GOD is Love! NOT War.

Burning the Quran – From one Extemist to another

2010-09-14T10:47:00.000-07:00

There is no difference between so-called Christian or Muslim extremists. Both want the same: Violence against others in the name of the same GOD. And they either have a political agenda or are plain stupid. Burning the Quran requires a lot of both.

The Rev. Terry Jones, the "religious leader" of a church of 50. Yes, fifty. This would not be so bad, if there was intelligence or any kind of knowledge about the subject behind this action of burning something. Burning a book is in itself already an action of highest stupidity. If he would burn all the books he did not understand, he should start with the Bible. Christians do not burn books – or flags for that matter. Jones has proclaimed Islam as devil's religion – without ever having read it, has called on the people to burn a Quran on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States – which were very likely carried out by Christians for the benefit of VP Cheney’s Corporation. Jones says that he does not personally know any Muslims, he is a man who does not know where the Sharia law came from, and has apparently learned the little, if any, that he knows about Islam by watching YouTube videos.

The German poet Heinrich Heine already wrote in 1821: "Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people". He was right at that time, he was right – long after his death - about the Nazis who first burned the books and later the people. And we are at this starting point of violence against humanity again. This time in our own country.

Adding to this equation is that there is only one GOD. And one GOD means that there is only ONE. The Quran derives in large parts from Christian and Judean Writings. From the Torah and the Bible which have influenced Mohammad all his life and also during the creation of the Quran. Considering the fact that GOD is not a flawed individual but GOD, he is not jealous, or violent – (If you believe in Jesus Christ, how could you ever consider violence, lies or deception as an option in the first place? If you do, you are NOT a Christian – you are not Muslim either, because the Quran is actually a book of peace and Islam is a religion of peace!) he sent Jesus Christ to bring us this message of Non-violence. Christ as in Christian – you call yourself Christian, you subscribe to the message of Love, Peace and Understanding. Turning the other cheek is one of your duties being a Christian.

But back to the morons in Florida. Now there is one crazy person with a following of 50 probably equally disturbed and ignorant bystanders who wants to burn a book he does not even know to help reignite the hated of Muslim extremists who are just as stupid as his own flock, while the silent majority of peaceful Christians and Muslims is standing by in awe. How can this moron get so much attention? If you burn a book you don’t even know, you cannot set a signal. You just show that you are an idiot.

Talking about idiots, please allow me one more observation that is really stunning. Only in America Christians will follow a Mormon to crucify another Christian. I am talking about Glen Beck's crusade against the Christian Barack Obama. Please be aware that Glen Beck is a racist by design. Mormons think that Black people are black because GOD punished them for being bad. Mormon Glen Beck is using American Christians - admittedly not bright ones - to help his Mormon agenda to fight the Black guy. And everyone should be aware of the fact that Barack Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim.

GOD's signs ignored by so called 'Pro-Lifer'

2010-05-30T11:48:00.000-07:00

Pro lifers are really insane. This is a statement I can absolutely support. One of my favorite email spammers is a religious nut who somehow got the idea that he would have to save unborn life. Besides the point that he also got me on the spamming list of the Teabaggers (!), he began collecting money, because his life was falling apart. His son had serious health challenges and his money to kill mothers and protect the fetus was running out. So he began begging for money in his emails. I had the audacity to write the following email to help him re-evaluate his situation - because those are usually signs that someone is straying off GOD's intended way:

Dear Randall,

Did you ever consider that GOD keeps sending you those signs because he does not want you to continue on your way? Sometimes “pro life” means death for another person or a life in torture when a child is really not wanted. Maybe GOD is trying to ask you to reconsider your position.

Our prayers are with you and your family.

Blessings,
Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast

And the answer came fast from an email address that is called 'StopObamaNotredame@gmail.com' which gives me the idea that his agenda might be very political indeed. The good thing is that the spamming has stopped - at least for now he has unsubscribed me from the never solicited hatemail-list of his money-begging email account. So, here his answer:

Honestly, are you demon possessed? Think through the logic of what you just said. Are you demon possessed? Would you know if you were?

Isn't it amazing how little people think about GOD's will and signs. If Jesus Christ would appear today - and maybe he has - the so called Christians would lynch him because of his 'socialist agenda'. And people like Mr. Teabag himself never consider GOD or even look into the Bible to see if their insanity is in any way supported by the word of GOD... They think that they turned into GOD, kill Doctors that actually save lives or applaud the murderers of those who actually save lives instead of living in a bubble of satanic ignorance and insanity.

Please understand that I am very much for Life, I love children and I am not for abortion as a means of replacing a condom. But when the life of the mother is at stake, or if the child would be born into a situation where he or she would suffer all her life because of being an unwanted child, then there should be the option to save their lives. I will never understand that people who want to kill mothers call themselves pro-life. Sanity is from GOD.

Let's pray for them.

Children solve our Energy crisis

2010-05-28T11:53:00.000-07:00

Oil is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico and destroying any life along the way. GOD's creation soiled and killed. Where is the outcry of the Churches against the polluter British Petroleum? Maybe the TeleBSvagelists of the likes of Beck's did not call for the Holy War against Socialism. It is not the fictitious Socialism that is killing us, it is the greed of the Corporations.

Well, here is another sample how Big Oil destroys our future to maximize their profits. Shouldn't we have a car like this - similar vehicles have been developed before and have been stopped by Big Oil.

Kids Build Soybean-Fueled Car

The star at last week's Philadelphia Auto Show wasn't a sports car or an economy car. It was a sports-economy car – one that combines performance and practicality under one hood.

But as CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports in this week's Assignment America, the car that buyers have been waiting decades [for] comes from an unexpected source and runs on soybean bio-diesel fuel to boot. A car that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50 miles to the gallon would be enough to pique any driver's interest. So who do we have to thank for it. Ford? GM? Toyota? No – just Victor, David, Cheeseborough, Bruce, and Kosi, five kids from the auto shop program at West Philadelphia High School.

The five kids, along with a handful of schoolmates, built the soybean-fueled car as an after-school project. It took them more than a year – rummaging for parts, configuring wires and learning as they went. As teacher Simon Hauger notes, these kids weren't exactly the cream of the academic crop.

"We have a number of high school dropouts," he says. "We have a number that have been removed for disciplinary reasons and they end up with us." One of the Fab Five, Kosi Harmon, was in a gang at his old school – and he was a terrible student. The car project has changed all that.

"I was just getting by with the skin of my teeth, C's and D's," he says. "I came here, and now I'm a straight-A student."

To Hauger, the soybean-powered car shows what kids – any kids – can do when they get the chance. "If you give kids that have been stereotyped as not being able to do anything an opportunity to do something great, they'll step up," he says.

Stepping up is something the big automakers have yet to do. They're still in the early stages of marketing hybrid cars while playing catch-up to the Bad News Bears of auto shop.

"We made this work," says Hauger. "We're not geniuses. So why aren't they doing it?"

Kosi thinks he knows why. The answer, he says, is the big oil companies. "They're making billions upon billions of dollars," he says. "And when this car sells, that'll go down – to low billions upon billions."

And would you believe - this was already in 2006...

CBS News - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/17/eveningnews/main1329941.shtml

Sad statement. GOD's creation (which was brought about by evolution!) destroyed for greed and profits. May GOD bless us victims and help us survive the Corporations of our US of A.

Happy New Year 2010... and some thoughts for survival

2010-01-01T11:50:00.000-08:00

Every year this subject is one of my favorites because it proves just how out of tune we are with GOD, our world and our own will to survive.

Project Censored specializes in covering the top stories which were subjected to censorship either by being ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media each year. Project Censored is a research team composed of more than 200 university faculty, students, and community experts who annually review up to 1,000 news story submissions for content, reliability of sources, and national significance. The top 25 stories selected are submitted to a distinguished panel of judges who rank them in order of importance. The results are published each year in an excellent book available for purchase at their website, amazon.com, and major book stores.

A summary of the top 25 media censorship stories of 2009 provided below proves quite revealing and most informative.
Top 25 Stories of 2009 Subjected to Media Censorship

1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street (For full story, click here)

Americans get the best democracy money can buy, money coming more than ever today from Wall Street. Since 2001, eight of the most troubled financial firms have donated $64.2 million to congressional candidates, presidential candidates and the Republican and Democratic parties. Is it surprising how much they control them? Influential House and Senate finance and banking committee members got $5.2 million from bailout recipients like Goldman Sachs, Citibank, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and others. In the last election cycle, Obama received at least $4.3 million from the same institutions. From 1998 - 2007, financial and banking companies spent $1.7 billion on federal campaign contributions and another $3.4 billion on lobbyists. In 1999, the Glass-Steagall Act was gutted – the landmark 1933 law that prevented banks from getting into the insurance business. In January 2000, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act legitimized swap agreements and other hybrid instruments, at the core of today's problems, by preventing regulatory oversight of derivatives and leveraging, thus letting Wall Street legally pillage and speculate. The result was a financial coup d'etat cementing the gradual takeover of the government by a small class of connected insiders who choose candidates, control elections, weaken financial regulations, and basically run the country for their own self-interest. As a result, Washington today has become largely a subsidiary of the Wall Street financial giants.

Sources: Truthout/McClatchy, Oct. 2, 2008, “Lax Oversight? Maybe $64 Million to DC Pols Explains It,” by Greg Gordon. Rolling Stone, Mar. 19, 2009, “The Big Takeover,” by Matt Taibbi. OpenSecrets.org, Feb. 10, 2009, “Congressmen Hear from TARP Recipients Who Funded Their Campaigns,” by Lindsay Renick Mayer.

2. US Schools Are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s (For full story, click here)

According to a UCLA Civil Rights report, "schools in the US are 44 percent non-white, and ... Latinos and blacks, the two largest minority groups, attend schools more segregated today than during the civil rights movement forty years ago." The result is: unequal education which denies disadvantaged youths access to college and better jobs; growing numbers of these youths becoming "virtually unemployable" for anything more than menial labor or the military; greater vulnerability to future poverty, poor health, gangs, crime, and prolonged incarceration in America's vast prison/industrial complex. The report stresses the need for "leaders who recognize that we have a common destiny in an America where our children grow up together, knowing and respecting each other, and are all given the educational tools that prepare them for success in our society." The UCLA Civil Rights Study shows that most severe segregation in public schools is in the Western states, including California – not in the South, as many people believe. Eighty-five percent of the nation’s teachers are white, and little progress is being made toward diversifying the nation’s teaching force.

Source : The Civil Rights Project, UCLA, January 2009, “Reviving the Goal of an Integrated Society: A 21st Century Challenge,” by Gary Orfield.

3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates (For full story, click here)

The international community has come out in force to condemn and declare war on the Somali fishermen pirates, while discreetly protecting the illegal, unreported and unregulated fleets from around the world that have been poaching and dumping toxic waste in Somali waters since the fall of the Somali government eighteen years ago. Foreign interests have been using hundreds of vessels to loot the country's food supply, according to the High Seas Task Force (HSTF), stealing "an estimated $450 million in seafood from Somali waters annually" and ruining the livelihoods of Somali fishermen. Somalia has also been used as a dumping ground for hazardous waste starting in the early 1990s, and continuing through the civil war there. Instead of rectifying the problem, the UN passed "aggressive resolutions that entitle and encourage transgressors to wage war on Somali pirates." NATO, the EU, and other countries issued similar orders. Some say that the acts of piracy may actually be born of desperation. What is one man’s pirate may be another man’s Coast Guard.

Sources: UK's Independent, January 5, 2009, “You are being lied to about pirates,” by Johann Hari. Al Jazeera English, October 11, 2008, “Toxic waste behind Somali piracy,” by Najad Abdullahi. WardheerNews, January 8, 2009, “The Two Piracies in Somalia: Why the World Ignores the Other,” by Mohamed Abshir Waldo.

4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina (For full story, click here)

North Carolina's Shearon Harris nuclear plant contains the largest radioactive waste storage pools in the country. If the cooling system malfunctions, the resulting fire would be virtually unquenchable and could trigger a nuclear meltdown. Between 1999 and 2003, there were twelve major problems requiring the shutdown of the plant. In 2002, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) put the plant on notice for nine unresolved safety issues detected. When the NRC returned to the plant a few months later, it determined that the corrective actions were “not acceptable.” Between January and July of 2002, Harris plant managers were forced to manually shut down the reactors four times. Problems at Shearon Harris continue with chilling regularity. Yet the NRC ignores the potential risks. A recent study by Brookhaven Labs estimates that a pool fire could cause 140,000 cancers, contaminate thousands of square miles of land, and cause over $500 billion in off-site property damage. The plant is a nuclear time bomb, and millions in the region are at risk.

Source: CounterPunch, August 9, 2008, “Pools of Fire,” by Jeffrey St. Clair.

5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products (For full story, click here)

Unlike in America, European countries are moving toward a model of insisting on environmental and consumer safety that requires assessing thousands of chemicals for their potential toxic effects. New regulations will mandate that companies seeking market access eliminate toxic substances and produce safer electronics, automobiles, toys and cosmetics. Without compliance henceforth, the products of hundreds of US companies may be excluded from European markets, and according to Mark Schapiro, author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products, "only five percent of all chemicals in the US have undergone even minimal testing." Further, new EPA requirements consider the "costs to industry" in assessing threats to public health as a reason to side with industry and keep regulations minimal. The divergence between US and European regulation has made America the dumping ground for toxic toys, electronics and cosmetics. The US produces and consumes the toxic materials from which other countries around the world are protected.

Sources: Scientific American, Sep. 30, 2008, “European Chemical Clampdown Reaches Across Atlantic,” by David Biello. Environmental Defense Fund, Sep. 30, 2008, “How Europe’s New Chemical Rules Affect US.”

6. Lobbyists Buy Congress (For full story, click here)

In 2008, The Center for Responsive Politics reported that "special interests paid Washington lobbyists $3.2 billion in 2008," higher than any year on record and 13.7% more than 2007. That amounts to $17.4 million for each day Congress was in session, or $32,523 per legislator per day. Health interests spent the most for the third consecutive year, $478.5 million, followed by the FIRE sector (finance, insurance and real estate) at $453.5 million. It's a small investment yielding big returns for these and other industries, competing at the public trough for as much as they can get. The payoff is in the billions for some corporations, and for Wall Street trillions have been pledged, as well as interest free money from the banker-owned Federal Reserve.

Source: OpenSecrets.org, “Washington Lobbying Grew to $3.2 Billion Last Year, Despite Economy,” by Center for Responsive Politics.

7. Obama's Military Appointments Have Corrupted Pasts (For full story, click here)

After promising not to politicize intelligence and to keep lobbyists out of top government posts, Obama appointed many former lobbyists and board members of companies doing business directly with the Pentagon. He retained Robert Gates as Defense Secretary despite his history at CIA of having cooked the books for political reasons. According to Agency insiders who knew him, he "corrupted the intelligence product" to suit the White House and further his own self-interest. When Bush nominated him for CIA Director in 1991, a virtual insurrection among CIA analysts erupted over his penchant for having politicized intelligence. Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh states that, despite Gates' touted memory, he "denied recollection of facts thirty-three times." Obama's Deputy Defense Secretary, William Lynn, is just as tainted. The former Raytheon vice president and company lobbyist caused Republican Senator Charles Grassley to object to his "very questionable accounting practices" as Pentagon comptroller during the Clinton years. He and Obama's Undersecretary of Defense, Robert Hale, who served as Assistant Air Force Secretary Financial Comptroller under Clinton, are claimed to have lost enough taxpayer money to pay for Obama's stimulus plan four times over. They now again oversee DOD spending. The list goes on. Most of Obama's national security team is composed of recycled appointees committed to continued imperial wars and outlandish amounts of military spending for them.

Sources: The Hill, November 24, 2008, “Ties to Chevron, Boeing Raise Concern on Possible NSA Pick,” by Roxana Tiron. Truthout.org/Consortium News, November 13, 2008, “The Danger of Keeping Robert Gates,” by Robert Parry. Global Research, February 13, 2009, “Obama’s Defense Department Appointees - The 3.4 Trillion Dollar Question,” by Andrew Hughes.

8. Bailed Out Banks Cheat IRS Out of Billions (For full story, click here)

It's an old story. "Only the little people pay taxes," according to former tax cheat Leona Hemsley (1920 - 2007), and rarely does anyone like her get caught. In 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that 83 of the top publicly held US companies have operations in tax havens like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and the Virgin Islands. 14 of these companies, including AIG, Bank of America, and Citigroup, received money from the government bailout. In addition, Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) helped wealthy clients cheat the IRS out of over $20 billion in recent years, according to the Department of Justice. Other notorious tax havens include Austria, Luxembourg, Singapore, Hong Kong, Monaco, Gibraltar, and the Bahamas. In 2008, havens like these saved Goldman Sachs billions of dollars through "changes in (its) geographic earnings mix." For many other companies, it's much the same through legal provisions in the tax code. According to some estimates, trillions of dollars in both corporate profits and personal wealth have migrated offshore, and the offshore banking world now harbors $11.5 trillion in individual wealth alone.

Sources: Bloomberg, December 16, 2008, “Goldman Sachs’s Tax Rate Drops to 1% or $14 Million,” by Christine Harper. The Huffington Post, February 23, 2009, “Gimme Shelter: Tax Evasion and the Obama Administration,” by Thomas B. Edsall.

9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza (For full story, click here)

For decades, America has supplied Israel, population 7.5 million, with tens of billions in aid, interest-free loans, and the latest in new weapons and technology, including illegal white phosphorous shells used against Gazan civilians during Operation Cast Lead. In addition, Washington has supplied F-16 fighters, attack helicopters, tactical missiles, bunker-buster bombs, a wide variety of other munitions, and undisclosed new weapons for testing in real time combat situations against Palestinian or other Arab civilians. In Gaza, shell fragments revealed names of US defense contractors, including Raytheon. Another was marked the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas. In shocking support for Israel's questionable attacks, and in violation of international and US law, both Houses of Congress overwhelmingly endorsed the continued aggression. Obama stayed silent on the subject in the run-up to his January 20 inauguration.

Sources: Human Rights Watch, Mar. 25, 2009, “White Phosphorus Use Evidence of War Crimes Report,” Fred Abrahams. Guardian, Feb. 23, 2009, “Suspend Military Aid to Israel, Amnesty Urges Obama,” Rory McCarthy. Inter Press Service, Jan. 8, 2009, “US Weaponry Facilitates Killings in Gaza,” Thalif Deen. Consortium News, Jan. 18, 2009, “Is Israel’s Gaza War a New War Crime?” by Dennis Bernstein. Foreign Policy Journal, Jan. 09, 2009, “US Senate Endorses Israel’s War on Gaza,” by Jeremy R. Hammond.

10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate (Full story here)

In November 2008, Ecuador became the first country to undertake an examination of the legitimacy and structure of its foreign debt. In violation of Ecuadorian law, predatory international lenders were involved in hundreds of illegitimate irregularities. Billions in foreign debt at exorbitant interest rates resulted in debt service far exceeding the principal borrowed, and at a staggering human cost. In December, President Rafael Correa announced his country would default. In April 2009, he was re-elected overwhelmingly. Ecuador exposed the corrupted international finance system in a way that could set a precedent for the poorest of indebted countries. Correa asked other Latin American nations "to forge a united response, (and for) the United Nations to help develop international norms to regulate the foreign debt market." The April 2008 House passed Jubilee Act was a positive step forward. However, the Senate failed to pass its S. 2166 version, then cleared the legislation from its books. In June 2009, Ecuador agreed with 91% of its creditors to pay 35 cents on the dollar for its debt. Other countries may now follow suit, especially those most impacted by the global economic crisis.

Sources: Alternet, Nov. 26, 2008, “Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate and Illegal,” by Daniel Denvir. Utube, Fall 2008, “Invalid Loans to Ecuador: Who Owes Who,” by Committee for the Integral Audit of Public Credit. Institute for Policy Studies, Dec. 15, 2008, “Ecuador’s Debt Default,” by Neil Watkins, Sarah Anders.

Other Media Censorship Stories in the Top 25

11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine (For full story, click here)

US, Israeli, and other international corporations profit from the occupation of Palestine. They lead real estate deals, develop Israeli settlements and infrastructure, and help solidify the continued land theft, economic exploitation, and apartheid separation of Muslims and Jews, in violation of international law.

12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell - Karl Rove's Election Thief (For full story, click here)

As Karl Rove's chief IT consultant, Connell was a key figure in 2004 election manipulations for George Bush. Under subpoena to testify on his role in Ohio, he died mysteriously in a Dec. 19, 2008 plane crash. IT expert Stephen Spoonamore, a conservative Republican, explained how Connell's vote tabulation system worked. "It allowed (for) the introduction of an additional single computer between computer A and computer B." The centralized collection of all incoming statewide results made it easy for a single operator, or a preprogrammed computer to change the results in any way desired by the team controlling the inserted computer.

13. Katrina's Hidden Race War (For full story, click here)

After Hurricane Katrina, a Nation magazine report explained that "white vigilante groups patrolled the streets of New Orleans ... shooting at least eleven African American men." Falsely portrayed as looters and thugs, they were gunned down in cold blood by "gun-toting white males," yet city police didn't intervene or investigate. In addition, Blackwater mercenaries were deployed in New Orleans right after the storm. In full battle gear, they terrorized black residents, removed them from choice areas for development, and assured they didn't return.

14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts (For full story, click here)

According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, over 151 congressional members have invested up to $195 million in major defense contractors, thus profiting from America's imperial wars. Major investors include: Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) - $49.1 million; Senator John Kerry (D-MA) - $38.2 million; Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC) - $37.1 million; Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) - $8.4 million; Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) - $7.6 million; Rep. Jane Harmon (D-CA) - $6.3 million; and Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI) - $5.8 million.

15. World Bank's Carbon Trade Fiasco (For full story, click here)

On the pretext of environmental protection, the World Bank is brokering carbon emission trading arrangements that destroy indigenous farmlands around the world and do little to cut pollution or reduce the threat of climate change. The scheme is similar to Obama's cap and trade bill (HR 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act) that lets corporate polluters reap huge windfall profits by charging consumers more for energy and fuel.

16. US Repression of Haiti Continues (For full story, click here)

The US government plans to demolish the homes of hundreds of Haitians to expand an occupying UN force’s military base. The New York Times has also published a revealing article titled "Rights Groups Assail US for Withholding Aid to Haiti, Citing Political Motives." The Bush administration may have caused the deaths of thousands of Haitians by blocking aid for cynical and self-interested political purposes.

17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan (For full story, click here)

Huge potential oil reserves explain the significance of Darfur. Washington's genocide claim is exaggerated for political purposes. It's part of America's chess game with China for control of the region's resources. Beijing already gets up to 30% of its oil from Africa. Under cover from International Criminal Court's fraudulent indictment of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and other contrived reasons, America has exploited the region militarily for geopolitical advantage.

18. Ecuador's Constitutional Rights of Nature (For full story, click here)

In September 2008, Ecuador became the first country ever to declare constitutional rights to nature, thus codifying a new system of environmental protection. Its Constitution declares nature "has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution." Ecuador's Rights of Nature hold hope that other nations may adopt them and start to more fully protect the environment.

19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor (For full story, click here)

After receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America organized opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) - legislation to guarantee workers the right to bargain more fairly and collectively with management. Business is firmly opposed. On March 10, S. 560: Employee Free Choice Act of 2009 was introduced in the Senate. It was referred to the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee where it's pending. Given the Obama administration's opposition, its passage looks doubtful.

20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates (For full story, click here)

Since 1987, the Republican and Democrat-controlled Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) has run the process, dictates terms, and excludes unwanted participants. During the 2008 presidential cycle, the Obama and McCain teams secretly cut a deal on who could participate, permissible topics, and the debate format structure. Before he died, Walter Cronkite called the CPD an "unconscionable fraud."

21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare (For full story, click here)

Faced with huge budget shortfalls and little help from Washington, states have been forced to make major expenditure cuts, many affecting vital social services, including health care, education, and welfare. Yet cutting Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) began prior to the present crisis so funds could be redirected to other priorities. Nationally, welfare rolls dropped over 40% between 2001 and June 2008, and in some states, like Georgia, up to 90%. America's social safety net is fast disappearing.

22. Obama's Trilateral Commission Team (For full story, click here)

Obama appointed 11 members of the Trilateral Commission (TC) to top positions in his administration in his first ten days in office. He was groomed for the presidency by key TC members. Zbigniew Brzezinski, co-founder of the TC with David Rockefeller in 1973, has been Obama’s principal foreign policy advisor. Since the Carter administration, Trilateralists have held the following very influential positions: six of the last eight World Bank presidents; all presidents and vice-presidents of the US (except Obama and Biden); over half of all US secretaries of state; and three quarters of the secretaries of defense. The original stated purpose of the TC was to create a "new international economic order." For more on powerful secret societies, click here.

23. Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud (For full story, click here)

Organized every three years since 1997, activists have blasted the World Water Forum as a corporate trade show promoting privatization of water. The Forum's main organizer, the World Water Council (WWC), is dominated by two of the world's largest water companies, Suez and Veolia. WWC promotes expensive and destructive dam and water diversion projects, as well as putting water services in private hands through the establishment of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). The result has been huge price hikes, water pollution, depletion, and cut-offs that deny people the right to water if they can't pay the exorbitant cost.

24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion (For full story, click here)

Economist Michael Hudson first addressed this topic in his 1972 book, "Super Imperialism," updated in a 2003 edition. He revisited it in an award-winning article which explained the inter-related dynamics of: surplus US dollars pouring into the rest of the world for financial speculation and corporate takeovers; global central banks recycling these dollar inflows into US Treasury bonds to finance the federal budget deficit; and most important (but suppressed in the US media), the military character of the US payments deficit.

25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon (For full story, click here)

Home to the world's most biodiverse and intact rainforest, the Western Amazon may soon be covered with oil rigs and pipelines. Vast parts of of this region will be opened for oil and gas exploration, putting some of the planet's most pristine and biodiverse forests at risk.

It is really amazing that we are busy cutting our own oxygen and the very air that we breathe for some oil and gas. GOD help us.

Amen

He that is of GOD hears HIS words! He who hears them not is not of GOD!

2009-12-15T11:51:00.000-08:00

GOD gave me two gifts today.

I found a long "lost" friend. THANK YOU LORD!

And GOD also gave me a Bible quote that pertains to all the self appointed "Christians" out there, who are lying, waging war on weaker and peaceful real Christians who turn the other cheek. And then I read in a forwarded email, that a "liberal" newspaper "surprisingly" printed the statement of a person saying that they have a deep belief in GOD. To the right wing fascist so-called Christians the liberals are obviously Godless. Another proof of the right wing's amazing ignorance. Jesus was a liberal by every word of their description. The problem is that they don't listen to GOD's word or follow Jesus Christ and his message. And here is the Bible quote GOD gave me today and that might just help them to see the Truth:

John 8:42-51: Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me. And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

Doesn't that sound familiar? Just listen to the right wing treating the ones who speak the truth as liars.

Truth and Revolution

2009-06-18T14:25:00.001-07:00

Hypocrisy – one of the very things Jesus Christ fought against – is the mainstay of the right wing Christian fascists and their Republican representatives. The ones that fight against gays turn out to be gay, the ones that condemn adultery are caught one by one being adulterers themselves, as the recent case of Nevada Republican Senator Ensign proved again. Another interesting development is IRAN, where we can see how the change of the political climate changes the inner politics of a country. Since W. and his boss Dick Cheney are gone and the US are not trying to start another unnecessary war in the Middle East, the enemy that the Iranian regime could use as a unifying factor for their people to distract from reality is gone. Now the Iranians have time to think about their situation and they decided that it is bad. With President Obama not getting involved and declaring so, the Iranians are taking matters in their own hands. It looks like we will see the next Revolution, much like we did 1979. And the US is not involved this time, so Iran might become the country their people want and not another dictatorship created by the US, like Saddam Hussein was, whose power was solely by grace of the CIA and the US.

Jesus Christ is under attack. Open minded Christians see the facts that many of Jesus Christ’s attributes were merely copied from the Egyptian God Horus and many others whose mystical status much depends on virgin birth, violent death and resurrection. Some people come to the conclusion that is why Jesus Christ has never lived, which is being concluded in the Zeitgeist movie that I have recommended and still recommend, because their facts are correct, just their conclusions are subject to serious doubt. So please watch the Zeitgeist Movie and the Addendum – both available for free download at www.zeitgeistmovie.com and with your own thoughts and my help, you will reach the right conclusion yourself.

I know GOD is. I believe Jesus Christ lived. He is GOD’s son and he has a special place in the history of Faith. We are all GOD’s children and created in his image. Jesus Christ’s message created the basis for our Christian belief. He died on the cross for our sins, so we are not born in sin. He is the messenger and the message for us Christians. Jesus Christ stands for the new, changed message from GOD: No more hate, now the message is LOVE. And that is what Jesus Christ is about. Jesus sent the apostles only to the Jews. With little success. Only the Catholic Church was “founded on Peter”, who was actually the messenger to the Jews, and hence the pope is basically the leader of a Jewish Church.

So Jesus Christ recruited Paul as his messenger to the Gentiles. They actually embraced and listened to the message, but many obviously misunderstood what it was about. Martin Luther criticized the Catholic Church for their hypocrisy and started the Christian revolution that led to the founding of the Protestant church and subsequently to the founding of many so called ‘Christian’ churches.

Being Christian means actually following Jesus Christ’s words and message. Whoever does not do this, has not right to call him or herself Christian. The worst example of such churches are many so called Christian Churches in the US. They preach violence and war, and their sole goal is to extort money from their congregation. And they do this with surprisingly great success. As surprisingly as this fact is the fact that their victims – or congregation, as they call them - obviously never read the bible. All you have to do is PICK UP A BIBLE AND READ it. If you do, you see the context of the quotes your pastors present to you and you will see that almost everything they tell you is a lie. So please read. Let me make this clear. Jesus Christ came to change the message. So the Old Testament is out. Read the New Testament to have the background to understand Paul. The writings of Paul are for us. Nothing else, because even Jesus Christ is only speaking to the Jews. Another reading suggestion is the Gospel of Thomas, older than any of the other Gospels, and it has not been edited through the ages. It contains only quotes from Jesus himself and you will find many of them in the known Gospels, so you know where Matthew, Mark Luke, and John got them from. We know that the Bible has been compiled and edited to the taste of the Dictators through the centuries, so the Gospel of Thomas is one of the few scriptures that are actually pure and the untainted word of GOD.

Murder, Lies and CIA

2009-03-02T10:19:00.000-08:00

Zeitgeist Addendum gives food for thought

Yesterday I had a chance to watch the movie “Zeitgeist Addendum”. Looking at the evidence I can absolutely live with the fact that Jesus shared the same fate with Horus, an Egyptian God who also rose from the dead and also shared several similarities in other aspects of his life. This is something I could even agree with. I know there is GOD, I believe in Jesus. I speak directly with GOD, not with Jesus. Like one of my friends stated recently: “Why should I talk to the son if I want to reach the father? I talk directly to the Boss.” And yes, there is a God! A GOD of love, peace and understanding. Jesus Christ changed the message from the violence of the Old Testament to love, peace and understanding.

But apart from the interesting religious statements made in the movie, everything else is also well thought out and well researched as well as less controversial. The way the richest and wealthiest deal with the poorest in their country, as well as the assassinations of heads of state, have never been a secret to me and the western world. And the events stated in the movie have not been secret either - at least to the Western world outside the United States.

Such as addendum shows the truth how nations are being mistreated and handled in the name of big capital, how people are being killed for money, how heads of state who are trying to do the right thing for their countries are being blackmailed first and then if this doesn't help being assassinated by the US is not new, but a necessary reminder of what has been going on in our country. One of the few who resisted and survived was Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who not surprisingly asked the Russians for military support against the people who are trying to kill him, the United States.

And once again we prove that big politics are free from ethics and free from moral restraints. And those are the people who call the Moslems murderers. They go to church. They claim Jesus Christ as their savior and appear to the public to abide in the moral rules of the church. If you claim to follow Jesus Christ, you HAVE to follow his commandments and rules:

1. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

2. Love your neighbor as yourself.

3. Honor your father and your mother.

4. You shall not murder.

5. You shall not commit adultery.

6. You shall not steal.

7. You shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

8. You shall not covet anything that is thy neighbor's.

9. Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

Jesus said:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' (Matthew 22:36-40)

You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. (Matthew 5:43)

[Romans 13:8-11] Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Click here to download a pdf file with the commandments.

As it seems, there are no moral rules that apply to heads of state. All they adhere to is the orders of the richest people and the call of money. It is beyond me how anybody could claim to be Christian and at the same time kill people, rob their own people of their money and declare a whole religion to be enemies or terrorists or whatever we are calling the Muslim world. Not to say that that some Muslims don't do the same thing. The radical leaders in the Middle East do exactly the same thing that the radical “fascist right wing Christians” are doing here, they are just heading in the opposite direction.

Zeitgeist Addendum points out which other options we would have. Instead of supporting big oil and the war machines we could actually produce clean energy from wind, solar, or geothermal processes and everybody could live happily without starving. And this would not apply only to the richest and wealthiest in industrialized countries, it would apply to everybody. The so-called Venus project is showing ways to realize these dreams and it is at least worth watching what the suggestions are.

If you should get a chance to see Zeitgeist Addendum - before that you should actually watch Zeitgeist - you should definitely do it. You can get the movies and watch the movies on www.Zeitgeistmovie.com.

I also had time to watch some 9/11 movies and I am still deeply concerned how it is possible that the marketing of B.S. can be so successful in suppressing and altering the truth. All the American government did was market a lie. All the efforts to show the truth, including film footage and unaltered photos make it so clear even to the dumbest person that the story the government has been selling to us cannot possibly be true.

But the government is able to present their very own, well paid, government contractors lying on television. People like Bill O'Reilly, Beck, Sean Hannity, and others are only too willing to keep their careers by the grace of the right wing fascist and treat people who tell the truth like dirt. One highly embarrassing example is the initial mistranslation of a remark the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made and the following interview, held by – seemingly a CIA interrogator – who falsely accused the President of telling lies. The – democratically elected (other than W. Bush who was appointed by his brother’s superior court protégée and who also fixed the election the second time around) President of a sovereign country patiently insisted that he was telling the truth, but the US interviewer insisted that it was a lie. A few days later, the whole world knew that the President of Iran had spoken the truth and the ignorant American had been lying. That is the picture the Cheney administration showed to the world over and over again. It is sad and embarrassing to see people act this way. And yes, he calls himself a Christian.

Especially with my journalistic background it is hard to understand how anybody who remotely claims to be something like a journalist can act this way. Those so-called journalists are government puppets and have sold out. They sold their soul to the devil and traded the truth for money. Yes and they all do it in the name of Christ.

But the systematic mistreatment and elimination of people who tell the truth has a long tradition in the world. The latest one that has been prosecuted, also by the US, was the Nazi regime in Germany and there, besides Marketing genius Joseph Goebbels, the President of the highest German Court, Roland Freisler, who made sure no one could answer a question he posed in cutting the victim off and yelling at them without even giving them a chance to say the truth.

Today’s Show trials are being held by ignorant right wing (which already implies ignorant) servants of the likes of Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly and others who try to discredit their interview partners in the worst way imaginable. These are Freisler-like show trials, not interviews. If you doubt this statement, feel free to listen to Roland Freisler, there is plenty of footage available, and then to one of the aforementioned Clowns. And please keep in mind that Freisler’s verdict meant death. The best place to hold these modern trials against the truth is the Fox television network. FOX News is the only “News-station”, and I use the word VERY loosely, in the world that has a court ruling in their favor, that their news do not have to contain any truth. And as you can tell, they don’t.

Suppressed Truth in the US - Here are the 25 Top Articles

2009-01-15T10:32:00.000-08:00

If you read my commentaries regularly, you know that I am criticizing the suppression of the truth or the telling of lies. To give you a heads up what is going on in the Media department, here another article from our friends at www.WantToKnow.info, who keep track of the Truth.

Top 25 Stories of 2008 Subjected to Press Censorship

1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation? (For full story, click here)
Nobody knows exactly how many lives the Iraq War has claimed. But even more astounding is that so few journalists have mentioned the issue or cited the top estimate: 1.2 million. During August and September 2007, a British polling group surveyed 2,414 adults in 15 of 18 Iraqi provinces and found that more than 20 percent had experienced at least one war-related death since March 2003. Using common statistical study methods, it determined that as many as 1.2 million people had been killed since the war began. Estimates range wildly and are based on a variety of sources. In October 2006, the British medical journal Lancet published a Johns Hopkins University study vetted by four independent sources that counted 655,000 dead. In January 2008, the World Health Organization and the Iraqi government did door-to-door surveys of nearly 10,000 households and put the number of dead at 151,000. The 1.2 million figure is out there, too, which is higher than the Rwandan genocide death toll and closing in on the 1.7 million who perished in Cambodia's killing fields. It raises questions about the real number of deaths from US aerial bombings and house raids, and challenges the common assumption that this is a war in which Iraqis are killing Iraqis. The Brookings Institute has reported that US troops have, over the past four years, conducted about 100 house raids a day. Brutality during these house searches has been documented (See #9 below). The aggressive "element of surprise" tactics employed by soldiers is likely resulting in several thousands of deaths a day that either go unreported or are categorized as insurgent casualties.
Sources: "Is the United States killing 10,000 Iraqis every month? Or is it more?" Michael Schwartz, After DowningStreet.org, July 6, 2007; "Iraq death toll rivals Rwanda Genocide, Cambodian killing fields," Joshua Holland, AlterNet, Sept. 17, 2007; "Iraq conflict has killed a million: survey," Luke Baker, Reuters, Jan. 30, 2008; "Iraq: Not our country to return to," Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service, March 3, 2008.

2. Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA (For full story, click here)
Coupling the perennial issue of security with Wall Street's measures of prosperity, the leaders of the three North American nations convened the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The White House-led initiative — launched at a March 23, 2005, meeting of President Bush, Mexico's then-president Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin — joins beefed-up commerce with coordinated military operations to promote what it calls "borderless unity." Critics call it "NAFTA on steroids." However, unlike NAFTA, the SPP was formed in secret, without public input. "The SPP is not a law, or a treaty, or even a signed agreement," Laura Carlsen wrote in a report for the Center for International Policy. "All these would require public debate and participation of Congress, both of which the SPP has scrupulously avoided." Instead the SPP has a special workgroup: the North American Competitiveness Council [NACC]. It's a coalition of private companies that are, according to the SPP website, "adding high-level business input [that] will assist governments in enhancing North America's competitive position and engage the private sector as partners in finding solutions." The NACC includes the Chevron Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Merck, Procter & Gamble Co., and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. A look at NAFTA's unpopularity among citizens in all three nations is evidence of why its expansion would need to be disguised. "It's a scheme to create a borderless North American Union under US control without barriers to trade and capital flows for corporate giants, mainly US ones," wrote Steven Lendman in Global Research.
Sources: "Deep Integration," Laura Carlsen, Center for International Policy, May 30, 2007; "The Militarization and Annexation of North America," Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 19, 2007; "The North American Union," Constance Fogal, Global Research, Aug. 2, 2007.

3. InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business (For full story, click here)
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have effectively deputized 23,000 members of the business community, asking them to tip off the feds in exchange for preferential treatment in the event of a crisis. "The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does — and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials," Matthew Rothschild wrote in the March 2008 issue of The Progressive. InfraGard was created in 1996. Membership now includes 350 of the nation's Fortune 500 companies. The group's 86 chapters coordinate with 56 FBI field offices nationwide. While FBI Director Robert Mueller has said he considers this segment of the private sector "the first line of defense," the American Civil Liberties Union issued a grave warning about the potential for abuse. "There is evidence that InfraGard may be closer to a corporate TIPS program, turning private-sector corporations ... into surrogate eyes and ears for the FBI. The FBI should not be creating a privileged class of Americans who get special treatment," stated Jay Stanley, public education director of the ACLU's technology and liberty program. And they are privileged: a DHS spokesperson told Rothschild that InfraGard members receive special training and readiness exercises. They're also privy to protected information that is usually shielded from disclosure under the trade secrets provision of the Freedom of Information Act. The information they have may be of critical importance to the general public, but first it goes to the privileged membership
Source: "The FBI deputizes business," Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, Feb. 7, 2008.

4. ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America? (For full story, click here)
The School of the Americas [SOA] earned an unsavory reputation in Latin America after many graduates of the Fort Benning, Ga., facility turned into counterinsurgency death squad leaders. The International Law Enforcement Academy recently installed by the Unites States in El Salvador — which looks, acts, and smells like the SOA — is also drawing scorn. The school is funded with $3.6 million from the US Treasury and staffed with instructors from the DEA, ICE, and FBI. It's tasked with training 1,500 police officers, judges, prosecutors, and other law enforcement agents in counterterrorism techniques per year. It's stated purpose is to make Latin America "safe for foreign investment" by "providing regional security and economic stability and combating crime." ILEAs aren't new, but past schools located in Hungary, Thailand, Botswana, and Roswell, N.M., haven't been terribly controversial. Salvadoran human rights organizers take issue with the fact that, in true SOA fashion, the ILEA releases neither information about its curriculum nor a list of students and graduates. Additionally, the way the school slipped into existence without public oversight has raised ire. As Wes Enzinna noted in a North American Congress on Latin America report, "Members of the US Congress were not briefed about the academy, nor was the main opposition party in El Salvador." Now, after more than three years in operation, critics point out that Salvadoran police, who account for 25 percent of the graduates, have become more violent. A May 2007 report by Tutela Legal implicated Salvadoran National Police (PNC) officers in eight death squad–style assassinations in 2006.
Sources: "Exporting US 'Criminal Justice' to Latin America," "Community in Solidarity with the people of El Salvador,"Upside Down World, June 14, 2007; "Another SOA?" Wes Enzinna, NACLA Report on the Americas, March/April 2008; "ILEA funding approved by Salvadoran right wing legislators,"CISPES, March 15, 2007; "Is George Bush restarting Latin America's 'dirty wars?'" Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet, Aug. 31, 2007.

5. Seizing War Protesters’ Assets (For full story, click here)
Protesting war could get you into big trouble, according to a critical read of two executive orders recently signed by President Bush. The first, issued July 17, 2007, and titled, "Blocking property of certain persons who threaten stabilization efforts in Iraq," allows the feds to seize assets from anyone who "directly or indirectly" poses a risk to the US war in Iraq. And, citing the modern technological ease of transferring funds and assets, the order states that no prior notice is necessary before the raid. On Aug. 1, Bush signed another order, similar but directed toward anyone undermining the "sovereignty of Lebanon or its democratic processes and institutions." In this case, the Secretary of the Treasury can seize the assets of anyone perceived as posing a risk of violence, as well as the assets of their spouses and dependents, and bans them from receiving any humanitarian aid. Critics say the orders bypass the right to due process and the vague language makes manipulation and abuse possible. Protesting the war could be perceived as undermining or threatening US efforts in Iraq. "This is so sweeping, it's staggering," said Bruce Fein, a former Reagan administration official in the Justice Department who editorialized against it in the Washington Times. "It expands beyond terrorism, beyond seeking to use violence or the threat of violence to cower or intimidate a population."
Sources: "Bush executive order: Criminalizing the antiwar movement," Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, July 2007; "Bush's executive order even worse than the one on Iraq," Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, August 2007.

6. The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act (For full story, click here)
On Oct. 23, 2007, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed — by a vote of 404-6 — the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act," designed to root out the causes of radicalization in Americans. With an estimated four-year cost of $22 million, the act establishes a 10-member National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism. The bill's author, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Los Angeles) said, "Free speech, espousing even very radical beliefs, is protected by our Constitution. But violent behavior is not." In a later press release Harman stated: "the National Commission [will] propose to both Congress and [DHS Secretary Michael] Chertoff initiatives to intercede before radicalized individuals turn violent." Which could be when they're speaking, writing, and organizing in ways that are protected by the First Amendment. This redefines civil disobedience as terrorism, say civil rights experts, and the wording is too vague. "What is an extremist belief system? Who defines this? These are broad definitions that encompass so much. It is criminalizing thought and ideology," said Alejandro Queral, executive director of the Northwest Constitutional Rights Center in Portland, Ore. The story didn't make it onto the CNN ticker, but enough independent sources reported on it that the equivalent Senate Bill 1959 has since stalled. After introducing the bill, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Me.), later joined forces with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on a report criticizing the Internet as a tool for violent Islamic extremism.
Sources: "Bringing the war on terrorism home," Jessica Lee, Indypendent, Nov. 16, 2007; "Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act," Lindsay Beyerstein, In These Times, Nov. 2007; "The Violent Radicalization Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007," Matt Renner, Truthout, Nov. 20, 2007.

7. Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking (For full story, click here)
Every year, about 121,000 people legally enter the United States to work with H-2 visas, a program legislators are touting as part of future immigration reform. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) called this guest worker program "the closest thing I've ever seen to slavery." The Southern Poverty Law Center likened it to "modern day indentured servitude." They interviewed thousands of guest workers and reviewed legal cases for a report released in March 2007, which concluded "Unlike US citizens, guest workers do not enjoy the most fundamental protection of a competitive labor market — the ability to change jobs if they are mistreated. If guest workers complain about abuses, they face deportation, blacklisting, or other retaliation." When visas expire, workers must leave the country, hardly making this the path to permanent citizenship legislators are looking for. Still, Mexicans are literally lining up for H-2B status, the stark details of which were reported by Felicia Mello in The Nation. Furthermore, thousands of illegal immigrants are employed throughout the country, providing cheap, unprotected labor and further undermining the scant provisions of the laws. Labor contractors who connect immigrants with employers are stuffing their pockets with cash, while the workers return home with very little money. The Southern Poverty Law Center outlined a list of comprehensive changes needed in the program, concluding, "For too long, our country has benefited from the labor provided by guest workers but has failed to provide a fair system that respects their human rights and upholds the most basic values of our democracy. The time has come for Congress to overhaul our shamefully abusive guest worker system."
Sources: "Close to Slavery," Mary Bauer and Sarah Reynolds, Southern Poverty Law Center, March 2007; "Coming to America," Felicia Mello, The Nation, June 25, 2007; "Trafficking racket," Chidanand Rajghatta, Times of India, March 10, 2008.

8. Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly (For full story, click here)
The Bush administration's Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice has been issuing classified legal opinions about surveillance for years. As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) had access to the DOJ opinions on presidential power and had three declassified to show how the judicial branch has, in a bizarre and chilling way, assisted President Bush in circumventing its own power. According to the three memos: "There is no constitutional requirement for a President to issue a new executive order whenever he wishes to depart from the terms of a previous executive order"; "The President, exercising his constitutional authority under Article II, can determine whether an action is a lawful exercise of the President's authority under Article II"; and "The Department of Justice is bound by the President's legal determinations." As Whitehouse rephrased in a Dec. 7, 2007, Senate speech: "I don't have to follow my own rules, and I don't have to tell you when I'm breaking them. I get to determine what my own powers are. The Department of Justice doesn't tell me what the law is. I tell the Department of Justice what the law is." The issue arose within the context of the Protect America Act, which expands government surveillance powers and gives telecom companies legal immunity for helping. Whitehouse, a former US Attorney, legal counsel to Rhode Island's governor, and Rhode Island Attorney General who took office in 2006, went on to point out that Marbury vs. Madison, written by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1803, established that it is "emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is."
Sources: "In FISA Speech, Whitehouse sharply criticizes Bush Administration's assertion of executive power," Sheldon Whitehouse, Dec. 7, 2007; "Down the Rabbit Hole," Marcy Wheeler, The Guardian (UK), Dec. 26, 2007.

9. Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify (For full story, click here)
Hearing soldiers recount their war experiences is the closest many people come to understanding the real horror, pain, and confusion of combat. One would think that might make compelling copy or powerful footage for a news outlet. But in March, when more than 300 veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan convened for four days of public testimony on the war, they were largely ignored by the media. Winter Soldier was designed to give soldiers a public forum to air some of the atrocities they witnessed. Winter Soldier was originally convened by Vietnam Vets Against the War in January 1971 when more than 100 Vietnam veterans described their war experiences, including rapes, torture, brutalities, and killing of non-combatants. The testimony was entered into the Congressional Record and shown at the Cannes Film Festival. Iraq Veterans Against the War hosted the 2008 reprise of the 1971 hearings. Former Marine Cpl. Jason Washburn said, "his commanders encouraged lawless behavior. 'We were encouraged to bring 'drop weapons.' In case we accidentally shot a civilian, we could drop the weapon on the body and pretend they were an insurgent.'" Interviews with 50 Iraq war veterans also revealed a general disregard for the traditional rules of war. Though most major news outlets sent staff to cover New York's Fashion Week, few made it to the Winter Soldier hearings. Fortunately, KPFA and Pacifica Radio broadcast the testimonies live. They were "deluged with phone calls, e-mails, and blog posts from service members, veterans, and military families thanking us for breaking a cultural norm of silence about the reality of war." Testimonies can be heard at www.ivaw.org.
Sources: "Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan eyewitness accounts of the occupation,"Iraq Veterans Against the War, March 13-16, 2008; "War comes home," Aaron Glantz, Aimee Allison, and Esther Manilla, Pacifica Radio, March 14-16, 2008; "US Soldiers testify about war crimes," Aaron Glantz, One World, March 19, 2008; "The Other War," Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian, The Nation, July 30, 2007.

10. American Psychological Association Complicit in CIA Torture (Full story here)
Psychologists have been assisting the CIA and US military with interrogation and torture of Guantánamo detainees — which the American Psychological Association [APA] has said is fine, despite objections from many of its 148,000 members. A 10-member APA task force was convened on the divisive issue in July 2005 and found that assistance from psychologists was making the interrogations safe. The task force was criticized by APA members for deliberating in secret, and later it was revealed that six of the 10 participants had ties to the armed services. Not only that, but as Katherine Eban reported in Vanity Fair, "Psychologists, working in secrecy, had actually designed the tactics and trained interrogators in them while on contract to the CIA." In particular, psychologists honed a classified military training program known as SERE [Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape] that teaches soldiers how to tough out torture if captured by enemies. Eban's story outlined how SERE tactics were spun as "science" despite a lack of data and the critique that building rapport works better than blows to the head. It's been misreported that CIA torture techniques got Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah to talk, when it was actually FBI rapport-building. In spite of this, SERE techniques became standards in interrogation manuals that eventually made their way to US officers guarding Abu Ghraib. Ongoing uproar within the APA resulted in a petition to make an official policy limiting psychologists' involvement in interrogations.
Sources: "The CIA's torture teachers," Mark Benjamin, Salon, June 21, 2007; "Rorschach and awe," Katherine Eban, Vanity Fair, July 17, 2007. [Note that a highly revealing essay by a leading psychiatrist details how many psychiatrists and even the former president of the APA were involved in government mind control programs.]
Other Stories in the Top 25

11. El Salvador's Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror (For full story, click here)
El Salvador's new Anti-terrorism Law – based on the USA PATRIOT Act – criminalizes political expression and social protest. Close range shooting of rubber bullets and tear gas was used against community members for protesting the rising cost, and diminishing access and quality, of local water under privatization. Fourteen were arrested and charged with terrorism, a charge that can hold a 60-year prison sentence under the new Anti-Terrorism Law.

12. Bush Profiteers Collect Billions from No Child Left Behind (For full story, click here)
No Child Left Behind has consistently proven disastrous in the realm of education. Yet the architect, President Bush's first senior education advisor Sandy Kress, has turned the program into a huge success in the realm of corporate profiteering.

13. Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq (For full story, click here)
Starting one month after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and continuing for over a year, the United States Federal Reserve shipped a total of $12 billion in U.S. currency to Iraq. The U.S. military delivered the bank notes to the Coalition Provisional Authority to be dispensed for Iraqi reconstruction. At least $9 billion of that amount is unaccounted for due to a complete lack of oversight.
14. Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste (For full story, click here)
Radioactive materials from nuclear weapons production sites are being dumped into regular public landfills and being used as recycled metals. The Nuclear Information and Resource Service has tracked the Department of Energy's (DOE) release of radioactive scrap to unaware and unprepared recipients such as landfills, businesses and recreation areas. Under the current system, the DOE releases contaminated materials directly, sells them at auctions or sends the materials to processors who can release them from radioactive controls.

15. Worldwide Slavery (For full story, click here)
Twenty-seven million slaves exist in the world today, more than at any time in human history. Globalization, poverty, violence and greed facilitate the growth of slavery, not only in the Third World, but in the most developed countries as well. Behind the façade in any major town or city in the world today, one is likely to find a thriving commerce in human beings.

16. Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights (For full story, click here)
The first Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights to be published by the year-old International Trade Union Confederation documents enormous challenges to workers' rights around the world. The 2007 edition of the survey, covering 138 countries, shows an alarming rise in the number of people killed as a result of their trade union activities, from 115 in 2005 to 144 in 2006. Many more trade unionists around the world were abducted or "disappeared."

17. UN's Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights (For full story, click here)
In September 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The resolution called for recognition of the world's 370 million indigenous peoples' right to self-determination and control over their lands and resources. Three months following the passage of the Universal Declaration, a delegation of indigenous peoples were forcibly barred from entering the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bali, despite the fact that the delegation was invited to attend.

18. Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers (For full story, click here)
In states across the U.S., child advocates have harshly condemned conditions under which young offenders are housed — conditions that involve sexual abuse, physical abuse and even death. The U.S. Justice Department has filed lawsuits against facilities in 11 states for supervision that is either abusive or harmfully negligent.

19. Indigenous Herders & Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction (For full story, click here)
The industrial model of livestock production is causing the worldwide destruction of animal diversity. At least one indigenous livestock breed becomes extinct each month as a result of overreliance on select breeds imported from the United States and Europe.

20. Marijuana Arrests Set New Record (For full story, click here)
For the fourth year in a row, U.S. marijuana arrests set an all-time record, according to 2006 FBI Uniform Crime Reports. Marijuana arrests in 2006 totaled 829,627, an increase from 786,545 in 2005.

21. NATO Considers "First Strike" Nuclear Option (For full story, click here)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials are considering a first strike nuclear option to be used anywhere in the world a threat may arise. The authors of the plan insist "the first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction."

22. CARE Rejects US Food Aid (For full story, click here)
In August 2007, one of the biggest and best-known American charity organizations, CARE, announced it was turning down $45 million a year in food aid from the United States government. CARE claims the way U.S. aid is structured causes rather than reduces hunger in the countries where it is received.

23. FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs (For full story, click here)
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) turns a blind eye, drug companies are making false, unsubstantiated and misleading claims in their advertising, often withholding mandated disclosure of dangerous side effects. Though companies are required to submit their advertisements to the FDA, the agency does not review them before they are released to the public. [For a powerful two-page essay by a top U.S. physician on this key topic, click here]

24. Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror (For full story, click here)
Testimony in the Japanese parliament, broadcast live on Japanese television in January 2008, challenged the premise and validity of the Global War on Terror. Parliament member Yukihisa Fujita insisted that an investigation be conducted into the war's origin: the events of 9/11. [Watch a video with English subtitles of Fujita speaking to parliament available here]

25. Bush's Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer (For full story, click here)
The exposure of New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer's tryst with a luxury call girl may have been the result of a planned event. Timing suggests that Spitzer was likely a target of a White House and Wall Street operation to silence one of its most dangerous and vocal critics of their handling of the current financial market crisis. [See the Washington Post article Spitzer wrote just weeks before the accusations against him emerged]

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Bush administration crushed economy

2008-12-05T12:09:00.000-08:00

That the people around Bush who are slavishly devoted to serve the wealthiest and most abominable people in the world are actively destroying our country is not a secret anymore. It is embarrassing that no action is taken against these acts of treason against our USA. Selling the people out to the banks is treason against our country. The President's oath has been broken over and over again and the members of this administration - as well as the ones standing idly by and watching this happen - can not be ashamed enough of themselves.

While Bush is engaging in acts of comedy with his devoted servant Charles Gibson on ABC and claims that the intelligence that he had previously fixed by his own people - namely Cheney - would have been different, and there would have been weapons of mass destruction, things could have been different... the economy is falling in shambles.

Other countries, so Bush's claim had the same intelligence. Yes, they had the previously fixed US intelligence which was given to them by the US. The countries which had the information that had not been tampered with by the CIA refused to go to war under these false pretenses. France and Germany were ousted and insulted by Rumsfeld and Bush for making this correct decision and as we found out later everything France and Germany had claimed was true. I have not heard an apology so far, just the outrage of the criminals in the Bush crime family who were furious that some countries were smart enough not to participate in their crime and the illegal occupation of Iraq.

Now the Bush crime family makes the last push: Citibank and City Group which are owned by Saudi Arabia get bail outs thrown at them, Billions and Billions of Dollars while the only US car manufacturers have to beg on their knees to get $34 Billion Dollars to save three Million jobs. Are we really going nuts here? The fascist Republican right is blaming the Democrats for this crisis? More information here from our friends at www.WantToKnow.info:

US diluted loan rules before crash
December 1, 2008, ABC News/Associated Press
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/business&id=6532267
The Bush administration backed off proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial meltdown, according to an Associated Press review of regulatory documents. "Expect fallout, expect foreclosures, expect horror stories," California mortgage lender Paris Welch wrote to U.S. regulators in January 2006, about one year before the housing implosion cost her a job. Bowing to aggressive lobbying - along with assurances from banks that the troubled mortgages were OK - regulators delayed action for nearly one year. By the time new rules were released late in 2006, the toughest of the proposed provisions were gone and the meltdown was under way. The administration's blind eye to the impending crisis is emblematic of its governing philosophy, which trusted market forces and discounted the value of government intervention in the economy. Its belief ironically has ushered in the most massive government intervention since the 1930s. Many of the banks that fought to undermine the proposals by some regulators are now either out of business or accepting billions in federal aid to recover from a mortgage crisis they insisted would never come. In 2005, faced with ominous signs the housing market was in jeopardy, bank regulators proposed new guidelines for banks writing risky loans. Those proposals all were stripped from the final rules.

Note: For many revealing reports on the Wall Street bailout from reliable sources, click here.

The correct answer to Prop. 8 in California

2008-12-04T21:21:00.000-08:00

Having been a fan of Jack Black for a long time, his participation in this video is a special treat for me. But not only that, it also gives me the opportunity to continue my Love against hate sermon that outrages so many American Christians who are fighting for their hateful and vengeful GOD. If they would ever bother to actually read the Bible - a task that "W." avoided as well - they would be amazed and surprised what the "good Book" really says. Yes, the Bible allows you to stone your wife and sell your daughters into slavery. And according to Leviticus eating Shellfish (Shrimp among others) is equal to or worse than being gay.

[[Lev 11:10 - 11:12] And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.]]

I am fortunately not in a dilemma, because I rightly divide the Bible into the proper parts: The Old Testament is the history and the law of the Jews. The New Testament is also for the Jews and the Apostles were sent explicitly to the Jews and NOT to us Gentiles:

[[Mat 10:5 - 10:6] These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.]

And our Apostle is Paul and we follow Jesus Christ's example of Love, the commandments that were given by Jesus Christ and verified by Paul. There is no hate in Jesus Christ. He threw the traders out of the temple. Something we should also do here in America.

[Mat 21:12 - 21:13] And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.]

So all the Hagees, Hinns and the other misguided liars and all their likes should be cast out. Because they are thieves and they do not preach GOD's word. They want money and they don't care where they steal it, how many souls are being lost along the way and how many people despair about their lies. GOD is Love, Jesus is Love. And the religious thieves who preach anything else but love are the incarnation of hate, which is the opposite of Love. Which is ... but this is easy to figure out. The opposite of GOD is...? But now enjoy the video.

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die

Bush's final revenge on the world

2008-11-23T12:43:00.000-08:00

Bush has raided this country together with many people who have no soul and no conscience. The final act of the current "lame duck" is unfolding right before our very eyes. To make sure that the new President Barack Obama definitely does not have a dime left to do anything to save our country and also to give the ones who did not profit enough from the illegal occupation of Iraq some undeserved Billions of dollars as well.

And today Bush's financial zombies not only rape and raid our country financially with the 700 Billion Dollar so called bailout that is going the same way that the money for the IRAQ war went - into the pockets of Bush's friends, they also try to punish the people who co-financed the Loose Change documentary. The reason is to get revenge on the people who are smarter than the average American and who told the truth about our Government Terrorists. You can find out more about this revenge actions by clicking here. And please be aware that I don't say that there was no wrong doing, I am just surprised that the financial forces go after the little people while the Government under Bush's fellow criminals is taking the last pennies from the American taxpayer without any interference from anyone to line the pockets of the same people who caused the worldwide financial crisis.

The filmmakers and scientists who worked on and wrote the documentary Loose Change 911 are some of the smartest and internationally recognized scientists and thinkers our country has. Other than our never elected so called President Bush. To quote the great George Carlin: "I call him Governor, because that was the last office that he was elected to." And now Bush's own financial GESTAPO is trying to hunt down the people who have been telling the truth about 9-11 for years. The whole world is aware that 9-11 was an inside job because there was no other way to pull it off. The only ones naive enough to believe what Bush's servants tell us about this attack are we, the Americans. The rest of the world knows there was Evolution, that there is the law of Gravity and other scientific facts. We are the only nation naive enough to take what the right wing fascist churches and the people behind Bush have been dishing out to us. Here another article from our friends at http://www.wanttoknow.info/ to show you how our money will disappear before the new President takes office.

Warning: King Henry's bailout like Rummy's IraqNovember 10, 2008, MarketWatch (A Wall Street Journal Digital Network Website)http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/reagonomics-hides-sleeper-cells-harboring/story.aspx?guid=%7bA1408383-3517-40A0-8363-DBD03829CEA1%7d&dist=msr_2
So you thought Barack Obama's victory signaled the death of Reaganomics? Wrong, wrong: Reaganomics is very much alive. In a subtle, bloodless coup, the Reaganomics ideology magically pulled victory out of the jaws of defeat in the meltdown. The magic happened fast and quietly, in the shadows, while you were in a trance, distracted by the election drama. Recently Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, framed the issue perfectly: "Has the Treasury partially nationalized the private banks, as we have been told? Or is it the other way around?" The question was rhetorical, the answer painfully clear. In a few weeks Wall Street did the old bait and switch, emerging from an economic and market disaster with new powers, in total control of America. And thanks to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's brilliant bailout coup, Reaganomics is now the new "sleeper cell" quietly hidden inside the Obama White House and America's Treasury, where it will be for a long time to come. Listen closely folks: You and your government are and will continue being conned out of trillions. Klein further exposed this insanity in a recent Rolling Stone article, "The New Trough: The Wall Street bailout looks a lot like Iraq, a 'free-fraud zone' where private contractors cash in on the mess they helped create." Paulson's privatization, outsourcing and management of the $700 billion bailout has the exact same Reaganomics ideological, strategic and deceptive footprints that President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used to privatize, outsource and mismanage the costly Iraq War blunder.

Note: For the powerfully revealing article by Naomi Klein mentioned in the article above, click here. For many key articles revealing the hidden realities of the bailout, click here.

And to find out about the man the Republicans called "a Muslim", here a link and a short article about our President elect Barack Obama:

Obama: I have a deep faith April 5, 2004, Chicago Sun-Times
http://www.suntimes.com/news/falsani/726619,obamafalsani040504.article
Barack Obama is alone on this Saturday afternoon in the city, his press secretary nowhere in sight. He's not carrying anything with him. Not even notes. Yet he appears confident as he answers questions about his spiritual life, a subject that would make many politicians -- on or off the campaign trail -- more skittish than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. If an hourlong conversation about his faith unnerves him, Obama's not letting on. The first question he fields without hesitation: What does he believe? "I am a Christian," the 42-year-old ... says. "So, I have a deep faith," Obama continues. "I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people. That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived." It's perhaps an unlikely theological position for someone who places his faith squarely at the feet of Jesus to take, saying essentially that all people of faith -- Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone -- know the same God. That depends, Obama says, on how a particular verse from the Gospel of John, where Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me," is heard. "Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion," he says. "I am a big believer in the separation of church and state. I am a big believer in our constitutional structure."

Note: For those who want to understand the spiritual beliefs of Barack Obama, the full article at the link above is highly recommended. Even better, for the powerful transcript of this interview between the religion columnist of the Sun-Times and Obama, click here.

And again, I am very thankful to our friends at http://www.wanttoknow.info/ to give us PROVEN facts about the things happening behind the scenes and the smokescreens of the Bush administration.

Obama tells the truth!

2008-11-23T12:39:00.000-08:00

Another, more positive message came in today. Unfortunately without the name of the sender, but nonetheless, thanks for your support:

God Bless you folks for being true Christians and not condemning Barack Obama. What I don't understand is how Sarah Palin or John McCain can even say they believe in GOD after what I have heard them say in politics.

Again, may GOD bless your church and teachings.

Thank you my brother or sister in Christ. How could anyone condemn Barack Obama or most other Democrats? Republicans violate all the commandments. McCain and Palin have not said a true word or stated an actual fact in their entire Campaign. This is called lying and violates the commandments. They also support the unethical occupation and the violent killing in the Middle East, which the Bush-supporters made possible. Killing is as well against the commandments. And they steal all of our money, which is also against the commandments. How could the Republicans possibly claim GOD for themselves if they violate all his commandments?

Barack Obama tells the truth, wants to stop the theft by the wealthiest Americans who are actually ruining our country and he also wants to stop the war and the killing.

Whose side do you think GOD is on???

The battle is won - but the war?

2008-11-18T12:40:00.000-08:00

I am happy that my fellow Americans began to favor a President with an IQ higher than a Lab rat and voted for the eloquent, honest and intelligent candidate. This battle was won by brains. Still the IQ of the Republican base (the people who listen to Rush Limbaugh and watch Fox News) is in single digits.

I don't have a problem with Republicans, I have a problem with the people who call themselves Republicans and under that banner spread hate, stupidity and celebrate their ignorance. Unfortunately these are the people who have the media outlets under their control. It is amazing how Republicans - who just used Hitler's and Goebbels' blue print of how to control Germany and build it into a NAZI nation - to shred the constitution, commit voter fraud twice and tried to build up a new GESTAPO with warrentless wiretaps and the absence of Habeas Corpus, which puts us in a line with most other Dictatorships and communist countries that our "Leaders" so loudly criticize for their human rights violations. After fixing the US elections twice, the administration - which denied UN observers the right to monitor the US elections - still sent observers to other countries and commented about their handling of the elections. The whole world was standing by in disbelief and inner laughter about the serious belief of the US Government that no one knew that they themselves were never elected. The world knew it and the US did not care. Starting wars, ruining our country is all this administration has done for us. Nothing for America, everything to rape and ruin our USA for the bank accounts of a few. Now they have our money, still taking more right now (we "bail" them out), and we are idly standing by.

Let's hope there is something to salvage after the Bushes and the Cheneys are done. Everything was supported by FOX and their affiliates. Some people are still dumb enough to believe that the News in our country are neutral. Below some information for them from our friends at http://www.wanttoknow.info/.

Jane Akre—Fox News. After our struggle to air an honest report [on hormones in milk], Fox fired the general manager [of our station]. The new GM said that if we didn’t agree to changes that the lawyers were insisting upon, we’d be fired for insubordination in 48 hours. We pleaded with [him] to look at the facts we’d uncovered. His reply: “We paid $3 billion dollars for these stations. We’ll tell you what the news is. The news is what we say it is!” [After we refused] Fox’s GM presented us an agreement that would give us a full year of salary, and benefits worth close to $200,000, but with strings attached: no mention of how Fox covered up the story and no opportunity to ever expose the facts. [After declining] we were fired. (click for more)

Dan Rather—CBS, Multiple Emmy Awards. What's going on is a belief that you can manipulate communicable trust between the leadership and the led. The way you do that is you don't let the press in anywhere. Access to war is extremely limited. The fiercer the combat, the more the access is limited, [including] access to information. This is a direct contradiction of the stated policy of maximum access to information consistent with national security. There was a time in South Africa when people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. In some ways the fear [now in the U.S.] is that you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. That fear keeps journalists from asking the tough questions. I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism. (click for more)

Monika Jensen-Stevenson—Emmy-winning producer for 60 minutes. Robert R. Garwood—14 years a prisoner of the Vietnamese—was found guilty in the longest court-martial in US history. At the end of the court-martial, there seemed no question that Garwood was a monstrous traitor. Several years later in 1985, Garwood was speaking publicly about something that had never made the news during his court-martial. He knew of other American prisoners in Vietnam long after the war was over. He was supported by Vietnam veterans whose war records were impeccable….My sources included outstanding experts like former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency General Tighe and returned POWs like Captain McDaniel, who held the Navy’s top award for bravery. With such advocates, it was hard not to consider the possibility that prisoners (some 3,500) had in fact been kept by the Vietnamese as hostages to make sure the US would pay the more than $3 billion in war reparations. [After the war] American POWs had become worthless pawns. The US had not paid the promised monies and had no intention of paying in the future. (click for more)

Kristina Borjesson—CBS, Emmy award winner. Pierre Salinger announced to the world on Nov. 8, 1996, that he’d received documents proving that a US Navy missile had accidentally downed [TWA flight 800]. That same day, FBI’s Jim Kallstrom called a press conference. A man raised his hand and asked why the Navy was involved in the recovery and investigation while a possible suspect. “Remove him!” [Kallstrom] yelled. Two men leapt over to the questioner and grabbed him by the arms. There was a momentary chill in the air after the guy had been dragged out of the room. Kallstrom and entourage acted as if nothing had happened. [Kallstrom was later hired by CBS.] (click for more)

Greg Palast—BBC. In the months leading up to the November [2000] balloting, Gov. Jeb Bush ordered elections supervisors to purge 58,000 voters on the grounds they were felons not entitled to vote. As it turns out, only a handful of these voters were felons. This extraordinary news ran on page one of the country’s leading paper. Unfortunately, it was the wrong country: Britain. In the USA, it was not covered. The office of the governor [also] illegally ordered the removal of felons from voter rolls—real felons—but with the right to vote under law. As a result, 50,000 of these voters could not vote. The fact that 90% of these were Democrats should have made it news as this alone more than accounted for Bush’s victory. (click for more)

Michael Levine—25-year veteran of DEA, writer for New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today. The Chang Mai “factory” that the CIA prevented me from destroying was the source of massive amounts of heroin being smuggled into the US in the bodies and body bags of GIs killed in Vietnam. Case after case was killed by CIA and State Department intervention and there wasn’t a thing we could do about it….In 1980, CIA-recruited mercenaries and drug traffickers unseated Bolivia’s democratically elected president. Immediately after the coup, cocaine production increased massively. Bolivia [became] the source of virtually 100% of the cocaine entering the US. This was the beginning of the crack “plague.”…The CIA along with State and Justice Departments had to protect their drug-dealing assets by destroying a DEA investigation. How do I know? I was the inside source….I sat down at my desk in the American embassy and wrote evidence of my charges. I addressed it to Newsweek. Three weeks later DEA’s internal security [called] to notify me that I was under investigation….The highlight of the 60 Minutes piece is when the administrator of the DEA, Federal Judge Robert Bonner, tells Mike Wallace, “There is no other way to put it, Mike, [what the CIA did] is drug smuggling. It’s illegal.” (click for more)

Gary Webb—San Jose Mercury News, Pulitzer Prize winner. In 1996, I wrote a series of stories that began this way: For the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods gangs of LA and funneled millions in drug profits to a guerilla army run by the CIA. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America….The story was developing a momentum all of its own, despite a virtual news blackout from the major media. Ultimately, it was public pressure that forced the national newspapers into the fray. The Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times published stories, but spent little time exploring the CIA’s activities. Instead, my reporting and I became the focus of their scrutiny. It was remarkable [Mercury News editor] Ceppos wrote, that the four Washington Post reporters assigned to debunk the series “could not find a single significant factual error.” A few months later, the Mercury News [due to intense CIA pressure] backed away from the story, publishing a long column by Ceppos apologizing for “shortcomings.” The New York Times hailed Ceppos for “setting a brave new standard,” and splashed his apology on their front page, the first time the series had ever been mentioned there. I quit the Mercury News not long after that….Do we have a free press today? Sure. It’s free to report all the sex scandals, all the stock market news, [and] every new health fad that comes down the pike. But when it comes to the real down and dirty stuff—such stories are not even open for discussion. (click for more)

John Kelly—Author, ABC producer. ABC hired me to help produce a story about an investment firm that was heavily involved with the CIA. Part of the ABC report charged that the CIA had plotted to assassinate an American, Ron Rewald, the president of [the investment firm]. Scott Barnes said on camera that the CIA had asked him to kill Rewald. After the show aired, CIA officials met with ABC executive David Burke, [who] was sufficiently impressed “by the vigor with which they made their case” to order an on-air “clarification.” But that was not enough. [CIA Director] Casey called ABC Chairman Goldenson. [Thus] despite all the documented evidence presented in the program, despite ABC standing by the program in a second broadcast, Peter Jennings reported that ABC could no longer substantiate the charges. That same day, the CIA filed a formal complaint with the FCC charging that ABC had “deliberately distorted” the news. In the complaint, Casey asked that ABC be stripped of its TV and radio licenses….During this time, Capital Cities Communications was maneuvering to buy ABC. [CIA Director] Casey was one of the founders of Cap Cities. Cap Cities bought ABC. Within months, the entire investigative unit was dispersed. (click for more)

Robert McChesney—500 radio & TV appearances. [There has been a] striking consolidation of the media from hundreds of firms to an industry dominated by less than ten enormous transnational conglomerates. The largest ten media firms own all US TV networks, most TV stations, all major film studios, all major music companies, nearly all cable TV channels, much of the book and magazine publishing [industry], and much, much more. Expensive investigative journalism—especially that which goes after national security or powerful corporate interests—is discouraged. Largely irrelevant human interest/tragedy stories get extensive coverage….A few weeks after the war began in Afghanistan, CNN president Isaacson authorized CNN to provide two different versions of the war: a more critical one for the global audience and a sugarcoated one for Americans….It is nearly impossible to conceive of a better world without some changes in the media status quo. We have no time to waste. (click for more)

Still: GOD is LOVE - not wrath.

2008-10-30T12:33:00.000-07:00

Daniel, the friendly warrior of the unforgiving, vain and violent GOD wrote an email to save my soul and the souls of the readers of my website. I appreciate it and I might answer different parts of his - or, looking at the hate and frustration in there, probably more likely his pastor's - message one by one over the coming days. I am currently very busy, but it is too important to let this stand on its own too long. Hateful Christians are too interesting to pass up as a subject for my sermons - and also the component of raking in money in GOD's name and in the Church's account.

His church wants your money, so tithing is a major subject for them. And they love to keep you in fear and terror of GOD, to get to your money. To check out that my claim is true, have a look at the website he gave me. On the site, don't be surprised, first they establish that you are a bad person and you will certainly go to hell - which by the way does not exist (click here to see why) - and you really need their products.

First they will scare you here (Please click here to see the site) and then you should click on the link below the scare tactics site, which then brings you here, to a site which then will sell all their products you think you need for your scared and fearful soul.

Scaring people, spreading fear and terror without a reason... Don't we call that terrorism here in America? What would Jesus do with those people? Would he kick them out of the temple? Well, for now, here is Daniel's e-mail, unedited with some brief comments of mine in red.

Hi Alexander,

May I plea with you...

The same God that formed you in your mother's womb formed me. There is only one God. God created all things from the word of His power. He formed the earth out of nothing and created all things that exist. This God is the same God who came down to see the evils of Sodom and Gomorrah, and proceeded to judge them with fire. This same God gave Abraham a promise of a nation who would outnumber the sands on the sea shore.
This same God freed a people out of the bonds of slavery and called them Israel. This God punished the people in the wilderness for casting a false god and worshiping it. This same God gave His law to Moses and set up the sacrifices and the priesthood of the Jewish people as a sign of Him.

This same God destroyed his people, Israel through the nation of Babylon for claiming to know God, but secretly worshiped the false Gods of their neighboring countries.

You make me think that it is obviously also possible to worship a false GOD here, in our own country.

This same God knowing that the heart of man is evil from youth, became a man in Jesus of Nazareth. This Jesus being equal with God, humbled himself and became a servant to all. He was blameless before both God and man, and this Jesus went to the cross to spill His blood for you. God so loved the world that He gave His only son that who ever believes in Him should not Perish, but have eternal life. There are two choices. Believe and be given the gift of eternal life, or not believe and perish.

I am trembling with fear. GOD loved me so much, that he gave his own son for my sins, and I shall fear him? GOD LOVES ME. If you refuse to be loved by GOD, I can't help you.

Sin is so horrible that the wages for sin is death. The soul that sins shall perish says the Lord. Sin is so horrible that no person deserves to approach God while stained with sin. Yet Jesus made a single way to approach God, through his death on the cross, burial and resurrection. Every other spiritual leader has a grave. You too will have a grave. Jesus said that he lays down his life that he may take it again.
Jesus did not come to judge 2000 years ago, but to lay his life down for the sheep. But He is coming again with a sword in His mouth to judge and rule and reign as king.
My soul mourns for you, that you claim to know the scriptures, but you don't see.

Good that your position in GOD's court is so high that you think you can lecture and look down on someone who lives in GOD's eternal grace. Could you really be blaspheming? Could you really be that vain and proud? Let's see.

Jesus offers you forgiveness today, but you must take a leap of faith and trust in his work on the cross to save you. You must humble yourself and abandon your pride in your own knowledge, and you must come to the cross as each child of God has, in humility.

...and give you all my money. Would you go as far as to claim that my soul is in your hands and that my blood could be on your hands?

Paul said that those who are teachers will receive a harsher judgment. Again, when we are there in heaven and I see you again, your blood will not be on my hands. I have offered you the truth of the Gospel, the same Gospel that Paul treasured. Paul said if you preach any other Gospel, even if it is delivered to you by angels, let that man be accursed.

Any more empty threats for the faint of heart? Well, you are definitely not attempting to speak about the true content of the Bible or any Gospel that GOD or Jesus Christ would condone. Here is some Paul for you:

[Rom 5:8-5:11] But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

God will get Glory in the end.dw

Dear Daniel, I think GOD already has the Glory. Not through your praise though, I understand. I already acknowledge GOD in all HIS glory now. But I doubt that HE needs your or my approval. I refuse to think of HIM as a flawed character. GOD is perfect and does not need your fear to feel powerful.

The GOD of wrath is the GOD of the Jews in the Old Testament. HE changed HIS message in sending Jesus Christ to the Jews. His message then was LOVE. And when the Jews refused Jesus Christ's message, it was given to the Gentiles by Paul. If you would rightly divide the Bible, you would understand what I am talking about.

But I admit: People who fear GOD tithe (give 10% of their income) a lot better. And that was the first thing the website you gave me asked me for: My money. By the way: tithing is not in the Bible either. So you should keep your money and not be afraid of a loving GOD. And yes, there is only one GOD, and HE is above jealousy and HE does not need your fear or money to feel powerful. HE just is.

America is smarter than that!!!

2008-10-29T15:49:00.000-07:00

I am happy to see that America sees through the BS screen Senator McCain and Sarah Palin are trying to put up to defraud the American people one more time. Twice it was Republican voter fraud and this time it seem the Republicans are preparing their third election fraud in accusing the Democrats of voter registration fraud. Which is ridiculous because ACORN, the organization that is accused of it handed the suspicious registrations in after they were lawfully and rightfully clearly marked as suspicious. So, let's hope that our votes will count.

GOD is LOVE, not Fear!

2008-10-29T15:48:00.000-07:00

Last night, right after Choir rehearsal, someone gave my wife and me a piece of paper. A $1,000,000 note with the question on it: "Will you go to heaven when you die?" Daniel was the person speaking to me, another holy worker began talking to my wife. Daniel insisted that GOD was to fear. The judgment would be terrible, we were all sinners and not worthy. I answered that I could not worship a GOD that I had to fear. Because my GOD was full of love and very forgiving. GOD leads my life everyday and he does not let me fall in sin just to boost his ego (what a thought...). Daniel told me that his GOD was a GOD of wrath and jealousy. I answered that I had a problem to imagine any superior being, especially GOD, to have all these character flaws that he was describing after Jesus died for our sins and brought the message of love.

I told him that I communicate with GOD, try my best to keep his commandments and live in the light that GOD shines on me, my life and my mission. And I said that I would not trade GOD for his version with the flawed character who demands to be feared. GOD send Jesus to show his love. All we have to do is try to live according to his rules of love and forgiveness, try to walk in Jesus shoes as far as we can - which means to live our life in love and understanding for our fellow man:

[Romans 13:8 -11] Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

So, dear Daniel, Love is the fulfilling of the law. Not fear. And about your Bible quotes, please start with this one: [2Ti 2:15] Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

And to learn how to rightly divide the word of truth, please click here. Again, I thank you for our conversation in the name of GOD last night and I know that GOD has blessed you.

McCain in the Glass house!

2008-10-17T09:11:00.000-07:00

Senator McCain, who has problems to decide if he wants a cleaner campaign or keep on slinging mud at America's only hope, Barack Obama, has problems of his own. While the accusations against Barack Obama have so far turned out to be totally unsubstantiated, the truth has caught up with McCain, as our friends from www.WantToKnow.info report:

Keating 5 ring a bell?
September 25, 2008, Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-brooks25-2008sep25,0,1039504.column

Once upon a time, a politician took campaign contributions and favors from a friendly constituent who happened to run a savings and loan association. The contributions were generous: They came to about $200,000 in today's dollars, and on top of that there were several free vacations for the politician and his family, along with private jet trips and other perks. The politician voted repeatedly against congressional efforts to tighten regulation of S&Ls, and in 1987, when he learned that his constituent's S&L was the target of a federal investigation, he met with regulators in an effort to get them to back off. That politician was John McCain, and his generous friend was Charles Keating, head of Lincoln Savings & Loan. While he was courting McCain and other senators and urging them to oppose tougher regulation of S&Ls, Keating was also investing his depositors' federally insured savings in risky ventures. In 1989, [Lincoln] went belly up -- and more than 20,000 Lincoln customers saw their savings vanish. Keating went to prison, and McCain's Senate career almost ended. Together with the rest of the so-called Keating Five ... McCain was investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee and ultimately reprimanded for "poor judgment." But the savings and loan crisis mushroomed. Eventually, the government spent about $125 billion in taxpayer dollars to bail out hundreds of failed S&Ls. The $125 billion seems like small change compared to the $700-billion price tag for the Bush administration's proposed Wall Street bailout. But the root causes of both crises are the same: a lethal mix of deregulation and greed.

Note: For key reports on government corruption from reliable sources, click here.

I still have a hard time understanding why Palin and McCain are allowed by the media to lie openly without asking them any questions about it.

Will we have to suffer another fake terrorist attack?

2008-10-15T12:13:00.000-07:00

I think I have established that I know for a fact (who could take out NORAD? - and the plans were in place from our Government for a "new Pearl Harbor") that the 9-11 attacks were home made to keep "W" in power and start a war against an innocent country to control their oil resources. Now some people are afraid that a similar scam shall be played out for John McCain.

Some people think that Bush will declare martial law - the military is already back from IRAQ and according to their orders - which are by the way unconstitutional - ready to attack US citizens in their home country. So you and I might be killed by our own troops because we were voting for the wrong guy?

Are we still the land of the free? The land of the brave? My Lord. What an amazing thing Christianity seems to be. According to the right wing Christian fascists you shall kill, lie and steal. Those are the new commandments? Something has gone very wrong in our US of A in recent years.

Others assume that there will be another homemade attack, a new 9-11, from Bush's friends to get McCain elected. More - once again - from our friends at www.WantToKnow.info who know many things we should seriously think about to see how we are being manipulated, lied to, raped and ravaged.

McCain's 'big advantage'

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/24/EDPC11EHS4.DTL

Charlie Black, senior adviser to John McCain, caused a fluff by saying that a terrorist attack on U.S. soil would be a "big advantage" to his candidate. No one mentioned that eight years ago, the Project for a New American Century called for "a new Pearl Harbor" that could move the American people to accept the neoconservative vision of militarized global domination. Then 9/11 happened, lifting George W. Bush from the shadows of a disputed election to the heights of a "war presidency." Bush has taken on unprecedented powers since the events of 9/11. On that day, the president issued his "Declaration of Emergency by Reason of Certain Terrorist Attacks" under the authority of the National Emergencies Act. This declaration, which can be rescinded by joint resolution of Congress, has instead been extended six times. In 2007, the declaration was quietly strengthened with the issuance of gave the president the authority to do whatever he deems necessary in a vaguely defined "catastrophic emergency," including everything from canceling elections to suspending the Constitution to launching a nuclear attack.

Please understand that this is not about Republicans or Democrats. There are people destroying our country and our lives! I know that many Republicans are not aware of what the leaders do and if they were, they would have a hard time to believe it. Please take a minute to think and get the facts. I know Americans do not condone what is happening right now. Stand up and tell the politicians that we are fed up. This is not cheering for football teams. This is about your and our lives.

Should Lies Get Them the Job?

2008-10-12T12:18:00.000-07:00

If someone applies for a job and lies in the interview, would you hire him or her? Probably not. So this is your situation with John McCain and Sarah Palin. All they tell is lies. Because the truth would catapult them out of the race immediately. McCain lied so obviously to America when he told Talk show legend David Letterman that he had to “hurry back to Washington to solve the economic crisis” and sat calmly in Katie Couric’s CBS studio for an interview instead of appearing on David’s show and David Letterman projected the live feed from CBS on the Studio screen. Sitting in for McCain was legendary MSNBC host Keith Olbermann who helped David poke fun at the ignorant Wannabe President.

McCain has graduated among the last of his class. And the pattern did not change. His supporters think Barack Obama is a Muslim, an elitist and an Arab. Sarah Palin (who does not read a single newspaper) declares that he has pals who are terrorists and she keeps telling many more lies to a Lynch mob of Republican idiots and racists who are yelling for Obama's death, happily supported by a brain free Hockey mom who was even booed a hockey game. Another set of lying morons in the White House? Another babbling idiot as our President? Didn’t we have enough of this?

With "The Bailout" they are just stealing more money from us

2008-09-30T12:22:00.000-07:00

The "PEN" sends me a lot of useful and truthful information and it really seems like they are as upset about our Government stealing from us and selling out America to the richest of the rich as I am. Anyway, McCain and Palin are only puppets of the masters behind the scenes. Like Bush who had one of the puppeteers as his VP. The Republicans are now selling two brain free candidates to the US and seem to do well with it. Sometimes I ask myself why the level of stupidity is so high. No thinking child left behind? Is our system really only breeding a bunch of morons who can't tell an innovator who is working with facts and telling the truth like Barack Obama from a babbling puppet who is only telling lies - not only to David Letterman - and is more experienced but not smarter than Sarah Palin, who herself is dumb as a stick?

Tina Fey does her impression of Sarah Palin on SNL (Saturday Night Live) with actual quotes from real Palin interviews and the audience cracks up. So did I when I heard the original interviews. Most of my friends are more qualified to lead this country than Sarah Palin is. But back to the so called Bailout that is supposed to collect the rest of our money that the weapons industry and the Iraq contractors did not get their hands on and put it in the pockets of the rest of our big Corporations that are behind the Bush administration. The people behind Bush raped, raided and looted our country with the help of the Republicans. And now they take whatever is left, to make sure that the next administration has nothing to work with. If they should succeed in fixing the elections a third time and McCain/Palin make it into the White House, some money might magically reappear to give the impression that the administration knows their job. And after a brief recovery the looting will begin again. And there is only one group of losers: America and 95 percent of Americans. How any American who makes less than $250,000 can even think of electing their own demise with the Republican ticket is beyond me. So Obama should have 95% of America behind him. Why is that not the case? Here the PEN article I have received today:

Urgent Action Alert: No More Bailout Votes Till Congress Hears From Some REAL Economists

Why Is Congress Even Listening To Those Who Caused The Wreck On How To Fix It?

Isn't it a miracle what can happen when the people actually speak out. Votes change in Congress. And please take careful note of this fact -- the stock market was down 600 points BEFORE Congress even voted, and reason is that investors KNOW that Paulson's plunder plan does not address any of the real problems, and were as afraid it might pass as not. It was a non-starter, it needs to be torn up and we need to draft a new plan from scratch.

Now it is up to us, we the people, to provide the real leadership that is so lacking in Congress, to push for real and substantial progressive policy change, and the underlying principle must be this, and this is what we need to tell them, with our newfound vocal power.

No More Bailout Votes Until Congress Hears From Some Real Economists.

Action Page: http://www.usalone.net/cindy/real_economists.php

And here are the toll free numbers for Congress again, 800 828-0498, 800-473-6711, now that we know that they WILL actually listen, at least enough of them, when we DO actually speak out in greater and greater numbers and loudly enough. They need to hear from us again now, more that EVER, to tell them what they need to do instead. Please make your calls and send your emails. And if your representatives voted for the bailout the first time, lambaste them, and if they voted "No", thank them profusely. And we again thank Cindy Sheehan, who is so seriously challenging Nancy Pelosi for the congressional seat in San Francisco right now, for her own leadership in making this action page happen. Before Congress does anything else they MUST take the time to hear from some real economists, like Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz, who offers real wisdom in this article from his article last week in the Nation magazine. Here are some excerpts:

With lack of oversight and transparency the cause of the current problem, how could they make a proposal so short in both? If a quick consensus is required, why not include provisions to stop the source of bleeding, to aid the millions of Americans that are losing their homes? Why not spend as much on them as on Wall Street? Do they still believe in trickle-down economics, when for the past eight years money has been trickling up to the wizards of Wall Street? Why not enact bankruptcy reform, to help Americans write down the value of the mortgage on their overvalued home? No one benefits from these costly foreclosures.

The Scandinavian countries showed the way, almost two decades ago. By issuing preferred shares with warrants (options), one reduces the public's downside risk and insures that they participate in some of the upside potential. This approach is not only proven, it provides both incentives and wherewithal to resume lending. It furthermore avoids the hopeless task of trying to value millions of complex mortgages and even more complex products in which they are embedded, and it deals with the "lemons" problem - the government getting stuck with the worst or most overpriced assets.

Finally, we need to impose a special financial sector tax to pay for the bailouts conducted so far. We also need to create a reserve fund so that poor taxpayers won't have to be called upon again to finance Wall Street's foolishness. -- End Stiglitz Excepts --

We need open, public and TRANSPARENT hearings so the American people can hear from REAL experts like Joseph E. Stiglitz, and decide in the clear light of day what is to be done with OUR economic destiny, and not in secret back rooms like it's been done so far, where they confiscate all the Blackberrys to keep us all in the dark.

And THEN they write the legislation. And they don't leave town until they do it, because we're not going to reelect any of them anyway unless they do.

Here is a donations page for also for Cindy Sheehan. Many of you have donated very generously, but many of you have NOT. And time is so short. Cindy Sheehan Donations: http://www.usalone.net/cindy/donations.php

And what if you don't have any money? No excuses. Do you have a telephone? Does it allow you to place outgoing toll free calls? So after you call Congress, Cindy needs phone bankers, lots of phone bankers, now. NOW, now. Use the link on the page above to volunteer. What Congress is being stampeded into doing, again, is EXACTLY backwards. Would you buy a "hen protection plan" from one of the foxes? There is a real simple solution to this whole mess. These institutions are in trouble mostly because they were looted by their own corporate executives. We march an army of forensic accountants in there, and tell those Wall Street pigs that if they don't find the money fast they are all going to jail. And then we file negligence and breach of fiduciary duty lawsuits against them all, to recoup every dime that disappeared. Our dear Secretary of the Treasury Paulson pulled down hundreds of millions all by himself. And now he wants the American people to make up the difference out of OUR pockets? He can practically finance the bailout PERSONALLY. And if there were any justice in the world he would. And let them all know, that their job description is NOT ignoring the will of the American people.

So far the PEN endorsement of Cindy Sheehan who has been opposed to the first looting of our country by this administration - the Iraq occupation - for a long time now. Nancy Pelosi and many other Bush-Democrats need to change their positions or go. Habeas Corpus, the shredding of our Constitution, the Concentration Camps at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the warrantless wiretapping and spying on innocent citizens with the patriot act and continuous funding for the occupation of Iraq, and many more things, were only possible with their help. And they are shielding the criminals Bush and Cheney from impeachment. Don't you think it is time to show them what we think of them?

Contractors trade slaves in IRAQ

2008-09-23T12:32:00.000-07:00

Here a brief substantiation of my warning to be cautious to the young person interested to study in an Arab country (God is everywhere you are, below). Thanks to www.WantToKnow.info we can see that the US - so called - Christians are in some cases far more dangerous than the Arab Muslims:

KBR, Partner in Iraq Contract Sued in Human Trafficking Case
August 28, 2008, Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082703237.html

A Washington law firm filed a lawsuit yesterday against KBR, one of the largest U.S. contractors in Iraq, alleging that the company and its Jordanian subcontractor engaged in the human trafficking of Nepali workers. Agnieszka Fryszman, a partner at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, said 13 Nepali men, between the ages of 18 and 27, were recruited in Nepal to work as kitchen staff in hotels and restaurants in Amman, Jordan. But once the men arrived in Jordan, their passports were seized and they were told they were being sent to a military facility in Iraq, Fryszman said. As the men were driven in cars to Iraq, they were stopped by insurgents. Twelve were kidnapped and later executed, Fryszman said. The thirteenth man survived and worked in a warehouse in Iraq for 15 months before returning to Nepal. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in California on behalf of the workers' families and the survivor, claims that the trafficking scheme was engineered by KBR and its Jordanian subcontractor, Daoud & Partners, according to Fryszman. This spring, an administrative law judge at the Department of Labor, which has jurisdiction over cases that involve on the job injuries at overseas military bases, ordered Daoud to pay $1 million to the families of 11 of the victims.

Note: For many more reports on corporate corruption from major media sources, click here.

And don't forget: this is being done in OUR name! GOD bless America!

Black "Strategists" against Obama

2008-09-18T12:33:00.000-07:00

It is amazing how easily the Republicans are getting away with playing the race card in their favor. Judge for yourself: The Republican so called "Strategists" on the slightly more Democratic oriented TV stations are mostly African-American and spewing hate against Barack Obama, the man who is trying to help the middle class, the poorer Americans and minorities. It is amazing how some African-Americans can support the party that thinks and loudly says they are "uppity". Here a short explanation for those who do not know the meaning of the word that southern Congressman Lynn Westmoreland called Obama and the people of his complexion:

"Uppity ******* got lynched", and anyone from the south who does not know this word must be quite young. "Uppity" were black people who got out of line, they looked at white women, tried to vote, protected their women from rape by white men and thought they had rights. They thought they had the rights you give to human beings. Uppity is a disgusting racial term, it is one of those code words that many voting Americans understand whether they admit it or not. And the Republicans currently use it in the south instead of the "N"-word.

So the so called "Strategists" the Republicans send to discussions on TV programs leaning toward the Democratic Party are black to make the false point that African-Americans would not support Obama. Looking at the Republican Stations where most Blacks might not even be allowed to enter through the back door, all you see on those Shows and Programs are white "Strategists". Some dressed up with Lipstick and heavy make up to look a little bit like Sarah Palin (ridiculous as seen on Larry King tonight - why not choose them either good looking or smart - most of them are neither) to make sure not one of the right wing nuts gets the idea that the Republicans talk to black people during the election phase. Next time you get a chance to watch one the political shows and magazines, have a conscious look at the people sent out by the Republican Party.

Another term that is being used against Barack Obama is "elitist". Barack Obama was raised on food stamps by a single mother. John McCain is member of a Military Dynasty, his wife was outfitted for $300,000 when she appeared with Laura Bush at the RNC and the McCains have seven houses (some reports speak of nine (9))and they own about 100 Million Dollars. And they - of all people - call Barack Obama an elitist. How would anyone even remotely believe anything that comes our of John McBush's mouth anymore, anyway. The Republicans who are trying to sell Sarah Palin on talk shows lie through their teeth, destroy their own reputations, because a child can see that these claims have no merit. To be able to see Russia from Alaska does not make anyone an expert on foreign policy. Paris Hilton has extremely more "foreign experience" than Palin. Maybe McCain should have picked her as his VP. It would not have made a big difference. Paris Hilton might even have been a better choice.

The Media covers up and punishes

2008-09-16T12:37:00.000-07:00

Being a journalist myself, I have been observing this trend for a while. The channel FOX even won a lawsuit that their news do not have to contain truth. So here from one of my favorite sources www.WantToKnow.info - favorite, because they are reliable - some pointers why our country is in such a mess.

Leading Journalists Expose Manipulations in the Media

The riveting excerpts below are from the revealing accounts of 20 award-winning journalists in the highly acclaimed book Into the Buzzsaw. These courageous writers were prevented by corporate media ownership from reporting major news stories. Some were even fired or laid off. They have won numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer. Join in building a better world by helping to spread this news across the land.

Jane Akre—Fox News. After our struggle to air an honest report [on hormones in milk], Fox fired the general manager [of our station]. The new GM said that if we didn’t agree to changes that the lawyers were insisting upon, we’d be fired for insubordination in 48 hours. We pleaded with [him] to look at the facts we’d uncovered. His reply: “We paid $3 billion dollars for these stations. We’ll tell you what the news is. The news is what we say it is!” [After we refused] Fox’s GM presented us an agreement that would give us a full year of salary, and benefits worth close to $200,000, but with strings attached: no mention of how Fox covered up the story and no opportunity to ever expose the facts. [After declining] we were fired. (click for more)

Dan Rather—CBS, Multiple Emmy Awards. What's going on is a belief that you can manipulate communicable trust between the leadership and the led. The way you do that is you don't let the press in anywhere. Access to war is extremely limited. The fiercer the combat, the more the access is limited, [including] access to information. This is a direct contradiction of the stated policy of maximum access to information consistent with national security. There was a time in South Africa when people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. In some ways the fear [now in the U.S.] is that you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. That fear keeps journalists from asking the tough questions. I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism. (click for more)

Monika Jensen-Stevenson—Emmy-winning producer for 60 minutes. Robert R. Garwood—14 years a prisoner of the Vietnamese—was found guilty in the longest court-martial in US history. At the end of the court-martial, there seemed no question that Garwood was a monstrous traitor. Several years later in 1985, Garwood was speaking publicly about something that had never made the news during his court-martial. He knew of other American prisoners in Vietnam long after the war was over. He was supported by Vietnam veterans whose war records were impeccable….My sources included outstanding experts like former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency General Tighe and returned POWs like Captain McDaniel, who held the Navy’s top award for bravery. With such advocates, it was hard not to consider the possibility that prisoners (some 3,500) had in fact been kept by the Vietnamese as hostages to make sure the US would pay the more than $3 billion in war reparations. [After the war] American POWs had become worthless pawns. The US had not paid the promised monies and had no intention of paying in the future. (click for more)

Kristina Borjesson—CBS, Emmy award winner. Pierre Salinger announced to the world on Nov. 8, 1996, that he’d received documents proving that a US Navy missile had accidentally downed [TWA flight 800]. That same day, FBI’s Jim Kallstrom called a press conference. A man raised his hand and asked why the Navy was involved in the recovery and investigation while a possible suspect. “Remove him!” [Kallstrom] yelled. Two men leapt over to the questioner and grabbed him by the arms. There was a momentary chill in the air after the guy had been dragged out of the room. Kallstrom and entourage acted as if nothing had happened. [Kallstrom was later hired by CBS.] (click for more)

Greg Palast—BBC. In the months leading up to the November [2000] balloting, Gov. Jeb Bush ordered elections supervisors to purge 58,000 voters on the grounds they were felons not entitled to vote. As it turns out, only a handful of these voters were felons. This extraordinary news ran on page one of the country’s leading paper. Unfortunately, it was the wrong country: Britain. In the USA, it was not covered. The office of the governor [also] illegally ordered the removal of felons from voter rolls—real felons—but with the right to vote under law. As a result, 50,000 of these voters could not vote. The fact that 90% of these were Democrats should have made it news as this alone more than accounted for Bush’s victory. (click for more)

Michael Levine—25-year veteran of DEA, writer for New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today. The Chang Mai “factory” that the CIA prevented me from destroying was the source of massive amounts of heroin being smuggled into the US in the bodies and body bags of GIs killed in Vietnam. Case after case was killed by CIA and State Department intervention and there wasn’t a thing we could do about it….In 1980, CIA-recruited mercenaries and drug traffickers unseated Bolivia’s democratically elected president. Immediately after the coup, cocaine production increased massively. Bolivia [became] the source of virtually 100% of the cocaine entering the US. This was the beginning of the crack “plague.”…The CIA along with State and Justice Departments had to protect their drug-dealing assets by destroying a DEA investigation. How do I know? I was the inside source….I sat down at my desk in the American embassy and wrote evidence of my charges. I addressed it to Newsweek. Three weeks later DEA’s internal security [called] to notify me that I was under investigation….The highlight of the 60 Minutes piece is when the administrator of the DEA, Federal Judge Robert Bonner, tells Mike Wallace, “There is no other way to put it, Mike, [what the CIA did] is drug smuggling. It’s illegal.” (click for more)

Gary Webb—San Jose Mercury News, Pulitzer Prize winner. In 1996, I wrote a series of stories that began this way: For the better part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods gangs of LA and funneled millions in drug profits to a guerilla army run by the CIA. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America….The story was developing a momentum all of its own, despite a virtual news blackout from the major media. Ultimately, it was public pressure that forced the national newspapers into the fray. The Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times published stories, but spent little time exploring the CIA’s activities. Instead, my reporting and I became the focus of their scrutiny. It was remarkable [Mercury News editor] Ceppos wrote, that the four Washington Post reporters assigned to debunk the series “could not find a single significant factual error.” A few months later, the Mercury News [due to intense CIA pressure] backed away from the story, publishing a long column by Ceppos apologizing for “shortcomings.” The New York Times hailed Ceppos for “setting a brave new standard,” and splashed his apology on their front page, the first time the series had ever been mentioned there. I quit the Mercury News not long after that….Do we have a free press today? Sure. It’s free to report all the sex scandals, all the stock market news, [and] every new health fad that comes down the pike. But when it comes to the real down and dirty stuff—such stories are not even open for discussion. (click for more)

John Kelly—Author, ABC producer. ABC hired me to help produce a story about an investment firm that was heavily involved with the CIA. Part of the ABC report charged that the CIA had plotted to assassinate an American, Ron Rewald, the president of [the investment firm]. Scott Barnes said on camera that the CIA had asked him to kill Rewald. After the show aired, CIA officials met with ABC executive David Burke, [who] was sufficiently impressed “by the vigor with which they made their case” to order an on-air “clarification.” But that was not enough. [CIA Director] Casey called ABC Chairman Goldenson. [Thus] despite all the documented evidence presented in the program, despite ABC standing by the program in a second broadcast, Peter Jennings reported that ABC could no longer substantiate the charges. That same day, the CIA filed a formal complaint with the FCC charging that ABC had “deliberately distorted” the news. In the complaint, Casey asked that ABC be stripped of its TV and radio licenses….During this time, Capital Cities Communications was maneuvering to buy ABC. [CIA Director] Casey was one of the founders of Cap Cities. Cap Cities bought ABC. Within months, the entire investigative unit was dispersed. (click for more)

Robert McChesney—500 radio & TV appearances. [There has been a] striking consolidation of the media from hundreds of firms to an industry dominated by less than ten enormous transnational conglomerates. The largest ten media firms own all US TV networks, most TV stations, all major film studios, all major music companies, nearly all cable TV channels, much of the book and magazine publishing [industry], and much, much more. Expensive investigative journalism—especially that which goes after national security or powerful corporate interests—is discouraged. Largely irrelevant human interest/tragedy stories get extensive coverage….A few weeks after the war began in Afghanistan, CNN president Isaacson authorized CNN to provide two different versions of the war: a more critical one for the global audience and a sugarcoated one for Americans….It is nearly impossible to conceive of a better world without some changes in the media status quo. We have no time to waste. (click for more)

For a powerful 10-page summary of this material: www.WantToKnow.info/massmedia
For other reliable resources on the media cover-up: Media Information Center

Let us change this situation: Go to their site and spread the truth. May GOD be with you always!

GOD is everywhere you are!

2008-09-12T19:31:00.000-07:00

Last night I received an Email from a young man who is worried about his future. I took all the information out of the letter that could reveal his identity and left the important parts, so he remains anonymous. GOD is giving him an opportunity to evaluate another culture and to learn about new things. And GOD will always be by his side. Here the letter:

I am a university student. I had applied for a study program scholarship at a University in an Arab Country. Their facilities and the quality of the education sounds very good and promising for my career. However, the most difficult thread for me is that it is in a Muslim country. I'm a true believer of Christ. Here I am active in Church youth ministry, enjoy my time in worshiping God, have a special time for Him, the main thing is that my relationship with God is alive. I have a freedom of developing my spiritual needs in my country.

However, suppose if later I'll be going to that Arab Country, I'm afraid if I cannot get a Church there, and I'm a afraid if my freedom of developing my spiritual needs (time for praying, worshiping God, etc) will be taken off. Please help me and share your ideas with me. This is a very difficult task for me to take a step on it.

I really wonder whether or not I should take that scholarship. More over, I have heard many news about the religion and culture there. Thanks...

Dear Student,

Our churches are not GOD. GOD is everywhere and he sends you and will keep on sending you to many places that will surprise you throughout your life. If you read one of my favorite quotes from the Gospel of Thomas: (77) Jesus said: I am the light that is over them all. I am the All; the All has come forth from me, and the All has attained unto me. Cleave a (piece of) wood: I am there. Raise up the stone, an ye shall find me there then you know that you do not need a church to be close to GOD. GOD and Jesus will be with you always, no matter where you are or what you do, and no church is necessary to communicate with GOD. I am sure GOD has special plans for you. You do not need a church to worship GOD, you do it in doing his will. Learning, teaching, helping people in following the example of Jesus Christ is not an easy road, but it is a very giving way to live your life and it is worship in itself.

I am sure that if this Arab country offers you a scholarship, they will also take care of your security there and your spiritual needs. Also: The Qur'an itself is religion of peace, just as the Bible (Muhammad based the Qur'an on the bible) and I am sure you will find many fruitful conversations and learn many new things about religion there (where the Christians also call GOD "Allah").

Careful: Be aware that some US companies try to lure people to the middle east under false pretenses to use them as slave labor (as Halliburton did with young people from Nepal, who ended up as slaves without money or the promised jobs. The "American Christians" from Halliburton took away their passports and used them as slaves). Those are so called "Christians" who are led to believe by US preachers that Jesus Christ does not care about people, wants America to start wars in spite of Jesus Christ's teachings and all of the commandments. They teach that all you have to do is to make money and give this money to them. Jesus Christ is love and understanding and he came to change the violent teachings of the Old Testament to the new teachings of Love (That is why the New Testament is NEW and the Old Testament is OLD - actually it is the history of the Jews and does not apply to us). Be aware of the "Christians" from the USA and be sure to remember Jesus Christ's message of love. Be sure to check the offer out thoroughly.

Please keep me posted about your path.
May GOD be with you always!

9/11 was an inside Job!

2008-09-10T14:10:00.000-07:00

The myth of September 11 is entering the race for the Presidency. For the Republicans, who protected all of the crimes that were committed on 9/11 from detection should be very careful with this issue. Whoever supported this crime or it's cover up shares the guilt with the attackers. And the Republicans have so far done everything to hide the truth and avoid any kind of impartial investigation.

Hitler called his 9/11 "Kristallnacht" and blamed the Jews. Bush blamed Bin Laden, to start a war with Iraq. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Bush was tired of Saddam Hussein, whom his father had put into power decades ago, and Bush had to deliver a war to his supporters to be able to make insane amounts of money on weapons and Oil for them and himself. Osama Bin Laden is from Saudi Arabia and the Bin Ladens are the only friends the Bush family ever had. The other two remaining alleged terrorists were from the United Arab Emirates, whom Bush wanted to give authority over six major US ports. Why? As a reward?

Osama denied an involvement in the attacks. In a first statement he welcomed them and regretted that he was not involved in them. Then the Bush crime family produced a video with an actor who looked remotely like Osama in which he confessed to the attacks. Obviously after having a talk with his family, Bush's best and only friends, he finally said that he was responsible for the attack on 9/11. A cover up for the attack of our Government on our own country. Bush made sure that the US military forces who had cornered Osama Bin Laden several times let him go or escape every single time. Why? Get the idea?

And the Republican Party supported this policy. Otherwise Bush could not have acted this way. So John McCain is without a doubt part of this attack on the US and the cover up that followed. The Republicans still support their concentration camps (Guantanamo Bay) and put up and use additional concentration camps in Eastern Europe. They still keep Hitlers "Ermächtigungsgesetz"

Everyone who is willing to use their brain should know by now that September 11 was an inside job. It could not have been anything else. Here are some more of my personal smoking guns:
Whoever was able to take out NORAD for that day HAS to be at least involved. Who can do that? ONLY the Government!
Who profited from 9/11? ONLY Bush and the companies related to him or Cheney: Halliburton, Carlisle Group, Weapons manufacturers, and the Oil industry. Which means: almost the entire Government of the US.

The guys at www.WantToKnow.info have done an amazing job in gathering verifiable evidence of the true events on 9/11. Here is some of their recent information:

9/11 Cover-up Two-Page Summary
Verifiable Media Reports on 9/11

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America’s top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in US cities to trick the public into supporting a war against Cuba in the early 1960s. Approved in writing by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation Northwoods even proposed blowing up a US ship and hijacking planes as a false pretext for war. [ABC News, 5/1/01, Pentagon Documents]

1996–2001: Federal authorities are aware for years before 9/11 that suspected terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden are receiving flight training at schools in the US and abroad. One convicted terrorist confesses that his planned role in a terror attack was to crash a plane into CIA headquarters. [Washington Post, 9/23/01, CBS, 5/30/02, more]

1996–2001: On multiple occasions spies give detailed reports on bin Laden's location. Each time, the CIA director or top White House officials prevent bin Laden's elimination. [Los Angeles Times, 12/5/04, New York Times, 12/30/01, more]

2000–2001: 15 of the 19 hijackers fail to fill in visa documents properly in Saudi Arabia. Only six are interviewed. All 15 should have been denied entry to the US. [Washington Post, 10/22/02, ABC, 10/23/02] Two top Republican senators say if State Department personnel had merely followed the law, 9/11 would not have happened. [AP, 12/18/02, more]

2000–2001: The military conducts exercises simulating hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets causing mass casualties. One target is the World Trade Center (WTC), another the Pentagon. Yet after 9/11, over and over the White House and security officials say they’re shocked that terrorists hijacked airliners and crashed them into landmark buildings. [USA Today, 4/19/04, Military District of Washington, 11/3/00, New York Times, 10/3/01, more]

Jan 2001: After the Nov 2000 elections, US intelligence agencies are told to “back off” investigating the bin Ladens and Saudi royals. There have always been constraints on investigating Saudi Arabians. [BBC, 11/6/01, more]

Spring 2001: A series of military and governmental policy documents is released that seek to legitimize the use of US military force in the pursuit of oil and gas. One advocates presidential subterfuge and hiding the reasons for warfare “as a necessity for mobilizing public support.” [Sydney Morning Herald, 12/26/02, more]

May 2001: For the third time, US security chiefs reject Sudan’s offer of thick files on bin Laden and al-Qaeda. A senior CIA source calls it “the worst single intelligence failure in the business.” [Guardian, 9/30/01, more]

June-Aug 2001: German intelligence warns the CIA that Middle Eastern terrorists are training for hijackings and targeting American interests. Russian President Vladimir Putin alerts the US of suicide pilots training for attacks on US targets. In late July, a Taliban emissary warns the US that bin Laden is planning a huge attack on American soil. In August, Israel warns of an imminent Al Qaeda attack. [Fox News, 5/17/02, Independent, 9/7/02, CNN, 9/12/02, more]

July 4-14, 2001: Bin Laden reportedly receives kidney treatment from Canadian-trained Dr. Callaway at the American Hospital in Dubai. Dr. Callaway declines to comment. During his stay, bin Laden is allegedly visited by one or two CIA agents. [Guardian, 11/1/01, Sydney Morning Herald, 10/31/01, London Times 11/1/01, UPI, 11/1/01, more]

July 26, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft stops flying commercial airlines due to a threat assessment. [CBS, 7/26/01] In May 2002, Ashcroft walks out of his office rather than answer questions about it. [Fox News/AP, 5/16/02, more]

Aug 6, 2001: President Bush receives an intelligence briefing warning that bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. Titled “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US,” the briefing specifically mentions the WTC. Yet Bush later claims it “said nothing about an attack on America.” [Washington Post, 4/12/04, Briefing, 8/6/01, more]

Aug 27, 2001: An FBI supervisor tries to ensure that a hijacker doesn't "take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center." [Senate Report, 10/17/02] Headquarters chastises him for notifying the CIA. [Time, 5/21/02, more]

Sept 10, 2001: A number of top Pentagon brass suddenly cancel travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns. Why isn't this news spread widely? [Newsweek, 9/13/01, Newsweek, 9/24/01, more]

Sept 11, 2001: Data recovery experts extract data from 32 damaged WTC computer drives. The data reveals a surge in financial transactions shortly before the attacks. Illegal transfers of over $100 million may have been made through WTC computer systems immediately before and during the 9/11 disaster. [Reuters, 12/18/01, CNN, 12/20/01, more]

Sept 11, 2001: Described as a bizarre coincidence, a US intelligence agency was set for an exercise on Sept 11 at 9 AM in which an aircraft would crash into one of its buildings near Washington, DC. [USA Today/AP, 8/22/02, more]

Sept 11, 2001: Hours after the attacks, a "shadow government" is formed. Key congressional leaders say they didn’t know this government-in-waiting had been established. [CBS, 3/2/02, Washington Post, 3/2/02, more]

Sept 11, 2001: Six air traffic controllers who dealt with two of the hijacked airliners make a tape recording describing the events within hours of the attacks. The tape is never turned over to the FBI. It is later illegally destroyed by a supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even listening to it. [Washington Post, 5/6/04, New York Times, 5/6/04]

Sept 13-19, 2001: Bin Laden's family is taken under FBI supervision to a secret assembly point. They leave the country by private plane when airports reopen days after the attacks. [New York Times, 9/30/01, Boston Globe, 9/20/01, more]

Sept 15-16, 2001: Several of the 9/11 hijackers, including lead hijacker Mohamed Atta, may have had training at secure US military installations. [Newsweek, 9/15/01, Washington Post, 9/16/01, New York Times, 9/15/01, more]

Sept 20, 2001: Several 9/11 hijackers later mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report turn up alive. "Five of the alleged hijackers have emerged, alive, innocent and astonished to see their names and photographs appearing on satellite television...The hijackers were using stolen identities." [quote in London Times, 9/20/01, see also BBC, 9/23/01, more]

Dec 2001-Feb 2002: The US engineers the rise to power of two former Unocal Oil employees: Hamid Karzai, the interim president of Afghanistan, and Zalmay Khalizad, the US envoy. The big American bases created in the Afghan war are identical to the route of the projected oil pipeline. [Chicago Tribune, 3/18/02, more]

May 17, 2002: Dan Rather says that he and other journalists haven't been properly investigating since 9/11. He graphically describes the pressures to conform that built up after the attacks. [Guardian, 5/17/02, more]

May 23, 2002: President Bush says he is opposed to establishing an independent commission to probe 9/11. [CBS, 5/23/02] Vice President Cheney earlier opposed any public hearings on 9/11. [Newsweek, 2/4/02, more]

May 30, 2002: FBI Agent Wright formally accuses the FBI of deliberately curtailing investigations that might have prevented 9/11. He is threatened with retribution if he talks to Congress about this. [Fox News, 5/30/02, more]

July 22, 2004: The 9/11 Commission Report is published. It fails to mention that a year before the attacks a secret Pentagon project had identified four 9/11 hijackers, including leader Mohamed Atta. The Commission spokesperson initially states members were not informed of this, but later acknowledges they were. [New York Times, 8/11/05, more]

2004 - 2005: A growing number of top government officials and public leaders express disbelief in the official story of 9/11. 100 prominent leaders and 40 9/11 family members sign a statement calling for an unbiased inquiry into evidence suggesting high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the attacks to occur. [Various Publications]

Aug 9, 2006: A book by 9/11 Commission chairmen Kean and Hamilton outlines repeated deceptions by the Pentagon and FAA, including the timelines of Flights 77 and 93. CNN News: "The fact that the government would ... perpetuate the lie suggests that we need a full investigation of what is going on." [CNN, 8/9/06 , MSNBC/AP, 8/4/06, more]

2006-2007: Over 50 former senior government officials and more than 100 highly respected professors publicly criticize The 9/11 Commission Report as highly flawed, and call for a new, independent investigation. [Professors, Officials]

For a 10-page summary of the 9/11 cover-up, www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg
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The Republican Party is trying to sell their candidates the same way they sold you 9/11. With lies and deception. Let's tell everyone the facts (facts are the true events, as they REALLY happened, NOT made up or tampered with. Those are FACTS!) so everyone understands the truth, what is really happening to our country and our constitution and so freedom stands a chance against lies, oppression and betrayal.

Democrats attack traitors in their own party

2008-06-23T00:57:00.000-07:00

Many Democrats see what I have been preaching for a while now. The Democratic Party has been betraying their voters and supporters. I have received this email from the Democratic Party, asking to clean up the ranks of the not so secret Bush supporters. Here is the email:

No More Betrayals: Let's Replace the Bush Democrats

On Thursday and Friday, the American people were betrayed twice by House "Democratic" Leader Steny Hoyer (right) and his Bush Democrats.
On Thursday, 80 Bush Democrats voted to give George Bush another $163 billion to occupy Iraq and plunder its oil for another year, even though 68% of Americans want to bring our troops safely home this year.
And on Friday, 105 Bush Democrats voted to give immunity to George Bush and the telecoms for illegally wiretapping American citizens even before 9/11, and to allow Bush and the telecoms to keep doing it - thereby shredding the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
We're mad as hell, and we're not gonna take it any more. So let's take the Democratic Party back from Steny Hoyer and the Bush Democrats.
With your support, we will replace each one with an "Aggressive Progressive" Democrat who will bring our troops home from Iraq and fulfill their solemn oaths to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
And we're starting today with John Barrow (GA12), who betrayed us on both votes. Watch Barrow pledge his complete devotion to George Bush during Friday's warrantless wiretapping debate.
Georgia's primaries are on July 15 - just 3 weeks away. And Barrow is facing a dramatic primary challenge from State Senator Regina Thomas.
Thomas doesn't just look different, she thinks different. She wants to bring our troops safely home from Iraq immediately. And here's what she told me on Friday:
"I was really appalled at the actions of Congress and especially my Congressman from the 12th District in Georgia, John Barrow, for voting in favor of the Bush-Republican surveillance bill that would make it very easy, without a warrant, to wiretap any American citizen."
On Friday, Regina Thomas became our first endorsed candidate of 2008. And that was not just because she's an "Aggressive Progressive," but also because she can win.
In Georgia's Democratic Presidential primary on February 5, 70% of the voters in GA12 were African-American. Thomas isn't running on her race, though, but rather her record of accomplishment over 12 years in the state legislature. This has Barrow running for his political life by avoiding every chance to debate Thomas because he simply cannot compete with a real Democrat.

Please support their efforts, so freedom stands a chance against lies, oppression and betrayal.

Barack Obama is not a Muslim!

2008-06-12T11:14:00.000-07:00

It is astounding how dumb and ignorant the hardcore followers of the Republican Party are. Even though they see that their personal President, who fixed the elections twice to gain and stay in office, devastated this US of A in a manner that our country is beyond recognition - hopefully not beyond repair, they never doubted that they have to support the successor as the leading puppet of the filthy rich, John McBush also known as John McCain.

It is tragic to see their inability to learn, to think or even attempt to be decent human beings. Their latest invention is the rumor that Barack Obama supposedly is a Moslem. First they got upset that Obama was a member of Rev. Wright's Church - who basically told the truth in too harsh words, but still, it is a Christian Church. And looking at the history of Black America, it is not surprising that the Reverend has problems to believe that GOD would bless our Country for torturing and oppressing our own people. I sincerely share his doubts that GOD condones what the religious or fiscal right is doing in and with our country. If you take the time to compare the commandments with their actions, you will understand why.

The truth and the fact is that Barack Obama is NOT a Muslim, he was not raised a Muslim either, he was NOT trained to be a terrorist at the tender age of two and he loves our United States of America. The puppeteers behind Bush and McCain only love the Big Money they can make from our blood. With all the lies and scares they threw and keep throwing at us, they believe they can still milk their home made 9-11. I don't think so. My America is made of sympathy and understanding - and an IQ that is significantly higher than the one of a lab rat.
GOD bless America and the people who defend her against the people who are trying to destroy her.

Obama leads - let's hope he lives

2008-06-04T11:17:00.000-07:00

Every time a candidate or civil rights leader who is not in the good graces of the republican party is in the lead in a political race or has a chance to change the status quo, a "crazy single individual" kills him. The crazy individual is a story which is presented to the US public. Who believes it?

What ever happens in the US is being controlled by at least one of the more or less secret agencies that are spying on us and at the same time setting up accidents, incidents and assassinations, bombings and attacks on ourselves to blame others and fulfill the political goals of their commanders in chief - or in the Kennedy's - and other significant cases - of the silent power behind the throne. More about that from http://www.wanttoknow.info/

40 years after RFK's death, questions linger
June 3, 2008, San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco's leading newspaper)http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/03/MNN110S5KH.DTL
Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of killing Robert F. Kennedy 40 years ago this week in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, is living out his days in the California state prison at Corcoran. He is 64 and has never fully explained what happened that night other than to say he can't remember it. "The interesting thing is how under-examined the Robert Kennedy assassination is, compared to President Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.," said David Talbot of San Francisco, author of Brothers, a book that looks into Robert Kennedy's own investigation into his brother's death and his conviction that JFK was the victim of a conspiracy. "Bobby remains the unknown territory," Talbot said. "But even if you look at it minimally, there are questions that come to mind." Over the years, Sirhan has told investigators who interviewed him in prison that he was in a hypnotic trance during the shooting and can't remember it at all. William Turner, a retired FBI agent who wrote a book about the case, ... thinks Sirhan was "hypno-programmed to shoot" and that he was a real-life Manchurian Candidate - [a] brainwashed dupe whose controllers want to assassinate a presidential candidate. Turner suspects the same villains as do the JFK conspiracy theorists - "organized crime and, predominantly, people from the CIA." [Philip Van Praag, a retired electrical engineer and audio expert,] and a fellow investigator, former American Academy of Forensic Scientists president Robert Joling, ... have written a book about the killing, whose title, An Open and Shut Case, is a dig at the police investigation. Joling says an "independent panel of forensic scientists" should be created to "reinvestigate this matter on all the evidence."

Bush in the Glasshouse in Israel!

2008-05-15T09:23:00.000-07:00

George W. Bush spoke in front of the Israeli parliament yesterday, lashing out at Barack Obama, mentioning Hitler and other Dictators that would be and should not have been supported. What Bush forgot to mention is that his Grandfather Prescott Bush financed Hitler and the Nazis and with these funds made the Holocaust possible and actively supported the murder of Millions of Jews. What am I missing? Does no one - except me - call our President on this?

Oh, and here some news that did not really make it into the mainstream Government controlled media, sent to me by http://www.wanttoknow.info/ :

Ex-Officials:Bush Admin. ignored Iraq CorruptionThe Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees. Arthur Brennan, who briefly served in Baghdad as head of the department's Office of Accountability and Transparency last year, and James Mattil, who worked as the chief of staff, told Senate Democrats ... that their office was understaffed and its warnings and recommendations ignored. Brennan also alleges the State Department prevented a congressional aide visiting Baghdad from talking with staffers by insisting they were too busy. In reality, Brennan said, office members were watching movies at the embassy and on their computers. The staffers' workload had been cut dramatically because of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's "evisceration" of Iraq's top anti-corruption office, he said. The State Department's policies "not only contradicted the anti-corruption mission but indirectly contributed to and has allowed corruption to fester at the highest levels of the Iraqi government," Brennan told the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. The U.S. embassy "effort against corruption — including its new centerpiece, the now-defunct Office of Accountability and Transparency — was little more than 'window dressing,'" he added. Mattil, who worked with Brennan, made similar allegations. Specifically, he said the U.S. "remained silent in the face of an unrelenting campaign" by senior Iraqi officials to subvert Baghdad's Commission on Public Integrity. Note: For many powerful exposures of government corruption from reliable, verifiable sources, click here.

Hate? Facts are not hate!

2008-05-12T09:08:00.000-07:00

“There is too much hate on this site”, I have heard criticism from US citizens who chose to not live here in the US anymore but to move to a different country (in this case Mexico). Please understand there is no hate in my articles, neither against people nor against countries. And absolutely no hate against our USA. I am giving you and everyone who cares the facts. And I do it because I love my country, the US, and also my fellow Americans.
Just answer a question: What has the Bush administration done FOR America since they have been in power? Please name ONE single thing they did for America, not for private Corporations that give them kickbacks or that they own entirely or in part. And please send me the information, I am willing to revise my views. Just tell me one single good thing Bush's crime family did for the USA. Name just one.
Crude Oil was $20 a barrel when Bush was appointed to office, Gas was less than $1.50 a Gallon. Now we have passed the $4 mark. Because half of the administration is in the Oil business. Cheney took Billons of Dollars and gave them to his company Halliburton that moved to the United Arab Emirates (Where two of the alleged 9-11 terrorists came from, the others came from the country of Bush’s only friends, Saudi Arabia) to evade the taxes which would have had them give a part of the prey back to the US. Something that would defy the plan in the first place. Your social security is being held in Dubai now.
G.W. Bush and his fellow criminals also have destroyed our image in the world. America is not being associated with either compassion or brains anymore. The world knows that the Republicans fixed both elections, I have received emails on election day – when the court, which was appointed by W.’s brother Jeb, ruled that G. W. Bush shall be President, not matter who voted for him - from Europe which stated that I “now officially live in a Banana Republic (3rd world country)”. Knowing what had happened I could not argue with this statement.
Also, I knew that IRAQ had nothing to do with 9-11, and that they did not have weapons of mass destruction (Every child in Europe knew that too, but our so called US-journalists are nothing more than spokes puppets, so they communicated Bush’s talking points instead of real news).
It was clear from the beginning that this war was about channeling public US funds to a few companies and contractors. And after the few days of war an occupation followed with the same goal. Most of your 3 trillion Dollars Social Security money was funneled to Bush’s friends and partners in crime. And still no outcry in America. The government lied, stole and killed without any benefit for America. And the US preachers hailed the chief and said that Jesus Christ wants this.
Please be aware that GOD and Jesus Christ are opposed to war, murder, theft and lies. So they do NOT support the Bush crime family or your churches that spread an amazing array of stupidity and false information. I am very aware that the Pope made a deal with Hitler in the 30’s and 40’s of the last century. It did not do much good for either of them. You will share the same fate. And I wish the people who follow you so blindly would read and understand the Bible, so they would see that you take everything our of context just to make the point of GOD being a war monger or the Christian faith being only about saving Israel. If you would read the Bible, you would know that the Jews and Israel are already saved.
No, I love America; I just oppose all the bad things that are being done to this wonderful country and many of the too trusting people who live here. I am sad to see this happen and surprised that no one takes action against these so obvious crimes. I don’t hate, I love. But I also have compassion and hope for justice.

Cheney wants to nuke Iran

2008-03-27T09:11:00.000-07:00

The German news agency dpa reported a few days ago that Saudi Arabia is preparing for nuclear fallout after an attack of the US on Iran - and after a visit of their close friend Richard Cheney who obviously let them in on a Government secret. After it is established that Iran has no nuclear program and is not expected to have one anytime soon, Bush and Cheney are killing an unarmed man. Ethically it is just a continuation of what they have been doing all the years since they were appointed to their positions by Bush's personal judge and court, for our standing in the World it would be terrible. Our allies will stop laughing at our stupidity and start wondering if there are any moral values left in our country. Our President - unelected or not - is doing this. We will be held responsible by the World. What is going on in our wonderful country that such atrocities and ethical horrors are possible? Is there anyone still following anything this government does? Does anyone care?

Food for Thought: Zeitgeist Movie

2008-02-23T10:33:00.000-08:00

A close friend asked me to check out an interesting source of information: http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ where you can watch a movie for free that is obviously close enough to the truth that it has been deleted from Youtube and Google Video several times already. A measure that our US Government only takes when they are really serious about something.

And if you watch Zeitgeist Movie, you will receive a wealth of information to form your own opinion. On their website they offer links to all their sources. The only conclusion I have problems with is that they say that Jesus Christ did not exist. There is enough proof for his existence, as well as there is abundant proof for the fact that GOD created the world through evolution. Everything else in the movie, which also deals with 9-11, how the Federal Reserve - which is not federal, but a privately owned banking conglomerate - rules not only the US, how ID and tracking chips are supposed to control us in the future and much more.

So the movie is worth watching - especially in view of the US Government not wanting you to. They (our US Government) also made sure that Yahoo deleted and blocked a mail from the organization http://www.wanttoknow.info/ to their subscribers which contained updated material about 9-11 and the involvement of the US Government in the scam.

Together with the illegal wiretapping of citizens, Bush kissing the Saudis, other fabricated intelligence to enter the war and occupation of Iraq and almost a thousand lies, you should be at least worried and have a look at Zeitgeist Movie to see what they have to contribute to the truth.

Check it out. It is worth your while.

Almost 1000 lies from Bush & Co.

2008-01-23T22:30:00.000-08:00

Surprise, surprise. CNN reports that President Bush and his top aides publicly made 935 false statements about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following September 11, 2001, according to a study released Tuesday by two nonprofit journalism groups.

In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003," reads an overview of the examination, conducted by the Center for Public Integrity and its affiliated group, the Fund for Independence in Journalism.

According to the study, Bush and seven top officials -- including Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice -- made 935 false statements about Iraq during those two years. The study was based on a searchable database compiled of primary sources, such as official government transcripts and speeches, and secondary sources -- mainly quotes from major media organizations. The study says Bush made 232 false statements about Iraq and former leader Saddam Hussein's possessing weapons of mass destruction, and 28 false statements about Iraq's links to al Qaeda.
Bush has consistently asserted that at the time he and other officials made the statements, the intelligence community of the U.S. and several other nations, including Britain, believed Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. He has repeatedly said that despite the intelligence flaws, removing Hussein from power was the right thing to do.

The study says Powell had the second-highest number of false statements, with 244 about weapons and 10 about Iraq and al Qaeda.Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Press Secretary Ari Fleischer each made 109 false statements, it says. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz made 85, Rice made 56, Cheney made 48 and Scott McLellan, also a press secretary, made 14, the study says. "It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al Qaeda," the report reads, citing multiple government reports, including those by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the 9/11 Commission and the multinational Iraq Survey Group, which reported that Hussein had suspended Iraq's nuclear program in 1991 and made little effort to revive it. The overview of the study also calls the media to task, saying most media outlets didn't do enough to investigate the claims. "Some journalists -indeed, even some entire news organizations -have since acknowledged that their coverage during those prewar months was far too deferential and uncritical," the report reads. "These mea culpas notwithstanding, much of the wall-to-wall media coverage provided additional, 'independent' validation of the Bush administration's false statements about Iraq."

And looking at the beautiful pictures of the US President kissing, hugging and holding hands with the Saudi Dictators, we are reminded that 16 of the 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, another two came from the United Arab Emirates, the country Bush tried to put in charge of six major US ports.

And more lies from the Bush crime family: In another CNN report, former White House spokesman Scott McClellan says top administration officials - including President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney - were involved in his "unknowingly" passing along false information about the leak of a CIA operative's identity. In October 2003, as controversy grew about the leak of Valerie Plame's name, McClellan stood at the White House podium and said that Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser, and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, had not been involved. "There was one problem. It was not true," McClellan writes in his new book, "What Happened," which is to be released in April.

The excerpt -- three paragraphs from a 400-page book -- reads in full: "The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White House briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. "There was one problem. It was not true. "I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff, and the president himself."

In March, Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying to investigators and a federal grand jury about his contacts with reporters concerning Plame. Just before Libby was to report to a federal prison in July to serve 30 months behind bars, Bush commuted his sentence, although the president stopped short of a full pardon and Libby still had to pay a $250,000 fine. Rove, who left the White House staff at the end of August, was not charged in the case. His attorney has acknowledged he was one of two sources cited by syndicated columnist Bob Novak, who first disclosed in July 2003 that Plame worked for the CIA shortly after Wilson wrote a critical piece for The New York Times.

Kisses seal Bush’s sellout of the US

2008-01-18T22:30:00.000-08:00

Dear Readers, fellow Christians and Americans. I hope you are having a Happy New Year 2008. I know the Lord is with you and guides you to your destination.

The politics go on and our Government is still trying to start a war with Iran. Now there are a few small boats driving around the big US Warships in the Persian Gulf (Persia is the former name of Iran, which implies who is there as a guest) which surprisingly threaten the courageous US Navy. While the US soldiers – who might have felt threatened by rowboats also – are trembling with fear in the Persian Gulf, the President of our country which is plagued by high gas prices is – literally - kissing and holding hands with Royalty in Saudi Arabia. When the Barrel Oil was at $20 Bush vowed to convince the OPEC to lower the prices. With his illegal wars and occupation of Iraq he and his good fellows hiked the price up to $100 a barrel in just seven years.

With hot kisses the Saudi Royal Family welcomed the man whose family has supported their politics for decades, George W. Bush, President of the United States of America and vassal of the Royal Saudis. The history of this very profitable love affair between the Bushes and the Saudis can be found here.

Why should we keep GOD out of schools and the public?

I am very much for an obvious presence of GOD everywhere. My problem is – as many of you know already – that I am talking about the GOD in the Scriptures, with Jesus Christ’s message of Love and the teachings of the Apostle Paul.

I am very much against teaching our children or displaying any evidence of the Americanized, perverted GOD who loves violence, wars, killing, lies and deception. This GOD was made by the US rightwing extremists and silently crept into the minds of Americans who start to believe that this is really GOD, like the Muslim extremists believe in the GOD their leaders made for them, ignoring the Qur’an and all of Muhammad’s teaching, like many US Christians ignore Jesus Christ’s teachings and the Bible for the same reasons.

Ignorance is not always bliss. Don’t forget whom you are hurting with your self made Religion and false idols. Read the New Testament, read Acts, Romans, Corinthians, and the other epistles of Apostle Paul. Read the Gospel of Thomas in addition to clarify what Jesus really said. Large parts of the Bible have been edited and the usable traces of the sayings of Jesus that are not only for the Jews can be used to understand what Jesus really wanted and can help to read the Bible more informed. Jesus came for the Jews, but we are baptized by accepting Jesus Christ in our heart as our savior. No water, no fire. Which also means to understand His message and His will for us, so we can actually do his will and live according to the teachings that apply to us here and today.

The most important ones being: Love your neighbor as thyself, don’t kill, don’t lie, and don’t steal. Looking at all these requirements, you can tell that the current US Administration does the exact opposite. So they are definitely not on the side of GOD.

Please also look at what the other politicians are doing in His name. The Democrats promised to end the war. They still vote for funding it. Some Politicians like Dianne Feinstein make a lot of money from this illegal occupation and refuse to end it.

GOD will take care of all these people in his own time. Violence is not in His plans. Violence is a sign of the Godless. On either side. Christian and Muslim.

Amen. Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast, January 18, 2007

Project Censored specializes in covering the top stories which were subjected to media censorship either by being ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media each year. Project Censored is a research team composed of more than 200 university faculty, students, and community experts who review about 1,000 news story submissions for coverage, content, reliability of sources, and national significance. A brief summary of last year's top 25 censored news stories provided below proves quite revealing and most informative. After the headline of each news story is a link for those who want to read the entire article. These links contain the sources for the censored news. For whatever reason the major media won't report these major stories. Below are a few examples for this excellent work. Click here to see all the articles and sources.

No Habeas Corpus for “Any Person” - With the approval of Congress and no outcry from corporate media, the Military Commissions Act (MCA) signed by Bush on October 17, 2006, ushered in military commission law for US citizens and non-citizens alike. While media, including a lead editorial in the New York Times October 19, have given false comfort that we, as American citizens, will not be the victims of the draconian measures legalized by this Act—such as military roundups and life-long detention with no rights or constitutional protections

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law - The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, which was quietly signed by Bush on October 17, 2006, the very same day that he signed the Military Commissions Act, allows the president to station military troops anywhere in the United States and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to “suppress public disorder.”

No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11 - Osama bin Laden’s role in the events of September 11, 2001 is not mentioned on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” poster. When questioned about this shocking omission, Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI, responded, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.”

Media Misquotes Threat From Iran’s President - Across the world a media story has spread that Iran’s President Ahmadinejad has threatened to destroy Israel, by saying that, “Israel must be wiped off the map.” Contrary to general belief, this statement was actually a misinterpretation.

Dianne Feinstein - the ninth wealthiest member of congress—has been beset by monumental ethical conflicts of interest. As a member of the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee (MILCON) from 2001 to the end of 2005, Senator Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions of dollars to her husband’s firms. From 1997 through the end of 2005, Feinstein’s husband Richard C. Blum was a majority shareholder in both URS Corp. and Perini Corp. She lobbied Pentagon officials in public hearings to support defense projects that she favored, some of which already were, or subsequently became, URS or Perini contracts.

Bush and the Saudis - A love affair to taunt the world

2008-01-17T17:41:00.000-08:00

Today George W. Bush is kissing the only friends he has in the world. The Saudi Royal Family and the Bin Laden Clan. If the ties would not be paid for in American blood, no one would object. W. claims to ABC that it is his first visit to Saudi Arabia. If so, then the Saudis have been in the US for a while, because those hot kisses are not given to strangers. Only to family. And Bush is family for the Saudis - as well as vice versa. In the following some background info about the Love affair of the Saudis, Bin Laden and the Bush crime family. A love affair in money and Oil.
The history of this very profitable love affair between the Bushes and the Saudis can be found here.

Infamous Bill HR1955 threatens America!

2007-12-26T16:46:00.000-08:00

HR 1955 or the “Thought Crimes Bill”, as it is widely called, passed the House in October 2007 with no discussion, and no mention in the main stream press. It is essentially a suspension of your First Amendment rights, the right to free speech, what I am doing right here and right now. Having read my Orwell, I am fully aware that it is almost 1984 – in some instances way past 1984 - and - well, it is just one more casualty on account of our Government’s way to finally abolish the rest of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and all amendments. This then useless piece of Antique paper – formerly called the Constitution - will be substituted by Martial Law, Plundering, Yellow Stars which will have to be worn by Muslims and random executions of Citizens held by the National Republican's Guard on orders of the President of the National Republican Democrats Party.
Many people are calling this infamous Bill the “thought crime bill”, and with good reason. This bill will criminalize dissent, and specifically targets the internet as the primary method of dissemination of such dissent. It will create a commission to study blogs that question government policy – and currently there are hardly any other blogs. Any comments that could be of violent nature such as: “The punishment for High Treason is death”. Especially now that the Bush crime family has been committing several acts of treason, among them the outing of a CIA agent, criticism can only be an act of Terrorism. Any action or thought which criticizes any Government action and asks for an action according to our former Constitution is an act of violence or as Bush calls it “Enemy combatant”. Or the simple version: Who ever is not with us is against us. Like Hitler did it. Not as subtle as he did it, but still. If you are interested to read the Bill HR 1955, please click here.

Some Democrats are seemingly trying to change the course

2007-12-10T17:45:00.000-08:00

And here some voices from Democrats that I support. I hope they are sincere in their mission to stop the senseless killing and dying in an illegal occupation and a civil war which was actually caused by the ignorance of the US leadership. After thoughtfully committing High Treason in outing the CIA agents who could have provided the intelligence that so obviously lacking in the entire leadership of our country, including House and Senate. While drowning in fear they also threaten to abolish the last civil right that was left. Free Speech. Let's see how our US will try to avoid comparisons with Nazi Germany. Good Luck and Good Night. Here the Democrat's voices that are seemingly in the minority:

Stop $70B More for Iraq: Shut Down Congress' Phones
Submitted by Bob Fertik on December 10, 2007 - 3:49pm. OutOfIraq
Once again our Democratic "leaders" are betraying our troops by keeping them in Iraq forever to be murdered or maimed for no reason except the insatiable greed of Bush-Cheney's oil cronies.

On Tuesday, House Democrats plan to approve $30 billion more for Afghanistan. Then Senate Democrats plan to approve $70 billion to cover Iraq as well. Then House Democrats plan to approve the full $70 billion.

Why are our Democratic "leaders" betraying us? Because they want Bush to sign - not veto - the $522 billion omnibus spending bill to fund the government this year. We have no Democratic "leaders" - we have utterly incompetent negotiators who lose 100% of their battles, no matter how much public support they have.

Our Democrats in Congress clearly do not care about the voters who elect them, whether Democrats or Independents, virtually all of whom want them to end the disastrous occupation of Iraq now. Our Democrats in Congress do not care about the troops fighting in Iraq and their families, who oppose the occupation even more than the rest of us, by 69% to 64%. The only support for the occupation of Iraq comes from hard-core Bush Republican voters who never vote for Democrats.

Who do Democrats in Congress actually care about? The donors who fund them - period. So call your Representatives and Senators with a simple message: Not one more penny for Iraq - or not one more penny for your campaign. If you have ever contributed to your Representatives or Senators or to any Democratic committee, be sure to tell them how much you will not give them.
Let's all call Monday and Tuesday (between 9-5 ET) and shut down the Congressional phone system . Call your Representatives directly:

http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mcapdir.htmlOr call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 Or call toll-free: 800-828-0498 - 800-614 2803 - 866-340 9281

And join the Democratic Donor Strike against the DCCC and DSCC http://democrats.com/donor-strike-2007

More from our friends at United For Peace and Justice:
Gather some friends together and pay a visit to one or more of your legislators. Stop by during lunch if that is convenient. Emphatically demand an end to the occupation. Your peaceful visit can be brief, or last long enough for your to read the names of every civilian and soldier killed in Iraq, or it can last until the member of Congress agrees to oppose all funding that is not tied to the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops and contractors.

If you are able to organize a visit, post notice of the visit here: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php?sortby=&caltype=59
Otherwise click to see if someone in your area has already organized a visit - enter your zip code and increase the search miles to find a protest near you.

I could not agree more and strongly support the effort! Is there really just one party? The Money Party?

Senator Dianne Feinstein against Impeaching Bush and Cheney

2007-12-06T22:40:00.000-08:00

When I answered several surveys of the Democratic Party two days ago, I wrote my comments about each subject they asked me to comment on from Impeachment of the leading criminals of this country to the illegal occupation of Iraq and the failed attack on Iran. And I wrote my opinion as always based on GOD's word, HIS commandments and following HIS voice in my heart. For those who already know my style it won't come as a surprise that I was abundantly clear in my answers to these surveys.

At least the Democratic Party has figured out that I fall under the column "progressive" and then some. So now I get the so called "activist" mails instead of the senseless answers I have received in the past when I wrote to an elected official, which did not even have anything to do with the subject I was writing about.

At least now someone makes sure that the prefabricated answers are related to the subject and actually address my concerns. The following letter came as an answer to my request to impeach Cheney and Bush. I agree with my favorite Talk Show hosts Thom Hartmann and Randi Rhodes on Air America Radio (you can listen online. Just click on listen!) that there is something very strange about a Democrat who refuses to hold this administration accountable for their crimes.

Strange is also that the Democrats did not even attempt to fulfill the request of the voters who brought them back into power to stop the illegal occupation of Iraq, they did not reinstate our Constitution, Habeas Corpus is not even on the table, and now they want to let the criminals who shredded our constitution go free? Obviously. But why? Please read Senator Feinstein's argumentation and think about it. Why would someone let those criminals go free. Either you are involved in the crime or on a blackmail list or - what else is there?

Dear Dr. Hast:

Thank you for your letter concerning impeachment proceedings against President Bush. I appreciate the time you took to write and welcome the opportunity to respond.

In our recent elections, the American people expressed clear disapproval with the path this country was on. They are tired of partisan politics and of an Administration that pays little heed to the wishes of the American people. They want-and deserve-a Congress that holds the Administration accountable and fulfills its Constitutional responsibility to check and balance the Executive. I share this sentiment and am determined to work hard and across party lines in the United States Senate to promote issues that are of real concern to most Americans, including the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, homeland security, global warming, and lobbying and election reform.

At this time, however, I believe that impeachment proceedings against President Bush will only divide the country even further, frustrating our hopes for a meaningful change in direction, while having little chance of success.

I have been deeply disappointed by many of this Administration's actions and have been outspoken in those instances. Nevertheless, given the challenges our country faces I believe that we need to focus on constructive and cooperative steps that would lead us in the right direction.

Again, thank you for your continued correspondence. If you have any further questions or comments, please contact my office in Washington, D.C. at (202) 224-3841. Best regards.

Sincerely yours,

Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator

Dear Senator Feinstein,
I strongly disagree. First we have to clean house before we can move on. America does not want to see the people go free who wasted Billions on a war and illegal occupation - in no way to related to 9-11, if I may remind you - just to benefit huge Corporations, literally gave our nation the finger and are allied with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. They have shredded our Constitution, promote Torture, killed thousand of Americans for their Oil business and committed more crimes than I have room to mention here.

Please don't forget that Nixon resigned over a few bugs and recordings of his perceived enemies - while we - all of America - are currently being illegally wiretapped on an ongoing basis and that President Clinton had to endure impeachment proceedings for lying about a blowjob, not for killing thousands of Americans, and constantly breaking the law.

End the occupation, reinstate the constitution and bring the criminals to justice.

Oh, and by the way: I just saw a FEMA sign on TV and everybody there was very happy with their performance: In Malibu, California. Congratulations. New Orleans is still in shambles, but all we have to do is "follow the money"...

Iran told the truth - Bush, Cheney and Rice lied to us and to the world!

2007-12-04T20:12:00.000-08:00

Iran has no nuclear weapons program. The news channels finally reported this for George W. Bush inconvenient fact that has been known since the year 2003 and that revealed the US Government again as a bunch of warmongering liars.

If it would not be business as usual, the fact that Bush tried to start another illegal war would be an outrage. Just like the Bush crime family lied their way into the illegal occupation of Iraq, they tried to follow up the same way with Iran. Today they had their Spokesmodels on the US TV-Channels spread the lie that bad intelligence almost fooled them like it fooled them in attacking Iraq. What the News Bimbos and Himbos on the fake news from FOX, ABC, NBC and CBS don't tell the public - probably because the Republicans removed the last real journalist from television - is, that the Bush crime family had the so called "evidence" produced just for the reason to start the illegal war and a few days later the illegal occupation of Iraq.

Now they thought they needed to start a new war, just to keep the weapon industry and the contractors that made Billions of illegal Dollars on this charade happy. Not to forget the Oil industry which is largely owned by the Bush administration. They really took care of their own. They tripled the gas prices. Congratulations. They probably won't commit suicide like Hitler did, after he attacked innocent countries, started wars and betrayed his people. They will most likely live very comfortably on their billions of Dollars of Blood money. Just watching these liars on TV makes me sick to my stomach. History will decide. But we have been royally screwed as of today. We treat liars, thieves and murders as Presidents and let them keep on governing us. Where is the outcry? GOD's commandments and the US constitution does not apply for the Christians in our US of A? Where is the American Spirit that has been admired all over the world until we turned our country into an Empire of crime?

Let's hope that the Democrats will finally grow a spine and bring the criminals who raped our USA and a completely innocent country like Iraq to justice. And no, none of these countries had anything to do with 9-11. This was a fabrication of the Bush-Bin Laden connection. Please read. Then you will understand what really happened. May I recommend this column here and this link to our Current Information where you will find lots of facts - the stuff our Government hates.

I am sure that if you read what I wrote about these subjects and compare it with the so called "intelligence" that "just" came to light you might be surprised. How do I know all these things long before our Government admits to them? Everything is so clear and laid out. And looking at the evidence, it all makes sense. WE have been insulting the Arab world (except the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates, where by the way all the 9-11 "terrorists" came from) until they really started hating us on a broad basis.

All we can do is apologize to the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for calling him publicly a liar. No matter what he did or does otherwise - at least in this case he did more than our US Government has done in the last six years - he told the truth.

What could we have done with the Money of illegal war and occupation of Iraq?!

2007-11-17T11:46:00.000-08:00

GOD bless you all. Another new email got my attention. It shows what we could have done - or still do - with the money the Bush administration has spent so far on the illegal war and occupation of Iraq. With the funding they are currently trying to get from congress, the total cost would rise to $611.5 billion, according to the National Priorities Project, a nonprofit research group. And here is what we could have had:

Almost 18 months' worth of free gas for everyone

US drivers consume approximately 384.7 million gallons of gasoline a day. Retail prices averaged $3.00 a gallon in early November. Breaking it down, $611 billion could buy gasoline for everybody in the United States, for about 530 days.

More than a year of Medicare benefits for everyone

In fiscal 2008, Medicare benefits will total $454 billion, according to a Heritage Foundation summary. The $611 billion in war costs is 17 times the amount vetoed by the president for a $35 billion health benefit program for poor children.

A real war on poverty

According to World Bank estimates, $54 billion a year would eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally by 2015, while $30 billion would provide a year of primary education for every child on earth. At the upper range of those estimates, the $611 billion cost of the war could have fed and educated the world's poor for seven years.

Many, many environment-friendly cars on the road

With $611 billion, you could convert all cars in America to run on ethanol nine times over. TheBudgetGraph.com estimates that converting the 136,568,083 registered cars in the United States to ethanol (conversion kits at $500) would cost $68.2 billion.

If you would like to see this and more with nice pictures, please click here.

9-11: Why the US-Government was involved

2007-11-02T15:53:00.000-07:00

Here is another subject. 9-11 is credited to Osama Bin Laden, who denied to be involved at all for the first week and then gave in to the pressure of his families friends and accepted the guilt for this attack. At first he welcomed the attack and regretted publicly that he was not involved. Then, all of a sudden, he said that he did it. Strange? High Military officers reported that they were ordered to let him escape several times. Why? Because all he is guilty of is to protect the real Terrorists. And our Government does not want a public statement with this truth.
Another interesting fact: Most of the foreign insurgents are from Saudi Arabia, not from IRAN. The Government calls them just "AL Qaeda" and insinuates via television that they come from IRAN, the next target that the Republicans and some spineless Democrats have for a war. Actually for World War III, as publicly announced by George W. Bush, because the rest of the world is standing against this Madman who is leading the US in this second unnecessary and absolutely insane war. Like Hitler did with Germany some 60 years ago.

But wait, there is more. The Book "THE NEW PEARL HARBOR" by Professor David Ray Griffin (who has been Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Claremont School of Theology in California for 30 years and is author and editor of more than 20 books) shows the backgrounds and reasons for 9-11. And why our government is most likely involved in the attack. Here an addendum he added for the second edition, called "40 smoking guns". This book should be read by everyone who has an IQ which enables them to vote for someone other than George W. Bush. They should also watch the movie: "Loose Change 911, 2nd edition" (click this link to watch it for free!)

David Ray Griffin – The New Pearl Harbor

40 Smoking Guns

I have often been asked whether there are any "smoking guns” Pointing to complicity by the Bush administration. This is a question I did not explicitly address in the body of the book. Rather than focusing on those reported events that most strongly suggest such complicity presented a cumulative argument, suggesting that what is most persuasive, assuming the truth of at least a significant portion of the reported evidence, is that so many lines of evidence all seem to point in the same direction….Because this question has come up so often, I will conclude with a list of the reported items that I would so classify. In going back through the book to assemble this list, I was surprised to see how many there are.

1. The failure of standard operating procedures (SOP) to intercept Flight 11.

2. The failure of SOP to intercept Flight 175.

3. The failure of SOP to intercept Flight 77.

4. The fact that the official story as to these failures changed a few days after 9/11.

5. The fact that according to the second version of the official story, the order to scramble jet fighters to intercept Flights 11 and 175 went to Otis Air Force base instead of the nearer base, McGuire.

6. The fact that according to this second version, the order to scramble jet fighters to protect Washington went to Langley Air Force base instead of the nearer base, Andrews.

7. The fact that, even given NORAD'S timeline and the greater distances the pilots had to cover from Otis and Langley, their fighter jets, flying at full speed, should have reached New York and Washington in time to prevent the attacks on the South Tower and the Pentagon.

8. The fact that according to this second version, the fighter jets that were too late to intercept Flights 11 and 175 were not ordered to continue on to Washington, even though it was then known that Flight 77 had bee hijacked and, according to the official story, was headed back toward Washington.

9. Secretary of Transportation Mineta's report of a conversation that may have reflected a stand-down order by Vice President Cheney.

10. The fact that in New York on 9/11, three steel-framed hi buildings, for the first time in history, collapsed because of fires – quite localized fires at that, especially in the South Tower and Building 7.

11. The fact that the South Tower fell first even though, according to the hypothesis that the buildings collapsed because of fire, this tower, having been hit second and having the smaller fire, should not have collapsed first.

12. The multiple types of physical evidence that the Twin Towers and Building 7 collapsed by means of controlled demolition. (Because there are many types of such evidence- - such as the fact that the steel beams and columns were broken into pieces the right size to be loaded onto trucks - this point could have been divided into many smoking guns.)

13. Larry Silverstein's statement that he and the fire department decided to "pull" WTC-7, combined with the evidence that the fire department had prior knowledge of its collapse, despite the lack of any physical evidence indicating imminent collapse.

14. Mayor Giuliani's statement that he knew in advance that the Twin Towers were going to collapse.

15. The quick removal of the steel from all three buildings - especially Building 7, where there would have been no victims - before it could be examined.

16. The fact that photographic evidence shows that the hole created in the Pentagon was much smaller than a hole created by a Boeing 757 would be.

17. The fact that photographs show that there were no remains of a large airliner in front of the crash site, even though, given the small entrance hole, not all of a Boeing 757 could have gone inside.

18. The fact that witnesses also reported seeing no remains of a airliner inside the Pentagon.

19. The fact that the west wing, far from being the most likely part of the Pentagon for terrorists to target, was the least likely, as well as technically difficult to hit.

20. The fact that any non-military plane, not having a transponder sending out a "friendly" signal, would have been automatically shot down by the Pentagon's battery of missiles.

21. The extreme unlikelihood that a hijacked 757 could have flown undetected through American airspace, especially toward the Pentagon, for some 40 minutes.

22. The evidence that the Bush administration lied about not having shot down Flight 93.

23. The fact that President Bush gave the impression upon his arrival at the Sarasota school, even after a telephone conversation with Condoleezza Rice, that he was unaware that two more airliners, beyond the one that had crashed into the North Tower of the WTC, had been hijacked.

24. The fact that Bush, after being told about the attack on the South Tower, did not act like a commander in chief who was surprised to learn that the United States was suffering the greatest terrorist attack in its history.

25. The fact that Bush and his entourage, including his Secret Service detail, showed no sign of fear that they would be attacked while in Florida, even though at that time they-assuming the truth of the official account-would have known neither how many planes had been hijacked nor what the terrorists' targets were.

26. The multiple denial by Bush administration officials that they had had any idea that planes might be used as weapons in a Terrorist attack against the United States, even though such knowledge was widespread – partly because of warnings the Bush administration itself that terrorists were in fact planning such attacks.

27. The fact that the FBI must have had specific advance knowledge of the attacks, given (a) its confiscation of a film of the attack on the Pentagon within five minutes, (b) its confiscation of student files from Florida flight schools within 18 hours, and (c) the reported testimony of FBI agents (to David Schippers and the New American) That they knew the dates and targets of the New York attacks months in advance.

28. The repeated denial by Bush administration officials that they had received any specific advance knowledge about the attacks of 9/11, contradicting strong evidence to the contrary, including that provided by the purchases of enormous amounts of put options on United Airlines, American Airlines, and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

29. The evidence that although Osama bin Laden was officially America's "most wanted" criminal, he was treated by an American surgeon and visited by a CIA agent in an American hospital in Dubai two months prior to 9/11.

30. The evidence that local FBI agents in Minnesota, New York, and Chicago were prevented by FBI headquarters from carrying out investigations that could have uncovered the plot.

31. The harassment and demotion of DIA agent Julie Sirrs after she brought back information about a plan in Afghanistan to assassinate Ahmad Massood.

32. The evidence that the Bush administration had already determined by July of 2001 that it would attack Afghanistan "by the middle of October at the latest," combined with the fact that the attacks of 9/11, by occurring on that date, gave the US military sufficient preparation time to begin its assault on October 7.

33. The evidence that during the "Hunt for Bin Laden" after 9/11, he and his Al Qaeda forces were repeatedly allowed to escape.

34. The evidence that the Bush administration sought in multiple ways to conceal the connections between 9/11 and Pakistan's ISI.

35. The fact that the FBI, the Justice Department, and the Air Force all refused to answer questions about the report that many of the (alleged) hijackers had received training at US flight schools.

36. The multiple reasons to doubt the official conspiracy theory's tale of Arab-Muslim hijackers.

37. The firing and subsequent gagging of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds after she reported that a 9/11-related investigation was being sabotaged by a spy.

38. The fact that while people such as Julie Sirrs and Sibel Edmonds have been punished, there have been no reports of punishment for anyone who acted incompetently or obstructively in relation to 9/11 whether in the FAA, the FBI, the CIA, the DIA, the NSA, the Justice Department, the White House, NORAD, the Pentagon, or the US military more generally.

39. The fact that the Bush administration has not revealed the identities of those who purchased the put options on United Airlines, American Airlines, and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

40. The fact that the White House repeatedly obstructed the attempts of the 9/ 11 Commission-as feeble as they appear to have been-to learn how the attacks of 9/11 could have succeeded.
These smoking guns could provide some starting points for a real investigation-if and when one is ever authorized.

These “40 Smoking Guns” were taken from the book “The New Pearl Harbor” by David Ray Griffin, that everybody who believes in a terrorist attack on the US should read.

Amen

PS. And if you want to know even more verifiable facts, click here

Quran is a Religion of peace

2007-11-01T15:45:00.000-07:00

GOD bless you all. After all of you have hopefully come to the realization that the Islam is actually a religion of peace, I would like to draw your attention to another subject that has not been resolved as of yet. For now I will just answer the most burning Question of Rick Mathes, the prison minister who still believes an Imam thought that Islam is a religion of hate, and I will write more about that subject later. So, here is his question/statement:

Almost every critic attacks the messenger "me" and does^t touch the message. The message is:

"Would you rather have an Allah who says to kill me to go to heaven or a Jesus who says for me to love you because I am going to heaven and He would like you to be with me? "

This is the biggest I LOVE YOU I am capable of extending to my Muslims cousins. This is not a hate article. It is one extended in love with the sword of the Word rather that the sword of cresent.

The problem here is that the message is not attackable, because it is plain wrong and born out of ignorance. "Would you rather have a car that runs on water or a car that runs on white blood cells". Rick Mathes asserts that GOD told the Muslims to kill him and he asks his question based on this false pretense. To answer this question either way means to agree with the false statement first or at the same time. And that is why no one deals with this so called message, because it is already faulty within. The assertion in the question is just wrong. Allah (GOD) is Jesus' father for us Christians. For the Muslims, he is GOD and Jesus is his prophet, as well as Mohammed (who by the way also preached love and peace). For us Christians, Jesus came to this world to bring the message of love, to replace the message of hate in the old testament and die for our sins on the cross. For the Jews he was also just a prophet, not the savior or GOD's son. And if we would follow GOD's word (which automatically includes Jesus' word) as preached to and for us Gentiles by Paul and the Muslims would all follow GOD's word as received by Muhammad, and in the true spirit of the Qur'an, as we Christians would follow the true spirit of the Bible, we would not even argue with each other. The problem is the interpretation of GOD's word on both sides, according to the hidden agenda ON BOTH SIDES!

Allah does not tell the Muslims to kill Christians to go to heaven. By the way: Jihad means "struggle", not "holy war". Currently it is the Christians who are being told by most televangelists who are seemingly in tune with the Government who tell their herd of blindly following sheep that their salvation lies in the killing of Muslims. And that is the problem. The commandments are clear. Don't lie, don't steal, don't kill... and that is what they do or support. And they do it in the name of Jesus who made the commandments even clearer: "Love your neighbor". Why do they spread hate. And they attack us, who spread the Truth as liars who do not preach the word of GOD. Those religious NAZIs should read the Bible, try to understand it and stop collecting Millions for their own personal benefit. I think Rick is on a very different page. He does not spread his so called message out of hate, just out of ignorance. Basically he is trying to spread the message of love, just in a way that makes people hate the Muslim faith. The emails that are being sent out intentionally spread hate. Rick himself, I believe, that he is sincerely trying to preach love. I will try to answer him soon and until then, may GOD bless him.
Amen

Christian Hate: Not a time for Facts and Brains !?!

2007-10-24T14:50:00.000-07:00

The Christian right is committed to spread false information to support the “war efforts” of the arms industry – A Moron is not automatically a Patriot

A lost sheep send us a commentary from August 22, 2007 which was seemingly written by the then 76 year old D. James Kennedy, a right wing Christian like Falwell and obviously just as senile. The interesting thing is, that he does exactly what all right wingers seem to do: he keeps repeating false information and lies in the hope that repetition turns them into truth. Sorry. It is not that easy.

Here is his commentary, which was posted to our website http://www.chocr.com/ on September 24, 2007. Having read of Kennedy’s death on September 5, 2007, it may be safely assumed that he did not post it himself. The only signature the poster left was the link to the website http://www.missiongateministry.org/ , seemingly the home of Rick Mathes who in his report ordained a simple inmate of the prison to the role of an Imam. Not being an Imam, the inmate was expectedly helpless in his responses to the false and dumb accusations Mathes made against Islam, and the fascist Christian right had a new hero who had “slain” the Islamic dragon one more time.

Here the commentary by Kennedy which contains Rick Mathes’ fairytale, and some facts which burst the right wing bubble. Please forgive my remarks in the commentary which state the facts in contrast to the delusion of the original writer: Kennedy calls Mathes a Patriot. He is obviously just ignorant. Being dumb is not the same as being a Patriot and Ignorance is not the same as Patriotism. It might be a good description of the right wing though. A Patriot wants something good for his country and would never support a senseless war that kills thousands of Americans for financial gain of a few. Please check everything stated here for truth. Please also include my remarks in your research, so you will see for yourself which game is being played here by the warmongers among the Holy Christian Ignorance of America. They bank on your ignorance and your laziness to check the facts. Please – in the name of GOD – disappoint them.

As a preface to your reading, here Surah 2:62, like all other Surahs mentioned here, in the translation of Khalifa.

Surah 2:62: Surely, those who believe, those who are Jewish, the Christians, and the converts; anyone who (1) believes in GOD, and (2) believes in the Last Day, and (3) leads a righteous life, will receive their recompense from their Lord. They have nothing to fear, nor will they grieve.

So here the message posted to our site. The title is the original Republican slogan and talking point, which is being repeated mindlessly like a religious chant around the country.

Not the Time to Cut and Run
By D. James Kennedy, Ph. D. Christian Post Guest Columnist
Here is a sampling of what the Qur'an teaches, along with the chapter (Surah) and verse in which it is found:

. Muslims must fight until their opponents submit to Islam (Surah 9:29);

Here the Surah 9:29, in the translation of Khalifa, which was – as you can tell - absolutely misquoted by Kennedy. To give a context, I also added the subsequent parts of the Surah up to 9:30, so every reader understands the context of it. It is amazing to me that Muhammad saw himself partially in opposition to the same people we – as a body of Christ and a Church of GOD – face today: the one's who do not believe in and/or do not understand GOD and His word.

Surah 9:31 is a very interesting topic. Mary was brought into the picture in the Middle Ages. Probably because the Statues looked nice. Are we worshipping only one GOD? We, the Christians? The Catholics? I am speaking with GOD. It never crossed my mind to speak to Jesus' mom. Is the Holy Trinity one GOD or did we go Pagan in "making a picture of GOD"? Muhammad's words must also be seen in relation to the cultural background - the tribal system in Mecca and Medina, a very different society than the one existing today, in mostly peaceful coexistence and even allied with Jewish tribes - and also as the law of the desert, that was also written in reaction to certain political incidents. Click here to read the story with Bible quotes (the Bible instructs Christians to kill everyone who works on the sabbath)

9:29 You shall fight back against those who do not believe in GOD, nor in the Last Day, nor do they prohibit what GOD and His messenger have prohibited, nor do they abide by the religion of truth - among those who received the scripture - until they pay the due tax, willingly or unwillingly.

9:30 The Jews said, "Ezra is the son of GOD," while the Christians said, "Jesus is the son of GOD!" These are blasphemies uttered by their mouths. They thus match the blasphemies of those who have disbelieved in the past. GOD condemns them. They have surely deviated.

9:31 They have set up their religious leaders and scholars as lords, instead of GOD. Others deified the Messiah, son of Mary. They were all commanded to worship only one god. There is no god except He. Be He glorified, high above having any partners.

9:32 They want to put out GOD's light with their mouths, but GOD insists upon perfecting His light, in spite of the disbelievers.

9:33 He is the One who sent His messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, and will make it dominate all religions, in spite of the idol worshipers.

9:34 O you who believe, many religious leaders and preachers take the people's money illicitly, and repel from the path of GOD. Those who hoard the gold and silver, and do not spend them in the cause of GOD, promise them a painful retribution.

9:35 The day will come when their gold and silver will be heated in the fire of Hell, then used to burn their foreheads, their sides, and their backs: "This is what you hoarded for yourselves, so taste what you have hoarded."

. A man may beat his wife (Surah 4:34)

4:34 The men are made responsible for the women, and GOD has endowed them with certain qualities, and made them the bread earners. The righteous women will cheerfully accept this arrangement, since it is GOD's commandment, and honor their husbands during their absence. If you experience rebellion from the women, you shall first talk to them, then (you may use negative incentives like) deserting them in bed, then you may (as a last alternative) beat them. If they obey you, you are not permitted to transgress against them. GOD is Most High, Supreme.

In Christianity the woman did not officially have a soul until recent times, was not allowed in Church and was basically the servant of the man. The punishments of women in so called Christian households were and are visibly similar to the written recommendation in Surah 4:34. No man should ever beat his wife, though.

and have up to four wives at the same time (Surah 4:3);

Here the Surahs 4:1-3, so the context is clear. Seeing the background of the time when the Qur'an was written, polygamy made good sense. As well as the polygamy in biblical times and in the Bible.

4:1 O people, observe your Lord; the One who created you from one being, and created from it its mate, then spread from the two many men and women. You shall regard GOD, by whom you swear, and regard the parents. GOD is watching over you.

4:2 You shall hand over to the orphans their rightful properties. Do not substitute the bad for the good, and do not consume their properties by combining them with yours. This would be a gross injustice.

4:3 If you deem it best for the orphans, you may marry their mothers - you may marry two, three, or four. If you fear lest you become unfair, then you shall be content with only one, or with what you already have. Additionally, you are thus more likely to avoid financial hardship.

. Stealing is punished by the amputation of the hands (Surah 5:38);

5:38 The thief, male or female, you shall mark their hands as a punishment for their crime, and to serve as an example from GOD. GOD is Almighty, Most Wise.

5:39 If one repents after committing this crime, and reforms, GOD redeems him. GOD is Forgiver, Most Merciful.

It is abundantly clear that the thief has the chance to repent before their hands are marked and that they can avoid this measure just by repenting. Muhammad has been very forgiving during his time, and refused to kill or have opponents killed. Much to the dismay of people of his and other religions surrounding him. The following claim goes back to an incident when Muhammad was supposed to be killed by pagan adversaries.

. Resisting Islam is punishable by death, crucifixion, amputation, or imprisonment (Surah 5:33).

5:33 The just retribution for those who fight GOD and His messenger, and commit horrendous crimes, is to be killed, or crucified, or to have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides, or to be banished from the land. This is to humiliate them in this life, then they suffer a far worse retribution in the Hereafter.

5:34 Exempted are those who repent before you overcome them. You should know that GOD is Forgiver, Most Merciful.

Again, the enemy can repent, even after commit horrendous crimes against Muhammad's own people, and may be forgiven without punishment. Are we Christians this merciful? Do we think our GOD is this merciful? I know, personally I think, GOD is this merciful. Others obviously want to wage war against those who did not commit any crimes. And this merciful description of GOD leads Kennedy to the conclusion:

This is hardly what you would call a religion of peace!

Ah...

As early as the seventh century, Muslim forces led campaigns to spread Islam across the Middle East. At one time the Islamic Empire eclipsed that of the Roman Empire. However, attempts by Muslim forces to push their way into Christian Europe were stymied by the famous 732 a.d. Battle of Tours in France. Charles Martel, popularly known as "Charles the Hammer," led this battle against the Muslim armies and is largely credited for preventing Europe from succumbing to Islam's control. Today, militant Islamists are back and willing to lay down their lives to destroy both Europe and America. The president of Iran has promised that, "The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world." Now is not the time to cut and run. Now is not the time for retreat. We need patriots and Christians like "Charles the Hammer," to rise up and oppose those who would destroy this country.

The president of Iran has been deeply insulted in recent days. I don't want to defend him and his actions and remarks, I just think that you should respect everyone as a human being. The deeper goal is to actually start a new war against Iran to funnel more money from the US social security funds into the pockets of the arms industry, not any feigned nuclear concerns. And the wave of the Crusades and Conquests in GOD's name was more than violent. If the Islamic revolution will be violent is really an interesting question. Is our great country really afraid of a few sheiks in the desert? Why did Bush try to hand over six of our ports to the United Arab Emirates (where two of the 9-11 Terrorists came from - the rest came from Saudi Arabia, Bush's closest and probably only friend in the world), if the countries in that part of the world are so dangerous? Is he repaying a 9-11 favor to the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates? Or why are we letting Osama go, don't deal with North Korea and many others, and just focus on the "oily" part of the world? When will we attack Venezuela and Mexico?

The fact of the Battle of Tours is true. 1,500 casualties on the side of the Europeans and about 10,000 on the side of the Muslims. The only part of western Europe that was actually held by the Muslims was Spain. And there they lived in peaceful coexistence with Christians for many centuries. A few religious fanatics tried successfully to provoke the Muslims into making them Martyrs, but the regular folk got along well and enjoyed the cultural exchange. Please follow this link to compare the battle of Tours with the slaughter of the crusades, when Europeans went to plunder, rape and ravish the Arab world to enrich themselves with Gold. The crusades. We should not forget the "conquest" of the Inca Empire by the Spanish Conquistadores who - in the name of GOD - took care of the Extinction of an entire culture and people. Did I mention the conquest of the United States by the Europeans in the name of GOD, who lied to, stole from and killed as many of the native Americans as they could. And again: ignorance can not substitute facts of history.

Rick Mathes, chairman of Mission Gate Prison Ministry in Missouri is a real Christian patriot standing up for the truth. Several years ago Mathes participated in a training session in which Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim clerics explained their respective beliefs to inmates.
Afterwards, during a question and answer period, Mathes asked the Muslim imam this question: "I understand that most imams and clerics of the Islamic faith have declared a holy jihad (that is a holy war) against the infidels of the world-and that by killing an infidel, which is a command to all Muslims, they are assured of a place in heaven. If that's the case, can you give me the definition of an 'infidel'?" As Mathes recounts, the imam answered immediately: "A non-believer."

It is amazing that the question contains several questions which are implied to be answered positively without actually asking them. By the way, I doubt that there is a jihad against infidels and that killing an infidel gets anyone a place in heaven. I think it is more a retaliation to what is being done to them by so called Christians who do not follow the Bible, any commandments and are only living for their greed, and as a retaliation by what we, the US are doing to them, their countries and their families. If the tables were turned we would fight them with all we have on our soil. And rightfully so. This would be self defense. In addition the question is basically only phrased by an idiot to trick an idiot. I can't imagine an Imam falling for this kind of cheap rhetoric. A member of my Church would definitely not fall for that sheepish question.

"So, let me make sure I have this straight," Mathes said. "All followers of Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not of your faith, so that they can go to Heaven. Is that correct?" The imam sheepishly answered: "Yes."

There was no Imam present.

Mathes, not surprisingly, told the imam he had a problem with being his friend when he, his fellow clerics and followers, wanted to kill him.
"Would you rather have your Allah, who tells you to kill me in order for you to go to Heaven, or my Jesus, who tells me to love you because I am going to Heaven, and He wants you to be there with me?" Mathes asked.
The imam offered no answer.

And again: Rick Mathes ordained in his report a simple inmate of the prison to the role of an Imam. Not being an Imam, the inmate was expectedly helpless in his responses to the false and dumb accusations Mathes made against Islam.

There needs to be more champions like Mathes who are willing to stand against those who spread deceptive teachings. I believe such patriots exist. I also believe that America is not going to cut and run. I believe that we are going to take our stand and defeat the plans of the unrighteous. The future of our nation depends on it.

Unfortunately they are defending the plans of the unrighteous. And I agree that the future of our country depends on locating the unrighteous. That is why GOD founded our Church, the Church of Christian Reformation so we can help these warmongers to find the truth. And here the link to the - I presume - sender of this misguided commentary. At least it was left by the person who posted the message: www.MissionGateMinistry.org

Like Falwell, D. James Kennedy considers the teaching of GOD's true word as deceptive. Understanding GOD's word obviously gets harder the less brains people have to involve in it. It helps if someone is able to read and understand the message of Jesus, the commandments and the word of Paul. It is hard to understand that someone can not understand it. But Facts and brains, as well as compassion are obviously not spread widely on the right wing. If you have to tell lies to be considered a Patriot, GOD has really lost his standing and the people their mind.

Honestly, as much as I appreciate that so many people are reading my sermons and teachings, I am getting tired of defending the Islam against the Right Wing Christian Fascists. I am not a Muslim, I am a Christian who follows GOD's message. My compassion for people and my disgust for lies and deception force me to answer all the stupid and false accusations made against the Islam. So I have to defend a Religion I respect, but of which I am not a member. I would rather focus on Christian topics and questions than on moronic and deceptive writings. But maybe that is why GOD called me in the first place. To tell the Falwell-Christians that they are blaspheming and are not following the words of GOD.

All these hate attacks on Muslims and their faith make sure that we Americans, who really want everything good for our country (they call us Patriots) are busy fighting smoke screens instead of focusing on the real and important issues like rigged elections in our country, the real roots of 9-11, illegal occupation of foreign countries which all happened without any regards of GOD's word and many other issues more.

Amen

GOD and Al-lah are on the case...

2007-08-15T11:51:00.000-07:00

Below you find an article dating from August 15th, which shows that GOD is on the subject too (see my commentary from August 3rd below this one)! A click on the headline leads you to the full length original article on the web site of Fox News where you will also find the right wing commentaries of the usual religious fascists which I omitted here for reasons of irrelevance and their insult to the most basic intelligence and the word of GOD alike. We believe in Compassion, Peace, Love and GOD's Commandments to the world. We are against violence, hypocrites, prejudice and lies. Many of our fellow Americans seemingly forgot all this to blindly serve their religious idols with their phony messages and speeches (see the Trinity Broadcasting Network) who only have one goal: to get to your money and to brainwash any compassion or sound thought out of your mind, so you become their blind follower. Whom you actually follow is clear when you look whom they support. An administration that lives on lies and deceit. And in the end it will surely cost you more that just money. It has already cost the lives of too many of our soldiers (By the way: We support our Troops! We are just against the illegal war started by a president who was not even elected) and of tens of thousands of civilians. GOD is trying to save you from these mistakes, that is why you are reading these lines right now. Keep reading and judge for yourself. I am very surprised that it is the Roman Catholic Church that recently makes my case, even though I am closer to Martin Luther's reforming spirit than to the pope. But unlike the Pseudo-Christian Churches and preachers in the US, the Pope agrees - like me - that Evolution is a fact that does not exclude GOD. GOD created the Heavens and the Earth. He could have done it a few thousand years ago (why should he anyway, when it was already there for Millions of years???), but he obviously did not do it 5,000 or 6,000 years ago (this is the story according to the Jewish calendar and the Old Testament which is basically the history of the Jews) but Millions of years ago. And he created everything else through Evolution - which definitely took longer than several thousand years and is not remotely finished. Some brains still seem to be in the beginning stages... And I don't think that neither the History of the Jews or the Jewish calendar overrules the way GOD actually did it. But back to the way GOD spreads the right thoughts at the right time. GOD Bless America!

Roman Catholic Bishop Wants Everyone to Call God 'Allah'
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
A proposal by a Roman Catholic bishop in the Netherlands that people of all faiths refer to God as "Allah" is not sitting well with the Catholic community. Bishop Martinus Muskens, an outgoing bishop who is retiring in a few weeks from the southern diocese of Breda, said God doesn't care what he is called.
"Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn't we all say that from now on we will name God Allah? ... What does God care what we call him? It is our problem," Muskens told Dutch television. Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington, D.C.-based Islamic civil liberties and advocacy group, backs the idea as a way to help interfaith understanding. "It reinforces the fact that Muslims, Christians and Jews all worship the same God," Hooper told FOXNews.com. "I don't think the name is as important as the belief in God and following God's moral principles. I think that's true for all faiths." Christians who are Arabic speakers speak of Allah when they speak of God, Hooper added.
The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago supports the idea. “I think it will open up doors,” said Janaan Hashim, a spokeswoman for the group representing more than 400,000 Muslim Americans in the Chicago area. “Language is a man-made limitation. I think what God cares about is how we fulfill our purpose in life.” The nation’s largest Catholic civil rights group says Catholics won't get behind the proposal.
Muskens spent eight years in Indonesia, where he said priests used the word "Allah" during Mass. Muskens also has drawn attention for other ideas such as encouraging the hungry to steal bread and offering condoms to combat HIV and AIDS.FOXNews.com's Melissa Drosjack and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

I don't think we should call GOD Al-lah. But I absolutely agree that this is an important thought in these times, where hate and ignorance rules over the word of GOD and outweighs the truth in this world. Islam was born from Judaism and Christianity and Al-lah is GOD. So the message of hate that is being sent from both sides - the extremists of Islam as well as the religious fascists here - has a purpose for them, not for GOD. The same Christians that are judging the Islamic Terrorists are trying to create little Christian suicide bombers in their Jesus camps. GOD does not want Terror! GOD wants Peace and Love. That is why he sent Jesus! To change the message of hate and war, an eye for an eye, into Love and "turn the other cheek". Please listen to the words of the false Prophets in your life and compare them to the facts and to GOD's word! By the way: I also agree with Muskens' encouraging the hungry to steal bread and offering condoms to combat HIV and AIDS!

Jesus Christ or Allah?

2007-08-03T15:55:00.000-07:00

Hate mail distracts from illegal occupation of Iraq and other real issues

This is a brief commentary about a hate email that is being sent from very coldly calculating people to many ignorant people who actually think they are doing the world a service in spreading a warning.

The real goal of the initial sender is to distract as many people as possible from the real issues like the illegal war and occupation that is going on, that Terrorists are only mentioned close to elections (and only spring in action when asked to by the right people in power), that most of the "insurgents" in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia (Bush's only friends in this world) and not from other countries like Iran, that 1 Million valid votes for a Democratic president were not counted due to illegal Republican intervention, that the Katrina victims are still in peril (but most of them are black, so the Government does not really care) and many more issues - too many to mention here.

Illegal Immigration is another one of the “pressing Subjects” that suddenly arose - just in time to distract from all this and the illegal occupation of a foreign, sovereign country with the only goal to line the pockets of the power elite of the US. But here is another issue: false information is spread about a religion and the believers in this religion. Here the chain hate mail in all it’s glory:

Jesus Christ or Allah?

This is a true story and the author, Rick Mathes, is a well-known leader in prison ministry. The man who walks with God always gets to his destination. If you have a pulse you have a purpose.(IMPORTANT TO READ!) The Muslim religion is the fastest growing religion per capita in the United States, especially in the minority races!!!

Allah or The Lord Jesus Christ? . By Rick Mathes

Last month I attended my annual training session that's required for maintaining my state prison security clearance. During the training session there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslim faiths, who explained each of their beliefs.I was particularly interested in what the Islamic Imam had to say. The Imam gave a great presentation of the basics of Islam, complete with a video.After the presentations, time was provided for questions and answers.
When it was my turn, I directed my question to the Imam and asked: "Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that most Imams and clerics of Islam have declared a holy jihad [Holy war] against the infidels of the world and, that by killing an infidel, (which is a command to all Muslims) they are assured of a place in heaven. If that's the case, can you give me the definition of an infidel?"
There was no disagreement with my statements and, without hesitation, he replied, "Non-believers!"
I responded, "So, let me make sure I have this straight. All followers of Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not of your faith so they can have a place in heaven. Is that correct?"
The expression on his face changed from one of authority and command to that of "a little boy who had just been caught with his hand in the cookie jar."
He sheepishly replied, "Yes."
I then stated, "Well, sir, I have a real problem trying to imagine Pope John Paul commanding all Catholics to kill those of your faith or Dr. Stanley ordering all Protestants to do the same in order to guarantee them a place in heaven!"
The Imam was speechless! I continued, "I also have problem with being your 'friend' when you and your brother clerics are telling your followers to kill me! Let me ask you a question. Would you rather have your Allah, who tells you to kill me in order for you to go to heaven, or my Jesus who tells me to love you because I am going to heaven and He wants you to be there with me?"
You could have heard a pin drop as the Imam hung his head in shame. Needless to say, the organizers and/or promoters of the 'Diversification' training seminar were not happy with Rick's way of dealing with the Islamic Imam and exposing the truth about the Muslims' beliefs.
In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. To elect the President! I think everyone in the U.S. should be required to read this, but with the Liberal justice system, liberal media and the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us send it on! This is your chance to make a difference...Please pass this on to all your e-mail contacts

And here my answer to the addressees on the mailing list:

Here some info from "Break the chain" and Snopes.com http://snopes.com/politics/religion/allah.asp. And may God bless you all!
The veracity of the claims made in it is the author's to prove. Unfortunately, Rick Mathes told BreakTheChain.org that he will not provide further details because, in his words, "I fear retribution - I have a 20 year prison ministry to protect."
Third-party accounts of the events in question paint a significantly different picture than the one offered by Mathes. Tim Kniest, spokesman for the Missouri Department of Corrections, told the Lee news service that the training session in question was for prison volunteers and took place in a corrections facility in Fulton, MO. However, according to Kniest, prison officials' recollection of events that day differ from Mathes' in several aspects:
Religious leaders representing faiths followed by current inmates were invited to present.
The presenter on Islam was not an Imam, but rather a Muslim inmate who was pressed into presenting after no Imam could be arranged.
Prison officials confirm that the Muslim inmate was asked a few questions that he was unable to answer, but none along the lines of those suggested by Mr. Mathes.
This essay falls short of being the proof that Islam's leaders cannot deny the violent nature of their own religion that many would have it be. Since both sides of the argument have recognized that the person Mathes was questioning was not an Islamic official nor a recognized expert in the religion, his actions should not be considered indicative of all Muslims. Break this chain.
If one is willing to ignore history, context, and actual practice when quoting scripture and other religious texts, followers of just about any religion can be painted as uniformly fanatic and intolerant. Consider the following recasting of the piece quoted above:

The minister gave a great presentation of the basics of Christianity, complete with a video. After the presentations time was provided for questions and answers.
When it was my turn I directed my question to the minister and asked: "Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that in Exodus 35:2 the Bible instructs Christians to kill everyone who works on the sabbath: 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.'"
There was no disagreement with my statement.
I responded, "So, let me make sure I have this straight. God has commanded Christians to kill everyone who works on Sunday, even Muslims and other non-Christians?"
The expression on his face changed from one of authority and command to that of a little boy who had just gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
He sheepishly replied, "Yes."
I then said, "Well, sir, I have a real problem trying to imagine the Prophet Muhammad commanding all Muslims to kill those of your faith for not observing the Muslim sabbath."The minister was speechless. I continued, "I also have problem with your Bible commanding all Christians to stone to death anyone who criticizes your God, as detailed in Leviticus 24:16.
Let me ask you a question . . . would you rather have your God who tell[s] you to kill me in order to go to heaven or my Allah who tells me to love you because I am going to heaven and wants you to be with me?"You could have heard a pin drop as the minister hung his head in shame.

I know you are honest and will forward this to the same people who received the original from you. Thanks, God bless you and Amen.

Let us take a look at the goal of the email: The Muslim religion is the fastest growing religion per capita in the United States, especially in the minority races!!! This sentence alone already shows why it was written. Hate against "minority races". The KKK could not have done a better job. Hitler set the stage in a similar manner against the Jews that he killed. And I know that the people who send this mail to other people are Christians. But how does this hate work in accord with the word of GOD. And I mean the commandments 'You shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor" and "Love your enemies and Pray for those who persecute you" and the teachings of Paul. The Old Testament is the history of the Jews, nice to read but not really our business. It is sad and amazing at the same time how ignorant and eager some people are to spread lies and deception for people who really mean serious harm to their fellow humans. By the way: the Question Jesus Christ or Allah is not really a valid question. Allah and GOD are the same. GOD tells us there is only one GOD and so does the Qur'an which is based on the Jewish faith as well as on Christianity. It is the same GOD we are talking about. Al-llah is GOD and GOD is Al-llah.

Pope Benedict challenges Churches world wide

2007-07-11T12:12:00.000-07:00

The Pope is the head of a Jewish Church and claims that his Catholic Church, which teaches GOD's message to the Jews and not to the Christians, is the only true church

According to a BBC report on July 10, 2007, Pope Benedict has approved a new text asserting that Christian denominations outside Roman Catholicism are not true Churches in the full sense of the word. The document, issued by a Vatican watchdog, has been criticised as offensive by some Protestants. The text was written by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by Pope Benedict before his election as Pope. It states that Christ established only one Church here on earth. Other Christian denominations, it argues, cannot be called Churches in the proper sense because they cannot trace their bishops back to Christ's original apostles.

The argument Pope Benedict makes is typical for the catholic church which has committed unspeakable crimes, mostly crimes against GOD's word and the teachings of Jesus through the centuries and on orders of their "Bishops and Popes".

Martin Luther, who initially caused the true believers in GOD to turn away from the catholic church because of the criminal and blasphemic acts of the Catholic Church, criticized among other things the lies, deception, violation of GOD's law and the absolution for money in the church. So the Pope should be very quiet about other churches, that fortunately do not share this criminal history.

The Churches that follow the Apostle Paul ARE the real Churches of GOD, not only because they turned away from the crimes of the Catholic Church, but also because they are NOT built on an Apostle for the Jews (Peter and the other Apostles were sent to preach the Kingdom of GOD to the Jews, Paul is the Apostle who preaches the salvation for the Gentiles (non-Jews) and the Body of Christ) but on the Word of GOD for the Body of Christ (Jews and Gentiles who accept Jesus Christ as their savior) and simply because they were reformed Churches (see rightly dividing the Bible). On the other hand, many of these Churches also forgot GOD and violate Jesus Christ's Word in many aspects. So is it not enough to pay lip service to GOD's commandments and claim Jesus to be your savior - you also have to keep and live them as an example, if you are looking forward to salvation.

So it is ridiculous that Pope Benedict claims that the Catholic Church is the only true Church for the Christians. The Catholic Church is the Church for the Jews. Apostle Paul's Church, like our Church of Christian Reformation, is the true Church for the Christians, exactly as the Bible confirms.

Scooter Libby walked free today

2007-07-02T17:14:00.000-07:00

Bush crime family still ignores laws and court verdicts

When I heard the statement from Alex Jones: "If you liked Hitler, you are going to love Bush", I was still in doubt that it could be this bad. Time and events convinced me, that Alex Jones was right several years ago, predicting what would happen, and even being conservative in his prediction of future events. If you stand by without trying to stop a crime, you are part of it. Many people are trying to tell America what is really going on, but as Hitler said, the lie only has to be big enough for people to believe it.

And the worst part: they use GOD to sell the lie. But back to Scooter Libby: even though I expected this traitor to walk free sooner or later before he actually has to go to prison (July 2, 2007) - actually I expected a full pardon (which will come at a later time now) - it still hurts that traitors of the United States are walking free in spite of their crimes.

High treason is still on the list with capital punishment - instead the Republican criminals just walk free. Paris Hilton's jail sentence seems more than harsh looking at this unbelievable deed from a US president. It is also hard to believe that all the crimes that were committed by US-politicians who are currently in power will be pardoned or just denied. It does not start with the crimes in wire tapping and it does not stop with falsifying election results in favor of the Republicans.

If the Democrats were not "on the take" they would stop all these crimes. They see them, but they don't intervene. It is just a crying shame. Bush decided today to let Scooter scoot right after meeting with his "friend" Vladimir Putin. Bush still insists to set up and aim new missiles at Russia. What would you do if you were the Russian President? Allow the madman to aim his missiles at your country? Probably not. And that is why Bush insists on the new Rockets: see the older blog...

Bush and Cheney are looking for a new war

2007-06-06T12:17:00.000-07:00

Who will be the victim this time? Russia or IRAN?

The war in IRAQ is almost over, now the Republicans and Big Money behind the scenes are trying to have the US-Military occupy the country for the next 50 years. So, to keep the Billions and the blood flowing, Big Money in the US needs new wars that can not be stopped that easily. So they are having Bush and Cheney looking for new opportunities for bloodshed and more Billions before they either declare a state of emergency after they lose the next elections or actually have to step down (June 6, 2007).CNN. U.S. President George W. Bush risked escalating a rumbling row with Russia over U.S. plans for a Europe-based missile defense system by warning that democratic reforms in Russia had been "derailed." In an earlier press conference, Bush said Moscow had nothing to fear from U.S. missile shield plans, which would see bases placed in European countries once within the Kremlin's sphere of influence including the Czech Republic and Poland. "Russia's not our enemy," Bush said, adding that the defense shield was meant to target "rogue nations," not escalate a new Cold War standoff. "My message will be, Vladimir - I call him Vladimir - that you shouldn't fear a missile defense system," Bush said. "As a matter of fact, why don't you cooperate with us ... Please send your generals over to see how such a system would work. Send your scientists. Let us have the ability to discuss this issue in an open forum."

Putin has said the deployment threatens Russian territory and will "turn Europe into a powder keg and stuff it with new types of weapons." The Kremlin leader raised the stakes over the weekend, warning that he may aim nuclear weapons at European targets unless Washington abandons its plans. "If this does not happen, then we will withdraw any responsibility for our retaliatory measures because it wasn't us who initiated a new round of arms race development in Europe," Putin said.

Imagine that Russia would set up a missile shield against the US in Canada. Would we stand idly by? The US started the IRAQ war for financial reasons and with this the US have become the muggers of the modern world - we ignore Global warming for financial reasons for the benefit of the richest and they also need a new war to sell weapons and keep the Gas prices high. Why does anyone believe we would not start a second war? This article will be in the archives for later review and my desperate call: I told you so, why don't you listen, why don't you look for yourself?

It is amazing that everything in current US politics is so predictable and transparent, and that hardly anybody sees it. The Oil Industry got the first gift from the Bush/Cheney Corporation that sold out America and is still cashing in with Gas prices that are higher than double of what would be economically realistic and morally acceptable. Ordered by their other commanders in weapons Industry, war suppliers and the contractors, who cashed in but are still not satisfied with the Billions their two puppets handed them so far, Bush and Cheney have been looking for a new war since a while.

Vladimir Putin was smart enough to ignore Cheney's verbal attacks when Cheney visited Lithuania several month ago. So the first attempt to start a war with Russia had failed. Now the second attempt is to set up Rockets which threaten Russia. And this might be a challenge which the Russian President Putin might not be able to fend off that easily - purely in the interest of his people and possible public opinion. And to make it impossible for Putin to react otherwise, Bush and his partners in crime published the new Rocket threat for Eastern Europe as widely as they could. The other possible next victim of US aggression is IRAN whose President claims to use the nuclear facilities for peaceful purposes. The only country who has been starting wars recently and is funding a bloody occupation is the US. How would you call a country that would attack the US, occupy us, randomly kick in doors at night and search your house? And how would you call the people who do this in Los Angeles, New York, Dallas and Washington D.C.?

Liberators or Terrorists?
Even though Scooter Libby was sentenced to only 30 months in jail for selling out a covert member of the CIA, his commander Dick Cheney should be on trial. This is a crime of high treason and the question is why the traitors are not in Guantanamo Bay being interrogated exactly as they requested by law and court-martialed according to the severity of their crime.

In a related story: The Democratic Party ignored and still ignores the will of the American people and disappointed in every aspect so far.

Habeas Corpus, which means that our government has to explain why it's holding a person in custody, has been taken away by Bush and his crime family under the false pretenses of terrorism. The only terrorism this, our country has seen so far was government ordered. Financed by the United Arab Emirates and carried out by some of their men and most of the terrorist came from Saudi Arabia, the President Bush's closest (and only) friends.

As a 'thank you' he tried to give the United Arab Emirates the control over our most important ports. This was stopped by a public outcry not to give our ports to the terrorists. But back to habeas corpus: the reinstating of this and other essential civil rights for all American citizens should have been the first action of the Democrats during their first 100 hours of power. Another missed opportunity for the opportunists.

Democratic Party betrays their voters

2007-05-23T14:19:00.000-07:00

The Democratic Party of the United States voted for the war in IRAQ again today (May 23, 2007), and with this vote supports and takes part in the greed of the current government. The Democrats who in recent weeks disclaimed "If I had known then, what I know now, I would not have voted for the war", decided to - this time knowingly and consciously - to entirely disregard the will of the majority of US voters who had put them in power in order to end the war and to stop the corruption. A task the Democrats are obviously not able to perform. To the voters who depended on them, the "Party of pretend", which the Democrats (or are they paid by the Republican backers for this too?) currently are, Benedict Arnold appears as an honorable man.

By the way, when the unsuspecting Democrats happily voted for the war the first time, I and most of the world outside the US knew that there was NO reason for this war. How is it possible that my intelligence was better than a senators? Higher, yes, easily. But better? Should they not be telling the whole truth?

It is sad that there is no party left in the US to have the conscience to do the right thing. A path which the majority of the US population clearly sees is seemingly not the one for their elected representatives. Whom are these politicians representing? Oil Companies and their government?

The gas prices are already two Dollars per gallon higher than they should be and whoever does not fight this rape of the US population might think about if the reward from Big Oil is more important than the people who voted them into office. I hope that the American people do not forget who is selling them out and give their clear answer at the next elections. It seems to make no difference who is currently in power. Politicians are fighting and abusing their own people. A sign of the times.

Bush's Gang: Worst administration in history!

2007-05-19T12:26:00.000-07:00

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (May 19, 2007) - Former President Carter says President Bush's administration is "the worst in history" in international relations, taking aim at the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy. Carter was quoted Saturday in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette as saying "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history."

...and we could not agree more.

Falwell - He's dead. Good.

2007-05-15T14:27:00.000-07:00

One of the people who gave GOD a bad name in America and the Christian faith all over the world, Rev. Jerry Falwell, died today at the age of 73. (May 15, 2007).

A caller at a radio station put it this way by quoting Redd Foxx: "You shall speak good about dead people. He is dead. Good." If you really want to get sick, click here for Falwell Quotes. We don't believe in Hell, but for the sake of the many people he has hurt, I hope GOD makes an exception: Jerry Falwell: "I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity." Don't we all wish you were right - only for your own, personal fate - in this one instance...

"Every politician who voted FOR the war, should not run for any office. Because I - and the rest of the world outside the US - knew that there was NO reason to start this war except for lining the pockets of the richest.

How can a Senator claim to know less than me and the rest of the world about politics and still keep their job? By the way, my dear fellow Pastors and Americans: GOD does NOT like war. Please review the commandments and remember: Love your neighbor, you shall not kill, lie, steal...! Then you know why there is NO reason to support the crimes of the current government."

Bush is trying to create a God of War - Contractors still want more

2007-03-23T15:29:00.000-07:00

As the only winners in Bush's Iraq war, Halliburton and other contractors have not satisfied their lust for money just as of yet. The President announced today that he will veto the bill which is supposed to bring our troops home, to stop the killing of our troops and Iraqi civilians and also to stop the spending - or better - handing over of our social security to Halliburton and other companies.

How can anyone keep killing Americans for no apparent reason, keep the Oil prices high as ever, despise an entire nation - ours with more than 70 percent IS opposed to the war, fire every intelligent opponent of his war in the military field and refer to the nitwit Yea-sayers he replaced them with, without having our nation stand up and tell him that he works for us, not we for him. Then he replaces all US attorneys who show that they have a backbone with his own spineless devout creatures. Hitler, who was by the way financed by our President's Grandfather, has laid the groundwork for the people behind George W. The attack on the judicial system is - as many other things - is modeled after a blueprint of the 1930's.

GOD is not the heathen GOD of war that the President, many Televangelists, Pastors and Priests try to make Him to serve their own agenda or to indulge their ignorance. The killing has to be stopped. GOD does NOT condone theft, lies or murder.

You are being deceived!

2007-03-11T12:37:00.000-07:00

If you look at what the politicians are doing and then look at what they are claiming, you will find a huge discrepancy.

Look at GOD's word: It is not about what you say you do, it is about what you actually do. Circumcised actually means abiding by God's rules.

[1Co 7:18-19] Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

And the commandments include: Do not steal, do not lie, do not kill. And if you look at the current Government, what do they do? Please look at them and form your own opinion. How can people who violate ALL of GOD's commandments be doing GOD's work? They can't. How can people who promote the breaking of GOD's commandments in promoting this Government be doing GOD's work? They can't either. Why don't you question those people? It is your future as well as it is mine. If someone claims that GOD told him to have more than 3,000 young Americans killed in an unnecessary war, why do you believe him?

[Rom 1:17-18] For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written. The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.

It is almost unbelievable how easily the Government can deceive most of our country, invade another country, rake in all the money they can get their hands on and leave us - about 98 percent of the population here in our beloved USA - with nothing. The government which consists almost in its entirety of Oil managers walks away with everything else.

The bird flu scare was initiated be the US media by orders of the US Government to give fellow warrior Donald Rumsfeld, who owned enough stock in the manufacturing company of the vaccine to make about one Million Dollars in three months on the side, a little gift. On top of it and to add some more unnecessary scare, the fairytale network ABC produced a so called "docu-drama" to suck up to the Government in which about half of the US population dies in a Bird flu epidemic, which according to experts is a scenario that easily measures up to fairytale dimensions. But - no fairytale - it made Rumsfeld an even richer man. Another "docu-drama" fairytale by ABC about 9-11 was criticized by some honest experts who pulled out of the project because of the lack of truth that was included. The network lost the rest of credibility in the news sector on top of it.

To look into 9-11 it is recommended to watch the pilot episode of the "Lone Gunman", a spin-off of the "X-Files" which seems to contain more truth than any of the ABC-Government co-productions. Whenever ABC speaks about news, I since can't avoid a smile. Most other networks are not better either, just not that obvious. If you like trustworthy news, watch the BBC.

But back to our fearless leaders' revenues and their service to their - our - country. Where the rest of the US-Government makes the money is obvious at every Gas station in the US. Even though the price of Oil on the world market is lower than before, the Gas prices are sky high again - and rising. The Oil companies refuse to admit that they are pocketing as much money as possible as long as they can do it encouraged and protected by the happily participating government, which is protecting its own interests. They call themselves Christians, and claim GOD as their advisor. What do you think Jesus would have done with them?

Let us educate our children, so they can see through politicians' smoke screens and hope that they will see clearly enough so nothing like this can happen again. We don't vote for the Presidency, but we vote for "American Idol". We should reconsider our priorities.

Amen