New radio show starts Thursday afternoons

I will be starting a new radio show on KPJC  (1220 AM in the Salem, Oregon area) this afternoon — coincidentally, with the same title and general theme as this one.  It’ll run live at 4 PM Pacific time, which is 5 PM here in the Rocky Mountains, every Thursday.  I expect to also do  a pre-recorded hour or so in the future, which will be broadcast over the weekends.

The show will be available via a live feed here:

http://www.thejcmediagroup.com/shoutcast/

The main link for the network is here:

http://www.thejctown.com/

and I will try to make sure that the podcasts are eventually linked on this page as well.

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The Coming Disconnect

There is no doubt in my mind that many people who would not take a second look at what the Bible has to say about most subjects, particularly when it comes to how they actually LIVE their life, day to day, are much more amenable to being awakened after their pockets have been picked while they were asleep.

 

Such is the case with “dishonest weights and measures”.   The fully “fiat”, based on nothing-but-debt, US dollar is probably the best example of one that most people will ever hold in their hand.  As we have seen, the Bible calls such things an “abomination”.  The  Constitution for these former united States, for its part, simply prohibits it outright as well.  (Given the fact that Congress, and indeed most of the population of Washington, DC seems to ignore that document just as they do the Bible, this should not be a surprise.)

I realize that these claims may sound sarcastic, perhaps even cynical, to those who have not studied the situation.  But please understand me clearly:  they are not.  The truth is indeed even more harsh, and this is why the level of criminality associated with what is arguably the most massive fraud, in economic terms, in all of human history, can now no longer even be measured in numbers like mere “billions”. Talk of “trillions”, and ultimately “quadrillions” — or worse — is now required.  Wars have been fought for far less.  Hosea 4:6 says something which is incredibly accurate today:  “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”

Many people recognize that quote, of course.  But the rest of the verse is even more telling:

Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priests for Me.   Because you have forgotten the torah of Elohim, I will also forget your children.”

I contend that the signs of the coming destruction of the dollar, and indeed the entire crooked economic edifice of “false witness” and dishonest contracts which have been built upon that sandy foundation, are already obvious.  The die is cast, and the ultimate collapse is at this point unavoidable — although attempts to “fool the gullible” and put off the inevitable, will certainly continue, in increasing desperation.  We have ignored His Word, and allowed an entire economy to be built upon not only lies, but abomination.

What are the signs of the coming collapse?  By the time that food shortages, infrastructure collapse, and war are widespread, the directive to “come out of her…that you partake not of her plagues” will be obvious, but only too late for most people.  I note that our loving Creator does nothing without first declaring His intentions through His “servants, the prophets”…and that He already done so, repeatedly.  While the fact that this coming Greater Depression is different, and somehow more severe, than anything seen here  before is increasingly hard to deny, there are other signs that those who understand economics, and honest money in particular, should be watching for.  Remember as well that we have been warned just how insidious this deception will be!

Mark Twain, a century ago, observed that there are “lies, damn lies, and statistics.”  Official economic numbers — whether they are “jobs reports” that understate unemployment rates by removing “discouraged” workers, or those who take multiple low-wage jobs in lieu of a former career, or lie about real inflation (and thus economic growth as well!) by means of “hedonic” adjustments and other transparent manipulations — are literally an open charade.  Rather than label current bond auctions “money printing”, the term “quantitative easing” is used by the press and their masters to hide what would otherwise be called “counterfeiting” if any unlicensed criminals attempted it!

My suggestion remains that those who want to understand what is coming should watch the gold and silver markets.  Know, in particular, that there is a big difference between the “paper market” price – which you will see quoted in the news, from rigged markets like the US “Comex” and the “London Metals Exchange” (LME), and even the popular ETFs, or “Exchange Traded Funds” – and REAL precious metals.  Coins that you can HOLD IN YOUR HAND and keep where you alone can find them after the meltdown are FAR different than the “paper gold” imitations…and the REAL-WORLD prices will ultimately make that undeniably clear!

You will in general have to pay far more for a REAL gold coin, or pre-1964 silver dime even, than the “official” gold or silver prices in the paper.  Why?  Simple:  when crooks are allowed to SELL something that they DO NOT HAVE TO ACTUALLY DELIVER — or even possess — is it any surprise that they can drive the “paper” price down?  (Well, for a WHILE, at least!  While you and I might well go to jail for such fraud, when central bankers and politically-connected insiders manipulate markets, they get bonuses and bailouts.)  This price difference between the real and the paper imitation is called the spread, and it will increase as the level of the fraud become undeniable.

But our “God is not mocked”, and His “Iron Law” that one reaps what they sow remains.  No “fiat currency” in history has ever survived, manipulation of markets eventually fails, and ultimately people who contract to buy gold and silver will want the real thing, rather than increasingly worthless “dishonest weights”.  And while the rules can, and WILL, be changed to protect the criminals and steal from the “little guy” who “invested” in commodities or ETFs, the big guns — like China — are increasingly angry about aspects of the fraud which no longer benefit THEM.

Look for that spread to increase dramatically as the end draws near.  Whether it’s Ebay or the corner store, gold and silver coins will command increasingly higher prices than what Wall Street will claim they are “really” worth.  The time may come when the Comex, or another ‘depository’ (including perhaps even Ft. Knox, or the Fed – audits, anyone?) , defaults, or is suddenly “discovered” to have less  in the vault than is claimed…and when real precious metals are not available at ANY ‘paper price’.  Or perhaps another substitute “currency” will be mandated before any massive fraud is publicly admitted.

But in either case, the time to “come out of her, My people”, to “touch not the unclean thing” — to withdraw your consent from a system of “dishonest weights and measures”  — is now, before the debt and fraud completely corrupts and destroys everything that touches it.  People who seek to deal honestly with one another in the times to come will need an alternative.  Those who recognize that truth now may soon be open to accepting the fact that His Word is True in every other way as well!

Like the “men of Issachar”, those who understand the times will know what ought to be done.  Buy some physical gold, and pre-1964 silver coins – especially while price manipulations mean that your purchases are subsidized!   But remember that planning and physical preparation for the coming meltdown is only part of the solution.  Be thankful that we have been given warning, and should not be caught unaware.

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Bible Econ 101

Like many people, I went through a period of youthful rebellion, during which I questioned a number of things that I had been taught – including many things that were supposedly “Biblical”.

I still recognize that a great many people will do everything possible to deny that the Bible contains Truth, but will somehow listen when that understanding directly affects their wallet.  And somehow that is particularly poignant now that it has become increasingly obvious that we are heading into a genuine Depression – and those who know what the Bible has to say about economics saw something years ago that Fed chairmen and Treasury Secretaries still try to deny:

we reap what we sow.

And there really IS “nothing new under the sun“.   The deadly seeds of debt that are now rooted so deeply have been repeated many times in the past, although arguably never so extensively.  Even those who admit to Biblical illiteracy somehow seem to know that “the debtor is slave to the lender” (from Proverbs 22:7).  I submit that we are beginning to understand why…but ONLY just beginning.

The biggest, and perhaps most important, element of what the Bible teaches directly about economics is repeated many times, including Deuteronomy 25:13, 14, and 15.  Remember as well that He repeats something for a reason!  Those verses say that we are to have honest or “just” weights and measures.  We are not, in other words, to defraud one another by having “diverse” measures – a BIG one for when I measure out my part of the deal, and a small one for the “other side” of the trade.

Most importantly, perhaps, is what now passes for money itself — a debt “note” that is redeemable for nothing, and which is denominated in a unit of measure that no longer has any meaning..  As such, it is the ultimate example of a “dishonest weight”.  The Book of Proverbs alone actually calls such dishonesty an “abomination” before God no less than a half dozen times.  (Take a look at places like v. 11:1, 20:10, 20:23,  just for starters.)

Many people, too, can quote the famous line that “the love of money is the root of all evil” — although some tend to misquote the verse, and leave out the key words “love of“!  Still more problematic, however, is the fact that what passes for “money” today would have been recognized as a fraud by all those who read Paul’s original letter!

Everything our Savior taught is EXPLICITLY consistent with what He said when He Wrote it to begin with.  But because we are told that those who had already taken it upon themselves to perform forbidden “additions” to His Word were trying to trick or entrap Him, some of those subtle distinctions He made are thus VERY interesting.

There has never been a fully “fiat” money (meaning “faith based” – in man)  which has survived for very long.  Once fallen men begin to rely on the power to print “money from nothing”, the (generally inflationary) collapse becomes inevitable, even though extraordinary measures are being used to prolong the inevitable.  “Quantitave easing” amounts to little more than the purchase of US debt with newly-printed money.  Official figures that purport to show “green shoots” are lies based on twisted statistics.  (See John William’s fine work at www.shadowstats.com for details.)  From “hedonic” adjustments, rent ‘equivalents’, and open fraud like removing prices for food and fuel — used to hide real inflation — to unemployment data manipulation, all such “false witness” is ulitimately nothing but an attempt to cover up one type of fraud (dishonest weights and measures) with others.

Eventually even the most maniputlated markets, and gullible participants, will no longer be able to deny the truth.

It is important to remember that the prudent man sees danger and takes warning.  Whether that includes such simple measures as coming out of debt, or trading fiat paper for gold and pre-1964 silver coins, it is time to “come out of her“. Those who seek to follow Him, and be obedient to His Word, must begin to learn to deal honestly with one another again as the corrupt system is judged, and collapses.  What will replace it is something about which we have already been warned.

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I smell a rat…

By now most of the nation has heard about the single-engine aircraft which was driven into the side of a building in Austin, Texas. Despite the fact that “confirmed reports” cannot agree about whether the plane was an aluminum Piper Cherokee or a composite Cirrus SR-22, the claim that the pilot was a suicidal “right wing nut case” seems to be accepted without question by the Progressive Press.

Color me EXTREMELY skeptical about this whole stinking thing. Too much rat odor here to ignore.

The building is coincidentally named “Echelon“; the well-known code name for the “Big Brother” e-spying tool which taps phones and emails without benefit of something once known as a “warrant”.  The guy is made to sound like a poster child for the Tea Party “extremists” — and he fits every stereotype that even Glen Beck-like “conservatives” love to ridicule.

And, last but not least, he uses a general aviation airplane, rather than a car or truck or any other arguably more effective tool.

If there ever was an all-to-perfect excuse for getting rid of the last remaining freedom to travel in the US, this looks to be it. Too convenient.

Peons must stop at checkpoints, after all.

We will no doubt be hearing how NO ONE should be allowed to fly without Big Brother’s Blessing, and small planes must be banned from Amerikan Skies.

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Welcome!

Welcome to the new markniwot blog!

And thanks for your patience – those of you who have so kindly bugged me for quite some time about getting a website started. Expect quite a few changes and additions as I begin to get my feet wet with these tools…

…but meanwhile, thanks for checking in.

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