Des Griffin's Newsletter - February 2009
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 Dear Friends:
To say that many people have been traumatized by recent events is, perhaps, a gross understatement. Bombarded from every point of the compass by a massively confusing mixture of truths — half-truths, misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies — they are trying frantically to understand and make some sense out of what is happening in their lives, and to their once free and wealthy nation. Their minds are reeling as they search for something solid upon which to build their hopes for the future.
While sitting in front of my computer with a blank screen seeking some “inspiration” as to how to start this Des Griffin’s AlertNewsletter, my mind flashed back more than fifty years to an incident that happened in Ireland. While living in England, I visited “the old country” with a newly acquired Grundig tape recorder (it was a huge thing, measuring about 2ft. X 2ft. X 1ft). While visiting members of my family who lived in a town some eighty miles from Dublin, I had the opportunity to “tape” a local businessman, a friend of the family, as he recited Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem, “IF.” He was reading from a silver plaque in his home. Over the years, I have frequently referred to the words of that poem. They have real meaning, and offer sound advice to those who ponder their significance:
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs... If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you... If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same; if you can bear to hear the truths you’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build ‘em up with worn out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it all on one turn of pitch and toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss; if you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them, “Hold on.”
“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings — nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; if all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, and — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!”
Regardless of who or what we may each be, individually, we can all benefit from pondering the words of this poem. They may serve us well in the weeks and months ahead.
SIX HONEST SERVANTS
In modern society, one is considered “politically incorrect” or even “archaic” if they look to the past for answers to present-day problems. The general assumption, carefully nurtured by “change agents” at all levels of society, is that anything that happened prior to the 1960s is irrelevant and thus a waste of time to even consider. This is the “now” generation, and man — now allegedly “liberated” from all the superstitious nonsense and bigotry of yesteryear — can successfully establish his own manmade “Utopia.” No longer, we are told, do we have to take the advice of philosopher George Santana that, “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Or the advice given by famous historian Edward Gibbon, “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.” Was it not wise king Solomon who declared that, “The thing that has been is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under heaven” (Ecclesiastes 1:9)? To have a balanced approach to life, we obviously need to consult the lessons of history as a guide to the future.
Speaking of Rudyard Kipling, another quote of his is worthy of attention: “I keep six honest serving men. They taught me all I know. Their names are what and why, and when and how, and where and who?” What? Why? When? How? Where? Who? These are “honest servants” we all need to consult on a daily if not an hourly basis as we go through life. If, over the last 60 years, these sound principles of living had been taught in educational institutions from early childhood, America would undoubtedly be in much sounder shape than it is today.
“NO ACCIDENTS”
As we have stressed on innumerable occasions for a third of a century (yes, we’ve been at this since “the good old days” of 1976!), very few things happen “accidentally.” As FDR stated, “In politics, there are no accidents. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” What has happened in the financial markets in recent months was no “accident.” What we are now witnessing may well be one of the last moves in the plan to destroy the fiscal integrity and sovereignty of the United States in preparation for its absorption into a new world order.
It is obvious to all who have studied history that the measures taken by Congress over the last six months (almost $2,000,000,000,000 in bank bailouts) are destined to result in unprecedented inflation (hyperinflation) and the destruction of the U.S. dollar as a viable currency. As the notorious British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) stated years ago: “By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to detect” (The Economic Consequences of The Peace, 1920).
From the very beginning of our nation, many politicians in Washington — Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Charles Lindbergh, Louis T. McFadden and Ron Paul, to name just a few — have recognized this fact. They all unswervingly advocated strict adherence to a sound constitutional monetary system and honest economic policies that would best serve the long-term needs of the American people. Their sound, reality-based and time-proven advice has been widely rejected by our political and financial leaders. The tragic results of that rejection surround us at every point of the compass. The collapse of the housing and credit markets are just two of many examples.
“VERY TROUBLING REPORT ... OF EXTRAORDINARY IMPORTANCE”
In October 2004, the House Banking Committee, then controlled by the Republicans, conducted a review of an unnerving Bush administration report on the operations of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The Democrats immediately attacked the report as being a waste of time. The Committee Chairman, Representative Richard Baker, R-LA, who was also chairman of the House Capital Markets Committee, disagreed: “It is indeed a very troubling report, but it is a report of extraordinary importance. Not only to those who wish to own a home, but to the taxpayers of this country who will pay the cost of the cleanup of the enterprise failure... The analysis makes clear that more resources must to be brought to bear to ensure the highest standard of conduct are not only required but, more importantly, they are actually met....”
The Democrat response to that fiscal reality? Total denial!“ Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extreme leftist from California: “Through nearly a dozen hearings where, frankly, we were trying to fix something that wasn’t broke. Mr. Chairman, we do not have a crisis in Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie May. Under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Franklin Raines ... everything in the 1992 [Federal Housing Enterprise Financial Safety and Soundness] Act has worked just fine. In fact, the GSE [Fannie Mae, a Government Sponsored Enterprise] has exceeded their housing goal. What we need to do today is to focus on the regulator and this ought to be done in a manner so as not to impede their ‘affordable housing’ mission — a mission which has seen innovation flourish ... (including) 100 percent loans.”
Lacey Clay (D-MO) thundered: “This hearing is about the political lynching of Franklin Raines.”
Barney Frank (D-MA), an open homosexual out of whose apartment one of his “lovers” ran a homosexual ring in the 1990s before being busted by police, didn’t want to be confused with the facts. He was pushing Fannie Mae to make bad loans to “underprivileged families” while having a homosexual relationship with Herb Moses, a top Fannie Mae executive. “You seem to be saying that there are areas [in Fannie Mae] that could raise safety and soundness problems. I don’t see anything in your report that raises safety and soundness problems.”
Congressman Gregory Meets (D-NY) was even more dogmatic: “The fact (is) that I am just pissed off... If it wasn’t for you [Mr. Baker, telling the truth] we wouldn’t be here in the first place... The GSEs have done a tremendous job. There’s been nothing that has indicated there is anything wrong with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... So, I wish I could sit here and say that I am not upset with you, but I am very upset because [you’re using this as an excuse] to give someone heart surgery when they don’t really need it.”
Armando Falcon, head of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), responded: “OFHEO did not improperly apply accounting rules, Fannie Mac did. OFHEO did not try to handle earnings properly, Freddie Mac did. This isn’t about the agency engaging in improper conduct, it’s about Freddie Mac....” Congressman Ed Royce (R-CA) backed him up: “In addition to our important oversight role in this committee, I hope that we will move swiftly to create a new regulatory structure for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the federal home loan banks...” That never happened.
Christopher Shays (R-CT): “(Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) play by their own rules, and I am tempted to ask how many people in this room are on the payroll of Fannie Mae? Basically, what they do is hire every lobbyist they can possibly hire. They hire some people to lobby and they hire some people not to lobby, so that the competition can’t hire them.”
Although the 2004 report was “pressing ... and important,” and contained warnings of an immanent housing catastrophe resulting from government mandated financing of low-income housing, no action was taken to avert it. In similar manner, there were dire warnings regarding predatory lending practices in the regular housing market. As then-New York Governor, Eliot Spitzer, pointed out in an article in The Washington Post, February 14, 2008: “Even though [by the middle of this decade] predatory lending was becoming a national problem, the Bush administration looked the other way and did nothing to protect American home buyers... Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.” As a result of the Bush administration and Congress doing nothing to address the massive problems in both areas of the housing market, the inevitable happened. [A few weeks later Spitzer was exposed as having hired a call girl to have sex in a New York hotel. He was forced to resign as governor. No charges were even filed against Spitzer, the call girl, or the agency for which she worked. Question: Was Spitzer’s convenient “exposure” due to his having told the truth about the Bush administration “turning a blind eye” to the damage being done by predatory lenders? If not, why aren’t thousands of other whoremongering politicians in Washington and nationwide exposed for similar activities?]
The government’s “solution” to the mushrooming credit crisis and its aftermath: Ignore most of the basic causes of the crisis, call for the “help” of many of the individuals who helped create the problem, and throw trillions in bailout money to the bankers who were instrumental in causing the catastrophe — and send the almost indescribable and totally unpayable bill to our children and grandchildren so as to make them nothing less than feudal serfs of the bankers in the years ahead. That is treason in the nth degree. Stop and think! Is that not exactly what Dr. Carroll Quigley, an acknowledged “insider,” stated 43 years ago was planned for our future — a worldwide “feudal” system controlled by the international banks (Tragedy and Hope, p.324). As FDR said, “You can bet it was planned that way.”
STRETCHING CREDULITY BEYOND THE BREAKING POINT
For anyone to suggest that what has happened to the United States since the end of World War II occurred “accidentally” is to stretch credulity way beyond the breaking point. America has been systematically transformed from being the richest, most respected and freest nation on earth — with seemingly boundless horizons — into a nation that is rapidly coming apart at the seams. Globally, America is a nation whose leaders are despised for their duplicity — a nation which is hopelessly and irredeemably in debt to the international bankers and its other creditors. “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender” (Proverbs 22:7). So much for the famed “land of the free and home of the brave”!
To paraphrase the late Gary Allen, if we were dealing with the law of averages, half the political and economic decisions affecting our nation’s well-being would have been good for our nation. If we were dealing with mere incompetence, our leaders would occasionally have made a mistake in our favor. We were not dealing with coincidence or stupidity, but with planning and brilliance.
LUCIFERIAN PLOT TO DESTROY AMERICA
As we have been saying constantly for more than three decades, we have been witnessing the working out of a Luciferian plan to destroy America and other nations so as to eventually merge them into a global plantation, euphemistically called a new world order. For decades we have seen one created “crisis” after another. Each has automatically resulted in ever-greater losses of national sovereignty and personal freedoms. The attacks on the Twin Towers in New York on 9/11 are a perfect examples.
They resulted in the passage of such draconian measures as the “Patriot” Act and Homeland Security legislation. Members of Congress were stampeded into passing these unconstitutional and liberty-depriving Acts without being allowed to examine their contents.
As Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s White House Chief of Staff, stated recently in another context: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is that it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before”
This Luciferian (or Satanic) spiritual disease is manifesting itself in a political form. It must run its course. As it is directed by a force of pure spiritual evil, it can’t be defeated politically. That will take a much superior spiritual force. We believe Psalm 2:1-12 reveals how that task will be accomplished.
“Faith is not knowing what the future holds, but knowing WHO holds the future.”
Till next time, Best Wishes, Des Griffin
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