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The prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished.
In a well-known scene from The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and her companions finally get their audience with the Wizard himself. It turns out to be a terrifying affair, with thundering, lightning, and smoke all around.
That is until Dorothy’s little dog Toto runs over and pulls back the curtain on the control booth, revealing the Wizard to be a not-so-imposing fellow, one whose frightening image is the product of special effects controlled from an electronic panel.
Whether the intention of the filmmakers was for this scene to serve as an illustration of the workings of modern society, I don’t know. Perhaps it was. But whatever their intention, it certainly is a glimpse into how things so often do work in our media-driven society. It’s “look over here, look over here” while at the same time we’re told, “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
Put another way, we’re taught to focus on the effect rather than on the cause of the effect.
Posted in Economics | Tagged Biblical Prepping, Discernment, Dollar Devaluation, Inflation, Petrodollar | 1 Comment »
“What does it profit anyone except the very few to whom war means huge profits?”
In his 1930s book War is a Racket, retired U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General Smedley Butler argued against the globalists and corporatists of his day and for the return of America’s historic foreign policy of non-interventionism.
Some may suppose from the title of his book that Butler, a 30-year Marine Corps veteran and two-time medal of honor recipient, had turned pacifist. Such was not the case. Butler was not a pacifist. He was a non-interventionist in that he held that war was could justifiably be undertaken only for very limited reasons. In Butler’s view, there were only two reasons Americans should go to war. He wrote:
There are only two reasons you should be asked to give your youngsters. One is defense of our homes. The other is the defense of our Bill of Rights and particularly the right to worship God as we see fit. Every other reason advanced for the murder of young men is a racket, pure and simple (War is a Racket, 67).
Put differently, Butler believed that American soldiers should be sent to battle only in defense of their families, their property, and their Constitutionally guaranteed rights. This is essentially the foreign policy of the founding fathers of America.
Worth noting, too, is that Butler mentioned “young men” in his comments, not young women. Feminism had not advanced so far in his day as to make it a philosophical imperative that young women be sent to the frontlines, a barbaric and astonishingly stupid idea advanced both by the U.S. and now (probably due to U.S. influence) Ukrainian army.
Posted in Russian-Ukrainian War | Tagged George Soros, Globalism, John Robbins, Russian-Ukrainian War, World Economic Forum | 7 Comments »
And Jesus answered and said unto them, take heed that no man deceive you.
I have in my possession a book titled Day of Deceit by Robert B. Stinnett. I have not read all of the book. Indeed, I’ve only skimmed it. But its basic thesis is that Pearl Harbor, far from being a surprise to top American leadership, was an engineered event designed to bring America into the war. The author holds that FDR know in advance that the attack on 12/7/41 was coming and wanted it to take place.
Before dismissing his thesis as the ravings of some fringe wingnut and lunatic, it’s worth mentioning that the book was first published in 2000 by Simon & Schuster, a major New York publisher, and was widely and positively reviewed by many mainstream reviewers. Further, the book is still in print twenty years after its release.
In the book’s Preface, the author himself seems almost to approve of the deceit he charges FDR with as necessary for overcoming “isolationist America.”
As a veteran of the Pacific War, I felt a sense of outrage as I uncovered secrets that had been hidden from Americans for more than fifty years. But I understood the agonizing dilemma faced by President Roosevelt. He was forced to find circuitous means to persuade an isolationist America to join in a fight for freedom. He knew this would cost lives. How many, he could not have known (xiii).
So, FDR lied to the American people, but he did so for a good and noble cause. This pagan way of thinking, the idea of the Noble Lie, goes back at least to Plato’s Republic. But while situation ethics of this sort are popular with heathen past and present, it is alien to the Scriptures which command us, “Thou shalt not bear false witness.”
If what Stinnett wrote is true, FDR and others in the know, far from being heroic defenders of America, were liars and murderers.
Further, if the government lied to Americans about Pearl Harbor – and I believe they did – this raises the question, what else have they/are they lying to us about?
Posted in Politics | Tagged Conspiracies, Deep State, Russia-Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky | 2 Comments »
“Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
In his essay “The Religious Wars of the 21st Century,” John Robbins wrote, “The conservative movement in the United States has abandoned the American (and Biblical) foreign policy of strategic independence pursued by our government since 1776 for a policy of global interventionism that has angered many foreign nations and peoples, most recently the Muslims.”
To our 21st century ears, the idea of conducting a foreign policy of “strategic independence,”, a foreign policy that avoids foreign entanglements, minds one’s own business, and treats other nations in the same way we’d like to be treated, sounds strange.
Growing up as I did during the Cold War, I thought it was perfectly normal to have American troops stationed all over the world. Germany, Japan, Korea, and many other nations all were occupied by American forces.
Although I dreaded the idea of the military draft as a young man, had you asked me at the time I would have said I supported it as it was all about doing my duty.
It was only later after I became a Christian and after I read the work of John Robbins, that I began to develop a Biblical view of foreign policy.
Posted in Foreign Policy | Tagged Donald Trump, John Robbins, Russia/Ukraine, The Bible and Foreign Policy, Westphalian Sovereignty, Westphalian World Order | 2 Comments »
“Washington’s Crocodile Tears Over Ukraine’s Destruction” by Daniel McAdams, Ron Paul Institute, 2/25/2022
“Truth and Foreign Policy” by John W. Robbins, The Trinity Review, March/April 1991
“The Messianic Character of American Foreign Policy” by John W. Robbins, September/October 1990
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“You will become one with the Borg. You will all become one with the Borg.”
The Borg, a recurring antagonist in Star Trek the Next Generation, was a group of cyborgs linked in a hive mind called “the Collective.” The Wikipedia entry on the Borg tells us that the goal of the Borg was to absorb the technology and knowledge of other species through the process of assimilation with the ultimate aim of achieving perfection.
One could think of the Borg as the ultimate expression of collectivism, an idea that stands in opposition to the historic western, Protestant idea of individualism, which can be defined as “a doctrine that the interests of the individual are or ought to be ethically paramount” (Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary).
Posted in Politics, Roman Catholicism | Tagged Antichrist, Covid 19 Vaccination, Ecclesiastical Megalomania, John Robbins, Papal Antichrist, Pope Francis, Roman Catholic Social Teaching, Vaccine Mandates | 1 Comment »
“Today’s pandemic response is eerily similar to the smallpox pandemic response” by Steve Kirsch, 2/13/2022
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Were you to ask me what Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, and Jay Powell all have in common; I would answer you this: a belief in their own unaccountable power.
In his book Lex Rex (Latin for The Law is King), Samuel Rutherford set forth the Christian idea that governors, as well as the governed, alike were both under the law.
Throughout most of human history, it was the exact opposite. Rather than the law being king, it was Rex Lex, the king is the law. Put differently, The law is what the king says it is, and he himself is above it.
The notion that the law – and we mean by “the law” the law of God – is king and not man is a thoroughly Biblical and Christian idea. It is not an accident that Protestant Samuel Rutherford set forth this idea in a book instead of some Roman Catholic scholar. The idea that both the ruler and the ruled stand under the law and are responsible to God is a concept that was rediscovered at the time of the Reformation in implemented in those nations to which the Reformation came.
Those of us who live in the West, as badly decomposed as it is, have enjoyed the privilege of living under a system of government that acknowledged this principle. As recently as two years ago, one could still think of this great idea as operable. But beginning in 2020, Western governments initiated a coup détat of sorts, replacing the Protestant idea that the law is king with a technocratic tyranny in which unaccountable bureaucrats and puppetized elected officials rule us like kings.
Posted in Politics | Tagged Covid Tyranny, Freedom Convoy, Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau | 2 Comments »
“News today: Embalmers, Debate in Canada, FDA meeting on hold, Cell paper, mask study disputed, Igor’s discovery, news from Peter McCullough, post-vax photos, and much more” by Steve Kirsch, Steve Kirsch’s newsletter, 2/11/2022
“Exclusive: Embalmer reveals 93% of cases died from the vaccine” by Steve Kirsch, Steve Kirsch’s newsletter, 2/12/2022
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