News Alert & Bookstore Bulletin
March 2, 2009
Key News Events
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I. America's declining morality is plunging to new, unprecedented lows, as lawmakers propose a "sin tax" on pot and prostitution as a way to raise the money needed in these difficult economic times.
Just as Christians have been warning for years, antichristian morality has been one of the main themes of the music popular in the past 40 years: Rock-N-Roll, Country-Western, Hip Hop and Rap. The "birds are now coming home to roost" as this news story clearly demonstrates.
NEWS BRIEF: "Rough Recession Tests Nevada's Brothel Boundaries: "Why not license everything we consider a vice?" , ABC News, February 6, 2009
"Nevada is the only state in the nation to legalize the world's oldest profession, but only in the most rural counties. The big cities of Reno and Las Vegas remain off-limits. But that is a boundary this recession is now testing as the brothel business becomes a target of opportunity for a state in desperate need of tax revenue."
When I was a Toy Buyer for two very large corporations, I sadly concluded that there was no room in the entire industry for Christian Morality; rather, the only "morality" in the entire Toy Retail Market was sales. I was shocked to discover this fact, because I originally thought that the types of products specifically made to sell to our young children would be based upon what is good and right for them. When I discovered that the only morality is sales and profits, I resigned as soon as I could find another career, a process which took slightly more than six months. Cutting Edge Ministries grew out of this dramatic/traumatic career change!
Because of the lack of Christian morality in the Toy Industry, you can find books on Witchcraft in many toy stores while many toys are created with a story line based upon the occult, or upon sex.
Now that America is in difficult economic times, we are discovering that the only morality left in this country is sheer expediency, on at least the same level as the expediency I discovered in the Toy Business. In this next segment, we shall discover that the only morality in the minds of some lawmakers is the need to raise cash by various state agencies.
"Nevada State Sen. Bob Coffin said there is a $2 billion budget shortfall and proposed cuts that include teacher salaries have left Nevada with little choice but to get creative. 'People are licensed to gamble', Coffin said. 'They are licensed to sell cigarettes. They are licensed to sell alcohol. Why not license everything we consider a vice?"
"Including sex."
Nevada's brothel owners would like nothing more than for lawmakers to levy taxes on them, because first lawmakers would have to legalize prostitution throughout the state. Right now, prostitution is legal only in rural counties while being illegal in Reno and Las Vegas. How much additional money could these brothel owners realize if prostitution were legal in the gambling cities?
"His proposal is to tax the state's legal brothels. Right now, they pay county taxes. He'd also like to decriminalize prostitution statewide, clearing the way for the brothel business to set up in Reno and 'sin city' itself -- Las Vegas. The state senator estimates that Nevada could bring in an immediate $2 million a year by taxing the existing brothels, and up to $200 million a year if the brothel business is allowed to expand into Vegas."
That is serious money, and if Nevada does go all the way to legalizing prostitution so they can tax it, America has just entered into a new, lower level of personal morality. Other states are also discussing new "sin taxes" short of legalizing prostitution.
NEWS BRIEF: "States consider 'skin tax' on porn, strip clubs to help budgets", Star Tribune, February 27, 2009
"OLYMPIA, Wash. - It's enough to make you blush: Some politicians want a bigger taste of the economy's naughty side, pushing for special taxes on dirty magazines, racy movies, sex toys and strip clubs. In Washington state, a half-dozen cash-strapped legislators recently endorsed a huge sales tax increase on explicit movies, magazines and other sex-themed products. New York officials recently acknowledged that Gov. David Paterson's proposed 'iPod tax' on Internet downloads also would apply to online porn purchases, along with tamer diversions such as pop music and computer software."
"And in Texas, state lawyers are fighting to preserve the 'pole tax', a $5 cover charge on strip clubs that's being challenged by business owners."
God speaks well to this period of time, as He calls for Judgment to fall upon the nations for their grievous sins.
"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." (Revelation 18:4-5)
Our sins are stacking like corkwood and are reaching up to Heaven. Judgment will not tarry.
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These next two stories illustrate the depth into which our economy is falling into the Fascist Model.
II. Some banks are being "euthanized"!
NEWS BRIEF: "Some Banks Must Die So the U.S. Economy Can Live", Commentary by Caroline Baum, Bloomberg Financial News, March 2, 2009
"In the government’s rush to stabilize the financial system, get the U.S. economy moving again, craft bailouts for institutions and entire sectors of the economy, and re-craft bailouts that aren’t doing the trick, the voices of limited government have been all but silenced. In Washington, the GOP has been shamed into submission."
We have been saying for six months now that only a President considered "Conservative" and "Republican" could have started this current war on Capitalism so that the Fascist Economy could be established. Only President Bush could have started this process of killing Capitalism.
In our original definition of the world's three types of economies (NEWS2317), we noted that one of the functions of a Fascist Economy was that the central government decided how many competitors were going to remain, offering the same service or producing the same product. As our economy continues its transition to the Fascist Economy, we are seeing certain banks dying -- the government is either allowing them to die or forcing them to the grave.
" 'We need to avoid implementing policies that stifle productivity by providing bad incentives to the private sector', he says. 'Unproductive firms need to die'.” (Emphasis added)
Chile is then held up as a model which our current government should follow.
"In the early 1980s, Chile took control of ailing banks, liquidated the insolvent ones and re-privatized the solvent ones. 'The short-term costs of the crisis and the reform in Chile were severe', Kehoe writes. By 1984, the economy had started to grow. And Chile has been the fastest-growing country in Latin America since then."
But, then, we found this article in which another example is held up as an example which should be followed in this current crisis.
III. The Swedish model of government nationalizing the banks is similar to this Chilean example, and is also being held up as the template which the Obama Administration should follow.
NEWS BRIEF: "Sweden’s ‘Mr. Fix-It’ Bank Bailout May Be Model for U.S., U.K.", by Niklas Magnusson and Johan Carlstrom, Bloomberg Financial News, March 2, 2009
"Lundgren has made a career out of overcoming obstacles at financial institutions. In the 1990s, he pulled the largest Nordic economy out of a banking crisis as Sweden’s minister for fiscal and financial affairs, winning the respect of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and foreign governments. Now he’s leading the way again, cleaning up Carnegie’s toxic assets, reselling the bank and recouping the state’s investment in just three months -- sparing taxpayers any losses. His efforts to ensure that Sweden emerges intact from financial turmoil may be a prototype for other countries -- including Germany and the U.K. -- grappling with failed banks."
" 'Governments should 'try and do what Sweden did', said economist Nouriel Roubini, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, who called the country’s 1990s plan the model bailout: Take over troubled banks, 'clean them up and reprivatize them. Fudging it, guaranteeing the assets or buying the toxic assets is not going to work'.”
The key to understanding how this action of nationalizing banks is consistent with a Fascist Economy, which is founded on the twin principles of severe government regulation on the one hand and private ownership of the Means of Production on the other hand, we need to focus on one segment of the quote above.
"Take over troubled banks, 'clean them up and reprivatize them."
When reprivatization of these troubled companies like banks and maybe even some of the automaking industry does occur, then the Fascist Model will be fully operational. That is our future, and rest assured that the Swedish/Chilean model of Fascism does work. It does deliver manufactured product and it does spread wealth to the workers. Like Sweden and Chile, we all must go through a tough transition period so we can come out on the other side where the Fascist Economy starts to work.
Remember, in the interim, we will have to go through a period of trouble in the stock markets, as investors will dump some stocks in the banking sector which they believe will be damaged by these government policies and will put their money in other stocks which they believe will prosper in this "Global New Deal" into which Bush/Obama have thrust us. Hang on, for the ride might get bumpy..
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IV. British Prime Minister Brown made it very clear that this current economic crisis is intended to lead to a global new world order.
NEWS BRIEF: "British PM Brown woos Obama on global deal: Wants to establish an economic 'global new deal' ”, Times Online, March 1, 2009
"GORDON BROWN hopes to forge a partnership with President Barack Obama in Washington this week, to call for a 'global new deal' to lift the world out of recession ... Brown is under pressure to persuade American political leaders to sign up to bold aims for the G20 summit of industrial and leading developing nations, which is to be held in London next month ... The prime minister will borrow from the rhetoric of Franklin Roosevelt, who introduced the government-financed New Deal to tackle the US Depression of the 1930s. He will argue that his 21st century 'global new deal' will also require public spending on a huge world-wide scale."
One of the historic facts which we demonstrate in our latest video, "Eye of the Phoenix", President Franklin Roosevelt (32nd Degree Mason) considered his "New Deal" to be the "New World Order". Therefore, what British PM Brown is proposing is that global leaders should use the current banking crisis as a catalyst to propel the world into the final New World Order.
This ultimate agenda is exactly what Cutting Edge has been predicting generally for the past 12 years and specifically for the past 6 months. The planned economy of the Kingdom of the Masonic Christ is Fascism. The world is well on the way to such a system!
While the global economy is not headed for ruin, it is headed for the tight government control which is the basis for this new type of economy, a control which shall morph into the very tight control foretold in Revelation 13:16-18!
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V. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) signals through Defense Secretary Gates that America is not going to attack Iran!
The CFR has long opposed an attack on Iran, and Robert Gates has been their "gatekeeper" for a long time now, serving as Defense Secretary under President Bush and now under President Obama. In the past several weeks, various ministers have been echoing the Israel disinformation rhetoric that Iran is close to developing a nuclear bomb.
NEWS BRIEF: "Gates: Iran 'Not Close' to Nuclear Weapon", Truth Out News, 01 March 2009
"Washington - Iran is not close to having a nuclear weapon, which gives the United States and others time to try to persuade Tehran to abandon its suspected atomic arms program, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday. 'They're not close to a stockpile, they're not close to a weapon at this point, and so there is some time', Gates said on NBC television's 'Meet The Press'."
As I stated, above, politicians from several other countries have joined with Israel's warning of nearly one week ago that Iran was close to developing one -- repeat one -- atomic bomb! Just one. That is the alarm. Israel's future Prime Minister Netanyahu has even stated that he will give the Iranian nuclear bomb issue a top priority when he finally assumes the office.
Robert Gates continues:
"Gates said there has been 'a continuing focus on how do you get the Iranians to walk away from a nuclear weapons program' in the Obama and Bush administrations. U.S. President Barack Obama's administration favors diplomatic engagement with Tehran to defuse the dispute over its nuclear intentions, but has called Iran's nuclear program an 'urgent problem' the international community must address. The challenge, Gates said, is finding a balance between sanctions to pressure Iran and incentives for engagement with the United States and Europe. A sharp decline in oil prices since last year increases the chances for a resolution. 'There are economic costs to this program; they (the Iranians) do face economic challenges at home'."
Since economic sanctions typically takes years to develop, Gates is, in effect, saying that the United States has no real plans to attack Iranian nuclear facilities. All the previously noted military problems of successfully attacking Iran are still in effect; all the diplomatic problems posed by Russian rhetoric stating that an attack on Iran would be considered an attack on Russia are still on the table.
And, finally, the fact that the "Magog Invasion" prophecy of Ezekiel 38-39 still protects Iran physically from a devastating attack now, while still protecting Russian military prowess against being discredited, still hold. Please take a moment to read our very important Headline News article on this subject: NEWS2120, "NUCLEAR ARMED IRAN VS. AMERICA -- WHOM SHOULD THE WORLD FEAR?"
You need to understand this prophetic truth: Iran will not suffer an attack!
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