Posted by
peripheral on Friday, July 30, 2010 6:26:51 AM
From My Perspective - - -
Can the unimaginable become the inevitable? Can the inconceivable
become the reality? Can the unconquerable become the vanquished? Can
dominant strength vanish suddenly and become impotence? Can
redistribution of wealth quickly diminish charity and business acumen
(sharpness and shrewdness) and bring about uniform poverty and
dependence on more controlled redistribution? Can creative intelligence
erode and become herd instinct? Can the most powerful nation allow for
self-inflicted wounds that will cause it to become weak and captive to
the whims of those who will seize control of it?
A recent release (July 28, 2010) - The Year America Dissolved By:
Paul Craig Roberts (See: Infowars.com), he writes: “It was 2017. Clans
were governing America. The first clans organized around local police
forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century
and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st
century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and
unaccountable. As society broke down, the police became warlords. The
state police broke apart, and the officers were subsumed into the local
forces of their communities…The dollar had collapsed as world reserve
currency in 2012 when the worsening economic depression made it clear
to Washington’s creditors that the federal budget deficit was too large
to be financed except by the printing of money. With the dollar’s
demise, import prices skyrocketed. As Americans were unable to afford
foreign-made goods, the transnational corporations that were producing
offshore for US markets were bankrupted, further eroding the
government’s revenue base. The government was forced to print money in
order to pay its bills, causing domestic prices to rise rapidly. Faced
with hyperinflation, Washington took recourse in terminating Social
Security and Medicare and followed up by confiscating the remnants of
private pensions. This provided a one-year respite, but with no more
resources to confiscate, money creation and hyperinflation resumed.
Organized food deliveries broke down when the government fought
hyperinflation with fixed prices and the mandate that all purchases and
sales had to be in US paper currency. Unwilling to trade appreciating
goods for depreciating paper, goods disappeared from stores. The
government sent troops to confiscate goods for distribution in kind to
the population. This was a temporary stop-gap until existing stocks
were depleted, as future production was discouraged. Much of the
confiscated stocks became the property of the troops who seized the
goods. Goods reappeared in markets under the protection of local
warlords. Transactions were conducted in barter and in gold, silver,
and copper coins…Large scale food and other production broke down as
local militias taxed distribution as goods moved across local
territories. Washington seized domestic oil production and refineries,
but much of the government’s gasoline was paid for safe passage across
clan territories. Most of the troops in Washington’s overseas bases
were abandoned. As their resource stocks were drawn down, the abandoned
soldiers were forced into alliances with those with whom they had been
fighting. Washington found it increasingly difficult to maintain
itself. As it lost control over the country, Washington was less able
to secure supplies from abroad as tribute from those Washington
threatened with nuclear attack. Gradually other nuclear powers realized
that the only target in America was Washington…”
Can any of this happen in our lifetime – in our nation? In Matthew 24:4-14,
Jesus said: “Watch out that no one deceives you...You will hear of wars
and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things
must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and
earthquakes in various places…you will be handed over to be persecuted
and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of
me...Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow
cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved…” In Jeremiah 9:23-24,“This
is what the LORD says: Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the
strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches,
but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows
me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and
righteousness on earth, for in these I delight, declares the Lord.” In Matthew 24:44:
“So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour
when you do not expect him.” Consider these things with me!