COMMENTARY & OPINION XCIX

From the desk of

Bill Ramey

8/13/14

COMMENTARY & OPINION

XCIX

Greetings friends,

It would seem the whole world is angry.  Some with good cause and some simply because it's fashionable.  In this issue of C & O, I'm dealing with a situation in a small town in Missouri, not because it is a threat to world peace per se, but it illustrates the anger being felt worldwide because people have been disenfranchised.  It also illustrates how quickly chaos can come even to communities that appear to be peaceful and quiet.  And looking at the world situation, it appears to be by design. 

Ferguson Is A Perfect Example Of How Quickly The Streets Of America Can Descend Into Chaos

Michael Snyder
Economic Collapse
August 12, 2014

Rioting, looting, burning down stores and shooting police officers – is this about to become the “new normal” in America?  What we just witnessed happen in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri is a prime example of how quickly the streets of America can descend into chaos.  There is so much anger and frustration in this country, especially among our young people, that all it takes is a “trigger event” to spark a wildfire.  In this case, it was the shooting of an unarmed black teen by a police officer.  According to the police, 18-year-old Michael Brown got into a physical altercation with an officer and was subsequently shot.  Word spread quickly throughout the community, and protests were rapidly organized.  But the protests didn’t stay peaceful.  People started chanting “kill the police” and throwing rocks and bottles.  Store windows were smashed, the looting began, and people went absolutely crazy.  And it wasn’t just a few people that were doing the looting.  Huge mobs of people looted stores all over Ferguson.  At one point an ATM was even dragged out of a QuikTrip gas station and a while after that the store was set on fire.  But this is what happens when things descend into chaos.  The owners of those stores didn’t have anything to do with the shooting of Michael Brown, but the violence got directed at them anyway.  And someday when we see similar scenes erupt in major cities all over the nation, it won’t matter what your political beliefs are.  You just better not be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ferguson is a little town just outside of St. Louis with a population of about 21,000 people.  You wouldn’t think that it would be possible to see such massive rioting in such a small community.  But that is precisely what happened.  On Monday, millions of Americans were absolutely mesmerized by the images coming out of Ferguson.  The following is how one news source described what happened…

Brian Schellman, with the St. Louis County Police Department, said close to 300 police officers from at least 15 different departments were called to Ferguson when angry mobs began smashing windows, setting fires and looting businesses in the area.

Schellman said a St. Louis County officer injured his knee while at a Foot Locker store during the rioting. He said another officer was injured when he had a brick thrown at him.

Throughout the evening, numerous cop cars sustained damage and Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said someone in a yellow pickup truck fired shots at officers while circling a WalMart parking lot.  Chief Jackson said he got into a cop car to give chase to the truck but the truck got away.

Police said shots were also fired at a police helicopter in the area.

But words do not really accurately convey the level of craziness that was unleashed.  I would encourage you to watch some of the videos on YouTube of the rioting and looting that were going on in Ferguson.  The video posted below is just one example…

Sadly, this violence might continue for a while.

Just check out what one very angry 30-year-old man told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch…

DeAndre Smith, 30, of Ferguson was happy to justify the looting when a reporter asked him about it Monday morning.

“This is exactly what is supposed to be happening when an injustice is happening in your community,” he said, adding: ”You have kids getting killed for nothing.”

Smith, who moved to St. Louis from New York in December, said there could be more to come.

“I don’t think it’s over honestly,” he said. “I just think they got a taste of what fighting back means.”

Of course this is not the first time that we have seen this kind of thing happen.  Earlier this year, all it took was a snow storm for people in Atlanta to start behaving like crazed lunatics.  And late last year we saw rioting and looting all over the nation when a technical glitch caused the EBT system to go down for a short while.

Even though the economy has somewhat stabilized (at least for the moment), levels of anger and frustration have continued to grow in this country.  We have been taught to hate one another and to blame one another for our problems, and so now the U.S. is more divided than at any other point in recent memory.  For much more on this, please see my previous article entitled “America The Divided: Everyone Knows We Have Problems But There Is Very Little Agreement On Solutions“.

We live at a time when things are so tense that even a small spark can light an absolutely huge fire.  America has become a tinderbox.  Next time it might not be a racially-charged shooting.  Next time it might be an Ebola outbreak that sparks looting and panic.  Or it might be some sort of financial collapse.  We just don’t know.

But what we do know is that there are lots and lots of people that are willing to riot and loot and commit unspeakable crimes given the right circumstances.

Decades of social decay have gotten us to the point where the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted every single day is wearing dangerously thin.

The truth is that it is not going to take much to push this nation over the edge.

If this kind of rioting can take place in a community with just over 20,000 people, what would a full-blown riot look like in a city with millions of people?

That is a very sobering thing to think about.

Once upon a time in America, you could leave your doors unlocked at night and you could let your kids play in the streets without ever having to worry.

But now we are a sick, decaying nation that has millions of people ready to riot and loot at the drop of a hat.

Is there any hope for us?

Ramey comments:

The author of the previous article is aghast at what he calls "…the thin veneer of civilization".  Had he read the book of the prophet Daniel, he could have seen this foretold some 2600 years ago.  Daniel was called in by the King of Babylon to interpret a dream the king had that his wise men and astrologers couldn't interpret.  Why?  Because the king had forgotten the dream.  (Daniel 2).  Daniel showed the king that the dream was a vision from the Supreme Sovereign of the universe to show the king what would be happening in the last days of the present age.  The king's dream was reconstructed by Daniel and amounted to a giant image of a man whose head was gold, arms and torso of silver, belly and thighs brass and legs of iron, feet and toes of iron/clay mix.  Daniel showed the king that this image represented 4 empires that would rule the earth until the end of the age.   He went on to say that the king himself was the head of gold and was representative of the first of those four empires. 

The second empire was the arms and torso of silver and this matches perfectly with the two arms of the Medo-Persian Empire that conquered Babylon in one night without a battle.  (538 BC).

Next came the belly and thighs of brass and this, of course, was Alexander's Greece. 

It is at this point that historians lose sight of the prophecy because the worldly kingdom was divided, at Alexander's death, among his four top generals.  Two faded quickly into obscurity and two firmed up to become the King of the South (Ptolemy's Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya), and the King of the North (Syria at first but it was soon absorbed into the Roman Empire making them the northern kingdom), under Selucus. 

Because of a myth put out by Edward Gibbons in 1776, people have lost sight of the Roman Empire as the fourth empire or fourth beast as it is noted in Daniel 7.  The myth put out by Gibbons was that the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD.  This did not happen but the myth was created to hide the fact that the creation of America was accomplished by the Vatican.   See "Rulers of Evil" by the late F Tupper Saussy.  This creation is called the "Image of the beast" in Revelation 13 but Saussy did not have the scriptural knowledge to connect the dots.

So where are we today?  We are in the days of the iron/clay mix of the toes of the dream image of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and this is beautifully illustrated by the Ferguson incident.  We have devolved from the head of gold, which was Nebuchadnezzar, to the state of savages with nukes as depicted by the toes of iron/clay.  The writings of the prophet Daniel were sealed at the time of writing and not to be understood until the "…time of the end", as we can readily see in Daniel 12:4 & 9.  At that time (the time of the end), it was to be opened to the understanding of a few.  You can see who these few are in verse 10. 

We live in the end of an age but not the end of the world as religious superstition would have us to believe.  Noah lived in the end of an age but not the end of the world. The world continued on but with considerably fewer people. 

We are just before undergoing another drastic population reduction and we can see the seeds of this reduction in the U.S. patented Ebola virus.  It appears that nuclear war will supplement this virus for the reduction.  And if you have a cubicle reserved in the hidey-holes called D.U.M.B.s --- congratulations!  You may survive a few years longer than most surface dwellers.  The prophet Isaiah calls these people prisoners in Isaiah 24:21-22 and says they will spend many days in those prisons before being brought out for judgment.

Senator Warns Of America In Flames – What Does He Know That We Don’t Know?

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 6:26

(Before It's News)

With Americans now awakening ‘en masse’ to US government crimes and the dictatorial police state forming to cover-up said crimes and imprison Americans who go after the criminals, US Senator Lindsey Graham warns in the video below that if we don’t go to war with Iraq IMMEDIATELY, an American city will soon be ‘in flames’.

Also in the video, the CIA warns if THE TRUTH comes out about America arming the ISIS rebels, the MIDDLE EAST will ‘go up in flames’, we have to ask, what does Lindsey Graham know that we don’t know?

Does Mr. Graham know of a FALSE FLAG ATTACK that will soon set America on fire if Obama DOESN’T IMMEDIATELY take military action against Iraq? Mr. Graham and John McCain are very good friends, and McCain has been recently seen palling around with ISIS, is THAT how Graham knows an American city will soon be on fire? With ISIS recently raising the flag of Jihad at the White House, will Washington DC soon be the target? Is the total destruction of Washington DC via being ‘set on fire’ how the New World Order’s capital will be moved to Denver?

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned on Sunday that militants in Iraq and Syria would attack the U.S. mainland if President Barack Obama did not immediately take military action to stop them.

“I think of an American city in flames because of the terrorists’ ability to operate in Syria and Iraq,” Graham told Fox News host Chris Wallace. “Mr. President, you have never once spoke directly to the America people about the threat we face from being attacked from Syria, now Iraq. What is your strategy to stop these people from attacking the homeland?” (Graham on America on fire begins at 3:40)

MORE ON FERGUSON

 “This Is Your First And Last Warning” – Anonymous Operation Ferguson

Monday, August 11, 2014 8:36

By Susan Duclos – All News PipeLine

After an unarmed black teen was shot multiple times and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, cries went out saying “Kill The police,” and looting, vandalism and riots soon followed as the community rose up in outrage, videos and photos of the night of violence were uploaded on the Internet and to video sharing sites, of the protesters, and eye witness accounts stating the teenager killed, Michael Brown, was on his knees with his hands up when police opened fire.

Hacktivist group “Anonymous” has now issued a direct warning to the Ferguson Police Department and anyone else dispatched to the protests, stating that this is the first and last warning they will offer before taking action.

The warning states:

Greetings world, we are Anonymous

On August 9th in Ferguson, Missouri the 17 year old and unarmed Mike Brown was shot several times and killed by an officer of the Ferguson Police Department. His body was left to lie in a pool of blood in the sweltering heat for hours while 15 police departments militarized the area against protesters, sealed the roads leading to Ferguson in a vain attempt to prevent protesters from reaching the city. The police has clearly crossed a line in the sand.

For this reason Anonymous will not be satisfied this time, as we have in the past – with simply obtaining justice for this young man and his family. Anonymous demands that the Congressional Representatives and Senators from Missouri introduce legislation entitled “Mike Brown’s Law” that will set strict national standards for police conduct and misbehaviour in the USA.

To the good people of Ferguson, take heart – and take your streets. You are not alone, we will support you in every way possible. Occupy every square inch of your city. Demand justice, staying silent today could result in the death of your kid tomorrow.

To the Ferguson Police Department and any other jurisdictions who are deployed to the protests: we are watching you very closely. If you abuse, harass – or harm in any way the protesters in Ferguson we will take every web based asset of your departments and governments off line. That is not a threat, it is a promise. Attacking the protesters will result in the release of personal information on every single member of the Ferguson Police Department, as well as any other jurisdiction that participates in the abuse of this States own law. We will seize all your databases and E-Mail spools and dump them on the Internet. This is your first and last warning.

 The time has come for more than simple justice for these atrocities. The time has come to draw a line in the sand. The time has come to bring those to justice, who served to protect us, not kill us.

Until justice prevails, hack and protest will replace it.

Operation Ferguson engaged.

We Are Anonymous.

We Are Legion.

We do Not Forgive.

We do Not Forget.

Ferguson, Expect us.

The group has already shown they have the capability of doing exactly as they state as reports coming out showing the City of Ferguson website was hacked on Sunday night.

DAMASCUS

The diplomatic skills, the "feet on the furniture class", the self centered rhetoric and the failures to grasp the gravity of situations, illustrate clearly that our chief is only one degree advanced from the "cracker barrel kings" mentality of Africa. 

We may find this somewhat sad but it gets worse --- this is merely a reflection of the mentality of the American electorate.  I say that with some reservations because we have been given a box to think in which is the two party system.  Our schools, our government and our religions have taught us not to think --- "… because when you do you screw up."  There are doctors to do our health thinking, lawyers to do our legal thinking, politicians to do our governmental thinking and "shrinks" to show us just how screwed up we are if we try to do our own thinking. 

Can we even begin to see how upside down and "bassackwards" things have become?  We call this civilization but I am reminded of what Mahatma Gandhi answered the American diplomat who asked him what he thought of Western Civilization.  Gandhi answered that he thought it would be a good idea.  What we call civilization is an advanced state of idolatry! 

We have a Muslim president who appears determined to run up the Muslim flag over the white house.  This has shown quite graphically in his efforts to destroy America through banker bailouts, disastrous foreign policy, arms to the terrorists and financial backing for the massacres of Christians worldwide.  And just as in the fairy tale of the emperor who was wearing no clothes, it seems the vast majority pretends not to notice.  The media pretends he is doing a terrific job and congress mentions impeachment now and then just to keep their constituency pacified but that's as far as it goes.  The NSA has too much dirt on each of them that could be released to the media and/or the net. 

For the past two years, I have shown you in these Commentaries, what the solution is.  The rest of the world is coming to see the reality of that solution.  Unfortunately, Americans still have their heads in the sands of mythology and denial and cannot see it.  But the solution is the complete and total destruction of America and this is no longer on the horizon, it is on the doorstep. 

When we pull the trigger on WW III (as we will), our sun has set.  We will join the ranks of "nations that once were" before the average American even knows we are at war.  Revelation 18 says it will be decided in "…one hour". 

We live in a nation steeped in idolatry as evidenced by the forest of steeples (phallus representations) atop houses of Baal worship across the nation.  We live in a nation that has recently imprisoned a man for raping young boys while also supplying children for sex to some of the upper echelon of our government.  When a state attorney general got too close to the truth of this matter, he disappeared. 

Our nation is built on deception from top to bottom.   Politics, economics, religion, industry, education (e.g. "Columbus discovered America"), and even our history.  Try to find a history that gives the cause of the Civil War in America.  If they tell you it was the issue of slavery --- they lie. 

Try to find a factual account of WW II and then match it up with the German or Japanese account of WW II and try to reconcile the two.

Try to find an actual account of the holocaust and then match it up with accounts printed in encyclopedias published at the time and see how those match up.  Try to find why we have an Empire State Bldg.

Now we are at the gate of financial collapse because of poor management, greed and lust for power.  We have overspent and we have done it for centuries.  Now we pay the piper and unless we can find another nation to rob quickly, our creditors are going to eat our lunch.  Few know (or want to know) that America declared bankruptcy in the 1930s and were put into receivership by the world bank to whom the IRS owes their existence and allegiance.  It is not a branch of the American government but rather an international collection agency collecting "taxes" in over 200 countries by their own admission.  The very foundation of our nation is deception and this is why we do not recognize that we are the "Image of the Beast" of Revelation 13.   America's creation by the Vatican plus the fact that the Vatican is the true owner of the world bank are two of the best kept secrets in the whole world.  Probably the next best kept secret is the Jewish/ Roman covenant that dates back over two millennia and is still in effect today.  The covenant can be found in I Maccabees 8, and the Roman addition to the Jewish proposal was that it was to be forever.

Had the Roman Empire fell in 476 as the Edward Gibbon myth postulates, then that covenant would be null and void today.  But the Roman Empire did not fall as you can see in any good encyclopedia under article Byzantine Empire. 

Now we stand at the collapse of the world economy with a cabal of criminals, who call themselves the New World Order, jockeying for position to pick up the pieces and assume rulership over the survivors.  If we can believe the prophets, it ain't gonna happen!

We have come to the age end when the Supreme Sovereign of the universe is about to put in an appearance on planet earth and replace the "…god of this world", (see II Corinthians 4:4) and we can see the coronation ceremony of the new King in Daniel 7:13-14. 

We can find the top two items on the agenda of this new king in Revelation 11:18.  And it doesn't look promising for those who would appoint themselves as rulers over mankind.  Some will be kept in prisons of their own making for quite some time but we can see in Isaiah 24:21-22 that they also will "…be visited", and brought out for judgment.

The prototype for world government will be set up as a command center in the Jerusalem area shortly after the present regime there is destroyed and you can find the account in Isaiah 29.  The next few chapters give some of the detail in the setting up and administration of this rebuild of Jerusalem. 

America will be destroyed at approximately the same time as Israel and we can find the account in Isaiah 13.  For the gory details of this destruction, you can get them in Jeremiah 50 and 51.  We are almost there and the trigger will be when Damascus becomes a "…ruinous heap" by the hand of whomever.  (Isaiah 17:1-4).

A PARTING SHOT

Stirring The Pot: DOJ Sends ‘Marshals’ To ‘Coach’ The Protesters In Ferguson

Michael Snyder
The American Dream
August 15, 2014

Is the Obama administration looking to stir up more trouble in Ferguson?  “Protest marshals” from the same Department of Justice division that organized protests against George Zimmerman in the aftermath of the shooting of Trayvon Martin have been deployed to the troubled city.  It is being reported that these DOJ agents will be “conducting training” for Ferguson protesters that will focus on “best practices for participating in protests”.  Local officials in Missouri hope that this will help defuse the situation, but if history is any guide it may end up doing just the opposite.  According to the head of Judicial Watch, the Community Relations Service of the Department of Justice “has a record of racially inflammatory rhetoric that is extreme in ideology and cynical in its politics”.  Could these Ferguson protests ultimately be used to take us to the next level in the inflammation of racial tensions in America?

What we have seen play out in Ferguson over the past few days demonstrates so much of what is wrong in this country.

The initial rioting and looting in the city was a prime example of the extreme social decay that is eating away at the foundations of our nation.  And it showed how rapidly the streets of our major cities could potentially descend into chaos.

And then the absolutely brutal response by the police was a perfect example of how our society is rapidly being transformed into a heavily militarized police state.

Now that the Obama administration is getting involved, who knows what is going to happen next.  According to the Daily Caller, two “protest marshals” have already been deployed to Ferguson so far…

Two Department of Justice “protest marshals” are in Ferguson, Mo., to help train people taking part in demonstrations over the fatal police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

That’s according to Ferguson mayor James Knowles, who spoke with The Daily Caller Wednesday evening.

We are being told that they will be “conducting training for the groups on best practices for participating in protests”.

That sounds good, but as Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch has pointed out, this particular Department of Justice division has a troubled history…

Responding to news that the Justice Department has dispatched its Community Relations Service to the scene of racially charged unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, the head of the Washington watchdog group Judicial Watch says it’s time for a civil rights investigation of Attorney General Eric Holder’s agency.

“Eric Holder’s Justice Department is unfortunately not to be trusted on racial matters,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in an interview with WND.

Under Holder’s leadership, he said, the department “has a record of racially inflammatory rhetoric that is extreme in ideology and cynical in its politics.”

“The idea that this Justice Department could be trusted to mediate is highly suspect,” he said.

So precisely what kind of “coaching” and “training” will these protesters be receiving?

In a previous article, I discussed how Judicial Watch has documented the fact that the Community Relations Service helped “organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman” back in 2012.  This assistance also included spending quite a bit of money, arranging meetings between the NAACP and local leaders, and even providing police escorts for protesters.

Let us certainly hope that the DOJ does not choose to inflame the situation, because Ferguson is already essentially a war zone at this point.

On Wednesday night, police used smoke bombs, tear gas, flash bang grenades, rubber bullets and LRAD sound cannons against protesters.  You can see footage of some of the police brutality in the video posted below…

And it isn’t just “young punks” that are being brutalized.  In an Instagram photo that you can view right here, you can see the gruesome wound that was created when a white female pastor was shot while she was peacefully praying.

There is no excuse for that.  The whole world is watching what is going on, and they are absolutely disgusted with us.

Thankfully, the Governor of Missouri is taking charge of the situation.  Governor Nixon has put the Missouri State Highway Patrol in charge, and he is promising a change in “tone”.  The following comes from a CNN report…

Gov. Jay Nixon said he decided to put the Missouri State Highway Patrol in charge of security because “at this particular point, the attitudes weren’t improving, and the blocks towards expression appeared to be a flashpoint.”

Lately, the community of Ferguson, which has been the scene of clashes in the wake of a weekend police shooting that left teenager Michael Brown dead, has looked “more like a war zone, and it’s not acceptable,” Nixon said.

Now, authorities — who’ve faced accusations that they’ve used excessive force in response to demonstrations — will be taking a different tack in an effort to calm tensions, officials said Thursday.

“We’re all about making sure that we allow peaceful and appropriate protests, that we use force only when necessary, that we step back a little bit and let some of the energy be felt in this region, appropriately,” Nixon said.

That sounds good, but what is going to happen if protesters start foolishly throwing Molotov cocktails once again?

Will the police be able to show restraint at that point?

And how will the Department of Justice “protest marshals” change the equation?

Will they calm things down, or will they end up inflaming the situation?

Ramey comments:

Before we get judgmental on this Ferguson incident, we should keep in mind that so far we have only one side of the story.  We should also remember that we never did get the straight story from the media on the Trayvon Martin shooting.  They never did post the picture of the 190 pound tattooed hulk of Trayvon Martin and have not to this day.  The picture they put before the public was of an innocent looking 12 year old and this shaped public opinion. 

When the jury saw photos of Zimmerman's face taken at the hospital right after the incident, it didn't take long to return a not guilty verdict for a man who was indicted only because of political pressure coming all the way from the oval office.   That same politician so far has managed to keep his foot out of his mouth in the matter of Ferguson.