling back on stocking their shelves. Perhaps the ISM report has something to do with consumer sentiment, which according to today’s Gallup survey on consumer spending suggests consumers are cutting costs wherever possible.

But that’s not all. Even the largest retailer in the world is having problems and seeing negative growth. Walmart announced that last November’s cuts to food stamp recipients hurt their fourth quarter sales, adding further credence to the notion that without direct government bailouts the stability of America’s companies comes into question.

Need we even mention that over 100 million Americans are not in the labor force, or that five million people may lose their unemployment benefits by the end of this year?

And, of course, let’s not forget that we’ve created more debt as a nation in the last five years than in all of the years from our country’s founding through the year 2008 combined.

Those investing in financial markets have certainly taken note. On top of the 326 point decline in the Dow Jones today, the market is down a combined 1,000 points from its peak just a month ago. And, with three well known bankers committing suicide in the last week, people are starting to pay attention.

No one really knows exactly why the market is falling or what happens next, but if you’re going to consider any prediction on the future of the financial and economic sector, why not consider what the elite have to say about it?

If there is a major financial collapse in the works as we speak, then Grady Means’ prediction should scare the hell out of you. If he’s right, then this isn’t just going to be a market crash.

We could well be facing the beginnings of an all-out financial Armageddon that will make 2008 look like a brief warm up.

This collapse, as noted by the US Treasury Department and Grady Means, is going to have generational effects – a depressive economic environment for our entire lifetimes.

Preparing for such a scenario is not easy. One must take into consideration everything from emergency supply lists to deal with the instantaneous collapse of our monetary system and financial markets, while also considering long-term strategies that involve the development of barterable trade skills and relocating to land that has productive capacity so you can grow your own food.

We had a reader recently comment about the coming collapse. She warned that preparing for a weeks- or months-long emergency is insufficient. She suggested that perhaps we need to consider the worst case scenario: years of joblessness, destitution and depression.

It’s happened before and it was so bad that we still talk about the Great Depression to this day.

Who’s to say it can’t happen again?

Credit to Infowars

Abraham's Covenant and Conflict...Cauldron Part No 2

Today’s problems in the region we call the Holy Land cannot be ignored or put on the back burner. They are in-your-face, everyday news. Hundreds of reports coming from that area weekly could be used to make the point. Israel and its neighbors are rumbling toward war!

The following news excerpt vividly illustrates that fact. The report is from a former insider of the Iranian regime. Reza Kahlili was in the CIA directorate of operations working as a spy in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. As of this writing, he serves on the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, an advisory board to Congress, and on the advisory board of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (FDI).

Iranian scientists are working on nuclear warheads—and trying to perfect them—at an underground site unknown to the West, according to a high-ranking intelligence officer of the Islamic regime.…

The site, approximately 14 miles long and 7.5 miles wide, consists of two facilities built deep into a mountain along with a missile facility that is surrounded by barbed wire, 45 security towers and several security posts.

The new secret nuclear site, named Quds (Jerusalem), is almost 15 miles from another site, previously secret but exposed in 2009, the Fordow nuclear facility.…

Quds, built about 375 feet under the mountain and accessible by two large entrances reinforced with concrete, has 12 emergency exit tunnels and spreads around the mountain.

The site has a capacity of 8,000 centrifuges and currently has three operational chambers with 19 cascades of 170 to 174 centrifuges enriching uranium….

One chamber is specifically allocated to laser enrichment research and development, and Iranian scientists have seen great progress, the source said.…

Moreover, the source said, successfully making a neutron reflector indicates the final stages for a nuclear weapons design that would be a two-stage, more sophisticated and much more powerful nuclear bomb.

Regime scientists are also working on a plutonium bomb as a second path to becoming nuclear-armed, the source said, and they have at this site 24 kilograms of plutonium, which is sufficient for several atomic bombs.

The scientists are at the last stage of putting together a bomb warhead, he said, and the scientists in their design for a plutonium bomb are using polonium and beryllium, which would serve as the trigger for the bomb.

Iranian scientists, aided by North Koreans, are also working on new ways to have more miniaturized and more powerful atomic bombs, he said.…

The regime is working on 17 Shahab 3 missiles in preparation of arming them with nuclear warheads, the source said. The operational and technical aspect of the delivery system is 80 percent completed, he said.

The regime, aided by North Korea, is also working on neutron warheads that could be used as super EMP weapons for electromagnetic pulse attacks.[i]

Penalty for Premature Paternity

The prophetic issue of war and peace in the Middle East, as explained in the upcoming book Cauldron, began with the angelic rebellion in heaven. Sin then entered the human world at the Fall in the Garden of Eden. But the conflict really picked up steam when the great patriarch, Abraham, stepped onto the stage of human history.

God’s plan is always the right plan. His is always the perfect plan. That was true when He created the angelic hosts. It was true when He created the man and the woman in Eden. It was also true when He promised Abram that he would father a great family through his wife, Sarai.

Sin is terrible because it altered God’s perfection. The “lawlessness” we’ve been talking about has continued to interfere with God’s perfect plan down through history. After Lucifer determined to do things his way rather than God’s way and Adam disobeyed, choosing to do what he considered was best, the Bible record shows that mankind continued to grow worse and worse until the Lord had to destroy all but Noah and his family with the Great Flood. Abram and Sarai continued the long line of disobedient acts committed by fallen men and women. Rather than wait on God’s precise timing to do its work, they acted on their own. We are living with the consequences of their sin thousands of years later. In fact, notes Hal Lindsey, “the current crisis in the Middle East originated in a feud that began in the tents of Abraham—the father of both Ishmael and Isaac.”[ii]

High Price of Disobedience

Jesus once said that among men, no one was greater than John the Baptist. Abram, who would later be renamed Abraham, surely was in John’s class in God’s view, because He trusted him to father God’s chosen people, the children of Israel.

But even the greatest of men and women are fatally flawed because of their fallen nature. Such is the case of the great father of God’s chosen people. Despite his deep love for God, Abram jumped the gun in the matter of God’s plan for him and Sarai. The couple’s disobedience was so serious that fighting and struggles have plagued the world ever since.

Journey for Jehovah

“Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee” (Genesis 12:1). When God gave Abram these instructions, the seventy-five-year-old man faithfully did as he was told. He always obeyed his much-beloved God, who had never failed him. He, Sarai, his nephew, Lot, and their families packed up all they possessed and went into the land the Lord showed him: Canaan. The images of the Middle Eastern landscape we see daily in news coverage of the region make it easy to envision the scenario as the ancient troupe set off on their journey:

Shepherds looking north and east from what are now called the Golan Heights might have seen the first Hebrew scouts coming over a range of low hills. Herdsmen followed with sheep and goats, then came pack donkeys with the women and children, heading south towards Canaan. They wore brightly coloured tunics, knee-length for men, slightly longer for the women. Men wore sandals or went barefoot, the women leather shoes. Most of the adult males had neatly trimmed beards and hair hanging to the neck; the women’s tresses flowed down their backs.

When these nomads camped, they grouped round a tent belonging to…Abram, later to be known as Abraham. He was leaving behind the clan of his father and brothers at Ur in southern Mesopotamia and migrating into unknown territory.

Abraham’s journey launched the history of the new Hebrew people, a moment of incalculable consequence for the world. Leaving the Euphrates valley with its dark, thick-walled houses, Abraham’s growing clan moved to the dry but open wilderness and pasture land of Canaan.[iii]

The journey, though monumental to the travelers in distance, scope, and risk, would eventuate in absolutely spectacular results. Genesis 12:2–3 records God’s promise to make of Abram “a great nation.” Further, God stated, “I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”

Perhaps the most dramatic truth found in this passage is the prophecy that Abram’s future family would affect the peoples of the whole world throughout the centuries to come. To know that God still curses those who curse Abram’s offspring, we need only to remember what happened to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis of World War II Germany. Hitler committed suicide in total defeat. The Nazis were considered war criminals by the whole world, and most top Nazis were executed. This was the most hated regime of modern times.

And to know that God still blesses those who bless Israel, all we have to do is to consider that America, the nation-state that God used to help bring modern Israel to birth, is to this point in history one of the most spiritually blessed countries, and certainly the most materially blessed nation ever to exist.

Ultimately, Abram—whose name, of course, would later be changed to Abraham—is a blessing to the whole earth in that through his offspring, God brought Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, into the world.

A Patient Heavenly Father

God had promised to bless the world through Abram and his descendants; however, he and Sarai obviously had tried to have children without success. They were very old—and getting older! The great man of God lamented the fact that he couldn’t give God what He wanted: “And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless?… Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir” (Genesis 15:2).

But, God wasn’t worried. His plan hadn’t changed. He patiently, lovingly took Abram aside and asked him to look at the heavens and try to count the stars. That mind-boggling number, the Lord said, would be the head count of his descendants one day.

Abram was still unsure about the matter and asked God for affirmation that He would possess the land. God gave that assurance through a covenant, which is a binding agreement of the most immovable kind. Like God instructed, Abram gathered animals for the covenant process. After putting Abram into a deep sleep, the Lord performed the covenant ritual. Abram had no part in agreeing to the promise, except to accept God’s word on the matter. Then God gave a far-reaching prophecy explaining what would happen in the coming centuries:

1) Abram’s descendants would be away from the Promised Land for four hundred years.

2) They would be greatly mistreated in foreign lands.

3) The Lord would punish the people who mistreated Abram’s descendants.

4) After four hundred years, Abram’s heirs would leave the land of their bondage with very great possessions.

5) Abram would live a long life, then die and go to heaven to join his forefathers.

6) Four generations later, Abram’s descendants would come to the land of promise.

God concluded the covenant by describing the boundaries of the Promised Land as stretching from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates River. “The meaning to Abraham and the early readers of Scripture is clear,” explains theologian John Walvoord in his book, Armageddon, Oil, and the Middle East Crisis. “The land promised was Palestine, stretching from the Sinai Desert north and east to the Euphrates River. This would include all the holdings of present-day Israel, Lebanon, and the West Bank of Jordan, plus substantial portions of Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.”[iv]

Unconditional Covenant

It’s important to emphasize that this covenant God made with Abram was one that nothing and no one could ever break. The promise, or agreement, depended on God’s absolute love and integrity alone and had nothing to do with Israel’s performance.

Abram’s Arranged Affair

Even with the covenant in place and God’s assurance that He would fulfill His promise, the graying Sarai couldn’t seem to ignore her ticking biological clock. Still, there was no child. Sarai began to wonder if she and her husband should put “plan B” in place by asking the couple’s Egyptian handmaid, Hagar, to serve as what we would call today as a surrogate mother. The practice was common and, while it does not excuse ungodly sexual activity during Abram’s generation or any other, the culture at this time often called for such action when a couple couldn’t conceive otherwise. Abram was quick to agree to Sarai’s suggestion to do what they thought was best rather than what God wanted to do through them. Soon, Hagar had conceived a child with her master.

In the Middle East during these times, childlessness was regarded as the most dreaded misfortune a woman could experience. In fact, many believed that happiness could even be measured by the number of children, particularly sons, a couple had. For most women, much of their entire identity and sense of purpose was wrapped up in the ability to bear children. In light of this, Hagar displayed what would have been a typical attitude: Once pregnant with Abram’s child, she haughtily looked down her nose at her barren—at least to this point—mistress. The beginning of the future troubles in the Middle East had begun!

Humiliated by Hagar’s attitude, Sarai grew angry and took out her frustration, no doubt, on the ears of her husband. Abram acted less than a diplomat, telling Sarai to do with Hagar as she wished. Sarai did just that; in fact, she “dealt” so harshly with Hagar that her actions and words sent the pregnant woman packing (Genesis 16:6), foreshadowing things to come. The hostilities would build from this point to become full-blown wars that will continue to boil until Christ returns.

Heavenly Intervention

As Hagar was heading out of town, she had an unusual encounter. An “angel of the Lord” appeared to her in what many scholars believe was a theophany—a supernatural appearance before His birth to Mary in Bethlehem many centuries later. The angel of the Lord told Hagar to repent, or turn from her haughtiness, and trust herself and her unborn child to Sarai for safekeeping. He then made Hagar a great promise, a mixed blessing of great expectation and dire consequences. The great expectation was the promise that her offspring would grow to become a great number of people who would populate many nations. The terrible results of Abram and Sarai getting ahead of God’s plan would be that the fruit of the sin would result in big trouble: Hagar’s baby, to be named Ishmael, would be a “wild man” who would be “against every man,” and “every man’s hand [would be] against him.” He would dwell among his brothers (see Genesis 16:7–12).

Hagar might not have realized exactly what all of the angel of the Lord’s promises meant at this point. The promise of a wonderful future, however, convinced her to pick herself up and return to Abram’s house.

The Birth of a Fierce Family

The description of Ishmael offered by the angel of the Lord quickly propels our thoughts to the Middle East today. What do we know about today’s descendants of Abram and Hagar? Certainly the Arab people are descendants of that long-ago union. This is not a thought that is argued against by the Arab people themselves. They readily claim Abraham as their original father and Hagar as their mother.

That is the fact upon which they base their claim to the land now called Palestine. Many of the Arab authorities claim that Israel—that is, the Jews—is an illegitimate intruder in the area also called the Holy Land. That is why some of the terrorist organizations within the radical Islamic groups call for jihad (holy war) against the tiny nation of Israel.

Very interesting facts about recent history come to the surface when examining the words the angel of the Lord gave Hagar. The Israel-Arab conflict down through history is covered throughout the pages of this book. But we’ll look at that trouble briefly here:

1) The Arabs have lived mostly as nomadic people in the arid lands of the Middle East since the time of Ishmael.

2) The Arabs have been in constant conflict, warring against other peoples and with each other during that history.

3) The Arabs continue to live much like their early ancestors in dress and cultural ways. They remain “wild” in the sense they have not, as a race, conformed to the modern, “civilized” way of life.

4) The Arabs now dwell among their brothers. The prophecy given to Hagar—“And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man”—means the Arabs and the Jews will live in the same region. They are, after all, half-brothers. They will quarrel over the same land, particularly as the end of the age approaches.

“The descendants of Ishmael have been at Isaac’s descendant’s throats for four thousand years now, and their blood feud has smoldered and frequently flamed into war during all that time,” notes Bible scholar and author Hal Lindsey in The Final Battle. “No racial problem in the world can compare with this one in terms of duration and intensity of animosity.”[v]

God Keeps Promise to Hagar

Not only have we seen the prophecy about Ishmael’s descendants being “wild” come to pass; we’ve seen the prediction of their proliferation fulfilled as well. God has absolutely kept His promise to multiply Ishmael’s seed; the great Arab race has exploded in population, dominating the Mideast region and beyond for many hundreds of years. Further, the Arabs have been blessed indeed with great riches. Petroleum brought from beneath the sands has made Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and some other nations there the richest per capita countries in the world.

Sadly, because of the religious and governmental systems in most of the Arab-dominated nations, the masses of people enjoy few of those oil riches. Their dictator-leaders keep the great wealth for themselves.

God-Guaranteed Greatness

Abram had been eighty-six years old when his and Hagar’s son Ishmael was born. Now, at ninety-nine years old, Abram was told an amazing thing by none other than God Himself. As recorded in Genesis 17:1–5, God said that not only was Abram to become a father again; he was going to be a fathermany times over—“I will multiply thee exceedingly” (Genesis 17:2). That is indeed enough to make a man fall on his face! And, that is exactly what Abram did. He lay flat on his face before Almighty God, who also told him many other wonderful things. For example, the name “Abram” was no longer significant enough to proclaim the greatness God was about to invest in him. From now on, he would be known as “Abraham,” which means “the father of many nations.” Kings and entire nations would be born from his line of descendants. The covenant between Abraham and the Creator of all things would, God promised, last forever.

It was a staggering promise Abraham’s God made that day. More than that, the Lord guaranteed that Abraham and all of his descendants would own the land of Canaan forever. That includes all of what is called today the Holy Land.

God then made a second covenant between Abraham and himself, one made binding through the act of circumcision for Abraham and all his male heirs to follow (see Genesis 17:9–14). This covenant differs from the earlier one in that the first covenant was “unconditional”—Abraham and his heirs could do nothing to either keep or break it; God did it all. This later covenant was “conditional,” one that must be entered by Abraham and his heirs. Circumcision also means that those entering that covenant must keep the requirements involved in obedience to God. To do otherwise brings certain judgments as corrective measures. In that sense, it is possible to break this covenant.

New Names for New Fame

Like the name “Abram,” the name “Sarai” was not significant enough to reflect the powerful blessings God was about to bestow upon the couple. So God changed Sarai’s name to “Sarah,” promising to bless the woman who would not only become the mother of a son, but who would become “a mother of nations.” The couple’s new fame would become tremendous on the earth (see Genesis 17:15–16).

Ishmael’s Mocking Brings Strife

Sure enough, twenty-five years after her son’s birth was promised, Sarah became pregnant and delivered Isaac—and this is where we come to the beginnings of the strife between Abraham’s sons. God’s words recorded in Genesis 16:12 describing Ishmael’s character were coming true: Ishmael was a wild young man looking for trouble, and he found it. Isaac was a very young child when Ishmael, about sixteen years old, began to mock the younger boy in threatening tones.

Sarah, obviously upset and angered, told Abraham that Hagar and her son would have to go. Abraham was extremely saddened about having to deal with the situation. The Lord talked with the old father of both boys and comforted him, letting him know that, in this case, Abraham should listen to his wife and do what she wanted him to do. Whether Sarah did it for the right reasons or not, or whether she knew it or not, sending Hagar and young Ishmael away from Isaac was the only way there would be any peace at all in Abraham’s family.

God of Isaac Loves Ishmael

Genesis 21:14 and the verses following describe how Abraham gave Hagar and her son some provisions and sent them out as commanded. The old man’s faith must have been tested greatly by having to watch the pair shuffle away from the protection of his home. But Abraham always believed God and trusted him completely.

The trip proved very difficult for Hagar and her son as they struggled to survive in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. When the supply of water Abraham had packed for them ran dry, just at the moment Hagar was about to give up on her son’s survival—and her own, for that matter—she left the exhausted boy in the shade of a bush. “Let me not see the death of the child” (Genesis 21:16) wept the distraught woman, who was “seemingly alone and without help.”[vi] But she soon learned that she wasn’t alone, nor was she without help. God, who sees all and who hears every cry, came to her, tenderly asked her what was wrong, reaffirmed His promise to make of her son “a great nation” (Genesis 21:18), and then miraculously provided a well of water in the wilderness. How wonderfully personal this time was between Hagar and the Heavenly Father! The God of Isaac also loves Ishmael…by this, we can know He loves us, too.

Sinful disobedience had set the wheels in motion that would cause Abraham to sire sons of strife. Peace will not come to either of Abraham’s two families until the Prince of Peace returns to put down all war on the planet.

Thankfully, many prophetic signals, as we will vividly illustrate in the upcoming book Cauldron will let us know Christ’s return must be very near indeed. Jesus is the only hope for mankind collectively, and He is the only hope for us individually as each of us passes through this life.

One day the great strife will end. There will be peace, not war, in the Middle East and everywhere else. But first there will be a time of Great Trouble, which we will look into in the next entry.

Credit to Raidersnewsupdate.com

Super Bowl XLVIII - Satanic Omen

Joseph Herrin

The Illuminati, those servants of Satan who hold the reins of this fallen world system, frequently use major media events, especially those related to sports, to communicate their plans through subtle means. They use signs, symbols, song lyrics, even the outcome of sporting events, to convey Satanic messages in a way that is deniable. They use equivocation, which is a form of communication that is ambiguous and evasive. This permits the powers-that-be to deny they had any intent to convey a message that is offensive to many, or which would be able to prove their guilt, or culpability in some evil plot.

I have written numerous posts about this type of speech. The London Olympics were filled with it, being a worldwide showcase where the hidden hand that guides this world can send forth subliminal messages that only a remnant will perceive, while remaining hidden to the majority.

In recent years I have commented on the Satanic messages contained in the half-time shows of the Super Bowl. The presence of darkness has been readily apparent, even including a black mass being performed by Madonna and Cee Lo Green two years ago.




http://parablesblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/super-bowl-xlvi-strange-flesh-and.html

Significantly, Madonna (birthname Madonna Louise Ciccone) was dressed in black throughout this performance, being a reference to the “Black Madonna,” or “Black Mary,” which Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits and first Superior General of that order, claimed to have been inspired by and devoted unto. This information will tie in with a series I will be starting soon that delves into the significance of the Roman Catholic Church appointing the first Jesuit to the position of Pope (Pontifex Maximus). More on Maximus later.

The Super Bowl half-time show typically last 13 minutes, a number that is known to mankind as one of ill-omen. The Super Bowl half-time show this year which featured Bruno Mars as the lead performer was 13 minutes in duration. It is not mere superstition that causes mankind to view the number 13 as evil. The Bible reveals an evil significance to this number as well.

As to the significance of thirteen, all are aware that it has come down to us as a number of ill-omen. Many superstitions cluster around it, and various explanations are current concerning them.

Unfortunately, those who go backwards to find a reason seldom go back far enough. The popular explanations do not, so far as we are aware, go further back than the Apostles. But we must go back to the first occurrence of the number thirteen in order to discover the key to its significance. It occurs first in Gen 14:4, where we read "Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they REBELLED."

Hence every occurrence of the number thirteen, and likewise of every multiple of it, stamps that with which it stands in connection with rebellion, apostasy, defection, corruption, disintegration, revolution, or some kindred idea.

The second mention of thirteen is in connection with Ishmael, Gen 17:25. He was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him and admitted him into the covenant to which he was a stranger in heart, and which ended in his rebellion and rejection.
[Source: Number in Scripture, E.W. Bullinger]

The number 13 is linked to rebellion and rejection by God. One of the songs that Bruno Mars performed during his 13 minute show is titled Locked Out of Heaven. This song is regarded by many to be written as a sympathetic song for the Devil. The Bible tells us that Satan rebelled against God and was cast down from heaven as punishment. The lyrics of Bruno Mars’ song speak of being locked out of heaven, and the Bible names only one being that has experienced such a judgment, that being Satan.

Revelation 12:7-9
And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon. And the dragon and his angels waged war, and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven. And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Locked Out of Heaven
Bruno Mars
Never had much faith in love or miracles (Jesus Christ/Yahshua the Messiah)
Ooh!
Never wanna put my heart on the line (Love the Lord your God with all your heart)
Ooh!
But swimming in your world* is something spiritual (*Some sites read “water” instead of “world”)
Ooh!
I'm born again every time you spend the night (Sexual sin as the path to salvation)
Ooh!

'Cause your sex takes me to paradise (The Bible says the sexually immoral will not inherit God’s kingdom)
Yeah, your sex takes me to paradise
And it shows, yeah, yeah, yeah

'Cause you make me feel like I've been locked out of heaven (Feeling like the devil, deprived of his desire)
For too long, for too long
Yeah, you make me feel like I've been locked out of heaven
For too long, for too long...
[End Excerpt]

As this song is being performed, there are pyramid symbols being displayed prominently on the floor and background, as well as pyramids being formed by the moving spotlights. The pyramid is a symbol used by the Illuminati and various groups to denote the kingdom of Satan.




Bruno Mars Performing

Aside from the debauched lyrics and performances that glorify sexual immorality, there was another message that was incorporated into this show. The half-time show began with a Pepsi commercial that featured a giant set of hands manipulating various New York City objects.




Giant Hand Turning MetLife Stadium

The hand is also functioning as a DJ, making music. Satan is the Pied Piper that deceives the entire world into singing his songs and dancing along to the music he has created. This includes even the children who are viewed as innocent.

As the Pepsi commercial ends and the cameras switch to the floor of the Stadium we are shown a group of children standing below the stage holding hands and singing. They are singing the chorus to Bruno Mars’ song titled Billionaire.




Oh every time I close my eyes
I see my name in shining lights yeah
A different city every night alright
I swear the world better prepare
For when I'm a billionaire

The selection of this song chorus is merely a ruse to introduce us to the word “prepare,” for just as the children sing this word, the word “Prepare” appears in large red letters behind the children. The children never sing the last line of the chorus, thus the last words they utter are “I swear the world better prepare.” The children sing the word "Prepare" a total of three times, and the word is also displayed in three locations behind them on the stage.




“Prepare” is the only word from this song that appears, revealing that in this word is the true message that Satan wants to communicate to the world.

What is it that the world is being warned to “prepare” for? The answer is revealed in a commercial aired during the Super Bowl that also featured children. Satan has chosen children as innocent and naive messengers to proclaim to the world what he is about to do. Following is the Super Bowl XLVIII commercial for the Maserati Ghibli automobile. It is strangely out of character for a car commercial. It features a child reciting a poem that is dark and foreboding, attended by images that are similarly dark. The commercial glorifies the darkness and ends with a declaration that something is about to spring forth that has lain hidden in the shadows.

Maserati Super Bowl Commercial

http://youtu.be/KmpiwU50f5w

Transcript:
The world is full of giants
They have always been here
Lumbering in the schoolyards
Limping through the alleys
We had to learn how to deal with them
How to overcome them
We were small, but fast, remember?
We were like a wind appearing out of nowhere
We knew that being clever was more important than being the biggest kid in the neighborhood
As long as we keep our heads down
As long as we work hard
Trust what we feel in our guts, our hearts
Then, we’re ready
We wait until they get sleepy
Wait until they get so big they can barely move
Then we walk out of the shadows
Quietly walk out of the dark
And strike




The video ends with two phrases appearing on the screen. The first phrase relates back to the words of the children singing at the beginning of the half-time show.




WE HAVE PREPARED.

The second reveals what is coming next.





NOW WE STRIKE.

As you can see from the screen shots above, the official name given to this commercial is “2014 Ghibli - Strike.” The word “Ghibli” is a Libyan word that corresponds to the word Sirocco. It is the name of a hot desert wind that blows across the Mediterranean bearing dust along with it.




Ghibli Blowing from North Africa across the Mediterranean

As a minister of Christ, I would ask the readers of this blog, those who are fellow partakers of the Spirit of Christ, “Are you prepared?” Although Satan may ask this question in boasting, and his servants may testify of the preparations they have made, signifying that the hour has come for them to strike a blow to this old world system that a New World Order might arise from the ashes, this is also a question that Yahshua would ask His people. For years the Spirit of Christ has been instructing the saints to prepare, warning them that the end of the age is at hand. Repeatedly the people of God have been admonished to prepare spiritually and physically for the unprecedented times of trouble that must come upon the earth. “Are you prepared?”

Who is it that is referred to in the following lines?

We wait until they get sleepy
Wait until they get so big they can barely move
Then we walk out of the shadows
Quietly walk out of the dark
And strike

These words could aptly describe the church. The church has sated itself with the things of the world. It has become materially fat and spiritually lazy. Like the ten virgins of Christ’s parable, the people of God have fallen asleep as the Bridegroom has delayed His appearing. Yahshua has admonished His people through His apostles to NOT slumber or sleep, but to remain vigilant and sober lest they be caught unaware.

I Thessalonians 5:1-6
Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like birth pangs upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.

The words could also be a reference to Americans in general. MetLife Stadium is just across the street from American Dream Meadowlands. As the game was being played, and these messages given, winter storm Maximus was approaching the stadium and the American Dream.

In the commercial, the one who strikes is coming out of the shadows, out of the darkness. This is not the Lord, nor His people. Satan and his disciples are those who dwell in darkness. It is they who hide from sight lest their evil deeds be known. Seeing that Satan and his disciples are declaring “We Have Prepared. Now We Strike.” What will you do?

I will end this post by making mention of a further attesting sign that I believe has some correspondence to this message. A sister in Christ (thank you Monica) wrote to me last night and shared that winter storm Maximus was forecast to strike the location in which the Super Bowl was held not long after the game has concluded. Maximus is the 13th named storm of this winter, once more being a sign of ill-omen. It was at the Circus Maximus that Christians were set upon by wild animals as sport while the citizens of Rome were entertained. It was there that Christians were tied to posts, soaked in tar, and burned alive as “Roman torches.”

The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church is also called Pontifex Maximus. This was originally a pagan title, but it was passed onto the Roman Catholic Church as it embraced all the paganism of the false religions of the Roman Empire. The title Pontifex Maximus literally means Supreme Bridge Builder. In recent decades it has been evident that the Pope has sought to bridge together the myriad religions of the world, bringing them all under her authority and rule.

At this time the church of Rome is headed by a Jesuit for the first time. This itself is an evil sign, for the Jesuits are known for their cunning, their deception, and false dealing. Next month, on March 27th, President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with the Pope at the Vatican. This is great hypocrisy for a President and government that declares that there must be a separation between church and state. In truth, it is only true Christianity that the world and its governments despise. Many kings and rulers willingly cohabit with the Great Harlot of Revelation, Babylon who is full of perverseness and every unclean thing.

The Spirit of Christ is warning those who will listen to beware this Pope. There is some significant reason that the world media, controlled by the Illuminati, have been singing the praises of this man. I have seen no greater outpouring of positive publicity for any man since Barack Obama first came onto the world stage. Satan works hard to sell a positive image of those who are the greatest workers of darkness and iniquity. Be forewarned, brothers and sisters.

Of possible relationship to this is the name Bruno Mars. Mars, of course, was the Roman god of war and bloodshed. Regarding the name Bruno, the website BehindTheName.com includes the following statement.

The surname has belonged Giordano Bruno, a philosopher burned at the stake by the Inquisition.

The Roman Catholic Church was the authority that sanctioned the cruel murder of vast numbers of Christians. Do not be fooled, brothers and sisters. The Roman Catholic Church, and her Pope, are NOT the friends of the true disciples of Christ, nor do they venerate the word of God. The Jesuits have played a central role in carrying out the violence against the true disciples of Christ. I foresee a time coming again when the Roman Catholic Church plays a central role in waging cruel war against the disciples of Christ. John wrote of the vileness of the Roman Catholic Church, and its bloodlust.

Revelation 17:3-6
And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness; and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality, and upon her forehead a name was written, a mystery, "BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Yahshua.

May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days.


Credit to Joseph Herrin

Is It Time to Leave America, While You Still Can?

One prominent talk show host is telling his listeners to get out of the country because the Denver Post is reporting that there are 200,000 Russian troops in America. I have previously reported on government documents which demonstrate that FEMA reached a bilateral agreement Russia to bring in 15,000 Russian troops. I also believe that there are Russian sleeper cells located throughout America based upon reports from Russian defectors and eyewitnesses such as Dr. Susan Helman of Gatlinburg, TN. But to leave the country based on the erroneous reports of a talk show host would be a gross mistake.

The Russian media immediately interviewed me after I reported on this story in an attempt to discredit me and cover their true intentions. However, there is no report from the Denver Post claiming 200,000 Russian troops are in America. There will be no direct military invasion of the United States until some other things occur such as a series a false flag attacks, declaration of martial law and the use of foreign troops (e.g. Russia, China) to quell any civil disturbances following the false flag attacks or following a currency collapse. Following the complete subjugation of the American people, there could be an invasion of the US by Russia and China if WWIII were to break out. But leaving the country for the hysterical claim of 200,000 Russians ready to invade in a moments notice, would prove to be a fool’s errand.

Are there other reasons to leave the United States and take up residency abroad? There does appear to be several valid reasons to do so. For the time being, put aside your English/Russian dictionary as we process the reasons for possibly wanting to expatriate.

Many Have Already Left

An expatriate who has left America for the greener pastures of Germany, has written to me over a dozen times telling me to get out of America while I still can. I freely admit, that on the balance sheet, the reasons to leave outweigh the reasons to stay. And the reasons to move our children away from the growing tyranny in this country are even more numerous. However, our enemy calls themselves the New World Order for a reason. It may be possible to move to a place like Norway and get some temporary relief, but in reality, you would only be staying one step ahead of the burning bridge.

Last year over a 155,000 Americans expatriated to foreign countries, mostly for economic reasons. I have bad news for these people.You expats may have temporarily escaped high taxes and over regulation from the federal government, however, when, and not if, the dollar collapses, all foreign currencies will collapse as well and you will be trapped in a foreign land. I do, however, agree that there are some valid reasons, at least on the surface for leaving.

Do It For The Kids

At this point in time, about half of all recent college graduates are working at jobs that do not even require a college degree. The number of Americans in the 16 to 29 year old age bracket with a job declined by 18 percent between 2000 and 2010. Incomes for U.S. households led by someone between the ages of 25 and 34 have fallen by about 12 percent after you adjust for inflation since the year 2000. In the United States today, 317,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees. One poll discovered that 29 percent of all Americans in the 25 to 34 year old age bracket are still living with their parents. Overall, approximately 25 million American adults are living with their parents according to Time Magazine.

America is no longer the land of opportunity as the United States is not even in the top ten. In fact, the United States only ranks 20th in terms of overall gross pay! There are very sound economic reasons to look at when deciding on whether on should leave the country. Young adults who are degreed and/or skilled in fields such as engineering or information technology skills, are really wasting their time by working in the United States. Eight of the world’s ten highest-paying countries for information technology (IT) managers are in Western Europe, according to a new survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. The survey found that Swiss managers are paid the most, followed by those in Germany and Denmark. In fact, IT management is another field where U.S. workers fail to crack the top ten in income, the United States ranks 14th in IT management compensation. Even debt ridden Spain, Italy and Greece pay their IT managers more than what Americans earn on average.

 Employment

If there is a valid reason for leaving the country, the unemployment rates would seem to be a compelling reason. Unfortunately, the public does not know what the true unemployment rate is in America because the Department of Labor plays games with the numbers. For example, if you hold a real estate license, and even if you have never sold any property, you are considered to be employed by the Federal government. If your unemployment insurance expires, it is assumed that you have found employment, even if you have not. This is referred to as the discouraged worker category.

The “Alternate Unemployment Rate” more accurately reflects the current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were eliminated from official existence by the Federal government back in 1994. That estimate is added to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes the previously short-term discouraged workers.

The “U-3″ unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the BLS broadest unemployment measure, “including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment” as this group would be categorized as the underemployed. When all figures are combined, the Shadow Stats calculations are staggering as the unemployment and underemployment rate is approaching 24%!

However, I strongly feel that you are only delaying the inevitable by leaving. We are not just going to see an American economic collapse, we are going to witness a global collapse.

America’s Economy Could Soon Collapse

Employment issues aside, America only has to look at three economic indicators to know that we are in a lot of trouble, The budget deficit is $17 trillion dollars, unfunded (partially or otherwise) mandated social programs constitutes another $222 trillion dollars and the credit swap derivatives total between $1 quadrillion dollars to $1.5 quadrillion dollars.

When we look at Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and all the government programs that we all take for granted, the price tag is a whopping $222 trillion dollars. These numbers are going to be exacerbated and grow exponentially because the bulk of the baby boomers are entering retirement age. Even if we took every single penny that the federal government takes in and devote it to paying off these social programs, it would take 111 years to pay off this debt.

In the United States, credit swap derivatives created national debt totals of over one quadrillion dollars. That is one thousand trillion dollars! The entire GDP of the planet is estimated at $66 trillion dollars. And somehow, in the infinite wisdom of Congress in 2008, we falsely and naively believed that a $750 billion transfer of wealth (i.e., Bailout #1) was magically going to save the economy and the collective futures of the American middle class. In short, the debt created by futures speculation is approximately 16 times greater than the sum total of the entire wealth on the planet! And we think we are going to climb out of this? We could fund 1,000 bailouts and the eventual outcome will be the same, slavery by debt.

In no civilized country in the world do the banks have the right to steal money from citizen depositors. However, in America, this is already being accomplished as ex-Goldman Sachs CEO and ex-senator and ex-governor, Jon “the Don” Corzine, stole 1.2 billion dollars from secured deposits from MF Global, lied to congress about his actions and today is enjoying the fruits of his thievery. Let’s not forget that the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals who just ruled that banks can steal the money of its depositors and it is legal! This would have been a SHTF moment in every other Western country, but Americans are taking this grand theft on their backsides, sipping a beer and bemoaning the performance of their favorite NFL team on this Super Bowl Sunday.

I have chronicled in a recent article that JP Morgan Chase and HSBC are making it almost impossible to wire money out of their banks into overseas accounts. Further, the IMF has announced plans to tax all bank accounts to the tune of 10% and that is just for starters. Can America be far behind? And the rich are getting richer at the expense of the middle class.

Over 50 percent of all stocks and bonds are owned by just 1 percent of the U.S. population. Additionally, Treasury Secretary Lew as he is borrowing against select Federal retirement accounts. And add to these grim statistics, we have on the 51st longest life span despite spending the most money. Our kids attend schools which are ranked last in the modern world. Searching for better opportunities does make sense in light of these statistics.

Civil Liberties

Well, we may not have our health and we may not have our wealth, but at least we have our freedoms, don’t we? Nothing could be further from the truth. Our local police forces are being federalized and incidences of unwarranted police brutality are skyrocketing.

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index 2011, the United States is tied with Romania for forty-ninth in civil liberties. Several countries such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Norway are tied for first.

With the Patriot Acts, the NDAA and several other draconian pieces of legislation designed to protect us from the boogey men we call terrorists, we have lost Habeas Corpus, we are losing our free speech rights to the United Nations and every form of due process that we once cherished under our Constitution. And if you don’t like the unfolding criminal enterprise system which suddenly appeared before our collective eyes, the bankers have rolled out a technocratic police state which would make Stalin and Hitler envious. Both the police state and impending martial law are bolstered by the fact that the Department of Homeland Security has purchased 2.2 billion rounds of high tech bullets engraved with the names of citizens who dare to oppose this tyranny! The Constitution has been destroyed and thrown on to the garbage pile of history. And only in tin horn dictatorships and communist countries do we find this kind of criminal enterprise flourishing!

Where the Rubber Meets the Road

I have personally known a FEMA retiree and his family who have left their home for a self-contained community with like-minded alphabet soup agency personnel in order to protect their families from what is coming. Additionally, Doug Hagmann’s DHS insider contact painted a very grim picture of the deadly martial law crackdown that is coming. Same stories, different venues.  If you believe that a false flag attack is in our near future. And if you believe that brutal martial law, complete with gun confiscation was going to take place and if you think that FEMA camps and mass executions of political undesirables was going to occur, then these would be some very valid reasons for leaving this country.

In my next article, I will expand on these thoughts as well as examine some very compelling reasons for staying in the United States through thick and thin.

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