30 Day Diary

Judas Kiss The Kiss takes place when the sun passes into the waiting arms of Scorpio. 9/13

Holy Grail Jesus' Last Supper takes place when the sun is in the House of Bread and the constellation Crater is below to symbolize the goblet of blood.

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The signficance of lamb and fish

When the Catholic Church defined the yearly calendar, they timed the beginning of the First Century with the birth of Christ. It was no coincidence that the First Century, in astronomical time, marks the time when the sun drifted from the constellation Aries to the constellation Pisces at the zero hour on the Spring Equinox, March 21. (See The Great Year)

We see the same sequence in the Book of John. In the first chapter, Jesus comes as the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world — the world that was to end soon. In the last chapter, we are taken to a scene where the apostles are catching fish — fish represent the believers in the New Age.

The constellation Cetus is reminiscent of Deep, the monster of chaos in Genesis 1:2. Though a different monster from Deep, its presence in this context could be seen to represent the sinful chaos of the Age of Aries..

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29)

The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples; and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” (John 1:35-36)

Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.
Jesus said to them, “Children, have you any fish?” They answered him, “No.”
He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, for the quantity of fish.
That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his clothes, for he was stripped for work, and sprang into the sea.
But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards off.
When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on it, and bread.
Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.”
So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them; and although there were so many, the net was not torn.
Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” Now none of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord.
Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish.
This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead. (John 21:4-14)

In sum, the gospels tell of the sun's passing from the Age of Aries to the the Age of Pisces. Said another way, the world of Aries was to end, to be replaced by the new world of Pisces. Now we know why, despite 2,000 years of apocalypic predictions, the human race is still here on earth.

“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.” (Matt. 28:18-20)

Other Matters

The American and European economies are heading into an economic depression on a scale never seen before. How it affects us depends on our personal situations and what we do to protect ourselves. I urge you to read the articles below and the resources on the economics page.

The wrong lesson learned from the 1930s depression is that government spending is the remedy for rescuing capitalism from its excesses. The problem with that argument is that government is the root cause of those excesses. As sure as night follows day, any excess expansion of money and debt is followed by a contraction of money and debt. Secondly, government has to take from the private economy to put back into the private economy. Confusing effect for cause, the feds misallocated resources, making the problem worse. The 30s economy did eventually correct itself, but it was government actions that made the Depression worse than any preceding it.

In the 30s, the American economy had a strong manufacturing base and a relatively small, financially sound government. This time it has none of those. Instead, the long practice of creating money from debt has brought the American economy to a level of debt beyond all means and weakened its manufacturing base, making recovery impossible.

The Mother of All Bank Runs? The strains in financial markets are becoming more, rather than less, severe in spite of the nuclear option of a $700 billion package. 10/5

Breakthrough Reached in Negotiations on Bailout "Congressional leaders and the Bush administration reached a tentative agreement early Sunday on what may become the largest financial bailout in American history, authorizing the Treasury to purchase $700 billion in troubled debt from ailing firms in an extraordinary intervention to prevent widespread economic collapse."

Asia Needs Deal to Prevent Panic Selling of U.S. Debt, Yu Says It was reckless borrowing from foreigners that contributed to the debt criss. So what does Congress do? They borrow to bail out the borrowers. I cannot read the mind of foreigners, but if any of them have a smidgen of common sense, they'll start dumping their dollar holdings as soon as the market opens on Asia Sunday night. At minimum, they are not likely to finance the $700 billion the Treasury needs to finance the bailout. That leaves the Federal Reserve to create the money to buy the bonds foreigners won't buy. This is why the Fed had to resort to exchanging every bad debt it can get its hands in exchange for money and why Washington has to keep expanding their spending. Whatever the exact timeline, the dollar is destined to collapse bringing financial assets down with it, and prices to go to new highs. 9/28

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Adjusted Monetary Base The general price level cannot rise unless the money supply first expands. Said another way, prices rise because there is too much money in circulation. The latest Federal Reserve statistics warn of massive price increases between one to two years from now should they continue.That's about the time it takes for new money to work its way up to the consumer price level. Massive increases in spending, declining tax revenues and the growing reluctance and inability of foreigners to finance American exploding debt make it a near certainly that the Monetary Base will continue to explode. 9/27

Throwing money at the problem follows the same script that every other nation in economic history has tried and failed. It was excess money and debt that brought us to this state of affairs, and excess money and debt that will destroy what value is left of the dollar. We are not long from the time when even the federal government will not be able to pay its debts. It ends with a hyperinflationary blowoff. Are you prepared? 9/21/08

The government is not promoting stability The actions taken by Washington are accelerating the demise of financial markets and the dollar. They didn't know what they were doing when they made this mess and they don't know how to get out of it. Would you trust a doctor who botched an operation? A plumber who flooded your basement? A mechanic who made your car unsafe? These people are putting a wrecking ball to the American economy. Voting is not going to change anything except the faces on the wrecking ball. 9/22

Government Failure Proponents of government intervention blame laissez-faire capitalism when the American economy is highly taxed and regulated. 9/21

Credit Default Swaps (derivatives) 101 An insurance policy for credit defaults turned into a vehicle for massive speculation on bad credit without regards to risk and the insurors' ability to pay. 9/20

Over half of Americans believe in guardian angels Many claim to have experiences. 9/20

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function The compounding effect of arithmetic growth rates imposes imposes natural limits to those growth rates.. This is an eight part video, about 70 minutes total. 9/20

The exponential function applied to inflation forebodes hyperinflation in the near future 9/20

A short video of the above two explaining why growth cannot be sustained. 9/20

A page of primer articles on our money and energy problems 9/20

Hard numbers: the economy is worse than you know Trusting government statistics is like trusting a fox to guard your chickens. 9/20

Comrade Bernanke Does it Again AIG was in effect, nationalized, stolen from the stockholders. The money was spent without approval from Congress. This action sets a precedent for any arbitary nationalization. 9/18

AIG’s Dangerous Collapse & A Credit Derivatives Risk Primer The $62 trillion dollar credit derivatives market is 50 times the size of the subprime mortgage derivatives market, and is indeed larger than the entire global economy. 9/18

Bloomberg warns of possible 'next wave' crisis There is great risk that foreign entities will stop buying US debt. In my opinion, it is a matter of when, not if. Say good-bye to the dollar. 9/18

Federal Reserve buys majority stake in A.I.G. for $85 billion They call it a loan, but don't kid yourself. There is no way can A.I.G pay the Fed back. The question is who paid for it? Yep. You guessed it. You the taxpayer. With more too-big-to fail companies waiting in the breadline, the Federal Reserve has taking the path of least resistance. It will suck the life out of the economy and the dollar to maintain the pretense that all is well. 9/16

Fed Expands Lending Facilities in bid for stability In plain English it means that the Federal Reserve is now in the business of accepting stocks as collateral for loans (bad debt). It's another step towards the socializing of capital markets. This is illegal but that matters little to these banksters. It means that the Federal Government is directly exposed to losses in the stock market. It means that those loses will be transferred to the population at large - you. 9/15

Lehman fies for biggest bankruptcy as suitors balk Lehman was the fourth largest investment bank. 9/15

Bank of America to buy Merril Lynch That leaves Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs the last two investment banks standing ... for now. 9/15

Derivatives the new 'ticking bomb' What is behind this frantic effort to save these falling companies? The deratives maket is so tightly linked that a failure anywhere could trigger an unstoppable chain reaction of collapsing securities.

The Subprime Primer Try this if you still don't understand what derivatives are.

U.S. Foreclosures Hit Record in August as Housing Prices Fell This avalanche is still gaining momentum. 9/14

Ticking Time Bomb Explodes, Public is Shocked The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exposes the bankruptcy of government social engineering. F & F subsidies raised the price of housing till they were unaffordable. 9/14

Pakistan army ordered to hit back US forces The Bush Doctrine makes another enemy.
Pakistan fury at US cross-border attacks The hubris of American foreign policy knows no bounds. 9/14

Obama Can't Win Against Palin Say what you want about his moral character, Karl Rove makes a persuasive case on why Obama will lose. (Americans will lose no matter who wins, but that's another story.) Palin has a history of sucking up to mentors, then shucking them off when she gets what she wants. McCain's a warrior and she's a wild card. Honest by political standards, if elected, it remains to be seen to what degree she stands behind her man. 9/14

Last Gasp of a Doomed Currency The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac insures bondholders against lost, but transfers the loss to taxpayers in the form of higher inflation to come. 9/13

Prepare for hyperinflation All inflationary cycles end with the destruction of the currency. The Fannie & Freddie takeover augurs the government's determination to create massive amounts of money until it destroys the dollar. 9/8

Our current economic mess explained If you take the time to read and understand this page, you'll be way ahead of 99% of Americans including most market professionals. 9/1

The Great Consumer Crash of 2009 Homeowners are overloaded with debt and the rising costs of consumer goods. The full storm hasn't hit yet. 8/24