More on Capital Controls

On Monday I posted a blog entry about how the U.S. Jobs Bill contained some ominous new rules that introduce capital controls to the U.S. In that blog post I wrote about how the introduction of capital controls is a major red flag about the direction that the country is heading in the future and how capital controls can pose a major obstacle to Americans who want to leave the U.S.

One of the Internet podcasts I listen to each week is the McAlvany Weekly Commentary. The topic of this week’s podcast focuses on the capital controls that were snuck into the Jobs Bill. If you have 30 minutes, I highly recommend that you listen to this week’s podcast because the commentators do a great job explaining what the introduction of capital controls means for not only Americans, but for those living outside the U.S. Here is a link to the podcast:

• http://mcalvanyweeklycommentary.com/ica2010-0331-mp3/

The State of America's Youth (Editorial)

Last weekend a new Bloomberg national poll measuring Barack Obama’s popularity was released to the public. This edition of the Bloomberg national poll is particularly interesting because it breaks down Obama’s support by age group. The poll defines young people as those who are under the age of 35 and older people as those 65 and over. Here are the key findings of the poll that is reported in the article about the poll.

• Obama has a 56% approval rating among young people vs. a 41% approval rating among older people.[1]
• 41% of young people believe the country is heading in the right direction vs. 25% of older people believe the country is heading in the right direction.[2]
• More young people have a positive view of Obama’s handling of health care, foreign relations, and the economy than have a negative view.[3]

The results of this poll are revealing about where Obama stands politically and about something that I’ve thought about a lot lately with regards to America's youth.

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Easter: Past, Present, and Future

Pre-Article Disclaimer for Newer Readers: If you are reading this blog for the first time or are not totally familiar with my work, I am a 100% Christian writer who analyzes things from a Christian point of view. I sometimes research into what the spiritual forces of evil are up to in hopes of gleaning information to help us Christians figure out what is going on or to figure out what Satan has planned. You can read more about why I dare consider these unbiblical sources at the following link Now on to the article...

This upcoming Sunday will be Easter Sunday. Christians will celebrate the holiday as the day commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, there are some Easter traditions that do not seem to have a lot of biblical connections. For instance, kids paint eggs, take part in egg hunts, and are told tales about the Easter Bunny. Some Christians are so turned off by these non-religious traditions associated with Easter that they shun these traditions and replace the term “Easter” with the term “Resurrection Sunday”.

In this post I’ll try to provide you an idea of the historical origins of Easter and provide an overview of how Easter may be celebrated in the future under the reign of Antichrist.

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Capital Controls? A Nasty Surprise in the Job’s Bill

I was planning to write about the state of America’s youth next, but plans changed last night when read about a nasty surprise that was embedded within the $18 billion so-called “Jobs Bill” that was made into law a couple of weeks ago in the U.S.

The Jobs Bill was sold to the public as a bill that would stimulate jobs in the U.S. I didn’t pay much attention to the job bill because anytime lawmakers promise that they are going to create X number of jobs I just assume these jobs are going to be associated with some wasteful government spending. After reading a piece posted on Zero Hedge (via Panama Investor Blog), I wish that all there is to complain about is wasteful government spending.

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A Preview of Topics to Come

Here is a small list of items that I’m thinking about writing about in the coming days (not necessarily listed in chronological order):

• The State of American Youth
• Easter
• Wednesday vs Friday Crucifixion Date Debate
• The Resurrection of Jesus Christ (from a different perspective)

Depending on how events play out in the coming days I may write more topics than this or write about other topics in these topics’ place. Some of you have suggested to me other topics. I have not ignored your suggestions at all. I need to do some more research before I can write about them.

I've added a Translate button to the blog in case English is not your first language. The translate button can translate my blog into dozens of different languages. I do not know how effective the translator will be, but it's better to have one than to not have one.

Early Signs of Trouble in the U.S. Bond Market

This past week the U.S. Treasury needed to borrow $118 billion to finance the monster deficits that the U.S. Government is racking up in the short-term. Financial market experts were watching this financing closely to see how investors would react to the passage of the healthcare reform legislation and to the U.S. Government’s recent spending binge. The U.S. Treasury tried to raise funds three separate times offering different types of bonds to investors yielding interest rates they hoped would entice investors.

The U.S. Treasury’s plans went awry because “bond vigilantes” (unhappy bond investors) were unwilling to accept the interest rates the U.S. Treasury initially tried to offer them. Bond vigilantes wanted much higher interest rates to compensate for the increased inflation and currency risk that came after the passage of the costly health care reform legislation. As a result, interest rates for U.S. Government bonds rose significantly this week. For instance, the 10 Year Treasury bond rose from 3.69% at the start of the week to as high as 3.90% on Thursday before falling to 3.85% on Friday.

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Looking For Some Feedback

I am curious to know what you would like to read about in the future. For instance, do you want to read about finance, economics, politics, Obama, Bible prophecy, New Age related material, Maitreya, the future, all of the above, or something else?  Your feedback would help me to know what to write about in the future. You can leave your feedback in the comments section. Thank you.

New Update on Maitreya’s TV Tour: Creme Live Interview Notes 3/26/10

Pre-Article Disclaimer for Newer Readers: If you are reading this blog for the first time or are not totally familiar with my work, I am a 100% Christian writer who analyzes things from a Christian point of view. I sometimes research into what the spiritual forces of evil are up to in hopes of gleaning information to help us Christians figure out what is going on or to figure out what Satan has planned. You can read more about why I dare consider these unbiblical sources at the following link Now on to the article...

Benjamin Creme, the official spokesmen of Maitreya (the leader of a group of beings called the “Ascended Masters”-the “spiritual wickedness in high places” mentioned by Paul in Ephesians 6:12) just completed a live in-studio interview with a French radio station. I was monitoring the interview as it was going on so I got the rare opportunity to see Creme giving the interview on the radio station’s live web camera.

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The Big Headline of the Day

Updated: Excellent article overview of the situation provided at Stratfor: Link and a video analysis of the situation at this Link.

The big news of the day is that a South Korean naval vessel with 104 sailors was sunk by a North Korean torpedo attack. At this moment, 50 sailors have been rescued while the South Korean Navy scrambles to rescue more sailors. South Korea fired back at the attacking North Korea vessel that sunk the South Korean vessel, but there’s no word whether they actually struck the North Koreans. Also at this moment the President of South Korea is having an emergency cabinet meeting to weigh South Korea’s various options to respond to this apparently unprovoked and hostile attack by the North Koreans.

This event represents a major escalation in tensions between the North Korea and South Korea. Technically, the Korean War isn’t over yet because what the parties involved signed in 1953 only amounted to a ceasefire (North Korea recently said they are no longer bounded by the ceasefire agreement). North Korea and South Korea have had deadly clashes since 1953, but this newest one may be the most serious one. It is believed that North Korea crossed into South Korean territory during this attack.

What’s pathetic is that the American television news channels are not reporting on this news headline. I have a channel where I can see 8 different American news channels simultaneously and not a single one is reporting about the sinking of the South Korean ship. Instead, I see breaking news about a few deaths in Kentucky and gossip about some celebrities.

It’s disturbing to see how so many news channels are ignoring a very important news headlines. American news channels’ failure to report this news is a clear demonstration that a person should not rely solely on them for their news. American news channels should be considered mainly entertainment channels that report some useful news information occasionally (depending on what channel it is).

This event merits close monitoring because there is potential for things to escalate further.

My Views on Nostradamus

Before I begin the main topic of this post, Benjamin Creme has an interview scheduled on Friday March 26 at 5PM GMT on a French Radio station. If I got my math right, that's 1PM EST. I think I've located the live stream that the interview will play on: Link

If the interview isn't cancelled and if nothing goes wrong I could post live interview notes later in the day. Now on to the main topic of the blog...

Michel de Nostredame (Nostradamus) is perhaps the most famous non-biblical prognosticator of the future in history. Books and television documentaries portray Nostradamus as this great seer of the future on par or superior to the prophets of the Bible. Nostradamus is so well-known that so-called “prophecy experts” seek to make a living off of the predictions that Nostradamus made over 400 hundred years ago.

I’m sure virtually everyone who is reading this blog post is familiar with Nostradamus and his place in history. I’m also certain that virtually everyone has an opinion about Nostradamus and the validity of his predictions. I want to give my views on Nostradamus in case there is someone who has not yet formed an opinion on Nostradamus and/or his predictions.

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Update on the Crisis in U.S.-Israeli Relations

In addition to what I posted a couple of hours ago, I want to give a quick update to what I wrote yesterday regarding the current state of U.S.-Israeli relations. I wrote that we’d know in a matter of days whether a Tuesday night meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama would help cool down tensions between Israel and the U.S.

It did not take long for us to learn from the media that the meeting between Netanyahu and Obama was a complete disaster and made tensions worse.

• Obama and Netanyahu could not agree on anything important despite there being several meetings between Netanyahu, Obama, and other U.S. officials during Netanyahu’s visit to the U.S.
• Israeli media claims that Netanyahu was humiliated and treated like he was “the president of “Equatorial Guinea” while visiting the White House. One Washington Post writer compared Netanyahu’s treatment as being akin to what a “Third World Dictator” would see. Obama actually ditched Netanyahu and his aides to have his own private dinner. This is completely unheard of until now.
• A high-ranking U.S. diplomat now says that U.S.-Israeli relations haven’t been this bad in 54 years (two weeks ago the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. said that relations haven’t been this bad in 35 years).
• A Debkafile report claims that Obama wants ousts Benjamin Netanyahu and push Israel back to its 1967 borders.

This situation has the potential to escalate further so it's well-worth watching.

The End Times Fusion of the World’s Religions

Pre-Article Disclaimer for Newer Readers: If you are reading this blog for the first time or are not totally familiar with my work, I am a 100% Christian writer who analyzes things from a Christian point of view. I sometimes research into what the spiritual forces of evil are up to in hopes of gleaning information to help us Christians figure out what is going on or to figure out what Satan has planned. You can read more about why I dare consider these unbiblical sources at the following link Now on to the article...

In the past couple of weeks I’ve focused on Satan’s intentions to fool people during the end times with major deceptions. While it is vital that we understand that Satan is going to use all sorts of lying signs and wonders to deceive people, we should not neglect other elements of Satan’s end time strategy. Satan is incredibly crafty and is definitely not a one-trick pony.

I want to go over another key element of Satan’s end time strategy. In today’s blog post I will give you an overview of how Satan is going to treat the world’s major religions during the end times.

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A Major Crisis in U.S.-Israeli Relations is Brewing

I originally planned to post an article about how the world’s major religions would be treated in the end times today, but recent developments involving the U.S. and Israel have become so pressing that I’ve decided to postpone the publishing of that article until Thursday. In its place is an article about recent developments between the U.S. and Israel.

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Are the Forces of Evil Targeting Catholics Specifically?

Pre-Article Disclaimer for Newer Readers: If you are reading this blog for the first time or are not totally familiar with my work, I am a 100% Christian writer who analyzes things from a Christian point of view. I sometimes research into what the spiritual forces of evil are up to in hopes of gleaning information to help us Christians figure out what is going on or to figure out what Satan has planned. You can read more about why I dare consider these unbiblical sources at the following link Now on to the article...

At the end of my third post about Fatima I posed the question: “Are the Ascended Masters targeting mainly Catholics or are they equal opportunists in (targeting) other faiths?” In this blog post I will attempt to answer this important question.

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Health Care Reform and RFID Implants

I was asked yesterday if I knew that Barack Obama was planning to force people to get implantable RFID chips as part of the health care reform legislation. I never heard of such thing so I went to see for myself.This blog post is about what I found researching the topic.

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My View on U.S. Health Care Reform

The big news in the U.S. is that the House of Representatives is planning to vote on the Senate’s version of the health care reform bill and then a reconciliation bill that supposedly will reconcile the differences between the House of Representatives’ version and the Senate’s version of the health care reform legislation. Passage of these two bills today by the House of Representatives does not guarantee that health care reform is coming, but it represents a major step towards making it a reality.

I’ll throw in my views on the topic of health care reform because the passage of health care legislation has major implications on the America’s economic, financial, social, and political landscape. For full disclosure before I begin, I am opposed to the current health care reform legislation.

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Comments Are Now Enabled For Everyone on Blog Posts

I had no idea people were unable to easily leave comments on blog posts until I was alerted by a reader this evening. I figured out what the problem was, and I have now made it possible for anyone to post comments on each post without people needing to have a Google Account, Open ID Account, etc. Feel free to leave comments. I apologize for any past inconveniences I may have caused. I didn't know...

Why Are the Spiritual Forces of Evil Seeking to Spiritualize People?

Pre-Article Disclaimer for Newer Readers: If you are reading this blog for the first time or are not totally familiar with my work, I am a 100% Christian writer who analyzes things from a Christian point of view. I sometimes research into what the spiritual forces of evil are up to in hopes of gleaning information to help us Christians figure out what is going on or to figure out what Satan has planned. You can read more about why I dare consider these unbiblical sources at the following link Now on to the article...

The spokespeople for the Ascended Masters admit that they are deliberately working behind the scenes to increase the spirituality of people. They give credit to the Ascended Masters for being behind Mary apparitions and for being behind virtually every other miracle, sign, or wonder people have seen in recent centuries. Given this, the question that must be asked is “why are the forces of evil working to increase the spirituality of people”? I will attempt to answer this question in this blog entry.

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Insights of Fatima Part 3: The Third Secret of Fatima

Pre-Article Disclaimer for Newer Readers: If you are reading this blog for the first time or are not totally familiar with my work, I am a 100% Christian writer who analyzes things from a Christian point of view. I sometimes research into what the spiritual forces of evil are up to in hopes of gleaning information to help us Christians figure out what is going on or to figure out what Satan has planned. You can read more about why I dare consider these unbiblical sources at the following link Now on to the article...

In the first two installments of this series of posts I wrote about the source of Mary apparitions and the most famous miracle of Fatima: the Miracle of the Sun. In this part I go over the Third Secret of Fatima.

Fatima is most famous for the Three Secrets of Fatima. The three secrets of Fatima were allegedly given to the three Portuguese children by the Virgin Mary. The first two secrets of Fatima were made public in 1941; leaving the world to speculate about the Third Secret of Fatima for nearly 60 years. In the meantime, the Catholic Church possessed the Third Secret of Fatima, which they received from the lone surviving person that received the secrets in 1957.

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Insights of Fatima Part 2: The Miracle of the Sun

Pre-Article Disclaimer for Newer Readers: If you are reading this blog for the first time or are not totally familiar with my work, I am a 100% Christian writer who analyzes things from a Christian point of view. I sometimes research into what the spiritual forces of evil are up to in hopes of gleaning information to help us Christians figure out what is going on or to figure out what Satan has planned. You can read more about why I dare consider these unbiblical sources at the following link Now on to the article...

In Part 1 of Insights of Fatima I attempted to show that the Virgin Mary's identity is being stolen by the Ascended Masters (a group of spiritual beings mentioned in Ephesians 6:12 as "the spiritual wickedness in high places"). I provided evidence that the Ascended Masters orchestrate apparitions and miracles in hopes of deceiving people. In Part 2 I cover the biggest miracle associated with Fatima: the Miracle of the Sun.

Fatima is perhaps the most famous Virgin Mary apparition in the 20th Century and perhaps even in history. In 1917 three children saw a spiritual being they believed was the Virgin Mary nearby their village in Fatima, Portugal. Following the initial appearance, the spiritual being appeared to the children and others for six consecutive months on the 13th day of each month.

On October 13, 1917, tens of thousands of people, including many skeptics, gathered on an overcast day to see whether the Virgin Mary would appear. Little did these people know that they would witness an event that is still talked about to this day: the “Miracle of the Sun”.

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Insights of Fatima Part 1: The Source of Mary Apparitions

Pre-Article Disclaimer for Newer Readers: If you are reading this blog for the first time or are not totally familiar with my work, I am a 100% Christian writer who analyzes things from a Christian point of view. I sometimes research into what the spiritual forces of evil are up to in hopes of gleaning information to help us Christians figure out what is going on or to figure out what Satan has planned. You can read more about why I dare consider these unbiblical sources at the following link Now on to the article...

Update: I want to clarify that I am not making statements about Mary herself. I am making statements about a spiritual phenomenon in hopes that people are not deceived by spiritual beings who are stealing Mary's identity.

Before I begin I want to make it clear that I do not have an anti-Catholic agenda like many people have. I just report what I find in my research and let you decide whether to believe my findings. If you are a Catholic you might find what I am going to say difficult to digest and perhaps so disconcerting that you might never read another thing I write again. Now that you’ve been warned, it’s time to begin Part 1 of the Insights of Fatima.

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My Official Stance on the Raj Patel Speculation

I originally planned to post notes from a Benjamin Creme interview scheduled Sunday, but that interview-along with every other scheduled interview this month-was cancelled. I doubt it has anything to do with me, though I’m sure they know I would have been listening. Creme has a public lecture this coming Tuesday so perhaps he’ll make some sort of public announcement like he did on January 14. We’ll see…

In lieu of interview notes, I’ll give you my opinion about the speculation regarding Raj Patel. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the situation, here is some background information.

Benjamin Creme on January 14, 2010 announced that Maitreya (the leader of a group of beings called Ascended Masters, the “spiritual wickedness in high places” Paul spoke of in Ephesians 6:12) appeared on American television after nearly 30 years of promising that such an event would take place. Creme stated that Maitreya did not use his name during the interview and appeared with a different look than when he appeared in Nairobi, Kenya in 1988. Creme also stated that Maitreya emphasized the need for sharing the world’s resources during the interview.

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My Top 10 Recommended Blog Posts

This is my 76th blog post since this blog debuted. Many people are new to this blog and do not have a lot of time to look over the other 75 blog posts. I’ve decided to help out those who do not have a lot of time to read every post by listing my Top 10 recommended blog entries (excluding my reviews of several Benjamin Creme live interviews).

These recommendations are not listed in any specific order. You can access each blog post listed by clicking on each listing’s bolded title or where it says “link”.

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Has Evil Infiltrated the Vatican?

Pre-Article Disclaimer for Newer Readers: If you are reading this blog for the first time or are not totally familiar with my work, I am a 100% Christian writer who analyzes things from a Christian point of view. I sometimes research into what the spiritual forces of evil are up to in hopes of gleaning information to help us Christians figure out what is going on or to figure out what Satan has planned. You can read more about why I dare consider these unbiblical sources at the following link Now on to the article...

Gabriele Amorth is the long-time chief exorcist at the Vatican. A story about Amorth came out in the Times of London where Amorth states that he believes that Satan has infiltrated the Vatican. Amorth accuses some cardinals in the Vatican of not being believers in Jesus Christ and that some bishops are linked to “the demon”.

Amorth claims may sound outlandish to some people, but what he claims caught my attention because New Age author Alice Bailey (through an Ascended Master, a spiritual being mentioned by Paul in Ephesians 6:12 as the “spiritual wickedness in high places” named Djwhal Khul) and Benjamin Creme, the official spokesmen of Maitreya (the leader of the Ascended Masters), have wrote about such infiltration in the Vatican.

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Aliens and UFO Report Now Available (Updated)

I finally published my new report on Aliens and UFOs. It’s 25 pages long, but a lot of the length is due to the extensive use of bullet points to aid the reading process. Therefore, it should not take too long to read the entire report. You can access and download the report at the following links

• http://www.scribd.com/Aliens-UFOs-Insights/d/28156707
• Update: The report is also now available at my main website by clicking this Link

The following is a description of the report:

In this report I provide information and insights about aliens and UFOs so that Christians and non-Christians can understand the spiritual implications of the alien and UFO phenomenon. I answer whether aliens are extra terrestrial beings from another world and provide you an overview of what aliens are trying to achieve today. In addition I touch on what role aliens will play in the End Times. I am confident you will learn something new about aliens and UFOs after you’ve read this report.

Just to be clear, the report is not meant to cover every alien and UFO topic out there. The report is intended to focus on what is important and that is exposing aliens for what they really are.

For those of you who track Benjamin Creme, the report includes an extensive summary of what Creme claims about aliens and UFOs.

Update on Aliens & UFO Report and GAAP Thoughts

The aliens and UFO report is 99.9% complete at this moment and should be available Wednesday around 1PM EST on Scribd and probably my main website too if there aren’t any major last minute issues that arise. Right now it’s going to be 25 pages in length and has a lot of information. I plan to post an announcement on my blog around 1PM EST Wednesday with the links to the research report.

Now onto something that’s been on my mind for the past week…

The fiscal situation in the United States is far worse than what the government presents to the public. There are two types of budget deficits figures released by the U.S. Government: one touted by Congress while the other one is a less publicized financial audit made by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Congress’s numbers are the most flawed because they “don’t count the growing burden of future pensions and medical care for federal retirees and military personnel”.[1] This makes a major difference in the bottom line as you will see below.

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An Introduction to Me for the Readers of Lookup Fellowship

I would like to thank Lookup Fellowship for their kind review of my work. I do not hear a lot of feedback so I highly appreciate their endorsement of my work.

A lot of you are probably reading this blog for the first time so here is a primer about me and what I write about.

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A UFO & Alien Report is On the Way, Reporting on 666

I have been busy the past couple of days writing a report focused on UFOs and aliens. Benjamin Creme’s statements about UFOs and aliens in the March edition of Share International Magazine was so interesting that I went back to research other statements he made about UFOs and aliens. I’ve gathered enough information that I felt it was necessary to write a report about UFOs and aliens. It’s a topic that many Christians have difficulty dealing with so a report about UFOs and aliens would be useful. I hope to have that report done in the next few days.

Today I published a report about the Mark of the Beast. The report has some fairly new information that has not been seen in my other reports and has information that has hardly ever been touched on in Christian writings about the Mark of the Beast. The following is a description of the report:

In this report I provide “new” information regarding the Mark of the Beast. I introduce a little-known symbol that people should consider as a serious candidate to be the Mark of the Beast. In addition, I include a 666 calculation and give an overview of the process people will go through to get the Mark of the Beast. I am confident that the information I present in this report will increase our collective understanding of the Mark of the Beast.

Here is a link to the actual report http://www.scribd.com/doc/27833751/666-Mark-of-the-Beast-Insights

According to Creme’s website, Creme has a live interview this Saturday at 6PM EST on Blogtalk Radio. We’ll see if he has anything new to say after being quiet for a couple of weeks…

Creme Says Aliens Among Us (March 2010 Share International Magazine Overview)

A few days ago Benjamin Creme’s website released the March edition of their magazine. Here is an overview of what you will find in the March edition.

The Ascended Master that advises Creme gave a very brief overview of some of the things Maitreya said in his alleged television appearances. The Ascended Master wrote that Maitreya admonished the current financial system and praised some people for their work in face of the current system.

In the Q&A section a follower of Maitreya asked if author and activist Raj Patel, a man who many Maitreya followers view as Maitreya in human form, is Maitreya. Creme’s response was quite interesting because he did not issue anything that resembled a denial. He basically replied that many people are receptive to Maitreya’s ideas. To be fair, Creme’s official policy is not to confirm or deny whether someone on television is Maitreya. However, Creme could have at least issued a denial to give Patel a break from all the attention he is receiving from the followers of Maitreya.

A person asked Creme about how many people in the world are aware of the Maitreya story. Creme said that there are only between 30-38 million people that are aware of the story. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was true because 95 to 99% of Christians have no idea about Maitreya, the Ascended Masters, etc. Creme also claimed that 7 million people who heard the Maiterya story totally believe it, but there are currently around 1.8 billion people who will follow Maitreya when he reveals his true identity.

The magazine had lots of stuff about UFOs and aliens. The section about UFOs and aliens basically was a transcript of a talk Creme gave about the spiritual mission of UFOs last year. Here are a few things that jumped out at me (whether I actually believe Creme is speaking the truth is a completely different matter):

Creme claims there are 2000 aliens living on the planet right now. He claims some of them have arrived on this planet as adults while others are raised as children by families.

Creme says that these aliens on Earth would look like any other ordinary human unless they want to be seen in their true form. This is almost a dead giveaway by Creme that aliens are low-level fallen angels as Paul warned in 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 that Satan’s ministers can pose in different forms, including as ministers of light.

Creme claims that these aliens have contact with government officials and that some aliens actually are employees of the United Nations.

Creme claims there are underground and underwater UFO bases where these aliens work to clean up nuclear activity (Creme seems to be a conspiracy theorist’s best friend).

I’ve just about completed a new research report about the Mark of the Beast. I plan to have the research report available sometime this week. The report should have some information about the Mark of the Beast that many of you have not seen before.