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Stacie here reads a release from a Spanish firm whose job it is to predict the bankruptcies coming of their investments in Latin America. She says the wave is coming by fall. Max adds that all this was predicted after 2008, that in a dozen years because no changes were made, it would just hit again, only worse. We’re here.

The reason it will be worse, it that all “elasticity” has been removed. The tricks they’ve used in the past to keep it all afloat. Lowering interest rates (they can’t go any lower), off-shoring jobs (they’re already overseas), importing cheap labor (we’ve got 30 million illegals), printing money (we’ve got $30T in debt). Its all been done. There’s no more wiggling. All the stupid policy decisions of the past 100 years is coming due. That snowball that’s been gaining speed downhill, its here.

The rise of China and their coming electronic currency will be the death knell.

[The example I had meant to use was the one David Horowitz told about in one of his many books. There was a magazine for radicals back in the 60’s called ‘Ramparts‘. He explained that it never had the commercial success to succeed on its own, so they had to find a funding source. They used their fellow travelers in Hollywood to wine and dine likely marks. Once they had bled the young heir or heiress of their fortune, they discarded them and moved on to another. The magazine ran from 1962 – 1975. Nearly the exact same timeframe as the Vietnam War coincidently. That was when they ran out of fools to bilk and the magazine folded. The other tidbit Horowitz points out, was that even though the war went on until April of ’75, the war protests stopped in December of ’72. Why would that be? Nixon stopped the draft in December of ’72. No draft no protests. The war went on another 2 1/2 years. Minus the protestors. Which, if you wanted to end the boondoggles we have today like 20 years in Afghanistan, all you would have to do is bring back the draft.]

At the end of this gun review on some gun blog I was on they were having a discussion on why Wayne LaPierre needs to get out of the National Rifle Association (way too many allegations of graft and corruption to be all smoke). The similarity it reminded me of was our government in Washington. Many of them need to go, they’ve been there too long. But like LaPierre, they are so selfish they’d rather harm the organization rather then be inconvenienced themselves. And forget “proving” the allegations in court, he knows the rumors, he knows the talk. Anyone of any character would resign rather than even begin to risk harming millions of others and the organization they loved. Just out of a sense of duty. You wouldn’t have to take him to court.

If you put your faith in any man you will be disappointed. Having said that, with what we have to work with, there were (are) none better than Adrian Rogers for preaching God’s word. How short his life was, age 74. Born in God’s country (West Palm Beach, Florida) in 1931, he departed this earth in 2005. A common theme in the “I died and went to heaven” books is their perception that the preachers with the magic are having God’s thunder poured on them from heaven. I truly believe that. I’m also hoping that as many Christians never knew who Adrian Rogers was, there are many other great preachers out there that I will never know of. Because one of the thoughts that always crosses my mind when I catch one of his sermons is (like I did this morning), why was Adrian so rare?

I have to wonder what is going on in seminaries across the country? It is not that tough to figure out what the ingredients to great preaching are, and since that is pretty much how God’s word is spread, why aren’t they better at it? Sitting through a church service should not be a trial and a tribulation but so often it is. The knowledge is about always there, that’s not the problem. Its the Divine spark that’s missing. Why? Why did Billy Graham have it? Ravi Zacharias. But so few others?

I suppose a lot of it is the work of the anti-Christ media and their partner the Devil: They don’t want you to know of the great preachers. Another common tactic is to start tearing a man down once he dies. Sometimes it begins while he’s alive, but generally its once he’s gone and can’t defend himself. When I just now was looking up how to spell Ravi’s last name I saw the searches they wanted me to see of some scandal that came out after he died. I didn’t even look at them. They ignore completely his amazing 50 year body of work, and immediately hop on that one chink in his armor.

As I said in the first sentence of this post, don’t put your faith in man, put it in God. Heathen forever have loved to find the foibles of the men of God. They rush out like obnoxious 7th graders, “See! See! He’s not perfect!” Well no kidding, that’s why we need Jesus. As Adrian pointed out this morning, if you think you’re working your way to heaven you are sadly mistaken. So if you feel you can only follow God if His messenger is perfection walking, then you will not be following God.

Nevertheless it still escapes me, where is the passion in the preaching? Other than knowledge, that is about the only other ingredient (besides physical presentation). This is basic Salesmanship 101. You’ve got to believe in what you’re selling. I know very little about circuit rider Billy Sunday. The one thing I have picked up from this hard-luck, uneducated man, is that he had passion in spades. Why? But once again, its a perfect example of how the Devil’s henchmen (the media) don’t want you to know about him.

That’s how I know I’m operating just where I want to be. I can get banned from conservative sites just as quickly as liberal ones. I was permanently kicked off of Gateway Pundit. Temporarily kicked off Western Journal. Had numerous posts blocked from World Net Daily. The liberal sites are too numerous to mention. That’s an interesting thing about liberal sites. 6 or 7 years ago an interesting place to be was the comments section at the end of MSN news-feed articles. It was that eternal left-right bickering nonstop.

Then MSN stopped it, they no longer had comments after their articles. Yeah, they just eliminated it. Then I heard the CNN site never has had comments. I started to notice a pattern. If liberal sites do have a comment section, it is highly regulated and tightly controlled. And that is when I saw another meme pointing that out, something to the effect of: “In a free market place of ideas, conservatism always wins out. Liberalism can only exist with censorship.”

And that is really what it is. The proof is born out every day now for over 30 years. With the most absolute proof there is, the dollar. Companies put their money where their mouth is. Foundations, universities and other entities supported with someone else’s money can play little woke games with speech, but corporate radio deals with dollars and cents, not with regards to woke feelings. All liberals have ever gotten out of talk radio is slaughtered. The only thing they’ve ever been left with is a bloody stump. That’s the market place of ideas, and it determines winners and losers.

There’s a reason liberals can’t “meme”, only apex predators can relax long enough to laugh.

Mark Levine, Buck Sexton, even Janet Yellen is beginning to talk about “inflation”. She gets it wrong of when she equates inflation with rising prices (inflation of course is simply inflating the money supply with a fiat currency). Average cost of a new home is up $36K due to skyrocketing lumber costs. Cars and trucks are being shipped to dealers without chips, “We’ll get them to you later.” Max and Stacy in the video talk about “shrink” inflation, producers are trying to hide it by keeping the “price” the same while shrinking the size of the product in the package.

“Party like its 1929!” The point of this post is to piss in the wind obviously. Its to warn you that the dollars you hold are about to be worth a lot less. I would use those dollars now to buy the commodities you will need in the future. Not only will you be needing that food or toiletries anyway, but chances are real good they won’t even be on the shelf in the near future, even if you could afford them.

Americans like me felt the Toilet Paper Apocalypse was the end of the world a year ago. It took a full year to get shelves restocked for something as low tech as toilet paper! Can you imagine what’s coming with food shortages? Things like milk and meat require real care in transportation and storage. Can you imagine what’s going to happen as power outages increase? 5 chicken processing plants have burned the past year. Guess what’s going to happen to the price of chicken?

If you know nothing, I’d be watching a few prepper channels. A garden plot. Some stored water. Some canned food. A couple of gas cans with gasoline in them away from the house. A reliable gun with ammo. Toiletries. And most importantly, a network. Those clowns in Congress aren’t going to do anything. They can’t agree on a lunch menu. They think January 6 was an insurrection.