The banking crisis is just another part of an ongoing, long-term plan of passive-aggressive conquest. From Paul Craig Roberts:
To summarize, smaller conservative and prudent banks that invested in “safe” assets such as US Treasury bonds face bank runs. Larger banks with massive derivative risks are one bond trader’s mistake away from exploding the financial system. The 2008 crisis and the potential for more crises rests entirely on the repeal of Glass-Steagall and the enactment of Frank-Dodd. We are looking at the total, complete failure of intelligence on the part of the US government and economists. Their handiwork has the capability of collapsing the existing financial system of the world. It was the work of total idiots.
There is, of course, the question: Is this real stupidity or is a plot unfolding to collapse the financial system as we have known it in order to “save” us with the introduction of central bank digital currency? Are we passing from the remnants of democracy and self-government into total tyranny?
A study finds that 200 US banks face the same risk as those that destroyed Silicon Valley Bank. The Federal Reserve’s higher interest rates are destroying the banks’ solvency. Yet the Federal Reserve has not backed off its disastrous policy, and with Credit Suisse’s failure looming, the EU central bank raised interest rates! Yes, people are stupid. But are they this stupid? Could this be intentional with a secret agenda in mind such as digital currency?
I believe it is a secret agenda. The implementation of a bank-controlled digital currency means the government gets to decide how you spend your money, and eventually, whether you get to keep it in the first place.
This is part of a larger pattern. Let’s put it into perspective.
Biblical Law is not reasonable; it’s a matter of faith. You can gin up all kinds of reasoning, and maybe even some practical outcomes, as the motivation for accepting something that resembles Biblical Law, but only at the cost of ignoring the miraculous hand of God in that law.
A core element in neocon policy is the cynical embrace of a moral code to bring about a stable and prosperous society, thus enabling a military conquest policy over any foreign government that dares to refuse their imperial economic and political dominance. They don’t actually believe in the God of the Bible, but raise up some body of law and custom based on human reason and traditions, and they call it Judeo-Christian values, making it a false god. It bears only a superficial resemblance to the Covenant of Moses or the teachings of Christ.
But there are too many people who resist such a value system, and not merely because it’s bogus. Rather, they are morally rebellious and promote an alternative that is either secular or pagan, but the result is about the same; it’s feminist at heart. Thus, we have globalism rising from the roots of feminism. The neocons were once part of that crowd, but as the left became more radical, the neocons left to form their own agenda. Instead, the neocons hijacked the conservative movement. They tolerate the dominance of the Zionist Christian voting block.
You really need to understand that neocons are not Zionist, but are using Zionists to get things done. Yes, “neocon” is a label that points back to the Jewish ethnic agenda, but they would prefer not to have a home state for Jews. It’s pure elitism. Their moral cover depends on Jews having no “home” for refuge from persecution. The claim to being a poor, persecuted minority (essential to their manipulation) is weakened by the existence of a political entity like Israel.
Get this: Jews and the Jewish elite are two different things. The Pharisees have always been contemptuous of the peasants; “these people are accursed, not knowing the Law” (referring to the Talmud). This attitude is part of the Jewish elite ethnic agenda, which no longer includes such a strong religious element. It’s not exactly Talmudic, but is influenced by Talmudic ambitions as expressed in the False Messianic Expectations (see the Wilderness Temptations of Christ). At any rate, most Jews worldwide (the peasants) are leftist, and some are Zionist, whereas the core elite leadership is mostly neocon, a separate ideology. The stated neocon agenda is, for the most part, the expression of the Jewish ethnic agenda — manipulate the Gentile world into chaos and then take over as the saviors.
Thus, a neocon like Netanyahu can appear to be Zionist friendly, but in the long run, he’s trying to destroy the modern State of Israel as it has existed until now. That state has a very strong leftist voting block, and a competing orthodox voting block. Neither is amenable to neocon leadership. Netanyahu will at the least remake government so that the neocons can dominate without resistance. Thus, it can become the home of the neocon agenda, using military force to undermine and destroy any government that resists neocon global dominance. It makes Israel the single biggest thorn in the side of the whole world. If his policy destroys Israel, so much the better, to restore the image of Jews as having no refuge in this world.
It may not have started out that way, but in practice, the neocons are herding the globalists, preparing to push them out of the way at some point down the road. They also herd Zionists to get a voting block with money to support their agenda without really having to promote their agenda openly as neocon, which was somewhat discredited under Bush II.
Thus, globalist policy agenda items are often steered by neocons under various guises, because the neocons will use those same oppressive controls for their own policies later down the road. The Jewish elite agenda is not precisely to destroy the West, but to humble it under their authority by destroying the Gentile resistance to Jewish dominance. Jews hate us, but want very much to enslave us.
The globalist agenda to censor anything that isn’t “woke” enough is just what the neocons hope to hijack later. The effects of seizing banking will work a whole lot better if everything, including banking, is controlled via the Net. It’s the power of a deep conviction that fires one’s whole life, but without the messiness of having to inculcate such a fire by personal interaction. It simply becomes impossible to do anything that isn’t controlled by those beliefs, never mind what is inside your soul. You will have no leverage whatsoever to resist.
In other words, the neocons have learned from at least some of their mistakes. What we see in the Netanyahu takeover of Israel’s government is their dream for the entire world. But if the globalists will implement the mechanism for them, why not let them run with it? Once the insane wokism becomes intolerable, the neocons can swoop in and bring us some relief. The pattern has already been established by using various “sane” lefties as foils to the insane wokism, like Jordan Peterson. He’s a lefty globalist, but everyone ignores that because he promotes a saner brand of leftism. Neocons only pretend to be right-wing; they are still secretly lefty, just the “sane” version that dominated Democrats before they were radicalized by the New Left.
As we’ve often noted before: The Radix Fidem way is to step back from all of this. We have an otherworldly message, not a competing political agenda. Yes, we could come up with better policies, but the foundation of any better human government is Biblical Law, or what Catacomb Resident calls “the Covenant” — AKA, the Code of Noah. Anything less does not warrant our involvement.
Instead, we must pray and prepare for ways to get around the human political agenda and still present our message to the world.
Went out on the SCIP Trails last week and to check out the trail changes. The northern loop now stays closer to Crutcho Creek, and I was able to see this collapsed bridge that is usually hidden by undergrowth. The end closest to me is lying in the creek bed. If you stand in front it, the whole thing is almost invisible behind the trees growing there.
The whole area was once private farmland. The previous owner was a local celebrity of sorts, so the county bought it and preserved it. The house burned down and there didn’t seem to be any reason to preserve any of the other structures after that, so we have this barn falling down from storm damage and a tree collapse. However, the field is still used for hay, cut every year and baled to feed county-owned livestock.
Once the county got the land, they built a lot facilities that are usually unseen by the public. Most of what you see in this shot is related to the water purification plant that extends to the left off-camera. The whole area is visible on Google Maps or Google Earth at 35.49318774228188, -97.40179495542114. Both will show some kind of shelter that no longer exists, so you can ignore that marker.
A few years ago I took shots of the area along Triple-X Road around NE 36th Street. A heavy flooding rain had caused the river to wash away some land and took out several homes. Eventually the flow undermined the road. For years, the county and Army Corps of Engineers haggled over it, until finally the road got replaced. In the image, you just barely see a trace on the ground running off the left along the fence and trees; that was the original road bed. The county negotiated for the land from a sod farm and it’s all better now.
This is something you should see from satellite view. The river bank was moved back to where the county preferred it, then these four massive piles of stones were placed to form chicanes to prevent the river carving it out again. You can see it better at 35.508837820592255, -97.22980793072225. As a courtesy, Google also marked the old roadbed in gray to show how the water came right up to the edge of the pavement, which is right where the stone chicanes are rooted now.
NT Doctrine — Acts 16
Paul and Silas passed through the Cilician Taurus Mountains and went directly to Derbe on the plain beyond. Next was Lystra, the pagan Phrygian town where Jews were too few to have a synagogue, but thanks to Paul, they had a church. By this time a young man named Timothy had risen as a major figure in the church there. His mother was Jewish, but his father was a well-known pagan Gentile. The Jews in that region knew Timothy as a pagan, but to the pagans, he was regarded as a Jew. So to settle the issue, Paul sponsored his full conversion to Judaism with circumcision. This placed him on par with Paul and Silas as far as Jews were concerned, and he joined their company. They continued visiting the church plants in the area.
This trio passed through the church plants from the previous journey of Paul and Barnabas, sharing the letter from the Jerusalem Council. As with Timothy, this gave the churches a much clearer identity that distinguished them from pagans and Jews both. The trio were hoping to plant more churches in Asia Minor, but the Lord restricted them from going either into the southwest or anywhere near the north coast of modern Turkey. They split the difference and ended up in Troas, near the site of ancient Troy. It was there they were joined by Luke, who now includes himself in the narrative as part of “we”.
The Lord revealed in a dream that they should head across the Aegean Sea into Macedonia. So the next morning, they sailed at the first opportunity and landed in Neapolis, directly across the bay from the island of Thasos. The land here is mountainous, with few flat areas. Thus, Neapolis (modern Kavala) sat on a narrow shelf near a faint pass through a ridge of mountains that otherwise ran down to the sea all along the coast. Through that pass ran the Egnatian Way, and it crossed one of the few open flat areas, skirting a large swamp. The Roman highway led them mostly northward to Philippi.
Today the ruins of Philippi sit at the southern tip of a great rocky hump of a hill, rather elongated north to south, and connected to some mountains on the north end. Just to the east now stands the City of Krinides, which had been the original name of Philippi. Once the Romans conquered Greece, this ancient city was renamed after one of the emperors. It was made into a Roman colony, populated mostly by Roman army veterans and offering all the privileges of their home city of Rome, with all the officials and Roman habits. Indeed, it was built up to look somewhat like a miniature of Rome.
On both sides of this elongated hump above the city ran a small watercourse. It’s impossible to know for sure which is the one Luke refers to as the meeting place of women who had converted to Judaism, but it was only a short walk either direction from the city. As was customary in Jewish synagogue services, Paul sat down to teach. Among the women was one who resided in Philippi selling the expensive purple dyed fabrics produced in her hometown of Thyatira, back over in Asia Minor where the men had just left. A Roman colony like Philippi would require a certain amount of this dyed fabric for official uses, among other things. The city also had plenty of rich folks who would wear that kind of stuff.
Anyone who traded in that purple fabric would be rather well off, too. The woman was named for the region whence she came, Lydia. She was baptized and persuaded the rest of her household family and servants to join her in baptism, confessing Christ. The trio had no good reason to turn away her offer to be their sponsor in the city, and her house became their home base.
I’ll insert here a paragraph from my previously published commentary: One young female slave in Philippi was able to cast fortunes by her demon, certainly with sufficient accuracy to bring in quite a big profit to her masters. There’s no doubt they knew it was the work of a foul spirit haunting her life. When she began following Paul and Silas around town, she spoke the truth. She used the standard pagan term for the Jewish God and said the men knew the way of spiritual security. The problem is that when demons speak the truth they do so without the power of the Holy Spirit, so it becomes a form of blasphemy, gutting the power of Truth. This grated on Paul’s nerves, and he felt compelled to deliver the girl from the demon, if only to end the blasphemy. Sadly, a good thing for her was bad for her masters’ business.
The owners of this slave took these men as Jews, whose religion was just barely tolerated under Roman law. They publicly charged these men with interfering in the religion of others, having driven out a pagan spirit from their slave. They added in common complaints about Jews disrupting Roman social order. A mob was stirred up and the local magistrates didn’t bother with any kind of hearing, but ordered them stripped and beaten by with the rods normally wrapped around the standard Roman symbolic axes carried by the guards escorting these magistrates. Then the trio were turned over to the jailer, a retired army veteran himself.
Since the custody order included ensuring they would be present for further court action the next day, the jailer put their feet in stocks, which meant a very uncomfortable posture, neither quite sitting nor lying down overnight. Nearing midnight, the trio sang a hymn, which triggered an earthquake. It’s for sure any other prisoners would have made that association, and Paul managed to convince them all to stay put when the prison didn’t quite collapse, but all the internal fixtures, including the stocks and doors, came open.
For the jailer’s superiors, it wouldn’t matter the cause. Losing custody of his prisoners would mean a humiliating public execution. The jailer lived in the same building; upon a cursory examination of the facility, he prepared to take his own life to avoid the shame. Paul expected this and called out for him to wait, as none of the prisoners had fled. So he came to where they stood and asked the same question any pagan man would: How does one find the spiritual security all men sought?
Now it became clear why the Lord had allowed Paul, Silas and Timothy to suffer this awful experience in the first place. The man was baptized along with everyone in his household. He treated the three as honored guests, dressing their wounds and feeding them. They passed the rest of the night in teaching and celebration. The jailer could do as he wished with his prisoners, as long as they were still in custody.
At dawn the lictors arrived to call for the trio to be released. Paul objected. His point was not to shame the magistrates, but to impress upon them that they were honorable men as Christians, not trouble-making Jews. This was the best way to gain a permissive attitude, if not respect, from the city government. What they had done in summarily beating these three men was flatly forbidden, as they were Roman citizens. Had Paul wanted to file a complaint with the regional officials, the magistrates would be very lucky if they were only dismissed, turned out of office. They could have been publicly beaten in the same manner, or worse.
They hurried and came to beg the men to leave town quietly, and may have even offered a bribe. But they couldn’t order them to leave town, and having gotten their attention, Paul decided to stay just a little longer and depart when it was convenient for them to move on. They left behind a church with a wealthy sponsor and a government official as member.