American character of failure.

America is a xenophobic nation of aggressors; it is driven to invade, but can never conquer.
In many ways, America is, or represents in practice, the rubbish heap of the aggression which drove the Roman Empire to expand and spread, but never unify.
China represents a somewhat opposite force -- invaded, it accepted the calendar and drive toward Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding which brought about its culture; it then expanded to its natural borders and created a unified population which could still self-identify by geographical region of origin. in many ways, we can see China as a working model of the biblical THIRTEEN TRIBES -- the twelve tribes of territorial identity and the administrative/religious tribe of the nobility.
This same structure appears in the twelve temple districts of India ... again with an apparent expansion to natural borders and a cessation of Romanesque aggression.
Does this pattern apply to all nations?
Or is there another pattern emerging?
Africa seems to be a continent without nations, as does South America. These two regions appear to be very tribal without the driving aggression to unify; even where we see violent irrational aggression, as in Africa, it is just that -- irrational, misdirected, and ultimately suicidal in a manner associated with what is now seen as Arab/Islamic terrorism.
American and jihadist terrorism seem to be related irrational emotional outbursts in which both represent a form of personal emotional eruption -- the African-Islamist being that normally associated with criminal gangs; racist (KKK comes to mind) outbursts of the type associated with, and defining, the Inquisition; or the anti-intellectualism which sees the destruction of books and/or the architectural remains of ancestral civilization's. All are forms of individual human emotion lifted to a societal level and seen in every nation as a self-destructive explosion... in China it occurred in 300-200bce and again in the 1970s and 80s with "the ten bad years"; we saw it with the Nazis and Christian book burnings; we are seeing in with the Islamic State destruction of the great statues and cities of the early Middle Eastern region.
Many of us recognize the outburst, on a personal level, in past burning, or disposing of, creative works and compilations of books or libraries amassed by ourselves or family members.
For various reasons, we clear away the past to start anew. This can be either positive or negative - only time, and emerging regret for an irreplaceable loss, or unreliable damage, can reveal that the result is negative in nature.
On both a personal and societal level there is also the lack of regret, the lack of remorse, for an act of rage -- or planned intent motivated by subliminal rage, denied racism, or self-hatred -- this manifests in the spreading destruction which ultimately damages only the enraged individual, group, or nation/society.
America has reached that point in its history. More specifically, the American Confederate South has reached that point. In the South, race hatred combined with religious bigotry aimed at opposing the very religion they claim to follow, has brought on an expression of hatred which effectively targets themselves.
In the guise of Republicanism, we see assertions of "fiscal responsibility" followed by acts of waste and gross fiscal irresponsibility with the hallmark borrow and spend approach to life -- or living beyond ones means -- which characterizes the Nobelman in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. We see the "evil Jew", the banker/moneylender as the titled character, when it is actually the high living nobleman who is the merchant whose multiple ships seem to spread the risk, until all are lost to different causes in the same period.
In America, those most depended upon the programs under Republican Tea Party attack are the constituents of the attackers -- those living in the Southern, and non-Southern, Republican States. As with the Nobel merchant, these States are dependent on a single asset - for him, ships, for them, oil.
The issue is one of survival. Failing to survive, it becomes an issue of the extent of secondary damage. When the nobleman adulterer and fell, he destroyed the Jew; when the South/Republican falls, he will bring down America.
Curiously, Shakespeare's Jew might well have emerged from the events, even though the court had seized all he had. The Jews of Spain and later Europe, survived by going elsewhere - Shakespeare would have know that, just as he knew all the noble houses which fell never to arise again.
America is on the brink of falling. In truth, it's world position was the result of it being isolated from the devastation of the World Wars. But it then made the mistake of thinking itself a military force -- yet we see that, when acting alone, or as the aggressor, America has yet to win any conflict... it exists because an ocean separated it from Britain, and because the British relied on Prussian mercenaries who had no desire to return to the oppression which marketed their native land. America did not win, Britain lost.
In the Civil War, the South was dependent upon the North - as it still is today - and so could not win. But the North was not really equipped to defeat the South; yet one had to win, so it was the one best equipped intellectually to survive ... and that was, and remains, the North.
America is still, in many regards, fighting the Civil War. It is a land divided against itself with a suicidal South matching the suicidal behaviors of Jihad Terrorism ... expressing bigoted anger via self-destruction.
Israel and Judaism represent the Messiah, in the South, as in Jihad, antisemitism and opposition to the text which is defining of the core belief, are driving forces.
Both Bible and Koran state a Jewish Messiah, worshipping the Jewish deity, is to be the leader, and Israel his nation.
Thus the Jihadists attack and swear to destroy Israel in service to the "king of Israel" and kill themselves so they can kill their own women and children and the faithful on the way to pray at the mosque.
The Southern Republican waves the Bible, which dictates feeding the hungry, supporting the poor, the aged, the orphaned, and caring for the sick ... they wave the Bible and then,attack all the programs designed to meet its demands. Moreover, the book warns that they who live by the sword will die by it, and that one should avoid debt, so, naturally, their fiscal program is based on borrowing to fund a military which cannot even keep children (much less terrorists motivated to do so) from crossing its borders.
Finally, the book says to welcome strangers into the land and treat them properly - as you would your own - so naturally, those waving the book attack immigrants and ignore the reality that theirs is a nation which canning survive, would not even exist, if it,were not for immigrants.
DEATH OVER LIFE, A PROPHECY OF AMERICAN DESTRUCTION which is also, apparently, in the book they wave.

Republicans Support Jihad

Chain of events:

1990’s Bin Laden – a member of a Saudis Business family close to the Royal Family, and individual trained in terrorism by the Reagan CIA -- declares Saddam Hussein and the American Economy targets of destruction.

Clinton Era – George Bush Sr is paid millions by a Saudis owned and operated Canadian firm … job … no-show, …no-work … “consulting”

2000/1 George Bush gives VISAs to the twenty Bin Laden Terrorists who will eventually destroy the NYC World Trade Center complex and attempt the destruction of Pentagon – interestingly, the plane supposedly destined for destruction of the White House is only one not to reach its target.  Also of interest – George W. Bush had important business to attend to on September 11th: reading a book, The Pet Goat, with second-graders in Emma T. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, ostensibly to promote his "education program".

Thus, coincidently, Bush was a thousand miles away from the danger.

Of that morning, Bush stated: “And I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, 'There's one terrible pilot.' And I said, 'It must have been a horrible accident.' But I was whisked off there -- I didn't have much time to think about it."

Then, a few minutes later, at 9:06, as Bush sat in front of the class, Andrew Card approached him whispered something into his ear, taking less than two seconds. He is supposed to have told Bush that a second plane hit the towers. Some say Bush looked momentarily befuddled, he did not ask his staff for further details, but actually reacted as if he had just been told things were going according to plan.  He remained seated and read out loud with the kids for at least eight more minutes, not leaving the classroom until 9:16.

Needing Congressional approval for a military action, Bush then declares Bin Laden “WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE” – receives the authority, declares Bin Laden “IRRELEVANT” to the ‘War on Terror’ – even though there was a video of Bin Laden boasting of planning the attack, but being surprised that the buildings came down.  Apparently they were only intended to be damaged – which would still have given Bush the excuse he needed to begin an operation to kill Saddam Hussein … which was, after all, the Saudis objective … as set down by Bin Laden in the 90’s … and for which, Bush Sr appears to have received payment with regard to his ‘Desert Storm’ operation.

We should recall that Bush support of Terrorism and Murder is not knew – Prescott Bush, father and grandfather to the Bush Presidents, actively financed the Nazis against the Jews.   A stated objective of the various Jihad Terrorist organizations, of which al Qaeda is just one, is the extermination of Israel and world Jewry.   Thus, it appears that – the sins of the father pass unto the third generation [Exodus 20:5;  Numbers 14:18] – is being honored by the Bush boys … and would probably be further honored by a President Jeb Bush.

As for Jeb Bush, one might profit from examining his days as Governor of Florida to see how his underlings might have attack Jews, Blacks and Homosexuals – obviously he couldn’t go as far as Hitler, but he might well have gone as far as he could get away with.

Remembering that we have the video of Jr’s reaction and the subsequent events; realizing that their complicity would come forward, a year later, on 9 September 2002, Card told Brian Williams on NBC News: “I pulled away from the president, and not that many seconds later, the president excused himself from the classroom, and we gathered in the holding room and talked about the situation.” In an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on September 11, Card said that, after he had informed Bush about the second attack, the president “looked up—it was only a matter of seconds, but it seemed like minutes. . . . And he just excused himself very politely to the teacher and to the students and he left.”

Thus we have the classic Republican tactic of a lie to cover the complicity in the destruction, or problem.  Bush would go on to construct the situation needed for the 2007/2008 Financial collapse related to the ‘Housing Bubble’.

Thus he has achieved the second of the two Bin Laden objectives – destroy the American Economy.  Question: Is there any ‘visible’ evidence of Bush having, like his father, received a gratuity from the Saudis?  Has any company owned by his family received a contract or payment?  Has he received any ‘consulting fees’ which can be traced back to Saudis sources or connections?

One of the central questions raised by the Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Commission was: “Why was President Bush permitted by the Secret Service to remain in the Sarasota elementary school where he was reading to children?”  The answer would be simple – if Bush,  knew the attack were coming and why, they would know there was no real threat to the President – the plane that crashed might even have been crashed by a terrorist charged with making it appear that the passengers rebelled.  Those in the cockpit would NOT have needed to be informed – after all, they had already signed on to die, why would they need to know that they were never intended to reach their objective?

A Wall Street Journal story in March 2004, “Government Accounts of 9/11 Reveal Gaps, Inconsistencies,” was one of the few stories in the mainstream press to report on contradictions in the official story of 9/11. When the Journal asked the White House about the contradictions about the Sarasota event in particular, spokesman Dan Bartlett, not trying to defend the White House’s revisionist version, confirmed that Bush had remained in the classroom for at least seven minutes after receiving the report of the second crash. Bush did not leave immediately, Bartlett said, because his “instinct was not to frighten the children by rushing out of the room.”

But would the children actually have been ‘scared’ if the President were called out on ‘Presidential Business’?  Bush couldn’t simply look at the teacher, say “something has come up which I need to deal with”, and then simply excuse himself … as he would later do when he finished reading the story?

Of course, 6 August 2001, Junior received a classified Presidential Daily intelligence briefing at his ranch in Crawford, Texas – it was entitled: "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US."  So the Secrete Service and President KNEW the attack was in the works – but the Bush Oil Family works with the Saudis Oil Family, and Saddam Hussein was bad for business.  Now, a decade later, the oil industry is exporting oil – when America has limited resources that should be preserved as a part of national security.  If successful, America will have depleted its reserves around the same time that the Jihadists assume control of the Middle Eastern oil field and expand their Jihad into Europe.

Saint Paul's Joke: 'The Punch Line's A Killer'

If prophecy were true, than Pope Francis I is the last of the Malachy Popes and will see the destruction of Rome.  Now we consider that he was born 17 December 1936 thus he is now (17 Aug 2014) 77 years old – can we expect him to be 87?  If so, Rome must be destroyed before Aug  2024 – and if we Google 2024, we find al kinds of predictions from the scientific community.  Plus there are the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, the 2024 Summer Olympics – so there is something potentially positive, if no terrorists attack it.

Rainy days and Mondays always get ya down – right – and 2024 starts on a Monday; 8 April – Total solar eclipse (Central Pacific Ocean, northern Mexico, eastern, southwestern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Atlantic Ocean).

But I’ll push the idea that we will see the problem begin with the results of the coming November 2014 American mid-term elections.  If Tea Party types win, they can act directly to destroy things; if they lose, they can block actions until the 2016 elections and the exit of Obama.  Either way, we can see the prophecy in Revelation fulfilled – if you believe in such things, or are among those who argue the literal and divine nature of scripture.

Death Over Life: Secret of Revelation:

A Prophecy of America's Destruction

I'd Rather Be Right is a musical with a book by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and music byRichard Rodgers.  It premiered on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on November 2, 1937, and ran for 290 performances.

From HG Wells “APPENDIX III. — THE FALL IN AMERICA, 1937”, Published in Collier's, January 28th, 1938:

The depression that has struck America this autumn has been the most surprising thing in the world. It has been like the unaccountable failure of an engine. The wheels that had been spinning so busily slowed down until now the spokes are visible, and nobody on earth seems to know when they will pick up again or even whether they will pick up again. I came over to America once in the season of hope and hardship when President Franklin Roosevelt was newly in the White House. I thought then that he and Stalin were the most eventful persons in the world. They are both in their successes, such as they are, and in their human shortcomings, cardinal men. The old private-property money system was showing signs of age and an imminent breakdown. A new order was indicated as plainly in America as Russia. The New Deal, I assumed, was to be a real effective reconstruction of economic relationships and the Brain Trust was to get together and tell us how. I was particularly keen at that time to see and sample what I could of the Brain Trust, that improvised council of informed and constructive men which had to modernise and re-equip a staggering modern community. I found it a trifle incoherent. I went afterwards to Russia to talk to Gorky and Stalin about the absolute necessity for free discussion if a social order is to be effectively reconstituted. But Gorky I found grown old, fame-bitten and under the spell of Stalin, and Stalin, whom I liked, has never breathed free air in his life and did not know what it meant. When I revisited the President in 1935 things were asway and rather confusing. Now they are clearer. The New Deal was a magnificent promise, and it evoked a mighty volume of hope. Now that hope has been dissipated. Mass-hope is the most wonder-working gift that can come into the hands of a popular leader. The mass-hope of world peace at the end of the Great War, the mass-hope of the Russian revolution and the mass-hope of the New Deal were great winds of opportunity. But these great winds of opportunity do not wait for ships to be built or seamen to . learn navigation. They pass; they are not to be recalled. As I flew now over sunlit America and noted the traffics of life ebbing again below, and realised that that great capital of hope was nearly spent, I found the riddle of how people will behave, get past or stand up to, what is coming to them this year, a problem very difficult to contemplate in a sunlit manner. More and more of them will be short of food and shelter this winter—with no end in sight and nothing of the trustfulness that staved of disaster, perhaps only temporarily, in 1934.

For those who don’t know, “I’d Rather Be Right” was about a little know character named Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945) who had misfortune to be President of the United States [now, in internet jargon POTUS] from 4 March 1933 to 12 April 1945.  Thus he was president for the first year of my life — the years in which the old age ended and the current end began.

World War Two, the Second, and possibly only truly Great War in history – unbeknownst to HG Well at the time of his writing -- lasted from 1 September 1939 to 2 September 1945, and, as I have doubtless said before, and doubtless will again, made the circumstances responsible for my existence possible.  But that is neither here, nor there.  The fact remains, we are in a situation of Jihadist making – with the power of corruption as its tool.

What value Christian Prophecy?

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Date Line April 23, 2007

Democracy? Is it something an evangelical should promote? There is a mystic voice speaking in western culture; it is not always listened to, sometimes it is denied, but always it remains.

What is that voice? It is the voice of religious belief and doctrine. It is also the voice of Christian hypocrisy, ignorance and stupidity.

The sole thing which can be relied upon? Evangelical Christians will cause the downfall of America and western civilization.

I could make that case; but history makes it so much better.

It is not necessary to recount all the superstitious beliefs and actions which go contrary to the teachings Christians attribute to Jesus; it is sufficient to ask that one actually demonstrate the three elements evidencing a contact with the Sprit of G-d ... these being Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding.

Proverbs 2:6 states, “For the Lord giveth wisdom, out of his mouth cometh knowledge and discernment.” (Judaic Masoretic text) It is an interesting distinction, “Understanding” verses “Discernment.”

Translations render synonymous “the cognitive condition of someone who understands” and “The act or process of exhibiting keen insight and good judgment. Keenness of insight and judgment.”

What is this last element of the spirit? Surely none have a problem with knowledge, or even wisdom, but how to discern understanding?
Understanding is that “AH-HA!” moment when the concept and reality are internalized. We know, even if we cannot actually express that knowledge in words.

Discernment! Discernment is seeing that something is there to know. It is seeing beyond the consensus of small minds and the repetition of the ignorant as shown through their reliance on meaningless ritual.

Worse, they assert promises based on prophecy; and yet fail to see the fulfilment, or the threat. In the case of The Book of Revelation, the promise if a thousand year kingdom under Christ.

A thousand years? Hum? If we said the Reformation began in earnest (in 1517) with Martin Luther, the rule of the Vicar of Christ (the Pope) could be said to have begun (in 517) a thousand years earlier.

If we hold the beginning to be (in 413) with the Council of Ephesus, or the Council of Chalcedon (in 451), than we must look ahead a thousand years (1413-1451) for the first signs of the demise of Christ’s Kingdom, or Rule.

In 1413, the Pope chartered The University of St Andrews, the oldest University in Scotland, and set the stage for the spread of a Protestant Reformation in Britain. Symbolically, to mark the end of an era begun with a call to Judgment, in 1451, Roger van der Weyden paints his Last Judgement.

Ah if symbolic efforts were sufficient; but it would be fifty years to the birth of Henry VIII who brought an end to Papist England.

But it was most certainly Martin Luther who fulfilled the prophecy of Revelation. Luther, per his writings, was an anti-Semite who was also anti-Judaic; thus he was an anti-Christ. Obviously; for was not Jesus both Semitic and Judaic, and the fulfillment of Judaic Scripture?

Martin Luther asserted that Jews' homes should be destroyed, their synagogues and schools burned, money confiscated, and rights and liberties curtailed.

All who seek to place themselves above Jews are in fact subordinating Jesus; thus all his Philosophical heirs (known today as Protestants or Evangelicals) are, based upon The Book of Revelation, anti-Christ.

Now that is a shocking assertion to many, and a clear “ah-ha” to many others. But here is another: Those who see the reign of Christ as being in the future, and who pray for it to begin, are seeking the beginning of a Kingdom under a physical king.

Those who proclaim the belief the prophecy lies in the future, rather it having been fulfilled and document by past history, are asserting that they are opposed to Democracy and the democratic process.

We cannot have an all powerful king, and meaningful Parliament as well. We cannot have a King and President at all; by the very nature of their assertion of literal and controlling scriptural content, those people (you know them) are opposed to American and must, therefore, engineer its destruction.
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