In my twenties (early 1980s) I became enlightened
that the Democratic Party had moved to a political place that placed its moral
make-up and stealth support of Socialist principles were antithetic to the
Founding Fathers’ vision of a Constitutional Republic.
And so, I abandoned supporting the political party my family
insured was the way of thinking that saved America from the poverty of the
Great Depression (circa
1929 through the 1930s decade). My Grandparents and mother lived
through that devastating economic period in America. (I have since learned
that Franklin Roosevelt’s policies may not have been as saving as my
Grandparents and Parents were led to believe. But that is another story.)
As a former Dem I didn’t exactly embrace Ronald Reagan in
the 1980 voting cycle. I fell for the line that Reagan was such a Hawk, he
would push the nuke buttons ushering in WWIII. And I was so disenchanted with
President Carter, there was no way I would vote for him. In 1980 I went Third
Party. I voted for Ed Clark of the
Libertarian Party.
In those days Ayn Rand writings were very influential among
Libertarians thus that was my introduction into Randian Philosophy. I was
addicted to all things Ayn Rand.
By 1980 I had been a Christian for two years. In case you
didn’t know it, Christian Morality and Randian ethics influencing moral
thinking do
not line up well. You can guess the longer I have been a Christian,
the more I gravitated away from an extreme affinity to Randian Objectivism
Philosophy. And yet I still like Rand’s economic principles.
As such you should be aware Rand was a staunch Capitalist
and very combative against Socialism and Communism. Ayn Rand was born into
Czarist Russia in 1905. She endured the travesty of the Bolshevik (Communist)
Revolution. She managed to complete her education and find a way to get out of
the USSR in 1925 one year of graduating from a college in St. Petersburg (then
Petrograd – later Leningrad then back to St. Petersburg). Rand passed away
in America 3/6/1982. (Ayn Rand Lexicon bio)
I stumbled onto a lecture provided by Ayn Rand herself on
Capitalism:
This 1967 lecture is Ayn Rand’s
flagship talk on capitalism. In it she explains in depth what capitalism is,
why it is often misunderstood and why it is the only social system consonant
with man’s nature. She discusses the philosophical and ethical roots of
capitalism, and contrasts them with the moral-philosophic doctrines that lead
to rule by force. She then discusses progress under capitalism and how it is
fundamentally different from the so-called progress of a statist society. Along
the way, Rand takes up such questions as:
• What is the essence of man’s nature?
• What is the fundamental basis
for the concept of individual rights?
• How is capitalism consonant with
man’s nature? Why are other social systems not consonant with it?
• Why is serving “the common good”
not a sound principle for governing a free society?
• What are the different
perspectives on “the good,” and how do they inform people’s views on what
constitutes a proper social system?
• What has been the ethical basis
of all tyrannies in history?
• Who prospers on a free market?
• How does a free market unleash
man’s creative abilities?
• What is so often misunderstood
about progress under capitalism?
This talk is excerpted from Rand’s
substantially longer and more comprehensive essay of the same name. Students
interested in mastering Rand’s views on capitalism are encouraged to study the
full essay, available here, in addition to enjoying this course.
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based on Ayn Rand's books and ideas, to a variety of audiences, including
students, educators, policymakers and lifelong learners. ARI also engages in
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The pseudonymous Tony Newbill left two comments that had very little to do with his comment line of thinking to the post “New Anti-Semitic Film All the Rage in Turkey”. That post was about a Jew-hatred film circulating Turkey that the Turkish government endorses more than repudiates.
Newbill’s comments center around a wealth management product being promoted that promises a plan that will help Joe American to develop a strategy to remain solvent after a global Leftist elites set in course an economic collapse that will trigger a 25 year economic depression. The second Newbill comment are his thoughts about Eco-Marxists utilizing a Climate Change ideology that is designed for the emergence of a Central Government management of society that will suppress basic Liberties Americans take for granted. This Climate Change ideology INCLUDES a forced depopulation agenda.
The second Newbill comment is fairly understandable with Newbill links which include –cough- TED Talk propaganda clips. The first Newbill comment I think needs a bit more elaboration or at least I thought so since I have never heard of the CIA’s Project Prophecy used to predict future catastrophes.
When I first started search engine explorations of the existence of a CIA program called Project Prophecy I was a bit concerned all links seemed to point to Jim Rickards as a CIA inside-man that worked on the original Project Prophecy. All those links are all about the marketing video Tony Newbill links to either as part of marketing promotion or from Conspiracy Theory websites that fact-minded people tend to pooh-pooh because of the source.
In that search I actually found a Youtube version of marketing version produced though by the company marketing Project Prophecy 2.0 which claims to utilized the old CIA tools for personal wealth management in a dangerous and gloomy future economy. I will post that Youtube video (about 45 minutes) if you wish to watch the whole thing. It actually is quite interesting. For those of you who desire a shorter taste of Money Morning video here is a 16 minute examination of the Rickard assertions including short clips from the original that doesn’t endorse the Project Prophecy 2.0 findings but neither does it refute.
I did find a non-marketing blog who calls himself COGwriter (a pseudonym for Bob Thiel) a Ph.D. holder and a Pastor in the Continuing Church of God (CCOG). Some people (including myself) may question some of Bob Thiel’s theology, but I believe his focus on Denominational theological matters separates himself from the typical Conspiracy Theorists pooh-poohed by the show-me-the-facts-Jack individual. So here are some insights COGwriter’s blog Church of God News:
A reader sent me a link to a video about something called ‘Project Prophecy’ and the view of a former participant, Jim Rickards (who says he once worked for the CIA) who believes that the USA is going to end up with the collapse of the USA dollar as the world’s reserve currency and that it is subject to a 25 year depression. He also advocated books, lectures, a newsletter, and other things that I did not purchase, nor am I promoting them here.
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Here is some information from a related website about ‘Project Prophecy’:
Project Prophecy was to develop a system or systems that could in effect foretell a terrorist act in the United States or world wide by looking for anomalous stock market trades that would profit heavily by betting on an unforeseen (to most) terrorist event to occur. For instance, if a peculiar or odd amount of trades were placed saying that the stock of a particular cruise-ship company was going to go down dramatically, the U.S. government could place assets and surveillance on the ships etc. of that company to be on the lookout for terrorism, and hopefully stop the act before it was able to be executed. Also, by tracing back the questionable stock market trades, the government might be able to see who knew what at what time and perhaps track down the responsible terrorists in this fashion. Get the idea?
Project Prophecy Is Shelved
Jim Rickards and the team working on Project Prophecy were successful. They built a system that monitored hundreds of stocks and companies that they considered vulnerable to terrorist activity and financial gain. In fact, the system they built predicted the thwarted attack on an American airline company which was quashed by New Scotland Yard. The terrorist’s ostensible plan was to blow up a few international flights, the ones with the most Americans on board. While Project Prophecy was not a part of stopping the attack, the data and corresponding happenings did show that their thinking and programming was working. Unfortunately, as you might expect, the very government that envisioned, conceived, planned, paid for, and executed Project Prophecy, shelved project Prophecy. Not because it did not work, but perhaps because it worked too well.
Project Prophecy Breathes Again, But Under A Different Name
Project Prophecy was resurrected after a time. This time it was known as MARKINT. MARKINT was a derivation of project prophecy. However, rather than focus narrowly on terrorist activities, MARKINT used technology to track nearly any kind of trade that might be harmful or be seen as financial warfare in the markets. After all, the U.S. government realized that financial warfare, or currency warfare, was the new battlefield, and they needed intelligence. http://www.itmtrading.com/why-invest-in-gold-part-three/
The video itself has a screen showing symbols of 16 US government agencies with intelligence branches that Jim Rickard says are concerned about the impact on the USA if the dollar ceases to be the world’s reserve currency. Another screen shows the statement, “THE FALL OF THE DOLLAR AS THE GLOBAL RESERVE CURRENCY.”
Jim Rickards states that one or more US government agencies are “lying to us” and that the economy is in much worse shape than government officials let on or that many politicians truly realize. He explains why there could be a 25 year depression, based upon historical information and charts and current information and charts [Blog Editor: Here is a PDF document of some of those charts, etc.]. He claims that, “Debt is now destroying economic growth.”
Actually, it is worse than that. Debt accumulation is setting the USA up for destruction according to biblical prophecy.
The Bible teaches the … READ THE REST of post melding Rickards’ theories with CCOG Bible prophecies (‘Project Prophecy’ 25 Year Depression; By COGwriter; Church of God News; 10/15/14)
Well, that should set you up in a good position of better understanding of Tony Newbill’s first comment.
Below are the two edited (spellcheck and me as the Editor) comments without title but with the original link in the dates for the originals.
Check this out here’s why we are watching tyranny evolve in the USA and no one is doing a damn thing about it, while all the politicians are enriching themselves as fast as they can before this tidal wave comes crashing in on our shores. I bet some kind of false flag event takes place before this, like an Iranian takeover of the Middle East. ***When you click to close the page it will go to a read page. If you click stay on page and there are lots of graphs to help explain the economic state we are in. My Question is with all the majority of broke people living pay check to pay check in the USA: How in the hell did this Debt get so out of control??????
[***Blog Editor: Link is to infomercial entitled, “FORGET IRAN, IRAQ, UKRAINE: THIS IS WHERE WWIII STARTS...”
As of 5/21/15 the above link that takes you to a video does not offer the choices Newbill describes – or at least not on my browser. However, there is a small rectangle box with the words “Claim Your Free Copy of The Project Prophecy 2.0 action plan”. That link is: https://purchases.moneymappress.com/MMRBSSH39PPM3/LMMRR4BE/index.htm?pageNumber=2&h=true. The hook is the word “Free,” but in reality it is a purchase a product page. The page still implies something is free but free stops on 5/22/15. That happens to be the day I’m actually posting Newbill’s conspiracy thoughts. I can’t give an assurance that either of those links will work by the time you click. So below the copyright info that is below from the video page I’m going to give the highlights of the info that I am guessing is alarming Tony Newbill. I’m only posting pertinent info and not the buy hype.]
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The Project Prophecy 2.0 WEALTH SYSTEM
By Jim Rickards
Financial Threat and Asymmetric Warfare Advisor CIA & The Director of National Intelligence
I'm Jim Rickards, and I want to thank you for viewing my video today.
There's no doubt that America's economy is teetering on disaster. We're up against a systemic financial crisis that shows no signs of reversing.
People who've worked their adult lives could lose everything if they don't take a few critical steps today.
That's why I'm compelled to do something urgent to help...
And it's why I've teamed up with Money Morning and its Chief Investment Strategist, Keith Fitz-Gerald.
…
Warren Buffett has been quietly building a $55.5 billion stockpile of Berkshire Hathaway capital...
In the months leading up to this bold move, Buffett had already allocated an additional $4.6 billion to investments in rail and utilities.
Now he's targeted energy infrastructure, liquid natural gas production, and leaders in farm equipment manufacturing.
George Soros recently increased his short position on the S&P 500 from $299 million to $2.2 billion.
And he's gone "all in" on agriculture and farmland... Argentinian shale oil... and natural gas from the Eastern U.S.
Altogether, Soros has added 182 new holdings to his portfolio. (Do you know which ones?)
As my predictions unfold, he could well become the wealthiest man on the planet – while others are losing their shirts.
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Sincerely,
Jim Rickards Financial Threat and Asymmetric Warfare Advisor CIA & The Director of National Intelligence
[Blog Editor: Well, that’s it. The rest of the lengthy page is purchase hype to acquire their resources to help secure your money portfolio. There is a lot more info in the video. I actually downloaded the video but I can’t post it anywhere because of copyright guidelines.]
For 50 years the environmental movement has unsuccessfully argued that we should save the planet for moral reasons, that there were more important things than money. Ironically, it now seems it will be money -- through the economic impact of climate change and resource constraint -- that will motivate the sweeping changes necessary to avert catastrophe.
The reason is we have now reached a moment where four words -- the earth is full -- will define our times. This is not a philosophical statement; this is just science based in physics, chemistry and biology. There are many science-based analyses of this, but they all draw the same conclusion -- that we're living beyond our means.
The eminent scientists of the Global Footprint Network, for example, calculate that we need about 1.5 Earths to sustain this economy. In other words, to keep operating at our current level, we need 50% more Earth than we've got.
In financial terms, this would be like always spending 50% more than you earn, going further into debt every year. But of course, you … (The Earth is full; By Paul Gilding; CNN; 4/8/12)
Here’s a direct attack on Capitalism and the reason why. Remember they created the why. Inequality exists with tax and trade policies knowing that it would lead to the reason they are giving us a Central Government takeover of free markets:
Paul Tudor Jones II loves capitalism. It's a system that has done him very well over the last few decades. Nonetheless, the hedge fund manager and philanthropist is concerned that a laser focus on profits is, as he puts it, "threatening the very underpinnings of society." In this thoughtful, passionate talk, he outlines his planned counter-offensive, which centers on the concept of "justness."
This is why most of Obama’s Czars and Obama himself are willing to attack the Capitalist system and want to have a Central Government controlling most of the rate of consumption to save earth’s resources and climate change from Overpopulation. The problem is coming out and making this kind of change to a world society’s economic system that’s always been for hope for the future both in quality of life and prosperity to a collective system that would start a worldwide civil war. So instead they are slow walking us into this by creating one free market crisis after another and making statements that suggest Capitalism is a failing system that never has worked and eventually we all will begin to think it is a failing system and be willing to convert to a Collective system under the UN Agenda 21 system.
Throw in a few Currency Wars between nations and a Hyper-Inflation event on the cost of Living and BOOM, you have the Fundamental Transformation [Obama promised]!!!!!!!!
Their Plan is to transcend into an Oppressive state that Zeros the Growth across the Board, Earth's Population Limit Exceeded and a White House Adviser Says:
Earth's Population Limit Exceeded, White House Adviser Says
By Live Science Staff
March 31, 2009 06:42pm ET
LiveScience.com
Nina Fedoroff, science and technology adviser to Condoleezza Rice in the last administration and now to Hillary Clinton, tells the BBC that humans have exceeded the Earth's "limits of sustainability."
"We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people," Fedoroff said. Meanwhile, we need to manage water and wild land better, she said.
They think there are too many of us on earth and are setting us up for depopulation with less access to quality of life, essentials while telling us they are fighting for we poor little people. The slight-of-hand tactic in Politics today and why we cannot tell the 2 political parties apart as well as the rest of the world’s leaders for that matter!!!!!!!
Rick Joyner is a Minister of the Gospel who leans toward the Charismatic and Prophetic strains of Protestant Christianity. Joyner is either heralded for his insights or disdained as a heretic for his point of the Holy Bible. Here is a simple biography from the website that is part of MorningStar Ministries:
Rick Joyner is Founder and Executive Director of MorningStar Ministries and Heritage International Ministries and is the Senior Pastor at MorningStar Fellowship Church. Rick is President of The Oak Initiative, an interdenominational movement that mobilizes Christians to engage in the great issues of our time. He has authored more than forty books, including The Final Quest Trilogy, There Were Two Trees in the Garden, and A New America. Rick and his wife, Julie, have five children: Anna Jane, Aaryn, Amber, Ben, and Sam. ([Top of] Rick Joyner [Archive Page]; MorningStar)
Joseph R. Chambers is a Christian detractor of Rick Jordan’s prophetic (often in the sense of metaphorical insight) teachings. He calls those teachings “False Teachings”. Chambers is a Doctor of Divinity meaning he has credentials as an academic theologian. Credentials are a big thing for Mainstream Protestants and Catholics. Just for clarity I am not criticizing Mainstream academic theology in absolute terms. Rather I believe academic theologians place more stock in the aggregated opinions of past theologians of which even today’s theologians may concur or not concur in part or in toto. Here is an excerpt from a Chambers essay criticizing Joyner:
The first time I picked up material written by Rick Joyner I immediately sensed the spirit of darkness and deception. Reading his material is similar to reading New Age materials. His approach is to take anything in Scripture and make it mean anything that suits his theological aims. There is no faithfulness to established facts of interpretation. It's a smorgasbord of ideas loosely connected with the generous use of out-of-text Scripture to prove his point. Look at his basic premise for the book, There Were Two Trees In The Garden. His identification of the forbidden tree lays a false foundation for the entire book.
"The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is a powerful Biblical model of the Law. As the Apostle Paul declared "The power of sin is the law" (I Corinthians 15:56). This is because it is through the Law that we must derive our knowledge of good and evil. We may wonder how this knowledge brings death until we see the fruit. The knowledge of good and evil kills us by distracting us from the One who is the source of life; the Tree of Life - Jesus. The Tree of Knowledge causes us to focus our attention upon ourselves. Sin is empowered by the law; not just because the evil is revealed but the good as well. It drives us either to corruption or self-righteousness, both of which lead to death." (There Were Two Trees In The Garden, Rick Joyner, pp. 9-10.)
To suggest that this forbidden tree was the Laws of God as given to Moses or any other Bible writer is blasphemous. The "Ten Commandments" are the foundational truths and principles of all of God's revelation. This attack on "God's Laws" shows the direction of major deception in religious circles. Satan cannot present himself as God or present his Antichrist as the "Christ" without first separating Divine revelation or the Holy Truth from experiences in the religious realm. (The False Teachings of Rick Joyner; By Joseph R. Chambers; Apologetics Coordination Team; 1999)
Chambers seems that a paragraph from Joyner’s book validates the assumption that Joyner takes Scripture and twists it to anything chosen to mean for the moment. Then indicates (as is typical of academics) claims that Joyner takes Scripture out of context when in reality Joyner is simply using a metaphorical parallel of what would be occurring when Moses received the Law from God Almighty. Chambers suggests that Joyner is saying specifically that the Tree of knowledge of good and evil is equivalent of the Law and that the Tree of Life is Jesus. If you read the paragraph used to vilify Joyner, Joyner says no such thing. Rather Joyner uses metaphorical symbolism to indicate that the Tree of knowledge of good and Evil as well as the Tree of Life were models of future Biblical realities that would embodied in Moses and later through the human birth of the Savior and Deliverer Jesus Christ the Son of God.
Ok, you got me. I am a proponent of Rick Joyner. I do not necessarily side with Joyner hook, line and sinker. I believe every Believer must read and meditate on the Bible to understand what the Holy Spirit has for your journey and that people like Joyner and/or even Mainstream theologians should be used as a framework rather than an absolute acquiescence to their interpretations of Scripture. If you miss the understanding of the Holy Spirit be humble enough to be corrected but not sheepish enough to fail to verify the validity of someone else’s correction.
Christianbook.com provides a profile of Rick Joyner that is more even handed than Joseph R. Chambers. The profile lays out how Joyner has helped many and lays out the reasons why he has critics leaving it up to the reader to decide for their self if Joyner is a false teach, a prophet or a person that is sometimes correct and sometimes incorrect. The profile is entitled as Meet Rick Joyner and can be read HERE.
Now I had to go over these thoughts on Rick Joyner because I am going to cross post his Word for the Week which brought to us as The Great Commission, Part 50: Time to Rebuild Firewalls. I received the email notification on December 10, 2013 at 11:11 AM. I mention the date because the spiritual essay when you click ‘Read More’ does not seem to have a date on it. I am kind of peculiar about that sort of thing. Indeed the title is a bit different when you follow the link.
My attention was lifted to the essay it because it tackles an issue more in Christian leadership would tackle but fail to because of a misunderstanding of the Establish Clause in the First Amendment. Too often Christian leaders and Ministries limit themselves pertaining to politics because they have been brainwashed that somewhere in the First Amendment it says that Government and the Church must be absolutely separated from each other not having an influence. The reality is there is no wording whatsoever anywhere in the U.S. Constitution where it is stipulated there is a Separation of Church and State. What the First Amendment does say pertaining to religion is this:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; … (First Amendment; U.S. Constitution; Legal Information Institute, Cornell University)
The clause simply states that Congress cannot establish a State Religion (meaning Church in those days) and that Congress prohibit the free exercise of religion. The Founding Fathers intended for Christianity to be an influence on the rule of law and culture, BUT that Congress cannot make any Christian Denomination a tax supported instrument of the U.S. Government. But I guess that is another post.
Joyner tackles an interesting interpretation on Marxism, Capitalism, the Founding Fathers’ original intent for Constitutional Government and how that original intent has been whittled away and unless reversed will lead to the demise of the United States as we know it.
The American Founding Fathers believed that tyranny could come from either the government or from the people. Because of this, they built a brilliant system of government that had firewalls to protect against the tyranny from either direction. They warned that if these firewalls were torn down, the Republic could not last. In the last century, we tore both firewalls down, and the system has been crumbling since. The American Republic will not last much longer if we do not implement some very radical action to turn from the direction in which we’re headed and rebuild the firewalls.
In some basic ways both Russia and China now have more liberty than we have in America. They are trending toward more individual liberty, even if they are hitting bumps on the road to this and occasionally may even run into a ditch. Even so, they get going again and are trending in the direction toward personal liberty. As impatient as many have been with their slowness in this, we should remember how long we struggled. Even after nearly a century of American democracy, we still had slavery, and America invented the concentration camps that we used for displacing and even killing Native Americans. The march of civilization has not been smooth or consistent anywhere or with anyone. So let us too give grace to those who are struggling.
However, after accomplishing so much, Western nations are now trending toward tyranny and the loss of individual freedom. There have been occasional slowdowns in this march to bondage, but then the pace gets even faster. The East and West are going in opposite directions again.
Thankfully, there is a third column. It is the kingdom of God. Every good gift that has come down to man, including better governments, has come from above. Even so, no government on earth is the kingdom of God even if they have some of the elements of the kingdom. The kingdom is yet to come to the earth, but it surely will. Many governments on the earth that have been built on at least some kingdom principles will “become the kingdom of our Lord.”
One of the things the Lord said that He would do after His return is to separate the nations as “sheep” or “goats.” He explained the qualifications for being a sheep or goat nation. For those who are here to help prepare the way for the Lord, one way that we do this is by helping our nation become a sheep nation. One of the ways that we are called to help prepare the way for the Lord is to help our nations adopt kingdom principles that would help them become “sheep” nations rather than “goat” nations. To help a nation get to where it is supposed to go, we must first know where it is.
There are other major forces in the world than Marxism and capitalism, but these have been the two most powerful counterweights in recent times. Under each of these there are nuances. For example, free enterprise is different than capitalism, but can only exist under capitalism. With pure capitalism you must have capital to have opportunity, but with free enterprise you only need initiative to have opportunity. However, if you have free enterprise and you become successful, you will have capital that you will want to invest, so you become a capitalist. The more capitalists and the more capital there is to invest, the more people have been successful in the system.
You must have capitalism to have free enterprise. But if capitalism grows unchecked, it can choke out free enterprise and destroy itself by cutting itself off from its lifeblood. Left to itself without any steering and the needed corrections from government, greed can take over capitalism in such a way that it starts to abuse and hurt people. This leads to revolution and is not in anyone’s interest to allow this to happen—except the Marxists. The lifeblood of Marxism is promoting the envy of the successful, which they call “social justice.”
Not all who call for social justice are Marxists, and there is a devotion to social justice that we must have to remain a Republic. Even so, Marx, and subsequent Marxists, have been brilliant in the way they have seized popular and even noble terms to mobilize and exploit those whom Marx called the “useful idiots.” The “useful idiots” were the idealists that Marx saw as being so easily manipulated, but which he also despised. They were always the first to feel the wrath when Marxists gained control.
That being said, The Bible is still the biggest proponent of true social justice, and requires justice for all with a special devotion to providing justice for those who are weak. It requires freedom for the oppressed, and then it requires generosity from the prosperous to the poor. However, the key distinction between Christianity and the Marxist social justice, or the liberal social justice promoted by many today, is that nowhere does The Bible demand charity from the government, but from individuals.
When charity becomes institutional it loses its basic power to uplift. It becomes demeaning, dehumanizing, and always leads to bondage. We will develop this further next week.
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Rick Joyner and the Republic of the United States of America
