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Ah…everybody ready? It Elections time!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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Time for the blowhards of Washington to come down from their
overpriced Ivory Tower and begin to tell the sweet big and little lies to the
serfs to try and sway your votes to them.&lt;/div&gt;
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Doesn’t that just sound like fun?&lt;/div&gt;
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No?&lt;/div&gt;
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Why not…?&amp;nbsp; Isn’t hours of political rhetoric and lies sound
like fun? No… well how about this..?&amp;nbsp; How
about I offer an insight that could offer a more sound view point on the whole
circus?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;First off, it doesn’t
matter what you want!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Do you really think that your vote counts on a national
level?&amp;nbsp; Guess what?&amp;nbsp; They don’t.&amp;nbsp;
Because of the monstrosity of the Electoral College your vote doesn’t
count like it used to.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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Let’s get some historical perspective;&lt;/div&gt;
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When the country was newly founded they wanted to have a
system by where it was easy for the public to elect their officials.&amp;nbsp; Only in those days they didn’t have email, or
phones.&amp;nbsp; So how did they communicate
their decisions to the governing body?&amp;nbsp; They
sent representatives also known as “Electors” to the Capitol to deliver and
vote on behalf of the people. &lt;/div&gt;
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Check out this video … it will give you more perspective on
how the Electoral College actually works.&lt;/div&gt;
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Now… here is the problem now… we don’t need the “college”
any more.&amp;nbsp; We live in a modern society
and we have a crazy amount of options that should allow us to vote the way we
want.&amp;nbsp; But that isn’t what “they” want.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Chew on that for a second.&amp;nbsp; If the electors don’t actually have to vote
the way the people in their districts tell them to… well that makes the process
pretty easy to control right?&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;There has been two times in history of when the College
screwed things up.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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The first time was
when Andrew Jackson got 100 percent of the popular vote but didn’t get the
votes from all the electors.&amp;nbsp; Now my
theory on this one was that Jackson was ANTI CENTRAL BANK and so he lost
because the “they” decided they wanted Jackson out… but that is a whole
different post for a different day. &lt;/div&gt;
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style="height: 192px; width: 256px;" width="256" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The second time was during Bush vs. Gore.&amp;nbsp; During that time two states didn’t follow the
“Winner Take all” system. It works like this; 48 states and D.C. operate under
the "winner-take-all" method, which means that whoever wins the
plurality of the vote in that state gets all of the electoral votes. Maine has
4 electoral votes, of which they give one to the winner of each congressional
district that they have (which is two) and two for whoever wins the state.
(Nebraska does the same thing but they have 5 electoral votes.) So in theory,
Gore could have won 3 Maine electors, but Bush 1 if he led Gore in a particular
district. Gore won all of Maine's 4 votes, though. &lt;/div&gt;
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Opponents of the Electoral College like the split system
because it seems to be more representative. For example, California's 54
electoral votes went to Gore because he won the state, but in a split system,
maybe Gore would get 30 and Bush 24 because that's closer to how the vote
turned out proportionately. The thing is though, if one state wants to change
the way they do it, the other states are not bound to follow suit. This is why most
states leave it the way that it is because they do not want their own electors
to cancel each other out.&lt;/div&gt;
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Citizens have no recourse against the Electors.&amp;nbsp; Their vote is secret.&amp;nbsp; Their party has a “good idea” of how they
vote but ultimately it is secret.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRa-fJTPQUmUckkWZr0Q3JglmuNvNrwwgE1kuoOHNuax9EvebUUEQ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="208" data-width="168" height="208" id="rg_hi" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRa-fJTPQUmUckkWZr0Q3JglmuNvNrwwgE1kuoOHNuax9EvebUUEQ" style="height: 208px; width: 168px;" width="168" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Electoral College is a major problem when it comes to
voting.&amp;nbsp; Your voice doesn’t matter in the
long run.&amp;nbsp; You can pop that chad however
you want, but no matter how it “hangs”… it won’t swing things either way. &lt;/div&gt;
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Your voice ultimately doesn’t matter. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Secondly, we have to
vote for the lesser of the two evils!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Two evils… two parties?&amp;nbsp;
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So… If you don’t belong to their special club you don’t get
to play?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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The history of the two party system really goes back to the beginning
of the county.&amp;nbsp; I read through a really
interesting PowerPoint the other day because I myself wanted to know why we
never had a third party arise from the fray to mix things up.&lt;/div&gt;
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You can access the &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=3&amp;amp;ved=0CHYQFjAC&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deanza.edu%2Ffaculty%2Frespiniblake%2Fpdf%2FPartiesonline.pdf&amp;amp;ei=5gIPUIiLFaepiALHo4HgDg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNFxJY5-L9VR9s_Wkg5ZoR-jnazp6Q"&gt;PowerPoint here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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But a quick summary basically says this.&amp;nbsp; Two “factions” emerged early on. &amp;nbsp;The constitution really doesn’t dictate who the
parties are. But the “stability of two” system really works in the case of a
popular vote.&amp;nbsp; A third party just muddies
the waters.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSN9hTr6U9AAZ_pANt5lSKRkSOp2DOnBTPt7HR2NragqrSNUM71" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="267" data-width="189" height="200" id="rg_hi" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSN9hTr6U9AAZ_pANt5lSKRkSOp2DOnBTPt7HR2NragqrSNUM71" width="141" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Take for example when Calvin Coolidge was running for
President. &amp;nbsp;During 1912, William Taft was
running for re-election. &amp;nbsp;Taft then lost
his re-election bid by the following political maneuvering; during the election
of 1912 Taft had to run against Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt.&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; The party breakdown goes as
follows; Taft being the republican, Wilson being the democrat and Roosevelt
being from the newly created “bull moose” party which was only formed for this
election. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpef1-pT0XvMcFigOlVyQGwBKfd_hR551CFF-Vj6HOjniIE-09_A" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="224" data-width="225" height="199" id="rg_hi" src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpef1-pT0XvMcFigOlVyQGwBKfd_hR551CFF-Vj6HOjniIE-09_A" style="height: 224px; width: 225px;" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;During this election Taft lost
the conservative vote due to the votes being split the electoral votes between
Roosevelt and Taft, so effectively putting Wilson into office.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt; Wilson being the
winner had absolutely no qualifications for becoming President, except the fact
that he was a college professor ran on the premise that he believed that men
like JP Morgan should be running the central bank and the country. &amp;nbsp;You see a third party really muddies the
waters&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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But “they” did that on purpose.&amp;nbsp; They didn’t want Taft in office.&amp;nbsp; But “they” knew they could add that third
party and throw things off.&lt;/div&gt;
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So… that is why we have a two party system.&lt;/div&gt;
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Now… onto the lesser of two evils.&amp;nbsp; Because we only have the two parties and they
both have agendas for America neither candidate is a good option.&amp;nbsp; I love the web site &lt;a href="http://www.isidewith.com/romney-vs-obama-on-the-issues"&gt;isidewith.com&lt;/a&gt;… it actually lists the key
issues that both Obama and Romney agree and differ on. It is a brief but good resource for seeing where the candidates stand. &lt;/div&gt;
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Now… since I have been asked my several readers of “The
Event” of whom would I pick for President.&lt;/div&gt;
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I will say this;&lt;/div&gt;
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I personally say that neither candidate is the appropriate
choice for President.&amp;nbsp; Either man may
feel like they are ready for the job, but neither man truly knows the heart
beat of America. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I personally would select Ron Paul.&amp;nbsp; Ron is quite a bit more conservative in terms
of his foreign policy, and his fiscal stance is un-surpassed and well balanced. Ron would do a
bang up job for President; the only problem is the two party system…. he will never win. &lt;/div&gt;
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That is why I am not voting.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I have no voice on a national level, if popular vote was the method of election.&amp;nbsp; I would vote.&amp;nbsp; But it isn't.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I will vote for the state elections, I like them because no other person speaks for my vote. My vote is my vote. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Personally I think is is all crap. The Republicans have their agenda and want to protect the wealthy
and the Democrats have their agenda and want Americans to become more dependent
and have the rich pay for it. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Finally, the election
has already been decided.&amp;nbsp; The “run” for
the white house is just a formality!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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If you think that the American people can truly decide who
their President will be you are greatly mis-informed.&amp;nbsp; The outcome has already been decided.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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As I have elaborated and historically referenced;
we have absolutely no control over who really is calling the shots in
America.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Sure “We the people” have the ability
to raise our voices and maybe our Arms too, and who knows maybe that will be the only way to change things. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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But the “they” already have decided who they want to
win.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT_MtadqT5zeflIhfsErec0YuIUDPrcddST60W9PkHjFGWRGP_v" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="232" data-width="218" height="232" id="rg_hi" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT_MtadqT5zeflIhfsErec0YuIUDPrcddST60W9PkHjFGWRGP_v" style="height: 232px; width: 218px;" width="218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;No Ladies and Gentlmen this isn’t a
movie plot.&amp;nbsp; This is real.&amp;nbsp; The super wealthy in the world have already
picked the next President and know exactly what they want him to do.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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They have an agenda.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
We just have to be ready to react to what they have planned
for us, and when their plan goes into effect, “The Event” will take place.&amp;nbsp; It’s a sick twisted view of the control of
Humanity.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
But take solace in this;&amp;nbsp; God is in control of all.&amp;nbsp;
Free will may dominate man and man may make horrible choices about the
direction of the world.&amp;nbsp; But at the very
end when all knees are bowed, God will wipe every tear dry and begin a rule of
Peace and Joy that will never end.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
But until that time, please, please make sure that your eyes
are open and you are getting your family ready for what is coming!&lt;/div&gt;
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Until next time… &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8470479686561923267-6595293208543592889?l=preparespokane.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~4/zNm3LnV6Htc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/feeds/6595293208543592889/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/07/all-in-all-your-just-another-brick-in.html#comment-form" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/6595293208543592889?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/6595293208543592889?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~3/zNm3LnV6Htc/all-in-all-your-just-another-brick-in.html" title="“All in all your just another brick in the wall…" /><author><name>Jay Pounder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15028168638697435543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/07/all-in-all-your-just-another-brick-in.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkMBRns6eyp7ImA9WhJQEEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470479686561923267.post-3844096522893538647</id><published>2012-07-23T13:14:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-07-23T13:14:17.513-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-07-23T13:14:17.513-07:00</app:edited><title>A tale of two Americas...</title><content type="html">&lt;div&gt;
&lt;i&gt;History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;
Martin Luther King, Jr.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
I love this quote.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
Can you imagine why? &amp;nbsp;Think about it for a moment? &amp;nbsp;Who are you? &amp;nbsp; Are you one of the good people? &amp;nbsp;Are you one of the bad people?&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/photos-of-the-day-images/2010/0212/10/7388133-1-eng-US/10_full_600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/photos-of-the-day-images/2010/0212/10/7388133-1-eng-US/10_full_600.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
History is repeating it's self again. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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We are Rome in its last days.&lt;/div&gt;
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We are Greece in its last days.&lt;/div&gt;
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We are any dynasty that has come before and is winding down.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Let me elaborate....&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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There are always&amp;nbsp;contributing&amp;nbsp;factors to the decline and fall of a civilization, but among the top of them is the chief factor of the sin of Hubris.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Have you ever heard the saying, "All roads lead to Rome?". &amp;nbsp;Sure you have, but this was a form of hubris that Romas had. &amp;nbsp;They thought they were the best. &amp;nbsp;They thought that they could do no wrong.&lt;/div&gt;
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They spent what they had.&lt;/div&gt;
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They invaded other countries for the resources.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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They never figured that it would be their hubris that would lead them to make incredibly poor choices financially and&amp;nbsp;ethically&amp;nbsp;that would lead them into their "Event" that would collapse them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Sound familiar?&lt;/div&gt;
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So todays title talks about a tale of the two Americas... Yes... their are two ... and no its not north and south.&lt;/div&gt;
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I fully&amp;nbsp;believe&amp;nbsp;that we are&amp;nbsp;witnessing&amp;nbsp;the last days of America in its current form. &amp;nbsp;The division between the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZQQH79I_zI"&gt;haves and the have-nots is&lt;/a&gt; growing at a rapid pace and is going to push us headlong into "The Event".&lt;/div&gt;
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Take a look a the stock market &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/23/investing/stocks-markets/index.htm?iid=HP_LN"&gt;today&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;nbsp;In just today alone the market has plunged since news of Spain's trouble reached us. &amp;nbsp;Now granted I know that isn't a big dip, but it could keep going.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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You see its the Hubris of money and greed that is causing us to tumble and fall. &amp;nbsp;I want to use an analogy to describe what this looks like. &amp;nbsp;Picture if you will a man who is carrying a very heavy burden on his back. &amp;nbsp;Imagine that this burden is the global economy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Now picture a man who has nothing but the clothes on his back. &amp;nbsp;Which one will be able to pick him self up easier when the he trips?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;You see in this case... less is more. &amp;nbsp;Why do they carry so much weight? &amp;nbsp;Why do you personally carry so much weight?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;Which would you rather have? &amp;nbsp;A gigantic weight on your back that when you trip and fall it will crush you under the load, or be "free" of the burden and be able to see the hazard in the road and lightly jump over it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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They built the financial system that is slowly crushing them one piece of bad news at time. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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But here is the worst part of it. (Yes, I love that phrase.) &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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They saw it coming, and you saw it coming. &amp;nbsp;You knew that the burden on their backs was begining to crush them. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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When you saw it, what did you say?&lt;/div&gt;
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Nothing! &amp;nbsp;You have remained quite and allowed this to happen. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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That has to change!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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America is&amp;nbsp;beginning&amp;nbsp;to fracture into two countries like ice on a newly frozen lake.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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The quote I have from Dr. King today is very, very applicable to todays culture because people are just&amp;nbsp;idly&amp;nbsp;standing by doing nothing! Saying Nothing! Living their lives like nothing is wrong.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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What will happen when "The Event" takes place and the country&amp;nbsp;erodes&amp;nbsp;into a economic collapse?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Where will you side? &amp;nbsp;Where will they side? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.radiofreeredoubt.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/concord_bridge4-300x199.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.radiofreeredoubt.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/concord_bridge4-300x199.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Will you side with the people who built this system that caused the problem? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Or will you side with those who wish to rebuild a better America?&lt;/div&gt;
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Which America will you belong to when it all collapses soon?&lt;/div&gt;
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We have to start thinking ahead! &amp;nbsp;We have to&amp;nbsp;beginning&amp;nbsp;making some very, very hard choices about who speaks for us, and what they represent. &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.radiofreeredoubt.com/2012/07/21/where-is-the-line-for-revolution/"&gt;I read a very interesting article over at altmarket.com yesterday. &amp;nbsp;It was featured on John Jacob&amp;nbsp;Schmitt&amp;nbsp;web site too&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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As a side note, if you haven't begun listening to JJS I would strongly&amp;nbsp;recommend&amp;nbsp;it. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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He is a good man, and a solid, God fearing Patriot and I have a immense amount of respect for him. His show airs Sunday night at 7 pm and re-airs at 9 pm pacific standard time. You can &lt;a href="http://www.radiofreeredoubt.com/"&gt;access it here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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But as this article was saying, where is the line for &lt;i&gt;"Revolution"&lt;/i&gt;? &amp;nbsp;When will enough be enough?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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That question was recently posed to me by a good friend and I have been trying to come up with an answer for him. &amp;nbsp;Its a tough to answer &amp;nbsp;What would cause Americans to finally say enough!&lt;/div&gt;
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When will we become the "colonists" again? &amp;nbsp;They put up with things for years before they actually dug their heals in and took up arms.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Am I saying take up arms? No. &amp;nbsp;Hopefully we will solve this with our words and the brains God gave us. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Am I saying that we are close to something that will drive people to pick up arms?&lt;/div&gt;
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Yes!&lt;/div&gt;
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Should you defend yourself? &amp;nbsp;Absolutely. &amp;nbsp;That is your second amendment right! &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Be Free! &amp;nbsp;Crave Liberty! Crave Justice!&lt;/div&gt;
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Did that just make you shudder? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Why? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Did you ever think that you would be a part of a Revolution?&lt;/div&gt;
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Join us! &amp;nbsp;We can make a difference!&lt;/div&gt;
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Neither did the citizens of Rome, Greece or any other major "Dynasty" that has come before.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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But it is the Hubris of the&amp;nbsp;elite&amp;nbsp;that has pushed us to this point. &amp;nbsp;It is their Hubris that will destroy the other America.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;We need to have "our" America...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;One where we are free to live like God wants us too. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;One where we can live our lives according to the constitution and the bill of rights, with out their being any executive orders or NDAA that will&amp;nbsp;supersede&amp;nbsp;those rights.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;They day is coming that will bring "The Event". &amp;nbsp;It will be when the money runs out, the&amp;nbsp;patience&amp;nbsp;runs out and the&amp;nbsp;elite&amp;nbsp;cannot prop up any thing any further. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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You need to be ready ... like yesterday.&lt;/div&gt;
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They will &lt;a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-federal-reserve-is-not-going-to-save-us-from-the-great-depression-that-is-coming"&gt;not come to save you&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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They will not &lt;a href="http://theintelhub.com/2012/07/21/cover-up-fbi-theater-attack-warning-memory-holed/"&gt;warn you&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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They will not help you.&lt;/div&gt;
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You need to live with a&amp;nbsp;fervency&amp;nbsp;that you treat every day like "The Event" will be&amp;nbsp;tomorrow. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Plan ahead, get your hearts ready, get your families ready.&lt;/div&gt;
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Be ready to help others.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Until next time....&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Horrific…absolutely horrific.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=T275373755106&amp;amp;pid=1.7&amp;amp;w=198&amp;amp;h=148&amp;amp;c=7&amp;amp;rs=1" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=T275373755106&amp;amp;pid=1.7&amp;amp;w=198&amp;amp;h=148&amp;amp;c=7&amp;amp;rs=1" style="height: 148px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;That is how I will describe what happened in Colorado.&amp;nbsp; There are no words to describe senseless violence.... people were killed, people and children were seriously harmed. My heart goes out to the families who were affected by this terrible&amp;nbsp;violence.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Today I want to speak to you about "False Flag" attacks and their use by governments and special interests to push ill begotten agendas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Here is the definition of "False Flag"; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=I4625667531604743&amp;amp;pid=1.7&amp;amp;w=221&amp;amp;h=118&amp;amp;c=7&amp;amp;rs=1" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=I4625667531604743&amp;amp;pid=1.7&amp;amp;w=221&amp;amp;h=118&amp;amp;c=7&amp;amp;rs=1" style="height: 118px; padding-bottom: 13px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 13px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;False flag - &lt;/strong&gt;(aka Black Flag) &lt;i&gt;operations are &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_operation" title="Covert operation"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;covert operations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; designed to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying &lt;strong&gt;false colors&lt;/strong&gt;; that is: flying the flag of a country other than one’s own. False flag operations are not limited to &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War" title="War"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;war&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; and &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-insurgency" title="Counter-insurgency"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;counter-insurgency&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; operations and can be used during peace-time.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;False flags are used every day in different fashions all over this planet.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;They do it in Law Enforcement when they run a sting. Police officers&amp;nbsp;pose as drug dealers or hookers to trap criminals (&lt;i&gt;who for the most part rightly deserve it&lt;/i&gt;) during the commission of a crime. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This is considered a good use of a False Flag. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Here is a bad use of a False Flag attacks. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;When governments choose&amp;nbsp;False Flags as a method of driving policy or establishing a&amp;nbsp;totalitarian society this is bad use of the “False Flag”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Let’s get a bit of historical perspective on False Flags and how they have been used to enslave or destroy an entire people. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;On February 27&lt;sup style="line-height: normal;"&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; 1934 a man named Marinus Van Der Lubbe decided he was going to burn the Reichstag.&lt;span style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Why is this important?&lt;span style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Marinus was a communist, but only wanted to protest capitalism. Not to launch a revolution or take over the capitol and convert Germany to&amp;nbsp;Communism.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The Reichstag was the home of German Parliament and the office of the newly appointed high chancellor Adolf Hitler.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; As we all know, Adolf Hitler had no intentions of establishing a democracy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hitler used this opportunity to “visit the scene of the fire” and to speak to the officers of the Reichstag and to show that Germany was under attack by the communists. &amp;nbsp;He is directly quoted in saying, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;“The German people have been too soft for too long. Every communist official must be shot!&amp;nbsp; All communist officials must be hanged this very night.&amp;nbsp; All friends of Communists must be locked up.&amp;nbsp; And that goes for Social Democrats and then Riechsbanner as well!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Hitler used this opportunity to display a &lt;b&gt;false flag&lt;/b&gt; and rid the country of all democrats and anyone else who would oppose him or the policies of his proletariat. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;At a cabinet meeting held later in the morning on February 28th, Chancellor Hitler demanded an emergency decree to overcome the crisis. He met little resistance from his largely non-Nazi cabinet. That evening, Hitler and Papen went to Hindenburg and the befuddled old man signed the decree "&lt;strong&gt;for the Protection of the people and the State&lt;/strong&gt;." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Adolf Hitler then began to confiscate people’s money, jewelry, and eventually &lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;their guns and the right to protect themselves. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;I believe that if we looked at Hitler’s decrees in modern terms it would be called an “executive orders”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Think about the past 10 years for a moment.&amp;nbsp; What major events have taken place that cause the United States to “rid the people who don’t support us” in order to take something or push an agenda?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October 12&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;, 2000&lt;/strong&gt; – the USS Cole was bombed.&amp;nbsp; Al Qaeda was blamed for the bombing; no one was ever brought to justice for the attacks. &amp;nbsp;The US holds Sudan responsible and takes 13 Million dollars in assets as "punishment".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The War on Terror is established, and the Patriot Act is passed on October 26&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; 2001, giving the government a blank check to spend on “fighting terrorist and national security”.&amp;nbsp; It also gave the right to warrantless searches, and violation of the 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Amendment all in the name of &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;"&lt;strong&gt;for the Protection of the people and the State&lt;/strong&gt;."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;October 23&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; 2001 – Anthrax laced envelops start arriving in offices of senators.&amp;nbsp; The FBI’s main suspect Bruce Irvins kills himself. How convenient. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;January 10&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; 2002 – GITMO opens up on non American soil.&amp;nbsp; Therefore they don’t defy the 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Amendment when they indefinitely detain people. People are taken and never heard from again. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Any one of these events that I have just quickly listed off reek of false flags.&amp;nbsp; Our Government uses false flags to push the agenda of control and its all under the guise of “&lt;strong&gt;for the Protection of the people and the State&lt;/strong&gt;."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;But it feels very fishy and the timing is just too perfect. There are things that just don't add up about this crime;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Was their a second shooter? &amp;nbsp;Witness&amp;nbsp;say they saw someone getup, answer a phone and go over to the door and hold it open? See the video ---&amp;gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Why did he just surrender to the police and warn them of the explosives? &amp;nbsp;That is not the behavior of a sociopath. &amp;nbsp;He told them to warn them. &amp;nbsp;And how does someone with little to no background in explosive making improvise 30 plus devices linked together?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;How does someone who was unemployed buy gear like he had? &amp;nbsp;How did he buy over 3000 rounds of ammunition. &amp;nbsp;That costs big bucks. &amp;nbsp;Think about it. &amp;nbsp;50 rounds of .223 is 18 bucks a box. &amp;nbsp;He would need to spend over $1000.00 to get that, plus the 1500 for the AR-15 and 600 per glock .40. &amp;nbsp; Doesn't add up.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Why has the &lt;a href="http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/07/20/web-news-batman-shooter-sealed/"&gt;judge sealed the record&lt;/a&gt;? &amp;nbsp;Even when the Columbine massacare took place they did not seal the boys records. That isn't normal legal behavior.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Gather what you will from the above questions, &lt;b&gt;but someone helped this guy&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This was used as a horrible, horrible false flag.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;But I truly hope it is not.&amp;nbsp; But my gut feeling is, that it is.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;What could be more a more convenient way to support the outlawing of semi-automatic weapons that someone used to commit the type of crime that was committed Friday?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This incident is way too close the President signing the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.un.org/disarmament/ATT/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;United Nations Arms Trade Treaty&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;The UN wants full control.&amp;nbsp;After every major way… this is another step closer to a one world government, and “The Event” taking place.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;In my posted labeled, "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/07/while-you-were-sleeping.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;While you were sleeping&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;" I talked about how the President will sign the treaty on the 27nd of this month.&amp;nbsp; There are many parts of the treaty that are controversial but here is the worst part; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;The treaty will override the constitution. There is a little known clause in the constitution called the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Supremacy Clause"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp; This clause says; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, &lt;u&gt;shall be the supreme law of the land&lt;/u&gt;; and the judges in every state shall &lt;u&gt;be bound thereby&lt;/u&gt;, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;So, the treaty will over ride the constitution.&amp;nbsp; Does that scare and disturb you a bit?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;An entity other than our own Government is trying to over ride our own rules of freedom, and the President is getting ready to sign on the dotted line. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;If he does this, and the Senate ratifies and recognizes the treaty… the people who are pulling the strings and working toward the one world government will use this to set precedence and there will be no return from this. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;No return… the Event will happen, their way. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Though I appreciate this Presidents sentiment towards the families, “the means” of what he has done during this term and the Presidents in the Past “do not justify the end”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;We could be facing an interesting fall…. Please be ready.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Until next time….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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If it is one thing that I know… it’s the banking
business.&amp;nbsp; But the thing I absolutely love
is when someone decides that it is the banks fault that they are over drawn.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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So guess what we are talking about today…. Yup that’s right …
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Personal Responsibility!&lt;/div&gt;
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Well… more or less the lack of personal responsibility in
this country and how it is a contributing factor to “The Event” that will in
fact run our country into the ground.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.safetysign.com/images/catlog/product/large/K1348.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="230" src="http://www.safetysign.com/images/catlog/product/large/K1348.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Have you ever heard the phrase; “&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part&lt;/i&gt;?”&lt;/div&gt;
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Well… millions of Americans obviously have not.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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You see the thing that I keep coming back to time, and time
again is that these throngs of “sheeple” as I will refer to them as really aren’t
paying attention to any of the signs that are coming.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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They are passing on their
responsibilities of good personal choices and loyalty to their God and healthy
choices for their families!&lt;/div&gt;
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They are making really poor choices that are negatively affecting
their relationship with God and their relationship with their families.&lt;/div&gt;
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What they don’t understand is… when “The Event” takes place…
all we will have is our families.&amp;nbsp; We
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I watched this interview last night between Glen beck and
Jim Rogers.&amp;nbsp; As a quick aside for you;
&lt;a href="http://jimrogers-investments.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Jim Rogers&lt;/a&gt; is the head of his own investment firm and has been featured in the
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Jim delivered some very dire warnings in regards to what is coming
financially.&amp;nbsp; Jim really knows his stuff
and does a great job of relaying how historically we have continued to make
really bad choices down through history.&amp;nbsp;
It is a great clip.&amp;nbsp; Yes… it’s a bit
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But he isn’t the only one… check out this article today over
at &lt;a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/very-real-danger-of-collapse-could-be-so-severe-i-dont-think-our-civilization-could-survive-it_07172012"&gt;SHFTPlan.com&lt;/a&gt; … it should send shivers up your spin about what is coming. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;But here is where I want to draw my line in the sand
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Why is it the banks fault that things are going to crap?&amp;nbsp; Sure they made some incredibly selfish (there
is that behavior again) choices, and they are only in it for the money and what
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We are all to blame for this mess!&lt;/div&gt;
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We are the only ones
who can fix it!&amp;nbsp; It has been our lack of
planning that constitutes this emergency.&amp;nbsp;
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We should have said something a long time!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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We should have risen up and said something!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
I’m doing my part…I work in this industry and I am doing
everything I can to warn people about what is coming.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Slowing they are beginning to wake up … but
it is not fast enough.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
What are you doing?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Now it may be too late.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Let me tell you this; those of us who are awake to the mess
that this nation is are currently feeling like we are fighting an uphill battle…
and the rest of you are dragging us down! &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
“But Jay… how do I make a difference? I am just one person…
I can’t make a difference!”&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Bravo Sierra… I don’t believe that for a moment…!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
You absolutely can make a difference… I’ve said it
before.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
When our voices, our actions and our thoughts are combined
into one accord… they are loud and they are UN-stoppable!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
I was reminded of this recently when I was talking with my
Friend Halley and she was telling me how much she loved the movie, “ V for
Vendetta”… &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
I can hear you know… “Really… that is typical…V for
Vendetta? Did you really talk about his with her?” &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
We were talking about fun movies… so shut up and hear me
out. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://1.gvt0.com/vi/0oWs_voUPkk/0.jpg" height="266" style="clear: left; float: left;" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0oWs_voUPkk&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0oWs_voUPkk&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;But this is what she said to me.&amp;nbsp; “I love V’s speech when he is talking on the
television to people...It was so inspiring that something like the speech could
be possible for that many people to come together.” &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
I agree with her.&amp;nbsp; The
speech is inspiring. As it should be!&amp;nbsp; But
that is what we all need to feel when we think about our country!&amp;nbsp; We need to remember those who sacrificed in
the Revolution!&amp;nbsp; We fought hard for our independence!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
They gave us the Constitution and the Bill of rights! &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
We don’t want to lose this nation to anyone or anything. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
We know “The Event” is going to take place… we know that
nothing can stop it.&amp;nbsp; The bad choices and
the personal responsibility went out the window a long time ago!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
However, we can possibly change the shape of what it will
look like. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
It is time to prepare.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://conservativedailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/bill-of-rights-01.jpg.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="268" src="http://conservativedailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/bill-of-rights-01.jpg.gif" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It is time to begin to look at the world around us and ask ourselves…
what can I do without?&amp;nbsp; What can I
improve?&amp;nbsp; How can I make sure that others
know that “The Event” is coming and they need to prepare too!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
But bigger than all of the prepping and the simple living…
we need to come together…&amp;nbsp; We need to let
our Senators, Congressmen and most of all, our President!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Write them!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Call them! &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Join with other groups that feel the same way! &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
To help you with this process over the next couple of weeks
I’ll be introducing some posts that have to do with helping you live simpler
lives, be more prepared for emergencies, and most of all help to inspire you to
be more active politically. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Please don’t let your emergency be someone else's
problem.&amp;nbsp; Don’t be a victim and pass on
your responsibility to do something that will help to shape the coming “Event”.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
We can get through this… we can survive.... But you have to make the Personally Responsible Choices to do so..&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Until next time….&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8470479686561923267-5101402928333275773?l=preparespokane.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~4/iG8DkzM2lSw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/feeds/5101402928333275773/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/07/your-lack-of-planning.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/5101402928333275773?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/5101402928333275773?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~3/iG8DkzM2lSw/your-lack-of-planning.html" title="Your Lack of Planning….." /><author><name>Jay Pounder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15028168638697435543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/07/your-lack-of-planning.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUQHSHc9fyp7ImA9WhJRFUo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470479686561923267.post-4015610278234396284</id><published>2012-07-17T16:54:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-07-17T19:08:59.967-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-07-17T19:08:59.967-07:00</app:edited><title>Teach a Man to Fish or Give a Man a Fish?</title><content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;
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I want you to think on a phrase for a moment; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
“A Man / Women should be able to __________________”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
So… what did you come up with?&amp;nbsp; How many of your answers involved a skill of
some type?&amp;nbsp; How many answers were not
skills based? &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
How about you?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Did you answer – change a tire? Make a loaf of bread? Grow a
garden / farm? Skin a deer? Build something worthwhile from wood? Sew a shirt?
Make a Dress?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
I want to help you
connect to something really important here.&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
The reason not all your answers were skills based is because
a large majority of people don’t have any necessary skills to survive.&amp;nbsp; They have never been taught to people!&amp;nbsp; We have lost the old ways. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
What skills do you have? (no, nunchuck skills are not appropriate
here, but thanks anyways Napoleon)&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Can you do any of those things mentioned above?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
You see the problem we have is that we live in a “nanny
state”.&amp;nbsp; This term nanny state is used to
describe the modern society we live in.&amp;nbsp; A
nanny is a person who cares for all of your needs so that you don’t have to do
anything.&amp;nbsp; They cook, clean, wipe your
butt and tuck you in at night.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
You don’t have to want for anything.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/EP1YAatv1Mc/0.jpg" height="266" style="clear: left; float: left;" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EP1YAatv1Mc&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EP1YAatv1Mc&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&amp;lt;--- Take a quick look at this commercial;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Think to yourself for a moment, did Zooey really need to ask
her phone … “Is that rain?” Why didn’t she go over to the window and look
out?&amp;nbsp; Or open the door and take a deep
breath to smell for the rain?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Or how about the food thing?&amp;nbsp; Have you ever heard of a phone book? Or doing
the research yourself?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Ok… that may just be a funny example of being lazy… but
really? How many times do we rely on others to do things for us?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Or rely on Technology
to do things for us? When was the last time your manually balanced your check
book or tried something for yourself without using YouTube to tell you how to
do it first?&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
I want you to watch another video… this gentleman’s name is
Dick Proenneke. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/iYJKd0rkKss/0.jpg" height="266" style="clear: right; float: right;" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iYJKd0rkKss&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iYJKd0rkKss&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
I will officially refer
to this guy as a official “bad a—“&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
This is how people should approach their worlds; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Could you do this?&amp;nbsp; If
tomorrow, your creature comforts were taken away from you; power, water, light
and food, could you make a go of it?&amp;nbsp; Could
you survive?&amp;nbsp; Could you be as bad a— as
he was?&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Our lives are too convenient.&amp;nbsp; We don’t have to work for anything.&amp;nbsp; Everything is served up to us on a silver
platter.&amp;nbsp; We don’t know how to do
anything!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
But here is where it gets worse…&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
”Wait, wait Jay… it always gets worse… you always say that…”&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Well folks… honestly, it kind of has to before you can see
the truth.&amp;nbsp; We need to face our pain as a
nation.&amp;nbsp; When we face our pain … healing
comes. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
So sit down and take your medicine. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Our Government is responsible for the “Nanny State.”&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Think back to World War II.&amp;nbsp;
Everything was rationed.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Sugar, meat, beans, flour, steel, cotton and even
paper were all rationed out… sure I probably missed something, but you get the
point. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Hardly anything was available.&amp;nbsp; People were shipping everything over for the war
effort.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
People had to get creative with what they had, and use the
skills their parents taught them while they were growing up. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
They had to build things with their hands with stuff they
found lying around…&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
But then things changed.&amp;nbsp;
Technologies emerged that made our lives easier and more convenient. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c5135r9Lmh4/UAX5mpKKLlI/AAAAAAAAALc/I8GR9SvdMoo/s1600/ebt-sign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="242" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c5135r9Lmh4/UAX5mpKKLlI/AAAAAAAAALc/I8GR9SvdMoo/s320/ebt-sign.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
But out of that war came Welfare (August 18&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;, 1935),
TANF (July 1, 1997) HUD, SSI (1937), Medicare (July 30, 1965) and a whole host
of other social support programs.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
People got lazy. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Our Government just
gave away the fish.&amp;nbsp; They never taught them to fish!&amp;nbsp; We just gave it away!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
The sluggards decided and still decide to make this “Nanny
State” their permanent way of life.&amp;nbsp; There
wasn’t any disadvantage to being on the program.&amp;nbsp; It was not a scarlet letter that you wanted
to get rid of… you wanted more… and more and more.&amp;nbsp; In fact… the more kids you have… the better
it gets… !&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
We, America have bred the future idiotocracy. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
It disgusts me, and it should you as well. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Slothfulness is a sin. (Proverbs 21:25, Proverbs 26:14,
Proverbs 18:9, and Proverbs 26:16)&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Let me tell you a few things that I have heard in my banking
career from people who make this a way of life….&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CggrkFZeTPw/UAX6VEKIpbI/AAAAAAAAALs/_SLywCNlLIE/s1600/5910257909_fraud_xlarge.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CggrkFZeTPw/UAX6VEKIpbI/AAAAAAAAALs/_SLywCNlLIE/s200/5910257909_fraud_xlarge.gif" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;“I slipped on some water at work… I filed a L&amp;amp;I claim
and now I get 1600 from the state … that is only 200 less than I make each
month anyways… I’ll just stay on L&amp;amp;I.” &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“I’m clinically depressed, and my doctor wrote me a note
that I need SSI because I can no longer function, so I spend most of my day at
the casino all day and just play.”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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And my favorite,&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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“I could work… but why… the state of Washington just
directly deposits my unemployment check… and no one checks it out at all… so I
just hang out all day and smoke weed.”&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
I swear I could have punched that last person. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Our people can no longer fend for themselves!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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They now just take, and take and take to support themselves.&amp;nbsp; It is too easy for them to get on all
programs and just live off of them. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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And now with the recent changing of what defines “work” in
the welfare statutes people can just live off the system more and more!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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They can’t grow a garden!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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They can’t sew their own clothes!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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They can’t skin a deer!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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They can’t build a shed!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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They are capable of nothing.&amp;nbsp;
If they can’t buy it at Walmart with their QWEST card, well then they
can’t do it at all.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Ladies and Gentlemen, please grab “your fishing pole” and
head to your nearest watering hole… find someone you can “teach to fish” and
help end the reliance on entitlements!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MrWl4LPeOFg/UAX6vevmaOI/AAAAAAAAAL0/UMz95rPzlpw/s1600/teach_someone_how_to_fish_bumper_sticker-p128004181098306892en7pq_210.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MrWl4LPeOFg/UAX6vevmaOI/AAAAAAAAAL0/UMz95rPzlpw/s320/teach_someone_how_to_fish_bumper_sticker-p128004181098306892en7pq_210.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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We have to find a way to get skills back out to the people.&amp;nbsp; If we don’t the coming Event will be that
much worse! Imagine when the money finally runs out… there will be mass civil
unrest when people descend on the offices of the social security, and Depart of
Social and Health Services.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Then, when they don’t get any money… they will look
elsewhere for their food and supplies… possibly your own!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
If we can get rid of the “nanny state” now, we may get
through “The Event” that much smoother!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48162896/ns/business-us_business/#.UASPolJlC1t" target="_blank"&gt;So… If you have been living under a rock for the past three weeks you probably haven’t heard that the corn crop in America’s heart land isgoing through the worst drought in the past 70 years… many different sources have reported on it and everyone of them have said that this will drive food prices way up…&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120712_drought_hmed_0831p.grid-6x2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="214" src="http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120712_drought_hmed_0831p.grid-6x2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Corn is in everything… anything with “high fructose corn
syrup” in it is going to go up in price… a lot.&lt;/div&gt;
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But it is moments like this that make me wonder what this
nation is going to do when things get really bad after “&lt;a href="http://www.preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/06/event.html" target="_blank"&gt;The Event&lt;/a&gt;”.&lt;/div&gt;
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Take a look at this&lt;a href="http://www.wsaz.com/news/wvnews/headlines/Help_to_Replace_Food_for_Those_Who_Dont_Receive_Food_Stamps_161991465.html" target="_blank"&gt; article&lt;/a&gt;… &lt;/div&gt;
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While the power was out back East… people couldn’t get their
food stamps… better yet… they couldn’t get anything!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It was all sold out! But the worse part of
all … is that Kids were affected.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Kids should never have to suffer because adults fail to
plan! &lt;/div&gt;
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We live in a consumer driven nation, we want our fast
internet, our Itunes, our Netflix, our Xbox, our Microwave dinners, our
McDonalds, our “on demand” TV….and we live in the here-and-now.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It is a self gratification culture… and it’s
shameful. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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We as Americans are not living for God, our families and tomorrow.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Like I said yesterday… we have idols that are
taking the place of what is truly important. &lt;/div&gt;
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Why should your family have to suffer?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Why should your kids have to suffer for your
mistakes?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What if you were one of the
people on the East coast?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What would you
say to your kids when you don’t have anything to feed them?&lt;/div&gt;
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I believe this; &lt;/div&gt;
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God wants you to plan ahead… he wants you to make sure that you
are providing for your family!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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It is biblical.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I’ve said it again but Proverbs 22:3 is one of my favorite versus
on this subject… I’m mean… who wants to be the fool that keeps going even when
he sees trouble?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lcOte4rJ06g/UAScEVaOapI/AAAAAAAAALA/i8fC3cCMPE4/s1600/10+lamps.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="128" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lcOte4rJ06g/UAScEVaOapI/AAAAAAAAALA/i8fC3cCMPE4/s200/10+lamps.gif" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Let’s look at the Parable of the Ten Brides in &lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A1-13&amp;amp;version=NIV" target="_blank"&gt;Mathew 25:1-13&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Five of the brides didn’t plan ahead and have
extra oil… and they suffered for it!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The
other 5 planned ahead and where able to meet their bridegroom. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qQ0pg7ECR0E/UASc7XyGwjI/AAAAAAAAALI/TfA7R7epR-E/s1600/220px-Joseph_made_ruler_in_egypt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qQ0pg7ECR0E/UASc7XyGwjI/AAAAAAAAALI/TfA7R7epR-E/s200/220px-Joseph_made_ruler_in_egypt.jpg" width="165" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Or even further back in the &lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+37&amp;amp;version=NIV" target="_blank"&gt;Old Testament, the story of Joseph in Egypt&lt;/a&gt;… for 7 years they had “plenty”, so what did they do?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They stored up… they put away and they had
food to eat when there was no food to be found anywhere when there was famine
and drought on the land!&lt;/div&gt;
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Are we seeing any coloration here?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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We now have the worst debt in the History of the world… &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/16/democrats-open-door-to-letting-taxes-rise-in-2013-to-reset-debate-with-gop/" target="_blank"&gt;the pissing match has certainly begun about it… &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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We now have a &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-drought-devastating-american-farmland-2012-7?op=1" target="_blank"&gt;drought that had damaged the food crop beyondrepair&lt;/a&gt; that will drive the food prices up a strong amount. &lt;/div&gt;
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We also have a &lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/iran-plan-to-close-strait-of-hormuz-finalized/" target="_blank"&gt;very, very serious military conflict brewing in Syria involving Iran and a whole host of other nasty individuals… &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Folks, “&lt;a href="http://www.preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/06/event.html" target="_blank"&gt;The Event&lt;/a&gt;” is much, much closer than we know…&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Let’s look ahead to the fall…. What is coming our way?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.thetruthbehindthescenes.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/zion-logo-olympics-2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.thetruthbehindthescenes.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/zion-logo-olympics-2012.jpg" width="133" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Think ahead to this … we have the Olympics coming and they
are already saying that multiple terrorist organizations are working to get in
there and cause mayhem… or are they?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Many
reports are saying that there will be a&lt;a href="http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/07/13/signs-point-to-olympics-false-flag/" target="_blank"&gt; false flag attack on the Olympics&lt;/a&gt; that
will give Governments the right to take away freedoms. &lt;/div&gt;
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We have the &lt;a href="http://www.mainstreet.com/article/moneyinvesting/news/debt-ceiling-debate-everything-you-need-know" target="_blank"&gt;debt ceiling of 16.9 trillion dollars&lt;/a&gt; that we
are going to butt up against … and yet… they still think we need more money…&lt;/div&gt;
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We have record numbers of people signing up for welfare and
it isn’t working… the numbers keep growing. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
We are headed toward a man made Event that is going to be
the worst catastrophe that anyone has ever seen… &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
You have to be ready!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;You have to be ready spiritually, ready physically, and ready mentally.&lt;/div&gt;
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Trust in God and give him your concerns… pray as it all
depends on him, but work as it all depends upon you!&lt;/div&gt;
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Until next time.... &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;So over the past 13 posts you have heard me describe all the reasons that are leading up to “The Event”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="p1"&gt;
&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Most of the issues that I have spoken about have been based around poor Government &amp;nbsp;and leadership decisions and the removal of our freedoms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Today... probably due to it being Sunday I want to take a look at another way that we are rushing toward “The Event”... but this reason is more personal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Let’s talk about Post Modern Relativism. I”ll call it PMR ... simple due to the fact that the previous takes too long to type and I am feeling somewhat lazy...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;PMR is a huge issue.... A friend of mine posted this letter to the editor today on Facebook and I thought it quite apropos for todays post.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;I also saw these MEMES the other day and found it to be quite hilarious.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://t.qkme.me/3582f8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://t.qkme.me/3582f8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;But really???&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;What&amp;nbsp; has happened to people??? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;I tell you.&amp;nbsp; It is the Sin nature coming through.&amp;nbsp; Satan’s influence on us in today’s world has allowed us to justify the most horrible things.&amp;nbsp; Abortion, War, Greed, Sex and idolatry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lny6ecwdTw1qdvatvo1_500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="272" src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lny6ecwdTw1qdvatvo1_500.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="s1"&gt;But I truly believe that it is this last item that is causing us to rush the head long into “The Event”. The sin of idolatry and then using PMR to justify&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;the sin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Idolatry is a huge issue&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp; We put many things before God.&amp;nbsp; But what you the reader have to understand that it isn’t just people who worship idols... its everything!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Think about your day... yes... I know it’s Sunday... you may or may not have gone to Church, that is ok... going to church doesn’t make you a Christian.&amp;nbsp; &lt;b&gt;But what think about everyday... what do you put before your thoughts God?&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp; Money, work, sex, your smart phone, TV, video games?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="s1"&gt;What is your “idol” ... and how do you justify it? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;There is an interesting verse in the book of Romans in chapter 7: 15-25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;i&gt;“15&amp;nbsp;I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16&amp;nbsp;And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17&amp;nbsp;As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;i&gt;18&amp;nbsp;For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+7&amp;amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-28110c"&gt;&lt;span class="s2"&gt;&lt;i&gt;c&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;]For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19&amp;nbsp;For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20&amp;nbsp;Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;i&gt;21&amp;nbsp;So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22&amp;nbsp;For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23&amp;nbsp;but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24&amp;nbsp;What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;i&gt;25&amp;nbsp;Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;So... did you catch that... the author knows what he should be doing and still doesnt do it!&amp;nbsp; I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that he had things in his life that he put before God... and yet he still did it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="s1"&gt;There is nothing you can do about that... we all sin thanks to Adam, Eve and the fall.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;But here is where I get back to “PMR”... remember I am too lazy to type it in today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;People have fallen away from God, and they are now justifying it....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;“Oh... its ok that I sleep with this person who I’m not married too... I don’t “love” my wife any more and she is probably cheating on me anyways..”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="s1"&gt;“Oh... its ok that I take this drug... it makes me feel good, and right now I am living in the moment...”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;“Oh ... its ok that I lie to the American people... telling them the truth to them would only hurt them and cause me to loose my delegates”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;See... everyone can tell a lie... everyone puts something (an idol) in front of God and justifies it...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;They call it “relative”... what is good for me what may not be what is good for you.. but what is good for you.... may not be what is good me...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;I’ll call this one as I see it... “Bravo Sierra”... or B.S...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="s1"&gt;This is an absolute... God’s law...its perfect, it’s loving and his Son is the only way to heaven.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="s1"&gt;“Wait Jay... not everyone has heard the truth...”&amp;nbsp; Yeah... you can’t use that excuse anymore... we are in America... we are amount the highest Church per capita!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;It is no longer an excuse... People are just making bad choices and are using relativism to justify them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Ladies and Gentlemen... please understand that this is how we got to this point in this nation...Bad decisions..and justification.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Bad decisions morally, and then justifying them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Bad decisions ethically, and then justifying them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Bad decisions Biblically and then justifying them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Bad decisions financially and then justifying them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;You cannot live life using PMR ... it bad and causes sin in multiple forms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;We can be better than we are!&amp;nbsp; We can learn to make better choices and prepare for “The Event”...!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;We can be ready for when it happens...!&amp;nbsp; Prepare your families!&amp;nbsp; Prepare your friends!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Make good decisions now to be ready for later... Christ is the answer... he want’s you to repent!&amp;nbsp; He wants to continue loving you and have you put him first! &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="s1"&gt;Until next time...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8470479686561923267-6233162220373961756?l=preparespokane.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~4/4Qy4p8D6nvQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/feeds/6233162220373961756/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/07/yolo-and-post-modern-relativism.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/6233162220373961756?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/6233162220373961756?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~3/4Qy4p8D6nvQ/yolo-and-post-modern-relativism.html" title="Yolo... and Post Modern Relativism...." /><author><name>Jay Pounder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15028168638697435543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/07/yolo-and-post-modern-relativism.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUMMSXw7cCp7ImA9WhJREk8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470479686561923267.post-8408381485937735515</id><published>2012-07-13T16:51:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-07-13T16:51:28.208-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-07-13T16:51:28.208-07:00</app:edited><title>You have to make a choice…</title><content type="html">&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;
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Watch this video first… then we’ll move one&lt;/div&gt;
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Yes… that’s right… Ronald Regan said those things.. those
words actually came out of the mouth of a politician… and never again have we
heard words like that since.&lt;/div&gt;
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The welfare state is upon us…. And it is killing us!&lt;/div&gt;
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It will be just another factor that will drive us into the
Event just that much sooner. &lt;/div&gt;
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So why is this important today?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Well…&lt;a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/309300/obama-ends-welfare-reform-we-know-it-robert-rector" target="_blank"&gt;here read this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/policy/im-ofa/2012/im201203/im201203.html" target="_blank"&gt;Yes… that is right… the President just took away the “work”provision from the TNAF grant. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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So you can now sit directly on your butt and collect money
from our Government officially without having to work!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In previous legislation you would have to be
working in order to get help.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Now that is not the case.&lt;/div&gt;
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Why would they do that?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mXOJsfJyd74/SavXHYwylTI/AAAAAAAAB5M/Jt72recFyPw/s1600/OBAMA.1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="365" id="il_fi" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mXOJsfJyd74/SavXHYwylTI/AAAAAAAAB5M/Jt72recFyPw/s400/OBAMA.1.jpeg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I’ll offer up a theory… and it’s just that… a theory…. But I believe there is some merit to it;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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What about this… What if it is for control?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What if they are going to use this as a
control method to shape the population?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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I'll elaborate; &lt;/div&gt;
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On March 16&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; 2012
President Obama signed executive order to update the “National Defense Resource
Preparedness” plan.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;You’ve hear me talk
about this before.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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This order effectively updates the
original order, 12919 originally signed in June of 1994.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This order also accompanies the bill signed
on New Year’s Eve 2011 also known as the NDAA, or National Defense
Authorization Act.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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There are several items in this
plan that are very concerning to me as well as they should be to you.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Now that a larger portion of the American
Economy is dependent on the government for sustenance; your President with his
word can under section 308 of the new executive order can; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;(a)&lt;span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Procure and install additional equipment,
facilities, processes, or improvements to plants, factories, and other
industrial facilities owned by the Federal Government and to procure and
install Government owned equipment in plants, factories, or other industrial
facilities &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;owned by private persons&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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So remember, in plain English, the
Military and Government can take your personal property, and throw it away or
destroy it and then install their own computers, monitoring equipment, your internet
connection, manufacturing equipment, tanks, guns, and troops on your personal
property, and your business property.&lt;span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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They can now also under section
102;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;(c)&amp;nbsp;
be prepared, in the event of a potential threat to the security of the United
States, to take actions necessary to ensure the &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;availability of adequate resources and production capability,
including services and critical technology, for national defense requirements.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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That should really
bother you. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The Government just said in law
that they could take whatever they want from you to ensure for national
defense.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;You thought you had guns, guess
what, they are gone!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They will say, “We
need them for our national defense”.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;You
thought you were putting food storage aside for your family, guess what they
will say too; “our Government needs that Sir / Madam. I’m sorry but our troops
need it more than you!”&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSL_vQGK_26yH1FxYOgs86UNGX6KES5hRjYlCR57Nvzv4kAWeN9tA" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" class="rg_hi uh_hi" data-height="191" data-width="264" height="191" id="rg_hi" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSL_vQGK_26yH1FxYOgs86UNGX6KES5hRjYlCR57Nvzv4kAWeN9tA" style="height: 191px; width: 264px;" width="264" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is also known as the
“re-distribution” of wealth a popular concept under communism. &lt;/div&gt;
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Your supplies, homes, computers,
guns ammunition and medical supplies have now become the property of the United
States Government.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Guess who else did
this in a time of war? The Nazi’s!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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They used the hair, clothing and “resources”
of the Jewish people to help their war machine.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;You know who else, the Russians under Joseph Stalin!&lt;/div&gt;
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There are some very wordy
portions of this order, but the scariest part of this executive order that
should absolutely cause you to fall out of your chair is that all of this can
be enacted in peace-time.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Section 102 Paragraph B and C
say; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;(b)&amp;nbsp; assess on an ongoing basis the
capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy
requirements in &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;peacetime&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and
times of national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of the
most critical resource and production sources, including subcontractors and
suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical personnel;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;(c)&amp;nbsp; be prepared, in the event of a &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;potential threat&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to the security
of the United States, to take actions necessary to ensure the availability of
adequate resources&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;and production
capability, including services and critical technology, for national defense
requirements;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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So now you can see that in
peacetime and emergency time the President can enact this order. Even when a
potential threat is out there they can implement these set of strict laws, or
in other words implement martial law when they feel like it.&lt;/div&gt;
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There are additional parts of
this executive order that discuss “personnel” and the use of them.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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So once again to explain it for
you in plain English; some of it speaks of the ability to move “resources” or
people and families to where they need them and want them.&lt;/div&gt;
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So what does this mean to all of
us?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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When you give away your freedoms
through the acceptance of government entitlements they can tell you where to
go, when and how much to eat and drink, when to sleep and how you have to work
for them now to get your entitlement.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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They own you! &lt;/div&gt;
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Here are some very disturbing
statistics according to an April 13&lt;sup&gt;th &lt;/sup&gt;2011 news filling by CNN;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;1 in 6
Americans get help from the Government, that working out to roughly 14% or
43,622,868 people!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;In June 1
in 6 people are on Medicaid / Medicare with more than 50 Million people
registering in 2010 alone!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;In
January 2011 more than 44.2 Million people were on food stamps.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;That is up by 4.7 million in the previous
year.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;More than
8.3 million people are collecting un-employment benefits, while that number is
down from the previous year where 12 million filed.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It is still double the amount of people who
filed in 2007.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Currently in America 8.3
million Americans are on unemployment. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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So while people sit at home
collecting their unemployment checks they become victims of the system,
becoming reliant on it to provide for them, there is no motivation to find a
job.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The federal regulation is now a 59
week period to find a job and the average American on unemployment makes three
quarters of what they used to make on their full time work.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;If you can bare it, you can take a year off
to look for work, and we the tax payers are paying for it!&lt;/div&gt;
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Since 2010 unemployment benefits
have been extended three times to accommodate Americans who can’t find jobs
they &lt;u&gt;like&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://theruggedindividualist.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/trimtabs-disability-e1337004293774.png?w=640" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="207" id="il_fi" src="http://theruggedindividualist.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/trimtabs-disability-e1337004293774.png?w=640" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Not that there aren't jobs
available, there just isn't available jobs that they find &lt;u&gt;ideal&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;American has become lazy, slow and has fallen
behind the world in many, many different categories.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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According the March 13&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;
2012 Bureau of Labor and Statics press release there were 3.5 million job
openings in January 2012, yet only 227,000 people were hired that month.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;So what is the problem? &lt;/div&gt;
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Here is the simple answer.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Welfare pays better.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Much better!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Let’s see what the breakdown works
out to be; for an average family of four in Washington State you can get the
following social entitlements; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Welfare
(food stamps)for your groceries ($668) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;TANF cash
for your expenses ($200)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;HUD to
pay your rent ($800 - 900)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;S.N.A.P
to pay for your utilities ($225 average)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;SSI
($1300 for individuals) for extra pocket money if you can get a note from your
doctor and are “clinically depressed”. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;Medicare
for your health and free dental (between $1000 - 2000 per family depending on
amount of care you receive each month.)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Wow.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Sounds like a pretty sweet deal huh?&lt;/div&gt;
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In fact if you were an average
family of four you could make $4,193 dollars per month just in government
benefits per month that is $50,316.00 per year!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;So if 1 in 6 (43,622,868) Americans are on these services that is an
astounding estimated $2,194,928,226,288.00 per month on the average!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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That is just obscene.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;So … you tell me… why
would anyone in their right mind word at all?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;It doesn’t make fiscal sense!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Why would you go to a job, for a paycheck when you can have
the Government pay for it all!!!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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But here is where my theory kicks in.&lt;/div&gt;
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What if they told you that you had to kill someone else for
your check?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What if they told you that
in order to get your welfare check in your account, you had to go to war to get
your check delivered to your family back home?&lt;/div&gt;
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What if this gets worse… and the currency collapses?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What type of nation is easiest to
control?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;One that is full of people who
maybe have access to guns and food…&lt;/div&gt;
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Or a nation that is starving… or had died down to a manageable
population?&lt;/div&gt;
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Wake up!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Wake up to the fact that our Government is planning to allow
you to die!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Wake up to the fact that our Government is taking action and
planning for a collapse!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;They are buying&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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bullets and MRE’s, equipment and the like to be ready!&lt;/div&gt;
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What are you doing??? Are you sitting on your butt
collecting this new “Not have to work” welfare?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;Or will you decide to stop being controlled?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Please ... Don't be a sheep!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Until next time... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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That is someone breaking the law… they broke into my car last night… looking for anything they could find… something…just something they could use to pawn to get their next high… they just need their next fix…&lt;/div&gt;
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For a few brief moments, someone lived without the “Rule of Law”.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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Ladies and Gentlemen I have an announcement for you.&lt;/div&gt;
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This is going to happen again.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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To you. &lt;/div&gt;
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To me.&lt;/div&gt;
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To everybody.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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What we are seeing is not just a random act of violence against me or you.&amp;nbsp; It is a sign of the times, A sign of the coming “&lt;a href="http://www.preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/06/event.html" target="_blank"&gt;Event&lt;/a&gt;”. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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There was nothing I could do to stop this from happening.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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People are becoming more and more desperate.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/Man_Wanted_in__161644075.html" target="_blank"&gt;They do things like steal copper wire from people who need power&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://hooc.org/en/home/woman-eats-her-own-infants-brain/" target="_blank"&gt;They get high and eat their own children&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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I read an article a few months ago over at the &lt;a href="http://survivalandprosperity.com/2012/02/10/beware-of-highly-trained-armed-parasites-in-a-shtf-situation/" target="_blank"&gt;survival and prosperityblog that talked about the author over hearing trained Military professionalstalking about when SHTF.. They will just “take” what they want when the timecomes.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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It will happen. &amp;nbsp;When “&lt;a href="http://www.preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/06/event.html" target="_blank"&gt;The Event&lt;/a&gt;” comes, people will riot, people will loot, and people will kill other people to get what they need. It is a proven fact.&amp;nbsp; People are violent and mostly un-trustworthy. &lt;/div&gt;
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Look back through our history; even God’s own people did that to take Modern Day Israel. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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The Old Testament is full of stories of God’s army going out and killing the Philistines, or the Aramites, or any other funky sounding old “testimenty” style name. &amp;nbsp;Killing and looting our in our history, I’ll go as far as to say that it is on genes. &lt;/div&gt;
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Take a look around your house, what do you see?&amp;nbsp; Is your home your castle?&amp;nbsp; Or is easy for someone to walk right in and take what they want… or what you have put away for your family to eat, to heal themselves with, to sleep on, or even hunt with?&lt;/div&gt;
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Sure… many of you who read this blog have Bug-Out-Bags and things packed and ready should you have to get out of Dodge, Seattle, Spokane or Anchorage. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Yes… I watch the stats… Thank you friends from the North for supporting “The Event”!&lt;/div&gt;
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But seriously… what could you do to make your home more secure?&amp;nbsp; How about yourself? How about your family? &lt;/div&gt;
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Sure your neighbors may be nice people, but keep them at arms length.&amp;nbsp; They don’t need to know what you have in the way of food, supplies or firepower.&amp;nbsp; People are naturally evil.&amp;nbsp; It is the sin nature.&amp;nbsp; People also naturally have big mouths too.&amp;nbsp; They love to gossip.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; They love the latest scuttlebutt about who is doing what… wearing what… or saying what.&lt;/div&gt;
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Sure you can speak about facts and waking people up, but never, I repeat never tell anyone what you have!&lt;/div&gt;
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Evil is inherent.&amp;nbsp; It started in the Garden of Eden and has progressed down through history.&amp;nbsp; Sure some of you will email me with the age old debate about “inherently good vs. inherently evil”.&amp;nbsp; I’m going to shut you down before we even start.&lt;/div&gt;
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Man = Dumb, sinful and bad -&amp;gt; look at history. It started with the snake in the Garden. &lt;/div&gt;
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I tell my kids this all the time, “Be aware of your space!”… We need to do the same, people like your space, and yes… stuff is just that stuff… you can’t eat a TV or the glass in your car window… but there are other things that people will take.&amp;nbsp; Be aware of who is walking in your neighborhood.&lt;/div&gt;
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Do they belong there?&amp;nbsp; How about that car with someone in it?&amp;nbsp; Are they out of place?&lt;/div&gt;
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If you see something… say something!&amp;nbsp; Don’t think of yourself as paranoid!&amp;nbsp; Be pro-active and protect what is yours!&lt;/div&gt;
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You have to look around your house -&amp;gt; how are you protecting your preps?&amp;nbsp; Do you have good locks?&amp;nbsp; A security system? Do you have a gun that you have quick access too?&amp;nbsp; What type of gun do you have?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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How about this?&amp;nbsp; Have you focused on reducing shrubbery that someone could hide in outside your windows?&amp;nbsp; What about your property?&amp;nbsp; How well do you know it?&amp;nbsp; Are their areas that people could hide in to ambush you?&lt;/div&gt;
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Know your property… know your home.&amp;nbsp; Re-enforce doors! Put security wraps on your windows that prevent them from breaking.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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Lets take a moment to talk about guns. Yes… guns… this a hotly contested issue.&amp;nbsp; Some feel having an arsenal to outfit a country the size of Cuba is good.&amp;nbsp; Others just prefer a .22.&amp;nbsp; This is what I feel.&amp;nbsp; Have multiple handguns that are quickly accessed. A hunting rifle is good to have, a AR-15 style weapon that can duel as a hunting rifle is better.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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There are other products out there such as hideaway clocks, books and other “hiding areas”.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Learn how to shoot your gun!&amp;nbsp; Practice with it.&amp;nbsp; Learn how to quickly draw, and take the safety off and do what you need to do with it. &lt;/div&gt;
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I’ve quoted it before but I truly feel that Proverbs 22:3 is truly a great rule to live by,&lt;/div&gt;
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Don’t be simple… don’t be foolish.&amp;nbsp; Prepare yourself for what is coming!&amp;nbsp; Some people will be kind when&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/06/event.html" target="_blank"&gt;The Event&lt;/a&gt; comes, but a majority will not.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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Guard yourselves, guard your heart, and guard your families, because if W.R.O.L really happens, they will be all you have.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Yes, this blog post is homage to one of my favorite comic
strips… Penny Arcade. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Thanks for the great
title guys….&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/PAA_game_teaser.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/PAA_game_teaser.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;But not only does the title sound incredibly scary… it specific
describes how we are in our economy….&amp;nbsp; we will probably fall... but we can fight it! &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
We truly stand on a precipice that is wet with the tears of
those who have made incredibly bad decisions, it’s the slip off this precipice
that will cause us to fall head long into the event.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Let’s take one more step toward the “Event” and look today
at the LIBOR scandal. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
The mainstream media is now finally reporting about how big
and how vast and damaging this truly is!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Just so we’re square, let me give you a “layman’s term about
what the LIBOR is.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;The LIBOR
(London Interbank Offered Rate) is the rate on Eurodollars traded between banks
in London.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;A Eurodollar is a dollar-denominated deposit
in a bank in a country where the currency is not the dollar. The Eurodollar
market is more than 40 years old and is a major component of the international
financial markets. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;LIBOR
is quoted on a one-month, three-month, six-month or yearly basis. The six-month
LIBOR is the one most commonly quoted for mortgages. Both &lt;a href="http://www.fanniemae.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Fannie Mae&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.freddiemac.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Freddie Mac&lt;/a&gt; use LIBOR as
an indices for loans they purchase. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;The
LIBOR rate can be found daily in &lt;i&gt;The Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt; "Money
Rates" table. Until recently it has been considered one of the most
important barometers of the international cost of money, LIBOR has historically
reflected money market rates more accurately than prime- and Treasury-based
indices. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Think of your mortgage rate this way. The LIBOR + the margin
your banker sets to make their money = your total mortgage rate.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
So… there is the brief over view.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Now… onto the deception.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
The &lt;a href="http://marketday.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/11/12684779-a-scandal-over-rate-fixing-is-about-to-hit-the-us?lite" target="_blank"&gt;sheeple over at MSNBC&lt;/a&gt; finally have started to look at
the LIBOR scandal now that it is starting to make its way across the pond.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
To give you an idea of what has happened is this; Barclays
bank in early June was identified as one of the main firms that were affecting
the number of basis points (that is the .xx that they charge you on the loan
i.e “your rate is 3.45%”) that the LIBOR is made up of.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Now since MSNBC is run by liberals they like to quote
liberals and so Robert Shapiro, former Under Secretary of Commerce and Economic
affairs during the Clinton administration is quoted as saying that &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://marketday.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/11/12684779-a-scandal-over-rate-fixing-is-about-to-hit-the-us?lite" target="_blank"&gt;“the LIBORwas off by an average of 30 to 40 basis points for several years (one hundred basis points is equal to one percentage point in an interest rate)--&amp;nbsp;enough to add $50 to $100 to the monthly cost of a $100,000 loan. Healso notes that, between 2007 and 2008, Americans held $11.1 trillion in outstanding residential mortgage debt. During the time of the alleged manipulations between 30 percent and 40 percent of that debt carried adjustable rates.”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Holy Poop – any idea how much money that is?&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
It has been 5 years since 2007… and in 2007 the median price
of a home was $314,600.00 (source: &lt;a href="http://www.census.gov/const/uspricemon.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;US Census Bureau&lt;/a&gt;) … and the 6 month LIBOR
rate was 5.370 (source: &lt;a href="http://mortgage-x.com/"&gt;mortgage-x.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://mortgage-x.com/general/indexes/wsj_libor_history.asp?y=2007" target="_blank"&gt;http://mortgage-x.com/general/indexes/wsj_libor_history.asp?y=2007&lt;/a&gt;)… let’s do some math now… &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
$11.1 Trillion divided by $314,600.00 = 34,965,034 mortgages
that were held.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
34,965,034 Mortgages x $100 per month = $3,496,503,400 per
month in over charges.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
$3,496,503,400 x 12 months a year = 41,958,040,800.00 per
year in bogus dollars made.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
$41,958,040,800.00 x 5 years = $209,790,204,000.00 for the
last five years in fraudulent dollars made. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
If that is the case then each family should really be due
$6000.00 in back over paid costs.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Now … this may change because not all mortgages were the
same amount… but you get the idea..&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
So… do you think that the people who are owed this money
will ever get it?... Heck no!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;There is
no way that a dime of any of it will be paid.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Now… here is where things are starting to get really bad for
this situation.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It is now not just
Barclays that are under investigation.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;Here is the current list of banks being investigated for their part in
the fraud; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1323147779"&gt;Citigroup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1323147779"&gt;JP Morgan Chase&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1323147779"&gt;HSBC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1323147779"&gt;Deutsche Bank&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/libor-rate-scandal_n_1664737.html?utm_hp_ref=business" target="_blank"&gt;Royal Bank of Scotland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
And the list is growing.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;This single event will be the most expensive event to ever affect the financial
industry.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Ever!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
They will never be able to pay it back.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;If they do it would completely break every
bank that is associated with the fraud.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Greed drove the world to this point.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
It is the greed that caused all of this to take place! It is
greed that will be our downfall!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
This will contribute to the Event… could it truly be the
catalyst?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Think about it.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It
could be the straw that breaks the camel’s theoretical back.What if the whole system came crashing down on our heads?&amp;nbsp; What would we do?&amp;nbsp; How would we "restart"?&amp;nbsp; Could we go back to bartering for goods and services?&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
What would you be able to barter?&amp;nbsp; What skills / services can you offer?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Be ready friends.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Don’t
just bury your head in the sand!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Please… Please wake up!&amp;nbsp; We have to understand that we are walking the razors edge and we are not going to make it.&amp;nbsp; We are running out of time!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Tell your friends, tell your family members!&amp;nbsp; Let them know that if they do don't prepare now... there will not be hope for them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
The Event is coming.&amp;nbsp; We are the cause... we can be the solution.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;
Until next time.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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I want to take this post today to help you to connect some political
dots that are really, really important.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
These dots that I will connect will paint a picture that our
freedoms are quickly eroding and that the choices that our leadership is making
in this country are going to push us into the “Event” at a staggering pace!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Over the past 5 and ½ months the President has made several
political moves that should scare the pants off of you and me.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://stoneleighfoundation.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/featured_blog/dotgun.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://stoneleighfoundation.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/featured_blog/dotgun.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;The First Dot:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Let’s first start with December 31&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;, 2011.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr4310/text" target="_blank"&gt;On that date the President signed what is nowknown as the NDAA or the National Defense Authorization Act.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;He also signed &lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness" target="_blank"&gt;Executive Order 12919&lt;/a&gt; in
March of 2012. Both the law and the order in a &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;nut shell gives the President and the
Government the ability to procure all resources necessary to keep the country
running.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Here is section 303(b) of the
Executive Order; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt;"&gt;(b) &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;“Materials acquired under section 303 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093,
that exceed the needs of the programs under the Act may be transferred to the
National Defense Stockpile, if, in the judgment of the Secretary of Defense as
the National Defense Stockpile Manager, such transfers are in the public
interest.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Hmm… defense stockpile? But wait… there’s more!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Here is section 308; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;(a) procure
and install additional equipment, facilities, processes, or improvements to
plants, factories, and other industrial facilities owned by the Federal
Government and to procure and install Government owned equipment in plants,
factories, or other industrial facilities &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;owned
by private persons&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;; “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;When this order
takes place or goes into effect the Government can now put what they want on
your personal property.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What would they
possibly put? Communications monitoring equipment? Troops? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span&gt;What about this, &lt;a href="http://theintelhub.com/2012/04/05/dhs-purchases-bullet-resistant-checkpoint-booths-amid-large-scale-ammo-buildup/" target="_blank"&gt;DHS or TSA checkpoints?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;Here is the final
nail in the coffin from the NDAA/E.O 12919. It can be enacted in times of “National
Emergency” or” Peace” as defined in section 102(b) and (c); &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="FreeFormA"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="FreeFormA"&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;(b)&amp;nbsp; assess on an ongoing basis the capability of the
domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy requirements in &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;peacetime&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and times of &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;national emergency&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, specifically
evaluating the availability of the most critical resource and production
sources, including subcontractors and suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and
professional and technical personnel;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="FreeFormA"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="FreeFormA"&gt;
&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;(c)&amp;nbsp; be prepared, in the event of a &lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;potential threat&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to the security of the United States, to
take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate resources&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;and production capability, including services
and critical technology, for national defense requirements;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span&gt;As you can see from
the information above, the need for the Government to control everything is not
just fiction any more.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It is
reality.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;George Orwell’s 1984 was right. Ayn Rand was right!
They want big brother, they want total control.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;These changes are
dangerous and allow the Government to be too big, and too powerful. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span&gt;“They couldn’t do
that Jay…! You’re reaching!” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span&gt;Am I?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I don’t think so, there is too much collaborating
information pointing toward this shift in Government / Presidential Policy. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Click
through the links in this post… and then tell me different.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span&gt;Here is where the
first dot will link to the next one: &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span&gt;The President has
already declared a national emergency.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
Three times.&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;The Second Dot:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;“When did he declare a National Emergency? It wasn’t televised or on the
radio? I didn’t hear anything!”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"&gt;Here are the dates
and what happened; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_36216599"&gt;April 23, 2011 – The President issues this executive order; blocking
the property and suspending entry into the United States of certain persons
with respect to grave human rights abuses by the governments of Iran and Syria via
information technology.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;He establishes
this order using the “National Emergencies Act”, thus effectively issuing a
National Emergency around the issue of Iran and Syria and our security. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/23/executive-order-blocking-property-and-suspending-entry-united-states-cer" target="_blank"&gt;When he issued the order it put the NDAA into full effectand now provides justification for the third dot we’ll get to in a moment.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Do I agree with the President on this move. No... find another way to declaring the bad guys... not using law to subvert for another cause.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Here is the second time he declared a National Emergency; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/16/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-threatening-peace-security-or-" target="_blank"&gt;May 16th, 2011 – The President signs an orderthat: blocks property of persons threateningthe peace, security, or stability of Yemen.&amp;nbsp;He establishes this order using the “National Emergencies Act”, thus effectivelyissuing a National Emergency regarding Yemen.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Here is the third time he declared a National Emergency; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/25/executive-order-russian-highly-enriched-uranium" target="_blank"&gt;June 25th 2012 – The President issues thisexecutive order; blocking property of the government of the Russian Federationrelating to the disposition of highly enriched uranium extracted from nuclearweapons.&amp;nbsp; The President also establishesthis order also under the “National Emergencies Act”, and provides once againjustification for the NDAA and its ability to allow the Government intoeverything.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Remember section 308 of the NDAA? The ability to put their
own resources into private facilities?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;Well that leads us to dot number three.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;The Third Dot:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Since the President has decided to declare a national
emergency twice now, he has more than enough “firepower” to begin using the NDAA
as the justification to begin securing resources and he has done just that.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/executive-order-assignment-national-security-and-emergency-preparedness-" target="_blank"&gt;On July 6th, 2012 the President signed yet anotherexecutive order.&amp;nbsp; This order creates the:assignment of National Security and Emergency preparedness communicationsfunctions.&amp;nbsp; This order first wipes outthe Original Communications Order 12472 (Section 7b) written by Ronald Reganthat worked along the side of the communications industry, this orderestablishes the Government control of those channels Section 5.4 – 5.6 shouldit deem necessary.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
On the 22&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; of this month, the President will
also sign a &lt;a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2012/07/10064-un-small-arms-treaty-barack-obamas-backdoor-gun-control-may-pass/" target="_blank"&gt;Treaty by the United Nations&lt;/a&gt; that regulates and registration world
wide of “Semi-Automatic” weapons.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;There
is a major problem with that.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;A treaty overrides
the bill of rights and the treaty acts as “supreme law” of the land.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Thus eliminating our rights under the 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt;
amendment. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
These dots that I have connected for you really should cause
you to sit up and be aware of what our Government is doing.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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It used to be that the Government would be there at the bequest
of the People, now they simply want to control the people.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Now the powers that be have given themselves
the rights to control all the resources, and our personal property.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Be aware of what is going on! &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
These decisions &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;that
they are making are quickly rushing us to the “Event”.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Yes, the Event has to take place, but how we
get through it can be up to us.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;If we
let our friend and family know that what is happening is wrong, and goes
against what our fore-fathers stood for, we maybe can get the word out for
people to prepare! &lt;/div&gt;
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Until next time…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8470479686561923267-8871161654248122321?l=preparespokane.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~4/TMujb0c9oq4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/feeds/8871161654248122321/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/07/connecting-dots-and-picture-isnt-very.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/8871161654248122321?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/8871161654248122321?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~3/TMujb0c9oq4/connecting-dots-and-picture-isnt-very.html" title="Connecting the dots…. And the picture isn’t very pretty…" /><author><name>Jay Pounder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15028168638697435543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/07/connecting-dots-and-picture-isnt-very.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;Dk4MSHs9cSp7ImA9WhJSFU8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470479686561923267.post-8540617095777529139</id><published>2012-07-05T14:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-07-05T14:49:49.569-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-07-05T14:49:49.569-07:00</app:edited><title>While you were sleeping….</title><content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;
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Not only is it an "oldy" but goodie movie title but it is the truth as
well…&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Many, many things happen while we are asleep.. we travel in our dreams,
enjoy lavish life styles, fly, be a superhero, or even become famous… but when
we wake up … we have to remember they are just dreams.. not reality…. Not truth.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
We as Americans love our dreams, in fact we try to make them
reality more often than really looking at the world.&amp;nbsp; We want to escape, we want to be something,
we want to not have to face the cold hard facts that are our world.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
We want to ignore that we are losing our freedoms rapidly
and our current administration doesn’t care about our freedoms… they want
dominance, subservience, and the complete control of our lives.&amp;nbsp; They don’t want us to know the truth. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Here is another real truth… one that is not a dream… and is
very, very real.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Today, President Obama is working to open the door to the
United Nations to regulate our firearms and our rights to them.&amp;nbsp; Yes that is right… he is trying to let a foreign
body regulate our own bill of rights.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our friends over at&lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/" target="_blank"&gt; Infowars.com&lt;/a&gt; have posted an article
today that the main stream media is certainly not covering.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; You can read about it &lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/obama-administration-participates-in-finalizing-un-gun-grabbing-treaty/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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In a nutshell the UN wants to pass something called the, “&lt;a href="http://www.un.org/disarmament/ATT/" target="_blank"&gt;UnitedNations Arms Trade Treaty”&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; The (ATT) is
a treaty that seriously infringes on the &lt;a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am2" target="_blank"&gt;2nd Amendment, or ourrights to bear arms&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; The Treaty requires
that all firearms be registered, and regulated as they are traded.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
At first glance this bill looks like it will be a great way
to protect lower income nations from other countries selling guns to warlords
and rebels.&amp;nbsp; However, it presents a huge
problem as if the United States agrees to be a part of the treaty, each one of
us who buys, sells, or trades a weapon will have to register said firearm with
the UN as well as our current Government just to make sure that we are not a
warlord or rebel.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
There is nothing, in the bill of rights that says that other
governments can regulate our rights to bear arms.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Maybe that is why Obama feels the need to
pull this off.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
This is only one step closer to two things, complete control
of the United States by the UN as a “governing body” or one world government,
as well as the removal or confiscation of our firearms. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Now… Many people have speculated that if given the opportunity,
our Government would gladly disarm our people, one of my favorite authors;
James Wesley Rawles said in an interview earlier this year that it would be
nearly impossible to disarm the American people.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
I agree with him.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
He states, &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;“There are
so many guns being produced each year – a couple of million guns each
&amp;nbsp;year – &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;it’s
just&amp;nbsp;mathematically&amp;nbsp;impossible, if not socially impossible, to even
envision the logistics of trying to disarm the American citizenry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
It just can’t happen. There’s too many guns in circulation and they’re
essentially the final guarantor of our freedom.”&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp; If you like you can read more of the
&lt;a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/rawles-it-would-be-impossible-to-disarm-the-people-of-this-country_05212012" target="_blank"&gt;interview here.&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Here is how we can think about this in terms of the coming “Event”.&amp;nbsp; The global elite want the people to give up
their guns, it will make it easier for them to continue to make policies that
affect you and me.&amp;nbsp; They will control us through our food, money, homes, and famlies.&amp;nbsp; Their activities will contribute to the coming Event and its devastation on humanity. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
I just don’t know when our President and his administration is
ever going to get the point.&amp;nbsp; When you
try and hid your sins from the people it is going to come out!&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Just stop already!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
We all know that you’re a closet Marxist!&amp;nbsp; Your &lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/18/former-obama-prof-president-must-be-defeated-in-november/" target="_blank"&gt;teachers in school talked about your activities&lt;/a&gt;, your social involvement during the early years show that you
belonged &lt;a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/11652-obama-belonged-to-radical-socialist-new-party-in-1996/" target="_blank"&gt;to a group (the weather underground)&lt;/a&gt; that believed in communism and
extreme violence. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
But the here is the sad and exciting all in one fact.&amp;nbsp; If and when the one world government presents
itself, it just means that it is closer to when Christ is coming back!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
You have to speak up!&amp;nbsp;
You cannot sleep anymore!&amp;nbsp; When
you sleep you give up things, time with your loved ones, the ability to get
things done, or even your rights and freedom!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://kelly.house.gov/sites/kelly.house.gov/files/ATT%20Letter.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;The Congress has already sent their concerns to the President.&lt;/a&gt;. you should too… Call your Representatives today, email them! Tell
them that the US has no business allowing other countries to run our Government
and regulate our freedom!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
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&lt;span class="messageBody" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:3}" style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.38;"&gt;It's hot. In fact, it's more than hot... it's sweltering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, despite the heat and the generally somber mood of the country, there will be 4th of July celebrations all across this country. It will be a day of flag waving, barbeques, family gatherings, street parades, and picnic lunches. Each of them will commemorate the founding of this country, and each will remember the sacrifice of those brave patriots and every solder that has come after them who has fought for liberty and freedom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, ten years before America actually declared her independence, revolution had begun. And that revolution began under a 100-year-old elm tree in Boston, when on September 10, 1765, a copper plate with large gold letters was hung in its branches, declaring the tree "The Tree of Liberty."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To understand the inscription, we need to realize what was happening at the time. The British had accumulated a massive war debt during the French and Indian War and they needed a way to pay it off. Much like today, the first and most obvious means of raising revenue was through a tax. And on March 22, 1765, the Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This tax had an effect the British were not expecting... it enraged the colonists like no other tax had up to that point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see, the Stamp Act required a tax be paid on ALL documents: legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets, and even playing cards! The colonists viewed the tax not only as an onerous financial burden, but as a form of censorship since it would limit the colonists' ability to read and write freely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The colonists' anger would not be abated, and one hot summer day, August 14th, 1765, a crowd gathered around this large elm tree in Boston to protest this onerous tax. In the tree they hung an effigy of Andrew Oliver, the man charged with collecting the Stamp Tax. There was also a British cavalry jackboot hanging from the branches. An imp-like devil poked its head out of the boot. In its hands was a scroll that said "Stamp Tax."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was the first blatant act of defiance against the British Empire. This is why the great elm tree became known as "The Tree of Liberty." And this was just the beginning! As 1766 rolled around, the tree became a rallying point for the Sons of Liberty, men who were to become the leaders and champions of the forthcoming American Revolution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even after the Stamp Act was repealed, the revolutionary movement continued to gather steam. And with the siege of Boston, the first phase of the American Revolution began. British Loyalists cut down the Tree of Liberty in a spiteful act of retaliation against the liberty-minded colonists. But the memories and values that tree represented continued to live on in the hearts of the colonists. Soon flags began to appear with the Liberty Tree image emblazoned on them and were flown during many battles during the Revolutionary War.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yet, for all that the Liberty Tree stood for, few Americans today know about this important chapter in American history. We have lost our way... we have forgotten where we came from. Our national memory of these events have been all but left in the dustbin of history. Children today can't even tell us who the Founding Fathers were. They can't tell us why this great experiment in liberty was even begun. And they don't understand the basis of what Americans have inherently believed through the years and why. Perhaps this is why Thomas Jefferson cautioned:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, we did produce a near perfect Republic, but will they keep it? Or will they in their enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of their freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction. I tremble for my country when I realize that God is just.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look around you. What we have today is exactly what Jefferson described: "Material abundance without character." And that lack of character brings us lack of morals and integrity in the political process, with elected officials who are more worried about the money they can squirrel away in their freezers and 401Ks and offshore accounts than the business of the American people. We live in a time when avarice and illusions of power compel men and women to enslave their constituents in onerous tax burdens and to deprive them of their inherent rights under God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to remember. We need to remember how our liberty was won. We need to remember the virtues of faith, love, and self-discipline. We need to remember the values and morals that made this country great.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;
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So… if you don’t know the name Christine Lagarde you
should.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;She is head of the International Monetary Fund and frankly they are the slimy cousin of the Not-So-Federal
Reserve.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This morning an article was
posted on CNN.com about how they feel that we should boost the economy and
worry about cutting deficits later.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;She
was criticizing us just like our own Ben Bernanke criticized them!&lt;/div&gt;
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EEEEEEEEEEE. Wrong!&lt;/div&gt;
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That thinking couldn’t be any further from where we need to
be.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;For so long we as Americans have
lived high on the hog. Buying what we want when we want on someone else’s
money.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We have to stop sending and just
pumping more printed money into the economy! Sure, there are pockets of
Americans who are fiscally responsible, but for the most part America is doomed
to repeat history and be dissolved and become smaller nations. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Now… there is a solution.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
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Albeit a really, really uncomfortable one.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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We have to end entitlements ASAP!&lt;/div&gt;
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Here are two photos for you to look at, these are pages 108
and 110 from the 2012 – 2013 Federal Government budget;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt;Notice anything
significant?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;You don’t have to be a math
wiz to see that we continue to run a deficit through 2022… We can’t keep going
like this! We don’t have the tax revenue to support our spending. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt;Even my 8 year old knows that
if you have 3 quarters and something costs 4 quarters you can’t buy it.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"&gt;Why can’t those in power see
it? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;We have to tighten our
budgets.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It is not the Governments job
to save its people.&lt;/div&gt;
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I know Thomas Jefferson said it best; “Government big enough
to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The
course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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I’ve written about it before, and I’ll write
about it again, we will have to have some very, very tough times in this nation
if we want to actually have a nation to speak of come this time next year.&lt;/div&gt;
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I can just hear you know...“But Jay, what will happen to the families that rely on
those programs? You’re just being heartless! Isn’t it a Christians Duty to
protect the widows and the Orphans?”&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Here is my response; Yes… we should be helping those less
fortunate than us, but it was Christ who said this …. Not the Government!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;We as the Church should absolutely be
stepping up all around the world to help!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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We should be thinking as they did
in Acts 2:42 and Acts 4:32…. &lt;/div&gt;
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We need to help each other, because when the money runs out,
those who haven’t learned will suffer greatly… we can fix this!&lt;/div&gt;
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Until next time!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8470479686561923267-6790432955615264299?l=preparespokane.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~4/XczqbTr25OQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/feeds/6790432955615264299/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/07/no-you-pull-plank-out-of-your-eye.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/6790432955615264299?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/6790432955615264299?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~3/XczqbTr25OQ/no-you-pull-plank-out-of-your-eye.html" title="No… you pull the plank out of your eye!" /><author><name>Jay Pounder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15028168638697435543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hwiWskwFue0/T_NSKixt2BI/AAAAAAAAAJs/oF9GRJXJJSU/s72-c/Page+208+Gov%27t+budget.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/07/no-you-pull-plank-out-of-your-eye.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUEESX08fyp7ImA9WhJSEko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470479686561923267.post-8855139489051511446</id><published>2012-07-02T18:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-07-02T18:06:48.377-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-07-02T18:06:48.377-07:00</app:edited><title>The Pink Elephant in the room....</title><content type="html">&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;
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Ladies and Gentlemen… please take a moment to pray for your
friends and family back in the Nation’s Capitol.. can you really imagine it? 3
Million People without power?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Let’s go down a tangent for a moment… what if this was permanent?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What if this 3 million was really a better
part of our nation?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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One of the most powerful books I have read in the past year
was the book, One Second After by William R. Forstchen.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It was absolutely riveting.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Not to give out any spoilers, but it has to
do with the loss of power in America and how everything breaks down and social
mayhem breaks out.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The forward is by
Newt Gingrich and it is one of my favorite books. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I believe that what we are seeing in DC is just a real taste
of what could happen if America was ever hit by an EMP attack. &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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So think about this, what would you do if tomorrow you lost
power and it never came back on?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Could you survive?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Could you feed your family? If you looked in your pantry
right now… how long could your feed your family?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Could you wash your clothes?
Could you grow a garden?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Most of you reading this may say absolutely not…!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What does that feel like to you?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Does it bother you? &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Does
it scare you?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Does it panic you?... You
know what?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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It absolutely should!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Most people think that “preppers” are a crazy bunch of nutty
hermits that believe the world is ending tomorrow.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;But what if these “hermits” are really everyday
people with young children who want to make sure that their family is well fed,
if something like what happens on the East Coast should take place or worse?&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Why does the idea of having extra food on hand bother
you?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Do you really think your Government
would come to save you?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Without power…
they are just as hobbled as you are!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Do you realize without power, oil companies can’t refine oil
as easily, gas stations cannot pump fuel, groceries don’t stay cool, washer and
dryers can’t do their job, and your TV and Radio do not work.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
I want you to watch this trailer and think about this.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What would you do tomorrow if we lost power
and it never came back on?&lt;/div&gt;
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So… now that you are sufficiently spooked… I want to offer
up the top reasons that I feel that you should prep and have supplies and other
things on hand;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;It isn’t
about you!&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;When you really think about
what the world is going through today… it isn’t about you.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It is about your family, you wife, your kids,
your babies.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What if tomorrow the
grocery store wasn’t open?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What would
you do?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What pain would you feel telling
your child that you have nothing to feed them for dinner tonight because you
didn’t prepare ahead of time!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;2 &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Currency Breakdown.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;When you think about what I have posted over
the past 6 months I have focused pretty heavily on the breakdown of the
American dollar and what that would mean to us.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;Think about this, what if you went to the store and what was one dollar
yesterday was 5 dollars today.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Inflation
is a real threat.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Having your own food
supply can help to stabilize your pocket book… for a while.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;3 &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Social Unrest.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;How about this… what happens when the money is no longer flowing through
the entitlement system?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What then?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;What do all those people who choose to use it
as a life style do?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Crime will
increase?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It will not be safe to leave
your home for extended periods of time. You will need your own supplies to
sustain your families!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;4 &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Pandemic.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;Usually even I find this one to be a bit, well… over blown, but if there
is a horrific flu bug that starts killing people, well, do you want to be out
in “public” where everyone else is coughing and hacking?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;If you catch it, you will give it to your
family and then it all goes downhill from there. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;5&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;War.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;War
is a terrible thing, and it causes great hardships on its people, mostly it
kills and destroys populations.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;You can
read horror stories about cities under siege that have to end up eating their own
shoes to sustain themselves, or how thirst killed everyone off. I for one never
want to be in that situation.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;6 &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Finally, it’s biblical... It’s plain and simple,
Proverbs 22:3 states that, “A prudent man see’s danger and takes refuge,
whereas the simple keep going.” &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
So the question is …. Are you simple?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Or are you wise?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Do you realize that this nation is headed for
some incredibly turbulent times? Do you realize that you are just a number and
that when “The Event” takes place and resources are scarce you will have
nothing if you are not prepared?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to email me!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Get ready people… know that God is in control over the long
run…but you still have to survive!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
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Maybe I am just having a bad dream… a really bad dream… must….wake…up….
crap… this is real.&lt;/div&gt;
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Our President just got a green light from the Supreme Court
to take away your rights.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Legally.&amp;nbsp; The Court said so...&lt;/div&gt;
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Yup… let me bring you up to speed unless you have been living under a rock;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This morning the Supreme court voted 5 to 4
to support the law of Obamacare.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This
law does several things that are very controversial; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 1.&amp;nbsp; Taxes
high net worth individuals and companies to pay for almost 2.5 Trillion dollars
over 10 years.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This comes from the floor
remarks on the &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Democrats Senate Health
Care Reform Bill&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;2 &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 2. &amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Fines Businesses beginning in 2014 with 50 or
more full time employees $2000.00 per employee if they do not offer insurance
or if an employee enrolls in their own “qualified” Plan. That works out to be a
neat $100,000.00.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Source:&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;The
Democratic Senate Health Care Reform bill.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;3&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 3.&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Fines Families a penalty of $285.00 per family
or 1% of income, whichever is greater.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;By 2016 it goes up to $2,085 per family or 2.5% of income, whichever is
greater. Source:&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;The Democratic Senate Health Care Reform bill.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 4.&amp;nbsp; Under
the new Obama health plan, your physician is required to enter all information
for each patient, including all treatments, into a government electronic
database. Doctors are then instructed on what the government deems to be cost
effective and appropriate care. This is true for EVERYONE, even if you have
private insurance. Doctors must comply with the regulations imposed by
Obamacare or face government penalty. There will be no privacy of your medical
concerns between you and your doctor, since the government will monitor all
medical interactions. &lt;/span&gt;Source:&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;The Democratic Senate Health Care Reform
bill&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;5&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 5.&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Finally, the worst thing about Obamacare is
that it takes away your right to make your own choices about&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; the treatment of your
body. Under this law, you are required to be in a "qualified"
healthcare plan, and you must attach proof that you are enrolled when you file
your income taxes. The IRS now has the power to track you and penalize you if
you do not provide proof of your enrollment. You no longer have the right to
choose any healthcare plan you would like for your family or yourself. Persons
can no longer have low cost catastrophic-only coverage, which is a great choice
for healthy, young people.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The law allows the HHS Secretary to decide which
services will be required for the plan that you are required to buy. The HHS
Secretary also decides how much you will be required to pay for your required
plan, and which services your doctor will be "allowed" to provide.
The widely publicized promise from President Obama, "if you like your
doctor, you can keep your doctor," will not be true in many cases. You
will not be permitted to utilize any doctor who does not follow the dictates of
Obamacare (Section 1311), and many will lose their current coverage as a result
of this law. &lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Source:&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;The
Democratic Senate Health Care Reform bill&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="Default"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;So … still think Obamacare is a
good thing?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Or does not having a choice,
or having the Government track you through your medical records or having the
IRS monitor you set your teeth on edge?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="Default"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"&gt;I will tell you this… there is nothing;
I repeat nothing in the constitution that says that forcing people to buy
health care is ok. Now… the justices argue this; that the constitution argues
that; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 10.9pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"&gt;
&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Century Schoolbook&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Century Schoolbook&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Century Schoolbook&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="mso-list: Ignore;"&gt;(a)&lt;span style="font: 7.0pt &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Century Schoolbook&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Century Schoolbook&amp;quot;;"&gt;The Constitution grants Congress the power to “&lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"&gt;regulate &lt;/span&gt;Commerce.” Art. I, §8, cl. 3
(emphasis added). The power to &lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"&gt;regulate
&lt;/span&gt;commerce presupposes the existence of commercial activity to be reg­ulated.
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 10.9pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 10.9pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 45.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none;"&gt;
&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: &amp;quot;Century Schoolbook&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Century Schoolbook&amp;quot;;"&gt;This Court’s precedent reflects this understanding: As ex­pansive
as this Court’s cases construing the scope of the commerce &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Century Schoolbook&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &amp;quot;Century Schoolbook&amp;quot;;"&gt;power
have been, they uniformly describe the power as reaching “ac­tivity.” &lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"&gt;E.g., United States &lt;/span&gt;v. &lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"&gt;Lopez&lt;/span&gt;, 514 U. S. 549, 560. The
individ­ual mandate, however, does not regulate existing commercial activi­ty.
It instead compels individuals to &lt;span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"&gt;become
&lt;/span&gt;active in commerce by purchasing a product, on the ground that their
failure to do so affects interstate commerce.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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So… by forcing people to buy something it is affecting interstate
commerce? Sure I get that logic in the argument, but what about this?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Where does it clearly define that the product
must be health care?&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;If you use that argument
to force this why couldn’t they now do it with cars? Homes, or better yet food?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The worst part of it, now it sets case law that allows them to fine you
if you don’t go along with what they say.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;“Don’t buy our car we want you to buy … guess what … we will fine you
the cost of the car… and you will have to buy the car too!”&lt;/div&gt;
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By ratifying Obamacare better yet the, &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;The Democratic Senate Health Care Reform bill&lt;/i&gt; our Government has
just opened a slippery slope that now allows them force us to buy things that
frankly we shouldn’t be paying for as a nation.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;
&lt;/span&gt;It is too costly both financially and ethically. &lt;/div&gt;
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Now we might and I repeat might, be able to afford it if we didn’t have a
massive entitlement program that his bleeding money like a stuck pork barrel
pig.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I won’t deny that people need access to quality health care; people
should have access to it.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;But to “force”
someone to buy a product to stimulate the economy is a complete and utter
falsity in their interpretation of that line of the constitution.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The constitution only says “to regulate” not
to &lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;force, involve or create.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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This gross misstep by the Government today pushes us ever closer to the coming
event.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The fact that we will now as a
nation have to spend an additional 2.5 trillion dollars on top of the debt of
&lt;a href="http://www.usdebtclock.org/" target="_blank"&gt;16 trillion&lt;/a&gt; we have is just stupid.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This
reckless spending will cause a collapse… and spending more will rush it towards
us ever faster.&lt;span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I hope that people are reading these… we need to wake up!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8470479686561923267-2750059814802475103?l=preparespokane.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~4/9BXG-VI1HVo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/feeds/2750059814802475103/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/06/flood-tubes-1-and-2-mr-obama-and.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/2750059814802475103?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/2750059814802475103?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~3/9BXG-VI1HVo/flood-tubes-1-and-2-mr-obama-and.html" title="Flood tubes 1 and 2 Mr. Obama and prepare to sink good ship freedom!" /><author><name>Jay Pounder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15028168638697435543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/06/flood-tubes-1-and-2-mr-obama-and.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkQERns-fyp7ImA9WhJTF0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470479686561923267.post-2878060482309377111</id><published>2012-06-26T16:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-06-26T16:45:07.557-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-06-26T16:45:07.557-07:00</app:edited><title>SISPA Live….?  But it hasn’t even be signed yet???</title><content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;
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The Obama truth team has been busy…&lt;/div&gt;
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Ok… our President and his team are out of control!&amp;nbsp; This morning I was reading one of my favorite
blogs, &lt;a href="http://www.homelandsecurity.com/"&gt;www.homelandsecurity.com&lt;/a&gt; a
well authored blog by Doug Hagmann.&lt;/div&gt;
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I was shocked to read that Doug’s blog is being shut down by
GoDaddy.com due to the “morally objectionable” material it publishes.&amp;nbsp; Doug was notified by email from the team at
GoDaddy.com that they would shut his site down in 48 hours if he didn’t change
who his DNS points too.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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Doug called them back and asked who complained, they would
not give him any answer.&amp;nbsp; He
pushed harder and only got stonewalled. &lt;/div&gt;
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Here is what I know, That Doug’s web site has on multiple occasions
proved several truths about what was / is going on in our National Capitol, specifically
what our Presidents doing to become even more powerful. &lt;/div&gt;
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Let me be specifically clear.&amp;nbsp; &lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Doug’s blog contains no porn, sinful images or
anything that would be construed at “morally objectionable”, unless you don’t
like the truth, and especially truth about our government. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I would bet a red cent on the fact that someone in the Obama campain called, and threatened GoDaddy.com to shut down Doug's site, otherwise they would go after GoDaddy.com!&amp;nbsp; Sure ... I can't prove it... it's the stuff movies are made from.&amp;nbsp; But really?&amp;nbsp; Shut them down for telling the truth?&lt;/div&gt;
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Truth is hard to face, it's raw and real, and it causes sin to be dragged out into the light and shown for what it really is!&amp;nbsp; The books of Isaiah and Revalations speaks very specifically on this;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="heading passage-class-0"&gt;
Isaiah 29:15-16&lt;span class="text Isa-29-15" id="en-NASB-18209"&gt;&lt;sup class="versenum"&gt; &lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="text Isa-29-15" id="en-NASB-18209"&gt;&lt;sup class="versenum"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="poetry top-1"&gt;
&lt;span class="text Isa-29-15" id="en-NASB-18209"&gt;&lt;sup class="versenum"&gt;15&amp;nbsp;&lt;/sup&gt;Woe to those who deeply   hide their &lt;sup class="footnote" value="[&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;#fen-NASB-18209a&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;See footnote a&amp;quot;&amp;gt;a&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;]"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+29%3A15-16&amp;amp;version=NASB#fen-NASB-18209a" title="See footnote a"&gt;a&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt;plans from the &lt;span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;"&gt;Lord&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="text Isa-29-15"&gt;And whose   deeds are &lt;i&gt;done&lt;/i&gt; in a dark place,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="text Isa-29-15"&gt;And they say, “  Who sees us?” or “Who knows us?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="text Isa-29-15"&gt;Revelations 6:15-16?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span class="text Rev-6-15" id="en-NIV-30809"&gt;&lt;sup class="versenum"&gt;15&amp;nbsp;&lt;/sup&gt;Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free,   hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.  &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="text Rev-6-16" id="en-NIV-30810"&gt;&lt;sup class="versenum"&gt;16&amp;nbsp;&lt;/sup&gt;They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us   and hide us&lt;sup class="footnote" value="[&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;#fen-NIV-30810f&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;See footnote f&amp;quot;&amp;gt;f&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;]"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+6&amp;amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-30810f" title="See footnote f"&gt;f&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt; from the face of him who sits on the throne   and from the wrath of the Lamb!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="text Rev-6-17" id="en-NIV-30811"&gt;&lt;sup class="versenum"&gt;17&amp;nbsp;&lt;/sup&gt;For the great day   of their&lt;sup class="footnote" value="[&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;#fen-NIV-30811g&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;See footnote g&amp;quot;&amp;gt;g&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;]"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+6&amp;amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-30811g" title="See footnote g"&gt;g&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt; wrath has come, and who can withstand it?” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text Isa-29-15"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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God is very specific on hiding sin!&amp;nbsp; The President is hiding his sin?&amp;nbsp; When will their be justice?&lt;/div&gt;
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This is the most absurd thing that I have ever heard!&amp;nbsp; Doug’s team is focused on bringing the truth
about how our Government is currently getting ready to wage war on its own
people.&amp;nbsp; Here a couple of source articles
that you can read at your own leisure; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/6170"&gt;http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/6170&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/6041"&gt;http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/6041&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/homeland-security-buys-enough-ammo-for-a-7-year-war-against-the-american-people"&gt;http://www.infowars.com/homeland-security-buys-enough-ammo-for-a-7-year-war-against-the-american-people&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Doug and his son are truly brave men who are speaking out against
the fact that our Government is too big and is working to become a dictatorship
instead of continuing to be a democracy.&lt;/div&gt;
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I just love the fact that GoDaddy.com the firm who has based their
advertising off of women showing their boobs and other various body parts is
trying to tell the Hagman’s that reporting truth about our Governments
activities is morally objectionable! &lt;/div&gt;
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Seriously?&lt;/div&gt;
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This is what it is coming to?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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That our President can have one of his lackey’s
call a DNS provider and tell them to shut down the site.&amp;nbsp; It is completely against what our
constitution stands for..! &amp;nbsp;The President
and his team thinks that they can piss all over the ideals and beliefs that this
country is founded on and &amp;nbsp;just decide to
pull this “Hitlerist” style behavior. &lt;/div&gt;
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This is crap.&amp;nbsp; You and
I know it…&lt;/div&gt;
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It violates Doug’s first amendment rights!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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Doug Hagman has the right to say what he wants when he
wants.&amp;nbsp; Even when people may not like it…
we all still have to put up with it!!! &lt;/div&gt;
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I don’t like Porn, its degrading and immoral, but I can’t go
shut down Playboy.com or Hustler.com just because it’s questionable…. I can’t
make a call to their DNS provider and tell them I find it morally objectionable!&lt;/div&gt;
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People, we all need to wake up and realize that our
President and his team of “advisors” have decided that they are going to run
this country the way they want, not the way it should be run.&amp;nbsp; Their poor choices on spending and foreign
policy are running this nation into the ground and rushing us ever towards the coming
event!&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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I hope the people speak loud and clear in this November…. And
write in Ron Paul, but that is another entry…&lt;/div&gt;
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Until next time….&lt;/div&gt;
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So … here is the conundrum that I face… how much information
to give you at one time.&amp;nbsp; I don’t want to
give &amp;nbsp;much too quickly … It can over
whelm you and cause you to turn off to keep reading… so this post I’m going to
focus on the subject of the Federal Reserve and how damaging things are about
to become due to their actions.&lt;/div&gt;
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First off watch this video… it will take you a few minutes
and it is downright scary but it should help add some clarification to what I’m
going to share with you below; &lt;/div&gt;
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So… you a bit worried now… well it’s about to get worse…
remember that “QE 3” thing?&amp;nbsp; Wells its
happening now… the Fed met today and guess what… QE 3 is a go…. Well almost.
Big Ben Bernake just has to come out and say it.&lt;/div&gt;
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Come on Ben … just say it… just say that you’re about to
fire up the money printing presses and increase inflation to attempt to stave
off the collapse of the American dollar better yet… it will contribute to the coming
“Event”.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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Both &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304765304577478580861436906.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories" target="_blank"&gt;WSJ&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://dailyreckoning.com/getting-ready-for-more-qe/" target="_blank"&gt;Daily Reckoning&lt;/a&gt; have articles on it today.&lt;/div&gt;
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This Gentlemen and Ladies is a very, very bad thing for the
economy.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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Why you ask?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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Well here is the simple and best answer I can give you.&amp;nbsp; But I’ll use an analogy to explain it.&lt;/div&gt;
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So our fable opens up on a scene of little Barry Obama with
his lemon aide stand on the corner in some suburban town in America.&amp;nbsp; “Bitchen Barry’s Bodacious Lemon-aid” is what
the sign says on the front, its great… he built the store with his own two
hands and with his own money that he earned from working in the yard last
year.&amp;nbsp; It’s all his!&lt;/div&gt;
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Timmy’s business is booming, lemonade is leaving the stands
like secret service men running from hookers in Columbia! &amp;nbsp;More and more people are coming everyday to
ask for more and more!&lt;/div&gt;
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But there is the thing… it is booming so big that he has to
borrow from his brother Benny Bernake (they have different Dads…but hey … this
is America).&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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Like any good investor Benny looks at Barry’s books, (a
yellow legal pad written with crayon with a booger smeared on it) and determines
that he really shouldn’t invest in Timmy’s stand…there isn’t really any
collateral to secure his investment… what if Barry looses the stand…? Benny
could lose his investment! &lt;/div&gt;
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But Barry has a plan… he is going to sell Benny a “bond” in
his company.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
“Benny…” Barry begins… “I’ll tell you what, hows about I
sell you interest in my “Lemon-aid” company and I’ll give you this piece of
paper that says in 10 years you can have your money back plus 1.25% of your
initial investment!... What do you think?”&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
…”Wait a minute Barry...” says Benny, “I just told you that
I won’t invest in you because you have nothing to offer me..!”&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
“Here is the beauty of this Benny, why don’t you take what I’m
offering you, and then go sell it to the little Chinese boy, &lt;span class="st"&gt;Hu
Jintao &lt;/span&gt;on the corner?&amp;nbsp; He is
rolling in the cash and if you offer him more interest on a bond you sell him…you
could make a real killing off of this deal! Wouldn’t you and your buddies love
to have extra cash?” &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Benny is in hook, line and sinker…&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
So this process goes on and on for the next few years….&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Now Barry is in pretty deep with Benny and likewise Benny is
in deep with &lt;span class="st"&gt;Hu Jintao.&amp;nbsp; Time
keeps passing but here is the problem… Benny is out of money… he has loaned all
he can to Barry.&amp;nbsp; But Barry keeps asking
for money.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span class="st"&gt;Now … here is the thing… in this crazy
mythical world that I am writing about … Benny can print and hand&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span class="st"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Barry more
money! Benny read up on it somewhere… it’s called “Quantitative Easing”. &amp;nbsp;Benny puts more money into Barry’s business to
make everyone more happy at the “&lt;/span&gt;Lemon-aid” stand!&lt;span class="st"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span class="st"&gt;But the worse part… Hu Jintao doesn’t know
that… well, he suspects something is up because the German kid told him what
Benny has been doing.&amp;nbsp; But right now he
really doesn’t care… “Benny will make it right…” he says… &amp;nbsp;He is going to make more money on the Bonds
that Benny is selling him!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span class="st"&gt;Sounds crazy huh? But hey…! It’s currently working!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Well, more time passes and now and the date for the bonds
comes up… Hu Jintao comes knocking on Benny’s door asking for his money.&amp;nbsp; Benny tells Hu Jintao he doesn’t have the
money… that his money is actually coming from Barry.&amp;nbsp; Hu Jintao goes to Barry… who is really busy
running his Lemon-aid stand.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
During the time that Barry is borrowing from Benny, and
Benny from Hu JIntao, Barry has been offering people lines of credit for his
delicious “Lemon-aid” … and better yet.. Barry is letting a lot of the kids in
the neighborhood drink the “Lemon-aid” for free because they can’t afford it
themselves!&amp;nbsp; They just hang out all day…
not mowing their Dad’s grass or helping Mom with the laundry… they just drink
Barry’s “Lemon-aid”! &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Wow… isn’t Barry a nice guy? &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
So… Now Hu Jintao heads over to Barry’s “Lemon-aid” stand asks
for his money and Barry tells him he has nothing to give him… and he never
will. &amp;nbsp;Hu Jintao is really really mad… so
what does he do?&amp;nbsp; He tells all the other
kids in the neighborhood that Barry and Benny flaked out on what they owe him and
now no one will loan Barry or Benny any more money!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
WELL… we NOW have a big problem… Barry’s operation has
gotten so big that he always needs money from Benny to fund the “Lemon-aid”…
and guess what? &amp;nbsp;Hu Jintao cut off Benny
and won’t loan him the money, thus Barry can’t get his money to give everyone
the delicious, intoxicating, addicting Lemonade!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Barry and Benny try to borrow money from the other kids in
the neighborhood, but they all heard from Hu Jintao how the boys burned
him!&amp;nbsp; They are out of options!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Now the next morning the kids at the Lemon-aid stand start
asking for their cups and find that Barry can’t give anything to them… They
start to get mad… really mad and the next thing a large crowd of kids builds up
and then begins throwing rocks and old lemons at Barry and Benny!&amp;nbsp; The boys run into the house and watch as
their stand is torn down and burned!&amp;nbsp; Over
the next couple of month’s Barry and Benny’s house gets TP’d, windows broken and
eventually broken into … stuff gets stolen and well general mayhem breaks out in
the Obama / Bernake Home…!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Get the picture?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
I hope you realize that the state that our country is in and
the current coming “Quantitative Easing” is going to cause a real problem very
shortly…. It isn’t going to work for very long… infact it is going to cause
more issues. &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Our Government needs to cut out the entitlements before its
too late! Yes… it will be painful and there will be really un-happy people… but
there are still lawns that need to be mowed and laundry that needs to be
done.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
Until next time…&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8470479686561923267-7818795904415161547?l=preparespokane.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~4/HbxqPHB8flQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/feeds/7818795904415161547/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/06/qe-3-and-timmys-lemonade-stand.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/7818795904415161547?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/7818795904415161547?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~3/HbxqPHB8flQ/qe-3-and-timmys-lemonade-stand.html" title="QE 3 and Barry's &quot;Lemon-aid&quot; stand..." /><author><name>Jay Pounder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15028168638697435543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/06/qe-3-and-timmys-lemonade-stand.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEYGQnk5eSp7ImA9WhJTEEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470479686561923267.post-5386163841529022671</id><published>2012-06-18T16:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-06-18T16:28:43.721-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-06-18T16:28:43.721-07:00</app:edited><title>Don't stay quiet!</title><content type="html">So the thing that I have come to learn about the coming "Event" is that we cannot avoid it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is biblical.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I have learned that have to survive it... not stop it.&amp;nbsp; We have to be ready to help others who are not prepared for it to come.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Our friends over at the &lt;a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/forget-the-election-results-greece-is-still-doomed-and-so-is-the-rest-of-europe" target="_blank"&gt;economic collapse blog&lt;/a&gt; have a great article today about no matter what the IMF or the ECB do they cannot stop the coming collapse event that will start in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
What??? You say? What's going on in Europe?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
See, here's the thing your a bit like everyone else.&amp;nbsp; Most people aren't even aware of how bad things are in Europe.&amp;nbsp; People are living in the dark about the reality of the world around them. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I took a moment today to survey 10 clients I helped to see how they felt about the elections in Greece and how it affected their decision making for them financially.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Guess what?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Not one of them knew that Greece was on the edge. That this vote had the potential to be the catalyst that starts the knocking-down of the dominos of the civilized world.&amp;nbsp; It's disappointing that well educated people don't know that their personal finances are one vote away from being taken away from them.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZzL02dbtHlk/T9-v4pKAALI/AAAAAAAAAJE/tQf8wkehPzg/s1600/head-in-sand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="157" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZzL02dbtHlk/T9-v4pKAALI/AAAAAAAAAJE/tQf8wkehPzg/s200/head-in-sand.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
We have to wake up more people!&amp;nbsp; We have to let them know that the man in the picture above is leaving his back side uncovered!&amp;nbsp; He is exposed and will believe anything that he is told!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
How do we do we begin to bring people around to this idea that the "event" is coming and they need to be ready?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It starts with us, it starts with us taking our heads out of the proverbial sand and start to read more than just CNN!&amp;nbsp; There are more news sites out there! Just because someone isn't owned by Ted Turner, Warren Buffet, or a certain phone hacking Englishmen doesn't mean that it isn't legitimate news!... try them on for size and keep and open mind!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here are a few of my favorites; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.moneynews.com/"&gt;www.moneynews.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/"&gt;www.infowars.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.theintelhub.com/"&gt;www.theintelhub.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.survivalblog.com/links.html" target="_blank"&gt;www.survivalblog.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
There are others out there but if you want to stay up on what I feel is more pure source of news... give them a try.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
I'll leave you with this thought for today. It is from Isaiah 59:2-3&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;i&gt;But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;his
 face from you, that he will not hear.  For your hands are defiled with 
blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your 
tongue hath muttered perverseness.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
I know it seems like I am coming down on the main stream media pretty hard, but they should feel ashamed of themselves for not reporting the truth, it used to be that being a reporter was about getting to the truth, no matter the cost.&amp;nbsp; That has all changed.&amp;nbsp; God has some strong thoughts on what he thinks about liars and people who hide the truth.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
Could it be that God is turning away from our country due to the lies in the mainstream Media?&amp;nbsp; How does this apply to you?&amp;nbsp; Are you speaking the truth everyday?&amp;nbsp; Are you taking the feeling that you know to be true and hiding it away?&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Evil flourishes when good men do nothing!&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
Don't hide the truth!&amp;nbsp; Share Christs love and tell people to be ready!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;
Until tomorrow...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8470479686561923267-5386163841529022671?l=preparespokane.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~4/dTyE2WfdL44" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/feeds/5386163841529022671/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/06/dont-let-fear-keep-you-stupid.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/5386163841529022671?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/5386163841529022671?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~3/dTyE2WfdL44/dont-let-fear-keep-you-stupid.html" title="Don't stay quiet!" /><author><name>Jay Pounder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15028168638697435543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZzL02dbtHlk/T9-v4pKAALI/AAAAAAAAAJE/tQf8wkehPzg/s72-c/head-in-sand.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/06/dont-let-fear-keep-you-stupid.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkACRnkyfCp7ImA9WhJREU8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470479686561923267.post-4992402503083568756</id><published>2012-06-18T15:27:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2012-07-12T13:26:07.794-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2012-07-12T13:26:07.794-07:00</app:edited><title>The Event</title><content type="html">&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;
There is a
great song by the singer Phil Collins; the song is, “In the air tonight.”&amp;nbsp; The lyrics are strangely eerie of what is
taking place right now in the world.&amp;nbsp; It
states; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;“I can feel it coming
I the air tonight, oh Lord, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;And I’ve been waiting
for this moment for all my life,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Can you feel it coming
in the air tonight?”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;
Can you feel what is in the air in this country? The tension? The apprehension?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"&gt;
It is as if everyone knows that something is coming, something big, dark
and sinister.&amp;nbsp; No I’m not talking about
the whole Mayan calendar thing. That has already been debunked and proved
wrong, and besides scripture has already proved that to be incorrect, and we
will not know the time and the date of Christ’s choosing to return.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
What I’m talking about is different; it is an underlying
sickening feeling that something isn’t right, and it has not been right for a
while.&amp;nbsp; It is this feeling that drives
people to become “awakened” and to change their world to prepare.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
They are getting ready for what I will hereby
call the “event” going forward.&amp;nbsp; Some people are more sensitive than others to the change, it
is written in Acts 2:17 that: &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;i&gt;“In the last days,' God says, 'I will pour out my Spirit upon all
people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions,
and your old men will dream dreams&lt;/i&gt;.”&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
This scripture is echoed in Joel 2:28 when he foresaw what
God had planned for the future.&amp;nbsp; This
“gift” has caused people to be ridiculed and persecuted through the centuries
but we as believers cannot ignore those with the spiritual gift any
longer.&amp;nbsp; God is using them as modern day
prophets to warn us that the “event” is coming and we need to listen and prepare!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Let me be perfectly clear what "The Event" is;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Event is man made, not the end of the world. It is not Christ coming back. It is our own doing. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
It is a combination of economic, environmental, and political events. Imagine the "perfect storm" of events that could and will collapse our monetary systems, our political system and destroy needed portions of our environment.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;
The “event” is coming and there is nothing that you and I
can do or say to stop it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We have to survive it, this blog is dedicated to those who are awake and want to wake up others to the reality of what's really going to happen.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8470479686561923267-4992402503083568756?l=preparespokane.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~4/0DivpfKOD58" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/feeds/4992402503083568756/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/06/event.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/4992402503083568756?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8470479686561923267/posts/default/4992402503083568756?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/qipJx/~3/0DivpfKOD58/event.html" title="The Event" /><author><name>Jay Pounder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15028168638697435543</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://preparespokane.blogspot.com/2012/06/event.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>
