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To: gregor who wrote (1061)10/8/1998 12:11:00 PM
From: Jane Hafker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1283
 
The ranting here about the Ramseys, once again, is mostly to Shalom, who I feel is one of the only men who can truly see the evil around them as clearly as he does, without respect or preference to men and their agendas or activities.

Shalom, please pray for this matter as you have never prayed before.

And Dear Gregor, the l000 year reign of Christ on earth is completely and utterly a God-revealed reality. Without the power of the Holy Spirit in ALL things of Christ, the puny human mind first of all dusts it off for the most part and succumbs to the 6,000 year bombardment of the various degrees of sex, drugs and rock and roll available to all men at all times, just different manifestations. So, it took me 22 years in Christ to want to even discuss the 1000 years here. Because the thought of being here made me sick, frankly. I used to only say, "If you guys want to come back to the hell hole, fine. Count me out."
But then the Holy Spirit showed me the other side and I feel exactly like you do about it. That, I believe, more than anything explains the utter, absolute, complete assurance the strongest of the Christian evangelistic bikers, as well as the rest, that "I know I will one day ride with my Lord." One said he had seen it in a vision, even.

(Oh, my goodness... Our delicate and perfect Lord riding a loud Harley Davidson?....How UN-SPIRITUAL!)

Anyway, I certainly digress. Yes. Probably it is going to happen exactly as stated, which is the ONLY, and ONLY explanation for the Lord encouraging the believers to give UP everything that hinders us in THIS world, in order to be assured to have so much in the WORLD to come. Not the Heaven to come,. but the world, and I'm sure in the STrong's it means this sphere. I have enough books from the early l900's, even the 50's, to know that there is hardly a way Heaven can be more of a visual assault on our senses than the beauty of this divinely gorgeous place. And His animals are almost beyond the ability to comprehend how beautiful they are. Put that all in past tense.

Again, I spent almost 2 solid years researching the Temple Knights, known as the Templars. That 2 years was the most exhilerating mentally of my life, and I found things in history I was never shown, and that were buried permanently, and unfortunatly I cannot unbury by myself. But I only know that scripture was also written for all those men who had given up all of their inherited fortunes and become Benedictine Knights, whose only goal in life was to defend the Christians against the Muslims, who at that time had organized and purposed to march as a block from Arabia to France, lopping off all heads which did not convert to Mohammad's ideas of Allah in Heaven. I read, you might not know, very difficult books to obtain, waiting through long interlibrary loans, of both the specific shreds of written matter about the actual lives and influence of the Temple Knights DURING THEIR TIME IN HISTORY, as well as the Inquisitional records translated and written up by Peter Palmer and one other scholar..
I believe I stand with anyone as an expert on the Templar Knights. There were no more books on the matter I could find to read.

I find the scriptures about rewards in the WORLD TO COME very comforting when I think of the short lives and deaths of all of the Temple Knights, on the battlefields, especially, and then from l307 to 1314, until they were no more. That is comforting thinking of all of the Medieval Christians, especially, and I try to remember that it is going on now, except it seems so insane I can't quite bring it in mentally. But it is going on now too. For us, well, we don't give up very much, actually.

But as always I digress. The immediate future is hell, however, without the Blood of the Lamb over the doorposts, and I couldn't be more serious about blessing the four corners of all property with prayed over oil, just to go as far as you can in acting out the faith. I could only go farther by putting out milk and cookies every night for the angels.

In the meantime we have a network of entrenched evil presiding over the country. Look at the present "government". It is comprised mostly of a handful of very young white males who have spoken for the president and then happily turned on him. There are simply handfuls of black women everywhere, although the present black population in America is what, 12% at the most? I believe I saw only 9% not too long ago. It seemed a small amount, based on the fact that 50% of the white house staff and inner circle are black. Surely there is more to this agenda than "equal quotas". The quotas are overblown to absurdity throughout the present Dem regieme.

What I believe with all my heart and with my rather unlimited overall view, both papered and unpapered, that this country would be in economic collapse had there not been a voter revolt on the right putting in bulldogs everywhere in the form of Gingrich, etc., etc., et ., Are they perfect? No. Are they God's protection that this country did not utterly collapse under the flip side of the coin? Yes. That was the hand of God to preserve us a little further, I believe. This "government" has been basically handpicked by a sex addict who needs 360 degree protection 365 days a year. I believe God has run the course with him. We will see. In the meantime, any one with a brain had better continue to make more phone calls to their local government representative's office.

When I saw that Gacy standing in a picture smiling happily with Mrs. Carter at a big Dem fund raiser, during his homo murder spree, I guess that kind of pushed me over the edge, and I'm still over it. My list of putrid undesirables who joyously back only the Dem party would extend to the edge of the earth and spill over into outer space.
So, I guess we all deserve what we are going to more and more quickly get.

ON to the real issue at hand. We have a termination at the third level of power--Vince Foster--in the White House under a sex addict president whose exploits far, far outreach even Kennedy, who at least had the dececncy to take his affairs other places. He did not have certain acts performed upon his body while speaking to heads of state. THAT is the action of a disturbed, demon possessed human. I would ask all decent and godly men to pray that this demon possessed sex addict be removed to private life somewhere where we will all have to support him with over $2,000,000 per year at very least of perks. From the taxpayers. But DON'T PRAY TO RESTORE HIM UNLESS YOU CHECK WITH GOD FIRST. Please.

If Clinton has apparently come to the highest office of the land on the back of the voting BLOCKS ALL VOTING LIKE TRAINED MONKEYS AS THEY DID, be sure God did not curse us with this man, rather than bless us. I would urge all to stay in prayer about staying in prayer over this man who hides behind our Lord and has aligned himself ONLY with the godless, and utterly the groups that most despise our Lord, for 6 years.

I am just reminding people, since, unfortunately, God also has a brain and can think. That's where we get ours. From His. So, just a reminder that if we can no longer use reason and logic based on the scriptures, God still can. We will be without excuse.

Now to our friends, the Ramseys. There is a turn of events I can't quite find an adjective for, and probably couldn't if I searched the Thesaurus. But, for those who know nothing about nothing and follow nothing but the church calendar of rock and roll events, which many do, and you all know many who do, and many of you do, and that's fine, but others don't and those people read and notice and analyze things.

The Ramseys were by all TV and other analysts predicts, happily and unhappily, about to beat this murder, even though all of the TV and other analysts stated that they know the Ramseys killed this child.

I'm still not sure this is their own child. Maybe she was ad0pted, but I guess she is their own child. They both or one of them had some very disturbed sexual behaviors with this child which was noted from the start on the autopsy report. Lots of bizarre activities for some time. BUT...gosh, who could have done it, huh? Not RAMSEY. HE'S TOO RICH!!!!

Now the spin from the Ramseys is coming first, as it always does, to the Tabloids, who are the only people that publish such things. Why? Because they can't be shut down from advertisers because their circulation directly out of the supermarkets is too high. And they seem highly NON political. They go for the juglar of both sides of the parties, much like SNL. Therefore one or too local huge corporations with serious political ties and agendas to maintaining that particular political tie, can't do them serious damage. Also, they don't care. They just publish stuff and rarely, rarely ever get sued about anything, by the way. Especially the National Enquirer, which has published so much national scandal for the very first time it ever appears in print anywhere that there should be an ABC special on National Scandals proven True That First Broke inthe National Enquirer, and are Now Encorporated into National History.

What I believe will break soon is the Ramseys are involved not so much with Jesus CHrist and His "church", as they are often seen coming out of some building supposedly a "Christ-ian" building full of "believers in Christ", but with overt satanic activity. Actual American Church of Satan suff. That's the only place you find that kind of undescribly disturbed activity with children. It is the mind of satan. Period. Stemming from personal involvement with him and his human followers. However, the Ramsey's PUBLICALLY associate with our Lord, by proxy, by coming in and out of buildings named "churches". So is the palace of satan. It is called the "Church" of Satan.

I don't know the denomination of the church house the Ramseys are seen photographed coming out of with their sick little guilty smiles, but I know that the Methodist and Pres and Episcopal now have aethiest branches officially for those who don't believe in God, so this does not impress me, although it might impress others.

The Spin is now that the Ramseys in a fit of psychopathic Christian delusion--you know, this thing that Hollywood and the TV shows foster--that belief in Jesus Christ leads people to only one thing: grusome murder of the innocent neighbors or strangers. For instance: the new slant on the old movie "Rage", with Gregory Peck, maybe and I know Robert Mitchum? The NEW movie has the NEW psychopath out of prison now, a "convert", and after his most henious and depraved attempts to murder the family for 2 hours, goes down in the water, drowning finally as he so deserves, singing something akin to "Rock of Ages". I just saw this final scene and wondered what in the world satan was up too until the credits rolled and I remembered that DeNiro just redid the Mitchum rol. It was so blatantly horrible I am still stunned we allowed it. Yet, no one said a word about it, and God just watched with stunned amazement also, I'm sure, as such a movie played for months all over America. If it had played in 1972, there would have been a ring of singing Jesus Freaks around every single movie house, who would have loudly prayed and laid hands on the building for complete and utter judgment by God. But, that was then, this is now. We spend our time enjoying praise bands and assuring everyone God loves us all so much because we're all just great. And we do need a bigger church, always, to bring in mostly church hoppers looking for a better bar--CHURCH!

Well, the new spin is that the Ramseys are going to confess to the murder, which they can't get out of now, MAYBE, because in this foul and fallen country that so loves our murderers, you just never know. But apparently they are truly laying the psychological premise for insanity in national print by suggesting that Pat and John "sacrificed" Jon Benet to GOD IN HEAVEN because "they had created a little sex monster and God told them to kill her". They point to absolutely ludicrous and convoluted facts, and so I would say without fear of anyone thinking I'm off, or GIVING A HOOT, by the way, that the premise for both blaming God in Heaven in a world wide fashion for the acts of PROBABLE actual participants in actual satanic ceremonies and activities--most always involving horrible activities with their own or adopted children, for that specific purpose--now not only will God get the blame, but the Ramsey's will with their money still left, be able to present an insanity defense based on the fact that ONCE AGAIN, THAT STUPID ASSUMED AND OBVIOUSLY APPARENT BELIEF IN JESUS DROVE YET ANOTHER NICE PERSON TO SEXUAL DEPRAVITY FOLLOWED BY HORRENDOUS MURDER.

This silence by the righteous "followers" of Jesus Christ has created a nation so insane and monstrous under the covers, or under the rock, by anyone who has the time or inclination to pick up the rock--which apparently not one in 4,000,000,000 does anymore--you will see that this cannot continue without SOON EXPERIENCING the total destruction visited upon our old counterpart, GIVEN TO US AS A WARNING AND AN EXAMPLE OF CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE OF HUMAN BEHAVIORS, the totally and completely and utterly wanton and depraved citizens of Isreal 2,000 years ago, and much of European history, if you just look closely enough at cause and consequence. I believe capitivity into Arab pagan nations as slaves at that time would be as close to hell itself as any human would care to come.

Before God Almightt, the Father of Jesus Christ, I say here that if the men and women who profess to love either, in any way, or Both as they are commanded by scripture to do, if they do NOT begin to rail out against evil as Elijah did that this nation will truly be given over to the Muslims who will come in and remove enough pagan, satan worshipp[ing heads, ALONG WITH OUR OWN, to clean up a sewer society.

I say these words in all peace of mind, and feel only that I should have posted them the first day before things got even more out of control for a whole year.

May the Blood of Jesus be upon all the righteous and may our Loving and Kind and Merciful and God Heavenly Father protect all who love Him. And may HE ALONE soon determine that it is time to give this world back to His Son, who will finally rule in righteousness and the new heaven and the new earth will be as beautiful as ever, maybe moreso.

Unfortunately, very few people will ever read this, and the one's that do certainly don't need it. But such is life. It's here, and I'm not going to erase it.

Selah.



To: gregor who wrote (1061)10/14/1998 4:14:00 PM
From: gregor  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1283
 
For those wondering why the most brilliant minds on Wall Street collapsed Long Term Capital Management; please read on.*************

"This is exactly what the firm "headlined" in the news, Long -Term Capital Management (LTCM), did. John Meriwether (formerly the head of bond trading at Salomon Bros.) formed the company in Greenwich, Conn. in 1994, joined by two Nobel Prize winners in Economics, Merton Miller and Myron Scholes. LTCM "shorted" the U.S. government Treasury bond while buying higher-yielding corporate securities.

Their theory was that the "yield spread" between these two instruments, which had been widening during these times of financial stress, would return to normal yield differences. If it did, they would make a great deal of money. Well it didn't, and it hasn't. As an example, normal yield spreads of 6 percent widened at the peak of the recent crisis to 17 percent, and have only recently come down to 12 percent. LTCC is still losing money.

However, the problem with Long-Term Capital is not that it is losing money (it may lose only about $3-4 billion of shareholder money), but that to achieve its returns, company officials were able to borrow hundreds of billions of dollars from banks and brokerages to "place their bets." Small changes in interest-rate differentials could wipe out their collateral - and they did.

Now the banks and brokers own the assets of Long-Term Capital and Long-term investing is not easy.
they will continue to place collateral into the company until they can "unwind" the bets at a profit. This may take a year or more. Fourteen institutions ponied up capital to save Long -Term Capital Corp. and now own 90 percent of the company.

The new Magnificent Six.
Six "magnificent" individuals were chosen to oversee the daily operations. They are: the best "block trader" from Goldman Sachs, the co-head of global debt markets at Merrill Lynch, the head of fixed income's risk management unit at Morgan Stanley, the head of risk control at UBS, Morgan Guaranty's head of global fixed income (including derivatives), and the head of global fixed income/derivatives at Traveler's/Smith Barney.

As many of you probably noticed, the Federal Reserve got involved in this case. Its interest was in making sure that Long-Term Capital did not "unwind" its vast assets at distress prices. The very size of the company was the problem. Quick margin-call sales would roil the capital markets above and beyond anything fundamentally related to the general capital markets.

To further complicate matters and put the problem into a different perspective, the American Stock Exchange Broker/Dealer Index fell 45 percent from July 17 to Oct. 2, 1998. On Oct. 3, the same index rose 4 percent as investors anticipated the Group of Seven meeting in Washington, D.C. (Seven major industrial nations). The S&P 500 Index for the above dates fell 16.9 percent and then rose 2 percent on Friday, Oct. 3.

The reason for the sizable decline in the AMEX Broker/Dealer Index is that Wall Street's proprietary trading desks do much of the same thing as LTCM! As of Sept. 2, Wall Street firms were "short" $60 billion of U.S. Treasuries and "long" $63 billion of other similar, but higher-yielding, securities. The Federal Reserve has its work cut out for it in restoring "normalcy" back to the markets.

Our investment position
As you can see from the foregoing discussion, we live We have found that for every poor year there are three good ones.
in interesting times. We did not and could not have predicted the emergence and effect of Long-Term Capital Management on the U.S. and European scene. However, every major financial crisis of the last 40 years has produced an improvement in understanding by financial authorities and a new set of policies and regulations. We expect nothing less in this situation.

All the major financial policymakers are meeting in early October. We expect a lot of new discussions and changes in how capital around the world is managed. For example, we expect to see some kind of capital "controls" for emerging countries. We expect to see more pro-growth policies from the IMF's lending. We expect to see more regulation by banks of "hedge" funds. And we expect to see much lower interest rates in the U.S. and Europe.

As a matter of practice, we do not invest in "derivatives" or low-quality stocks or bonds. Our bond choices primarily are U.S. government securities and high-quality U.S. stocks. Some of our investments have been hurt this year in our currently hypersensitive psychological market. As companies experience a slowdown in orders due to the uncertainty of global issues, investors are "selling first; asking questions later." The good often is going down with the bad. We feel fortunate that we didn't invest offshore this year or in the smaller stocks. Table One reveals the range of performance produced this year by various asset classes.


Long-term investing is not easy. Each client has chosen to take the risks and volatility in trade for higher average returns over a time period beyond five years. The alternative is keeping money safe in bank CDs or money-market funds, whose returns over time have covered purchasing power or enhanced wealth positions.

One never knows when the markets will move one way or the other. We must rely on educated guesses. This why we are never really out of the market all together or invested fully at 100 percent.

We would like to remind readers and ourselves on a regular basis of a study done a few years ago. Cambridge Associates examined returns from 1982 to 1990. The S&P 500 averaged an 18 percent return. If you take out the 10 biggest days, the average return drops to 12 percent. Without the 20 biggest advances, the returns average 8 percent and without 30 days, the return drops to only 5 percent. At this point, you are better off to be in Treasury Bills.

With about 250 trading days per year over nine years, that's 2,250 treading days. Can you tell the right 10 or 20 days (less than 1 percent of the time) to be in the market? We can't and we have been in the business over 30 years. Since 1926, stocks returned an average of 11 percent, long-term bonds 5 percent and short-term assets 3.5 percent. During that time inflation was running at 3.2 percent and Real GNP was up 3.2 percent.

This is the logical reason to stay in the markets and accept the unnerving swings: for the hope of higher returns and increased wealth over inflation. All of our clients have a long- term horizon. Our actuarial life expectancy is 85 years old. At 45 years old, you have another 40 years, and at 65 that's another 20 years to let things work out. Stock prices follow growth in profits and growth in the economy. We have found that for every poor year there are three good ones. We expect this relationship to continue."

I have to add my two cents;;;;; LTCM sold short treasuries and we know what happened, the price of treasuries went very high. They bought high yield corporates and the price of junk bonds have decreased. Jane on this thread mentioned about the possibility of buying high yield corporates in August. I feel that now is the time and the much awaited yield narrowing of the spread between treasuries and high yields will occur over the next year. So for this reason sell the treasuries, take profits off the table and buy the junk.

Also the bigger picture. As God's people please do not leverage as LYCM did. Don't borrow against the house to buy stocks. Don't go on margin. Buy the stocks and forget the options. Free up your mind and emotions to let the Lord bless you and when we are out there winning souls into the kingdom let the Lord send his angels to look after your investments. In Christ.gregor