Obama Needs Your Help!

Will you join me in helping Obama start World War III and win another Peace Prize? 

Are You Crazy?

I can just see you asking this as I recommend that you watch a four-hour documentary. But this BBC documentary is that important. If you want to understand how the world works, at least the part of the world I call Babylon the Great, then invest the time.

Originally I had commentary of each of the four parts when I first recommended the series. The original links no longer work, so the one link below is the one you will have to use if you watch. If you want to know my understanding of the documentary, click the following links.

This is a different Bernays

Part I 

Part II

Part III

Part IV

The beloved editor of the Prophecy Podcast blog, Pam Dewey, has also written about these issues, and the "star" of the documentary, Edward Bernays. Click here for her commentary.

The Wizard of Adz 

If this is the first time you have thought about these issues, this documentary could literally change how you look at the world.

Interview With Paul Craig Roberts

While I can not embed the interview, nor is it video, I still think it is worth your time to listen. 

I am not convinced that Obama attacking Syria is a war crime; part of the interview dicusses this, and it is an interesting argument. 

The main part of the interview is the short term economic outlook, and I mostly agree. 

However he is a little too pessimistic, as most hard money types are. I think that the point Roberts makes about the huge internal China market, eventually after a lot of sweat and tears, also applies to the US. Thus I am guardedly pessimistic. 

Here is the interview. 

How Do I Hate Thee?

How do I hate thee? 

Let me count the ways.

I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach.

With apologies to Elizabeth Browning. 

If you are a Republican, is this how you feel about Obama?
If you are a Democrat, is this how you feel about Sarah Palin? 

Let's say you are right and these people are your enemies and worthy of your hate. 

What did Jesus say about your enemies? I bet you already know, but just in case, here is Jesus in Mathew 5:

43-47 “You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that.

48 “In a word, what I’m saying is, Grow up. You’re kingdom subjects. Now live like it. Live out your God-created identity. Live generously and graciously toward others, the way God lives toward you.”

Hmm.

Paul mentions those whose conscience has been seared with a hot iron. Did you blush when you read what Jesus said in the context I provided of politics? If so, then mediate on this. If not, then I am not speaking to you. Either you are not active in politics, or your conscience is already seared. 

"Where You From Boy?"

I remember reading a book decades ago called The Nine Nations of North America. The book did not predict the end of America so much as point out the obvious. America is rather hopelessly divided into rather obvious sections. This was self-evident to me at the time as I had not too long before moved from California to Missouri. I had been asked by a truck driver rather pointedly, "Where you from, Boy?" I was in northern Arkansas at the time. 

With that in mind here is one future map of a possible future US:

The breakup of many countries does seem inevitable. Spain is particularly vulnerable. One thing that is holding back such separatist fervor is the huge debt of these countries, but if that debt ends up repudiated ...

An interesting question that is not particularly important now but may be later is one that you may need to ask yourself. 

"Where you from Boy?"