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More talk about the US and China switching places.  Here has been a lot of talk about this over the last few weeks.  It is really becoming more of a “when” question than “if”.  It is something we need to prepare for, America is not a big player in the end times.  We have been a major tool of God to spread His Word but we have fallen and are still falling…

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US Is ‘Practically Owned’ by China: Analyst

The US supremacy as the top world economy will end sooner than many people believe, so gold is a better investment than the dollar despite it hitting a new record, Tom Winnifrith, CEO at financial services firm Rivington Street Holdings, told CNBC.com Monday.

Gold [XAU=X  1315.55  6.75  (+0.52%)   ] hit a new record high Monday and silver [XAG=X  22.03  0.16  (+0.73%)   ] rose to another 30-year peak as investors were worried about the dollar weakening further after the Federal Reserve hinted at more quantitative easing last week.

The US trade deficit and debt continue to grow and the authorities are reluctant to address the problem, preferring to print money, Winnifrith said.

“America is practically owned by China,” he said.

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Good article on the mindset of investors that are waking up.  It is also a side effect of all of the deception that is going on these days.  People just don’t know what they can trust and so they sit still and wait, uncertain of what ground is stable.  This is what Christ spoke of and told us the parable of the house built on the rock (Christ and God).  We must turn back to him to be saved.

Matthew 7:24-25 (NIV) – “24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.”

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Scared investors sitting on the sidelines

Take a look at the stock market these days, and it’s almost like investors are on strike.

For 20 weeks in a row, Americans have pulled money out of domestic mutual funds. They’ve taken their marbles – $70 billion worth during that time period – and essentially gone home. Some have gone into bonds, and some are just sitting in cash, but the idea of equities just seems to make them queasy. (more…)

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More Global uncertainty as we see just how close to the cliff we sit as a world.  We know from God’s world that we will have a single world currency and economy during the end times.  What will be the trigger that pushes us over.  Ireland’s debt?  Spain’s debt?  Only God knows, so we must be watchful for signs and turn back to him!

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European debt woes hit world markets

LONDON (AP) — A new flare-up in Europe’s debt crisis hit world stock markets Thursday after Ireland announced it would sink more billions into its failed banks and Spain’s public debt rating was downgraded.

Ireland said it would put euro3 billion ($4.1 billion) more into Allied Irish and take majority control. Along with other bailouts, that would push the public deficit above 30 percent of annual economic output, a postwar record in Europe.

Meanwhile, Moody’s Investor Services cut Spain’s public debt rating, a move many in the markets had expected but which confirms that Europe will be slow to emerge from its debt crisis.

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Interesting analogy on our economy and the past year or two.  Take a minute or two and think back over the last year or two and how far and fast we have come.  It is breath-taking.  Almost not of this world…

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Things are coming apart before our eyes

I’ve been thinking about unraveling. Actually I’ve been thinking about the Obama administration, unemployment, housing, Afghanistan, our economic/ financial messes, the coming November elections, October surprises, and sand. Sunday I was gone all day. I went to church, I stayed for Sunday school, I went out to eat, and I attended a memorial service for a long time friend, Bud Elkin. I thought I looked pretty good in my khaki slacks, a white knit golf shirt, and my burgundy colored sweater over the top. I needed the sweater because it was cool – Fall was rapidly descending on us here. What I didn’t realize was that I had snagged the sweater around the side of the waist band. One thread of (more…)

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Global Currency talk gains steam…

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G-20 Should Seek Global Currency ‘Harmony,’ Larosiere Says

Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — Leaders of Group of 20 nations must build a “more harmonized” global currency system to prevent the risk of competitive devaluations, said Jacques de Larosiere, author of a European report into the roots of the financial crisis.

“We have an international monetary system that doesn’t function well,” de Larosiere, the former head of the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of France, said today in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Brussels. “It’s a real concern.”

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More government control/power grabs via regulation.  Our economy is under full-fledged assault…

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Inhofe Says EPA’s New Boiler Rule Could Kill Nearly 800,000 Manufacturing Jobs

The top Republican on a Senate environmental panel released a scathing report Tuesday that he contends shows that the Environmental Protection Agency’s new proposed rule on cleaning up boilers nationwide could devastate America’s manufacturing base and imperil hundreds of thousands of jobs without providing any real public health or environmental benefits.

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More currency news, this will be a struggle since the entire world is wrapped up in fiat currency.  Could it all end in one world currency?

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World gripped by ‘international currency war’

The world is in the midst of an “international currency war” according to Brazil’s finance minister as governments force down the value of their currencies to boost their struggling economies.

The comments are the first public admission made by a senior policymaker about a practice which has become increasingly widespread since the global economic downturn.

Many countries, notably China, have been deliberately weakening their currencies by selling them on foreign exchanges or keeping interest rates artificially low to make their exports cheaper.

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Warnings to make sure our priorities are in order.  We need to be concerned about our finances to a point but not to a point of obsession or fretting.  I like his quote at the end:

“He advises the best investment is for people to humble themselves, pray and seek God’s face, and turn from their wicked ways — a reference to 2 Chronicles 7:14.”

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Silver, gold prices coming down?

Gold barsBased on the information from today’s media, it may not seem plausible to think the gold and silver boom could become bust, but one investor points out that the bubble could soon reach its end.

Every day there are advertisements, sometimes during every commercial break, that proclaim even though gold and silver prices are at an all-time high, they will only get higher. But Art Ally, president of the biblically minded investment group The Timothy Plan, says it is possible that the industry could soon hit rock bottom.

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Our dollar is in trouble, and we haven’t even printed the 1-2 trillion that we may need to, all of this is just on the statement that we are willing and subsequent actions by other nations, mainly China…

We are headed toward a dollar collapse and a global currency…

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Dollar tumbles, gold hits record high

The dollar sank against the euro and hit a record low point against the Swiss franc on Wednesday while gold struck a new all-time peak, as traders mulled possible US moves to boost its ailing economy.

Meanwhile in Asia, China’s central bank pledged to increase the flexibility of its exchange rate just as US lawmakers were to vote on legislation that could punish Beijing for alleged currency manipulation.

The People’s Bank of China promised to continue to implement an “appropriately loose monetary policy” and “increase currency flexibility”, according to a statement on its website.

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More economic news…

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Hussman: Second Recession Will Be Declared Soon

Economist John Hussman says the National Bureau of Economic Research will have to declare another recession soon.

Commenting on a recent report from the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research that said the recession that began in December 2007 is over, Hussman noted that, “the committee decided that any future downturn of the economy would be a new recession and not a continuation of the recession that began in December 2007.”

“The Committee took pains to make it clear that it was not forecasting the future or suggesting that economic progress has even been very good,” Hussman wrote in a recent note to investors.

He said the bulk of the growth coming off of the June 2009 economic low “was driven by a burst of stimulus spending coupled with a variety of programs to pull economic activity forward.”

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Did you realize that 279 lenders have collapsed this year?  That is a ton.

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Banks Keep Failing, No End in Sight

Since WaMu Fell, 279 Lenders Have Collapsed; Lost Jobs, Curtailed Lending and the Big Get Bigger

The largest number of bank failures in nearly 20 years has eliminated jobs, accelerated a drought in lending and left the industry’s survivors with more power to squeeze customers.

Some 279 banks have collapsed since Sept. 25, 2008, when Washington Mutual Inc. became the biggest bank failure on record. That dwarfed the 1984 demise of Continental Illinois, which had only one-seventh of WaMu’s assets. The failures of the past two years shattered the pace of the prior six-year period, when only three dozen banks died.

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Looks like China has taken first steps to retaliate against the strong talk and bill working its way through congress.  As I mentioned before, this could be a trigger point if at any time China decided to stop buying our debt and began to de-invest in our debt that they currently hold.

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Ahead of the Bell: China imposes tariff on chicken

NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of the nation’s chicken producers could tumble on Monday after China said it will slap a hefty tariff on U.S. chicken imports to combat what it says are unfairly low prices.

The Chinese government said Sunday that its investigation found that U.S. chicken products are being sold at low prices which undermine the local market. New import duties ranging from 50.3 percent to as much as 105.4 percent will take effect Monday and last for five years.

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More pain in europe as they begin facing reality of over promising.  Is this a glimpse of what we will see here in the US once we finally face reality.

We are in almost the exact same situation as Greece and Romania, except that we are not tied to other countries through a shared currency, so we are free to inflate ours, devaluing the dollar, at will.

All of this is guiding the nations of the world toward a global government, question is will in culminate before or at the point of the Antichrist’s rise.

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Romanian govt in uproar amid austerity protests

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – The Romanian government is in an uproar – the interior minister has resigned, the opposition is demanding that the prime minister join him and top police officials are holding emergency talks with the president.

The chaos on Monday reflects the latest fallout from the sharp wage cuts and austerity measures the government has taken to fight its budget deficit amid a deep recession.

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More baby steps toward acceptance of an RFID chip.  Athletes are beginning to wear these each week in games and practice.  It is another step moving the acceptance meter toward everyone needing one…

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An Ice Dot Could Save a Football Player’s Life

Some college football players are carrying a few grams of extra gear this season, and it could save their lives — yours, too.

The In Case of Emergency Dot (or ICEDOT) is a small red disc that snaps onto a person’s shirt. The incredibly low-tech plastic chip grants access to an incredibly high-tech world of info, through a unique eight-digit number that medics can activate and receive a patient’s complete, current health information in seconds.

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Oh boy, here we go, doing exactly what China warned against, see my previous posts listed below:

Geithner Steps up China Yuan Policy Criticism

Chinese think tank warns US it will emerge as loser in trade war

This was one of the triggers I discussed in that post.  If China retaliated by selling off (dumping) our treasury debt, then we would see the Federal Reserve need to jump in a purchase our debt by printing money to do it.  Another trillion dollars of inflationary printing, with China alone, not counting others that pile on to the sell off.  It would crash our currency over a short period of time.

This could set us up for the coming single world currency and vulnerable/open to the single world government scenarios as we search for stability.  As I have stated above, we don’t know what will trigger it, but it will be interesting to see what is the final straw…

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US Congress committee approves China sanctions bill

A US Congress committee has approved a bill that would place retaliatory trade sanctions on China.

It means the House of Representatives – the lower chamber of Congress – will vote on the bill next week.

The bill would allow the US to impose import duties on countries who have fundamentally undervalued currencies.

To become law, the bill would also need support in the Senate, which is less certain ahead of mid-term Congressional elections due in November.

The US accuses China of holding down the value of its currency, the yuan, in order to give its exports an unfair price advantage.

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Interesting article on the dangers our world economics face with fiat currency and the levels at which it can be manipulated, whether you deem the manipulation for good or evil purposes.  We are primed as a world for one world currency and one world government.  Almost as if on cue with God’s prophecy, it will be interesting to see how it unfolds.

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On the Secret Committee to Save the Euro, a Dangerous Divide

BRUSSELS—Two months after Lehman Brothers collapsed in the fall of 2008, a small group of European leaders set up a secret task force—one so secret that they dubbed it “the group that doesn’t exist.”

Its mission: Devise a plan to head off a default by a country in the 16-nation euro zone.

When Greece ran into trouble a year later, the conclave, whose existence has never before been reported, had yet to agree on a strategy. In a prelude to a cantankerous public debate that would later delay Europe’s response to the (more…)

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Another barrier is broken on Gold.  This is another indicator of our economic health.

Gold is an investment of last resort, especially when they do not trust other investment instruments.

It is that trust that the government has been trying to prop up.  And we are seeing it begin to crumble as people wake up to the true state of our economy.

It is a house of cards so look out over the next 3-6 months, it may be a wild ride…there is so much in the news about globalism.  The system is being setup for us to collapse into…

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Gold Breaks Psychological Barrier

Gold has continued its astronomical ascent, reaching a new record-breaking high of $1,300 an ounce today. This is the fourth day of record high gold prices.

Earlier in the week, the precious metal surged after Federal Reserve boss Bernanke said the banksters will provide extra “monetary stimulus” to boost the collapsing economy.

The Fed announced it will manipulate the money supply — i.e., it will crank up the printing machines, known in polite circles as quantitative easing — in a concerted effort to create inflation. The Fed says it is artifically creating inflation in response an unemployment rate that is beginning to rival that of the Great Depression.

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More banks are closing, this has escalated quite a bit from last year.

Another notch, in gauging our countries economic health.  Keep watchful, we are on unsteady ground.

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Regulators shut banks in Florida, Washington state

WASHINGTON (AP) – Regulators on Friday shut down small banks in Florida and Washington state, bringing to 127 the number of U.S. bank failures this year on a wave of loan defaults and economic distress.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over Haven Trust Bank Florida of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., with $148.6 million in assets and $133.6 million in deposits, and North County Bank, based in Arlington, Wash., with $288.8 million in assets and $276.1 million in deposits.

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Another good Prophecy Update from our Aloha brethren.

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Wonderful teaching about prophecy from the pulpit, oh I wish we could have more of this these days in our churches…

I plan on pulling the end times portions each week and posting them here.

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It is pretty bold of him to say we have dodged depression.

I am not sure any of the economic indicators back that up.

But that doesn’t stop the deception.

If we look to prophecy, we know that the current world’s economy must be brought down and replaced with a cashless system that can be used by the Antichrist to control who can buy and sell.

It is just a matter of timing, we see the tools being created and put in place today.

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Obama tells UN leaders world has dodged depression

UNITED NATIONS – President Barack Obama is calling on world leaders to support new efforts to bring about peace in the Mideast, while declaring the global economy has been “pulled back from the brink of a depression.”

Obama, visiting the United Nations where world leaders are gathered, says “America has joined with nations around the world to spur growth and renewed demand that could restart job creation.”

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This article is a little old, dug it out of some I had found earlier this year, but it gives some good links and information about what our current administration has been looking into around 401k’s this year.

They must control all of our money to be able to control us.  It is needed to progress to one world currency and one world government.

Through this progression, as the worlds economies begin to sink, you will see governments thrashing, as a drowning swimmer, looking for monetary sources where ever they can.

It will not be pretty, but the good news is we will be kept from the worst, not all, so we must prepare, but from the worst.  Christ will rapture his church.  It could be any day now…

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Republicans Sound Alarm on Administration Plan to Seize 401(k)s

In February, the White House released its “Annual Report on the Middle Class” containing new regulations favored by Big Labor including a bailout of critically underfunded union pension plans through “retirement security” options.

The radical solution most favored by Big Labor is the seizure of private 401(k) plans for government disbursement — which lets them off the hook for their collapsing retirement scheme.  And, of course, the Obama administration is eager to accommodate their buddies.

Vice President Joe Biden floated the idea, called “Guaranteed Retirement Accounts” (GRAs), in the February “Middle Class” report.

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Fiscal multipliers, something you should know about because they impact you in oh so many ways.  It is all part of the jigsaw puzzle that is our government.  It is amazing how much influence those that we never elect have on our government.  Sometimes I question, what do we pay our elected official for, what do they actually do?

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The Black Box That Dictates Tax and Spend

“Fiscal multipliers.”

It’s a black box term used in DC to determine which tax and spend policies deliver the biggest bang for the buck, a term that is so cryptic, even economists can’t quite agree on how they work.

But fiscal multipliers can do great damage to your wallet because they dictate all sorts of tax and spend legislation.

Notably, this theoretical bling is used to justify the DC fiscal dipsomaniacs’ very expensive Keynesian spending “multipliers.”

More and more spending that creates a possible devaluation of the dollar which creates inflation. Since all sorts of taxes, including the capital gains tax, the estate tax, and the alternative minimum tax,  are not indexed to inflation, taking more taxes from you and me due to government-caused inflation is immoral.

Fiscal multipliers also provide political cover for almost any legislative science project Congress cooks up.

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It is hard to believe Government statistics these days, there is so much spin and discounting certain groups or redefining definitions of economics.

Why do we not count food & groceries, gas & oil, and energy from our inflation numbers?

Why do we not count individuals that have stopped looking for jobs from our unemployment numbers?

Why do we not count any of our promised benefits of Social Security, Medicare, and pensions in our national debt?

Why do we not know the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve, a private, yes private bank we have given the right to print money for us and charge us interest?

Do we know what our national debt really is?  Keep reading…

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US Government ‘hiding true amount of debt’

THE actual figure of the US’ national debt is much higher than the official sum of $US13.4 trillion ($14.3 trillion) given by the Congressional Budget Office, according to analysts cited on Sunday by the New York Post.

“The Government is lying about the amount of debt. It is engaging in Enron accounting,” said Laurence Kotlikoff, an economist at Boston University and co-author of The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America’s Economic Future.

“The problem is we’re seeing an explosion in spending,” added Andrew Moylan, director of government affairs for the National Taxpayers Union.

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Here we go folks, the trigger hasn’t been pulled but the Fed said they would and are looking to at the appropriate time.  Gold shot up as soon as it was announced, which means the market believes they will use “quantitative easing”.  Printing money to buy debt.  The US dollar also declined on the news.  You must remain watchful, for as soon as they pull the trigger, know inflation, maybe hyperinflation is on the way.

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Fed Signals It May Take Further Steps to Boost Economy

The Federal Reserve on Tuesday inched closer to fresh steps to bolster a sluggish U.S. recovery, saying it stood ready to provide more support for the economy and expressing concerns about low inflation.

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The U.S. central bank’s policy-setting panel made no shift in monetary policy at the end of a one-day meeting, keeping overnight interest rates near zero, but it opened the door wider to pumping more money into the economy.

“The committee will continue to monitor the economic outlook and financial developments and is prepared to provide additional accommodation if needed to support the economic recovery and to return inflation, over time, to levels consistent with its mandate,” the Fed said in a statement.

After its meeting on August 10, the Fed had simply said it would “employ its policy tools as necessary.” The Fed underscored its concerns over slowing inflation in its statement on Tuesday, saying the underlying rate of inflation was below levels consistent with its mandate for price stability and full employment.

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Big decision tomorrow…

Do we fire up the printing press for another…gulp…1-2 trillion dollars?

Quantitative Easing = print money to cover purchase

This is one of the triggers we have been watching that could signal our collapse and make way for global currency and eventually global government.

We will see, tomorrow is the first decision point…

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Fed Mulls Trillion-Dollar Policy Question

How much of a boost to the U.S. recovery could another trillion dollars or two buy?

United States Federal Reserve. Leaders at the Fed meet Tuesday to analyze the benefits of increasing the money supply.
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United States Federal Reserve. Leaders at the Fed meet Tuesday to analyze the benefits of increasing the money supply.

That’s a tricky question for the Federal Reserve when it meets Tuesday to debate what would warrant pumping more money into the financial system.

To battle the financial crisis, the Fed bought $1.7 trillion of longer-term Treasury and mortgage-related bonds, supplementing its pledge to keep interest rates near zero for a long time.

All told, it helped stabilize a collapsing financial system and to avert what could have been a second Great Depression.

Now, faced with a 9.6 percent jobless rate and below-target inflation, Fed policymakers are trying to gauge how much they could achieve if they resume massive quantitative easing.

Few analysts expect the Fed to launch a new round of bond buying this week, and uncertainty over the impact of fresh moves may be a factor keeping the central bank on the sidelines.

“I think part of the hesitancy of the committee to use quantitative easing a second time around relates to views of its effectiveness,” said Vince Reinhart, a former Fed staffer.

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Here is an article about the US that toward the end makes mention that Spain is forcing private retirement accounts to purchase government debt.

“And that is if the government itself does not confiscate pensions and retirement savings and demand that they be put into soon-to-be-worthless government debt. Far fetched? Spain’s secretary of state for social security, Octavio Granada, was recently quoted as saying that by the end of 2010 some 90% of all Spanish pension savings will be “invested” in domestic government debt. Spain isn’t some 3rd world banana republic and they are already moving strongly in this direction. With trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, where else can the US Government hope to get the money to fund all their debt?”

As he stated, Spain is not a third world country, this was also done in Argentina but that was written off as being a developing nation struggling with hyperinflation.  Spain is like us, just smaller and a few steps ahead.

There are a lot of other good points in this article, I just wanted to bring your attention to what Spain has done, based on what I posted earlier.

Administration’s Secret Plan to Hijack Your 401(k)s and IRAs

Look out we are headed for a collapse.

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A Generational Perfect Storm – Boomerang Kids Meet the Homeless Baby Boomers

When times are good, or at least relatively good, unsustainable trends can appear sustainable. The now-aging baby boomers who had a lot of their wealth tied up in their home and the stock market were feeling great. They had just come off of a 20 year super-bull market in equities and up until 2007 they were seeing the value of their home increase by leaps and bounds every year.

Sure, their kids were scraping by on credit card and student loan debt. But there were jobs to be found and even if they couldn’t scrape by they could always count on some help, and even housing, from Mom and Pop.

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This is Brilliant!

How much more efficient would this be than our current system?

If we send the government our entire paycheck each week and then they tell us how much of it we can have.

Oh, can’t wait till this comes across the pond!

Seriously, how much more primed to we need to be for total government control of our lives?

Answer, not much if this passes…

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British Government to Seize All Paychecks

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Infowars.com
September 20, 2010

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Forget big government – the same elite whose policies caused the financial collapse are now ready to launch the next phase of their fascist takeover of the economy – by forcing businesses to send employee paychecks straight to the government, who would then deduct the “appropriate tax” before the employee receives their wage, as the statist cancer of collectivism grows.

The proposal represents another hammer blow to financial privacy, as the establishment moves towards a total cashless society where every transaction is tracked, traced and controlled by the authorities.

“The UK’s tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the government would deduct what it deems as the appropriate tax and the pay the employee’s by bank transfer,” reports CNBC.

The system would be run by the same organization, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), that has become notorious for its botched handling of data and incorrect tax calculations which have forced people to spend months and even years trying to claim back unfairly claimed money seized by the taxman.

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We have progressed to the point that they are not even trying to hide it any more.  My favorite line is:

The international nature of these global goals leaves individual nations struggling for effective solutions that transcend their borders. That’s where “global governance” comes in.

I love that, “That’s where ‘global governance’ come in.”  Woo Hoo!

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It works to create international structures capable of dealing with issues of global significance, and the closer the MDGs come to their deadline of 2015 the clearer multinational cooperation becomes.

Ah those MDGs, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

There you have it.  If you want an even more in-depth look at the UN’s plans and hurdles, check out the link below to a post I made earlier.  Must See: Global Governance:  Here is the playbook…

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Millennium Goals pose test to global governance structures

After the UN set ambitious goals for improving the lives of millions of people, global governance has come to the fore. When addressing issues of worldwide significance many nations need to be at the table, experts say.

The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) include pledges to wipe out extreme poverty, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality, reduce rates of child mortality, fight epidemic diseases, and develop a global partnership for development.

The international nature of these global goals leaves individual nations struggling for effective solutions that transcend their borders. That’s where “global governance” comes in. It works to create international structures capable of dealing with issues of global significance, and the closer the MDGs come to their deadline of 2015 the clearer multinational cooperation becomes.

States’ changing role

“The old idea was that nation states need to be as independent as possible to be responsible to their own population,” said Dirk Messner, director of the German Development Institute. “It’s now become clear that we are dealing with global interdependencies and that we have to politically organize them.”

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So a surprise to whom is my only question?

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Wall Street’s Engines of Profit Are Freezing Up

Inside the great investment houses on Wall Street, business has taken a surprising turn — downward.

Even after taxpayer bailouts restored bankers’ profits and pay, the great Wall Street money machine is decelerating. Big financial institutions, including commercial banks, are still making a lot of money. But given unease in the financial markets and the economy, brokerages and investment banks are not making nearly as much as their executives, employees and investors had hoped.

After an unusually sharp slowdown in trading this summer, analysts are rethinking their profit forecasts for 2010.

The activities at the heart of what Wall Street does — selling and trading stocks and bonds, and advising on mergers — are running at levels well below where they were at this point last year, said Meredith Whitney, a bank analyst who was among the first to warn of the subprime mortgage disaster and its impact on big banks.

Worldwide, the number of stock offerings is down 15 percent from this time last year, while bond issuance is off 25 percent, according to Capital IQ, a research firm. Based on these trends, Ms. Whitney predicts that annual revenue from Wall Street’s main businesses will drop 25 percent, to around $42 billion in 2010, from $56 billion last year.

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Great article on nations world-wide beginning to falter and crumble.  They have based their governments on failed ideas and policies: fiat currency, spending driven economy, huge debt, no balance, tax the few to support the many.

It is the same all over, all that have tried it, are failing.  But it is not just a reflection on the failed ideas, it is setting the stage for one world government.

There are several articles I have posted on their plans, just sort by the “one world government” category on the right.

The stage is set. When will enough domino’s fall?  What will be the trigger?

Again, great article.

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Signs Of A Crumbling Regime

September 20, 2010 by Bob Livingston

Signs Of A Crumbling Regime

Can you see it? The signs are everywhere. The regime is crumbling.

No not the President Barack Obama regime, though that is part of it; maybe even the catalyst in the United States, at least. I’m talking about the regime in general; the system.

You can see it in places like Greece. There the government has been fighting for its economic life. Years of socialist redistribution — theft from the producers to finance the growing State leviathan and unionized public and private sector employees — have caught up.

The government is now instituting “austerity” measures. It has to. It can’t meet its obligations. So it’s cutting back on growth in salaries, vacation days, benefits and pensions. Unionized public works employees and service employees aren’t happy their gravy train has jumped the tracks. They strike and riot. Greece may or may not survive.

Much the same is going on in other parts of Europe. The French government’s plans to save money by raising the retirement age to 62 from 60 sparked a one-day strike among workers from the public and private sectors in transportation, education, justice, healthcare, media and banking.

The “little people” are waking up to the fact that their governments — the elected class — have done them a disservice. Their regimes, financed by fiat money and having positioned themselves as the “Great Nannies,” are unable to fulfill promises of utopia, wine and roses.

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Good Article from Rapture Ready’s weekly Nearing Midnight section.  Follow up to my “Atlas just Shrugged” post earlier in the week.

I have also included the video link below in the article:

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Precious Metals: “The Canary In the Coal Mine”

The precious metals market has been on fire. Last week, gold hit a fresh all-time high and silver reached a new two-year high. In London, spot bullion hit a nominal record of $1,286 a troy ounce. The yellow metal has risen 17 percent since January. Gold is heading for its tenth consecutive annual gain, the longest winning streak since at least 1920.

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For those that have not read Atlas Shrugged, it was set in a very similar situation.

All of the producers and successful people were vilified and shut down through government intervention, regulation, or other backroom deals, always for the “good of the people”.  So they just started disappearing?  Decided to leave.

This is a great article below of what we are doing to our country.  Anytime you have 50% of the country not paying any taxes and 2% paying more than the other 98% something is seriously wrong.

Will we see an exodus, it is still yet to be seen, but the fact that more and more people are becoming vocal about it, is surely a sign.

America is not mentioned in the end times, our economic might will have fallen.  Could we be exporting it?

From a different angle, we can imagine what would happen to our society if all of the economic producers left.  What do you think will happen, when all of the “moral” producers (restrainers) leave (are taken)?  What would the world be like?

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America: Love it or (if you’re rich enough) leave it?

Glen Esnard, a Newport Beach executive for real estate services firm Grubb & Ellis, went to bat in the Wall Street Journal last week for high-income-earners who believe it’s unfair that their tax rates should rise on Jan. 1, as President Obama proposes.

Esnard also suggested that the answer might be for the better-heeled to find a new country.

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This is a great article on the state of our worlds fiat currency systems and their attitude toward gold.

Greenspan made an amazing statement this week.  He stated on September 15th:

“Fiat money has no place to go but gold.”

What could he mean by that?  He continued:

He further commented that “if all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.”

Unfortunately, they aren’t as outline further in the article.

These events are all starting to intersect.  No Fiat currency has ever succeeded.

We will at one point, see our leaders declare that the current currencies are not working but there is a better plan to move to a single more stable global currency.

Until then we will continue to see the attacks on gold, to keep the fiat illusion firmly in place.

If you haven’t read Atlas Shrugged, I would highly recommend it.  I began reading it recently and it was spooky how all the characters and philosophies could have just as easily been the last two years.  They matched exactly…

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Atlas just shrugged

On September 15 former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan made a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations. Some very interesting comments he made with respect to gold in response to a question were reported in an editorial in yesterday’s New York Sun, “Greenspan’s Warning on Gold”:

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The attached PDF file show a study done on what the government has in store for our retirement accounts.

There are three areas the government can go to get access to additional revenue:

Gold confiscation, (Look up what FDR did in 1930s, also see other postings, earlier today, for 2010 version)

Property confiscation (What percent of home loans do you think the government now controls?  almost 90%, yeah that’s right!), or

Retirement account confiscation. (Next up…)

The Government has a problem.  It is growing so fast it can’t sustain itself.  The average public federal employee is paid $120k, where the private employee is paid $60k on average.  But he is paying for the federal employee.  Also, there is a rise in unemployment to almost 17% if you consider those that have given up.  But the Federal Government has lost zero jobs, they have actually been adding.

The paper sums it up well:

“But it (the government) has a very serious problem. It can’t sustain itself – let alone keep growing – on the back
of the existing tax base.”

On top of that there are two other areas of pain looming on the horizon:

– The US “AAA” credit rating is hanging by a thread. (If we lose this, the interest on our debt we are financing goes through the roof.)

– The foreign investors (mostly China & Japan) are balking at buying anymore debt. (Uncle Sam is seen as riskier than blue chip firms now – Washington Post.)

Solution?

The biggest source of hereto largely untapped revenue for US politicians is private retirement accounts.

60 million households

401k – $4 trillion

include 403b’s, HSA, IRAs & others – $15 trillion

It may not happen suddenly (like in Argentina), but prerequisites are already being readied for implementation.

Here are some quotes from the paper linked below:

The 40l(k)/IRA de-privatization plan is the brain-child of one of the left’s rising stars, the
bright and inventive leftwing academic Teresa Ghilarducci. While Ghilarducci insists 40l(k)s will still
be “legal” under her plan, the thrust of her idea was revealed on a 2008 radio interview in which she
said, “I’m just rearranging the tax breaks that are available now for 40l(k)s and spreading – spreading
the wealth…”

Just rearranging (nudging) the tax breaks available now to spread…wait for it…the…wealth…

In a 2009 research paper, Ghilarducci declared “Guaranteed Retirement Accounts [GRAs] are
like universal 401(k) plans except that the government, as befits a large and enduring institution, will
invest and manage the pooled savings.” That’s because, as the professorial Ghilarducci believes,
“Humans often lack the foresight, discipline, and investing skills required to sustain a savings plan.”
(Of course, that analysis of “humans” would not apply to left-leaning PhDs, members of Congress, and
bossy bureaucrats – who somehow are endowed with the skills needed to manage everyone else’s
investments.)

Wow, guess we know where we rank.  Good think they are there to serve the people…on wait, that doesn’t match…

Under the Ghilarducci Plan, 50% of your GRA automatically goes to the government upon
your passing, not your heirs. And that’s just for starters. Future tax deferments to 401(k)s and IRAs
would be scrapped in exchange for a supposedly guaranteed 3% annual real return.

Hmm, give up total control to get guaranteed 3% annual real return.  And they get half when I die…sounds fair.

Backers of government-controlled accounts stress that 401(k)s will still be “legal” under her
plan – yet if 401(k)/IRA tax advantages are removed, employers will no longer have a financial
incentive to offer them at all.
(All part of an active “herding” process to force private retirement funds
into government-approved “investments.”)

Again with the nudging, or is that a shove, maybe even a take down…

Sorry for the sarcasm, but this is really incredible.  The gall to make some of these statements and bold recommendations.  You really need to download the document and read it in its entirety.  It is very eye-opening.

Again, this is all part of the control needed for the three end time prophecies:

One World Currency

One World Government

Mark of the Beast (total control of buying and selling)

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Administration’s Secret Plan to Hijack Your 401(k)s and IRAs

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PDF Document: Obama_Administration_401Ks

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Financially, we are being herded into very narrow options.  Our government is needing to control us to a point of no options, all to keep up the illusion and deception that they can fix our economy or that it is built on sand.

Basic finance tells you that in down times, you head to bonds and t-bills.  If you don’t trust bonds and t-bills, then you head to Gold, Silver, or physical assets to preserve your wealth and wait out the down times till you can buy back in.

What the government is doing is forcing us down a funnel.  The GM and Chrysler fiasco last year paired with the struggling states and cities has tainted the bond market.  With the unknown health of the US government and the Feds willingness to print currency to cover debt, T-Bills are unattractive.  That left Gold, Silver and other physical assets.  Physical assets, real estate, has taken a large hit, which left Gold and Silver. 

“Just as the government is trying to prevent people from investing in anything other than T-Bills by raising taxes on taxable interest and dividends to confiscatory levels, it’s also trying to prevent you from parking your wealth in assets, like gold, that compete with the paper dollars issued by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury.”

This last resort investment is the newest target of the government to attempt to drive investors back into T-Bills all under the deceptive guise of protecting the consumer from unscrupulous gold vendors.  It could be political too.

… a September 23 hearing of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection… will focus on “legislation that would regulate gold-selling companies, an industry who’s [sic] relentless advertising is now staple of cable television.”

…”Under Rep. Weiner’s bill, companies like Goldline would be required to disclose the reasonable resale value of items being sold.”  That’s great.  Are Mr. Weiner and Chairman Bernanke also going to agree to print on every dollar the reasonable expectation that its value will be eroded by inflation?

And why do they feel such excess is needed:  The fear of hyperinflation.  But….

The whole situation is amazing. If Mr. Weiner really wants to calm fears about hyperinflation, the last way to do it is to have a government hearing cracking down on the people warning of it.

So where is this all headed. 

It is just another sign or thread of our government putting the controls in place so that they control all the exits (places you can put your money).  It is the intersection of One World Currency, One World Government, and the Mark of the Beast.  Because you can’t convience (force) someone to take a mark that will control all investments and purchases, if they are invested in Gold and Silver.  Bottom Line.

Revelation 13:17 (NIV) – “so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.”

Revelation 13:7 (NIV) – “He was given power to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation.”

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Congressmen Weiner and Waxman Set Gold Hearing

Just as the government is trying to prevent people from investing in anything other than T-Bills by raising taxes on taxable interest and dividends to confiscatory levels, it’s also trying to prevent you from parking your wealth in assets, like gold, that compete with the paper dollars issued by the Federal Reserve and the (more…)

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A few days ago I posted an article on China’s warning to the approach outlined below. 

They warned on to get into a trade dispute or question their yuan policies. 

These two articles show the rock and a hard place we find ourselves in by being so over leveraged (in debt) with China.  If they continue on this course it will be “interesting” (no good results) to see what China’s response will be. 

We could be witnessing the initial trigger that kills the dollar and plunges us into hyper-inflation.

Which opens the door to one world currency and one world government…

(Link to earlier article: Chinese think tank warns US it will emerge as loser in trade war)

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Geithner Steps up China Yuan Policy Criticism

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sharpened his criticism of China’s exchange rate policies, saying the yuan was strengthening too slowly and that he will look for new ways to get Beijing to move faster.

In testimony released on Wednesday and prepared for U.S. lawmakers considering a tough new trade law, Geithner called on China to allow “significant, sustained appreciation over time” and for the yuan to “fully reflect market forces.”

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Another white house official you should keep an eye on.  Plans and infrastructure are being put in place to ‘De-Develop’ the US.  Do you think some of this could be in those multiple 2500 page bills that we passed this year?

Be watchful, we are headed toward a global government, God warned us in Revelation.  To have a world government, everything must be equal.  Is it easier for them to bring everyone up to our standard of living or lower ours to theirs?

The stage is being set…

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WH Science Czar: Use ‘Free Market’ to ‘De-Develop’ U.S., Wealth Redistribution ‘Absolutely Essential’

In an on-the-fly interview with CNSNews.com, White House Office of Science and Technology Director John P. Holdren explained what he meant when he wrote in his 1973 book Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions that “A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States.”

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This is probably one of the biggest deceptions of our generation.

It has always amazed me that people believe the gas we expel could cause global climate change.  Especially raising it above impact from the Sun!

Do we really think God would design a world that we could destroy just by breathing?

This is just a tool used to gain more control over our lives and move us toward Global “xyz”.  Because what is more global than climate.

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Scientist: There is no observational evidence for influence of CO2 on present or past climate

Dr. Ir. Noor van Andel, former head of research at Akzo Nobel, recently presented a talk at the Dutch Meteorological Institute KNMI, concluding there is

* No observational evidence for influence of CO2 on past or present climate

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This is one of the areas that could trigger our rapid decline.  If they decided to sell off our debt or even just stop buying it, we would be in a world of hurt and would have to start printing.  I do not believe the Fed has any bullets left to counter.

It will be very interesting how this develops, can you imagine if we had to print money to cover the $1 trillion from the previous treasure sales article and also this $1.5 trillion?  What would $2.5 trillion do to our inflation rate?

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Chinese think tank warns US it will emerge as loser in trade war

A State Council think-tank in China has warned Washington that the US will come off worst in a trade war if it imposes sanctions against Beijing over the two nations’ currency spat.

yuan; Chinese think tanks warns US it will emerge as loser in trade war
The US is considering legislation to punish Beijing for holding down the yuan Photo: AFP

Ding Yifan, a policy guru at the Development Research Centre, said China could respond by selling holdings of US debt, estimated at over $1.5 trillion (£963bn). This would trigger a rise in US interest rates. His comments at a forum in Beijing follow a string of remarks by Chinese officials questioning US credit-worthiness and the reliability of the dollar.

China’s authorities seem split over how to respond to moves on Capitol Hill for legislation to punish Beijing for holding down the yuan. The central bank has ruled out use of its “nuclear weapon”, insisting that it would not exploit its $2.45 trillion of foreign reserves for political purposes. “The US Treasury market is a very important market for China,” it said.

However, the mood is hardening on both sides of the Pacific. The dispute risks escalating if China’s trade surplus with the US climbs further and more US jobs are lost. US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, who has taken a softly-softly line in the past, said on Friday that China had done “very little” to correct the undervaluation of the yuan since ending the dollar peg in June.

Mr Ding reflects thinking among some in the Poltiburo, who seem convinced that the US is in decline and that China’s rise as an exporter of goods and capital give it the upper hand.

“They are utterly wrong,” said Gabriel Stein from Lombard Street Research. “The lesson of the 1930s is that surplus countries with structurally weak domestic demand come off worst in a trade war.”

He described the implicit threat to sell Treasuries as “empty bluster” because Beijing’s purchase of these bonds is a side-effect of its yuan policy. “Bring it on: it will weaken the dollar, which is what the US wants. The interest rate effect can be countered by the Fed.”

“Some Chinese officials seem to believe that buying Treasuries underpins US public spending. In fact China’s mercantilist policy is forcing the US to run large deficits against its own interest. China should be terrified of a trade war.”

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