Economic Meltup

News Item You Won't See

As we prepare to celebrate Memorial Day, look for news stories about students sent home from public school for wearing Mexican flag-type clothing or jewelry.

Pressure from Below and Pressure from Above

The following quote comes from chapter 7 of Gary Allen's 1971 classic, None Dare Call It Conspiracy.

The American middle class is being squeezed to death by a vise. . . .  In the streets we have avowed revolutionary groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society (which was started by the League for Industrial Democracy, a group with strong C.F.R. ties), the Black Panthers, the Yippies, the Young Socialist Alliance. These groups chant that if we don't "change" America, we will lose it. "Change" is a word we hear over and over. By "change" these groups mean Socialism. Virtually all members of these groups sincerely believe that they are fighting the Establishment. In reality they are an indispensible ally of the Establishment in fastening Socialism on all of us. The naive radicals think that under Socialism the "people" will run everything. Actually, it will be a clique of Insiders in total control, consolidating and controlling all wealth. That is why these schoolboy Lenins and teenage Trotskys are allowed to roam free and are practically never arrested or prosecuted. They are protected. If the Establishment wanted the revolutionaries stopped, how long do you think they would be tolerated?

Instead, we find that most of these radicals are the recipients of largesse from major foundations or are receiving money from the government through the War on Poverty. The Rothschild-Rockefeller-C.F.R. Insiders at the top "surrender to the demands" for Socialism from the mobs below. The radicals are doing the work of those whom they hate the most.

Just change the names of the radical groups, and you see the strategy has not changed. The street radicals cry for change (pressure from below), and the politicians in the Establishment's pocket grant them concessions.

The middle class, frightened by the radicals cries out to the Establishment politicos for "protection" which always entails a loss of freedom. The Establishment consolidates power (pressure from above). This has been going on since long before Allen published his book, and it's still going on today. 

Defiance in the Face of Judgment

The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; (Isa 9:8-11)

I do not endorse everything in the video below, but I think it makes some valid points. We are under the hand of God's judgment for our national sins, but we act pridefully as though we are somehow righteous & just before Him.

As you watch the video below take special note of how Tom Daschle and John Edwards both quoted from the passage, but entirely out of the context of God's judgment.

Oklahoma City Bombing

Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing. Here's the official version, according to Wikipedia:

On April 19, 1995, McVeigh drove the truck to the front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building just as its offices and day care center opened for the day. Prosecutors said McVeigh ran away from the truck after he ignited two time fuses; one was a two-minute fuse and another was a backup of five minutes. At 9:02 a.m., a large explosion destroyed the north half of the building. The explosion was so powerful that McVeigh, who was jogging away from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was lifted off the ground. The explosion killed 168 people and 450 were injured. Nineteen of the victims were small children in the day care center on the ground floor of the building.

Below is you will see a video that contains local news footage broadcast in the aftermath of the explosion. It disappeared down the memory hole after the Establishment's official story was promulgated by the national media.


The official story does not at all sound like the on-the-scene report, does it?

Obamacare: Who's to Blame?, 2

My wife & I taught for 3 yrs in a "Christian" school that paid its teachers paupers' wages. One lady on the school board could not understand why we did not sign up for food stamps. She considered it a standard part of the school's compensation package.


Not all churches & ministries display such a blatantly unbiblical attitude, but they ignore Scripture's social injunctions in more subtle ways.

Below, is the second installment of Joel McDurmon's video discussion of the subject. (P.S. If you haven't already, don't forget to read the article.)

Obamacare: Who's to Blame?

Democrats? Socialists? How about the Church?

In this article, Joel McDurmon says that if the church had been ministering to the poor & needy as Scripture says, there would be no vacuum for the Welfare State to fill.

The video below complements the article; it is not a substitute for it. (Please read the article.)

In both the video & the article, he comes down pretty hard on Martin Luther. My own position is to honor Luther for all that he got right, and to say we need to fill in the gaps where he may have goofed. (Christians in future centuries will hopefully do the same for us.)


Continued tomorrow.