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The Hill Agitator is agitating on Capital Hill, influencing elected officials toward action. The Public Agitator works in the arena of ideas like the Public Figure , but in a different way. (more…)
A lot of money for the revolution came from loans from wealthy Americans. Some of these loans were never repaid. Other Americans took on grave financial setbacks to support the war. Their houses were burned, their ships were confiscated and their businesses destroyed. They sacrificed for the cause of liberty. The Left has some significant financial backers. Ted Turner gives millions if not billions to progressive causes and he leverages his multi billion-dollar media empire to advance a liberal worldview via movies, news, TV and the internet. But we are not unfunded. Our Leader owns the cattle on a thousand hills and He speaks to millions of people in His heavenly empire. As a pro-life movement, we need people who are willing to acquire and leverage fast fortunes to advance the pro-life cause. Like the other positions, this takes true devotion. We need elderly people to will their fortunes to protect the next generation. We need churches to contribute to pregnancy care centers. We need people to buy or build media empires that can offer free publicity to pro-life organizations. We need to use the financial resources that God has given us to advance His purposes. The pro-life movement always seems to be hurting for money and this should not be. God has blessed us with great wealth. We need to put it to good use. Denominational Coordinator Almost every denomination, with the exception of the Quakers, and the Church of England, backed the war for independence. Pastors preached on liberty and the whole nation fasted and prayed that God would bring victory. The Denominational Coordinator works within a system of churches to get the members of those churches motivated around the pro-life cause. Lou Engle does that for some charismatic churches. We pray that God will raise up Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran and Nondenominational versions of him. We need people from every denomination to spearhead prayer and action. If we want to win this battle we must win it in the heavenlies first. Denominational Liaisons need to work together. This would take an act of God and is be a good point for prayer. What do you think? If you have any questions or comments, we would love to hear from you. Leave me a comment or send me an email. If you would like to comment on any post in particular here they are:
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#1 Regular People Wear CostumesAt SciFi conventions people dress up like emotionless visitors from another world with amazing abilities and power. At GOP conventions people dress up like amazing visitors from the grass roots with amazing abilities and power. The hippies shave their beards and come their hair in the classic political swoosh. In both conventions most people pretend to be something they are not. Sometimes the dress up to make a point.
What would the pro-life movement look life if William Wilberforce were still alive? History tells of times when radical and sudden political reform rocked the world. If we study world changers we can learn to imitate them. This is their story. We hope it will be our story too. Several Patriot Academy alumni have worked with me on this strategy including Sarah Coburn, Hannah Hill, Jennifer Lackey and Jacque Otto. Download the Full PDF of the Strategy . (more…)
If you look closely you can see me in that video. Patriot Academy will give you three things: (more…)
Why Financial Terrorism is More Dangerous than Suicide Bombers Great empires don’t fall at the top of their economic strength. Most empires walk the same road: moral decline followed by economic collapse and then military failure. The morality in our nation is slipping but our economy is still strong… or is it?
Right now, we issue roughly 2-3 Billion dollars in government bonds each day. This is current debt and does not include all of the promises we have made in entitlements to future generations. China has devalued their currency by 40% and so they purchase U.S. Treasury bonds because the Yuan is a bad investment right now. The result of this is that China is putting the money they make off our trade deficit with them back in our economy artificially propping it up. We then spend this going in further in debt. "The borrower is servant to the lender." Here is the problem: Bonds garner a lower return than stocks because they are lower risk. If China were to sell their bonds the supply would go up making the cost go down. As the costs go down the investors would sell their high-risk stocks to buy these cheap low risk bonds. What this means is that China could at any time suck billions directly out of our stock market. If China sold a handful of these bonds (lets say 500 billion) it would cause a catastrophic drop in stock prices AND a drop in the U.S. money supply. This would trigger a panic amplifying the problem all the more. Wall Street would respond to this panic through cost cutting and layoffs. Unemployment would go up causing the economy to continue to go down resulting in an economic tailspin. I could get more technical into the economics of this but in short, this chain of events could cause a depression like we have never seen before as a nation. Why would China employ the paper nuke? One word: Taiwan . China has been staring longingly at Taiwan for decades. The only thing between China and their prized possession is a U.S. carrier group. Right now, nothing trumps an aircraft carrier militarily except for a nuclear bomb or diplomacy. By threatening with the paper nuke, they can strong arm us out of the South China Sea and seize Taiwan. But why stop there? If they find they can manipulate our sovereignty through finical terrorism then there is no telling where it will stop. How would we fight them since we fund our military with the money they loan us.
Just within the last month, China made their first threat to start selling bonds as leverage in a diplomatic negotiation, interestingly, to protect their trade advantage. If they play their cards right they could trigger a panic by selling only a portion of their bonds and save the rest for leverage. Or better yet keep the bonds as a ransom and just use the threat to undermine our sovereignty. I am far more concerned by this sophisticated economic attack than I am by the Jihadists who blow themselves up. The only solution to limit China’s economic power over the United States is to eliminate the national debt as quickly as possible. If we don’t get out of debt soon (both as individuals and as a government) our lack of fiscal restraint will be our downfall. Unfortunately, only one candidate understands this problem. I don’t know if Ron Paul has connected the dots as I have but one of the reasons he gives against the war in Iraq is that, he says, we can’t afford it because to pay for it we have to borrow from the Chinese. If we feed the lion to fight the tiger, are we better off or just deceived?
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