September 30, 2008

Obama, ACORN, and the Current Crisis!

Honest leadership??? Open Government??? Yeah right!!!

I was referred to this article by one of my Sodahead pals screenname, 70sGirl. This written piece was passionately written by Mary Katherine Ham on The Blog: TheWeeklyStandard.com.

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Obama, ACORN, and the Current Crisis!

The extent to which Rep. Barney Frank, Sen. Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama himself are avoiding blame for this crisis despite symbiotic relationships with those who caused it is truly amazing.

The nerve with which they hold forth about "unbridled capitalism" and "deregulation" while conveniently forgetting their culpability in government interference in the market, which first pressured banks (via Community Reinvestment Act) and then incentivized banks (via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) to make risky loans to people with troubled credit history.

Obama has been heavily involved with a certain group of community organizers that encouraged such behavior since the very beginning of his career— ACORN. I'm going to pull out a little bit of Stanley Kurtz's piece on this connection, but read the whole thing. The details are devastating, even if you know the basic outline already: [Prominent Chicago ACORN activist Madeline] Talbott continued her effort to, as she put it, drag banks "kicking and screaming" into high-risk loans.

A September 1993 story in The Chicago Sun-Times presents her as the leader of an initiative in which five area financial institutions (including two of her former targets, now plainly cowed - Bell Federal Savings and Avondale Federal Savings) were "participating in a $55 million national pilot program with affordable-housing group ACORN to make mortgages for low- and moderate-income people with troubled credit histories."

What made this program different from others, the paper added, was the participation of Fannie Mae - which had agreed to buy up the loans. "If this pilot program works," crowed Talbott, "it will send a message to the lending community that it's OK to make these kind of loans."

Well, the pilot program "worked," and Fannie Mae's message that risky loans to minorities were "OK" was sent. The rest is financial-meltdown history.

IT would be tough to find an "on the ground" community organizer more closely tied to the subprime-mortgage fiasco than Madeline Talbott. And no one has been more supportive of Madeline Talbott than Barack Obama.

As for Frank and Co., watch them deny, deny, deny the crisis in 2004, a year after the Bush administration tried to tighten up Fannie/Freddie oversight, so they could keep the gravy train moving. Republicans are not blameless in this by any means, as they still had a majority when reforms were suggested, but the brazenness with which Democrats are blaming today's crisis on the market they manipulated for their own gain should not be overlooked.

September 29, 2008

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery!

Where's Duck Twacy?

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery! WB 1946





Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis? V2


I posted this video yesterday morning. YouTube pulled the original video and banned it from the site! Hhhmmm......... I wonder why? I posted an updated article attached to the original video. Is this really the kind of person you want for President? Someone who controls the media GESTAPO style?!?!?! I certainly DON'T!

~ FREEDOM ~

An insightful look into the cause of our current economic crisis. This version runs slower... from TheMouthPiece

Washington DC, The Banksters, The Fed, Rating Agencies, Mainstream Media ALL Stretching the TRUTH... More Transparency PLEASE! Ethics? Accountability?

Quotes For The Day!

7 Quotes For The Day Compliments of

Truth in 2008: Institute for Truth in Accounting.

  1. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ~ Aldous Huxley

  2. If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. ~ Benjamin Franklin

  3. Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? ~ Cicero

  4. If we were a company, we would be out of business. ~ David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States

  5. As the federal official who signs the audit report on the government's financial statements, it is apparent that our government's financial condition is far worse than advertised. ~ David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States

  6. Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  7. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. ~ Mark Twain

BONUS: An INFORMED citizenry is the bulwark of a democracy. ~ Thomas Jefferson

September 28, 2008

Revelation About This Financial Catastrophe!

In the same fashion that the Bush clan passed the Military Commission's Act of 2006 and The New FISA amendment to grant themselves and the Telecoms IMMUNITY for war crimes,

the Democrats have (S)elected a candidate who has been deeply embroiled and funded by the very criminals who were the ROOT cause of this FINANCIAL FIASCO....

Barack Obama has been (S)elected by the Democrats so that IF he became President, he would approve / pass legislation to grant ALL of the Democrats IMMUNITY for having been co-conspirators in the annihilation of the Global Financial Markets!!!

YES Bush, Paulson & Bernanke are guilty NO DOUBT. However, the Democrats are just as guilty for enabling the FRAUDSTERS that created the Predatory lending environment!

This is all so surreal for me right now. These politicians who are supposed to be serving the people, have VIOLATED every 'common citizen' in the United States. And to ADD salt to the wound they are ALL passing laws to protect themselves from Federal Prosecution! So even if we wanted to shout out 'OFF with their heads' ala Alice and Wonderland Queen of Hearts style or hang them all from the rafters.... NO judge would take the case! That's nice, really nice.

I honestly don't understand how any of you can sleep at night?

Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?

This is a great 10 minute video! Seriously the person who created this video named TheMouthPiece did a fantastic job putting this together with great choice in songs! This is a highly informative video that traced the cause of our current crisis that had its roots planted 12 years ago.

UPDATE: 09/29/08 You Tube Pulls Video Burning Down The House

American Thinker
C. Edmund Wright

You Tube and Warner Music Group today pulled a highly popular video that very succinctly and clearly spelled out the roots of the current economic crisis.

The 9:59 video entitled “Burning Down the House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis” played four different songs under a fast moving video sequence that very clearly tied Democrats like Chris Dodd, Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson and Barack Obama to policies and corruption related to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It cleverly showed how the “affordable mortgage” programs sent an economic virus through the entire economy and showed Republican efforts to intervene and regulate being blocked.

For Obama and all congressional Democrats, it was a devastating video.

The video had almost a perfect viewer rating and had been viewed some 1.2 million times according to the You Tube counters. Sometime around 3:45 EDT the video disappeared with the banner saying “This Video is no longer available due to a copywrite claim by Warner Music Group.”

This sounds to me a lot like another front in this war for the country.

Thomas Lifson adds:

Even though I wonder if Warner is so vigilant about its music being used for videos advantageous to Democrats, there is a perfect right to object to appropriation of intellectual property. Music is a business, and if you use someone's music you have to pay a royalty.

Simply re-post the video minus its music soundtrack, and see what happens. Ot use a soundtrack of music in the public domain. I suggest Vivaldi's Four Seasons, which has a driving beat of its own in various places.

Update: Daniel J. Bianco writes in, poiting out that head of the Warner Music Group's political contributions this year are going exclusively to Democrats.

September 27, 2008

Illumination As To WHY Our U.S. Government Is In Complete Panic!!!

This article wins first prize at revealing the TRUE reason why our government is in panic mode!!! WOW! The pieces of this puzzle are finally coming together for me. Oh geez, Heaven please help us all.

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Reuters.com
Reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Ken Wills
Wed Sep 17, 2008 1:45am EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Threatened by a "financial tsunami," THE WORLD must consider building a financial order NO LONGER DEPENDENT on the United States, a leading Chinese state newspaper said on Wednesday.

The commentary in the overseas edition of the People's Daily said the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (LEH.P: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) "may augur an even larger impending global 'financial tsunami'."

The People's Daily is the official newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party, and the overseas edition is a smaller circulation offshoot of the main paper.

Its pronouncements do not necessarily directly reflect leadership views, but this commentary by a professor at Shanghai's Tongji University suggested considerable official alarm at the strains buckling world financial markets.

China's central bank earlier this week cut its lending rate for the first time in six years, a move analysts said was aimed at bolstering the economy and the battered stock market.

"The eruption of the U.S. sub-prime crisis has exposed massive loopholes in the United States' financial oversight and supervision," writes the commentator, Shi Jianxun.

"The world urgently needs to create a diversified currency and financial system and fair and just financial order that is not dependent on the United States."

But Vice Premier Wang Qishan, on a visit to the United States, told U.S. trade officials in a meeting on Tuesday that China and the United States needed to maintain close economic ties with global markets going through such turbulence.

"The Chinese government is well aware of the fact that the United States, which is the world's largest developed country, and China, which is the world's largest developing country, should have constructive and cooperative economic and trade relations," he said.

China is a major buyer of U.S. Treasury bonds, and through its sovereign wealth fund it has taken stakes in two large U.S. financial institutions.

In July 2005, China revalued the yuan and freed it from a dollar peg to float within managed bands. But the yuan and China's trade remains tightly linked to the fortunes of the dollar.

The commentary suggested China must brace for grave economic fallout and look to alternatives, saying the crisis brings to mind the Great Depression of the 1930s.

"Lehman Brothers announced bankruptcy will not only have a domino effect on the global financial world, it will bring a shock to the world economy," the front-page comment stated.

The Wile E Coyote Government! Brought to you by iTulip.com

I thought we could all use a brief intermission cartoon to help characterize the debacle we face in OUR country! This cartoon was created by iTulip - The Contrarian Market View. GREAT job!

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Why does the American government consistently fail to foresee the future results of its own actions? Because it is incompetent. It is managing the financial crisis Wile E Coyote style.

Added Bonus: An article written by Robyn O'Brien titled "Goldman's Revolving Door: Enter Paulson's Pig (in Lipstick), dated September 25, 2008. Please get to know our U.S. Sect'y Treasury, Henry Paulson a little more and why the panic with him getting down on his knees this weekend in Washington.

Franklin Raines’ Criminal Enterprise and Barack Obama, His Accomplice **UPDATE** Top Recipients By $/Yr in Congress!

Oh my gosh! You are big time scum Barack Obama. In fact, I can honestly say that you are just as bad as George W. Bush in the expression of bold-faced lies!!! How you can so easily, with a straight face, LIE repeatedly to the American public and having been funded by the very criminals who were the ROOT cause of this FINANCIAL FIASCO is so beyond me... Barack Obama you are right about ONE THING and that is we do NOT need or want 4 more years of MAFIA GANGSTER style politics! ENOUGH with the corruption, greed and fraud ~ ENOUGH already! The ROARING 2000's are OVER!

"About a quarter of the nation's banks lost a combined $10 BILLION to $15 BILLION in the wake of the federal government's takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a new industry survey found." [Source: CorpWatch]

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Franklin Raines’ Criminal Enterprise and Barack Obama, His Accomplice
September 15, 2008

This is an eye-opener. I’ve simply added Years in Congress and divided total Fraudie Mae and Fraudie Mac donations by that number to rank the top 15 recipients by $ per Year. Obama is winner by a ton! Look at chart above.

As an executive at Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines illegally coerced his employees to falsify accounting facts so he’d get a maximum bonus. The government-backed firm used Enron-like fraud, in part at Raines’s orders, to create the largest bail-out in US history. Raines had the whistleblower fired. From the Heritage Foundation:

"In 2004, after a tip from a whistle blower who was later fired, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (Ofheo) issued a report finding that the government-sponsored entity Fannie Mae had engaged in Enron-like accounting machinations that allowed Fannie to overstate its earnings and underestimate the risk the company faced. The accounting wizardry Fannie engaged in was designed so that Fannie could meet profit targets to maximize bonus payments to company executives like Clinton administration deputy attorney general Jamie Gorelick and Carter administration assistant director for domestic policy Franklin Raines."

Now, this criminal is Barack Obama’s campaign adviser. Only one member of Congress, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, received more kickbacks from Raines’s Fannie Mae cronies than did Barack Obama–over $120,000 in bribes.

All Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008. (source) THIS IS NO JOKE! These two are at the TOP of this list.... UN-fricken BELIEVABLE!

Name - Office State Party = Grand Total
#1 - Dodd, Christopher - Sr. Senator CT Democrat = $165,400
#2 - Obama, Barack - Jr. Senator IL Democrat = $126,349
#3 - Kerry, John Senator - Sr. Senator MA Democrat = $111,000

Dodd has been in Congress since Moses was a baby. What did Obama do in 2.5 years to earn nearly as much cash from Frannie and Freddie as Dodd earned in 25 years? [Good point!]

Remember Countrywide? According to BusinessWeek Obama’s financial adviser, Raines, was responsible for its demise, too:

"The Countrywide project deemed, “friends of Angelo” or FoA, standing for Friends of Countrywide Chief Executive Angelo Mozilo, apparently provided special loan rates for connected officials. These included Raines, James Johnson (a Democratic party activist and adviser to Sen. Barack Obama who was named to a panel to help choose Obama’s Vice Presidential running mate), Democrat Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Christopher Dodd, and the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Democrat Kent Conrad."

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac control almost 50 percent of all mortgages in the United States. They were started by Democrats, protected by Democrat, funded by Democrats, and absorbed into the government proper at the behest of their paid hacks in the Democrat party. Conservatives have advocated the demolition of these twin towers of corruption, fraud, and bribery for decades. But Democrats blocked every attempt to even hold hearings on corruption in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

But where are the Congressional hearings? Where is the Department of Justice? Why aren’t Raines, Johnson, and Obama doing a perp walk on the evening news?

We could face an economic DEPRESSION because of Obama, Dodd, Biden, Frank, Pelosi, Kennedy, and the rest of the Democrat criminals who’ve destroyed the housing market, put families on the streets, and wrecked Wall Street through greed and avarice on a scale unseen since the Roman Empire!

Fannie also bought off activist groups such as the corrupt Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which has been indicted, multiple times across the country, for vote fraud (Obama worked closely with ACORN as a street organizer in Chicago). Fannie’s lobbying efforts paid off as liberal politicians such as Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. William Clay (D-Mo.) worked to kill any real reform of Freddie and Fannie. The Washington Post reports: “In an internal memo in 2004, Fannie Mae executive Daniel H. Mudd affirmed what the company’s critics had long contended: In the political arena, ‘we always won’ and ‘we took no prisoners.’”

Shocking Video Unearthed Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis!!! circa 2004

Oh WOW! Unbelievable... This is a MUST see 8 1/2 minute video of Democrats in their own words Covering up the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Scam that caused our Economic Crisis.

At a 2004 hearing see Democrat after Democrat covering up and attacking the regulations to protect Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (their Cash Cows) that are now destroying our economy because the Democrats let them cheat.

Barack Obama DEEPLY Embroiled in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac CORRUPTION and GREED!

Oh geez! The stuff that I unearth can sometimes make me sick to my stomach! This is one of those times... MUST SEE video! This is not rumor or inuendo. This was video taped circa 2005.

This is a 4 1/2 minute video of the Congressional Black Caucus Swearing-In Ceremony in 2005 and Barack Obama is being honored. The CEO of Fannie Mae, Daniel Mudd is the key note speaker at this event explaining Fannie's "Family" connection with Democrats!

September 25, 2008

If The Body Collapses, So Does The Head...

My gosh! I have received more anonymous hateful comments than ever before in such a short amount of time. I really touched a sensitive point. I do not bother posting them because there is no reason to expose my readers to vulgar language and verbal assaults because they're pointless. If anybody has formed a thick skin, it is moi, Wall Street is my alma mater.

Look, for all intents and purposes, I have absolutely no desire to witness a bloodbath on Wall Street or a collapse of the financial industry. By no means am I happy this is happening now. As a matter of fact, I worked on Wall Street for over a decade. I was a trader (Stockbroker) for the large investment firms that now find themselves in trouble. I couldn't wait to turn 18 years old to start working for a Wall Street firm. I got hired immediately upon my first application, then worked my way up. 'If you can believe it, you can achieve it." Looking back, I am grateful to God for blessing me with the best mentors/role models. I still remain a Capitalist with a heart.

What I want to see happen is integrity restored to the markets and accountablity. The only way this can happen is for the TRUTH to be revealed. The TOXIC firms are infecting the markets with their diseased investments. The CORRUPT politicians are now also being revealed. The stock market survived the last Great Depression and will make it though this one. Many banks, credit unions and investment firms still remain in operation. The strong firms will buy up the bankrupt firms. We will get through the coming dark period. It's our government and the fed who have their priorities all wrong. What's left is for the American public to start to DEMAND justice! This is what will cause the light to shine through.

No good can come from the bail outs our government has been undertaking. Our government is continuing to enable the very people who got us all in this mess to begin with. What's to stop them from asking for more handouts? Nothing. It's like a child that wrecks havoc and the parents take no disciplinary action. Who is in control here?

What concerns me the most right now is that our government and media keep parroting the same answer to the crisis: "We must restore credit back to the markets". Credit dried up over a year ago. So what the heck are they talking about? Oh that's right, that's what they want you to believe.

Let's take this one step further. The American people, the 'common citizens' are the backbone of this nation. We the people make up the MAJORITY. What good is restoring 'credit' back to the markets, so we can take out 'student loans, auto loans, mortgages, and small business loans' if the 'common citizen' is unemployed and homeless. Who are they kidding here? What makes them think for one minute that the 'common citizen' is going to be able to afford to buy a car or a house within a year when they are losing these two things exponentially? Did 'they' forget who the real consumers are of goods and services en masse? The next shoes to drop are credit card defaults and student loan defaults. Not to mention, everybody's credit scores going in the tank. So how do they expect people to quality for these new credit offers?

If the body collapses, so does the head. Think about this analogy for a moment... we are all the worker bees in this economic landscape. Take the honey bees for example. The bee-hive can only be maintained by the participation of the whole community of bees. Every bee in the colony is important. Every bee in the colony makes up the whole and has their place in the survival of the entire colony.

I have taken the following excerpt from a book titled, 'The Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in Art", authors Hope B. Werness and Joanne H. Benedict. Beehives symbolize the collective 'family' of bees, and stand generally for maternal reassurance and protection. The hum of the busy hive conveys diligent, energetic, and cooperative work.

A List of the Top Contributors of BOTH Candidates For Your Perusal... Numbers Don't Lie, People Do!

Jr. Senator Barack Obama's Top Contributors - Click here to be directed to my source OpenSecrets.org. NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for the 2008 election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on Tuesday, September 02, 2008.

  • Goldman Sachs - $691,930
  • University of California - $611,207
  • Citigroup Inc -$448,599
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co - $442,919
  • Harvard University - $435,769
  • Google Inc - $420,174
  • UBS AG - $404,750
  • National Amusements Inc - $389,140
  • Microsoft Corp - $377,235
  • Lehman Brothers - $370,524
  • Sidley Austin LLP - $350,302
  • Moveon.org - $347,463
  • Skadden, Arps et al - $340,264
  • Time Warner - $338,527
  • Wilmerhale Llp - $335,398
  • Morgan Stanley - $318,070
  • Latham & Watkins - $297,400
  • Jones Day - $289,476
  • University of Chicago - $278,885
  • Stanford University - $276,038

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Sr. Senator John McCain's Top Contributors - Click here to be directed to my source OpenSecrets.org. NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for the 2008 election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on Tuesday, September 02, 2008.

  • Merrill Lynch - $298,413
  • Citigroup Inc - $269,251
  • Morgan Stanley - $233,272
  • Goldman Sachs - $208,395
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co - $179,975
  • AT&T Inc - $174,487
  • Blank Rome LLP - $150,426
  • Credit Suisse Group - $150,025
  • Greenberg Traurig LLP - $146,787
  • UBS AG - $140,165
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers - $140,120
  • US Government - $137,617
  • Bank of America - $129,475
  • Wachovia Corp - $122,846
  • Lehman Brothers - $117,500
  • FedEx Corp - $113,453
  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher - $104,250
  • US Army - $103,613
  • Bear Stearns - $99,300
  • Pinnacle West Capital - $97,700

Well Surprise, Surprise, Surprise! Ala Gomer Pile

Nothing shocks me anymore! Well, no I take that back. The responses I get from Obama supporters still leaves me somewhat baffled. Here's one for everybody to chew on.

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National Review Online - The Corner
by Ben Smith
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Former Fannie Mae chairman Jim Johnson was dumped from Obama's vice presidential search team, but he's still playing a behind-the-scenes role on the campaign.

Former Senator Tom Daschle, a top Obama backer, emailed a select list this afternoon that he and Johnson would be leading a briefing intended largely for Clinton's campaign brain trust next month.

"Jim Johnson and I have scheduled another informal breakfast discussion and update on the campaign early next month," he wrote to a list including Senator John Kerry, James Carville, and Richard Holbrooke, as well as Clinton's former top campaign aides, including Howard Wolfson, Geoff Garin, and Harold Ickes.

Johnson's involvement comes at a moment when political association with the failed mortgage giants is particularly TOXIC. He was already the subject of a McCain ad attacking Obama.

Barack Obama Tops List of Bought-and-Paid-For Politicians by Wall Street! Really Now? Mr. Change We Can Believe In... LOLOLOL!

Sorry to burst your enamored Obama bubble. No really, I understand that the TRUTH hurts most of the time. This man is by no means the saint, the savior that you made him to be. Obama is JUST as CORRUPT as every other damn politician ruling over us today. Just because he says he's not, doesn't make him not.

I must remind you that Barack Obama has ONLY been a United States Senator for less that 4 years and happens to be at the top of this list with the greasiest palm. Whereas Hillary Clinton has been a United States Senator for less than 8 years and John McCain has been a United States Senator for 22 years.

Oh and for those of you who have selective amnesia, I would like to remind you of the following: "Jim Johnson, the former chairman of Fannie Mae who was one of three advisors tapped by Democrat Barack Obama to vet vice presidential candidates, resigned today after questions were raised about favoritism he may have received from Countrywide Financial Corp." Excerpt taken from the Los Angeles Times. Please click here to read entire article dated Thursday, June 12, 2008.

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Bob McCarthy Writes
Obama Tops List of Bought-and-Paid-For Politicians
September 25th, 2008

Who received the most money from Wall Street executives (i.e., the folks Barack Obama referred to in a recent speech as the ones “who got us into this mess”)? According to one report, Obama tops the list of politicians who’ve been bought and paid for by the same folks responsible for the recent collapse of U.S. financial markets.

The graphic at right reflects the Top 20 Members of Congress in terms of influence and lobbying money received, according to a report, Securities & Investment: Money to Congress, published by Open Secrets.org.

To learn more about some of the people involved in this scandal and how Obama is related to them, read my post, ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day’ Festivities Began Early.

Also, there’s a lot more where this came from at Atlas Shrugs. Hat tip to Pam Geller!

Democratic House Financial Services Committee Chair promoted GSEs while former 'spouse' was Fannie Mae executive!

Tsk tsk Barney Frank. You have alot of nerve! You have been all over the mainstream media touting that you actually give a damn about the 'common citizens' of this nation. You have been telling the 'common citizens' that the Republicans are the evil ones responsible for this mess. Yet, you have been NECK DEEP involved in this mess. NOT one mention of this association by the media. Hhhhmm, I wonder why? Lou Dobbs, I just heard that Barney Frank will be appearing on your show tomorrow. I urge you to please grill this corrupt Democratic politician. Put him in his place! This is a Bi-Partisan stink hole...

Our U.S. politicians want us to be so pre-occupied with mindless activities that we accept what they say and don't bother to fish for information. Well not me. If we are not informed about 'their' activities how do we know where we need to protect ourselves. This information quite frankly took me by surprise. I knew the Democrats were just as reponsibile for this mess as the Republicans. I mean, the Democrats control the House for heaven's sake. But to find out that the main man who is supposed to be responsible for the U.S. Financial Services Committee to literally be in 'bed' with the two corrupt corporations that insured the toxic loans and enabled the banksters is appalling to say the least! You hypocrite. Please click here to read the entire article!

Here is another article I dug up click here about Barney Frank being investigated by the House Ethics Committee from Time.com dated Sep. 25, 1989 titled, 'A Skeleton in Barney's Closet'.

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Business & Media Institute
By Jeff Poor
9/24/2008 4:00:57 PM

Are journalists playing favorites with some of the key political figures involved with regulatory oversight of U.S. financial markets?

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews launched several vitriolic attacks on the Republican Party on his Sept. 17, 2008, show, suggesting blame for Wall Street problems should be focused in a partisan way. However, he and other media have failed to thoroughly examine the Democratic side of the blame game.

Prominent Democrats ran Fannie Mae, the same government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that donated campaign cash to top Democrats. And one of Fannie Mae’s main defenders in the House – Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a recipient of more than $40,000 in campaign donations from Fannie since 1989 – was once romantically involved with a Fannie Mae executive.

The media coverage of Frank’s coziness with Fannie Mae and his pro-Fannie Mae stances has been lacking. Of the eight appearances Frank made on the three broadcasts networks between Jan. 1, 2008, and Sept. 21, 2008, none of his comments dealt with the potential conflicts of interest. Only six of the appearances dealt with the economy in general and two of those appearances, including an April 6, 2008 appearance on CBS’s “60 Minutes” were about his opposition to a manned mission to Mars.

The news media have covered the relationship in the past, but there have been no mentions since 2005, according to Nexis and despite the collapse of Fannie Mae. The July 3, 1998, Reliable Source column in The Washington Post reported Frank, who is openly gay, had a relationship with Herb Moses, an executive for the now-government controlled Fannie Mae. The column revealed the two had split up at the time but also said Frank was referring to Moses as his “spouse.” Another Washington Post report said Frank called Moses his “lover” and that the two were “still friends” after the breakup.

Frank was and remains a stalwart defender of Fannie Mae, which is now under FBI investigation along with its sister organization Freddie Mac, American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG) and Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) – all recently participants in government bailouts. But Frank has derailed efforts to regulate the institution, as well as denying it posed any financial risk. Frank’s office has been unresponsive to efforts by the Business & Media Institute to comment on these potential conflicts of interest.

While the relationship reportedly ended 10 years ago, Frank was serving on the House Banking Committee the entire 10 years they were together. The committee is the primary House body which along with the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) has jurisdiction over the government-sponsored enterprises.
He has served on the committee since becoming a congressman in 1981 and became the ranking Democrat on the committee in 2003. He became chairman of the committee, now called the House Financial Services Committee, in 2007.

Moses was the assistant director for product initiatives at Fannie Mae and had been at the forefront of relaxing lending restrictions at the company for rural customers, according to the Feb. 23, 1998, issue of National Mortgage News (NMN).

“Herb Moses, who helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs, has left the mortgage industry,” Darryl Hicks wrote for NMN. “Mr. Moses - whose last day was Feb. 13 [How convenient! Right before the SHTF] - spent the past seven years at Fannie Mae, most recently as director of housing initiatives. Over the course of time, he played an instrumental role in developing the company’s Title One and 203(k) home improvement lending programs.” [What a fine job he did at that/ sacasm]

September 24, 2008

To ALL of the Brilliant Minds of the World Who Created An Abomination of the Global Financial Markets ~ This Thing Will Not Discriminate!


It's Called BAD-DEBT For A REASON!!!

Unbelievable! I can NOT believe what I have read on the internet and heard on the cable financial news channels. The Financial Crisis bail out proposal is aimed at BUYING all of the bad-debt from ALL of the Banksters! They are trying to make YOU the American public believe that we will come out of this earning a PROFIT.

HELL NO ~ there is no way this can happen. Why you ask? Well let's just say that if the banks are not able to mark to market (price) simply because there is NO market. How can the "powers that be" conscientiously, with a straight face, say that we will be able to make a profit and come out of this on top???? Enough with the lies please.

You see, the exotic investment vehicles that are now considered bad-debt, such as SIVs, CDOs and MBSs, are TOXIC! This is what our government is planning to DIGEST on our behalf. Nice huh? We are buying JUNK! It's the investor's of the toxic debt that are demading payment. Remember these exotic investment vehicles were sold to financial market investors ALL around the world.

I have also heard that the government will or may inherit the housing foreclosure inventory being held by the banks. Really now? Ask yourself how successful our government has been at managing anything (ie; welfare, the foster care system, low income housing, senior citizen assisted living/nursing homes, our military veterans, etc.). These homes are already sitting vacant and unkempt by the lenders. So imagine for a moment when our government takes control of these properties?

This crisis began late 2006. Everybody involved (the banks, the fed, & government) had plenty of time to take pre-cautionary measures. They obviously didn't. No, what the banks continued to do is churn the obnoxious loans such as the negative amortization loan and the short term fixed rate adjustable rate mortgage. People were only making the 1% payment because they were told that was all they needed to make to maintain their mortgage. However, the reality was their interest only payment was 6% or 7%. This doesn't even include principle. The difference in these two payments was being added to their principle balance. Therefore, can you see what can happen in a declining real estate market? Their property value is decreasing, meanwhile their principle balance is increasing. What happens when they've passed market value? Well, the bank is going to demand the interest only payment in order to remain in the house. Meanwhile, they were qualified (lied to) for the 1% fixed rate mortgage payment! There is no way they are able to make the payment.

People are losing their homes and having to foreclose because their payments began adjusting once the fixed rate expired. This is the root cause! Peoples payments are increasing by thousands of dollars. American citizens are having to choose between making a $4 or $5 thousand dollar payment vs. putting food on the table. When they once paid $2 or $3 thousand per month.

To give you a common example, I know of a couple who are both employed with two children. They have owned their home for 3 years in a nice suburban area. Their payment is due to adjust within a month. They received their recent statement that says their payment is going from $2,500 to $4,000 and will adjust again in 6 months to probably $5,500+. Plus, the state of California has increased their property taxes. Their credit scores are in the high 700s. However, they are unable to re-finance because their home has lost $100,000s in value (basically they owe more than their house is worth) and their lienholder/bank is unwilling to help them lock in a reasonable fixed rate to help them keep their house!!!

All of the Banks are guilty of paying a higher compensation to their employees and brokers who pushed the negative amortization loan. Therefore, this caused the sellers to put as many people in this loan program, selling the 1% minimum payment as fixed for fives years without disclosing the dire consequences!!! Plus, most of these mortgages had pre-payment penalties which locked the borrower into this agreement for 2 to 3 years. I remember seeing infomercials on cable falsely advertising this 1% minimum payment claim. Obscene lending practices to say the least! No fiduciary duty required in AMERICA anymore!

What's worse is that these TOXIC loan programs are still being PUSHED/PEDDLED by the Banksters! These loan programs have NOT been removed from the system. So I ask you, what good can come out of our government buying the Banksters TOXIC debt when the system, the root cause still remains the same? Not to mention, ALL of the players remain the same with absolutely NO disciplinary action in site! Not even a slap on the wrist for heaven's sake. No, they are ALL receiving compensation from US for doing a fine job at screwing up our livelihoods! ~ Merci beaucoup...

U.S. House of Representative Approves $630 BILLION Spending Bill

I wanted to provide you with another news source in order for you to get informed. Please click here to be directed to the CNN Money website. Here is another website that I find useful when tracking bills and who voted for these bills it's http://www.govtrack.us/.

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CNNMoney.com
House approves $630B spending bill
September 24, 2008: 4:32 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House passed a $630 billion-plus spending bill Wednesday that wraps together a record Pentagon budget with aid for automakers and natural disaster victims, and increased health care for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The year-end budget measure also would lift a quarter-century ban on oil drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The legislation, which senators are expected to approve and send to President Bush for his signature, is flying under the political radar compared with the White House's contentious plan to bail out Wall Street.

The spending bill, which passed 370-58, is fueled by a need to keep the government running past the Oct. 1 start of the new budget year. Passage also was greased by 2,322 pet projects totaling $6.6 billion.

The measure is dominated by $488 billion for the Pentagon, $40 billion for the Homeland Security Department and $73 billion for veterans' programs and military base construction projects -- amounting to about 60% of the budget work Congress must pass each year.

Earlier this year, Congress provided $70 billion for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan; more will be needed by mid-2009.

The budget legislation is the result of months of wrangling between Democrats who control Congress and the lame-duck Bush administration and its allies on Capitol Hill. The administration won approval of the defense budget while Democrats wrested concessions from the White House on disaster aid, heating subsidies for the poor and smaller spending items.

In a major victory for Republicans in this election season, Democrats capitulated and agreed to lift the offshore drilling ban. The administration also succeeded in blocking Democrats' efforts to extend unemployment insurance, increase food stamp payments and help states deal with shortfalls in their Medicaid budgets.

Democrats doubled the money for heating subsidies for the poor and successfully pressed the White House for a generous $23 billion aid plan for disaster-ravaged states. The measure would avert a shortfall in Pell college aid grants and address problems in the Women, Infants and Children program, which delivers healthy foods to the poor.

Bush had threatened to veto bills that did not cut the number and cost of pet projects in half or cause agency operating budgets to exceed his request.

After hard lobbying, automakers won up to $25 billion in low-interest loans to help them develop technologies and retool factories to meet new standards for cleaner, more fuel efficient cars.

The bill would pay, until March, for agencies whose budgets have not passed. This would eliminate the need for a much-dreaded, lame-duck session after the Nov. 4 election to deal with unfinished work.

The legislation came together in a remarkably secret process that concentrated decision-making power in the hands of a few lawmakers. They include House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

Republicans blasted the process by which the measure came before the House. Lawmakers had just a few hours to scrutinize the 357-page measure -- along with 752 pages of accompanying explanations and tables of previously secret pet projects -- before the vote. Debate lasted less than one hour.

The rush also ran counter to Democratic promises for more open disclosure of billions of dollars worth of home-state pet projects sought by most lawmakers.

U.S. Government ALSO Bails OUT The Automobile Manufacturers in Detroit!!!

It's NOT enough our government is debilitating our economic future by saving their buddies on Wall Street and not to mention the value of their assets, they have just today passed a bill that included BAILING OUT the BIG THREE AUTOMAKERS without a sound-bite on local news?!?!?! This bill was passed under the radar once again as many others that we 'the common' citizen are not aware of because we are never told by our very own government.

Okay Washington, who's next? Perhaps the credit card companies? Meanwhile more and more American citizens are losing their homes and going homeless, more and more American citizens are losing their jobs, causing more and more American citizens to go bankrupt. But why should you care... ALL of you appear to be in the safest place ~ at the TOP of the mountain. Great place to be as this economic tsunami hits our homeland. Democracy my ASS! This applies to BOTH sides. Both parties have had their hand in this deep stinking mess! We all might as well start using our dollar bills as toilet paper. Our government seems to be... Please click here to read the following article I have taken from Reuters.com.

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Reuters.com
By Andy Sullivan

WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday funded a $25 billion loan package for troubled automakers as part of a mammoth spending bill to keep the government running through March 2009, but the legislation did not extend a ban on offshore oil drilling.

The spending bill, which passed by a vote of 370 to 58, is needed to keep the government operating after the fiscal year expires on Sept. 30.

It is expected to pass the Senate.

The bill sets aside $7.5 billion in taxpayer funds needed to guarantee $25 billion in low-interest loans to help struggling General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC produce more fuel-efficient cars and trucks.

A long-standing ban on oil offshore drilling is now likely to expire next week because it was not included in the bill, which carries a price tag of more than $600 billion.

That will not lead to a rush of new drilling as the politically sensitive topic is likely to be revisited after the Nov. 4 election.

Congress must pass the bill by Sept. 30 because it failed to approve any of the 12 annual spending bills needed to keep the government operating in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1.

The bill includes $23 billion in emergency aid to states hit by hurricanes and other recent natural disasters.

It provides full-year funding through Sept. 30, 2009 for three large, politically sensitive areas: defense, domestic security programs and expanded veterans' benefits.

The $488 billion provided for the Pentagon is less than the $492 billion sought by President George W. Bush. It includes less money for outside contractors and more to supervise them.

However, it does not include new funding for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Congress would have to confront that issue when existing funds for those wars run out in mid-2009.

Congress also will have to deal with the rest of the government's funding requirements, for programs like health care, law enforcement and foreign aid.

Separately on Wednesday, the House approved a $600 billion defense policy bill for fiscal 2009 that would authorize about $70 billion in new funding for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It also authorizes funding for part of a U.S. missile shield in Europe, a system that has drawn strong criticism from Moscow.

September 22, 2008

Pardonnez-Moi, The Gangsters I Mean, The Banksters I Mean, The Bankers Are Getting WHAT from WHOM?

Come on, you have got to be kidding me. Do you really want the American public to believe that you had absolutely no idea the magnitude of this Financial Tsunami that is upon us now? Were you not aware that since late 2006 '286' major U.S. lending operations have "imploded". How many RED FLAGS did you need? What you are considering is a MORAL HAZARD to the nth degree.

The Banksters took the outrageous investment risk at their shareholders and account holders expense. Ben Bernanke allowed the Banksters to grossly reduced the minimum amount of capital (liquid cash) they needed to keep on their balance sheets. Ben Bernanke allowed the Banksters to remove all of the mortgages I mean 'bad-debt' from their balance sheets in order to allow them to continue to churn these bad mortgages and report healthy earnings to their shareholders. Ben Bernanke siphoned BILLIONS of OUR dollars to an already hemorrhaging banking system after the credit market dried.

Okay okay, I know, what good is it to re-hash ALL of the BAD choices you made to enable the Banksters. But really now you must be conscientious of the fact that by providing ALL of these CORPORATIONS with the WELFARE they are begging you for then YOU MUST pardon EVERY U.S. CITIZEN of ALL of their bad-debts as well no? How about doing away with the IRS? I mean you don't seem to have a problem pulling TRILLIONS of dollars out of thin air. Thus causing our dollar to depreciate to next to nothing. Do you see what I am getting at? If each citizen is responsible for paying back the personal debt they have accumulated and pay taxes or die, then so must the corporations. What is going to stop the Banksters from doing this again? NOTHING. Not the rule of law. Not the government. Certainly not Wall Street. It's time to pay the piper!

Who will you have to bail out next. Hhhmm let us see, the credit card companies? When ALL of American citizens are not able to pay their bills and default on their credit card debt perhaps. Where will it STOP?

We are, I thought, proud of the free-markets that we created that helped to influence the entire global financial community. Do not disintegrate Capitalism! If you do what you are planning to do, you might as well do away with our country's ideals, the law and democracy as we know it! You MUST let the markets correct themselves naturally. The banks will find buyers and/or outside capital. Please, I implore you, DO NOT bankrupt OUR government because of their greed, irresponsible lending practices and their decision to agree to participate in the exotic investment vehicles (SIVs, CDOs, MBSs) derivatives that have created this fiasco. It's not too late, there is STILL time to do the RIGHT thing for a change.

Let us ALL examine your history for one moment please.

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Ben Shalom Bernanke is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve. Bernanke succeeded Alan Greenspan on February 1, 2006.

The Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke is "particularly interested in the economic and political causes of the Great Depression, on which he has written extensively. [REALLY? You sure fooled me] On Milton Friedman's ninetieth birthday, November 8, 2002, he stated: "Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve System. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again." [Now who were you promising this to?] His Alma maters are Harvard College and MIT." [excerpts taken from Wikipedia.org]

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Henry Merritt "Hank" Paulson Jr. is the United States Treasury Secretary and member of the International Monetary Fund Board of Governors. He previously served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs.

United States Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson was Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense at The Pentagon from 1970 to 1972. He then worked for the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon, serving as assistant to John Ehrlichman from 1972 to 1973.

He joined Goldman Sachs in 1974, working in the firm's Chicago office. He became a partner in 1982. From 1983 until 1988, Paulson led the Investment Banking group for the Midwest Region, and became managing partner of the Chicago office in 1988. From 1990 to November 1994, he was co-head of Investment Banking, then, Chief Operating Officer from December 1994 to June 1998; eventually succeeding Jon Corzine (now Governor of New Jersey) as its chief executive. His compensation package, according to reports, was US$37 million in 2005, and US$16.4 million projected for 2006. His net worth has been estimated at over US$700 million.

Paulson has personally built close relations with China during his career. In July 2008 it was reported by The Daily Telegraph that: "Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has intimate relations with the Chinese elite, dating from his days at Goldman Sachs when he visited the country over 70 times." His Alma maters are Dartmouth College, Harvard University. [Excerpts taken from Wikipedia.org]

Châtiment de l'Orgueil

It is now PAST the 11th hour Mon Freres... tick tock tick tock!

President George W. Bush (left), Sect'y Treasury Henry Paulson (center), Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke (right)

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I was led to this website when I began looking up Charles Baudelaire who I had to study back in college. This poem came to me in the spirit while I was posting this message. I wanted to share both the french and english versions. This is from his book titled 'Fleurs du mal published in 1868' which means 'Flowers of Evil'. Please click here to be directed to the Fleurs Du Mal website if you are interested in reading more of his work.

Punishment for Pride
by Charles Baudelaire (translated by William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)

In that marvelous time in which Theology Flourished with the greatest energy and vigor, It is said that one day a most learned doctor— After winning by force the indifferent hearts, Having stirred them in the dark depths of their being; After crossing on the way to celestial glory, Singular and strange roads, even to him unknown, Which only pure Spirits, perhaps, had reached, — Panic-stricken, like one who has clambered too high, He cried, carried away by a satanic pride:"Jesus, little jesus! I raised you very high! But had I wished to attack you through the defect In your armor, your shame would equal your glory, And you would be no more than a despised fetus!"

At that very moment his reason departed. A crape of mourning veiled the brilliance of that sun; Complete chaos rolled in and filled that intellect, A temple once alive, ordered and opulent, Within whose walls so much pomp had glittered. Silence and darkness took possession of it Like a cellar to which the key is lost.

Henceforth he was like the beasts in the street, And when he went along, seeing nothing, across The fields, distinguishing nor summer nor winter, Dirty, useless, ugly, like a discarded thing, He was the laughing-stock, the joke, of the children.
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Châtiment de l'Orgueil
by Charles Baudelaire

En ces temps merveilleux où la Théologie Fleurit avec le plus de sève et d'énergie, On raconte qu'un jour un docteur des plus grands,— Après avoir forcé les coeurs indifférents; Les avoir remués dans leurs profondeurs noires; Après avoir franchi vers les célestes gloires Des chemins singuliers à lui-même inconnus, Où les purs Esprits seuls peut-être étaient venus, — Comme un homme monté trop haut, pris de panique, S'écria, transporté d'un orgueil satanique: «Jésus, petit Jésus! je t'ai poussé bien haut! Mais, si j'avais voulu t'attaquer au défaut De l'armure, ta honte égalerait ta gloire, Et tu ne serais plus qu'un foetus dérisoire!»

Immédiatement sa raison s'en alla. L'éclat de ce soleil d'un crêpe se voila Tout le chaos roula dans cette intelligence, Temple autrefois vivant, plein d'ordre et d'opulence, Sous les plafonds duquel tant de pompe avait lui. Le silence et la nuit s'installèrent en lui, Comme dans un caveau dont la clef est perdue. Dès lors il fut semblable aux bêtes de la rue, Et, quand il s'en allait sans rien voir, à travers Les champs, sans distinguer les étés des hivers, Sale, inutile et laid comme une chose usée, Il faisait des enfants la joie et la risée.

Count De Money! Count De Money!

LOLOLOL! Oh my gosh, this movie always makes me crack up! This is a 10 minute scene from Mel Brooks hysterical 'History of the World Part 1'. With all of the financial crisis news finally being reported to the common citizens, I keep hearing repeatedly 'Count De Money, Count De Money' and he always replies 'It's De Monet say it De Mooooonet'. This part of the movie is based on the French Revolution and the king that is about to be overthrown. HILARIOUS movie!

Warning: this movie is NOT appropriate for my younger audience.

Please Tell the USDA To Close the Downer Loophole!


I just received an email today from The Humane Society of the United States asking us to help send a message today to Secretary Schafer. We need to apply pressure to STOP the horrific abuses that we have witnessed with downer cows. Remember, it was because of the HSUS undercover investigators that the cruelty was revealed in the first place. The USDA or even the FDA were nowhere to be found and had no idea. Once again the U.S. regulators have failed! Now that these heinous crimes have been exposed perhaps the USDA would consider doing the right thing for a change. What is the right thing you ask? How about MAKING slaughterhouses ABIDE by the LAW. Isn't that why our laws were created... to be followed. Or should we ALL start running RED LIGHTS from now on???

Please click here to be directed to the HSUS website and send the letter I have below. I've taken the following from the HSUS email:

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As a result of HSUS's investigation at the Hallmark/Westland slaughter plant, followed by the largest ever meat recall in U.S. history, the USDA is finally considering closing a loophole in federal slaughter regulations that hurts downed cattle. If USDA's proposal moves forward, cattle who are too sick or injured even to stand or walk will no longer be slaughtered for human food, so there will be no incentive to drag them with chains, shove them by forklift, shock them, blast them with high-pressure water hoses to simulate drowning, or otherwise torment downed cattle to try to get them on their feet.

Please speak up for these crippled animals, now! Submit your comments to the USDA by September 26, 2008, to let the agency know that the public will not tolerate the cruel treatment of animals who cannot even stand or walk.

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Dear Secretary Schafer:

RE: Docket No. FSIS-2008-0022

Allowing cattle who are too sick or injured to stand or walk (known as downers) to be slaughtered subjects them to terrible suffering and threatens food safety. The USDA's proposal to close this loophole is long overdue and should be finalized immediately.

While the proposed rule is a good start, USDA should go further by:

-- expanding the downer ban to cover auction houses, markets, stockyards, and livestock haulers;
-- requiring immediate humane euthanasia of downed cattle regardless of the reason(s) an animal is non-ambulatory; and
-- applying the downer ban to pigs and other farmed animals, not just cattle.

While all downed cattle do not suffer from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease"), at least 14 of the 18 confirmed cases of BSE in North America have reportedly involved downed cattle.

Downers may also be at higher risk of transmitting dangerous infections such as E. coli and Salmonella, as these animals often lie in waste and have higher levels of intestinal pathogens due to stress.

Besides the health risks, I am most concerned about the mistreatment of downers. Even after an undercover investigation revealed that downed cattle were tormented simply to get them on their feet to be slaughtered at one of the country's major suppliers to the National School Lunch Program, cattle who couldn't even stand or walk were still being abused at livestock auctions and stockyards around the country, as exposed by further investigations.

The time is now to close the loophole for all downed animals at all stages of the supply chain.

September 21, 2008

Spiritual Warfare ~ Part 3 of 3

I was led to this awesome message by Creflo Dollar titled 'Spiritual Warfare'. There are 3 parts to this message, each 10 minutes long.

Spiritual Warfare ~ Part 2 of 3

I was led to this awesome message by Creflo Dollar titled 'Spiritual Warfare'. There are 3 parts to this message, each 10 minutes long.

Spiritual Warfare ~ Part 1 of 3

I was led to this awesome message by Creflo Dollar titled 'Spiritual Warfare'. There are 3 parts to this message, each 10 minutes long.

Darkness Cannot Penetrate Where LIGHT Exist!

It is very important for all of us to understand that darkness means to maintain power. God has been exposing the darkness in every crevice on the earth and darkness is fighting to stay alive. I can say with complete confidence that spiritual warfare truly does exist. The more darkness becomes exposed around the world, the more the negative energy becomes amplified. I am not afraid however. I say bring it on! I know Who I belong to and I know Who is watching over me. To the darkness all around the world, your time is limited! You WILL soon discover what God's Justice truly means.

Darkness has tried to silence me by trying to penetrate my subconscious through dreams and desires. This is because our subconscious mind is where we are the most vulnerable. Whatever happens in your subconscious affects your waking life. If you are not centered spiritually, then you are not able to stand strong and fight back when attacked in your dreams. Darkness will always seek out your weaknesses and your fears to distract you from your Higher purpose. Each time I have been confronted in this fashion I come out even stronger. The last dream I had, I was being drawn into a dark room. As I was walking in, I was telling myself that I am not afraid. When I was inside the dark room, I saw a shadow spirit sprint by me and I grabbed its arm. It felt like I was grabbing a fish in the water with my bare hands. It stopped and looked back at me stunned as if to say you can see me? I look at it and said yes I can see you. We stood there looking at each other in bewilderment. That's when I woke up!

I am a warrior after God's will for humanity. I stand deeply rooted in God's love for ALL of His Creation. With that being said, darkness will NOT prevail. I know I am not alone in this quest to dispel darkness with our LIGHT! This is the time WE must shine brighter than ever before... I am not afraid and neither should you. Know this: God is Alpha. God is Omega. God WILL have the last Word.

Wrapped in Your Arms

Wow! I'm being led to one great song after another. This one really touched me because it perfectly describes how I feel. I was also touched by the message Zuly89 wrote in their YouTube description. I have copied it for you to also appreciate their expression of transformation and gratitude:

God saved my life. I love him with all my heart. I don't know what I would do without HIM. This video is dedicated to all of those people who believed in God....Please don't give up, He is always there watching over you. -Zuly89

Wrapped in Your Arms ~ by Fireflight

  • Is this the whole picture
  • Or is it just the start?
  • Is this the way you love me?
  • You're capturing my heart
  • I used to try and walk alone
  • But I've begun to grow
  • And when you tell me just to rest
  • I'm finally letting go
  • I let go

  • And I'm here to stay
  • Nothing can separate us
  • And I know, I'm ok
  • You cradle me gently
  • Wrapped in your arms.... I'm home

  • I'm seeing so much clearer
  • Looking through your eyes
  • I could never find a safer place
  • Even if I tried
  • All the times I've needed you
  • You've never left my side
  • I'm clinging to your every word
  • Don't ever let me go
  • Don't let go

I Am...

Here is another beautiful message from God for each and every one of us. God loves you soooooo much! You have always been His child. He has always been your Creator, your Heavenly Father. Go to Him for comfort. Let Him cover you in His LIGHT and protect you against the darkness that surrounds us!

I Am ~ by Jill Phillips

  • Oh gently lay your head
  • Upon my chest
  • And I will comfort you
  • Like a mother while you rest
  • The tide can change so fast,
  • But I will stay
  • The same through the past,
  • The same in future, same today

  • I am constant; I am near
  • I am peace that shatters all your secret fears
  • I am holy; I am wise
  • I'm the only one who knows your heart's desires
  • Your heart's desires

  • Oh weary, tired and worn,
  • Let out your sighs
  • And drop that heavy load you hold
  • Cause Mine is light

  • I know you through and through;
  • There's no need to hide
  • I want to show you love
  • That is deep and high and wide

  • I am constant; I am near
  • I am peace that shatters all your secret fears
  • I am holy; I am wise
  • I'm the only one who knows your heart's desires
  • Your heart's desires

  • Oh gently lay your head
  • Upon my chest
  • And I will comfort you
  • Like a mother while you rest

World Through Your Eyes...

This morning's theme is 'God is my refuge'. I went to Youtube and typed these words 'God+Refuge' and was led to this beautiful song titled 'World Through Your Eyes' by Reuben Morgan. This song was exactly what I needed to hear. My spirit connected immediately. Now I've never heard of this singer songwriter before today. Nevertheless, these lyrics are most appropriate for such a time as this. I pray that every soul on this planet seek God to find refuge from all of the chaos happening in this world.

World Through Your Eyes ~ by Reuben Morgan

  • Hear the silence shout,
  • Highest Praise
  • God to you alone
  • All creation waits
  • On Your every word
  • Where time and heaven meet

  • Let me see forever
  • With eyes you’ve opened
  • Standing in your beautiful light
  • Hold me near
  • Hold me near to You
  • And let me see the world through Your eyes

  • In this perfect hour
  • I am changed
  • I’ll never be the same
  • Help me follow You
  • And keep in time with the sound
  • Of heaven in me

  • Let me see forever
  • With eyes You’ve opened
  • Standing in Your beautiful light
  • Hold me near
  • Hold me near to You
  • And let me see the world through Your eyes

  • Hide me in Your love again
  • Let me hear the songs of Your heart

September 10, 2008

The Reality of China's Democratic Claims!

Wow! This is a great Opinion Editorial (OpEd) written by Ze Xia in London. Very well said Ze!

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The Guardian
The reality of China's democratic claims
Ze Xia ~ London
Thursday September 11 2008

I am very disappointed to read the article by Fu Ying, the Chinese ambassador in London (Bringing out the best in us, September 4). I feel that Fu has taken advantage of media freedom in this country to spread lies and Chinese communist regime propaganda. He does not speak for the Chinese people. In my view, the Beijing Olympics were not successful because they did not represent the real Olympic spirit, even though China has won many medals. It has been used by the communist regime as a showcase, in the same way as last century's Berlin Olympics were used by Hitler. Behind those shining medals, there were blood, suffering, arrests, torture and even deaths of innocent people.

Fu Ying claims China will "develop democracy and prosperity in line with its own culture and social conditions". Culture here means the Communist party's culture, which has certainly not come from the real traditional Chinese culture. The word democracy has been used by the regime only when it can help to polish its image. There has been no democracy under the communist regime; no free elections, only tyranny.

Fu also says that China should not be expected to become a carbon copy of a western society. As a Chinese person who lived under the communists for over 30 years, with three generations in my family suffering from the regime's persecution, I would say that the communist regime has been using this kind of statement for many years as an excuse to refuse to find out why people in western societies have been more relaxed and happier. Instead, it has copied and developed genocide and labour camps from the Soviet Union and Hitler.

Burma: Cyclone, starvation - Now PLAGUE of Rats Devastates Burmese Villages!

Have you noticed that everyone in the states has all but forgotten the horrific Cyclone that hit Myanmar (Burma) a few months ago? I haven't heard any news reported locally or even on the cable news networks. The Junta Military regime in Burma kept ANY provisions from reaching any of the survivors. Please click here and here to read what I worte back in May. It wasn't enough that these people literally had to survive a CYCLONE, but then they had to survive starvation and now they are struggling to survive a plague of rats.

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The Guardian UK
Burma: Cyclone, starvation - now plague of rats devastates Burmese villages
Pete Pattisson in Chin state, Burma
Wednesday September 10 2008

It is an impressive arsenal - more than 100 weapons, each with a sensitive trigger - but it is a feeble defence against the enemy threatening Mgun Ling and his village in Chin state, deep in the jungles of western Burma.

Theirs is an unconventional war: their weapons are traps, their enemy rats.

"We can catch hundreds of rats a night, but it makes no difference," said Mgun Ling. "They just keep coming. They've destroyed all our crops, and now we have nothing left to eat."

Four months after Cyclone Nargis devastated Burma, another natural disaster has struck the country. This time the ruling military regime has had 50 years to prepare for it, yet it has still proved unable and unwilling to respond.

The disaster, known in Burma as maudam, is caused by a cruel twist of nature. Once every 50 years or so the region's bamboo flowers, producing a fruit. The fruit attracts hordes of rats, which feed on its seeds. Some believe the rich nutrients in the seeds cause the rodents to multiply quickly, creating an infestation. After devouring the seeds, the rats turn on the villagers' crops, destroying rice and corn. In a country once known as the rice bowl of Asia, thousands of villagers are on the brink of starvation.

The last three cycles of flowering occurred in 1862, 1911 and 1958, and each time they were followed by a devastating famine. The current maudam is proving just as disastrous. A report last month by the Chin Human Rights Organisation estimates that up to 200 villages are affected by severe food shortages and at least 100,000 people, or 20% of the population of Chin, are in need of immediate food aid.

Chin, home to the ethnic minority Chin people, is one of the most undeveloped and isolated regions of Burma. These remote mountainous communities, which survive on subsistence farming, have reached breaking point.

"We have no food left," said the head of one village. "Last year during the harvest the rats came and ate almost all our rice. Our corn has also been totally destroyed. I have just one bag of rice left for my family. After that there's nothing. People in my village are going into the jungle to find wild vegetables, like leaves and roots to mix with a little rice. Our situation is desperate."

Leisa, 74, who witnessed the last maudam, claimed that this famine was worse. "In the past the bamboo flowered all at one time. The rats came, destroyed our crops, and then left. This time the bamboo is flowering in patches and each time it flowers, a new wave of rats come. Previously, we suffered for just one or two years, but now we are worried it may last seven or eight years." article Continue...