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chapter 26 review http://carm.org/irenaeus-heresies5-19-31
Warning from the remnant was forwarded: As we see Amos and the warning to the land of Dan now as reported the Harbinger has been sent to the City, he is essentially correct. It is not a historical documentation difficulty we note at all as we have covered lately. They have no excuse but one path now to there very future now. It is out of our hands. As we noted here from the Patmos letters to be unbiased these events have been and other views as stated beyond the explanation since the seal is in the forehead. I can reference others who bear witness also to these days. Many still confuse the Mithradic tradition and hubris from the imperial cult and cannot see what, or even pretend to care.
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After 133 BC it fell under Roman control. It suffered greatly during the Mithridatic Wars but quickly recovered under the dominion of Rome; and towards the end of the Roman Republic and under the first emperors, Laodicea, benefiting from its advantageous position on a trade route, became one of the most important and flourishing commercial cities of Asia Minor, in which large money transactions and an extensive trade in black wool were carried. The place often suffered from earthquakes, especially from the great shock in the reign of Nero (60 AD), in which it was completely destroyed. But the inhabitants declined imperial assistance to rebuild the city and restored it from their own means.
It received from Rome the title of free city. During the Roman period Laodicea was the chief city of a Roman conventus, which comprised twenty-four cities besides itself; Cicero records holding assizes there ca. 50 BC. We are told in Revelation 3 of the 7 Churches. The last church or church age is symbolized by the Church of Laodicea. Laodicea means "the rights of the people." Thus, this was a church governed by the will of the people, rather than the will of God. This is the church age from which the Antichrist and the False Prophet will emerge. It is the church age Paul talked about that would not endure sound doctrine. Many of Laodicea's inhabitants were Jews, and Cicero records that Flaccus confiscated the considerable sum of 9 kg of gold which was being sent annually to Jerusalem for the Temple (Pro Flacco 28-68). I continue to monitor the church's faithfulness to the teaching of the Word of God, realizing that the church of the last days will be marked by apostasy and a falling away. This does not mean that God is not moving and doing great things but can we identify the wolves in sheep's clothing in the spirit of our age. Remember, we teach at Home for a reason and the Wolves will never understand nor care. As we are Banks and Governments will give political contributions to Socialist lawmakers members to vote in favor of giving the country away. One thing I do know if those in need are adulterated the consequeces will be certain disaster.

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The term conventus is lastly applied to certain bodies of Roman citizens living in a province, forming a sort of corporation, and representing the Roman people in their district or town; and it was from among these that proconsuls generally took their assistants. Such corporations are repeatedly mentioned, as, for example, at Syracuse (Cic. in Verr. II.13, 29, III.13, IV.25, 31, V.36, &c.), Capua (Caes. De Bell. Civ. I.14; Cic. p. Sext. 4), Salona (Caes. De Bell. Civ. III.9), Puteoli (Cic. in Vat. 5), and Corduba (Caes. De Bell. Civ. II.19; cf. Provincia).aedens

378: The Visigoths defeat the Roman army at Hadrianopolis/Adrianople
380: Theodosius I proclaims Christianity as the sole religion of the Roman Empire

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http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2013/04 ... ock-rally/

Last week Britain came within days of running out of natural gas until three LNG supertankers arrived from Qatar. Those cargoes were held, waiting to see who would pay the highest price. It was freezing cold in Britain, a pipeline from Belgium went down, and the Brits bid 30% above market for the LNG cargoes to stave off power blackouts, misery and death. Price was no object. They had to have emergency supplies and it's a seller's market.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-0 ... dependence
That's the ugly truth about oil & gas, flat supply and high demand.

EUrolanders discourse as always: My hope is they immigrate enough third worlders to outnumber and dilute the poisonous blood of theirs forever.

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Long Iceland I guess. Not even a guess on how much hot money is swirling around the blue marble of Terra Firma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WTBkj8gFfI
"This is the nationalization of the elite," is how one ex-Kremlin-ite described Putin's new policy. "For [years], the elite saw Russia as a hunting ground - they would keep their money and live somewhere else," but no more, as the FT reports, Putin has moved to inject some moral fibre into the country’s top-level bureaucrats and state employees by giving them a three-month deadline to close their foreign bank accounts

North Korea has been "cursed with the worst government in the world" and just maybe wishes to expand north uncle moa.

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It's hard to justify that the dollar is strong now, when it's mostly being measured against 2 currencies that are collapsing, the Euro and the yen. The Euro is about 53% of what the dollar is being measured against in the DXY index. When Europe and Japan were strong, stable areas it may have been OK to point to a stable DXY as an indicator of strength. The fact that the world reserve currency is only about 5% over its 6 year average when being measured against basket case currencies is cause for alarm. The fact that nobody is alarmed indicates to me that the dollar is doomed.

Many people just don't get this. That one paper currency looks ok compared to other paper currencies does not mean it is doing well against commodities or anything real. All the paper currencies can go down together before the panics start. My guess is they fall like dominos when things get really bad, though they might keep going down together. I think the Yen will go first but no real guess on the order after that.

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I cannot think of many times Vin they drain in unison for geopolitcal leverages.
As we note accords are being written as we are.
Another topic: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/162157 ... hurnetw-20#_ I will slap the first asshole who wants boots on the ground over there. We just got ours home from service from you idiots in DC.

Medical system in initial stages of planned collapse. Peak knowledge surgeon and are doctors leaving. My Doctor stated his practice cost would rocket over thirty percent and torte frivolous suits of other medical doctors keep them from being in the operating room or practice anyway. Billing and services will collapse and the Democrats have already high jacked the process with navigators as they call them. These people are community organizers and is the next leg of for, and of gerrymandering politics. Doctors are leaving, and have warned and noted by 2014 October the systems will collapse or in the final stages since billing will collapse since margins are so tight and so convoluted since wrong payments and other issue already know by medical insiders it will be impossible to stay in business as the health care law is just the actual process of open ended corruption and regulations written outside the initial purview of the medical facts anyway so it will be unable to provide any services so this will not matter dear taxpayer about the services that is no longer available anyway or severely diminished to the extent also it will be truly impossible to afford it since the private health care exchanges are packed real time even today that, yes you care but they created a exchange nobody can afford with the ten thousand dollar co-pays to subsidize nothing no one can afford as the navigators suck the very capital out. The private health care exchanges will be overrun and already are as we speak from regulations in real time since and it is impossible to keep up with the rate of unparalleled amount of non core interests telling them how and what they will do or be tossed in a cage or your accounts seized and fined to extinction if even trying to do business as the providers and medical staffs warn. Washington just killed thousands of you citizens and your to ignorant to even realize it as they already have of million of the unborn with our tax dollar hired butchers. Democrats and even more to the point Republicans will decide your to young to get a needed service and to old to get any either. Poof, and until the taxpayer decides to stop being serfs and subjects to political idiots you will just cease to exist and just produce more registered democrats by others means with the new face of statist tyranny. As we warned point blank it WILL be just like the veterans administration health care and level of service. Caveat Emptor Subject Serfs. I will be open minded to the fact that government is the secret ingredient to the actual ability to survive it. They want it to collapse to the core centers only in consolidations so regional outlier care facility's cease to exist and under total control.

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As we noted "it begins" last year. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... sequester/

Gosplan fourth estate lies in action above since when have we had a budjet as billions pour into marked to market per month corpes under the TARP.

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Fascinating autopsy report of staggering systemic incompetance a.k.a busdrivers: Take home lesson: it appears that that 50 point ES mega-swing from hi to low in a matter of hours was enough to stop out even a Goldmanite with an $8.3 billion gross notional ES position.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-0 ... olume-blew

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What boggles the mind is how Harvard MBAs, Wharton professors, Federal Reserve chairmen, and other types who convene at places like Davos to plan the global future could have believed things would turn out differently

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/ ... w-bubbles/

My problem is to survive the next one already sheduled...

the only school of empirical economic thought that takes seriously human dignity, personal responsibility, and the role of the natural virtues in promoting the common good. Guess who wrote that book....

"Money on the sidelines" "They're not making any more of it" "'They are scheming against 'us'". Scroll through any ZH PM article. Visit any of the hundreds of PM sites the Web-Ad market can now support. One is hard pressed to find any difference between the affirmations of faith expressed there with what one hears at Friday mosque or a Southern Baptist revival meeting. Everybody is somebody else' sheeple. Good to remember that. PMs may well go to the moon, and the 180 currently used forms of fiat might die in our lifetime. Then again, they might not. Yes, fiat is a crazy thing, but if one can be objective for a moment, so is basing a monetary system---and thus economic prosperity---on blocks of elements. While I don't know what a real alternative is, I cannot accept that there is one, and only one correct answer. Don't marry the trade. C

Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi considered these traits to be the most spiritually perilous to humanity.
Wealth without Work
Pleasure without Conscience
Science without Humanity
Knowledge without Character
Politics without Principle
Commerce without Morality
Worship without Sacrifice

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Take home lesson: it appears that that 50 point ES mega-swing from hi to low in a matter of hours was enough to stop out even a Goldmanite with an $8.3 billion gross notional ES position.

Wait till it swings 100 or 150 points. My calculation shows that would be about 100,000 contracts.

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H - you are almost home free. I'm out on this break.