Light is sown like seed for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. Psalm 97:11
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
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This is Jesus´ promise to us who trust Him no matter what: be of good cheer, he has overcome the world and promised us that he will never leave us nor forsake us. “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well. 2In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and welcome you into My presence, so that you also may be where I am." John 14:1-3.
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Monday, September 14, 2020
911: You can´t make that stuff up!
This incredible story is from a flight attendant on Delta Flight 15:
On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, we were about 5 hours out of Frankfurt, flying over the North Atlantic.
All of a sudden the curtains parted and I was told to go to the cockpit, immediately, to see the captain.
As soon as I got there I noticed that the crew had that “All Business” look on their faces. The captain handed me a printed message. It was from Delta’s main office in Atlanta and simply read, “All airways over the Continental United States are closed to commercial air traffic. Land ASAP at the nearest airport. Advise your destination.”
No one said a word about what this could mean. We knew it was a serious situation and we needed to find terra firma quickly. The captain determined that the nearest airport was 400 miles behind us in Gander, Newfoundland.
He requested approval for a route change from the Canadian traffic controller and approval was granted immediately — no questions asked. We found out later, of course, why there was no hesitation in approving our request.
While the flight crew prepared the airplane for landing, another message arrived from Atlanta telling us about some terrorist activity in the New York area. A few minutes later word came in about the hijackings.
We decided to LIE to the passengers while we were still in the air. We told them the plane had a simple instrument problem and that we needed to land at the nearest airport in Gander, Newfoundland, to have it checked out.
We promised to give more information after landing in Gander. There was much grumbling among the passengers, but that’s nothing new! Forty minutes later, we landed in Gander. Local time at Gander was 12:30 PM …. that’s 11:00 AM EST.
There were already about 20 other airplanes on the ground from all over the world that had taken this detour on their way to the US.
After we parked on the ramp, the captain made the following announcement: “Ladies and gentlemen, you must be wondering if all these airplanes around us have the same instrument problem as we have. The reality is that we are here for another reason.”
Then he went on to explain the little bit we knew about the situation in the US. There were loud gasps and stares of disbelief. The captain informed passengers that Ground control in Gander told us to stay put.
The Canadian Government was in charge of our situation and no one was allowed to get off the aircraft. No one on the ground was allowed to come near any of the air crafts. Only airport police would come around periodically, look us over and go on to the next airplane.
In the next hour or so more planes landed and Gander ended up with 53 airplanes from all over the world, 27 of which were US commercial jets.
Meanwhile, bits of news started to come in over the aircraft radio and for the first time we learned that airplanes were flown into the World Trade Center in New York and into the Pentagon in DC.
People were trying to use their cell phones, but were unable to connect due to a different cell system in Canada . Some did get through, but were only able to get to the Canadian operator who would tell them that the lines to the U.S. were either blocked or jammed.
Sometime in the evening the news filtered to us that the World Trade Center buildings had collapsed and that a fourth hijacking had resulted in a crash. By now the passengers were emotionally and physically exhausted, not to mention frightened, but everyone stayed amazingly calm.
We had only to look out the window at the 52 other stranded aircraft to realize that we were not the only ones in this predicament.
We had been told earlier that they would be allowing people off the planes one plane at a time. At 6 PM, Gander airport told us that our turn to deplane would be 11 am the next morning.
Passengers were not happy, but they simply resigned themselves to this news without much noise and started to prepare themselves to spend the night on the airplane.
Gander had promised us medical attention, if needed, water, and lavatory servicing.
And they were true to their word.
Fortunately we had no medical situations to worry about. We did have a young lady who was 33 weeks into her pregnancy. We took REALLY good care of her. The night passed without incident despite the uncomfortable sleeping arrangements.
About 10:30 on the morning of the 12th a convoy of school buses showed up. We got off the plane and were taken to the terminal where we went through Immigration and Customs and then had to register with the Red Cross.
After that we (the crew) were separated from the passengers and were taken in vans to a small hotel.
We had no idea where our passengers were going. We learned from the Red Cross that the town of Gander has a population of 10,400 people and they had about 10,500 passengers to take care of from all the airplanes that were forced into Gander!
We were told to just relax at the hotel and we would be contacted when the US airports opened again, but not to expect that call for a while.
We found out the total scope of the terror back home only after getting to our hotel and turning on the TV, 24 hours after it all started.
Meanwhile, we had lots of time on our hands and found that the people of Gander were extremely friendly. They started calling us the “plane people.” We enjoyed their hospitality, explored the town of Gander and ended up having a pretty good time.
Two days later, we got that call and were taken back to the Gander airport. Back on the plane, we were reunited with the passengers and found out what they had been doing for the past two days.
What we found out was incredible…..
Gander and all the surrounding communities (within about a 75 Kilometer radius) had closed all high schools, meeting halls, lodges, and any other large gathering places. They converted all these facilities to mass lodging areas for all the stranded travelers.
Some had cots set up, some had mats with sleeping bags and pillows set up.
ALL the high school students were required to volunteer their time to take care of the “guests.”
Our 218 passengers ended up in a town called Lewisporte, about 45 kilometers from Gander where they were put up in a high school. If any women wanted to be in a women-only facility, that was arranged.
Families were kept together. All the elderly passengers were taken to private homes.
Remember that young pregnant lady? She was put up in a private home right across the street from a 24-hour Urgent Care facility. There was a dentist on call and both male and female nurses remained with the crowd for the duration.
Phone calls and e-mails to the U.S. and around the world were available to everyone once a day.
During the day, passengers were offered “Excursion” trips.
Some people went on boat cruises of the lakes and harbors. Some went for hikes in the local forests.
Local bakeries stayed open to make fresh bread for the guests.
Food was prepared by all the residents and brought to the schools. People were driven to restaurants of their choice and offered wonderful meals. Everyone was given tokens for local laundry mats to wash their clothes, since luggage was still on the aircraft.
In other words, every single need was met for those stranded travelers.
Passengers were crying while telling us these stories. Finally, when they were told that U.S. airports had reopened, they were delivered to the airport right on time and without a single passenger missing or late. The local Red Cross had all the information about the whereabouts of each and every passenger and knew which plane they needed to be on and when all the planes were leaving. They coordinated everything beautifully.
It was absolutely incredible.
When passengers came on board, it was like they had been on a cruise. Everyone knew each other by name. They were swapping stories of their stay, impressing each other with who had the better time.
Our flight back to Atlanta looked like a chartered party flight. The crew just stayed out of their way. It was mind-boggling.
Passengers had totally bonded and were calling each other by their first names, exchanging phone numbers, addresses, and email addresses.
And then a very unusual thing happened.
One of our passengers approached me and asked if he could make an announcement over the PA system. We never, ever allow that. But this time was different. I said “of course” and handed him the mike. He picked up the PA and reminded everyone about what they had just gone through in the last few days.
He reminded them of the hospitality they had received at the hands of total strangers.
He continued by saying that he would like to do something in return for the good folks of Lewisporte.
“He said he was going to set up a Trust Fund under the name of DELTA 15 (our flight number). The purpose of the trust fund is to provide college scholarships for the high school students of Lewisporte.
He asked for donations of any amount from his fellow travelers. When the paper with donations got back to us with the amounts, names, phone numbers and addresses, the total was for more than $14,000!
“The gentleman, a MD from Virginia , promised to match the donations and to start the administrative work on the scholarship. He also said that he would forward this proposal to Delta Corporate and ask them to donate as well.
As I write this account, the trust fund is at more than $1.5 million and has assisted 134 students in college education.
“I just wanted to share this story because we need good stories right now. It gives me a little bit of hope to know that some people in a faraway place were kind to some strangers who literally dropped in on them.
It reminds me how much good there is in the world.”
“In spite of all the rotten things we see going on in today’s world this story confirms that there are still a lot of good people in the world and when things get bad, they will come forward. Let’s not forget THIS fact.
This is one of those stories that need to be shared. Please do so…
Saturday, September 12, 2020
THE WAR OF 1812 AT WAL-MART
"Shoplifted from FB". Written by Scott cook
THE WAR OF 1812 AT WAL-MART
Yesterday, I wore a Vietnam Veteran cap to Wal-Mart. There was nothing in particular that I needed at the world's largest retailer; but, since I retired, trips to "Wally World" to look at the Walmartians is always good for some comic relief. Besides, I always feel pretty normal after seeing some of the people that frequent the establishment. But, I digress, enough of my psychological fixations.
While standing in line to check out, a younger guy in front of me, probably in his early thirties, asked, "Are you a Viet Nam Vet?”
"No," I replied.
"Then why are you wearing that cap?”
"Because I couldn't find the one from the War of 1812....” I thought it was a snappy retort.
"The War of 1812, huh?" the Walmartian queried, "When was that?”
God forgive me, but I couldn't pass up such an opportunity.
"1946", I answered, as straight-faced as possible.
He pondered my response for a moment and responded, "Why do they call it the War of 1812 if it was in 1946?”
"It was a Black Op Mission. No one is supposed to know about it.” This was beginning to become fun!
"Dude! Really?" He exclaimed. "How did you get to do something that COOOOL?”
I glanced furtively around me for effect, leaned toward the guy and in a low voice said, "I'm not sure. I was the only Caucasian on the mission.”
"Dude," he was really getting excited about what he was hearing, "that is seriously awesome! But, didn't you kind of stand out?”
"Not really. The other guys were wearing white camouflage.”
The moron nodded knowingly.
"Listen man," I said in a very serious tone, "You can't tell anyone about this. It's still classified 'Top Secret' and I shouldn't have said anything.”
"Oh yeah?" he gave me the 'don't threaten me look. . "Like, what's gonna’ happen if I do?”
With a really hard look I said, "You have a family, don't you?
We wouldn't want anything to happen to them, would we?”
The guy gulped, left his basket where it was and fled through the door.
The lady behind me started laughing so hard I thought she was about to have a heart attack. I just grinned at her. After checking out and going to the parking lot, I saw dimwit leaning in a car window talking to a young woman.
Upon catching sight of me, he started pointing excitedly in my direction. Giving him another 'deadly' serious look, I made the 'I see you' gesture. He turned kind of pale, jumped in the car and sped out of the parking lot.
And these people VOTE!
What a great time! Tomorrow I'm going back, wearing my Homeland Security cap.
Then the next day I will go to the driver's license bureau wearing my Border Patrol hat, and see how long it takes to empty the place.
Whoever said retirement is boring? You just need to wear the right kind of cap!
See you guys at Wal-Mart!! 
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2020 Economic Predictions: This Series of Unfortunate Events Guarantees the Epocalypse
2020 Economic Predictions: This Series of Unfortunate Events Guarantees the Epocalypse
so likely to get even worse that it’s more difficult to imagine they won’t get worse than to believe they will. Just a few of these misfortunes would be enough to plunge us into an abyss of social and financial catastrophes.
I think most readers will agree with the likelihood of most
predictions on this list. The point of the list, then, is to show by the
aggregate of calamities that will wash over us how close to certain is a
deep economic depression. (Most are problems central banks have zero
capacity to resolve.)
This depression is something many people may not perceive until they
widen their field of vision to see the full ocean of likely troubles
that are nearly certain to pound the entire world in wave after wave for
months or even years to come.
(Though I focus on the US, the same economics predictions are likely
to apply all over the world with their own variations of local color.)
Many people are living right now in the delusional hope of a V-shaped recovery from the recent Coronacrisis lockdown. The list below shows why that is the most unlikely possibility imaginable.
During this time of economic crisis, most of the predictions listed
below are current events that are almost certain to continue as the
major trends of 2020 and are likely to even worsen, plunging us into the
chaos of a deep economic collapse, worse than 2008:
– The social unrest of BLM will become even more widespread and intense.
I invite you to offer your own social or economic predictions for 2020 (whether as additions or subtractions to
the list above) that you see as highly likely to develop (good or bad)
in the comments below so that we benefit from each others’ observations
and insights.
Reprinted with author’s permission from The Great Recession Blog
2020 Economic Predictions: This Series of Unfortunate Events Guarantees the Epocalypse: Additional social unrest over forced social distancing will reappear around the nation as distancing measures return.
so likely to get even worse that it’s more difficult to imagine they won’t get worse than to believe they will. Just a few of these misfortunes would be enough to plunge us into an abyss of social and financial catastrophes.
Here are my economic predictions for the remainder of 2020
This list of economic predictions is not hard to come up with. It is, however, the fact that it is so easy to predict these things this year that makes this year’s list so important.I think most readers will agree with the likelihood of most
predictions on this list. The point of the list, then, is to show by the
aggregate of calamities that will wash over us how close to certain is a
deep economic depression. (Most are problems central banks have zero
capacity to resolve.)
This depression is something many people may not perceive until they
widen their field of vision to see the full ocean of likely troubles
that are nearly certain to pound the entire world in wave after wave for
months or even years to come.
(Though I focus on the US, the same economics predictions are likely
to apply all over the world with their own variations of local color.)
Many people are living right now in the delusional hope of a V-shaped recovery from the recent Coronacrisis lockdown. The list below shows why that is the most unlikely possibility imaginable.
During this time of economic crisis, most of the predictions listed
below are current events that are almost certain to continue as the
major trends of 2020 and are likely to even worsen, plunging us into the
chaos of a deep economic collapse, worse than 2008:
– The social unrest of BLM will become even more widespread and intense.
- – Additional social unrest over forced social distancing will reappear around the nation as distancing measures return.
- – Social unrest over corporate bailouts is
likely to begin as the Federal Reserve and government stack up mega
bailouts for the rich (or as bailouts already given become known) via
the insanely rich BlackRock, which has been given a monopoly on
administering handouts for which only the wealthiest qualify. - – Tearing down of monuments and other acts of violence will certainly create backlash against BLM from those who value the monuments or just want the history of both sides preserved.
- – So, social unrest will beget more social unrest.
- – All the turmoil of a likely-to-be contested election with
all the accusations of Russian tampering and other hacking (like what
just happened to Trump’s Tulsa rally) will cause even more social
unrest. - – All those social conflicts will negatively impact some local businesses already hurting badly from the COVID-19 lockdown because
they will be unable to reopen due to the protests at a time when we
cannot afford anything that causes further damage to business. - – Social distancing being ignored entirely by BLM protestors, will increase the spread of COVID-19 as
will reopening, ending the stock market’s fantasy of a V-shaped
recovery. (Even if the Coronacrisis is a trumped-up hoax as some say,
the same scenario will give the hoax all kinds of new (and news) stories
to grow on.) - – Travel and hospitality will certainly remain in deep depression as COVID-19 stages resurgences.
- – Lack of travel assures a continued rise in bankruptcies in the oil and gas industry.
- – Shutdowns of major summer events will depress local
business and government revenue as will shutdowns of sports events and
concerts. - – Local governments will be forced to downsize staffing
quickly and cut back projects of all kinds due to hugely diminished tax
revenue caused by all the troubles listed here, causing a new wave of
job losses, not just in government but in companies that contract for
government projects. - – Diminished policing will result in a huge crime wave across America. Some
of that will result from police department defunding; some will be
required in other ways by liberal governments seeking to placate
protestors; and a lot will happen because police officers resign and no
new people want to become police in the present atmosphere. This will be
as damaging to Black communities as to White and will have a
suppressive effect on economic activity.
- – Business uncertainty due to the continuing trade wars and to additional COVID-19 border lockdowns, as well as inability of businesses to get parts across borders even for products produced and sold within the nation, will act like gravity on the hope of economic lift. (What a time to be doubling down on trade wars, but here we go already!)
- – We all know the federal debt will keep growing at an exponential rate because of reduced taxes that were supposed to be paid for by a rise to 4%
or better GDP growth. That’s now a distant dream when the best we will
see is -10% GDP growth. Compounding the retreat in GDP and the resulting
drop in tax revenues, we have increased government spending due to
COVID-19 stimulus efforts. All of that will require the Federal
Reserve to monetize the debt to the moon and back. At some point that
will call into question the current US credit rating. - – So many bonds sliding toward junk because the weak business economy will force all kinds of already risky credit to become riskier and become downgraded.
- – Forced offloading of that debt by institutions that are not allowed to carry junk bonds, will cause huge bond market problems and defaults by
those who can no longer refinance by issuing new bonds. That will force
the Fed to continue to soak up ever larger amounts of junkier debt,
moving further down the junk spectrum, even as it also has to fund the
federal government’s exploding debt plus the new exploding debts of
local governments via new “special vehicles.” - – The stock market, being utterly dependent on the Fed continuing to print money while also utterly dependent on COVID-19 keeping its head down, will go down hard again, likely this summer and probably again in the fourth quarter. I predict it will ultimately fall lower than its nadir in March.
- That will cause more wealth evaporation, leading to more natural economic tightening across the financial and business spectrum.
- – The second wave of COVID-19 will be worse than the first when
the fall flu season hits or maybe even this summer, given that the
hottest rise in cases is happening in our hottest states. That makes it
obvious that climate temperature does nothing to slow the spread. - – Some major banks and other financial institutions in Europe, such as Deutsche Bank, and in other nations will crash. US institutions will get pulled down by their associations.
- – Many businesses will never reopen even though the economy has been reopened legally. Many others that do re-open
will close for good before long because partial reopening is not enough
to sustain them and, in some cases, may even cause them to lose more
money than if they stayed closed. (Already, as I predicted prior to the
opening would happen all across America, I see restaurants in my own
area that did not reopen, and I’ve talked to people in restaurants that
did reopen who say they are not even able to fill their reduced 50%
capacity under social distancing rules because they can’t get enough
customers to return. Restaurants are slim-margin business, so many will
fail.) And that is even if the Coronacrisis doesn’t have a resurgence. - – More shopping malls that were already marginal will close forever after reopening because of the number of businesses that do not return or that fail during the partial reopening.
- – That, in turn, will have a knock-on effect for other surrounding businesses that now experience less traffic.
- – Due to the continuing sweep of all the problems listed above, we are in for a deep, longterm jobs depression.
- – That means housing and commercial real-estate will crash again as longterm unemployment and business losses result in mortgage defaults.
- – The resulting deep slowdown in construction will mean even more job losses.
- – That means some US banks will crash (or
have to be bailed out by the Fed) (though maybe not until 2021) due to
all the loan problems caused by all of the above, resulting in even more
job losses. - – Add to all of these near certainties, the growing possibilities of more international wars that
we already see rising in risk — North Korea v. South Korea, North Korea
v. the US, Israel v. Iran, Israel v. the Palestinians over annexation
of parts of the West Bank, Saudi Arabia v. Yemen, China v. Taiwan, China
v. Nepal, China v. the US, India v. Pakistan. Many of these conflicts
seem to have intensified over the past year, and that’s just a short
list of currently rising or continuing international conflicts. - – Civil wars within various nations are more likely
because of the rising economic troubles and social strife listed here
as well as continued growing strife due to immigration pressures that
developed under globalization. - – I won’t predict the US dollar will collapse, BUT … this is the FIRST year in which I’ve ever said that is a reasonable possibility. Until
now, it lay dimly in the future. Nations are angry over how the dollar
has been repeatedly weaponized by the US via sanctions. So, I am certain
the indomitable dollar will finally start to experience struggles of
its own due to all the problems listed here, which will result in the
Federal Reserve being less able to manage the financial chaos nationally
and internationally, and due to competition from new central bank
digital currencies this year, maybe, but especially next. - – Add to all of that the normal economic crises from major exogenous events, such as earthquakes, volcanism, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, pestilence, wildfires, and, oh, an asteroid or two. The
difference this year is that those big catastrophes will be hitting
badly crippled economies and stressed societies wherever they hit in
this world. (We cannot know what will hit or whether the
number of such events will be lighter or heavier than other years
because these are black-swan events — things we know CAN happen but have
no knowledge of the specific likelihood of any particular event in a
particular area in any given year. What we do know is that nations
struggling under an economic crisis and an emergency health crisis will
be less able to manage those events when they hit. Organizations like
FEMA will be stretched way beyond their capacities.)
I invite you to offer your own social or economic predictions for 2020 (whether as additions or subtractions to
the list above) that you see as highly likely to develop (good or bad)
in the comments below so that we benefit from each others’ observations
and insights.
Reprinted with author’s permission from The Great Recession Blog
2020 Economic Predictions: This Series of Unfortunate Events Guarantees the Epocalypse: Additional social unrest over forced social distancing will reappear around the nation as distancing measures return.
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