BAILOUT, BUSH ADMINISTRATION, CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BANNING BUSH'S SELF-PARDON AND PARDONS OF CRIMES HE AUTHORIZED, INDIA, OBAMA CENTRIST, THE HOLY LAND FOUNDATION FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT, VENEZUELA, AND ZIMBABWE
Bailout
Now, the bailout is up to $7.76 trillion dollars in one form or another. That's only the beginning though. We are left in the position of taking the regulators words for it that much of it is soundly collateralized.
It is only the beginning. The 2009 year will be one of titanic shocks and changes to the global order of a scale perhaps not experienced in the past five centuries. This is why we should speak of the end of the American Century and its Dollar System.
How destructive that process will be to the citizens of the United States who are the prime victims of Paulson's crony capitalists, as well as to the rest of the world depends now on the urgency and resoluteness with which heads of national Governments in Germany, the EU, China, Russia and the rest of the non-US world react. It is no time for ideological sentimentality and nostalgia of the postwar old order. That collapsed this past September along with Lehman Brothers and the Republican Presidency. Waiting for a 'miracle' from an Obama Presidency is no longer an option for the rest of the world.
(Source: "Colossal Financial Collapse: The Truth behind the Citigroup Bank 'Nationalization'," by F. William Engdahl. Global Research. November 24, 2008)
F. William Engdahl is incorrect to allow that Paulson did not know ahead of time the impact of allowing Lehman Bros. to fail. It was planned to cause shock so that Paulson would be granted sweeping powers to remake Wall Street and U.S. and world banking much to his personal liking (in sync with the plutocrats). This whole thing has simply been a financial 9/11 inside job.
Just as people were warned via text messaging before 9/11 and just as people were warned before October 29, 1929, people knew before the Great Crash of 2008. Follow the money, always.
The reason the same players are being put into positions of power is not due to their competency and experience in the sense people are being misled to believe. They are being retained, because they won't blow the whistle.
You won't have seen that anywhere else first. That position originated right here on this blog.
The plutocrats will not allow anyone anywhere near the audit trail of what is truly happened and is still unfolding. The choice of people is not Obama's to make. He wouldn't have gotten anywhere near the Oval Office if he hadn't already agreed to play ball with the Bilderberg Group on the Bilderberg Group's terms.
India
India is being rocked by terrorist attacks with Indian Mujahadeen taking credit for much of the terror. This does not bode well for peace between fundamentalist — militant Hindus and Muslims in general. The people behind the attacks are sick. What can't be ruled out is U.S. imperial incitement. It is awful never being able to rule out the U.S. being ultimately behind revving up violence to throw panic and fear around so it may continue the neocons' expressly stated objective that is the military takeover of the world.
Venezuela
Hugo Chavez is making a mistake trying to encourage OPEC to reduce production so oil prices will rise. It's good for reducing air-pollution that consumption is down. Reducing production will continue that trend. However, the selfish use of even an evil such as oil is not a good thing. It is not the spirit that will bring forth what is truly best for Venezuelans. It would be vastly superior were Hugo to negotiate with the U.S. in a way that would lead to the U.S. and Venezuela sharing clean-alternative-energy technologies.
The pro-Chavez United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won 72% of the governorships in the November 23, 2008 elections and 58% of the popular vote, dumbfounding the predictions of most of the pro-capitalist pollsters and the vast majority of the mass media who favored the opposition.
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There is no point in expecting the mass media to recognize the Socialist victory. Its effort to magnify the significance of the opposition's 40% electoral vote and their victory in 20% of the states was predictable. In the post-election period, the Socialists, no doubt, will critically evaluate the results and hopefully re-think the selection of future candidates, emphasizing job performance on local issues over and above professed loyalty to President Chavez and 'Socialism'.
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... effective power and control must be transferred to organized workers and autonomous consumer and neighborhood councils.("Victory for Venezuela's Socialists in Crucial Elections," by James Petras. Thepeoplesvoice.org. November 25, 2008.)
"...autonomous consumer and neighborhood councils" is a right idea. It's very consistent with the Christian Commons Project™. However, James Petras is still for coercion. He fears that a lack of the threat of counter-violence would simply embolden the fascists. That's the price we pay for being righteous though. We must set the right example to set the right standard into which others may grow over time.
Russia and Venezuela
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited Venezuela while a Russian Naval Ships also visited. Venezuela is buying Russian military equipment.
Constitutional Amendment Banning Bush's Self-Pardon and Pardons of Crimes He Authorized
As I've written before, any Constitutional Amendment (banning self-pardons and pardons of crimes authorized by the president) or otherwise dealing with pardons must be retroactive; otherwise, Bush's self-pardon and pardons of those he ordered or authorized to break the law will still stand.
What do you plan to do to them if you try them and find them guilty? What will be the sentence? I believe in reconciliation. I believe in not judging or condemning in the way Bush has judged and condemned.
Obama Centrist
Look, most Democrats knowingly voted for electability. They knowingly did the exact same thing Bill Clinton urged them to do. Clinton pulled the Party to the right to win. Who can't do that? The Republicans are going to move to become perceived as moderates to win. It's far from over. The only right thing to do is to speak truth more and more and more.
If Obama had run as a "liberal," he would have lost. Why is that? It's the case, because he isn't as compelling as his handlers have suggested that he is. He is not capable of standing on his feet arguing and educating and swaying for what is right over the slick-image garbage that both of the major parties peddle.
Barack Obama is a pragmatist/politician but not knowing what is really pragmatic. He is about "what will work" without fixing the system. He's about masking the symptoms. He's not about getting at the root cause of all that ails.
Obama is not going to repeal any of the tax cuts for the rich any time soon. His supposed tentative plan now is to allow the tax to expire rather than repeal it.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe refused to allow former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and South African human rights advocate Graca Machel into Zimbabwe. They wanted to enter the country to investigate human rights abuses and to assess the predicament of the general population.
It's a sad thing when Zimbabwe hides from the likes of Jimmy Carter and refuses him entry. No one without something to hide would do that.
Yes, Zimbabwe has been victimized by racist policies of the colonial powers, but that's not an excuse for how Zimbabwe has conducted itself. Jimmy Carter would only serve to help the people of Zimbabwe including against racism.
Bush Administration
The Government Accountability Office reported that the Bush administration hid the true cost of privatizing government jobs. Bush's team wanted to make employing workers directly on the government payroll appear to be higher than the cost of having private corporations supply the workers. Bush's team lied so Bush crony capitalists could cost the taxpayers more and get richer. It was, and remains, a scam, since the privatization hasn't been reversed yet.
Don't you just hate greed, lies, and cheating? Don't you just hate greedy, lying, cheats? You're supposed to hate them even while you hold out the prospect of forgiveness. You are supposed to feel for the lost and fallen. Why not? We've all fallen. We all need for repent and atone and to be forgiven.
The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
Did the leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, based in Richardson, Texas, U.S., funnel millions of dollars to Hamas who used it for terrorism, or did they send millions of dollars not to Hamas and that were used for humanitarian purposes? The five were found guilty, but I haven't read anything that sounds convincing.
Anyway, one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. Is Hamas a terrorist group if they are fighting a war of resistance against unlawful occupation and against those who used terrorism to dispossess Hamas member families and to displace them? I don't hold with fighting, but it seems that Hamas's is the lesser sin relative to Israel's. Just because the Bush administration declared Hamas a terrorists group doesn't change that.
The following is from The New York Times:
...the prosecution said, the foundation supported terrorism by sending more than $12 million to charitable groups, known as zakat committees, which build hospitals and feed the poor.
Prosecutors said the committees were controlled by Hamas and contributed to terrorism by helping Hamas spread its ideology and recruit supporters. The government relied on Israeli intelligence agents, using pseudonyms, to testify in support of this theory.
Now that's weak. It sounds like a kangaroo court. Under that twisted logic, no one could aid anyone in Gaza without doing something illegal in the eyes of the U.S. government. That's down right evil. It's contemptible. Shame on the Bush administration for collectively punishing the Gazans and other Palestinians. That's a clear violation by the Bush administration of the Fourth Geneva Conventions.
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Tom Usher
Standing Comment, all posts and pages:
To all homosexuals and their supporters, condoners, promoters, accepters, confirmers, and the like:
Unless you have something completely new that hasn't already been refuted, don't bother. It won't show up.
Rehashing what has already been refuted is a waste of everyone's time.
I'm not interested in casting pearls before swine, giving the children's bread to the dogs, or rebuking a forever scorner.
Learn or go away: There is zero wisdom in homosexuality. Homosexuality is wrong. Nothing any homosexual or anyone else can say or do will alter it. No one needs the Bible to know it either. It's prima facie. There's no such thing as an unrepentant-homosexual Christian. There never has been and never will be. That's the way of it. If you don't like it, change.
Do site searches on the various topics concerning homosexuality to determine if your "point" has already been handled. Currently, I provide three different search methods. The "WordPress" search is still the most thorough.
The same can be done regarding militarism, capitalism, coercion, and many other main issues and themes.
TREATMENT, RUDENESS, POLITENESS, OFFENSE, TRUTH
Many times over the course of this website's existence, I've had commentators complain about how I've treated them and/or others. Much less frequently has anyone taken exception to those commentator's comments. I assume that's because for one, I appear to be holding my own.
Often, I have raised the fact that Jesus called certain people "serpents." I've often also mentioned how he cleaned the temple with whip in hand, not that he used it on anyone. It certainly doesn't say that he did, and neither was he charged with it in the kangaroo court of the serpents who ended up murdering him by proxy just for, among other wonderful things, speaking out and speaking truth.
If I say that those who are engaged in serpentine behavior are the New Testament "serpents," then why take offense at my saying it rather than standing with Jesus and me about it?
If others don't like it that I treat others or them the way I have in this regard, why don't they take it up with the serpents and/or their own consciences and God?
If I wanted to catch flies, I'd use honey. I don't want flies on this level. Human beings aren't to be on the level of flies. If the truth is bitter as vinegar, then ask yourself why and learn to taste it as sweet but not sickeningly so. Why attack the message and messenger, as the serpents did, and become a serpent by so doing?
The issue is not "name calling" on some bratty, childish level. When Jesus said "serpents," he was not being as a brat. His level was completely adult to adults and children. He dared say that the children understood the clear and plain truth before the adults who, afterall, had been abused and socialized by the serpents. He still calls adults back. Those who hear him and know his voice (truth) turn around and do the other required things together as well.
What is it for a human being to be more serpentine or reptilian than what God initially gave? What was and remains Jesus's point? What is the reptilian brain versus the vastly higher human brain with its cerebral cortex and frontal and temporal lobes and specific areas of altruistic sentiments and abilities? What are those higher areas before they are damaged, before the communication pathways to them and between them are diminished by evil that is always some form of abuse? How are those pathways reestablished or created where they never were in this fleshly life?
The snake lays its eggs. The eggs hatch. The snake parent doesn't nurture or raise the offspring. It's every snake for itself. Human parents and family are not designed to be that way. Humans hand down the learning of nurturing. Many people get better training than do others, and many people have a greater aptitude for learning and predisposition for the higher and highest virtues. Many are less abused. People can change for the better and best though, no matter where the starting point. They only can't if they don't — if they reject it.
Snakes, of course, also come in venomous varieties and in strangling varieties, etc., such that they have been attackers and even devourers of humans for eons, guilty and innocent alike.
Now, Jesus knew that most people could relate to what were, and still are, largely considered "good" parenting skills and "good" "family" relations. He regularly used those concepts to get people to consider the wider implications for the whole of humanity. He did know that many would refuse. He let them go. He didn't demand secular or false-religion legislation to rein them in with threats of violence and imprisonment. He was not and is not coercive. Even his Church is a voluntary place to be.
What he still teaches (through the written words in the New Testament and as those connect with the Old and also teaches through the Holy Spirit he definitely sent as he said he would) is, among many other things, that "good" is vastly better than has been commonly accepted and that real "family" is everyone left after all the rest have rejected the higher and highest good. He raised the standards far above the Old Testament and far above the "modern" standard.
The American Empire and the American people in general aren't even touching the hem of his garment, let alone even attempting to stand upright and side-by-side with him.
I point out that Jesus was, and is, a Real Liberal Christian. He is the one who brought back this censored truth that is the light. After he had spoken it and lived it and was murdered for doing so, the censors set about to re-censor it and did. They couldn't put it out though — couldn't completely extinguish the truth. I wouldn't be saying it now again with all credit to God, just as Jesus, if they had been able to completely block it.
I point out that each of those terms ("real," "liberal," and "Christian," along with "Church") are actually redundant terms — synonyms that are so close that they become one. The term "liberal" here is not the common usage, which common usage is a deliberate corruption of the term. There is no harm in real liberalism. There is no vileness in it. There is only beneficence. "Real" may be understood as the opposite of false-hearted, dark side, and dead of the Holy Spirit. Christian is both real and liberal in those senses. To arrive at living, doing, being those full senses requires what Jesus lives, does, and is in the highest. Finally, the Church is the whole.
Who are they who want to drag it down, censor it, work against it, lessen it, ignore it, etc.? Well, who sides with Jesus and who sides against him? Did the serpents side with him then? Do they now?
We call war-mongers "hawks." We call "peacemakers" blessed and "doves." Why do the hawks not take offense at "hawks" but do take offense at "serpents"? "Hawks" is not yet as telling to the general public, but I must tell you that all hawks are serpents. Why do some say, "Greed is good" but take offense at "serpents"? I tell you there is no difference between the selfish and the serpents. Why do people take offense at serpents when they do not take offense at homosexuality? I tell you the homosexual spirit also comes out from the dark side. It is a choice. It is harmful. Many are abused with it. Many never overcome it. Their very brain matter is transformed by it. Then they claim it is good when it remains confusion and definitely wrong and harmful.
Many arguments were put forth in support of tolerance. I understood that Jesus "tolerated," as in he did not execute wrath but rather told the truth and let the blind follow the blind (blind to the truth) into the ditch of their own making. I have watched while the movement has been corrupted into condoning what was once only to be tolerated. I have watched further while it has moved from condoning to promoting even to the youngest children to get to them before the truth does. I have seen evil at work, and I sound the alarm. I face censorship and other negative reactions for it.
As the American Empire claims to be a light to the world, it murders innocent babies by Hellfire missiles fired from predator drones controlled by armchair, video-gaming serpents in uniform. It tortures those who are not even suspects. It spies on its own without even probable cause or reasonable suspicion. It lies its way into wars for spoils and control. It neglects its poor, whom it treads down for the sakes of the superrich — for the sake of the massive flow of mammon from the bottom up (no trickledown — trickledown is a farce and always has been). All is claimed to be okay in America though — that America is headed in the right direction — because soon, even "don't tell, don't ask" will be a thing of the quaint past and homosexuals may be able to sleep together and have sex in the barracks with the "blessing" of the Empire while they practice murdering the innocent for the sake of homosexual, greedy plutocrats who own them and who, in turn, are owned by the dark-side spirit named by God and Jesus as Satan.
Whose side are you on? I speak truth to warn. I don't tell the secular government what to do other than occasionally to say what at least would be less hypocritical within their fallen, unenlightened system. I do so for spiritual reasons. What I want is the Christian Commons.
Now, if you submit a comment:
What you write here against the Real Liberal Christian Church founded by Jesus Christ will mark you in the Biblical sense unless you show that you have turned and are repenting in time to escape the damnation of your own choosing. That's the way of it. Don't be tempted by the devil to stand opposed to the call of righteousness. Overcome such evil temptation. Help others to help yet others to come to righteous behavior through-and-through.
Check out how even after reading this, people will still take it out of context and twist it to an evil end.