AMERICA - THE WHORE OF ALL THE EARTH

While I am more prone to look at abortion statistics and out-of-wedlock pregnancies when I cite the whore of all the earth rhetoric, I guess there is nothing more reassuring that we are in the number one spot than the following stats that someone compiled and put on LDSFREEDOMFORUM.COM. Just thought I would share:

More evidence that America is Babylon the great:

Revelation 18:
2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
12 The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
14 And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

After reading again this chapter of Revelation I wanted to do some research and find out which countries imported the most of each of the goods listed in verses 12-13. The answer probably comes as no surprise; only one nation fits the description - the United States of America. Where I could find multiple sources for each of the items listed in red above I tried to include them.

Top 10 importing countries:
1 United States $ 2,314,000,000,000 2011 est.
— European Union (minus internal trade) $ 2,000,000,000,000 2010 est.
2 China $ 1,743,468,000,000 2011 est.
3 Germany $ 1,339,000,000,000 2011 est.
4 Japan $ 794,700,000,000 2011 est.
5 France $ 684,600,000,000 2011 est.
6 United Kingdom $ 654,900,000,000 2011 est.
7 Italy $ 541,200,000,000 2011 est.
8 South Korea $ 525,200,000,000 2011 est.
9 Netherlands $ 514,100,000,000 2011 est.
- Hong Kong $ 493,200,000,000 2011 est.
10 Canada $ 459,600,000,000 2011 est.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... by_imports

Top 10 Gold importing countries:
The following countries imported the most gold by value in 2005.
1. India $10.9 billion (33.1% of top ten gold importers, up 6% from 2004)
2. United States $4.4 billion (13.5%, up 10.9%)
3. Turkey $3.9 billion (11.8%, up 11.4%)
4. Italy $3.5 billion (10.5%, down 2.8%)
5. Canada $2.3 billion (6.9%, up 60.1%)
6. Australia $2.1 billion (6.5%, up 18.5%)
7. Thailand $2 billion (6%, up 71.4%)
8. Malaysia $1.4 billion (4.1%, up 9.2%)
9. Japan $1.3 billion (4.1%, up 12.1%)
10. Germany $1.2 billion (3.5%, up 17.9%).
Source: http://daniel-workman.suite101.com/top- ... ies-a40840

Top 10 Gold buyers in 2010.
1. India 963.1 tons
2. China 607.1 tons
3. United States 233.3 tons
4. Germany 126.9 tons
5. Turkey 114.6 tons
6. Switzerland 91.7 tons
7. Saudi Arabia 87.5 tons
8. Vietnam 81.4 tons
9. United Arab Emirates 72 tons
10. Russia 67.5 tons
Source: http://www.china.org.cn/top10/2011-08/0 ... 114682.htm

Some thoughts on Gold: India is historically and culturally very big consumers of gold, so it comes as no surprise that they top the list. However, what is interesting is that China, who did not make the top 10 in 2005, suddenly by 2010 is the second largest gold buyer. Another interesting thing to note is who else also suddenly makes the top 10 who hadn't before... Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, and Russia – All Middle-Eastern and Communist countries. Why the sudden change? Might this be an indicator that they are gearing up and preparing for war? Historically it takes gold - lots of it - to wage war; it costs money to buy weapons, armor, resources, pay troops, and bribe other nations. Just something to think about.

Top 10 Silver importing countries (in thousands of dollars):
1. United States: 3,430,430
2. Japan: 1,863,410
3. Switzerland: 1,851,580
4. Germany: 1,507,080
5. Hong Kong: 1,428,380
6. Italy: 595,983
7. India: 370,304
8. China: 348,281
9. France: 271,528
10. Thailand: 215,780
Source: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_w ... atinum-etc

Top 10 silver consumers in 2010:
1. United States
2. China
3. Japan
4. India
5. Germany
6. Italy
7. Thailand
8. South Korea
9. UK and Ireland
10. Belgium
Source: http://www.statista.com/statistics/2161 ... tric-tons/

Top 10 importers of pearls, precious stones, metals, coins, etc. (in thousands of dollars):
1. United States 52,297,727
2. India 52,193,819
3. Hong Kong, China 33,453,587
4. United Arab Emirates 24,818,222
5. United Kingdom 19,708,006
6. Germany 16,316,930
7. Switzerland 16,258,680
8. Belgium 16,129,709
9. Canada 12,616,375
10. Japan 11,526,829
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 71)

Top 10 importers of pearls in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. Japan 355,441
2. Hong Kong, China 307,007
3. United States 274,284
4. Australia 139,285
5. Switzerland 52,824
6. Italy 41,970
7. China 39,248
8. Germany 35,982
9. United Kingdom 19,577
10 France 18,183
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 7101)

Top 10 diamond importers in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. India 22,102,643
2. United States 18,644,171
3. Hong Kong, China 14,688,017
4. Belgium 14,321,012
5. United Arab Emirates 10,553,674
6. Israel 8,392,193
7. United Kingdom 7,479,538
8. China 3,997,716
9. Switzerland 1,714,245
10. Thailand 773,445
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 7102)

Top Silk importing countries in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. Italy 329,706
2. India 292,008
3. Hong Kong, China 223,769
4. United States 162,356
5. Japan 149,311
6. Viet Nam 126,275
7. China 124,435
8. Republic of Korea 112,118
9. Germany 93,890
10. France 89,134
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 50)

Top 10 importers of clothing and apparel in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. United States 35,694,143
2. Germany 16,697,380
3. Japan 12,618,824
4. United Kingdom 10,769,634
5. France 10,365,117
6. Italy 7,693,970
7. Spain 7,108,831
8. Hong Kong, China 6,907,138
9. Netherlands 4,250,448
10. Belgium 3,765,379
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 62)

Top 10 importers of wood and wood products in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. United States 12,190,755
2. China 11,234,863
3. Japan 10,432,773
4. Germany 8,075,408
5. Italy 5,255,004
6. United Kingdom 4,977,677
7. France 4,632,612
8. Canada 3,033,489
9. Belgium 2,790,880
10. Netherlands 2,780,522
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 44)

Another Top 10 wood importing countries list, this one from 2004 (in millions of dollars):
1. United States 21,726
2. Japan 10,591
3. China 5,167
4. United Kingdom 4,928
5. Italy 4,317
6. Germany 4,260
7. France 2,831
8. Canada 2,496
9. Spain 2,417
10. The Netherlands 2,123
Source: http://www.sadctrade.org/files/Wood%20a ... oducts.pdf

Top 10 importers of worked ivory and animal carving material in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. United States 24,617
2. Hong Kong, China 11,653
3. Japan 10,925
4. Italy 7,094
5. Germany 6,709
6. Spain 5,698
7. France 5,514
8. French Polynesia 3,647
9. Chinese Taipei 3,129
10. Netherlands 2,947
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 9601)

Another interesting list which may be equally telling…

Top Ten Countries With Most Ivory Seizures (2006?):
Country No. of Ivory Seizuers
1. United States 1,435
2. Namibia 409
3. France 375
4. United Kingdom 367
5. Germany 261
6. Belgium 237
7. Tanzania 210
8. South Africa 155
9. Malawi 132
10. Zambia 104
Source: http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-te ... zuers.html

Top 10 iron and steel importing countries in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. Germany 29,386,724
2. China 25,326,244
3. Republic of Korea 24,866,855
4. United States 22,517,939
5. Italy 19,366,021
6. Turkey 16,118,937
7. France 14,462,069
8. Belgium 12,521,775
9. Chinese Taipei 11,225,681
10. Thailand 10,999,403
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 72)

Top 10 countries importing iron and steel products in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. United States 28,263,261
2. Germany 19,787,805
3. France 10,750,938
4. China 9,150,701
5. Canada 9,112,990
6. United Kingdom 7,610,325
7. Republic of Korea 6,698,065
8. Mexico 6,622,701
9. Russia 5,958,004
10. Japan 5,654,327
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 73)

Top 10 importers of copper and copper products in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. China 46,183,467
2. Germany 12,548,728
3. United States 8,941,092
4. Italy 8,190,109
5. Chinese Taipei 6,064,184
6. Republic of Korea 6,020,329
7. France 4,762,752
8. Belgium 4,353,562
9. Thailand 3,583,143
10. Turkey 3,299,333
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 74)

Top 10 marble importers in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. China 1,488,425
2. India 118,914
3. Italy 113,509
4. Chinese Taipei 86,450
5. Libya 66,808
6. United Arab Emirates 34,706
7. Syrian Arab Republic 31,376
8. Singapore 29,080
9. Greece 27,603
10. Algeria 25,048
…
38. United States 3,518
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 2515)
I don't know how accurate this list is - the data for the U.S. seems kinda low for what would be expected. I suspect the U.S. imports more than the data indicates, but can find no other reliable sources to verify or quantify world marble imports.

Top 10 importers of cinnamon in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. Mexico 46,301
2. United States 42,232
3. India 13,040
4. United Arab Emirates 9,510
5. Bangladesh 8,409
6. Germany 6,932
7. Japan 6,043
8. United Kingdom 5,365
9. Netherlands 5,131
10. Colombia 4,699
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 0906)

Top 10 importers of coffee, tea, and spices in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. United States 5,943,264
2. Germany 4,190,130
3. France 2,012,468
4. Japan 1,876,922
5. Italy 1,465,451
6. United Kingdom 1,333,472
7. Canada 1,252,041
8. Belgium 1,246,309
9. Russia 959,268
10. Spain 941,313
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 09)

Top 10 importers of gums, resins, balsams, extracts, etc. (used in making incense, perfumes, salves, ointments, etc.) in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. France 70,368
2. India 66,829
3. United States 61,501
4. Germany 36,514
5. United Kingdom 25,889
6. Italy 23,527
7. Netherlands 22,537
8. China 20,049
9. Saudi Arabia 17,354
10. Russia 14,431
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 1301)

Top 5 wine importing countries in 2008 (in metric tonnes):
1. Germany 1,366,340 m/t
2. United Kingdom 1,080,250 m/t
3. United States 831,788 m/t
4. France 570,018 m/t
5. Russian Federation 417,515 m/t
Source: http://www.top5ofanything.com/index.php?h=16e0c4df

Top 10 importers of wine in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. United Kingdom 4,518,436
2. United States 4,461,891
3. Germany 2,696,772
4. Canada 1,699,641
5. Japan 1,334,806
6. Belgium 1,147,624
7. Netherlands 1,107,933
8. Switzerland 1,054,075
9. Hong Kong, China 898,484
10. Russian Federation 825,094
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 2204)

Top 10 importers of animal and vegetable fats and oils in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. China 8,884,173
2. India 4,794,979
3. United States 4,548,969
4. Germany 3,996,519
5. Italy 3,784,294
6. Netherlands 3,436,340
7. France 2,403,066
8. Malaysia 2,231,730
9. Pakistan 1,852,323
10. Belgium 1,840,317
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 15)

Top 10 importers of wheat flour in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. Iraq 312,011
2. Indonesia 261,254
3. Uzbekistan 230,945
4. Afghanistan 229,567
5. Brazil 217,662
6. Angola 135,781
7. Netherlands 127,007
8. United States 102,385
9. Tajikistan 92,184
10. Hong Kong, China 89,437
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 1101)

Top 10 importers of cereal flours (other than wheat) in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. United States 65,245
2. Spain 45,852
3. Angola 27,827
4. Canada 24,032
5. France 22,334
6. Hong Kong, China 22,118
7. Germany 21,876
8. Guatemala 19,538
9. China 19,170
10. Belgium 16,853
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 1102)

Top 10 importers of wheat in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. Egypt 2,181,907
2. Italy 1,874,417
3. Japan 1,667,547
4. Brazil 1,528,252
5. Indonesia 1,424,275
6. Algeria 1,251,588
7. Netherlands 1,076,152
8. Republic of Korea 1,066,839
9. Spain 1,053,287
10. Germany 894,836
…
17. United States 584,382
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 1001)

Top 10 importers of live animals (beasts) in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. United States 2,384,441
2. Italy 2,062,502
3. Germany 1,951,885
4. Venezuela 1,011,462
5. Netherlands 905,532
6. Belgium 737,968
7. United Kingdom 693,280
8. Spain 655,896
9. Saudi Arabia 595,988
10. Hong Kong, China 479,629
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 01)

Top 10 importers of sheep in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. Saudi Arabia 522,340
2. Italy 123,454
3. Kuwait 108,008
4. Bahrain 81,375
5. Oman 76,562
6. France 49,283
7. Qatar 47,158
8. Lebanon 44,921
9. Jordan 43,274
10. Iran (Islamic Republic of) 32,052
…
65. United States 156
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 0104)
I am a bit surprised that according to this data the U.S. ranks so low on sheep imports, however, from other sources I can find the U.S. indeed seems to import very little in the way of sheep. Still, only $156,000 for the entire year seems an unreasonable amount and I wonder if it might not be more.

Top 10 importers of horses, asses, mules, etc. in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. United Kingdom 495,016
2. United States 226,823
3. Ireland 205,453
4. Japan 163,260
5. Australia 101,988
6. France 82,920
7. Hong Kong, China 78,600
8. Italy 70,170
9. United Arab Emirates 64,516
10. Canada 57,257
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 0101)

Top 10 importers of vehicles (cars, trucks, vans, etc.) in 2010 (in thousands of dollars):
1. United States 116,768,040
2. Germany 35,208,871
3. France 31,166,550
4. United Kingdom 30,506,846
5. China 28,921,282
6. Italy 28,048,487
7. Belgium 24,619,577
8. Canada 22,321,127
9. Australia 14,300,094
10. Spain 11,608,908
Source: http://www.intracen.org/exporters/Stat_ ... t_country/ (click on product 8703)

Human trafficking and slavery. Due to the nature of this problem there is very little if any information and data available on which countries rank highest in terms of importation of human trafficking and slavery. One thing is for certain though, human trafficking and slavery in the United States is a very real problem, even if no one wants to acknowledge it. According to the Department of Education:

“Contrary to a common assumption, human trafficking is not just a problem in other countries. Cases of human trafficking have been reported in all 50 states, Washington D.C., and some U.S. territories. Victims of human trafficking can be children or adults, U.S. citizens or foreign nationals, male or female.

According to U.S. government estimates, thousands of men, women, and children are trafficked to the United States for the purposes of sexual and labor exploitation. An unknown number of U.S. citizens and legal residents are trafficked within the country primarily for sexual servitude and, to a lesser extent, forced labor.” Source: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/o ... sheet.html

According to other research, as quoted by the FBI, that number could very well be into the hundreds of thousands. Source: http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publi ... rafficking

As can be seen by the above data, the United States ranks in the top 10 (and more often than not, the top 3) importers of every singly good listed by John in Revelation 18, other than sheep (ranked 65th), wheat (ranked 17th - ranked 8th however on wheat flour) , and marble (ranked 38th). The only other nation that can even come as close to the U.S. as being on as many of those top 10 lists of importers is Germany.

It is no gross understatement to say that America is (by far) the world’s largest consumer of luxury goods.

SHOULD WE SUPPORT AND MAINTAIN A STANDING ARMY WHOSE EFFECT IS FELT IN ALMOST EVERY NATION UNDER THE HEAVENS?

I was shocked a few years ago when I began finding stunning statements of the LDS Church' First Presidency. In regard to mandatory military service, look what they said back over a half century ago, especially point numbers 14-17. And who can argue with David O. McKay.... We bring upon ourselves what is coming by our own lack of blindness and our lack of understanding of what is written in the Book of Mormon regarding the proper use of force. We need to tread lightly on our attitudes and support for those who have, with their silver and gold, bought up armies and false priests (politicians and otherwise) who oppress the people in a non-millennial form of existence:

STATEMENT BY THE FIRST PRESIDENCY REGARDING UNIVERSAL COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING

We print below a letter dated December 14, 1945, addressed by the First Presidency of the Church to each member of the Utah Congressional Delegation-Senators Thomas and Murdock and Congressmen Granger and Robinson. Word has now been received by the First Presidency from both Senators and both Congressmen expressing their approval of and belief in the sentiments, reasons, and conclusions set forth in the letter. The letter follows:

“Press reports have for some months indicated that a determined effort is in the making to establish in this country a compulsory universal military training designed to draw into military training and service the entire youth of the nation. We had hoped that mature reflection might lead the proponents of such a policy to abandon it. We have felt and still feel that such a policy would carry with it the gravest dangers to our Republic.

“It now appears that the proponents of the policy have persuaded the Administration to adopt it, in what on its face is a modified form. We deeply regret this, because we dislike to find ourselves under the necessity of opposing any policy so sponsored. However, we are so persuaded of the rightfulness of our position, and we regard the policy so threatening to the true purposes for which this Government was set up, as set forth in the great Preamble to the Constitution, that we are constrained respectfully to invite your attention to the following considerations:

“1. By taking our sons at the most impressionable age of their adolescence and putting them into army camps under rigorous military discipline, we shall seriously endanger their initiative thereby impairing one of the essential elements of American citizenship. While on its face the suggested plan might not seem to visualize the army camp training, yet there seems little doubt that our military leaders contemplate such a period, with similar recurring periods after the boys are placed in the reserves.

“2. By taking our boys from their homes, we shall deprive them of parental guidance and control at this important period of their youth, and there is no substitute for the care and love of a mother for a young son.

“3. We shall take them out of school and suffer their minds to be directed in other channels, so that very many of them after leaving the army, will never return to finish their schooling, thus over a few years materially reducing the literacy of the whole nation.

“4. We shall give opportunity to teach our sons not only the way to kill but also, in too many cases, the desire to kill, thereby increasing lawlessness and disorder to the consequent upsetting of the stability of our national society. God said at Sinai, “Thou shalt not kill.”

“5. We shall take them from the refining, ennobling, character-building atmosphere of the home, and place them under a drastic discipline in an environment that is hostile to most of the finer and nobler things of home and of life.

“6. We shall make our sons the victims of systematized allurements to gamble, to drink, to smoke, to swear, to associate with lewd women, to be selfish, idle, irresponsible save under restraint of force, to be common, coarse, and vulgar, all contrary to and destructive of the American home.

“7. We shall deprive our sons of any adequate religious training and activity during their training years, for the religious element of army life is both inadequate and ineffective.

“8. We shall put them where they may be indoctrinated with a wholly un-American view of the aims and purposes of their individual lives, and of the life of the whole people and nation, which are founded on the ways of peace, whereas they will be taught to believe in the ways of war.

“9. We shall take them away from all participation in the means and measures of production to the economic loss of the whole nation.

“10. We shall lay them open to wholly erroneous ideas of their duties to themselves, to their family, and to society in the matter of independence, self-sufficiency, individual initiative, and what we have come to call American manhood.

“11. We shall subject them to encouragement in a belief that they can always live off the labors of others through the government or otherwise.

“12. We shall make possible their building into a military caste which from all human experience bodes ill for that equality and unity which must always characterize the citizenry of a republic.

“13. By creating an immense standing army, we shall create to our liberties and free institutions a threat foreseen and condemned by the founders of the Republic, and by the people of this country from that time till now. Great standing armies have always been the tools of ambitious dictators to the destruction of freedom.

“14. By the creation of a great war machine, we shall invite and tempt the waging of war against foreign countries, upon little or no provocation; for the possession of great military power always breeds thirst for domination, for empire, and for a rule by might not right.

“15. By building a huge armed establishment, we shall belie our protestations of peace and peaceful intent and force other nations to a like course of militarism, so placing upon the peoples of the earth crushing burdens of taxation that with their present tax load will hardly be bearable, and that will gravely threaten our social, economic, and governmental systems.

“16. We shall make of the whole earth one great military camp whose separate armies, headed by war-minded officers, will never rest till they are at one another’s throats in what will be the most terrible contest the world has ever seen.

“17. All the advantages for the protection of the country offered by a standing army may be obtained by the National Guard system which has proved so effective in the past and which is unattended by the evils of entire mobilization.

“Responsive to the ancient wisdom, ‘Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it,’ obedient to the divine message that heralded the birth of Jesus the Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of the world, ‘. . . on earth peace, good will toward men,’ and knowing that our Constitution and the Government set up under it were inspired of God and should be preserved to the blessing not only of our own citizenry but, as an example, to the blessing of all the world, we have the honor respectfully to urge that you do your utmost to defeat any plan designed to bring about the compulsory military service of our citizenry. Should it be urged that our complete armament is necessary for our safety, it may be confidently replied that a proper foreign policy, implemented by an effective diplomacy, can avert the dangers that are feared. What this country needs and what the world needs, is a will for peace, not war. God will help our efforts to bring this about.

“Respectfully submitted, GEO. ALBERT SMITH, J. REUBEN CLARK, JR., DAVID O. MCKAY, First Presidency.”

ELENIN - DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN

Ever since I watched the Gulf War with the Army psy-ops specialists (openly) strategically located in every news room (CNN, FOX, etc), I knew that our "free" press was not so much. I later came to the conclusion that we at some future point would be less free than the Russians were during the cold war. Truly sad. This country has dropped into the abyss. The result of our collective complacency is bondage - Book of Mormon style. The only thing that will free us from it is alot of death and alot of repenting and extracting ourselves from "our awful state" that we have allowed ourselves to become mired in. First of all, turn off the tv and don't listen to the propaganda. Find the truth for yourselves through alternative means while the net is still free (bama workin that angle right now).

Here is one example from MSNBC - a site I never go to, unless I want to see what the "other side" is up to: CLICK LINK

Usually, I just take their crap, invert it; and I then have the truth. Josef Goebbels would be proud.....

SIGNS OF THE TIMES - OVERARCHING CONTROL OVER MAN BY MEGALOMANIAICAL TYPES

One of my first jobs out of college was working for big pharma. I loved what I did as I had very little direction and set each day up deciding which direction I would move in that research environment along with my own budget for the little group that I was lead over.

I was pretty oblivious at the time to the battle going on around me between those who are for proper nutrition and those who mask the the symptoms of improper nutrition by having their patients pop a few pills. My wife got me up to speed as the early years of our marriage progressed and then, after three rapid pregnancies, the issue of proper nutrition reared its ugly head and we were in a battle for our lives as she fought what was diagnosed by the white coats as a "bipolar" condition - but was actually a B12 deficiency. I blogged that earlier under the topic B12.

In the Book of Mormon, we read of secret combinations that will exist in the last days - and the FDA and all their ilk being bought off to the highest bidder in a highly politicized arena fits the classic definition. I ran across this site and thought there was alot of merit to what they have to say:

The big pharma hoax

When the Lord comes again, all of the trash that seeks to hide and shut down the truth will be taken to the curb..... Can't wait!! The Millenium will rock!

WHY WE ELECT LIARS - CORRUPT SOCIETY

I REALLY LIKED THIS PIECE BY DAVID KUPELIAN THAT BASICALLY STATES THAT WE ELECT PEOPLE THAT REFLECT BACK ON US WHO WE ARE AS A SOCIETY:






David Kupelian David Kupelian Why we elect liars as leaders
Posted: March 12, 2009
1:00 am Eastern

© 2009

Editor's note: Barack Obama, aided by a like-minded Congress, has pulled off what amounts to an economic and political coup d'etat in the few weeks since his inauguration as president. Here, WND Managing Editor David Kupelian explains why we so often elect lying, unprincipled leaders, and why they in turn create huge crises for the secret purpose of increasing their power and control.

Did you ever stop to wonder why most governments – no matter where on earth you look, or what time period you consider – tend toward being dishonest, predatory and tyrannical?

Iraq was one big torture chamber before America and its coalition partners liberated it. North Korea is a national concentration camp, where every citizen is the slave of a demented little dictator named Kim Jong-il (who may or may not still be alive – hard to tell in such a fantastically closed society). Zimbabwe, once a major breadbasket for all of Africa, has sewers clogged with aborted babies, an inflation rate of over 11 million percent, and its average life expectancy has been cut almost in half, from 57 to only 34 years.

Yes, I know, these are some of the worst governments on earth. But a great many other nations are not much better. Burma and Sudan are ruled by brutal military dictatorships and mass slaughter and genocide are normal there. The vast Middle East is made up largely of Arab-Muslim police states, almost two dozen of them, where Islam's strict, medieval Shariah law reduces everyday life to one of repression, cruelty and paralyzing fear at best – and at worst, terrorism, "honor killings" and death by stoning for relatively minor offenses (and sometimes for no offense) – all sugar-coated with a stiflingly rigid and intolerant religious code.

China, with a quarter of the world's population – 1.3 billion souls – is still at core a ruthless and suffocating communist dictatorship, despite its massive economic growth. Russia has deteriorated dramatically in recent years; its judicial system is almost dysfunctional, there's virtually no freedom of the press, and international human rights organizations report widespread abuses, including systematic torture of people held by police.

We could continue on with our tour, but we'd just find that most other governments on this earth, from the Far East to Africa to South America, are corrupt, predatory and power-hungry. Each typically perfumes its tyranny with an idealistic, utopian philosophy like communism or Islamic fundamentalism to help control the population. Even Europe and the United Kingdom, once the crown of Western Civilization, are firmly in the grip of secular (de facto atheistic) socialism, which suffocates their once-vibrant Christian culture and seduces their citizens into giving up their hard-won freedoms, independence and wealth in exchange for "cradle-to-grave" security.

That brings us to America.

The United States of America has a transcendent heritage of liberty rooted in self-government and personal responsibility, the result of a revolutionary 200-year-old "experiment" so gloriously successful it became a shining light in an otherwise mostly dark world.

Yet, in recent decades, we too have been seduced. Many of us have been taught in our universities that the "self-evident truths" the founders relied upon are just outdated and dangerous myths. The press routinely portrays values the founders considered to be evil (high taxes, unrestrained federal power, permissive sexual morals) as good, and good as evil. Same with Hollywood, which once showcased pro-American and patriotic themes, but now glorifies sex, violence and total moral confusion.

With this constant cultural subversion in the background, no wonder millions of Americans have gradually been demoralized into depending on government to solve all of their problems, fueling today's uncontrolled, cancer-like growth in government.

Power-hungry demagogues have always used basically the same methods: They demonize "the rich," implying they obtained their wealth by exploiting and stealing from the downtrodden; they stir up racial or tribal hatreds at every opportunity; they blame convenient scapegoats for problems they themselves have caused; and they promise universal peace and happiness if we'll just give them unlimited power over us.

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But they win our support only by appealing to the basest part of us – anger, dissatisfaction, greed and especially envy. They know instinctively that if they can stir up and ignite these dark and addictive passions in all of us, they will seduce us away from our inner dependency on God, and instead create a massive voting bloc of people dependent upon them. The reward for this transference of fidelity is great power for them, and confusion, demoralization and ultimate bondage for us. In its purest form, this phenomenon is known today as Marxism, communism, socialism – the spiritual core of which is raw envy.

Communism, as we know, is atheistic – where the government is the only true god, the giver of blessings, the solver of problems, the dispenser of justice and mercy, the source of civilization's progress. Of course, the only "progress" it actually confers is from freedom to slavery.

And yet, this is exactly the appeal more and more Americans today have been conditioned to respond to, as we have progressively fallen away from the Judeo-Christian values that once animated our culture and institutions. The envy-based system Marx unleashed on the world is alive and well, and in different forms still dominates large parts of the world. In America, it has taken root in the once-noble Democratic Party.

As Americans have succumbed to this socialistic seduction, government has enlarged to its current incomprehensible size and has sucked much of the life and productive capability out of the nation, while feeding its uncontrolled growth.

For instance, here's how energy expert and scientist Arthur Robinson, Ph.D., explains this transformation, focusing on America's scandalous inability to provide for its own energy needs:

Why are American fuel prices so high? Why are food and electricity prices on their way to doubling? Why are economic conditions chaotic? The reason is simple. Americans no longer possess the freedom to produce the goods and services required to maintain their former standard of living. Taxation – both direct and indirect through currency inflation – runaway government regulation and government-sponsored-and-encouraged litigation have reduced the productivity of Americans below that required to maintain their way of life. This tyranny – this economic slavery – has been produced entirely by the federal and state governments of the United States.

There are no resource limitations, technological limitations or geopolitical reasons for the current energy shortages and high prices. These shortages and prices are solely the result of taxation, regulation and litigation that have stifled American energy-producing industries.

Government has also robbed Americans of their very substance by corrupting its money system. Almost a century ago, the U.S. Congress created the Federal Reserve System, handing over to a private banking cartel the crucial responsibility for the nation's money supply, which the people had specifically vested in Congress in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. Ever since, middle-class working Americans have seen the value of their money continually diminish – a clandestine form of theft – due to the Fed's inflationary, debt-based, "crank-up-the-printing-press" policies and the abandonment of the gold standard.

If you understand what money really is – it represents your life and substance, it's literally stored energy – you'll see that life itself is being stolen by government. As Texas congressman and money expert Rep. Ron Paul puts it: "From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the '70s, to the burst of the dotcom bubble … every economic downturn suffered by the country over the last 80 years can be traced to Federal Reserve policy."

As citizens struggle to earn enough to support their families and pay their mortgages, the government literally throws their money away. Yes – throws it away. The watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste annually issues its famed "Pig Book" that details the preceding year's wasteful spending by the federal government. You know, like giving $400,000 of your money to the Sparta Teapot Museum in Sparta, N.C., or $1 million for the "Waterfree Urinal Conservation Initiative" or $50 million for an "indoor rainforest" in Coralville, Iowa, or a thousand and one other wasteful and unconstitutional expenditures.

The level of squandering of taxpayers' substance is a wonder. As just one example, a recent audit showed the U.S. Defense Department wasted $100 million on unused commercial airline tickets it had purchased, never bothering to collect refunds even though the tickets were totally returnable and refundable.

And government doesn't just waste your money – it sometimes uses it to fund evil. Not too many years back, the public was less than thrilled to learn that the federal government was funneling their hard-earned tax dollars into support for obscene, perverse and blasphemous "art." There was the "homoerotic artwork" of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, featuring images too repugnant to be described here. Then there was Andres Serrano's "Pi-- Christ," consisting of a crucifix submerged in the artist's urine (as well as "Pi-- Pope," with the image of the pope in urine). And of course there was David Wojnarowicz's "Tongues of Flame," depicting Jesus shooting up heroin. All funded by you.

It's not just obscene art we've paid for; it's obscene politicians too. We have a never-ending stream of prostitute-loving governors and other "public servants": President Bill Clinton had a predatory sexual relationship with a White House intern barely older than his daughter. Then there was New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey who held a press conference, wife stoically at his side, to announce he was coming out as a "gay American," and New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer who frequented high-priced prostitutes, and presidential candidate Jonathan Edwards who cheated on his cancer-stricken wife while accepting the "Father of the Year" award. The revelations are endless – congressmen preying on teenage page boys, frequenting prostitutes, "coming out" as gay, and betraying their sacred marriage vows.

All this corruption and outrageous behavior shouldn't be surprising. The fact is, a great many human beings are just plain dishonest and predatory, lying and stealing in a multitude of obvious and subtle ways. We all have selfish tendencies. For example, think about a typical male fixated on an attractive female walking down the street. Is this love? No, he just has exploitation and selfish gratification in mind. The point is: With virtually all of us beset by typical human flaws like selfishness, egotism, lust, envy, greed, anger, insecurity and the need for approval, how on earth do we expect the same flawed human beings to suddenly manifest great love and nobility when they get into government? Doesn't make much sense, does it? That's precisely why our founders wisely created a national government with very limited powers and lots of internal checks and balances.

What we need to understand here is that it's not just deranged psychopaths like Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe that give us tyrannical government; regular politicians and bureaucrats do it too. As long as they're unprincipled and self-serving, more inclined to preserve their job, personal advantage, wealth and comfort than to risk it all by championing the public good, evil will end up running rampant in that society.

I know this sounds pretty negative, but we really need to understand why it is that governments just about always end up playing god and controlling our lives.

Let's pause again and reflect momentarily on the core reality of our lives. Are you ready?

There really is an omniscient God, and He really does create human beings whose intended destiny is to discover ultimate fulfillment by being obedient to His leading in all things. And our life goes badly – and is supposed to go badly – if we rebel against His will and defy His laws, which are not only found in the Holy Bible, but are also "written" clearly inside each of us.

If we fail to find this inner fidelity to the One who created and sustains us and directs our paths, then we automatically designate someone or something else to fill that necessary role: We will worship another god. Moreover, when we are in rebellion against the true God, we need lies and deception to keep our pursuing conscience at bay – and people who enjoy power are all too eager to step up and play that role for us.

That's right: We elect liars as leaders because we actually need lies if we're rebelling against God's inward leading. Lies do a great job of "serving" us with an illusion of worth and righteousness (that's why we believe them compulsively), as we rebel against the real God, Who is always revealing our faults to us – except that most of us don't want to hear it.

Since bad government relies so totally on persuasive lying, let's take a look at that phenomenon. There's more to it than you might think.

Why politicians lie, and why we believe them

In "The Marketing of Evil," I explore many powerful manipulation techniques used to alter Americans' attitudes toward everything from abortion to divorce to homosexuality. But there's one technique that reigns supreme as the king of all propaganda weapons – lying. To make evil look good – and good appear to be evil – you have to lie.

The power of lies is not so much in the little "white lies" that are part of the fabric of most of our lives. It's in the big lies. It's paradoxical, but we're more likely to believe big lies than small ones.

How can this be? Wouldn't the big, outrageous lie be more easily discerned and resisted than the small, less consequential lie? You'd think so, but you'd be wrong.

There's a dark magic in boldly lying, in telling a "big lie" – repeatedly, with a straight face and with confidence and authority.

One of the greatest liars of the last century – Adolf Hitler – taught that the bigger the lie, the more believable it was.

During World War II, the U.S. government's Office of Strategic Services – a precursor to today's CIA – assessed Hitler's methods this way:

"His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it."

Hitler himself, in his 1925 autobiography "Mein Kampf," explained with eerie insight the fantastic power of lying:

… [I]n the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes. ...

Truly the words of an evil genius. But let's bring this explanation down to earth: Suppose, just prior to Election Day, one candidate accuses his opponent of immoral or illegal behavior. Even if the charges are totally false, and even if the accused candidate answers the charges credibly and effectively, "the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it." In plain English, no matter how effectively the accused answers the charges, some people will still believe he's guilty, and many others will still retain varying degrees of doubt and uncertainty regarding the accused, who may well lose the election due to the cloud hanging over his head. This, as Hitler said, is the magic of lying that "is known to all expert liars in this world. …"

The "doubt-inducing" quality inherent in a "big lie" is actually more powerful even than Hitler explained in "Mein Kampf." Let's say someone tells you a real whopper – like, "Your husband/wife is cheating on you. I saw it with my own eyes." Although it's totally untrue, the big lie has the ability to upset you in a way the little, everyday white lie doesn't. And when you get upset over anything, guess what? You feel a little bit of guilt for falling to being upset, a little angry, a little confused, perhaps a little fearful – and voila, all those conflicting emotions cause you to be unable to think straight, and you can easily end up compulsively believing the lie. To put it another way: When you're upset, the lie takes on a mysterious quality of attraction and believability, as though a protective force-field has temporarily been disabled, allowing the lie to enter your mental inner sanctum.

Hitler's principle is exactly what unprincipled leaders everywhere bank on to get their way with the public.

Using lies to create a crisis

One of the most creative uses of lying – and a key tactic for bending a population to your will – is the creation of a crisis. Now, anyone even superficially familiar with the history of the political left has heard references to the strategy of creating crises as a means of transforming society. You've probably heard of the "Hegelian dialectic," a key Marxist technique whereby an idea ("We need more gun control laws!") generates its opposite ("No, we don't need more gun laws, we just need tougher sentencing of criminals!"), which leads to a reconciliation of opposites, or synthesis ("OK, we'll compromise by passing new gun-control laws, but watering them down somewhat"). This is how socialist progress is achieved "peacefully" – through conflict or crisis – and always in the direction of greater socialism.

The problem is, this "crisis-creation" talk just sounds so wicked, so foreign to us, that it's hard to believe our fellow human beings, no matter how confused or messed up, could actually engage in such a practice. But it's not only true; it's actually a common part of everyday life.

Consider this non-political example and how it illustrates the power of a crisis to mold people to the deceiver's will: In a very sad child-abduction case, a little girl was approached after school by a man she didn't know. He claimed her house was burning down, that her parents were busy putting out the fire, and that he was a friend of the parents who had asked him to pick up their daughter and take her to them. The crisis – and the emotional upset the girl experienced over the thought of her house being on fire and her parents in danger – drowned out her normal caution about getting into a car with a stranger. You guessed it: The stranger was a predator who had concocted the lie for the sole purpose of tricking and upsetting the girl into going with him so he could brutalize and murder her.

This tragic story makes an important point: A crisis throws us off our guard, upsets us and inclines us to make decisions and accept "solutions" we normally would reject.

Politically, the strategy is to create a crisis, or exploit a real one, by throwing people into a mode where they can be redirected toward a predetermined "solution" – whether it's imposing "carbon penalties" on businesses in response to fears of global warming, or a trillion-dollar taxpayer-funded corporate bailout in response to a sudden "financial meltdown," or draconian gun-control laws in response to a rash of school shootings. We're talking about solutions people would normally reject, but now in a crisis accept, and as a result establish a new baseline of what is normal – which becomes the starting point for pushing the nation still further leftward in response to the next "crisis."

Let's look at a few examples of fake "crises." They're all around us:

* Small towns and cities across America pull a certain stunt with depressing regularity around election time. They claim that if taxpayers don't vote in favor of a new tax levy, they'll be forced to eliminate or drastically cut back police and fire protection – two items the people actually want from their government. I once lived in a town where the city council and city manager decided that the way to force voters to approve their new tax levy would be to threaten to completely eliminate police protection within the city limits between midnight and 8 a.m. No joke. This was a crisis of their own creation and for their own obvious purposes. After all, the city council members and their budget committee could have re-prioritized their budget to cut back on street sweeping, park maintenance, library hours, raises and benefits for themselves, or other things less crucial to the public safety and welfare, and gotten by on the existing tax base without leaving the citizens vulnerable to criminals every night. As I said, this is a common tactic in cities and towns up and down the turnpike.

* The radical environmental movement's primary modus operandi is the creation of crises where none exist. The "spotted owl" crisis in my home state of Oregon is a great example. Environmentalists claimed the northern spotted owl was dying out because of commercial logging of old-growth forests where the birds nested. So in 1991 a compliant judge halted logging in Oregon's national forests, causing the loss of about 30,000 jobs, an 80 percent reduction in timber harvesting, a consequent decrease in the supply of lumber and sky-high prices. I remember – I was there. However, it wasn't owls that environmentalists were in love with; they were in love with stopping loggers from harvesting any trees in Oregon's old-growth forests. The owls just provided the needed "crisis."

Oh, here's the rest of the story. Long after Oregon's timber-based economy was crippled by the court-ordered logging ban, the northern spotted owl population inexplicably continued to decline. Surprise! New research showed logging in old-growth forests wasn't a problem at all. The real problem, it turned out, was competition from another larger and more aggressive species of owl that liked the same habitat and food as the spotted owl.

The truth is, ever since "socialism" lost its luster as the salvation of mankind (because it has never actually worked anywhere), the environmental movement has become one of the most powerful, modern battering rams of the left for advancing the same socialist agenda. And of course, the biggest environmental cause of all is global warming.
* Today, a generation of children worldwide is being brainwashed into believing they face imminent doom – monster hurricanes and tornadoes, polar ice melting and raising ocean levels, leading to catastrophic flooding, tidal waves and other cataclysmic events. Many have been forced to sit in classrooms and watch Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth," in which he claims the oceans may rise by 20 feet, leading to worldwide devastation. Not to be outdone, NBC reporter Meredith Vieira warned on national TV of the oceans rising – are you ready? – 200 feet. Thus, while the kids suffer from doomsday nightmares, grown-ups respond to the "crisis" by clamoring for "solutions" offered by the environmentalist crisis-creators.

And yet, not only is there absolutely no scientific basis for either NBC's 200 feet or Gore's 20 feet figure, in reality tens of thousands of scientists have gone on record stating their belief that man-caused global warming is a fake crisis. Indeed, as of this writing, more than 30,000 American scientists, including over 9,000 with Ph.D.s, have signed a petition stating: "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate."
* Another legacy of phony environmental crises is our fear of nuclear power. In truth, nuclear energy is clean, homegrown and abundant, and its safety record is extremely good. Many other nations – including France, Russia and Japan – have long taken advantage of this amazing power source. But irrational fear, in response to an environmentalist-created "crisis" mentality, has long gripped the American consciousness and contributed greatly to our dangerous national dependence on foreign energy sources.

* The "Fairness Doctrine" is a freedom-destroying solution to a crisis that doesn't exist. With the exception of talk radio and certain online and cable TV news offerings, virtually the entire news media establishment is overwhelmingly left-of-center. Yet some congressmen and senators claim there's an unfair conservative bias in the media (talk radio) that demands "balance" by legally forcing radio stations to provide air time to "opposing views" – that is, to the left-leaning views that utterly dominate the rest of the information media.

* Racism is largely a manufactured crisis in America today. So-called "black leaders" like Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton are long-time professional race-baiters who thrive on stirring up racial suspicions and hatreds. In reality, America is probably the least racist nation in the world. Yes, we had slavery, but that ceased a century and a half ago when we sacrificed more than 600,000 American lives in the Civil War (more than in all other American wars combined) to exorcise it from our nation. Yes, we had segregation – but we long ago repented of this and made it illegal. Since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s led by Martin Luther King, Jr., the vast majority of Americans – hundreds of millions of normal, middle-class citizens – believe deeply and wholeheartedly in the color-blind America King envisioned.

And yet Sharpton, Jackson and others have thrived for decades on literally creating the perception of racism where none existed – for their own benefit. From the fake rape claims of Tawana Brawley to the fake rape claims against the Duke lacrosse team-members – the false accusation of racism remains a powerful weapon of the left.
* Similarly, charges of rampant anti-Muslim bigotry and hate-crimes in the U.S., leveled by groups like the ACLU and CAIR, constitute a totally fake crisis. Actually, Americans have demonstrated extraordinary restraint and magnanimity toward Muslims since the 9/11 terror attacks and the subsequent revelations of widespread Islamic antipathy toward America. In fact, according to a 2006 FBI report, between 2001 and 2006 anti-Islamic hate crimes in the U.S. decreased by 68 percent!

We could go on and on – fake crises are everywhere. People who want to manipulate and remold us are always creating crises, small or large, real or imagined, to use as leverage. That leverage, to be precise, is our emotional upset and our resulting inability to think straight and make sensible decisions. Repeat: Just upsetting us through any means whatsoever constitutes a mini-crisis – by means of which we can be manipulated. Although being upset by some injustice or cruelty seems like a "small" crisis in the scheme of things – it is the basis for all other crises, even the largest.

If you think about it, this process of remolding us through crises is a perversion of what God does with His children. He creates a crisis – or perhaps more accurately, allows a crisis to develop in our lives because of our ignorance of His laws – which cries out for resolution. Our marriage and family are in crisis, or our health is in crisis, or our finances are in crisis – and yet if we are sincere, truth-loving souls, that crisis mysteriously has a way of maturing and changing us, and we end up growing in His direction.

You might well wonder what kind of person could be so deranged that they'd create a phony crisis for the purpose of exercising power over others. But this shouldn't be hard to comprehend. For one thing, lots of us are so troubled and insecure that we develop an unhealthy need to be needed by others – a very common syndrome. Consciously or unconsciously, we tempt or corrupt people into becoming dependent on us, so as to fulfill our unhealthy need to be needed.

Moreover, consider that if you are consumed by pride – in other words, if you're a big egomaniac – you actually have a subconscious need or desire for other people to fail. Why? Because your own sense of worth is based on comparing yourself with other people, and particularly with cultivating others to look up to you. Unfortunately, this need for adulation can be fulfilled only if you weaken and fool other people into depending on you for their happiness.

So, if you're a dishonest, ambitious and manipulating politician like so many, even though you haven't murdered anyone, haven't committed genocide, haven't put people feet-first through a plastic-shredder like Saddam Hussein, you're still spreading evil and misery throughout the land.

If this syndrome describes you (whether in politics or in your marriage or at your workplace), you may not be aware of the forces working through you. Oh, you may occasionally catch a fleeting glimpse of it, but you quickly escape from this painful, humiliating realization. For a fraction of a second you see it, but then it's gone.

But let me ask anyway: Have you ever seen another person lose his temper, or fail in some other way – and felt a very slight, perverse sense of satisfaction? Or, when someone has done really well and received credit for it, or made a lot of money, or just expressed an obviously brilliant idea, have you ever noticed a subtle feeling of envy rearing its head inside you?

It's OK. Most everyone has experienced feelings like this at some point – perhaps often. But if you're a sincere soul and you are willing to observe these base feelings emanating from the dark side – and if deep down you really don't agree with those feelings – then in a very real sense those feelings are not you. In a sense, there are two of you, the real you being the observer who is chagrined over the dark thoughts and feelings rising from the deep. Watching those thoughts and feelings honestly leads to repentance and real change.

However, many people are not so sincere. And these type of thoughts and the dark forces behind them come to dominate their lives, albeit unconsciously. So without being a Saddam Hussein, but just being a prideful, selfish, denial-based person, you can do terrible things to other human beings – deceive them, betray them, enslave them. You can destroy lives and civilizations.

And this, once again, is exactly why we have limited government in America – because power corrupts, and now we know why.

By the way, what we're talking about here – the tendency for government to be lying and predatory – didn't start with Karl Marx. It has ever been with the human race. More than 2,000 years ago, the great orator and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero foretold the decline and fall of the Roman Empire with these words, which exquisitely described the ravages wrought by lying politicians:

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.

When all is said and done, we elect liars as leaders because we need lies. And we need lies because we haven't found God.

Lies that fulfill us in a wrong way are offered to us constantly, in every area of life: If our marriage in trouble, there's always "the other woman" or "the other man" who will embrace and reassure us that we're great people and that our spouse is the problem. But their lying "solution" only makes things immeasurably worse. If we're depressed or full of rage, but not really interested in understanding ourselves, we have experts eager to prescribe drugs to mask our symptoms – a false "solution" without repentance and hope of real change. Or we can bypass the doctor and go to the liquor store or criminal drug dealer to procure another wrong "solution."

William Penn said it all: "If man is not governed by God, he will be ruled by tyrants." Freedom apart from God is just an illusion of pride. This is because when we are at war with our conscience, something has to sustain our denial, our secret war against the still, small voice of Truth within – hence our need for lies. And government, in the form of other prideful human beings, is only too happy to oblige.

John Adams, a principal crafter of our Constitution, and later our second president, understood this very well, writing: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

But the Bible puts it most eloquently and succinctly of all: "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty." (2 Corinthians 3:17)

The preceding has been excerpted from the January 2009 edition of Whistleblower, "SECRETS OF THE LEFT." You may subscribe to Whistleblower at a special discounted rate here.



David Kupelian is vice president and managing editor of WorldNetDaily.com and Whistleblower magazine, and author of the best-selling book, "The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom." He is a dynamic speaker and has been featured on Fox News, MSNBC, CBN and many other media outlets.