REAL MEN?

REF:"Why Won't a Real Man Stand Up?" by Robert Morley, www. TheTrumpet.com.

"For the first time since the Cold War, doomsday shelters are making a comeback. As the economy collapses, builders of fortified bunkers are constructing underground facilities at the fastest pace in 30 years.

There is a sense of helplessness—that events are spiraling out of control, and that there is nothing anyone can do about it.

And it is not just average people on the street who feel this way either. At between $400,000 to $41 million a pop, it is the rich, powerful and influential who are buying their own personal escape plans—shelters that can hold anywhere from 10 to 2,000 people from one to five years with power, food, water and filtered air.

It doesn’t help that Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Ben Bernanke recently admitted that America’s financial future is “unusually uncertain.”

People of the nation are craving a George Washington or Winston Churchill to stand up and tell them that everything will be all right—and more importantly—show them how that will be so.

Instead, they are left with compromised politicians, special interests and hidden agendas. Left fights right. New regulations to supposedly fix the economy are pushed by socialists, and then watered down by moneyed capitalists. Useless bureaucracy strangles small business. Politicians save the “too big to fail” Wall Street banks, then encourage them to grow even bigger. The small local banks collapse, and get eaten by the big banks. The biggest banking problem of all—the Federal Reserve—is handed even more power to “prevent” financial meltdown, even though it was a leading cause of the financial meltdown. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan rage on. America can’t afford to stay, but it can’t afford to leave. America’s budget deficit is exploding. Trillions of dollars borrowed and spent to “stimulate” the economy—with seemingly little or no appreciable effect. All the while, the rolls of the unemployed grow, mortgage defaults escalate and personal bankruptcies surge. And now, for the first time since the 1960s, racial tension is becoming a national problem again.

Where are the real men? Gone are the leaders who stand up for right, for good—regardless of the political cost. Gone are the leaders who call a spade a spade because it is a spade and not because it is just politically correct. Gone are the men who lead on principle as opposed to polls.

Is it any wonder that America is falling apart so rapidly? Its men are broken.

But society is broken too. Even if such a true masculine man were to run for office, he would be rejected because people like to hear smooth things. No one likes the truth when it hurts.

No one likes to be told that America’s economic system is broken, that the dollar will lose its reserve currency status, that America will not be able to pay its bills, that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will be severely cut, that standards of living will fall drastically, that people won’t have money for Starbucks anymore. That America is in irreversible decline. That people need to wake up.

In ancient Israel, some people tried to kill the prophets for such messages. But when the people headed the warning, disaster was averted and the nation blessed.

The Prophet Isaiah warned that the time would come when America would have a crippling lack of righteous, masculine leadership (Isaiah 3:2-3). During this time period, the “mighty man … the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent and the ancient … and the honourable man and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator” would be taken away.

Isaiah says that instead, women and children would rule and that conditions would continue to deteriorate until you couldn’t even give leadership positions to men if you wanted to (Isaiah 3:7)."

FromThe Vigilante.com.by Jeff Berwick8/3/2010 "The Grand Delusion of the Double Dip"

"Watching American TV news or reading American newspapers can be dangerous to your mental and financial health. Whatever information they proffer is usually bereft with inaccuracies, fallacies and propaganda.

But, in order to understand what information the public is receiving it is important to take an hour or two per month to tune in to these propaganda dispensers, such as CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN and all the rest.

It is a difficult thing to do for a number of reasons. First, practically everything the talking heads say is either incorrect, a lie or something so unimportant in the grand scheme of things - an obvious diversion from the real important issues (Lindsay Lohan, seriously?) - that it is just painful to watch. And secondly, for those that are not used to imbibing this media version of raw sewage on a regular basis, the amount of flashing graphics, alerts and pace of the discussions and debates are so rapid-fire and more shouted than spoken that you can actually feel your heart start to race after watching just a few minutes of any "news" program.

But, in the interests of hearing what is being preached to the American sheeple this month, we tuned in for a few hours over the course of the last few weeks.

There is ALWAYS a buzz word that seems to be omnipresent as though it has been passed down from some overseer to all the media networks for that month to be repeated over and over. A few years ago it was the "goldilocks economy". Then a few months ago after the goldilocks economy had been eaten by the big bad wolf all the networks started yapping constantly about "green shoots".

Well, as anyone who watches this pablum knows, the green shoots are long past wilted and this month's buzzword is: THE DOUBLE DIP

Goldman Sachs' installed US Treasury Czar hit the talk show circuit to assure everyone that everything is fine. He proclaimed he not only didn't foresee a double dip, but, "an economy that gradually strengthens over the next year or two."

But, yet again, it is a classic case of propaganda and diversion. Why? Because we never even exited the last recession. It’s tough to double dip when the economy is essentially a skydiver in freefall without a parachute!"

With Love and Kindness,

THE HATMAN