The Late Great USA

Of course that title is stolen from Hal Lindsey's "Late Great Planet Earth", and it sounds somewhat sensational; I realize that.

However, those words just kept ringing in my mind as I reviewed the news this morning. For years, so many of us who have studied prophecy and followed the pertinent news, have speculated on what would cause the downfall of America. We felt this way because America isn't mentioned once in the Bible's detailed descriptions of end times world events. The major powers (the revived Roman Empire, the "Kings of the East", Russia (MaGog etc.), the "Kings of the South" etc., etc.) are mentioned many times but no mention of the U.S. - not even tangentially.

The assumption had always been that the Rapture of the Church would be that defining event which would take down America, as the thinking had been that the Rapture would disproportionately affect the U.S.

That vision is changing rapidly.

First to the Gulf.

This situation is becoming more and more ominous by the minute. The oil "volcano", the methane, the benzene and other toxic chemicals which have been dumped into the Gulf (aka "dispersants"), the lack of oxygen in the water, the dying sea life, the illnesses that are affecting coastal citizens, the expanding methane gas bubble under the ocean floor seem scary enough. And these items are very real and growing by the day. The disaster has just begun and we are only getting a trace of what is to come.

But what is now more ominous is how the U.S. administration is reacting:


"First Amendment suspended in the Gulf of Mexico as spill cover-up goes Orwellian"

As CNN is now reporting, the U.S. government has issued a new rule that would make it a felony crime for any journalist, reporter, blogger or photographer to approach any oil cleanup operation, equipment or vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Anyone caught is subject to arrest, a $40,000 fine and prosecution for a federal felony crime.

CNN reporter Anderson Cooper says, "A new law passed today, and back by the force of law and the threat of fines and felony charges, ... will prevent reporters and photographers from getting anywhere close to booms and oil-soaked wildlife just about any place we need to be. By now you're probably familiar with cleanup crews stiff-arming the media, private security blocking cameras, ordinary workers clamming up, some not even saying who they're working for because they're afraid of losing their jobs."

The rule, of course, is designed to restrict the media's access to cleanup operations in order to keep images of oil-covered seabirds off the nation's televisions. With this, the Gulf Coast cleanup operation has now entered a weird Orwellian reality where the news is shaped, censored and controlled by the government in order to prevent the public from learning the truth about what's really happening in the Gulf.

If all this sounds familiar, it's because the U.S. government uses this same tactic during every war. The first casualty of war, as they say, is the truth.

Now the same Big Brother approach is being used in the Gulf of Mexico: Criminalize journalists, censor the story and try to keep the American people ignorant of what's really happening. It's just the latest tactic from a government that no longer even recognizes the U.S. Constitution or its Bill of Rights. Because the very first right is Freedom of Speech, which absolutely includes the right to walk onto a public beach and take photographs of something happening out in the open, on public waters. It is one of the most basic rights of our citizens and our press.

But now the Obama administration has stripped away those rights, transforming journalists into criminals. Now, we might expect something like this from Chavez, or Castro or even the communist leaders of China, but here in the United States, we've all been promised we lived in "the land of the free." Obama apparently does not subscribe to that philosophy anymore (if he ever did).

So how does criminalizing journalists equate to "land of the free?" It doesn't, obviously. Forget freedom. (Your government already has.) This is about controlling your mind to make sure you don't visually see the truth of what the oil industry has done to your oceans, your shorelines and your beaches. This is all about keeping you ignorant with a total media blackout of the real story of what's happening in the Gulf.

Yes, this is happening right now in America. This isn't a hoax. I know, it sounds more like something you might hear about in Saudi Arabia, or Venezuela or some other nation run by dictators. But now it's happening right here in the USA.

Without the light of media scrutiny, corporations and government will get away with unimaginable crimes against both humanity and nature. That's what's happening right now in the Gulf of Mexico: A crime against nature.

Obama doesn't want you to see that crime. He's covering it up to the benefit of BP. He's keeping you in the dark by threatening reporters and photographers with arrest. How's that for "total transparency?"

The loss of life in the Gulf of Mexico isn't the only catastrophe taking place here, you see: Now we're losing our freedoms while our government tries to intentionally blind us all from the truth of what's happening on our own public beaches.

When those who seek truth are branded criminals by the government, it is only a matter of time before that government expands its criminalization labeling to include anyone who disagrees with it. These are the seeds of tyranny, and Obama is planting them at your doorstep right now.

Also see this article:

"BP and Coast Guard bans all media access to spill, boom, cleanup sites and workers"

Under threat of a federal felony, National Incident Commander Thad Allen HAS BANNED ALL MEDIA ACCESS to boom operation sites and clean up sites. Allen's orders effectively bans all media - print, television, radio and Internet bloggers from talking to to any clean-up worker or to even come close to take pictures or videos of booms, clean-up workers, oil soaked birds, dead dolphins, dead marine life, burned and dead endangered sea turtles.

Under threat of a federal felony, National Incident Commander Thad Allen HAS BANNED ALL MEDIA ACCESS to boom operation sites and clean up sites. Allen's orders effectively bans all media - print, television, radio and Internet bloggers from talking to to any clean-up worker or to even come close to take pictures or videos of booms, clean-up workers, oil soaked birds, dead dolphins, dead marine life, burned and dead endangered sea turtles.

Allen has issued a blanket order that bans anyone from getting close to any spill clean up site, boom site, areas where there are clean up workers or any other oil disaster related area or persons effectively shutting down the first amendment rights of the media. The zone of exclusion is 65 feet. There was rumor that Coast Guard bosses wanted to impose a 300 feet exclusion zone but later relented to a 65 feet no trespass and exclusion zone.

Also see:

"More bad news for BP as arsenic levels rise in seawater around the Gulf of Mexico"

BELEAGUERED energy giant BP was hit with further bad news this morning as it emerged dangerous arsenic levels have been found in seawater around the Gulf of Mexico.

British scientists warned that the oil spill is increasing the level of arsenic in the ocean, and could further add to the devastating impact on the already sensitive environment.

"Louisiana department of Health and Hospitals close 7 oyster harvesting areas in response to oil spill"



In the best case scenario, perhaps much of this can be explained by the fact that the U.S. Administration simply doesn't want its ineptitude exposed and is simply attempting to downplay the magnitude of this crisis on that basis. But even in that "best-case" scenario, the sense that they can simply ignore our basic rights, in this case the First Amendment, and impose what amounts to martial law on the press and citizens of this country creates a very ominous tone and it fuels the conspiracy theories which are metastasizing by the minute.

This situation in the Gulf is an epic, "biblical" disaster and now the Obama Administration is attempting to keep the information from the public. Period.

Why?

And now we see more bad news in the Gulf - because we know that a hurricane will substantially worsen the situation, spreading oil throughout a far wider region and creating conditions for the toxic mixture to become airborn:

"Storm off Louisiana packing tropical force winds"

It said the storm, centered about 50 miles south-southeast of Morgan City, Louisiana, was already packing sustained winds near tropical storm force.

There was a "high chance" it will become the second named storm of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season before it makes landfall in the Terrebonne Parish area near Caillou Bay early Monday evening, the Miami-based hurricane center said.

Forecasters at the hurricane center were also keeping close watch over an area of disturbed weather in the southeastern Gulf that could strengthen into a tropical depression later this week, potentially hampering oil spill clean-up efforts.

"The Late Great USA"? Isn't that just a little extreme?


Perhaps. But we now turn to the financial crisis in the U.S. and much of the world (these articles contain a lot of information; too much to even try and quote) - the headlines tell the story:


"Howard Davidowitz: U.S. Economy 'Is a Complete Disaster"


"With the US trapped in depression, this is really starting to feel like 1932"

"Dow Repeats Great Depression Pattern"

"Analyst: Obama has U.S. economy in 'death spiral'"


Perhaps this article explains a few things:

"Institutionalized Gangster Government"

Who knows where all of this will lead. But it sure seems that the U.S. is being removed from its "world-power" status and removed from being able to support Israel as its home problems mount.

It must be part of the overall stage-setting as the world prepares to meet their new leader, the biblical antichrist. The U.S. is crumbling before our very eyes. What is even more amazing is the rapidity with which it is happening.

The situation in the Gulf is only beginning. The financial meltdown is just beginning.

And the U.S. government's response is just beginning.

So far, it doesn't look very good. Perhaps we are no different from Israel. God is in the process of placing Israel in a position that they will have nowhere to turn but to God. We already know - when the epic invasion of Gog-MaGog occurs, Israel will only have God to turn to - as the rest of the world will abandon them completely.

Maybe that is our fate as well: Only God to turn to, as we await our deliverance.