Is The World Ending Saturday, May 21st, 2011?

Is The World Ending Saturday, May 21^st, 2011?

America’s End Far More Certain

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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OK.  So the end of the world is coming Saturday, right?  Well, it might.  But frankly, I’ll believe it when I see it.

It is not that I doubt the world will end … it will, I just doubt that anyone – any man – can know when it will occur.

Even Jesus Christ, whom Christians recognize as the SON of God, when asked about the time of the end of the world replied that no one knows – not even the angels in heaven.   Hey, that’s good enough for me!

Predicting the end of the world is definitely not a new phenomenon. Men have wondered when it will all end since, well, since man began to question his reason for being.

It didn’t take early man long to figure out that, considering the other animals around him, man had it pretty darned good.  That’s when man’s curse of insecurity bubbled up to the surface and he began to wonder how long he could expect his good fortune to continue. 

The inscrutable among early humans immediately began to capitalize on that fear as a wonderful motivator of man from which he/she could gather unto himself great power.  Remember, before there was money, there was power.  Today MONEY ranks number one, with POWER an extremely close second, among those who wish to control human behavior.  (See: POLITICIAN.)

Down through the centuries man has predicted the end of the world many, many, many times.  Today we are only cognizant of just a few of the more spectacular predictions and the even more spectacular inaccuracies, and in some cases -- the crazy things people do to prepare for the end.  

The end of the world was predicted for October 22nd, 1844.  Didn’t happen.  In fact it became known as “The Big Disappointment.”

I mention this particular prediction only because I expect there will be a heck of a lot of disappointed people about 8 PM Saturday evening.

There is an interesting post at religioustolerance.com entitled:  

 “44 failed & 1 ambiguous end-of-the-world
predictions that were to occur between 30 & 1920 CE”

I found it interesting and thought you might, as well.  You will find it HERE.

Nowadays, predicting the end of the world is pure folly.  At least, in our opinion, it should be. 

We live in an age when we have the libraries of the world at our fingertips… literally.  There is simply no excuse for being uninformed today. Having said that, I quickly add that we Americans are some of the worst educated people on the globe.  Lack of education leaves Americans wide open for use as pawns by those just a tad smarter.  Only a fool cannot see the evidence of that all around us today – especially in our government.

Ignorance is a powerful thing.  It will destroy a society.  It has very nearly destroyed the United States of America.   I say this to warn Americans not to be too critical of those who will prepare for the end of the world this weekend.  Those folks are no more guilty of ignorance that the millions of American voters who gave us the Obama Administration.  They were used (by those a tad smarter than they) and they are about to be used again.  I mean – the world may not end Saturday, but we are sure as heck approaching the end of America, (as she was conceived by her Founding Fathers, and those who gave their lives to protect her constitutional republic.)

Worry about this weekend if you feel you must.  Not me.  I worry about whether we will be able to rescue our country from the hands of the socialists/communists and progressives who have a strangle hold on America’s throat and are choking the life out of the liberty and freedom of the American people!

I am also worried about the coming establishment of a Palestinian state, in September, and the nuclear holocaust, which will soon follow.  

I worry that my country has made a conscious decision to forget its founding document, the constitution, and forsake its freedom and liberty and embrace a form of socialism that guarantees the utter destruction of America. 

Talk about the end of the world?  How about we talk about the “end of the world as we know it?”  THAT is not a prediction.  That is an on going FACT. 

Before we poke fun at those “end of the world folks” hadn’t we better consider our own ignorance as an electorate, as a people, as a society, as a country?

We had better get our house in order -- or the end of America is certain.

J. D. Longstreet

 I Fear For My Country

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

In 2009 I wrote the following:  “I fear for my country.  America has gone from a vibrant capitalist society to a dying socialist society almost overnight.  We have become an impotent sleeping giant sprawled across the globe whiling away our days dreaming of a socialist utopia that does not exist and never has.  If anything, we among all, people are the most to be pitied.  How pathetic we have become.  We have traded our shining city on a hill for a government low-rent housing project.  The worst of it is… we did it of our own free will!

Yes, democracy can be a dangerous way to govern a country as the German people learned when allied bombs were raining down on their cities.  They chose the Furher of their own free will and they paid a price no nation should ever have to pay.

For democracy to exist, to thrive, and to survive, it is incumbent, it is REQUIRED, that the electorate is intelligent, learned, and knowledgeable people.  Because it is they who decide, by their votes, whether democracy, in a free country, lives or dies.

The overriding question today is… Can America even survive?  The answer, realistically, is… NO, she cannot… not if she continues the course she chose in 2008.  Having said that, we must also say that YES, America can survive… IF she changes course and returns to her roots as a capitalist, democratic representative republic. 

There is likely to be a historic internal struggle in America over the next few years to decide the issue of whether America lives or dies.  It will be ugly as such struggles always are.  The first indication of which form of government Americans really want is likely to come in 2010 when Americans return to the polls.  If socialist candidates are thrown out and defeated, there is REAL HOPE.  If not, rest assured the struggle will go on for many decades into the future.  America will be a troubled land for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Old America is gone.  This New America cannot hold a candle to the greatness of the old America.”

Earlier this week we learned that China’s economy will surpass that of the US by 2016.  In an article by Brett Arends, MarketWatch, entitled:  “IMF bombshell: Age of America nears end” Mr. Arends says: “According to the latest IMF official forecasts, China’s economy will surpass that of America in real terms in 2016 — just five years from now.

Put that in your calendar.

It provides a painful context for the budget wrangling taking place in Washington right now. It raises enormous questions about what the international security system is going to look like in just a handful of years. And it casts a deepening cloud over both the U.S. dollar and the giant Treasury market, which have been propped up for decades by their privileged status as the liabilities of the world’s hegemonic power.”

Mr. Arends goes on to say:  “According to the IMF forecast, whoever is elected U.S. president next year — Obama? Mitt Romney? Donald Trump? — will be the last to preside over the world’s largest economy.” (You may read the entire article HERE.)

Well, there it is. I actually never thought I would live to see America brought low.  But, what we are experiencing here in America is the death of our country at our own hands.  It is suicide.

It has been known, for an exceedingly long time, that democracies have a few fatal flaws.  In the case of America, we have murdered our country through the use of two of those fatal flaws. Number one:  As soon as the electorate realizes it can vote itself money from the country’s treasury, it will break itself, financially, and thus collapse.  Number two:  In a democracy, it is entirely possible to elect leadership that is not interested in the betterment of the country. In our case, we elected leadership determined to “fundamentally change” America.  He has kept his promise.

Honestly, I don’t think we CAN save America.  I think the only hope for a free country, on these shores, rests with a small nucleus of Americans who saw this coming, warned, and warned, and warned -- anyone who would listen -- that it WAS COMING, and are now considered a threat to those elements of the US government who fear, now that their façade has broken and fallen away, that those freedom lovers just might, through political resistance, impede their progress in continuing to disassemble America and remake it into a communist/marxist third-world dung heap.

And don’t forget this: If you think the world has been troubled before, wait until there is NO American leadership.  We are getting a taste of it right now in the Middle East.

The point is – the decline of America means the decline of the world … period. We can expect a world in chaos, utter and complete.

So, once more I am going to issue my warning:  The stage has been set for a one-world government (Global Governance) to take charge of all the countries of the world.  It will be dictatorial – it must be.  Preparations have been underway for such a global government for many years now.

Such a government will bring nothing but continued war around the globe. The so-called “Responsibility to Protect” will guarantee it.  In a hundred years, or less, the planet will resemble a cinder pockmarked by the ravages of multiple wars raging simultaneously on this once beautiful jewel of our solar system.

This is what America chose.  This is what the WORLD chose.

Is there hope?  Keep your eye on the remnant.

J. D. Longstreet