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April 14, 2023
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Central Bank Digital Currencies: Funny Money That Will Destroy What Is Left of Private Property, Free Markets, and Personal Liberty...
The Mark
of the Beast and the Mark of the Living Christ...
"You have been asked to wear a sacramental about
your neck. Now I will explain why, My children. I have warned you of the unseen
evil forces about you. I have cautioned you that your human eyes cannot see
this. But it exists and is as solid in their world as you are on your earthly
plane. Know this, that there are two camps now on earth: Lucifer on one side and
the road to Heaven and its followers on the other. You have all been marked.
There are two signs now: the mark of the beast and the mark of the living
Christ.
"Recognize the signs of
the times, My children. The war is on."- Our Lady, March 25, 1972
The above Messages from Our Lord and Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
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[E]ven when you have followed every law to the letter and
paid every fee to the cent, there is still no guarantee that
government agents will not later invoke eminent domain laws to
swipe what you own because they believe they can use your
private property more fruitfully for the "public good" – and,
since Kelo v. New London, even for someone else's private
good. So much for private ownership.
Competition, in theory, forces markets to naturally discard
bad and expensive products, while keeping the prices of the best
products low.... In practice, however, mature students of
capitalism understand that entrepreneurs are never in search of
markets for competition but rather conditions for maintaining
monopoly.
The end result is that capitalists are always in pursuit of
ways in which they may take advantage of laws and regulations,
specialized knowledge, government contracts, or other
exclusionary mechanisms to restrict potential competitors from
ever entering the market.
The usefulness of money over traditional bartering for goods
and services comes from its three chief functions providing (1)
a unit of account, (2) a store of value, and (3) a medium of
exchange.
[O]ver the last century and a half, the important steps have
all been the same: First, some form of paper money is
introduced and backed by the government's promise to pay the
holder of each note a fixed sum in gold or silver. Next,
the introduction of a private central bank comes into existence
holding a de facto monopoly power to print paper money
according to its best judgment for maintaining a healthy
national economy. Finally, the gold or silver backing of
those paper money currencies is revoked.
[G]overnments... spend money like drunken sailors precisely
because central banks right across the street will buy up their
debt and facilitate the printing of more money. How could
politicians object to an arrangement that allows them to spend
recklessly without any normal free market consequences?
Now with the central banks printing money and reckless
government spending pushing Western economic systems to the
brink, a new kind of financial hocus-pocus has been
proposed: central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
If governments and central banks control the creation,
distribution, and exchange of virtual money, whatever remains of
free markets will disappear. If governments and central banks
monitor every transaction between consumers and producers, then
all industries will be subjugated to the centralized command of
the State. If governments and central banks assert the legal
power to determine who may store value, how much value may be
personally stored, and how long that value will be permitted to
last, then whatever remains of private property will cease to
exist. If governments and central banks maintain a digital
monopoly over the only legalized forms of money, then they may
redistribute wealth or penalize personal behavior without regard
for individual rights or limits to their control.
No doubt propaganda campaigns will cloak this oppressive
monitoring in the West's own "politically correct" language of
fighting "hate" or "racism" or "climate change" or the next
COVID-like scare, but the West's system of control over its
citizens will be no different from the Chinese communist
version: Individuals will have their digital wealth confiscated
or replenished according to whether their behavior conforms to
the strictures of the State.
[A]n overhaul of the financial system and a transition to
mandated CBDCs threaten what remains of Westerners' personal
liberties.
[T]hose who value liberty know that personal ownership and
the unfettered exchange of goods, services, and ideas remain the
bedrock of those free nations that refuse to be enslaved.
During the Cold War, the East-West divide was commonly portrayed
as pitting communism against capitalism. The Soviet Union, its
satellites, and allies operated command economies in which
centralized authorities directed the allocation of resources,
agricultural production, and industrial manufacturing of the State.
The United States and the Western Bloc championed liberal democratic
norms and free markets. That division, of course, was always too
simplistic. Not only did the US support third-world dictatorships
when doing so would produce strategic advantages against the USSR,
but also the demarcation between free and controlled markets was
never so plainly cut-and-dried.
When young students learn the basics of capitalism, they are
taught about markets in which people may freely bargain for the
exchange of goods and services according to their personal needs and
interests. They are taught that privately-owned property is the
hallmark of capitalism and the key distinction separating that
system from various socialist and communist economic systems in
which property is variously shared among the people or owned
exclusively by the State.
When young students mature, however, they realize that throughout
the West, private ownership and free markets are neither quite so
private nor free. Property may best be understood as a bundle of
sticks tied up together with a bow. In an economic system in which
what you own is yours and no-one else's, all those sticks stay
bundled together tightly. However, when others have an independent
claim on what you "own," then one by one, those sticks come undone.
You might think you own your home after you have made
every payment, but what happens if you fail to pay local property
taxes or refuse to grant the municipal government permission to
build a sewer system below your dwelling? You will soon learn that
any number of city administrators, revenue agents, state regulators,
Environmental Protection Agency bureaucrats, public utilities
commissioners, and even a motley crew of private citizens objecting
to how you choose to use your property all believe that they have
an ownership stake in what you own, too.
In most places throughout the West, they would be right.
Statutes, regulations, and tax obligations all encumber what you think is
yours, and even when you have followed every law to the letter and
paid every fee to the cent, there is still no guarantee that
government agents will not later invoke eminent domain laws to swipe
what you own because they believe they can use your private property
more fruitfully for the "public good" – and, since Kelo
v. New London, even for someone else's private good. So
much for private ownership.
Likewise, free markets are hardly free from government
intervention. Federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and rules
constrain the activities of every industry. Before starting any new
business venture, an entrepreneur must consider a multitude of
State-imposed restrictions: What kinds of products may be bought and
sold? What kinds of raw materials must go into those products? What
types of government permits must first be obtained? What types of
skilled employees are required to do the work? How long are those
employees allowed to be on the job? What safety and industry
standards must be followed? What means of transportation may be
utilized to move finished products from one location to another? In
what types of storage can those products be kept? What downstream
customers may legally purchase goods? Can those goods cross national
borders without violating international treaties or national
security restrictions? Bargained-for exchange of goods and services
is hardly simple when rules and regulations govern every part of the
market transaction and the failure to abide by those rules results
in fines, lost inventories, delays, or even criminal punishment.
Young students of capitalism learn that markets operate according
to the laws of supply and demand, through which Adam Smith's
"invisible hand" guides both the production and prices of finished
goods. When demand for a particular product is high, its price will
rise. When prices rise, new entrepreneurs will enter the market and
produce new supplies. When those entrepreneurs compete against each
other, their desire to attract customers creates a natural incentive
for them to construct the best possible products in the most
efficient ways at the lowest cost. Competition, in theory, forces
markets to naturally discard bad and expensive products, while
keeping the prices of the best products low.
In practice, however, mature students of capitalism understand
that entrepreneurs are never in search of markets for competition
but rather conditions for maintaining monopoly. Wherever and
whenever producers may make and sell goods free from competing
sellers, they alone determine the quality and price of their
product. When their product is something that consumers must have,
monopolists control the market. That is how real fortunes are
made. The end result is that capitalists are always in pursuit of
ways in which they may take advantage of laws and regulations,
specialized knowledge, government contracts, or other exclusionary
mechanisms to restrict potential competitors from ever entering the
market. There is nothing "invisible" about the ways in which large
corporations and financial conglomerates use their leverage to
prevent smaller
firms from ever challenging their dominion. In this way, most
markets could hardly be described as entirely "free."
If neither private property nor free markets exist outside of
abstraction, the rise of fiat national currencies — whereby gold
money has been replaced with government-imposed,
innately-worthless paper notes — has only exacerbated the problem.
The usefulness of money over traditional bartering for goods and
services comes from its three
chief functions providing (1) a unit of account, (2) a store of
value, and (3) a medium of exchange. When sound money exists within
society, market transactions are easy and trade flourishes. Rather
than trying to determine how many rabbit pelts might be worth a slab
of beef or bushel of wheat or lawyer's expertise, consumers save
time and energy by using standard monetary instruments that are easy
to hold and transport and have consistent value. Although everything
from pearls and shells to teeth and bones have been used as forms of
money, gold has remained the, well, gold standard of money
across cultures for thousands of years. Possessing a stable value
over time due to its relative scarcity and human beings' shared
perception of its innate worth, gold has provided an ideal medium of
exchange. That is why so many standard currencies throughout history
and from nations and cultures around the globe have been minted
coins made of precise measurements of this precious metal.
By slowly replacing the use of gold coins with mandated paper
currencies, however, nation states have engaged in a bit of hocus-pocus to
conjure funny
money out of thin air. Although the particular order of events
has been different for different nations over the last century and a
half, the important steps have all been the same: First, some
form of paper money is introduced and backed by the government's
promise to pay the holder of each note a fixed sum in gold or
silver. Next, the introduction of a private central bank
comes into existence holding a de facto monopoly power to
print paper money according to its best judgment for maintaining a
healthy national economy. Finally, the gold or silver backing
of those paper money currencies is revoked.
Throughout the West, that slow but steady transition from money
with innate value to currencies with no innate value has operated
like a long con against the public. People were conditioned to use
paper money over the course of decades; the supply of and demand for
paper money was decoupled from Adam Smith's "invisible hand"; and
government mandates precluded citizens from returning to the
universally stable mediums of exchange that gold and silver have
long provided. Abracadabra, Western treasuries and central
banks replaced free markets securely denominated in fixed quantities
of gold with centrally controlled paper currency markets that distort
the value of anything privately owned.
This rather Machiavellian switcheroo has enabled governments to
spend money like drunken sailors precisely because central banks
right across the street will buy up their debt and facilitate the
printing of more money. How could politicians object to an
arrangement that allows them to spend
recklessly without any normal free market consequences?
On the contrary, decades of currency printing has only artificially
inflated the prices of houses, stocks, and other assets denominated
in those paper notes — giving ordinary citizens the false impression
that some of what they own is gaining value. If a house today is
now twenty
times more expensive than in 1950, however, it just might have
something to do with the fact that the U.S. dollar has lost over 97%
of its value since the private Federal Reserve central bank came
into existence in 1913 and the United States slowly but surely
decoupled its currency from gold
backing during the course of the next sixty years. Housing
prices have certainly risen, but any savings in U.S. dollars have gone
up in smoke. So much for the stored value of money.
Now with the central banks printing money and reckless government
spending pushing Western economic systems to the brink, a new kind
of financial hocus-pocus has been proposed: central
bank digital currencies (CBDCs). The idea is that consumers and
producers will transact entirely in virtual
currencies that do not physically exist outside of the stored
memories of interconnected machines. If replacing sound gold monies
with worthless paper was not bad enough, now worthless
paper will be replaced with the ephemeral ones and zeroes of
computer code. What could possibly go wrong?
Put aside the financial system's fragile house
of cards destabilizing global
markets today and central banks' suicidal penchant for playing Russian
roulette with eight billion lives linked through common
dependence on money. Instead, consider what the transition to CBDCs
would mean for the West. Succinctly put, any lingering Cold War
distinctions between capitalism and communism would
vanish.
If governments and central banks control the creation,
distribution, and exchange of virtual
money, whatever remains of free markets will disappear. If
governments and central banks monitor every transaction between
consumers and producers, then all industries will be subjugated to
the centralized
command of the State. If governments and central banks assert
the legal power to determine who may store value, how much value may
be personally stored, and how long that value will be permitted to
last, then whatever remains of private property will cease to exist.
If governments and central banks maintain a digital monopoly over
the only legalized forms of money, then they may redistribute wealth
or penalize personal behavior without regard for individual rights
or limits to their control.
The same surveillance systems and social credit scores that are
already pervasive in communist China will invariably become
pervasive throughout the formerly free West, as well.
No doubt propaganda campaigns will cloak this oppressive
monitoring in the West's own "politically correct" language of
fighting "hate" or "racism" or "climate change" or the next
COVID-like scare, but the West's system of control over its citizens
will be no different from the Chinese communist version: Individuals
will have their digital wealth confiscated or replenished according
to whether their behavior conforms to the strictures of the State.
Free markets, free will, free speech, and even free thoughts will
be regulated just
as easily as central banks regulate each citizen's digital
wealth. In effect, the implementation of CBDCs will give Western
governments the ultimate monopoly
over every life within their dominion.
For too long Westerners have remained quiet while market
competition has given way to government-sanctioned monopoly, and
private property has transformed into something much less personal
or secure. The funny money of paper currencies has destroyed most
ordinary Westerners' savings, while artificially inflating the
prices of stocks and other assets increasingly beyond the reach of
many. Now an overhaul of the financial system and a transition to
mandated CBDCs threaten what remains of Westerners' personal
liberties. Before the last vestiges of the Cold War's ideological
dichotomy evaporate and nothing remains to distinguish East from
West, this is the time for friends of freedom to stand and be
counted. For while Klaus
Schwab may desire a future where Westerners find happiness in owning
nothing, those who value liberty know that personal ownership
and the unfettered exchange of goods, services, and ideas remain the
bedrock of those free nations that refuse to be enslaved.
Wars
are a punishment for man's sins. Abortion, homosexuality, and the changes
in the Catholic Church cry out to Heaven for just punishment.
When you pray the Holy Rosary, you have Our Lady's hand in your hand. When
you pray the Holy Rosary, you have the power of God in your hands. Start
now! Let's All Pray the Rosary for people to reject the Mark of the Beast...Click
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What
does the Bible say about the Mark of the Beast?
Apocalypse Chapter 13: 15-18 And it was given him to give life to the image of the beast: and that the image
of the beast should speak: and should cause that whosoever will not adore the
image of the beast should be slain. And he shall make all, both little and
great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right
hand or on their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath
the character, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is
wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast. For
it is the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred sixty-six.
Apocalypse Chapter 14:9-12 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice: If any man shall
adore the beast and his image and receive his character in his forehead or in
his hand, He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mingled
with pure wine in the cup of his wrath: and shall be tormented with fire and
brimstone in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb. And the
smoke of their torments, shall ascend up for ever and ever: neither have they
rest day nor night, who have adored the beast and his image and whoever
receiveth the character of his name. Here is the patience of the saints, who
keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
Apocalypse Chapter Chapter 16:2 And the first went and poured out his vial upon the earth. And there fell a
sore and grievous wound upon men who had the character of the beast: and upon
them that adored the image thereof.
Apocalypse Chapter Chapter 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought signs
before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast
and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire
burning with brimstone.
Apocalypse Chapter Chapter 20: 4-6 And I saw seats. And they sat upon them: and judgment was given unto them. And
the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word
of God and who had not adored the beast nor his image nor received his character
on their foreheads or in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years. The rest of the dead lived not, till the thousand years were
finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part
in the first resurrection. In these the second death hath no power. But they
shall be priests of God and of Christ: and shall reign with him a thousand
years.
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EDITOR'S COMMENT: Evil is accelerating and the
Anti-Christ forces are gaining power in the world. When the persecution starts,
all Christian web sites on the internet will be forced to close. Be sure to
have in your possession all the following items: the
Bayside Prophecy books,
Bayside Medals,
Douay-Rheims Bibles, the
Protection Packets,Candles,Sacramentals, and
Religious Books. Purchase these items now
while they are still available! You will urgently need them in the days ahead.
Also, you can print out all PDF files for the
Directives from Heaven and all of the
Bayside
Prophecies. Copy Our Lady's messages and the Directives from Heaven
now while they are still available! Pray to the Holy Spirit for wisdom and
guidance on how to prepare now and for the days ahead when the Antichrist is
revealed. Viva Cristo Rey!
Our Lady of
the Roses Awesome Bayside End Times Prophecies...https://www.tldm.org/Bayside/ These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica
Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.
The Mark of the Beast and the
Mark of the Living Christ... "You have been asked to wear a sacramental about your neck. Now I will
explain why, My children. I have warned you of the unseen evil forces about you.
I have cautioned you that your human eyes cannot see this. But it exists and is
as solid in their world as you are on your earthly plane. Know this, that there
are two camps now on earth: Lucifer on one side and the road to Heaven and its
followers on the other. You have all been marked. There are two signs now: the
mark of the beast and the mark of the living Christ.
"Recognize the signs of the
times, My children. The war is on." - Our Lady, March 25, 1972
Insight... "As time goes on, My children of light, you will be able to recognize with
your human eyes, through insight from the Eternal Father in the Spirit, those
who are marked with the sign of the cross or the beast." - Our Lady, July 25,
1978
Marked with the mark of satan... "My child, there will be very many victims upon earth: those who are willing
to sacrifice their own pleasures, their own human pursuits, to give them over to
the salvation of souls, their brothers and sisters, who are marked with the mark
of satan and are seeking to take it away. There is only one way: conversion, and
then cure of the sick soul." - Jesus, July 25, 1985
Every person of conscionable
age... "The final count shall be in the few of those who are to be saved. My
children, at this very moment of time upon earth, each and every person of
conscionable age has been marked with the sign of the cross and redemption, or
they have accepted on free will the mark of the beast, eternal damnation!" -Our
Lady, August 14, 1978
Be branded... "Each man on earth who has been baptized and set himself up as a follower of
My Son in infancy has received the mark of the cross upon him. He can in his
lifetime cast this away and be branded with the mark of the beast. This will be
of his choice. No man will be lost without his own choice." -Our Lady, December
31, 1972
EDITOR'S COMMENT: Evil is accelerating and the
Anti-Christ forces are gaining power in the world. When the persecution starts,
all Christian web sites on the internet will be forced to close. Be sure to
have in your possession all the following items: the
Bayside Prophecy books,
Bayside Medals,
Douay-Rheims Bibles, the
Protection Packets,Candles,Sacramentals, and
Religious Books. Purchase these items now
while they are still available! You will urgently need them in the days ahead.
Also, you can print out all PDF files for the
Directives from Heaven and all of the
Bayside
Prophecies. Copy Our Lady's messages and the Directives from Heaven
now while they are still available! Pray to the Holy Spirit for wisdom and
guidance on how to prepare now and for the days ahead when the Antichrist is
revealed. Viva Cristo Rey!
Place a Crucifix on the
outside of your front and back door... The only real
protection against terrorists... Jesus - "Pray and wear your sacramentals. And, also, My
children, I ask you again to place a crucifix upon your door. Both front and
back doors must have a crucifix. I say this to you because there will be carnage
within your areas, and this will pass you by if you keep your crucifix upon your
doors." (6-30-84)
(Testimonies of lives and homes saved by the
crucifixes.)
https://www.tldm.org/news/crucifix.htm
Heaven’s Home Protection Packet...
Our Lord stated we must
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Home Protection Packet" there are instructions, four crucifixes, and a tube of
special cement for wooden or metal crucifixes. Wooden crucifixes adhere better
to the doors when the aluminum strap is removed from the back. Put a light coat
of cement on the back of the crucifix and then press it to the outside of the
door. If you have any problems, you can call us at 616-698-6448 for assistance.
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Heaven’s Personal Protection Packet...
Our Lady tells us to be protected from all evil, we
must wear the following sacramentals around our necks: a rosary, a crucifix, the
St. Benedict medal, Our Lady of the Roses medal, the Miraculous Medal, and the
scapular. We have all of these sacramentals in a packet we call "Heaven's
Personal Protection Packet." This packet is available for a donation of $7.00
plus $3.00 shipping and handling. Send $10.00 to TLD Ministries, P.O. Box 40,
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Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers promises to
help protect our children. On September 13, 1977, She said, "He has an army of
ogres wandering now throughout your country and all of the countries of the
world. They are in possession of great power; so wear your sacramentals, and
protect your children and your households. Learn the use every day of holy water
throughout your household. Insist even with obstructions, insist that your
children always wear a sacramental. One day they will understand that they will
repel the demons."
On February 1, 1974, Our Lady said, "My children, know the value of these
sacramentals. Guard your children well. You must awaken to the knowledge that
you will not be protected without the sacramentals. Guard your children's souls.
They must be surrounded with an aura of purity. Remove them if necessary from
the sources of contamination, be it your schools or even false pastors."
This Heaven’s Personal Protection Packet is available for a donation of
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Your names have been written in Heaven… "It is not by accident that
you are called by My Mother, for your names have been written in Heaven.... But
with this great grace you have great responsibility to send this Message from
Heaven throughout the world, for if you are able to recover just one more for
Heaven, an additional star shall be placed in your crown." - Jesus, August 5,
1975
A great obligation to go forward... "It is not by accident that you
are called by My Mother, for it is by merit and the prayers that have risen to
Heaven for your salvation. For those who have received the grace to hear the
Message from Heaven, you have a great obligation to go forward and bring this
Message to your brothers and sisters. Do not expect a rest upon your earth, for
you will have eternal rest very soon." - Jesus, June 12, 1976
The sin of omission... "The sin of omission
shall condemn many to hell, be they layman or Hierarchy. I repeat: not the sin
of commission, but the sin of omission will commit many to hell." Our Lady
of the Roses, October 6, 1980
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These Last Days News -
April 14, 2023
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