God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible [Or Non-sense if you are willingly ignorant] by CJ Werlemen - Part 2

(Jesus Lied. He Was Only Human - Debunking of the Christian myth. (by CJ Werlemen) is not yet available for purchase, nor is there a sample chapter available.  So, in the mean time, I will methodically plod through and expose Werlemen's "mindless" review of Scripture. This is the second in a series of blog posts labeled under the tag "Scoffers".)

(2Pe 1:19) We have also a more sure word of prophecy;

(Isa 46:9-10)   Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning ....

(Isa 28:13) But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

How does God authenticate His Word?  By writing history in advance, or forthtelling the coming of persons, times, or events.  This observation was covered earlier (see 'About' tag on blog).  "Declaring the End from the Beginning."  Setting aside the myriad of prophetic passages that have detailed persons, times, or events, that have transpired.  Let us review our current technologically advanced society.

(Rev 13:16-17)   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, [...]
Moore's Law is catapulting humankind into the future.  On the horizon, is an event called the Singularity.  We are on the verge of a technological conversion, a change so rapid, so invasive, man and machine will merge.  As fiat digital currency becomes the norm, as the cashless society emerges, it doesn't take much imagination to see how, "no man might buy or sell" unless they "receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead"  Take note of the specific detail, "all", read that everyone, "both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond".  If you haven't noticed, a smart grid, an inter-connected system for control, is readily being set up.  The global police state is being set up before our very eyes.

MAG: The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS... ^
From the August 25, 2010 22:34:18 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

'Little Buddy' GPS device keeps tabs on your kid... ^
From the October 27, 2009 13:15:21 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

UPDATE: School to put GPS devices in students' backpacks... ^
From the August 31, 2010 21:17:37 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars... ^
From the August 27, 2010 18:52:50 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

California students get tracking devices... ^
From the August 28, 2010 12:52:04 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

SPY: Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing... ^
From the July 23, 2010 11:37:35 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

Detergent company puts GPS into product to track consumers to their homes... ^
From the July 30, 2010 15:16:17 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

Children tracked by satellite to stop bad behavior... ^
From the April 23, 2009 12:05:11 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

Students' well-being tracked to improve lives... ^
From the October 23, 2008 14:47:44 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

TRACKED: GPS Helps Cities Catch Goof-Offs... ^
From the November 16, 2007 00:18:10 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

CAUGHT BY THE GPS: CELLPHONE TRACKED CITY WORKER DODGING WORK... ^
From the August 30, 2007 22:13:43 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

California gang members to be tracked by satellite... ^
From the March 16, 2006 23:56:11 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

NY Sex Offenders May Be Tracked By Satellite... ^
From the April 22, 2005 12:44:09 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.

Reading Scripture is like reading the news.  Here are ten trends, laid out in Scripture, demonstrating Him who declares the "End from the Beginning":

1. The Struggle for Jerusalem
2. Weapons Proliferation
3. The Rise of Islam
4. The Magog Invasion
5. The Rise of the Far East
6. Biotech & Global Pestilence
7. The Rise of a European Superstate
8. The Decline of the U.S.
9. Global Government
10. Global Religion
http://www.khouse.org/strategic_trends/

Like I said, CJ is willingly ignorant.  Because, if he really wanted to know Scripture, he would humble himself and read commentaries by contemporaries or those who have gone before.  Many of his absurd assertions, can be readily answered with a little digging and an open mind.

"When one examines a hologram in natural (uncollimated, noncoherent) light, it has no apparent form nor attractiveness. However, when one examines it with the laser with which it was formulated, a three-dimensional image appears. When one examines the Bible in unaided, natural light, it "has no form nor comeliness that we should desire it."³ But when we examine it illuminated by the Light that created it, the Spirit of God that put it all together in the first place, we see an image: the image of the One that every detail in it illuminates, the promised Messiah Himself." (System Design of the Scriptures?: Our Holographic Bible by Chuck Missler http://www.khouse.org/articles/1999/230/)

Jhn 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word [Jesus], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 

Col 1:16   For by him [Jesus] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 

Jhn 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Jhn 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Jesus is the Son of God, He is the Light of the World.

CJ contends, "God created light and darkness on day one and the sun and the planets didn't come until day four. So where did the light come from?  No Sun, no light.  Oops!"

Wrong sun, it's Son, the Light of the World.  God was the Light!

"But when we examine [the Bible] illuminated by the Light that created it" ... it make sense.

"Here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken."

You see, Scripture isn't laid out in a straightforward manner.  It was distributed over time and space, to different individuals.  For whatever reason, and I don't need to know the exact reason, God chose to involve humankind in the distribution of his message.  And what is his message?  God loves you and wants you to love him back.

(Jhn 15:13)   Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus Lied. He Was Only Human - Debunking of the Christian myth. (by CJ Werlemen)

(2Pe 3:3-5) Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, [...] For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water [...]

"But residing in the heart of [CJ Werlemen's] journalistic mediocrity was a quiet discontent. An irritation greater than the discomfort of a long taxi ride with 'Delhi belly'. And what irritated him most was other people's mindlessness. To him, nothing exceeded the mindlessness of seemingly intelligent people believing they were eating a dead Jew in the form of shi$$y wine and stale crackers." (About CJ)
http://www.cjwerleman.com/about-cj.html

(This will be the first of many posts, as I go through and review CJ's assertions about "mindless" Christians.)

I will take CJ's statement at face value, "seemingly intelligent people believing [...]" leads me to believe he has a beef with the Catholic Church and not Jesus. Any serious student of the Scripture can readily observe that communion was meant to be symbolic. (Transubstantiation, the Catholic doctrine does not align with Scripture. Where in Scripture does it say the wine and bread are literally turned into the blood and body of Christ?)

(Mat 26:26-29) And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

(Attention to detail reveals, "I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine." Why didn't he say blood, if it was meant to be literal?)

(1Cr 11:24-26) And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

Reading the above passages, their straight forward interpretation is, the bread and wine represented his body. How foolish, how silly, to insist, literally, one is eating the body and blood of Christ. How absurd!

I suppose in the end it will turn out, that he, like Dawkins, is nothing more than a silly little boy whose never grown up and accepted the reality that he is accountable to his Creator. For, as it stands, the foundation upon which all philosophy sits is, "How did we get here?", has yet to be empirically proven.  And I suppose, just as Dawkins admitted, intelligent being(s) (i.e. aliens) seeded earth (Expelled: No Intelligence Required. - Stein), so too CJ must first defend his thesis, that Jesus lied, by first convincingly bringing forward evidence of humankind's genesis. (By the way, it's funny to watch Dawkins squirm as he queried about his beliefs. CJ likes funny, right?) And to date, I have not seen evidence to support a non Intelligent being theory on humankind's origin. (I am product of the Public school system and State undergraduate / graduate degrees.) To this day, I have found the theories of Big Bang chemical evolution, stellar and planetary evolution, organic evolution, macro-evolution lacking.  (Micro-evolution or adaptation to one's environment can be readily observed.  But lateral, specie to specie, macro-evolution, has not been observe red, nor found to be defensible as would hold up in a court of law.  (Again, I've taken all the courses, and read the rebuttals to the various, so-called "missing" links.  (Read Bones of Contention by Lubenow for an excellent breakdown.)

“Creation and evolution are inferences based on circumstancial evidence.  Creation and evolution are thus theoretical inferences about history.  […] neither qualifies as a scientific theory (both are outside of empirical evidence).”  “Creation and evolution are best characterized as explanatory scientific models which are employed to correlate and explain data related to origins.” (Gish)

The task then, is to weigh the evidence, and find which theory is best supported.
As I've said, I've been through the programming (school) and found by questioning everything, evolution as a satisfactory theory on origins, to be lacking.

Guaranteed we'll find that CJ is "willingly ignorant" of Scripture (as I've shown above, let's read Scripture, and not mix Catholic doctrine, "Solo Scriptura").

Can't wait to get my mind on CJ's book, "Jesus Lied"!

(Oh, I'm praying for ya buddy!)

On 9/11 … (What is "Operation Northwoods"?)

On 9/11 … (What is "Operation Northwoods"?)

We must defend against “enemies both foreign and domestic”:

“Those who sacrifice Liberty for Security deserve neither.” - Benjamin Franklin
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

"I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

“The answer to 1984 is 1776.”

Considering Franklin’s statement above, what is so patriotic about the Patriot Act?

What characterizes the Last Days, End Times? Deception.

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come...", "Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” “For thy merchants [corporations] were the great men of the earth [globalists]; for by thy sorceries [pharmakeia] were all nations deceived. (2Ti 3:1-13; Rev 18:23)

The following warning was given by the:
President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term [“military-industrial complex”]
in his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961:
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction... This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex

JFK understood Eisenhower's concern and elaborated on the issue:
JFK’s Address before the Press (1961):
Today no war has been declared — and however fierce the struggle may be, it may never be declared in the traditional fashion. Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions — by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.Nevertheless, every democracy recognizes the necessary restraints of national security — and the question remains whether those restraints need to be more strictly observed if we are to oppose this kind of attack as well as outright invasion.
[Read entire quote here:]
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

Operation Northwoods (Wiki)
Operation Northwoods, or Northwoods, was a false-flag operation plan that originated within the United States government in 1962. The plan called for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other operatives to commit genuine acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and elsewhere. These acts of terrorism were to be blamed on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation, which the US had recently labeled as communist under Fidel Castro. One part of the Operation Northwoods plan was to "develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington."Operation Northwoods included proposals for hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government. The plan stated:"The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere."Several other proposals were included within the Operation Northwoods plan, including real or simulated actions against various U.S. military and civilian targets. The plan was drafted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, signed by Chairman Lyman Lemnitzer and sent to the Secretary of Defense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Operation Amalgam Virgo (Wiki)
Amalgam Virgo 01 (June 1-2 / 2001) Operation Amalgam Virgo is a CINCNORAD joint task counter-terrorist and field training exercise (FTX) carried out in Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida on early June 2001. NORAD sponsored the multi-agency planning exercise involving the hypothetical scenario of a cruise missile or UAV launched by a terrorist group [1]. Osama Bin Laden was pictured on the cover of the proposal for the exercise. Key military players involved in the exercise also included personnel from the 1st Air Force battalion, the U.S. National Guard, the U.S. Reserve forces, and the U.S. Navy.Several naval ships including the USS Yorktown and the Navy Aegis cruiser were dispatched to the Gulf of Mexico as part of the multi-service anti-cruise missile operation. Military land personnel from the 1st Air Force also engaged in gathering radar information on low-level targets by using the Joint-Based Expeditionary Connectivity Center (JBECC), a mobile shelter capable of being deployed to high-risk regions while providing early warning signals on cruise missile attacks.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_Virgo

What Do The Sears Tower; WTC, and Terror Drills Have In Common?
Remember that on September 11, 2001, NORAD was conducting a war games drill that simulated planes flying into towers.
http://theintelhub.com/2010/06/09/what-do-the-sears-tower-wtc-and-terror-drills-have-in-common/

Information Warfare
(Infowars.com – “Because there is a war on for your mind.”)
The Anniversary of 9/11
If even the 9/11 Commissioners don’t buy the official story, why do you?http://www.infowars.com/the-anniversary-of-911/print/

“Those who sacrifice Liberty for Security deserve neither.” - Benjamin Franklin
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

Who controls the media?
Why do we believe anything they say?
“What is Truth?”

Tears For Fears

Mad World (Tears For Fears)

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Goin' nowhere, goin' nowhere
Their tears are fillin' up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dyin'
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad world, mad world
Mad world, mad world

Children waitin' for the day they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sits and listen, sits and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson?
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dyin'
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad world, mad world
Mad world, mad world

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dyin'
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad world, mad world
Mad world, mad world
A raunchy young world
Mad world.

Bertrand Russell (The Impact of Science on Society - 1953)
Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. . . .

Establishment Media Pushes Brain Eating Vaccines
Aug 3, 2010 ... The establishment media and the scientific dictatorship are promoting brain-eating vaccines that virtually lobotomize people and rewire ...
www.prisonplanet.com/establishment-media-pushes-brain-eating-vaccines.html

Inception (2010): Dream by injection … movies prep us for what the future holds, 'Minority Report' is now a reality ...

Today on Drudge: Pre-Crime Technology To Be Used In Washington...
http://www.prisonplanet.com/pre-crime-technology-to-be-used-in-washington-d-c.html

Today on Drudge: Software Predicts 'Criminal Behavior'...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/software-predicts-criminal-behavior/story?id=11448231

‘Pre-Crime’ Reaches Number 1 Google Trend Spot
http://www.infowars.com/pre-crime-reaches-number-1-google-trend-spot/

Google and CIA Invest in a Minority Report-Like Technology That May Make Our World a Less Certain Place
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-jacobson/google-and-cia-invest-in_b_664525.html

WIRED: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come.
[...]
“The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science.
[...]
It’s not the very first time Google has done business with America’s spy agencies. Long before it reportedly enlisted the help of the National Security Agency to secure its networks, Google sold equipment to the secret signals-intelligence group. In-Q-Tel backed the mapping firm Keyhole, which was bought by Google in 2004 — and then became the backbone for Google Earth.
This appears to be the first time, however, that the intelligence community and Google have funded the same startup, at the same time. No one is accusing Google of directly collaborating with the CIA.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/#ixzz0vn5qNxKC

Darpa Wants to Predict Deadly Pathogens with ‘Prophecy’
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/darpa-wants-to-predict-deadly-pathogens-with-prophecy/#ixzz0vnC593Lx

Google Flu Trends: We've found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity.
www.google.org/flutrends/

Group Calls for Hearings Into Google’s Ties to CIA and NSA
http://www.infowars.com/group-calls-for-hearings-into-googles-ties-to-cia-and-nsa/print/

A History of Google Government Ties – (Google accused of criminal intent over StreetView data)
In 2005, In-Q-Tel , described as a venture capital firm set up by the CIA to “identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge information technologies that serve United States national security interests,” was linked to Google through the sale of the corporation’s stock.
Google sold Keyhole, Inc., to the CIA’s In-Q-Tel in 2004. Keyhole does work in “geospatial data visualization applications” of the sort that work as the engine behind GoogleEarth.
In addition to Google, the CIA and the spook community have compromised Facebook and the social networks. Last December, the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the CIA, the US Department of Defense, Department of Justice and three other government agencies for allegedly refusing to release information about how they are using social networks in surveillance and investigations.
Facebook, like Google, is also linked to the CIA’s In-Q-Tel. The social network received venture capital from Accel Partners. Its manager James Breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel. Dr. Anita Jones also served on the In-Q-Tel’s board. She had been director of Defense Research and Engineering for the US Department of Defense.
“Although the project was initially conceived by media cover star Mark Zuckerberg, the real face behind Facebook is the 40-year-old Silicon Valley venture capitalist and futurist philosopher Peter Thiel. There are only three board members on Facebook, and they are Thiel, Zuckerberg and a third investor called Jim Breyer from a venture capital firm called Accel Partners,” writes Tom Hodgkinson of The Guardian.
http://www.infowars.com/google-accused-of-criminal-intent-over-streetview-data/print/

White House Emails Show More Extensive Improper Contact With Google
http://www.nlpc.org/print/2957

Issa wants answers on White House’s Google ties
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/108183-issa-wants-answers-connected-to-white-houses-google-ties?tmpl=component&print=1&page=

Top Secret America: Google Launches Cover Up Of [censored articles] ‘Google Spies’ Story
http://www.infowars.com/top-secret-america-google-launches-cover-up-of-google-spies-story/print/

Operation ‘Perfect Citizen’ = Big Brother:
"The overall purpose of the [program] is our Government...feel[s] that they need to insure the Public Sector is doing all they can to secure Infrastructure critical to our National Security," said one internal Raytheon email, the text of which was seen by The Wall Street Journal. "Perfect Citizen is Big Brother."
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704545004575352983850463108.html

Top Secret America: A hidden world, growing beyond control:
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
[...]
1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
[...]
Today's article describes the government's role in this expanding enterprise. Tuesday's article describes the government's dependence on private contractors.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/

Google Founders’ Ultimate Perk: A NASA Runway
In the annals of perks enjoyed by America’s corporate executives, the founders of Google may have set a new standard: an uncrowded, federally managed runway for their private jet that is only a few minutes’ drive from their offices.
[...] federally managed runway for their private jet that is only a few minutes’ drive from their offices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/technology/13google.html

Financial Times: Google and NASA back new school for futurists [Singularity U – Ray Kurzweil]:
Google and NASA are throwing their weight behind a new school for futurists in Silicon Valley to prepare scientists for an era when machines become cleverer than people.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8b162dfc-f168-11dd-8790-0000779fd2ac.html

President Eisenhower warned us of the “'Military-Industrial' Complex”:
President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower used the term [“military-industrial complex”] in his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961:
“A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction...
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex

"You Americans, you think you can escape history. You live in the present." - The American (2010)

Rome fell SEPTEMBER 4, 476AD.
In the centuries preceding, Rome was overrun with illegal immigrants: Visigoths, Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Lombards and Vandals.
They first assimilated, many working as servants, but soon came so fast they did not learn the Latin language.
Though militarily superior and marching on advanced road systems, the highly trained Roman Legions were strained fighting conflicts worldwide, and eventually troops had to be brought home from the frontiers, such a Britain.
Attila the Hun committed terrorist attacks, wiping out whole cities.
Rome had a trade deficit, having outsourced its grain production to North Africa, and when the Vandals captured that area, Rome did not have the resources to retaliate.
"Bread and the Circus!" Citizens of Rome were kept distracted with violent entertainment in the Coliseum and Circus Maximus, living on welfare and free bread.
One Roman commented:
"Those who live at the expense of the public funds are more numerous than those who provide them."
Tax collectors were "more terrible than the enemy."
Rome was crippled by huge government bureaucracies and enormous public debt.
A history of court favoritism, infidelity, exposure of unwanted infants, perverted bathhouses, and sexual immorality led 5th-Century historian Salvian to write:
"O Roman people be ashamed...Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us."
American Minute with Bill Federer
www.AmericanMinute.com

Freedom is slavery. - INGSOC - 1984

Waiting for Goldstein to appear on the television in the background.
(http://forthtell.blogspot.com/)

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

1Cr 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
1Cr 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
1Cr 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1Cr 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1Cr 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

"In the future ("seven years from now"), America has lost the war on drugs. The highly addictive, debilitating, and illegal Substance D, made from a small blue flower, has swept across the country. In response, the government develops an invasive, high-tech surveillance system and puts in place a network of informants and undercover agents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly_(film)

A Scanner Darkly (Trailer):
http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wip/us/med/scanner_darkly/scanner_darkly_a_tlr2_qt_500.mov

Substance D:
Fox News Makes Excuse for CIA’s Afghan Opium Cultivation
http://www.infowars.com/fox-news-makes-excuse-for-cias-afghan-opium-cultivation/

"Mexico’s opium production more than doubled from 2006 to 2008, the latest year for which figures are available, while marijuana output jumped 39 percent.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-20/legal-acapulco-gold-gets-calderon-s-consideration-as-drug-killings-climb.html

Rev 18:23 [...] for thy merchants [globalists] were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries [pharmakeia] were all nations deceived.

Rev 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries [pharmakeia], nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.