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The Disastrous One-World Economic Plan

Will Last Only Three and One-Half Years?

 The new Socialist representative for Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently co-authored what is being called “The Green New Deal (GND).”  When the document came out, it was widely praised by the mainstream media and a host of Democratic leaders.

 This plan is bold in calling for a massive transformation of our society, but the goals and timeline are absolutely insane. There is no way they could be implemented with our current technology and resources.

 Within 10 years the GND calls for us to move America to 100% clean and renewable energy and decommission every nuclear plant.  Other widely derided lines included a call for “high-speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary”; expanding public transit “with goals to replace every combustion-engine vehicle”; “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work”; and a goal to “fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes.

 The most outrageous part is the proposal is the proposal to give free money to people “unwilling to work.”  The Norwegian government just ended a program that gave out cash to people for doing nothing.  The trial program found that the free money didn’t make people more willing to work; it just made them happier.

 Medicare for all. The Green New Deal. Free college tuition.  With each new  entrant into the Democrat presidential Sweepstakes comes a fresh cascade of ambitious social programs  to entice and excite would-be supporters.  The list of pay-fors to use a bit of Washington jargon, grows more slowly.  They’ll pay for this how again?  Tax the rich; tax the rich — or take cover behind a convenient bit of progressive dogma: Don’t worry about the fiscal impact because of America’s rising budget deficits and debt levels don’t matter much.

 This is what the regimes in Cuba and Venezuela were going to offer their people. Venezuela, one of the richest countries in all of South America is bankrupt, the people have no food.  Millions of people have left the country.  People are eating out of garbage trucks.  And the insane government will not even allow donated food to be given to the starving masses!

 These are the same kind of thinkers that during the end times will control this entire world!  Only it will be worse, as there will be 3 1/2 years of somewhat order, before things get to where they will be worse than even Venezuela has experienced.

Revelation 6:5-6 are the key verses to focus on when attempting to estimate the end time cost of food because they provide information about the price of food items like wheat and barley:

 “And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see.  And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.  And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not oil and the wine.”  — Revelation 6:5-6

 The Greek word for “measure” is  choenix, which is equivalent to a dry quart.  A dry quart of wheat is approximately enough to make 1.5 to 1.875 loaves of one-pound bread or approximately the average amount of bread a person living in the Roman Empire are per day.  Meanwhile, the Greek word for “penny” is denarius, which is approximately the amount of money some workers were paid for a full day of work.  For instance Matthew 20:2-9 suggests workers were paid one denarius (penny) for 8 hours of labor or a full work day.

 “And when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them unto his vineyard. ….  Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.  And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.” (Matthew 20:2-9)

 We can get some idea of the significance of Revelation 6:6’s wheat price by examining how much bread a denarius could buy during Christ’s time by reading Mark 6:35-6:44. Before our Lord Jesus performed a miracle to feed at least five thousand people His disciples asked Him whether they should go buy 200 pennyworth (denarri-the plural for denarius) of bread to feed the people.

 “And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, …  Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.”

 “He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat.  And they say unto him Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat? …..  And they took up twelve baskets full of fragments, and of the fishes.  And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.” (Mark 6:35-44)

 If we divide 5,000 loaves of bread by 200 denarri we’ll find that one denarius bought 25 loaves of bread in Christ’s time.  Conversely, if we divide 200 denarri by 5,000 loaves of bread, we’ll find that 0.04 denarius bought 1 loaf of bread.  Therefore, a worker could afford to buy 25 loaves of bread after an 8 hour work day in the time of Christ.  But that same penny—that one day’s wages—will only buy one loaf of bread during the end times.

Why do People Say There is

Famine in Revelation 6:5-6?

 Many commentators say that the third seal describes a great famine.  These commentators stated this because the text described how food was priced.

  If  you consider the context of the first century A.D., it is clear that John predicted a very dramatic increase in the price of wheat.  A day’s wage — one penny or one denarius — would buy only enough wheat to make 1.5 to 1.875 one-pound loaves of bread instead of 25 loaves of bread.  This would represent between a 1333% and 1667% increase in price!  The very dramatic increase in the price of wheat is indicative of a tremendous shortage of food because prices generally do not increase this much without a major supply shortage.  This is exactly what has happened in Venezuela.  Natural conditions, or both could cause the shortage.

 It would be easy to say that the Green New Deal is just another example of how the world has become overrun with madness and ignorance.  It is an exercise of reprobate minds, but evil is the primary driving force.  The crazy politicians don’t care if the math doesn’t work for their plan.  They want the power it gives them.  Any hint of doubt is smothered in deception and lies.  By the time they’ve convinced the public to join their side, they’ve completely lost track of reality and will do the will of him who specializes in deception.

 “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2nd Timothy 3:13).

 These new  crazy policies are nothing new, as it is part of the Age of Aquarius new age thought that has been laying the groundwork for what we are witnessing today.  We have written in the past about the New Age Commandments monument that is located in Elbert County, Georgia.  The Georgia Guide Stones (GGS), an eerie monument of sorts, which clearly spells out the Globalists’ agenda for our planet.  There are ten commandments on GGS, which has been called the “Stonehenge” of America. Here are the ten commandments engraved on the stones:

1.) Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

2.) Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.

3.) Unite humanity with a living new language.

4.) Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.

5.) Protect  people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

6.) Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

7.) Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

8.) Balance personal rights with social duties.

9.) Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.

10.) Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature  — Leave room for nature.

 The first commandment about maintaining humanity under 500 million people is important.  This is the primary reason the State of New York recently passed a new Abortion Bill that would kill babies even up to the day of birth.  The same is proposed for the State of Virginia.  Since the earth now has approximately more than 8 BILLION people, if you do the math, you will see that the globalists want to kill off around 95% of the human population!  YES, you read that correctly.

 Alex Newman of “The New American” wrote a startling piece recently.  It seems that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (the new Socialist representative in Congress) co-authored what is being called “The Green New Deal.”  Alex attended an event in Calgary, Canada where he met the former Co-Founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore.  Mr. Moore had MUCH to say about the dangerous legislation which so being  pushed by the Dems. in the House.

Green New Deal Would Kill

Almost Everyone, Warns

Greenpeace Co-Founder

Revelation 11:18, “And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.” 

 The “Green New Deal” proposed by congressional Democrats is a “recipe for mass suicide” and the “most ridiculous scenario I ever heard,” Greenpeace Co-Founder Patrick Moore warned in an exclusive interview with The New American.  In fact, Dr. Moore warned that if “completely preposterous” prescriptions in the scheme were actually implemented, Americans could be forced to turn to cannibalism to avoid starvation — and they still would not survive.  Other experts such as Craig Rucker, the executive director of the environmental group Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), also sounded the alarm about the “green” proposal in Congress, comparing it to Soviet five-year plans and calling it a “prescription for disaster.”

 Craig Rucker

Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)

 The so-called Green New Deal is a massive scheme to, among other goals, restructure the U.S. economy.  It is being advanced by a coalition of radical communists and socialist Democrats in Congress led by U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y).  A resolution (H. Res. 109) “recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal (GND) already has 67 co-sponsors in the House.  If the scheme outlined in the resolution expressing the “sense of the House” is implemented, it would seek to eliminate air travel, the eating of steaks, the use of hydrocarbons, and more.  It would aim to completely end all emissions of CO2 — an essential gas exhaled by every living person and required by plants — over the coming decade.

U.S. Democratic Socialist Rep.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

 Moore, who was one of six international directors of Greenpeace, was flabbergasted that something so ludicrous could even be proposed, much less be advanced in the U.S. government — actually elected to the government of the United States of America – would propose that we eliminate all fossil fuels in 12 years,” he said in an on-camera interview with The New American from Canada.  “This would basically result, if we did it on a global level, it would result in the decimation of the human population from 7-odd billion down to who knows how few people.”  It would end up killing everyone on the planet, he added.

 Worse than mass death would be the way people reacted.  “It would basically begin a process of cannibalization among the human species, because the food could not be delivered to he stores in the middle of the cities anymore,” Moore continued. “The point that bothers me the most is that if you eliminated fossil fuels, every tree in the world would be cut for fuel.  There is no other source for heating and cooking once you eliminate fossil fuels.  You could use animal dung, if there were any animals left, but the animals would all die too because they would all get eaten.”

 Moore also slammed the “social aspects” of the Green New Deal proposals such as “paying people who are unwilling to work,” according to a FAQ released by Ocasio-Cortez’ office  “I can’t believe that anyone would write that in a proposal for law in the United States of America,” he said calling it “just unbelievable.”  Indeed, that language and other half-baked ideas caused nationwide ridicule of Ocasio-Cortez and others involved in pushing the “New Deal.”  The ridicule got so intense that one of its  proponents eventually lied, claiming that mischievous Republicans might have put out a fake Green New Deal document to make Democrats look ridiculous.  But then the truth came out, despite the FAQ being removed from Cortez’s congressional website.

 But the absurdity of it all may be a boost to Republicans and President Donald Trump. “We have a situation where something completely preposterous is being backed by a large number of Democratic congressional elected representatives in the United States of America,”  Moore said.  “This is actually going to put Trump right over the top.  I cannot see how this can possibly be negative for him.  It can only be positive, because people recognize when something is preposterous.  And I think that is the best word for it.”

 “The best term for it is actually mass-suicidal,” Moore added.  “Why would anyone vote for something that was going to result in the death of nearly all humans on Earth?”  As far as what Americans could do who support the environment but not mass suicide. Moore urged people not to vote for anyone who would support the “Green New Deal.”

 Speaking at a conference put on by the Economic Education Association of Alberta over the weekend, Moore also explained that so much of what climate alarmists were pushing was pseudo-science and easily discredited lies.  For instance, carbon dioxide is actually doing great things in terms of greening the planet — after all, it is plant food, Moore said.  He also lambasted those who say coral reefs are dying due to alleged man-made global warming, something he said was not true.  Noting that trucks need hydrocarbon fuels to bring produce to market in cities, Dr. Moore explained that just that one problem alone would be absolutely catastrophic if CO2 emissions were ended.

 Moore has since left the Greenpeace he helped found, because it left him.  When the group was founded, “we wanted to save civilization; we didn’t want to destroy it,” he told The New American.  “By the time I left Greenpeace, it drifted into a situation in which all they had left was the green.  They kind of dropped the peace, which was the human side of the situation.  And now they were characterizing people as the enemies of the earth — the human species as the enemies of nature, as if we were the only evil species.”

 One of the most outrageous campaigns by Greenpeace, Moore said, was when the leadership — which had no formal science education — decided to try to ban chlorine use worldwide.  “Yes, chlorine can be toxic; it was used as a weapon in World War I,” he said.  “But the fact that it is toxic is why it is the most important element in public health and medicine.  Adding it to drinking water was the biggest advance in the history of public health… that has saved hundreds of millions of lives through the time that we learned to use chlorine as an antibacterial agent.”  Nature, he added, is full of toxic materials.

 In his own keynote address at the conference CFACT’s Rucker — who famously boarded Greenpeace ships to “punk” them with propaganda banners reading “ship of lies” and “propaganda warrior” — explained that much of the environmentalist movement has it backwards.  The real key to preserving the environment, he said, is free markets, private property and prosperity.  Poor nations do not have the resources to protect the environment.  And socialist-ruled nations have the worst environmental track-records of all.  Meanwhile, freer and wealthier nations such as the Untied States, Canada, Japan, and Western Europe have remarkably clean environments.

 In an interview with The New American, Rucker celebrated freedom.  “What’s good for the people is good for nature,” he said, calling for pro-growth policies that benefit people rather than government-enforced scarcity.  “It’s like the old Chinese proverb:  When there is food on the table, there are many problems; when there is no food on the table, there is one problem.  Societies that do not take care of their people don’t have the resources to take care of the planet.”

 Rucker, a top leader of the non-totalitarian environmental movement, also slammed the “Green New Deal” being advanced in Congress.  “It is a horrible idea,” he said, blasting the original New Deal as well.  “But I actually think it is more like the Soviet 5-year plan… They want to be off fossil fuels within 10 years.  That is insane.  It is not that we are embracing fossil fuels, but this is a government-driven objective much like the old Soviet plans were government-driven objectives.  It is going to fail.  And the problem is, it is going to take a lot of people down with it…  This is going to really hurt people.  It is a prescription for disaster.”

 Citing University of Maryland business Professor Julian Simon, Rucker used a hilarious example to illustrate the point. If the ideology of the sustainable-development movement  were used 10 years ago, there would be great concern about where humanity was going to get enough whale oil to use as lighting.  But of course, since then, electricity and light bulbs have taken the place of whale oil, thereby eliminating the alleged prospect of resources running out.  The same concept applies to other resources, too, he said.  When the price goes up due to scarcity, people will  find substitutes and new ways of getting what they need — at least they will if markets are allowed to operate.  “People are not just mouths; they are also hands and a brain,” he said.

 He also drew a distinction between the “conservation” ethic, in which man is included in how to protect the planet, and the “Deep Green ecology” that views man as a “virus on the planet” that needs to be removed.  Obviously, efforts to conserve nature should have the well-being of man in mind, he said.

 Rucker and Moore both served at keynote speakers at the annual “FreedomTalk” conference [a project of the] Economic Education Association of Alberta.  A writer gave a speech focusing on the indoctrination of children taking place in public schools — and particularly the implications of it for freedom.  Other speakers highlighted the problems with the man-made global-warming hypothesis, the looming public pension disaster, and much more — source.

 2030?  Who knows what that year will bring?  Our God has allowed everything that happens because every event further fulfills Bible Prophecy!

 The pieces are falling into place!

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