Anne will join more than two dozen other world-class speakers who will be giving more than 60 workshops and lectures over the two days on all aspects of
emergency and family preparedness, from the physical to the spiritual. It’s the biggest emergency-preparedness event that Utah has ever seen!

Besides Anne, you may recognize other names on the docket of luminaries who will be sharing their views with attendees. They include Roger Young, Art Deyo, Sarah Menet, Bob Vance, Doug Huffman, Joyce Kinmont and Terry Foster.

You’ll learn not only from Anne, about how to survive the deterioration of man’s debt-money system by turning to God’s Money – precious metals – but also about other aspects of physical and spiritual survival ranging from emergency midwifery to ham-radio operation, from new health technologies to the latest in food storage.

If you are going to be in the area, or if you realize that this program provides a great opportunity to prepare for the immediate future of you and your family, contact the expo organizers at 712-432-3100. It could be a life-changer!

Consider this report from this morning on CNBC, quoting a forecast from “Dr. Doom,” Marc Faber, about how runaway government debts have triggered uncontrolled money printing that in turn will lead to inflation and decimate investment portfolios.

That’s most certainly what we’re going to get. And CNBC and even Faber are putting it nicely.

Because men have turned away from God’s Money – gold, silver and other precious metals that were used as the basis of the Bible’s monetary system – to an exploding system of debt money, Faber’s forecast is on the light side.

He told CNBC that investors, particularly, those in the “well-to-do” category, could lose about half their total wealth over the next few years as consequences pile up from government debt problems. The author of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report told the channel that hard assets such as gold are the key to surviving the coming economic shakeout.

But curiously, at least to Unreported World News, Faber still advocates buying of some stocks because central-bank policies will pump up asset prices.

Nevertheless, Faber’s overall outlook is about as pessimistic as ours, but apparently lacking in our spiritual conviction that God is in ultimate control of the economy.

“Somewhere down the line we will have massive wealth destruction that usually happens either through very high inflation or through social unrest or through war or credit market collapse,” he said. “”Maybe all of it will happen, but at different times.”

Or, as in our view, all at once.

Of course, we totally agree with the subjects of the show, Doomsday Preppers, in that the apocalypse is upon us. But what kind of apocalypse are they preparing for, and what kind of apocalypse should we as end-times Christians be preparing for? And what should our preparations be?

The National Geographic channel commissioned an online survey of about 1,000 American adults and found that 61 percent of them believe the country will experience a major catastrophic event within the next 20 years, though only 15 percent of them feel they are fully prepared for it.

It may be obvious to say that part of what defines an event as a disaster is that we’re not fully prepared for it – or it wouldn’t be a huge disaster. And in the case of the end of the world as orchestrated by God Almighty, we can be fully prepared for the eventualities, certainly in a spiritual sense and to a large extent in a material sense.

We just need to do a few things.

We urge all who will hear the Spirit of God today to do so. Revelation chapters 2 and 3 say repeatedly, “Let him who has ears, hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches,” as the book describes the seven churches and their various responses to God.

The Bible describes the events preceding the final years before the return of Jesus, graphically so in Revelation. What we are seeing are what the bible calls birth pangs: wars, earthquakes, pestilence, famine, excessive corruption, men being lovers of self rather than lovers of God, hurricanes, the worst floods in recent history and so on.

We also are told that in order to buy and sell, every person alive will have to receive the mark of the Beast, signaling their alliance to his satanic system in opposition to God’s, followed by the antichrist’s declaration that he is god.

What we must be doing as believers is preparing to live outside the system of the antichrist materially as well as spiritually. This includes practical preparation, as when Matthew 24 compares these days to the time when Noah built his Ark. Matthew writes that the last days will be just like the days of Noah.

Getting God’s money is an urgent piece to the puzzle; money answereth all things, as Ecclesiastes 10:19 says. If you get God’s money, precious metals, He will see you through. It is an act of obedience to get his money and get prepared, just like Noah.

It’ll be interesting to see if National Geographic deals in a straight and honest way with Christian “preppers” and doesn’t make us out to be idiots. Of course, ultimately, their treatment doesn’t matter anyway – only what we do out of obedience to Christ.

That’s why it isn’t really a surprise that, so far, the federal government hasn’t backed off a move that has American Catholics up in arms and threatening to challenge the Obama administration even up to the possibility of taking to the streets in protest.

What the Obamaites are trying to pull, of course, is to force all employers, including Catholic-owned hospitals and other institutions, to pay for birth control. Catholic leaders upped the ante this week, threatening to challenge the Obama administration on this particularly heinous part of Obamacare.

Catholic leaders are furious and determined to harness the voting power of the nation’s 70 million Catholic voters to stop a provision of President Barack Obama’s new heath care reform bill that will force Catholic schools, hospitals and charities to buy birth-control pills, abortion-producing drugs and sterilization coverage for their employees, as CBS-2 TV News in New York reported.

“Never before, unprecedented in American history, for the federal government to line up against the Roman Catholic Church,” said Catholic League head Bill Donohue.

Already Archbishop Timothy Dolan has spoken out against the law and priests around the country have mobilized, CBS 2 said, reading letters  from the pulpit. Donohue said Catholic officials will stop at nothing to put a stop to it.

“This is going to be fought out with lawsuits, with court decisions, and, dare I say it, maybe even in the streets,” Donohue said.

Why are we at Unreported World News not surprised that Obama’s acolytes would pursue this course even when it should have been obvious to them that it could cause incalculable political damage to the president’s re-election efforts. After all, not only are Catholics a numerous portion of the electorate, but they’re easily the largest cohort of potential swing voters from election to election.

And in nearly all of the presidential elections of the past half-century, the balance of the Catholic vote has lined up with the winner.

2 Timothy 3:1-4 describes this matter: The federal officials mandating this, and their left-wing supporters, are lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, a primary marker of the last days in which we’re living.

It is an abomination to the purity of the gospel and all moral values held by civilized societies. It is an outrage to youth, parents and for any person with moral values.  And even if Obama backtracks for reasons of political expediency, this move has telegraphed what he really thinks. That’s no surprise, either.

But can Newt Gingrich be trusted to carry the banner for those of us who believe in the gold standard, if he should get in a position to do something about returning us to it?

Not so fast. Gingrich is an inveterate New Ager, Constance Cumbey is observing these days – and, as one of the original whistle-blowers about the New Age
movement decades ago, along with us, she should know. As Speaker of the House in the mid-Nineties, in fact, Gingrich was putting together an argument for “global governance networks” that, among other things, would greatly reduce the sovereignty of the U.S. government and citizenry in world affairs.

Besides, is there really any hope that the United States could possibly return to a gold standard – President Gingrich, or no President Gingrich – before the coming
crash? It’s one thing for us personally to get our financial houses in order by using God’s money, gold and silver, rather than man’s debt money.

But it would be a stretch indeed to believe that the U.S. situation now is parallel in any way to the last time that anybody seriously talked about a return to the
gold standard, early in Ronald Reagan’s presidency 30 years ago. Now, the U.S. essentially is more than $100 trillion in debt, and President Obama blithely keeps adding to the tally – printing money like he’s ordering burgers at a fast-food restaurant.

A nation this much in debt cannot possibly survive the coming crash, and even a President Gingrich pushing a return to a gold standard wouldn’t be able to avoid it.

History may be repeating itself in a presidential candidate calling for a gold standard the way that Reagan did. But God’s plan will unfold no matter what. And
in order for the New World Order to control America and our economic assets, the U.S. economy must fall. The debt we’re under as a nation is no accident; it is part of a well-contrived, Satanic plan in these last days to bring the U.S. into submission to the Beast.

And for at least two big reasons – his true allegiance as a New Ager, and the enormity of the task that would confront him – a President Gingrich wouldn’t be able do anything about it. And first he’d have to get elected!

How does that passage refer to today? After I spent three years following the Lord’s leading in trying to help protect innocent people from becoming victims of a scam, a class-action lawsuit was filed on December 27 against self-proclaimed Christian financial adviser and gold and silver dealer, Larry Bates, for fraud and conspiracy, even involving civil charges of racketeering.

As Unreported World News has reported for three years, this has amounted to horrifically fraudulent behavior by this so-called Christian leader, a visible figure on national Christian television and the owner of the largest Christian radio news network.

Ezekiel 34 describes the fat shepherds and the scrawny sheep. Are other pastors and church leaders using their platforms for extortion and excess while the sheep are implored to sacrifice, often at the expense of buying food? Are heavy burdens being put on the sheep to build church buildings and invest in “bonds” to support the cause, which will become junk bonds when the dollar crashes in the near future?

Are church leaders and pastors advising their flocks to flock to God’s money, gold and silver, to protect their assets?

Sadly, for the most part, no.  Our newest book, Gold, Silver, Money and Your Future: A Biblical view of Real Money, will be available soon. We encourage you to get a copy of this short but powerful book to understand the economic deception in the church today.

Don’t let the actions of one dishonest metals dealer cause you to hesitate to obtain a place in God’s money system.  SLGAS was founded  as an alternative for metals’ investors – a trusted and safe source for precious metals, because of the dishonesty manifested by Larry Bates, a clearly not “Christian” precious-metals dealer.

Beware of the Scribes and Pharisees and get God’s money now, before the coming economic deception unfolds and it is too late to get metals affordably.

Two groups are most important of all in the groundswell of responses to the news, broken by Unreported World News on Wednesday, that Bates’ legal comeuppance has begun: the national news media, and Bates’ victimized customers.

It’s crucial for the law suit and Bates’ practices to get attention by the news media – secular and Christian, traditional and online – so that Bates and FAMC might be forced to stop what they’re doing immediately. It was relatively easy for Bates and his associates to continue to pull the wool over the eyes of unsuspecting gold and silver buyers when we were still toiling to get the word out about how dangerous he is; many of his most recent new customers never knew there was any reason to doubt his smooth sales pitch.

But now, with local, regional and national newscasts and publications picking up on the news of the suit, many thousands of Americans who potentially were Bates’ next customers, instead, fortunately will be warned away from him. So far, the Associated Press, major regional newspapers in Bates’ home state such as the Tennesseean from Nashville and Memphis’s Commercial-Appeal, and local TV news broadcasts in Tennessee have been the first to pick up on news of the suit. Because of these stories and what surely will be more to come, at least many folks can avoid being added to his long parade of victims.

The second and probably even more important constituency who are getting a boost from attention to the suit are Bates’ existing victimized customers. It’s unclear at this point to what extent any single individual might be compensated for the evil that Bates has done, should the suit be won or settled. But the news coming out this week certainly is encouraging many of them, including the big number of people who personally were assisted by Unreported World News and our associated precious-metals company, Southlake Gold & Silver.

“I am so proud of you, and thanking God for you,” one of Bates’ victims e-mailed us yesterday.

Here’s another:

“My wife and I purchased Gold and Silver from Larry Bates and it took a year to get delivery … [We] were new Gold and Silver investors and depended on (Christian Bates) to guide us in this new area of investments only later to find out, not only was he dishonest, but he grossly over charge[d] us on our purchases…

“We invested six figures with his company. He needs to be put in jail. At one point I had told the guy at his company I’d like a refund, he told me our order was final and Gold and Silver prices were way down and they would pay me [what would amount to] just a little over half or what I had invested…

“They had a [racket] going. Larry Bates is a crook who needs to be behind bars.
Thank[s to your] efforts [this] is getting … out!”

And finally, here is a note from a major supporter who is neither media nor victim but, rather, someone of integrity and importance in the precious-metals industry – an industry given something of a black eye by Bates’ practices.

“Your diligence has paid off. Well done!” the note goes. “Hopefully the victims will receive appropriate relief from the courts. Equally important will be the possible deterrent [effect] this will have on future victims. Maybe now that Dr. Bates realizes his practices are out in the open he will change.

“The Lord is full of forgiveness for someone who repents and does what is right to correct the wrong done. One can only hope Dr. Bates apologizes to the clients and will do what is right to restore them.”

Of course, regular readers of Unreported World News understand that Bates and his Memphis-based company, First American Monetary Consultants (FAMC), are the financial predators whom we have been battling for more than two years. A local mid-South firm had partnered with a prominent Michigan firm to pursue this claim on behalf of claimants across the country. The filing of this suit represents not only a huge ratcheting up of the secular pressure on Bates and FAMC to cease and desist in their reprehensible business practices but also the most significant secular recognition yet of the massive deceit he has been carrying out against his customers.

Two former customers are named plaintiffs in the suit, and more than two dozen other individuals from across the United States are covered as victims. One of the plaintiffs, Damian Orlowski, is familiar to our readers because we shared his story of his dealings with FAMC a couple of years ago. Now, the Chicago man has courageously come out front in this lawsuit.

FAMC is among the most prominent precious-metals dealers in the United States, “Christian” or secular, frequently cited by the big players in the trade, such as Lear and Goldline, as a significant competitor. That is one reason Bates has continued to pursue such shady business practices with impunity even while we and dozens of his customers have been attempting to get him to stop.

Now, very capable new advocates seek the same aims as we do. The firms representing Orlowski et al. include the law offices of “super lawyers,” Gerard V. Mantese of Mantese Honigman Possman and Williamson, P.C, and J. Houston Gordon. Mantese, a complex business and commercial litigator, has been named repeatedly in Best Lawyers in America. Respected Tennessee “super lawyer” for plaintiffs, J. Houston Gordon has made millions doing personal-injury work during his 40-year career. He also is former chair of the Democratic Party in the state and ran for Senate against Republican Fred Thompson in 1996.

As we have reported to you over the last couple of years, the named plaintiffs and other members of the proposed class were duped by Bates for a total of several hundred thousand dollars because they purchased gold, silver and other precious metals from FAMC based on his appeal to their Christian beliefs, then saw Bates and FAMC keep their money without providing the metals they had purchased until months later. In some cases, Bates sold them inferior products to what they had ordered; in others, he filled part of the order and kept the remaining funds.

Bates’ business practices have been especially reprehensible because he has targeted widows and other elderly asset owners who are devout Christians, using seminars at churches, direct mailings, radio and television interviews and the internet to entice them to purchase precious metals with “end-times” warnings and an appeal to mentions of gold and silver in the Bible.

And while we at Unreported World News share much of Bates’ purported theology concerning the importance of acquiring precious metals, dealing with God’s Money instead of man’s debt-money system, and have our own prophetic take on the end times, we do not in any way agree with how he and FAMC do business.

In fact, as many readers will recall, we – with the Lord’s help – have been largely responsible for getting Bates on the radar not only of personal-injury lawyers but also of journalists in Texas and Tennessee who have reported on his practices, and of regulators in both states who have been checking him out.

Bates’ customers have been outraged particularly because a major part of his  positioning has been to tout FAMC’s ability to “move millions of dollars … in a matter of minutes with settlement in 48 hours in the currency of your choice,” as one advertisement put it.

Instead, while garnering payments from clients within minutes, hours or days of their orders, many of Bates’ shipments have taken extra weeks and even many months beyond what is considered reasonable in the industry. And when FAMC has finally fulfilled the orders, often the company has substituted items – such as heavy silver bars for silver coins – that are less liquid and even less valuable than what the client ordered.

Another egregiously unethical aspect of FAMC’s practices has been to justify its lack of paying interest on customer funds it has held by alleging it wouldn’t be “a Christian thing to do.” In response to complaints, Bates has stated that he sells metals on a “no-whine” basis – meaning that customers shouldn’t criticize FAMC’s practices even when the firm has held their life savings for months, or years, without fulfilling their precious-metals purposes.

This lawsuit is case No. 1:11-cv-01396.

Click the following links to see the public records that were filed.

Exhibit 1

Exhibit 2

Exhibit 3

Exhibit 4

Complaint

Civil Cover

But we’ve been saying for years that the Bible essentially assures us that at some point – and we believe it’ll be before the Rapture of believers – the entire world will become a police state. And while Paul and others have continued to express fears that the United States has been creeping toward martial law, our concerns are for Christians and others around the globe, because our true citizenship isn’t of this world.

And the facts will be that the Antichrist will impose the Mark of the Beast and a cashless society as described in Revelation 13. Whether this is coincident, a cause of martial law or an effect of some other actions isn’t clear. What is clear is that the mark will be the way that the Antichrist and his worldly minions – presumably including many government officials and others the world over – in effect control all those who accept the mark and force the rest of us to live outside of mainstream society.

So while Paul has become an effective spokesman at least for martial-law fears, we must be wary of depending on him to raise the banner on such views. One reason is that he doesn’t seem to be proffering a particularly Biblical interpretation of such circumstances.

The second reason to avoid tying our wagon to Paul’s, in terms of public perceptions, is that he is in the process of being discredited by the mainstream media and the political establishments on both the left and the right.

Leftist pundits have always thought Paul the libertarian a lot nutty. But now, while they’ve tolerated his surge in this election cycle to the point that Paul actually could win the Iowa caucuses on January 3, the Republican Party brain trust absolutely won’t brook the possibility that somehow Paul could become their party’s nominee in the fight to oust Barack Obama. It’s most likely they will finally attack his isolationist foreign-policy views to bring Paul’s candidacy crashing to earth.

So expect Paul to be discredited as a spokesman for martial-law fears – and everything else he stands for.  But keep in mind that he’s just a man, and the truth, including the Antichrist’s imposition of what amounts to martial law at some point, will still be the truth.