Ok, once again this morning I see an attempt to “pad the numbers” of so-called “dead international banking executives”.  All these guys churning out these headlines seem to care about is grabbing your attention, but I dare speculate that the average time-pressed reader scarcely contemplates regarding the nuts and bolts of why the deaths of these men in those specific positions (some of which are not technically banking jobs), are significant.  That is, if the reader even  notices that they are not all “international bankers” (as the headlines claim).

The original source of the piece is Intellihub.com.  The Intellihub article headline reads thusly:  “8th International Banker to Die in a Month Jumps off a Building in China”.

I’m sorry, but this is getting down-right sloppy! Here is an excerpt from the report:

String of suspicious deaths:

1 – William Broeksmit, 58-year-old former senior executive at Deutsche Bank AG, was found dead in his home after an apparent suicide in South Kensington in central London, on January 26th.

2- Karl Slym, 51 year old Tata Motors managing director Karl Slym, was found dead on the fourth floor of the Shangri-La hotel in Bangkok on January 27th.

3 – Gabriel Magee, a 39-year-old JP Morgan employee, died after falling from the roof of the JP Morgan European headquarters in London on January 27th.

4 – Mike Dueker, 50-year-old chief economist of a US investment bank was found dead close to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State.

5 – Richard Talley, the 57 year old founder of American Title Services in Centennial, Colorado, was found dead earlier this month after apparently shooting himself with a nail gun

6 -Tim Dickenson, a U.K.-based communications director at Swiss Re AG, also died last month, however the circumstances surrounding his death are still unknown.

7 – Ryan Henry Crane, a 37 year old executive at JP Morgan died in an alleged suicide just a few weeks ago.  No details have been released about his death aside from this small obituary announcement at the Stamford Daily Voice.

8 – Li Junjie, 33-year-old banker in Hong Kong jumped from the JP Morgan HQ in Hong Kong this week.

Were these bankers killed for knowing too much?  Were they involved in something so unethical that they killed themselves out of shame?  These are the speculations that are rising in the wake of these apparent suicides.

Specifics do matter.  There should be a little more of an effort to get the pertinent facts correctly stated, rather than just trying to maintain momentum on an intriguing story-line.

Karl Slym was the director of India’s Tata Motors.  NOT an international banking executive.  The auto industry, however, is corrupt and does have a very close relationship with the banking industry, and as you recall, has benefited from bail-outs just like the banks have.

Two of the named executives worked in either insurance or re-insurance jobs, that is to say title services.  Remember the commentary I posted a while back about the farce made of banking via the lunacy of “buying debt”?  See, the title industry works on a similar principle only taking things a step further into the realm of insanity, by essentially buying not debt, potential debt!  Otherwise referred to as “risk”.

Reinsurance just increases the stupidity factor to the third power.  How so?  Well, in that the initial insurer has assumed so much risk that the likelihood is pretty darn high that if as many as (oh lets say a hypothetical) two percent of their clients tried to cash in on their insurance against a loss at any given time, the insurer would probably become insolvent if he actually were to cover the entire claim of each. Therefore, to mitigate the potential loss, the primary insurer “sells” some of the risk to another insurer [who would now “re-insure” the debt (assume some of the risk) that the first company already insured, but can’t actually really ever afford to cover].  Got it? The irony is, the second insurer (or the re-insurer) probably can’t actually cover it all either.  It’s a crap shoot.  A “numbers game”, a gamble!  The reality that once made the insurance business a lucrative endeavor, is that the actual probability of having to ever make all of the payouts for all of the risks assumed, has heretofore and historically been extremely low.

These days, though, not so much!  These days everything is so  massively over-leveraged that it’s a bit like playing a game of Jenga.  Some day soon, someone is going to pull out that one critical piece, and yes, it will come down.

Hence the nouveau-and-often-bandied-about term “bailout”.  Which explains why in a stable economic system (which would like to remain stable), the government, the banking industry, insurance, and mega-corporations have no business ever becoming so chummy to begin with.

So.  Are these deaths a legitimate indicator of trouble in the global economy?  Intellihub is -Infowars -is Alex Jones -is Prison Planet.  AGAIN I say, all of the hype, all of the tying together of these incidents can be traced back still to the same source.  Other sources are reporting them, as they occur, but all speculation about what they may say about a potential catastrophic event pending, is traceable back to the Alex Jones arena.  Alex Jones, et all, are truly good at being the first to notice certain things, but they can also be counted on to add their own pyrotechnics to make a hot story seem explosive whether it is or not, and to maybe overlook, or embellish certain other aspects of a story, whichever suits the agenda.

My take on all this? This bears watching, but it’s not exactly “news” that the global economy is in trouble, now is it?  It shouldn’t be “news” at this point, to anyone who is not in a coma, that all of this will have to come to a head sometime!

As a Christian who writes for you about significant news pointing to the nearness of the catching away of the bride of Christ, the coming tribulation, and the actual return of Christ afterward to set up His Kingdom on Earth, this story is merely par for the course.  Jones and his crew talk about the Bible from time to time, but it is clear that the inevitability of what is taking place is lost on them.  I think they may erringly believe that as long as someone is raising a ruckus about these things, their rallying cry might incite “the people” to rise up and stop this, or at the very least, some will take seriously the endeavor to make every extreme effort within their means, to hunker down, prepare to “ride it out” and hope that when the dust settles there will be enough of the good folks with common sense who will survive it all, to re-build society from the rubble.

Scripture paints a very different picture of the outcome, however.  Prideful and sinful humans who worship no god but their own ambition, who one day suddenly discover that they have been merely a cog in a machine calibrated to bring an actual payout to a select few at the very top which wield all of the “power” to not only withhold  the lower fellow’s share, but cause them to take the “fall” and the “blame”, those dying guys may have realized their ambitions have trapped them.  Whether they hoped to blow the whistle and thereby provide some insulation against the inevitable fall-out, or whether they did actually take their own lives because it was the only power they had left to determine their own fate, there are still pending consequences for all involved, which none of them are calculating upon.

It’s not the I.R.S. nor any international oversight committee.  It is God, Himself.  Matthew warned: And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell

There literally is going to be “hell to pay” not only for those who have falsely manipulated all monetary systems for their own advantage, but for all sinners and all sin, except those covered by the blood of Jesus Christ, the sacrificial (Passover) lamb.

A time of meting out of justice is about to commence.  Those who shake their fist at the heavens and continue to deny the very creator who knit them together in their mother’s womb, who stubbornly intend to deny Him to their dying breath, are in for one more reality check.  Death offers no relief for the guilty who refuse to bend the knee to the authority of the Almighty.  Their claim and delusion that after death there is “nothing”, will be proven excruciatingly false.  Jesus Himself said “For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God”.  For any Jewish readers, Jesus was quoting the Old Testament passage of Isaiah 45:23 when He said that.

Falling down:  The idol Dagon fell down in the presence of the Ark of the Covenant in I Samuel 5.  Mankind fell in the Garden of Eden with the first sin, as a result of the lie “ye shall become as gods” given to them in verse 5 of Genesis 3.  Ananias fell down dead after he tried to lie to the Holy Ghost  in Acts 5.

Falling down/backwards: Eli fell backwards, broke his neck and died at the news that the Ark of the Covenant had been captured in I Sam. 4. (By the way, his two sons were also slain, and the wife of one son, who was pregnant, went into labor at the news, and named her son “Ichabod”, meaning: the Glory hath departed”).  Anyone who hears God’s Word but refuses to heed it, is promised (Isaiah 28:13) to fall backward and be taken, snared and broken.  When Judas and the chief priests and Pharisees came to capture Jesus in the Garden, Jesus asked “whom seek ye?”  They replied “Jesus of Nazereth”.  When Jesus answered “I Am He”, the men all drew back and fell to the ground in John 18.

Whether these men fell or were thrown down, if these deaths are “symbolic” of anything, it is the fact that evil cannot and will not stand in the face of Righteousness.

There is one pivotal event about to happen, which will cause the tower to fall.  I personally believe it will be the catching away of the saints of God, the bride of Christ.