-777points= 1.2 trillion dollars loss for americans = Christianity, decadence, lead, monetary trouble, and military problems.
Loved Ones….the United States…the country in which I now reside…is collapsing ...the stock market just nose dived 777 points…financially…socially….environmentally and spiritually…this country is collapsing….

How can this be?

…Lets take a look at how Rome broke up…how Rome collapsed.


Loved Ones…There are adherents to single factors, but more people think Rome fell because of a combination of such factors as...There were many reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire.

Each one intertwined with the next.

Many even blame the introduction of Christianity for the decline. Christianity made many Roman citizens into pacifists, making it more difficult to defend against the barbarian attackers.

Also money used to build churches could have been used to maintain the empire. Although some argue that Christianity may have provided some morals and values for a declining civilization and therefore may have actually prolonged the imperial era.

Decline in Morals and Values
Those morals and values that kept together the Roman legions and thus the empire could not be maintained towards the end of the empire.

Crimes of violence made the streets of the larger cities unsafe.

Even during PaxRomana there were 32,000 prostitutes in Rome.

Emperors like Nero and Caligula became infamous for wasting money on lavish parties where guests ate and drank until they became ill.

The most popular amusement was watching the gladiatorial combats in the Colosseum.

These were attended by the poor, the rich, and frequently the emperor himself. As gladiators fought, vicious cries and curses were heard from the audience.

One contest after another was staged in the course of a single day. Should the ground become too soaked with blood, it was covered over with a fresh layer of sand and the performance went on.

Public Health
There were many public health and environmental problems. Many of the wealthy had water brought to their homes through lead pipes. Previously the aqueducts had even purified the water but at the end lead pipes were thought to be preferable. The wealthy death rate was very high. The continuous interaction of people at the Colosseum, the blood and death probable spread disease. Those who lived on the streets in continuous contact allowed for an uninterrupted strain of disease much like the homeless in the poorer run shelters of today.

Alcohol use increased as well adding to the incompetency of the general public.

Political Corruption
One of the most difficult problems was choosing a new emperor. Unlike Greece where transition may not have been smooth but was at least consistent, the Romans never created an effective system to determine how new emperors would be selected.

The choice was always open to debate between the old emperor, the Senate, the Praetorian Guard (the emperor's's private army), and the army.

Gradually, the Praetorian Guard gained complete authority to choose the new emperor, who rewarded the guard who then became more influential, perpetuating the cycle.

Then in 186 A. D. the army strangled the new emperor, the practice began of selling the throne to the highest bidder.

During the next 100 years, Rome had 37 different emperors - 25 of whom were removed from office by assassination. This contributed to the overall weaknesses of the empire.

Unemployment
During the latter years of the empire farming was done on large estates called latifundia that were owned by wealthy men who used slave labor.

A farmer who had to pay workmen could not produce goods as cheaply.

Many farmers could not compete with these low prices and lost or sold their farms. This not only undermined the citizen farmer who passed his values to his family, but also filled the cities with unemployed people.

At one time, the emperor was importing grain to feed more than 100,000 people in Rome alone. These people were not only a burden but also had little to do but cause trouble and contribute to an ever increasing crime rate.

Inflation
The roman economy suffered from inflation (an increase in prices) beginning after the reign of Marcus Aurelius.

Once the Romans stopped conquering new lands, the flow of gold into the Roman economy decreased.

Yet much gold was being spent by the romans to pay for luxury items.

This meant that there was less gold to use in coins. As the amount of gold used in coins decreased, the coins became less valuable.

To make up for this loss in value, merchants raised the prices on the goods they sold.

Many people stopped using coins and began to barter to get what they needed. Eventually, salaries had to be paid in food and clothing, and taxes were collected in fruits and vegetables.

Urban decay
Wealthy Romans lived in a domus, or house, with marble walls, floors with intricate colored tiles, and windows made of small panes of glass.

Most Romans, however, were not rich, They lived in small smelly rooms in apartment houses with six or more stories called islands.

Each island covered an entire block.

At one time there were 44,000 apartment houses within the city walls of Rome.

First-floor apartments were not occupied by the poor since these living quarters rented for about $00 a year. The more shaky wooden stairs a family had to climb, the cheaper the rent became. The upper apartments that the poor rented for $40 a year were hot, dirty, crowed, and dangerous.

Anyone who could not pay the rent was forced to move out and live on the crime-infested streets.

Because of this cities began to decay.

Inferior Technology
During the last 400 years of the empire, the scientific achievements of the Romans were limited almost entirely to engineering and the organization of public services. They built marvelous roads, bridges, and aqueducts. They established the first system of medicine for the benefit of the poor. But since the Romans relied so much on human and animal labor, they failed to invent many new machines or find new technology to produce goods more efficiently. They could not provide enough goods for their growing population. They were no longer conquering other civilizations and adapting their technology, they were actually losing territory they could not longer maintain with their legions.

Military Spending
Maintaining an army to defend the border of the Empire from barbarian attacks was a constant drain on the government.

Military spending left few resources for other vital activities, such as providing public housing and maintaining quality roads and aqueducts.

Frustrated Romans lost their desire to defend the Empire.

The empire had to begin hiring soldiers recruited from the unemployed city mobs or worse from foreign counties. Such an army was not only unreliable, but very expensive.

The emperors were forced to raise taxes frequently which in turn led again to increased inflation.

THE FINAL BLOWS
For years, the well-disciplined Roman army held the barbarians of Germany back. Then in the third century A. D. the Roman soldiers were pulled back from the Rhine-Danube frontier to fight civil war in Italy. This left the Roman border open to attack. Gradually Germanic hunters and herders from the north began to overtake Roman lands in Greece and Gaul (later France). Then in 476 A. D. the Germanic general Odacer or Odovacar overthrew the last of the Roman Emperors, Augustulus Romulus. From then on the western part of the Empire was ruled by Germanic chieftain.

Roads and bridges were left in disrepair and fields left untilled. Pirates and bandits made travel unsafe. Cities could not be maintained without goods from the farms, trade and business began to disappear.

And The United States was no more in the West.

Even the rise of Islam is proposed as the reason for Rome's fall, by some who think the Fall of Rome happened at Constantinople in the 15th Century.

Loved Ones is history repeating itself?

I petition for those in Washington D.C. making the call on the "$700 Billion" to learn all their lessons with the least amount of pain.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,

Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
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almost as a demigod.
Loved Ones…we are all brothers and sisters….

we are all children of our Divine Parents Mother and Father God…

and as we all are of the same Source…

we are all loved without conditions…

we each are loved unconditionally…

Loved ones this is so true…while we each have been given free will to each learn all our lessons…and…loved ones….there are many…many…lessons to be learned through experience…lessons we can only learn by living through them…by experiencing them…and yes…many of these lessons are painful…in fact some of the most important lessons we each learn is the most painful…lessons about not judging others…

yes we can judge their actions but we cannot judge them…you cannot even judge yourself….and loved ones…no even our Divine Parents will judge us…as we came here to this planet especially to learn certain lessons that we can only learn by going threw them here…

Loved ones the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is believed to be recovering from an apparent stroke, South Korea's presidential office said Wednesday, as the communist nation rejected reports questioning Kim's health as a "conspiracy plot."

Speculation has intensified that Kim may have taken ill after he missed a parade Tuesday commemorating the communist state's founding 60 years ago. That followed weeks of being absent from public view and rumors that foreign doctors were brought to the isolated nation to possibly treat him.

On Wednesday, South Korean presidential spokesman Lee Dong-kwan said that President Lee Myung-bak and top officials received an intelligence briefing on Kim's health. The spokesman said in a statement that according to the briefing Kim was "not seen to be in a serious condition."

South Korea's National Intelligence Service reported to a parliamentary committee that it obtained intelligence reports showing Kim recently had surgery for an unspecified circulatory problem, and his condition had much improved, an agency official said.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity citing office policy, did not elaborate.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency, citing lawmakers briefed by the spy agency, reported that the 66-year-old Kim suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, but he remains conscious and "is able to control the situation."

The NIS also reported to lawmakers that Kim is in a "recoverable and manageable condition," and that the North is not in a "power vacuum," Yonhap said.
NIS officials said they could not confirm the Yonhap report.

Earlier in the day, North Korean officials denied that Kim may be ill or that there was anything unusual about his absence from the parade.
"There are no problems," Kim Yong Nam, Pyongyang's No. 2 leader and ceremonial head of state, told Japan's Kyodo News agency, referring to Kim Jong Il's absence.
Song Il Ho, a senior diplomat, said reports of Kim's illness are "worthless" and a "conspiracy plot," adding Western media "have reported falsehoods before," according to Kyodo's dispatch from Pyongyang.

It was not the first time North Korea had sent a message to the outside world through Kyodo. Kim Yong Nam also gave the news organization an interview two days after North Korea carried out its first-ever nuclear test blast in 2006.
In another indication that the North's leader is alive, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said Kim sent a birthday greeting Wednesday to Syria's leader.
Kim wished Syrian President Bashar Assad good health and success in efforts to make the country secure and prosperous, according to the Korean-language message carried by KCNA.

Early Wednesday, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak convened an emergency meeting in Seoul to discuss the situation with senior aides, an official at the presidential Blue House said.

Lee's office said in a statement after the meeting that the government will continue to follow the situation closely. It said Seoul had predicted the North's leader may not attend Tuesday's event, but did not elaborate.

Seoul's Defense Ministry said there has been no unusual movement in North Korea's military and the heavily armed border between the two sides remained calm.
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency devoted its coverage Wednesday to stories celebrating the country's founding anniversary and gave no hint of Kim's condition.

It is considered an absolute taboo for state media to discuss the North Korean leader's health in the totalitarian nation where he is revered almost as a demigod.

Speculation over Kim's condition spiked Tuesday after he did not appear at a parade commemorating North Korea's founding 60 years ago, one of the country's most celebrated holidays along with the birthdays of Kim and his late father, Kim Il Sung, the country's founding leader.

Kim, who has been rumored to be in varying degrees of ill health for years, took over the reclusive state upon the death of his father 14 years ago in a hereditary transfer of power. The younger Kim attended the parade on the 50th and 55th anniversaries and was widely expected to do so this year as well.
Since late 2002, North Korea has been locked in a standoff with the United States over its nuclear ambitions.

The country carried out its first nuclear test in 2006, but agreed last year to disable its nuclear facilities in exchange for economic aid and political concessions.

The negotiations, however, hit a snag again recently with the two sides at odds over how to verify North Korea's accounting of its nuclear programs. Washington has delayed its promised removal of Pyongyang from the U.S. terrorism blacklist.

At this time I petition for the Loving Unconditional White Light of the Holy Spirit to surround and enclose Kim and all his loved ones…and I pray that he learn all his lessons with the least amount of pain…I petition and ask that in the name of Mother and Father God.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,
Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
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Sarah Palin can tell you what the will of God is...for you and the Alaska pipe line
Loved Ones…when Our Lord walked upon this planet He demonstrated that it is what you do that counts…not what you say

…and as His brother Thomas documented in the Gospel of Thomas…Our Lord Jesus the Christ stated "If you fast, you will bring sin upon yourselves, and if you pray, you will be condemned, and if you give to charity, you will harm your spirits.
When you go into any region and walk about in the countryside, when people take you in, eat what they serve you and heal the sick among them.
After all, what goes into your mouth will not defile you; rather, it's what comes out of your mouth that will defile you."

Loved Ones….what do you think? ...is this individual competent to direct the United States of America? ...read this and consider the consequences….

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a "task that is from God."

In an address last June, the Republican vice presidential candidate also urged ministry students to pray for a plan to build a $30 billion natural gas pipeline in the state, calling it "God's will."

And regarding the bombing and killing of innocent civilians in Iraq she stated...

"Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan."

Palin told graduating students of the church's School of Ministry, "What I need to do is strike a deal with you guys." As they preached the love of Jesus throughout Alaska, she said, she'd work to implement God's will from the governor's office, including creating jobs by building a pipeline to bring North Slope natural gas to North American markets.

"God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that," she said.

"I can do my job there in developing our natural resources and doing things like getting the roads paved and making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded," she added. "But really all of that stuff doesn't do any good if the people of Alaska's heart isn't right with God."

Palin attended the evangelical church from the time she was a teenager until 2002, the church said in a statement posted on its Web site. She has continued to attend special conferences and meetings there. Religious conservatives have welcomed her selection as John McCain's running mate.

Rob Boston, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, lamented Palin's comments.
"I miss the days when pastors delivered sermons and politicians delivered political speeches," he said. "The United States is increasingly diverse religiously. The job of a president is to unify all those different people and bring them together around policy goals, not to act as a kind of national pastor and bring people to God."

The section of the church's Web site where videos of past sermons were posted was shut down Wednesday, and a message was posted saying that the site "was never intended to handle the traffic it has received in the last few days."

At this time I petition for the loving Sarah Palin to learn all her lessons with the least amount of pain…I petition and ask that in the name of Our Lord Jesus the Christ.

You and all your loved ones are always in my prayers,
Samuel Joseph Bell
www.angelicinfusion.com
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