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The subject matter contained in this presentation is based on Biblical principles and designed to give you accurate and authoritative information with regard to the subject matter covered. It is provided with the understanding that neither the presenter nor the broadcaster is engaged to render legal, accounting, or other professional advice. Since your situation is fact-dependent, you may wish to additionally seek the services of an appropriately licensed legal, accounting, real estate, or investment professional.

"No one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life-- what you shall eat or drink-- or about your body-- what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

"Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap. They gather nothing into barns, yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you, by worrying, add a single moment to your life span?

"Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wildflowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will He not much more provide for you, oh you of little faith?

"So do not worry and say, what are we to eat? Or what shall we drink? Or what are we to wear? All these things the pagans seek. Your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

"But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil."

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This is Mejanomics with a Friend of Medjugorje.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Victor Hanson is a never-Trumper. A never-Trumper is someone who says, though they may be a Republican or on the side of the right or conservative, they will never be for Trump. And yet, when they say something that aligns with Trump or supports him, theyre in a quandary of why would you be a never-Trumper? Victor Hanson was interviewed. Hanson lives in California as a farmer. He lives and works on a farm. He works at the Hoover institute and he occasionally goes to the think tank in Stanford, which is comprised of Conservative never-Trumpers.

So, he answers this question about California being a third world state. Quote, It has all the symptoms of what we associate with a failed state. Its got the highest basket of income taxes, gasoline taxes, sales taxes, and yet the schools are rated in the last 10% of the nations test scores. Thats very telling. Thats factual. Thats no opinion. He continues, quote, One third of the nations welfare recipients live in California. A fifth of the population is below the poverty line.

This is crazy. One third of the nations welfare recipients live in California? One fifth of the population below the poverty line? The quote continues, A fifth of the homeless people in the United States live in California. And yet, he says, We have the most billionaires of any state in the nation, and then we have the largest underclass. What does that tell you? It is a third world state. So he says quote, Governor Newsom got it exactly wrong. Twenty-five years ago when we had Proposition 187. Now, Im not sure what proposition that is because they did have the tax roll-back, but I assume this is speaking about something that took place, was rolling back the taxes, etc.

He continues about the Proposition 187 that, Passed by 59% of the population. It was very popular, but three days later, a federal court invalidated it and got rid of it. So here it is, almost 60% of California voted for this, and a federal judge comes and changes it.

This is why were very sick. This is where we dont know where were going because we try to go a direction, we get defeated. This is where we are today. But referring to California as a third-world state, Hanson continues and says in regard to the proposition being rolled back, quote, It made people want to come to California often illegally, and they resided there illegally. That was the unfortunate part of the perfect storm where at the same time, six-million people over the next 25 years says, If Im going to pay the highest basket of taxes and get the worst roads, infrastructure, public schools, and among the highest crime rates, then I might as well go to where theres no income taxes. Thats the summation of his answer and we have the same thing now happening in South America with the most richest blessed country in South America. And thats our read today.

[RUTH]

The name of this article is How 7.4 Tons of Venezuelas Gold Landed in Africa and Vanished.

The government of Venezuelas presidents Nicolas Maduro is selling off his countrys gold reserves. Some of it has passed through a secretive operation in East Africa, a gambit that evades U.S. sanctions. On two early March flights, at least 7.4 tons of gold, with a market value over three hundred million dollars moved from Venezuela to a refinery in Uganda, says officials in Venezuela and Uganda. A foreign diplomat in Venezuelan opposition law makers who have concluded Mr. Maduros governments exported the ingots.

Washington has recognized opposition leader, Juan G, as Venezuelas legitimate president, slapped financial and other sanctions on Venezuelan officials and institutions and threatened penalties for others doing business with the regime. The standoff between the two leaders is reverberating beyond Venezuela with some 50 countries joining the U.S. and backing Mr. Guedo while others side with Mr. Maduro. What was once Latin Americas richest economy is starving. Its oil sales have dwindled, and citizens are suffering through day-long power outages and shortages of basic goods.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

Liberalism is destroying California. Its turning into a third-world state. One-third of all welfare recipients are in California, as youve already heard. Im driving to the point to educate you about what we want to discuss today. Its important for you to reason things out. Ask yourself what was just read, Latin Americas richest economy is starving. Its oil sales have dwindled, and its citizens are suffering through loss of power, shortages of basic goods.

What are basic goods? What does this mean? Why are they selling gold? This should say something to you. What was just read the article continues and says that, Gold sales are one of the governments final financial lifelines. That statement you need to contemplate because when everything goes down, the last thing, the last reserve, is gold and silver. So, what happens if they didnt have the gold? If this is a lifeline, theyre over! Its history. And what happened in California is headed this way, and actually, our nation is in 20 trillion dollars of debt. Can we pay that back? I dont see how. Can you see how? We dont have that kind of wealth in the nation even though were wealthy.

So what happens? After a final lifeline and your golds not there, you dont have anything, you have nothing to back it up, you have an exponential escalation of what was stated about Latin America. You say, Well, Americas well off. Everything is going great. That was happening to Venezuela also. Theyd been there and done that. Theyre a copy, theyre an image, theyre a prototype of what happens in modern times when everything goes south. And we can look to South America of where they ended up. Is this in our future? Our Lady has said, what you heard me say over and over, Everythingis passingeverything is falling apart, only the glory of God remains

Our economic system, the way its usury, how the investments, what its about, is greed and makes more money, is not glorifying God and it will crash. It cannot stay with Our Lady staying with us without the consequences of one or the other goes away.

In Boston, the great scandal in the Church, and Our Lady appearing in Boston at Ivans house where he lived cant stay. One or the other is going to go, for the whole world! For the whole United States, all the way to the Vatican, Ireland, all these countries, Australia, everywhere! This broke in this little spot on the earth called Boston because the Virgin Mary was there. And She cant stay here on this earth with the system that is anti-God, doesnt glorify God, and then its going to stay up. And She defines it. Thats why She said, Everythingis passing She ends the sentence with, only the glory of God remains

So, this is in our future. Its just holy reasoning. Its through fasting and prayer you will see these things. You have to make moves. Everybody needs oil! Venezuela is one of the richest places for oil. But their sales are dwindling. You can say thats because nations have embargoed their oil. But still, its still the consequences of something that hasnt glorified God.

And so, when youre suffering like that, what are the basic things you need? There is suffering in Venezuela from basic goods. What are your basic goods? Its the most simple things, the things that we have the most plenty of, and you have to think about, if something happens, where are you going to get these things? Where are you going to get salt? Where are you going to get water? We have a lot of water coming into our houses because its so vital for our life. You can go without food for 30 days. You cant go without water for one day. Two thousand six hundred years ago in Corinth, in Greece, they had running water to the houses. That running water to the houses was metered. They paid for it. Thats how vital water was. Thats how advanced they were. And so the basic goods will be things that you take for granted. Its not about getting great steak or going and doing something else.

Were headed for trouble. One of your greatest crosses, one of the most arduous works will be carrying water. Where are you going to get it? Just look at this at what happened in Venezuela. And look at the state of California. They cant survive. And New York is doing the same thing. Where will it come from? So, the observation from the United States and other officials of gold sales of Venezuela is one of the governments final financial lifelines. Do you want to wait for that to happen here? Do you want to wait for that to happen in California?

This is why I wrote It Aint Gonna Happen. And its about usury. Its about the economic system. Re-read this. It was published in 2010 and we designed the Miraculous Medal Medjugorje Round for the purpose of not investment, but for the purpose of preservation. Why? We can get inside into why by what Thomas Jefferson wrote. He says, Private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as private extravaganzas. Are we in that state of our life now and economy and the world? He continues and he says, And this is a tendency of all human governments. Thats what happened in Venezuela. Thats whats going on in California and this infection is going to go all around the world. Its all in Europe.

He continues, A departure from principle is one instance becomes a precedent for a second. So see, now they have the last riches in Venezuela, which is gold, and they go to there, and then that precedent, if thats gone, goes to the next, which is destruction. He continues, That second, for a third, and so on until the bulk of the society is reduced to a mere misery and to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Is that where were headed? These men, 250 years ago, had wisdom. Even though that was long ago, principles dont change. What goes around comes around. Throughout history, history repeats itself over and over.

One of our teachers when I was in grammar school taught us that history always repeats itself and one of the kids came in, Anthony Vacarella, he comes in the room while were saying that. He says, Why are you late? That was on a Thursday, from what I remember. The next Thursday, he came in late again and he pointed to him and he said, See I told you, history repeats itself. Thats why I can remember that. Youve got to make things tangible when youre talking to your kids. But even when youre trying to make points. Because theyre alive. We have so many points Our Ladys making in front of us and to us and speaking to us that Shes teaching throughout the day where were headed and that why is everything falling apart and what is the future of the world?

What is the future of your world? Are you making decisions now, in the time of grace so that that grace can come back to you and your loved ones and be in the best situation that is imperfect compared to how we live today? Jefferson in another quote said, Im not afraid of people. Because hes of the people. He said, They are not rich. And he says, Our dependence for continued freedom is not threatened by that. And he says, For us to preserve our independence we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. Thats where we are today. Will that cause us to fall apart? Why? Does it glorify God? Ask these questions to yourself. He continues and finishes this quote saying, We must make our elections between economy and liberty our profusion and servitude. Profusion is like overabundance. There are things we dont need. All these things, when you look at them, are telling us where were headed. And thats why Our Lady says, Use this time of grace so it will go well for you.

I know that the White House last November announced sanctions to stop Venezuelas gold sales. The point that needs to be made here is when everybody gets in trouble, it will always come down to gold and silver. Precious metals. Why? Because the currencies are paper. The currencies mean nothing. Our dollar bill means nothing. This is a display of truth, that man, no matter hes religious, paganistic, loves God, believes in God, no matter what position, no matter Democrat, Republican, no matter what ways, they know where to go to when you hit the bottom of the basket. And its going to be gold and its going to be silver. That says something. We see this now in real time. This is a self-exposing truth that these things have intrinsic value. Why? Because God made them and He made them rare, and He made them with extraordinary properties for what they do, not just in the currencies, but also in consideration of uses. Its an amazing thing. Those things are discussed in It Aint Gonna Happen. You need to re-read that. Its critical where we are today, in our economy that you re-read this to reinvigorate your thoughts to make you think about these points were making that is being showed to us by Venezuela, California, and other places around the world. Its already happening.

But see, man always wants to come up with his plan. Everybody is always trying to take the investments. Dave Ramsey is a financial advisor and hes well known. He was asked about investing in silver. Somebody asked him, I got $8,000 worth of silver. And he says this, quote, Ramsey, When you play precious metals, you are gambling with about the same odds as playing a blackjack hand. You are not investing, you are speculating. This thing can go south in a hurry. This is gambling and I would get out of it. He says, Some people are speculating in gold which would be on the greed side of the profit motivation side.

I totally disagree with this person. Hes the king of financial advice supposedly now. But hes dead wrong on this. This is not about speculation. This is not an investment. This is about preservation. And hes dead wrong in what hes saying. Ramsey says the gold thing is driven by fear versus if I buy a piece of real estate, if I buy a $300,000 rental house, I have income from that. See, everything is about money. He says gold is on the greed side. No. Buying rental houses and doing investments, thats more on the greed side than gold. Hes saying just the opposite. Hes like a pied piper and hes telling people to go to these investments.

Do you realize what real estate costs in 1929 after the Crash? Its real value. The real value of agricultural land is $200-$300 an acre. Everything above that is speculative. A depression like 1929 just brings everything back to the real value of what it is. Thats what an economic collapse does, and you find out what the real price is. So, hes speculating in a $300,000 rental house. Hes speculating everything that he does. Its all about real estate. Real estate in 1950, here, compared to today, the land in this valley is up to $15,000 an acre. In 1950, just a few decades ago, you could buy an acre of land here for $1. I know some of the older people here who bought the land for $1. And I can tell you I bought four acres down the road for $400 an acre in 1980. And what do you think for $400 now to $15,000. Thats speculation.

Dont put your faith in what the investment people are saying. Its not about the investments. Its about preservation. In regard to Ramsey, let me give you an example of what hes talking about. Facebook is going to get in the game of the bitcoin. We did a broadcast about this before. You should look it up. You need to listen to that broadcast in tandem with this one. Tell people how they can get to that.

[REYES]

So, the name of the broadcast that a Friend of Medjugorje is referring to is the August 9, 2018 broadcast titled The Number One Enemy of the Banks. And you can find that if you go to mej.com and click on the Past Shows and click on the 2018 tab and just scroll down to The Number One Enemy of the Banks. You could also just search the site and then just type in the word tulips and it will be the only response there.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

And its important to listen to that. Now Facebook is planning to launch their own crypto currency. And its going to be a game changer for bit coins because theyre so big. So, how do you do that? And a lot of people have gotten rich out of this. Its a big investment. But what are they buying? Nothing. If you want a glass of milk, and theres no milk in it, its just glass, theres nothing there. And if somebody tells you theres milk, theres milk inside this glass, well I dont see it, well pretend it is. And thats what a bitcoin is. And thats what crypto currencies are. Theres nothing there in the glass. There are no coins.

Oh, they may make a token. It has no value except that you can sell it to somebody else. So, when bitcoins came on the scene, they said you could go buy pizza, you could go buy a car, you can do these things, you can trade them. Nobodys buying no pizza! Nobody is going to come to our giftshop here at Caritas and say, Hey, weve got 20 bitcoins. We dont want that. Were not selling nothing. Whos selling by bitcoins? So, it phased out into the idea that permeated people, Well, this is going to be currency. Except nobodys buying it for that. Theyre buying it because somebody else will pay them more than what they paid, and thats how they make their money.

Ive got a third cousin thats got a million and a half dollars, I think hes only 20 years old, because he got into bitcoins. Im going to send him a message back, Get out now! Because, basically, if you get out, you got money. But its going to crash, and its going to go away, because theres nothing there. Its the system that more people who get into the game makes more money for those doing it, and theyre thinking the same thing. Its just going to go, its just going to go. In that broadcast we were talking about earlier, only two or three people at the top of what they created in what comparable of what would be a bitcoin, a few centuries ago, where thousands of other people lost everything they had.

So, this is a signs of the time. Facebook is going to create something out of nothing and it wont even buy a pizza, because what pizza place is going to even accept it? Its a lie. This is not glorifying God. This is going away. So, the Ramseys, the Facebooks, all these things, you dont have to throw it in the garbage heap. Its going to throw itself in there. Thats going to happen. And its going to reverberate through our whole system.

So, what is the real truth of where you should put your money? Dont put it in the bank. The bank is not going to give you anything. Have it saved in this other something. And Im not saying youre not investing. Im not condemning you for investing. If you can make money, make money! Do whatever you want to do. But you need to take a good portion out of your investments and put it in something thats tangible that was valuable and its solid. And do you know what that is? No, its not gold. And its not silver. Its land. Its a pig. Its a cow. Its a chicken. Its a dairy cow. Its crops. Its a garden. Thats wealth. Because Ive said many times. We grow grass. Cow eats grass. We eat cow. Thats the simplest, most basic way what were ordained to do. And you can do that whether youre an attorney or a doctor or a garbage collector. Everybody can do that. And thats where you need to go to.

The reason we do say to go towards silver is because you cant make an immediate decision to build a system like that. Weve been hitting it for 32 years to save money for the mission and its arduous. We had to work because we have two occupations, trying to feed ourselves and run the largest Medjugorje mission in the world. So you need to look at your investments and change an investment to preservation, part of it, a good part of it. Half of it. Because what will come back immediately if someone has something is the exchange of silver. Gold is awkward. You cant exchange that. Its easy for storage. But your daily exchange will be silver. So yes, a chicken that you can get eggs from and a chicken that grows more chickens. Thats wealth. But man will quickly gravitate towards the two metals. Gold and silver. Silver being primary.

So, thats why we developed the Miraculous Medjugorje Round to sanctify your money, turn it into something, and preserve something when the crash comes, when everybody wakes up. And also for a short interim to make sure you preserve it until you can get your agricultural system built.

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If someone wanted to do this and to preserve what they have until they build their system, well have a little information now from Century Silver Exchange.

[JASON- CENTURY SILVER EXCHANGE MANAGER]

For those interested in exchanging their paper dollars for the Miraculous Metal Medjugorje Silver Round, you can contact Century Silver Exchange by calling tollfree 877-936-7686. Thats 877-936-7686. You can also visit centurysilver.com or email info@centurysilver.com. And I think it would be important here to bring up one more point, and actually quote Thomas Jefferson again to reiterate an idea that youve expressed several times, a Friend of Medjugorje. And not necessarily today but over the years with Mejanomics, the critical importance of owning this physical silver and keeping it in your physical possession, not on paper, not somewhere else, at a depository, but the highest and safest form of protecting your wealth in the Miraculous Metal Medjugorje Round is to have it in your physical possession. Thomas Jefferson said, It is said that our paper is as good as silver because we may have silver for it at the bank where it issues, but this is not true. One, two, or three persons might have it, but a general application for this silver would soon exhaust the banks supply vaults and lead a ruinous proportion of their paper in its intrinsic worthless form.

So, not only to exchange dollars for the Miraculous Medal Medjugorje Silver Round, but to have it in your physical possession is of utmost importance.

[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

I would say wow to that because here he is talking two and a half centuries ago that they had already tricked the people thinking their silver is there because they can go and exchange it because people dont want it because its more convenient to have paper. So, they grew in their human nature to get used to it that, I can go there and get silver dollars. Or, I can get silver dimes. But people dont like carrying change. I dont like carrying change in my pocket to this day because its inconvenient. Papers easier. As we expand these paper dollars, the banks keep less and less because nobody really wants it.

Now, this is where we are today. Its an amazing thing how blind weve become.

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[A FRIEND OF MEDJUGORJE]

So, Id like to end with six things about silver. As weve been speaking about, it offers protection. All these things doing investment, if the turmoil happens theyre going to run to precious metals. That tells you that the herd, once it stampedes, people get crushed. And then its too late. But that has always happened. We see in Venezuela. Theyre running to silver and gold. Weve seen this repeatedly through history. You think you can escape it? No. Because history repeats itself. Its a no-brainer. In politics, economics, uncertainties happen. All legal tender takes a backseat. You can have five-million dollars in one hundred-dollar bills. Its worthless. Its the white metal that has always been overlooked that people immediately go and favor. And throughout history, people have always looked to silver over gold for means of exchange because it plays the same role but its in more of a daily usage of practical values than changing gold.

The second thing is tangible money. Cash, stocks, bonds, all these financial products are accepted as wealth. But theyre not tangible. Theyre digital. Theyre promissory notes. All these things that make the appearance that youve got something and that you can sell something and the other person believes its got value. Silver, on the other hand, is finite. It is there. Its a tangible asset. And its very unlikely how everything else crashes, that silver can crash.

You may lose money on it; you may gain money on it. Its not an investment. Its preservation. Its survival. Its what Venezuela, again Ive said this point, but theyre surviving as a final lifeline through their gold. And theyre doomed because of what Thomas Jefferson said about what governments do.

The third thing is cheaper than gold and of course its more accessible to use to buy things. Even today its difficult to take a $100 bill and go buy something. A lot of times people dont have the change. They dont like that. They want the 20s; they want the lower denominations. Twenty-dollar bills are silver. One hundred-dollar bills are gold. Which one do you want when youve got to go buy a loaf of bread?

The fourth thing, silver offers higher returns than gold. Why is that? Because today silver is undervalued but its 1/79 of what a gold bullion would be. That makes it more affordable. And so, youre going to have more silver at a lower price compared to gold, and if silver jumps up, youre going to have far more money that was going to outperform the gold itself.

We know that silver gained 448% through the period after I wrote It Aint Gonna Happen and while gold only did 166%. Im telling you that for your confidence. Im not telling you that to encourage you to invest it. Dont look at it that way.

The fifth thing is history is on silvers side. Silver has been used not just hundreds and hundreds of years, but for millennia. That tells you, history repeats itself, silver and gold. It speaks of its stability. Its there. Its never going to go away. Actually, its been with mankinds history throughout civilizations whereas all these yes moneys, fiat currencies, fall to the wayside. This is the way it works. Because we have a reassurance that the value is there, always some value.

And lastly, silver is nonemenity meaning, not everybody wants their transactions to be part of the public record. So privacy is associated with silver. And its a benefit of the white metal. So, whether or not you value privacy, it does offer the same benefit of cash. And that in itself has value.

So, I close with all these thoughts. I would suggest you listen to this more that one time because theres a lot of facts, a lot of quotes, a lot of thought. And make your philosophy. Going to Athens, theres so much philosophy that they had going three millennia that its amazing! Things that we dont even have today. Some of the stone cutters, the tools that they make, we cannot duplicate. They were so superior we dont know how to make them. You say, Well, all this technology, we cant do it? No, they can tell by the stones and the cuts and how they cut their stones that they put more effort into that then building these great temples.

So, were not so advanced. In fact, were very dumb compared to them. Their mathematic equations and what they build is astounding. That should speak to you. And listen to this broadcast at least twice. Come back to it a third time, a week from now, and see if you wont learn more with it because the philosophy Im giving to you is spiritual. And the spiritual Im giving to you is the messages. And the messages Im giving to you is from the Holy Virgin Mary. And the Holy Virgin Mary is here because Her Son is sending Her. And because Her Son is sending Her is for the purpose to change your direction and the whole worlds direction.

So, with those thoughts, I say to you, embrace everything, every word, everything that Our Lady has said to you. Ill be in Medjugorje the next time youll hear from me. Ill be broadcasting from there for the anniversary. And until that time, we wish you Our Lady, we love you, goodbye.

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The subject matter contained in this presentation is based on Biblical principles and designed to give you accurate and authoritative information with regard to the subject matter covered. It is provided with the understanding that neither the presenter nor the broadcaster is engaged to render legal, accounting, or other professional advice. Since your situation is fact-dependent, you may wish to additionally seek the services of an appropriately licensed legal, accounting, real estate, or investment professional.

This ends the Mejanomics broadcast with a Friend of Medjugorje. These broadcasts are available as CDs which are sent directly to your doorstep on a monthly subscription. For information, contact Caritas in the U.S. at 205-672-2000.