Not just any creationist, but Ken Ham
God bless Ken Ham. He's got the courage we need to see from all Christian leaders
Homeschoolers boot creationist (OneNewsNow.com)
Friday, March 25, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Franklin Graham: World’s Christians in Grave Danger
The Muslim Brotherhood, with the complicity of the Obama administration, has infiltrated the U.S. government at the highest levels and is influencing American policy that leaves the world’s Christians in grave danger, warns internationally known evangelist Franklin Graham
“The Muslim Brotherhood is very strong and active here in our country,” Graham tells Newsmax. “We have these people advising our military and State Department. We’ve brought in Muslims to tell us how to make policy toward Muslim countries.
“It’s like a farmer asking a fox, ‘How do I protect my hen house?’"
That same Muslim Brotherhood is fomenting much of the rebellion and the deteriorating social order roiling the Middle East, forcing millions of Christians to flee for their lives, says Graham, son of beloved evangelist Dr. Billy Graham, and founder of The Samaritan’s Purse international charity.
“Under [Egypt’s Hosni] Mubarek and [Jordan’s] King Hussein and other moderate leaders, Christians had been protected,” Graham says. 11 million Christians live in Egypt and I ear for them, because if the Muslim Brotherhood comes to power, you’re going to see a great exodus of Christians. Same thing in Tunisia and Lebanon. I fear for the church because the Muslim Brotherhood is going to be a very terrible thing.”
Story continues below.
The Rev. Franklin Graham predicts an exodus of Christians from the Mideast and North Africa if the Muslim Brotherhood rises to power there. The radical group is shaping U.S. policy, the evangelist says in a Newsmax.TV video, adding that that’s like a "farmer asking a fox how to protect the hen house.”
A new report from the Roman Catholic aid agency Aid to the Church in Need supports Graham’s contention that the persecution of Christians worldwide has worsened exponentially in the past few years.
According to the report, Christians face increased suffering in 22 countries around the world, with Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Nigeria being among the worst countries to be a Christian in today.
The persecution has gotten markedly worse over the past two years according to the organization.
“The proportion of countries with a worsening track-record of anti-Christian violence and intimidation would be higher were it not for the fact that in many cases the situation could scarcely have been worse in the first place” the report’s authors wrote.
More than 75 percent of religious persecution in the world is currently being carried out against Christians, the report concludes.
The Vatican formed a special committee late last year to address the flight of Christians and the rise of militant Islam in the Middle East. In his New Year’s message, Pope Benedict XVI said Christians suffer more than any other religious group because of their faith
Asked if President Barack Obama was doing enough to protect Christians at home and abroad, Graham says, “No. If anything it’s the opposite.”
“Muslims are protected more in this country than Christians,” he says. “The president has made many statements but he doesn’t back them up. We have to do more to protect the Christians in the Muslim world. Their lives are in danger.”
In recent weeks, Obama administration officials have stepped up the defense of their inclusive stance toward Muslims in their ranks. Deputy national security advisor, Denis McDonough, said last week that President Obama is actually trying to prevent terrorism by "dispelling the myths that have developed over the years, including misperceptions about our fellow Americans who are Muslim."
"When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution," McDonough said at an interfaith forum in Sterling, Va.
Graham, however says what Obama is really doing is "giving Islam a pass" rather than speaking openly about the "horrific" treatment women and minorities receive.
"We certainly love the Muslim people," Graham said in an earlier interview with Newsmax. "But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam."
“The Muslim Brotherhood is very strong and active here in our country,” Graham tells Newsmax. “We have these people advising our military and State Department. We’ve brought in Muslims to tell us how to make policy toward Muslim countries.
“It’s like a farmer asking a fox, ‘How do I protect my hen house?’"
That same Muslim Brotherhood is fomenting much of the rebellion and the deteriorating social order roiling the Middle East, forcing millions of Christians to flee for their lives, says Graham, son of beloved evangelist Dr. Billy Graham, and founder of The Samaritan’s Purse international charity.
“Under [Egypt’s Hosni] Mubarek and [Jordan’s] King Hussein and other moderate leaders, Christians had been protected,” Graham says. 11 million Christians live in Egypt and I ear for them, because if the Muslim Brotherhood comes to power, you’re going to see a great exodus of Christians. Same thing in Tunisia and Lebanon. I fear for the church because the Muslim Brotherhood is going to be a very terrible thing.”
Story continues below.
The Rev. Franklin Graham predicts an exodus of Christians from the Mideast and North Africa if the Muslim Brotherhood rises to power there. The radical group is shaping U.S. policy, the evangelist says in a Newsmax.TV video, adding that that’s like a "farmer asking a fox how to protect the hen house.”
A new report from the Roman Catholic aid agency Aid to the Church in Need supports Graham’s contention that the persecution of Christians worldwide has worsened exponentially in the past few years.
According to the report, Christians face increased suffering in 22 countries around the world, with Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Nigeria being among the worst countries to be a Christian in today.
The persecution has gotten markedly worse over the past two years according to the organization.
“The proportion of countries with a worsening track-record of anti-Christian violence and intimidation would be higher were it not for the fact that in many cases the situation could scarcely have been worse in the first place” the report’s authors wrote.
More than 75 percent of religious persecution in the world is currently being carried out against Christians, the report concludes.
The Vatican formed a special committee late last year to address the flight of Christians and the rise of militant Islam in the Middle East. In his New Year’s message, Pope Benedict XVI said Christians suffer more than any other religious group because of their faith
Asked if President Barack Obama was doing enough to protect Christians at home and abroad, Graham says, “No. If anything it’s the opposite.”
“Muslims are protected more in this country than Christians,” he says. “The president has made many statements but he doesn’t back them up. We have to do more to protect the Christians in the Muslim world. Their lives are in danger.”
In recent weeks, Obama administration officials have stepped up the defense of their inclusive stance toward Muslims in their ranks. Deputy national security advisor, Denis McDonough, said last week that President Obama is actually trying to prevent terrorism by "dispelling the myths that have developed over the years, including misperceptions about our fellow Americans who are Muslim."
"When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution," McDonough said at an interfaith forum in Sterling, Va.
Graham, however says what Obama is really doing is "giving Islam a pass" rather than speaking openly about the "horrific" treatment women and minorities receive.
"We certainly love the Muslim people," Graham said in an earlier interview with Newsmax. "But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam."
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Its Getting Worse in Tokyo
Saturday, March 19, 2011 by: Mark Sircus., AC, OMD
http://www.naturalnews.com/031757_Tokyo_radiation.html
On March 15 Michi Okugawa wrote, "The situation in Tokyo is getting worse. The number of people who are panicking is increasing with more and more people trying to get out of Tokyo or out of the country. The nuclear plant explosion is having a large effect in our daily lives. The biggest problem is transportation. Tokyo is darker now due to power saving. As I am writing this, more people have decided to evacuate from Tokyo. I am living my usual life but the surrounding is in a panic."
The Japanese government today admitted that it is overwhelmed by unfolding events.
If millions of Japanese wondering what they need to do to get out of harm's way are confused, there is good reason for it. The Japanese government as well as the American one and health officials around the world are themselves confused about the potential dangers to the people of the greater metropolitan Tokyo area, which is practically in the shadow of the out-of-control nuclear power station.
Imagine how they feel being so close. It's a nuclear nightmare up there in northern Japan. Is there anyone who really wants to doubt that?
Top U.S. officials have testified before congress this week that the situation in Japan has reached catastrophic proportions on par with Chernobyl. Both the Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Gregory B. Jaczko, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave dire testimony before the House Energy and Commerce committee. This is not the same story being told in Tokyo, at least not yet. But Japan's nuclear agency spokesman conceded that a "Chernobyl solution" of burying the reactors in sand and concrete was in the back of the authorities' minds. A day later it is moving to the very front of their minds.
American officials in Japan continue to operate on the assumption that the danger level is higher than described by the Japanese and in this essay we continue to assume the dangers are stratospherically higher than even the American officials are admitting. At this point both the primary and secondary containment vessels at the Fukushima nuclear reactor #4 are breached. To make matters worse, radiation readings taken by the U.S. indicate that the cooling pond is empty, indicating the fuel rods are in a state of complete meltdown with no cooling to counteract the meltdown in progress. These events spell out NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE and there will be many deaths in this bad dream.
The U.S. has issued a 50-mile evacuation zone around the plant and even that might be too conservative of a radius as things get further out of hand. This is in contrast to Japanese directives that people within about 12 miles evacuate while those between 12 and 19 miles stay indoors. Yet there are strong indications that fuel rods have begun to melt and release extremely high levels of radiation, suggesting they should really start considering evacuating Tokyo.
It is time to get people out and it's time for us to stop using fluoride in our water and mercury in our vaccines and dental products but that's the problem with us humans and our cherished institutions -- we don't recognize the real dangers until it's too late and we come up with all kinds of excuses and rationalizations to do or not do something. The frenetic series of efforts to get water into four of the plant's six reactors is not working.
American officials say they suspect that the Japanese power company has consistently underestimated the risk and moved too slowly to contain the damage. To expect the politicians, nuclear power energy officials and the company owners to communicate in an unbiased/untwisted way about nuclear events is to be a fool. All they see are safety signs in their minds and they cannot let anything get in the way of the future of nuclear power even though it's proving out to be the stupidest, most insane thing modern man has ever done. We will now learn this lesson the hard way. Does anyone have any doubt about that either?
As each hour passes in Japan, the world comes closer to reading news of one of the largest nuclear stations in the world going out of control creating a permanent hot spot on our planet that will result in nightmares for ages to come. It is already happening and we are within a hair's breadth of incalculable suffering and harm to human civilization. Yet the risks are not being disclosed for fear of panic. The days and weeks ahead are going to give us a shocking wake-up call about who we are and what we have done and allowed to be done to our lives. It is a good time for prayers and a good time for some self-reflection.
The United Nations is forecasting a possible radioactive plume coming across the Pacific Ocean and arriving in California today, according to the New York Times.
California is going to get dumped on by the jet stream from Japan with the fallout being the first whiffs from the first, most minor explosion at Fukushima. The radioactive fallout will contain uranium, cesium, tritium, strontium, and carbon 14 but not very much radioactive iodine. In our next essay entitled "No Danger, No Concern, No Sanity," we will look more carefully at what to pay attention to regarding long-range, traveling nuclear fallout.
Iodine supplementation always makes perfect medical sense for an iodine-deficient population whether confronted with radioactive iodine or not. Dr. David Brownstein has tested 5,000 of his patients and has conferred with many of his colleagues who all sustain the reality that 95 percent of Americans are iodine deficient. Without sufficient iodine we are sitting ducks to toxicities of many kinds with radioactive iodine being only one. Fluoride in the drinking water is much more toxic to an iodine-deficient thyroid. They will not warn you about that and they will not give sufficient warning to what is happening in Japan and what lies ahead.
Soon it will be deadly +plutonium coming through. The fuel rods at all six reactors at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi complex contain plutonium. Only six percent of the fuel rods at the plant's Unit 3 were a mixture of plutonium-239 and uranium-235 when first put into operation. The fuel in other reactors is only uranium, but even there, plutonium is created during the fission process. This means the fuel in all of the stricken reactors and spent fuel pools contain plutonium. Plutonium is super nasty stuff, especially damaging to lungs and kidneys. Inhaling or ingesting only one radioactive particle of plutonium can cause cancer.
There are 3,400 tons of fuel in seven spent fuel pools within the six-reactor plant, including one joint pool storing very old fuel from units 3 and 4. There are 877 tons in five of the reactor cores. That is a lot of radioactive material and Japan is actually a very small place.
The media run by the super elites are not going to tell people what is really going on. You think they are telling the truth about what is happening in the Gulf states? You think they are going to warn the kids going down for spring break to stay out of the water? You think they are going to tell everyone to go out and buy both eating and external clay to help draw radioactive particles from the body? No they will not come out with any helpful informative information.
You would think they would give a heads up to the population about the usefulness of simple Arm & Hammer baking soda and how useful that can be to citizens worried about or actually suffering with radioactive contamination? Not a chance even though it's been reported that you can clear soil of uranium with it, with sodium bicarbonate, the same stuff that you can stick in your refrigerator, brush your teeth and wash your hair with and even save a life in the emergency room.
The world is already paying a high price for nuclear energy. It is not clean and green and certainly not safe but you will never get them to admit that. If a company like Boeing can fall to the temptation of arrogance and shoddy planes, as 60 Minutes exposed, what do you think the nuclear power industry is all about?
So what aren't they telling us? They are not telling us that the mixed oxide fuel rods used in the compromised number three reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi complex contain enough plutonium to threaten public health with the possibility of inhalation of airborne plutonium particles.
Plutonium is most dangerous when it is inhaled and gets into the lungs. The effect on the human body is to vastly increase the chance of developing fatal cancers. That is why in my protocol I call for use of glutathione sodium bicarbonate nebulization because it treats and helps clear the lung tissues. If one has anything above a zero chance of surviving the inhalation of airborne plutonium it's going to be this kind of treatment as well as with the use of clay. Well actually increasing one's chance from zero entails the use of a complete protocol for radiation exposure.
The damaged number three reactor was undergoing its first fuel cycle using MOX at Daiichi. If one of those MOX reactors blows, spewing plutonium dust across Japan and elsewhere, it is lights out via cancer for anyone who breathes the stuff. The half-life of various plutonium isotopes ranges from minutes to 80 million years. Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,100 years meaning it takes that long to lose half of its radioactive potency -- nothing compared to depleted uranium, which counts its time in billions of years. Uranium-235 has a half-life of 700 million years. And cesium, which tends to go airborne easily, has a half-life of 30 years.
About the author:
About the author:
Mark A. Sircus, Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) http://www.imva.info/.
Dr. Sircus was trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and at the School of Traditional Medicine of New England in Boston. He served at the Central Public Hospital of Pochutla in Mexico, and was awarded the title of doctor of oriental medicine for his work. He was one of the first nationally certified acupuncturists in the United States. Dr. Sircus's IMVA is dedicated to unifying the various disciplines in medicine with the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.
He is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations have on vulnerable infants and is identifying the common thread of many toxic agents that are dramatically threatening present and future generations of children. His book, The Terror of Pediatric Medicine, is a free e-book offered on his web site. Humane Pediatrics will be an e-book available early in 2011 and then quickly as possible put into print.
Dr. Sircus is a most prolific and courageous writer and one can read through hundreds of pages on his various web sites.
He has recently released a number of e-books including Winning the War Against Cancer, Survival Medicine for the 21st Century, Sodium Bicarbonate, Rich Man’s Poor Man’s Cancer Treatment, New Paradigms in Diabetic Care and Bringing Back the Universal Medicine: IODINE.
Dr. Sircus is a pioneer in the area of natural detoxification and chelation of toxic chemicals and heavy metals. He is also a champion of the medicinal value of minerals and seawater.
Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, his first published work, offers a stunning breakthrough in medicine, an entirely new way to supplement magnesium that naturally increases DHEA levels, brings cellular magnesium levels up quickly, relieves pain, brings down blood pressure and pushes cell physiology in a positive direction. Magnesium chloride delivered transdermally brings a quick release from a broad range of conditions. His second edition of Transdermal Magnesium Therapy will be out shortly. In addition he writes critically about the political and financial crises occurring around us.
http://www.naturalnews.com/031757_Tokyo_radiation.html
On March 15 Michi Okugawa wrote, "The situation in Tokyo is getting worse. The number of people who are panicking is increasing with more and more people trying to get out of Tokyo or out of the country. The nuclear plant explosion is having a large effect in our daily lives. The biggest problem is transportation. Tokyo is darker now due to power saving. As I am writing this, more people have decided to evacuate from Tokyo. I am living my usual life but the surrounding is in a panic."
The Japanese government today admitted that it is overwhelmed by unfolding events.
If millions of Japanese wondering what they need to do to get out of harm's way are confused, there is good reason for it. The Japanese government as well as the American one and health officials around the world are themselves confused about the potential dangers to the people of the greater metropolitan Tokyo area, which is practically in the shadow of the out-of-control nuclear power station.
Imagine how they feel being so close. It's a nuclear nightmare up there in northern Japan. Is there anyone who really wants to doubt that?
Top U.S. officials have testified before congress this week that the situation in Japan has reached catastrophic proportions on par with Chernobyl. Both the Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Gregory B. Jaczko, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave dire testimony before the House Energy and Commerce committee. This is not the same story being told in Tokyo, at least not yet. But Japan's nuclear agency spokesman conceded that a "Chernobyl solution" of burying the reactors in sand and concrete was in the back of the authorities' minds. A day later it is moving to the very front of their minds.
American officials in Japan continue to operate on the assumption that the danger level is higher than described by the Japanese and in this essay we continue to assume the dangers are stratospherically higher than even the American officials are admitting. At this point both the primary and secondary containment vessels at the Fukushima nuclear reactor #4 are breached. To make matters worse, radiation readings taken by the U.S. indicate that the cooling pond is empty, indicating the fuel rods are in a state of complete meltdown with no cooling to counteract the meltdown in progress. These events spell out NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE and there will be many deaths in this bad dream.
The U.S. has issued a 50-mile evacuation zone around the plant and even that might be too conservative of a radius as things get further out of hand. This is in contrast to Japanese directives that people within about 12 miles evacuate while those between 12 and 19 miles stay indoors. Yet there are strong indications that fuel rods have begun to melt and release extremely high levels of radiation, suggesting they should really start considering evacuating Tokyo.
It is time to get people out and it's time for us to stop using fluoride in our water and mercury in our vaccines and dental products but that's the problem with us humans and our cherished institutions -- we don't recognize the real dangers until it's too late and we come up with all kinds of excuses and rationalizations to do or not do something. The frenetic series of efforts to get water into four of the plant's six reactors is not working.
American officials say they suspect that the Japanese power company has consistently underestimated the risk and moved too slowly to contain the damage. To expect the politicians, nuclear power energy officials and the company owners to communicate in an unbiased/untwisted way about nuclear events is to be a fool. All they see are safety signs in their minds and they cannot let anything get in the way of the future of nuclear power even though it's proving out to be the stupidest, most insane thing modern man has ever done. We will now learn this lesson the hard way. Does anyone have any doubt about that either?
As each hour passes in Japan, the world comes closer to reading news of one of the largest nuclear stations in the world going out of control creating a permanent hot spot on our planet that will result in nightmares for ages to come. It is already happening and we are within a hair's breadth of incalculable suffering and harm to human civilization. Yet the risks are not being disclosed for fear of panic. The days and weeks ahead are going to give us a shocking wake-up call about who we are and what we have done and allowed to be done to our lives. It is a good time for prayers and a good time for some self-reflection.
The United Nations is forecasting a possible radioactive plume coming across the Pacific Ocean and arriving in California today, according to the New York Times.
California is going to get dumped on by the jet stream from Japan with the fallout being the first whiffs from the first, most minor explosion at Fukushima. The radioactive fallout will contain uranium, cesium, tritium, strontium, and carbon 14 but not very much radioactive iodine. In our next essay entitled "No Danger, No Concern, No Sanity," we will look more carefully at what to pay attention to regarding long-range, traveling nuclear fallout.
Iodine supplementation always makes perfect medical sense for an iodine-deficient population whether confronted with radioactive iodine or not. Dr. David Brownstein has tested 5,000 of his patients and has conferred with many of his colleagues who all sustain the reality that 95 percent of Americans are iodine deficient. Without sufficient iodine we are sitting ducks to toxicities of many kinds with radioactive iodine being only one. Fluoride in the drinking water is much more toxic to an iodine-deficient thyroid. They will not warn you about that and they will not give sufficient warning to what is happening in Japan and what lies ahead.
Soon it will be deadly +plutonium coming through. The fuel rods at all six reactors at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi complex contain plutonium. Only six percent of the fuel rods at the plant's Unit 3 were a mixture of plutonium-239 and uranium-235 when first put into operation. The fuel in other reactors is only uranium, but even there, plutonium is created during the fission process. This means the fuel in all of the stricken reactors and spent fuel pools contain plutonium. Plutonium is super nasty stuff, especially damaging to lungs and kidneys. Inhaling or ingesting only one radioactive particle of plutonium can cause cancer.
There are 3,400 tons of fuel in seven spent fuel pools within the six-reactor plant, including one joint pool storing very old fuel from units 3 and 4. There are 877 tons in five of the reactor cores. That is a lot of radioactive material and Japan is actually a very small place.
The media run by the super elites are not going to tell people what is really going on. You think they are telling the truth about what is happening in the Gulf states? You think they are going to warn the kids going down for spring break to stay out of the water? You think they are going to tell everyone to go out and buy both eating and external clay to help draw radioactive particles from the body? No they will not come out with any helpful informative information.
You would think they would give a heads up to the population about the usefulness of simple Arm & Hammer baking soda and how useful that can be to citizens worried about or actually suffering with radioactive contamination? Not a chance even though it's been reported that you can clear soil of uranium with it, with sodium bicarbonate, the same stuff that you can stick in your refrigerator, brush your teeth and wash your hair with and even save a life in the emergency room.
The world is already paying a high price for nuclear energy. It is not clean and green and certainly not safe but you will never get them to admit that. If a company like Boeing can fall to the temptation of arrogance and shoddy planes, as 60 Minutes exposed, what do you think the nuclear power industry is all about?
So what aren't they telling us? They are not telling us that the mixed oxide fuel rods used in the compromised number three reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi complex contain enough plutonium to threaten public health with the possibility of inhalation of airborne plutonium particles.
Plutonium is most dangerous when it is inhaled and gets into the lungs. The effect on the human body is to vastly increase the chance of developing fatal cancers. That is why in my protocol I call for use of glutathione sodium bicarbonate nebulization because it treats and helps clear the lung tissues. If one has anything above a zero chance of surviving the inhalation of airborne plutonium it's going to be this kind of treatment as well as with the use of clay. Well actually increasing one's chance from zero entails the use of a complete protocol for radiation exposure.
The damaged number three reactor was undergoing its first fuel cycle using MOX at Daiichi. If one of those MOX reactors blows, spewing plutonium dust across Japan and elsewhere, it is lights out via cancer for anyone who breathes the stuff. The half-life of various plutonium isotopes ranges from minutes to 80 million years. Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,100 years meaning it takes that long to lose half of its radioactive potency -- nothing compared to depleted uranium, which counts its time in billions of years. Uranium-235 has a half-life of 700 million years. And cesium, which tends to go airborne easily, has a half-life of 30 years.
About the author:
About the author:
Mark A. Sircus, Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical Veritas Association (IMVA) http://www.imva.info/.
Dr. Sircus was trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and at the School of Traditional Medicine of New England in Boston. He served at the Central Public Hospital of Pochutla in Mexico, and was awarded the title of doctor of oriental medicine for his work. He was one of the first nationally certified acupuncturists in the United States. Dr. Sircus's IMVA is dedicated to unifying the various disciplines in medicine with the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.
He is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations have on vulnerable infants and is identifying the common thread of many toxic agents that are dramatically threatening present and future generations of children. His book, The Terror of Pediatric Medicine, is a free e-book offered on his web site. Humane Pediatrics will be an e-book available early in 2011 and then quickly as possible put into print.
Dr. Sircus is a most prolific and courageous writer and one can read through hundreds of pages on his various web sites.
He has recently released a number of e-books including Winning the War Against Cancer, Survival Medicine for the 21st Century, Sodium Bicarbonate, Rich Man’s Poor Man’s Cancer Treatment, New Paradigms in Diabetic Care and Bringing Back the Universal Medicine: IODINE.
Dr. Sircus is a pioneer in the area of natural detoxification and chelation of toxic chemicals and heavy metals. He is also a champion of the medicinal value of minerals and seawater.
Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, his first published work, offers a stunning breakthrough in medicine, an entirely new way to supplement magnesium that naturally increases DHEA levels, brings cellular magnesium levels up quickly, relieves pain, brings down blood pressure and pushes cell physiology in a positive direction. Magnesium chloride delivered transdermally brings a quick release from a broad range of conditions. His second edition of Transdermal Magnesium Therapy will be out shortly. In addition he writes critically about the political and financial crises occurring around us.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Preparedness Part 2
As stated previously: Being in a rural area significantly hedges against the risks of the above. This however for most of us means a complete shift in the way we think and operate, a complete break with many of our current securities and comfort zones. Incidentally this happens to be more in line with the way of life God had originally purposed man to live, than what we see around us today…
How did God originally determine man should live?
Where did God put man after He created him?
God put man in a garden. God created the man to work in the outdoors, in a garden environment. Man’s created nature and role is to subdue his environment and rule over it. Each man needs his own independent domain to conquer and dress. Male aggression is that part of his make-up that drives a man to conquer and subdue. This difference between male and female is visible from an early stage in life. Girls are more sedate and reserved, whereas boys are rowdy, aggressive and ready to take up a challenge. Men are far more inclined to take risks than women. There are obviously men whose natures and passions run riot and find expression in evil ways, and society is the worse for it, because they have not been disciplined, nor acquired the virtue of self-control.
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also…And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it…And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
(Gen 2:8-9, 15, 18)
From the above scripture it is clear that the idea of a garden originated with God, not man.
Secondly, it is evident that God’s idea of garden served at least three purposes:
1. What grew in it was “pleasant to the sight” – in other words it was a place of aesthetic beauty.
2. What grew in it was good for food” – in other words it was to provide man with nourishment.
3. It was the place where God put man “to dress and to keep it” – in other words it provided man with purpose, work and responsibility.
Forthcoming from this last purpose, God gave man a helper to assist him in his work.
This is how God defined and purposed a garden. God walked with man in this garden…until man sinned.
What has modern man made of “garden”?
“The country garden of my childhood was a mixture of vegetables, flowers, soft fruit, tree fruit, and very often tame rabbits, almost certainly a hen run, often pigeons, and often ferrets. It was a very beautiful place indeed. Now alas, it has disappeared under a useless velvety lawn and a lot of silly bedding plants and hardy perennials, but of course the owner feels compelled to keep up with the people next door” - John Seymour
I think the above lament – and that from a secular source - sums up the current state of most gardens of our time (that is, of those who still have a garden)…sadly, the garden of today largely strives to meet the first purpose only – to be aesthetically pleasing. The motivation behind that may often be pride…the comparison with, and the impression of others. No more is man nourished from his garden, and often he pays someone else to dress and keep it…it has mostly become little more than a showpiece.
Was a garden that we should eat of only a concept before the fall? Or did God intend for man to continue having such a garden of his own?
Even whilst they were in captivity the LORD said to His people:
Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them (Jer 29:5)
Clearly the concept was continued after the fall.
I do not wish to imply that having a garden that does not feed us, is by any means wrong; but is God not wanting to convey something to us through His Word? Does what we call “garden”, measure up to God’s definition of thereof?
How did God originally determine man should live?
Where did God put man after He created him?
God put man in a garden. God created the man to work in the outdoors, in a garden environment. Man’s created nature and role is to subdue his environment and rule over it. Each man needs his own independent domain to conquer and dress. Male aggression is that part of his make-up that drives a man to conquer and subdue. This difference between male and female is visible from an early stage in life. Girls are more sedate and reserved, whereas boys are rowdy, aggressive and ready to take up a challenge. Men are far more inclined to take risks than women. There are obviously men whose natures and passions run riot and find expression in evil ways, and society is the worse for it, because they have not been disciplined, nor acquired the virtue of self-control.
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also…And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it…And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
(Gen 2:8-9, 15, 18)
From the above scripture it is clear that the idea of a garden originated with God, not man.
Secondly, it is evident that God’s idea of garden served at least three purposes:
1. What grew in it was “pleasant to the sight” – in other words it was a place of aesthetic beauty.
2. What grew in it was good for food” – in other words it was to provide man with nourishment.
3. It was the place where God put man “to dress and to keep it” – in other words it provided man with purpose, work and responsibility.
Forthcoming from this last purpose, God gave man a helper to assist him in his work.
This is how God defined and purposed a garden. God walked with man in this garden…until man sinned.
What has modern man made of “garden”?
“The country garden of my childhood was a mixture of vegetables, flowers, soft fruit, tree fruit, and very often tame rabbits, almost certainly a hen run, often pigeons, and often ferrets. It was a very beautiful place indeed. Now alas, it has disappeared under a useless velvety lawn and a lot of silly bedding plants and hardy perennials, but of course the owner feels compelled to keep up with the people next door” - John Seymour
I think the above lament – and that from a secular source - sums up the current state of most gardens of our time (that is, of those who still have a garden)…sadly, the garden of today largely strives to meet the first purpose only – to be aesthetically pleasing. The motivation behind that may often be pride…the comparison with, and the impression of others. No more is man nourished from his garden, and often he pays someone else to dress and keep it…it has mostly become little more than a showpiece.
Was a garden that we should eat of only a concept before the fall? Or did God intend for man to continue having such a garden of his own?
Even whilst they were in captivity the LORD said to His people:
Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them (Jer 29:5)
Clearly the concept was continued after the fall.
I do not wish to imply that having a garden that does not feed us, is by any means wrong; but is God not wanting to convey something to us through His Word? Does what we call “garden”, measure up to God’s definition of thereof?
Are we not maybe forfeiting some blessing because the true concept is lost to us? Are certain spiritual concepts that God wishes to impress upon us through the physical process of gardening, and enjoying the fruits thereof, not lost because of it? Consider how many times Jesus and the apostles used such examples to illuminate spiritual understanding: the tree that bore no fruit, the wheat and the tares, the sower and the seed, the principle of multiplication and bringing forth fruit in abundance, the vine, the corn of wheat, pruning, thorns and thistles, plowing, sowing and reaping, planting and watering but God gives the increase; shepherding and herding, or about the influence of seasons on our lives.
Seasons:
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven - Ecc 3:1
God has made man with a need to experience change, but He has also made man with a love of permanence. He has thus balanced the love of change with a love of permanence. The way God has provided to bless man in fulfilling these two seemingly incompatible needs is through the union of change and permanence called rhythm. God gave us seasons, each season different, yet every year the same. So spring is always experienced as a novelty, while yet being a recurrence of the same theme.
As man has coccooned himself in his modern day inventions, he has erected an effective barrier between himself and the influence of seasons upon his life. We can have summer fruit in winter, winter fruit in summer (thanks to cold storage and preservation), if it is cold we turn on the heater, if it is hot we switch on the air conditioner. We can make it rain by shooting clouds. We even create our own climate – some manufacturers even call it “climate control”. The seasons do not influence us as much as they used to, and to many city dwellers the only influence they are concerned with is that the rain must not spoil their fun over the weekend.
Is it any wonder that mankind is getting bored with life? And the more bored we become, the more the desire for change eats at us. People try to gratify this desire with an endless stream of novelties, fashions, ideas and inventions; all which further fortifies the barrier between themselves and the way God intended them to experience change.
Today we find in mankind an insatiable demand for novelty, and a livid horror of “the same old thing”. This demand for novelty is creating an infinite, unrhythmical state of change – the opposite of the way God designed man to experience change. It also makes man his own “change agent”. This demand for novelty, and the horror of “the same old thing” is the driving force behind fashions and vogues, the high divorce rate, political unrest and many other social evils of our day.
I think it is partly because times and seasons have lost their relevance to us that mankind is losing the ability to connect cause and effect: Scripture says there is a clear link between cause and effect:
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. (Gal 6:7-8)
There is a time to sow and there is a time to reap.
These concepts have often at best become abstract theory to man; most of us have not seen, nor experienced the real wonders and mysteries thereof. Can we really relate to much of Christ’s teaching today? Was this work that God gave man (to eat his bread in the sweat of his brow, to till and cultivate the earth) not for his own good?…maybe to enable him to relate to the spiritual concepts?
Cities
Such has become our dependence on the artificial life support systems, that should they collapse, most of us will not survive. Is it surprising that people in the most densely populated areas of the world are hardest hit by natural disasters? It seems as if densely populated areas are the main focus of God’s warnings and judgments on man’s sinfulness…
There is an interesting warning in scripture in Isaiah 5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! …This is exactly what they did at Babel…Genesis 11:4 …let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
You see, God’s command to man was to multiply and fill the earth Gen 1:28, and again after the flood in Gen 9:1. At Babel man chose to deliberately go against this command and chose to consolidate into a city under a single name so that they do not scatter over the earth and populate it as God commanded. This is why God then scattered them from Babel. At Babel we find the first man-made attempt at religion, the first unification under a name, and the first city. Today mankind is yet again converging in cities…”joining house to house…till there be no place…”
But there are also “good” cities in the Bible?
In scripture there are direct indications that biblical “cities” existed for the purpose of agriculture: Nehemiah 10:37 speaks of “the cities of our tillage”. The term “tillage” refers to what God made Adam to do – working the soil. Traditionally these cities were walled to provide residential safety, but during the day most of the people worked the land and tended their herds outside the city walls. The “city dwellers” were mostly still farmers. Ezekiel 48:18 also speaks about the food grown on the outskirts of the city that was to feed those who served the city. Such a city, if it was very large, would perhaps have 5000 residents. Most cities contained but a few hundred people. A village typically would have been just a cluster of some houses, surrounded by livestock and agriculture, and was usually not walled. Many of today’s farm homesteads that have a couple of houses and some labourers’ cottages would have been classified as villages in biblical times. What we call “cities” today have little resemblance to the biblical concept of cities. They have a much closer, macro scale resemblance to Babel, and what is warned against in Isaiah 5:8.
The life of living close to the land, and in more rural or “village life” - like tribal relationships, has been the normative lifestyle for millenia. Before the industrial revolution about 9 out of every 10 people used to work the land or keep livestock to sustain themselves. In 1930 it still was 5 out of every 10. Even in bigger villages most families still had their own vegetable patch, some fruit trees, a milk cow, chickens etc.
Commercial modern agriculture has made it possible for us to arrive at a current ratio of 1 food producer for every 60 people. This has only been made possible by technology, a high dependence on chemical and mechanical means, and the availability of large quantities of relatively cheap fuel and oil. A disruption in any of these will have disastrous effects on the world’s food supplies. The way our society densely populates big cities, receive their food transported from hundreds of miles, and create their own sub-reality, removed from the land which God commanded man to till and keep, and earn his living from, is a very recent phenomenon.
Relatively few people today still know how to earn a living from the soil; commercial farming has alienated even most farmers from that…
1. A typical grain farmer today buys genetically manipulated seed (at a premium price) which can only produce one year’s crop, but cannot reproduce more seed for next year’s crop. He thus remains dependent on a corporate seed supplier. The principle of multiplication and abundance from one seed, as taught in Scripture has thus lost relevance. This farmer is dependent on others to supply him, and he has to purchase that which God intended to be free.
Relatively few people today still know how to earn a living from the soil; commercial farming has alienated even most farmers from that…
1. A typical grain farmer today buys genetically manipulated seed (at a premium price) which can only produce one year’s crop, but cannot reproduce more seed for next year’s crop. He thus remains dependent on a corporate seed supplier. The principle of multiplication and abundance from one seed, as taught in Scripture has thus lost relevance. This farmer is dependent on others to supply him, and he has to purchase that which God intended to be free.
2. Secondly, it involves high specialization, and in certain fields only, and mass production… everything is turned into money, not into sustenance. If you can only produce milk, but do not grow, harvest and prepare other products, you are still totally dependent on others to do it for you. One cannot make a living from the land this way, one merely exploits the land in order to gain enough money to buy a living. It has become primarily a money driven enterprise. Thus we have erected a massive system of inter-dependence, where even famines can be man-made…in modern times we can find famines in some countries where there is no drought or shortage of natural resources, but where there is a monetary demise, and a collapse of infrastucture. Such a famine is not the result of a natural disaster, but that of a man-made disaster. Add a natural disaster to this mix and you have a catastrophe. Scripture speaks on this topic (Mark 13:8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.)
When cataclysmic events start impacting this fragile system of inter-dependence…what logical outcome can we expect but famines and troubles…imagine what will happen in a city with millions of inhabitants when the taken for granted supply mechanism to supermarkets gets disrupted. Many people, especially the poorer communities of city dwellers live from “one day to the next” where the family eats what was earned that day, there’s no reserve supply, and if the breadwinner falls ill, they starve or steal. It does not require much imagination to construe the chaos when supermarkets run empty, and the day’s earnings cannot buy bread, or worse, the day’s earnings do not cover the cost of bread.
To Continue the Discussion on Preparedness...
This message was written by Paul Zietsman:
I started this writing as a response to the original blog on “Four-Six Months Supply”(below). I do however believe this may become a discussion that might side track it from the original intent of the author, so I decided to make this a separate topic, and therefore have copied the original starting response into the beginning of this one:
I have been contemplating this same issue for a number of years. I have come to understand that depending on, and trusting in, God is the key, not our own efforts. But faith without works is dead. Depending on God does not mean passivity or apathy. When we trust God for his provision it is still our duty to do the part He expects from us. Jesus told us to consider the birds, that He feeds even them. Have you ever noted that birds (except when babies incapable of flight) do not stay in the nest and wait for their food? They forage wide and far for their sustenance. God provides for them, but they have to do what they can to co-operate in His provision.
The Bible brings that same concept to bear upon man and says if any will not work, neither should he eat. We should not expect God to do for us that which we could, and should, be doing.
Through Pharaoh’s dream God revealed to Joseph that there would come a very difficult time of famine, but he also showed him that there was still time to prepare. Joseph did prepare as far as he was capable to do, and God used this to provide not only for Joseph, but for all his brethren, and the whole of his country.
(Prov 22:3) A prudent man foresees the evil, and hides himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
That said, we are definitely not called of God to acquire a "bunker mentality". Our duty is to prepare, but not out of fear. Basic preparedness can include things as simple a keeping a flashlight next to your bed. It is for this same reason cars come equipped with spare wheels, and ships carry life rafts. That is basic common sense preparedness for eventualities that have a remote chance of happening, even though we do not expect that we will be using these. This is basic or low level preparedness. When certain circumstances develop that requires us to better prepare, we have to move to a higher state of preparedness. What Joseph did in Egypt was not simply everyday preparedness, he knew trouble was ahead, and he made specific preparations to position himself in the best possible way.
To continue the discussion on preparedness…
Our kingdom is not of this world. But we are in the world, and God has placed us here, and we have responsibilities here for as long as God keeps us here. We are to be salt and light. We are to live in fellowship with other believers. We are to provide and care for those whom God has entrusted to us. To provide for your family and others less fortunate is not synonymous to establishing your kingdom on the earth. To prepare for difficult times ahead does not mean you see the world as your kingdom. When you find your ultimate security in these things, it does however indicate where your heart is – in the world. It is essential that we make the distinction clear.
What are we preparing for? (I am speaking from the assumption that we already know that we should at all times be prepared to meet the Lord Jesus – to be spiritually prepared, and to know that real security lies in a Person – Jesus, and not in a set of ideal circumstances).
Joseph knew God, and found his security in Him. As an outflow of faith, he undertook physical preparation for the difficult times that God showed him were lying ahead. This article likewise focuses on the physical side of preparedness, to meet the situations in the world around us, and the likely challenges we may be faced with in the near future. We undertake physical preparation as a consequence of faith in what God shows us, not as a consequence of fear for losing our earthly treasures. Why would God show us things to come, if He does not wish for us to prepare for them? Would God show us physical events to come in this world, but expect us only to be spiritually prepared, while we neglect the physical means? What faith is that? It is the same as when James said (James 2:15-17) If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
If we do not follow the spiritual aspect with a physical outworking, we are stuck in a secular religion that wants to separate the physical life and the spiritual one. “Your actions have nothing to do with your beliefs”. It is this same thinking process that has conned many into believing that there can be such a thing as a “gay christian” (a sodomite believer?).
Joseph believed God, and as he was spiritually prepared, he also set about to physically prepare. What earthly events has God directly shown us in His Word to prepare for? What earthly events has God given us wisdom to foresee, and prepare for?
These events can be placed in two different categories:
Firstly, there are certain future situations that we are guaranteed will occur. Scripture is very clear on events during the last days. What their exact timing, extent and nearness in the future will be, is not all that clear, but come they will. These are things God directly shows us will take place.
Secondly, there are certain future situations that we may envisage, that are not guaranteed to occur, but wisdom, logical deduction and a study of history and economics proves that the likelihood is very high. Such situations may not be direct fulfilments of the prophesies in the book of Revelation, but nonetheless can still have catastrophic effects. God uses these as warnings of things to come. It did not require a fulfilment of the prophecies in Revelation for Zimbabwe to experience a famine, and a total economic collapse. It was something that maybe did not touch many of us, but nonetheless had tragic results for millions of people. Such has happened throughout history to many nations. Those that are wise usually foresee such events many years in advance, it does not take them by surprise, and they start issuing warnings (which mostly fall on deaf ears). Such persons are not necessarily prophets, but they are people who can connect “cause and effect”. People who understand the principles of physics, mathematics and economics, understand that these cannot be violated without consequences. Neither can God’s will be violated without consequences.
A country with a high level of corruption, greed and base morals is bound for destruction. Such a society, if not destroyed by a foreign influence, will eventually self-destruct. The cycle of collapse takes much longer in countries where there is great wealth and infrastructure, but the end is inevitably the same for all. The collapse of Zimbabwe, from an exporter with a strong currency, to a welfare state with dismal currency has taken 30 years, the collapse of America takes a lot longer, but it is heading the same way. In small countries things happen a lot faster, in large countries the wheels turn much slower, but the scale of events are so much larger. When Zimbabwe hit rock bottom almost half of its population skipped the border into South Africa to seek refuge, food and employment. South Africa, being a larger, wealthier country, thus absorbed a large part of the blow that hit Zimbabwe. Imagine a crisis where half the population of China, or half the population of America has to be supported from outside! The magnitude of such a crisis is huge, when the country is huge.
Therefore, we need to appreciate that preparedness implies to position oneself in the best way to meet such challenges. It is important to realise that it does not essentially require the fulfilment of last days prophecies before we may be faced with difficult times or catastrophe. Japan is experiencing this right now, and we are definitely not in the Revelation 6-18 events yet.
We need to ask ourselves what would be our position if a major crisis came upon us. What are likely scenarios? Earthquake, economic collapse, food shortage, power blackout, oil/fuel crisis, terrorism, war, epidemic outbreak…? These things can all happen without them being in the Rev 6-18 category. If I have to take an honest look at the world scene today, I have to admit that never in history has the above scenario’s been more likely than in our immediate future, and that anyone of these could trigger many of the others.
These could, of course, set the stage for, and propel us into the final Rev 6-18 scene. There are enough warning voices going up in the world, both Christian and secular. The purpose of this writing is not convince anybody of a coming calamity, or to instil fear, but rather to look at preparedness for such events.
To appreciate what needs to be considered in preparing, we do need to look at likely scenario’s, just as a rescue team would look at possible scenarios, and equip themselves for such events. They carry fire extinguishers because they know that an accident scene is likely to cause a fire, and have fuel spills. They carry water and IV equipment, because they foresee that victims of heat exhaustion are likely to be dehydrated. They carry stretcher boards and neck braces because they know that there may be spinal injuries…etc.
Now, extensive preparation is not possible for everyone, as our abilities and resources vary. The Lord does not expect us to do what we cannot do; He will look after that. We ought to pray, and do what we can do, and what that will be differs from person to person.
I am going to list preparations in 3 categories: first line, second line, and third line:
First line:
These are preparations that enable one to deal with immediate, unexpected events that require immediate action. I will name a few, so we can get an idea of the type of preparations these include. There are many excellent web-sites on survival that give comprehensive lists, I am not going to duplicate those.
- Keep a flashlight with fresh batteries next to your bed, and also in a place in your home where you will be able to find your way to it in complete darkness.
- Always have at least a quarter tank of fuel in your vehicle.
- Maintain a well stocked medical kit.
- Have the means of defending your family should there be a hostile element threatening their safety.
- Have emergency phone numbers, bank account numbers, some cash, and ID accessible at all times.
Second line:
These are preparations that enable one to deal with crises for a short continued period (maybe for some days, or up to a few weeks).
- Have a backup supply of staple foods and drinking water.
- Have an alternative means of lighting, heating and cooking, should you lose electrical supply.
- Have an alternative to sanitary arrangements should the sewerage service stop working.
Third line:
These are preparations that enable one to deal with crises for an extended or indefinite time. These are the most challenging and resource requiring preps, as these involve renewable resources, not simply stockpiled reserves that can after a time become depleted. These are actually the most advantageous preparations, because the first two categories will only allow you to handle a crisis as long as your reserves last.
- Alternative energy systems for heating, cooking, refrigeration and lighting.
- Renewable water source – own spring, well, bore hole, river or dam etc.
- Renewable food sources – growing own food and keeping livestock.
- Basic skills and tools to build and maintain (carpentry, mechanics, electrical, plumbing etc)
- Basic medical knowledge, backed up by medical books or printed material (do not rely on the availability of the internet)
- Alternative sanitary system.
- Replace stocks and shares with real gold and (rural) real estate. Paper has little value in a crisis, banks freeze accounts, shares plummet etc.
These are basically “pioneering” requirements. In short, the above imply taking responsibility for your needs, instead of relying on government and other companies to supply these against payment (do not take your job, salary or bank account for granted in situations of economic fallout, civil unrest, or any severe disruption of society). Do not take the complex, just-in-time systems of supply and services around us for granted.
We have to face a simple logical thought: Any of the above mentioned crises can develop into civil unrest. If large numbers of people find themselves unprepared, their water supply gone, and their ability to buy food gone, they may start targeting those who have these commodities. Your veggie garden in the city may become everybody’s garden. Your swimming pool with your reserve water supply may be empty in two days. Your home may be plundered by mobs, and your family’s 3 months emergency supply of foodstuffs eaten in a day. Frankly, when living in an urban environment with all your reserves you are likely to become a target. Epidemics spread rapidly in cities due to high population density. Living in a city means you have to buy everything. Cities are vast consumers that merely consume things that are produced elsewhere. You need to spend a constant stream of money just to live. It is guaranteed that there will come a time when those who obey God will not be able to buy or sell (Rev 13:17).
Being in a rural area significantly hedges against the risks of the above. This however for most of us means a complete shift in the way we think and operate, a complete break with many of our current securities and comfort zones. Incidentally this happens to be more in line with the way of life God had originally purposed man to live, than what we see around us today. I would like to further discuss this in a follow-up post, and would like to invite comments, questions or participation.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Japan's nightmare gets even worse
All THREE damaged nuclear reactors now in 'meltdown'
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Four-Six Months Supply
Part 1
PRAYER! Water, PRAYER, Flashlights , PRAYER, Batteries, PRAYER, Candles, PRAYER, Matches (lighters), PRAYER, dehydrated food
Living in urban Southern California, God excluded from any survival scenario, we wouldn’t have a-wooden-nickel-of-a-chance to survive. Even with faith and trust in God, we may not survive. The key no matter what, is that we maintain our faith and trust in God through any scenario. His Word doesn’t promise us anything but the strength to endure, even unto death.
Fewer and fewer men who profess faith in Christ disagree that we are seeing the end of all things. No doubt there are terrifying times just beyond the horizon. I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t a little scared at the thought myself. The temptation I face is thinking that my material preparedness is going to save my family. Don’t get me wrong, I believe anyone who understands the times we live in should be preparing materially. We must however keep ourselves from thinking that our efforts will ensure the safety and well-being of those in our families.
I don’t want to be someone who says one thing and in practice does the exact opposite. If I truly believe the words of Jesus when he says, “whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it” then I must continually question my motives for every thought I have and every action I implement to surviving certain social upheavals coming upon the streets of America.
I have been thinking and praying a lot lately about having the heart and mind God wants me to have during these days. God is sovereign and He will allow whatever He chooses with the lives of my family. At the same time, I don’t think it a faithless endeavor to prepare for what you see coming either.
Preparation, the idea of what preparation means within the context of a man of God, has a completely open-ended definition. My idea of this has been evolving over the last few years and I know many will not agree with me, and that’s OK. I am not interested in forcing my ideas on anyone.
My ideas of preparedness mostly come from historical research. Research not, of recent history (the last 300 years), but of the first through the seventeenth century.
Here’s an article that has really stuck with me since I first read it. This article will give you a little understanding of where I am coming from.
I will continue with this article soon. Check back
Utah Legislature Sends Gold Coin and Silver Coin Currency Bill to Governor
PRLog (Press Release) – Mar 14, 2011 – The State of Utah took another step forward last week towards making gold coins and silver coins legal tender as currency within the state’s borders.
Last Thursday, the Utah Senate passed the Substitute Currency Amendments bill (H.B. 317) 16-7 and forwarded the gold coin and silver coin bill to Gov. Gary Herbert for his signature.
The bill would allow gold coins and silver coins be accepted for payments in Utah based on the price of gold or price of silver or the face value of the coin. It would not require anyone to accept the coins as payment and would exempt the sales of coins from capital gains taxes.
The ability to use gold coins and silver coins as currency in Utah could cascade throughout the country as other states may turn to accept gold coins and silver coins as currency as well. If this happens, the demand for gold coins and silver coins could significantly increase.
Global Gold Group offers popular gold coins and silver coins for investors including the very popular American Eagle coins from the United States Mint. To purchase gold coins and silver coins before the demand significantly increases nationwide, call 888-700-4148 or visit http://www.aglobalcurrency.com today.
http://www.prlog.org/11373882-utah-legislature-sends-gold-coin-and-silver-coin-currency-bill-to-governor.html
Last Thursday, the Utah Senate passed the Substitute Currency Amendments bill (H.B. 317) 16-7 and forwarded the gold coin and silver coin bill to Gov. Gary Herbert for his signature.
The bill would allow gold coins and silver coins be accepted for payments in Utah based on the price of gold or price of silver or the face value of the coin. It would not require anyone to accept the coins as payment and would exempt the sales of coins from capital gains taxes.
The ability to use gold coins and silver coins as currency in Utah could cascade throughout the country as other states may turn to accept gold coins and silver coins as currency as well. If this happens, the demand for gold coins and silver coins could significantly increase.
Global Gold Group offers popular gold coins and silver coins for investors including the very popular American Eagle coins from the United States Mint. To purchase gold coins and silver coins before the demand significantly increases nationwide, call 888-700-4148 or visit http://www.aglobalcurrency.com today.
http://www.prlog.org/11373882-utah-legislature-sends-gold-coin-and-silver-coin-currency-bill-to-governor.html
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
APRES NOUS LE DELUGE
This is a free financial newsletter you may want to subscribe to.
It’s from Gold Switzerland - Matterhorn Asset Management
For the last few years that I’ve been reading it, Egon has been right-on the button.
The latest newsletter came last Sunday. Here’s the link:
Here's an excerpt:
The Gini coefficient of income and wealth is now reaching extremes in many countries. This measures the inequality between the rich and the poor. In the US the Gini coefficient is now at the same level as in the 1920s before the depression. In countries like the US, the rich are getting richer whilst 45 million people live below the poverty line, 43 million receive food stamps and over 700,000 are homeless. With a real unemployment rate of 22% and urban youth unemployment much higher, the US will soon experience social unrest.
But it is not only the US that will experience financial misery, famine and social unrest. This will also hit most European countries and in particular the UK, southern Europe, Eastern Europe and the Baltic States as well as African countries, the Middle East, Asia, yes in fact the whole world.
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