KENAIDREAMS

Friday, September 03, 2004
Jack Kinsella - Omega Letter Editor

I was watching the GOP convention with a friend who asked me to explain the difference between the two candidate's positions. This was actually a moment of illumination for me.

I've been closely watching this race from the beginning. I've listened to the speeches and the counter-speeches until my head hurt. I've read the Kerry campaign literature and Kerry's proposed platform.

Here's the part that jarred my preserves. Only two months from Election Day, and after studying the various campaigns since Kerry became the presumptive nominee, I realized that I don't have the faintest idea what Kerry's platform actually is.

Try and explain it to yourself. What exactly is Kerry FOR? I ran down the list:

Economy: Kerry says the economy is in shambles. Hmmm.

The Dow is up. The economy is still growing. Unemployment is at 5.5% Interest rates are low, personal income is up. The average American pays $2000 less in taxes.

How does Kerry propose to 'fix' the 'broken' economy? By repealing tax cuts 'for the rich'. I've tried to figure out how that would work, and still can't. The 'rich' are the ones who most of us work for. Nobody has explained to my satisfaction how impoverishing employers will boost job creation.

Kerry rails against the deficit, hoping nobody will point out that America has operated as a deficit economy since 1913.

Our entire economic system is based on it and would collapse without it.

Kerry also hopes that nobody will point out that when we DID balance the budget, it started a recession that was stopped in its tracks by the tax cuts Kerry now wants to roll back.

So, as I see it, Kerry's platform calls for 'fixing' a vibrant economy by raising taxes from employers and using that money to pay down the deficit until it forces the economy into recession. Confusing.

Defense: John Kerry's platform includes revoking the current "Bush Doctrine of unilateral preemption" and ensuring the approval of our 'allies' like France and Germany before taking military action abroad.

A cornerstone of the Kerry platform is that America was wrong to invade Iraq without UN approval. But another cornerstone of the Kerry platform, according to John Kerry's speeches, is that, "we will never wait for a green light from abroad when our safety is at stake.''

So, if unilateral preemption is wrong, would that not REQUIRE a 'green light from abroad'? The more I tried to explain it to my friend, the more confused we both got.

John Kerry says the price of gas is too high and that he would take 'strong action' against the Saudis and other oil-producing states to bring it down. I read through Kerry's campaign literature extensively to see how he intends to accomplish this miracle.

If he has a way, he is keeping it to himself.

In the Senate, he voted in favor of every fuel tax that was placed before him, and even proposed an additional fifty-cent a gallon federal tax on gas.

It didn't pass, but Kerry argued it should have passed, because the "price of gas, as measured in inflation-adjusted dollars, is lower than it was in 1980."

This isn't a political screed to slam Kerry or boost Bush. Or, it isn't so intended. I was trying to explain to my friend why half of America wants to elect John Kerry to the White House. It was so illuminating to me that I thought I should put it before you for your consideration.

I devote a significant part of each working day to studying the political scene. I SHOULD be able to articulate what the Kerry campaign's proposed policies are, especially now that the Democratic Convention is behind us.

But I can't because I can't figure out what they are. And the only explanation I can offer for why half of America would elect him anyway is because he isn't George Bush.

Kerry came out in favor of reducing US troop deployments in Germany, South Korea and Japan three weeks ago. So, we know something he is FOR.

Back then, he told ABC's "This Week":

"If the diplomacy that I believe can be put in place can work, I think we can significantly change the deployment of troops, not just there, but elsewhere in the world; in the Korean peninsula, perhaps; in Europe, perhaps."

When Bush announced a massive troop withdrawal from the 'Korean peninsula and Europe' seventeen days later, Kerry called it a "hastily announced plan" and asked:

"[W]hy are we unilaterally withdrawing 12,000 troops from the Korean peninsula at the very time that we are negotiating with North Korea — a country that really has nuclear weapons?"

Just when I thought I had found something Kerry was FOR, he announces he is AGAINST it.

Remember, I was sincerely trying to explain to my friend why half of Americans polled think John Kerry is better qualified to be Commander-in-Chief than the guy who's been doing it for four years.

I was doing a miserable job.

Kerry's Senate record is one of favoring reducing intelligence capabilities, reducing military capabilities, curtailing defense spending, etc. John Kerry's voting record establishes him as the most liberal member of the Senate.

But America is at war. Both halves of America know that already. In addition to the three thousand Americans murdered on September 11, America has lost more than 1,000 soldiers in action. More than 7,000 of our troops have been wounded in combat. Why would anyone vote for John Kerry as a wartime president?

Until last month, Kerry supporters would answer that question by pointing to Kerry's Vietnam record, and comparing it to George Bush's stateside National Guard service.

Now, if Vietnam comes up, Kerry's people either change the subject, or they find themselves forced to defend it against a mounting pool of evidence to the contrary.

Despite that, the latest presidential tracking polls have Kerry and Bush in a dead heat.

The Amazing Race of 2004 is a study in mass deception. Although virtually nobody, including John Kerry, can explain why he should be considered for president, he still has the support of half the country.

When pressed, the best his supporters can come up with is that he isn't George Bush. But that seems to be enough for them.

Now frame the election in spiritual terms. The most offensive thing about George Bush to the Left is his professed faith.

The Islamic world has framed the war in terms of Christianity vs. Islam. al-Jazeera endorses John Kerry, as does the majority of the Arab world.

This is no secret to potential voters. Shouldn't the fact that our enemy prefers John Kerry set off a few alarm bells?

But Kerry and Bush remain in a statistical tie at the polls.

The Bible says that when the antichrist comes on the scene, he will be accompanied by a 'strong delusion' that will cause people to believe what they want to believe, because they 'received not the love of the truth'.

The Amazing Race of 2004 is a study in people believing what they want to believe, despite clear evidences to the contrary.

My friend asked me what I think it all means, in terms of Bible prophecy. That was my moment of epiphany: John Kerry's propaganda machine has already convinced almost half of America that he belongs in the Oval Office.

By itself, that one fact along proves that, to this generation, truth is already not what IS true, but people WANT to be true, even when they know in their heart of hearts that it CAN'T be.

It took a generation to accomplish, but the conditioning process is complete.

Saturday, April 17, 2004
Jack Kinsella - Omega Letter Editor

According to the latest figures, the number of jobs created in March topped 308,000, the most in any single month in four years, and far exceeding the expectations of economic analysts and Wall Street prognosticators.

Economists polled by Reuters were forecasting a modest rise of 103,000 in March's payrolls report. The actual job increase exceeded expectations by a factor of three.

U.S. industry flourished in March as hiring reached the highest level since late 1987. The Institute for Supply Management said the factory sector chugged along at its best clip in nearly 20 years in March.

The surprisingly large increase in factory employment stoked expectations for a bigger rise in workers on U.S. payrolls which battered Treasuries and boosted Wall Street stocks and the US dollar. And the Labor Department said first-time claims for state unemployment insurance slipped 3,000 to 342,000 in the week ended March 27.

Economists had forecast claims to rise by 1,000. And revisions to payrolls showed a stronger jobs market than previously thought. Companies added 205,000 jobs in January and February, instead of the 118,000 reported last month.

But the unemployment rate itself up ticked from 5.6 to 5.7 percent. Part of the reason is because some of the numbers used to calculate unemployment were based on expectations, rather than actual job growth.

These numbers get revised all the time, as was the example in January. Another reason is seasonal jobs -- people that renewed their job hunt last month but haven't yet been hired this early in the season.

There is a vast discrepancy between what the economic numbers show and the way they are interpreted. For every positive economic indicator, there is a partisan spin doctor waiting somewhere in the wings to explain why that positive indicator is really an indicator of some 'underlying fundamental' that is failing beneath the surface.

Our economy and how it works is a mystery to most people, and that is what makes it so easy to get confused. So confused, in fact, that people are actually mounting campaigns to repeal tax cuts and raise taxes to 'pay off the deficit' - without ever understanding what that would mean.

The United States operates on a 'deficit' economy, and it has ever since the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 and the confiscation of US gold in 1933. Prior to that, the US had operated as a 'barter' economy.

It is the 'barter' economy that most Americans believe is in operation today, and that is the fundamental flaw that gives spin doctors the green light.

In a 'barter' economy, something of value is exchanged for something of value. To have value, it must have substance, it must be acceptable in exchange for goods and services to the general public, and its supply must be finite -- that is to say, it has to be sufficiently rare as to maintain its value.

In the US economy, the Currency Act of 1793 set the value of American currency as a weight of gold based on the Dutch unit of measure called the 'Thaler' -- what we now call a Troy ounce. The 'thaler' became Americanized as the 'dollar' and it was a unit of measure for a substance of value.

With the confiscation of gold in 1933, the Gold Standard was repealed and replaced by the less-valuable Silver Standard. Suddenly a 'thaler' was not gold, but a weight of silver.

The Federal Reserve began issuing dollar bills called 'Silver certificates' and declared them redeemable in silver. These certificates of weight were replaced in 1963 by the Federal Reserve Note which promised redemption in 'Lawful US Money'.

Of course, the Currency Act of 1793 declared one 'thaler' of gold to be 'Lawful US Money' -- and has never been repealed by Congress. So when people demanded redemption of their Federal Reserve Notes in 'Lawful US Money’ the face of the note was changed to read, "This bill is legal tender" -- in effect, declaring a weight of a substance to actually BE the substance it is supposed to weigh.

Of course, it was theft, remains an unpunished theft, was perpetrated by the money trust that controls the Federal Reserve (which is neither 'federal' nor is it a 'reserve') and made possible the very thing the Fed was ostensibly created to prevent -- inflation, deflation, recession and depression.

But it is a fait accompli, and our economy now depends on it. Turning our economy back from a debit-based economy to a barter economy is as possible as turning a pickle back into a cucumber.

A debit-based economy REQUIRES high deficits to make it work. Investment, production and job growth DEPEND on high national debt. Reducing the debt weakens the overall economy.

By way of analogy, let's take a family making, from all sources, about fifty thousand a year. Take that family's credit away from them. No credit cards, no loans, cash only.

What kind of car can they afford? They would have to save up to buy a new car. What about their housing? How long would it take YOU to save up enough to buy your own home for cash? What about that new fridge? No credit cards, no revolving credit, just cash.

A family making a thousand dollars a week would be just getting by. Suppose we are talking about a family making $100,000 per year, about two thousand dollars per week, and a member of the American 'rich'?

What kind of car would THEY drive? (Still unlikely to be new). They could probably save up and buy themselves a house in about 10 years. But it would be a starter home. They could buy a new fridge or stove or TV set, but that might put a dent in their home savings account.

Give them back their credit cards, revolving charges, mortgage and car loans, and they are living the American Dream. The family making a hundred thousand a year live in a nice home in the suburbs, commutes to work in an expensive SUV, and has both new fridges AND nice retirement savings accounts.

The family making fifty grand a year drive nearly-new mini-vans, have nice, but smaller, homes in less expensive neighborhoods and sometimes still have to choose between retirement contributions and big-ticket items, but, thanks to a debit-based economy, still live better than they would making twice as much but paying cash for everything.

It is in the interest of the banking and lending institutions to continue to lend them money against their accumulated equity because, a) it increases their profits; and b) the collateral is 'real' property, whereas the 'money' is an illusion -- in reality, nothing but a bookkeeping entry.

America's economy MUST be in debt in order to prosper. If you doubt me, look back to when we finally balanced the budget and paid off the national debt in the late 1990's. The economy began to flag and sputter into recession two full quarters before the end of the Clinton administration.

The attacks on 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and against Afghanistan have forced the government to pull its credit cards out of retirement and -- Voila! -- jobs get created, personal income increases, flagging industries like manufacturing post their best gains in twenty years, and the government starts offering tax cuts (that further reduce any chance of a surplus) -- and the numbers speak for themselves.

That's how things work. Learn to live with it. The value of US currency today is based on America's future earnings potential and its collateral assets, just like your credit card limits.

The higher your credit card balances get, the more credit increases you are offered. You then buy more, which creates demand for increased production, which creates demand for new jobs, etc.

It works the same way looked at from the national level. It is, at its core, an insidious, evil system that will one day result in a global economic catastrophe. But not yet.

The global economic system was constructed based on the same economic model of debit and credit to a particular purpose. Its construction has taken nearly a century, but it is now in place.

For the first time in human history, thanks to centralized banking, technology and the speed of the internet, it would be possible for a single authority to control it all. The Bible says that authority will be given to the antichrist in his time, for the purpose of fulfilling Bible prophecy for the last days.

According to Scripture, by the mid-point in the Tribulation, the antichrist's government will have taken the existing, centralized system and turned it into his most powerful weapon. He will combine his control of the economy with his control of the global religious system and will use both to demand worship from those living during that time.

"And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." (Revelation 13:15-17)

Never before in human history was such a thing possible. Today, the system now in place requires such control on the national level. Alan Greenspan is America's economic supervisor.

A word from him can cause the markets to go up, or go down, or collapse, should he wish it. For the record, I am NOT identifying Alan Greenspan as the antichrist. Every nation in the global economic system has a similar central banking scheme, and a central banker.

Control the central bankers (a relative handful of individuals, really) and, BINGO! -- John's scenario would become a reality.

The system stinks. But it is the only one we have, and I, for one, and not eager to endure the chaos and catastrophe that would result in trying to change it now. Especially since it is a necessary part of the overall last-day's scenario.

But while we might not be OF the world, we are IN it, and while we are in it, we have little choice but to function according to the system's rules.

Our mission at the Omega Letter is to keep you informed of what is really happening in the world, and how it all comes together in light of Bible prophecy.

The system is what it is, which is also why it is so easy to spin. It is also part of a greater Design outlined in Scripture by its Designer, according to His purpose, for one generation, somewhere in time.

We are that generation. We are charged with 'occupying until He comes' -- to be the salt and light of the earth, despite the evils of the system controlled by the 'prince and power of the air'.

In fact, as long as we are here to influence the system for good, it cannot proceed further toward its appointment with destiny. That's why politics matter, and why they make up so much of the focus of your Omega Letter.

The partisan war in this country is part of a much wider spiritual war that eventually envelops the global economy as well.

It is all part of a Plan and a Promise. We are watching the stage being set for the unveiling of the antichrist, but we have the Blessed Hope that the Rapture comes first.

"Wherefore comfort one another with these words." (1st Thessalonians 4:18)

09/04/04

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