They Landed With the Pilgrims

Who Was in the Boat with the Pilgrims

In observance of thanksgiving, we always talk about the pilgrims and the founding of the country. I’d like to talk about that. But, unlike school, I deal in historical fact, not fiction. In grade school we are told that the first settlers in what is now the U.S. were pilgrims. Clearly pilgrims are God fearing people. However, Christians in England were not the norm. And, these same pilgrims were dissenters to the norm. Pilgrims did flea for religious persecution. But, the pilgrims were definitely not alone. In fact the pilgrims didn’t found anything. This is what schools don’t teach.

The founding of the U.S. was not done by pilgrims and the pilgrims were not the first settlers. In fact the first founder and settler was Sir Walter Raleigh [pictured right] who was anything but a pilgrim, and quite godless. The first people to found and settle in America were occultists. In those days there were many, many occult groups. In fact they all still exist to this day. Who were these occultists? Ah, you might know one or even two, but most you don’t know at all.

Let’s fast forward a bit in American history. The first 3rd political party in the U.S. was the Anti-Free mason party. It was huge. It was formed after the death of Captain William Morgan [pictured left], who wrote a book exposing the Free Mason, who controlled the government from behind the scenes. He was murdered for revealing their secrets, since it is an oath they must keep secret to their dieing day. This party later went on to become the Whig party, which you might recognize. The reason this party was so large, was because people were mad as hell that secret societies were controlling the government and they were not going to stand for it.

Let’s go back a bit. Sir Francis Bacon wrote a paper calling for a global overhaul of the whole world. We’re told in elementary school that the colonists hated the British and everyone wanted the American Revolution. That is a lie. The masons instigated the Boston tea party, lead by Paul Revere, a very prominent mason. And, the masons picked up on Sir Francis Bacon’s lead and started the revolution. You must remember, no one could conceive, back in those days, of going against the king or the crown. All the common man knew was the crown. In fact, if you said “let’s revolt” against the king, the common man couldn’t even conceive of who would replace the king, besides a king. So, the masons instigated, lead and founded the U.S.

The masons were not alone however. Benjamin Franklin is the most prominent occultist that everyone knows. He was a leading member of the Hellfire club. The Hellfire club was a group of men who gathered to have mass orgies and worship Satan. “Do what thou wilt will be the whole of the law”. A motto of the Hellfire club. You might also recognize the name Aleister Crowley, a later member of the Hellfire club, who was a Free Mason and a Rosicrucian. Ben Franklin frequently met with Sir Francis Dashwood. The Hellfire clubs members were littered with British aristocracy and leaders. Ben Franklin was named “member 72” and “Moses” by British intelligence of that time. Is it a coincidence that the revolution occurred and won? The secret societies worked to undermine King George. [ the same happened with Kennedy and the cia with the bay of pigs, trying to assassinate Fidel Castro; Reagan and the CIA with the Iran contra supplying arms to the contras; G.W Bush and the CIA telling him Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction ]

These are the people that landed here first: the Masons; the Hellfire club; the Rosicrucians. The pilgrim did not land till later. In fact, the first person to land, Sir Walter Raleigh, to found a colony, was a mason and rushed to found his colony on a “lay line”, which the masons believe gives power to buildings built on these lay lines. [ yes more occult evil shenanigans ]

I keep talking about the masons, but perhaps you know nothing about the masons. Or, you might believe that it doesn’t matter that masons founded the country and the first colony. But, you would be completely wrong. All American lodges owe their loyalty to one lodge. That lodge is located in England. America wasn’t a symbol of freedom, but it was to be “The New Atlantis”. So from the very start America was an occult experiment. What is more scary about the masons is that 95% of the masons have no idea what the masons are really about. They are masons in name only. They are oblivious to the goings on of their own organization. There is an inner circle of masons, to whom all secrets are only revealed. And, what is that secret? That they are satanists. When you know that, then understanding the King of England, as head of the Anglican Church, becomes clear why they would encourage the colonist to revolt against the crown, or king. It wasn’t for some high notion of freedom and all of that hogwash. They were revolting against the church. Remember I said no one in that time could conceive of revolting against the king. It would take quite a unique person to think of revolution. For a mason though, it would be easy to think of and understand revolt against the king [church].

Some of you might not believe the mason are, at the core, satanists. Let’s look at the masonic symbols. The statue of liberty is a mason symbol. It is a combination of the great colossus in its form, but the features of it are that of the goddess Ishtar, of Babylon, the Mother of Harlots and the goddess of Freedom/Liberty.

“Statue of Liberty – Semiramis

The Statue of Liberty is another Brotherhood symbol highlighting the lighted torch. The Statue of Liberty is actually the Statue of Liberties – the liberties perpetrated on the American people by the Brotherhood. There she stands on her island in New York Harbour holding her torch of freedom and Americans believe she is the symbol of their liberty in the Land of the Free. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Statue of Liberty was given to New York by French Freemasons and her mirror image stands on an island in the River Seine in Paris These statues of liberty are representations of Queen Semiramis and Isis et al, with the rays of the Sun around her head. The ancients symbolized the Sun in this way. And they are not holding the torch of liberty, but the torch of the illuminated ones, the reptilian Elite. The Statue of Liberty is a Brotherhood symbol which says: We control this country and we are telling you so, but you are too stupid to see it!”

No figure in American life is more prominent than our own dollar. And, we have all looked at it and probably been puzzled why it looks the way it does. Everyone can immediately identify the pyramid on the dollar as not being American, nor christian, nor of pilgrim decent. Every American dollar is full of satanic symbols. We are literally trading with the currency of the beast. Let’s look at the dollar for a second and identify the symbols for you. You don’t understand the symbols because you, the profane [non-believers or non masons], were not meant to understand them.

This is the Great Seal of the United States of America. It was designed by the Freemasons and contains a mass of symbolism that the profane (non masons) are not to understand. This article will once and for all prove that the Seal is a Masonic design. Have you ever asked the question ‘Why is there a Pyramid on our $1 note”? The religion of Freemasonry and some of it’s mysteries have descended from ancient Egypt whose mysteries descended from ancient Babylon. The Pyramid has of old been a fascination of Freemasons. It is a pagan temple of Satan worship. Aleister Crowley, Freemason and chief Satanist of the 20th Century performed a satanic ritual in the Kings Chamber. The Masonic founded and controlled cults of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons have also adored the Great Pyramid.

First of all I will interpret the Latin words on the seal. ‘Annuit Coeptis’ means ‘Announcing The Birth Of’ and ‘Novus Ordo Seclorum’ means ‘New World Order’. So therefore it says ‘Announcing the birth of the New World Order’. The date in roman numerals is 1776, the year the modern Illuminati was formed and also the year of American independence. The Latin ‘E Pluribus Unum’ means ‘One out of many’ which is the foundation of the New World Order’s plan to unify the world’s governments, religions and money systems into one so the world can be controlled.

The capstone has not come down on the Pyramid. This means that the plan is not complete. Only when the New World Order is established upon all nations and the world leader is enthroned the plan will be complete. On the obverse is an eagle whose dexter wing has thirty- two feathers, the number of ordinary degrees in Scottish Rite Freemasonry. The sinister wing has thirty-three feathers, the additional feather corresponding to the Thirty-Third Degree of the Scottish Rite conferred for outstanding Masonic service. The tail feathers number nine, the number of degrees in the Chapter, Council, and Commandery of the York Rite of Freemasonry. Notice the stars above the eagle’s head forms a hexagram the most evil of all witchcraft symbols.

But, even more let’s see other symbols on the dollar:

• 13 leaves in the olive branch
• 13 bars and stripes in the shield
• 13 arrows in the right claw
• 13 letters in the “E Pluribus Unum” on the ribbon
• 13 stars in the green crest above
• 32 long feathers on its right wing representing the 32º in Freemasonry
• 13 granite stones in the Pyramid. (The 13 layers represent the 13 Illuminati bloodlines)
• 13 letters in Annuit Coeptis

Even the very word mason is satanic:

• Ancient
• Order
• Nobles
• Mystic
• Shrine

Perhaps you’re not yet convinced yet that mason worship Satan. Maybe a few more excerpts will help.

It should also be noted that the Eagle has 32 feathers right wing, but 33 in its left wing. The 32 feathers representing the number of ordinary degrees of the Scottish Rite, and the 33 feathers representing the 33º of Freemasonry. The tail feathers number 9, the number of degrees in the York Rite. The eagle itself is a prominent icon of Masonry, being used extensively in the Scottish Rite. Looking just above the eagles head you will see 13 pentagrams within a cloud. The pentagrams are arranged in the shape of a hexagram – or greater Seal of Solomon. The hexagram is a powerful tool used by pagans to invoke Satan. It is also the sign of Anti Christ with 6 points, 6 angles and 6 planes (666). To the sorcerer, the hexagram is a powerful tool to invoke Satan, and is a sign of Antichrist. (6 points, 6 angles, 6 planes – 666) The 5 pointed pentagrams multiplied by the 13 stars equals 65, the same cabalistic number as mentioned above. This makes one wonder with whom or what, we are to dwell in unity! The eagle replaced the Phoenix in 1841 as the national bird. The Phoenix has been a Brotherhood symbol since ancient Egypt. The Phoenix was adopted by the Founding Fathers (Freemasons) for use on the reverse of the first official seal of the United States after a design proposed by Charles Thompson, Secretary of the Continental Congress.

So Scottish Rites have 32 degrees and Freemasons has 33 degrees. ho do they really serve, instead whom do they teach the underling masons about, remember the 95% who don’t know any better.

“Lucifer, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors intolerable, blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish souls? Doubt it not!” [Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, p. 321, 19th Degree of Grand Pontiff; Red Emphasis added] Masons from the first initiation which is the first degree are urged to mightily “seek the Light!” The average Mason is continually saying that he is “seeking the Light,” and will spend his entire life “moving toward the Light.”

So the masons who are still in the 95% are sort of misled all their life. This isn’t to say that perhaps you could have 95% of an organization be completely Christian and the top echelon be satanists and therefor the organization is basically Christian. The argument that there are a few bad apples is naive. The top 5% order around the other 95% and they are very useful and serve their purpose. Also, how else could you hide satan worship but in plain sight?

For instance, and this might be unknown even to its members, and I’m sure a few million people will hate me for this statement but, the Mormon church and the Jehova’s Witness church are both controlled by the Masons. Only the top echelon of each of those organizations know this. I think it is wide spread knowledge that the Mormons have and inner circle. However, it is not widely known what this inner circle believes. Remember that John Smith was a contemporary of the early settlers. So, yes I am saying, according to my research, the inner circles of both Mormons and J.W.s are satanic and controlled by satanists. In fact the similarities between Satanist, Mason and Mormon Satanic Ceremonies are nearly identical.

The founders of both “faiths,” the Mormons and Jehovah’s witnesses, were of the Illuminati bloodline. Charles Taze Russell, who founded the Watchtower Society (Jehovah Witnesses), was of the Illuminati Russell bloodline, which also founded the infamous Skull and Bones Society at Yale University. Charles Taze Russell was a Satanist, a pedophile according to his wife, and a friend of the Rothschilds. Indeed it was the Rothschilds who funded the Jehovah’s Witness operation into being, along with other Illuminati bankers, through “contributions” by organizations like the Rothschild-controlled B’nai B’rith. This was proved in a court of law in 1922. One of the key people involved in this was Frank Goldman who later became President of B’nai B’rith. Why would an organization set up (in theory) to help Jewish people and promote the Jewish faith, be funding into existence the Jehovah’s Witnesses??? I think the name Rothschild answers the question. Russell was also a high degree Freemason and Knights Templar.

I have personally met Mormons and tried to discuss their history: their view on Blacks [ among other things they believe Black people are the offspring of Cain and that the mark of Caine, or curse of Caine is our skin and therefor we are damned throughout eternity ]; women [ weren’t allowed in the temple at first and you could have multiple wives, including pedophilia ]; their view on Jesus Christ [ which they only recently started to profess to believe in, which none of their younger members are even aware of ]

The Masons, Rosicrucians, Hellfire club and others all founded this country. They ran the country from behind the scenes and instigated the revolution against the king. They ran the government, and briefly when it was found out they were ousted. People have short memories and so they took over again. To this day, these same secret societies, in fact even more, run this country.

Everyone is sort of shocked at why congress won’t do the right thing. Everyone lives in this dream world and say “oh they’re paid off by big corporations.” That excuse might work for … 25% of congress. Trust me, you can’t get 200 people to agree on a charade for a couple of centuries. So the real problem or issue isn’t about being bribed through campaign finance to push through legislation. It is far more sinister than just that. When I say there are occult secret societies, I’m not saying there are a few that control the government, there are literally over a hundred secret societies.

The mafia, you knew who they were, and they actually looked out for people, because at the end of the day, its the people that they got their money from. These secret societies are filled with people that are convinced of their own godhood. These societies are convinced they know better. These people are convinced that the world would be a better place if they were in control. These people are convinced that the world would be a better place if 80% of you were dead. With that being said, is it any wonder why no legislation is ever geared to help the average American? Even seemingly good legislation is used to destroy people. For instance welfare is written to destroy marriages, relationships and the family unit. Illegal immigration is used to destroy the lower class worker, the student workers and the migrant workers. They are all out of jobs because of illegal immigration is unchecked.

Your school didn’t teach you this. Your school told you kids tales. They don’t teach anything in schools. There is no research, no facts, no delving into any subject.

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Dow Falls Due a Rally in the Dollar on Thursday Nov 19

We’ve Tried a Weak Dollar, How About a Strong Dollar Now

AP News – A stronger dollar and more discouraging signs of a subdued economic recovery triggered a broad sell-off in stocks. Major indexes tumbled more than 1 percent Thursday, including the Dow Jones Industrials, which fell about 133 points.

Energy and material stocks showed the biggest losses as a jump in the dollar sent commodity prices tumbling. Meanwhile, an analyst’s downgrade of the chip sector pulled technology shares sharply lower.

Analysts said the dollar was the biggest force behind Thursday’s trading, as it has been in recent months. A stronger dollar makes commodities more expensive to foreign buyers, and companies that produce the commodities make less money from them.

“There might be a little fear out there about dollar strengthening, as well as some natural profit-taking opportunities,” said Dan Cook, senior market analyst at IG Markets Inc. in Chicago. “We’ve been on an amazing run.”

The stronger dollar also makes U.S. goods and services more expensive, and theoretically harder to sell, overseas. And U.S. companies that do business abroad make less money when their earnings are translated from other countries’ currencies into dollars.

The latest data on the economy gave investors little incentive to hold on to stocks.

A private forecast of economic activity rose less than expected in October, signaling slow growth next year. The Conference Board said its index of leading economic indicators, which forecasts activity over the next six months, rose 0.3 percent last month, less than the 0.5 percent gain economists anticipated. The index climbed 1 percent in September.

There was also disappointing news on housing. The Mortgage Bankers Association said more than 14 percent of American homeowners with a mortgage were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of September. The industry group’s quarterly report fed fears that a nascent recovery in the housing market could be upended by a continuing surge in loan defaults, especially as unemployment keeps rising.

Earlier Thursday, a report from the Labor Department said the number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment insurance was unchanged last week at 505,000, in line with expectations. But the figure remains above the level that would indicate the economy is adding jobs.

At midday, the Dow fell 132.03, or 1.3 percent, to 10,294.28. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 17.63, or 1.6 percent, to 1,092.17, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 40.77, or 1.9 percent, to 2,152.37.

The day’s trade marked a shift out of riskier assets and back into safe havens like the dollar and Treasurys. After amassing significant gains during an eight-month rally in stocks, investors don’t want to take too many risks going into the end of the year.

“Large money managers, going into the end of the year, are looking to protect their gains and are shifting assets,” said Adam Gould, senior portfolio manager at Direxion Funds in New York.

For much of this year, the dollar has been declining as the Federal Reserve’s record-low interest rates enable investors to borrow cheaply and encourage them to invest in assets other than cash. Commodity producers and other companies with major export operations have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the dollar’s decline.

Now, investors are starting to wonder whether the dollar’s decline has run its course and that other markets have gotten a little overheated considering the challenges the economy still faces, like high unemployment.

Bonds rallied as stocks fell. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.33 percent from 3.37 percent late Wednesday.

The ICE Futures US dollar index, which measures the dollar against other major currencies, gained 0.4 percent, weighing on commodities prices. Gold fell, while oil prices dropped $1.72 to $77.86 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

After stocks breached new 13-month highs earlier this week, investors want to see more concrete evidence that the economic recovery is firmly on track. High unemployment still has investors worried that the massive gains in stocks since early March are overdone.

The market’s losses on Thursday added to a modest decline the day before when stocks slipped on a drop in home construction and worse-than-expected forecasts from technology companies.

More than five stocks fell for every one that rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 476.6 million shares, compared with 463.1 million at the same time on Wednesday.

In other trading, the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 14.63, or 2.4 percent, to 585.52.

Overseas, Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 0.5 percent, Germany’s DAX index lost 1.5 percent, and France’s CAC-40 slid 1.8 percent. Earlier Thursday, Japan’s Nikkei stock average fell 1.3 percent.

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Is the Stock Market Closing Higher Due to Trading or the Weakness of the Dollar?

Dollar Value vs Stock Prices

AP News – U.S. stocks closed higher for the second consecutive day, helped by strength in shares of commodity-related companies even as major retailers said they remain cautious ahead of the holiday season. At the end of a session that lacked conviction, major stock indexes managed to reach their fresh 13-month highs. A smaller-than-anticipated rise in industrial production also weighed on sentiments.

Waning risk appetites sent gold prices up 20 cents to a fresh all-time high of $1,139.40. Treasuries rose, pushing corresponding yields lower. The yield on the benchmark 10-year note slipped to 3.33% from 3.34% late Monday. Crude prices closed above $79 per barrel. Copper prices rose to 14-months highs on expectations that China demand will remain robust.

A perpetual decline in the value of the dollar and record low interest rates in the US have driven stocks higher as investors, seeking higher return on their investments, have sought refuge in equities. A subdued inflation has also proved welcome for the economy.

This morning’s stock futures show a mixed opening on the Street. Dow Jones industrial average futures are down 2 points, or about 0.1%, at 10,396. Standard & Poor’s 500 index futures are up 0.10, or nearly 0.1%, at 1,107.50, while Nasdaq 100 index futures are down 5.50, or 0.3%, at 1.803.25.

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Sharp Housing Construction Decline Send Investors Into Tailspin

Housing Construction and Technology Report Depresses the Market

AP News – Investors turned cautious Wednesday as an unexpected drop in home construction and disappointing forecasts from technology companies raised concerns about the pace of the economy’s recovery.

The modest drop came a day after major stock indicators closed at 13-month highs, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which has risen 9 of the past 10 days. Analysts said the quick ascent means the market is due for a rest.

John Brady, senior vice president of global interest rate products at MF Global in Chicago, said as the end of the year approaches traders are looking foremost at preserving the gains amassed in an eight-month rally that has given the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 index a gain of 22.9 percent for the year.

“It’s a bit of a consolidation trade,” he said. “Traders are scared to go out
too far out on a limb here and do anything too risky late in the year.”

The day’s economic news added to investors’ caution. The Commerce Department said construction of homes and apartments fell 10.6 percent in October to an annual rate of 529,000, well below the pace of 600,000 that economists polled by Thomson Reuters expected.
Joe Heider, president of Dawson Wealth Management in Cleveland, said the disappointing results “will push against what was a very bullish attitude on Wall Street.”

Heider said investors were trying to determine whether the slowdown signaled weakness in the economy or a reluctance among builders to break ground when the future of a homebuyers’ tax credit was uncertain. Lawmakers extended a tax credit for first-time homebuyers that was set to end this month through June.

Building permits, a key indication for future activity, slid 4 percent to an annual rate of 552,000, also below the rate of 580,000 that analysts had forecast.

Technology shares fell after BMO Capital Markets said Blackberry maker Research in Motion Ltd. faces increased competition as consumers opt for less expensive phones. Meanwhile, forecasts from software makers Autodesk Inc. and Salesforce.com fell short of analysts expectations.

In early afternoon trading, the Dow fell 59.93, or 0.6 percent, to 10,377.49. The broader S&P 500 index fell 5.45, or 0.5 percent, to 1,104.87, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 19.92, or 0.9 percent, to 2,183.86.

There was little reaction a report that found inflation at the retail level remained tame as rising unemployment, nervous consumers and tight credit keep prices stable.

The Labor Department said consumer prices rose 0.3 percent in October, slightly above the 0.2 percent economists expected. Core inflation, which excludes volatile energy and food prices, rose 0.2 percent, compared to expectations of a 0.1 percent rise.

Investors are looking for any signals of further improvement in the economy to justify the gains that pulled major stock indexes off 12-year lows in March. Rising unemployment and tepid retail sales have some analysts worried that investors might have been too quick to place bets on a recovery.

Putting NAMI on Blast for Fraud

The National Alliance of Mental Illness is a Pharmaceutical Front

NAMI [National Alliance of Mental Illness] pretends to be a consumer advocate for mental health. When in fact they are just a front for the pharmaceutical companies [big pharma]. They are trying to corner the market on being THE voice for consumer advocacy on mental illness. Why? So that all citizens who are concerned about mental illness will only look to them and no one else. Once they have centralized their power and become the only game in town they will then carry out the agenda of big pharma. Here is the strategy.

1. pretend to be an independent “grassroots” consumer advocate for mental illness
2. require membership to participate in their group
3. pretend to require donations from everyone on the basis of continuing their “cause”
4. advocate at every instance that the only option to treat mental illness is *TADA* PHARMACEUTICALS
5. have lobbyist in congress *gasp*
6. lobby congress to pass legislation in favor of *TADA* PHARMACEUTICALS
7. have satellite locations in every state capitol

I ask you, what consumer group do you know that can be so vast that it has a branch office in every state capitol [i.e. located where the state legislatures are *GASP*]

Let’s take a look at their policies. Could any of their policies go against big pharma? Let’s look at the very hot and contentious issue of autism.

For those of you not in the know, autism is directly related to children having to take vaccinations. Many medical scientist, researchers and studies have shown:

“there is no efficacy in any vaccination on the market to date”. That means that all the vaccinations do absolutely nothing. They don’t protect your child, nor you. They don’t stop your child from becoming ill. They don’t lessen the possibility of your child becoming ill.
However, what they have found is from the products in the vaccinations: mercury, preservatives and live cultures of diseases

1. children are being exposed to the very illness they are trying to prevent
2. mercury in the vaccine causes all sorts of neurological disorders, brain lesions AND autism
3. the other preservatives are just as worse, only slightly less powerful, than the mercury. If these preservatives don’t get your kid, the mercury does

Scientific study after scientific study has shown those 3 points to be true without any possibility of another explanation. In fact countless lawsuits have stipulated that these vaccines are the source of autism.

What is NAMI’s take on this? Well let’s take a look right at their own website:

There is no known direct cause of the disorders, which is one of the reasons why ASDs continue to remain elusive to doctors in the field. ASDs are complex disorders and have remained relatively inaccessible for study. It can be said with great certainty, however, that autism is not the direct cause of a psychological disturbance caused by detached or uncaring “refrigerator” mothers, as once suggested in the 1940s by Dr. Bruno Bettleheim. There is also significant evidence from large-scale studies that refute the proposed link between thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.

How can ADHD be treated?

Many treatments — some with good scientific basis, some without — have been recommended for individuals with ADHD. The most proven treatments are medication and behavioral therapy.

Medication

Stimulants are the most widely used drugs for treating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The four most commonly used stimulants are methylphenidate (Ritalin), dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine, Desoxyn), amphetamine and dextroamphetamine (Adderall).

Studies have shown that Ritalin has been the cause of suicide; and homicidal behavior. In fact medical science has shown that all medication for treating any mental condition has increased:

• suicide rates
• homicide rates
• depression rates
• more severe mental illness

The very thing that the medication is proporting to treat actually elevates it. They found such cases as Columbine, that the kids involved in those shootings and take over of that school were on mental medication. Countless law suits over mental medication and suicide have been filed against drug companies.

Nowhere on NAMI’s website does it advocate:

• diagnosis of vitamin deficiencies
• taking vitamins to remove those deficiencies

Yet in their own literature NAMI puts up warnings about the drugs because they know that they are untested and can cause major damage.

“Every person reacts to treatment differently, so it is important to work closely and communicate openly with your physician. Some common side effects of stimulant medications include weight loss, decreased appetite, trouble sleeping, and, in children, a temporary slowness in growth; however, these reactions can often be controlled by dosage adjustments. Medication has proven effective in the short-term treatment of more than 76 percent of individuals with ADHD.”

Conclusion

In my opinion NAMI is nothing more than a front for big pharmaceutical companies. They receive their advice from them on how to lobby and whena and where to lobby. The only advice they give is take drugs.

Clearly this group is not a grass roots advocacy group. Clearly this group is not for the common citizen. Clearly this group is not here to help mental help or end any illness.

I detest anyone that, under the guise of being nice and kind, gets into an elevated position and then abuses the very people that believed in them and helped them get into that position. Drugs are not the answer to long term treatment. I have said this before, 90% of the illnesses that we have are due to deficiencies. Your body is robust. Your body heals itself. It was made to do that by design. Those pain medication that you can take over the counter operate on that principal. They allow your conscious mind to not concentrate on the pain so that your body can heal itself. I would caution against even over the counter medications, because they are the prescription drugs of yesterday.

Instead of going to your doctor and asking for a pill, ask your doctor for a complete and thourough battery of tests to determine what vitamin deficiencies you have. Then you buy organic sources of those vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

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Was Swine Flu Man Made: Shocking Scientific Leaked Story

Highly Reputable Scientist Reveals Swine Flu is Man Made

An Australian researcher claims that the swine flu virus circling the globe may have been created as a result of human error. The World Health Organization is investigating the claim. The World Health Organization received the study and is reviewing it, Keiji Fukuda, the agency’s assistant director-general of health security and environment. “A virus that resulted from lab experimentation or vaccine production may indicate a greater need for security,” Fukuda said. “You really want a very sober assessment” of the science behind the claim.

Adrian Gibbs, 75, who collaborated on research that led to the development of Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu drug, said in an interview that he intends to publish a report suggesting the new strain may have accidentally evolved in eggs scientists use to grow viruses and drug makers use to make vaccines. Gibbs said he came to his conclusion as part of an effort to trace the virus’s origins by analyzing its genetic blueprint.

“One of the simplest explanations is that it’s a laboratory escape,” Gibbs said, “But there are lots of others. By pinpointing the source of the virus, scientists also may better understand the microbe’s potential for spreading and causing illness,” Gibbs said.

Gibbs, who has studied germ evolution for 40 years, is one of the first scientists to analyze the genetic makeup of the virus that was identified in Mexico.

“The sooner we get to grips with where it’s come from, the safer things might become,” Gibbs said by phone from Canberra yesterday. “It could be a mistake” that occurred at a vaccine production facility or the virus could have jumped from a pig to another mammal or a bird before reaching humans, he said.

Gibbs and two colleagues analyzed the publicly available sequences of hundreds of amino acids coded by each of the flu virus’s eight genes. He said he aims to submit his three-page paper for publication in a medical journal.

The CDC Researches Man Made Swine Flu Virus?

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has received the report and has decided there is no evidence to support Gibbs’s conclusion, said Nancy Cox, director of the agency’s influenza division. “We are interested in the origins of this new influenza virus,” Cox said. “But contrary to what the author has found, when we do the comparisons that are most relevant, there is no evidence that this virus was derived by passage in eggs.” [please note the history of the CDC to not carry out the same exact tests that are presented to them. they are categorically unscientific and never impartial. they are symptomatically always disproving research and theories that are contrary to their policies or contrary to big pharma]

The WHO’s collaborative influenza research centers, which includes the CDC, and sites in Memphis, Melbourne, London and Tokyo, were asked by the international health agency to review the study, Fukuda said. The request was extended to scientists at the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, the World Organization for Animal Health in Paris, as well as the WHO’s influenza network, he said.

“My guess is that the picture should be a lot clearer over the next few days,” Fukuda said. “We have asked a lot of people to look at this.”

Gibbs wrote or co-authored more than 250 scientific publications on viruses during his 39-year career at the Australian National University in Canberra, according to biographical information on the university’s Web site.

Swine flu has infected 5,251 people in 30 countries so far, killing 61 [in the whole world], according to WHO data.

Gibbs said his analysis supports research by scientists including Richard Webby, a virologist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, who found the new strain is the product of two distinct lineages of influenza that have circulated among swine in North America and Europe for more than a decade.

In addition, Gibbs said his research found the rate of genetic mutation in the new virus was about three times faster than that of the most closely related viruses found in pigs, suggesting it evolved outside of swine. “Whatever speeded up the evolution of these genes happened at least seven or eight years ago, so one wonders, why hasn’t it been found?” Gibbs said.

Some scientists have speculated that the 1977 Russian flu, the most recent global outbreak, began when a virus escaped from a laboratory.

Identifying the source of new flu viruses is difficult without finding the exact strain in an animal or bird “reservoir,” said Jennifer McKimm-Breschkin, a virologist at the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization in Melbourne.

“If you can’t find an exact match, the best you can do is compare sequences,” she said. “Similarities may give an indication of a possible source, but this remains theoretical.”

The World Organization for Animal Health, which represents chief veterinary officers from 174 countries, received the Gibbs paper and is working with the WHO on an assessment, said Maria Zampaglione, a spokeswoman.

The WHO wants to know whether any evidence that the virus may have been developed in a laboratory can be corroborated and whether there are other explanations for its particular genetic patterns, according to Fukuda. “These things have to be dealt with straight on,” he said. “If someone makes a hypothesis, then you test it and you let scientific process take its course.”

Gibbs said he has no evidence that the swine-derived virus was a deliberate, man-made product. “I don’t think it could be a malignant thing,” he said. “It’s much more likely that some random thing has put these two viruses together.”

Who is Gibbs?

Gibbs, who spent most of his academic career studying plant viruses, said his major contribution to the study of influenza occurred in 1975, while collaborating with scientists Graeme Laver and Robert Webster in research that led to the development of the anti-flu medicines Tamiflu and Relenza.

“We were out on one of the Barrier Reef islands, off Australia, catching birds for the flu in them, and I happened to be the guy who caught the best,” Gibbs said. The bird he got “yielded the poo from which was isolated the influenza isolate strain from which all the work on Tamiflu and Relenza started.”

Gibbs, who says he studies the evolution of flu viruses as a “retirement hobby,” expects his research to be challenged by other scientists.

Gibbs says he doesn’t mind the criticism of his idea, and he has submitted his paper to an open-access journal so it can receive a proper airing. “Scientists are trained to be iconoclasts, not to believe what they’re told,” he says. “And they don’t believe until they’ve really had a good go at it. This is how science progresses,” he said. “Somebody comes up with a wild idea, and then they all pounce on it and kick you to death, and then you start off on another silly idea.”

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Back to Basics: What is a Liability?

A Liability is Not an Asset

Because they don’t teach anything financial in school to the general population, most citizen fall prey to any marketing ploys that deal with financial information. In an effort to make a quick buck all sorts of nefarious definitions of financial items have been “redefined” by these shady characters. And, just who might these shady characters be? Nearly everyone with a commercial or a speech. Heck even the government has gotten in on the action in their effort to get the American citizen to spend spend spend.

All of these characters have redefined what a liability is. I know it’s their own fault, but if you can’t trust your own government, who can you trust? I know it would take 2 seconds to pull up a dictionary or even google it. But, here’s the rub. The dictionary definition of liability leaves the average citizen more confused leaving than he was before he read it.

K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid) has been my motto forever. It works in physics string theory, it can work in finance.

Liability – any debt or claim that someone has against them or their assets.

These include:

• mortgage
• car loan
• credit card debt

The concept should be simple. Right? But, people are often mislead into believing that a liability is an asset. It’s like saying “fire is cool”. But what’s that burning sensation “oh that’s just the cooling down of your skin”. Literally it is just that stupid. The citizen sees his money going out, but he is told over and over and over that his car, house, VCR is an asset. He is paying monthly, even multiple notes on the same item, yet he is told it is an asset. He sees the value depreciating daily, yet he is told it is an asset. After hearing it so much, he comes to think it actually is an asset. Something can be soundly in his expense column and yet he is now convinced it is an asset.

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Two Bear Sterns Senior Executives Acquitted of Fraud

Jurors Acquit Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were found not guilty of fraud, a decision that could make government prosecutors less likely to bring criminal charges against Wall Street executives for their role in the financial crisis.

The case — the first major prosecution arising from the meltdown of major U.S. financial institutions — was seen as a litmus test of whether a jury, presented with evidence from emails between money managers and conference calls with investors, would convict individuals for corporate collapses.

Ralph Cioffi, 53, and Matthew Tannin, 48, were acquitted of all charges on the second day of deliberations by a jury in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York. Cioffi and Tannin left the courthouse with their smiling wives and relatives, some of them crying tears of relief.

Cioffi and Tannin managed two funds, crammed with subprime mortgage-backed securities, that lost institutional and individual investors a total of $1.6 billion when the funds collapsed in mid-2007 at an early phase of the Wall Street market meltdown.

The jury on Tuesday acquitted both men of conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud — charges brought in a June 2008 indictment. Cioffi was acquitted of an additional charge of insider trading.

“There wasn’t enough evidence … The emails went both ways,” jury forewoman Jenny McCaughey told reporters after the verdict. “They say one thing one time, another thing another time. We just didn’t have enough to convict them.”

Bear Stearns collapsed in March 2008, several months after the funds managed by the two men failed. It was sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) in a government-brokered fire sale.

Cioffi, who worked for Bear Stearns for 25 years, and Tannin still face civil lawsuits, including one brought by Bank of America (BAC.N) over the bank’s investment in their funds.

“The government clearly will need to rethink whether and when to assert criminal responsibility in connection with the financial meltdown,” said Jacob Frenkel, former SEC enforcement lawyer and now a law firm partner.

During the trial, one wire fraud count was moved to the federal district of Manhattan, but it was not immediately clear whether that prosecution would go ahead.

In a telephone interview, Cioffi said civil proceedings remained and he declined to comment on the verdict other than to say he was happy with the outcome of the month-long trial.

“We’re going home with the family for dinner, opening a bottle of wine and we’re just going to relax,” Cioffi said. “That’s all we have planned for tonight.”

The federal prosecutor whose office brought the case, three months after the government began a crackdown on mortgage fraud, said he was disappointed.

“Honesty and integrity are the principles upon which our financial markets function,” Benton Campbell, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement. “Enforcing and protecting those principles will continue to be one of the principal efforts of this office.”

Juror Serphaine Stimpson, 27, an office coordinator at a Brooklyn college, called Cioffi and Tannin “scapegoats for Wall Street.” She said: “All eyes were on the trial. It’s Bear Stearns we’re talking about.”

This has large ramifications on other cases the government has against other executives. They have to show criminal intent on the part of those they are bringing to trial.

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Will Fed Raise Rates in 2010?

2010, Inflation and the Fed

The Federal Reserve met. In several interviews they were asked whether they would raise rates to curb inflation. The Humphrey Hawkins bill expanded the Feds role to include keeping unemployment low including their role as keeping inflation down. At a 10% unemployment number clearly the Fed is not fulfilling that expanded role.

The answer to the interviews were as such. According to the Fed they are saying inflation is only 1% – 2%. They did not indicate if they would be raising interest rates. In fact they said 2010 was too soon to even be discussing raising rates. They never ventured into the dollar declining 40%, which is an obvious indication of inflation. They never mentioned gold and oil going up. They did not mention that gold has gone up 26%, an obvious indication of inflation. What they did say was that they are looking at GDP as an indicator of inflation. They fail to realize that GDP is a lagging indicator.

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Savings Accounts / CDs: Interest Rates That Make No Sense

Low Interest Rates Means No Savings

There are many assets you can acquire that make sense. You want a good return on investment and hopefully generate income while you are acquiring new assets. Asset allocation tells us that we have 3 vehicles to invest in: stocks; bonds; cash . For the working poor they are told that the best vehicle to hedge for the future and retirement is to open a savings account and put into it month after month or even paycheck to paycheck. Well, this would be great in a perfect world. But we are living in a time where the working poor have no hope of making any money.

Why?

Because they have lowered interest rates so low that nowhere on the planet can the working poor put their cash to earn even a modicum of interest. It used to be that inflation was a meager 3%. In a previous blog I showed you that last year saw interest rates peak at 6%. Now in a normal year 3% inflation would not be so bad if your savings account returned 5% interest. You would not be wealthy, but you were ahead of inflation and actually making money.

Is it possible that this is engineered to thwart the poor? I am certain, in my gut, that it is. There has not been a time in history that interest rates were 0%. It makes no economic sense to have interest rates that low. Nearly no one makes money at those rates. You might argue that banks can borrow from the Fed at 0% and turn around and charge 5% and the next bank 10%. But, the first bank could always borrow at 0% even when interest rates were at 15%. If you don’t know that, then you need to delve a bit deeper into the Fed scheme. You’re also operating under the assumption that the banks that borrow from the Fed are going to pay them back. They never do. They just refinance and get a new “loan”. Understand that the banks that borrow from the Fed, are the Fed.

There needs to be a ruckus to rate interest rates. The plebes need to scream at the top of their lungs to raise interest rates. It is thwarting the working poor to get themselves out of debt. The country is trying to buckle down, but the government and the Fed is standing in the way.

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Back to Basics: What is an Asset

An Asset is not a Liability

The dictionary definition of an asset might be slightly [meaning totally] confusing to the average person. Also those in the financial industry have confused the “consumer” in an effort to generate money, have defined asset as the exact opposite of what it is.

Asset – 1. has economic value and can be converted to cash [ within a day or two MAX ] 2. generates income for you or appreciates in value necessarily.

That simple definition would make most consumers balk. They have indeed been fed a huge marketing scheme to sell them products that are liabilities as “assets”. Any accountant, any economist, not out to make a quick buck, but who are trying to educate, would all agree on that definition.

Now there are brokers who lock you into some ridiculous scheme that ties up your assets for years, around 6 – 8. They attach penalties if you withdraw the assets before that time. Don’t confuse those sheister schemes with the true definition of asset. Yes, if you have bought into paper that is tied up for 8 years with penalties for early withdrawal, that doesn’t mean it is not an asset. Because, it can be converted to cash immediately, and it does [hopefully] generate income for you.

Is a Home an Asset

Let’s take the biggest scam this past 50 years has ever seen. “Your home is your biggest asset”. A complete and utter lie. There is no way, anyone with an inkling of financial acumen, savvy, understanding and eduction would ever call a personal home an asset. A home is an expense pure and simple:

• mortgage
• property taxes
• insurance
• maintenance
• utilities

You can immediately see that just owning the home is a costly affair. Do not confuse a personal home with real estate. You can purchase real estate that is indeed an asset, i.e. rental property, commercial property. The key is that it must generate income, or necessarily appreciate. Buying a home does not generate income. You sitting in your home does not generate you income, unless you have some sweet deal with your wife and kids.

People confuse the housing bubble with income or appreciation in value and therefore it must be an asset.

Example:

1. Original price of home: $50,000
2. Selling price of home: $75,000
3. expenses paid on house including all taxes and payments: $150,000
4. value of dollar depreciation during ownership of house: 40%

Did your house actually go up? No! In fact you came out way behind. But, for some reason people don’t know how to calculate the full transaction. Houses have always depreciated. Every year houses depreciate in value, not appreciate. However, through smoke and mirrors and a complete lack of math, the average joe 6 pack thinks his house went up. Heck through the non-math formula they were selling the idea that mobil homes were appreciating. And, any fool knows that those depreciate as soon as you buy them.

In your effort to accumulate wealth then, you MUST know what an asset is. Don’t be the fool that buys the liability that bites him on the asset.

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Washington Officer Pleads Not Guilty to Shooting a Man in the Back 7 Times

Wash. Officer Pleads not Guilty to Manslaughter

EVERETT, Wash. — An Everett police officer charged with manslaughter for shooting a drunken driving suspect has pleaded not guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court.

The Everett Herald reports Officer Troy Meade remained free without bail after Thursday’s plea, under orders not to leave the state or possess weapons.

Prosecutors say he was not justified in shooting Niles Meservey, 51 years old [pictured above], of Stanwood last June in the parking lot of a restaurant.

Other customers reported Meservey was intoxicated. Investigators believe Meade was attempting to prevent him from driving away in his Corvette.

Meservey had been shocked with a stun gun and had rammed a chain-link fence when Meade fired through the rear window, hitting him seven times.

The DUI Scam and Scare

This is retarded. This is absolutely ridiculous. What you ask? I looked up the numbers for DUI vs all traffic vs pedestrian accidents vs motorcycles. Guess who came in last? Guess who didn’t even make the national bar? Guess who they didn’t even want to report? DUI!

Let’s look at the numbers:

• 2.9 million injured in car wrecks due to: lack of seat belt; driver inattentiveness; running red lights
• 3,662 motorcycle deaths: due to lack of helmets; other driver inattentiveness
• 4,749 pedestrian deaths: due to other driver inattentiveness

Ok you ready for the DUI numbers?

• 17,103 alcohol related ACCIDENTS: not deaths; not injuries. Just the accident itself. Now if you scroll back through my blog you’ll see I discussed the word ALCOHOL RELATED. That’s a euphemism for something that sounds like one thing but means another.

Alcohol Related:

1. does not mean there was a test for alcohol by anyone involved in the accident; does not mean anyone was intoxicated; does not mean anyone was under the suspicion of being intoxicated; does not mean anyone was visibly intoxicated.
2. means that there was the presence of alcohol at the scene of the accident
3. means that alcohol could have been present inside the passenger compartment.
4. means that alcohol could have been present inside the trunk of the car
5. means that alcohol could have been present in either vehicle including the victim of the accident.

Ok just so everyone understands: when they say “17,103 alcohol related ACCIDENTS”, it literally could mean that there was a closed, sealed, just purchased, unopened container of some form of alcohold somewhere in either vehicle, OR EVEN INCLUDING A PEDESTRIAN, and they did not perform any DUI screening test whatsoever, they will write it down as an alcohol related accident.

They would not release the nationwide DUI deaths. How can they? They lie about the accidents, so can they pencil in a number of deaths that are alcohol related?

So let’s compare 2.9 million to 17,103. No let me make it quite visible

• 2,900,000
• 17,103

If you have a calculator, you can see immediately that DUI accidents… WAIT, no no no, alcohol related accidents. DUI accidents are an even smaller number than the alcohol related accidents. I don’t have that number. They won’t release it. A DUI accident would be an accident, where they actually tested and tried to prosecute someone in connection to the DUI laws. The number would probably number in the hundreds. Be that as it may, just by looking at the numbers we do have, the alcohol related accidents compared to overall accidents is .0058975. That means it’s not even 1%.

This Lunatic Cop Shoots the Man in the Back

This is getting way out of hand. Just by the sheer numbers, DUI accidents nationwide aren’t even remotely in the top 10 causes of accident or death while driving. The fear mongers that have demonized DUI as some huge out of control factor in America are simply doing it to make money. There is no reality to DUI being something that we need fear and smite from our roads. The danger that DUI posses to loss of life is less than pedestrians who cross the street inattentively. Yet we are not passing harsh punishments for those pedestrians. If anyone with half a brain wishes to go look up the statistics, I welcome them to see for themselves.

This scare, that has surrounded DUI, is so out of control that we have the above incident, that this untrained policeman, so gripped with fear that this person would become some demon on wheels, took the man’s life. There is simply no defense for it. No judge, worth his salt, should sit on his bench and listen to any defense for it. He admittedly shot the man in the back seven times, ending his life.

We need to look at real numbers and real facts about DUI and stop paying attention to fear mongers.

I pray for his family. That is just… God bless his family and watch over them and help them through this painful time.

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Invitation to Participate in My Blog: Shakaama Live

I Invite You to Speak Out

This seems long overdue. But, there is method to my madness. I wanted to first make sure people were actually reading my blog before I sent out and invitation to participate. A preacher can’t preach to empty pews can he? You can’t have a sumptuous dinner party with no guests can you? So, I made sure that I had people reading my blog first, and quite a few numbers, before I send out my invitation.

I’m sure by now you might be hesitating thinking I’m going to ask you for some mad science experiment. Nothing could be further from the truth, so rest easy. I am all American, normal, boring and mundane down to my elbows.

If you can tell however, so far, from my blog, I like to speak out about issues. I like to explain what is going on behind the scenes. If you don’t know, half the world is owned by nearly 12 people. All of the news, and the news sources are owned by 1 person. Pharmaceutical companies lobby and pressure congress and other governments to pass laws and go to that one person that owns all the news, to scare you into taking drugs THAT ARE COMPLETELY INEFFECTIVE. The food industry is owned by only a few people. Nearly all of the meat is slaughtered in one place. That means if one cow / pig / chicken is sick, then the entire western hemisphere will catch it. McDonalds, super markets, expensive restaurants all get their meat from the same exact place.

I invite you to participate and open up a dialogue with me. I welcome your comments. If you are an average citizen, know that I am looking out for you. If you are Black, know that I am looking out for you. But, if you are a part of the problem: big pharma; big food; big farm; corporate shill; corporate news; lobbyist; political pundit from the 1 party system, I invite you to comment, but know I will point out who you are and point out why not to listen to you.

Unfortunately, for those who wish to comment on my blog simply to get traffic to their website/blog I don’t have time. I have actually opened up all comments so they do indeed track back to your website/blog or link. You will get complete credit and link juice from any links you post in your comments. However, you MUST provide something to the discussion AT HAND. I don’t mind helping you out, but leave something at the table when you come to the table.

What’s This All About?

You know I love lists, so here is the list of things I’d like from you:

• Politics – I would love your comments about my political news. If you agree or even disagree. Let me know you’re alive and breathing. There is no way I am providing the same drone news in politics that everyone else is. They wouldn’t dare say Obama is the same as Bush. They wouldn’t dare say all of Obama’s cabinet members are owned by Goldman Sachs and that’s why the stimulus packages are all going to wall stree, evne the ones that say are coming to us, is a lie and just going to wall street. There is no way the corporate media would tell you the truth. Just because Fox News doesn’t hide the fact they are lying to you, do you really think the rest aren’t lying?
• Whistle Blowers – I invite you to blow the whistle on companies you know or suspect are being underhanded and just out to make a buck. I will research the company and get back to you with my findings. I also present information or blow the whistle on companies I find are just out to make a buck. Understand people, these companies these days are so divorced from you that they don’t care if what they are selling you KILLS YOU. It is that far gone. This especially applies to drug companies. If 1 million people died from their vaccine, they wouldn’t care. All they would care about is that you paid for 1 million vaccines in this past quarter and made them mega profits.
• Black Issues – I invite you to reveal how the media is lying about Black Americans day in and day out. The media again and again comes up with negative information about Black men, in particular, and Black Americans in general. For instance, I was under the impression that Black fathers do not see / visit / pay for or spend time with their illegitimate children. After researching the topic, I found studies already done that showed that the opposite is true and that the negative assertion is completely false. Black fathers of illegitimate children spend more time, and money, per capita, with their children than any other racial group. This is just an example of what corporate media is doing to destroy the African American Community. I invite you to share your own research, and make sure you list your source so all the readers can see for themselves.
• Black Relationships – I invite your input of either why you love or dislike other Black men or women. Note that, this blog is not hear to deal with homosexuality. I am not equipped to even deal with that subject, so I stress that you only present heterosexual information. We are in a world of hurt in Black relationships already, we don’t need the added stress of homosexuality to deal with. Black relationships are under attack in the media and in the street. Again, through my research I found that divorce amongst our Black brothers and sisters is not outrageous at all. I found that there is not this vast majority of children being born illegitimately in the Black community. Once again, this is the media doing this. And, universities are assuming its true and running with the lie to try and research it. And, when they don’t find it to be true, instead of presenting the findings, they question themselves or think their findings are wrong.
• The Constitution of the United States of America – I invite you to comment, question or inquire about stories that violate your constitutional rights. Understand, that now if you tell a police officer that he /she is violating your constitutional right, instead of them taking a step back and reflecting on what you said, they have been instructed to bring you in as a possible terrorist and threat to national security. They have even removed the law which prohibited the military from being used inside the U.S. and now the military can come in and quell U.S. citizens i.e. demonstrations, even peaceful ones. I invite you to discuss, share or ask about such violations.
• You Health – I have another blog http://gainmuscleslosefat.blogspot.com/Gain Muscle Lose Fat that strictly deals with your health and health related issues. You may have noticed a lack of pharmaceutical or political discussions surrounding it. Those have all been moved to that blog and I welcome your comments and input there. It’s not only for bodybuilders but it is also for health in general. And, I do discuss how the pharmaceutical companies are lying to us, just to get us to buy their drugs more. I also discuss how big farms are killing us with their horrible food practices.
• Your Money – I have another blog http://marketbiznews.blogspot.com/Market Biz News that deals strictly with Money, the stock market, U.S. financial political policy. Depending on how long you’ve been reading my blog, I have moved all those stories over there. I welcome your input and comments. Know that you are being hounded day and night to spend spend spend. You don’t need to spend anything, except your bills. If you eat healthy and exercise you won’t need any of the drugs that are being peddled, YES PEDDLED, to you. Modern medicine’s only saving grace is their trauma and emergency systems. If you have an injury /burn / accident, hands down U.S. medicine is your saving grace and no other country can beat us at it. However, health concerns are bought and paid for. Congress is bought and paid for. Wall street has their hand not just in the governments back pocket, but down the front and back of their pants, and they have a firm grip and they don’t intend to let go, at least without a fight. Can you blame them? They have a good thing going. They have the entire nation that can give them money just by having their buddies in Washington pass legislation. I invite you to go there and share your stories about the financial woes and bewares there.

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you can tell I sincerely care about all Americans in general and Black Americans in particular. Black people are not free in America and neither are the rest of the working POOR. You do know that, that’s what you are, the working poor or working class. There is no middle class. There never was… Oh that might be harsh. There was a middle class a long time ago, when people owned their own houses and had their own businesses. There was not this mass notion of having a “job”. You grew up and either worked the farm, if that’s where you lived, or helped run the store. The only people with jobs were the poor people or the true professionals. So, what happened? More and more people migrated to the cities and … they kept looking to the government to provide for them. And, it was like a catch 22. The more people came, the more they demanded, so all these jobs were created out of thin air. The smart people put all the poor people to work. And, that’s the real story of America.

I want to smack people around and show them what happened to their country. “Leave it to Beaver” is a lie. If that show were reality, every episode would be “how are we going to pay for this” this week. And by the end of the show it would have been “you gotta go to work honey”. I’m not saying people shouldn’t have moved to the city. I’m saying they shouldn’t have looked to the government for a hand out or to solve their own personal problems. How can you move somewhere without a plan? Now everyone cries that government is too big. You made your own bed.

I want to wake people up and let them see what is going on. If you have ever sat home vegging out to the t.v. after a hard day at work, in which you get paid peanuts, and wondered, is this it? then this is the blog where you can wake up. The matrix really does have you.

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Internet Uproar Over Dark Skin Going to Light Skin

Sammy Sosa Skin Rejuvenation

How dare a Black man bleach his skin. The internet is in an uproar over Sammy Sosa’s appearance at the Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas. Sammy Sosa and wife Sonya showed up at an even to honor Juan Gabriel as the Latin Grammy Award’s 2009 Person of the Year. Sammy’s skin appear far lighter than in the past. Pictures of the event floated around the net. People are quoted as saying “What happened to Sammy Sosa?”

The former major league baseball slugger, Sammy’s pics could easily make people wonder what was happening and why such kind of photographs were clicked.

“He’s not trying to be Michael Jackson,” former Chicago Cubs employee Rebecca Polihronis, who talks frequently with Sosa, told the Chicago Tribune.

“He is going through a rejuvenation process for his skin. Women have it all of the time. He was surprised he came out looking so white. I thought it was a body double. Part of [the photo appearance] is just the lighting.” Polihronis said Sosa told her the photos are deceiving.

“He was doing a dermatological skin process after years and years [of playing baseball] in the sun,” Polihronis said. “It did come out looking weird” in the photos.

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Was Jeremiah Wright Wrong?

Death by Sound Bites

I think it’s funny how one person can lead so many astray. I’m not talking about Jeremiah Wright. I’m talking about the media.

Americans are very short sighted and forget one day to the next. I, on the other hand, am like an elephant, and I never forget.

Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell gave the very same sermon in 2001. *SHOCKING* The chickens have come home to roost. Oh, they were condemned for it too.

I have a political science degree so I keep tabs on what the “government” does. I will withhold my judgment of you and simply assume that you are trying to do the best by God in your own way, by condemning Jeremiah Wright. I assume then, that you know nothing about the Royal Institute for International Affairs [RIIA], the Council on Foreign Relations [CFR], Trilaterals, the Zionists, Bolshevism-Rosecrusianism, Bilderberger group or the Committee of 300, the Olympians or the Illuminati. I am assuming you know nothing about the Scottish Rite Freemasons or the Skull and Bones.

There is no possible way you could know about those groups and then listen to Jeremiah Wright and call him wrong.

It is obvious you don’t know anything about the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Club of Rome the German Marshall Fund, the Cini Foundation, the Round Table, the Fabianists, the Venetian Black Nobility, the Mont Pelerin Society, Hellfire Clubs, the Milner Group, the Round Table.

You could not know these secret societies and then listen to Jeremiah Wright’s frustrated “God damn America” and think anything other than “you know, he’s absolutely right.”

Admittedly, he might be saying “white”, but it’s like the difference between saying “south eastern country clubs exclude Blacks” and “whites exclude blacks”. It is merely semantic. Obviously Scottish Rite and Bilderberger are completely made up of WHITE people, ONLY. So is it so wrong to say “white” people are doing this?

Obviously the man isn’t racist. He had a white minister to come preach at his church many many times.

Fox News and others kept showing a sound bite of Jeremiah Wright saying “America’s Chickens are Coming Home to Roost”. That is the only sound bite they showed of the sermon. But in actuality Reverend Wright was quoting U.S. Ambassador Edward Peck, a retired, “white”, career U.S. diplomat who served 32-years in the U.S. Foreign Service and was chief of the U.S. mission to Iraq under Jimmy Carter — hardly the black-rage image with which Wright has been stigmatized.

Did Fox lie about Reverend Wright? Of course they did. But let’s look at the statement.

Chickens coming home to Roost = Blowback is the espionage term for the violent, unintended consequences of a covert operation that are suffered by the civil population of the aggressor government. To the civilians suffering it, the blowback typically manifests itself as “random” acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public—in whose name the intelligence agency acted—are ignorant of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them.

Obviously Reverend Wright isn’t just some crazed minister. We have a bonafied term for the occurrence. So by the above definition there is an expected retaliation against the country that a clandestine operation took place, that the population is going to be completely ignorant of. This means, our spies do something the pisses people off. Those pissed off people come do something to us, because they know our spies did it, but can’t find the spies, of course. And, then we get attacked or something and we have no clue why it happened. We think we’re the victims of some crazed lunatics, when the opposite is true. We are at fault. We created our spies and sent them to do underhanded crap.

So, do we do underhanded crap to people? Yes! Does it piss people off? Yes! Do they know it’s us? Yes! Normally it’s easy to tell. If they find 10 Arabs and one Mexican, they know something’s fishy and maybe that Mexican, who’s supposed to look like an Arab, might be behind it. But, the Mexican disappears before the It Hits the Fan.

Remember, I said at the beginning that Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell said the same thing? In fact, they were worse:

Jerry Falwell

“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.'”

“I do believe, as a theologian, based upon many Scriptures and particularly Proverbs 14:23, which says ‘living by God’s principles promotes a nation to greatness, violating those principles brings a nation to shame,'” he said.

Pat Robertson

“We have sinned against Almighty God, at the highest level of our government, we’ve stuck our finger in your eye,” said Robertson. “The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They’ve taken your Bible away from the schools. They’ve forbidden little children to pray. They’ve taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.”

Both of these guys later on recanted or tried to clean up their statements, but they made them, on national t.v., to millions. And, what’s worse? Many ministers agreed and gave similar sermons in their churches around the very same time. I make it a habit of visiting about a dozen churches, sometimes 3 -5 in one Sunday morning. So I heard first hand all the sermons of at least a dozen churches that month, Sept 2001. They all said the same thing. God is mad, and it’s because of our government and society today in America.

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Sunday: Are Christians, Jews, Muslims Praying to a Pagan God?

The Curious Case of Amen

Every Christian, Jew and Muslim is very familiar with and voices the word Amen. In fact it is a requirement to end a prayer with invoking the word Amen. Most of religion hinges on not only the translation of words but the meaning and origins of biblical or religious text’s words. Scholars spend their life translating and deciphering the meaning behind words from religious texts.

For instance: you shall surely die, by Dr. Terry Mortenson

In Genesis 2:17 God tells Adam regarding the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, “in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die.” Is this saying that Adam would die physically at the moment he ate from the tree? If so, then since Adam physically died 930 years later, doesn’t this mean that God was wrong and the Bible is in error? Good questions. Let’s consider them.

The phrase “you shall surely die” can be literally translated from the Hebrew Biblical text as “dying you shall die.” In the Hebrew phrase we find the imperfect form of the Hebrew verb (you shall die) with the infinitive absolute form of the same verb (dying). This presence of the infinitive absolute intensifies the meaning of the imperfect verb (hence the usual translation of “you shall surely die”). This grammatical construction is quite common in the Old Testament, not just with this verb but others also, and does indicate (or intensify) the certainty of the action. The scholarly reference work by Bruce K. Waltke and M. O’Conner, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1990), gives many Biblical examples of this,1 and they say that “the precise nuance of intensification [of the verbal meaning] must be discovered from the broader context”.2 Clearly in the context of Gen. 3, Adam and Eve died spiritually instantly—they were separated from God and hid themselves. Their relationship with God was broken. But in Romans 5:12 we see in context that Paul is clearly speaking of physical death (Jesus’ physical death, verses 8-10, and other men’s physical death, in verse 14). We also find the same comparison of physical death and physical resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15:20-22. So both spiritual death and physical death are the consequences of Adam’s fall.

A relevant passage to this discussion is found in Numbers 26:65. There we find “they shall surely die” (literally: dying they shall die). These are the same Hebrew verbs and the same grammatical construction as in Genesis 2:17. God told the Israelites shortly after they came out of Egypt to go into the land of Canaan and take possession of it, as it had been promised to Abraham. In Numbers 26:65 God says that because the adult Jews (20 years and older) refused to trust and obey God and go into the Promise Land, they would die in the wilderness over the course of 40 years (one year for every day that the twelve spies investigated the Land—see Numbers 13:1-14:10). But those rebellious unbelieving Jews did not all die at the same moment. Their deaths were spread over that whole 40-year period. So, dying they did all die and that death occurred at various times some years after God’s pronouncement of judgment.

One enquiry sent to me about Genesis 2:17 said that the verse says “in THAT day” you shall surely die. So, the enquirer said, it sure seems to say that Adam would die physically that day. But the demonstrative pronoun, “that,” is not in the Hebrew text at this point. The Hebrew has beyom (בְּיוֹם), where the Hebrew preposition b (ב, usually is translated “in”) is connected as a prefix to yom (יוֹם, which is the word for “day”). This Hebrew temporal adverb is often translated with the English prepositional phrase “in the day that.” This would be the essentially “woodenly literal” translation (although “the” and “that” are not in the Hebrew but are added to make the English sound smooth). But only sometimes (not always) does beyom refer to a literal day, in which case the context makes it clear. This same construction (beyom) appears in Genesis 2:4 and does not refer to a specific 24-hour day but to the whole creation week of six literal days. See also Numbers 7:10-84, where in verses 10 and 84 beyom refers to a period of twelve days of sacrifice. But a different construction occurs in between those verses. There in verses 12, 18, 24, etc., which describe the sacrifices of each of those days, bayyom (בַּיּוֹם) is used, where the “a” (the vowel mark under the first Hebrew letter on the right) and the dot (dagesh) under the second letter on the right (yod) indicate the definite article “the.” (For days 11 and 12, in verses 72 and 78, we find beyom). The phrase beyom is therefore sometimes rightly translated as “when,” referring to a period longer than a day, as in the NIV in both Genesis 2:4 and Genesis 2:17 (and in Numbers 7:10 and 84 and elsewhere—the NAS, HCSB and NKJV versions also translate it as “when” in these verses in Numbers).
Conclusion

So, from all this we conclude that the construction “dying you shall die” and beyom in Genesis 2:17 do not require us to conclude that God was warning that “the very day you eat from the tree is the exact same day that you will die physically.” The Hebrew wording of Genesis 2:17 allows for a time lapse between the instantaneous spiritual death on that sad day of disobedience and the later physical death (which certainly did happen, just as God said, but for Adam it was 930 years later). As Scripture consistently teaches, both kinds of death (spiritual and physical) are the consequence of Adam’s rebellion. Therefore, Hugh Ross and other old-earth proponents are not correct when they say that spiritual death was the only consequence of Adam’s rebellion at the Fall.

As you can clearly see, scholars and translators alike are perplexed and concerned with the best possible meaning of religious words and teachings. They spend copious amount of time not only pouring over the words, but also researching the time period in which the words were written or spoken.

For example, “hey man”, today means something completely different than it would in Elizabethan England some few centuries ago, or even more so several centuries ago. Clearly this statement today is obviously a slang greeting, meaning “how do you do”. Several centuries ago any English scholar would never translate that to mean a greeting at all. So not only must the words, which might seem obvious, be translated, but the time period in which they were written be taken into account.

The Time and Origins of the Word Amen

When translating a word you must always take into account the origins of the word. Any scientist, any scholar, any intelligent person knows that you can’t just go to the first wide spread use of a word and take that to be the origin of a word.

For example, kids today hear a song and think that the person singing it was the first person to sing the song. Someone slightly older than that kid might say the song is from a person who sang the song 10 years before. Someone older still might say it’s from a person who sang it 15 years before. But the true scholar in music might tell all 3 of them, that the song was originally recorded over 50 years ago AND that the song was a complete rip off of a popular poem written two centuries ago. Clearly the scholar is the one that knows the origins of the song. That’s not to say that the kid should be shamed or anyone else, but when considering “origins” you must absolutely state the true origins.

The thing about religion is that we are taught to believe that one religion is better than another. Oh, I don’t mean a Church of Christ believes that a Seven Day Adventist is wrong, I mean a Christian believes a Jew is wrong or a Muslim is wrong, and all 3 believe a Buddhist is completely wrong. Lastly, the 3 global religions all teach that pagans or those that believe in a pantheon or multiple gods are completely evil.

Now if pagans are completely evil, there should be nothing associating Christianity, Judaism or Muslim with pagans right? Wrong! The most obvious of the 3 is Muslim. There are tons of examples where the Muslim religion is based on the pagan religions is sprang from. In fact the words were not even changed. Next comes Christianity which has complete pagan holidays and even adopted more pagan holidays as they went on. Lastly, comes Judaism which has plenty of origins in paganism, with observances.

Do you find that insulting? Only if you are brainwashed not to think for yourself and do your own research would you be insulted by it. For, to be insulted by something is to believe the words have no truth in them and are meant only to be malicious. Anyone reading my blog knows that I only write that which is based in facts and never do I mean to harm someone. So, we’re on the same page. Clearly each of the big 3 global religions are not as pure as they purport to be.

Anyone who has even remotely opened up a history book knows that the word Amen is the Egyptian sun god. There is no mistaking it. There are many names for him: Amun, reconstructed Egyptian Yamānu (also spelled Amon, Amoun, Amen, and rarely Imen, Greek Ἄμμων Ammon, and Ἅμμων Hammon).

Amun was a deity in Egyptian mythology who in the form of Amun-Ra became the focus of the most complex system of theology in Ancient Egypt. Whilst remaining hypostatic deities, Amun represented the essential and hidden, whilst in Ra he represented revealed divinity. As the creator deity “par excellence”, he was the champion of the poor and central to personal piety. Amun was self created, without mother and father, and during the New Kingdom he became the greatest expression of transcendental deity in Egyptian theology. He was not considered to be immanent within creation nor was creation seen as an extension of himself. Amun-Ra, likewise with the Hebrew creator deity, did not physically engender the universe. His position as King of gods developed to the point of virtual monotheism where other gods became manifestations of him. With Osiris, Amun-Ra is the most widely recorded of the Egyptian gods. [Vincent Arieh Tobin, Oxford Guide: The Essential Guide to Egyptian Mythology,Edited by Donald B.Redford, p20, Berkley book]

But this still isn’t even the origin of the word. Remember my example of the 4 people discussing the origin of the musical song? This is simply an example of one of the few early wide spread uses of the word. One scholar traces it even before Egypt:

That phrase, and the last word more specifically, is very familiar to millions of English-speaking Christians, Jews and Muslims worldwide. Prayers of these three major monotheistic religions are typically closed with the word, “amen.”

For many the word amen means, “so be it,” or “it is so.” In the Western world of religion the credit for the word is given to the Hebrew texts of the Old Testament, or Jewish Torah. Christians adopted the word, as well as the Muslims.

But the origin of the word is under contention. It does not, says one Elizabeth City State University professor, trace its roots back to the Hebrew people; rather, the word can be traced to pre-dynastic Egypt, in the region of Africa known as the Sudan, to be more specific.

“The word (amen) pre-dates ancient Egypt,” says history professor, Jahi Issa. “It means the unseen principles of God.”

Issa is co-author with another scholar, Salim Faraji, of the book The Origin of the Word Amen: Ancient Knowledge the Bible Has Never Told, and it suggests far more than a simple origin of one of the most uttered words in the world.

Amen began as a minor god in Egypt in the Southern Kingdom of Egypt, but later was elevated to the status of Amen-Ra which dominated the rest of the Egyptian empire. Here is the connection then with Amen and how we use it today.

From old Egyptian texts we can see that people regarded the Sun as the emblem of the Creator. They called the Sun Ra, and all other gods and goddesses were forms of the Creator. One of these gods was Amen; a secret, hidden and mysterious god named variously Amen, Amon, Amun, Ammon and Amounra. For the first eleven dynasties (c. 3000-1987 B.C.) Amen was just a minor god, but by the 17th dynasty (c. 1500 B.C.) he had been elevated to be the national god of southern Egypt. This position gave Amen the attributes and characteristics of the most ancient gods, and his name became Amen-Ra, that is, a supreme form of God the Creator. By the 18th Dynasty (1539-1295 B.C.) a college had been established to study Amen-Ra and as a focal point for worship.

The Jews settled in Egypt for around 400 years from 1847 B.C. and during this sojourn there is no doubt they would have been fully exposed to the worship of Amen-Ra. By the time of their exodus from Egypt in 1447 B.C., Amen would certainly be in their language even if it was not their god. It would be a word that had associations with reverence and majesty. This is not difficult to understand. People still talk about Moses, Jesus, Mohammed and Buddha, and often use those names completely out of context as expletives. Amen was seen as a powerful god and the name continued, out of context, as an exclamation or salutation; a classic example of language evolution. From the Jews, the word was adopted by Christians, Muslims and others.

So the Jews, which were clearly, historically entwined in Egypt acquired the god and his name. Note that Amen was THE dominant god of the land. So if the Jews were in Egypt for any length of time they would have been forced to say the name of the supreme god of the land, also known as the creator and the one true god. In my Egyptology studies it became clear to me that Egypt did not believe in a bunch of gods, like the mythology holds. They believed in only Amen-Ra. The other stories and gods were made up and popularized by the nobles of Egypt, who were trying to elevated their own importance. They would often try to put forth their own god and even be buried with pictures and stories of that god so that they themselves would be elevated to status of a god. Amen-Ra doesn’t interact with the other gods in any of the core belief stories. In stories of the other gods however, they might interact with him, but not the other way around.

So the Jews were in Egypt. They came from Egypt and adopted this word Amen. The christians, who were a sect of Judaism also adopted this word into their religion. And the muslims who also stemmed from Judaism also adopted the same word.

Is this a pagan word? Yes, in the strict definition, this is a pagan word, stemming from a pagan belief. Is there evidence in the Bible of the origin of the word? Yes. You don’t think I’d just let you take my word for it, or the words of the scholars I’ve been quoting.

Here, see the evidence for yourself:

Revelation 3:14-22 (King James Version)
14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Let’s focus on “These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;”. This is a very curious sentence is it not? We as Christians or Jews only use Amen to mean “I agree” and use it at the end of a prayer or verse. Obviously we are ignorant of the actual word. It doesn’t mean “I agree” at all. “Saith the Amen” clearly means that Amen is a person. He it saying something, to someone. The Amen then isn’t a greeting nor an agreement nor affirmative statement. It is a person. By reading the verse them we are assumed to already know that Amen is not only a person, but that Amen describes the person entirely. “The” Amen, means that Amen has a meaning all by itself and is a title of some sort. You wouldn’t say “the” peter or “the” joseph. In all that I have written already, you already know the answer. “The” Amen is the god we’ve been talking about here.

Conclusion

It is fairly obvious to me that Amen was an African god, adopted by the Egyptians and passed on to the Jews, Christians and Muslims. I hope you can accept the evidence from your own book. I don’t want any death threats for pointing out facts to you. If you want to continue praying, clearly, to a pagan god, go ahead. I would, however, that you were not ignorant of whom you are praying to. If you think that getting into Heaven is important at all, it would be wise of you, to question everything that your minister, rabbi, pastor teaches you.

Matthew 5:
17 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 17
1 Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come.
2 It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

Jesus himself tells you to question what you are taught. And to make sure of what you are taught. Is it correct? Is it right?

Finally, as I said before, people are taught their own tiny religion is the only way to God. Remember, we are trying to get to God, not Jesus. We are trying to get to God. People always seem to only remember “No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). They ignorantly misinterpret “except through me” to mean that you have to

1. hear about Jesus
2. believe in Jesus
3. pronounce Jesus as your lord and saviour

That isn’t what the scripture is talking about at all. Why? Because Jesus turns around and says: John 10:16 “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” This would seem to contradict John 14:6, unless you are a student of philosophy. He was one man, there would be no way that 1 billion people on the planet would even be able to get to him, or he to them.

Conclusion? Jesus tells us straight out that he is making a sacrifice to save “the world”. This sacrifice then will cover “everyone.” Who is everyone?

• gentiles
• jews
• muslims
• all christians
• asians
• pagans
• even satanists

Woah! Could God save a satanist? Would you even suggest that God couldn’t save a satanist? Would God, being all powerful, not be able to save a satanist? I’m not trying to shame you. I’m just merely pointing out what is right in front of you.

This American Lifestyle: October Questions

Things That Make Us Americans

These are questions I present to you that if people answered in the positive, I feel, our country would be back on track. If you answer no to all of the, then maybe you need to stop and reevaluate your life and how you’re living it. Sounds judgmental I know, but I think it’s high time we stop avoiding issues and high time we take responsibility for the things we absolutely can change. You need to be confronted. You need to be told you are not right. You need to be told it IS your fault.

Here are the questions. Enjoy!

• When was the last time you cuddled on the couch with your wife/husband? Without the T.V. being on.

• When was the last time you baked a pie for your neighbor?

• When was the last time you played catch with your kids?

• When was the last time you went to church with the whole family?

• When was the last time you washed your car with your kids?

• When was the last time you removed the rust, painted that messy wall, fixed the sprinklers or did chores around the house?

• When was the last time you played board games with your kids?

• When was the last time you just sat and gossiped with your neighbors on the front porch?

• When was the last time you saw a sunset with your wife / husband?

• When was the last time you saw an intellectually stimulating independent film?

• When was the last time you read to your children?

• When was the last time you had a block party with all the neighbors?

• When was the last time you went fishing with your kids?

• When was the last time you voted for an independent candidate i.e. not republican nor democrat?

• When was the last time you read the newspaper cover to cover?

• When was the last time you invited those poor neighbors over for dinner? You know the one’s down the street that just lost their job?

• When was the last time you went to a school board meeting?

• When was the last time you looked over all your kid’s text books?

• When was the last time you gave your kid a treat that didn’t have sugar in it?

• When was the last time you told your kid “no” for their own good and not just because you were annoyed?

• When was the last time you went to a city / power company / water company meeting? Researched what was going on and stood up and confronted them about raising your bills?

• When was the last time you wrote your congressman / senator / president?

• When was the last time you wrote your state congressman / senator / governor?

• When was the last time you confronted your mayor about a financial issue?

• When was the last time you confronted your local sherriff about unjust laws implimented just to make the city / police money?

• When was the last time you actually looked at the real numbers of deaths by: DUI in your city / state; murder in your city / state; deaths by lack of seat belts; deaths or murder by drugs like marijuana; deaths by terrorists; deaths by supposed flu? [ I encourage you to go find the real numbers. You’ll be surprised how low they are, yet millions or billions are being spent on them or people are being charged for them for no reason. ]

• When was the last time you deposited money into your regular, plain old, savings account?

• When was the last time you compared your interest rate being paid to your savings account to other banks and credit unions?

• When was the last time you compared the fees being charged to you by your bank to other banks and credit unions?

• When was the last time you stopped and calculated how much you spend on food / clothing / stuff each week / month / year?

• When was the last time you bought something you did not need? i.e. that wasn’t real food: breakfast / lunch / dinner; or real clothes: for summer / winter; or real bills: rent / basic car note [yes one single car, not 2 or 3] / power / water / trash / basic telephone [yes just basic, not cell phone]

• When was the last time your child bought something he / she did not need? i.e. your child shouldn’t be buying anything, you should provide them with the basic necessities, anything else should go into their college fund, not toys, video games etc.

• When was the last time you were behind on bills, yet: ate out or went shopping or bought something rather expensive?

• When was the last time you went on patrol for your neighborhood watch?

These questions are mainly to make you stop and think. Think about your habits you’ve been getting into. Think about the example you set your children. Think about how you neglect your neighbors. Think about how you neglect your spouse or children. Our country really was a set of villages and we were all involved with each other and were interested in each other. Now we don’t have the time for anything.

We are slowly being dumbed down and our children are being dumbed down by what they learn in school, see on t.v. and see in the movies. Yes, your child isn’t going to turn out as smart as you. You might think because they play with video games and computers that they are far smarter than you, but those are simply different tools. Your children will turn out dumb. The system wants them as dumb as possible. The system wants them to do drugs, regardless of what you hear. Think about it for a second. When you hear a report about drugs on t.v. do they tell you all about the drug so you can know where / when / how to buy it?

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The Truth About Long Term Investment

True Dollar Value Over Long Term

Most investors know that there is the ever present inflation that they have to overcome to even break even with their investments. The problem, in our country, is they don’t understand that with continued Federal Reserve interference with interest rates that they are fighting a losing battle, IF they are investing in markets traded by the U.S. dollar. For instance, let’s go over just last years inflation rates, just as an eye opener, per month.

       jan   feb   mar   apr   may   jun   jul   aug   sep   oct   nov   dec  annual
2008   4.3   4.0   4.0   3.9   4.2   5.0   5.6   5.4   4.9   3.7   1.1   0.1     3.8

As you can see, if you weren’t at least getting a 6.0 return monthly on your investments you were not making money. Most investors would want not only an investment to cover inflation however, but actually make a profit. If you’re not in the game to make a profit then you are in the wrong game entirely. The wise investor would be satisfied with a 3% gain over and above the inflation rate. So rounding up to the nearest percentage point, you would want at least a 9% return on your investment. How many investments do you know with such a return?

Clearing stayin in the dollar is the most unwise choice. You should shop around for a currency that places a very high value in either maintaining its currency value or even increasing it. As it stands now, the only places that fit that bill are China, Japan and maybe Australia or Norway or Brazil.

China

China, for all its faults, and clearly manipulating its currency value does, in fact, maintain the Yuan, year after year. If the Yuan then is stable and doesn’t fluctuate then all profits are purely profit and doesn’t have to compete with a monthly inflation rate. In fact, China is now opening up a bond market. This is clearly in preparation of divesting itself of the U.S. dollar.

China controls the value of its currency to give its exporters a price advantage on international markets, arguing it needs to prop up its industrial base to create jobs at a fast enough rate to maintain relative peace in its vast and diverse population.

China is reluctant to let its currency rise more quickly for fear of disrupting its job-rich export industries. Since Chinese officials regard a U.S. recession next year, and thus a sharp fall in their exports to the USA, as a “virtual certainty,” they see no need to compromise on currency, says Nicholas Lardy of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, who was recently in Beijing.

In yet another step to internationalize the yuan as a global currency, China will be selling yuan-denominated bonds on the international market for the first time.

The 6 billion yuan ($876 million) bond sale is slated for Sept. 28, the ministry said. Hong Kong is Chinese territory but has its own currency and regulatory system and often is used by Chinese companies to deal with foreign investors.

The yuan, also known as the renminbi, or people’s money, does not trade on global markets despite China’s huge foreign trade, but Beijing is gradually expanding its use abroad.

Japan

Japan’s new policy is that it seeks to strengthen the Yen. Thus, trading in Yens is a very sound investment.

Japan’s new government has watched but not acted as the yen has risen steadily against the dollar, in a gamble that a strong yen could spur domestic demand and lower the country’s reliance on exports. The Japanese currency gained more ground in Asia after shooting through the symbolic 90-yen-per-dollar level on Friday, with the dollar trading at around 88.73 yen. The yen is now about 30% stronger than its precrisis level.

But the new Japanese government under Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has dismissed calls to intervene, in contrast to years past, when the Bank of Japan sold yen and bought dollars to keep the currency weak. A rising yen hurts Japanese exporters by making their products more expensive abroad. Instead, the new leadership and the Bank of Japan have made comments suggesting a strong yen, which makes imports cheaper, would help spark a rebound in consumer spending missing in Japan since the 1980s. That would lessen Japan’s dependence on exports for growth, a dependence that caused the economy to go into a tailspin when world trade halted late last year.

It is an idea that feeds into the global agenda outlined by the Group of 20 nations last week to rebalance the world economy away from overreliance on U.S. consumers. Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii reiterated the strong-yen policy at the G-20 meeting, sparking the yen rally and pushing its value to 89.85 yen to the dollar. “I don’t think it is proper for the government to intervene in the markets arbitrarily,” he said at a meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner before the summit.

The policy’s impact is already evident at Japan’s high-street shops, where signs declare high-yen sales on imported goods such as Italian handbags and French perfumes. A strong yen also means companies can purchase oil and other commodities more cheaply on the world market.

Australia

The Australian dollar has been constantly on the rise. In fact the policy seems to have adopted the same policy as the Japanese, i.e. a strong Australian dollar.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), seems to have no problem with continued appreciation of the Australian dollar. The Australian dollar is already up more than 50% against the U.S. dollar since the October 2008 lows of US$0.61/A$, and up more than 30% since New Year’s Eve level of US$0.70/A$, yet when asked what to do if the Aussie dollar continued to appreciate to for example US$1.10/A$, then RBA chairman Glenn Stevens simply said it would simply reflect the strength of the Australian economy and that the RBA would have no problem with it.

This means investments in A$ would appreciate and not suffer inflation.

Norway

Talk about a healthy economy. They are already out of the recession completely. However, that is due to the complete health of their economy to begin with. They have low unemployment, higher projected wages, and a sound fiscal policy to again raise interest rates. In fact they are doing so aggressively over the next 3 year.

Norges Bank raised its key interest rate a quarter point from a record low and signaled steeper increases than it previously forecast over the next three years as inflation accelerates and unemployment remains low.

Brazil

Brazil has been under constant attack. It also has outstanding loans by the IMF. This soundly renders it a 3rd world country. Regardless of imports, regardless of exports, if it has a loan to the IMF and conceded to privatization of resources to foreign companies, it is squarely in the 3rd world country category. However, it has a very sound and robust central bank that investors can take advantage of. It has a very definite plan about it currency and it is not marred by the previous ridiculous fluctuations we all used to hear about.

On June 1st 1994, Brazil implemented one of the most important steps of Real Plan: the currency was changed. The old “cruzeiro real” was abandoned, and the new currency, Real (symbol R$) gained course.

As a symbolism to gain confidence, the Brazilian monetary authorities defined that, on launching, the Real would be equivalent to the dollar (R$ 1 = US$1). However, the equivalence should be maintained by fiscal and monetary measures, and not by force of law (shortly before, Argentina had launched Plan Austral, which defined, in the Argentinian Constitution, that the Austral would be legally pegged to the dollar).
In the first few months of existence, the new currency caused a surprise to most Brazilians: it gained value against the dollar. This happened for some reasons: the Central Bank increased interest rates; there was liquidity in the international markets; most important of all, foreigner investors believed in the success of the Plan Real, which would (with the fall of inflation) cause redistribution of income, and Brazil saw a massive influx of foreigner investments.

[ I will admit, I am not sure about Brazil. Several sources give conflicting information about Brazil. Roubini talks down Brazil (what a shocker that is, right?) While other sources point to strong policies that it is now adopting. I include it here, just in case I am completely correct. ]

Conclusion

In essence, staying in the dollar is a zero sum game. While most G20 countries are obviously divesting themselves of the dollar, our own central bank continuously pours fuel on the fire. Inflation isn’t even accurately accounted for. As an investor you want the real number, not the pumped up numbers, the dumbed down numbers nor the look good numbers. How can you accurately gauge your return if you don’t have a sound, real accurate inflation rate to compare it to.

Of course stocks are going up. The value of the dollar is going down. If over the course of the year the dollar value goes down a full 6%, your 5%return is a loss not a gain. If the stock price goes up 4% over the course of a year or even 6% it is barely keeping up with inflation.

So let’s look at your “gains”. [these are all hypothetical]

• Stock appreciates 10% in a year
• broker fees 1%
• short-term capital gains tax rate 10%
• inflation rate 6%

Obviously you are in the hole, in the red and under. You should be able to do the real math for your potential investments before you invest. Obviously you already know the fees you pay, the tax rate, and potential inflation rate. You then have to come up with an investment that can give you such a return as to give you over and above all of the expenses just to get into the investment. Sadly, staying the dollar is the worst possible thing to do currently.

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Things You Should Ask Your Broker Part I

Is Your Broker – Friend or Enemy?

We have services that you can call and get a complete run down on a dentist: how long he’s been in practice; how many surgeries he’s done; any complaints. Ostensibly you could go your whole life, with perfect nutrition, without ever seeing a dentist. That is to say, a dentist in the grand scheme of things, is not life or death. However, people cash out their life savings and hand it over to a complete stranger, called a broker, purely on the recommendation of a late night commercial.

I am of the opinion, and this is just my own personal opinion, that 90% of the people in the stock market today: DO NOT BELONG. Given that they are however, I am starting this series, to make sure they are making their list and checking it twice. Why do i believe most people should not be in the stock market? It is quite simple really. I am of the opinion that the stock market is for the rich.

• if you don’t have $100,000 you could completely lose, you shouldn’t be in the stock market
• if you don’t know how to make $100,000 in a year, through your own knowledge and hard work, and repeat that year after year, you shouldn’t be in the stock market
• if you can’t leave an asset untouched for 5 / 15 / 30 years, you shouldn’t be in the stock market
• if the money you are playing with, is your life saving; your child’s college fund; your retirement fund; your pension, you shouldn’t be in the stock market
• if you can’t call the president of the company you invested in, you shouldn’t be in the stock market

The reason that there are so many completely inept, poor and clueless people in the stock market today, dates back to the golden age of America. The one brief shining moment, when poor people were well off in America. We were on the gold standard and there was no federal reserve. The value of the dollar rose higher and higher. Suddenly it dawned on one unscrupulous banker that: if people could be persuaded to buy government bonds then they could be persuaded to buy stocks. Soon there were nationwide brokers and a ticker tape in every barber shop. Fast forward 10 years. The real players in the stock market called in all their margins, crashed the market, bankrupted 75% of the nations banks and simply counted their money… i.e. all the poor schleps who had no clue what was going on.

Before that time, the stock market was the playground of the rich. Businesses went there to seek funding and investors for expansion. Everyone knew who was doing what and the businesses knew they couldn’t swindle anyone. The brokers were used to dealing with a very savvy investor and had no compunctions about gouging their clientele.

With the entrance into the market of millions upon millions of fresh new money that knew absolutely nothing about what was going on, the environment was bound to take advantage of it. It is almost a law of averages that taking advantage of the stupid and the foolish was ingrained into the system. Can you honestly blame them?

The market was faced with savvy investors who didn’t soon part with their money for over 120 some odd years. For over a century the brokers were used to clientele that could coach them on investing. For over a century investors were used to dealing with very wary and wily investors like themselves. What were they supposed to do when in pops 10 / 500 / 10,000 new investors who didn’t know the quarterly earnings of the companies they were invested in, nor any other company for that matter. It was like taking money from a baby. And, no one said stop let’s educate ourselves. It continued year after year, decade after decade all the way till the present.

Now we have unsavvy news reporters, who have no clue about what’s going on. None of them are economist nor investors or any worth. I once met a guy who advised me: “be prepared to lose everything you invest for a year, and then maybe you’ll learn the market.” That’s how he learned. This is the advice peons are giving other peons.

Well, I won’t stand for it. If I can’t persuade you to leave the market altogether, at least I can educate you on some inside information you should have learned or shoud learn before investing.

Things You Should Ask Your Broker

Without further ado, these questions are to prepare you for interviewing your broker. If you don’t have the mindset, that it is YOU who are doing the interview, then you should just hand him your money and wave goodbye, because you’re too stupid to have money.

– What type of financial licenses do you hold?

• the person could say “none” – there’s nothing to say you’ve happened upon a real live broker at all.
• the person could say ” series 6 license” – dubious indeed. You could be dealing with someone that only is able to sell you a mutal fund [aww poor you] Unfortunately a series 6 is not legally able to explain any other financial product.
• the person could say “series 7 license” – this is the ground level of the type of person you want to be talking to about investing your hard earned money. this is the license a person is rquired to possess by all state and federal regulatory agencies to sell stocks and bonds legally to individuals. Only the series 7 can discuss all type of investiments – stocks, bonds, mutual funds, limited partnerships, and so forth.
• the person could say “series 8 / 24 license” – he would have teh power to supervise other advisors’ activities and hopefully not suggest hogwash investments to you.
• the person could say they also have a “series 65 license” – this is the requirement to make that person a register investment advisor. They would then charge you a fee by the hour instead of commission based charges. Please note that saying you are register by your firm as an advisor is not the same as a series 65 license holder. Nearly every firm would reject hiring someone with a 65 license, because they make their money off of commissions, hourly advice would be useless to them.

If they don’t have at least a series 7 don’t waste your time. Excuse yourself and find someone else, in fact don’t even deal with that firm. If that firm was willing to put you in front of an unlicensed person, who knows what they will do once they have your money.

– Are you covered by the securities investor protection corporation insurance?

• this is equivalent to the FDIC insurance. If the brokerage firm holding your account goes broke, the insurane will pay you up to $500,000 per account; upt to $100,000 if this was in cash.
• this is insurance only if the broker goes broker, not you losing money in the stock market. Just like if the bank declared bankruptcy and you had a saving account there.
• this insurance is great unless you have upwards of $500,000 plus.
• most brokerage firms would then carry extra insurance to insure accounts up to $10 million or even more.
• not every firm carries eithe insurance. This is a definate “must ask” question.

If they don’t have insurance, just leave.

– are you CFP, CRPC, CDFA etc

• this means that the person is not only licensed, but went the extra mile and saught more training in the field and is therefore more certified to discuss specific topics.
• CFP – certified or charger financial planner
• CRPC – certified retirement specialist
• CDFA – certified divorce analyst
• there are more, but should ask this to see if you’re dealing with someone that takes the job serious.

If the answer is yes to this, then this is just gravy. This is the extra you are looking for. This does not mean, however, that they are reputable and will not steal your money as most firms do. This simply means you are not talking to a peon that just wandered in off the street.

Lastly, if they come to your house personally to talk, politely ask them to leave. Unless you are a rockerfeller, a professional broker, with clients, would never take the time to come to your house. It smells of either a desperate newbie or a scam artist.

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