Monday, August 4, 2014

COMMENTARY & OPINION XCVI

From the desk of
Bill Ramey
8/1/14

COMMENTARY & OPINION
XCVI

Greetings friends, 

A couple of issues back, I shared with you a personal experience of learning to do one's own thinking. 

Now I would like to share with you a reader's experience in doing one's own Bible study or research. 

It is quite obvious she is applying the formula of Isaiah 28 for the acquisition of knowledge and doctrine --- "…Precept upon precept … line upon line … here a little and there a little …"

So do we need 14 translations of the Bible, a copy of Halley's Handbook, The Testimony of the Patriarchs, Josephus and The Bible as History in order to be counted among the wise?  Certainly not!  We need an attitude capable of receiving new truth "…with all readiness of mind", as the Bereans did.  The apostle Paul was saying some things that were strange when compared to the Jewish religion extant at the time.  But the Bereans listened and checked it out and learned something.  The Jews had falsified the scriptures long before the time of Paul as we can see in Jeremiah 8:8.  The present world has been "fogged" with much more than the Jewish religion and all of it is a SCAM and we begin to see this in Isaiah 56:10-12. 


Meaning of Isaiah 31:9?
by Bonnie M  
Aug 1 at 5:48 PM

Hi

I said I'd get back to you on your question to me of what I think Isaiah 31:9 means. I have been thinking about the verse and have read it in 3 translations, as I generally do when trying to understand the meaning.  Your version said "His furnace is set up in Jerusalem (New English)".  My New English says: of the last part of verse 9 - "This is what the Lord says -- the one whose fire is in Zion, whose firepot is in Jerusalem".  Then, I shall quote from the Holman which says, "This is the Lord's declaration---- whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem."  Lastly, the NLT which says of the verse, ---"says the Lord, whose fire burns in Zion, whose flame blazes from Jerusalem."

A fire or a furnace generally represents heat. I think these scriptures are showing Yahweh's burning wrath and judgment mounting up in Jerusalem. Obviously, "HE" is there at this time.  And, will protect those there at the time. Back in verse 5 of Isaiah 31 my version says (NLT) The Lord of Heaven's Armies will HOVER OVER Jerusalem and protect it like a bird protecting its nest. HE will defend and save the city; he will pass over it and rescue it."  The New English says nearly the same. While the Holman Study says a bit different, "Like HOVERING birds, so the Lord of Hosts will protect Jerusalem---by protecting it, HE will rescue it, by sparing it, HE will deliver it.  Your version said "shield over Jerusalem".

All of these are showing Yahweh's protection of Zion. Reading the other verses in the chapter prior to verse 9, especially verse 8 which tells us whom YAHWEH will be angry at, "Assyria will fall by a sword, but NOT on e human-made; a sword NOT made by humankind will destroy them." (New English).  The Holman says: "Then Assyria will fall, but NOT by human sword; a sword will devour him, but NOT one made by man."  Then lastly, the NLT says: "The Assyrians will be destroyed, but NOT by the swords of men. The sword of God (Elohim/Yahweh) will strike them."  Yahweh's wrath and anger is building up or heating up and HE will protect Jerusalem from the Assyrian or it's armies.  Because our Elohim express their wrath by very descriptive words in so many scriptures.  One example is in chapter 30 of Isaiah, verse 30 which says (NLT) "And the Lord (Yahweh) will make his majestic voice heard. HE will display the strength of his mighty arm. It will descend with DEVOURING FLAMES, with cloud-bursts, thunderstorms, and huge hailstones."  Also, in verse 33 of the same chapter, (last part) it says "The breath of the Lord, like FIRE from a volcano, will set it ablaze."  The New English says ----- " with furious ANGER and FLAMING, destructive FIRE" ----- The Holman says "in ANGRY WRATH and a flame of CONSUMING fire" etc.  And, in the Holman of verse 33, "The BREATH of the Lord, like a torrent of BRIMSTONE, kindles it.  Yahweh will protect Jerusalem/Zion from the "Assyrian" and or the armies coming against them. His judgment and wrath are heating up and will devour them. Be as hot as brimstone - devouring flames, destructive fire.  Yahweh will take care of this enemy.  No one else but HIM.  In Isaiah 31:5 you can get a hint in the phrase "will pass over it and rescue it". This could be referring to the "passover" of the Israelites in Egypt too. Here, again the Elohim will protect and spare his people. HE WILL FIGHT FOR THEM.  This what I see from all the verses. I will await your reply and what you believe it is saying.  And, is it Yahweh's chosen people whom he has rescued that are there in Jerusalem doing the work of reconstruction and agriculture. Getting ready, in anticipation of those who will come later in the 2nd exodus out of the tribulation?  I hope you receive this tomorrow in your emails.  Those are my thoughts on what I see from these scriptures.


Ramey response:

Bravo!  I wouldn't even attempt to improve on that. 


EBOLA
From charles

There is something very, very important that the corporate media and public health officials are not telling you regarding the Ebola outbreak in west Africa. The information I'm about to present here:

8/1/14 Today at 5:44 AM

The information I'm about to present here is frightening. There's really no way around that. However, I request that you do your very best to maintain a calm state of mind.

Right now in West Africa the worst Ebola outbreak in history is in full swing and is jumping borders at an alarming rate. Already it has spread to four countries, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and now Nigeria. This latest jump into Nigeria is particularly serious since the infected individual carried the virus by plane to Lagos Nigeria, a city with a population of over 21 million. Doctors without borders has referred to the outbreak as "out of control".

To make matters worse, there is something very, very important that the corporate media and public health officials are not telling you regarding this crisis.

You'll notice if you read virtually any mainstream article on the topic that they make a point of insisting that Ebola is only transferred by physical contact with bodily fluids. This is not true, at all.

A study conducted in 2012 showed that Ebola was able to travel between pigs and monkeys that were in separate cages and were never placed in direct contact.

Though the method of transmission in the study was not officially determined, one of the scientists involved, Dr. Gary Kobinger, from the National Microbiology Laboratory at the Public Health Agency of Canada, told BBC News that he believed that the infection was spread through large droplets that were suspended in the air.

"What we suspect is happening is large droplets; they can stay in the air, but not long; they don't go far," he explained. "But they can be absorbed in the airway, and this is how the infection starts, and this is what we think, because we saw a lot of evidence in the lungs of the non-human primates that the virus got in that way."

Translation: Ebola IS an airborne virus.

UPDATE: Someone pointed out that in medical terms, if the virus is transferred through tiny droplets in the air this would technically not be called an "airborne virus". Airborne, in medical terms would mean that the virus has the ability to stay alive without a liquid carrier. On one hand this is a question of semantics, and the point is well taken, but keep in mind that the study did not officially determine how the virus traveled through the air, it merely established that it does travel through the air. Doctor Kobinger's hypothesis regarding droplets of liquid is just that, a hypothesis. For the average person however what needs to be understood is very simple: if you are in a room with someone infected with Ebola, you are not safe, even if you never touch them or their bodily fluids, and this is not what you are being told by the mainstream media. Essentially I am using the word "airborne" as a layman term (which kind of makes sense, since I am a layman in this field).

Now I'm not going to speculate as to whether these so called "journalist" and public health agencies who keep repeating the official line regarding the means of transmission are lying, or are just participating in some massive display of synchronized incompetence, but what I will say, is that this shoddy reporting is most likely getting people killed right now, and may in fact put all of humanity in danger.

How so?
By convincing people that the virus cannot travel through air, important precautions that could reduce the spread of the virus are not being taken. For example the other passengers on the plane that traveled to Lagos, Nigeria were not quarantined.

To put this into context, Ebola kills between 50% and 90% of its victims, so the stakes are very, very high here.

NOTE: We have reported on the fact that Ebola can spread through the air in three separate articles since March of 2014, here, here and here, however the corporate media has continued to misrepresent the vectors of transmission.

This particular strain of Ebola is not Ebola Zaire. This is a new strain, and it may in fact be more dangerous than the Zaire variety. Not because of any difference in the symptoms (the symptoms are identical), but because this new virus seems to be harder to contain. Whether this is due to some characteristic of the virus itself or merely dumb luck is uncertain at this time, but the rate at which this outbreak has extended its range is unprecedented.

According to the CDC this virus is genetically 97% similar to the Zaire strain. However if you are interested in this virus' phylogenetic relationship (genetic lineage) to the Zaire strain you should read "Phylogenetic Analysis of Guinea 2014 EBOV Ebolavirus Outbreak" on plos.org.

Another study by the New England Journal of medicine (this was the one referenced by the CDC) specifically names the parts of the genetic code which differ:

The three sequences, each 18,959 nucleotides in length, were identical with the exception of a few polymorphisms at positions 2124 (G→A, synonymous), 2185 (A→G, NP552 glycine→glutamic acid), 2931 (A→G, synonymous), 4340 (C→T, synonymous), 6909 (A→T, sGP291 arginine→tryptophan), and 9923 (T→C, synonymous).

Note that there doesn't yet seem to be a consensus as to what this new strain is called. One study referred to it as "Guinean EBOV", another as "Guinea 2014 EBOV Ebolavirus" and others are still referring to it as Zaire. Given that we can specifically name the points where the virus has mutated, using the old name is misleading.

Right now the question on everyone's minds is whether this virus will spread outside of Africa. Considering the fact that Ebola has a three week incubation period, can travel through the air, and has already hitchhiked onto an international flight, this is a very real possibility. There are some that are downplaying the probability of this outcome, and to be honest, I hope that they are right, but the simple fact of the matter is that these people are basing their assessment on the faulty premise that Ebola is not an airborne virus.

Now the first thing you might be feeling when looking at this situation is a sense of fear and helplessness, and while that's a perfectly normal reaction it's really not helpful. Instead we should be thinking in terms of practical steps we can take to influence the outcome.

One thing we can all do is to start confronting journalists and public officials who keep making false statements regarding the way Ebola spreads. Use the links to the original study, the BBC report from 2012 and this video to put them in their place.

We also need to confront the fact that there isn't a full out, coordinated, international effort to contain this. This is being treated like a sideshow but it has the very real potential to become a main event.

The doctors on the ground in West Africa don't have enough staff or resources to deal with this situation. It is absolutely inexcusable for the U.S. and the E.U. to be investing billions of tax payer dollars into their little power games in Ukraine and Syria (which are both in the process of escalating right now by the way) while Ebola is getting a foothold in Africa. Every available resource should be shifted to West Africa in order to contain and extinguish this epidemic right now.

This is serious. Call them, write them, heckle them in the streets if you have to, but don't allow them to ignore this issue. Make it impossible for them to pretend later that they didn't know.

Now whether or not official policy towards the Ebola crisis changes there are some precautions that you should take right now for yourself and your family.

1. Know where you would go if you needed to leave your home on short notice. If Ebola escapes Africa the last place you want to be is in a densely populated metropolitan area. It may be that the most practical destination for your family would be a rural area near your current home, but if you already have concerns about the government you are living under, and how they may handle a crisis like this, then you might want to start looking at alternatives. Finding an alternative location that suits your family's needs is something that requires a lot of time and research, so don't put this off. The primary characteristics you should be examining in an alternative destination are geography, political environment, climate, population density and visa terms and requirements. Ideally you would want to end up somewhere that is geographically isolated to some degree.

2. If you don't have passports for yourself and each of your dependents, get them now. This is not to say that you should leave your country, but you should have the means to do so. In countries where the Ebola outbreak is underway it is getting harder and harder to exit. Borders are being closed down. Flights are being cut off. This didn't happen right away, but you definitely don't want to be waiting for your passport to show up if Ebola arrives in your city.

3. Know what you would carry with you if you had to leave on short notice. Have those items ready, and have the luggage to carry them. It would be wise to consider buying a pack of surgical masks as part of this.

Now if you think about it, these preparations are wise steps to take regardless of whether the Ebola situation deteriorates or not. Knowing where you would go in an emergency, and having the means to get there on short notice is important for a wide variety of situations. The civilian population of Iraq, Syria, east Ukraine, and Gaza can attest to that.

Whatever you do don't let fear take control of your mind. Take the steps you can take now, monitor the situation calmly, and be prepared to adapt if necessary.

UPDATE: A number of people have requested that I comment on the fact that the Americans infected by Ebola are right now being flown into the U.S. My personal opinion is that this particular move will not lead to the virus getting out. This event is going to be highly scrutinized, and the isolation security should be at max. The real danger isn't in these highly controlled transfers and quarantines, but rather in the ongoing flow of air travel from these regions. Thirty five countries are merely one flight away from an Ebola zone right now.

Why is this random air travel more dangerous?

Because if it gets in when people aren't looking, it can spread before containment measures are put into place.


AMERICA IS FACING THE EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT OF 124 SIMULTANEOUS FUKUSHIMA MELTDOWNS

31 Jul, 2014 by Dave Hodges
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This congressman has tried to warn the nation about the coming threat.

The threats posed by a nuclear meltdown are catastrophic. What if the United States was facing 124 nuclear meltdowns, similar in scope to the meltdown at Fukushima, all at the same time?


Lessons Learned From Fukushima

Most aware Americans are cognizant of the fact that because of Fukushima, the fish of the earth are becoming inedible and the ocean currents as well as the prevailing ocean winds are carrying deadly radiation and the net effect is a lowering of life expectancy over the next generation. Additionally, the radioactivity has made its way into the transpiration cycle which means that crops are being dowsed with deadly radiation. The radiation has undoubtedly made its way into the water table in many areas and impacts every aspect of the food supply. One mere nuclear power plant meltdown has threatened the stability of the planet in so many ways. However, this article is not about the devastation of just one nuclear power plant failure at Fukushima, instead, this article focuses on the fact that the results from just ONE “successful false flag event, could launch North America into a doomsday scenario of having 124 Fukushima events occurring at the same time!

All that would have to happen for this nightmare to become a reality is a take down of the electrical grid presumably through the use of an EMP attack upon the power grid.

Do you know what the greatest threat posed to America with regard to an EMP attack would be? The facts behind the answer to this question will be addressed later in this article. Unfortunately, the immediate answer to this question is that America, and perhaps the entire planet, would be facing an EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT.


Warnings From On High

Some top officials in government and in business have taken notice of the threat posed to America by an EMP attack. In January of 2013, and again in her August 2013  farewell address as the outgoing  Director of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano made it clear that it was a matter of when, not if the grid was taken down by a “cyber 911″.

It is not a matter of “if” but “when”.

Joining the former DHS director in her concerns about an impending EMP attack is billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer who has issued a very dire warning for investors in which he calls the threat of a widespread blackout from an electromagnetic surge the “most significant danger” in the world.” Singer wrote to clients of his $24.8 billion Elliott Management on this past Monday in a standard investment update letter. “Even horrendous nuclear war, except in its most extreme form, can [be] a relatively localized issue, and the threat from asteroids can (possibly) be mitigated.”

Why isn’t something, along the lines of the Paul Singer proclamation of the need to do something to harden the grid against an EMP attack, being done right now? After all, Singer doesn’t pull any punches when he says that an EMP attack upon our grid would likely be worse than an asteroid strike upon the earth or all-out nuclear war. Are Paul Singer and Janet Napolitano simply lone voices in the wilderness whose dire warnings have no basis in fact? Or, is there is something much more dire going on?


American Regulators Are Aware of the Threat

American regulators have long known that a power failure lasting for days involving the power grid connected to a nuclear plant, regardless of the cause, would most likely lead to a dangerous radioactive leak in at least several nuclear power plants. A complete loss of electrical power poses a major problem for nuclear power plants because the reactor core must be kept cool as well as the back-up cooling systems, all of which require massive amounts of power to work. Heretofore, all the NERC drills which test the readiness of a nuclear power plant are predicated on the notion that a blackout will only last 24 hours or less. Amazingly, this is the sum total of a NERC litmus test. How long was power out to New Orleans following Katrina or to New Jersey due to Sandy?  What are the odds that power blackout effects of an EMP attack would last under 24 hours?

Although we have the technology needed to harden and protect our grid from an EMP event, whether natural or man-made, we have failed to do so. The cost for protecting the entire grid is placed at about the cost for one B-1 Stealth Bomber. Yet, as a nation, we have done nothing. This is inexplicable and inexcusable and any aware American would be within their rights to question the motives of the people who are running NERC. In this case, the buck stops with President Obama as the executive head of this agency.

Our collective inaction against protecting the grid prompted Congressman Franks to write a scathing letter to the top officials of NERC. The Franks’ letter can be accessed at this link. However, the good Congressman failed to mention the most important aspect of this problem. The problem is entirely fixable and NERC and the U.S. government are leaving the American people and its infrastructure totally unprotected from a total meltdown of nuclear power plants as a result of a prolonged power failure.


The Unresolved Power Blackout Problem

According to Judy Haar, a recognized expert in nuclear plant failure analyses, when a nuclear power plant loses access to off-grid electricity, the event is referred to as a “station blackout”. Haar states that all of the  US nuclear power plants are built to withstand electrical outages without experiencing any core damage, through the activation of an automatic start up of emergency generators powered by diesel. Further, when emergency power kicks in, an automatic shutdown of the nuclear power plant commences. The dangerous control rods are dropped into the core, while water is pumped by the diesel power generators into the reactor to reduce the heat and thus, prevent a meltdown. Here is the catch in this process, the spent fuel rods are encased in both a primary and secondary containment structure which is designed to withstand a core meltdown. However, should the pumps stop because either the generators fail or diesel fuel is not available, the fuel rods are subsequently uncovered and a Fukushima type of core meltdown commences immediately.

A long-term loss of outside electrical power will most certainly interrupt the circulation of cooling water to the pools. One of my Palo Verde nuclear power plant sources informed me that there is no long term solution to a power blackout and that all bets are off if the blackout is due to an EMP attack. A more detailed analysis reveals that the spent fuel pools carry depleted fuel for the reactor. Normally, this spent fuel has had time to considerably decay and therefore, reducing radioactivity and heat.  However, the newer discharged fuel still produces heat and needs cooling.  Housed in high density storage racks, contained in buildings that vent directly into the atmosphere, radiation containment is not accounted for with regard to the spent fuel racks. In other words, there is no capture mechanism.

In this scenario, accompanied by a lengthy electrical outage, and with the emergency power waning due to either generator failure or a lack of diesel needed to power the generators, the plant could lose the ability to provide cooling. The water will subsequently heat up, boil away and uncover the spent fuel rods which required being covered in at least 25 feet of water to remain benign from any deleterious effects. Ultimately, this would lead to fires as well and the release of radioactivity into the atmosphere. This would be the beginning of another Fukushima event right here on American soil. Both my insider Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant source and Haar shared exactly the same scenario about how a meltdown would occur.

Subsequently, I have spoken with my friend and colleague, Roger Landry, who worked for Raytheon in various Department of Defense projects for 28 years, many of them in this arena and Roger also confirmed this information and that the above information is well known in the industry. When I examine Congressman Franks letter to NERC and I read between the lines, it is clear that Congressman Franks knows of this risk as well, he just stops short of specifically mentioning it in his letter.


The Questions That Are Not Being Asked

None of the NERC, or the Nuclear Regulatory tests of handling a prolonged blackout at a nuclear power plant have answered two critical questions, “What happens when these nuclear power plants run out of diesel fuel needed to run the generators”, and “What happens when some of these generators fail”? In the event of an EMP attack, can tanker trucks with diesel fuel get to all of the nuclear power plants in the US in time to re-fuel them before they stop running? Will tanker trucks even be running themselves in the aftermath of an EMP attack? And in the event of an EMP attack, it is not likely that any plant which runs low on fuel, or has a generator malfunction, will ever get any help to mitigate the crisis prior to a plethora of meltdowns occurring. Thus, every nuclear power plant in the country has the potential to cause a Chernobyl or Fukushima type accident if our country is hit by an EMP attack.

What if the reason for the blackout is an EMP burst caused by a high altitude nuclear blast and transportation comes to a standstill? In this instance, the cavalry is not coming. No replacements or repairs requiring spare parts technology will be implemented. Adding fuel to the fire lies in the fact that the power transformers presently take at least one year to replace. Today, there is a three year backlog on ordering because so many have been ordered by China. This makes one wonder what the Chinese are preparing for with these multiple orders for both transformers and generators. In short, our unpreparedness is a prescription for disaster. As a byproduct of my investigation, I have discovered that most, if not all, of the nuclear power plants are on known earthquake fault lines. All of California’s nuclear power plants are located on an earthquake fault line.


Conclusion

Can anyone tell me why would anyone in their right mind build a nuclear power plant on a fault line?

Can anyone tell me why any government official, in their right mind, would fail to harden our power grid against an EMP attack for a mere $2 billion dollars?

To see the depth of this threat the reader can visit an interactive, overlay map at this site which clearly demonstrates that nuclear power plants lie on earthquake fault lines.

For those who think the Georgia Guidestones are prophetic warnings of the depopulation intentions of the elite in which humanity is reduced to mere 500 million people from the current 7 billion, just gained a lot of traction for their “conspiratorial beliefs”.

In summary, I agree with Paul Singer in that this is the defining threat of our time and we are doing nothing about it except to live in a state of denial and governmental inaction.


Ramey comments:

For the past two years plus, I have tried to show readers that America is finished --- our sun has set!  The above two articles should underscore this assertion and lay this matter to rest.  We have already been judged and our future as a non nation decreed. 

The article "EBOLA" is nothing but the opening of the fourth seal of Revelation 6.   The next article about the folly of the nuclear power plants is simply restating what the prophet Jeremiah told us in chapter 50, verse 39.  That is that our nation is about to become uninhabited and uninhabitable --- forever. 

Dave's efforts to awaken America are commendable but now it is too late.  We have already been judged as a nation and are just before becoming a non nation. 

The building of nuclear power plants using uranium for fuel was absolute folly on the part of our politicians.  It could have been done with Thorium safely (and more plentiful) but we needed the plutonium that uranium degrades to for nuclear weapons so we put plants all over the world that endanger all of mankind.  Greed and foolhardiness of our leaders have brought the planet to the brink of extinction.  We have not seen the last of Fukushima nor of the descent of America into the abyss.

What becomes obvious is that this is a long term plan for the extermination of the vast majority of mankind in the Luciferian plan to establish the New World Order along the guidelines of the Georgia Guidestones.  It will not happen and the elite are about to become a part of the massive population reduction of planet earth.  For a preview of who is to die, see Ezekiel 18. 

Once we begin to understand what the prophets wrote millennia ago, we can see that even the two major religions of today were foretold by the prophet Daniel.  That prophecy was to be sealed at the time of writing "…until the time of the end" as we can see in Daniel 12:4 & 9.  it was opened to the understanding of a few in February of 2011.  We see today's two major religions as the two legs of the dream image of King Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 2). 

Once we compare history to Daniel's prophecy and come to understand that this is the final empire (of a total of four) that was to rule planet earth for the next 2600 years, we can see that the legs of iron give way to feet and toes of iron/clay, or an unstable mix.  When we look at the overall image, we see that mankind has degenerated from the head of gold (Nebuchadnezzar), to the toes of iron/clay.  In other words, mankind has deteriorated, over the past 2600 years to savages --- but with some awesome weaponry. 

It would seem that few understand that five of those toes are Muslim and five are Christian.  But the legs and feet are still divided at the time when the kingdoms of this world are given to the saints of the Most High (see Daniel 7).  So if we can believe the prophet Daniel, the New World Order will not come to fruition. 

Religion has painted a "magical god" who can think himself across the universe in seconds.  It has painted a mythical heaven where those accounted worthy are transported at death.  It has portrayed this as a spiritual city where we sit on a cloud and pluck a harp for eternity as we "behold the beatific vision", whatever that is. 

We accept myths such as this while totally ignoring plain statements made by Christ (to whom we have appended the phony name Jesus), such as Matthew 5:5 which says: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth."

Yes, the earth is going to survive, however the idolatry we call civilization is not.  The Luciferian dream of population reduction by 90% will be realized --- but they will be part of that reduction. 

Some of them will make it to their hidey-holes called D.U.M.B.s for Deep Underground Military Bases.  It appears they may spend a number of years in them.  But while there, their umbilical cord of jurisdiction will be cut and we can see the change of rulership of planet earth in Daniel 7:13-14.   We can see they will "…be visited" in those hidey-holes (Isaiah 24:21-22) when they are brought out for judgment.  Can we begin to connect the dots?


This age is almost over and a new age is about to be ushered in but not exactly as the New-Agers have planned.  

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