June 29, 2009

Michael Jackson ~ Heal the World

SUPERBOWL ~ Pasadena, CA 1993

We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no compassion—how can God’s LOVE be in that person's HEART? Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us SHOW the TRUTH by our ACTIONS. (1 John 3:16-18)

The innocent unconditional love Michael Jackson had for ALL of HUMANITY is a TRUE TESTIMENT of what God's LOVE represents. I know God welcomed Michael saying, "Well done, my good and faithful servant. I know you did your best." And that is what God asks of ALL OF US! For NONE of US is PERFECT! All of you reading this have sensitive issues you're dealing with too. Most of you have so many damn issues that you've bound them up into volumes, stored them and you pull them out every now and then to reference keeping your hearts filled with bitterness, hate, anger, insecurities, fear and unforgiveness. Yet you are able to keep those issues PRIVATE unlike Michael's entire LIFE!

If it were NOT for Michael Jackson raising AWARENESS by way of his music and fame NO ONE would know the depth of human loss WORLDWIDE! PLUS, MJ has CONTRIBUTED $500 million + of HIS OWN MONEY to the sick, poor and disabled! What have YOU done for HUMANITY??? What kind of CONTRIBUTION have you made to SOCIETY??? Other than passing judgement on an amazing HUMAN BEING who did his BEST to change the world!

We Will ALWAYS Love You Michael

Heal the World Foundation ~ by Michael Jackson

Words spoken by a child: Think about the generations and to say we want to make it a better world for our children and our children's children. So that they know it's a better world for them; and think if they can make it a better place.

There's a place in your HEART
And I know that it is LOVE
And this place could be much
Brighter than tomorrow.
And if you REALLY try
You'll find there's no need to cry
In this place you'll feel
There's no hurt or sorrow.
There are ways to get there
If you care enough for the living
Make a little space to make a better place.

Chorus:
Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me and the ENTIRE human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for
You and for me.

If you want to know why
There's a LOVE that cannot lie
LOVE is strong
It only cares for joyful giving.
If we try we shall see
In this bliss we cannot feel
Fear or dread
We stop existing and start LIVING
Then it feels that always
Love's enough for us GROWING
Make a better world, make a better world.

Chorus:
Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me and the ENTIRE human race.
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for
You and for me.

Bridge:
And the dream we would conceived in
Will reveal a joyful face
And the world we once believed in
Will SHINE again in GRACE
Then why do we keep strangling life
Wound this earth, crucify it's soul
Though it's plain to see, this world is HEAVENLY
Be God's GLOW.

We could fly so HIGH
Let our SPIRITS never die
In my HEART I feel
You are ALL my brothers
Create a world with NO FEAR
Together we'll cry HAPPY tears
See the nations turn
Their swords into plowshares
We could really get there
If you cared enough for the living
Make a little space to make a better place.

Chorus:
Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me and the ENTIRE human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for
You and for me.

Refrain (2x)

There are people dying if you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me.
There are people dying if you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me.

You and for me / Make a better place
You and for me / Make a better place
You and for me / Make a better place
You and for me / Heal the world we live in
You and for me / Save it for our children
You and for me / Heal the world we live in
You and for me / Save it for our children
You and for me / Heal the world we live in
You and for me / Save it for our children
You and for me / Heal the world we live in
You and for me / Save it for our children

June 28, 2009

Philippines: Dancing Inmate's Pay Tribute To Michael Jackson

The Philippines was the very first country to pay tribute to Michael Jackson! Wow, they did a great job coordinating this very large performance and in such a short time. These are the same prison inmates who danced to "Thriller". They brought tears to my eyes when they brought out ALL the FLAGS of the WORLD at the very end! Enjoy! I've taken the following information from the YouTube description.

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A tribute performed by 1,500 CPDRC Inmates on June 27, 2009 in memory of Michael Jackson. Completed in 10 hours after receiving word that the King of Pop passed away. May he always be remembered. "Ben" and "I'll be there" were sung by Michael when he was still younger! "We are the World" was composed and organized by MJ.

June 27, 2009

Do You Know Where You're Going To?

This song has been playing in my Spirit for the last hour. There is a significant MESSAGE in these lyrics for all of us. Michael Jackson LOVED us ALL! It was not his time to go. But he is at peace now.

The doctor is guilty of gross negligence and not putting his patient's health first. Why did the doctor wait an hour before he had someone else call 911? Why was the doctor trying to resuscitate him or "pump him" on the bed? If he was a doctor then he should know that you are supposed to administer CPR on a hard surface? The doctor should have immediately called 911 the moment he saw Michael Jackson clutching his chest and having trouble breathing! Then do everything possible to keep him alive until the paramedics arrived on the scene. Didn't the doctor take the hypocratic oath, this is the first RULE of medicine, DO NO HARM!

I also question the other idiot who called 911. If that were me calling 911, I would have been SCREAMING Michael Jackson is having a heart attack we need an ambulence NOW! Instead the idiot who called said, "Sir, we have a gentleman here that needs help. He's stopped breathing, he's not breathing and we are trying to pump him"

Michael Jackson was with his eldest son Prince Michael Jr. at the time he began clutching his chest and was having trouble breathing. His son thought his father was just playing around and being a goofy dad while they were in the living room. Prince Michael Jr. can confirm what time this happened and when the doctor was called in to the room. How did Michael get from the living room to the bedroom? Why didn't the doctor call 911 immediately and why did he take him to the bedroom and put him on the bed to administer CPR? The doctor is lying about everything! Update: I found an article to confirm this click HERE to read this full story!

Do You Know Where You're Going To?
Theme From Mahogany
by the Great Diana Ross

Do you know where you're going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to?
Do you know?

Do you get what you're hoping for?
When you look behind you there's no open doors
What are you hoping for?
Do you know?

Once we were standing still in time
Chasing the fantasies that filled our minds
You knew I loved you, but my Spirit was FREE
LAUGHING at the questions that you once asked of me

Do you know where you're going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to?
Do you know?

Now, looking back at all the past
We've let so many dreams just slip through our hands
Why must we wait so long before we see?
How sad the answers to those questions can be?

Do you know where you're going to?
Do you like the things that life is showing you?
Where are you going to?
Do you know?

Do you get what you're hoping for?
When you look behind you there's no open doors
What are you hoping for?
Do you know?

Let's KEEP Michael Jackson's Message ALIVE!~~ We Are The World ~ We Are The Children ~ We Are The Ones To Make A Brighter Day ~ So Let's Start Giving!



I want to make a significant point on behalf of Michael Jackson. He NEVER labeled himself nor did he limit himself to his community. Michael Jackson was a man of the WORLD! That is precisely why the WORLD loved him so much. The African American community hasn't learned anything from Michael's messages or art. You are making his death an African American loss instead of honoring him and perceiving him as a GLOBAL LOSS! or better yet, the LOSS of AN AMAZING HUMAN BEING who INSPIRED MILLIONS. Michael Jackson was trying to TRANSFORM everyone's HEARTS and MINDS to look past the color of our skin and look beyond our borders!

Michael Jackson transcended STYLE, categories, labels, race, culture, skin color, language, gender, and age! Michael Jackson had NO BOUNDARIES! Don't make the mistake of defining and confining Michael Jackson to your limiting conditioned mindset after his death. Michael Jackson could have changed his skin color to green, shaved his head and tattooed his entire body and his global fanbase would have loved him just the same! This is a perfect opportunity for your community to grow beyond segregation. Don't let his entire life and sudden death be in VAIN!

Almighty God does NOT SEE the COLOR of our skin! God is looking down on ALL of His CHILDREN! God said, Let Us [Father, Son, and Holy Spirit] make mankind in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the [tame] beasts, and over all of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Genesis 1:26-27)

Lord seeth NOT as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance but the LORD looketh on the HEART. (1 Samuel 16:7)

For God, who said, “Let there be LIGHT in the darkness,” has made this LIGHT shine in our HEARTS so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the FACE of Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:6)

LET'S MEAN IT NOW!

We Are The World
Lyrics written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie
Sung by over 2 dozen recording artists

There comes a time
When we head a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
And it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all

We CAN'T go on
Pretending day by day

That someone, somewhere will soon make a change
We are all a part of
God's great big family

And the truth, you know love is all we need

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a CHOICE we're making
We're saving our own lives

It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

Send them your HEART
So they'll know that someone cares

And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us by turning stone to bread
So we all must lend a helping hand

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a CHOICE we're making
We're saving our own lives

It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

When you're down and out
There seems no hope at all
But if you just BELIEVE
There's no way we can fall

Well, well, well, well, let us realize
That a change will only come
When we stand together as one

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children

We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a CHOICE we're making
We're saving our own lives

It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

June 26, 2009

We Are ALL Children Of The MOST HIGH GOD! Until You Discover And Nurture Your Inner-Child You Will Never Understand Where TRUE FREEDOM LIVES!

Here's a little food for thought: Walt Disney was a child at HEART! Walt Disney envisioned and created a giantic playground where he could be himself. Walt Disney wanted to share his gigantic playground with ALL of the children of the WORLD to enjoy! Disneyland became his santuary. In fact, Walt Disney built an apartment above City Hall on Main Street. He used to enjoy observing the millions of children entering his playground with such joy and anticipation. Walt Disney LOVED to be around children! That is when he was MOST himself imagine that! Did this make Walt Disney a sick perverted pedophile? NO.

God blessed Michael Jackson with a TALENT that EARNED him a fortune. Michael Jackson was a child at HEART! It's no wonder that he too would build a playground of his own and want to share it with children. Society has conveniently forgotten that most of the children that visited Neverland were sick, disabled and underpriviledged. Neverland became his sanctuary! I too am a child at HEART! I dream about having an arcade in my home, a huge theatre to watch my favorite animation and movies, a raquetball court and a bowling alley would be nice. I would want horses and stables on the grounds, batting cages, a humongous tropical swimming pool and even build a go-cart race track. It would also be great to build an ice-skating rink that converts to a roller rink at a push of a button. However, it would be no fun if I were alone right? Seriously think about that for a moment. I would want to share this fun environment I created with others. I did learn a valuable lesson from Michael and that is I will make sure I have hidden security cameras throughout the estate. This will protect me from any loser looking for a free ride who thinks they can pull a fast one on me. I will also make sure other adults are always present when I am around children. I grew up having slumber parties in our home. But Michael never in his life enjoyed a slumber party with other children outside of his family. More significantly, Michael Jackson did not have a childhood. Can you really blame him for wanting to create one later in life?

The TRUTH is this, we are ALL grown children. And no matter how adult or mature you try to be, pay attention to the way you respond to others and the way you treat others. Your personality and behavior reflects your inner-child whether you know it or not. If you want to know the truth, I don't see young, middle age or old. All I SEE are children. What I mean is when I am talking to an adult I can SEE their inner-child. And I also FEEL either darkness (negative energy) or light (positive energy) emanating from any person, place or thing I come in contact with. That is how I read what is in a person's HEART! This is something I've had to learn to live with through God's help and accept it as a gift from God. There was a period when the energy I was picking up on was so profound I would wear a baseball cap and do my grocery shopping around midnight when there were very few people around. I'm pretty sure my neighbors thought I was exhibiting odd behavior during that time. Fortunately, I had already established relationships with my neighbors and they loved me just the same. Now the energy gets filtered through me without any thought or effort by way of the Spirit. Thank God! Please note that we are ALL born with this ability. That is why it is so important for you to re-connect with your inner-child which is in essence re-connecting with the Source (God). Now I did't say I treat people like children. There is a huge difference. I treat every living thing that crosses my path with kindness and RESPECT. How they respond is on them. But I walk away with a good conscience.

There are times when I find myself visualizing my dream. It'll be wonderful when it comes true. Nevertheless, I'm always reminded of the millions of children who have never experienced this kind of fun all around the world. It is unbelievable to me that even children in the United States have never once step foot on an ice-skating rink or roller skated. Not even any of the other things that I mentioned. This breaks my heart just thinking about it! The parents of these children mostly pray for food, clean water, clothes and a roof over their head if they're lucky. Can you blame them? Of course not. We all need at a minimum these basic necessities to survive. However, the one thing these children are missing is fun and laughter! This too is a need that needs to be spread around the world.

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At that time Jesus was full of joy through the Holy Spirit. He said, "I praise you, Father. You are Lord of heaven and earth. You have hidden these things from the wise and educated. But you have shown them to little children. Yes, Father. This is what you wanted. (Luke 10:21)

Jesus said, "What I'm about to tell you is true. You need to change and become like little children. If you don't, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:3)

People were bringing little children to Jesus. They wanted him to touch them. But the disciples told the people to stop. When Jesus saw this, he was angry. He said to his disciples, "Let the little children come to me. Don't keep them away. God's kingdom belongs to people like them. (Mark 10:13-14)

You didn't receive a spirit that makes you a slave to fear once again. Instead you received the Holy Spirit, who makes you God's child. By the Spirit's power we call God "Abba." Abba means Father. (8:14-16)

Because you are his children, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. He is the Holy Spirit. By his power we call God "[Abba.]" Abba means Father. (Galatians 4:6)

Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]. (Romans 12:2)

Michael Jackson ~ "Can You Feel It"

I still cannot believe Michael Jackson is gone! I've been listening to his music non-stop and watching his videos! I'm having my own memorial service for Michael at home. Everytime the reality of it all hits my Spirit I break out in tears. I can't even begin to imagine what his three children and family must be feeling right now. If I'm still distraught, they must be feeling a 1,000 times greater pain than I. Michael oh Michael why did you have to leave us so soon? Thank you SO MUCH Michael for being everything God created you to be! Your humble, loving, generous nature will be forever remembered by ALL!

I find comfort right now in knowing that his inner-child has been set FREE in Heaven and he is surrounded by everything his Spirit was longing for here on earth. The innocent unconditional love he had for ALL of HUMANITY is a TRUE TESTIMENT of what God's LOVE represents. I know God welcomed Michael saying, "Well done, my good and faithful servant. I know you did your best." And that is what God asks of ALL OF US! For NONE of US is PERFECT! All of you reading this have sensitive issues you're dealing with too. But you are able to keep those issue PRIVATE unlike Michael's entire LIFE!

Michael Jackson, you will be terribly missed and never forgotten. You are such an INSPIRATION! I may not have known you personally, but I understood you wholeheartedly.

Can You Feel It ~ Michael Jackson

Intro: In the beginning the land was pure. Even in the early morning light you can see the beauty in the forms of nature. Soon men and women of every color and shape will be here too. We find it all too easy sometimes not to see the colors and to ignore the beauty in each other. But they would never lose sight of the dream of a better WORLD that they could UNITE and BUILD together in TRIUMPH!!!

Can you feel it
Can you feel it
can you feel it!

If you look around
The whole world's coming together now.
Can you feel it
Can you feel it
Can you feel it!
Feel it in the air
The wind is taking it everywhere.
Can you feel it
Can you feel it
Can you feel it!


ALL the COLORS of the WORLD should be
Lovin' each other wholeheartedly.
Yes it's alright
take my message to your brother and tell him twice.
Spread the word who tried to teach the man who is hatin' his brother,
When hate won't do
'cause we're all the same
Yes the blood inside of me is inside of you.


NOW TELL ME!

Can you feel it
Can you feel it
Can you feel it!
Can you see what's going down
you can feel it in your bones


Every breath you take,
Is someone's death in another place.
Every healthy smile,
Is hunger and strife to another child.
But the stars do shine
And promising salvation is near this time.
Can you feel it now,
So brothers and sisters
Shall we know how.

NOW TELL ME!

Can you feel it
Tell me can you feel it
Can you feel it!
Talk now can you see what's going down
OPEN UP YOUR MIND.

ALL the CHILDREN of the WORLD should be
Lovin' each other wholeheartedly

Yes it's alright
Take my message to your brother and tell him twice.
Take the news to the marchin' men
Who are killin' their brothers,when death won't do.
Yes we're all the same
Yes the blood inside my veins is inside of you.


NOW TELL ME!

Can you feel it
Can you feel it
Can you feel it!
Can you feel it
Can you feel it
Can you feel it!
Can you see what's going down
you can feel it in your bones

Michael Jackson ~ "Off The Wall"


I love everything Michael Jackson ever released. However, if I had to choose one song that I could listen to every morning and did, it would have to be "Off The Wall". Enjoy the lyrics! Yes, I'm still in SHOCK!
Off the Wall ~ by Michael Jackson
When The World Is On Your Shoulder
Gotta Straighten Up Your Act And Boogie Down
If You Can't Hang With The Feeling
Then There Ain't No Room For You This Part Of Town
'Cause We're The Party People Night And Day
Livin' Crazy That's The Only Way

So Tonight Gotta Leave That Nine To Five Upon The Shelf
And Just Enjoy Yourself
Groove, Let The Madness In The Music Get To You
Life Ain't So Bad At All
If You Live It Off The Wall
Life Ain't So Bad At All
Live Your Life Off The Wall

You Can Shout Out All You Want To
'Cause There Ain't No Sin In Folks All Getting Loud
If You Take The Chance And Do It
Then There Ain't No One Who's Gonna Put You Down
'Cause We're The Party People Night And Day
Livin' Crazy That's The Only Way

So Tonight Gotta Leave That Nine To Five Upon The Shelf
And Just Enjoy Yourself
C'mon And Groove, And Let The Madness In The Music Get To You
Life Ain't So Bad At All
If You Live It Off The Wall
Life Ain't So Bad At All
Live Your Life Off The Wall

Do What You Want To Do
There Ain't No Rules It's Up To You
It's Time To Come Alive
And Party On Right Through The Night

Gotta Hide Your Inhibitions
Gotta Let That Fool Loose Deep Inside Your Soul
Want To See An Exhibition
Better Do It Now Before You Get To Old
'Cause We're The Party People Night And Day
Livin' Crazy That's The Only Way

So Tonight Gotta Leave That Nine To Five Upon The Shelf
And Just Enjoy Yourself
C'mon And Groove (Yeah) Let The Madness In The Music Get To You
Life Ain't So Bad At All If You Live It Off The Wall
Life Ain't So Bad At All
Live Your Life Off The Wall

So Tonight Gotta Leave That Nine To Five Upon The Shelf
And Just Enjoy Yourself
C'mon And Groove (Yeah) Let The Madness In The Music Get To You
Life Ain't So Bad At All If You Live It Off The Wall
Life Ain't So Bad At All
Live Your Life Off The Wall

June 25, 2009

Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009)

Oh my beloved God! I just found out Michael Jackson has died!!!! I was hoping this news was a cruel joke. But I'm afraid it is not! Michael Jackson died of cardiac arrest at 3:15pm pst at UCLA Medical Center. I can't stop crying as I write this horrible unbelievable news!!!! I feel like I'm still sleeping and I'm having a nightmare dream right now and I want somebody to wake me up! He was ONLY 50 years old. This can't be true!!!! Now I know how my mom felt when Elvis Presley died!

Michael Jackson, you will always be remembered as one of the GREATEST performers of ALL TIME! Michael Jackson is an ORIGINAL! Thank you Michael Jackson for having the COURAGE to carve out your very own UNIQUE trail that has left an imprint on ALL of our hearts! Even after being rejected, scorned and abandoned by most of the African American community. He wasn't black enough or urban enough or they just envied him because he became a HUGE success around the WORLD! Because of this he had to sacrifice his roots in order to live out his divine destiny!!! This is what it means to be TRUE TO YOURSELF! He always remained humble and has served the World as a GENEROUS HUMANITARIAN! Let his story be a good example for all of you to follow! His music, style and dance moves will be remembered for generations to come! I find comfort right now in knowing that his inner-child has been set FREE in Heaven and he is surrounded by everything his Spirit was longing for here on earth. Michael Jackson, you will be terribly missed and never forgotten. I may not have known you personally, but I understood you wholeheartedly.

Shame on the Chandler family for the false allegations they charged against Michael Jackson back in 1993. Evan and June Chandler were money hungry OPPORTUNISTS! The Chandler family out of court settlement included a $15.3 million annuity for the son, $1.5 million for each parent and several million in legal fees. What's worse, the media ate up their story and proclaimed Michael Jackson guilty and falsely labeled him a pedophile! I can't even begin to imagine the magnitude of betrayal Michael Jackson must have felt. Evan Chandler was tape-recorded saying amongst other things, "If I go through with this, I win big-time. There's no way I lose. I will get everything I want and they will be destroyed forever...Michael's career will be over". In 2006 the accuser Jordy Chandler, at the age of 26, requested a restraining order and accused his ex-dentist dad Evan Chandler "struck him on the head from behind with ... (dumbbell) weight ... sprayed his eyes with Mace or pepper spray, and tried to choke him" last year, according to court documents filed in New Jersey.

The same holds true for the Arvizo family who falsely accused Michael Jackson of child abuse in 2003. Janet approached Larry Feldman, the attorney who represented Jordie Chandler (first accuser) in 1993. This made some believe she was intent on getting money because she went to an attorney before the police – it was also the same attorney who helped get an out-of-court settlement for Jordie Chandler for a reported $20 million. Larry Feldman then sent the family to psychologist Dr. Katz, which was also the same psychologist that assisted the first accusers family to uncover whether there might have been sexual abuse. Dr. Katz later stated that in her opinion Jackson was not a pedophile but a regressed 10 year old. Larry Feldman and Dr. Katz were later focused on by the defense, stating that the mother (Janet) went to the same people that triggered the first investigation on Michael Jackson back in 1993. Obviously some type of research of the Chandler case must have occurred. On June 13, 2005, the jury found Jackson NOT GUILTY on all charges.

May Evan, June and Jordy Chandler and David, Janet and Gavin Arvizo's souls rot in hell for ALL of eternity! For it is written, "You must not testify falsely against your neighbor" (Exodus 20:16)

I have always questioned what a segment of society stands for based on what I have witnessed. O.J. Simpson who was clearly guilty for murdering two people was acquited. Nevertheless, O.J. Simpson had millions of supporters expounding his innocence across America. O.J. Simpson did not do shit for humanity! NOT ONE THING and all of you showed him your love and support! Another IDIOT, Rodney King who had a long known criminal record was shown love and support by millions of Americans. We even had riots in Los Angeles for almost a week in support of this loser! Rodney King also did not do shit for humanity! Michael Jackson on the other hand who NEVER hurt anybody was always reportedly guilty whenever he was falsely accused of one thing or another. Society made fun of him and pre-judged him time after time. A part of society made him a PARIAH and DISASSOCIATED themselves from him when he needed them the MOST. NEVER once remembering ALL of the MAJOR contributions Michael Jackson made on behalf of HUMANITY throughout his lifetime!

NOT ONCE did I see the African American community defend Michael Jackson on public television! Other than his closest friends who appeared at his trials. WHERE WERE YOU ALL when he needed your LOVE and SUPPORT the most! When he was ALIVE and being FALSELY ACCUSED or made fun of repeatedly. WHY DIDN'T YOU march, speak out publicly in Michael Jackson's DEFENSE? WHHHHHYYYYY didn't you? Where was Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson back then? Shame on all of you!

So what if he was strange or eccentric. Name ONE GREAT PERSON throughout history that was so-called "NORMAL". If any person is ever to be considered GREAT, believe me they had to RISE ABOVE "normal" to set a new standard in any field! He and the other GREAT people EVER remembered DARED to be DIFFERENT! Heaven forbid if I am ever forced to think and act like the ignorant fools of society en masse, like invasion of the body snatchers, I will NOT want any part of it. In fact, I would beg God to take my life right then and there!

President Obama's ABC Healthcare Waste Of Time!

Salvadore Dali Melting Time Clock

Was it just me or did President Obama take 10 minutes to answer each question and then in the end NEVER actually answered the questions asked?!? Most of the questions were so direct, a simple yes or no would have sufficed.

Another thing that extremely puzzles me about President Obama's campaign, vision and confidence about his healthcare proposal is his lack of preparedness. His healthcare proposal is so unbelievably ill-conceived. If you or I went to any bank in the world or even a private investor with a business proposal seeking capital, the bank or private investor is going to first ask for a detailed business plan.

A Business Plan is a document that describes an organization's current status and plans for several years into the future. It generally projects future opportunities and maps the financial, operational and marketing strategies that will enable the organization to achieve its goals. If your business plan is not well written and well packaged, you better believe you will be shown the door.

In the case of President Obama's healthcare overhaul we, the taxpayers are the bank! Therefore, would it not be wise for our President and Congress to have a business plan prepared before they start marketing it?!?!

As I slowly began to drift into a hypnotic state due to President Obama's charm and sense of humor, I had to force myself to listen to his long winded answers. During that time, I suddenly realized there is not one government run agency operated efficiently. Just think about this for a moment. Would 9/11 have been allowed to happen if the CIA, FBI, INS or FAA were doing their jobs? This current economic financial crisis could have also been averted had the Federal Reserve, U.S. Treasurer, Securities Exchange Commission and FBI were doing their jobs. Name one government agency (national, state and local level) that you know of for sure that provides quality service?! The answer is there isn't one. All of our taxpayer dollars that are supposed to be allocated to pay for social services mostly go towards administrative costs. On top of this initial waste, there are layers upon layers of government bureaucracy nothing gets done! The point I am trying to get across is that the job the government agencies were created to do have all clearly fallen short. That's actually a nice answer. What I want to say is they have ALL GROSSLY FAILED!

Look I think it's honorable that our President wants the low-income and retired citizens of our country to have access to healthcare. It is a serious issue that our country desperately needs to address. However, I see President Obama drowning in a glass of water. He needs to break down his healthcare plan into three parts: immediate need, short-term need and long-term need. The obvious immediate need would be providing preventative healthcare services for low-income and retired citizens. Look into the cost of building a medical clinic or center large enough to sustain an entire urban community. Patients can have access to medical, dental and vision. Then multiply that cost by every metropolitan city across America.

President Obama can have these medical centers up and running at a fraction of the cost he is proposing to spend on his healthcare plan estimated at $2 TRILLION. In fact, now that I think about it why doesn't our government direct most of the $787 BILLION Stimulus bill toward building these medical centers across America! That would put lot's of people to work and quickly! Why not? The BILLIONS are just sitting there NOT being spent on anything. I though it was supposed to STIMULATE JOLT our economy. Satisfy two great needs with one humongous stone why don't you. Only do us ALL a favor and DON'T manage these medical centers in the same way you did Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

I can't resist giving one more jab. If providing healthcare to our low-income and retired citizens was a TOP PRIORITY for our President and Congressional body, then why oh why did they choose to BLOW OFF $410 BILLION on inconsequential endeavors? Without a second thought? Why? I am referring to the OMNIBUS BILL! Our President and Congress didn't bother asking our permission for passing the Stimulus bill and Omnibus bill his first month in office that total $1.197 TRILLION not billion and not million that is T-R-I-L-L-I-O-N! So with this fact in mind what makes us think President Obama is sincere in asking us permission to pass the Healthcare bill??? Not sincere at all. President Obama has already made it CLEAR that this $2 TRILLION bill WILL PASS! He said he is confident that it will pass. So basically this is all a charade at our expense!

June 24, 2009

Burmese Official Fired For Stealing Int'l Cyclone Relief Donations! Over 100,000 Burmese Were Killed With This Cyclone! What A Self-Serving BEAST!

The Irrawaddy News
Burmese Official Sacked for Nargis-related Corruption
written by By MIN LWIN
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Burma’s military junta has sacked the head of one of the key government departments involved in the Cyclone Nargis relief and recovery effort following allegations that he stole money donated for survivors of the disaster, according to reliable sources in Rangoon.

Than Oo, a former colonel who was serving as the director general of the Ministry of Social Welfare’s Department of Relief and Resettlement, was accused of STEALING MILLIONS of kyat (several hundreds of thousands of dollars) from international DONATIONS intended for Nargis-related projects, the sources said.

State-run newspapers did not publish any information about the dismissal of the senior official, who was recently arrested and interrogated by the regime’s Bureau of Special Investigation, according to sources in Naypyidaw.

The Department of Relief and Resettlement cooperates closely with international donors providing aid for humanitarian relief and recovery work in the cyclone-stricken Irrawaddy delta.

“The Department of Relief and Resettlement is responsible for accepting funds and donations from international NGOs,” said a Rangoon businessman who runs a local relief organization for Nargis victims.

“The department is supposed distribute the aid to assist people hit by the cyclone. He was probably taken into custody because materials donated by international NGOs went missing,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Burmese junta is holding a secret meeting in its capital, Naypyidaw, where a number of other officials have also reportedly been reshuffled.

Burma’s top military leader, Snr-Gen Than Shwe, has retired or reassigned around a dozen senior officials, according to military sources. However, The Irrawaddy has not been able to confirm the reports with other independent sources.

Think Again: Asia's Rise ~ Dictatorship Has Given Asia An Advantage: NO ~ This Is Excellent Information And Very Insightful


Foreign Policy
Think Again: Asia's Rise
written by MINXIN PEI
Monday JUNE 22, 2009

"Dictatorship Has Given Asia an Advantage."

No. Autocracies, mainly in East Asia, may seem to have made their countries prosperous. The so-called dragon economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia under Suharto, and now China experienced their fastest growth under nondemocratic regimes. Frequent comparisons between China and India appear to support the view that a one-party state unencumbered by messy competitive politics can deliver economic goods better than a multiparty system tied down by too much democracy.

But Asia also has had many autocracies that have impoverished their countries-consider the tragic list of Burma, Pakistan, North Korea, Laos, Cambodia under the murderous Khmer Rouge, and the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos. Even China is a mixed example. Before the Middle Kingdom emerged from self-imposed isolation and totalitarian rule in 1976, its economic growth was subpar. China under Mao also had the dubious distinction of producing the world's worst famine.

Even when you look at autocracies credited with economic success, you find two interesting facts. First, their economic performance improved when they became less brutal and allowed greater personal and economic freedoms. Second, the keys to their successes were sensible economic policies, such as conservative macroeconomic management, infrastructural investment, promotion of savings, and pushing exports. Dictatorship really has no magic formula for economic development.

Comparing a one-party state like China with a democracy such as India is not an easy intellectual exercise. Obviously, India has many weaknesses: widespread poverty, poor infrastructure, and minimal social services. China appears to have done much better in these areas. But appearances can be deceiving. Dictatorships are good at concealing the problems they create while democracy is good at advertising its defects.

So the autocratic advantage in Asia is, at best, an optical illusion.

Please click HERE to read the other several insightful answers to many of our questions such as:

  • Power Is Shifting from West to East
  • Asia's Rise Is Unstoppable
  • Asian Capitalism Is More Dynamic
  • Asia Will Lead the World in Innovation
  • China Will Dominate Asia
  • America Is Losing Influence in Asia

June 23, 2009

Burma Lingering On The Cusp Of "FAILED STATE" Status! The Findings Point To An Isolated State DECAYING From Within.

Mizzima News
Burma lingering on the cusp of "failed state" status
Tuesday June 23, 2009 15:49

Chiang Mai (mizzima) - Warning that the global recession could lead to more failed states, the 2009 Failed States Index lists Burma as in critical danger of state collapse due, primarily, to the MISUSE of power by the country's ruling military government.

Though holding steady at number 13 in the global rankings, Burma's cumulative 2009 score deteriorated by an additional 1.2 percent from a year previously, according to the latest rankings released earlier this week.

The study, a joint undertaking by Washington D.C.-based Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace, argues Burma is failing "because their government is strong enough to choke the life out of their society."

Meanwhile, the Fund for Peace classifies each of five critical indicators – leadership, military, judiciary, civil service and police – as "poor" in the case of Burma.

The architects of the findings contend that few countries fail by chance, though admitting that foreign intervention, such as through the supply of arms, can contribute to a state's instability. Presently, there is concern that a North Korean ship laden with arms and possible missile technology is en route to a Burmese port.

Burma's worst categorical scores came in "Uneven Development" and "Delegitimization of the State", while the best of the poor scores were achieved in the areas of "Human Flight" and "External Intervention". The findings point to an isolated state DECAYING from within.

However, the report's authors contend it will be impossible for the world's stable governments to come to the assistance of all countries in danger of state collapse, arguing that the final decision on which nations to help will be based on geopolitical implications.

Specifically, the question "Which failed states are global security threats and which are simply tragedies for their own people?" is said to lie at the center of a country's assessment when determining where to focus a nation's limited resources in assisting states on the brink of failure.

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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

[source: wikipedia]

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a United Nations treaty based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created in 1966 and entered into force on 23 March 1976.

GENESIS

The ICESCR and the ICCPR have their roots in the same process that led to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As the UDHR was not expected to impose binding obligations, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights began drafting a pair of binding Covenants on human rights intended to impose concrete obligations on their parties. Due to disagreements between member states on the relative importance of negative Civil and Political versus positive Economic, Social and Cultural rights, two separate Covenants were created. These were presented to the UN General Assembly in 1954, and adopted in 1976.

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights has been signed by 174 states, 8 of which have yet to ratify the treaty. A country-by-country list of declarations and reservations made upon ratification, accession or succession can be seen at this link click HERE.

CONVENTION PROVISIONS

Five categories
  1. Protection on individual's physical integrity (against things such as execution, torture, and arbitrary arrest).
  2. Procedural fairness in law (rule of law, rights upon arrest, trial, basic conditions must be met when imprisoned, rights to a lawyer, impartial process in trial).
  3. Protection based on gender, religious, racial or other forms of discrimination.
  4. Individual freedom of belief, speech, association, freedom of press, right to hold assembly.
  5. Right to political participation (organise a political party, vote, voice contempt for current political authority).

Two optional protocols

  1. Mechanism by which individuals can launch complaints against member states.
  2. Abolition of the death penalty.

States not members of the Covenant

The majority of states in the world are parties to the ICCPR. As of April 2009 the following 30 states have either not yet signed the convention, or have signed but have not yet ratified the convention.

Signed but not ratified

  1. China
  2. Comoros
  3. Cuba
  4. Guinea-Bissau
  5. Laos
  6. Nauru
  7. Pakistan
  8. São Tomé and Príncipe

Neither signed nor ratified

  1. Antigua and Barbuda
  2. Bahamas
  3. Bhutan
  4. Brunei
  5. Burma (Myanmar)
  6. Fiji
  7. Kiribati
  8. Malaysia
  9. Marshall Islands
  10. Micronesia
  11. Oman
  12. Palau
  13. Qatar
  14. Saint Kitts and Nevis
  15. Saint Lucia
  16. Saudi Arabia
  17. Singapore
  18. Solomon Islands
  19. Tonga
  20. United Arab Emirates
  21. Vanuatu
  22. Vatican City

A Moment Of Silence

Neda Salehi Agha Soltan, a 26-year-old music student was KILLED during Saturday's protest in Tehran. Her name Neda means "voice". She was shot down by the Basiji, a paramilitary militia under the control of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran.

Neda was an UNARMED CIVILIAN who knew in her heart that her presence would make a difference. Neda represents each one of us around the world who stands for FREEDOM, TRUTH and JUSTICE! Please don't give up the fight. Don't let Neda and the hundreds of other protesters who have been killed for FREEDOMS SAKE go in vain. There is something to be said about the human spirit. You can try to suffocate the human spirit for so long until the human spirit fights back to breathe freely once again. Let FREEDOM RING in your hearts! FREEDOM may not come easy. But anything worth having comes with a price. Walk forward in confidence knowing that Allah's angels are walking beside you. Let Allah's Light, Love and Truth be revealed through you! Look upon yourselves as VICTORS and not victims.

Ayatollah Khomeini is the Supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. There is absolutely NOTHING Supreme about the Ayatollah. Allah does NOT APPROVE this type of leadership! There is only ONE Supreme leader and that is Allah not the Ayatollah. Ayatollah Khomeini is maintaining control over Iran by way of FEAR, REPRESSION and MURDER! Ayatolla Khomeini is NOT anything close to being an IMAM (spiritual leader)! The Ayatollah's actions have proven to the world that he is a servant of Shaitan (Satan). May Allah (God Almighty) put the Ayatolla and the Mullah's in their place! In Jesus name. Amen.

As far as the International Community is concerned, Iran has an ILLEGITIMATE TYRANICAL OPPRESSIVE government! The Iranian TOTALITARIAN REGIME is obviously up to NO GOOD when they began to kick out the International Community and cut off outside communications! They intend to SECRETLY KILL INNOCENT CIVILIANS.

June 19, 2009

There's Always Going To Be Another Mountain ~~~ The Climb by Miley Cyrus

Wow! I just heard this song on the radio for the very first time. This is such a beautiful song! I really needed to hear these words of encouragement right now. It's time. Allow the lyrics to inspire every fiber of your being. Miley you now have a 30-something audience!

The Climb ~ by Miley Cyrus

I can almost see it
That dream I am dreaming
But there's a voice inside my head saying
"You'll never reach it"

Every step I'm taking
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking

But I gotta keep trying
Gotta keep my head held high

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes might knock me down
But no, I'm not breaking

I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm gonna remember most, yeah
Just gotta keep going

And I, I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on

'Cause there's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb, yeah!

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Somebody's gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb, yeah!

Keep on moving, keep climbing
Keep the faith, baby
It's all about, it's all about the climb
Keep the faith, keep your faith, whoa

8 Meaningful Quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi ~ Our Thoughts and Prayers Are With You While You Spend Your Birthday In Prison HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Aung San Suu Kyi was born June 19, 1945 in Rangoon, is Prime Minister-elect, a pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, and a noted prisoner of conscience and advocate of nonviolent resistance. Aung San Suu Kyi was the third child in her family. Her name is derived from three relatives; "Aung San" from her father, "Kyi" from her mother and "Suu" from her grandmother. Suu Kyi won the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In 1992 she was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru peace prize by the Government of India for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a military dictatorship. She is currently under detention, with the Burmese junta repeatedly extending her detention. According to the results of the 1990 general election, Suu Kyi earned the right to be Prime Minister, as leader of the winning National League for Democracy party, but her detention by the military junta prevented her from assuming that role. [source: wikipedia]

8 Meaningful Quotes by Aung San Suu Kyi

  1. We will surely get to our destination if we join hands.

  2. Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.

  3. Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

  4. The people of Burma are like prisoners in their own country, deprived of all freedom under military rule.

  5. The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance.

  6. The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.

  7. It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

  8. I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word "hope." I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another. This is the way all such situations pan out-- even with the most truculent dictator.

BONUS

It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

BONUS BONUS

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

June 18, 2009

Burma Protestor Scales Lloyd’s of London Tower With A Message: LEAVE BURMA! Stop Doing Business With The Military Junta! STOP FEEDING THE BEAST!

P&C National Underwriter
Burma Protestor Scales Lloyd’s Tower With A Message
written by DANIEL HAYS
Thursday June 18, 2009

A human rights advocate climbed a part of the way up the face of the 12-story Lloyd’s building in London today and affixed a banner telling the insurance market to “Leave Burma.”

The Burma Campaign UK, which opposes firms doing business with Burma, while it is ruled by a repressive military junta, identified the climber as Mike Robertson, 47, from Wareham, England.

Mr. Robertson, after he descended the building was arrested by City of London police and a police spokesperson told TheLondonPaper.com the charge was suspicion of causing a breach of the peace and aggravated trespass.

His climb was accomplished without ropes, while wearing a business suit, apparently the better to slip by building security. Lloyd’s workers stared out windows at him agog as he scaled up the modern structure.

The banner was taken down after he left.

Louise Shield, speaking for Lloyd’s said, “We’re an iconic building [and] we’re a target for these activities.” She said the insurance market has a “very minimal amount of business is written in Burma.”

Burma Campaign said Mr. Robertson’s protest climb was timed to coincide with the eve of the June 19 birthday of Burma’s elected Prime Minister, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained under house arrest in Burma for the majority of the last 19 years and is now on trial.

Burma Campaign last year protested outside the Lloyd’s building over the fact that Lloyd’s Chairman Peter Levene serves on the board of the French oil company Total which operates in the Myanmar Republic with the blessing of the junta.

Lord Levene has refused to give up his Total directorship despite criticism from British Labor Party lawmakers.

Mr. Robertson, in 2007, free-climbed the outside of the Eiffel Tower to protest Total’s involvement in Burma.

Burma Campaign said in a statement that “Lloyd’s of London, and the various insurance syndicates operating from within the Lloyd’s building in Lime Street, have consistently failed to recognize that their underwriting of the generals’ airline and shipping interests merely perpetuates this vicious and bloodthirsty regime. The atrocities committed by the ruling junta include forced relocation, rape, child labor, imprisonment without trial, and murder.”

Lloyd’s of London Pressured by UK Government to Quit Doing Business With Burma - SHAME ON YOU!

The Irrawaddy News
Lloyd’s Pressured by UK Government to Quit Burma
written by By WILLIAM BOOT
October 3, 2008

Major international insurer Lloyd’s of London is being pressured to stop doing business with Burma.

The British government has written to Lloyd’s expressing disquiet at its continued Burma links through brokers and affiliates.

The government wrote to Lloyd’s chairman Lord Levene. The contents of the letter have not been disclosed by either side, but the London Observer newspaper reports that it has led to Levene writing to underwriters and agents “urging them to consider” their continued involvement with junta-linked business.

The British government action follows increased public campaigning against Lloyd’s by the human rights group Burma Campaign UK after the company’s announcement of 2008 first half year global profits of US $1.76 billion.

The London-based NGO termed Lloyd’s profits in Burma “blood money” and called for a campaign to pressure the company to get out of Burma.

Lloyd’s refuses to disclose details of its Burma business, but it is believed to provide insurance guarantees for air and sea transport—key elements of the junta-controlled economy.

The loss of such underwriting could seriously upset the junta’s foreign business operations.

“This is humiliating for Lloyd’s. For too long they have profited from helping to finance Burma’s brutal dictatorship,” Burma Campaign UK campaigns organizer Johnny Chatterton told The Irrawaddy.

“Lloyd’s is breaking government guidelines and damaging their reputation. If they don’t end their involvement in Burma soon they will be branded by Burma in the same was that Barclays was with Apartheid South Africa and Exxon is with climate change.”

Lloyd's of London Chief Urged to Cut Burma Business Links with Total - Shame On You!

Guardian UK
Lloyd's chief urged to cut Burma links with Total
Nick Mathiason, business correspondent
Sunday November 2, 2008

Lloyd's of London chairman Lord Levene is facing calls to resign as a director of French oil giant Total because of the firm's pivotal role as a business partner of the oppressive military junta that controls Burma.

Levene, a City grandee who has long faced criticism for failing to advise Lloyd's syndicates not to reinsure the Burmese rulers' shipping and aviation interests, was recently reappointed as a Total director for another three-year term. Total supplies the Burmese government with an estimated $1bn in revenue through its oil and gas ventures.

John Bercow, the Conservative MP who is chairman of the all-party parliamentary group for democracy in Burma, said: 'By its massive investment in Burma, Total props up one of the most barbaric dictatorships in the world and this is to its eternal discredit. It is a great sadness that Lord Levene, a businessman of distinction, has sullied himself by becoming a director of this company.'

Labour MEP Glenys Kinnock said: 'If he searches his conscience, Lord Levene must conclude he should discontinue his position with the company, or use his position to secure Total's withdrawal from a country currently ruled by evil.'

Levene said he was not considering resigning from Total. He stated that his directorship at Total did not 'sully' his reputation nor affect his views on issuing guidance to Lloyd's managing agents and brokers dealing with Burma. And he rejected the argument that revenues from oil and gas, as well as Lloyd's reinsurance of key infrastructure owned by the Burmese junta, help it retain power. [Unbelievable BULLSH*T statement! Who is Lloyd's paying? Lloyd's is responsible for keeping the beast healthy and wealthy!]

What Does God Have To Say About Charity?

What Does God Have To Say About Charity?

Let all your things be done with charity. (1 Corinthians 16:14)

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. (1 Corinthians 13:1)

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:2)

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:3)

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, (1 Corinthians 13:4)

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. (1 Corinthians 13:8)

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. (1 Corinthians 13:13)

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. (Colossians 3:14)

Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: (1 Timothy 1:5)

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. (1 Timothy 4:12)

Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen. (1 Peter 5:14)

Is This The World We Created? Well Is It?!


"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." ~ Albert Einstein

Is This The World We Created? ~ by QUEEN
Performing LIVE at Wembley Stadium

Just look at all those hungry mouths we have to feed
Take a look at all the suffering we breed
So many lonely faces scattered all around
Searching for what they need

Is this the world we created?
what did we do it for?
Is this the world we invaded?
Against the law?
So it seems in the end
Is this what we're all living for today?
The world that we created.

You know that every day a helpless child is born
Who needs some loving care inside a happy home
Somewhere a wealthy man is sitting on his throne
Waiting for life to go by.

Is this the world we created
we made it on our own
Is this the world we devastated
Right to the bone?
If there's a God up in the sky looking down
What can he think of what we've done
To the world that He created?

June 17, 2009

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Says Combating Human Trafficking 'Critical'. This Is A Serious Matter That Desparately NEEDS To Be EXPOSED!

Voice of America News
Clinton says Combating Human Trafficking 'Critical'
written by By David Gollust
Tuesday June 16, 2009

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the fight against human trafficking, abroad and in the United States, is a critical part of the Obama administration's agenda. She spoke on the release of a State Department report that listed 17 countries as failing to make significant efforts to address the problem.

To underscore the priority the administration puts on the issue, Clinton made the release of the report a major event that included bipartisan Congressional leaders and activists from Albania and Costa Rica who were among nine people from around the world saluted in the report as anti-trafficking heroes.

Clinton called the trafficking of persons for forced labor, sexual exploitation and other illicit purposes "modern-day" slavery that spans the globe and affects every country including the United States.

She said the annual reports, mandated by an act of Congress in 2000, are intended to encourage nations to act where necessary with criticism and the threat of possible U.S. sanctions.

"We hope to shine the light brightly on the scope and scale of modern slavery so all governments can see where progress has been made and where more is needed," said Clinton. "Trafficking thrives in the shadows. And it can be easy to dismiss it as something that happens to someone else, somewhere else. But that is not the case. Trafficking is a crime that involves every nation on earth, and that includes our own."

The report based on information from U.S. embassies, international organizations and non-governmental groups assessed 175 countries and gave 17 of them the lowest possible rating for anti-trafficking efforts.

The so-called "Tier Three" countries included 10 holdovers from last year - Burma, Cuba, Fiji, Iran, Kuwait, North Korea, Papua-New Guinea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria.

Four countries with poor ratings last year were downgraded to the lowest category - Chad, Malaysia, Niger and Zimbabwe. Three that were not covered in the 2008 report, Eritrea, Mauritania and Swaziland, were also listed in Tier Three.

Please click HERE to read the entire article... MUST READ!

EXPOSED! Companies Lobby (quietly) On Armenia Genocide Bill. Does Anybody In Washington STAND For Anything Other Than Your Pocketbooks?

The Associated Press
Companies lobby (quietly) on Armenia genocide bill
written by By STEPHEN SINGER
Saturday June 13, 2009

Corporate America typically hires lobbyists to pressure Congress on taxes and trade rules. But in an unusual — some say risky — move, five military contractors and an energy company have stepped into a fight over whether the U.S. should label Turkey's slaughter of a million Armenians nearly a century ago as genocide.

The six companies have strong ties to Turkey, a key strategic ally of the U.S. in Mideast peace efforts and the fight against terrorism. None would state their position on the House resolution, but industry analysts and others said they likely lobbied against the measure to show support for Turkey, an important market for weapons and industrial products.

"They don't want to be seen opposing a resolution that has a very evident human rights element," said Rouben Adalian, director of the Armenian National Institute, a Washington research organization. "It would put them on the side of denying history and denying genocide."

BAE Systems Inc., Goodrich Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp., Raytheon Co., United Technologies Corp. and energy producer Chevron Corp. spent $14 million to lobby Congress in the first quarter of this year. Besides the genocide resolution, the companies lobbied on Pentagon spending, climate change, taxes and more.

United Technologies, which sells Sikorsky helicopters to Turkey, says it provided information to lawmakers "that helped round out their understanding of the international trade and national security interests involved."

But businesses lobbying against the resolution are not being "good corporate citizens," said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., its lead sponsor.

Lobbying on human rights issues comes with risks, said Gerry Keim, associate dean at Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business. Several companies halted their efforts opposing restrictions on white minority-ruled South Africa in the 1980s when anti-apartheid activists applied pressure.

"Originally, they were concerned about markets in South Africa. Then they were concerned about markets here," Keim said.

Other analysts say any public backlash against companies lobbying on the Armenia genocide resolution would be minimal because the firms serve governments, not individual consumers who could boycott their products.

Historians estimate that up to 1.5 MILLION mostly Christian Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I. Turkey denies that the deaths were genocide, saying the number of casualties is inflated and was the consequence of civil war and unrest.

Among the ventures between U.S. businesses and Turkey are a $3 billion contract from Northrop to a Turkish company to be a supplier for fighter jets. Goodrich Corp. and a Turkish firm agreed to a joint venture for maintenance and repair work on engine components. BAE Systems and a Turkish company jointly market and supply armored vehicles to the Turkish armed forces.

Chevron holds a stakes in a pipeline that crosses the country. Raytheon has agreed to sell to Turkey Stinger missile launcher systems valued at $34 million and is working to sell its missile defense systems.

Chevron said it lobbies on a range of interests, "including international issues that fall outside of a narrow energy policy focus."

Representatives of the U.S. subsidiary of London-based BAE Systems PLC and Northrop referred questions to the Aerospace Industries Association. The trade group defended Turkey as a key U.S. ally and cited "large and growing commercial ties" between the two nations.

Raytheon and Goodrich did not respond to requests for comment.

Andrew Kzirian, executive director of the Armenian National Committee's western region in Glendale, Calif., said backers of the resolution, which has been considered before, will not quit if it fails again.

"If you don't call it out and call it for what it is, you have Darfur," he said.

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June 16, 2009

Bleeding Love

I know this is going to be deep for many of you. I was running errands yesterday afternoon driving store to store all within the same vicinity. Every song on the radio was a message for me tugging on my heart to get my attention. I wasn't just fixed on one station mind you. I was moving from pre-set to pre-set station after a song. Let me give you examples of what I heard: "Lean On Me" by the Temptations, "Dream On" by Aerosmith, "Because You Loved Me" by Celine Dion and many other meaningful songs. Nevertheless, this song "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis was the climactic ending when I finished my afternoon outing and I was headed home. The lyrics to this song touched me in such an unbelievable way that I had to pull over because I was crying so hard. This experience had nothing to do with another human being. But everything to do with Spirit.

Because you are His children, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” (Galatians 4:6)

And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. (Romans 8:16)

Bleeding Love ~ by Leona Lewis

Closed off from love
I didn't need the pain
Once or twice was enough
And it was all in vain
Time starts to pass
Before you know it you're frozen

But something happened
For the very first time with You
My heart melted into the ground
Found something TRUE
And everyone's lookin 'round
Thinking I'm going crazy

But I don't care what they say
I'm in love with You
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the TRUTH
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

Trying hard not to hear
But they talk so loud
Their piercing sounds fill my ears
Try to fill me with doubt
Yet I know that the goal
Is to keep me from falling

But nothing's greater
Than the rush that comes with Your EMBRACE
And in this world of loneliness
I see Your FACE
Yet everyone around me
Thinks that I'm going crazy, maybe, maybe

But I don't care what they say
I'm in love with You
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the TRUTH
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

And it's draining ALL of me
Oh they find it hard to believe
I'll be wearing these scars
For everyone to see

I don't care what they say
I'm in love with You
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the TRUTH
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love

June 14, 2009

I Hope You Fail part 3 of 3

This is one powerful message given by Dr. Jamal Bryant that I need to share with all of you. I am so tripping out, I'm beside myself. I have typed a transcript of only five minutes for all of my international readers who need to use Babel Fish to translate. For those of you who understand english, I highly recommend that you take a moment of your time and listen to the entire message.

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All of you young people are saying to me that I don't want no preacher preaching to me who ain't never been through nothing. But I want a preacher who knows what it feels like to have some setbacks and to have some disappointments. After Peter failed, he was able to raise a person from the dead. After Peter failed, that's when he escapes from jail. After Peter failed, that's when Jesus said if you love me then feed my sheep. But I want to help somebody, as bad as Peter failed Jesus NEVER lost faith in Peter. You don't believe me. He never gave up on Peter. You need to say Jesus NEVER gave up on me. Even when your family gave up on you, even when your friends gave on you Jesus NEVER gave up on you.

Jesus said when YOU ARE converted. That's the language of FAITH. People who don't have FAITH say IF. People who have FAITH say WHEN. People who have FAITH I want you to declare WHEN. This is not arrogance, this is confidence. You need to say, WHEN I'm a millionaire, WHEN I'm driving in the Lexus, Beemer and the Benz, WHEN I build my house from the ground up, WHEN I graduate Magna Cum Laude , WHEN I'm able to take care of my ENTIRE family.

God gives me the desires of my HEART. WHEN God puts you in a place of FAITH, never say I wonder IF it's going to happen. But does anybody here got a DREAM that the LORD has been showing you? Does anybody here got a VISION of what you think God is going to do in your life? I want you to just declare WHEN it's going to happen? Oh that's a whole lot different than IF it's going to happen. Did you hear what I just said. You got to just ask God I already trust you, I just want to know WHEN. God said it's just a matter of time. If your FAITHFUL over a few things, I'm about to make you RULER!

I want to tell somebody, I hope you fail. Because failure is going to put me in good company. Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade and was never elected to office until he was 62 years old. Albert Einstein could not speak until he was 4 years old and couldn't read until he was 9 years old. Henry Ford who is owner of the Ford Motor Company was bankrupt five times before his business got off the ground. R.H. Macy was arrested by the IRS for tax evasion, but when he came of jail, he opened the Macy's department store in New York City. Michael Jordon was cut from the JV basketball team. The coach told him to take up baseball. But now Michael Jordon has got five championship rings. Anita Baker sent her demo record to every record company in America. But the record company called Arista sent her a letter that said don't quit your day job. But Anita Baker said I'm still going to give you the best that I've got. Luther Vandross was booed off the Apollo Theatre three different times. But tonight a chair is not a chair unless Luther is sitting there. Sean Puffy Combs was in Special Ed. He drove in the short bus to High School. But now Puffy is worth $300 million saying I thought I told you that we won't stop. There was a man named Jesus, they hung him high, they stretched him wide, he hung his head and then he died. But then he rose three days later. He defeated Satan and death.

I've got to close. But I can't close until I give you my testimony. You are listening to a teacher that failed the 11th grade. My own church said I wasn't going to be nothing and they said I wasn't going to go nowhere. But I'm standing tonight saying look at me! I'm a testimony. Is there anybody in here that can say through it all I LEARNED to TRUST in Jesus. I LEARNED to TRUST in God. You need to say, I failed some classes. I failed at some promises. I failed in some relationships. But tonight I won't fail to give God some praise. Tonight may be your last night, don't fail to give God some praise.

The enemy can't believe that there are people who ain't ashamed to say I failed before but this is MY YEAR to make it right. This is MY YEAR to fight sharp. This is MY YEAR to do better. Let the overcomers make some noise!

I Hope You Fail part 2 of 3

This is one powerful message given by Dr. Jamal Bryant that I need to share with all of you. I am so tripping out, I'm beside myself. I have typed a transcript of only five minutes for all of my international readers who need to use Babel Fish to translate. For those of you who understand english, I highly recommend that you take a moment of your time and listen to the entire message.

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They did not do. Any good english teacher will tell you when you are giving appropriate credit you ought to put a footnote. You ought to say when somebody compliments you this is not me but there is a God that did it for me. I'm so sick of highfalutin, sadistic, bouguoise saints who every time they get a little piece of a blessing they try to talk above people and they try to talk down to people. God said that is the wrong attitude to have. But everytime I bless you, you ought to give God the glory. Isn't there one thing that God did for you this week?

He failed to keep his focus. Secondly, he failed to have integrity at the last supper. Jesus said one of you is going to betray me. Simon Peter said it's not me, I'm riding with you. Ain't no way I'm going to betray you. And before the cock crows three times, Simon Peter in fact betrayed Jesus. I want to tell somebody this, get ready when you go home. Because your friendship circle is about to shift. People who were with you before the trip are not going to be able to handle your new annointing after the trip. There are some folk who as long as you are depressed as they are, as long as you are as sad as they are, as long as you are as uptight as they are then they don't to have a problem. But when you come back with a new attitude there are some folks who are going to say she think she's all that, he think he the bomb. It ain't that I think I'm all that, it's just I realized the annointing that's in me. God said that 2009 use your haters as elevators. The more you upset me the more I'm going to bless God.

You've got to understand that God has got you in a place. He's got you in a place that you've got to re-evaluate if the people in my circle are going to be able to handle my next level. Not only did he not only keep his focus, not only did he not keep his integrity, he could not handle the next level. Jesus told Simon Peter, it is my appointed time and Simon Peter said don't do it. Jesus' DESTINY was not two fish and five loaves of bread. The DESTINY of Jesus was on calvary. I want you to understand this, the closer you get to fullfilling your PURPOSE, the more haters are going to come out of the woodwork. The more you start hearing from God what you were birthed and created to do that's when the devil is going to have a nervous breakdown. You're saying I must be close because recently all kind of stuff has been jumping off, popping off in my life, folk who I thought were always going to be there walked away from me, something is about to SHIFT.

I don't know who I'm talking to? This week the LORD has been confirming some stuff for you. This week the LORD has been showing you some people. This week the LORD has been showing you that some stuff is about to change. Do you think the devil is going to let you out without a fight. God help me. This is going to be the roughest summer of your life. I wish I could preach that in 30 days you're going to be a millionaire, etc. I wish I could tell you that. But God says this is the summer you're going to have to fight for it. If you want it easy, it's not going to come. You have got to be willing to be willing to walk away from some people, be willing to shout when nobody is shouting! If you really want it, you've got to be willing to fight for it.