Story behind the story behind the story

The story is not of this realm. It is of the eternal fight between the forces of light and darkness ever since time began. Men of deceit plot behind the scene, but many are unwary that they themselves are playing out the cards dealt by forces they do not comprehend. There is a Deeper State beyond the Deep State, and it is operated by demonic principalities. It's an incredible story of the world seen from a great distance. If it's the first time you hear this story, it will chill your blood. Our story deals with the Satanic forces that seek to prevent God from sitting on his throne in the Holy of Hollies. Satan knows he wins if he destroys the Temple or the Jewish people.

The chosen people:

There is some confusion here, so let's get it right. Abraham belonged to a race called Hebrews. Some 4,000 years ago God asked Abraham to pack up his tents and go to a land He promised to be filled with milk and honey. Cut a very long story short, after Exodus out of slavery in Egypt and the death of Mosses, Joshua led his people into the Promised Land. By then they had grown into 12 big tribes. The land was separated into a northern part called Isreal occupied by 10 tribes. The southern region was called Judah and occupied by 2 tribes. Those that lived in Israel were called Israelites and those in Judah were called Jews. In 1948 when the state of Isreal was created, all those living there are called Israelis, who may be Jews, Israelites, Arabs, or others. For our purpose here, 'Jews' is used to loosely describe the people of Abraham.

Satan's design - destruction of Temple, Jews, and their God:

'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly on the heights of Zaphon; I will ascend to the tops of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High"... Isaiah 14:12-14)

For that iniquity, the Morning Star was cast down from heaven since time began. Thus commenced his eternal contest with the Creator for the minds of man starting at the Garden. Satan's tool of his trade is Deceit and Temptation for he understands the weakness of man. His modus operandi -- God creates, he destroys; what is consecrated to God, he desecrates; what is holy unto God, he causes abomination; God loves his chosen people, he hates and tries to destroy them. As with God who uses kings for his purpose, Satan too speaks and acts through lesser Man.

The Throne of Satan:

Our story began after the death of Alexander the Great when his empire was split into four regions among his generals. Antiochus IV came from the Selucid line that ruled over Syria. He failed in his attempt to conquer Egypt. Meanwhile political maneuvering in Jerusalem by two factions, one pro-Egyptian and one pro-Syrian, finally led to Antiochus IV (Epiphanes) to invade and capture Jerusalem in 168 BC. He wanted to Helenise his region and so he wiped out Jewish culture. He placed a statue of Zeus at the altar of Temple of Solomon and offered a pig as sacrifice, banned circumcision, instituted burnt offerings at the temple, carted away all religious holy paraphernalia, and put in Greek idols. He thoroughly desecrated the temple. This was the first Abomination of Desolation prophesised by Daniel.

Zeus was the head of the Greek pantheon of pagan deities. But who actually was Zeus? The pagan gods evolved over time and civilisations. Zeus is the Greek version of Ba-al. 'Ba-al' is a word from antiquity spoken by the people in the Levant. It meant 'owner' or 'Lord'. Over time it was used to depict a deity, and then associated with Had-baal, the God of Storm. Ba-al became Bel in Babylon, Zeus in the Grecian God of Storms and Jupiter to the Romans. Ba-al is mentioned 15 times in the Bible and it is the pagan god that Israel turned to each time they deserted their God. Rationalists reason that Ba-al is the god of the season, thus ceremonies depict deaths and decay. Ba-al ceremonies are beyond representation of seasons. They are full of depravities, of sexual deviances, intoxication, lust for materialism, sacrifices. Ba-al is no doubt a pagan god, but who is the principality behind this?

The Maccabees rose up and fought against Antiochus IV. Maccabees were the lowest social crust of the people. They were the isolated farmers, the hill-billies of the Jews. A tiny band of untrained Jews, with no adequate weapons, fought and won against a professional army many times their size. How was that even possible? The Maccabees cleansed the Temple and rebuilt a new altar.

Antiochus IV was defeated and died in 164BC. As Jerusalem prospered again under the Jews, we see the rise of the Altar of Zeus in Pergamon, also known as Altar of Pergamon,  in about 156 BC. The Enemy now sits on his throne in Pergamon and the city thrived. It was a very important Greecian city in Asia Minor (modern day Turkey) for many years.

Revelation 2:13 Apostle John, then a prisoner on the Island of Patos, wrote to the 7 churches in Asia Minor, the words spoken by a Voice behind him -- that of Jesus through the Holy Spirit. To the Church of Pergamon, he wrote :

"I know where you live; where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness who was put to death in your city; where Satan lives"

Then came the Romans who swept through the whole region. In AD70, Roman legions under Titus captured Jerusalem and sacked the Second Temple. The Temple was totally destroyed and all spoils shipped back to Rome. The Arch of Titus in Rome celebrates this event. This was the second abomination of desolation prophecised by Jesus in Mark 13: "not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down". Because of this, many today believe the 'Wailing Wall' is not part of the Temple wall since the place was completely demolished. Like Antiochus IV, the Romans wanted a total demolishment of Jewish culture.

Meanwhile, as Satan worked to wipe out Jewish culture and religion in Jerusalem, God reciprocated. Christianity began to spread throughout the region culminating in the baptism of Constantine in AD 337 before his death. With Christianity entrenched in the Roman Empire, the Altar of Pergamon lost its prominence and disappeared from history for the next 2,000 years. Satan tried to wipe out Jewish religion, God wiped out paganism. It is an irony that from the Greeks that tried to erase Jewish culture, came the Septuagint Bible.

When Islam appeared, with a stroke of genius, the Enemy had Umayyad caliph, Abd al-Malik, built the Al-Aqsa mosque in AD 691 right on the Temple Mount. Solomon's Temple was built on high ground with uneven terrain and the area is called the Temple Mount. That First Temple was destroyed by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 BC. The Second Temple was rebuilt on the same grounds in 515 BC and completely destroyed by Titus in AD 70. The Romans built a platform over the uneven terrain and then a Temple of Jupiter on it. The Muslims built the mosque on the Roman platform. (Many mistake the Dome of the Rock as the mosque. The Dome is a shrine, they are different buildings). With the mosque in place, Satan has been rolling with laughter as he has denied the building of a Third Temple for 1,300 years. The Third Temple now cannot be rebuilt without causing WWIII. No Temple, no Throne for God. The Enemy wins

There are a few things that are intriguing of the Islamic structures, the conclusion is left to the readers.

Prophet Muhammed was ferried by his winged-horse from Mecca on a night journey to this very mosque where he ascended to heaven to meet Allah. The prophet arrived at the mosque in AD 621, decades before it was built. Well, it could be as they said, the mosque was originally just a small hut. The mosque has been rebuilt several times after destructive earthquakes. The mosque was considered as a commemoration of the prophet's ascend to heaven, yet walled inscriptions never mention that event.

This picture shows the design of the pagan Roman Temple of Zeus, the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome. Superimpose them and they fit to a 'T'.


Aniconism is the avoidance of images of sentient beings in any form which is the Islamic way, and so there are no artistic depictions of such in mosques. Yet the walls of the Dome are adorned with devilish embellishments like this image. These are not Islamic nor Arabesque patterns, and they are not found in any other mosque in the world. Muslim scholars are hard put to explain these unholy creature-like images. Is that a sign of the Enemy's topsy turvy signature - the holy Temple had cherubins facing each other, the Dome has their devilish symmetries.

Many inscriptions in the Dome and mosque declare God has no wife, thus no son, thus Jesus is only a man. Instead of focusing on Islam, the focus on 'God has no son' was obviously a chastisement of the Jews and Christians. What are we to make of these irregularities? Psychologists will say these are signs of defiance. But by Who and to Whom?

Then in 1871, German engineer Carl Human discovered some artifacts of the Altar of Zeus. If you have been reading warily, time to wake up. This is where our story exploded.

1871 - the year artifacts of Altar of Zeus were discovered and shipped backed to Berlin, something else stirred. The German Empire came into being. With the exception of Austria, other Germanic regions got together, and for the first time in history, the German nation came into being. (1871-1918 was considered to be the period of the 2nd Reich (Empire). The 1st Reich was the time of the Holy Roman Empire AD 800-1806).

With permission from the Ottoman Empire, the Germans started excavation in 1878 which lasted till 1886. All artifacts were shipped back to Berlin. The Altar of Zeus was reconstructed and housed in a building sitting on an island in the city of Berlin. They named it the Museum of Pergamon. As the Enemy was building his new Throne, the ground was being prepared. One year after excavation began, German agitator and publicist, Wilhelm Marr created the term 'anti-semiticism'. About the time they finished putting the altar back together in Berlin, a little German boy was born in 1889. His name was Adolf Hitler.

By the 1870s, as the Altar of Pergamon was reawakening, Europe was in a great arms race. Hostility was fermenting. Pergamon Museum took a while to construct, and as the Enemy sat on his new throne in Berlin, World War 1 broke out in 1914.  Germany lost and lived in shame and frustration under the Treaty of Versailles. WWI devastated Eastern European Jews. Hundreds of thousands died in the war and equally many more in the pogroms that followed after the war. This was not given much publicity because there is no name attached to this tragedy, such as 'holocaust'. WWI also intensified anti-semitism in Europe that fed into WWII.

The first museum to house the Altar of Pergamon was defective. Reconstruction for a new building began in 1910 and it took 20 years to complete. During this time, something else came into being. The Thule Society was formed in 1918. This was an occult society prominent for its belief in the supremacy of the Germanic Aryan race, its hatred of Jews and communist, of course its occult practices, and its emblem of the reverse swastika. The Buddhist swastika is an aniconic symbol of Buddha, symbolising eternal cycling. Thule Society had it the reverse way -- the Enemy's topsy turvy fun. Hitler was not a member of Thule whose membership listed many early Nazy sympathisers, amongst whom were Rudolf Hess and Alfred Rosenberg. Thule eventually warped into the German Workers Party which itself became the National Socialist German Worker's Party, Nazi Party for short. The Nazi Party took log stock and barrel the ideologies, hatred, symbols and occultism of the Thule Society. It was without doubt, an occult party. Heinrich Himmler, very much into occultism himself, was appointed by Hitler to head the SS (Gestapo). He was the architect of all sorts of diabolitcal and satanic rites in the German Army and a main architect of the holocaust.

By 1921, Hitler had assumed leadership of the Nazi Party. But they were still a mediocre political organisation with only a few thousand members and insignificant presence in the Reichstag (parliament). The same year when the Pergamon Museum opened in 1930, the Nazi Party suddenly had the 2nd highest number of members in the Reichstag (parliament). Party membership exploded from a mere few thousands into millions. At its height, it had 8.5 million members. Hitler was on his way to the top.

Hitler chose to hold his rallies in Nuremberg. For this purpose, he had architect Albert Speer construct a platform. Speer, certainly unknowingly, modeled Hitler's platform on the Altar of Pergamon. It was on this altar that Hitler made all those fiery, spell-bounding rousing speeches like a man possessed. Was the Enemy speaking on his throne through Hitler? From this Seat of Satan, Hitler announced his Nuremberg Laws and the 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question'. Germany went into a frenzy to exterminate the Jews. The whole German nation was demonised.

The word holocaust came from the Greek 'holokaustos' which means wholly or completely burnt. In the Septaugint Bible, holocaust is used in many references for prayers and offerings. The Jews gave offerings to God for salvation. Pagan offerings were to pagan Gods and other spiritual principalities for power or other worldly benefits. As Satan sat on his throne in Berlin, he will have Jews exterminated, what better fitting way than as holocaust offering to him. In WWII, 6 million Jews were exterminated in the holocaust and a total of 60 million people died in the war. The Jews were the 10th%, the tithe, or the first offerings. The Enemy had his topsy turvy fun yet again.

    "He shall immolate the lamb, where the victim for sin is wont to be immolated, and the holocaust, that is, in the holy place." ...Lecitivus 14:13.

The holocaust offering is to be performed in a 'holy place'. That's what the Bible says. Well, in Poland there is a town called Oswiecim. In Polish, it means 'holy place'. The German name for this town is Auschwitz. About 1.1 million Jews were gassed and burnt in the concentration camps in Auschwitx.

    "And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered." .....Ezekiel 34:5

The Jews were led like sheep to the slaughter. Literary, they were transported by trains in cattle cars to concentration camps, just the way animals are transported. Without a messiah, the Jews have been scattered all over the world such as lambs without a shepherd. And what happens to lambs without a shepherd - the wolves seek them out. Hitler's first name of Adolf is the shortened Germanic word 'athalwolf' which means 'noble wolf'.

With the Altar of Pergamon in Berlin, Germany was on a roll. They won spectacular victories all over Europe and North Africa. Its military prowess was at its zenith. But Light always overcome Darkness eventually. Germany lost WWII and officially surrendered to Allied Forces on 7 May 1945. No good ending comes to one who sells his soul to the Devil. Hitler committed suicide in a bunker and his body was burnt. He was the last holocaust for the Altar. He died on 30 April 1945, the day of greatest significance to the occult world. It is known as the Walpurgis' Night, a night where the ancients built bonfires all over their cities to ward off witches and evil spirits. (There are those who believe in the conspiracy theory of Hitler escaping to Argentina).

Germany then split into East and West Germany. The capital city Berlin itself was split into 2. East Germany and East Berlin went under USSR control. In 1948 the Soviets took parts of the Altar of Pergamon and shipped it to Leningrad. Satan's throne is now partly in Leningrad and partly in East Berlin. And so, just as Hitler rose with the Altar, the Soviets grew in size and strength. With the Enemy now in the Soviet bloc, what did he do? Same old story of anti-semitism as the Soviets expelled Jews, banned Christianity, torn down churches, desolated all Jewish cultural institutions, indiscriminately killed, deported, etc. History is unsure how many millions were slaughtered, both Jews and Soviet people.

With the Altar of Pergamon under Soviet control, the USSR and communism prospered. The East had turned Red with Eastern Europe under Soviet domination, and the far east under Mao Tse Tung. Soviet nuclear might paralleled the US. The nuclear arms race was on. The space race was on, just to demonstrate power. The Soviets won. Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space in 1961. Behind all this, communism painted the Eastern bloc red with the blood of those they slaughtered.

Some will recall that the USSR voted for the creation of the State of Isreal, as well as being the second country to recognise Israel, and supported the Jewish state with weapons in their first Israel-Arab war of 1948. This was not an act of love. The Soviets thought the new Israeali nation will be a socialist country and its creation would weaken British influence in the Middle East at the time.)

Here's another coincidence. In 1878 when excavation at Pergamon started, when the Enemy was rising, a little Russian child was born. His name was Stalin, and he was Satan's Plan B. Satan's bet on Hitler evaporated but now, under Stalin after WWII, Soviet power and dominance grew and half the world was painted Red. The Enemy, intent on world destruction, now bring the world to face a new holocaust -- nuclear holocaust. The new era of Cold War started and Berlin is now a flash point. In 1948, the US refused to ship reparations from their sector in West Berlin to the Soviets. (Soviets wanted a neutral and crippled Germany as a border state and thus demanded plentiful reparations; US wanted a Germany rebuilt and strengthened to face a new Soviet threat to Western Europe). Stalin reacted by blockading all roads into West Berlin. That was the first Berlin Crisis. The US airlifted supplies into Allied's sectors of East Berlin. Soviet blockade was inutile.

In 1958, the Soviets returned the artifacts taken from the Pergamon Museum and Satan now sat once again in Berlin. Immediately the Second Berlin Crisis erupted in that same year. The Soviets wanted all parts of Berlin occupied by Allied Forces to be relinquished to them. The French, British and US merged their sectors and denied the demands. The Soviets constructed the Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie was immortalised.

After the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion, President Castro requested for Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba. Kruschev agreed as this also counters US nuclear installations in Western Europe. When US intelligence saw the Cuban missile sites being built up, John F Kennedy ordered the Cuban Blockade in 1962 to prevent further shipment of Soviet hardware. Castro asked for Soviet nuclear strikes on the US. After frantic negotiations, both sides defused the situation. Kruschev withdrew all IIyushin II-28 bombers and missiles, JFK withdrew nuclear missiles from Italy and Turkey. Now, where were the US missile installations in Turkey? In the District of Pergamon. And what were those US missiles called? Jupiter ballistic missiles.

The world will never know how close we came to a nuclear holocaust and oblivion during the Cold War era.

Immediately after WWII, Winston Churchill saw the danger of the rise of the soviet bloc as capital after capital in Eastern Europe fell behind the Iron Curtain. He prompted the US to carry out a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Moscow as he felt it was a matter of time before the Soviets gained nuclear capability. Truman rejected the idea. The Soviets eventually caught up with the nuclear race and the world entered the era of Cold War with the menacing nuclear threat over our heads.

In 1962, at the height of the Cuban Crisis, a Soviet nuclear submarine was under orders to head for Cuba. The blockade started and they lost communication with Moscow. US battleships spotted the sub and dropped depth charges to get them to surface. The cat and mouse game went on for a few days and it became intolerable for the submariners who had to resurface for fresh air. The captain judged that war had broken out and he decided to launch nuclear missiles to take out the US vessels. The second-in-command concured. Soviet protocol required a third senior officer to agree. Flotilla commander Vasily Arkhipov refused to authorise the use of nuclear missile. He reasoned the way the charges were dropped to the left and right of the sub was an indication for them to surface to talk. For his action, he faced a disciplinary court martial. For the world, Vasily prevented a nuclear holocaust.

In 1983 shortly after the Soviets shot down the Korean airliner, the Soviet satellite warning system at Oko reported a missile had been launched by the US and then followed by another 6. According to Soviet military protocols, that should have initiated an action that would have caused Soviet retaliation against US. Lt Colonel Stanislav Petrov judged it was a false alarm and disobeyed their protocols. As it turned out, it was systems malfunction. But for Stanislav, the world would have been obliterated.

The Words of Karl Marx, the Voice of Satan :

To the non-disbelievers, surely we can agree the red tide owed a lot to one man -- Karl Marx. Yet ask how much do you know of the main players. Marx, Lenin, Trotsky - they could'nt care two hoots about the poor people, the proletariats. It was all about destruction, chaos, eliminating religion (Judeo-Christianity) and power. All this madness came out of the cauldron of philosophies of atheism, naturalism, rationalism, Darwinism, anarchism, and anti-capitalism, being pedaled in Europe since Enlightenment era. Marx wrote the famous ‘The Communist Manifesto’. The draft was titled 'The Communist Question of Faith’ and question 22 called for total obliteration of religion. Marx is credited with the quote - 'religion is the opiate of the masses' although some said that came from his hero Moses Hess.

In his poem 'Human Mind', Marx declared his motivation is destruction.

Words I teach all mixed up into a devilish muddle.
Thus, anyone may think just what he chooses to think
With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the face of the world,
And see the collapse of this pygmy giant whose fall will not stifle my ardor.
Then will I wander godlike and victorious through the ruins of the world
And, giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.

Still in doubt of the Satanic mind of Marx? In 'Oulanem', he wrote:

Stop, I’ve got it now! It rises from my soul....
Yet I have power within my youthful arms
To clench and crush you with tempestuous force,
While for us both the abyss yawns in darkness.
I have lost heaven,
And know that for sure.
My soul, once faithful to God,
Now is destined for hell.
I'll set up my throne above,
Cold and terrible will be the peak of it.
Superstitious trembling is at its base,
Master - most black agony.
The one who will look with healthy looks,
Will turn away, turn pale and deadly mute.
Possessed by blind and cold deathness,
Will prepare a tomb with his happiness.
You will sink down and I shall follow laughing,
Whispering in your ears, “Descend, come with me, friend.”

One is reminded of Isaiah 14:13-14 on Satan's design.

Karl Marx was born Moses Mordecai Levy, son of a Jewish rabbi. They became Christians later on. He turned atheistic and his father feared he had turned demonic. Marx actually offered to dedicate a chapter in his 'Manifesto' to Charles Darwin who politely refused as he was not anti-religion. The Iron Curtain world swooned to the Words of Marx without understanding it was the Voice of the Devil.

What is Satan brewing today :

We turn the pages of history. In 1972 came the SALT treaties and nuclear dis-armament. The centrally planned economics of communism failed and red countries reinvented themselves. Many turned democratic, socialist democrat, and allowed free enterprise as well as the re-appearance of religion in their countries. In the 1980s, Perestroika (Reformation) and Glasnost (Openess) caused the USSR to collapse in 1991. In the same year, the Berlin Wall came down. Eventually, Satan's grip waned, despite the Altar of Pergamon still remaining in Berlin.

Has the world discarded the darkness? Methinks not quite yet. In 2014 the Pergamon Museum was closed for rebranding. In will re-open in 2024. It is stirring yet again. With Germany's new economic might, its dominance in the European Union, EU in turmoil with an invasion of Islamic immigrants, rising right wing populism, and Satan on his throne in Berlin, something is brewing yet again. The EU is going to create its own army. Watch out for developments in Germany.

In recent times, Russia and US have withdrawn from the SALT treaties, bringing the spectre of nuclear holocaust to the forefront once again. US Jupiter missiles remain at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, in the district of Pergamon.

What is wrong with the US :

What is one to make of Obama's bizarre behaviour in July of 2008? With his campaign team in disarray, he went to Berlin, the seat of Satan, and gave a rousing speech to a large appreciative German audience. The EU loves him, then and to this day. He was not yet president, but they received him like a great world leader. His speech was about the New World Order, same as what Hitler spoke there. One month after Obama returned from Berlin, he was nominated by the Democratic National Convention. Thereafter, his campaign became supercharged. For his nomination speech, Obama stood on a platform that was modeled on the Altar of Pergamon, exactly the way Hitler did. Was he trying to invoke certain powers?

One of Obama's mentor was the socialist Saul Alinsky (who also mentored Hillary Clinton). Alinsky was socialist and godless and has been likened to Rasputin, Joseph Goebbels, servant of the devil, and harbinger of insurrection. He was famous for his book "Rules for Radicals". Obama's favorite rules are No. 5 on 'ridiculing' the opposition and No.13 "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it." Is it a wonder in the Obama era the Dems have gone to the radical left extreme and polarisation is a curse in the US today. What abomination ensued in the Obama years? Child sacrifice in the abortion legislation, the abomination of the holy sanctity of marriage, and disavowed God in all public places and services. Obama did not discriminate, expel or kill Jews, but he brought US-Israel relationship to the lowest level it has ever been in history. He put Israeli security at great risk in a deal where he handed billions of $ to Iran and practically allowed them to pursue nuclear capability despite the Iranian repeated public threats to exterminate the Jewish state. In 2014 Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli jets if they attempt to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities. (Israeli media reported this, US media said it's rumours). It's best to let someone else do the killing. Same-o same-o Satanic scenarios.

"And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse." ... Genesis 12:2-3

Apart from His convenant with His chosen people, God established His doctrine of reciprocity. This has been played out over and over again in human history but largely gone un-noticed.

The US was the first country to recognise the state of Israel in 1948. Ever since, US has been extremely generous to and protective of the security of Israel. The God narrative sees the US blessed economically, militarily, and technologically in almost a century of prosperity and world leadership. The abominations now going on in the US and the turning away from God is not going to be positive for the country's fortunes. In 2014 after the Obama threat to shoot down Israeli Jets, China's economy overtook the US to become the world number one.

In 2015, Obama interfered in the Israeli election with an all-out offensive with veiled threats, anonymous news leaks and media messages that portrayed Netanyahu as a danger to Israel with his antagonistic relationship with the White House. Polls showed Netanyahu's popularity dropped tremendously, but a last minute surge won him an unexpected victory. (There's a story of God's hand in this, but that's for another day).  God did to US what Obama did to Israel - God interfered in the US election 2016.  Hillary Clinton was supposed to be the hands down winner. A last minute surge from evangelist votes tipped the scales for Trump.

Are these stories and events nothing but coincidences :

A coincidence is the concurrence of events or circumstances that do not seem to have any apparent connection. To the scientific minds, the stories here are hogwash. There are no dots to connect. But what about the immensity of coincidences running throughout the Bible? Statisticians will explain the law of coincidences of large numbers. Simply expand the population of observations and it’s possible to conjure up many coincidences. Or they will say these observed coincidences are simply ‘confirmation bias’. The writer conveniently ignores what he does not wish to show

But are there coincidences which are meaningful although their occurrences have no causal relationship? Carl Jung has a word for this. He called it 'synchronocity'. The Bible then, is full of synchronocities.

What does the Bible say of coincidences? It is mentioned only once, by Jesus himself in Luke 12.7. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus described a traveler who was robbed and injured and lying by a roadside. “And by a coincidence a certain priest was going down in that way, and having seen him, he passed over on the opposite side”. From the Septaugint the word is 'sygkyria' which translates to 'what occurs together by God's providential arrangement of circumstances'.

From the brilliant scientific mind of Albert Einstein : 'A coincidence is a small miracle when God chooses to remain anonymous'.

God does his work in mysterious ways, using kings and empowering others that he choses. For reasons we do not comprehend, God's ways tend to use important Jewish holidays or patterns of dates for important events. Perhaps it is a way to communicate to us that a transcendental force is at work. The following coincidences will blow your mind :

• In 1313 BC Moses and his people had reached the frontier of the Promised Land. 12 spies were sent out to see whether the land could be taken from the Canaanites. 10 of the 12 reported negatively, only Caleb and Joshua had positive reports.
  Numbers 14:1 describes the people gathered that night the spies returned. They chose to believe the negative reports. People were frightened, did not wish to fight the Canaanites and angry that God's promise was not to be. “The people wept that night.” That night was Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of the Jewish month of Av. God declared: “They cried for no reason; in the future I’ll give them good reason to cry.”
  God was pissed that Israel had no faith in Him and wanted to disinherit and create a pestilence for them. Mosses pleaded for the rebellion of the Jews and God relented. He punished them with 40 years of wandering in the desert, 1 year for each of the 40 days the spies spent doing their intel gathering. None of that generation 21 years old and above were allowed to enter the Promised Land except Caleb and Joshua. The 40 years was enough time for the oldies to die out in the desert.
  That night on the 9th of Av in 1313 BC, God sent the Jews out to wander the desert for 40 years for atonement of their sin. That set off the mystery of the 9th of Av. Almost every sorrowful event of the Jewish people fell on this day of their calender.
• The First Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians and Jews taken into Babylon as slaves - 9th of Av 586 BC.
• The Second Temple was completely destroyed by Roman legions under Titus - 9th of Iv AD70.
• Jews at Betar massacred in revolt against Romans - 9th of Av AD135.
• Jews martyred in England, York Castle in an anti-semitic rioting - 9th of Av 1190.
• The Jews expelled from England - 9th of Av 1290.
• Jews expelled from France - 9th of Av 1306 (actually happened on the day after)
• Jews expelled from Spain - 9th of Av 1492.
• Jews in Rome moved to a ghetto - 9th of Av 1555. The Roman Ghetto was initiated by Pope Paul IV and lasted till 1870.
• Germany declared war on Russia and WWI started - 9th of Av 1914 (with terrible consequences for Jews).
• SS Commander Heinrich Himmler formally received approval from the Nazi Party for “The Final Solution” 9th of Av 1941.
• Mass deportation of Jews from Warsaw Ghetto to extermination camp - 9th of Av 1942.

There are no coincidences. God is real. The Enemy is real. The battles are real.

THOSE THAT GOD BLESSES AND THOSE THAT GOD CURSES

On 13 Apr 2024, Iran launched a massive air strike on Israel. It was the first direct attack by Iran on Israel in what was the biggest drone strike against any nation. Israel's air defence system, together with Jordanian and US forces, took out 99% of the drones. Eight Iranian missiles hit Israel's Nevatim Airbase which remained operational. On 18 April Israeli airforce retaliated with a limited strike deep inside Iran.

One month after ordering the attack on Israel, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi perished in a helicopter crash. Just as he brought terror and destruction to rain down on the nation of Israel from the air, death came to him in the horrors of an air crash. Raisi, known as the 'Butcher of Tehran' for his harsh treatment of protestors against the Islamic regime, is yet another casualty of divine predictability that enemies of Israel ignore at their peril.

Genesis 12:3:
And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.

This was the covenant of God to the children of Abraham, one that seems to have been sustained through biblical, ancient and modern times.

Pharaoh of Egypt:

According to biblical account, Joseph's siblings sold him into slavery. He ended up in Egypt where he came into prominence due to his ability to interpret the King's dreams of an impending famine. Promoted to an administrative position of power, he helped the king to govern through seven years of famine. The Exodus story took place either in the Middle Kingdom or possibly during the Hyksos period. The Bible does not name the pharaoh at the time. It is believed to be Thutmose III, Amenhotep II or Ramesses II. By the time the new pharaoh came to the throne, the Hebrew tribes had gained substantial political power. To rebalance the power structure, the pharaoh ordered all new born Hebrews to be killed and threw the rest to hard labour. By the time Mosses came into leadership role, God demanded the pharaoh to release the Hebrews from slavery. When the pharaoh went against the wishes of God, the Eqyptians suffered 10 plagues which caused severe hardship and deaths before the pharaoh agreed to release Mosses and his people.

The Assyrian Empire:

After Exodus, Abraham's children had settled into the norther kingdom of Israel and southern kingdom of Judea. The 2 tribes of Judah and Benjamin settled in Judea and were known as Jews. The other ten tribes settled in Israel and were known as Israelites.

In time the Israelites lost faith with God and went pagan worshipping. According to Biblical tradition, God used the Assyrians to punish Israel,  In 722 BC the Assyrians defeated the Israelites and took over the region of Samaria. The Assyrians displaced the Israelites into various locations of their empire and the ten tribes of Israel were lost to history. The Assyrians populated the Samaria region with other races of territories they  conquered. These newcomers intermarried with those Israelites who had remained behind. The new inhabitants became known as Samaritans. Some of the Israelites repented and moved south to Judea and were assimilated as Jews.

But Assyrian ambitions went beyond God's intention of punishing Israel. They assumed their conquest was due to their own capabilities. not God's design. In 701 BC, Assyrian King Sennacherib attacked Jerusalem but was unable to defeat King Hezekiah who had the counsel of prophet Isaiah. The story (2 Kings 19.35) tells of how God struck down 185,000 Assyrian soldiers during the night. Unable to continue his attack on Jerusalem, Sennacherib returned to Nineveh where he was later assassinated by his own sons. The Assyrian empire ended in 612 BC when they fell to the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II, as prophesied by Isaiah and Jeremiah..

Note: After I had completed writing thus far, I went to bed. Early next morning, as if by providence, I read a breaking news story of researchers finding what they believed to be the campsite of King Sennacherib's army.

"Proof of Bible story about angels killing 185,000 soldiers in a night is uncovered after 2,700 years" ...Daily Mail UK

The Babylonians:

After Israel was no more, Judea soon fall out of grace with God as moral decay and pagan practice returned. There was much social injustice. It was a time when great prophets Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah tried to persuade Jews back to the righteous path. Jeremiah prophesied the fall of Judea and captivity in Babylon as God's punishment. Biblical tradition is God raised Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II up and used him as a means to punish Judea. In the Bible, God refers to Nebuchadnezzar as "My Servant". Nebuchadnezzar's reign was the golden age of Babylon. Initially he made Judea a vassal state in 598 BC, but after a rebellion, Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem in 587 BC. He razed Solomon's Temple to the ground, carted off temple treasures, and took thousands of Jews into slavery. That was the First Temple destruction. Daniel was one of those taken away to Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar was a wise king who allowed the people whom he defeated to retain their culture and religion and he made use of their intelligentsia in his administration. Daniel gained the king's favours when he was able to interpret Nebuchadnezzar's famous dream of a statute with head of gold, breasts and arms of silver, belly and thighs of bronze, legs of iron, and feet of iron mixed with clay. For that, the king praised Daniel's God Yahweh. Over time. Nebuchadnezzar fell away from and showed disrespect to the Hebrew God. The Bible account had it that God caused the king to go crazy and eat like a wild animal. He was made to suffer like a stray animal for 7 years as punishment. History actually records that Nebuchadnezzar II disappeared for a few years towards the end of his reign. After he repented, God restored him and he reigned till his death at 562 BC.

Four kings that came later were not capable, despotic, and had short reigns. In Bible account, the last king, Belshazzar, held a grand banquet for his nobles. For the occasion he did the unthinkable of arrogance and desecration of holy artifacts by having everyone drink from the golden and silver goblets Nebuchadnezzar had looted from Solomon's Temple. The fingers of a hand suddenly appeared and wrote these words on the wall :

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN

None could interpret the meaning and finally Daniel was called for. Daniel explained the king had not learnt from the punishment Nebuchadnezzar suffered living as a wild animal for his arrogance towards Yahweh. The words meant 'number, number, weigh, Medes and Persia'. Daniel explained the inscription meant God had numbered the days of his reign, he had been weighed and found wanting, the empire will be taken over by Medes and Persia. That night, Belshazzar was assassinated and Cyrus The Great entered Babylon without resistance.

Cyrus The Great, the Medio-Persian king, added Babylonia to his Persian Empire in 539 BC as prophesied by Isaiah. The biblical account, Nabonidus Chronicle (cuneiform writings on clay tablet discovered in 1879), Cyrus Cylinder (cuneiform writings on clay artifact discovered in 1879) and Greek historians Herodotus and Xenophon, all 5 accounts are not corroborations. Modern historians discount the Greek versions. The cuneiform records have the last Babylonian king as Nabonidus, the Bible say it was Belshazzar. The cuneiform records have the Babylonian top god Marduk as the one that allowed Cyrus to take over, the Bible says it was Yahweh.

Nabonidus was indeed the last king. He had his interest elsewhere, in archaeology and construction of older architecture. He was in fact known as the First Archaeologist. He was a religious reformer who tried to install the sun god Sin to replace the Babylonian matron god Marduk. This background perhaps explains a few key points. Narbonidus' favour of the god Sin probably put him in conflict with the Marduk priesthood, thus palace conspiracy led to an easy victory for Cyrus The Great in the capture of Babylon without a fight. Belshazzar was the son of Nabonidus who acted as Regent as his father was absent on the throne for long periods of time. Belshazzar was practically the king, that being so, the Bible's account is once again proven correct.

Cyrus The Great released the Jews from captivity. For that, he has special place of honour amongst Israelis of today.

Haman, the First Anti-Semite (Book of Esther):

During the neo-Persian empire in the court of King Ahasuerus, there was a prime minister called Haman the Agagite. Haman had grown so powerful that by decree all court officials had to bow to him. A Jew by the name of Mordecai, was advisor to the Queen Esther. Mordecai refused to bow before Haman which drew the wrath of the minister. He plotted to have Mordecai and all Jews in the empire killed. Haman managed to convince the King. Haman then cast a date and constructed a very high gallow to carry out the execution. Mordecai sought the help of Esther. The Queen, who had concealed her Jewish lineage, pleaded with the King who determined Haman's wickedness and had him hanged on the very gallows he had constructed.

The historicity of the characters are in doubt. Ahaseurus was thought to be King Xerxes I, but his wife was Queen Amertris. Haman is supposed to be descendants of Agag, king of Amalekites, ancient enemies of Israelites. The Hebrew Book of Esther has no mention of God throughout. The Greek version has additional verses which mentions God. The canonicity of the book is controversial. It is generally acknowledged the Book of Esther is just a story. Nevertheless the Book of Esther is canonised with protestants dismissing the Greek additions.

The Book of Esther is basically held to show God working out of view. The Jews practice to this day the Festival of Purim (the day of the proposed execution) when the Book of Esther is read.

The Seleucid Empire:

After the death of Alexander The Great, his empire was split into 4 parts under each of his generals. Seleucus Nicanor took the Mesopotamia region which includes the present day Palestine area.

Antiochios IV Epephanes ruled from 175-164 BC. He instituted the Helenisation of Judea and Samaria by wiping out Jewish cultural and religious practices. He stopped the practice of Jewish sacrifices at the Second Temple and installed the Greek god Zeus. This was the time of 'Abomination of Desolation' of the temple prophesied by Daniel. It triggered the Maccabean Revolt by the Maccabees who took control of Judea and ruled as the Hasmonean Dynasty from 167 BC to 34 BC. In trying to wipe out Jewish culture, Antiochios lost Judea to the Jews.

The Roman Empire:

There existed tensions between Romans and Jews which broke out into the First Jewish-Roman War (66-73 CE). Rome sought to destroy Jewish identity by renaming the province from Judea to Syrian Palestina. In 70 AD Rome totally destroyed the Second Temple, leaving only the Western Wall standing. A temple dedicated to Zeus was constructed on the site of the temple. With the temple gone, Jewish sacrificial rites ceased. To this day Jews changed their religious practice to what is called Rabbinical Judaism.

After the death of Christ, Rome persecuted both Jews in Judea and Christians in the Roman Empire, especially under Emperor Nero. But what happened was the Christianisation of the Roman Empire. This culminated in the legalisation of Christianity with the conversion of Emperor Constantine in 312 AD.

The Christianisation of the Roman Empire is an incredible story of missionary activities by key figures like Paul and Peter, the presence of an existing Jewish community, the dedication of early converts, and the resilience of believers amidst persecution. There were no social media and internet. People met in secret in house churches under extreme threat of severe punishment, even death. If there is a lesson to be learnt, it is human resilience is impossible to stop when there is faith and conviction. The way Christianity grew in the Roman Empire is exactly what is taking place in Iran, China and Islamic countries in Africa and elsewhere. 

Nazi Germany:

Much has already been written on Hitler's Final Solution to the Jewish Question and the consequential holocaust where 6 million Jews were gassed in the concentration camps. Hitler tried to wipe out the Jews in Europe but ended up destroying the German Republic and indirectly helped create the condition that led to the Balfour Declaration and the return of the Jews to Palestine and creation of State of Israel in 1948.

Idi Amin of Uganda:

Idi Amin was a ruthless President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Initially he was pro-British and pro-West and pro-Israel but eventually switched allegiance to militant Islamist states,USSR and East Germany. In 1976, Palestinian and German terrorists hijacked an Air France plane at Athens airport. It was commandeered to Libya and then Uganda where Idi Amin personally welcomed the terrorists. The group enjoyed support from Idi Amin who placed more than 140 soldiers to guard the plane and hostages at Entebbe Airport.

Most of the non-Israeli passengers were released. The airline crew and Israeli passengers were kept hostage. Amin was uncooperative and attempts at diplomacy and negotiation via Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Palestinian Liberation Organisation failed. Amin refused to cooperate with an Israeli Mossad official he was on personal terms with. With time running out, Israel carried out a daring commando raid with Kenya opening airspace for them. In the rescue operation Israeli force commander Lt Colonel Yonatan Netanyahu, the elder brother of Prime Minister Benjamin was fatally shot by Amin's soldiers. 102 hostages were rescued. 2 had been killed earlier. In retaliation, Ugandan authorities murdered Israeli hostage Dora Bloch who was at a hospital at the time of rescue. Amin went on a rampage against Kenyans in Uganda, killing 240 of them and causing thousands to flee Uganda.

In 1978 Idi Amin tried to annex a region of Tanzania. The Tanzanian army launched an offensive in 1979 and captured Kampala, forcing Amin to flee the country. The Ugandan dictator lived in exile in Saudi Arabia till his death in 2003.  

The Soviet Union:

Stalin held extreme hatred for the Jews. In 1939 when Stalin agreed to work with the Nazi axis, he threw out all Jewish workers in public service and was targetting Soviet nationals with Jewish names. Following WWII, Stalin pursued policies of anti-Semitism, including restrictions on Jewish religious practices and cultural expression. According to Nikita Kruschev, at the time of his death, Stalin was fomenting what was called 'Doctor's Plot'. It was a state-sponsored anti-semitic campaign built on a conspiracy theory that a group of mostly Jewish doctors were planning to assassinate Soviet political leaders. A lot of Jews were rounded up, tortured and jailed, and equally many others lost their jobs. A few weeks after his death, the campaign was discontinued and the government declared there was no evidence against the Jews.

The Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991. Out of the ashes came many independent republics and greater freedom for Jewish communities within the former Soviet states.


And now in 2024, we had Iranian President Raisi. Oh when will they ever learn!

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TRUMP OR HARRIS - UNDERSTANDING THE MAN AND HIS TARIFF WAR

Recently, Temasek’s Chief Investment Officer Rohit Sipahimalani sat down for an interview of which Bloomberg splashed this headline. In my earlier blog 22 Sep 2024 I opined the position of Singapore Inc as regards who it prefers to see in the White House. Rohit simply confirmed my assessment of which camp our local elites are in. Although it is in the nature of an investment discussion to talk of scenarios of economic outcomes under the presidential wannabees, this close into the extremely acrimonious US 2024 Presidential Election, Rohit's public statement is rather concerning. Note how Bloomberg carried the news as a Temasek announcement. As a well-respected sovereign wealth fund, Temasek's views carry weight. If this were a nuanced attack by Bloomberg, too bad the Harris Campaign Team is too dumb to capitalise on it.

Russia is now pursuing Alphabet, the parent of Google, to pay fines for blocking pro-Russia channels on Youtube. The fines have now accrued to about US$20 decillion, that is 20 + another 33 '0' behind it. Meanwhile, Trump sued CBS News for US$10 billion for election interference in their deceptive doctoring of the Harris' interview in their popular "60 Minutes" programme. CBS had admitted to an act that some thought warrants a severe punishment, even a withdrawal of licence, by the regulatory body. But under the Biden admin, liberals and anti-Trump entities can literary get away with murder. Russia and Trump's pursuits are unlikely to be realised in full satisfaction. That however, is the least of the intent. Those who can see the bigger picture, understands the whole purpose is to put in constant public consciousness the extent of the lies of a captured media.

In a recent Trump rally, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made a joke on Puerta Rico's floating island of garbage. The media was quick to propagate all criticisms of Trump calling Puerto Ricans garbage. The reality was Trump said nothing of the sort, and neither did the comedian. It was just a joke about a well-known fact of the garbage situation in Puerto Rico. Hinchcliffe is a controversial comedian. Comedians do what comedians do. Unlike Beyonce, paid to appear at a Harris rally, but she was a singer who didn't sing, a bait and switch that infuriated the crowd who came to watch her performance. Unfortunately, for Hinchcliffe, this for him must surely be a career-ending act as far as engagement in political events is concerned. 

Trump's locker-room talk of "grabbing them by the p....." was certainly disrespectful but blown absolutely out of proportion by media. It was one single moment of reckless boast of manliness which to many, in their mind, has come to be the basis to judge Trump's morality, oblivious to the totality of the full complexity of his life and actions. In psychology this is called the "fundamental attribution error" which is a cognitive attribution bias, often caused by character assasination, and in the case of Trump, the media has done a fantastic job. This fundamental attribution error is probably on display in Singapore as it relates to Lee Hsien Loong regarding the house at 38 Oxley Road

For far too many, Trump is a misogynist. Yet those who bear this view, and the press, have nothing to say about Joe Biden creeping up behind and smelling women in public. Neither have they anything to say to Mark Cuban, the liberal billionaire, who condemned women supporters of Trump as lacking strength and intelligence. Nor have they anything to say about how ex-Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, battered his ex-girlfriend.  

A CIA whistleblower has now revealed that in 2016, FBI director James Comey, an avid Trump-hater, planted two female agents in Trump's campaign team to conduct honey pot traps. The attempt at entrapment was a failure for conservatives are built on stronger moral fibres. The media is absolutely silent on this. And they too are silent on honey pot success of Fang Fang, a Chinese CCP agent who had entrapped Democrat Congressman Eric Sawell.  Life was easy for a Democrat in a Democrat-controlled Congress. Sawell sat on the House Intelligence Committee and remain seated even after his amorous adventure was made public. 

Tim Walz, Kamala Harris' VP pick, has now been outed for a very long affair with the daughter of a CCP agent in the US. This would have ended his career in the government immediately, but he is still Harris' running mate. And the media is abolutely fine with it.

Trump held a massively successful rally at the world famous Madison Square Garden, a huge indoor arena where all sorts of events  have been held. Tickets for that rally sold out within 3 hours. New York is fiercely liberal and actively antagonistic towards conservatives in general and Trump in particular. It is a place where no one is placing their money on a GOP winner. Trump went into the Lion's den, a fiery display of his courage. In pre-WWII days, American Nazi youths held a rally there once to preach support for Hitler's Germany. For that reason, Democrats and media went to town to holler Trump is a Nazi and Hitler fan. If media were to say Hitler drank water, Trump drinks water, proves he is a fan of Hitler, many would have believed. Media does not show there were many Jews at the rally, and the only signs of Hitler was a group of Democrat activists outside the areana holding up placards with the Swastika sign. Never will media say Trump has a Jewish son-in-law and his daughter embraced Judaism.

In Revelation 2.13 John of Patmos wrote about where Satan dwells. It is in the Temple of Pergamon (present day Turkey). From its archaeological ruins, the Altar of Pergamon was shifted to Berlin and reconstructed in a special museum. In Nuremberg, architect Albert Speer once constructed a platform designed after the Altar of Pergammon. It was on this platform that Hitler made so many of his fiery hate speeches.  In 2008, for his nomination speech, Barrack Obama stood on a platform that was modeled on the Altar of Pergamon, following the footsteps of Hitler. (I blogged about this in Story behind the story behind the story 7 Sep 2019.) You got yourself a heck of a Hitler fan there. The media does not speak about this, but for holding a rally in MSG, Trump is a Hitler fan. 

I picked on some of the stories to show media capture by the liberals to draw caveat to what is now a general consensus - mainstream media cannot be trusted. These are just tip of the iceberg, yet majority of people are consistently consuming media lies as matter of fact. Most of the comments I see from Singapore elites seem to me to be coloured by the same media bias.

What is most confounding to me is the often alluding to Trump as erratic and Harris as establishment type politician, a bastion of consistency. It takes a man with a bigger vision to see how hopelessly inappropriate this assessment of Trump is. No less than our reverent ex-Foreign Minister  George Yeo, a man Lee Kuan Yew once credited as a visionary, who said for all the media hyped negativities, there is one thing to be said of Trump, and that is, he has been consistent in his core policy stands for years. As a matter of fact, for decades. The same cannot be true of Harris, who has been flip-flopping, and making a mess of where she stands on many issues. The one consistency of Harris is she is for abortion up to full term. The fact that Singapore elites cannot see through this fundamental difference is worisome.

Trump is one of those larger-than-life seemingly chaotic personality, often creating iconic moments in history. His famous descent down the escalator at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, is one such memorable moment people often refer to. It was when he announced his candidacy, delivering a speech that set the tone for his campaign with strong, populist themes and controversial statements, including remarks about immigration. Most people are coloured by perception rather than deep understanding, and the biased media has a lot to do with this.  How much does an ordinary guy know about Trump? Let's be frank, ask yourself. The truth is, absolutely nothing other than what you see and hear. Most people perceives him as “like a bull in a china shop,” making a noisy entrance, upending the environment, and unsettling others with their intense energy. Think of him as brash, heedless of others’ responses, and unfiltered in expressing opinions or frustrations. He dominates the room, causing both fascination and disturbance in equal measure. The proletariat probably sees him as Gargantuar, the cartoon character from the Plants vs. Zombies video game series. He is that large, muscular zombie who carries a huge club and smashes everything in his way. He is all brute force, sheer power and destruction. The bourgeois may see echoes of the literary character Gargantua from Gargantua and Pantagruel, a 16th century work by François Rabelais .

Is it just me or do you too sense it too. We are living in a time, at least in Western-influenced part of the world, where there is a normalisation of wrong as right, and right is wrong. Media and progressive neo-liberalism has a lot to do with this. For all the pomposity thrashed onto Trump, we seemed to have the most peaceful four years in modern history of the world during his presidency. The unthinkable almost happened as the Abraham Accord that he pushed brought Middle East countries and Israel towards peaceful co-existence, the crazy man of the East, Kim Jong Un, simmered down and no North Korean rockets were fired towards Japan. President Xi sat down with Trump to thrash out their economic differences. Afghanistan war was finally over. Trump has been right on many things he said, including that seemingly offensive point on immigration he made in 2015. Look at the chaos, violent crimes and illegal drugs has brough to western countries with open borders.

I confess I shared the same opinion of Trump like most people back in 2015. However, his work in the White House made me do a double take and reassessment. I saw he delivered on many campaign promises. I saw through the lies of media and his political enemies. I saw the unconstitutional acts of leadership in government agencies and judiciary work against him. His accomplishments were significant given that much of his term was spent fighting the lies of the Democrats in pushing two impeachments against him, and appointees who were working against his mission. Here is a man who can work under unimaginable stress and make good on his promises. In this election, he is proving once again that capability to strive under intense pressure. No known presidential candidate ever has to face the kind of intensity of not just political opposition, but pure hate, and risk his life, in pursuit of a mission, as he mentioned in an interview some 40 years ago, to do better for his countrymen.   

That intelligent people cannot peel back the layers of Trump the showman to the core of his substance is a measure of the observer's emotion clouding critical thought. Take for example his latest gimmick of working in McDonalds and his press conference sitting in a garbage dumpster truck, with him complete in the famous French Fry apron and garbage collector's vest. His critics and stoic Singaporean elites no doubt see buffonery in action, but marketeers see a master class act that scored both ways -- endearing Trump to the working class and rebuffing his opposition to the extent they have no response. It was of course a mockery of Harris' claims that she once worked in McDonalds which was a lie to embellish her fictitious middle class upbringing, and a skit on Tony Hinchcliffe's faux pas comic line of Puerto Rico's island of garbage. 

Now back to some of the economic commentaries.

Rohit Sipahimalani:
“I know the conventional wisdom and consensus is that right now a Trump presidency is better for markets.... A Trump win is probably going to mean a stronger dollar and higher rates than you would otherwise have in a Harris administration ......  But as you look out to 2025, the picture is not that clear.... A slowdown in global growth would also have a direct impact on US-listed firms given that 25 per cent of revenues at S&P 500 companies come from outside the country,"

A stronger dollar means a better economy, with pressure on inflation and thus higher interest rates. Rohit seems to mean America is better off economically with a Trump presidency. You do notice where Bloomberg bias is.

Dylan Loh, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University’s Public Policy and Global Affairs division :
“While Trump may inject greater uncertainty and unpredictability, a Harris presidency will not and cannot suddenly engender stability, peace and predictability”

That seems to me like a bunch of typical word salad from Harris.

Lee Hsien Loong, ex-PM, Singapore:
"A second Trump term would likely spell more disruptions for American allies and other countries. In particular, I think, what you can anticipate is that his attitude towards allies, towards America’s friends, will be different from what the Democrat administration has done in these last four years,” .

Say what you like, LHL has visions far ahead of the pack. This is an important point of his observation. But then again, as I pointed out, if one has been able to see the substance of Trump, he has been consistent in this. He has made it very clear America will no longer be the sucker to bear disproportionately heavier financial burdens for various funding responsibilities, be it for global security, contributions to intranational agencies like UN and WHO, more particularly for those which have shown no loyalty to the interests of the US. He intends to be transactional. Medicant countries cannot expect to receive with their hands from Uncle Sam and kick him with their legs.   

The problem of trade tariffs:

This has been the core sticking issue of Singapore Inc as regards Trump.

Rohit:
"The tariffs are going to create uncertainty, which is never good for investment and actually I think it’ll be negative not just for emerging markets but across the world .....(it would) impact global growth”.

Tan See Seng, research adviser at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies 

“If Trump wins, he is likely to reconvene another trade war with China. If that leads to China doubling down on its ongoing effort to ‘decouple’ its economy from the US, Singapore’s economy will be affected but it’s unclear at this point exactly how so.” 

Bilahari Kausikan, a former permanent secretary of Singapore’s foreign ministry:

"If Trump were to carry out his promise to levy tariffs on all imports to promote American manufacturing, it would slow the world economy."

Lee Hsien Loong warned that if Trump were to slap tariffs of 60 per cent or higher on Chinese goods in his second term as promised, it would put Singapore in “uncharted territory”.

The contrarian says:

The downside of tariffs as expressed above comes out of standard economic text books. In most scenarios, tariffs lead to inefficiencies and resource misallocation. Higher import costs typically reduce overall consumer welfare, raise production costs, and can lead to retaliation from trade partners, which disrupts global supply chains. This generally results in less optimal resource utilization and may harm long-term economic growth by discouraging trade and investment.

However, a directed tariff can provide limited economic benefits, such as protecting certain domestic industries from foreign competition, potentially saving local jobs or encouraging the growth of emerging sectors

There have been many write ups, videos, and commentaries, presented sometimes in racist overtones, and more than often, aa a middle to the Orange Mop, for Trump's Tariff War I which they viewed as failures. Trump's tariffs on Chinese products was followed by a retaliation on American agricultural products. Which was to be expected. This resulted in the US spending billions on subsidies to help the farmers, the funds of course, came from the revenue collected from the higher tariffs. Of course no one can really work out the mathematics and say the winner is .... Again, the perception is Trump had his nose rubbed.

But here I stand alone and say, the winner of Trump Tariff War I is the whole world. The fundamental point overlooked by everyone is Trump's objective and did he achieve it. 

China's great leap in economic growth after opening up to the world was due primarily to it being a cheap manufacturing base. (Let's leave aside other issues of technology transfer, intellectual property theft and political stability). As its economy matures, China stuck to its monetary policy of pegging the renmenbi to US$. The fixed rate kept the yuan cheap and made China the factory to the world. This is an unfair trade practice that manifested in huge balance of payments for China. The massive forex reserves accumulated propelled China Investment Corporation to the second largest sovereign wealth fund in the world with US$1.4 trillion assets under management. This is a situation that Singapore Inc knows too well with its GIC experience. The situation is untenable as no country in the world, not just the US, will be able to compete on an unfair basis against the sheer size of the Chinese economy. 

Tariff War I was about China's unfair trade practices and bringing them to heel. That was Trump's objective. And did he succeed? A resounding YES. The Bank of China gradually allowed the Renmenbi to appreciate. Today, the Renmenbi is maintained on a managed float basis, more or less similar to what the Monetary Authority of Singapore is doing. The Chinese currency is now more or less in line with market expectation of where it should be. Had it not been for Trump's initiative, all factories in the rest of the world would have to shut their doors. 

I remember an incident back in pre-Tariff War I days. I was invited to quote for supply of a few thousand Corbusier sofas and 3-seaters for a grand international event to be held in Singapore. I submitted the lowest limbo-rock low prices possible, hopping to make on volumes. The winner was a guy from China, which was not surprising. What surprised me was their price which was just 25% of my lowest offer. Considering they had to factor in shipping cost, it was simply an impossible price. That in a nutshell, is what unfair trade practice does to competitors.

Trump's Tariff War II has a fundamentally different objective whcih the commentaries above seem to have missed the point. The tariff is to hit hard on American companies that shut down their US plant and either domicle it offshore in countries such as China, India, Vietnam. Mexico etc or simply outsourced from overseas. The objective of Tariff War II is primarily to force American companings to bring their manufacturing jobs back home to the US. Whatever one feels about Trump, that is what a leader has to do for his country.

As Ho Ching once said, Temasek can afford to hold contrarian views. Rohit is with the herd. I stand with Ho Ching here. Give me a tariff war any time over a nuclear war. A Harris win is taking a chance on a nuclear war in Europe. A Trump win is giving peace a chance. Trump's tariff may cause the decoupling of economies and re-alignment of supply chains. It will be unsettling for some but opportunities for others. But the world and Singapore will navigate it, however the outcome. Certainly a better scenario than a nuclear war. 

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DEMOCRATS' GOTCHA MOMENT IN RIGGED TRIAL OF TRUMP IN NEW YORK

Slightly more than a year ago, an opposition volunteer who was an ex-SAF tank commander and a rabid Trump hater, challenged me to a ten-course dinner table that Ukraine will drive the Russians out in the lauded ‘Spring Offensive’ and Trump will go to jail. I revised the deal. We settled for just a cup of coffee. That was not for want of conviction but a matter of economics. A cuppa is good enough to douse one’s ego. A further revision I imposed regarding Trump’s trials was State court decisions do not count, especially in New York where residents are 95% liberals, partisan, and rabid Trump haters. A conservative, MAGA, Republican, and least of all, Trump, has no chance of a fair trial whilst a Democrat and liberal activist is rarely hauled to court. Case in point was the Andrew Weissman trial, a Hillary Clinton activist lawyer, where evidence were shown and he actually admitted guilt, but a NY jury found him not guilty. My bet was Trump will go to jail at State court level, but the decisions will be reversed at US Supreme Court where constitutional jurists have majority. Well, after there was no Spring, Summer or Winter offensive by Ukraine, my oppo volunteer challenger went incommunicado.

Manhattan District of NY vs Trump (the Stormy Daniels case):

SD is a porn star who made allegations that in 2006 she had a sexual fling with Donald Trump and was paid US$130,000 hush money in order to protect his campaign for 2016 Presidential Election. New York DA Alwin Bragg charged Trump for falsifying the accounts by booking the payments as legal fees. This is a misdemeanor. Bragg has charged Trump with 34 counts of falsification of accounts, one for each cheque that was made out over a period, but never specify which legislation was breached.

This case had been fully investigated at Federal level but eventually dropped because there was no predicate crime. Manhattan District DA office had also investigated and refused to press charges. Two of Bragg’s public prosecutors resigned in protest against the decision. It begets the question why Bragg eventually proceeded to charge Trump. Bragg is one of many DAs that George Soros had put in office across the US. There are allegations the puppet master called in the chips. Bragg, just like Letitia James, campaigned for office on the promise to 'Get Trump' or as Stalin's secret police chief Beria said, "Show me the man and I will show you the crime".  James charged Trump on a cheating case for which there was no victim, and won. Now Bragg charged  Trump for unspecified violation, and won

District Court for the Southern District of NY vs Michael Cohen:

Cohen was Trump’s personal lawyer. On 21 Aug 2018 Cohen pleaded guilty to 5 counts of tax evasion, 1 count of making false statement to a bank, 1 count of causing an unlawful corporate campaign contribution and 1 count of making an excessive campaign contribution. He was facing a maximum prison term of 65 years. Cohen was sentenced to 3 years after plea bargain to assist the DA’s Office in their investigation on Trump. He was given the chance to sing because Trump is the bigger fish the State was after.

Cohen case is important to understanding the Stormy Daniels case because the complicated details regarding the payments to the porn star were explained there.

David Pecker is CEO of American Media Inc. In August 2015, Cohen and Pecker met with an un-named member of Trump’s campaign staff where the pair offered to deal with any negative stories about Trump, such as relationship with women. They will buy up the story to prevent its publication. Pecker will keep Cohen informed when he hears such stories. As understood by them, the purpose was to suppress and prevent such stories from influencing the election.

On 13 June 2016  Pecker heard of former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal trying to sell her story of an affair with Trump. At Cohen’s urging and assurance Trump will reimburse him, Pecker bought the story for US$150,000 in August 2016.

On 8 October 2016, an agent of Stormy Daniels informed an un-named editor of Pecker she wanted to go public about her sexual fling with Trump. Pecker and editor put Cohen in touch with Michael Avenatti, SD’s lawyer. Cohen negotiated with Avenatti for US$130,000 in exchange for a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and a side agreement letter with Avenatti (never explained what this was).

Cohen sat on the deal. On 26 October, Avenatti informed said editor that SD was taking her story to another media. Editor and Pecker relayed the threat to Cohen.

My note: There is an audio recording of an angry SD telling Avenatti that the election is drawing near and if the deal is not finalised before then, they no longer have any leverage. It sounded like an extortion racket.

On 26 October Cohen set up a special vehicle (SV) called Essential Consultants LLC. He took a HELOC (housing loan) on a second mortgage on his house. The loan proceeds of US$131,000 was credited into the SV’s bank account. On same day Cohen wired US$130,000 from SV account to Avenatti’s account. In turn Cohen received NDA signed by SD and side letter from Avenatti.

My note: Cohen claimed Trump approved of the payment. Cohen used a HELOC loan instead of his own bank account because he did not want his wife to know. A big stretch of imagination that all tasks got done in a day.

My note: These arrangements are known as ‘catch and kill’ where a media buys a story and ‘kills’ it, ie never publish. These are nuisance claims that celebrities often face and they prefer to pay off rather then go through an ugly and expensive trial. There was another case not mentioned in the trial. A doorman at Trump Tower claimed he had evidence Trump had an illegitimate child. He was paid off with US$20,000. The claim was later proven false. NDAs are legal but not enforceable if the concealed activities are illegal. How Cohen was reimbursed is a bit complicated. He claimed from ‘the Company’ (presumably Trump Org) US$130,000 plus another US$50,000 for some technology related services he had arranged and paid for the campaign, and wire fee of US$35. The ‘Company’ grossed up the total of US$180,035 to US$360,000 (50% tax). To this was added US$60,000 bonus making a total of US$420,000 to be payable over 12 months of US$35,000 each.

Starting from Febrary 2017 and over the course of the year, Cohen billed from the SV and was paid US$420,000 by a Trust fund which booked it under ‘Legal Fees’ with description “retainer fees’.

My note: It's debatable if the accounting was incorrect. In my years auditing companies, I find clients tend to record payments to lawyers under 'Legal Fees A/c" rather than to the underlying nature of the expenditure. Often they do not distinguish between legal fees and legal services. This is no big deal and raming it up as 'falsification' is obviously to serve an agenda. But even if it were falsification it is a minor offence. Cohen was paid with private money from a Trust fund. I cannot explain why Cohen was charged with campaign finance violations.

Stormy Daniels vs Trump, Cohen:

On 6 March 2018 SD sued to invalidate the NDA on grounds it was not signed by Trump. The case was news breaking as it brought attention to the alleged sexual escapade 12 years ago. Trump’s lawyer said they will not seek to enforce the NDA, thus making the suit moot. On 8 September 2018 SD voluntarily withdrew the suit.

My note: After having received the hush money, why did SD bring up this lawsuit. You can see why in the ‘Timeline’ below.

Stormy Daniels vs Trump:

SD had alleged being threatened about making the affair public. Trump responded with a tweet her claim was a “total con job”. She claimed the tweet attacked her credibility and character. She sued on 30 April 2018. The court ruled Trump’s tweet was a rhetorical hyperbole protected by the First Amendment. SD lost. Trump was awarded US$300,000. She appealed in March 2023 and lost again.

My note: Daniels herself had denied on several occasions she had sex with Trump. She had actually made a written statement denying the sex. 

Stormy Daniels vs Avenatti:

Avenatti was SD’s lawyer and he basked in the limelight. His anti-Trump outbursts made him darling of media and liberals. Soon “Avenatti For President” posters popped up. He actually seriously considered a run for the 2020 election.

In March 2019 SD made a legal complaint Avenatti embezzled US$300,000 of advance for her book. Avenatti was charged and sentenced to 4 years prison for stealing from SD and some other crimes.

Commenting from prison recently, Avenatti said SD and Cohen’s testimonies against Trump were all lies. He said it was all an extortion racket by SD and Cohen to extract money from Trump. He was willing to be defence witness. Trump’s defence team did not take up his offer.

My note : The defence was right in not calling Avenatti to testify. His story, even if true, has nothing to do with Bragg's case.

Timeline:

2006 - the sex scene.
2015 August – Cohen and Pecker agreed to be listening post for negative Trump stories.
2016 October 8 - Pecker and Cohen heard of SD in the market to sell her story.
2016 October 8 - Cohen negotiated with Avenatti the price of US$130,000.
2016 October 26 – Avenatti warned editor SD is shopping for another media.
2016 October 26 – Cohen incorporated special vehicle, took out HELOC loan.
2016 October 26 – Cohen wired US$130,000 to Avenatti.
2016 October 26 – Cohen received NDA signed by SD.
2017 February – Cohen invoiced received 2 months fees from a Trust fund.
2017 Jan to Dec – Cohen received 10 months fees @ US$35,000.
2018 – Cohen was charged in Manhattan District court.
2018 March 6 – SD sued to invalidate the NDA.
2018 May 2 Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani disclosed on TV interview that Trump had reimbursed Cohen for the payment.
2018 May 3 Trump tweeted he paid Cohen but denied the affair. It was paid to protect the family, not the election.
2018 August 21 – Cohen pleaded guilty.
2018 March 6 SD sued to invalidate the NDA.
2018 April 30 SD sued Trump for defamation and lost.
2018 September 8 SD voluntarily withdrew the suit.
2018 October 2 SD published her book ‘Full Disclosure’. Oh so, is this what it’s all about? By the way, she had US$800,000 advance for the book.
2019 SD lodged legal complaint against Avenatti for stealing US$300,000 of her book advance.
2023 March SD appealed and lost with cost US$300,000.

Trump, Cohen, Stormy Daniels and Avenatti all have good reasons to lie. Both Cohen and SD lied in court. SD portrayed herself as a sweet virgin who blacked out in the sex scene. The quintessential liberal show host Bill Maher said “For F sake, she is a porn star. Blacked out?” Maher showed an old video clip of an interview he had with her where she said the sex was just routine.

Now we understand why SD sued to invalidate the NDA after soliciting US$130,000 from Trump. She wanted to publish her book. The court case will create the bombshell for her book sales.

Why DA Bragg not mention the law:

Whether Trump had sex with SD has nothing to do with Alwin Bragg’s case. What the prosecution had to prove depends on the charge. This is a very unusual case where no specific statute was mentioned. The charge merely mentioned falsification of accounts to influence an election.

In NY, when a person falsifies business records, he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second degree which is a Class A Misdemeanor.

But under New York Consolidated Laws, Penal Law - PEN § 175.10 :

A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second degree, and when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof. Falsifying business records in the first degree is a class E felony.

It is very clear this is a PEN § 175.10 case. Why Bragg refuse to mention this remains a mystery. It would be interesting to see what SCOTUS has to say about this. How can a person defend himself if he is not told he is being charged under which statute? Could it have something to do with the fact the second intended crime was a federal election for which the State of NY has no jurisdiction?

Did prosecution prove their case:

In law, intent is based on the presence of the dual elements of Mens Rea and Actus Reus. Mens Rea means ‘guilty mind’, referring to the intentionality behind committing a criminal act. Actus Reus is the ‘guilty act’, the physical component of the crime, whether it is conduct, circumstances or consequence forebidden by law. The Mens Rea and Actus Reus here refers to the second criminal act, in this case, to influence the outcome of the election.

In an election, candidates certainly will conceal all their weaknesses. Not quite sure if that is a crime in the first place. The point to be made here is did Bragg’s prosecutors show evidence and establish Mens Rea and Actus Reus to secure conviction? And the answer is no. Time spent by SD on the witness stand was on salacious aspects of the sex and with Cohen it was focused on his lies. It did obtain the fact Trump knew about the payment to Cohen was reimbursement for what he paid to SD. But this was already a known fact. There remains no evidence to tie Trump to giving green light for the ‘catch and kill’ for the stated purpose of influencing the election. Trump in fact could have done a Lee Kuan Yew. Let me explain.

Lee Kuan Yew was a Grand-master in getting tough jobs done without expressing his wishes directly. For example, if asked for instructions, or if he wanted his executives to take certain actions, in situations where post fact examinations may find questionable, Lee will allude to something completely innocuous. He once explained, as his subordinates, they should know what he wanted done. That way, there is nothing that ties him legally to the action taken.

So they want to pin a class E felony on Trump. For a felony, the bar is set very high. First, the evidence must prove beyond reasonable doubt. Second, unanimous jury decision is required. If there is one single juror who holds back because he has some doubt, it is a hung jury and a mistrial.

This trial is indeed rigged. The specific charge is not spelt out, the prosecution did not prove Mens Rea and Actus Reus of the second 'crime', and the Judge advised the jury they need not have to reach a unanimous decision to find defendant guilty.

'Hush money' sounds unsavory, but NDAs are not illegal and in fact, is very common practice. Keeping negative information out of public view, including from an electorate, may be an ethical issue but no violation of law. Posting an entry to an inappropriately named account may be matters bean counters argue over, but hardly the stuff of conspiracies. A conflicted judge whose daughter represent Democrats in fund raising and who makes millions basking in the publicity of a case he presides over is a big problem. A judge who denies the defence from explaining the laws of the case to the jury, and then himself spent an hour explaining the laws but never provide in written form to guide jurors, is disturbing.

Democrats’ Gotcha Moment:

More than half of America see the trial as a fix by the Democrats to prevent Trump running in the November election. If this were the case, then the Democrats has run into a gotcha situation. It’s like those movies where a small, seemingly inconsequential detail can lead to the downfall of even the most carefully planned crimes. Like in "The Great Train Robbery" (1978), everything went smoothly as planned. The gotcha moment was the peculiar cough of Agar, the character played by Donald Sutherland. The cough eventually led to the arrest of the gang.

The Democrats planned the lawfare against Trump very well. Their gotcha moment is they overlooked a piece of legislation. The US Constitution has only 3 qualifications for a President. Be born in the US, above 35 years of age, and has lived in the US in the last 14 years. Even a felon can be a President. The Democrats forgot to pass legislation to disqualify a convicted felon from running for President.

Ramifications Of A Jail Term for Trump:

Trump faces severe fines or maximum jail term of 136 years, 4 years for each charge. In Letitia James case, they wacked Trump a ridiculous US$350m for a no-crime. What would it be this time?

Should he go to jail, Trump can still campaign from within prison. Prisoners retain certain rights, including the ability to send and receive mail, make phone calls, and meet with visitors, subject to prison regulations. Direct participation in campaign events would be impossible. A campaign from prison is possible but has many challenges. There have been precedents.

Should Trump win 2024 election, can he pardon himself? The Constitution does not prohibit self-pardon which would certainly require a judicial review.

Can a President run the US Government from inside a prison? That would be ludicrous. The sentence would most likely be suspended.

Winning 2024 election is not enough. Trump needs to have the numbers in Congress to support him. I can see the first order of the day for Congress is for his political enemies, Democrats and RINOs, to try impeach him on grounds he is a convicted felon.

Under 18 USC § 3056 the Secret Service has to protect a President for life 24/7. Putting Trump in prison is going to be a logistical and security nightmare.

Conclusion:

As expected, the Liberal Left will go nuclear on coordinated media blasts touting ‘Convicted felon’ and ‘34 charges’. These are the soundbites they need because Biden and Democrats have nothing to counter Trump in the campaign trail. Economics, foreign policy, border security, law and order, education, wokeism, military weakness, weaponized judiciary, communist capture of institutions, state encroachment into private sphere, etc, the Democrats are bankrupt of ideas. In fact, they caused all these.

The Democrats have crossed the Rubicon. Every political advantage they hoped with their lawfare tactic will boomerang back on them double hard. Finding Trump guilty in what is seen by Conservatives, Independents, and an increasing number of Liberals, as a rigged trial, is a black swan event. This has caused a great awakening. On the day the verdict was out, Trump’s campaign donation website crashed. Those in digital marketing understands what this means. Trump received US$53m in small donations within 24 hours. It is both a show of support for Trump and indignation at the lawfare. As more prominent and celebrity type personalities think it’s time to cast aside their fear of being cancelled and come out to have their say, such as once ultra Democrat big time donor, silicon tech investor Shaun Maguire, this will embolden others and open the floodgate. A big shift to the Right and nationalist populism is taking place in the US.

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