An Apocalypse Observed

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

The Progressive Revolution Confronts the Orange Terror

It's official. The Democrat Party's operatives have weaponized the Department of Justice, the FBI, the NSA, the IRS, the Military and the CIA. Unless you're living under a rock, you've probably heard that the FBI has raided Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. Why? they are looking to see if he has any classified documents in his possession. They hope to convict him of a violation that will prevent him from running for office again. Those people are really getting desperate to complete the progressive (i.e. socialist) revolution and at this point their time is running out, especially since Trump-supported candidates are winning contest after contest lately.

I don't expect we'll be having elections in November. I think we are at the point where the Dems, the media, the new "woke" military and their deep state allies will use monkeypox, a new Covid variant or a fake wave of white supremacist attacks - anything to stop the November elections. And it will all be in the name of safety, security and order. Oh, and peace and unity. Don't forget peace and unity.

The realities of collectivist, socialist and globalist policies "are coming home to roost" as the Reverend Jeremiah Wright once put it. Most Americans are a patient, mostly private people, content to take care of their own business and let you take care of yours. Early Americans were refugees from all those civilized Old World nations. They wanted to make their own way and not be put upon by hereditary busybodies. And thus we wound up with a nation of the people, by the people and for the people.

Unfortunately genetics will out and eventually the children and children's children and children's children's children began popping out with the obsessive compulsive bookkeeper gene. That's the one where the person afflicted with this malady, has a powerful need to put everything in some kind of order, document everything and control everything. Eventually, these genetically impaired individuals band together to try and apply some level of control over all those blessed with individualism, ADD, and the need to be free. Soon they find a way to create laws and taxes to hem in the non-collectivists and to gradually begin molding a new American government in which the individual is of the state, by the state, and for the state rather than the other way round. Which is why they need to rig elections Soviet style so only the appropriate people always win while preserving the fiction that our votes actually count.

We are at the tipping point between the state serving the people and the people serving the state. The nation is divided more so than we were by slavery. And the old party of slavery is taking another run at reestablishing the two-tiered society once enjoyed by the folk of the dark ages. We're to have an elite hereditary ruling class that American Independence once thoroughly discredited and the masses, the proletariat, the people or whatever you want to call us regular herd beasts whose only use is to provide unwavering support for the state. And by state we mean the government run by the ruling classes.

Fortunately, there are still enough of us independent, freedom-loving, ADD, individualists, that the left is having trouble tipping America. Much as it would like to do away with our beautiful Constitution in favor of always-failed, discredited, Marxism on the grounds that it sounds good and makes those who think they are smart enough to be the ruling class.

First it was slavery of a race of people. Now it's slavery of all people and it's the same party that's doing it again to us. We haven't been this sharply divided since 1859 and once again it's the Democrat Party that would lead a revolution.

We did that once in 1776. Do we really want to see it happen again? Watch for the signs that the socialist left is getting ready to slap us all into line.

© 2022 by Tom King

Friday, July 29, 2022

Rome Aids Washington Border Policy

Roman Catholic charities and organizations are supporting the Democrat left's border policy despite the church's opposition to the left's abortion policy. Scripture says the whole world will "wonder after the Beast." Seems like the Beast is wondering after the Image to the Beast despite their political differences.

The last two popes have come out openly in favor of a global (i.e. socialist) government with teeth (Pope Benedict's words). The teeth would be to keep troublesome nations like the US in line. Despite its firm stand on abortion, the Vatican is far more supportive of global socialism these days than they are of liberty. The Holy See prefers social "justice" to freedom it seems. So, in fact, do many progressive Protestant churches. There is even a movement to reunite Protestant churches to the so-called "mother church." Pope Frances has issued a video declaring an end to Martin Luther's little protest. The churches that seem most interested in reuniting with the "mother church" are those with political ties to progressivism. Here's what Frances had to say to a gathering of Protestant evangelicals of the charismatic strain.

As it turns out, socialism may be the glue that will cement the power of the 3 unclean spirits like frogs that come out of the mouth of the Dragon (pagan secular powers), the Beast (which received its power from pagan Rome, and the false prophet (who could that be)? What we do know is that these 3 powers will "perform signs and go out to all the kings of the earth, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty." Revelation 16:13.

This is all one more sign of Christ's imminent coming. The forces of darkness are gathering. You cannot watch or read the news. You cannot avoid the pressure to surrender and join the dark side. Whether you do or not depends on your faith and trust in He who is coming soon.

Note: We are called by Christ to love and not hate, even our enemies. We are also called to be watchmen on the wall, wise as serpents and gentle as doves. We see in these things the signs of Christ's coming. It is a call to Christians everywhere. Let us watch and be ready for as the old hymn says, "He will come!"

© 2022 by Tom King

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Well Doesn't This Sound All Mark of the Beastish?

Apparently President Puddin'head has got the Federal Reserve working on his truly disturbing all digital currency idea. The Federal Reserve's Board of Governors has issued a White Paper titled:

Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation, published January 2022.

The paper as one conservative news pass-through pointed out "Promotes consumer protection and community development through consumer-focused supervision and examination… and administration of consumer laws and regulations." A Central Bank Digital Currency sounds like a good idea on the surface of it and admittedly it might work if this were a different world that didn't have evil megalomaniacs in it that live for the day when Marxist global socialism is the universal power. The Founding Fathers of the United States deliberately limited the power of government to do that sort of heavy-handed thing.

The White Paper admits that under current regulations, a central bank digital currency would be an overreach. "The Federal Reserve Act does not authorize direct Federal Reserve accounts for individuals, and such accounts would represent a significant expansion of the Federal Reserve's role in the financial system and the economy." No kidding.

The paper outlines a process for gradually creating a digital currency as the standard US dollar to replace paper money. It begins by using intermediary financial institutions to shuffle money from sender to recipient. In practice, the paper points out, "this would mean that a Central Bank Digital Currency intermediary would need to verify the identity of a person accessing CBDC, just as banks and other financial institutions currently verify the identities of their customers." As the rollout of the system takes place, all human creatures great and small would have a Federal Reserve managed CBDC account.

This will be good says the Fed because, "A central bank could pay no interest on CBDC." Still because a liability of the central bank is essentially riskless, depositors (meaning us members of the proletariat) may prefer CBDC over bank deposits in a crisis even if the CBDC has a less attractive rate of return.

And here's the tricky bit. "A central bank could potentially address this risk by limiting the total amount of CBDC an end user could hold, or it could limit the amount of CBDC an end user could accumulate over short periods."

The Fed worries about the "potential effects of CBDC on bank deposits and bank lending, QNE the potential effects of CBDC on the economic decisions of households and businesses." By expanding the power of the Fed to control money and with the eventual elimination of paper currency and coins, it also provides government authorities to see and potentially "to manage" every penny you've got. Potentially, a fully implemented digital currency could be used to control and individual citizens ability to buy and sell. Why does that sound familiar?

Central Bank Digital Currency, the paper claims, could "possibly" interact with the Federal Reserve's other tools in conducting monetary policy to achieve its "macroeconomic objectives." In other words, a digital currency under control of the Fed could be used to implement government monetary policy. Socialism, by the way, is just such a monetary policy. The game could be rigged to cripple citizens who step out of whatever prescribed financial practices the government decides to implement.

For instance, if the government wanted people to stop buying corn because powerful politicians wanted all corn to go to make ethanol, it could. It could easily block any purchase of corn products like tortillas, Doritoes or cans of corn chowder effectively deciding what consumers buy and sell. If you wanted people to service the Fed's centralized economic plan, what better way than to make it impossible to guy or sell stuff the government disapproved of. The potential for abuse is stunning, given the proclivities of our self-appointed intellectual betters.

The trouble is, a digital dollar won't exist in print form. Once the CBDC transition is complete, you can't go to the bank or an ATM and get physical cash from your account, not even from your CBDC account that contains your digital currency. Even more creepy, digital currency will surely be designed so that government via the Federal Reserve would have substantial control over your money .

In general a Central Bank managed digital currency could and likely will "generate data about users' financial transactions in the same ways that commercial bank and nonbank money generates such data today." In intermediate stages of CBDC implementation intermediaries like banks, credit card companies or money market managers would address consumer privacy concerns using existing tools, basically luring folks into a false sense of security. Then the Feds take over all that.

The Fed now forces financial institutions to comply with what the paper describes as a "robust set of rules that are designed to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. " Given who the sorts of people government enforcement agencies are and who they now consider "terrorists," bloggers, conservative pundits and journalists, conservative Christians, etc., a fully deployed digital currency would provide federal law enforcement agencies a relatively simple way to track down any resistance to government policy.

The Fed's rules not only enforce customer due diligence, record-keeping, and reporting requirements for corporations and large companies. According to the paper, any digital currency controlled by a Central Bank would "need to be designed in a manner that facilitates compliance with these rules." Even during the intermediary ramp up of the CBDC system, private-sector partners with established programs would help ensure compliance with Fed rules even before the system is fully implemented. They seem to believe that it's a good idea to hit the ground running; get everybody onboard as soon as possible.

The Federal Reserve Board's Technology Lab is researching how to use application programming interfaces to support the issuance, distribution, and use of privately issued digital currencies. Note, the interfaces would be designed to support the use of your personal digital money. The Fed sells the idea by claiming that "central bank money is the most trusted and safest form of money because the Federal Reserve, as a central bank issuer, presents no credit risk and no liquidity risk." This supposed "safest form of money" is considered safe because security agencies would have much easier access to your financial records. Doesn't sound safe to me.

Digital currency could well be a highly efficient way to get money around. Indeed, it already is, No paper, no shipping things around in boxes, and no cubicles filled with file clerks. But those who would control us need to simplify everything in order to effectively centrally plan our lives. Computers help these simple souls who completely buy-in to Marxist socialist ideas.

Trouble is that making things simple through control of complex systems via computer, deceives the upper echelons who make decisions based on simplified data. Artificially simplified answers convince those using those systems that the decisions they make about complex issues about how more than 300 million of us live, where we live, where we work and whether or not we reproduce, that they are making wise decisions.

They are not capable of making decisions for millions of us. There are too many of us and too few of them and the issues are too complex.

© 2022 by Tom King

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