House of Cards

MAP of GREECE

I'm still puzzling over this Greek default situation.  One observer commented that the European Union has mercilessly hectored and bullied Greece since its last bailout, and that the Greeks have every reason to resent the EU and would be better off abandoning the EURO and getting back to business on their own.

Either way, Greece's government debt is at 160% of its GDP, so it isn't likely to get caught up any time soon.  I guess we should all rejoice that our U.S. government debt is only at 106% of our GDP.

I know that Portugal, Cyprus, Spain, Ireland, and some other struggling countries have had recent brushes with IMF debt pressure and austerity measures.  Greece is not alone - it has simply not done as well as the others in getting its fiscal sloppiness rectified.

Today the news machinery suggests that the IMF is working hard to extend to Greece another bailout (despite Germany's protests).  Greeks have to vote again now to implement new austerity measures that are stricter than the ones they rejected last week.  Banks are still closed.  This is what happens when you get close to foreclosure.  The friction gets more intense, and things get testy.

I don't know the mind of the IMF, but I'm guessing that it wants to keep Greece in the EU fold - if only to keep up appearances.  I mean - if Greece gives the IMF the finger, what's to keep Portugal or Ireland from doing the same thing?

All of the major Western nations filed bankruptcy in the early 1930s.  This was the key step in granting these private banks control and receivership over the nations.  We don't have any gold, so we could only repay the banks with paper (or electronic) notes, and the banks have no use for that.  After all, they print and conjure money out of thin air already.  The U.S. will never, and can never, repay its $19 trillion dollar national debt - in fact, it is forbidden to do so.  I suspect the same is true for all the other debtor nations.  It is interesting that North Korea is understood to have no public debt.

Reportedly, China is our largest creditor.  I find it amusing that China had to borrow $Trillions so that it could lend that money to us.  The EU rules say that no EU nation is permitted to absorb another EU nation's debt, so who is it that is doing the lending?  Who is it that has the money to lend?  Who is it that has the gold reserves against which to lend out the paper or electronic money?  In our country, the entity that magics the money is the private bank we call the "Federal Reserve".  It's all phony money because our national Treasury is empty (plundered).  If we had $19 Trillion dollars in gold (in Fort Knox ??) we might use it to pay off the debt and stop the inexorable daily $Billion dollar interest payment drain on our economy.

What the nations fail to understand is that when you borrow ten dollars, you must pay back eleven. For a great explanation - read this article. When everyone borrows as much money as there is available, then everyone is running around scrambling to find the eleventh dollar, and there aren't enough eleventh dollars.  Then the bank comes calling to take your collateral, unless there is motivation to keep the game going a little longer.  In that case, the bank prints more money (see Bernanke's Quantitative Easing - I, II and III ). 

If all the developed nations have debt burdens that it could take decades (if ever) for them to pay back, why don't those nations team up and tell the mysterious private lender guys that they simply aren't going to pay up? - then all those nations would be wealthier overnight (and permanently).  I have to assume that the politicians and monarchs are "in bed" with the banking folks, so they aren't going to stand up to them and put a stop to this game.  Then you ask - why would the banks want to do this - they don't need our gold (since they have it already)?  They don't need our taxes, or paper money, or electronic credit card repayments? 

There has to be some sort of plan or agenda.  What is it?  I venture to say that (as in previous foreclosures and regicides) the international bankers plan a global overthrow.  When bankers overthrow a government (see Bolshevik Revolution 1917), they change the governing system.  They neutralize the old leadership and institute a new regime (usually a brutal one).  If Greece were to collapse now, it could set off a "house of cards" chain of collapses, and that is perhaps premature.  Maybe it isn't yet timely or expedient for the bankers to send in their international peacekeeping forces to roll out the new global dictatorship.  We are not quite ripe for getting plucked.

Remember what I said in previous posts.  I denounced Ezra Taft Benson for saying that "This Nation Shall Endure", when D&C 87:6 plainly says:

"And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and the fierce and vivid lightning also, shall the inhabitants of the earth be made to feel the wrath, and indignation, and chastening hand of an Almighty God, until the consumption decreed hath made a full end of all nations;"

Revelation 18:3 says:

"For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies."

Keep your eyes peeled and your lamps trimmed (and remember that even gold is not edible).  What is a "nation" now, if it is not an incorporated business unit that is able to incur debt and mortgage the land?  Why does Jesus seek the overthrow of the bankers and the dissolution of the "nations"?  Why is this same arrangement implemented on every Telestial planet throughout the universe?

P.S. Do the other planets have their own Beatles?

A Distraction

Don't you get confused sometimes when you watch our stupid government bumbling around over controversial issues?  Recently, somebody in Syria unleashed sarin gas on a bunch of innocent Syrians.  Probably Syria's president.  Hundreds of women and children died horrible deaths.

Obama has decided that he wants to bomb Syria - or part of it.  For the life of me, I cannot figure out what his gameplan is.  He says we have to send a punitive message so that fiendish dictators like Bashar al-Assad will think twice about using weapons of mass destruction.  The element of surprise is long gone.  Assad has moved critical assets.  He has moved political prisoners into areas the U.S. military might target so that they can serve as a human shield.

Obama is going on TV to make his case for a military strike.  Public approval for such a measure is waning fast.  Republicans hate Obama, so it is their turn to argue against military interventions, while the liberal, Obama-lovin' democrats find themselves in the weird position of having to argue for action they would have excoriated Bush for contemplating.

This squabble has gone on for weeks now.  I am paying attention, you are paying attention, the whole world is paying attention.  Thus your attention has been successfully distracted and shifted away from all the other ridiculousness being foisted upon you by the federal government - Benghazi, Obamacare, the NSA snooping in to your emails and phone calls, the IRS targeting of conservative non-profit groups, and Bernanke counterfeiting $80 billion dollars every month, making your money shrink every day.  Does Obama think he can become a conquering hero commander-in-chief and get more democratic votes in the upcoming mid-term election?

Back to Syria - think about this - why does the government/banking machinery want to push for new aggression against Syria?  If we do bomb Damascus, will Assad bomb us?  Will Putin decide to jump in?  Will Assad bomb Israel as a reprisal?  Will Iran get involved?  Will this little storm in a teacup be the trigger for the long-prophesied WWIII? 

I'm still confused.  One thing is for sure - Obama is an empty suit, and someone in power above him is the real string-puller. 

Keep your lamps trimmed and don't be distracted.

Our Enemy, The State

Allow me to excerpt some prophetic wisdom penned in 1935 by Albert Nock.  I found this material on the following webpage - http://www.barefootsworld.net/nockoets1.html

Nock was witnessing the Democrats' "New Deal" power grab during Roosevelt's presidency.

Part of the world bankers' plan was to bankrupt the States and the other Western countries.  In a bankruptcy, you are beholden to the demands of the trustee.  Our republic and sovereignty were destroyed through a series of deceits commencing even before the ratification of the Constitution.  The Constitution itself was a bankruptcy compact.  The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments were both ramrodded through fraudulently, and are void - except for the fact that we have capitulated and gone along with them.  The Matrix movie was an exquisite metaphor for our current condition.

In the Mormon temple ceremony, we are taught that Satan will buy up armies and navies and rule with blood and horror on the earth.  Throughout history, the traditional model has one nation attacking and plundering another, raping its women and confiscating its resources. The American military cannot operate - - - - without money it borrows from the banker trustee.  If the bank wants a war, we have a war.  Today, all nations are conquered.  we are ALL in bondage.  Remember, however, that when you are in prison, throwing your food in the jailer's face is not a good idea.

This is a Telestial (i.e. fallen) world.  By being in it, you and I are corrupt.  We are strangers in a strange land.  This is not our home.  The banks use you as collateral as soon as you are born.  Look in the bottom right hand corner of your children's Certificate of Live Birth.  There is a nine-digit number (not your SSN).  This is your serial number. 

What I find most fascinating is the realization that in the Mormon model of ascension to godhood, those of us who attain that station will form worlds just like this one.  We will establish three races.  Some of our cunning, miscegenated offspring will find precious metals and lend against them to unwitting families and nations.  They will create fractional reserve banking and hand out worthless paper certificates as a substitute for real currency.  They will lend and foreclose, lend and foreclose until the entire world is bankrupt and enslaved.  This is what has been being done on worlds throughout the universe for billions of years.  This is the proving ground.  This is where you show your inclinations and true colors.  This is where we find out if you belong with the wheat or the tares.  If what I am saying resonates with you, then read also - -

http://www.barefootsworld.net/admiralty.html 

and

http://www.barefootsworld.net/usfraud.html 

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IF WE look beneath the surface of our public affairs, we can discern one fundamental fact, namely: a great redistribution of power between society and the State. This is the fact that interests the student of civilization. He has only a secondary or derived interest in matters like price-fixing, wage-fixing, inflation, political banking, "agricultural adjustment," and similar items of State policy that fill the pages of newspapers and the mouths of publicists and politicians. All these can be run up under one head. They have an immediate and temporary importance, and for this reason they monopolize public attention, but they all come to the same thing; which is, an increase of State power and a corresponding decrease of social power.

 

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power. There is never, nor can there be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.

 

Moreover, it follows that with any exercise of State power, not only the exercise of social power in the same direction, but the disposition to exercise it in that direction, tends to dwindle. Mayor Gaynor astonished the whole of New York when he pointed out to a correspondent who had been complaining about the inefficiency of the police, that any citizen has the right to arrest a malefactor and bring him before a magistrate. "The law of England and of this country," he wrote, "has been very careful to confer no more right in that respect upon policemen and constables than it confers on every citizen." State exercise of that right through a police force had gone on so steadily that not only were citizens indisposed to exercise it, but probably not one in ten thousand knew he had it. 

Heretofore in this country sudden crises of misfortune have been met by a mobilization of social power. In fact (except for certain institutional enterprises like the home for the aged, the lunatic-asylum, city-hospital and county-poorhouse) destitution, unemployment, "depression"and similar ills, have been no concern of the State, but have been relieved by the application of social power. Under Mr. Roosevelt, however, the State assumed this function, publicly announcing the doctrine, brand-new in our history, that the State owes its citizens a living. Students of politics, of course, saw in this merely an astute proposal for a prodigious enhancement of State power; merely what, as long ago as 1794, James Madison called "the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government"; and the passage of time has proved that they were right. The effect of this upon the balance between State power and social power is clear, and also its effect of a general indoctrination with the idea that an exercise of social power upon such matters is no longer called for. 

It is largely in this way that the progressive conversion of social power into State power becomes acceptable and gets itself accepted. When the Johnstown flood occurred, social power was immediately mobilized and applied with intelligence and vigour. Its abundance, measured by money alone, was so great that when everything was finally put in order, something like a million dollars remained. If such a catastrophe happened now, not only is social power perhaps too depleted for the like exercise, but the general instinct would be to let the State see to it. Not only has social power atrophied to that extent, but the disposition to exercise it in that particular direction has atrophied with it. If the State has made such matters its business, and has confiscated the social power necessary to deal with them, why, let it deal with them. We can get some kind of rough measure of this general atrophy by our own disposition when approached by a beggar. Two years ago we might have been moved to give him something; today we are moved to refer him to the State's relief-agency. The State has said to society, You are either not exercising enough power to meet the emergency, or are exercising it in what I think is an incompetent way, so I shall confiscate your power, and exercise it to suit myself. Hence when a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.

Free Soda

When I was in elementary school, I remember that I was not always happy.  Some of my teachers were grumpy, and I was forced to eat garbanzo beans, even though they made me retch.

I remember that I had a desperate longing for free soda pop.  The idea that there would be root beer and Dr. Pepper in the drinking fountains stirred hope and joy in my heart.

Looking back, I realize that that would have been a bad idea, so I don't dream about it anymore.

Last night's presidential election result suggests to me that many people feel like I did in elementary school.  Free water isn't good enough.  They want free soda pop.  They want -

Free birth control pills
Free marijuana
Free phones
Free food
Free housing
Free transportation
Free loans
Free health insurance
Free immigration 
Free schooling
Free money
Free everything

Of course, they forget that nothing is "free".  Everything they harvest from the nanny government is obtained by having the Internal Revenue Service break down somebody's door and break his back.   This reality is contorted a little by the fact that the theft is also done cunningly.  When Ben Bernanke prints $40 Billion each month in phony paper Federal Reserve Notes, the theft is done gradually (remember the frog in the boiling milk).  The value of your dollar shrinks every day.

Obama was able to keep the piper away until after the election, so the ongoing celebration over the continuing flood of free stuff was not disturbed by the grim tidings of insolvency or bankruptcy.

The lust for free stuff inebriated a majority of the electorate sufficiently for them to dismiss the travesty in Benghazi, and see Balack Obama as the new Pied Piper.

I shouldn't grumble - the utter destruction of this nation was prophesied millennia ago.  God's "marvellous work and wonder" is inevitable.

If not already, then very soon there will be ONLY TWO types of people in this country - those who will kill someone else in order to get food; and those who would rather starve than kill another person.  The scriptures allude to these two classes as "tares" and "wheat".

In which class do you fall?

Wizard of Oz

I have never watched the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" from start to finish.  What I did see though, was, I think, a clever metaphor for an interesting aspect of humanity.  We do not want to be disappointed by our heroes, our clerics or our government.  Who would have thought that Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Bakker, Bill Clinton and Tiger Woods were committing adultery?  Who, among the Mormon faithful, would want to discover that the beloved 'prophet', Thomas Monson, has not had any revelations or prophecies?

Still, we press on gullibly.  I was reading yesterday about the three huge bombs found in the Oklahoma City federal building on the day that it was blown up.  Local news reports made no mention of a Ryder truck.  A federal government representative at the time commented that people simply need to have more faith and trust in the integrity of the federal government.

On 9/11/01, the WTC twin towers crashed to the ground.  At some distance away, WTC Building 7 remained largely unscathed, except for having been pelted with some flying, burning debris.  The owner decided, however, that this minor damage to the building warranted its immediate demolition, and called for the building to be "pulled" (code for planned demolition). So, a few hours after buildings 1 and 2 mysteriously imploded, Building 7 collapsed neatly into its own footprint.  Even more bizarre is the fact that a British reporter announced that the building had collapsed 20 minutes before it really did.  If you are not hopelessly gullible, you must already understand that WTC Building 7 could not have imploded without someone having gone in there days earlier and placed demolition explosives. 

I saw a newsflash yesterday announcing that the Japanese government is issuing a stimulus.  If all of the Western nations are over-extended with borrowing, who is lending them money? - - Cuba, North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Germany?  The U.S. just hit the $16 Trillion debt mark, and recent articles report that China's debts rival U.S. debt, so who is lending all this money to these huge nations, and, if those nations don't pay up, how will that "WHO" collect on the delinquencies?

Come on! We both know that if you tally up the debt/credit balances of all the borrower nations, they don't add up to zero $$.  The people lending to the countries are not the countries - it is private bankers - private bankers who lend to corporations AND to governments.  When those banker families lend those governments as much money as there is in circulation in the entire nation, then there are no more shekels left with which to pay the INTEREST !!!!!  Then what?  You know what !!!!

They print more paper money.  Last week Bernanke announced QE3.  What is that?  QE3 (Quantitative Easing) is the third instance (in recent history) of the Federal Reserve (a private bank) printing BILLIONS of funny-money notes.  QE3 will involve the Fed buying $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities each month.  Counterfeiting would be a better description.  When you expand the supply of paper money, its value shrinks, you get SCREWED, and gas and food prices rise.  Just you watch !!

Once again, I ask you - WHY do not the borrower nations (who are doomed to never be able to pay back their gargantuan debts) rise up and repudiate the banker families who have swindled them/us?

Because they are in on the scam, silly!

Nero fiddled while Rome burned.  Will Obama or Romney be the Fiddler on the roof this time around?  (And will the Wizard of Oz salvage us?)

Direct European Bailout

Yesterday the Dow Jones jumped up 490 points - a huge boost.  This was spurred largely by news that Europe may finally be figuring out how to calm the debt jitters over Greece and the other countries on the brink of default.

Today as the dust settles, observers are noticing that the plan under consideration proposes to allow Germany to dictate the day-to-day financial operations of the struggling European nations - in exchange for Germany providing the bailout.  Apparently, some of those countries are realizing that they don't want their financial affairs to be regulated by Germany.

If Germany fails to make the necessary loans available to the failing nations, then a widespread collapse would be inevitable -

UNLESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

Obama succeeds in convincing U.S. taxpayers that our tax dollars must now go to these over-indebted, flunky Mediterranean nations who have partied at the public trough for too many decades. Obama will cry doom, of course - "If we fail to rescue these troubled countries, the economic implosion will reverberate in our economy, and we will face horrible catastrophes here at home!"

40 cents from every dollar loaned by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) comes from the U.S. (after we borrow it from China). If the Germany solution doesn't succeed, then the IMF will surely come begging for U.S. dollars, and we will inevitably play along.  I wouldn't be surprised if Bernanke just went ahead and coughed up the money in spite of the Congress or the wishes of the American people.

I know I keep asking the same question, but if all the Western nations (who, granted, are shuffling debts amongst themselves all the time) are collectively way too deeply indebted to some private bank(s), why do we not propose that the entire Western world file a Chapter 7 bankruptcy and be done with it - start over with a clean slate?  After all, that's what the Bible requires.  Do those bankers really need all our stuff?  What on earth could they do with all of it, anyway?

Don't tell me that someone doesn't have a cunning plan up his sleeve to systematically crash all of the Western economies to force a global, "New-World" currency, overseen by the bank owners.

Are you feeling powerless yet?

A Metaphor

I just went to see the new movie, IN TIME, with Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Cillian Murphy.  Apart from a few inconsistencies, the movie was actually good.  I give it a 7 out of 10, and I told my teenagers to go and see it.

The plot had several interesting twists, and the movie's main concept was clever.  In the characters' world, people older than 25 have only one more year to live, unless they can earn more time.  As the story develops, we learn that powerful international forces have manipulated the availability and cost of the extra time the people so desperately want.  In truth, there is more than enough "time"-currency to go around, but its distribution is manipulated, creating a class division in society - "have's" and "have-not's".

The metaphor for our current global banking/financial system is unmistakable and, may-I-say, brilliantly conceived.

I came away with some searching questions about the management of our planet (and the whole universe for that matter).  What I found especially a propos is the idea that values, human efforts, costs, and pricing can all be manipulated - stretching the precious resources for the powerful, and constricting them for the powerless.  The question of over-population surfaces, too, with the need for some powerful overseer to supervise it aggressively. 

"Thou shalt not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small." (Deuteronomy 25:13)

Most of all, I liked the screenwriter's concept that time-currency was limitlessly stretchable (just as the supply of paper or electronic money is limitlessly stretchable in a fiat-banking economy).  Interestingly, the message of the movie will likely resonate with socialist and conservative thinkers alike.  I prefer to echo the words of Cleon Skousen, who would say that it is not about democrats and republicans, or liberals and conservatives, it is about liberty versus tyranny. 

Go see the movie, and see if you agree with me.

World Devalued

The downgrading of the US credit rating by Standard and Poors this weekend has made ripples across the globe.  The Saudi Arabia stock exchange took a dive on Saturday, and the Asian markets dipped substantially.  Today, the Dow Jones average dipped 635 points, capping the worst week since 2008.

Reports are coming in that France is in deep debt and economic trouble, followed closely behind by England (where rioters are burning government buildings while I type).  The strongest of Europe's corporate national economies is Germany, and Germany does not have enough money to bail out even Greece or Ireland again, let alone the other nations to its west.  Let's not even talk about Japan.

Am I the only person whose mind this information boggles?  Fox News' Elizabeth McDonald just reported that -

"China’s debt-to-GDP ratio is worse than the United States’ ratio. It is worse than insolvent Portugal, which is now relying heavily on the European Central Bank for help, and had to go to the International Monetary Fund to get a financial bailout.

So, let me get this straight - the largest holder of the US's $14.2 trillion (and growing) national debt is China, and China is practically insolvent (who wouldn't be?), then who is it that all these countries keep turning to for more and more bailout money?  The third-world countries can't bail us out.  Clearly, the answer is  -  the International Monetary Fund (IMF).  But the not-so-clear question is -  who owns the International Monetary Fund, and is it a collection of private, international bankers?  And where in the world did they get all their money from?

The amount of loose, mined gold in the world is always growing.   Manpower is growing.  Crops are growing (except in those places where there is drought or stupid, price-controlling farm subsidies).  The central banks (e.g. Federal Reserve) increase the money supply (ability to repay debt) by printing more paper money.  This devalues the paper wealth of a nation.  Every nation is having its net worth devalued.  By whom?  If all the industrialized debtor nations have had to put up their entire land area as collateral on the now virtually unrepayable debt, then they are all ripe for foreclosure, repossession.  All of this torment was created artificially through usury and currency manipulation.  you would think that the Devil wants to bring us to the point where we are all dead or at each others' throats. Is the ultimate purpose of usury to earn huge profit or to repossess the collateral?  Or is it to RULE THE WORLD ????

Does this all sound like insanity to you?  Who would repossess a western nation?  Who has taken our money and loaned it back to us at interest?  You ask - - if this has been perpetrated against all the (once) noble western nations, why don't they rise up and slay the banker bastard(s) who did it and put an end to all this deficit controversy?  Why? - - - - -

 - - - - Because they are in bed with them and have assented to the whole plan.  The politicians (and not a few of their buddies) are in on the scam.  This has been the scheme for the last five to six thousand years.

King James Bible (Revelation 14:8)
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Do scriptural prophecies tell us reliably what is awaiting us?

Who Will Win?

Banking family enters country
Wise citizens complain (Bible forbids usury)
Constitution says that nothing but gold and silver may be used for money
Bankers use great persuasion
Citizens relent
Bankers win, and bank opens for business
Citizens have pressing needs
Citizens borrow from bank
Bank demands collateral
Citizens agree
Citizens get loans
Banks demands interest (daily compounding interest)
Smart banker creates front-end loaded amortization scheme
Some citizens face hardships
Some can't keep up payment obligations
Bank seizes collateral
Citizens become poorer
Country decides to borrow from bank
Bank demands collateral
Bank tricks country into incorporating
Country agrees to sign over country as collateral
Private bank lends money to country (at interest)
Citizens themselves become collateral
Country goes to war
Bank lends more money to pay for war
Different bank lends money to enemy
War drags on
Both banks collude and win
Both countries lose
Banks lend a lot more
Interest builds up
Country gets behind on debt payments
Bank gets bright idea - - -
 - - - persuade country to let IT print the paper money
Country gives printing presses to private bank

Bank changes the name of money from "Dollar" to "Federal Reserve Note"
Country needs more money for defense and entitlements
Bank agrees to print more money
Country agrees to give bank Treasury Bills as collateral
Bank gives country worthless paper debt notes
Bank charges country (prime rate) [daily compounding] interest
Debt mounts
Banks finance more wars (WW-I, WW-II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc., etc.)

Country struggles financially
Country taxes people to pay interest on the interest
Bank prints more money to pay itself back
Government donates trillions to "poor, struggling" banks
Banks stop lending
Banks plunder Treasury (taking Trillion$$)
Banker family wants gold
Bank swaps Treasury Bills for gold
Country becomes poorer
Politicians vote to borrow more money to buy votes from poor people
Banks lend money to most countries
Most countries borrow too much for entitlements
Almost all countries become poorer
Banks use generous earnings to buy more gold (and armies and navies)
Some countries default on loans - - - (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, etc.)
Banks foreclose on defaulting countries
Banks force wealthier countries to bail out defaulting countries
Wealthier countries become poorer
Smart banker figures out how to entirely skip the step of printing paper money
Banks keep all gold and circulate useless paper notes or electronic debits to citizens
Country owes $14.3 trillion in useless paper or electronic entries to banks
Banks still not satisfied
Bank agent Bernanke issues more electronic currency to dilute the money supply (QE1 & QE2)
Other large nations start dumping dollars
Bank servant Geithner threatens default if country refuses to borrow more
Country maxes out federal credit card (reaches debt ceiling)
Banker family laughs while counting gold and entrenching power
Politicians argue over how much more money to borrow from bank
Money loses more value, prices rise commensurately, and inflation looms
President promises "green" jobs and four more years of socialism
Stock market (DJIA) goes up only because the dollar goes down 
Oblivious citizens squabble endlessly over which party to vote for
Bank doesn't care - it wins either way - after all, bank owns entire world
Millions starve
Bored students riot in the streets
Other nations conspire to stop using the dollar as the reserve currency
Bank plots to crash the currency and introduce a new global one
Devil licks his lips - prepares to repossess the whole world
 .  . . (he has made us all into thieves and wants us all to become murderers)
Jesus waits patiently . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Who will win?

Print, Baby, Print!

I read an article (video) yesterday that explained to me better than anyone has how deeply at risk is the American dollar. Until the 1940's, the British pound (Sterling) was the world's reserve currency.  After the Marshall Plan rolled out, the US Dollar became the world's reserve currency.

What does it mean to have our currency be the world's reserve currency?  It means that other countries have to buy foreign goods with dollars.  If Belgium wants to buy oil, it has to pay for it with dollars.  It buys dollars first, and then it uses the dollars to buy the oil.  So, what is the relevance of this?

Well, the U.S. can print dollars to its heart's content.  The other countries cannot.  Twice in the last few months, Ben Bernanke fired up the presses and (virtual-)printed hundreds of billions of dollars (QE1 and QE2).  When the U.S. has trouble paying the interest on its debts, Bernanke magics up new dollars to cover it (abracadabra).  Other countries are powerless because they cannot do that.  Problem is - other countries will only sit by and watch us playing this game for just so long before they figure out that the massive inflation of our money supply causes the value of the dollar to shrink.  Several large nations met recently (without us) to explore using a different currency for international transactions.  China recently significantly reduced its holdings of US dollars.

Other countries have tried to "over"-print their currency to avoid financial ruin in the past.  In 1975, Britain devalued the pound by 14% overnight.  Rather than solving problems, this brought the British economy to a standstill, and triggered a string of national wage strikes.  Yugoslavia printed itself out of existence in 1993.

If the day comes soon that the US dollar ceases to be the world's reserve currency, all of the goods we buy from overseas - oil, automobiles, food, precious metals, electronics, etc., will be calling for fair value in payment.  If our dollar has lost significant value because of over-printing, then more dollars will be demanded in payment for those same goods.  Everything will suddenly double or triple in price.  Every American will be impoverished overnight (except for those few who own precious metals).

Ask yourself - is this happening through sheer oblivion and stupid incompetence?  Is America's imminent financial ruin the result of clumsy bumbling?  --- OR --- Was it choreographed?

The globalist elite have plundered the world's silver and gold (giving us worthless paper notes in exchange).  They can print paper (or digital ledger entry) dollars, at will, to control the liquid money supply (to create booms and busts).  They have a deliberate, finely-crafted plan to change the political structure of the whole world.  They envision a (much) smaller population, one which will serve them like slaves.  The financial crash and attendant wars are a scripted part of a planned global transition.  The (Gadianton) 'One-Worlders' have flexed so much unfettered muscle for so many centuries, that they are truly confident that their plan will succeed.  After all, they already own every part of this earth.  What they forget is that the Creator of this world (Michael) is its real owner, and He has a different plan for the coming transition.  I sometimes wonder just how ripe in iniquity this world has to get before our Father will kick in His (TERRIBLE) "marvelous work and a wonder".  Evidently, He will let many or all of the prophecies of Jesus, John the Revelator, Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah, Joseph Smith and others come to fulfillment.  Why?

Apparently, it is in the crucible of crisis and adversity that God's people can be humbled and tested.  Also, when faced with awful trials or choices, their character can be measured, and the judgment/reward process can be effectuated.  So, Bernanke, print away!  Just remember that Greenbacks are non-nutritive.

Impotence

I have watched with genuine concern the protests taking place in major cities in Egypt. Regular citizens of Egyptian society have taken to the streets by the tens of thousands.  Several hundred have been killed (mostly by the police).  The army is out in force, however, it is showing great restraint and is apparently very sympathetic to the protesters.

Why are these people protesting?  Why are they so determined to get rid of President Hosni Mubarak?  Mubarak announced today that he is not seeking re-election and is willing to permit a transition of political power to a new government or new leaders.  What made the Egyptians so unhappy with Mubarak?  Was it the 20% unemployment?  Is it the vast economic gulf between the opulence of the rich and the poverty of the masses?  Surely, when tens of thousands of sincere protesters register such indignation against a corrupt dictator, his departure can now spell a new era of prosperity and success for the average Egyptian.

How much will you bet me that things will not be different one year from now?  Will Mubarak's successor implement sweeping fiscal changes and restore financial control and stability to the Egyptian economy  --  and, if not, why not?

Did Mubarak control Egypt's economy, or is it controlled by some "central" bank (like the private bank - the "Federal" Reserve in the U.S.)?  I submit to you that whoever Mubarak's successor turns out to be, he will be just as impotent as Mubarak and just as impotent as the millions of frustrated protesters to do anything to prevent the fraud and corruption of the central banking system, with its death-grip on the monetary supply, and its fractional reserve usury scam.

I am beginning to think that national usury schemes are an unavoidable disease in any telestial world.  For a season, good people hit upon the idea of using precious metals as value equivalents - as an honest measurement and medium of exchange.  Gold may be shiny and appealing - it may even have limited uses in industry, but its role as currency elevates it to a status of great importance.  I don't remember my wives saying to me - "Honey, why won't you bring us home a big chunk of zinc or nickel?".  Like silver, gold is hard to find and extract, and everyone can mutually agree on ascribing a constant value to it.  Remember that gold doesn't "grow" in value, it is simply that our paper Federal Reserve Notes shrink in value.

In a movie last night ("The Importance of Being Earnest") I saw a man holding a first-class train ticket valued at four pence (circa 1895).  Have you ever asked yourself why the value of money has to be diluted decade after decade, and who is causing it?  Could it be that when you borrow ten dollars and promise to pay back eleven dollars, that you have to work harder to find that eleventh dollar - and, when all the money in circulation has been loaned into circulation, and everybody is chasing around trying to find the "eleventh dollar" that doesn't exist, then the only solution is to PRINT MORE DOLLARS?  That's what causes inflation.  So how do you prevent runaway hyperinflation? - - easy - just create the Internal Revenue and tax all the surplus paper dollars out of circulation every spring (ever feel like you've been had?).

When a den of Gadianton robbers conspires to substitute paper bills (or notes) for real currency, there is the risk that another set of crooks will de-couple the supply of paper money from the amount of silver and gold in a country's treasury, and then the kings can easily "drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornications" (= Bible-speak for profiting off of the private usury banking scam).  Jesus Himself got pretty ticked off at those money-changers.  I wonder what He would say about inflation and deflation, and war-lending, and progressive income taxes, and Bernanke's "Quantitative Easing" (= usurer speak for printing hundreds of billions of new paper notes to mask our insolvency).

Do you look with sadness upon the effective impotence of the Egyptian protesters?  Does the Lord look with sadness upon our impotence when we cannot successfully protest the plundering of our land - His land?

Ezekiel 18:13  Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

Who holds the keys?

Bernanke: "We could raise interest rates in 15 minutes if we have to."

If you were ever under the illusion that We The People are sovereigns in this land, read the above statement again (from Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke) reported in this article.

Do we go to a polling station to vote for Bernanke or Greenspan? Why is he merely appointed (with only the charade of a token acquiescence from the President)? It's one thing to have political power, but "He who has the gold makes the rules'.

Why, "in 15 minutes", can one little Irish guy from Dillon, South Carolina, named Ben Shalom Bernanke, be vested with so much unbridled power that he can change the course of U.S. monetary policy without so much as a wink from the Senate and the House? Who votes? Who oversees these decisions? I've never seen such decisions argued in a committee of our representatives. It appears that Bernanke and his posse just do what they want when they want - the People be damned!

When the private corporation known as the "Federal" Reserve was created in 1913, it was given power to "coin" (print) our money, except that all the money it printed for us would now come to us in the form of a loan, on which we would have to pay interest. Funny thing is - it doesn't really cost the Fed a lot to print paper money - practically nothing, in fact. PLUS - we had to put up collateral to get those paper money (Federal Reserve [loan] "Notes"). What collateral? ---- Treasury Bills.

So, here's the key to the whole swindle - the Fed, which has invested NOTHING in the whole scheme, tells us the following: first - our paper "dollars" (created virtually out of thin air) are NOT redeemable for gold; secondly - it will eventually NOT accept our paper dollars as repayment for the "loan"; and thirdly - it can exchange the Treasury Bills ("T-Bills") we gave it FOR OUR GOLD. This is why Fort Knox is empty.

In truth, banks have been trying to seize control of our economy and our lifeblood since long ago (read about the Bank War in Wikipedia). When we abdicate our birthright and freedoms to a pack of "money-changers", we eventually reach a crossroads or a precipice. Perhaps a better word would be "showdown".

The adversary has some objectives: one is to control our agency; another is to make us do evil things so that our guilt will debilitate us. He resents our salvation (through Jesus) and dreads our exaltation (through the Father). Satan's goal is to subdue the entire earth. The next step is a complete dismantling of the world's economies so that all nations can be compelled to align under a single set of global, dictatorial rulers.

Who do you think holds the keys to this world? Is it Bernanke?

The World is Broke ???

Watching Fox News (again !!!) this morning, I heard spokesBarbie, Jamie Colby, announce a segment noting that "The World is Broke" !!!

Not two weeks ago, another Fox News commentator remarked that the "world is broke". Now, I am NOT an economist. I barely understand daily compounded interest. That makes me no different from the vast majority of the world's population. However, it should strike the the average lay-person that the suggestion that the "world" could be "broke" is patently absurd. . . . . . .

UNLESS - - -

Somebody has taken the world's money.

How could that happen, you ask. Well, if all currency created today is "loaned" into circulation, interest must be paid on every dollar spent. If you borrow ten dollars and promise to pay back eleven, you have to hunt for the eleventh dollar somewhere. Then, if you borrow ALL of the money that is nationally available, it gets harder and harder to find that "eleventh" dollar. . . .

UNLESS - - -

- - you print more paper dollars. Magic, right? Problem is - the more you print phony paper currency, the more you inflate/deflate the currency - causing INFLATION. Then, the only way to protect against RUNAWAY INFLATION and the crashing of the currency is to tax a good portion of those extra paper dollars out of circulation through national taxation (IRS).

So, if all of the (non-rogue) "western"-style nations are playing the same game, the result is that they all end up spending more than they produce (to support entitlement programs and wars) and they all run up heavy debts to PRIVATE banks like the "FEDERAL" Reserve and the INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND, and they face mushrooming interest burdens as the debt grows (see Greece).

Simply put, each participating nation owes more than its annual profits in debts to a private (money-changer) bank. Each nation is beholden to that private bank to periodically "bail it out" to keep government offices functioning. So if virtually all of the world's nation-corporations are insolvent and in receivership, everybody is strapped with debt, impoverished and enslaved . . . . . . . . but TO WHOM ?????

Governments pay farmers to NOT GROW certain crops. WHY ?? - in order to keep crop prices artificially propped up. Does this cause food shortages?

People complain that the world is "over-populated" - - SIX BILLION people. With six billion acres of land in Montana, that is enough for each person to have an acre.

If there are "shortages" in the world, I suspect they are contrived and manipulated. There is NO shortage of farmland (although we insult it by not practicing the land sabbath). There is no shortage of man-labor hours (especially in this period of mass unemployment). There should be no shortage of money (gold, silver, paper currency) unless someone has confiscated it. Our systems of distribution are more efficient than they have EVER been.

Besides, the law of the jubilee requires that ALL debts be forgiven every 50 years and all "corporations" be dissolved every 50 years. That way, private banks cannot exact ever-escalating usury payments from nations and bring ordinarily-free citizens to their knees.

So, here is the big question - who are these "private banks" to whom the nations owe so much money? Where do they reside? Where have they stashed all the gold and silver they have plundered from the nations? Why have all the nations simply not balked and repudiated all that debt and interest so that they can be free and prosperous again? Why have we abandoned the jubilee?

If America owes $13 trillion in debt and approximately $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities, we can NEVER get caught up. Besides, those banks will never accept the (bankrupt, worthless) Federal Reserve Notes in payment of the debt anyway. Don't think that banks don't repossess (like cars) or foreclose on (like homes) countries that get too far in debt. Foreclosing on countries always entails a regime change (see [Communist] Bolshevik Revolution, 1917). In Russia it involved regicide (killing the king [Czar Nicholas II]). You can't let the king's family rise up later and repudiate the debt!

America was once a (complex) Republic, but today it is a (simple) democracy (since the 17th Amendment). Americans often don't realize what DEMOCRACY is. It is a Greek word for "mob rule". A perfect example of a democracy is - three wolves and a pig arguing over what to eat for lunch. Either way, if "We The People" were supposed to be the sovereigns in this land, we must be deposed/overthrown for the foreclosure to be complete. The Constitution has to be completely discarded so that the new owners can reign.

The pilgrims dedicated/consecrated this land to our Savior, Jesus Christ, for His footstool. We are just stewards - "guests" on this land at His pleasure. Do Geithner, Volcker, Greenspan and Bernanke (and their handlers) think they can eventually seize this continent away from Jesus with impunity?

I think not. Keep your lamps fueled and trimmed.

Obama-Care for Kids

I watched the congressional antics last Saturday on C-SPAN. At stake was the proposed passage of the Obama/Reid/Pelosi Health Care Reform bill. Congressman John Boehner did a good job of highlighting the pernicious provisions of the latest version of the bill. The bill passed by two votes.

Today I stumbled across an August 2009 blogpost which discussed a provision in the health care bill that calls for "mandated reporters". These are people who would come to your home under government auspices and regularly check up on your young children. For more details, read -

http://cpscorruption.blogspot.com/2009/08/obamacare-send-in-social-workers.html

The blogger is obviously passionate about this topic - but SO AM I !!!

Here's the thing - our nation is utterly ruined. If a 22-year-old single woman with no kids can waltz into my home and pretty much decide (based on my attitude, or my religion, or my home-schooling, or my home-birthing, or my use of natural healing) that my kids are "at-risk" and probably need to be removed, then this Republic is cooked, and everything the Framers lived and died for is gone. IT IS JUST SIMPLY TOO MUCH UNFETTERED POWER!

Try having ONE of your kids taken (let alone 10!). You don't sleep. You can hardly work. Your stress level goes sky-high. You would honestly gladly agree to spend five years in prison rather than have the government permanently remove any of your kids. So therein lies the power. If Obama can hold the specter of the threat of removal of one of your kids over your head, then you are powerless. Your sense of powerlessness and frustration is 100%. No wonder they are also talking about doing away with the Second Amendment.

A good friend sent me a link to a video about the stunning extent of the corruption in our current government/banking machine. It tells the story infinitely more eloquently than I ever could.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU

Methinks they want even more than just our kids. I am reminded of the promise/threat given to Lehi 2600 years ago -

7 Wherefore, this land is consecrated unto him whom he shall bring. And if it so be that they shall serve him according to the commandments which he hath given, it shall be a land of liberty unto them; wherefore, they shall never be brought down into captivity; if so, it shall be because of iniquity; for if iniquity shall abound cursed shall be the land for their sakes, but unto the righteous it shall be blessed forever.

8 And behold, it is wisdom that this land should be kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations; for behold, many nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for an inheritance.

9 Wherefore, I, Lehi, have obtained a promise, that inasmuch as those whom the Lord God shall bring out of the land of Jerusalem shall keep his commandments, they shall prosper upon the face of this land; and they shall be kept from all other nations, that they may possess this land unto themselves. And if it so be that they shall keep his commandments they shall be blessed upon the face of this land, and there shall be none to molest them, nor to take away the land of their inheritance; and they shall dwell safely forever.

10 But behold, when the time cometh that they shall dwindle in unbelief, after they have received so great blessings from the hand of the Lord—having a knowledge of the creation of the earth, and all men, knowing the great and marvelous works of the Lord from the creation of the world; having power given them to do all things by faith; having all the commandments from the beginning, and having been brought by his infinite goodness into this precious land of promise—behold, I say, if the day shall come that they will reject the Holy One of Israel, the true Messiah, their Redeemer and their God, behold, the judgments of him that is just shall rest upon them.

11 Yea, he will bring other nations unto them, and he will give unto them power, and he will take away from them the lands of their possessions, and he will cause them to be scattered and smitten. (Book of Mormon - II Nephi 9)

THIS ALSO REMINDS ME OF GOD'S PROMISE/THREAT in Deuteronomy 28 - (take particular note of verse 41)

¹And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

²And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

³Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

⁴Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

⁵Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

⁶Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

⁷The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

⁸The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

⁹The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.

¹⁰And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.

¹¹And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

¹²The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

¹³And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

¹⁴And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

¹⁵But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

¹⁶Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

¹⁷Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

¹⁸Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

¹⁹Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

²⁰The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

²¹The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

²²The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

²³And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

²⁴The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

²⁵The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

²⁶And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

²⁷The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

²⁸The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:

²⁹And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

³⁰Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

³¹Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.

³²Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.

³³The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:

³⁴So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

³⁵The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

³⁶The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

³⁷And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

³⁸Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

³⁹Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

⁴⁰Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

⁴¹Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

⁴²All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

⁴³The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

⁴⁴He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

⁴⁵Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

⁴⁶And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

⁴⁷Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

⁴⁸Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

⁴⁹The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

⁵⁰A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

⁵¹And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

⁵²And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

⁵³And 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, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

⁵⁴So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

⁵⁵So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

⁵⁶The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

⁵⁷And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

⁵⁸If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;

⁵⁹Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

⁶⁰Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

⁶¹Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

⁶²And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.

⁶³And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.

⁶⁴And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

⁶⁵And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

⁶⁶And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:

⁶⁷In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

⁶⁸And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

I think verses 43 and 44 are referring to Bernanke . . . .