Preppers

Preppers ‘After the crunch- the total collapse of the global economy- trade seized up, the power grid shut down, paper money became worthless. Riots gutted city centers. Looters picked them clean. Americans went back to growing their own food and battering with their neighbors. Those who failed to stock pile beans and bullets were soon hungry…. J W Rawles Coming Global Collapse…. Mr Charles started reading –survival Blog and quickly realized that ‘these guys don’t live in New York’ - Mr Charles lives in a flat in Harlem. That rules out self sufficiency, where would you plant corn or raise pigs? The Economist 20th Dec 2014. ‘Therefore I tell you do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about what you will wear (Yes my wife commented on that!) Is life more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air, they do not sow or reap or store away in barns and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you more valuable than they? … But seek you first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these other things will be given you as well. –Jesus as quoted Matthew 6: 25-33 Yesterday I blogged about the urgent need for mid 2015 one of the responsible for the people of New York two big churches to host a Christ’s Church- Their Testimony conference. And within nine hours of that post going up there was a confirming sizable earthquake once again reminding all the Christchurch people about… well they know. I am concerned glancing at the internet hearing Rick Joyner say it, and then reading about it in The Economist- so some of the high level people are making their plans too- That we may easily head off in the wrong direction. In the previous/next post I alluded to Californian church who migrated to create for themselves a hideaway community and then drinking poisoned cordial 900 of them dead! –Jonestown. We can easily be lead off on a tangent by those needing to feed their religious or public egos. Honestly- New York is the Template! The systems that control that city are mind boggling complex. The infrastructure largely 50 to 100 years and older- With very little work done in the 80s and 90s because of the ideology of those times of selling off or giving away vital public assets. God Alone knows what can and will happen in New York and for those of us called Now to go into that city for those times of Trial. We cannot prepare be a Prepper- Except to have a powerful testimony of knowing that God has, he is, and he will provide- Even food out of nothing much (Mark 9:14-21 Prof Yigal Yadin The Temple Scroll) Serious- If you a reader of this have and want to use a gun the days coming- Well those who live by the gun will die by the gun. No The Righteous live By Faith- Best Preparation Ever! Salvation Army!

Don't drink the cordial

Don’t Drink the cordial There will always be - Those dear saints who immediately that they understand that there are world event which directly lines up with things found in the Bible will be wanting to speculate about the ‘Return of Christ’ or if you are Jewish: ‘The Return of the Messiah’. My dear Grandmother was one of those: So needing an authentic King James Version of the bible because of the concordances I use - I got one of the most valuable bibles in the family- the one which my uncle had taken with him to Africa in 1941 – He being buried there and Red Cross sent the bible back …. I was genuinely shocked by what I discovered in it. It contained all the love and encouragement of my grandmother to her eldest son- Plus being a genuine Scofield Reference Bible it had comments so that my uncle would know how to interpret and understand the Rapture to heaven belief system of our John Nelson Darby… but until I opened the bible and began to use it for translation work…. It had not been read. Pages never opened! Therefore in terms of what the Bible says and then what happened in Real Middle East History of 1941- My uncle was in one of the most critical locations on the planet- North Africa. The Germans pushing the British Army backwards to –Where? Israel! And in the middle of that year another million strong German army began pushing the Russian Army backwards as well heading for the oil fields of the middle east. The Palestinian leader was in Berlin and my best Arabic dictionary Hans Weir was being put together for when they got there! - The goal? Annihilation of all the Jews in Europe had begun and the British Army recognized that soon the Jews in Palestine would as well be desperately fighting for survival in Palestine and thus young Abba Eban the world’s best Arabic scholar was appointed as liaison between the British and what soon became the IDF. (And you can confirm all this thinking National Geographic published in August 1941; ‘Bombs over Biblelands’) But whatever my uncle was doing it wasn’t reading and studying the bible as the German Army was advancing everywhere in triumph. What am I saying? For some reason or other the Rapture to Heaven ideas of our grandmother did not eventuate then despite all the as found in the pages of the bible action taking place, not apparently did that ideology capture the passions of her sons; Nor her grandsons; and now? Well her great grandsons as politicians are totally focused even as things begin again to seriously fall apart – Well not on going to heaven. I wish therefore to warn readers: Do not drink the cordial offered by those convincing elders, preachers who have it all worked out that this period in our human history is the Last End Time Event!

Lessons from Christchurch

Lessons from Christchurch It may appear that we are seriously off topic but trust me the things which the saints of Christchurch New Zealand have learn through two major earthquakes and continuing aftershocks since Sept 2010 is something which only a major conference a Times Square Church or Brooklyn Tabernacle (and I leave it for your two to argue as to who hosts the thing) with the Christchurch people showing movies giving testimony and explaining what God is up to these days- Well New York- Call because these people can tell you what you need to know- how the real church works what our Jewish friend is up to. And yes there was a special Jewish connection! Known about by the Israel Prime Minister’s office Israeli spies where killed and injured in the Feb 2011 event and so they phoned our Jewish Prime Minister to have these spies evacuated out on the very first flight out…. God of Nations/Israel catches Israeli spies in earthquake. And yes he did other things too. The worshipped like the Jerusalem Temple- Cathedral- demolished as were the Methodist historic building and just refurbished Catholic one- Church? A building? Well not in the Christchurch experience- the new Cathedral is made of cardboard by a Japanese- How cheap can we get? And hey when –and my old friend from Sealords Days can tell you- His church St Johns Latimer Square becomes a pile of bricks – You worship next door in the park. And good park it was too! A entire conference of doctors evacuated out onto this park grabbed all the ambulances and other stuff they could find and immediately set up a triage hospital in the park performing amputations and other such primary surgery leaving the hospital down the road for other essential tasks. But the all time funniest story from the Quake goes to the great saints from the Vineyard Fellowship. They were when the second more serious quake hit praying repenting to God for not having done enough in the first earthquake. And then they were diving under the tables as ceiling tiles fell all around them. Serious Message Time Cut Paste Attach to Email and send to whoever needs to read this; New York- Christchurch 2010 and 2011 earthquakes happened for you. You must obtain from the saints of that city called Christ’s Church- the best communicators and those who understand what happened. What was learned and what the church needs to know at this time. Fly them at your expense to New York and put them into a big enough conference venue where this essential story Will Be Told. OK Do it!

Firehouse Dog DVd

Firehouse Dog –DVD My grand son and I have been attempting to watch a DVD for well over a year- I purchased it for him a year ago and we are up to the Really Exciting Part! And so we have turned if off because- well when I was a child I memorized and could tell you every single movie I had ever seen to at least age 18- Because impressions run deep… Why? Well the beginning was crap but plot wise this part of the DVD near the end is coming together well. And my daughter tells me that the lead actor is Josh Hutchinson so it may well have been made over a decade ago… but in terms of the Empire State Story we are developing here an important document. First there was Moses-( And earlier last month post)- and he deliberately pushed through a Community Destroying Road through the Bronx of New York. This then resulted in buildings being abandoned ahead of the road- and entire community devastated worse than a world war- and then the fires began…. At a time when- Before the Financial Crisis we are currently considering- At a time when even though the fires were deliberately set- the Bronx rebuild could be paid for by the American public who send their monies (God Bless them- and I want to make it clear no one has ever sent me money- but hey I’m not a Senior Pastor a Television Evangelist nor an Insurance Company.) So yes distracted there- The good gullible American public believed that Risk- can Communist Style be shared- and then when the fire happens there will as there was with the Bronx burn out and then Bronx rebuild- A Pay out. … Well sorry to tell. The Financial Collapse we are reading about and the following it 2011 Christchurch New Zealand earthquake with AIG playing major roles in both events- The message is loud and clear- The Insurance Industry taking your monies to cover Risk- Can No Longer Pay! 2015 Spells the end of the Insurance Industry! From this time onwards we need to carry our own Risk. So sure Firehouse Dog. In New York skilled people deliberately set fires to get the insurance payout- that is what the movie is all about- True Story- NY/Bronx Empire State History OK. But what we are leaning here from the 2008 collapse is how utterly unreal- And the 2001 collapse of Enron was again another story of selling and attempting to cover –Risk. We are on our own. When I purchased my home for the price of the land it sat on- I only looked at only two things. One the state of the roof- had it leaked was then the structure rotting? And the state of the piles and soon I put in railroad ties zigzagging them under the house to keep in place those piles in a - size 7 energy earthquake. Everything else could be fixed but those things.. well when the disaster strikes- No Insurance.- paul

Inter Connected Ness

Inter- connected -ness/Gleichschaltung The absolute funniest thing in this book comes at the end when all the Principals of the Wall Street Major Trading Banks have been called into Washington and talk of a bailout has perplexed everyone- I wrote a post at the time ‘Seven hundred million reasons- No’ and the proposal has been put to the Bankers by Secretary Paulson a recently himself lead of one of the Banks there and everyone agrees except… Well I’ll let our author tell it: ‘Geithner now read off the amounts that each bank would receive, in alphabetical order. Bank of America-25 billion. Citygroup-25 billion. Goldman Sachs- 10 billion. JP Morgan -25 billion. Morgan Stanley- 10 Billion. State Street-10 Billion. Wells Fargo- 25 Billion. Where do I sign? Dimon said to some laughter, trying to relieve the tension which had not dissipated now that the bankers had learned why they had been summoned…. David Kovacevich (Wells Fargo) was obviously not pleased to have been given this ultimatum. He had to get on a flight – a commercial flight- to Washington, a place he always found contemptible, only to be told he would have to take money he thought he didn’t need from the government in some godforsaken effort to save all the other cowboys? ‘I’m not one of your New York guys with your fancy products. Why am I in this room, talking about bailing you out? He asked derisively. For a moment not one said a word and then the room broke into pandemonium, with everyone talking over one another until Paulson finally broke in .. p525 You see I grew up with Barry Smith a New Zealand evangelist as a mid to late 70s informant on Illuminati and all those things about the inter connection of Federal Reserve – World Bank- Council of Foreign Relations- New York and Washington so it is not as if I had not had by now a full 40 years to consider these matters.. my very first book being a book called ‘None Dare Call it Conspiracy’ Where I began by considering the amazing amount of western technology that was being railroaded up through taken recently by the Allies- Iran- to the rear parts of USSR- billions of dollars of stuff thousands of air planes and other things to keep USSR fighting Germany going backwards through Western Russia before; Phoning ahead to talk to the opposing German commander about the up coming conflict the Americans had an easy run to the line of division East and West Germany and stopped while the Russians came in to do what they were doing. And for forty years I have been piecing things together and this 2008 Collapse of the Banking system event is just another chapter in a long running story. We can Read History a number of ways and critical to our interpretation is what we use as a Lens of Focus. In this blog I attempting succeeding on some of the time, to read the story from a New York Empire State –lens perspective. But as a Bible Translator and a New Zealander (verse 8) I read history- four and more thousand years of the stuff- Central Asia a specialty- using Psalm 2. And currently God is laughing! ‘If one fell, it could become a series of falling dominoes. There were of course, Cassandras in business and academia who warned that all this financial engineering would end badly. While Professor Nouriel Roubinin and Robert Schiller had become this generation’s much heralded doomsayers, even as early as 1994 thoughtful comments were being made which were not heeded. ‘The sudden failure or abrupt with drawl from trading of any of these large US dealers could cause liquidity problems in the markets and could also pose a risk to others including federally insured banks and the financial system as a whole’ the Comptroller General told a congressional committee after being tasked with studying a developing marked to derivatives. ‘In some cases intervention has and could result in a financial bailout paid for or guaranteed by taxpayers’ p 5 Too big to Fail A R Sorkin Penguin Books New York 2009

Sub Prime Market

Sub Prime Market Financial titans believed that they were creating more than mere profits. They were confident that they had invented a new financial model that could be exported successfully around the globe. ‘the whole world is moving to the American model of Free enterprise and Capital markets’ Sandy Wells of Citygroup said in mid 2007. But while they were busy evangelizing their financial values and producing dizzy sums the big brokerage firms were bolstering their bets with enormous quantities of debt. Wall Street firms had debt to capital ratios of 32 to one. (One dollar in the bank and issuing backed by that single dollar- thirty two brand new dollars of debt to be repaid and to produce interest for the thirty two dollars) When it worked, the strategy worked spectacularly well, validating the industries complex models and generating record earnings. When it failed however the result was catastrophic. The Wall Street juggernaut that emerged from the collapse of the dot com bubble (90s) and the post 9-11 downtunr was in large part the product of the cheap money. The saving glut in Asia, combined with an unusually low US interest rate under Fed Reserve Alan Greenspan (which was intended to stimulate growth following the 2001 recession) began to flood the world with money. (And I got a morning tea! Our Courier Drivers were visited by these people with the cheap money encouraging us to take out a loan with them- And hence the morning tea! The year was 2007 and I told a salesman it couldn’t and wouldn’t last but the cakes were nice- thankyou!) The crowning example of the liquidity run amok was the sub prime mortgage market. At the height of the housing bubble, the banks were eager to make home loans to nearly anyone capable of sign in the dotted line. With no documentation a prospective buyer could claim a six figure salary and walk out of a bank with a $500.000 mortgage topping off a month later with a home equity line of credit. Naturally house prices skyrocketed and in the hottest real estate markets ordinary people turned into speculators, flipping homes and tapping home equity lines to buy SUVs and power boats. At the time Wall Street (But never this writer- I didn’t I thought them idiots) believed fervently that its new financial products- mortgages that had been sliced diced and securitized had diluted, if not removed the risk. Instead of holding the loan on their own the bank split it up into individual pieces to investors collecting enormous fees in the process… the bankers gorged on it buying mountains of mortgage backed assets from one another . but it was this new interconnected ness among the nations financial institutions that posed the biggest risk of all. As a result of the banks owning various slices of the new fangled financial instruments, every firm was now dependent on the others- and many didn’t even know it. If one fell, it could become a series of dominoes. P4- 5 Too big to Fail.

The Wizards of Wall Street

The Wizards of Wall Street ‘As the unraveling began many on Wall Street confronted a market unlike any they had ever encountered- one gripped by fear and a disorder that no invisible hand could tame. They were forced to make the most critical decisions of their careers, perhaps of their lives in the context of a confusing rush of rumors and policy shifts all based on numbers that were little better than best guesses. Some made wise choices, some got lucky and still other lived to regret their decisions. In many cases, it still to early (2009) to tell whether they made the right choice. In 2007 at the peak of the bubble the financial services sector had become a wealth creation machine (In Economics we speak of ‘invisibles’ and most of what was happening here was in that text book term part of those invisibles) ballooning to more than 40 per cent of total corporate profits created in the United States. Financial products- including an array of securities (this word has maybe lost its meaning- once upon a time it meant keeping money safe!) so complex that even many CEOs (Who didn’t want to know either) and boards of directors didn’t understand them- were an ever greater driving force of the nations economy (40% of corporation profit –what does this tell you about the role of Empire State- New York ?) The mortgage industry was especially important component of this system, providing loans that served as the raw material of Wall Street’s elaborate creations, repackaging and then reselling them around the globe. With all the profits that were being generated Wall Street was minting a new generation of wealth not seen since the debt fueled 80s. Those who worked in the finance industry earned an astonishing 453 billion in total compensation in 2007 (Take home pay) Goldman Sachs ranked the top of the five leading brokerages at the outset of the crisis accounted for $20 billion of the total, which worked out to more than $661,000 per employee (And what do I receive? Ed play the violins here) The company CEO Lloyd Blankfein alone took home $68 million. P3-4 Too Big to Fail A R Sorkin Penguin New York 2009 Living through a previous property bubble in the early to mid 90s when China decided to test weapons and assemble and army next to Taiwan- a billion dollars of Taiwan money came into our nation but that just encouraged local speculators to join in so that in my poor part of town most of the available houses sold and were consequently repainted for those sales while the price of a house doubled in a short time… while my own response to the make houses unaffordable was to work with Habitat for humanity with us building 50 new homes in about 12 years from our first one. But this appears to be bigger Made in Empire State story here.