Today's News

Kuwait Firm Faces Fraud Charges In DOD Contracts - Corpwatch
Agility, a Kuwait-based multi-billion dollar logistics company spawned by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, is facing criminal charges for over-billing the U.S. taxpayer on more than $8.5 billion worth of food supply contracts in the Iraq war zone. If the lawsuit, scheduled for February 8, is successful, the company could owe the U.S. government as much as $1 billion.

Originally known as Public Warehousing Corporation (PWC), Agility boasts that it once supplied one million meals a day to U.S. soldiers and contractors in the Middle East. The company's Mercedes trucks hauled delicacies from ice cream to lobster tails to feed soldiers living on military bases scattered throughout Iraq. Today it has new contracts to provide food to the U.S. Agency for International Development in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa and – until about a month ago – was supposed to ramp up food delivery to the troops newly posted in southern Afghanistan.

In a lawsuit filed on November 18, 2005, Kamal Mustafa Al-Sultan accuses Agility of cheating him of a share of profits from the lucrative contract because he refused to go along with alleged corruption. A former business partner of PWC/Agility, Sultan is a cousin of the company founder and CEO, Tarek Abdul Aziz Sultan Al-Essa.

After conducting a grand jury investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) joined Kamal Sultan and filed criminal charges against PWC/Agility on November 9, 2009, immediately boosting the original lawsuit's chances of success.

Missionaries Charged In Child Kidnapping - Guardian
Well, here it appears that the most lurid imaginations of the enemies of the Gospel are unfortunately correct. There does appear to be a real conspiracy to traffic in children behind this. This is what observers on the scene and are in a position to know have told me. First the so-called missionaries appear to have accepted a very large sum of money to procure children and the plan was to spirit them back to America via contacts in the Dominican Republic.

At first glance, it look to me as though these missionaries were just naive and were trying to circumvent the law because there was no real legal mechanism in place to expedite the legal transfer of (real) orphans out of the country. This does not appear to be true. There are well known ways to do this and they are well known to agencies operating in Haiti. Apparently the system is quite good and very efficient so there was really no need to do what they did unless they were truly ignorant of the law or were engaging in something they knew they should not be doing.

Well, the story does not stop here. According to informed sources, there are two things that have not hit the news waves/blogosphere that sent shivers down my spine (I cannot independently confirm this but these sources are in a position to know and have never steered me wrong before). First, the names of some of the folks who they have intimated to me made the very large payments to these 'missionaries', specifically for child procurement. They included many well known people on the political left such as Hollywood 'movers and shakers' as well as powerful elected representatives. But in defense of the accused, I just don't think they had a clue as to what they were dealing with, if indeed these things are true. But let them have their day in court we are all entitled to that, even though many in our nation even in past Presidential administrations do not feel some people have that right.

In fact, the Haitian officials have been begging the US Justice Department to take this case as they know they are not really equipped for it. The Justice Department is holding it at arms length. Why? Because they know just what I told you and it could cause one heck of a scandal in an election year for their party and could cause some very senior people in key oversight positions to lose their seats, if it ever broke. Given the political nature of this, if the FBI took it over, it would 'leak' out of the Department before too long.

It appears to me (IMHO) in light of this information that these missionaries just got greedy. They saw the cash and did not care (and almost certainly did not know) where it really came from. They appear to have been merely go-betweens left in the dark. They may have justified it in their own minds thinking that the children would go to a better life somewhere. This does not excuse them, they should have been smart enough to know that human trafficking is a serious crime and it does come with heavy prison sentences. Moreover, those people who are trafficked almost never go to a 'better life', but wind up as slaves, sex slaves or parts of criminal underworlds to work off real or imaginary debts. If they did not know it or seriously consider it then, I am sure they will now. The bottom line is that if someone wants to procure them illegally, it is almost always for an illegal purpose.

It is wrong and evil for anyone to exploit this Hatian tragedy for any reason. But there are always people who will and sadly, those who claim to be Christian are no exception.

People who do these things just made it that much harder for other Christians elsewhere to help others. Shame on them. But the last thing I want to to is try these people in the court of public opinion. But one thing that troubles me is the fact that the trial in Haiti is going to be a closed affair, which is how I am sure some folks want it to be. Again I do not want to convict these people before they have had a chance to be heard. I will be fair to these men and women and let the real evidence speak for itself.

So before the FBI decides to raise the stakes and Congress tries to pass new surveillance laws on ordinary people, perhaps they should just use the tools they already have and simply refuse to use because such prosecutions might cause some discomfort to the party hierarchy.

If The Mortgage Bankers Associations Walks Away, Why Shouldn't You? - Impode-O-Meter
Like millions of American households, the Mortgage Bankers Association found itself stuck with real estate whose market value has plunged far below the amount it owed its lenders.

But the trade group for mortgage lenders is refusing to say exactly how it extracted itself from that predicament.

On Friday, CoStar Group Inc., a provider of commercial real estate data, announced that it had agreed to buy the MBA’s 10-story headquarters building in Washington, D.C., for $41.3 million. The price is far below the $79 million the trade group says it paid for the glass-walled building in 2007, while it was still under construction. The price also is far below the $75 million financing that the MBA received from a group of banks led by PNC Financial Services Group Inc. to finance the purchase.

John Courson, chief executive officer of the trade group, declined in an interview Saturday to say whether the MBA would pay off the full loan amount. “We’re not going to discuss the financing,” he said. A spokeswoman for the MBA added that the MBA has reached “an agreement with all relevant parties” regarding the outstanding amount on that loan but declined to provide any details.

The Expanding War In Pakistan - The Nation
"What we're seeing is the expansion of 'white' Special Operations Forces into Pakistan," says a former member of CENTCOM and US Special Forces with extensive experience in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theater. "As Vietnam, Somalia and the Balkans taught us, that is almost always a precursor to expanded military operations." The former CENTCOM employee spoke to The Nation on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the Pakistan operations. He characterized the US military's role with the Pakistani Frontier Corps as "training in offensive operations," but rejected the idea that at this stage these US trainers would cross the line to engage in direct combat against Taliban forces. That does not mean, he says, that US military forces are not fighting in Pakistan. "Any firefights in Pakistan would be between JSOC forces versus whoever they were chasing," he said. "I would bet my life on that."(end excerpt)

As you can see, the knuckle draggers and boneheads are still in charge, making sure those defense dollars keep coming their way. 'Its too peaceful here, we gotta stir things up, get things real violent and nasty. If we do, we could make a mint oiver here!. Get on the horn to our agent on the NSC, get 'em to write a policy paper supporting some black ops over here, In a couple of years we'll have enough money to retire rich to Aruba.'

Now (going on nine years later) they are finally sending out some peace feelers to the Taliban. Why now?" Because we are getting out butts kicked in Afghanistan, we are facing the disintegration of Pakistan, growing fatigue with war not only in the US but with our NATO allies as well. They are appalled at our support for the Opium regime of Karzai and our rubber stamping of the elections there. American policy is set on a course that any one with half a brain can see is going to fail. Well, the US either gets its act together (it won't) or it will be the last man standing in Afghanistan as other get out of what is an American made quagmire. We are creating a Narco-Terror regime and the US is just to blind to see it, or is conciously trying to make it happen.

An Afghan minister who was pushed from his job because of British and US concerns over corruption has been voted back into Hamid Karzai's cabinet as counter narcotics chief.

The appointment of Zarar Ahmad Moqbel caused dismay among British officials who head international efforts to stamp out the world's largest poppy growing and opium trafficking businesses.

Mr Moqbel was interior minister until late 2008 and faced widespread accusations that he was linked to rampant corruption within his ministry.

The interior ministry, which is responsible for the police, became notorious during his stewardship for selling positions and appointing predatory police chiefs who often colluded with drugs traffickers. - Telegraph

Militants Claim Attack On Shell - CB Online
A Nigerian militant group said Sunday that it had attacked a major oil pipeline operated by a Royal Dutch Shell PLC subsidiary in Nigeria, though the international oil giant could not confirm the attack occurred.

Nigeria is one of Africa's largest oil producers and reports of attacks in the restive, oil-rich Niger Delta have the potential to affect oil production in Nigeria and oil prices worldwide.

UK Heroin Laced With Anthrax - Red Orbit
Health officials from Britain issued drug users an alert on Friday after a heroin user tested positive for the deadly anthrax infection, according to Reuters.

It was the first such anthrax case seen in England caused by laced heroin. Nine people have died in Scotland and one in Germany during the past two months from the contaminated drug. Officials from the Health Protection Agency, in a statement, said the laced drug could be circulating through Europe now.

G7 Talk Brings Skepticism On PIIGS Debts - Reuters
This is going to be major test for the EU. Don't expect quick resolution. Expect the debt problems to expand beyond the troubled five to other nations as the months roll on. It has and will continue to effect stocks as well and dampen all of the hopeful talk of 'recovery'.

DC Area Shut Down Monday - WP
Well, the storm was a doosy and we are expecting more snow on Tuesday. Schools are going to be closed Monday And Tuesday and it is not looking good for Wednesday.

Philippines Allege Use Of Bioweapons - BioPrepWatch
A landmine that exploded at the boundary of Libug and Cabcaban villages in Sumisip town, the Philippines, reportedly contained biological weapons, authorities have said.

Ten soldiers were wounded in the explosion and subsequent ambush in the southern Philippines region last Tuesday. Those soldiers then developed high fevers and were airlifted to a nearby hospital, the Philippine Star reported.

Swedish, British Troops Killed In Afghanistan - RTT News
Comment here

It Is Now Impossible For The US To Pay Debts - Economic Collapse
A lot of people are very upset about the rapidly increasing U.S. national debt these days and they are demanding a solution. What they don't realize is that there simply is not a solution under the current U.S. financial system. It is now mathematically impossible for the U.S. government to pay off the U.S. national debt. You see, the truth is that the U.S. government now owes more dollars than actually exist. If the U.S. government went out today and took every single penny from every single American bank, business and taxpayer, they still would not be able to pay off the national debt. And if they did that, obviously American society would stop functioning because nobody would have any money to buy or sell anything. (end excerpt)

Not a bad article, but readers of Watson's Web knew about this years ago. It is nice to see those in the Blogosphere finally catch up with what I was saying 10 years ago. The author here says that people are angry. Yes, they are but it is a kind of ignorant anger. It is the anger of a two year old at why they can't have that piece of candy and throws a temper tantrum. I know. How do I know? I will tell you. In November, either the Democrats or Republicans will be returned to power in the House and/or Senate. The same ones who put us in this mess. They will tell Molly mental two-year-old that they will give them more candy, but not tell them where they will get it from. They will get more empty promises from corrupt politicians made in the fleeting minutes between their hooker dates, sex with underage girls and boys and elite cocaine and sex parties. The people have no idea how sick and evil Washington is. They really don't, nor do they want to. They only want to get angry now because it has become chic to do so as their own folly is just beginning to touch (very gently) mainstreet. I cannot blame the crooks in the Senate and Congress. If the people are being robbed, it is because the voters asked for it, consistently, loud and clear and there could be no mistake about what they asked for. They said, loud and clear, Rob us, and tell us sweet little lies while you do it, but take what you want out of the Treasury, make promises and we will vote for you.

But our economic situation has gone much further than most know and the damage to this nation is irrreparable, despite the lies and soothing words you hear from the MSM. The ignorant masses (there is no other way to characterize them) are still being swayed by those whose main intention is to deceive and drive them into left wing or the right wing of the Corporate American Party, whose desire is to have a permanent gravy train from the Fed to the Banksters (called Bailouts) and from the Treasury to Corporate America (called Stimulus) and nearly a trillion dollars a year in National Security/Police State spending that is designed to keep the well connected rich and have the tools available to repress the people when the store shelves are bare.

They already have left a great big hole in our balance sheet and expect mainstreet, not Wall Street to fill it back up again.

It is hard to overstate the ignorance of the American people. It is hard to overstate their aversion to anything that resembles the truth or the reality of our predicament. They would rather attack the truth teller and watch the NFL than examine their own ignorance. Well, a new schoolmaster is about to enter the classroom. His name is poverty and his teachings are never forgotten...

...by those fortunate enough to survive his lessons.

Sorry the news was late yesterday... gotta get ready for this
Monster Snowstorm....

NSA And Google Form Alliance
(once that spying camel pushes his snout in the tent, you can't get him to leave...)

The Tea Parties And Jim Crow

Sovereign Debt Weighs On Markets

EU Policy Makers Try To Calm Markets

LA Orders 1000 Jobs Cut

Obama Seeks More Drug War Spending

Why Black And Latino Voices Never Challenge Corporate Power

Better Signals From Obama Admin. On Terror Detentions

Toyota Plant Closure Could Be Disaster For California

Elephas Im Camera Obscura - WW
When one looks at the current state of affairs in the US, even the global economy one cannot help but wonder why no one is seeing ths giant elephant in the room. It is as though all are sitting in a dark room (Camera Obscura) and cannot see it. Indeed, even the odor of the pachyderm has been explained away to those content and happy in this dark room of theft, war and the NFL. But the fact is, no one wants to address key issues in the economic debate. I listened to some snippets that Obama had with some Democratic Senators and you hear them talk about Jobs. That is great, I am glad they got the message from the voters in Massachusetts. I am sure many voters are happy as well. But the economic problems facing our nation go far, far beyond just jobs, tax breaks for small businesses, more teachers, more cops, more this, more that all enclosed in tax regulations and economic stimuli. No one on either side of the aisle is really dealing in reality. They are dealing in slogans that they think are going to garner votes, but not in the harsh realities, not in fundamental Federal Budget reform. It is good for the President to talk about earmarks, even have a freeze on budget growth. The problem is he is not hitting at the heart of the matter. He wants to cut spending for people and leave the corporations, defense industry and other lobbyist intense entities out of any talk of budget cuts. The President and the Leaders of the House and Senate of both parties are playing yet another terribly dishonest game with Americans. It is the people who are going to pay a terrible price for their meandering indecision and legalized corruption (campaign donations/corporate lobbying).

Listen. I know many of my readers think I am nuts. They think I am just off on this. They really think that we are heading into a recovery. They will site some statistics coming out of Washington as proof. Yet any recovery that we may or may not have (I say not) will be so encumbered with massive deficits, declining tax revenues and rising popular anger (that will take many non-peaceful forms), that it will be like a drop of water in the hottest driest desert. It will be a recovery that will evaporate before it hits the ground. I mentioned that we need to look at Sovereign Debt, Commercial Real Estate as being major problems that will bring on the Second Wave of this crisis. They will, if yet another unforeseen crisis does not develop first, and it might. A war that suddenly effects, Oil Supplies, A major natural disaster in an heavily populated, economically important city, even a populist government coming to power in Europe that puts and end to the Global Bankster Bash, paid for by Taxpayers. The kind of government that gives populists (not a bad word, despite establishment propaganda to the contrary) subpoena power and executive power to begin looking into things those who have held power for decades most defiantly did not want looked into. This is more of a threat in Europe that you may realize. Some in power are already afraid of the people as they might soon begin to realize their power at the ballot. Look at the UK and what they just did. This should send shivers down every bankers spine.

Investment banks have been told that every bonus issued must comply with the regulatory guidelines – or they face having their licences to operate in Britain revoked.

In an extraordinary ultimatum that has shocked some of the City's biggest companies, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) told bank bosses that 60pc of all pay must be deferred, with no exceptions, even for those whose contracts conflicting with the edict.

Many of the global players have in recent weeks made representations to the City watchdog, in particular about pre-existing employment contracts that guarantee bonuses over a year or more. But their appeals have been met with the FSA's toughest yet response.

One pay executive in a major bank told The Daily Telegraph: "The message came back that while the FSA agreed that it does not have jurisdiction over contractual law, it does have jurisdiction over issuing bank licences in London, and that we should go away and unwind the contracts." - Telegraph

Obama Will Kill Americans - Raw Story
Bush III , issues same old edict. Those on secret terror lists can be killed. No trial, no jury, no debate. A gaggle of half witted intel analysts who base their analysis on heresay and rumors say you are a terrorist and you are dead meat.

More Signs Of Life In US Economy - Bloomberg
Productivity in the U.S. surged in the fourth quarter and factories received more orders in December than anticipated, showing companies are keeping payrolls lean to rebuild profits.

Employee output per hour rose at a 6.2 percent annual rate at the end of 2009, capping the biggest annual gain in six years, the Labor Department said today in Washington. Factory bookings climbed 1 percent for a second month, and more workers sought jobless benefits last week, other reports showed.

Movie Gallery Files Bankruptcy, Closes 800 Stores - Costar
Late Tuesday night, the country's second largest movie rental chain, Movie Gallery, brought to fruition circulating rumors that it would file Chapter 11.

Bank Of America Charged With Fraud - Barrons
Shares of Bank of America (BAC) are off 62 cents, or 4%, at $14.90 after New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo earlier today filed a civil lawsuit against former CEO Lewis, the bank itself, and former CFO Joe Price, alleging they intentionally hid massive losses at Merrill Lynch prior to B of A buying Merrill in the fall of 2008. Brian Moynihan, who replaced Lewis at B of A, is not under investigation, the AG’s office said.

Christian Dies In Eritrean Concentration Camp - VOM
On January 24, Hana Hagos Asgedom (41), a member of Asabe Rhema Church, died of a heart attack at Eritrea's Alla Military Camp. Hana, who had been detained at Wi'a Military Camp for three years following her arrest in 2007, was moved to the Alla Military Camp when the Wi'a camp was dismantled seven months ago. On arrival at the new camp, Hana was offered a final opportunity to renounce her faith. When she refused, she was placed in solitary confinement. Shortly before her death, she reportedly endured beatings with an iron rod for refusing to "make the chief commander in the camp a cup of coffee" -- an order local Christians believe was in reality a sexual advance. She was then returned to her cell where she endured further punishment and eventually passed away.

Will America Help The Persecuted Copts? - Action Institute
Copts are among the most ancient of Christian communities. They trace their roots back to the Gospel writer Mark who brought Christianity into Alexandria, Egypt, in the first century. Estimated to be about 10 percent of the population in Egypt, their long term survival in that country is in doubt. Their protection is also essential because they represent the largest Christian community in the Middle East.

Fox News deserves credit for raising awareness of Coptic persecution by airing the story of Maher and Dina El-Gowhary. The El-Gowahrys are a father and daughter who face numerous death threats because of their conversion from Islam and who are currently hiding inside Egypt. Islamic leaders have issued a fatwa against Maher, demanding the spilling of his blood. Dina even wrote a letter to President Barack Obama pleading for help.

Copts are not just terrorized with violence from growing Islamic extremism in Egypt; they face religious and economic marginalization by the government as well. The zabaleen (garbage collectors) communities are Christians who live in squalor, sorting trash daily in what can only be described as heartbreaking and horrific conditions. They epitomize the people Jesus spoke about in John 15:20: “Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you.”

The Bapitism In The Spirit - Washington Times
Nearly 50 years ago, an Episcopal priest shocked his listeners during a Palm Sunday sermon at St. Mark's Church in Van Nuys, Calif. On April 3, 1960, the Rev. Dennis Bennett announced he had received a personal Pentecost or "baptism in the Holy Spirit;" an infusion of spiritual power that brought with it the gift of speaking in tongues.

His congregation took the news calmly but some of his fellow clergy and vestry members did not, and Mr. Bennett resigned that very day. His story hit the local media, then Time and Newsweek, then national TV. A sympathetic Episcopal bishop invited him to pastor a dying church in the Seattle suburb of Ballard and in short order St. Luke's/Ballard was turned around, eventually attracting guests from around the world to its famous Friday night meetings.

Latest Bailouts - Propublica
The latest bailouts of the banksters in rss form from ProPublica

Hunger Jumps Unprecedented 46% - AlterNet
You can read the actual report here.

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
(Psa 143:10)

Can The Cops Search Your Cell Phone Without A Warrant? - Nestmann
Modern cell phones do a great deal more than simply send and receive calls. They're sophisticated personal computers with the same capabilities, and more, of a laptop PC. You can use them to send and receive e-mail and instant messages, browse the Internet, keep track of your appointments, take photos and videos, etc.

If you think that any of this information is "private" in the sense that it's legally protected, think again. In most cases, it's not, especially if you're arrested. If you're not under arrest, it's fairly clear that police have no right to search your cell phone without your consent. At U.S. border crossings, though, customs authorities have carte blanche to copy all data on your cell phone, your laptop, etc. (Click here for details.)

Fed Is Worsening Depression - Blacklisted News/CNBC
Very good 10 minute video.

The Worsening Relationship Between US And China - Telegraph
A year ago, American hopes were high for a friendly relationship with China. But the White House seems unwisely to have raised expectations – the Chinese have been consistent in their unwillingness to change positions on key issues.(end excerpt)

If there is one relationship that is key in this decade it is this one. America being the lynchpin of the Western Economic and mililtary security and China being the same for much of Asia, certainly in an economic sense, if not (totally) in a military one.

For those of you who want to see a pretty good contrast of some structural economic problems in the west in relation to China can click here on and find some interesting commentary and graphs.

Yet he news between China and the US is not all bad. Ever head of the NDN?

Sources familiar with the NDN tell EurasiaNet that US officials are also considering the possibility of seeking a sea-and-land route utilizing ports in the Russian Far East.

US diplomats remain circumspect regarding the possibility of Chinese participation in the NDN.

A representative for the State Department told EurasiaNet; "The Department of Defense (DoD) has considered multiple supply routes to ensure the steady delivery [of supplies] to Afghanistan. And in that context the State Department has discussed possibility of supply routes in several countries, including China."

"Secretary [OF State Hillary] Clinton has said that the violence that threatens the people and government of Afghanistan also undermines the stability of the wider region, and all who have shared futures at stake must take responsibly for securing them," the US diplomat continued. "We are not in the position to discuss the status of ongoing diplomatic negotiations."

The Chinese route would be used to transport "gear and vehicles," Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dowd, US Central Command’s director of logistics, told Military Logistics Forum magazine in November.

"As you well know, logisticians like to have as many routes available as possible. That way if the enemy cuts one of the [lines of communication], we can use the others to keep the stream of supplies steady," he added. More can be found here. - ISN/EurasiaNet

Is A Sovereign Debt Crisis Looming? - Carnegie
As the dust settles from the great financial crisis, skyrocketing government debt in advanced countries presents a new risk and is prompting calls for stimulus withdrawal. However, falling output, not stimulus spending, is by far the main cause of wider fiscal deficits. Accordingly, sustaining growth—not withdrawing stimulus—should remain most countries’ top priority if they are to break the debt spiral. Crucially, markets must remain confident in the major economies’ capacity to handle their fiscal affairs, hence the need for persuasive long-term fiscal consolidation plans.(end excerpt)

I could not disagree more but post this as an alternative view. Stimulus spending must come to an end and the underlying structural problems of the US economy (and the west in general) must be dealt with. Otherwise, we run the risk of drifting into a scenario of endless stimulus, doled out to the well connected and ordinary people continue to be out of work in ever increasing numbers.

A quick check of Wikipdeia finds that any and all information (including in the usually excellent links) about Carnegie's funding (which banks, Oil Companies, Defense Contractors donate money here is strangely missing. But the information can be found. Take a look at some of them.

BP Corporation of North America, Inc., Former Senator Bill Bradley, CAREC Institute, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Chevron Corporation, ConocoPhillips, Jane and Bill Donaldson, The Ettinger Foundation, ExxonMobil, Fites Family Charitable Trust, Flora Family Foundation, Ford Foundation, Foundation for Global Community, GE Foundation, General Motors, George Family Foundation, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Richard Giordano, Jamie Gorelick and Richard Waldhorn, Stephen D. Harlan, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, International Paper, Japan External Trade Organization, Boris Jordan, Robert Legvold, Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. and Judith Frost Lewis, Eric Li, The Henry Luce Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Jessica T. Mathews, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, France, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, National Intelligence Council (CIA). (now you know why this list was pulled not put on Wikipedia)

Haiti Officials Arrest Baptists Over Child 'Abduction' - Christian Today.
“The children were being taken to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic where they could be cared for and have their medical and emotional needs attended to,” the churches announced Saturday.

“Our team was falsely arrested today and we are doing everything we can from this end to clear up the misunderstanding that has occurred in Port-au-Prince,” they added.

Though the spokesman for the group, Laura Silsby, told The Associated Press that they received the children from Haitian pastor Jean Sanbil of the Sharing Jesus Ministries, the ministry spearheading the operation had reported prior to the arrests that its plan was to drive a bus from Santo Domingo, Haiti, into Port-au-Prince “and gather 100 orphans from the streets and collapsed orphanages, then return to the DR”.

According to NLCR, the team in Haiti was planning to bring the children to a 45-room hotel in Cabarete that they are converting into an orphanage until the one they are building is complete.

“NLCR is in the process of buying land and building an orphanage, school and church in Magante on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic,” reported New Life Children’s Refuge, which Silsby founded and serves as executive director of.

“Given the urgent needs from this earthquake, God has laid upon our hearts the need to go now vs waiting until the permanent facility is built,” it added.

(end excerpt)

Now you hear the other side of the story. While many on the political left want to spin this for some twisted political agenda here in the US, the truth isn't lurid at all. But it sure makes for excellent anti-Christian propaganda. The kind of stuff those with empty heads and hearts full of hate love to peddle. They will use the suffering of others to distort what really happened to make it look like these men and women, who are doing all they can to help, into a caricature of something evil.

Where are these critics? What have they done besides slander those who are doing what they can to help? I will tell you.

Nothing.

They sit on their big, fat perverted asses and cast stones at those saving lives.

It takes a really sick mind to do that. People are dying, hungry and need medical attention and all these sites can do is throw stones at those who are helping, however imperfectly in a most imperfect situation.

In Juarez Priest On Front Line In Drug War - CNN
"Yes, there have been some priests that have received threatening phone calls from narcotraficantes. Not me, but others. Bishop Ascensio has. I've been lucky. We're not necessarily singled out by them. We're victims like every other citizen. No more, no less," Trevizo says.

At least seven priests have been violently killed in Mexico since 2005, including being kidnapped, shot and beaten. Organized crime has been suspected in some of those cases, according to Manuel Corral, public relations secretary for Mexico's Council of Bishops. He estimated that 1,000 of the 15,000 priests in Mexico have been threatened in some way, and that 300 priests have been threatened directly.

In June 2009, the killings of a Catholic priest and two seminary students as they left a church in southern Mexico sparked outrage. The priest was reportedly singled out for denouncing cartel violence. He had rallied congregants to rise up against drug traffickers.

Obama's DEA Pick Is No Reformer - DRNC
The Obama administration announced this week that it is nominating acting DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart to head the agency. Drug reformers responded with a collective groan and are preparing to challenge -- or at least question -- her nomination when it goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee for confirmation...

"We're obviously very disappointed about this," said Aaron Houston, a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project. "She presided over the worst abuses of the Bush administration raids against patients and providers, she presided over some of the worst periods of activity in Los Angeles as Special Agent in Charge, she rejected the Craker application, she doesn't have a clue about the fact that the Mexicans are begging us to change our drug laws."

"The Leonhart nomination is very disappointing, but not surprising," said Bill Piper, national affairs director for the Drug Policy Allliance. "We need to use her confirmation hearing to get her on record as promising to abide by the Obama administration guidelines on medical marijuana enforcement. She may just be someone who goes along to get along, but it would be good to get her on record on whether the DEA is going to continue to waste law enforcement resources going after low-level offenders."

The Prophet II
So are there any real prophets in the New testament and more specifically in the end times? Yes but they are not called prophets but rather 'Witnesses'.

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them. And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. (Rev 11:3-14)

I find this rather interesting that God does not call them prophets though in every way they behave much like the old Testament Prophets. Why do you think he does that? I think the answer lies in both the target of their ministry (Modern Israel) and the old Jewish law requirements levied before Judgment is passed. What am I talking about?

If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant, And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel: Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die. At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you. (Deu 17:2-7)

Before judgment was to fall two witnesses had to be present and they themselves had to cast the first 'stone' if you will.

"And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will."

So we see a prophetic ministry in the New Testament but their job is both to bear witness to the Messiah and to Israel's sins and let them know that the time of their visitation is neigh. Let me tell you something else that you need to know as we move towards the end of this age.

These two men will not be loved, but rather will be very, very much hated. So much so that when they are murdered, the world will rejoice and give gifts to one another.

Has any one one out there noticed a real hatred for Christ and his message? I was speaking to my mother yesterday and she was rather appalled at one talk radio show that had people calling in and saying all manner of evil things about a Catholic Missionary (I believe it was Mother Theresa, but I did not hear the show). She was shocked and saddened by the constant litany of hatred for her and Christians that was evident in the callers.

We talked and all I could say is this - The world's hatred for Christ and his message is very great and growing. In America it is becoming a clear anti-God epidemic and the prognosis for America is not good. This is a 'terminal' case. More and more people are using their anti-God message as a badge of honor openly displaying their hatred for the God of the bible, Jesus Christ and Christians and gaining votes and political favor for doing so. Folks, some of these people rant and rave as though the are possessed. The start shouting and their face contorts into uncontrollable rage at the very mention of the name of Jesus. America is turning into a very strange place and though God may not send an Old Testament prophet to the land, he will send his witnesses. Who is a witness? Any (truly) born again Christian who is walking with Christ, in the Spirit and has rejected the sinfulness, enticements and love of this world. If that describes you, then you too are a witness and an ambassador for Christ.

So to you witnesses out there, hear this word.

Stop trying to be loved by the world. Stop worrying about what others think about you or your beliefs. One day, they will probably severely persecute you, even kill you for your faith. But I always keep one little fact in mind.

If my faith were not so important, it would not be an issue. They would not be killing Christians all over the world if our faith were not of very great importance and value. When the machinery of the antichrist state turns on Christians in the west as it is now in the Islamic and Asian East, remember this.

If my (our/your) faith were not so important, the devil would not be so busy trying to steal it from you and me and keeping us from telling others about Jesus. There would not be such a visceral hatred for the Gospel if it were not of paramount importance.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. (Joh 3:19-20)

Men love evil. That is why they hate Christians. We bear witness by the way (genuine) Christians walk. We are fundamentally different than those who love sin and evil or those who say they are Christians and are hypocrites.

We bear witness to the light and the world hates us because its deeds are evil.

This word is not for all or even most of my regular readers here at Watson's Web. It is for that extremely small number of Christians who have determined in their hearts to get into the kingdom.

No matter what.

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If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
(Joh 8:36)

Russia Bids To Limit Protest Damage - Yahoo!
A major protest led by United Russia is probably the biggest the nation has seen since the economic crisis began.

The WAPO has come out with its usual State Department statement with little background to the crisis or reasons for the demonstrations. It is not as though the US does not arrest protestors right here in the USA with alarming regularity. We do. Yet Hillary's State Department wants to paint Russia as some kind of Evil Empire because they are following our lead.

What angers me is how hypocritical our Human Rights policies are. We make all of this noise but only when it is convenient for certain political/economic interests in Washington. When Uighars are sentenced in China to death, our State Department makes some noise about it. Why? Because they are Muslims and oil money from Islammic nations plays very heavy in Washington. So we make a statement about Human rights there. But when Christians are attacked, arrested and have their Church burned down. There is silence from Obama and his State Department. Obama never seems to say anything about Christians being persecuted, or even killed. But he sure have his political people plant stories in the press as though he were some kind of devout Christian.

Hundreds of police have destroyed a Protestant church and beaten dozens of faithful in the province of Shanxi. Many of them are hospitalized, but have been refused any medical help at the behest of the police. According to the local government the building was not a church, but an illegal construction.

This latest attack on religious freedom took place on 13 September at 3 am in Linfeng, Fushan County. According to eye witness accounts gathered by the China Aid Association, during the night, at least 400 police officers and people with red armbands entered the building that served as a chapel inside a shoe and clothing factory (the Good News Cloth Shoes Factory ). With the help of two bulldozers they began to destroy the building while the police using bricks and other tools attacked the faithful present there, who were sleeping in the building under construction to prevent its destruction. In one hour, at least 10 people were seriously injured, others lost consciousness and were taken to hospital. According to witnesses, ER doctors received the order from authorities to delay treatment and banned from making blood transfusions. - Spero News

Folks, I know many of my secular readers do not understand this but there is real power behind these contradictions. This is not an oversight and it is not a coincidence. We appear to be giving China a free hand to persecute Christians and do little of substance to put a stop to it.

Our Human rights policies are in shambles because they are so hypocritical and based not on our desire for Human Rights, but to embarrass those with whom we have axes to grind at sensitive moments. No one believes our motives are true or there will be any follow trough on our statements, so they do exactly what they want to do and file our protests where they belong.

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Obama's Budget Calls For Massive Hikes On Rich - WSJ/Various
It is about time. Were you wondering if he was ever going to do something... anything that the rich did not like? Again I say, it is about time. Those tax cuts enacted by Bush *may* soon be a thing of the past. But I think that what Obama really wants to do is set up a showdown with the GOP showing them to be obstructionists and only for the rich in the Budget debate.

The truth is, I highly doubt he really thinks these kinds of tax hikes will ever pass and even if they do, the devil is always in the details. How many tax loopholes will there be and can you drive a small utility truck or a large Aircraft Carrier through them. That is where the real debate will lie. Will he really stand up or is this all typical Obama theater to make him seem to be a man of the people when so far he has demonstrated he is a man for the corporations and banksters... and we cannot forget the overarching National Security Police-State. My take? This is electioneering. It will die the second the polls close in November. I think this is really the Democratic Party Chair (Dean) and key members of the House who read Obama the riot act after the Massachusetts defeat. frankly, I don't think he is happy about this and it is being forced on him, though he may say this is what he wants to do. This is why I think he went out to beg the GOP members of the house for support.

The 90-minute televised meeting between President Barack Obama and the House Republican caucus, broadcast over the cable networks Friday, was an extraordinary exposure of the right-wing consensus within American bourgeois politics.

It was a demonstration of the administration’s decision, in the wake of the Republican victory in last month’s Senate election in Massachusetts and other signs of mounting popular opposition to Obama’s right-wing agenda, to shift even further to the right.

While the commentary afterwards, particularly from liberal and pro-administration pundits, portrayed the encounter as a political tour-de-force by Obama, a sort of “Daniel in the lion’s den” performance, what was remarkable was the wide area of convergence, on both specific policy measures and overall perspective, between Obama and the Republicans.

Obama cajoled and pleaded with his audience of Republican congressmen, reminding them that they had provided him political support on escalating the war in Afghanistan, adding, in a typical piece of patriotic boilerplate, “I know that we’re all united in our admiration of our troops.” - WSWS

Obama Exonerates Torture Memo Authors - Daily Kos
This is not a surprise from the Republican Obama administration.

No Oil Company To Know Peace In The Creeks - IPS
hree flow stations in the oil-rich Niger Delta have had to be closed after a pipeline was sabotaged, according to Royal Dutch Shell.

The company said the Jan. 30 leak on the Trans Ramos oil pipeline was due to sabotage, but no group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.

A represnetative of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta told a Nigerian newspaper at the end of January that it was ending a truce agreed in October 2009.

'Liar, Murderer' Shouted At Blair - Aftermath
NO regreats says this accused War Criminal. Well, he is in good compay, few of the Nazi's had any regrets either. When a persons soul becomes reprobate, it becomes impossible for them to see right or wrong.

Don't let Mr. Blairs highly publicized conversion to Catholicism fool you. I have heard it said that the devil too is a member of the Church... has been for years and even has a seat somewhere in the Vatican. When a man can say no regrets to the murder of a million people based on lies, you cannot help but find it hard not to say that there has been some kind of genuine conversion.

No repentance, no conversion. Plain and simple.

I am not setting myself up as a judge, that is not my job. Suffice it to say, that before I could ever accept such a man as a brother in Christ, I would want to see some real hard evidence of this all-too=politically-convenient 'conversion'... without remorse and repentance.

But why are not these kinds of questions not being asked in America? Why are our War Criminals being exonerated by Obama with no questions asked? And those who profited by those lies making off with billions more in defense dollars? My other question is did Blair order the murder of David Kelly?

Somebody did.

US Kicks Off Massive War Games In Asia - US Army
Cobra Gold 2010, the annual combined, joint exercise featuring armed forces of United States, Thailand and more than 20 other nations began Feb. 1, in Thailand's eastern province of Rayong.

Singapore, Japan and Indonesia are participating in the three-week training exercise, the largest of its type in the world. South Korea is also participating for the first time.

About 11,500 personnel, including 6,000 from the U.S., will take part.

Obama's Budget: Endless War Institutionalized - ISN
The budget request for next year that US President Barack Obama sent Congress on Monday included three, count them, separate spending proposals for the Department of Defense.

The base budget request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 is $548.9 billion.

But there is also the 2011 overseas contingency operations request of $159.3 billion, which will fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan next year.

Finally there is a supplemental request for the current Fiscal Year, 2010 - $33 billion - which covers the costs of the president's new strategy in Afghanistan.

This is in addition to the $129.6 billion FY 2010 supplemental already passed to support operations there and in Iraq.

Defense Contractors See Shares Rise On Obama Budget - Reuters
This is GOP politics and policy... all the way.

S&P: Worst May Be Yet To Come For US Banks - Research Cap
“We believe the problems in the larger mortgage and multifamily sectors are yet to be felt because for now low interest rates and still-adequate cash flows make debt servicing possible. As rates rise and rent rolls decline further, we believe that delinquencies will rise in this sector as well, and prices will fall further, complicating the refinancing of these portfolios.”

Somali Christians Face More Killings - Worthy News
Christians in Somalia faced more difficulties Sunday, January 31, as a militant Islamist group associated with Al Qaeda attacked areas controlled by government troops and peacekeepers leaving at least 19 dead and scores injured.

The latest attacks, which began Friday, January 29, came just weeks after the same al-Shabab group shot and killed the 41-year-old leader of an underground church, Mohammed Ahmed Ali, Worthy News established.

He was apparently killed January 1 after leaving his home in Hodan, on the outskirts of the capital Mogadishu. Ali leaves behind a wife and a two-year-old son who have fled to neighboring Kenya, Christians said.

He had organized New Year’s Day festivities for Christians to take place outside of Mogadishu, but al-Shabab fighters reportedly killed him after word of the planned party leaked to them.

False Gospel: Pastor Scolds 'Prosperity Doctrine' - Jamaican Observer
PASTORS who preach what is commonly known as prosperity gospel received a scolding yesterday from the Reverend Roderick Hewitt who accused them of imparting a false interpretation of God's word to their flock.

In a sermon to mark his Hope United Church's 50th anniversary celebrations, Rev Hewitt reminded his congregants that obedience to God is costly, demanding and involves submissive living, and urged church leaders to refrain from leading their flock astray by preaching that Christianity will bring economic well-being.

Pastor of Hope United Church, Reverend Roderick Hewitt, greets these three members of his congregation, Shanessa Jackson (2nd left), Sherneika Jackson (3rd left) and Colleen Morrison, during a meet-and-greet session at yesterday's service to launch the church's 50th anniversary.

"Prosperity gospel is a false interpretation of the gospel," said Rev Hewitt. "To say that if you are faithful to God you are going to prosper is not correct. This is not teaching the gospel that follows the examples of Jesus."

For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
(2Jn 1:7-11)

Warmonger!

Obama Speeds Arms Buildup In Persian Gulf

US Deficit To Hit Record 1.56 Trillion

Obama's 3.8 Trillion Dollar Budget

Obama's Budget Calls For Steep Tax Increases For Rich, Businesses

FBI Shoots Handcuffed Black Religious Leader 21 Times

Global Airways: Porn Scan Now Mandatory In UK

China's Tone Riles West - MSNBC
America's plan to sell Taiwan missiles is making China quite angry. They do not like the idea because in their world view, Taiwan is part of Greater China. Our insistence in arming them is a very, very sore point in our relations. In the past America could ignore China's threats and diplomoatic moves.

That time is past. America now must on some level deal with this issue in constructive ways or it could cause far more serious reprucussions both for US-China relations but also for the world.

The Chinese are not going to play second fiddle anymore. Why should they? No more 'Chinaman Joe' is the message Beijing is sending around the planet. They will be dealt with as equals and not a backwards, developing nation.

I am not saying Beijing's stance is correct. I do not think it is and will do more harm to its international standing if it attempts to use more strong arm tactics to subjegate Taiwan. Nevertheless, the western world must now reckon with a China that are far, far more shrewd and thorough in its strategic planning than any nation/system it has faced before.

I still say far too much of American journalism and intelligencia is still not clued in as to just how deep China's hooks are into the US and just how far the deep, long range planning she has already successfully concluded really is. American thinkers have just barely begun to understand the rules of the game, let alone that we are about to be check-mated in about 3 moves. Why is this? Like I said, their hooks are very deep in the US and have long had a strong influence in US policy, policy makers, defense contractors and other National Security parts of the US. Ii is why you rarely hear anything negative about China in the press. Our media is also in bed with China. They never criticize her, they need access to her media markets. So they remain silent about numerous abuses or spin it in a way that the worst is simply not reported. I say again, no one really understand these things but a small and silent few, who can never get policy makers to really listen.

Frankly, the game is over and we lost. The last few moves of this chess game are all forced moves and unless the Chinese blunder very, very badly (they won't) we will fall and China will rise to be the world's economic superpower with us as her vassals.

Laugh at me if you will, I can assure you that will not laugh when you get your bank statements, mortgage bills and car note...

In Chinese.

Don't believe me? Wait till the second wave of this crisis hits.

GOP, Dems - They Still Don't Get It - WW
No, our leaders still do not get it and the only thing the Democrats and Republicans will ever really understand is their own personal unemployment. There is only one group of people who can hand our leaders in the House and Senate their pink slip. If I have to tell you who that is at this stage of the game, I would be wasting my time doing it. I watched the Senate overwelmeingly approve Bernanke's reppointment at the Fed. We got a flurry of statistics that seemed to show us we are in some kind of mythical recovery. Sure the headlines are screaming recovery, the reality is far less certain.

Before we get into the main discussion point, let me briefly comment on today's GDP numbers, which came in at an amazingly strong 5.7% growth rate. While that is stronger than I thought it would be (I said 4-5%), there are reasons to be cautious before we sound the "all clear" bell.

First, over 60% (3.7%) of the growth came from inventory rebuilding, as opposed to just 0.7% in the third quarter. If you examine the numbers, you find that inventories had dropped below sales, so a buildup was needed. Increasing inventories add to GDP, while, counterintuitively, sales from inventory decrease GDP. Businesses are just adjusting to the New Normal level of sales. I expect further inventory build-up in the next two quarters, although not at this level, and then we level off the latter half of the year.

While rebuilding inventories is a very good thing, that growth will only continue if sales grow. Otherwise inventories will find the level of the New Normal and stop growing. And if you look at consumer spending in the data, you find that it actually declined in the 4th quarter, both annually and from the previous quarter. "Domestic demand" declined from 2.3% in the third quarter to only 1.7% in the fourth quarter. Part of that is clearly the absence of "Cash for Clunkers," but even so that is not a sign of economic strength. - John Mauldin

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So after reading the above, with millions still out of work, unemployment rolls still swelling with some state funds going bankrupt, where are people going to get the money for all of these new purchases? I find all of this wonderful news just too convenient especially with Bernanke's job in Jeopardy. All of the mechanics of Washington moved in unison to ensure his reppointment and he got strong bi-partisan support despite the fact that one of the biggest gripes voters had in Massachusetts was 'Bernanke Bailout Syndrome'. So why did he get so much support from both sides of the aisle, 70 voting for him? They all want to blame Bernanke, but they are the ones who just reappoineted him! Now who is really to blame? The President who used his power to persuade Senators to reappoint him? He bears a great deal of the responsibility. The sad part is the real problem is the voters. They are still going to put these same Senators right back in office. The 'cult of the burning genitilia' will overlook this and put their sex-agenda first, the 'muslim-torture brigades' will overlook this and put their bloodstained clubs first and look past this. The baby butcher minions will put go out with their wooden spikes with baby's heads stuck to the top and overlook this, the false Christians will put their plastic 'America first' Jesus up on a cross crucifying him all over again, and overlook this. The Senators know this. They could appoint the ghost of John Gotti to run the Fed and they know they will still be voted right back into office. But they also know that if they cannot create jobs they are on their way out. That is why Obama has come up with yet another phony jobs bill to make people think he is doing something for them when he just wants to give voters another placebo. If he really wanted to do something, he would re-orient monetary policy away from the Wall Street gang and towards mainstreet. America's employment problems are a structural problem. It is based in the way the US economy is organized in relation to the Global (tarrif free) economy. Those structural problems cannot be addressed because the very problems themselves are profitable to elite interests... enter the lobbyists who make sure those interests are protected. He will never fix those things. Why not? I cannot say it any plainer, he has been compromised and corrupted. He was set up to fail, but he alone provided his enemies with the gun and ammunition they are using to destroy his Presidency. Now both parties in Washington are counting on the proven ignorance of mainstreet who are still (even after all of these bailouts and unemployment) not smart enough to connect up monetary policy with why they are out of work. Why not? It doesn't have tits, you can't drink it or smoke it so it is beyond so many of their comprehension.

That is why the jobs that went away will never come back and many more jobs will go. They were once created largely trough the creation of funny money that tricked down to the unwashed masses. But now we must deal with the fallout of more of Obama's folly... those bailouts and ill placed stimulus. We have to pay for them and that is why he is going crying to the nation about our deficits.



This guy is not your buddy and he is not your pal. He is going to talk a good game and do exactly the opposite of what he says. Why is the budget so big? Lobbyists, that is why they pay to put their snout in the trough and Obama is talking like he is going to do something. He won't.. besides talk.

A day after bashing lobbyists, President Barack Obama's administration has invited K Street insiders to join private briefings on a range of topics addressed in Wednesday's State of the Union.

The Treasury Department on Thursday morning invited selected individuals to "a series of conference calls with senior Obama administration officials to discuss key aspects of the State of the Union address."

The invitation stated, "The White House is encouraging you to participate in these calls and will have a question and answer session at the end of each call. As a reminder, these calls are not intended for press purposes."

A handful of lobbyists told The Hill on Thursday morning that they received the invitations and were planning to call in.

Some lobbyists say they are extremely frustrated with the White House for criticizing them and then seeking their feedback. Others note that Democrats on Capitol Hill constantly urge them to make political donations. - The Hill

This is Obama's MO. He did the same thing with the Health Care bill. The very first persons who he talked to was Big Pharma and Big Insurance. They wrote the bill, he tweaked it and sent it to the hill. So it is with Lobbying reform, the lobbyists will write the bill, he will tweak it and send it to the Hill. His earlier financial regulations are the same thing. He put nothing in those bills that Wall Street did not like. Nothing was mandatory, everything was voluntary and people were thrown out of their homes by the millions waiting on the banks to assist homeowners in trouble. This man will not fight unless corporate interests are threatened or the police state is undermined or a the continuance of war is in question. Then and only the will this guy fight. He is, despite all of the political rhetoric/propaganda coming out of liberal sites trying to control the rage of their party base, a GOP clone, Bush light, an elephant in a donkey suit, Dick Cheney's remote control robot...when it comes to the major issues facing America.

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So each party will resort to the tried and true divide and rule politics that put us in this mess. In an election year Obama will suck up to the gay lobby and push for the repeal of 'Don't ask Don't tell' and ignore the real trouble that policy will cause in the ranks.

Listen, I served in the military for many years. I would not want to take a shower in an open bay with an army of homosexuals. It is just that kind of sexual privacy that has men and women showering and living separately. Unlike others, military members just cannot jump ship and say, f- this, I want out of this Army of idiots... now! But Obama never served, so he cannot know the kinds of problems that already occur on bases or the things that go on that are never even reported up the chain of command, yes up to and including rape and homosexual rape, which many soldiers would never report out of sheer embarrassment. Or the flag officers, looking out for their careers, will not report or at least 'discourage' troops from reporting. This can and has been be done in numerous ways. How? Like charging both victim and the rapist with 'committing homosexual acts' and threatening to discharge both.. dishonorably.

These things happen, as quiet as it is kept. Rape is a serious problem. I know of one attractive NCO who was raped by a General officer, but she was too afraid of the Chain of Command and thus did not press charges. Listen folks, I know many will just say I am just saying this because I am against gays serving. I am against it, but only up to a point. I am a realistic person and know that there has always been homosexuality in the military. Many gays would marry gays of the opposite sex so they could live off base (a privilidge granted to married enlisted military members) so that each could carry on homosexual affairs off base where there were no watchful eyes. I knew of some of these couples as one person I used to work out with at the base gym shared his situation with me in a 'coded' fashion, his wife was a Lesbian and they got along great. He was rather shameless about his homosexuality and I often wonder if he was not trying to get out based on it. But this was years before 'Don't ask, don't tell'.

No, dear readers. I could tell you a thousand reason why we should not do this, but no one would really listen. The bottom line? The nation has 'outgrown' morality. It is no longer relevant. When rape becomes legitimized (de-facto, if not de-jure) by the legal system when committed in a war zone, you are dealing with a nation and a system that is beyond repair. Go back and remember the kinds of men and women we have in uniform when one thinks about the pictures of our soldiers torturing and sexually humilitaiting Muslims in all kinds of perverted acts. Remember this too, there are other pictures that are so vile and hideous, that this President went to extraordinary lengths to keep secret. Think Rape, rape of children, torturing some poor Muslims exposed genitils...that is what our military has really turned into. No dear readers, morality is no longer relevant in America. So I say, let them have what they want. If they want to drink wormwood, let them. If they want to set fire to their clothes while they are still wearing them, can I stop them if they are determined to do it?

Nope.

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
(Pro 6:27-28)

They have been warned and have rejected the truth of Christ Jesus and his cross, forgiveness and restoration. It is not my job to stop them from destroying themselves, just to warn them. This is one reason I do not spend so much time talking about gays and 'gay rights'. It is just one of a whole host if sins and evils the nation has fallen in love with. Sodomy is not going to destroy America. America's sins (plural) are going to destroy America. Sodomy is just one of those sins, not all of them or even the worst.

That shot glass full of wormwood they can't wait to drink will put them out of their misery far more quickly than they ever imagined. When they grab suddenly at their throat and flail uncontrollably on the floor, there will be nothing anyone can do except perhaps film it... as a warning to the next ten-thousand generations that sin always costs more than one bargains for and evil comes in at too high a price.

Well, the future of the military is going to be mercenaries anyway. That is where the money is going and more and more firms are springing up to fill the call for contracts... I mean 'need'. While it will be a long time before the US military is obsolete, its importance will wane in a nation where sodomy is a protected status, rape is legal in war, torture is still practiced (yes it is), concentration camps are being built, banks legally rob the Treasury and aborted baby parts go for about $800 a bucket, $1000 if fresh and still warm.

And you were taught that Hitler lost the war.

Silly you.

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Mayor Blasted For Calling City 'Christian' - LAT
This mayor has guts and their is more to his spine than the usual gelatinous substance found in politicians.

Cartels: Thirteen Teenagers Shot Dead In Mexico - Guardian
A gang of heavily armed men stormed a party inside a house in the border city of Ciudad Juárez killing 13 teenagers in the early hours of yesterday morning. A ­further 17 young people were injured in the attack, which was apparently a mistaken drugs hit.

The gunmen arrived in a convoy of up to seven 4x4s, according to local reports. While some gunmen closed off surrounding streets, others burst into the party and started shooting to kill.

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I will say it again even if I sound like a broken record. 'Coming to a city near you!"

Swiss Pull Out Economic Shotgun, Aim It At US
The top Swiss bank, UBS, could collapse according to Switzerland's justice minister.

Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf has told Le Matin Dimanche newspaper that sensitive talks with the United States are proving to be very problematic, as they deal with high-profile tax fraud.

She warned the actions of UBS in the United States would threaten all of the bank's activities if its licence were to be revoked in the United States.

Coming Debt Default Tsunami - Benzinga
This year's World Economic Forum in Davos marks a clear shift in the global power structure. "Bankers Are On Run", headlined the Wall Street Journal in its weekend edition, describing an atmosphere of, quote, "First, kill all the bankers." Its ramblings went on to forecast the worst is yet to come, elaborating on a bet that even Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein would be out of his job within 2 years. Witness the biggest shift in editorial sentiment ever seen when the WSJ starts comparing bankers to terrorists...(end excerpt)

Some interesting things are likely to transpire this year and I think Dr. Weiss is right on the money. He usually is.

The next contagion is beginning to spread around the globe.

It is unexpected on Wall Street, misunderstood in Washington — and very dangerous.

It could sabotage the plans of the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and many of their counterparts overseas.

It is ...

The Collapse of Sovereign Government Bonds

This is certainly not the first financial contagion of recent memory:

Back in 1997, we witnessed a currency contagion —hatched in Thailand, spreading quickly to the rest of Southeast Asia ... smacking Russia in the gut ... and sinking a major player in the U.S. derivatives market.

Then, 10 years later, came the debt contagion —incubated in a subsector of America's mortgage market ... soon infecting nearly all credit instruments ... striking Wall Street like a sledgehammer ... and mortally wounding the global financial system.

Those contagions were bad enough. Now, however, the contagion is beginning at a much higher level, in the most important financial instruments on Earth — long-term bonds issued by sovereign governments.

The Saga Begins in Greece... - The Next Contagion

Miami In Financial Meltdown - Mish
With most eyes on California, proponents of the Watched Pot Theory likely thought the first major blowup in the US would be someplace else. That someplace might be Miami.

Though the fiscal year has barely begun, Miami leaders are bracing for a budget hole that could nearly wipe out the city's entire reserve.

Inquiring minds are interested to learn Miami leaders fear a financial meltdown.

Pentagon Confronts Russia On Balic Sea - Intel Daily
The annual BALTOPS (Baltic Operations), the largest international military exercise conducted in the Baltic Sea, run by the U.S. Navy, NATO and the latter’s Partnership for Peace program which included naval forces from twelve nations – Britain, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the United States – led by U.S. Carrier Strike Group 12.

The 10-day Loyal Arrow 2009 NATO military exercises in Sweden with 50 jet fighters (the U.S. Air Force’s F-15 Eagle among them) and NATO AWACS.

The Cold Response 09 NATO exercises in Norway (north and west of the Baltic) with over 7,000 troops from thirteen nations as well as air and naval forces.

“Cold Response 2010 is expected to be even larger” than last year’s war games. The U.S. Marine Corps “is planning Cold Response 2010, an exercise in Norway that could include a company of infantry Marines and a detachment of trainers with Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command.”

Kremlin Ties to Orthodox Church Raise Concern - VOA
Human-rights activists say 2009 represented a breakthrough in relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian government. But they say the closer ties appear to place other faiths at a disadvantage.

Sergei Mozgovoi of the independent Freedom of Conscience Institute told a Moscow news conference Russian lawmakers are rushing through laws to legitimize decisions made earlier by President Dmitriy Medvedev on behalf of Russian Orthodoxy. These include teaching the Orthodox faith to the exclusion of others in public schools and universities and establishment of a military chaplain corps.

Mozgovoi says this represents missionary work for the Orthodox Church, which he claims always supports even the most illegal and harmful decisions of government. He says another factor is the government's economic decisions on behalf of the church about real estate and cultural treasures.

The Prophet - WW
I am not one. So please do not call me one. But how can you identify one? What characteristics does he posses? First of all, a real prophet is usually only sent when all other methods of hearing God's warnings have failed. He is God's last resort. The true prophet is almost universally despised. If you have come across a 'prophet' who is loved by man or even has 'a following' and has his words posted on a great many sites and is praised by others, including and especially much of Christendom, beware. He is probably not a real prophet. He may have the look and feel of what we think a prophet is, but real prophets really shake things up. They break with all traditions and do some rather shocking things. In some ways, they were like the shock-jocks of the Ancient world. One went about naked (Isiah Chap 20), another laid on his side (Ezekiel chap. 4) for over a year, or are like Hosea, who was told to marry a hooker as a sign to an unfaithful nation. The prophet is not necessarily going to do things in a set pattern...you know, one that folks, even Christians will accept. His job is always to shake up the status quo with a message that is designed to shake people out of their complacency, lethargy and most importantly sin. So God would often have the prophet do things in ways that got the attention of people. Why? Because people were not interested in listening to God and doing his commandments. They wanted to do what they wanted to do.

The prophet's job was to warn them of the serious consequences of this kind of situational/subjective morality. He was not there to entertain but to warn and exhort. Rarely did he say anything that anyone really wanted to hear! Did any Israelite, even those who followed God's commandments want to hear that they would be sent into exile and would die there? No. But that is what the men whom God sent back then said to the people. Their message is not welcome, except by a precious few. No it was despised by the many and publicly by leaders, though they would often go secretly to the prophets to hear their words.

Today we hear from a plethora of men and women who claim to be hearing from God and posting prophecies on the Internet. Frankly, I have been to a great many of these sites and hear or read a great many of these peoples' purported 'word from the Lord.' There are only a couple who I really think have any real gift from God. The rest, while many are well meaning, are just adding to confusion.

A real prophet is usually most reluctant. He hears directly from God and almost certainly has had some kind of epiphany or special call on them from the Spirit. We are not just talking about people who are 'stepping out in faith' trying to claim or walk in a gift that may or may not be one that God has ordained for them, but real men (and women, on some occasions) who God has specially chosen for a specific time to deliver a specific message.

Yet there were times, as with Samuel, they had much broader ministries and had many words for different rulers. But today, there are a lot of wanna-be-Samuel's but far too many Eli's (1 Sam Chap. 3) instead. Men who may be in the Church, even have a God given ministry of a prophet but with whom the Lord was sore displeased. Eli was not living right and the horrible spiritual condition of his Priesthood and his sons proved it.

And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house? And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel? Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people? Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house. (1Sa 2:27-31)

The prophets (who are, in the New Testament also Priests of God - 1 Peter 2:29) also have a charge before God to do those things as commanded by the Father. They must walk uprightly and not despise God nor his commandments. When one hears a prophet or one who claims to be one, ask yourself if he is just trying to predict the future, to satiate the curiosity seekers, or lines up his prophecies with the Glorification of Christ and his redemptive message, coupled with God's promises for clemency for the repentant and judgment for the unrepentant. A true prophet never misses the person and work of Christ, at least not consistently in their prophecies. Why?

“...for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” (Rev 19:10b)

Christ is the central point for all true prophecy, not disaster scenario's and scaremongering. It is provided as an aid to lead men to Christ and keep those that know him on the path that leads to life. This is what a true prophet does. But we should keep somethings in mind. Prophets of the Old Testament were usually (though not always) sent specifically to the house of God. That house was Israel in the Old testament. In these times, it is the Church. The message of the prophets are usually for the Church, not the world. But here in the New Testament age (coming to the close of it) we see that like Jonah, who was sent to Nineveh, God can and will raise up men of God to speak to the sins of those outside of God's household. Once again, we see the reluctant prophet. Jonah had no desire to prophecy to the Assyrians (the capital city was Nineveh). Not only did not not want to go, he tried to run from God's orders and got in a whale of trouble for it (pun intended). Finally he went, but a miracle happened, unlike the Israel who almost never listened to their prophets, the Assyrians repented! This really made Jonah angry.

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
(Jonah 3:4 - 4:1)

Notice how Jonah's heart also was not right. He had no real love for the Assyrians and got mad at God for sparing them. Jonah was once again rebuked. Lesson. Even the prophets God chooses are fallen men. They are not perfect and must not be put on any kind of pedestal. A prophet who seeks one is a phony, plain and simple. A real one would probably run as fast as he could from that and pray God would remove the burden of office from him. Anyone who has come in contact with Christ in any kind of way knows not only of Christ's glory and love but their own sinfulness and feebleness. A real prophet is humble though his message may be fiery. He is reluctant, though obedient (remember Moses, who had a bunch of excuses before relenting and obeying (Exodus Chapter 3-4). Moses appeared to have a speech impediment, was wanted for murder and was exceedingly meek. Yet God chose him. Moses responded and obeyed the call. He did not ask for the job, but God gave it to him in a clear and unmistakable way.

When you find a man (or woman of God) like that, you just may have found your prophet.

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Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God. But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
(Mic 3:6-8)

An Interesting Note And Audio File - Light Of Your Life
I post this along with other information from sites like this with a little trepidation because I cannot independently verify the information. Nevertheless this is most interesting to read and there is an audio file included in it that you should hear as well. Check it out, but do it with a discerning heart. (end excerpt)

Haiti Update - WW
What is happening in Haiti? A lot. Briefly, the destruction of the island nation is near to total. At least 80% of the Island nation's infracstructure is destroyed and it will cost tens of billions (at least) to repair it to any semblence of its former poverty. Things are horrible and one thing that observers on the scene say that hits you and stays with you while you are there is the smell. The horrible smell of rotting corpses and human waste. The pictures do not do justice to the horror and suffering going on there today.

Yet there are those people and governments who will do their level best to make matters worse. I am told that the Dominican Republic is charging exhorbidant rates for landing rights and presented the World Food Program with a tax bill of around $25 Million for the 'right' to land planes there. You see, there only three functioning airports in Haiti right now and they are all small. So guess what, the Dominican Republic is making a mint off of the suffering of Haiti, but there is a long history of antagonism between the two and race plays a key role. Yes, today there are some truly evil men who wish to profit off of human misery and racism and keep the blacks down.

The worlds Governments? Are they going to forgive Haiti's debt load? Not likely. You would think that nations like France (who was the colonial power years ago) would step up to the plate with aid. Nope. The Brits? Nope. The Davo's boys with their gold plated limosines? Nope. Obama with debt relief? Nope, at least no yet. It seems that the world is hoping Haiti leaves the headlines so the blacks will just go away and die.

Haitians are also facing another threat. When asked by aid workers to come live in a tent city to get aid and food, the Haitians remain in their communities, even if they are little more than piles of rubble. Why? They know that once they leave their property, the bulldozers will come it and any claim they had to the property will be 'lost' in the land registrar's office. The people are not stupid. They know that the extremely corrupt government of Haiti (there is no government really) will quickly sell out the people for a small bribe. Some rich landowner will get the deed and a new slave labor factory will be built where their homes once were.

In short other than a few headline grabbing gestures, the west would rather see Haiti be depopulated of its black and poor population. I do not think this fact is lost on many Haitians.

Finally for those of you who want to give, I am reliably informed that the only aid flights that are providing aid in a way that is economically feasable (ie, more than half of donations actually gets to the people) are the Red Cross and the World Food Program. Why? Because these are the only organizations that are allowed to use US Military Transport. Christian organzations must resort to paying exhorbidant feeds to deliver aid. Obama, it seems just does not like Christians or perhaps he is unaware, but given the political leanings of his political base, this seems like a deliberate snub. But I confess, I do not have all the facts as to the why this decision was reached. But knowing the spiritual underpiinnings of this administration. I do not think it is hard to figure out. Religious bigotry over human lives just seems to be the shoe that fits here.

People want to help, but religious bigotry will not allow some 'in' to assist the sick, hungry and dying. A word of warning: While these may be the organizations that are delivering aid, I personally cannot recommend giving to them. Other Organizations are there, but the problem is they have little or no infrastructure and often must pay 'pirate rates' for transport and other services. I know enough about the Red Cross, its history and financial connections that I simply could not give to them. You just never know exactly what is in their 'aid'. Call me suspicious, perhaps a little paraniod, but I know the stories my Uncle told me when he came back from WWII how the Red Cross would not even treat black soldiers who were wounded. Its history is really very, very checkered and so I am rather suspicious of even the kinds of 'aid' it is delivering to blacks in Haiti. So now you want to tell me the Red Cross is doing right by Blacks now? Perhaps.

Perhaps not.

As long as the US military is running the show and Obama is President, I do not expect Christian aid organizaions to be able to get aid to the people in a way that is economically unburdened the way the Globalist aid organizations can. The US military is the only organization that really has the transport capabilities and they appear to have been intentionally left out of this effort. Yet I must couch what I say here that this is according to the sources who are on the ground in Haiti. But they are in a position to know.

Where do I give? Frankly, I have not yet given to this effort. I have other ministries that I do give to regularly but I am a firm believer in making sure the money I give actually gets to where I want it to. So I would rather give $100, a month from now, knowing it will get there, than $200 today and find out that $199 went into the coffers of the State Treasury of the Dominican Republic.

Major Christian Aid organizations need to get together and pool their resources and perhaps buy a small fleet of transport aircraft, a mobile hospital helicopter and other materials and obtain the capabilities it needs to deliver aid and not rely on the armies of antichrist to do it for them.

The world is going to become more, not less hostile to Christ, his people and his message. The Church needs to plan accordingly.

The People Fight Back - AlterNet
Combining grassroots organizing, legal action, pressure on the banks and eviction-day sit-ins, activists in East Boston are winning the fight to keep people in their homes.(end excerpt)

I find it most interesting that it is Hispanic Americans, including immigrants who are fighting back, while Caucasians and Blacks largely do nothing but complain and expect the people they voted for (and will vote for again regardless of the lack of help they get) again. (begin excerpt)

"A lot of these people were targeted with bad loans," says Zoe Cronin. "We've seen a lot of predatory lending." The interest on adjustable-rate mortgages can jump to as high as 33 percent, she says. In one case cited by Desiata, a kitchen worker's monthly payments on a three-decker ballooned from $3,300 to $5,600.

It's impossible to work with banks before foreclosure, says Cronin. Under Massachusetts law, owners don't have to go to court to foreclose on property; all they need to do is place a notice in a newspaper before they auction it off. As tenants or homeowners thus have no leverage, banks refuse to negotiate. - AlterNet

Fed Ready To Declare 'Recovery' - Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve panel in charge of interest rates declared for the first time the U.S. economy is in “recovery” and took several steps to prepare investors for the removal of aggressive monetary stimulus.

The Federal Open Market Committee yesterday upgraded its economic outlook, reaffirmed it will end liquidity backstops and a $1.25 trillion program to buy mortgage-backed securities and expressed less confidence inflation will remain “subdued.”(end excerpt)

Don't you think it strange, most strange that the Fed would declare a 'Recovery' right when Bernanke's Nomination hangs in doubt? With unemployment still rising, the banks with more new toxic assets on its balance sheet (derivatives) than before the crisis and deficits we cannot manage, State revenues going through the floorboards, and more unemployment funds going bankrupt. What planet is Bernanke living on? The reality? This is a 'political' recovery in a contentious election year after a major democratic defeat, with the Chairman's Job in jeporady. They need somebody to put a stamp of approval on the Democrats economic failed policies which were really Bush's polices carried forward: Bail out the rich, give a placebo to the poor and make a great speech about it.

I am not the only one alluding to this and more trouble is on the way.

CIA Implicated In Plot To Bug Congressman
Two of the three men arrested on Monday along with "ACORN pimp" James O'Keefe for "maliciously tampering" with Sen. Mary Landrieu's (D-LA) phones in her New Orleans office have ties to the United States intelligence community.

The three accused by the FBI of "aiding and abetting" O'Keefe are Stan Dai, Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel. O'Keefe is 25, and the other three are 24.

Dai's links to the intelligence community appear to be particularly strong. He was a speaker at Georgetown University's Central Intelligence Agency summer school program in June 2009, and is also listed as an Assistant Director at the Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence at Trinity in D.C.

State Of The Union: Guns For The Pentagon, A Freeze For You - Black Agenda Report
Back during the Vietnam war, Democratic presidents Kennedy and Johnson promised we could have guns and butter too. They lied. The cost of the Vietnam war and the world's biggest military machine quickly gutted the War on Poverty. At least our First Black President isn't telling us that old, old lie. Not all the time anyway. At his first State of the Union tonight, President Obama is expected to declare an across the board freeze on federal spending. But not on military spending, or on the Federal Reserve pipeline to Wall Street. Hail to the chief.(end excerpt)

Your military tax dollars at work
Brothers, I would rather have a Nazi or a Klansman in the White House than a 'black' President like this. At least with a Nazi, you know what you are getting and can plan (or leave the US) accordingly. This guy is all smoke and mirrors with Herman Goering and Martin Borman pulling the strings. With a Klansman in there, people would mobilisze and fight this wickedness. But with this 'painted President', you are getting Goering, Himmler, Hess and men like that evil crowd really running the 'Obama psychedlic light show'. The folks who should be mobilizing and fighting this guy and his policies are still Mezmerized by that black paint (don't let him stand in the rain too long). His fight with Wall Street is more shadow boxing than reality, his love of the defense industry outweighs is love for the people and his lips are still moving like he is going to do something for you and me.

He won't.

I hate to sound so racial. It is just that I keep hearing about his magnificent achievement of being America's first Black President and I see him setting Black, Middle class and poor Americans back 20 years with his odious corporate and warmongering policies. He is the near total and complete antithesis of everything Dr. King stood for. Once black Americans stop being in love with that paint job, they will be able to see things more clearly. Middle class White Americans don't want to be too critical because they do not want to be seen as racists, so they too do not mobilze. Obama was one of the greatest propaganda coups by Corporate America. They have effectively neutralized their opposition with one Black, well-spoken and quite likable corporate lackey.

The only folks who are saying something real about Obama and Washington in General are those who have no fear and are not trying to sound 'respectable' so they can get a government Job in the future, or sound 'credible' so they can get on TV. Not me. Until the nation deals with these issues forcefully and begins to deal with those things I know it will never deal with, I could not in good conscience work in Washington. I would sooner join the Mafia or a drug gang, at least they do their evil without hypocrisy, and kill a lot less people. It is just too corrupt and evil and more and more, that is the only kinds of people who are allowed to work there.

As a Christian, I do pray for our President because I know the most significant challenges he faces. But I must say also that as a Christian I see Obama more as a deceiving spirit than a real President, a spiritual opiate that is being used to finalize a dark plan to subvert our nation away from its constitutional foundations and replace it with a corporate oligarchy. I am not so sure he is a willing participant in the plan, but he is cooperating just the same. I am not talking about what he says, I am talking about what he does. The difference between the two is measured by the word 'deceit'.

What America is really facing is less of a fiscal crisis or a political crisis but a moral and spiritual one. It is, in many ways, the same one that Germany fought and lost with disastrous results 70 years ago, when an obscure, talentless artist from Austria took over the reigns of the state promising 'change'. He did bring in 'Change' alight.


Nurenburg, April 1945:
The culmination of Hitlers 'Change'


What America faces is the same quiet, yet deadly threat of the 'banality of evil'. What does this mean? It means, simply put that during the Nazi regime, most of the war crimes and evils committed were not done by psycopaths and wild-eyed fanatics foaming at the mouth, but by everyday people who rarely attached any moral significance to their deeds or jobs.

The concept of the banality of evil came into prominence following the publication of Hannah Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, which was based on the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem. Arendt's thesis was that people who carry out unspeakable crimes, like Eichmann, a top administrator in the machinery of the Nazi death camps, may not be crazy fanatics at all, but rather ordinary individuals who simply accept the premises of their state and participate in any ongoing enterprise with the energy of good bureaucrats.

Normalizing the Unthinkable

Doing terrible things in an organized and systematic way rests on "normalization." This is the process whereby ugly, degrading, murderous, and unspeakable acts become routine and are accepted as "the way things are done." There is usually a division of labor in doing and rationalizing the unthinkable, with the direct brutalizing and killing done by one set of individuals; others keeping the machinery of death (sanitation, food supply) in order; still others producing the implements of killing, or working on improving technology (a better crematory gas, a longer burning and more adhesive napalm, bomb fragments that penetrate flesh in hard-to-trace patterns). It is the function of defense intellectuals and other experts, and the mainstream media, to normalize the unthinkable for the general public. The late Herman Kahn spent a lifetime making nuclear war palatable (On Thermonuclear War, Thinking About the Unthinkable), and this strangelovian phoney got very good press. - The Banality Of Evil

This is the problem America faces today. But like so many Germans who lived under the Third Reich, Americans just cannot connect up what America is doing, and what many of them do for a paycheck, with anything evil. The Scientists who works on GMO's, the Parking lot attendant at the large Defense contractor, the Secretary who works in the Pentagon, the talking head (as well as those who work behind the camera) at the Multi-national media conglomerate. They never see their jobs as being evil. But they are all parts of a larger whole that engages in it (to greater or lesser degree) and benefit/profit by that cooperation.

In Germany the distinctions only now are seen as being so pronounced that most would never really see America in light of that level of evil. Yet and still the Germans also did not see their own wickedness either. They would steal Jewish homes, send them off 'East' (to no one at the time knew for sure where) for 'resettlement' or as 'evacuation' (which turned out was nazi-speak for extermination). No one asked questions and those that did, got a knock on the door. That was the way it was and people cooperated with the state and its master plan. Many were well rewarded.

Once again, we are not talking about raving anti-semetic demogouges, but the baker, the janitor, the nightwatchman and the nurse. All knew the rules: no Jews, no debate.

In America today things are not that bad, but the mechanics of this Banality are probably deeper ingrained in the modern American psyche, even if the evil has not gone quite as far. This is not so much true in older Americans, but certainly is in younger ones. Kids who grew up on extremely violent video games that glorify mass killings and criminal acts - we have raised a generation of young people who have had their ethics programmed for a society that is far less peaceful and tolerant that the America I grew up in. Link that with the pitiful lack of history kids (in public school) get and you understand why America's days ahead will be dark indeed. Some do not even know who Hitler was and see him more as a comic book image that a real person who did real evil.

Evil never really advertises itself as evil. It always wears a disguise in order to get one to choose it over what is good. When one feels that he must cooperate with evil to eat and have a home, the society is in the gravest danger in repeating the mistakes of the Third Reich. It is then that numerous psychological justifications are invented to continue ones cooperation with evil. That is when the moral slide occurs. Today, America's entire economy will shift, if Obama has his way, away from the great society of FDR, but into the evil society of Albert Speer (Hitler's Armaments minister, best friend and confidant). Where there was once a desire to help the nation and its downtrodden, we will have a nation who will build new machines to kill, maim and destroy the very poor, men like FDR and JFK wanted to help. This is one of the reasons why I see Obama as such a dangerous phenomenon. His wickedness is wrapped in a cloak of fine words, great and inspiring speeches, but his actions (and inaction) have the smell of brimstone about them.

You see there is a lot going on in the DOD and with contractors coupled with criminal elements that I am aware of that have literally kept me awake nights. I touched on a few of these issues years ago in my Race Wars article. I cannot stress enough the darkness that lurks in some corners in that direction. Obama has not targeted this power, nor is he about to. He will feed it, pet it, nurture it, but not challenge it. He too has succumbed to the banality of evil in order to look and act 'Presidential'. Today, that title is no compliment. Increasingly it is the fountain of evil, done in highly classified acts that few are even aware of.

Evil? Don't look for a monster with horns in his head and a pointed tail. Look for a Corporate logo, a smily-slick politician, a paycheck made derived from increasing the suffering of others. We may not want to face the demon we are in bed with or made our personal deals with, but he is always there to remind their servants what they require when the time comes. It is always to jettison what is right for what is comfortable, lucrative or 'safe'. The devil rarely comes in with iron shoes, but with sneakers, never with a stink, but with perfume and unless you want to be trapped by it, making a deal with it is something you should avoid at all costs. Because getting out of that deal is extremely difficult, if not impossible without laying very still... in a pinebox.

Normalization of the unthinkable comes easily when money, status, power, and jobs are at stake. Companies and workers can always be found to manufacture poison gases, napalm, or instruments of torture, and intellectuals will be dredged up to justify their production and use. The rationalizations are hoary with age: government knows best, ours is a strictly defensive effort, or, if it wasn't me somebody else would do it. There is also the retreat to ignorance, real, cultivated, or feigned. Consumer ignorance of process is important. Dr. Samuel Johnson avowed that we would kill a cow rather than forego eating meat, but visits to slaughterhouses have made quite a few people into vegetarians. A cover story of Newsweek some years ago, illustrating U.S. consumption of meat by showing livestock walking into a human mouth, elicited many protests-people don't like to be reminded that steaks are obtained from slaughtered animals; they like to imagine that they are manufactured in factories, possibly out of biomass. - Information Clearinghouse

No, I do not expect most people to match up what they do with evil. I know no one who really says that they are evil. Even Hitler and his henchman did not see themselves as evil. They saw themselves as 'liberators'. Wars of aggression and the near destruction of a race of people were all justified in the name of the state and its defense.

We are moving at breakneck speed towards Nazi-ism. The mechanics are all here, the all-seeing spying, laws that allow for indefinite detention, the well oiled war machine constantly engaged in wars of aggression, the construction of concentration camps here in America and aborad and the racial-religious demonization of a group of people for 'extraordinary measures' to fight a mythical enemy that our efforts to 'root out' has actually created into a monster. It was once a only a rag tag bag of misfits now it is the 'demon' that justifies massive defense budgets.

America's war machine can not only fight an enemy, it can create one as well if needed to drive up Defense Contractor revenues. It is the Terror Industrial Complex, that Obama seeks to further empower with his policies. Who is really evil in this war? The poor muslim who just had his wife and child killed by an American killer drone or a man who sits in the White House and orders the killing in the name of keeping up a reprobate foreign policy status quo?

In other words the everyday, 'banal' mass murder, under the Chief Executive's signature.

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Racism Alive And Well In America - WTOP
An attacker could find many places to hide at Hocking College, a campus carved into a forest in the Appalachian foothills. And with the threat of a mass killing looming over black students at the community college, Allen Edwards is steering clear of the trees.

"I don't feel too safe walking by the woods," said Edwards, a 19-year-old black student from Canton. "There's woods everywhere. And somebody could be out in them, and I don't know."

The FBI is investigating a threat scrawled last week on a bathroom wall warning that black students would be killed Feb. 2. It bore the trademarks of just another casual _ though chilling _ threat of violence on a college campus, but students here aren't taking any chances.(end excerpt)

Is there any chance hate can be put away and America can renew a vision where Peace within and without of the nation becomes one of our top priorities? Must hate, profits and death always be America's obsession?

Monsanto: Public Enemy Number One - National Expositor
If this does not scare you, check your pulse and make sure you are still alive. Monsanto is a big problem but once again, ask yourself who is Obama putting in key positions in his administration?

I know that you know how shocked I am about this. Michael Taylor, Monsanto’s golden boy, head of the FDA? If you think about it, this makes perfect sense. After all, if Al Gore can get a Nobel Peace Prize for one of the greatest scams in history, then Michael Taylor should indeed become in charge of our nation’s food regulatory agency.

It is blatantly obvious that criminals are in charge of the government. That being the case, what else can you expect? Mobsters are mobsters, and that is what they do. They pat each other on the back for a “job well done,” then go on to the next appointment/assignment.

Internet Privacy: How To Protect You And Your Kids - Wallet Pop
Did you know that 93% of kids 12 to 17 are online? Also that the average 2- to 11-year-old streams more online video than their parents? What do they watch? YouTube is a popular spot, where more than 13 hours are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

According to the white paper on Digital Literacy and Citizenship in the 21st Century, "America's children are growing up in the center of a technological revolution. Digital media defines their lives in unprecedented ways; they spend more time online, texting, watching TV and movies, and playing video games than they do in school or with their parents."You as a parent need to catch up. But first you should make sure that you understand what they are doing. You also need to be sure that you've protected your own data sufficiently.

Nazi Era Churches Id's Jews For Nazi's - DW World
For years, a tight lid has been kept on the activities of Germany's Catholic and Protestant churches during the Holocaust. But now, historians have shown that many clergy actively contributed to the persecution of Jews.

The history behind the brutal murder of millions of Jews during the Holocaust is well known. But as the world remembers victims of Nazi tyranny this week, the role of some German churches in the era's racist selection politics has only recently come to light...

..."Here, millions of index cards were written, up to as far back as the 18th century, in order to assess, when and where in Berlin the steps from Judaism to Christianity had taken place," Gailus said.

But not only Nazi faithful German Christians helped the exclusion of the Jews. Within the more Nazi critical - Confessing Church, Gailus found few ministers who would have tried to protect Christians with Jewish roots against the Nazi pursuit.

Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law. The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings. Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy. (Zep 3:1-8)

Obama's Permanent Military Industrial Complex - WW
I wish I could tell you I was surprised with Obama's latest moves to cut Social Security and Medicare yet leave our bloated, wasteful and I will say it, bumbling Military Industrial Complex (MIC) untouched with his latest budgetary proposals. I am not in the least surprised. As I watched Obama get inaugurated at my sisters house, that was exactly what I was thinking on that January morning (it was morning where I was at the time). I knew it then even if Obama himself did not know it. How did I know? I knew who was advising him, where he was getting his money from (even if the real origin of large swaths of it was not known to him) and what forces were lining up to get control of him and his agenda. I also knew he did not have the political muscle to neutralize these forces. So I knew that sooner or later (sooner it appears) he would buckle under to their pressure and shuffle his feet and do what he was told: Cut Social Security, Cut Medicare, but leave the DOD/National Security Apparatus and the profits of the big Drug Manufacturers alone. So far he is acting according to plan. He has just buckled under faster than I though he would.

The major fallacy and I will say it, lie that Obama and those pushing to leave the DOD out of his deficit reduction efforts is that we need to spend the money for our National Security. That is the lie that they must get Americans to swallow so they can target you for their cuts and not them. This is the cornerstone of their domestic propaganda effort.

They must convince the American people that the massive (and I do mean massive) Fraud Waste and Abuse in military contracting is necessary to National Security. They must deceive the American people that weapons systems that the nation does not need, the Generals do not want but are still placed into our DOD budgets because the plants are in Senator so-and-so's district are imperative. So much waste goes into weapons procurement that it really boggles the imagination. Overly generous salaries for America's new cadre's of Corporate Mercenaries has not helped curb our total defense spending either, which is really a global obscenity.

British Novelest Calls For' Death Booths To Kill Senior Citizens - Telegraph
Martin Amis, the novelist, has compared Britain's fast-growing population of elderly people to "an invasion of terrible immigrants", as he called for ‘death booths’ to be placed on street corners so they can kill themselves.(end excerpt)

No need for that. Obama has his death booths. They are called accountants and they are there to cut granny's Social Security and Medicare so the bomb makers and muslim killers can stay rich.

Yemen Rebels Demand Truce With Saudi Arabia - VOA
The leader of a northern Yemen insurgency that has spilled into neighboring Saudi Arabia offered a truce on Monday, saying his forces will withdraw from Saudi territory. But the rebel chief added that if Saudi Arabia does not agree to abandon the war, the Houthi rebels will open new battlefronts.

Abdul Malek al-Houthi, the leader of a six-year insurgency in Yemen, announced that his forces will pull back from Saudi Arabia if the powerful northern neighbor promises to stop arming, and fighting alongside, the Yemeni government.

US Military Deeply Involved In Yemen - Raw Story
US military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who have killed six of 15 leaders of an Al-Qaeda affiliate there, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.(end excerpt)

Once again, our President has told another blatant falsehood to the American people.

Obama May Help Underwater Homeowners - Bloomberg
The Obama administration’s $300 billion Hope for Homeowners program may be retooled to help the growing number of Americans who owe more than their properties are worth as current anti-foreclosure efforts fail to account for these “underwater” borrowers.

The changes would be at least the third lease on life for the program, which began in October 2008 during the Bush administration and has so far helped just 96 of the 400,000 homeowners originally targeted. (end excerpt)

Great idea, but like all of Obama's major economic initiatives, there are no teeth to it. He relies on the 'kindess of bankers' to get anything done. He lacks the real moxy to do anything really effective so he relies on fake help to solve a real problem. Listen it was Obama (not the GOP, not Pelosi, not Reid) who opposed making these Mortgage reduction programs mandatory from the beginning. So let us put the blame exactly where it lies if these programs are a failure. Look it was a great idea, but lacked the muscle needed to really help people. Mr. President, in case you have not figured it out yet, these bankers are not going to do anything for anyone that the law does not demand. You have doled out trillions to them and still haven't the will to really take them on and help folks who are really stuggling in effective (key word here) ways.

HAMP a ‘Failure’

President Barack Obama’s primary anti-foreclosure plan, the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, has helped fewer than 10,000 underwater borrowers cut their outstanding principal. HAMP is separate from FHA’s Hope for Homeowners program,

HAMP has been a “failure” so far at converting temporary repayment plans into permanent loan reductions, said Bose George, an equity analyst at Keefe Bruyette & Woods in New York. Of the 787,231 trial modification plans, 66,465 have been approved for permanent repayment through December, according to Treasury data. - Bloomberg

Arnold Targets Unions - LAT
Schwarzenegger's proposals would cut the size of the union workforce, reduce pay, shrink future pensions and roll back job protections won through collective bargaining.

Labor and the unions' Democratic allies are already girding for battle.

"It's a continuing jihad against organized labor," said Steve Maviglio, a Sacramento-based Democratic strategist. "The governor thinks public employee unions are Enemy No. 1."

Among the plans in the governor's budget: privatize prisons, which would strip members from the influential guards union; curtail seniority protections for teachers, a key union-won protection; and reduce the number of sick, disabled and elderly Californians cared for through the state's In-Home Supportive Services program -- almost all union jobs -- while cutting what their caregivers are paid.

Two Million Haitians Need Food Aid - DNow!
The World Food Program says the crisis in Haiti after the earthquake may be the most complex operation the agency has ever faced. The United Nations estimates that two million Haitians need immediate food aid. So far distribution of food aid has been limited. As of Saturday, the World Food Program had reached about 200,000 in Port-au-Prince and 113,000 in other areas—less than a sixth of the people that need food aid. Haitians living in tent cities in Port-au-Prince say they have nothing to eat.

Haitian Resident: “I’ve been at Champ de Mars since January 12, and I don’t know what’s going on or what’s going to happen to us. I don’t know where to go. We are sleeping in the streets. And I’m telling all who want to help that we are waiting for your help. We have nothing to eat, nothing to drink."

Christian Aid Organizations In Haiti - Christian Examiner

World Vision In Haiti

Compassion
www.compassion.com

Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability Servant Match

Baptist Global Response
www.baptistglobalresponse.com

Lutheran Disaster Response
www.ldr.org

LCMS World Relief and Human Care
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS)
www.lcmsworldmission.org

Mennonite Central Committee
http://mcc.org/haitiearthquake

MAF — Mission Aviation Fellowship
www.maf.org

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
www.pcusa.org/pda/index.htm

Salvation Army
www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf

Samaritan's Purse
www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/articles/responding_to_haiti_earthquake

World Concern

www.worldconcern.org/haiti-earthquake

World Help
www.worldhelp.net

World Vision
www.worldvision.org

Russia: Decline In Children Stirs Demographic Fears - Moscow Times
"For historical and demographic reasons, the child population in Russia decreased by approximately 12 million over the last 13 years. This is an average of 1 million each year," said Bertrand Bainvel, UNICEF's representative in Russia.

"This in itself poses important development challenges, and optimizing the investment in childhood makes it even more important and urgent for the country," he told The Moscow Times.

The country's overall population has shrunk by 6 million since the Soviet collapse in 1991 because of economic hardship, rampant alcoholism and other factors.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
(Col 3:1-10)

Barak Obama To Cut Domestic Spending, Leave DOD Untouched - NYT
The freeze would cover the agencies and programs for which Congress allocates specific budgets each year, including air traffic control, farm subsidies, education, nutrition and national parks.

But it would exempt security-related budgets for the Pentagon, foreign aid, the Veterans Administration and homeland security, as well as the entitlement programs that make up the biggest and fastest-growing part of the federal budget: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

The payoff in budget savings would be small relative to the deficit: The estimated $250 billion in savings over 10 years would be less than 3 percent of the roughly $9 trillion in additional deficits the government is expected to accumulate over that time.(end excerpt)

This is so sad. One cannot blame Obama totally, or even mostly for this horrible fiscal situation, it is the result of decades of irresponsible polices mainly by Bill Clinton but carried on by both Bushes. If Social Security is in trouble, it is because of those three men, who quietly robbed it of its cash and put Treasury bills in its place, T-Bills which soon will be the new 'Toxic Assets' of the Global economy. This was how we funded our deficits. They robbed Social Security so they could go on their global killing spree's. Let's take a quick look for those who did not know this.

Time and time again, anyone reading the mainstream news or reading articles on the Internet will read the claim that President Clinton not only balanced the budget, but had a surplus. This is then used as an argument to further highlight the fiscal irresponsibility of the federal government under the Bush administration.

The claim is generally made that Clinton had a surplus of $69 billion in FY1998, $123 billion in FY1999 and $230 billion in FY2000 . In that same link, Clinton claimed that the national debt had been reduced by $360 billion in the last three years, presumably FY1998, FY1999, and FY2000--though, interestingly, $360 billion is not the sum of the alleged surpluses of the three years in question ($69B + $123B + $230B = $422B, not $360B).

While not defending the increase of the federal debt under President Bush, it's curious to see Clinton's record promoted as having generated a surplus. It never happened. There was never a surplus and the facts support that position. In fact, far from a $360 billion reduction in the national debt in FY1998-FY2000, there was an increase of $281 billion.

Verifying this is as simple as accessing the U.S. Treasury (see note about this link below) website where the national debt is updated daily and a history of the debt since January 1993 can be obtained. Considering the government's fiscal year ends on the last day of September each year, and considering Clinton's budget proposal in 1993 took effect in October 1993 and concluded September 1994 (FY1994), here's the national debt at the end of each year of Clinton Budgets:

Fiscal Year	Year Ending	National Debt	Deficit
FY1993	09/30/1993	$4.411488 trillion
FY1994	09/30/1994	$4.692749 trillion	$281.26 billion
FY1995	09/29/1995	$4.973982 trillion	$281.23 billion
FY1996	09/30/1996	$5.224810 trillion	$250.83 billion
FY1997	09/30/1997	$5.413146 trillion	$188.34 billion
FY1998	09/30/1998	$5.526193 trillion	$113.05 billion
FY1999	09/30/1999	$5.656270 trillion	$130.08 billion
FY2000	09/29/2000	$5.674178 trillion	$17.91 billion
FY2001	09/28/2001	$5.807463 trillion	$133.29 billion

As can clearly be seen, in no year did the national debt go down, nor did Clinton leave President Bush with a surplus that Bush subsequently turned into a deficit. Yes, the deficit was almost eliminated in FY2000 (ending in September 2000 with a deficit of "only" $17.9 billion), but it never reached zero--let alone a positive surplus number. And Clinton's last budget proposal for FY2001, which ended in September 2001, generated a $133.29 billion deficit. The growing deficits started in the year of the last Clinton budget, not in the first year of the Bush administration. - Craig Steiner

Existing Home Sales Fall To 40 Year Low - WP
Existing-home sales took their biggest tumble in at least 40 years last month as the impact of a buying spree spurred by a tax credit for first-time buyers waned, according to industry data released Monday.

In Midst Of Destruction, Death Haitians Pray - Worthy News
mid destroyed churches and the stench of human death, native Christians prayed for Haiti Sunday, January 24, and one believer said it was a miracle he had been found alive a full 11 days after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook his nation.

Wismond Exantus, 24, was plucked to safety at the weekend – hours after Haiti's government officially declared the search for survivors over.

Exantus thanked God for saving his life and added that he survived on cola, crisps, beer and whisky. At least 200,000 other Haitians are believed to have died in the disaster.(end excerpt)

I think one day on the not too distant future, America will undergo much of what Haiti is experiencing for the same reasons, Sin and the worship of evil. The good news is that while there will be enormous suffering, there will be many who will repent and come to God and put away their devils, demons, charms pentagrams and other works of darkenss and come to the Cross of Christ. Then and only then can any form of healing come to this nation who has turned on the God who blessed us like a dog turns on his master.

The only other alternative is, that the master puts the dog to sleep.

Why Holiness Matters - WW
Holiness is a very important issue with God, for without it no man will see the Lord. Those who speak of it are often labeled as Modern day Pharisee's.

China Google, Hillary And Watson's Web - WW
The last week or so has seen a flurry of news reporting on the row between China and Google. In short, China was accused of hacking into Google accounts and gathering information in Chinese dissidents. There has been a lot of reporting on this story both from a political as well as a technological point of view. I will not cover the political other than to say that the Secretary of State called on China to 'end censorship'.

From a technological point of view, it appears that many of the vulnerabilites that are being bantered about on the web are spin and have little basis in reality. Some reveal old bugs that MS never really got around to fixing others to new ones that may or may not really be present. The truth? There was little if any real technological hacking. Rather, Google employees appear to have been bribed/compromised by Chinese intelligence to provide the data they wanted on the dissidents. A far cry from what you hear on the web isn't it? Well, readers of Watson's web know that I have long warned my readers that that is at least a great a threat as any bug in a browser or operating system. SysAdmins are often bribed and usually the company just looks the other way. In Google's defense, they did not. Take a look at facebook and what an anonymous employee says and you will see there are holes in the system. In short, the internal controls of these massive sites are an extremely important component of your privacy. No internal controls, no privacy.

But you know, I find it most interesting that the Secretary of State would rant about 'openness' and 'stopping censorship' when her own State Department has banned Watson's Web. Oh, yes!! This site is banned and cannot be reached at the US State Department. Why? Because I challenge conventional Corporate wisdom in our foreign policy. The kind of 'wisdom' that is about to lose Pakistan in its incessant diplomatic bumbling and will one day turn it into a major Islamic anti-American state. Their myopic polcies have made a mess of the region. I have provided a lot of alternatives here on Watson's Web that should have at least have been talked about, even at the lower levels of State. They were and that is why the site got banned. I am a Christian and in the eyes of Hillary's underlings, that makes me a 'dangerous extremist'. I do not tout the 'corporate donation party-line'. Bretheren, there are few places on earth more anti-Christ that the halls of power in the US government. Hillary's State is the poster child of that kind of illegal bigotry and religious intolerance. Hillary is having no openess at State, rather she wants everyone else to have openess and freedom of thought but her and her little empire at Foggy Bottom.

Physician of openess, heal thyself.

Mayor Of Moscow Bans 'Gay' Parades - The Other Russia
Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov has announced that his opposition to gay pride parades in the city should be taken as “an axiom,” reports the ITAR-TASS news agency.

In a statement on Monday, the mayor expounded upon his history of banning the events, which activists have attempted to hold annually since 2006.

“It is impossible to gaze kindly upon the display of blasphemy under the guise of creativity and protected by the principle of freedom of speech,” said Luzhkov. “The activities of destructive cults are not allowed, and the propaganda of so-called unisexual love is unacceptable.”

“For several years, unprecedented pressure has been exercised on Moscow with the demand to hold a gay parade here,” the mayor went on, “which can be called nothing more than a satanic activity. We have not allowed such parades and will not allow them in the future.”

After Mass. Obama Fakes Anti-Wall Street Stance - WSWS
Half the initial $700 billion in bailout funds, and the vast majority of the loan guarantees and other subsidies to Wall Street, were doled out by the Obama administration, with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner playing the major role. The total financial resources dwarfed, by more than 30 to 1, the amount provided for the rest of America in the so-called economic stimulus package—a clear indication that for Obama, as for Bush and every other Democratic and Republican politician, defending the financial aristocracy is the number-one priority.

As for Obama’s cynical reference to “the American people,” they had no say whatsoever in the bank bailout, which was deeply unpopular at the time and has only become more hated as the banks saw their profits and stock prices soar and resumed their speculative binge and self-rewarding bonus pools of previous years.
Obama combined this grotesque distortion of the bailout’s history with claims that his administration would now carry out far-reaching measures to prevent any recurrence of the financial crash. He did not explain the delay of an entire year since the biggest financial crash since the Great Depression, and gave few details, instead pledging, “Never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a bank that is ‘too big to fail.’ ”

Obama said he would propose a ban on proprietary trading by deposit-taking commercial banks as well as a ban on these banks investing in or owning hedge funds and private equity funds. This announcement, made without providing any details, came as a surprise to European and Asian governments and markets, sparking uncertainty and near-panic and contributing to sharp declines Thursday and Friday on stock markets in the US and internationally.

Mongolia: 'Dzud' Weather Conditions Brings Humanitarian Concerns - Mongolia Web
Mongolia is currently threatened by a “Dzud”, which is a multiple natural disaster consisting of a summer drought producing small stockpiling of fodder, followed by very heavy winter snow and lower than normal temperatures.

Heavy and continuous snowfall and blizzards have resulted in a sharp fall in daily temperatures - dropping to below -40°Celsius in 19 out of a total of 21 ‘aimags’ (provinces) in Mongolia.

According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the extreme cold and heavy snow have already caused the death of more than one million livestock, worsening food security and predicted subsequently to result in a deepening of poverty and increased internal rural-urban migration for many families. According to the World Bank, livestock herding today, accounts for around 35% of employment in Mongolia.

Oil Giants Have Data Hacked - The Register
At least three US oil giants were hit by cyberattacks aimed at stealing secrets, in the months before the high-profile Operation Aurora attacks against Google, Adobe et al in December. Targeted attacks against Marathon Oil, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil took place in 2008 and followed the same pattern as the later Aurora assaults. Information harvested by the attacks included "bid data" that gave information on new energy discoveries, according to documents obtained by the Christian Science Monitor.(end excerpt)



Yes, this is China and they are very good at this kind of thing. But this is not news to readers of Watson's Web. I gave my readers a most detailed view of China's intentions and capabilities a couple of years ago. Believe it or not, some of the biggest and most politically connected 'think tanks' used that piece extensively in their papers and charged the government the usual billing rates for the information. Yet, when the upper management saw my site as a reference in the final draft, they were told to take it out of the references. Why? I am a Christian and Christians are not allowed to get credit for their work. You see, the spirit of Anticrhist runs these places, a deep and enduring hatred of Christ, his message and his followers permeates these places like the spirit of witchcraft. They will reference an Islamic, a wiccan, a sodomite, a torturer or a thief or even a ongoing-racketeer, but not a Christian. Never a Christian.

What happens to God haters? Take a look at that small Carribean Island, the only nation in the world to name Witchcraft as its National Religion and take a really big hint. Sooner or later God just gives up playing the merciful father and puts on his Royal Judge Robes and deals with evil in the way he has consistently promised. I am not saying that God's Judgement was necessarily at play in Haiti, I am saying that that is exactly what it looks like when it does. There is great harshness, but he still has mercy on some.

Bretheren, sooner or later, sooner becomes now.

Do you want to know why no real policy changes are even possible in America? This is why. The only people who are listened to are those who have their nose deep in the government trough and they only put forward 'solutions' that benefit them and those who give donations in a financial way to their think tanks and policy groups. They are very much like the blind leading the blind right into the black hole of national bankruptcy and military defeat.

When you reject the truth, the only thing left to accept is a lie and lucifer has a literal pandora's box of them. A smorgesborg of deceit and one can choose from it at will and pay a horrible penalty for dining at the devils table... because whether they know it or not, the food is poisoned and the guy with the antidote has been barred from entering the dining room.

Kenyan Bishops Adress Right To Life - Spero News
he Catholic Church in Kenya has protested over a move by the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Review to alter a clause, which defines that life starts at conception to state that it starts at birth.

In a statement released on January 21,church leaders warned that the move to define that life starts at birth was tantamount to legalizing abortion. And the bishops further warned they would not be party to any law that supports a culture of death.

"Conscious of our divine mandate to promote the culture of life and to stand for the inviolable right of every person to life from the moment of conception to natural death, we strongly feel we cannot be party to any legislation that supports a culture of death," they said.

Five Bribes For Five Judges? - WW
No, this is not the sequel to the smash hit from yesteryear, "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers", but a deadly serious question being raised with regard to the Highest Court in the land by well (probably some of the best) informed DC insiders. The Court has just decided transform our political system from a sewer pipe, into raw sewage. One person laid it out, "Five, count 'em... five... were bribed" to give the abominable ruling we saw on Corporate Campaign spending according to them. The folks who did the bribing? I have a really good idea (95% accuracy) who they are and they are very rich, extremely powerful in Washington and everyone is scared to death of them, emphasis in the word 'death'.

I then spoke with a connected insider who knows a lot of things powerful folks in Washington would like to know (and I have asked him over and over again, to the point his exasperation shows), "Why can't we get the Justice Department to look deep into this, or if they are unwilling to move, send the data to States Attorney Generals as well as the FEDS and then have a press conference about it, lay it bare so they cannot just ignore it". I have found it strange that for so long we have had so many abominable rulings coming out of SCOTUS and have (except in a couple of cases where I was sure) suspected bribery. In the past I asked my sources about this but they were not 100% certain that bribery was an epidemic in the High Court. Corruption yes, as no one gets a Federal Appointment or gets a seat on the High Court unless he or she is in someones back pocket, it just does not happen. Why? In short, the courts in America are some of the most corrupt in America an serve the interests of the powerful and the criminal.

So why does not anyone go after these guys? I will tell you what was relayed to me. The people who launder the money into these guys secret accounts have a long, tried and true experience in money laundering. The money will go through 100 different accounts before it hits the account of the Judge. It may show up in small increments, sometimes as low as $9.95 cents, coming into various accounts over several months. These guys are very good. They know how to stay way below the FINCIN Radar as the money launderer (in this case) helped write the laws that govern FINCIN. Also they have spies inside FINCIN who feed them information. The 'too curious' wind up floating in the Potomac... face down. This would be most difficult to prove in a court, but not in a Senate trial to remove a judge.

Oh, yes, we are taking about real power, "power", as one of my sources reminds me constantly, "you don't mess with". But be aware, I cannot say for certain that they were bribed, but folks in the know are sure talking like they were. What I have described above is the mechanics of professional money laundering, not necessarily what happened with the High Court. I personally have not seen the wire transfers so I cannot say for certain but somebody somewhere should start asking some real questions because such a ruling flies in the face of so much US law.

What are the motives of those who have the power to do this, I mean beyond just corrupting the nation for their own interests and making their campaign money laundering much, much easier? I will tell you from right from the mouth of a person who had the temerity (and position) to ask these people directly. They want to destroy America and get rich in the process and they are not shy about it (in private). They want to forment a class war and hope that it gets violent. They want people to get mad. They want to separate the people from the government, they want to see civil terrorism increase. They just wonder what is taking the people so long to get angry. As I am so often fond of saying, these guys know exactly what they are doing. Look folks, they just robbed the treasury and the people are still putting their hope in an incompetent/compromised President. Maybe he will find his 'testicles' in the coming months, I hope so, but I really doubt it. I think they got burnt off when he shook hands with the devil to get into the White House. I that is kind of rough, but there is far more at stake than most people realize. In short, this situation is far, far beyond good manners.

But you know I have to tell you, there is good news in this ruling. Oh, yes, as foul as it is, there is good news.

The good news is that before, hundreds of millions of dollars were shifted illegally to candidates and parties and unless you (voters) knew somebody on the inside, you could never really know where the money was really coming from - how it was disguised, yes, but that was all you could know by looking at FEC records and excellent places like OpenSecrets. Now, these corporations will no longer have to go to black market money launderers to support their candidates (for a sizeable fee), it will all be pretty much in the open. That is not such a bad thing because I am here to tell you, most campaigns that win, get millions in illegally laundered donations. Everybody knows it but the average American voter, who keeps voting for the same crooks over and over and over and over and over.. again. I had a friend back in High School that used to always say, 'no brain, no headache', It is a miracle aspirin and Tylenol sales have not plummeted to the point the makers are out of business.

But even business leaders are not that happy about the situation. You would think they would be happy about it. Most are not.

Roughly 40 executives from companies including Playboy Enterprises, ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's, the Seagram's liquor company, toymaker Hasbro, Delta Airlines and Men's Wearhouse sent a letter to congressional leaders Friday urging them to approve public financing for House and Senate campaigns. They say they are tired of getting fundraising calls from lawmakers — and fear it will only get worse after Thursday's Supreme Court ruling.

The court ruled that corporations and unions can spend unlimited money on ads urging people to vote for or against candidates. The decision was sought by interest groups including one that represents American businesses, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. They argued that restrictions on ads they could finance close to elections violated their free-speech rights, and the court agreed. - ABC News

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"As business leaders, we believe the current political fundraising system is already broken. The Supreme Court decision further exacerbates this problem." Signatories include current and former high-ranking corporate executives of enterprises such as Playboy Enterprises, MetLife, Ben & Jerry's, and Delta Airlines, among others. - Raw Story

Bail, Judges And Bondsman - NPR
The result is that people with money get out. They go back to their jobs and their families, pay their bills and fight their cases. And according to the Justice Department and national studies, those with money face far fewer consequences for their crimes.

People without money stay in jail and are left to take whatever offer prosecutors feel like giving them. (end excerpt)

This is a very good series. It shows how people who cannot afford bail often plead guilty, even if they are or not. While the rich who can afford the bail, can easily plead out. I say again this is very good three part series. It shows how much influence Bail bondsman have and why much cheaper and more commonsense approaches are not employed. It also shows you who probably should really be in jail. . In these days of shrinking budgets to continue the system as it is is just plain stupid. What this series does not talk about is the link between bailbondsman and Judges... nationwide.

The Crisis Of Migrants In Central Asia - ICG
“The crisis has focused attention on one of the crucial weakness of Central Asian governments: the ability of states like Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to survive a crisis depends on good external conditions, not good policy”, says Paul Quinn-Judge, Crisis Group’s Central Asia Project Director. “There is precious little of the latter: they handled unemployment by exporting it, did little to create jobs at home, and are now floundering in the face of the crisis”.

The economic crisis has not, as some predicted, produced an apocalyptic flood of angry radicalised migrants returning home to Central Asia. It will, however, continue to seriously strain the weakest countries in Central Asia. Migrant labourers also unwittingly performed a valuable political service for Central Asia’s leaders. The export of surplus labour allowed governments to rid themselves for part of the year of the segment of society – especially young men - that are the most likely source of unrest.

Without reforms, unemployed migrants will be added to the long list of ripening problems in the region. Government inaction may also reinforce the Islamists’ hand, as radical religious groups capitalise on migrants’ social insecurity and isolation. The removal of workers from the land is further diminishing agriculture; the removal of a parent from the family is leading to problem children and abused women.

Insecurity is growing, in part domestically generated, in part because of proximity to Afghanistan. Infrastructure is collapsing and weak economies are slipping still further. The governments of the region need to take energetic measures to carry out sweeping reforms. The West’s current and apparently short-term interest in Central Asia as a supply route for the Afghan war effort is likely to further lessen any desire to put pressure on local governments to reform. Fast, effective action is needed, but there is little prospect of that in sight.

“Unrest cannot be ruled out in the future, but even without it, deep scars will remain”, says Robert Templer, Crisis’s Group Asia Program Director. “Without efforts to create functional economies, eradicate corruption and improve social services, Central Asian states will be at the mercy of the boom and bust cycles of its large neighbours”.

The Secret Bank Bailout - Economic Policy Journal
There's one method that the Federal Reserve has been employing to shovel money to the bank elite that is rarely mentioned, though I hear the sums that have been shoveled are in the billions and they are showing up on the books of firms like Goldman Sachs as pure profit. It's really pure scam.

Here's what went on for months, according to traders familiar with the situation.

When the Federal Reserve buys and sells Treasury securities it does so through primary dealers. Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are among the select elite firms that, naturally, got into this club.

So when the Fed wants to trade it goes to one of these primary dealers. In the past, to earn a profit, the banks would execute the trade and mark up the price a bit on a buy to the Fed (or mark down a bit to the Fed when they were selling for the Fed ). Since Fed traders have screens showing them where market prices are, in the past primary dealers were allowed small mark ups and mark downs in line with what banks were marking up and down for their other clients. It would be difficult for a primary dealer to get away with an outrageous mark up or down because the Fed trader would have a pretty good idea of where a trade should have been made. (end excerpt)

Thank Bernanke. Whose confirmation is not assured, though I think 'brown envelope lobbying' will ultimately win over reluctant Senators. What folks don't know is that the same folks who pushed behind the scenes on the Campaign Finance ruling of SCOTUS are the same ones behind Bernanke. Obama has publicly endorsed Bernanke, but that was 'brown envelope' politics. He would love to see Bernanke go, but is forced to put him forward and support him. So once again, in the face of depression level statistics on many fronts, Barak Obama sticks with 'Bailout Bernanke' at the helm of The Fed. In short this is NO CHANGE from Bush. You would think he would have learned a lesson from the election defeat last week on his economic polices. He hasn't, not really. He is going to give the nation a new 'song and dance show', another 'psychedelic strobe light show' to wow us and woo us away from the reality of his (so far) failed Presidency. But there will be no real change any direction that helps the people. The devil is running this ship and won't be happy until it is at the bottom of the ocean.

Violence Still A Possibility In Sudan - New Kerala
The parties to the 2005 peace accord that ended Sudan's north-south civil war have made important breakthroughs, but a return to violence is still a very real possibility, warns a new United Nations report.

Signed by the Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) separatists in the south and the national Government in the north, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) brought an end to more than 20 years of war in the vast African nation.

In his latest report to the Security Council on the Sudan, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon cites recent developments, allowing the parties "to move beyond several major obstacles that had long impeded progress."

Black Scholar Questions Obama's Love For Poor - BBC
An Interesting note to Obama by a highly educated Black Voice who challenges Obama on the things I have talked about here for a year now. Dr. West is more conciliatory than I, who saw that Obama wasn't about poor folks before he got into the White House. Dr. West is just now figuring it out and gently reminding Obama about his verbal commitments.

We Are In A Depression, Not A Recovery - International Forecaster
How can there be a recovery with 22.5% unemployment, and with the additional threat of further unemployment? Who will buy the new housing and the tremendous inventory overhand? What will happen to the commercial inventory building up? Who has money in America to buy cars and trucks? Credits to buy housing for subprime and ALT-A buyers will end up with a 50% failure rate. Cash for clunkers was a colossal failure. Such exercises in futility only buy time, just as stimulus packages, and monetization do the same thing. The elitists behind the scenes know this just as we know this. That means the colossal deficit increase of $1.4 trillion a year will add 10% yearly to the federal debt to GDP ratio that will be over 100% by 2011. The tax liability to service this debt will be overwhelming. Government debt is rising exponentially and if further stimulus is not added the credit crisis will be renewed. This is why the Fed cannot remove further liquidity from the financial system, especially after having taken M3 from 17 to 18% to 6%. Incidentally, England and the ECB have done the same thing, and they still see rising inflation. If further stimulation is not forthcoming, or war, or default comes, we will see inflation reverse and deflation take over and that could last for ten years or more. This deflation, if allowed to take its course, will cause losses of $12 to $15 trillion from the economy and cause unemployment to rise to 40% to 50%. That would also entail cutting extended benefits. That would give us the scenes we saw in the 1930s. The debt we are facing knows no precedent in modern times, and there is no possible way it can be paid.

Inflation A Problem In China - Shanghai Daily
LIU Qi, an advertising firm employee in Beijing for eight years, spent 80 yuan (US$11.70) at a supermarket last Thursday. About a half went on food and the rest on daily necessities. However, the biggest financial pressure for the 29-year-old is not food, but her plan to buy an apartment in the city as home prices have risen through the roof.

Second Wave: Americans Still Don't Understand - Before Its News
Even though the U.S. financial system nearly experienced a total meltdown in late 2008, the truth is that most Americans simply have no idea what is happening to the U.S. economy. Most people seem to think that the nasty little recession that we have just been through is almost over and that we will be experiencing another time of economic growth and prosperity very shortly. But this time around that is not the case. The reality is that we are being sucked into an economic black hole from which the U.S. economy will never fully recover.

The problem is debt. Collectively, the U.S. government, the state governments, corporate America and American consumers have accumulated the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world. Our massive debt binge has financed our tremendous growth and prosperity over the last couple of decades, but now the day of reckoning is here.

And it is going to be painful.

The following are 20 reasons why the U.S. economy is dying and is simply not going to recover.... (end excerpt)

Not one American in 100 understands this. They really think this is a cyclical recession, not that western Capitalism has already collapsed and is only able to function on Billions in bailouts, zero interest rates and clandestine policies designed to prop up its failing banking system. They think the grocery stores will always be full of food, the electricity will always come on, the heat will always be there in the winter. Unless serious efforts are made to undermine (yes undermine) the Presidents current economic polices, these thing will one by one begin happening in America. Not right away, but with the same certainty of tomorrow's sunrise. Why? Because the new toxic asset will soon be US Treasuries if Obama's, Geithner's, Bernanke's and Clinton's (who is the biggest part of the problem) polices are allowed to continue. Pay attention folks, I called this Depression long before just about anyone else out there (who did not see it then but now have perfect 20-20 hindsight). You now have massive blogs (many of whom are trying to separate you from your money) in the business of sounding as bearish as possible. I know (and knew) the root causes back when it was extremely unpopular to write about them. I did anyway They were NOT off the cuff statements but a whole series of articles.

The Coming Economic Depression is now called the Political Economic and Spiritual Review. PESR	December 2005 Update	November 2005
October 2005 Update	September 2005	August 2005 Update
June 2005	May 2005	April 2005 Update
March 05 Update	February 2005 Update	January 2005 Update
December Update	November Update	October Update
September Update	August Update	June/July Update

The path we are on is the path to National poverty. It is as sure as death and taxes. The sad part is that somebody has a political gun to the Presidents head and is forcing him to drive the truck of the US economy over the cliff.

Global Warming Scientist Admits Hoax In Bowing To Political Pressure - Daily Mail
The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.

Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.

In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead author of the report?s chapter on Asia, said: It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.

It had importance for the region, so we thought we should put it in. (end excerpt)

Years ago I talked about the Global Warming Hoax that the data was very questionable and that there were other far more likely causes for the warming we were seeing other than anthropomorphic warming. I did not have Billions of dollars backing me and a disinformation campaign with deep pockets designed to rearrange the worlds economy in favor of Global government. So nobody listened. People fall for propaganda in droves and recover their damaged senses, one by one. Propaganda's effects can be most damaging and carry lifelong cognitive scars.

Lockheed Martin Gets Taiwan Missile Contract - Jamestown
The U.S. government announced on January 6 that it awarded the defense manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, a contract to build the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles for Taiwan. The agreement is part of an arms package that the United States agreed to sell to Taiwan in 2008 (eTaiwan news, January 7). The Indian government also recently declared that it was expanding its anti-ballistic missile system to include an anti-satellite program (ASM) (Space News, January 4). (end excerpt)

...From The Fringes - Europe
Tectonic Bombs: Read this with caution and discernment. There are a lot of folks peddling all kinds of conspiracy theories on this. I frankly do not know what to think but rather than just ignore it, I will pass this like along. Know this that such weapons on some level (of effectiveness and deployability) almost certainly exist as they have been talked about in public by Cabinet Level officials. (begin excerpt)

When the Haiti earthquake struck, I considered that likelihood of a scalar warfare based weapon being used to cause the quake. I dismissed this, more from not wanting to believe that anyone would do this, than from any hard evidence that it was not likely done. Today, while doing my usual weekly appearance on Dr. Bill Deagel's NutriMedical Report, I learned that a group of Christian missionaries witnessed a large orange plasma ball (which some took to be a UFO) in the sky over the epicenter of the Haiti earthquake - see video ~ link ~ This video shows just what the plasma ball looked like the night before the earthquake. This is proof that a Tesla-based Scalar Warfare weapon was used to cause the Haiti earthquake. Listen to the NutriMedical Report ~ link ~ at Clay and Iron ~ today's program with Lord Stirling (Tim Alexander) ~ link ~ This audio has some very important information in it about the Tesla-based Scalar Warfare technology used in the Haiti earthquake and in other 'events'. (end excerpt)

I make no comment. You make up your own mind. There is a lot on the web about it. Much of it appears to be carefully construed Anti-US propaganda but in it are always very important nuggets of truth that the more intelligent and unemotional can glean. You be the judge.

No Time For The Faint Of Heart WW
Everyone has their job to do in the Kingdom and we must not faint at the task we have been given. Don't quit your task until the Lord specifically releases you to do something else. This is the time when tenacity and a stubborn reliance to ones calling is needed. Wheather it be the overworked aid worker, the Christian missionary, the pastor doing his best to fight the spiritual sludge in his own Parish as well as reprobate upper level Church management, we must not faint, give up or give in to despair or faithlessness. God is with us and will direct us in the work he has called us to do. It is not easy. One can always look at some one else's seeming success and wonder why we do not have more in our Churches, or cannot save more souls on the mission field.

But bretheren, not all of us are called to do the same jobs. Think of a military when fighting this spiritual war. Not everyone is a front line soldier, not everyone will be a POW, not everyone will work in Intelligence, not everyone will work in logistics, not all will work on Naval vessels or work in front-line recruiting. Each has his own task within the context of that army. The same is true of God's army. But we do not use violence or weapons of physical warfare. We are a spiritual army whose victories are measured in souls converted to Christ and righteousness. We know satan is in control because of the enourmous hatred and opposition Christ's simple message of love engenders. If that message were not of such great importance, the world would not spend so much time, effort and money to destroy the message and kill Christ's followers. It is because that message is of such paramount value that we meet with such vehement opposition driven by forced in the Kingdom of darkness.

Take this to heart as you go forward and do God's work.

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. (1Co 15:57-58)

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Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men: For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen. (Pro 25:6-7)

Obama Seeks Backroom Deal To Cut Social Security, Medicare

Obama Looks To Spend Billions In Afghanistan

US Military: Here To Help, Not Occupy

Justice IG: FBI Crimes 'Egregious'

Mudslide!

Iraq: Kurds Increasingly Distrust US

Obama's Angry 'Sock It To The Banks Tax'... Is Tax Deductable!

Scotus Legalizes Corruption: Supremes Unleash Corporate Campaign Slush Funds

Lawsuit: NYPD Arrests Law Abiding Students

Haitian Mambo Priestess Turns From Voodoo.

An Email/Response On Gun Violence - WW
Q:
What is it with US citizens and their guns? I realize that this recent move to limit the rights to own guns are worrying considering what lies ahead, so this is just a general thought.

If you compare USA to most other countries in the world nowhere so many innocent people get killed by their fellow countrymen. Not in Canada, Germany or Sweden. So trying to limit the (unnecessary) amount of guns isn't necessary an evil act. But I understand your point in your recent post at WW, so this is no argue, I just wanted to get it off my chest.

This is just some of what has happened the last few weeks:

8 people killed near Appomattox (January 20, 2010) 3 killed in St. Louis workplace shooting; gunman also dead (January 7, 2010) Las Vegas gunman killed after shooting two courthouse officers (January 4, 2010) 3 people killed, 1 wounded after Detroit shooting (December 29, 2009) 2 dead in shooting at Texas elderly center (December 17, 2009) Seattle police shoot man suspected of killing police officers (December 1, 2009)

Speaker	Dialog
Wife	Arrest him!
More	For what?
Wife	He's dangerous!
Roper	For all we know he's a spy!
Daughter	Father, that man's bad!
More	There's no law against that!
Roper	There is, God's law!
More	Then let God arrest him!
Wife	While you talk he's gone!
More	And go he should, if he were the Devil himself, until he broke the law!
Roper	So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
More	Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
Roper	Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
More	Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down (and you're just the man to do it!), do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

- From The Movie "A Man For All Seasons"

Introducing President Hillary Rodham Clinton - WW
There is another story to the victory in Mass. Another much darker one that has not been told. But one that as much as I can, will tell and make it plain to folks just what is really happening on the American political scene and why we have a guy who came out of nowhere to win this Senate seat and take it away from the Democrats after almost 50 years.

While it is true that much of this was a referendum against Obama and his health and economic policies, there is more to the story than meets the eye. Suffice it to say that powerful forces inside the Democratic party and the GOP (and you heard right inside the GOP and Democratic party) are manueviering to embarass Obama and position Hillary to Run in 2012. A deal has been cut. What is not known to most is the extreme political pressure brought to bear on officials inside Mass., including those interesting 'little brown envelopes'. From party leaders, right down to the polling stations, strong arm tactics were employed as revenge against Obama for being black and President at the same time. We will never really know if Brown really won. Suffice it to say that the fix was in to make darn sure he did. They were not leaving anything to chance... er,... I mean the voters. Obama must be cut down, his image destroyed and program wrecked to ensure he does not run in 2012.

Now all you have come by this site know I am no supporter of Obama, but I like the folks behind this new guy even less. They are extremely dangerous and have motives in mind that are as far removed from helping ordinary Americans as the east is from the west. There is a nexus between the key 'in contorl' elements of both parties that are working together against the people and our Republic. The sad part is, that every time people go to the polls and vote for these parties, they are empowering their own executioners.

In America, ignorance is not bliss, it is going to be fatal.

Tearing Down The Military - WW
I have read a lot of crap on the net the past couple of days and rather than go on a rant (I am rather angry about it) I want to leave my readers with this thought.

Our military is doing its level best to bring aid to the people. The island nation is a utter disaster and aid is needed now, right now. But there are many, many problems which are being exacerbated by shabby news reporting from major news organizations and in the blogosphere. Everyone is criticizing the military and calling our deployment an 'invasion'. Well, we need troops there for many reasons. First, know this - There is no government in Haiti. UN officials and press folks may refer it, but it does not exist. And as far as the stories of the US military being 'incompetent' well, the military is taking orders these days from those in Charge of the aid operation, mainly the UN. So there are enormous problems of coodination and yes perhaps a lack of strategic and tactical planning. But even here, I am not going to be too hard on the UN personnel in charge. It would be too easy for me to accuse as I sit in my warm house drinking coffee while I tap away on my really cool notebook. There are too many folks out there ranting and raving about the military that are ill informed or mal-intentioned or both. They have an agenda to paint everything the US does as evil. Sure a lot of it is, but not all of it.

But the problems now are still enormous. Aid is piling up on the tarmac... crates and crates of it. No one thought about ordering trucks to deliver it, or figured out a way to get them and some bulldozers to where it is needed. And of course there is the fuel problem. But remember, the US military is just going to try and deliver whatever aid is asked for, not strong arm everyone and tell them what to do, that would only engender yet more criticism from those with mal-intentions.

Then you have the usual lowest common denominator journalists who are down there, paying young (perhaps too young) Haitian girls for a little horizontal action. Oh, yes, this is happening right now and not just a little either. They have their procurers among the locals who can get the cutest ones for them, for a price.

Meanwhile the people starve and die.

So I ask my readers not to fall into the usual traps found at far too many sites. There is no one else that has the capabilities of the US military. The Hospital ships, deployable helicopters, the UAV's (for recon), the on-call deployable troops. Only the US has these things in the quantity that can make a difference. But things are moving very slowly as there are still serious administrative and logistical difficulties, the Ports are in shambles and the media are not making the situation any better with counter-productive charges.

Don't let our recent policies in Iraq and Afghanistan blind you to the enormous good our forces do in many places.

Dems Take A Step Back On Health Care Reform - AP
Shorn by Massachusetts voters of their pivotal 60th Senate vote and much of their political momentum, the White House and congressional leaders are considering a more modest version of Obama's top legislative priority. It could focus on curbing insurance company practices like denying coverage to sick people and on helping low-earning people and small businesses afford coverage, officials said.(end excerpt)

Mr. Krugman is about to give up on Obama, so says the Raw Story. Others are too and not just because of Heath care. But there are a lot of things folks just don't know. I recently found out that Eric Holder, the current AG has literally hundreds of terra-byts of data on AIG and can make a rock solid, textbook case for racketeering, money laundering and fraud. The case is ready. But when he informed Obama about it, he was told not (repeat NOT) to go forward. Obama wanted to bail them out instead. Holder wanted to swoop into the offices around the nation and arrest people by the hundreds. Like I said, the case is rock solid.

Mr. Krugman, I gave up on Obama long ago. This guy is just a lacky for evil rich men whose only reason for backing him was because they knew they had the right guy to protect their criminal rackets.

So all of Obama's talk about taxes and fee's on Wall Street... it is just a sham, he knows he can't get that stuff passed. And even if he can, he will just ensure the bill has so many loopholes it will be meaningless. The tax lawyers will be able to drive a truck through it. Does he really wanat to deal with Wall Street and fix our national balance sheet? A transaction tax on all Wall Street trades will shift hundreds of billions into the Treasury. Obama is against that.

He can prosecute the wrong doers but he is using all of his power resist, impede and otherwise stop such prosecutions.

America's main problem may be Wall Street, but it is Obama as well. He has been co-opted and compromised beyond any ones usefulness but the crooks who destroyed our economy.

The Real Economy: Is Your States Unemployment Fund Broke? - ProPublica
See for yourself. 'No spin zone' clickable charts and graphics.

The Real Economy: NY Gov. Seeks Huge Cuts, Massive Tax Hike - NYT
Comment here

DEA Uncovers LatAm-African Drug Nexus - ISN
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), along with the US District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced on 18 December their intent to charge three alleged members of al-Qaida with acts of narco-terrorism and support of a foreign terrorist organization.

According to the announcement, it was the first time members of al-Qaida have faced charges linked to drug trafficking. The sting operation, which used DEA confidential sources (CSs) posing as agents for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), uncovered a Latin America-Africa nexus between drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) and al-Qaida that one former DEA official has called the “tip of the iceberg.”

This operation is the third time the DEA has used CSs posing as FARC agents or operatives to lure suspects into a trap orchestrated to capture and convict transnational criminals. The first time the DEA used this ruse it resulted in the capture, arrest and conviction of Syrian arms trafficker Monzer al-Kassar, who was arrested in Spain in 2007. The second sting captured renowned arms trafficker Viktor Bout in 2008, who currently languishes in a Bangkok prison awaiting extradition to either Russia or the US.

The Real Economy: Jobless Claims Rise... Again - Bloomberg
- More Americans than anticipated filed claims for unemployment benefits last week, reflecting a backlog of applications from the year-end holidays.

Initial jobless claims rose by 36,000 to 482,000 in the week ended Jan. 16, the highest level in two months, from 446,000 the prior week, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The jump was due to an “administrative” accumulation from late December and early January holidays, and did not reflect “economic” reasons, a Labor Department spokesman said.

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GOP Takes Mass Senate Seat - USAT
This spells big, big trouble for the Democrats. It they cannot win in a Democratic stronghold state, what is going to happen in November? The House will go over to the GOP and the Senate will be much closer in balance. As much as the Democrats don't want to pubically admit it, this was about Obama and his first year in office. He is screwing up royally and has forgotten about the people as he played 'butler and waiter' to every wish of the major corporations, against the express wishes of the people who put him in office. I am not talking about his words, but his actions as President. I see it, the people are starting to see it and if they (the Democrats) want to retain their majority, they will find it necessary to start putting the kaibosh on Obama's corporate agenda. The wars, the bailouts, the Patriot Act, the reckless spending that never reaches the people. I said long, long ago even before he was inaugurated that this guy is going to be a disaster. Most of my readers just did not believe me.

I think some are beginning to understand. Yes, I really do.

US Convicts Join Al Qaeda In Yemen - US Senate
Law enforcement and intelligence officials told the Committee staff in interviews in December in Yemen and other countries in the region that as many as 36 American ex-convicts arrived in Yemen in the past year, ostensibly to study Arabic. The officials said there are legitimate reasons for Americans and others to study and live in Yemen, but they said some of the Americans had disappeared and are suspected of having gone to Al Qaeda training camps in ungoverned portions of the impoverished country. Similar concerns were expressed about a smaller group of Americans who moved to Yemen, adopted a radical form of Islam, and married local women. So far, the officials said they have no evidence that any of these Americans have undergone training. But they said they are on heightened alert because of the potential threat from extremists carrying American passports and the related challenges involved in detecting and stopping homegrown operatives. (end excerpt)

I have long maintained and still do that the current anti-terror polices (both Bush and Obama's) are going to fail and fail miserably. In the future, counterinsurgency operations conducted by foreign governments will look at our policies as a 'What not to do' textbook in such future situations. Why? Today, our actions in so many nations have engendered hatred and this is one reason AQ recruitment is on the rise in many places. We can (as Kerry does in the above report) say that we have largely driven AQ out of Iraq and Afghanistan, but at what cost and for how long? How long will it be before the thousands of sleepers, who pretend to accept the US occupation of Iraq, turn on the US and display much more militant tendencies. We have done nothing really to win the hearts and minds of the people and despite the good press we hear, AQ is still present in Iraq and will move when it suits them, not us. This leads the US to the role of permanent occupier of Iraq, a situation our national balance sheet and growing anger at our economic situation is not going to allow forever. So while we have had a temporary 'victory' in Iraq, we have killed far too many Iraqi's and made millions into refugees for the people ever to come to love or even respect us in the long term. Afghanistan is little different on this front. Sure, many locals despise AQ and the other militants, but that does not mean they love, like or even will tolerate us forever. We are walking on eggshells and both situations could still blow up in our faces at the worst possible moment.

But the trend of US persons being radicalized by Islam is most troubling for a number of reasons. I have long maintained that Islam is going to grow by leaps and bounds here in the US and the growth rates today are hardly insignificant. Why is this happening? I do not want to oversimpify this but I cannot help but see Islam increasingly being viewed as a kind of 'revolutionary movement' by people who have been mistreated, downtrodden and 'kicked in the head' by the State (US) who, it must be noted, has the most people in prison in the world by far. Even more than China, which has four times our population. As you know I have been a long time advocate of reform of our criminal justice system because many, many who are in jail are not guilty of any crime and DNA (when it is relevant in the conviction, many times it is not) proves it. When so many people have been railroaded by the system it is bound to engender enormous resentment against that system which consistently vicitmizes the poor, minorities, and increasingly poor and patriotic whites. In short, many of these men are going to see Islam as a revolutionary movement and join what they see as a struggle for 'Islam' against the US and its interests. This is viewed by AQ and many Islamic militants as the heart of the enemies of 'Islam' that being the US.

This is one of the real effects of our societal indifference to so many people whose American experience has not been a dream, but a genuine nightmare. Eventually, some cause is going to unite them to fight against the injustices (real and perceived) they have suffered.

In summary, we are creating new cadres of Islamic fighters with our wreckless disregard for the lives of the poor and downtrodden, not just in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, but also in California, Texas and New York. It is only a matter of time when the FBI's caracture of the 'Angry White Male' is replaced by the 'Angry White, heavily armed, highly organized Islamic male'.

If Obama cannot begin to turn his efforts away from the protecting the banksters and towards real economic reform of our financial markets and creating real sustainable living wage jobs, and reforming our prison sentencing, this is the future and it will not be 10 years off. Anger in America is growing each and every day folks can't find work and the banks pay out billions in bonuses and the President makes speeches and does nothing... but talk.

I see Islamic militantism becoming a real problem here in the US and the US establishment begins using all the wrong tools to bring it to heel (repression/spying/other illegal acts) rather than getting at the root causes before the tree of armed revolt takes root. The seeds have already been planted and the first blood-red shoots have already shot forth... to Yemen.

I wonder if anyone inside the US is really paying attention.

Giant Cattle To Be Bred Back From Extinction - Telegraph
despite their having gone the way of the dodo and the woolly mammoth, there are plans to bring the giant animals back to life.

The huge cattle with sweeping horns which once roamed the forests of Europe have not been seen for nearly 400 years.

Now Italian scientists are hoping to use genetic expertise and selective breeding of modern-day wild cattle to recreate the fearsome beasts which weighed around 2,200lb and stood 6.5 feet at the shoulder

Nigerian 'Riot' City Under Control - BBC
The Nigerian army says it has regained control of the city of Jos, where fighting between Muslims and Christians in recent days has left scores dead.

Lt Col Shekari Galadima told the BBC the city was "very calm" as the army was enforcing a 24-hour curfew. He insisted there would be no more riots.

But a BBC reporter in the region says...

Anthrax Death From Heroin In Germany - BioPrepWatch
Following the deaths of seven heroin users and infections of 14 by anthrax in Scotland, fears have begin to rise in Germany following a fatal case of anthrax in a 24-year-old male injecting drug user.

The man, who has not been identified, was hospitalized on December 6, complaining of swelling in his leg following a drug injection. Details are unknown, but it is believed that the man was attempting to inject heroin into a vein.(end excerpt)

France is also quite concerned.

Concerned About How Much Info Google Gathers About You? - Google Sharing
GoogleSharing is a special kind of anonymizing proxy service, designed for a very specific threat. It ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit. GoogleSharing is not a full proxy service designed to anonymize all your traffic, but rather something designed exclusively for your communication with Google. Our system is totally transparent, with no special "alternative" websites to visit. Your normal work flow should be exactly the same.

Hatiti: If The Marines Don't Kill You, The Loans Will - FTW
I cannot say I agree with this commentary, given the level of devastation and the real possibilty of anarchy there, but the ideas expressed in it are the feelings of many.

Kenneth Copeland Accused Of Humanitarian Aid Fraud - Christian Newswire
While millions of viewers around the world are watching the ongoing international humanitarian efforts for Haiti's earthquake-stricken population, televangelist Kenneth Copeland is being accused of failing to provide his own promised aviation assistance during this crisis.

Hatians Fear IDF Will Steal Organs - Infowars
Black rights activist T. West of AfriSynergy Productions warns that people need to be aware of the tragedy in Haiti being exploited by nefarious groups for their own gain, including Israel, who have admittedly stolen organs from dead Palestinians in the past.

West highlighted a CNN news clip as evidence of how the media is promoting the Israeli relief efforts in Haiti as second to none. Though praising the Israelis for their support for the victims and outstanding medical facilities, West warned that there were “personalities who are out for money” operating in Haiti with no monitoring of their activities.

“It is good that the IDF and others are helping there, but everywhere there is death, there are exploiters. There needs to be transparency in Haiti,” West told YNet News in an interview.

“The Haitian people must watch out for their citizens,” said West, highlighting past cases of IDF stealing organs from Palestinians.

Last month, the London Guardian reported on the admission of Dr Yehuda Hiss, the former head of Israel’s forensic institute, who stated that the organs of Palestinians were harvested without consent from family members. This followed a controversy after a Swedish newspaper reported that Palestinians were deliberately being abducted and killed by Israeli Defense Forces so their organs could be harvested and sold.(end excerpt)

Folks, the very last think I want to do is give the enemies of Israel more ammunition to use against the besieged Jewish state, or rabid anti-semites a new reason to point the finger. So I post this story with some trepidation, knowing many will get angry with me for doing so. But the reality is there: Israel has admitted to this barbaric practice and that should concern the people of Haiti. One must be very recently dead for organs to be of any use and the whole idea of 'assisting' a poor black Haitian to his death when he could otherwise be saved is not something that should be dismissed.

Once again, in doing this (harvesting organs) to Palestinans, Israel is becoming its own worst enemy and the world, already looking for an excuse to punish Israel, now has a new reason to do just that.

I am not saying this is happening now, I have no way of knowing and Israeli officials claim this practice ended long ago.

Channel 2 TV reported that in the 1990s, specialists at Abu Kabir harvested skin, corneas, heart valves and bones from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers, often without permission from relatives.

The Israeli military confirmed to the programme that the practice took place, but added: "This activity ended a decade ago and does not happen any longer."

Hiss said: "We started to harvest corneas ... whatever was done was highly informal. No permission was asked from the family."

However, there was no evidence that Israel had killed Palestinians to take their organs, as the Swedish paper reported. - Guardian

3 Million Forclosures And Insolvent Banks - Market Ticker
But the conundrum is that in order to normalize the economy and lending environment we must stop playing games with home prices. House prices must contract to where average Americans can afford to buy them without using exotic and tricky loans.

HAMP fails to do it - as Mark Hanson Advisers has noted there is no fix in the HAMP program as total DTIs - that is, total amount of debt service as a percentage of GROSS income - remains solidly in the unsustainable area.

As far back as the first few Tickers, dating to April of 2007, I wrote on the fact that sustainable loans are written on a 28/36 basis - that is, 28% DTI for housing expenses and a total debt-to-gross-income ratio (DTI) of no higher than 36%.

Treasury's HAMP is still resulting in DTIs, on average, of 55% and while this is an improvement over the impossible-to-service 72.2% a 55% DTI is still impossible to service if there is even the smallest challenge in the borrower's life.

Why isn't there a focus on how banks managed to sell people not only first mortgages but also HELOCs when their DTIs were in the 70s? That sort of "lending" is BY DEFINITION predatory as there is NO REASONABLE EXPECTATION that such a borrower would EVER be able to pay as agreed!

Remember, these DTIs are computed on gross income - that is, before both state and federal income and other taxes. Further, it is widely agreed and understood that tax rates are at generational lows and as such the tax bite will only increase in years to come.

In short ALL of this so-called "lending" was a SCAM and Treasury is hell-bent and determined to cover up the underlying scam and screwing that the banks inflicted on borrowers instead of both putting a stop to it and punishing those who willfully and intentionally hosed The American Public.

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. (Psa 27:1-3)

Looking For Criminals? Look No Further Than The FBI

Concern Over The US$ And PIIGS

Japan Airlines Files Bankruptcy

Haitians See Hand Of God In Disaster - WP
Deeply religious Haitians see the hand of God in the destruction of Biblical proportions visited on their benighted country. The quake, religious leaders said Sunday, is evidence that He wants change.

Brown-Coakley Shows Obama Is A Political Albatross - USNews
Simply put, even if Coakley wins, the truth is this seat has been Democratic for almost 50 years. This is a referendum on Obama and his odious policies of which Health care was a key issue. If they can only barely squeak out a win here, disaster awaits in November. What should Obama do?

- Dump Health Care reform in its present form and stop trying to punish the most vulnerable to boost profits for Insurers and Big Pharma.
- Stop coddling baby killers (and pedophiles). There are cheap and inexpesive methods of birth control. Killing babies is jut not necessary. Why put a curse on your administration? You want to know why your poll numbeers are sinking and people who once loved you now hate you? You have put a curse on your own administration.
- Stop the wars that are killing innocents and bankrupting our nation.
- Institute a transaction tax on Wall street and FIX THE NATIONAL BALANCE SHEET.
- Listen to the core people who put you in office and go back and play some of your speeches. You seem to have forgotten your pact with the people but not your pact with the devil.
- Fix our critical infrasctucture, not with make-work phony contracts and political payback but with real projects that can save energy. How about investing in improved metro, underground and above ground rail systems in all of Americans major cities? Make it dirt cheap to ride, clean and safe. You found the money to bail out your buddies on Wall Street. You can find the money for this. Prepare now for the day when our oil supplies get cut off.
- Put the criminals who wrecked our economy in jail. Stop pussyfotting around and get busy on this.
- Get rid of Clinton, Rahm, Gates, Holder And Geithner.

Ukrainian Elections - Various
With 99.7% of the precincts in, Yanukovych received 35.4%, Tymoshenko 25.0% and Tihipko 13.1%. Yushchenko, the incumbent President, finished fifth at 5.5%. Four exit polls predicted results yesterday when polls closed. Tymoshenko, in the passion of the moment, claimed that three of them (Inter-Sotsis, ICTV and Shuster) could not be trusted, since they had been paid by interested parties (zamovnyi), and that the only reliable one was the “National” exit poll, comprised of a consortium that included the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS). In fact, these three polls were right on the money, with Shuster exactly predicting the outcome of a 35-25 Yanukovych victory over Tymoshenko, while the National poll was a little off (31-27), underestimating the Yanukovych score by four percentage points. Election polling thus appears to be as reliable in Ukraine as in the West. - Dominique Arel, Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of Ottawa

Voices From The Street:
A taxi driver from Donetsk: "I voted for Yanukovych. He's a bandit, yes, and so is his sponsor Rinat Ahmetov. But these are *our* bandits, from Donetsk. Ukraine is a bandits' country, we have to support our bandits, lest foreign bandits [from other Ukrainian regions] end up taking our resources. Yanukovych sat in jail as a youth, it helped him become a hardened man. He and Ahmetov won't allow the Donbas to die out, they'll bright us closer to Western and Russian investors, and they propped us to the Euro 2010 (Soccer)."

A journalist from a famous Kyiv weekly newspaper:

"I thought of our former defence minister Hrycenko, but his campaign was simply terrible. I voted for Yulia [Tymoshenko]. In my opinion this country needs a strong hand. It needs a leader that will stand up in its talks with Russia. [etc..]."

A retired woman from the Donetsk region:

"I used to be for Yanukovych, as he's from our region. But it's over now. His Party of Regions ruled over us for so many years, but didn't do anything. [...]. I voted for Tuhypka. I like his program: he speaks concretely, and he wants to change things rather than argue amongst other [politicians]."

From Eurasia Daily Monitor
What makes such alarmist predictions more credible is the depth of economic decline in Ukraine, which is one of the worst cases in the global track record of the still evolving crisis. GDP is expected to contract by 15 percent in 2009, and the political paralysis of the government has prevented the approval of any coherent anti-crisis policy, and consequently the country has no state budget for 2010 (RIA Novosti-Ukraine, January 14). Every monthly payment for gas imported from Russia requires another increase in foreign debt, and the IMF had to stop its emergency aid amounting to $11 billion, because it was diverted to political aims (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, January 12). Candidates try to outdo one another in promising economic miracles, but a new leader will have to tackle a disaster of catastrophic proportions, while having a weak mandate and facing an unforgiving opposition. The Russian leadership is inclined to observe this deepening recession with barely hidden satisfaction maintaining that the chaos is a direct consequence and final proof of the failure of the hated “Orange Revolution.” Putin has made some calculated “goodwill” gestures, like forgiving Tymoshenko the penalty for importing too little gas, but the main target was to make sure that Yushchenko’s electoral support would remain in single digits (Novaya Gazeta, January 15). In comparison, Russia’s own economic problems look rather manageable, while Moscow is not taking into serious consideration the risk of Ukraine’s sovereign default, which might affect the feeble recovery in the Russian economy and trigger the much feared “second wave” of the crisis.

Election Observers
International Election Observation Mission
Ukraine — Presidential Election, 17 January 2010
Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions
Preliminary Conclusions
http://www.osce.org/documents/odihr/2010/01/42386_en.pdf

The first round of the 17 January presidential election in Ukraine was of high quality and showed significant progress over previous elections. This election met most OSCE and Council of Europe commitments. Civil and political rights were respected, including freedom of assembly, association and expression. Election day was conducted in an efficient and orderly manner.

This election saw a diverse field of candidates representing alternative political views, offering a genuine choice to the electorate. Candidates were able to campaign freely across the country without impediment. The campaign period was generally calm and orderly. Unsubstantiated allegations of large-scale electoral fraud negatively affected the pre-election atmosphere and voters’ confidence. In contradiction with the law, administrative resources were misused by candidates in official positions. More transparent campaign financing is necessary during the pre-election period.

By voting in large numbers and freely expressing their will, Ukrainians have shown the desire to decide on the course of the country. The intertwining of political and economic interests had a negative influence and undermined public confidence in the political process, posing a challenge for Ukraine’s leadership.

Dagestan's Continuing Destabalization - Jamestown.org
On January 12, a major gas pipeline was blown up with an explosive device in southern Dagestan. The pipeline stretching from Mozdok in North Ossetia to Kazimagomed in Dagestan connects Russian gas pipelines to the Azeri gas pipeline network. Eleven settlements, including the city of Derbent in the southern part of the republic with the overall population of 170,000 people, were left without gas supplies (ITAR-TASS, January 12).

The attack took place days after president Dmitry Medvedev demanded that Russia’s law enforcement agencies eliminate the insurgents in Dagestan, who are thought to be behind the attacks. An already precarious security situation in Dagestan worsened after a suicide bomber attacked the transport police headquarters in Makhachkala on January 6, killing six policemen and wounding over 20.

Personell located in the region say this entire region is a powderkeg, waiting to explode in 2010.

Uzbek Leader calls For Military Buildup - Eurasia.net
President Islam Karimov says Uzbekistan’s army needs to be expanded, modernized and reformed in order to meet regional security challenges.

"The complicated military-political situation in our region and in the entire world, is changing fast. Real and potential threats to security, which are related, above all, to the escalating conflict in Afghanistan, are growing," he said.

"The scale of narco-aggression, international terrorism, extremism and that of other threats is expanding. All this requires us to fully strengthen the combat readiness of our Armed Forces and to step up measures to defend and protect our state borders," he added in remarks broadcast on Uzbek TV on January 13.

Yemen Threatens More Strikes On AQ - Xinhua
Yemen army will continue strike al- Qaida as long as it threats Yemen's security and stability, the official Saba news agency quoted Yemeni Interior Minister Mutahar al-Masri as saying on Monday.

The minister told police officers in Yemeni police academy that Yemen is able to deal with all challenges its security services facing and will continue its military operation against al-Qaida.

Obama Shuts Down Oldest Gunshow In Central Texas - Infowars
This is a very interesting development. Gun control has always been an excellent predictor of tyranny followed by the mass slaughter of citizens. Look at the past, Hitler, Mao, Stalin. Now we have this in America where the right to bear arms is expressly guaranteed in the highest law of the land. A serious crisis is brewing and the criminals who have robbed America want to ensure you are helpless and at their mercy when the banks close and the grocery stores are empty.

I do not own a gun and never will. I have personally forsworn violence and I strongly exhort all believers, who place life eternal above their secular rights in America to do the same. However, I fully support the right of any American to own firearms for personal protection against criminals, inside and outside government should they so choose. The only reason such effort is expended to stop people from owning them is because they have plans to do something that will cause hundreds of millions of Americans to rise up against them. Obama can funnel arms and millions of dollars in contracts to Blackwater which is under investigation for numerous crimes including mass murder and rape, but you must be made defenseless and be left to the tender mercy's of Uncle Sam's mercenaries. I hear this administrations members rant and rave about extremists, but fund other extremists with lucrative government contracts.

Go back and read your history. Go back and find out why the FBI murdered men women and children and engaged in a massive propaganda effort to prejudice the victims by calling them every name in the book without any evidence to back up the libel. They are not able to defend themselves. Why? They are dead.

A Picture of a Branch Davidian after the tender mercy's of the FBI
and Justice Department had been employed.

Monsanto Takes GMO Case To SCOTUS - PPJ Gazette
“A 2009 study showed that the use of genetically modified crops, the vast majority Monsanto’s “roundup ready” crops, has caused over the last 13 years a dramatic increase in herbicide use, by 383 million pounds, and concomitant harms to the environment and human health.

The U.S. Department of Justice has undertaken an investigation of Monsanto regarding violations of anti-trust and monopoly laws and is set to hold public hearings in spring 2010.

Another 2009 study showed that, despite decades of promises and hype, GE crops do not increase yields.”(end excerpt)

With this court hearing the case? One night with a looker-hooker and a few hundred thousand dollars in an offshore account is enough to buy a couple of votes on this court. That and a phone call from one of the Princes of darkness who really run America.... Monsanto is looking at an easy win.

Will Obama Fund Deficits With Your 401(k)? - Whiskey And Gunpowder
Now ostensibly, the plan to offer an annuity option for 401(k) plans will seem sensible. But don’t be fooled.

This is the beginning of a money grab by the Feds for the $3.6 trillion in assets held by U.S. 401(k)s. The Feds need that money to finance the deficit. This is where some of the money to fund the deficits may come from, answering a question we asked earlier in the week. What you can’t take, you’ll have to print.

But right now, the Feds can’t just take that 401(k) money. Well, they could. But it would crash stocks and infuriate the public, leading to some civic violence. What’s more, it would feel like theft as well as looking (and being) like it. So they have to dress the plan up as something that’s better for savers.

Earthquake Threat Lurks For US Too - Stan Deyo
As disaster crews and scientists investigate the havoc wrought in Haiti, questions emerge as to whether such a vastly destructive disaster could happen at home in the United States. In fact, cities are located near dangerous earthquake zones all throughout the country, from the most infamous on the West Coast to potential time bombs in the Midwest and even on the Eastern Seaboard.

Soldier Arrested For 'Child Porn' - Freedoms Phoenix
"I can't believe that the Army's doing this to our son; it's unbelievable," Rodney Miller said from his home in Galesburg, about 55 miles south of Davenport, Iowa. "The Army and the government's telling us more or less that it's none of our business."

The pictures show the girl in a swimsuit playing in a pool and sitting on Billy Miler's pickup truck, according to the family. A small portion of one of the girl's buttocks is visible in one, Rodney Miller said.

Billy Miller, a mechanic in civilian life, was part of the Illinois Army National Guard's 33rd Infantry Brigade. About 3,000 members of the brigade went to Afghanistan in late 2008 and returned home last year.

The Millers say their son became close to the little girl after she was diagnosed with a serious illness while her own father was away for military training. The pictures were taken by Terri Miller and the girl's mother at the girl's birthday party last summer, Rodney Miller said.(end excerpt)

You would be surprised at the number of people arrested over truly innocent photo's of kids sent to relatives and the likes because they sent the pictures over the net. Reader beware, today any photo of a child in any pose or piece of clothing could be construed as 'child porn' and you will never know it until you get a knock on the door and given a choice between 10 years in jail or wearing a sex offender bracelet for the rest of your life. The discretion to prosecute is very broad and rests with local, state and federal DA's. If they don't like the picture (or you), God help you. So once again Granny, Mom, Sis, be extremely careful before sending pictures of your (or any kid) over the net. Every photo, email and site you visit is being logged and monitored and I do mean EVERY.

Interestingly law enforcement here in the US is getting tired of some of these kinds of mindless prosecutions as well. Why? Because they have to keep tabs on all of these supposed sex offenders and it makes it much more difficult to track and keep tabs on the really dangerous ones (the real pedophiles and sexual predators) when people like this are also placed on those 'sex-offenders' lists. Such prosecutions looks utterly ridiculous when one looks at who advises the President on 'Safe Schools'

New Attack On The Church - WND
Christian legal organization in the United Kingdom is reporting a skirmish victory in the latest war against Christians and their churches – the demand that they essentially be silent in their worship.

Cases have cropped up in recent months both in the U.K. as well as the United States in which governmental bodies have demanded that Christian groups essentially be silent – so that no one can hear their worship.

The Christian Legal Centre in the U.K. is reporting a victory in a battle, although the war remains.

Obama's TSA: Christians, Anti-Abortion Groups Are 'Terrorists' - CNS
Erroll Southers, who President Barack Obama has nominated to head the Transportation Security Administration, described groups that were a domestic security threat as being "anti-abortion" and “Christian-identity oriented."

The TSA, an element of the Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for the security of the nation's transportation systems, including commercial air travel. Southers made the remarks in question in a 2008 video interview with the Videojug.com Web site.(end excerpt)



First it was Islamic terrorists, then it was just Muslims (don't try boarding a plane if you're one), now it is Christian Identity and anti-abortion activists. Starting to see a pattern?

China, Google And US Policy - FT
Are real changes coming? This article explores the question. But I have to agree with one of the comments (Lois Godena) at the bottom. The west no longer holds the moral high ground, though they think they do.

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Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Mat 7:13-14)

Haiti - WW
The rescue efforts are moving along at a snails pace and time has already run out for many Hatians trapped in the rubble. How can the world be so unprepared after the Tsunami a couple of years ago. There are many reasons for this. Many, in fact. First and foremost are the things that nobody likes to talk about. Invariably the first 'aid' workers on the scene of the disaster are often not aid workers but intelligence operatives, there for numerous reasons. but rather than nefarious reasons they are mostly there for simple information gathering in order to provide reliable information to aid workers and policy makers. Most developed nations do this and rarely is much nefarious activity going on.

Haiti is a different situation all together.

Today there are 'entities' who have put people on the ground to do enormous evil and harm to the people of Haiti. No, I am not talking about our own CIA or DOD. While there are some truly poisonous and evil elements in each, our folks right now are working night and day trying to find the best way to deliver aid to the people of Haiti. But we have what we will only call a 'third element' out there doing there level best to do whatever evil they can. Why? That is a story for another time. Suffice it to say that our people are very worried about the situation deteriorating down there from deliberate man-made causes. What kind of causes? Well when some of the 'aid' arrived on in Haiti, the bomb sniffing dogs went absolutely nuts once they got a whiff of some of the 'aid' crates rolling in. Rumors have it that air and water borne non-genetically engineered (to mask human induction) biological weapons may have been introduced in Haiti by some really evil people. This may be hard for some of you to swallow. Well, all I can say is welcome to the real world.

But why is the aid moving so slowly? As far as I can gather, it is because the level of devastation in Haiti is so great that there are hardly any passable roads and no infrastructure (power, water, etc). You cannot move aid in trucks without roads. One option is a helicopter drop. Just drop raw aid to the people? You might ask. A real, real bad idea. Why? A bloodbath would result. Desperate people do desperate things and if you want more deaths, just drop food in without any armed supervision. How can we deliver aid to this Island so completely devastated? This is not an easy question. The only way I see is to deliver teams in by Helicopter, an armed team of maybe 10-20 first to set up shop, followed by aid workers who get aid deliveries by helicopter every so many hours. Do this in the most inaccessable portions of the island. These teams can expand later to include search and rescue teams. These are better set up in structures that are still standing but in some areas that may not be possible. So there are some very significant logistical hurdles that need to be overcome. The good news is that Obama appears to have gotten people moving almost immediately to provide aid here, so, I was not correct. He was not dithering. But our disaster response just needs to be better, especially for a situation that is just a small hop from the US mainland. There is too much infighting, one-upmanship and people in high position who will not listen to their analysts as well as to those who have gone out and delivered aid before (Sumatra, Burma). Tragically. these bureaucrats are more interested in making the guy on the other side of the Potomac look bad and if a few thousand Haitians have to die in the process, so be it. Obama has a real gaggle of bad actors in the upper levels of his administration.

It is easy for people to jump to conclusions about why the aid is not moving fast enough, but the level of devastation is just unbelievable and those who have gotten a peek at areal photo's of the wreckage are really overwhelmed by the level of damage. The main concerns now are not just delivering aid but:

- Keeping close tabs on the outbreak of disease.
- Locating and neutralizing agent provocateurs.
- Controlling looters and outbreaks of crime.
- Locating trapped survivors.

So here my readers can better understand some of the real problems faced by aid workers and not get too angry with them because it is moving so slowly. And perhaps understand some of the reticence to allow certain planes to land. This is not a reflection on the excellent services of MSF, who is one of the only aid organization that go truly where no one else dares.

Wanna Give? The last place I would give money is to this one. Having been given some most enlightening briefings on the unknown financial shenanigan of each of these families well... the word crime families comes to mind. I will never forget that it was Bill Clinton who let Hatians drown and refused to grant them asylum after promising to do just that after he was elected President. His message then was 'Mexicans, come on over the border. Ni--ers, go back home... and drown on the way'.

Clinton Bans Haitians Reversing Campaign Pledge (1993)

Hollow Diplomacy In Haiti (1994)

I know former President Clinton is trying to burnish his image as an elder statesman and Bush as well, but a look at their policies as President, their secret involvement in financial crimes would lead me never to give money in that direction.

I know former President Clinton is trying to burnish his image as an elder statesman and Bush as well, but a look at their policies as President, especially towards Haitains and their secret involvement in financial dealings responsible for our current crisis would lead me never to give money in that direction.


Clinton's answer to Hatian's in 1992: "Let them eat Seawater!"

Overloaded boat with black Hatians in 1992


Let us not forget it was Bush who ousted the elected government if Haiti. Let us not forget that now you have Sweat shops set up where people make 38 cents an hour all thanks to the US and its interference. Bush was responsible for destroying the Haitian economy.

German Gov. Warns Against Using Internet Explorer - Telegraph
How can you tell people that they can literally have thier identity stolen by the right kind of site that knows the built-in (intentionally) soft points in browsers, especially (but not exclusively) IE. I know folks just won't beleive me and will listen to the techh magazine whose security advise makes them a sitting duck. But the reality is this. Surfing the net is becoming more and more dangerous not less. And vulnerabilities in a browser is the first chink in the armor of security. What do I use?

I neve use IE. Never, never never. I do use a special version of Firefox designed with security first and foremost in mind. I also use Seamonkey and from time to time I will use Flock. But I also think the most under rated browser out there is Opera. It is really fast and is not encumbered with laws (in the US) that force browser makers to compromise security in favor of Beast and its spying network. A word of warning. The later versions of MS's OS (vista onwards) stores a lot of data in directories no matter which browser you use that are associated with IE. Why? Well... it is not to protect you, I can assure you. You might want to use CCleaner to clean out MS crap regularly. Why? Because certain sites are designed in such a way that once you visit them, a very large exchange of data transpires... from your computer to the specially designed site. Reader beware... This is just one reason I tell my readers that these secret laws are the best friend cybercriminals have.

They LOVE the NSA!!!

So beware, the danger out there is only getting more dangerous, not less and trust not the big PC magazines that are dependent on MS for ad revenue and have secret agreements with the NSA not to protect people from the real threats.

The Robertson Controversy - WW
Robertson's comments seem to me to be unwise, especially in this time of tragedy. Rather than make a comment like this about these poor people who are suffering enormously, a call to prayer was and is a far wiser course. Sadly, Mr. Robertson seems to always like to say some very controversial things. I know that Haiti is the nation who claims Witchcraft as its national religion and this is something that God really, really hates.

No Joke.

Do I think that this earthquake was a judgment from God? I cannot say. Witchcraft is not just in Haiti, we have a lot of it here in America as well and it is practiced by many of our most powerful politicians. But every liberal blog and talking head is out labasting Mr. Robertson saying he 'needs to be put to sleep' and if Barak Obama calls him 'utterly stupid', there must be something very, very right about what Robertson said. Since Obama's mother in law (who lives at the White House) apparently practices a form or witchcraft. has a lot of influence over him, I cannot look on his statement as being one deviod of shall we say, 'domestic interference'. As I have written in the past, Obama's public statements demonstrate his Christianity is not biblical; it is humanistic, neo- liberal and luciferian. I know I have been very hard on Obama of late. But I cannot say or do otherwise, he is following in lockstep with the luciferian agenda. Should I hold my tongue about it and say, 'Yeah!, great job.... go get 'em brutha!!!!'

God would chastise me harshly if I told such lies and supported evil.

Then you have Keith Olberman who says Robertsons life is not worth the 'lowest' Hatians. Why? Because he says God will judge those who practice witchcraft and worship devils? He will, to the utter shock and horror the vast majority of humans living today, especially when they find out exactly what the word 'eternity' means. Those who say or think otherwise are under the control of antichrist. I am not defending Robertson's timing or even his dominionistic theology. But God's hatred of witchcraft, sodomy, murder, theft, hate, rape, torture... all of these things will bring horrendous judgment, not just on small poor islands populated with black people, but on rich, evil nations who shed innocent blood as well as antichrist talking heads on TV and radio who lambaste the God of the bible... and that is what this is really about, not Pat Robertson. So when those who call what Robertson said' utterly stupid', ask yourself if they really even believe in God at all, or just have a 'political god' they roll out when it might get them votes. Our antichrist media want to turn Christ into a powder-puff, a drag queen or some other abomination made from their own lusts and bloodlust. Why? Because they hate the real Jesus and have nothing but contempt for the teachings of Christ and the scriptures.

Let us not get sidetracked by listening to the twisted minds from the political left or right in America's satanic media or political statements made from the power centers in the kingdoms of lucifer. Don't let these evil men in satan's service use this horrible tragedy for their own twisted political purposes to score points of the other side of the devils hegelian political system of left-right. They have all been lying to Americans for so long, the truth (any kind of truth) to them is an abomination. Nothing these paid-for talking heads and liars (bought and paid for America's major corporations) is really worthy of a wise mans prolonged attention. You want real news? Go overseas, watch foreign TV or surf the net.

My prayers go up for the people of Haiti who are suffering and going through a horrible time. May God grant them grace and may the light and truth of the gospel go forth to the people of Haiti. May God grant them repentance and minimize the loss of life. May they not be like the people of the very last hour of this age who refuse to repent when divinely appointed disasters befall them.

And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
(Rev 16:9-11)

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. (Rev 22:15)

Banks Anti-Fraud Protection Stuns Security Expert - Computerworld
Checking out of a Hilton hotel in London, security expert Roger Thompson was told his Visa card had been declined due to suspicions it was stolen, a situation that only got more disconcerting when he learned the bank that issued the card had more personal information on him and his family members than he ever imagined.

In a tale he relates in his blog, Thompson, chief research officer at AVG, said he was compelled to answer questions on the phone from a Wachovia Bank representative in its fraud-prevention division to prove he was really Roger Thompson and not a credit-card thief checking out of the London hotel.

You can read an interesting news letter here from PT shamrock, check it out... it is pretty good.

Bill Would Ban Mercenaries From Military/Intel World - Raw Story
An Illinois House Democrat is planning to introduce a bill that would ban private security contractors, including Blackwater, from US military and intelligence operations.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) has circulated a letter among her colleagues asking them to co-sponsor the Stop Outsourcing Security (SOS) Act, which would "responsibly phase out the use of private security contractors for functions that should be reserved for US military forces and government personnel," the letter states. (end excerpt)

Horror scenario that circumvents this bill: US law (if bill passed) disallows mercenaries onto US soil in time of national crisis. President then asks Interpol to come in. Interpol does not have enough police. Interpol hires Blackwater... with all of the diplomatic immunity Obama just granted Interpol. Now... they can blow your childs brains out right in front of you and there is not a thing you could do about it.

Now you have something new to think about.

Alt-A, Option Arm Crisis Brews - Housingwire
...delinquencies on Alt-A mortgages continue to increase. Alt-A mortgages 90-plus days delinquent after two years accounted for 4.7% of the sector in the 2005 vintage. But that number jumps to 16.4% in the 2006 vintage and 24% in the 2007 vintage, a trend that hasn\u2019t shown signs of improving.

HousingWire's January edition explores yet another risk to the mortgage market - option ARMs. Option ARMs offer borrowers the ability to make full, interest-only or minimum payments that is less than the interest due. Research conducted by Fitch showed 94% of option ARM borrowers made only the minimum monthly payment, creating negative amortization.

With many of these loans set to reset in the coming months and years, the mortgage market is faced with yet another source of increased defaults. In the last year, the number of outstanding securitized option ARMs either 90 or more days delinquent, in foreclosure or real estate-owned proceedings rose from 16% to 37%.

New Killer Drone Enters US Arsenal - Blacklisted News
The Air Force Research Laboratory set out in 2008 to build the ultimate assassination robot: a tiny, armed drone for U.S. special forces to employ in terminating 'high-value targets.' The military won't say exactly what happened to this Project Anubis, named after a jackal-headed god of the dead in Egyptian mythology. But military budget documents note that Air Force engineers were successful in develop[ing] a Micro-Air Vehicle (MAV) with innovative seeker/tracking sensor algorithms that can engage maneuvering high-value targets.

The Egyption god Anubis

Married Couples To Pay More For Health Care Under Obamacare - WSJ
Some married couples would pay thousands of dollars more for the same health insurance coverage as unmarried people living together, under the health insurance overhaul plan pending in Congress.

The built-in "marriage penalty" in both House and Senate healthcare bills has received scant attention. But for scores of low-income and middle-income couples, it could mean a hike of $2,000 or more in annual insurance premiums the moment they say "I do."

Obama The Fascist - Axis Of Logic
Cass Sunstein is President Obama's Harvard Law School friend, and recently appointed Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

In a recent scholarly article, he and coauthor Adrian Vermeule take up the question of "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures." (J. Political Philosophy, 7 (2009), 202-227). This is a man with the president's ear. This is a man who would process information and regulate things. What does he here propose? Read it and see the kinds of people Obama is really listening to.

Sad but true, behind the facade of a smiley face is a hard core fascist. Remember, the Holocaust was a 'conspiracy theory' until our troops opened up the death camps, Abhraham Lincoln's assassination was a 'conspiracy theory' until the perpetrators were hung, or that cops and Feds were not shooting down black men in cold blood during those Civil Rights years.. these were all 'Conspiracy Theories'. Sadly Uncle Tom probably does not even believe that black people were the target of the FBI during the Civil Rights movement or that black men weren't experimented by America's Dr. Megele's.

James Marion Sims was a very important surgeon from Alabama, and all of his medical experimentation took place with slaves. He took the skulls of young children, young Black children -- only Black children -- and he opened their heads and moved around the bones of the skull to see what would happen, posited as a cure for disease, but there was no rationale for that. He also decided to remove the jawbone of a slave, but this slave was pretty intractable. He did not want the surgery. He loudly protested against it. And in response, Dr. Sims had him tied to a barber's chair and held immobile, while he operated on him without anesthesia.

But he's most infamous for his reproductive experiments with Black women. He bought, or otherwise acquired, a group of Black women who he housed in a laboratory, and over the period of five years and approximately forty surgeries on one slave alone, he sought to cure a devastating complication of childbirth called vesicovaginal fistula. This cure entailed repeatedly doing incisions on their genitalia, very painful and, you know, very emotionally difficult, as you can imagine. And in the end, he claims to have cured one of them. - Seeing Black

Or sitting in prison for crimes whites get parole for... off completely.

They have a name for black men like that in the Black Community



Barak Obama is probably one of the most dangerous phenomenon ever to come to America. Let us look at something that has been lost to the public mind as it relates directly to 'Conspiracy Theories'. That is the Church (US Senate) Committee reports. These are things Obama's advisor would call 'Conspiracy Theories'...but after the subpeona power of the Senate was envoked, a whole slew of criminal acts (conspiracy: Two or more people engaged in a criminal act) inside the US government was revealed.

These 14 published reports of the Church Committee contain a wealth of information on the formation, operation, and abuses of U.S. intelligence agencies. They were published in 1975 and 1976, after which recommendations for reform were debated in the Congress and in some cases carried out.

The Interim Report documents the Church Committee's findings on U.S. involvement in attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, particularly Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Cuba's Fidel Castro, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, the Diem brothers of Vietnam, and General Rene Schneider of Chile. It also contains findings on the development of a general "Executive Action" capability by the CIA.

In June of 1970, during the wave of domestic protest centered around the war in Vietnam, President Nixon approved a set of recommendations known as the Huston Plan. This plan called for various agencies of government, including the CIA, FBI, and military intelligence agencies, to conduct wide-ranging intelligence-gathering activities targeted toward dissident groups and individuals. Most of these activities violated basic civil liberties. The President revoked the plan 5 days later, though some of its recommendations continued to be carried out. Volume 2 consists of hearings followed by a lengthy set of document exhibits. Witnesses included Tom Charles Huston, the author of the plan, former CIA counterintelligence head James Angleton, and former Assistant Director of the FBI Charles Brennan. - AARC Library

Perhaps the Presidents Advisor and long term friend who wrote this piece of scholarly of obscenity is CIA.

Did it ever occur to anyone that so might Barak Obama? I don't know, but after one year of this man in office, you gotta scratch your head and wonder...

The biggest problem I see with this guy is that he just is willing to sell out others for his own image and personal glorification. That gratification looks to me like being loved by the very crooks who have robbed America, kill dark skinned muslims and spy on ordinary Americans. He has lost sight of the people who voted him into office. He just stopped caring about them.

In short, he wants the massa' to love him. Many of you have not figured out that you are now 'black' in the eyes of the establishment. Some of you have, as you surf this site in a public library because your house was re-possessed and there is no internet access at your shelter. Many more will figure it out when 2010 takes their job and Obama is still play acting like he's mad at the banks (show 'em your angry face Barak Oreobama). No I do not hate Obama, not in the least. I see in him the hopes of millions of voters destroyed by a man who lacks the courage and has had lapses in judgment (in the extreme) that prevent his fulfilling his major promises to Americans. He can always find an excuse to bail out the rich criminals who wrecked our economy, and protect big Insurance companies and Big Pharma and play to the camera like he is really going to do something about it... in an election year. You have to ask yourself is there more to this guy than just a great teleprompter reader? Believe me I know the stresses in his administation (have written about them at length) and the very real difficulty of being a President. That is a very, very difficult job. But as Americans we have a perfect right to judge him by his results, not his promises; his very questionable advisors, not his skin color.

But You'll figure it out... eventually. To you black Americans who were all starry eyed over him back in 2008, I say this. Be careful what you ask for, check under the hood before you buy that car or politician, pay a little up front and do one of those auto-histories checks before you buy that used car and don't be fooled by the first pretty car with shiny black paint or you may wind up with a...

Venezuela Faces Rolling Blackouts - BW
Venezuelans will face rolling blackouts for the next five months starting today as the worst drought in 50 years threatens to shut the nation's biggest hydroelectric plant and collapse the power grid. (end excerpt)

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. (Gal 6:1-2)

The Economy - WW
Is America on the verge of declaring some kind of bankruptcy? The short answer is yes, she is. How the attempts will be made to stave off this inevitable result of our fiscal excesses remains to be seen but nothing now short of a massive reorganization of our economy and fiscal priorities will stop it and even then, at this point in time, it is just too late. When America (under Obama's Leadership as President and with his strong support when he was a still a Senator) decided to essentially bankrupt America and its treasury in order to save America's major Wall Street banks who created the biggest fiscal crisis since the Great Depression, due primarily to financial corruption and criminal acts which have yet to be prosecuted, we embarked on a course of economic destruction. What we did was essentially to say that Wall Streets Money Center Banks were more important than Social Security, Medicare, Food Stamps, Education, Trasnportation, Health and every single thing the US government does including National Security. It was a seminal act of exploited panic designed to drain the US Treasury of funds and funnel them to criminals. This crisis will almost certainly surpass that seminal event of the Great Depression in pain and suffering before this crisis ends, and it has only just begun.

I know few of you really understand the magnitude of the economic forces heading our way and really think a recovery is headed our way. But nothing out there other than a few stats in the Housing market could lead any reasonable and informed (key) person to that conclusion. There are several major 'Bangs' headed this way. Mr CB Willie (whose newsletter is probably one of best out there) has this to say about it.

Finally, the harsh reality from the weight of gravity and the passage of time resulted in a second bang. One can always question the motivation of the Dubai World default, and the fact that it occurred when the USDollar was badly oversold. One can question the wisdom to attempt to force Abu Dhabi to cover the bad debts or assumptions that it would cover the bad debts. One can point to a hidden motive to ruin Iranian assets and trade routes, since they own 30% of Dubai properties and benefit from restricted product shipment through Dubai corporations. Regardless, the aerial view is most important. The biggest victims are the London and European banks heavily exposed to Dubai debt. The Powerz prefer to call it a rally on the USDollar from seeking the safety and security. But to the rotten ramparts of the US financial core? HARDLY!! Instead what happened was that the British Pound and Euro currency fell during an expected retreat after a realization of upcoming declared losses. The US has fortified a false front from accounting marked to fantasy that produced a stock rally and recent culmination in the most fraudulent Non-Farm Payroll report in modern history....

...The second bang from Dubai is the most important destabilizing debt event in 14 months, but minimized in the United States. The US press hardly even mentions the downgrades across European on sovereign debt. The US press actually boasts that the financial markets are handling the Dubai situation very well, and might be past it already. What incredible denial, but much expected. The second bang signals the beginning of sovereign debt defaults, several of them, and the reshaping of Europe, both with the European Union and the Euro currency. The movement toward a Parliamentary European Union might soon be dead on arrival. The split of the Euro currency is soon to become a reality, a forecast made months before the Persian Gulf debt default forecast. The prudent action is to put the Lisbon Treaty on hold while member nations default on sovereign debt...

...No forecast invites more private anger, insults, dismissive comments, and generally negative email than my forecast made in autumn 2008 of a USTreasury Default. The climax of the string of global sovereign defaults will be the government debt default for the USGovt, in the USTreasurys. Events in the last year support the forecast. Federal deficits are rising dangerously, over a trillion$ annually. The Greenspan-Guidotti criterion for debt default has long ago been triggered, even assuming the USGovt OWNS ANY GOLD. It does not. Rather it owns clear ledger items called 'Deep Storage Gold' that is not deep in underground vaults, but deep in mountain ore deposits, not yet mined, kept very secretive. The short-term USGovt debt is over $2 trillion, closer to $3.5 trillion if immediate debt finance is counted, as in the next 12 months. The Stimulus Bill was a travesty, more wasted funds and opportunities. The TARP Fund was an $800 billion slush fund, clouded still in secrecy. The foreign wars are a sacred big money loser, with more deficits associated. The competent economists like former USFed Chairman Volcker warn that structural reform is non-existent in the USEconomy and financial sector. Volcker further warns that derivatives have done great harm, and contain no value, only a shift of financial rents. The Global Paradigm Shift is in full force since the spring months, led by the twin concepts of diversification out of US$-based reserves, and of the movement to establish an IMF basket currency as an alternative for international commerce and transaction settlement. The end of the US$ for crude oil sales has been written on the walls. The end to the US$ credit card with unlimited balance is soon to end. - Full Circle Of Gov't Debt Default (Golden Jackass)

Mr. Willie then mentions what he (and I) think will be the trigger event that will shut down the US economy followed by the Western part of the Global economy. That being the Insolvency of the US Fed. Rather than borrow even more from Mr. Willie one can find a plethora of information on this as the Fed's balance sheet is already overladen with assets that have no value (read toxic assets that Wall Street dumped on the Taxpayers lap). That coupled with its printing operations at the Discount Window which has been abused before this crisis and is certainly being abused now to a much greater degree are not helping matters. In short we are headed for a fiscal crisis unlike any we probably have ever seen (including the depression). Even mainstream think-tanks are talking about these issues. Sadly the meat of these studies never hits the headlines, just deceitful statistics designed to keep you buying crap you don't need.

How desperate is our situation? I mean really? Well, In order for the US top operate our government we get our money from two basic sources. Taxes and Borrowings. Most of the US government is paid for by borrowings. We must be able to sell our Treasuries in order to have money to pay for our Government. This ordinarily would not be a major problem if we could get the money we needed from inside the US, people buying t-bills and putting them into savings account. The problem is, our borrowing needs are so gartantuan that we must rely on foreingers to buy our debt. This was not a real problem until the 21st Century began and while we were able to get he money there was more than a little shall we say 'comment' by sovereign nations about our growing fiscal imbalances. But when this crisis hit, nations that were once so very generous had their own troubles to deal with. Even China, dependent on US markets for her goods has shown remarkable reluctance to fund our deficits much further. I am not just guessing or making this up. Check this out.

Ponzi Scheme: The Federal Reserve Bought Approximately 80 Percent Of U.S. Treasury Securities Issued In 2009

No, the headline is not a misprint. According to CNBC, the Federal Reserve bought approximately 80 percent of the U.S. Treasury securities issued in 2009. In other words, the Federal Reserve has been gobbling up the massive tsunami of U.S. government debt that has been created over the past year. This is absolutely unprecedented, and it is yet another clear indication that the U.S. financial system is on the verge of a major economic collapse.

You see, the Federal Reserve is not part of the federal government. In fact, the Federal Reserve is about as "federal" as Federal Express is.

Due to the massive explosion in the size of the U.S. government debt and due to the very weak U.S. economy, interest rates on U.S. treasuries should have shot through the roof by now. Rational investors would normally require an increased return for the increased risk that U.S. treasuries now represent.

But that is not happening.

Instead when there are no buyers for U.S. treasuries at current interest rates, the Federal Reserve just steps in and buys up all the excess bonds that need to be purchased. But in a normal free market situation, interest rates would rise on U.S. treasuries until they would be attractive enough for investors to buy them all.

However, that would create some huge problems.

If the U.S. government was not able to borrow all of the money it wanted to at artificially low interest rates, the results would be absolutely disastrous. Much higher interest rates on U.S. government debt would cause the U.S. federal budget deficit to absolutely explode. Interest rates on everything else throughout the economy would also skyrocket. As mortgage rates climbed dramatically, the housing market would completely collapse. The U.S. economy would be totally in flames.

But for now (and this situation cannot last forever) the Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates artificially low by lending the U.S. government as much money as it wants at extremely low interest rates. Of course the Federal Reserve is making an insane amount of money out of the arrangement, so it is working out quite nicely for them as well. But by essentially "printing" a flood of cheap money for the U.S. government to borrow, the Federal Reserve is ultimately going to end up destroying the value of the U.S. dollar. - The Economic Collapse Blog

Translation: No one is buying our debt so we have to buy it ourselves and hide those purchases lest people wake up and understand what is happening.

But I do not have to rely on just blogs and MSM clips. Check out what Pew Research has to say about it.

The looming fiscal crisis

The economic crisis that the United States just experi- enced resulted in the deterioration of the country’s fiscal metrics as revenue plummeted and spending soared due to the recession’s effects and the government’s response.

The 2009 budget deficit was $1.4 trillion, almost 10 per- cent of GDP. The public debt grew 31 percent from $5.8 trillion to $7.6 trillion. And the total debt, which includes what the government has borrowed from itself, grew from almost $10 trillion to $11.9 trillion.

However, even after the recession abates, its lingering effect, the extension of a number of deficit-financed poli- cies, demographic changes, and growing health care costs will all create an unsustainable fiscal situation where the debt will continue to grow as a share of the economy. Under the Commission’s “fiscal baseline” (Box 1), which assumes the extension of many of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and other expiring policies, lower war costs, and dis- cretionary spending that keeps pace with the economy, the United States would see:

• Total government spending—driven by an aging popu- lation and rising health care costs—rise from 25 percent of GDP today to 36 percent in 2038.

• Revenue—which fell to below 15 percent of GDP during the recession—grow gradually to 18.5 percent in 2018, surpassing historical averages, but not by nearly enough to keep pace with spending.

• Deficits slip from their current level of 10 percent of GDP to below 6 percent over the next five years but rise to above 16 percent in 2038.

Without a dramatic shift in course, the debt will grow to unprecedented levels, breaking the 200 percent mark in 2038. Well before the debt approaches such startling heights, fears of infiation and a prospective decline in the value of the dollar would cause investors to demand higher interest rates and shift out of U.S. Treasury securities. The excessive debt would also affect citizens in their everyday lives by harming the American standard of living through slower economic growth and dampening wages, and shrinking the government’s ability to reduce taxes, invest, or provide a safety net. - Pew Research

Once again I do not need to rely just on blogs to tell you what is staring all of is the face. The major problem is that perception management (fancy word for propaganda) is in full force in the Government and MSM. Each is trying to do its level best to alter your perceptions away from reality, not towards it. Lets take a look at another official source of information, that is telling it like it is and not mincing words about it.

States are currently facing one of the worst, if not the worst, fiscal periods since the Great Depression. Fiscal conditions significantly deteriorated for states during fiscal 2009, with the trend expected to continue through fiscal 2010 and even into 2011 and 2012. The severe national recession drastically reduced tax revenues from every revenue source during fiscal 2009 and revenue collections are expected to continue their decline in fiscal 2010. As state revenue collections historically lag behind any national economic recovery, state revenues will remain depressed throughout fiscal 2010 and likely be sluggish into fiscal years 2011 and 2012. The “official” economic recession, which began in December 2007 and may have recently ended, has significantly affected state spending, as more than half the states decreased their general fund expenditures in fiscal 2009, and over two-thirds of states enacted fiscal 2010 budgets with general fund spending lower than the previous year. - National Governors Association/National Association of State Budget Officers

This report, as depressing as it is (and it is) is still too optimistic. They are relying on a recovery that simply is not going to happen until Washington gets its act together and that is not going to happen until the powers behind the throne running the nation into the gutter are in prison. How likely do you think that is? They are very powerful, every evil and know what they are doing. They are too powerful to prosecute and effectively control all three branches of government. I am not going to go into anyone 'pet' conspiracy theories here, I have studied more about them than just about anyone out there and have a decent hard cover library dealing with everything from the Freemasons, devil worship, Bilderbergs, Trilateral Commission, Wicca.., Blue Beam, Aliens... I could write an veritable encyclopedia were I so inclined.. and I am not. I do not spend much time on that stuff because there are tens of thousands of sites that do and most of them just don't really know what they are talking about. They just have links up from one fruit loop to another fruitier loop to yet another...

Rather I am talking about men who are given over to what the Bible clearly describes as a system of mammon and greed that envelops the earth in every imaginable vice. So if you don't see links here about the 'grand conspiracy of alien free masons' or the 'secret organization of three footed gray's', stalking our planet, that's why. Sure there is a lot of truth in a few of these sites, but too many are just adding to the junk-pile and do not really contribute anything of value to serious individuals and researchers, besides... a lot of them are secretly run by the Government designed to keep you away from those that really run things.

So what is to follow? There are two issues that concern me that have recently transpired. Both are Executive orders signed by President Obama. One I talked about in my recent piece, it was the Executive order expanding the diplomatic immunity of Interpol. The other is dealing with an issue Sorcha Faal talked about yesterday (yes, I do read her stuff, you should too but with a very, very discerning eye knowing that she often has to hide the truth behind a veil of shall we say, 'colorful distractors'). So yes, she is kind of 'fruity' but it is done with a purpose in mind.

Raising the alarm of the Kremlin about the United States latest move towards totalitarianism was Obama's signing yesterday of an Executive Order establishing a Council of Governors to be comprised of 10 American State Governors of his choosing and headed by the Secretary of Defense and which will also comprise the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas Security Affairs, the US Northern Command Commander, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, and the Chief of the National Guard Bureau.

Important to note about Obama's move to complete the militarization of the United States, these reports continue, was it being process of subverting the American people begun under former President Bush, who in 2007 vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 ( H.R. 1585) for not allowing the Presidency this unprecedented power, but when put into the new version of this act was signed by him to become US Public Law No: 110-181.

The establishment by Obama of this new American regime, headed by the United States military and intelligence agencies and giving them unprecedented power over their elected officials, these reports warn is 'exactly' shadowing those actions of last century's National Socialist Party (Nazis) in Germany, and include:... - Obama's Shock Plan

Ordinarily, you might dismiss a story like this as the rantings of lunatics. But read carefully what is in that executive order.

The bipartisan Council will be composed of ten State Governors who will be selected by the President to serve two year terms. In selecting the Governors to the Council, the White House will solicit input from Governors and Governors associations. Once chosen, the Council will have no more than five members from the same party and represent the Nation as a whole.

Federal members of the Council include the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas Security Affairs, the U.S. Northern Command Commander, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, and the Chief of the National Guard Bureau. The Secretary of Defense will designate an Executive Director for the Council. - White House

FEMA's 10 regions

Given that not two weeks ago Obama gave immunity to Interpol and that the US will one day in the not too distant future be forced to declare bankruptcy, the entire specter of an armed response to the anger of the people who are going to to be left out in the cold, while the Defense establishment and the Banking Titans reorganize America into its hideous image is hardly a wacked-out conspiracy theory, not anymore. Such drastic changes with a decidedly law enforemment/militarization bent have not garnered hardly any MSM coverage.

What do I think really? I think the powers that control Obama, his staff and others have had a highly secret meet where the reality of Americas bankruptcy and a time line for a bank holiday and marital law have been discussed. The latest EO I think is an attempt by Obama to subvert.. er.. I mean enlist the support of the state houses in helping them repress Americans when the banks close, the grocery stores are empty and the gas pumps run out of gas because no one will take our dollars. You do not include the commander of NorthCom unless you are going to use force on someone inside the US.

I submit that plans may be underway to use force against people inside the US. But also, this could lead to more coordination of National Guard deployments to Obama's lunatic wars with the Governors. There will always be those backroom deals, "Well, Gov. Schwartzeneggar, you want that aid for your state? Give up your National Guard to the DOD for the next 10 years and we can do business. We got plans to send them to Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan."

Do you trust Uncle Tom I mean Obama to do right by you? By now, you should have enough sense not to, if you still do, go get an X-ray done on your cranium to ensure there is something in there beyond a vaccum.

But like many Americans, Obama is really reflecting the spirit of modern America, Say you want one thing when you really want another. We want to stop the mistreatment of prisoners... how dare you give them a trial!! We want to stop the war on terror, how dare you not support a surge in Afghanistan! We want to to stop the police state, how dare you not support the Patriot Act! People said they wanted Change but got Bush-Cheney on Steroids, with their broad consent. But as long as the gas flows at the pump, Showtime is still on cable and there is beer in the fridge, too many Americans would sooner turn their own children over a roasting spit than give up those creature comforts for themselves, or at least slaughter their own children in the womb lest they have to do with less of those very same comforts. They talk a good game. But words are not deeds and theatrical outrage with America's evil is just that... theatrical.

Well, don't come crying to me when the chickens come home to roost and your deeds and ignorance play you for a sucker. I am not calloused in the LEAST and deeply love my fellow man of all colors, races, religions, criminal backgrounds and sexual orientation. Why? Because God loves them even more and gave his son that all may have life.. But continued stupidity and determined ignorance are best cured with prolonged and unbearable pain lest a far, far worse fate awaits you.

The cure is on its way.

You Americans who frittered away your freedoms for a big screen TV and a new car and who are all draped in phony 'politically correct' patriotism... can't you see how valuable freedom is? Look at what is happening in Iran. Let that be a clue as to how desperate you can get when your freedoms and hopes are dashed by a brutal, wicked and corrupt government. Obama knows how angry people can get. What is about to happen... it is the stuff revolutions are made of. The criminals who wrecked and robbed America who control Obama must never be brought to justice.

Hence the Executive orders.




Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
(Dan 7:23-24)

Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
(Dan 7:23-24)

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Obama: Bought And Paid For By Big Pharma
(fully reflected in that abominabe health care bill he's pushing


Job Losses: Past And Present

...and baby... you ain't seen nuthin' yet!

China Surpasses US As World's Largest Car Market

The Military Industrial Complex Is Ruining The US Economy

What's to Come - WW
A 20+ page look at a few issues for 2010 as well as some useful tips to avoid some common pitfalls people fall into. This one is a little different as there are two versions. One I am posting publicly and another that is going to others who has shown real interest in my work and have assisted me in the past. I am not being stingy, it is just that some of the information is rather sensitive and rather than make it available to any and every 'drive by downloader' spy and enemy of this ministry, I have decided that some folks really should be appraised of certain info and rather than endanger myself by putting it out there for all, I have chosen this path. Don't fret, there is still some good stuff in the public version. Those who already have alternative ways of getting info at WW will see the other copy in their inbox very soon. Expect more of this kind of dissemination here as we move into yet more dangerous times.

More Families Rely On Food Stamps To Feed Kids - LAT
As more families are hammered by the recession, more are using food stamps to feed their kids, according to a study by the Brookings Institution and First Focus, a bipartisan child advocacy group.

"They are a really good barometer, a kind of economic-needs test," said Mark R. Rank, an expert on social welfare programs at Washington University in St. Louis. "If you're receiving food stamps and you're a child, by definition, you're in poverty."

The Original Brookings Study can be found here.

Wall Street Pays Out $140 Billion In Bonuses - Mother Jones
Obamanomics in action! Pretend like your angry about it, and let them steal all they can steal.

Embattled Geithner (Obama's Pick) Knee Deep In Corruption - AlterNet
Now, there will be hearings to see what Tim knew and when he forgot he knew it. Market Watch says he is "ankle deep in the AIG quicksand." A deceptive defense is being crafted, as Bloomberg reports:

Timothy Geithner, the former Federal Reserve Bank of New York president, wasn’t aware of efforts to limit American International Group Inc.'s bailout disclosures because the regulator's top lawyer didn’t think the issue merited his attention, according to a letter sent to lawmakers. “Matters relating to AIG securities law disclosures were not brought to the attention of Mr. Geithner," Thomas Baxter, general counsel of the New York Fed, said today in a letter to Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican. “In my judgment as the New York Fed’s chief legal officer, disclosure matters of this nature did not warrant the attention of the president."

Three GMO's Linked To Organ Damage - FoodFreedom

Obama Ties Foreign Aid To Arms Purchases - SMH
And this is change? This is another bailout for the death-machine industry, one of Obama's best-buddies. We give them 'aid' and they must buy guns bombs and other weapons so they have the ability to kill more dark skinned people.

A bailout disguised as 'aid'.

Obama Weighs Fee On Banksters To Aid Failing Treasury - NYT
Sounds good doesn't it? Well If Obama was really serious about both our Treasury (and its emptiness), responding to public anger as well as making a tax on the Street really fair, all he would really need to do is what he (under orders from his massa', Goldman Sachs) has rejected. That being instituting a transaction tax on all Wall Street trades. Do that and we would be able to put billions into our Treasury very, very quickly. Obama really just wants to score points with the people, not really fix anything. He is just acting for the cameras (show 'em your angry, outraged face, Obama... and don't smirk...), afterwards you can go in the backroom and high-five the banksters who put you in office.

Listen... a transaction tax of just say 0.5% of any and all trades would be a real boost to the Treasury. If he was serious about reigning in the derivative marketes, which will one day crash our economy again, all he has to do is make that tax on them much higher say 3%. That would shift billions into the Treasury. A transaction tax is a no brainer. I pay a transaction tax every time I go into a department store or drive up to a gas pump. So do you... and it is considerably higher than .25%.

As in previous attempts, a possible federal transaction tax faces an uphill battle in Congress, and that's probably just as well.

U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, and U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, have proposed a transaction fee for all financial transactions: one-quarter of one percent (0.025%) for stock transactions; and a two-one hundredths of one percent (0.02%) levy on standardized commodity futures contracts.
However, the first $100,000 in trades and tax-preferred retirement accounts, such as IRAs and 401(k)s, would be exempt.

The lawmakers estimate that the transaction tax would raise $150 billion per year. - Blogging Stocks

Persecution Of Christians In North Korea To Worsen - ABP
Persecution of Christians is set to worsen in North Korea, the world's worst trouble spot for Christians, in 2010, according to a group that tracks the status of Christians globally.

Release International, an England-based charity that supports the persecuted church around the world, made the prediction in an end-of-the-year assessment.

North Korea regularly tops the Open Doors World Watch list, a chart of the world’s worst places for Christians maintained by another group that supports the persecuted church. It uses a range of indicators to rank countries according to the intensity of persecution Christians face for actively pursuing their faith.

General Declares Surge A Success - AntiWar.com
Somewhat of a shocking development, considering the situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate, and most of the “surge” troops won’t even arrive for several months, but General Stanley McChrystal today declared the Afghan surge was already a success with “turned the tide” against the Taliban.

Though Gen. McChrystal conceded that the war isn’t entirely won yet, he insisted that considerable progress has been made, citing territory seized in the most recent Helmand Province offensives.

Interestingly enough, those offensives occurred in late summer and autumn, while the escalation wasn’t even announced by President Obama until early December.(end excerpt)



A political statement designed to bolster a failed Policy of an incompetent, 'sold out' administration. Is shooting children who are handcuffed part of that 'success'? Perhaps if we dangle a few babies over an open fire pit, and throw the corpses into a pentagram, the devil and his generals running this insane war can declare 'victory'.

Perhaps that is the real victory, to turn US troops into a modern version of SS storm troopers, devoid of any morality or humanity, who will kill anything and anyone who does not have blonde hair and blue eyes. Because that is what we are becoming... very, very quickly.

Symbol of the Skull And Bones



SS Cap Worn By Nazi Germany's Elite Guard



With this as the inevitable result

Shoveling Snow... In Mexico - AfterMath News
The provinces of Durango, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Zacatecas and Tamaulipas are being affected with low temperatures, also with snow in northern Chihuahua and Coahuila.

Civil Protection authorities conducted several operations to protect people who need it, as those living on the street, elderly and children, and were opened shelters where they provide blankets and food to marginalized people.

The National Weather Service (NWS) reported that “Currently, the majority of Mexico’s population is suffering from a winter with the lowest temperatures registered in the last 124 years.”

Homosexual Weddings Conducted In Prison - AlterNet
Welcome To 21st Century Sodom And Gommorah.

Hear the Word of the Lord:

"To a nation who has rejected God, know this; God is about to reject you. Your wealth, peace, safety and reputation and very life hang in the balance. These are all Gifts God gave this nation who once honored him. He will take them and leave a curse where there was once a blessing. Where you were once the head, you shall be the tail; where honor, derision; where hope, despair; where wealth and comfort, poverty and suffering."

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it! Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isa 5:18-20)

What's to Come - WW
A 20+ page look at a few issues for 2010 as well as some useful tips to avoid some common pitfalls people fall into. This one is a little different as there are two versions. One I am posting publicly and another that is going to others who has shown real interest in my work and have assisted me in the past. I am not being stingy, it is just that some of the information is rather sensitive and rather than make it available to any and every 'drive by downloader' spy and enemy of this ministry, I have decided that some folks really should be appraised of certain info and rather than endanger myself by putting it out there for all, I have chosen this path. Don't fret, there is still some good stuff in the public version. Those who already have alternative ways of getting info at WW will see the other copy in their inbox very soon. Expect more of this kind of dissemination here as we move into yet more dangerous times.

Food Prices May Trigger Economic Collapse - Deyo
You have maybe two months to stock up on the necessities of life before food prices rise dramatically, potentially prompting a food panic, widespread famine, and quite possibly the long-expected collapse of the U.S. economy.

Farmers across America and in many other parts of the world are calling 2009 the worst harvest they’ve ever seen in their lives, owing largely to extended bouts of bad weather. At the same time the U.S. Department of Agriculture is officially forecasting bumper crops, while grain elevators stand nearly empty and close to three-fourths of the country’s farmland is in areas declared eligible for federal disaster assistance due to failed crops.

US Employment Rate is A Mere 58% - Business Insider
David Rosenberg has A LOT to say about this morning's miserable jobs report. Actually, in his latest note he unloads a whole bunch of charts to show that the unemployment rate is even worse than you think it is.

Here they are in all their glory. The most striking one, we think, is the last one, that shows that the employment rate is just 58.2% . For every 100 people, 41.8 aren't working, a brand new low

Something Evil This Way Comes - FTW
As I write, the world is falling apart. Military forces from all major powers are flooding the Gulf of Aden, using piracy and terrorism as a pretext. This is all jockeying in anticipation of a major, and possibly total, war in and around the Persian Gulf -- where 60% of the planet's known oil is. Pakistan is imploding. Within days it will face a "worst possible" energy crisis and, according to Pakistani news sources, trigger massive civil unrest. Pakistan has failed. An Israeli and/or U.S. attack on Iran is now, no longer unthinkable. Just recently, Israel recalled all its ambassadors and charges d'affaires simultaneously for what (sure looked to me) was an emergency huddle. Major power shortages are crippling nations from the Phillipines, to Vietnam, to India, throughout the Caspian and especially Pakistan. Cities in many countries (including the USnd Britain) are selectively turning out streetlights that will never come back on because they can't afford the cost. The world is starting to shut down.

Sovereign default is a threat throughout Europe and especially in Greece and the United Kingdom. There are signs that the U.S. economy has started to implode. I will join my good friend, the brilliant James Howard Kunstler, in predicting a DOW at 4,000 in 2010.

IRS $32 Billion Short - AOL
Missing Billions? In America? Perish the thought. Naturally the IRS has some interesting excuses.

China Replaces Saudi In Caribbian Oil Deal - Energy Daily
The acquisition by PetroChina, the publicly listed arm of the China National Petroleum Corp., was the second oil-related regional Chinese deal to emerge within a week. Earlier Canada announced a $1.7 billion PetroChina investment in its tar-sands exploration and development project that gives China access to Canadian markets.

UK factories Face Gas Rationing - Telegraph
Suppliers such as British Gas and npower have told 95 industrial companies on so-called "interruptible contracts" in the North-west, East Midlands and East Anglia to switch to other power sources.

Such customers pay lower gas rates on the understanding that their supply may occasionally be cut in order to protect supplies to homes. It is the first time in “several years” gas supplies have been cut.

Skull And Bones, Christie's And The Devil - Elaine Supkis
An interesting read by someone who appears to have had contact with and antecedents connected with this evil club... and is no sympathizer with it or its aims.

More Reality On Those Phony Jobs Numbers - Automatic Earth
This [jobs numbers] is all smoke, mirrors, bias and outright falsehood. The Household part of the monthly BLS survey mentions 465,000 lost jobs. 647,000 full time jobs left the building. But that's not even remotely where the true problem lies.

The reason why unemployment, as per the Household survey, stayed at 10% and "only" 85,000 jobs are reported MIA in the Payroll survey can be found in the labor force numbers. From November to December 2009, the "persons not in the labor force" category went up by 843,000 (over 1 million when not seasonally adjusted), and now stands at 83,865,000. The vast majority of those singing off, i.e. not actively looking for work, are people who can't see any jobs anywhere in their environment. The worse the economy gets, the fewer people are counted as unemployed. It's a lovely invention, but it's also am awfully perverted one.

Blago: I'm Blacker Than Obama! - Raw Story
Blago, may not be squeaky clean, but I think he was far more honest than most folks who sit in the governots chair around the nation. Some powerful folks wanted him ousted because he was beginning to use the Governor's Chair to stand up to the big banks and for the little guy.

Isn’t it odd that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is suddenly arrested on corruption charges the day after he announced he is asking all Illinois government agencies to suspend business with Bank of America?

Not really. Blagojevich’s arrest sends a strong signal that going up against the banksters will not be tolerated. “Blagojevich contended that Bank Of America received a multi-billion dollar bailout from the government and should accordingly restore credit to the Republic Windows & Doors company in Chicago,” writes Katharine Zaleski for the Huffington Post. - Infowars

Malaysians Unite Against Church Attacks - Malaysian Insider
n an attempt to relegate the attacks to the fringe, Barisan Nasional (BN) and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders joined Christians in worship and dialogue even as reports of more attacks streamed in.

BN and opposition politicians made unprecedented visits to churches to reassure Christian Malaysians, who have grown fearful of the attacks.

Dissent Against Hamas Grows In Gaza - Ha'aretz
"I think the recent days reflect the inability of Hamas to control the dissident groups, the Popular Committees or Islamic Jihad, who are trying to break the tranquility," Barak told Reuters during the unveiling of the anti-rocket system.

"Hamas is well deterred from trying another direct collision with Israel. I hope that they will take over - or else," the defense minister said when asked if a new Gaza conflict was possible.

Watson's Note - WW
Yes, I am still on a kind of sabbatical. I have been very ill since Thanksgiving and am still not 100%. I am simply not ready for any heavy analysis yet and don't expect to return to normal operations here until the second full week of January. I am going to do my best to get better and slowly work my way back to regular updates. Many of you have offered up your support for me and emailed me with some kind and touching letters.

Thank you.

What kind of support can you give? Sincere prayer for this small ministry. It is here by the grace of God and will only stay as long as the saints need it and go before God's throne and ask him to keep it online. Ask the Lord, brethren and sisters and he will hear. Pray for all of God's ministers so that they don't just start 'disappearing'. These are the days when our government is 'disappearing' people, it is not a day that is coming, it is already here.

Please note that the secret facilities still exist under Barak 'Change' Obama.

Meanwhile the President has opened up a third front in America's Global war and is now in Yemen. So when the funders of Al Qaeda get into trouble with some disorganized malcontents in Yemen, Obama sends in Cruise Missiles to kill them.

I cannot see the long term benefit to this as Saudi Support for Al Qaeda is enormous and ongoing. Even with the powerful influence they have in Washington, some policy papers have been able to point out this inconvenient truth, even if it is in an extremely sanitized way. High level Saudi support for international terrorism is very real. More here for background on how this involves the Saudi's.

According to the U.S. State Department 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, “Saudi donors and unregulated charities have been a major source of financing to extremist and terrorist groups over the past 25 years.” The September 11, 2001 attacks fueled criticisms within the United States of alleged Saudi involvement in terrorism or of Saudi laxity in acting against terrorist groups. The final report released by the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission) indicates that the Commission “found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded [Al Qaeda].” The report also states, however, that Saudi Arabia “was a place where Al Qaeda raised money directly from individuals and through charities” and indicates that “charities with significant Saudi government sponsorship” may have diverted funding to Al Qaeda. U.S. officials remain concerned that Saudis continue to fund Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. - Congressional Research Service

Anyone in the inside knows the facts, Oil money will prevent the Saudis, from ever getting listed as a state sponsor of Terrorism. The King himself could lob a hand grenade at the White House, shout 'Jihad!' and we would still not put them the list. We would protect them, arm them and look the other way when funds went to the Taliban and say 'we find no evidence of Saudi financing of terrorism in...'. God help the analysts who tries to point out the obvious. You know, things like bank transfers, meetings of Saudi officials with AQ representatives, weapons transfers... they wind up swimming with cement shoes in the Potomac. I know one Federal Official who was directly bribed by a terrorist funding member of the Royal Family. He was offered millions, a mansion in Saudi Arabia, women, boys and other unmentionable pleasures, if he did not report on the things he knew and saw. The Saudi official probably need not go to such extremes. Why? Because policy makers have already decided to ignore hard evidence of its terror links. One must wonder why we bother spending billions on Intelligence budgets when it is almost never used. 'Intelligence' is set to fit the policy, rather than vice versa in America. Analysts are there to create intelligence to support a pre-arranged policy. Think WMD in Iraq and you know what I mean.

That is why I say this war is not about terrorism, it is about using terrorism to increase Defense Budgets, widen US military influence throughout the world and evicerate individual rights in western nations.

Obama? He is just the well spoken, amoral puppet Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton use for their ventriloquist act as they and others like them set the policy but Obama (correctly) gets the blame. That is why in our war on Human Rights and Military campaigns, things are no different than under Bush Cheney. Candidate Obama called for giving some rights for those unjustly accused (without ANY admissible evidence) of terrorism. President Obama went before the Highest Court in the land and said they now could make anyone a 'non-persons' and strip them of all their rights and won the case.

They have to go to bed at night with their sides aching after laughing so hard at the American voter and that Black version of George Bush in the White House. They know that they would be hard pressed to find a less intelligent species of bi-ped on planet earth... including most fowl who at least are not given to the habit of killing their own young (eggs) in the nest and training their children for acts of sexual perversion. They leave that kind of stupidity to those other non-winged bi-peds who think they are more intelligent.

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Well, you may want to check out these to audio files on Afghanistan. They are quite enlightening.





Direct links here.

Anyway be safe, this Holiday season and God bless all who love God, truth and life.




But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
(2Ti 3:13)

End Of Year Note - WW
It has been a very interesting year, and next year proves to be even more interesting. yet, I will not be making many (if any) posts for the rest of the year. I have not been well, need a real rest and have been strictly charged to do so for the next few weeks. I think I will need it for the gargantuan tasks ahead next year. Again I say, I think 2010 will be pivotal, so no Watson's Web is not likely to go away (unless the Lord sees fit), but for now needs and has been commanded to take a rest, lest I burn out and wind up in a hospital. Keep in mind I have been doing this site for 10 years now and have been steadily producing material for the people of God (truly a very, very small flock in America). For there are many that have a form of godliness, but only a very few who have its real substance. and any others who want to know more about God and his plan for mankind for free. I have never charged for God's word, nor will I.

What kinds of things will 2010 hold for us? I think Mr. Chapman gives us a small taste of what is to come.

The following information may be the most important we have ever published. One of our Intel sources, highly placed in banking circles, tells us that on 1/1/10 all banks that have received TARP funds have been informed by the Federal Reserve that they must further restrict any commercial lending. Loans have to be 75% collateralized, 50% of which has to be in cash, which is a compensating balance.

The Fed has to do one of two things: They either have to pull $1.5 trillion out of the system by June, which would collapse the economy, or face hyperinflation. This is why the Fed has instructed banks to inform them when and how much of the TARP funds they can return. At best they can expect $300 to $400 billion plus the $200 billion the Fed already has in hand.

We believe the Fed will opt for letting the system run into hyperinflation. All signs tell us they cannot risk allowing the undertow of deflation to take over the economy. The system cannot stand such a withdrawal of funds. - Bob Champan

The economy is going to be a major issue. Forget all the hyped up talk about a few seemingly good jobs numbers. The reality is far different. Our entire financial system is the gravest of danger and the leaders of Senate (especially Mr. Dodd) are not about to do anything substantive to bring about meaningful change. They are all very much part of the rot that is going to take America to the poor house.

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and other Senate Democrats on Thursday strongly backed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s nomination for a second term. - The Hill

While Sen. Bunning tells the people the real deal with Bernanke, He is the very personification of 'Moral Hazard'

To this day, the Fed has not been audited and no one knows just how many trillions of dollars have literally been stolen out of America's treasury. This is not hyperbole, something is very much amiss if our leaders are telling us that such an audit would collapse the US economy. An audit would only boslter the confidence in the Fed if it is solvent and not involved in criminal activity. So we can reasonably surmise that the reason the Fed does not want to be audited is not because of 'Indepenence' but because something really stinks at Bernanke's Fed and the Fed would rather collapse the economy than reveal what it is they have been up to.

Make no mistake, a general collapse is something that is still very, very much on the table. Let the pundits who never predicted this crisis in the first place tell you otherwise. Let them explain to you why the FDIC is broke and the whole idea of Insured Deposits may be defunct before too long.

We have been told that the FDIC not only is $8.2 billion in the hole, but they have secretly borrowed an additional $80 billion from the Treasury. We have also been told that the FDIC is lying about the banks in trouble. The number in eminent danger are not 552, but a massive 2,035. The cost of bailing these banks out would be $800 billion to $1 trillion. That means 2,500 could be closed in 2010. Now get this, the FDIC is going to be collapsed before the end of 2010, which means no more deposit insurance. This follows the 9/18/09 end of government guarantees on money market funds. Both will force deposits into US government bonds and agency bonds in an attempt to save the system. - Bob Chapman

Why are we hearing a spate of made up good news out of our news organizations? I will tell you. So that you will have 'confidence' in the future and go and spend lots of money for the holidays. The news will also be misused to support Bernanke's polices... 'see, its working, just give us more time'... So dear readers, keep this in mind, If Washington is coming up with the numbers, be most very suspicious. Washington and truth are mutually exclusive terms.

The whole world is going to change in ways that will send many people to early graves.

So I am going to take a breather for while, sit back, read relax, watch old movies, visit with friends and pretty much ignore the news for a while. But I urge you to take some time and do some reading. I post my PESRs and while they do get downloaded quite a bit, not all who come by here do. So read it. Here is the last one, check it out. Older ones can be found on my rss feed.

PESR Winter 2009

Looking for something else to read? I highly recommend Revelation 2.0 By Mr. Kelly, which he has generously made available to readers of Watson's Web for free.

It can be found here.

So there is lots to read over the holidays, men like Mr. Kelly and me do the work, it is your job to read and understand. We have done ours, now it is your turn to do yours.

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China's Christians Sent To Labor Camps - Sino Daily
Coming to all of the 50 states near you!!

President Hillary, VP Gates: No Afghan Pullout Date Set - Raw Story
Surprised? I am not. Obama has been praised by the likes of Karl Rove And Newt Gingrich. As I told my readers and others when this guy was running, Obama is in reality a NeoCon. You did not need to learn how to read tea leaves to figure it out, just his bankroll...

...and not be obssessed over his skin color.

Obama Silent On Public Option - Huff Post
Let me share a little secret with you. Obama has been the one secretly behind the scenes doing his best to railroad a vigorous public option. Obama's real plan is little more than a mandatory tax on poor Americans with a couple of reforms in the Insurance industry. But more importantly are the $400 Billion in Medicare cuts. That is all it really is when all of the fluff and hullabaloo is stripped away. I am telling you that Obama is a greater threat to middle America than the GOP ever was. He can find money for Afghanistan, but not for America's health which his plan is carefully designed to undermine significantly leaving profits to the medical establishment untouched. He talks well and smiles nice but in his heart, there is a darkness that usually succumbs to the political pressure of the day to do what is wrong, evil and brings death and destruction to others.

On Jugemment day, his excuse will by like just about every one else's, 'the devil made me do it'. It will not signify. Afghanistan, Health Care, Immunizing telecom criminals, Trillion dollar bailouts and some shady backroom deals going on now and key people close to him laundering money for key elements in the GOP... oh yes... kid yourself not, this man is very dangerous. I am sad to say that this man has put a curse on his own administration. Bretheren, lies are always the work of the devil and this President has told a whole slew of them, in service to that very same devil who rolled out a the kingdoms of this world in exchange for his soul.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. (Mar 8:36-38)

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

(1Th 5:5-9)

US Church: In Hock To Mammon
Why have America's Churches been so ineffective dealing with the scourge of evil that stalks America? Why are so many Churches filing for bankruptcy, having their buildings foreclosed upon or having other big financial problems? Well, these are not the real questions Christians should be asking. While surely these are big problems, they are only the result of worldly and satanic ties to the world system the Churches should never have made in the first place. Anyone who knows anything about tangling with satan will tell you that when you make a deal with him, he will always come out the winner. This is why we are to have no association with him, his imps, his emissaries and make no deal with satan, even if it seems like it is such a good idea to us. It never is. The sad part is tens of thousands of pastors across America have made a deal with he infernal one, and never truly understood it.

But Churches are indeed falling into the trap for them laid by satan. What was that trap? It was the trap of debt, borrowings in order to front 'prosperity' which was really just plain old greed. The result is that the false prosperity borrowing from the devil always comes with a price.

"Who gives $700,000, 700, 700?" he called out. One man, a representative for a local bank, raised his finger. The auctioneer tried in vain to nudge the price up. "Sold!" he cried. St. Andrew Anglican Church had just been bought by the bank that had started foreclosure proceedings against it. -WSJ

Is this in your Churches future? If it has a lot of debt and cannot pay it off in the next couple of years, the answer is yes, it is quite possible, probably likley. Why? It is because it is as I have tried to warn my readers for many years now but the Church would not listen, this economic crisis is going to devastate America. I choose my words carefully and devastate is exactly what I mean.

dev·as·tate  (dv-stt)
tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates
1. To lay waste; destroy.
2. To overwhelm; confound;

Pastors and Priests looked at me and other watchmen like me and said, 'who is he that I should listen to him'? I have my godless banker, I will listen to him and not pay attention to those watchmen God has raised up to warn God's sheep. So the Churches went into hock, some to the tune of millions of dollars. These Churches, I am sorry to say, do not stand much of a chance of surviving what is coming. The second wave of the economic collapse is coming.

But one must wonder about any Church that ignores biblical admonitions about debt, is unequally yoked to the world system (satanism) and their refusal to hear those whom God has sent to warn them. They instead took their marching orders from their real father, mammon who is really just a disguised version of the devil. The pastors and Churches were claiming to be working for God, but in reality were doing the devils work.

The prosperity gospel is a cobbled-together theology that runs through the Pentecostal Church and a surprising number of mainstream evangelical churches, and is especially popular in immigrant communities. Researchers began to note that the gospel's growth tracks closely to the pattern of foreclosure hot spots. And many of the churches were built among fringe suburban developments in the '90s and 2000's - the same neighborhoods now filled with foreclosure signs. A series of lawsuits this summer revealed how banks teamed up with pastors to win over new customers for sub-prime loans. - NHPR

Do you see how seductive the allure of money can be? Can you see why there is no godly blessing, no holiness and no real spiritual power in the modern Church; just a lot of emotionalism, ritual with that ever present collection plate? I will tell you why - you are dealing with a form of religion that denies the commandments and admonitions of Christ and is in rank rebellion against God.

Let me tell you something I have said before that most of you are not going to accept or believe. God was kicked out of these Churches long ago. They never really wanted him in and so they did what they wanted to do rather than the things that God commanded. Years ago, while desperately seeking a Church home after being over a decade outside of the US, I found that not only was a real Church quite rare, but that God was far more angry with the false Christianity of America that he was with gays, pedophiles, murderers and rapists and that their spiritual fate was far worse than any of the afore mentioned sinners... yes, even worse than the pedophiles! And to have a man of the Church engage in these evils? Brother, this is the worse possible fate for a son of Adam... to forsake God and go back into these evils, the very worst. What we are dealing with here is something that you are not going to hear in the blogosphere, nor on major Chrisian sites. What are we dealing with here? FALSE RELIGION. The majority of American Christianity is FALSE RELIGION.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. (2Pe 2:18-22)

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. Go thy way, and shew my people their sinful deeds, and their children their wickedness which they have done against me; that they may tell their children's children: Because the sins of their fathers are increased in them: for they have forgotten me, and have offered unto strange gods. (2 Esdras 1:4-6)

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. (2Pe 2:1-3)

Why was I told not to return to some Churches, and on more than one occasion asked or almost asked to leave and never come back having done nothing more than show up? I will tell you but it will require some spiritual discernment on your part.

Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. (Joh 15:20-23)

Who were Christ's most ardent persecutors? Who eventually conspired to have the Lord murdered? It was the religious leaders! Christ constantly attacked their doctrines of devils and blindness to his person and work and most importantly attacked their unholy sources of revenue (temple incident). Dear brethren, let us all judge these things with scriptural, rather than worldly admonitions. Those who do God's will are of God, those who don't are of the world. There is no middle ground and any and all who tell you otherwise are also, not of God. But Americans want their religion to service their interests rather than God's and that is at the very root of the problem. It is endemic to modern American Christianity.

America's churches always reflect shifts in the broader culture, and Casa del Padre is no exception. The message that Jesus blesses believers with riches first showed up in the postwar years, at a time when Americans began to believe that greater comfort could be accessible to everyone, not just the landed class. But it really took off during the boom years of the 1990s, and has continued to spread ever since. This stitched-together, homegrown theology, known as the prosperity gospel, is not a clearly defined denomination, but a strain of belief that runs through the Pentecostal Church and a surprising number of mainstream evangelical churches, with varying degrees of intensity. In Garay's church, God is the "Owner of All the Silver and Gold," and with enough faith, any believer can access the inheritance. Money is not the dull stuff of hourly wages and bank-account statements, but a magical substance that comes as a gift from above. Even in these hard times, it is discouraged, in such churches, to fall into despair about the things you cannot afford. "Instead of saying 'I'm poor,' say 'I'm rich,'" Garay's wife, Hazael, told me one day. "The word of God will manifest itself in reality." Many explanations have been offered for the housing bubble and subsequent crash: interest rates were too low; regulation failed; rising real-estate prices induced a sort of temporary insanity in America's middle class. But there is one explanation that speaks to a lasting and fundamental shift in American culture-a shift in the American conception of divine Providence and its relationship to wealth. - Did Christianity Cause The Crash?

"Not only do the American practice their religion out of self-interest, but they often even place in this world the interest which they have in practicing it. Priests in the Middle Ages spoke of nothing but the other life; they hardly took any trouble to prove that a sincere Christian might be happy here below. But preachers in America are continually coming down to earth. Indeed they find it difficult to take their eyes off it. The better to touch their hearers, they are forever pointing out how religious beliefs favor freedom and public order, and it is often difficult to be sure when listening to them whether the main object of religion is to procure eternal felicity in the next world or prosperity in this."  Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. II, Part 2, ch. 9 - Toqueville (Democracy In America)

These observations are critical in understanding the modern prosperity gospel and the rise of America's mega Churches and many modern televangelists. Secular commentators have made some very lucid observations about this movement in Modern Christianity. There is a very interesting interview at New Hampshire Public Radio that should be heard to understand the phenomenon from a social perspective. You should listen to it as it shows how this 'prosperity gospel' has its root in a very similar secular movement in the post war era. But what does the bible really teach about debt and prosperity.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. (Rom 13:8)

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. (Pro 22:7)

Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. (Mat 19:21)

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. (Pro 22:16)

Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. (Pro 23:4-5)

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. (Pro 28:20)

These verse all seem to fly in the face of the modern prosperity gospel and its accompanying mammonite accouterments. The acquisition of worldly wealth is something that should not concern us and those that are obsessed with worldly prosperity are not walking with Christ, they are walking after the spirit of this world. What did Jesus Christ have to say about this subject? Quite a bit but here is one verse that really sums up his teachings on it.

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. (Mat 19:23-24)

But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. (Luk 6:24-26)

These are not the teachings you are likely to hear in America's Churches. Why? Because this is part of the real gospel of Jesus Christ and it stands 180 degrees opposed to the teachings of much of modern Christianity, which is obessed with multi-million dollar buildings, a Starbucks in the foyer, a pastor and board who all drive either a Lexus, BMW or a Mercedes and wives who drive the same.

Well is this really what Christ taught? Is this materialistic 'mono-mania' scriptural? No it is not and it is that very lust for the material things of this world that has put many Churches very existence at risk as many more will declare bankruptcy and or be foreclosed upon before this crisis is over.

Many, many more.

But they all should have known that making a deal with these banksters was bad business. Anecdotal evidence (I cannot verify this but talk radio has mentioned this) that some Churches have clauses in their mortgage agreements that if they do not keep a minimum balance in their bank accounts, they get fined, thousands of dollars PER DAY and that this is one reason some Churches are going under. They have not been able to maintain that minimum balance and get into real trouble when donations and tithing drops off.

But I have to say this, it is one thing to have a mortgage on ones own domicile, it is quite another to put the house of God into hock with one of the most vicious and cruel representatives of the kingdom of darkness. Owning ones own home has many advantages. For many people of color it is often not easy to rent and rent can and always does go up, owning your own home is one way of controlling those costs.

Yet mega-churches were often trying to out do one another and borrowed and borrowed to get the flashiest buildings in order to obtain the wealthiest parishioners, who would give more than economically challenged Christians.

The Church is not doing its real job, but rather has become the best spiritual placebo in the devils arsenal. People keep taking it, rather than the real cure for their spiritual ills and that is why American Christianity is dying. No one wants to actually DO what Christ commanded.

It appears the clergy, in a pick-and-choose manner, have ignored Biblical admonitions to avoid debt (2 Kings 4:7: "Pay thy debt." Romans 13:8: "Owe no man anything") so as not to incite financial anxiety among their members for fear of seeing Sunday offerings dwindle further than they already have. The current economic collapse has already produced about a 10-15% drop in church giving.

Despite the many evidences of an unprecedented worldwide financial collapse, a faction of the church preaches the prosperity gospel. An article published in The Atlantic magazine blames the current financial crisis on the likes of pastors Joel Osteen and Fred Price, who preach a prosperity gospel. However, the Bible also teaches that "the Lord sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts." (I Samuel 2:7) "For he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." (Matthew 5:45)

The Christian church has ducked its head on this issue and is on the verge of becoming an irrelevant institution in modern society. - Impending Economic Cataclysm: The Organized Christian Church Has Buried Its Head in the Sand

Insurgent Violence Reported In Chechenya, Dagestan - Jamestown

Swiss Vote To Ban Miarets - LAT
Sensing the destruction of Christianity is afoot with the ban on Crosses in the schools in the EU, the Swiss decide to do some banning of their own. Interestingly the whole world is mad at Swizerlkand over this, but no one batted an eye about the cross. Amnesty International did an article on it, but no where on their site could I find similar outrage over the EU banning of the Cross.



Obama Backtracking On Transparency - Pro-Publica
clouding up a bit. The Globe reports that Obama may halt the release of millions of intelligence documents scheduled to be declassified by the end of the year:

The documents in question -- all more than 25 years old -- were scheduled to be declassified on Dec. 31 under an order originally signed by President Bill Clinton and amended by President George W. Bush.

Administration officials blame resistance from intelligence agencies, which have failed to meet deadlines to review documents for declassification..



Filled With Hate In The Holy City - JPost
Father Samuel Aghoyan, a senior Armenian Orthodox cleric in Jerusalem's Old City, says he's been spat at by young haredi and national Orthodox Jews "about 15 to 20 times" in the past decade. The last time it happened, he said, was earlier this month. "I was walking back from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and I saw this boy in a yarmulke and ritual fringes coming back from the Western Wall, and he spat at me two or three times."

Conspicuous targets. "Every Christian cleric who's been here for a while, and who dresses in robes in public, has a story to tell about being spat at," says Father Athanasius, a Franciscan monk.

Wearing a dark-blue robe, sitting in St. James's Church, the main Armenian church in the Old City, Aghoyan said, "Every single priest in this church has been spat on. It happens day and night."

Food Stamp Usage Across The Nation - NYT




But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

(Luk 6:27-31)

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