The Course of Empire, the Voyage of Life and the America we have Lost

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Please welcome our long-time contributing author, John Kaminski. His essay is entitled "The Course of Empire, the Voyage of Life and the America we have lost." It is a meditation on the forgotten genius of artist Thomas Cole inspired by four prescient oils he painted in the mid-nineteenth century. Like Oscar Wilde's "Portrait of Dorian Gray," the symbolism of the fourth portrayal is morphing into horrendous reality as I write. John's alternative title is, "A Paradise that was Hope of the World destroyed by the Perversion of the Jews." You must open all of the links in order to appreciate the whole message.

Proverbs 22:7 portends, "The rich [banksters] rule over the poor [nations], and the borrower is servant to the lender." Thus the national sovereignty of the United States and all nations has been surrendered to the international banksters. Biblical prophecy informs us that the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church will bail out and refinance the US dollar with gold; but not before a global depression far worse than the Great Depression, followed by Russia's defeat and invasion of mainland USA in the 'hot stage' of World War III sinks the dollar and the worth of that nation, and inflates the gold price ensuring Rome pays perhaps a fraction of a cent/thousand dollars. Since the dollar is and will retain the role of reserve currency, when the United States comes under Roman dominion, all nations will be under submission to Rome because her partners to the covenant of Daniel 9:27, the international banksters, will hold their debt under a greatly revalued dollar and return the world to serfdom. As apostate natural Israel was judged under Imperial Rome, apostate Christendom will be judged under Papal Rome (Deuteronomy 28:48-52).

Brother Branham said, "[This is] how the Holy Spirit brought this ought for me. . . This nation is going to be busted, and the rest of the world that's on the gold standard is going to be busted. [And when the dollar returns to the gold standard the nations whose foreign loans are in US dollars will be in bondage to the gold standard]. . . we notice in Daniel 8:23 and 25 he will cause craft to prosper, and craft is manufacturing, in his hand" (The Revelation of the Seven Seals, p. 167:2-169:7). I rather feel "craft" refers to deceit, implying that once the world economy has been restored to prosperity in the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week Rome has will abrogate her covenant with the Jewish usurers.

We have often quoted the Prophet, "When God sends forth a message and tells the people, and they don't receive it, then He withdraws His servant and sends His plagues: famine, death (spiritually speaking, physically also). You watch for a depression, brother. You think you've seen something; you just wait after while. You haven't seen nothing . . ." (Jezebel Religion, p. 22:100). This is the destiny of the United States, the world's worst nightmare, portrayed almost 180 years ago by the genius of artist Thomas Cole.

This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.

Israel charged for 'Crime of Genocide and War Crimes,' Kuala Lumpur Tribunal

The suffering of the Palestinian people have been well documented over the decades without any legal recourse being open to these people. Legal obstacles are placed in their path denying them the right to be heard. The international community too has failed to recognise their fundamental human right to be heard. The KLWCC founded in 2008 was established to fill this void and act as a peoples' initiative to provide an avenue for such victims to file their complaints and let them have their day in a court of law.

Witnesses are scheduled to testify against the accused during the course of the tribunal hearing. Eyewitnesses of the Sabra—Shatila massacre will be testifying at the hearing and one of them include prominent surgeon and author Dr Ang Swee Chai. Other witnesses at the hearing will also include those from Gaza during the Operation Cast Lead 1 that resulted in the loss of numerous civilian lives and destruction of property where even children were victims.

Expert witness Paola Manduca, a retired Professor at University of Genoa, Italy who is an expert Geneticist will testify on the impact of weapons on reproductive health arising from the attacks in Gaza, especially to children. There will also be witnesses from the West Bank to testify on alleged Israeli state violence and atrocities against the Palestinian people. The first charge against Amos Yaron for War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and Genocide is as follows . . .
Full story: globalresearch.ca

The Big Brother Mafia and Anti-Americanism

August 13, 2013 — "The story of Snowden is the greatest scandal in US history. Now, the US openly attacks Freedom, Democracy, and Basic Rights. Now US officials openly support Islamists. Now the US is trying to break all world records for wickedness and evil deeds! Now the US has started to shut down the alternative Email Providers! Now even Google says Gmail users shouldn't expect privacy!"

As the people's media reports: "Snowden used Lavabit's email service, and the US forced Lavabit.com to shut down. The US regime said Lavabit has 2 options: Join the NSA Spying Program or Die! After TorMail and Lavabit, Silent Circle said it was shutting its email service ahead of receiving data requests from the US government. [Now, even] Google says Gmail users have no privacy. As US experts say: 'It's the End of Privacy in the US. There is no email privacy any more. Don't use Email as far as possible. Email is one of the first targets for spying (surveillance). There is no privacy (freedom) in the US".

It's really shameful. In his statement, the Owner of Lavabit says: "I have been forced to make a difficult decision . . . I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot [!!] I feel you deserve to know what's going on [!] the First Amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this [!!] Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise [!!] . . . This experience has taught me one very important lesson: . . . I would strongly recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States" . . . Full story: iransnews.wordpress.com

The ABCs of 'Bail-in': What You Must Know

August 10, 2013 — Question: What is bail-in, exactly?

Answer: Under the propaganda line of "protecting the taxpayer" from endless government-funded "bail-outs" of private megabanks, the Bank of England and the Bank for International Settlements have invented "bail-in": when a speculative megabank either fails or is in danger of doing so, various classes of the debt owned by its creditors, such as the bonds the banks sell to raise funds, are forcibly converted into equity (stock) in the bank. This "recapitalises" and saves the bankrupt bank. The trick? Your deposit also makes you a creditor of that bank?an "unsecured creditor," to be precise?and your funds can be seized and turned into bank stock as well.

Question: I just have a basic savings account. Am I an "unsecured creditor"?

Christ cleansing the temple of usurers

Answer: The grim truth is yes, you are. It would come as a huge shock to the 99.999 per cent of bank depositors who aren't accountants, that they are classified as "unsecured creditors". It isn't often stated directly, which is one of the reasons that Cyprus was such a surprise, but, as a Sep. 2011 paper published in the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's Bulletin explained: "Unsecured creditors include a wide range of individuals and entities. At one end of the spectrum, there are large international financial institutions that invest in debt issued by the bank (commonly referred to as wholesale funding). At the other end of the spectrum, are customers with cheque and savings accounts, and term deposits. . . Each has freely invested in a private institution and has enjoyed a return on that investment whilst accepting the risks associated with the investment."

There you have it: the modern banking system claims that, for example, a school kid opening a savings account accepts "the risks associated with the investment" in the same way as huge investment funds that lend to banks on the wholesale money market do.

Question: I have heard something about seizing bank deposits, but this is just for inactive accounts, right?

Answer: No, it is deposits in all bank accounts?individuals, small and large businesses, charities, churches, schools, municipal and shire councils, state governments, the lot. . . Full story: cecaust.com.au

Comment: This is a lesson occupied Germany did not know. Now access to its gold is denied; her gold is gone. The Jews' Federal Reserve has taught Germany the wisdom of Adolf Hitler. Full story: youtube.com

Saving the Planet, by stopping Volcanoes doing What They Do

August 23, 2013 — Brucey (name suppressed) is your typical Green voting academic. He rides his bike to the university lunatic asylum each day. He doesn't eat meat because cows, pigs and sheep let off gas thus increasing greenhouse gas emissions. And he believes that all asylum seekers are genuine refugees who should be free, free, free!

Mt. Machin volcano

Professor Brucey feels that he is doing a good deed by saving the planet. But as geologist Professor Ian Plimer has often pointed out, volcanic eruptions totally wash away, if that is the correct metaphor, these carbon-dioxide-saving measures in just days. There are 200 active volcanoes on Earth, with 70% of them beneath the sea. When Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in 1991 it emitted more greenhouse gases than the human race has produced in its entire existence.

So I ask you, Professor Brucey my boy, what are you going to do about volcanoes, because, remember, you are White and thus guilty for everything! Full story: youtube.com

The Course of Empire, the Voyage of Life and the America we have Lost

By John Kaminski

We have been taught how not to see. The blindness that envelops us today leaves us helpless on the eve of multiple disasters that most of us will not survive. Once, long ago, America was a vision that was the hope of the world. Today, America is the world's worst nightmare as the darkness closes in on everyone with depressing finality, and from all directions.

The clearest vision of this hope that was the dream of America was painted on canvas and distributed widely throughout the US in those hopeful days before the Civil War began the rot that has led us to the eve of destruction we confront today.

The creator of this vision was a far-seeing artist, famous worldwide, named Thomas Cole. In 1842 he designed his wish for the future of humanity with prescient foresight, measured optimism and profound wisdom.

What has happened to us since is the tragic result of not seeing what he showed us, or truly hearing in our minds what his visions told us.

Sure, you can titillate yourself with authentically dire predictions about this catastrophe or that deception, and wind up as a heap of quivering Jello bemoaning your own pathetic fate. Or, you can understand where America was headed before it was derailed by a sinister force that beguiled us into greed and trickery, that coerced us into believing that we should act only for ourselves and ignore the eternal truth that without honest neighbors, we will forever have no decent place to live.

This is your choice: to click up some scary YouTube and cower from a disaster you may not avoid, or, try to comprehend what has really happened to us, and take the necessary steps—which are not very complicated at all—toward restoring simple honest lives with the highest values as goals that all of us—except a very few truly evil men—seek to live by.

For once in your truncated, diseased life, develop some discipline and understand the components of what a good life requires. Study these pictures—muse over them—stop looking for a quick fix or some magical force to save you, and understand the work and the knowledge it will take to rescue the world from this consensus insanity that has been imposed upon us by the Jews.

Cole devised the formula with sublime clarity in the mid-19th century, and it would work today, had we but the good hearts and sincere consciences to accept its timeless counsel.

Although this was never taught to you in any school you attended, Thomas Cole chronicled America's noble spirit that infused the world with its majestic hope.

Cole was best known as the founder of the Hudson River School of art that kindled the spirit of boundless freedom with sublimely inspiring vistas of nature's beauty. In an era that saw the works of Thoreau, Emerson and Melville enlarge the scope of human hope with their grand visions of thoughtful consciousness, Cole's translucent landscapes combined a firm knowledge of history with an understanding of the passages in life that apply to every person who calls himself an authentic human being.

At the center of Cole's philosophy was the notion that each of us has an angel who guides us, whether we want to acknowledge it or not.

Cole first captured the world's attention in a series of five grand philosophical dreamscapes titled "The Course of Empire," which charted the predictable lifespans of all great civilizations. These archetypal scenes melded the tragic history of the Roman Empire with a prescient prediction of what would happen to America—In Cole's time, still rising toward world pre-eminence—if it followed the accursed path to empire.

Of "The Course of Empire," James Fenimore Cooper said it was "the work of the highest genius this country has ever produced."

If you value your future—and the future of your country—at all, take a moment to examine and savor the articulate detail of Cole's lucid geopolitical chronicle, as his dream empire evolves through predictable stages of primitive savagery, the taming of its wilderness, and its lavish victory over barbarism and chaos. It then devolves sharply as its triumphs erode and die. What follows is its unavoidable fate into destruction and desolation.

Ponder this relevant glimpse into your own future that was painted 171 years ago.

Be sure and click the enlarge button at the lower right of each portrait and let the full force of Cole's vision resonate in your heart. Don't toss it off as some hasty YouTube to be sampled but not swallowed. Understand what it means, and how it so appropriately prefigured what is in store for us today as we continue on this rampaging path to ruin.

Grand as this vision was, it was only a warmup for what is perhaps the most transcendent series of images any artist of any time ever created by putting a brush to canvas.

Inauthentic Jewish critics have hijacked humanity's artistic sensitivities over the past century and a half with meaningless drivel soberly explaining senseless abstractions, and swindled us into confusing the bizarre with the beautiful. These disingenuous shills never choose to mention Cole in their breathless endorsements, not only because he's not Jewish, but because he preaches ultimate freedom from every kind of terror except our own consciences, which is exactly the opposite of what the Jews want the rest of the world to believe.

American society has been wrecked by Jewish pitchmen breathlessly extolling the blatant inferiority of Jewish art, which has had the effect of dulling the American mind. As a result, most Americans can no longer can perceive what genuine beauty and wisdom—such as Thomas Cole's grasp of the higher lessons of life—really are.

What this principled artist produced next stands as the very highest point ever reached by any master painter, and his sterling achievements have been buried by Jewish poseurs such as Picasso, Gauguin and all the other kosher psychos mindlessly spewing the garbage contents of their warped minds while Jewish reviewers call it genius.

Cole created his four-part "The Voyage of Life" series twice. The first set he finally sold, after a European tour, to a collector who initially refused show it to the public. This being the case, Cole created a second set of the same series with the same theme and nearly identical executions, only ramped up with the improvements editing produces, and which I recently had the privilege to experience as it is now the centerpiece of the National Gallery of Art collection at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

If you have never looked carefully at paintings by masters to feel the full force of their power, then this would be them.

Thomas Cole died early, at age 47, of pleurisy on a cold February day, but his work lived on in the minds of those who had seen it, as well as in the other great artists of the Hudson River School, such as his protege Frederic Church, plus a handful of other now forgotten names. Cole was so famous and his work so widely reproduced that versions of his paintings could be found hanging in many American homes throughout the late 1800s.

The hopeful beauty Cole so graciously depicted marked the high point not only in American art but also in the American attitude, which a mere decade later was wiped out by the ominous approach of the American Civil War, fomented by the same force that besieges us today.

The Cole era really ended at a wedding in London at which Benjamin Disraeli recounted a conversation between the two Rothschild brothers, Lionel and Nathanael, plotting to fund different sides in the Civil War to split the fledgling Western republic into two less powerful parts.

You see, the same evil force that encouraged the abolitionists also created and nurtured the practice of slavery, with its endless armada of slave ships that traded watered-down rum for kidnapped African innocents. Ever since, this same force has controlled both sides of every political argument, and lined them up against each other for maximum carnage and perpetual profits.

Jewish bankers supervised the passage of increasingly unfair currency laws and throughout the remainder of the 19th century, fabricated stock market crashes in order to steal land, businesses and people's lives. As Bill Still so meticulously documented in his video, Jews and their European stooges continued to steadily shrink the money supply, retarding America's economic growth and creating an endless robbery, diminishing the residents of a boundlessly rich land into abject poverty.

The creation of USA Inc. in 1871 and the passage of corporate personhood in 1886, plus the assassination of two American presidents who opposed this perpetual financial predation, continued the downward spiral.

From the 1880s on, the steady immigration of Jews from Russia and the Eastern European countries, necessitated by czarist pogroms that the Jews themselves initiated and then misreported to the Jewish controlled Western press, watered down the US electorate with Talmudic radicals, much the same way that unrestricted immigration of Latinos enabled the tyrant Barack Obama to get elected by a seriously undereducated American electorate.

Epitomized by the Emma Lazarus poem on the Statue of Liberty ("Give us your tired and poor and hungry" etc.), these cynical ruses enabled totalitarian Jewish legislation that eventually led to the passage of laws by corrupt politicians bought off by Jews that ruined the American republic beyond repair.

This occurred exactly one hundred years ago, long after Thomas Cole was forgotten.

In the watershed year of 1913, the passage of the Federal Reserve act and the creation of the income tax guaranteed the puppet masters enough cash to engineer the start of World War I, the War to End All Wars. At the center of the Jewish scam was a document known as the Balfour Declaration, in which England gave Jews the right to colonize the criminal state that a half century later would become the outlaw state known as Israel.

Shortly after WW I came the Jewish murder spree known as the Bolshevik Revolution, the great theft of land from American farmers in 1921, the Great Depression of 1929, and the US bankruptcy and Jewish declaration of war on Germany in 1933.

While 7 million Americans starved to death during the 1930s, German independence created unprecedented prosperity until the Jews in control of the US acting as they had in 1913, decided to put a stop to Germany's financial success by creating the greatest unjust massacre in history, World War II, in which 60 million Europeans and Americans lost their lives in a needless conflagration engineered by Jewish president Franklin Roosevelt.

All of these disasters were devious Jewish enterprises, concealed from the American people by Jewish newspapers.

The subtext of both World Wars was to engineer the creation of the Jewish state, from where, as Adolf Hitler rightly predicted, the Jews could set up a base of operations from which to conquer the world, which by the year 2013 has largely already happened.

But this is not the worst of it.

In this Jewish takeover of the entire world, every single emotion that Thomas Cole itemized and portrayed so reverently in his 140-plus output of painted masterpieces had been wiped from the memory of man, so that the world's population, sickened and shrunken by Jewish control of every aspect of human existence, had been dulled and demented, and utterly unable to resist the herding of well-meaning people all over the world into camps where the only choices for their future existence were enslavement or extermination.

This was a far cry—in fact, the very opposite—from what Thomas Cole, the greatest American painter in existence before the Jews besmirched the entire sequence of art history with their counterfeit nonsense called modern art, had in mind.

Cole's work elevated human intent to a wise explanation of the reality of life, fit for all occasions.

The steps necessary for our redemption and recovery are not complicated. First and foremost it requires wrenching control of the money system from the greedy and homicidal hands of the Jews.

Second and equally important, we must recognize what life is—exactly as Thomas Cole saw it—and follow our guiding angels as calmly and kindly as possible to our inevitable destination, with the bonus prize being a substantial number of people expressing their gratitude for our existence.

We have been taught not to heed our own natures, nor the nature of natural world around us. Behaving like savages, it should come as no surprise why we are treated like savages.

But it all starts with we have been taught not to hear. We must learn to hear what we see before us, or perish.

They are those same timeless lessons that Thomas Cole heard so well, and reproduced for our eyes to see had we but the good sense to listen to what our eyes tell us is nothing but the wisdom of the ages. nl798.htm

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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations overseas. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.

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