"When the Spirit of Truth comes,
he will guide you into all truth;
for he will not speak on his own authority,
but whatever he hears he will speak,
and he will declare to you the things that are to come."
(John 16:13)
The hatred and lies of this world are powerless against God's love and truth and His will, not man's, will be done:
Because this world has already been overcome:
Period.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always. - Mahatma Gandhi
Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.” For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. [II Peter 3:3-10]
I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. [John 14:6]
The substantial capabilities of the Russian warhead production complex have been of concern to some U.S. policymakers and nuclear weapons experts. The Russian complex is very large relative both to the U.S. complex and to the projected size of Russia’s nuclear weapons stockpile. Because of manufacturing and technology problems that limit the lifetime of Russian warheads to 10-15 years and because of stockpile management practices that emphasize routine rebuilding of nuclear warheads, the Russian complex also maintains high levels of production. The fear, then, is that Russia could use its large and active production infrastructure to offset arms reductions by quickly building new nuclear warheads in large numbers—that it has a “breakout capability.” Russia’s secretive nuclear weapons policies and uncertainties about the technical capabilities and operational practices of its nuclear weapons complex further exacerbate these fears.
"War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in 20 to 30 years. To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard-of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist." - Dimitry Z. Manuilsky, Soviet Chairman of United Nations Security Council, 1949
"There is profound error and harm in the disoriented claims of bourgeois ideologues that there will be no victor in a thermonuclear world war." - A. S. Milovidov, Russian Military Strategist
Is it any wonder that the British and French parliaments unanimously endorsed the Munich Accord, which Neville Chamberlain proclaimed meant 'peace for our time', with Hitler on the eve of World War II?
The West is its own worst enemy in many ways. The insistence of our people to cooperate in their own mass murder is sickening and sad.
Rather than try to deal with and correct the situation, people today follow after misleaders rather than leaders. Americans want to be misled in an ill-fated hope to maintain their self-delusions and false sense of security because they can't handle the truth and consequences of their unrighteousness.
When confronted with a choice between a known American hero in the war against communism (and devout Christian) and a likely actual communist (of Arab descent with signs of Islamic leanings), the American people chose the communist as their President and Commander-in-Chief:
As has been maintained in this blog for some time now, Americans have become selfish, arrogant and foolish beyond all reason leading our society headlong toward collective suicide....and not in some metaphorical sense.
Yet, most of those left standing after the radioactive dust settles will still be wondering what happened.
Is it not obvious?
"The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." [2 Thessalonians 2:9-12]
There's a new moon tomorrow. This is the second to last new moon before Barack Obama replaces George W. Bush as President of the United States. As is widely understood, the cover of darkness around the time of new moons offers a tactical advantage for launching a surprise airstrike.
The White House, announcing the meeting with Mr Olmert, gave little indication that Tehran’s nuclear ambitions would be at the top of the agenda. Mr Bush’s press secretary, Dana Perino, said that they would discuss "the continuing efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and a wide range of international issues".
The timing of the talks, between two lame duck leaders with only weeks to go before they leave office, is intriguing. Israel has stated repeatedly that it would be unacceptable for an Iranian regime to acquire nuclear weapons. Altough Tehran insists that its uranium enrichment programme is for peaceful purposes, President Ahmadinejad has vowed to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
During his visit to Washington, which begins on Sunday, Mr Olmert is expected to meet the Vice-President Dick Cheney, the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Robert Gates, the Defence Secretary.
Intelligence sources have told The Times that the prospect of Israel taking preemptive military action to knock out Iran’s nuclear facilities appears to have become significantly more likely in recent weeks. Such an operation would require at least tacit US cooperation because it would almost certainly involve Israeli warplanes flying through US-controlled airspace in Iraq.
US President George W. Bush has bluntly warned Israel against striking Iran's nuclear facilities or launching a broad military response to Hamas rocket fire from the Gaza Strip during his final weeks in office, according to Time magazine.
The warning was first issued last week by senior American officials to their counterparts in Israel, who told Time, "We have been warned off."
Here's the problem.
1. Why would these lame duck leaders hold a summit regarding Israeli-Palestinian peace talks when they can do little to effect the Middle East peace process during their remaining weeks in office?
2. Why would Iran's nuclear ambitions be a sidelined topic of discussion during such a summit according to the White House Press Secretary when this is clearly a critical current issue?
3. Why would IDF sources make public an American warning to not attack Iran during the remainder of Bush's presidency?
What's possible is that the White House is being strategically deceptive about the topic of the summit meeting between Bush and Olmert, and the U.S. warning to Israel not to attack during the remainder of Bush's presidency was publicized to mislead as well. This deception would obviously be to keep Iran off-guard. If, indeed, there's been deceptiveness, then this suggests a final go ahead meeting for an Israeli attack on Iran was precisely why Prime Minister Olmert visited Washington at the beginning of this week.
The case that an Israeli strike on Iran might be in the works is buttressed by the fact that, right after Prime Minister Olmert returned to Israel, he went with his defense minister to Amman for a "secret summit" with Jordan's King Abdullah. Purportedly King Abdullah summoned Olmert and Barak to his palace to implore them not to launch a military operation in Gaza. However, what is also plausible is that Israel needed to get King Abdullah's permission to overfly Jordanian territory since this would simplify any IAF air strike on Iran. Notably, if Israel did fly over Jordan and then Iraq to reach Iran, according to my Google Earth calculations, that would minimize the distance to targets to 1000 miles....the maximum range of Israeli warplanes without added fuel tanks.
This comes as some 120 US military personnel in the Nevatim air base near the Negev desert are adding the finishing touches to an advanced X-band radar system, with a range of 1,250 miles that will gravely enhance Israel's tactical capacity in the air.
The system is also believed to be capable of countering Iran's advanced Shahab-3 and the newly-tested Sejjil ballistic missiles. Earlier reports suggested that the system could also facilitate an Israeli airstrike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
I deeply hope that I'm way off the mark on this one, but, if not, the timing of an Israeli strike on Iran would, as noted above, likely be around the time of a new moon such as will occur tomorrow. It's possible Israel could wait for the December 27th new moon, but this will reduce the time that the supportive Bush Administration will still be in power to back Israel in any effort to destroy Iran's nuclear program.
The bottom line is that, should an Israeli strike on Iran occur, and missiles with chemical warheads are fired on the Jewish state in response, then know that the Apocalypse is here as I foresaw some 18 year ago.
The DJIA closed down 5.5% today closing at 7552. Since the top just above the 14,000 mark in October of last year, the Dow has fallen around 47 percent, of which 36 percent has occurred since September. Clearly the Grand Supercycle bear market is here.
According to my Elliott Wave count, the crux of the initial intermediate wave-(3) crash is at or near completion:
As can be seen above, there appears to be a distinct downward 5-wave pattern since the May intermediate wave-(2) high. This should mean that wave-(3) is almost over and a multi-month wave-(4) intermediate-scale rebound could soon get underway.
This is good news.
Thus far the Grand Supercycle collapse has been constrained to financial and economic concerns. Ultimately, I believe war will enter the equation, but this might not be until the Cycle degree third wave down hits, which might not unfold until well into next year. Of course, my Elliott Wave count could be incorrect, and we are still in the midst of a Grand Supercycle scale crash such that global war erupts in the near future. Let's hope, though, that there's still more time before the Apocalypse I've foreseen unfolds.
The DJIA fell more than 5% today and closed below the psychologically important 8000 mark.
As noted in my Stock Market Crash Alert, there is a tendency for dramatic shifts in collective mood when the DJIA reverses below key thousand marks. What's more, these reversals are often associated with "historical shocks". When the DJIA closed at a then all-time high of 2999.75 two days on July 16th and 17th of 1990, the peak coincided with a speech made by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein threatening Kuwait. Iraq then massed troops on the tiny emirate and on August 2nd invaded causing a Persian Gulf Crisis, oil shock and 25% drop in stock prices. Likewise, the DJIA decisively reversed below the key 10,000 mark on September 6th of 2001, then 9/11 occurred.
Thus, with today's close below Dow 8,000 and what might soon be a break to new lows for the year in the DJIA, one must keep an eye out for historical shocks. Of course, the imploding economy is currently the key factor for Wall Street's growing pessimism, and on that score it is now clear we are entering the Second Great Depression, more than a sufficient historical shock to panic investors.
I spent tonight with my Gramp watching the classic movie, This Is The Army, the military branch in which he served. Most appropriately, his birthday is 11/10, the day before Veterans Day. My grandfather is my hero....even if he is a simple man today living on a fixed income in a trailer park....a status reflecting his value to modern society IMHO.
Gramp fought from D-Day +1 on the sands of Omaha Beach all the way to Munich where he helped set free the Dachau concentration camp. In his heroic journey marching across Europe battling Nazi fascism, my grandfather drove over a landmine and ended up with a metal plate in his head, deaf in one ear and partially blind in one eye.
His truly was The Greatest Generation. They stood up for America and freedom without reservations, without grievances and without capitulation. Today we enjoy the fortune of their sacrifices, even if this is unappreciated by many.
God bless those who have put, and are placing, their lives on the line to protect and preserve our freedom. God bless the souls of those that in answering the call to duty now rest with the Lord. Let all Americans pay tribute to the veterans who made the freedom and prosperity we enjoy possible.
And make no mistake about it....the call to duty is today deafening....regardless if the vast majority are currently disinclined to answer. We must never forget: FREEDOM IS NOT FREE!
Meanwhile, according to DEBKAfile, Syria recently finished massing armed forces around Lebanon and on Israel's northern border. Here is a related map from the DEBKAfile web site:
(click on image to see in full)
Given that my supernatural 'vision' of the coming nuclear Apocalypse started by seeing a special report of a chemical SCUD missile attack on Haifa, Israel, this recent news is very alarming, especially given the timing as we should be near or at the climax of the developing global panic.
I've long thought that Syria might prove to be the culprit for a chemical SCUD missile attack on Israel since Haifa was the city under attack in the special report I foresaw, not Tel Aviv. Haifa would get hit first in Israel if SCUD missiles were launched from the north, i.e., from Syria.
The ingredients are in place for an all-out war to erupt in the Middle East in the immediate future that will trigger global nuclear war. I was hoping this panic was nearing its end, but it is still possible it could climax in this horrific fashion and people need to be ready to evacuate or shelter-in-place at this time IMHO.
Let us all deeply, deeply pray that nuclear war does not erupt here, but please know that one is coming eventually and start preparing accordingly.
Today is the 28th day of the 7th lunar month on the Hebrew calendar. This is the climactic "dark day" identified by Chris Carolan into which the October 1929 and October 1987 stock market crashes climaxed.
As mentioned in my Stock Market Crash Alert, this is also the "dark day" during which the U.S. and Russia came closest to nuclear war during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the October 1973 Yom Kippur war as indicated by NORAD's DEFCON nuclear alert status. Fortunately, there has been no nuclear war thus far, and hopefully this is a long, long time off even if such a conflict is inevitable.
As for a stock market crash, this has occurred into this weekend, but there has not been any climactic "black" days in the U.S. during which the major indices have fallen 10%+ in a single trading session with massive volume....although such crash days have occurred on many foreign bourses. Certainly the U.S. stock market came close to such a selling climax into this weekend with the DJIA off 3.6% on Friday and 5.5% on Wednesday, but there's been no historic panic days as in 1929 and 1987. It's possible that there'll be a Black Monday, but at this point I think the higher probability is that we are at or near a significant low and a major rally is due on Wall Street.
Chris Carolan notes in his award-winning article, Autumn Panics: A Calendar Phenomenon, that, while the 27th and 28th days of the 7th lunar month experienced the black crash days in 1929 and 1987, the 29th and 30th days of the of the 7th lunar month in those years experienced huge rallies. Will this replay here? It's quite possible.
As Carolan points out in his most recent blog, the VIX (implied volatility) index, which measures stock traders' fear on Wall Street, reached a historic level of almost 90 at the open of trading on Friday.
This is a sufficient condition to believe a panic climax has been reached even if this was not reflected in a 10%+ single-day drop in stock prices. That this final spike in the VIX occurred at the end of a 25% drop in the stock market since late-September suggests a selling climax has been reached or is very near a conclusion into the 28th day of the 7th lunar month this year....consistent with the historical pattern.
Now what remains to be seen is if we get a substantial rally attempt in the wake of a panic climax.
Let me begin by first noting that I consider this very, very unlikely at this point, but I need to issue some sort of alert just in case since there are very specific parameters within which to work.
As noted in my "Stock Market Crash Alert", Chris Carolan discovered that there is a tendency for autumn panics to climax into the 27th and 28th days of the 7th lunar month using the Hebrew calendar where the lunar year begins with the first new moon after the Spring equinox. Both the 1929 and 1987 stock market crashes climaxed into the 28th day of the 7th lunar month (read Carolan's related award-winning article and/or see the related blogs below).
This year the lunar 'dark days' fall on October 25th and October 26th, i.e., this weekend. Clearly this October we have seen a stock market panic into the associated timeframe with the DJIA and other major indices reaching yearly closing lows today and world stock markets fully crashing. Hopefully, this is all that we need be concerned about here, i.e., a financial panic climax.
However, I go on to mention in my Crash Alert that the highest DEFCON nuclear alerts in history were also reached into the lunar 'dark days' of the 27th and 28th days of the 7th lunar month during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Yom Kippur Arab/Israeli War. In other words, this is also the timeframe when the world has come the closest to nuclear war.
It is possible, but highly unlikely, that a horrific international crisis will erupt out-of-the-blue in the next 48-72 hours leading to global nuclear war. The critical warning sign will be if there is a chemical SCUD missile attack on Israel like I foresaw back during the first Gulf War. If a war of this sort erupts in the Middle East in the immediate future, then there is an extremely high chance of nuclear war by Sunday/early Monday given the lunar calendar autumn panic phenomenon, in which case one must be prepared to evacuate or shelter in place as best possible.
The bottom line is that 'no one knows the day or hour', and thank God for that....but I felt it important to point this out just in case. I deeply pray my concerns about a nuclear war are unwarranted and I really think they are at this point. Later on, however, I do believe the global Apocalypse is inevitable because of man's evil, selfish ways.
Referring to his free-market ideology, Mr. Greenspan said: “I have found a flaw. I don’t know how significant or permanent it is. But I have been very distressed by that fact.”
Mr. Waxman pressed the former Fed chair to clarify his words. “In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right, it was not working,” Mr. Waxman said.
“Absolutely, precisely,” Mr. Greenspan replied. “You know, that’s precisely the reason I was shocked, because I have been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well.” (SOURCE)
It's nice that Alan Greenspan, who served 18 years as the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve and is considered the key proponent of free market economics behind the inflation of the largest, most ruinous credit bubble in human history, now recognizes that there may have been a 'flaw' in his underlying 'ideology'. But his self-realization is a day late and dollar short....or, for that matter, 10,000 days late and a quadrillion dollars short. In the long-run, the blind faith of economic policy-makers in some imaginal invisible hand has wrought such catastrophic underlying damage to the global financial system, that it will literally take the Apocalypse to finally wipe the slate completely clean.
What's important for everyone to keep in mind here is that there is no 'flaw' with freedom. Freedom did not fail us....we failed freedom.
Instead of engaging in responsible self-governance, people opted to abuse their freedom by pursuing personal gain without social conscience, placing blind faith in the mindless invisible hand of markets or the visibly incompetent hand of government to take care of everyone else and the world as-a-whole. This is nonsense. WE ARE ALL PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR COLLECTIVE WELFARE, and failure to recognize this fundamental truth is literally suicidal.
With regard to the unfolding financial collapse, there were the policy-makers that consciously ignored the booms and busts of market history in prescribing government policies, the bank executives who overlooked the massive systemic risks they were creating in seeking multi-million dollar paychecks, the mortgage brokers and realtors who pushed home sales they knew were dangerously unrealistic in pursuit of fees and commissions, the unqualified home buyers who turned a blind eye to the dangers of their purchases, etc., etc., etc. Each participant thought and behaved in a recklessly selfish manner without thinking of the long-term consequences for others, society as-a-whole, or ultimately themselves. This was foolish, irresponsible and downright insane.
In liberal economic theory, the core models to explain and predict the social outcome of self-interested behavior amongst individuals and businesses assumes that people think and behave 'rationally'. The problem emerges if people are irrational, and that is an inevitable consequence when the prevailing mindset is a popular delusion in which everyone believes themselves to be separate from others and the world at-large. WE ARE NOT SEPARATE. We are all part of an organic collective being in which our common survival is rooted in interdependence. Thus, the ideology exemplified by Jesus, which 'secular' science has gone against, is a truism essential for human survival.
"If we presume the coming transformation of the Communist Party into the Russian Orthodox Party of the Soviet Union, we would obtain truly the ideal state, one which would fulfill the historical destiny of the Russian people. It is a question of the Orthodoxization of the entire world." - Gennadii Shimanov
The DJIA plunged more than 500 points today breaking just below key support suggesting that a retest of recent lows may be near:
Wall Street may be in the midst of a '29/'87-style panic selling climax. If so, then 'black' crash days may be ahead, i.e., there is the chance of a Black Thursday and/or Black Friday during which the DJIA falls 10%+ in a single trading session.
Since such stock market panics are exceptionally rare occurrences, predicting such an event nearly to the day might seem impossible. However, as overviewed in yesterday's blog, there is reason to focus on the current time window because of the lunar calendar. As discovered by Chris Carolan, the 1929 and 1987 'black' panic days both occurred going into the same day in the lunar year, i.e., the 28th day of the 7th lunar month. As overviewed in Carolan's award-winning article, "Autumn Panics: A Calendar Phenomenon", this also was the same timing of the major Wall Street panics in 1857 and 1907 as well as with the Hong Kong stock market crash in October of 1997.
This year the 28th of the 7th lunar month falls on October 26th, i.e. this weekend, suggesting a selling climax into Friday or Monday.
Is history about to repeat?
If so, what might we learn from history this time around?
Man is manic-depressive in character, but this is the key to the creative genius that is behind God's great symphony we enjoy:
The DJIA fell 2.5% today closing just above the 9000 mark.
There are numerous indications that the stock market reached a significant low at the 8000 mark. The market is substantially oversold, the VIX or fear index peaked at a historic high of 80 and now the credit crisis is easing as indicating by the falling TED spread.
Even with these signs of a bottom, one should be alert to the possibility of the panic resuming in the days ahead with a selling climax being reached this Friday or Monday of next week. The reason this is so is an important phenomenon identified by Chris Carolan regarding autumn panics on Wall Street.
Chris Carolan, as explained in an award winning article, discovered that the 1929 and 1987 stock market crashes climaxed into the 28th day of the 7th lunar month in those respective lunar years (where the lunar year begins with the first new moon after the Spring equinox).
The 28th day of the 7th lunar month this year occurs on October 26th. Since this is a Sunday, one would look for a panic climax into this Friday or next Monday, accordingly. While I have long been warning that the "Grand Supercycle Crash" could ultimately take the form of global war, I seriously doubt this will unfold in the next few days. What is possible is that black crash days will occur on Wall Street.
Stock markets around the world are crashing as the Grand Supercycle collapse takes full hold. Thus far this week the DJIA has fallen more than 15% on top of the 7.5% lost last week. The Dow peaked last October above the 14,000 mark since which it has fallen some 40 percent as part of a global financial meltdown.
Watching the news and reading various views on the internet I see fingers being pointed in all kinds of directions for the cause of the unfolding calamity. Some claim it's Wall Street's fault, others blame the government, so on and so forth. The hard truth of the matter is that what is now happening is pretty much everyone's fault.
I have spent the last 20+ years of my life trying to warn society of the inevitable consequences of greed run amuck. Unfortunately, however, no one has been interested. Even now, as I type my latest blog, I realize very few will bother reading what I've written at this point. Why is this so? Because people today are SELFISH BEYOND ALL REASON!
While academicians and politicians and the various social authorities have sought to make the world believe that selfishness is rational and just, the reality is that the unfettered, competitive pursuit of self-interest without consideration to the welfare of others or society as-a-whole has brought the world to the brink of self-destruction.
Although I think the stock market is due for a decent bounce here in the context of the Grand Supercycle crash I believe is now underway, news out of the Middle East suggests the next far more terrifying leg of this historic panic might soon take shape.
In recent weeks Syria has massed forces on its border with Lebanon purportedly to deal with smuggling. Lebanon is concerned Syria might once again invade and, consequently, on Monday the United States issued a stern warning to Damascus to not do so. Deputy State Department spokesman Robert Wood said, "Any intervention by Syrian troops into Lebanon would be unacceptable."
If there is Syrian military intervention in Lebanon or some sort of attack on Israel, then this could ultimately result in the fulfillment of the apocalyptic vision I had when pondering the historical implications of the Grand Supercycle crash.
I deeply pray that I'm wrong on this score, but it is a possibility. Please allow me to elaborate.
Back in 1991, during the first Gulf War, I was in a written correspondence with Robert Prechter, the 'Elliott Wave Theorist', about what might occur during the Grand Supercycle collapse we were anticipating even back then. At the time I was a college student studying economics.
One evening in early February of that year (I think Feb. 6th), I was watching television when suddenly a special report aired of a chemical SCUD attack against Israel. What I saw was an NBC special report in which Tom Brokaw reported that a missile attack on Haifa, Israel was underway and chemical agents were involved. I got up and reported what presumably was an Iraqi chemical attack on Israel to my friends on the floor of the college dormitory where I lived at the time, and when I returned to watch the news there was nothing else being reported. In fact, as I soon realized, the special report I saw had never aired and has not yet aired to this day. (Believe me, I checked this out fully; the report I saw did not yet occur).
Next, about a week later, I was with a friend in my dorm room at college discussing ancient prophecies and how they might be related to events in the Middle East. I then told him about the Seventh Seal prophecy in the eighth chapter of the Bible's Book of Revelation which I long believed depicts a future nuclear war. Just as I started reading my friend this prophecy, we heard the wail of an air-raid siren followed by the loud percussion of a nuclear explosion outside my window. What we heard was so authentic, it led us to rush to a nearby deep basement from which I contacted the local fire department to see what was going on. I inquired as to whether air-raid sirens had gone off and asked if any sort of explosion had occurred. However, no such events had taken place. Apparently, it was experienced only by my friend and I.
What did these alarming, mysterious experiences back in February of 1991 mean?
If we are truly now in the midst of the Grand Supercycle crash, I'm afraid the world might soon find out.
The Dow plunged more than 500 points today after losing more than 300 points on Monday. The psychologically critical 10,000 mark was decisively breached as the Grand Supercycle crash, which I'd been warning all year could occur this autumn, takes full form on Wall Street.
On Monday, before the stock market opened, I jotted off a note to five key professors at the graduate school of economics where I've returned to complete my Master's thesis this semester after a ten-year absence. Here is what I wrote:
Hi all,
It looks like 'The Crash' is here that I've been busy warning the world about since I wrote my first related paper, The Second Great Depression?, back in my senior year of high school just before the '87 stock market crash. My most recent related writings on the matter are on my homepage and my blog.
My thesis, Manic-Depressive Man, elaborates on many of the arguments presented in the writings referenced above in further detail, but, given that the historical conclusion of my work is now evident, I thought I'd better give you a preview.
I must admit I was somewhat dishonest in my reasoning behind returning to college to complete my work in that I indicated it was for my own sake. Indeed, I believe I've returned for your sake as well. You are very intelligent professors, but, as I recognized at the time I was in school, this means you are quite good at outsmarting yourselves. Just because a lot of savvy people agree on certain beliefs does not make those beliefs true....a point well reflected by the uncanny capacity of our $50 billion-a-year intelligence services to consistently err.
When I left the graduate economics program before, I had not passed the prelims. I like to tell people that the first time I took the exam, my professors said I failed, but the second time I took the exam, I wrote that my professors failed. Here is what I mean.
According to reigning economic theory, greed, in effect, is good. If economic participants engage in pleasure-maximizing and profit-maximizing behavior, i.e., this is the 'objective function' of consumers and businesses, and everyone freely competes for possession of the world's wealth, then, in the long-run, it is believed that market societies will tend toward general equilibrium and Pareto optimality, i.e., social harmony and maximum happiness for all, as if society were governed by some imaginal Invisible Hand.
The historical reality for market societies is one of boom and bust, swings between collective prosperity and mass depression. As Joseph Schumpeter correctly described in Business Cycles, the prevailing instability is characterized by cycles within cycles within cycles, including very long waves of economic activity like the Kondratieff Wave:
This idea of cycles within cycles is brought to its full historical light by the Elliott Wave Principle popularized by Robert Prechter. According to the Wave Principle, the cycles within cycles underlying economic change and social progress and regress abide by fractal geometry evident in time series of market price movements, particularly in the stock market:
Thus, in the long-run, markets have tended toward an ultimate general DISEQUILIBRIUM that is now resulting in a Grand Supercycle crash and maximum unhappiness for all.
What should be drawn from 'The Crash' is that selfishness is not a virtue, contrary to the mindset of Alan Greenspan (a protege of Ayn Rand) and the other market 'experts' who have overseen the effective self-destruction of the global economy.
The moral philosophy being advanced under the auspices of science is, in fact, a prescription for collective suicide. The extent to which this is so is best revealed by how almost no one has been interested in what the enemies of the free world have truly been up to over the last couple of decades, i.e., misleading the West into military defeat. Because people opt to believe what they want to believe, this world has come to believe an extraordinary popular delusion of perpetual peace and prosperity, when the truth is that war and depression are on the historical horizon. As I have long hypothesized, there is reason to believe our species is suffering from a Global Bipolar Disorder leading to this world's near suicide.
Hopefully there will be time for me to fully explain my concerns in the context of my Master's paper, but I figured I'd send you this note ahead of time given the current alarming developments on Wall Street.
I'm yet to receive a response to this note from any of my professors, but I imagine the sharp drop in the stock market over the past couple of days has girded their attention.
Will those teaching the virtue of selfishness realize the error in their ways?
At what point does man have his moment of truth?
I deeply pray that it doesn't literally take World War Three for this world to get the point God has so long been seeking to make, but for now my thesis remains unaccepted.
The Dow had been up as much as 300 points prior to the vote for the $700 billion bailout package. Once the bailout was approved, however, severe selling ensued as it apparently dawned upon investors that the government's newest rescue effort is way too little way too late. The hard truth of the matter is that the only way to have prevented the current financial meltdown is to never have let the credit bubble get so insanely out-of-hand in the first place. But, alas, man's greed almost knew no bounds!
The stock market's action last week was technically disasterous. The S&P was down 7.5 per cent, the Nasdaq fell 9.3 per cent and the Dow Jones dropped 5.5 per cent....the worst weekly sell-off in six years.
Importantly, the lower channel of the stock market's decline since the Grand Supercycle top last October was violated on the downside:
This is akin to the bottom following out of the market....a point that might become abundantly clear with a decisive break below the psychologically critical 10,000 mark in the DJIA.
Notably, the Dow Transports seem to be leading the way lower and plunged more than 8% Thursday. The index is poised to drop below the January low at 4000 and put the proverbial final nail in the coffin for the stock market in terms of Dow Theory:
All indications are that we are in wave-3 of wave-(3), i.e., the initial crash wave, of the Grand Supercycle bear market. Even though the stock market is currently very oversold and contrarian indicators such as the VIX and put-to-call ratio suggest a significant low is near, the scale and power of this crash wave are so great that the global panic might still only be in an early stage. Accordingly, a full-scale '29/'87-style stock market crash could unfold as early as this week with 'black' panic days on Wall Street where equity prices fall 10%+ in a single trading session.
As I've been warning about since last spring, the Grand Supercycle crash is proving to be an autumnal event consistent with the historical pattern of man's seasonal mood swings. Thus far our species' collective emotional breakdown is constrained to financial and economic affairs, but, if my Global Bipolar Hypothesis is accurate, the world could soon find itself embroiled in a severe military confrontation between East and West that could end in global thermonuclear war. Let's pray earnestly that this anticipated, horrific phase of the Grand Supercycle crash, which I've supernaturally foreseen, remains a long time off, but I'm still deeply concerned about the immediate future on this score.
What's important for everyone to realize is that history is unfolding in this catastrophic way because of man's failure to heed God's wisdom and warnings. Our species simply has not learned from its repeated mistake. Whether it be Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or almost any other of the great religions, man has been repeatedly told throughout history that God created us to do His will to love one another and seek peace and harmony. Rather than heed God's message, however, man has opted to go his own way, deny our Creator and be selfish beyond all reason. The inevitable consequence of this foolishness is the crash of human civilization thus fulfilling apocalyptic prophecies meant to dissuade us from our current collective insanity in the first place!
So how can this world be saved?
Might I suggest that everyone truly begin to abide by the American motto, In God We Trust (which erroneously appears on money!). Rather than denying God and living for ourselves....rather than struggling over possession of the world's limited resources and having blind faith in mammon and some imaginal 'Invisible Hand' to manage the world's affairs....let's place our trust in God and share His wealth. All mankind needs to accept that there truly is a God in heaven who created each and everyone of us, who loves us without bounds, and who requires that we obey the Golden Rule to love one another so that we don't end up completely destroying ourselves and the world we inhabit. Let there no longer be haves and have-nots, lest the Lord take everything away.
In order to facilitate our redemption, God has returned me to this ill-fated world to once again try and show humanity the way to His Kingdom. This is not a role I personally want, nor is this a task I feel I could ever make happen. But, given the potentially world-ending crisis we are in, I guess each one of us needs to radically step out of our comfort zones and try to do the right thing for God's sake as well as our own.
So be it...
Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.
Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend. We were all equal, in the End.
The DJIA fell 777.7 points on Monday which was a decline of 7%. That this might have been a prophetic day for Wall Street seemed symbolized by how the opening bell never rang because of an electronic malfunction. Notably, on Monday there was a new moon that was in the 7th degree of the 7th sign in the zodiac, Libra. This new moon marked the beginning of the 7th lunar month of Tishri in the Jewish calendar and the start of the Jewish year 5769 and a new 7 year Sabbatical cycle (see below). What's more, 9/11 occurred 7 days before Rosh Hashanah at the beginning of the Jewish year 5762. Thus, according to the Hebrew calendar, Monday was 7 years and 7 days after 9/11.
What's so special about the number 7? Seven is God's number:
In the Hebrew, seven ([b'v, - Sheh'-bah) is from a root word meaning to be complete or full. This can be clearly seen from the first time a varient of this word is used in the Bible.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. [Genesis 2:1-3]
God rested on the seventh day because his work of creation was complete, entire, perfect. Thus seven represents this perfect completeness and also it represents rest, as in the rest that is taken from work. It is from this same word that the Sabbath, the day of rest comes. But as well as this spiritual perfection, seven seems also to be used in another way in scripture.
Patterns of sevens run through the scripture more abundantly than any other number. Where patterns of other numbers run through a scripture it is often symbolic of something to do with that number, however patterns of seven about all through scripture to the extent that it could be seen as being a part of God's seal that the writing is indeed scripture. Thus seven might also be known as the number of God's seal. (SOURCE)
On this note, please watch the videos below from Prophecy In The News regarding the 7 year sabbatical cycle (NOTE: There is an updated video on their web site). The pastors contend that the prophetic tribulation period might be starting with Rosh Hashanah and the new Jewish year of 5769, which started after sundown Monday:
(Note that the authors predicate their emphasis on the current sabbatical cycle for the tribulation period based upon a rare 'tetrad' of solar and lunar eclipses that line up with the major Jewish holidays in the year 2015, when the next sabbatical cycle begins, suggesting this is when the Kingdom Of God ruled by Christ is realized. No tetrads occurred between the 16th and 19th centuries, but in the 20th century they occurred in 1948 and 1967 precisely matching the rebirth of Israel and the recapture of Jerusalem by the Jewish people, respectively. See the related Prophecy In The News videos: PART 1 | PART 2)
Maybe....I'm fairly certain this is 'The Crash' getting underway. And it was in seeking to discern what 'The Crash' was all about that I had a related prophetic vision, i.e., an outbreak of all-out war in the Middle East that would result in global nuclear war. This war is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies of the 'Apocalypse', which literally means revelation. By revealing the truth of man's wrongdoing so that it can no longer be denied, humanity will learn to heed God's Will such that His Kingdom can be established on earth completing this cycle of world history in the process of Creation. Thus, a millenial 'day of rest', where peace on earth and social harmony prevails, can begin.
The DJIA bounced back above 11,000 today closing just above the psychologically important level. I thought that we'd get more of a countertrend rally before a full-scale panic would take hold given the attempt by authorities to keep the financial system afloat with a $700 billion bailout. However, it looks like we might fail right here.
Tonight, the proposed bailout plan ran into serious political trouble, and Washington Mutual, America's largest thrift, was taken over by the FDIC for resale to JP Morgan....the largest bank failure in U.S. history. This bad news might be the straw that breaks the back of the global financial system that's been teetering on the edge of the abyss since last week's news of the failure of Lehman Brothers, the takeover of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America and the $85 billion bailout of AIG, the world's largest insurance company. The collapse of America's global financial empire over the past year is now entering an acute phase of panic and chaos.
However, I would not discount the possibility that the U.S. stock market will continue to rebound from it's still oversold condition for the next couple of weeks and the focus of concern for a panic should be in the second half of October.
I deeply pray that this phase of the crash of Western Civilization will be limited to financial and economic affairs, but I will reiterate here my warning for the potential of global war. I believe the window of greatest concern for war in the immediate future will be between the October 14th full moon and the October 28th new moon, as specified in my September 11th crash alert.
If there are historical developments suggestive of global war that erupt in the near-future, e.g., a major conflict breaks out in the Middle East like I supernaturally foresaw in 1991, then people need to assume that a collective suicide attempt in the form of global nuclear war is a likelihood this autumn and take precautionary measures accordingly.
Clearly, in recent days a mass panic started to develop in global financial markets. This week U.S. stocks fell 10% Monday through Wednesday after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and AIG had to be bailed out. Then the market climbed back the same amount on Thursday and Friday on news of a government bailout of the entire financial system.
What's important is to not get lost in the news details attributed to the swings in mass mood. As Elliott Wave analysis has long established, the underlying wave patterns in collective feelings are deterministic even though we experience history as seemingly probabilistic particular events. Again, this is the wave-particle duality of quantum physics on the human level.
What started this week may have been the leading edge of international anxiety and fear. As any one familiar with my work should realize, I've long maintained that 'mass panic' can take the form of historical shocks like 9/11, Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, etc. It is therefore conceivable that the terror attack in Pakistan this morning reflects that the developing wave of mass fear is starting to take the form of negative historical events. If so, and this is truly the Grand Supercycle crash, then I'm afraid history is about to get very ugly indeed. But fear not....for God is with us and this world we experience is simply a temporal fiction. The truth is that we are eternal beings.
Yesterday, the DJIA hit a low below 10,500 and then reversed sharply higher closing above the psychologically important 11,000 mark. Currently market futures are indicating another 200 point rise at the open for a total gain of around 800 Dow points in a few trading hours. Meanwhile the Dow Jones Transports bounced back to close above the 5,000 mark. Notably, the Transports have yet to break below the July low in the index around 4,500.
According to my current Elliott Wave count, the market should still be in the midst of an intermediate third wave down following a Grand Supercycle top a year ago:
Breaking below the psychologically important 11,000 mark signified the beginning of an acute panic in global markets that should constitute entering the Grand Supercycle crash. If this count is correct, then the current market bounce should be short-lived and this panic will soon become far more pronounced and severe.
On the other hand, my Elliott Wave count might be incorrect, in which case the panic may have already run its course and a new uptrend in mass mood is beginning.
The deciding factor here might be the Dow Transports. If there is a further breakdown in stock prices and the DJTA falls below its July low at 4500, then this would confirm a major bear market is underway. If, on the other hand, the Transports break to a new all-time high above 5500, then a significant, prolonged resumption of collective mania is likely occurring.
A historic weekend has passed that witnessed a tectonic shift on Wall Street. Lehman Brothers has gone bankrupt, Merrill Lynch....to prevent its own failure....has been bought by Bank of America for ~$50 billion and AIG, the nation's largest insurer, is planning to sell off parts of its business in a scramble to raise capital before it too sinks. Of the five investment banks on Wall Street last year, only two now remain: Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, all seminal features on Wall Street, are gone.
Global markets are now in a fit of fear as the financial future of America seems dubious. Asian and European stock bources are down sharply, around three percent on average, as are futures on U.S. stock indices. As the catastrophic implications of Lehman's counterparty risk become clear, there's a chance that the worst financial panic in human history will occur as some quadrillion dollars in higly-unregulated derivatives cause a global meltdown.
It is possible. If so, there are important implications to the timing.
According to the Elliott Wave Principle of stock price movements, a Grand Supercycle top occurred last October at Dow 14,000. Since that time, the DJIA suffered an intermediate wave-(1) into the collapse of Bear Stearns in March, a wave(2) rebound into May and then the decisive wave-(3) down....the potential crash wave....got underway. Being a fractal pattern, the intermediate third wave down also consists of the five-wave Elliott Wave pattern that started with a minor wave-1 to Dow 11,000 in July and then a wave-2 bounce into August since which wave-3 of wave-(3) apparently started. A decisive drop in the DJIA below the psychologically important 11,000 mark will confirm this wave count.
Thus, we are apparently now at the point where there is the highest likelihood for a crash and, given the top last October was likely of Grand Supercycle scale, any approaching crash should be of like proportion. As I've been warning, this likely implies the crash of Western Civilization is at hand.
Notably, today is a full moon that comes six weeks after the August 1st total solar eclipse that marked the start of the Georgian crisis. Market analyst Steve Puetz discovered that there is a connection between eclipses and financial panics. As Peter Eliades, author of the Stock Market Cycles investment letter points out regarding Puetz' discovery: "a full moon in general and a lunar (eclipse) full moon close to solar eclipses, in particular, seem to be the triggering device that allows for the rapid transformation of investor psychology from manic greed to paranoia." Thus, the full moon today might be a trigger for mass panic. If so, then the further discovery of Chris Carolan regarding Autumn panics becomes relevant.
Chris Carolan discovered that the 1929 and 1987 stock market crashes climaxed into the 28th day of the 7th lunar month in those respective lunar years.
He notes that other market panics have likewise occurred into this specific point on the lunar calendar or into the 28th day of the 6th lunar month. We are currently in the 6th lunar month of which the 28th day is September 26th. This means that a global panic, starting with the current full moon, might climax into September 26th. The next window for a mass panic to unfold would be from around the time of the October full moon on 10/14 to the 28th day of the 7th lunar month which is 10/25. Conceivably, therefore, we could be in the midst of a worldwide panic until late-October. As I have been warning about for more than 17 years, this "Grand Supercycle Crash" could ultimately take the form of global war.
The implications of what the world is experiencing are profound.
Elliott waves in stock price movements and the seasonality of collective panics, shaped by solar and lunar cycles, reflects seemingly deterministic patterns in human behavior. Man's nature, in other words, is predictably insane to a certain degree. This is an important point since world history is apparently shaped by these patterns of human behavior.
The bottom line is that the species of man is literally insane and a danger to itself and the world it inhabits. As long as human behavior is driven by selfishness rather than agape, I'm afraid history will continue to repeat itself in a predictably insane manner. I believe the only cure for mankind can come from accepting The Truth. We must all deny our selfish nature and turn to God, lest our species end up destroying itself.
In the video below, Russian 'Tsar' Vladimir Putin, former KGB chief, accepts the "Icon Of Vladimir", that "depicts the Holy Trinity", from Patriarch Alexius II, a known KGB agent, in a ceremony to mark the occasion of the reunification of the Russian Orthodox Church. As overviewed in my work, there is reason to believe Russia did away with Communism in order to replace this false ideological front with another one, Orthodox Christianity. Russian totalitarianism has thus metamorphisized not into liberal demoracy but rather into a conservative theocracy as forewarned about in Alexander Yanov's book "The Russian Challenge" (1987). What's worse, the Kremlin is planning to establish its version of the 'kingdom of god' not just over the Slavic world, but over the ENTIRE WORLD, through brute military domination, i.e., via a nuclear third world war. After the dust settles from the approaching apocalyptic conflict, the Kremlin hopes to coronate its leader "tsar of tsars", i.e., the second coming of Jesus Christ. The reality, however, is that the tyrant rising to power in the East is a conterfeit christ, i.e., the Antichrist.
"The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." [2 Thessalonians 2:9-12]
Russia's Mission
The Russian Idea proceeded....from the belief that the contemporary world was suffering from a global spiritual crisis 'carrying humankind headlong toward catastrophe' (in the words of a present day prophet). It pointed to the inability of the secularized, materialistic and cosmopolitan West to come to grips with this crisis, whose historical source lay in the secular Enlightenment: in the West's rejection of religion as the spiritual basis of politics and in its inability to realize that not the individual but the nation is the foundation of the world order conceived by God; that 'humankind is quantified by nations'.
The Russian Idea pointed to the providential role of Orthodoxy, as uniquely capable of pulling back the world from the brink of the abyss, and to Russia as the instrument of this great mission. While the Russian Idea rejected the 'government's interference in the moral life of the people' (the police state), it also denounced the 'people's interference in state power' (democracy). To both of these it opposed the 'principle of AUTHORITARIAN power'. The state, it taught, must be unlimited because 'only under unlimited monarchial power can the people separate the government from themselves and free themselves to concentrate on moral-social life, on the drive for spiritual freedom'.
The Russian idea did not acknowledge the central postulate of Western political thought concerning the separation of powers (as the institutional embodiment of the neutralization of vice by vice). Instead, it advocated the principle of separation of functions between temporal and spiritual powers: the state guards the country against external foes and the Orthodox church settles the nation's internal conflicts....It cherished the ideal of the nation cum family, requiring neither parliaments, political parties, nor separation of powers. Like the family, the nation would have no need of legal guarnatees or institutional limitations on state's power and its focus should not be the rights, but rather the obligations of its members. The nation's conflicts, according to the Russian Idea, must be reconciled by spiritual, rather than constitutional, authority.
The ideal of the nation as family presupposed the need for salvation from the sinful influences of the 'street' (the West) and, consequently, from a spiritual rebirth and a moral revolution. In the course of this Russia would return 'home' to its pure rural roots, to the tsarist Rus'...
(Excerpt from Yanov's The Russian Challenge, pp.24-25)
"Today the Soviet system can no longer seriously strive toward the spectre of Communism - but at the same time it cannot yet abandon the grandeur of its tasks, for otherwise it would have to answer for fruitless sacrifices which are truly innumerable. But in what then can the Soviet system find its justification? Only in the consciousness that it was unconsciously in the past, as it is now quite consciously, God's instrument for constructing a new Christian world. It has no other justification, and this is . . . a genuine and great justification. By adopting it, our state will discover in itself a truly inexhaustable source of Truth, spiritual energy and strength, which has never before existed in history . . . The old pagan world has now finally outlived its era . . . In order not to perish with it we must build a new civilization - but is Western society, whose foundations have been destroyed, really capable of this? Only the Soviet sytem, having adopted Russian Orthodoxy . . . is capable of beginning THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD." (Passage written by Russian nationalist G.M. Shimanov quoted in Yanov's The Russian Challenge, p.236)
"If we presume the coming transformation of the Communist Party into the Russian Orthodox Party of the Soviet Union, we would obtain truly the ideal state, one which would fulfill the historical destiny of the Russian people. It is a question of the Orthodoxization of the entire world." (Gennadii Shimanov)
"My feelings tell me that someday a Slavic Orthodox tsar shall take the socialist movement in hand and, with the blessing of the Church, set up a socialist form of life in place of the bourgeois one. And this Socialism will be a new and severe threefold form of slavery: to the communes, to the Church and to the Tsar." (Famous prediction of Konstantin Leont'ev)
"An empire of the Orthodox Balkan peoples together with the empire of Holy Russia - not the present marxist, un-Russian Russia, but Holy Orthodox Russia - can bring happiness to all mankind and realize that mystical millennial kingdom of peace on earth, which appeared in a vision on the island of Patmos to that glorious apostle and visionary, St. John the Evangelist. For that Millennium has never yet been made a reality in the history of the world, and what has been destined by God, must become a reality. Who will make it a reality if not those who up to the present day have been the most martyred and reviled, carved up and downtrodden, i.e., the Slavs and the other Orthodox Peoples?" [Quote taken from "A Treasury of Serbian Orthodox Spirituality" written by Serbian Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich (1880-1956)]
Other quotes of interest from Mikhail Gorbachev:
"Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between peoples." - Mikhail Gorbachev's 'Memoirs', 1996
"The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx." - Mikhail Gorbachev, USA Today, October 28th, 1996
The 'Great Transformation' based upon the diabolical 'Russian Idea' is well underway and yet the world is somehow oblivious to the rise of the Antichrist...
From outward appearances it would seem that the old Soviet Union has returned. A thing crucified, dead and buried has been resurrected. Four weeks after Vladimir Putin’s re-election, a procession led by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church arrived at the Church of Christ the Redeemer in Moscow. In keeping with ancient tradition the doors of the church were shut, symbolizing the sealed cave where Christ’s body was placed following crucifixion. “After midnight,” noted Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, “the Orthodox faithful taking part in the procession await the opening of the church doors. The patriarch stands on the steps at their head and is the first to enter the empty temple where the Resurrection of Christ has already occurred.” In due course the Patriarch offered up a prayer, the doors of the Church of Christ the Redeemer were opened and out stepped President Vladimir Putin. If any Christians were present for this ceremony they offered no protest to this blatant sacrilege. The woman who reported this event for the benefit of Western readers has since been assassinated. The KGB defector who was investigating the circumstances of her death has been poisoned (i.e., Litvinenko). [SOURCE]
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"The plans for the resurrection of the USSR are well known to Putin and the present regime and are outlined in the documents of the UCP-CPSU and Communist Party of the Union [of Russia and Belarus]." - Oleg Shenin, Chair, (Restored) Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 2003
"Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep." - Mikhail Gorbachev, November 1987
"Communist ideology in its pure form is akin to Christianity. Its main ideas are the brotherhood of all peoples irrespective of their nationality, justice and equality, peace, and an end to all hostility between peoples." - Mikhail Gorbachev's 'Memoirs', 1996
"The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx." - Mikhail Gorbachev, USA Today, October 28th, 1996
"Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind." - Mikhail Gorbachev
"If we presume the coming transformation of the Communist Party into the Russian Orthodox Party of the Soviet Union, we would obtain truly the ideal state, one which would fulfill the historical destiny of the Russian people. It is a question of the Orthodoxization of the entire world." - Gennadii Shimanov (quoted in Alexander Yanov's The Russian Challenge)
"My feelings tell me that someday a Slavic Orthodox tsar shall take the socialist movement in hand and, with the blessing of the Church, set up a socialist form of life in place of the bourgeois one. And this Socialism will be a new and severe....form of slavery..." - Konstantin Leont'ev
"An empire of the Orthodox Balkan peoples together with the empire of Holy Russia - not the present marxist, un-Russian Russia, but Holy Orthodox Russia - can bring happiness to all mankind and realize that mystical millennial kingdom of peace on earth, which appeared in a vision on the island of Patmos to that glorious apostle and visionary, St. John the Evangelist. For that Millennium has never yet been made a reality in the history of the world, and what has been destined by God, must become a reality. Who will make it a reality if not those who up to the present day have been the most martyred and reviled, carved up and downtrodden, i.e., the Slavs and the other Orthodox Peoples?" - quote taken from "A Treasury of Serbian Orthodox Spirituality" written by Serbian Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich (1880-1956)
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." - Josef Stalin
"It would not matter if 3/4ths of the human race perished; the important thing is that the remaining 1/4th be communist." - Vladimir Lenin
"Today's weapons make it possible to achieve strategic objectives very quickly. The very first nuclear attack on the enemy may inflict such immense casualties and produce such vast destruction that his economic, moral-political and military caabilities will collapse, making it impossible for him to continue to struggle, and presenting him with the fact of defeat." - Colonel M.P. Skirdo, quoted in Soviet Strategy For Nuclear War
