Any one of us, upon seeing what is being done to our children, would be not only chastised but we'd be criminally charged. We'd have our children taken away from us, and we'd be hard-pressed to ever get them back.Yet, every day, year after year, our government officials are undoing every effort we take to raise responsible and caring countrymen and women. I, for one, am really fed up.
Our 'leaders' are doing nothing short of "contributing to the delinquency of minors". These officials are, in fact, pressing "undue influence" on our young, and "setting harmful examples detrimental to well-being" that would render our young to act and respond in ways that are 180 degrees different than what we deem proper.
We work diligently and relentlessly in order that our children may grow up with sound values, honest ethics, proper principles, heart-felt compassion, and conscientious behavior. Yet our leaders are undermining our efforts in every quarter.
Perhaps it is high time for us to ask the following pertinent questions:
How is witnessing the constant over-spending, done by our government officials, going to teach these children that one must live within their means, and that diligently saving is a good thing? What message are our governing officials sending to our young? By throwing money in every direction, being wasteful, and over-extending constantly, as well as taking from others, what is this actually teaching our children?
What message does bullying others to bow to our official's desires say to our young?
What does all the publicity of our officials, being plastered everywhere, concerning their personal habits regarding sexual encounters and infidelity, as well as drinking and drug use impress upon our young? How is it that the consequences dealt out to these officials for these types of actions are not nearly as severe as they would be for one of us if had we been the one to commit these same acts? What message is that sending to our young?
When our officials allow food, medicine and soil, air and water to be contaminated and altered with things of which they have no idea what the consequences will be, how is that serving the best interest of our children?
Why do our officials think it is OK to go destroy some country (and all the families therein), constantly engage in altercations, and yet have it sanctioned as being worthy? Is this the type of behavior that we want to have taught to our children?
Do our officials, who condone poisoning all species, committing torture and other atrocious acts upon others, creating and spreading disease, and causing death and suffering to others actually think their behavior is teaching our children to be compassionate and caring people?
What kind of message is sent to our young while these young are constantly hearing about, and experiencing, our officials lying and distorting the truth, changing what is taught as our history, and even stealing?
Is it teaching our young to be responsible and conscientious about our environment when our children see hundreds of barges laden with barrels of toxins and tons of garbage being carted out of our harbors to be dumped into the sea daily, or when our young witness massive amounts of harmful chemicals being run off into our waterways and oceans?
Why do our officials sanction violence, hatred, competition, lies, indulgence in alcohol and drugs, deception of every sort, with a over-abundance of sexual behavior, including bizarre deviations of such, by allowing it to be promoted, packaged and offered up as 'education' and 'entertainment' to our young? What is this steady diet teaching our children?
Is it teaching our children to be loyal and upstanding when our young are exposed to treasonous acts done by our leaders, and encouraged by our school, county, state and federal officials to turn in their friends and, indeed, even their parents? Yet, these same officials are engaged in behavior far more offensive on a regular basis. What exactly is this teaching our young?
Are these the values we would want imparted to our children?
When our officials arbitrarily change the dates on which to pay homage to our great Founders and Veterans so as to not interrupt the work schedule of the large mega-corporations that financially aid our officials, does this not undermine the importance of our traditions? Does this not present a shallowness to the importance of respect and even liberty? What kind of message is this sending to our young regarding honoring those who struggled and fought, and even died for us?
How is allowing our officials to expose our children to alternative gender relations, amoral behavior, and counseling our young to participate in making important life decisions without involving their own families serving our young? Is not this reprehensible behavior from our officials undermining the institution of family, and weakening the very fabric of our nation?
How does the removal of 'offensive religious dribble' by our officials from our public grounds serve to build strong spiritual connections in our young?
How is having our governing officials constantly spew on about government hand-outs going to ever impress our young with the importance and value of being self-reliant?
How are they to learn be free when they are made to believe that following official's orders unquestionably, and being subjected to others is acceptable and encouraged?
How can a child reasonably think when our officials are seeing to it that they are functionally illiterate?
How is it these officials seem to think that sloughing minuscule parts of hit and miss chapters in books is actually giving our children a sound and proper educational foundation, a love of learning, a standard of completion, and a 'finish what you start' posture?
How is having books, of which our governing bodies solely control what is written within, and how, when and by what media it is to be presented, benefiting our young with a full educational advantage?
How is the exhibition, by our officials, of constant disregard of respect, waste of goods and precious resources, abuse, hatred, and destruction teaching our young the critical values and principles, ethics, compassion, respect and duty so integral to their proper development?
There is an old saying that rings true..."if you want a job done right, do it yourself".
There is no doubt that we are overdue in handling our own governing.
Through governing ourselves, we can then be assured that we are giving our children the solid foundation on which they may then build lives that will be conscientious, responsible, joyful, and will afford them the tools with which to pass onto their own young.
It is extremely difficult to assure that our young learn to be kind, honest, compassionate, thorough, spiritual, educated, and conscientious while our efforts are being undermined constantly by our own officials.
It is equally difficult to pass on strong ethics, the joy of discovery, the satisfaction of quality workmanship, the importance of tradition and spiritual awareness, and the value of strong family ties, and moral behavior when we have such poor examples thrown in the faces of our impressionable young on a daily basis by those who are in their current position of governing us all.
Clearly, we are doing a disservice to our young, and our country by allowing this to continue any further.
We MUST remove ourselves and our children from these poisonous influences that these unfit officials so blatantly employ to skew the young hearts and minds of our children, and indeed our nation.
We must steadfastly protect our children from the life-damaging harm that our officials would subject them to in their attempts to bring about ruin.
It is one thing for an adult to be fooled; it is quite another when the lives of our children are being molded by officials who clearly exhibit no respect for life, no respect for anything, nor anyone.
We MUST end the farce. More importantly, we MUST end the delusion that our officials are serving us and our prodegy in any appreciably good way.
How can we have hope for a decent future for our families when our children are constantly subjected to such disdainful influences daily?
If we are to have lives worth living, for our loved ones, and for all future generations, we MUST do right, and we must do so immediately.
To do otherwise is not just failing ourselves, it is failing our children, and all the young ones evermore. It is imperative that we act to correct this horrid situation. It is critical to all civilization and the world that WE act in the best interest of our children, our families, and our nation.
And, YES, it is even more important than going to work each day for the mega-corporation that supposedly 'gives' you that paycheck...
Surely you have some skill, some talent that can be better used to provide support and a healthier environment for your family.
It is time to come together with our neighbors, friends and family and see to it that the life we all believe is possible manifests according to our hearts' standard.
That would be acting in the best interest of our children.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Dhimmitude -- What does it mean? And what does it mean to You?
This is from an email I received. Thought you'd want to know about this.
Dhimmitude -- What does it mean?
Dhimmitude -- What does it mean?
Obama used it in the health care bill.
Now isn't this interesting? It is used in the health care law.
Dhimmitude -- I had never heard the word until now. Type it into Google and start reading. Pretty interesting. It's on page 107 of the healthcare bill. I looked this up on Google and yep, it exists.. It is a REAL word.
Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non-Muslim populations conquered through jihad. Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-Muslims in exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered remnants to Islam.
ObamaCare allows the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia Muslim diktat in the United States . Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be "gambling", "risk-taking", and "usury" and is thus banned. Muslims are specifically granted exemption based on this.
How convenient. So Christians and others will have crippling IRS liens placed against all of their assets, including real estate, cattle, and even accounts receivables, and will face hard prison time because Ithey may have to refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty tax because they CANNOT AFFORD either!. Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan will have no such penalty and will have 100% of his health needs paid for by the de facto government insurance. Non-Muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize Muslims. This is Dhimmitude.
It is recommended that you send this onto your contacts. American people need to know about it.
Friday, July 1, 2011
This Moment Is What You Have- What Will You Do With It?
Reflecting on all that is happening in our world today, it is critical that we be aware of our effect.
This is directed to everyone. It may be easier to understand by those who accept that we are not here by chance- that perhaps there is some larger influence on our lives. Some may call this influence by various names, and for some, this influence holds a more 'logical' non-titled place or theoretical position*.
Indeed, the world is filled with many who seek to destroy, who are chained by greed and malice. However, there are an abundance of those who are not like that, and who have learned, or are learning, what our true role here is all about.
Chesed, or Hesed, may not be a word familiar to many. In the Bible, chesed meant living up to a covenantal responsibility. "The Torah is one of chesed, and Hillel summed up the Torah as not doing anything to anyone else that would be hurtful to yourself. Doing chesed brings peace and unity. Being a man or woman of chesed earns God's love because it is like teaching the entire Torah", (quoted from A Portion of Kindness by Rosally Saltsman, Partners In Kindness newsletter: http://www.partnersinkindness.org).
"The Solar Eclipse (the 3rd of 3 eclipses in a month), is on Friday July 1st at 1:54 AM PDT. A solar eclipse takes you to the deepest part of your being to help you re-evaluate priorities so you can make choices for the highest good of your soul's needs. The solar eclipse on June 1 was in mental Gemini, so it was a more quick moving, intellectual look at your life. This solar eclipse is in the sign Cancer, so rising to the surface are emotions, family, security and nurturing needs.
On one level, look at where you are being a caretaker in an over the top way. Do you need better boundaries with the people in your life? On another level, it is time to look at those people and activities in your life to decide where you are being nurtured vs where you are just passing time. It's time to be nurtured, be it with good friends and supportive family, or healthy food, time off, or other aspects of life that help you to feel whole.
There are several challenges associated with this eclipse because it activates a planetary pattern that will be around through 2015- Uranus square Pluto. Uranus wants a revolution right now, Pluto wants major, transforming change, and both want to go about it in different ways. We are already seeing this dynamic pattern in world politics, and it will be evident in USA Presidential elections next year. The better you are at allowing change in your life, the easier this will be.."
One thing to keep in mind....you ONLY have THIS moment.
How quickly did the life of someone you know change when their family member suddenly and unexpectedly died?
How quickly did that reported surveyor's life change the day he took a bike ride, fell in the river, and drowned?
We only have THIS moment.
An apology note is not the last thing someone wants to leave behind as a legacy of their life.
Nor is it the last thing the recipient wants to remember.
Nor would anyone want it to be the thing that never got the chance to be read or heard.
"Seeing is not Believing...Believing is Seeing".
*(for those of you who hold an atheist point of view, please understand that compassion, giving, kindness and love also have a place in your lives, and how you express and accept this love affects everything, whether or not you are aware of that or believe it).
May your heart be filled with Love and Blessings!
We- each one of us- never really knows exactly how much 'time' we have here. It is important to make those seconds and moments express what is in our deepest heart.
Let the anger go- it has no place in the realm of love. We are here to love. We are Not here to feel guilty, or regretful, resentful, or angry, or hateful. We are Children of God- like tender flowers, and God's love is our nourishment, so we may bloom to our fullest and show our beauty- pass on God's love by showing and giving ours.
We are here to give our love, and accept love from others.
I realize I am not very good at that myself, and am way too critical. Do not follow my path, for it is filled with pitholes. Follow your own. Cultivate kindness, patience and compassion. Do not be afraid to love. Do not withhold the love in your heart, for that expression of love, that smile, that hug, that moment of listening, or sharing, that deed, or kindness, or act of forgiveness may well be the last thing you do- we never know if it is, or not, really.
We only have this moment.
Express your heart, your love, as if it is the last thing you may ever do.
Life, and those around us can be challenging, difficult, and downright hard. Change is not easily embraced. We must learn from our surroundings- the planet and the seasons. They change. Sometimes the transitions are sudden and unexpected- like with a tornado, or earthequake. Other times, the changes are gradual. Either way, we, like the planet we inhabit, must adapt to those changes. In Biology, we learn that if a species cannot adapt, it becomes extinct.
People say Earth is solid, and firm, even stubborn. As a gardener, I find Earth pliable, easily changed, and the make-up of the soil changes constantly- by it's own will, as well as by 'outside' influences...a little rabbit dung, water, climate, earthworms, etc. all change the composition- these changes allow it to become pliable and productive, or hard and fragile. Like the Earth, we must give ourselves what we need.
If we need to be hard and fragile/breakable, we give ourselves little to no nourishment. If we want to be our best, then we must nourish ourselves with the best loving- giving and taking the best love has to offer. The traits of love are kindness, patience, gratitude, compassion- opening up our hearts to give and receive this love- God's Love- is all that is important in Life. The rest we don't remember- we don't take with us when we leave. Like the movement of blood keeps our body alive, the movement (the give and take) of Love keeps our Spirit alive.
Fill your heart with Love, and your life will soon reflect that. Give Love, and you will receive love. Accept love, and you will give love.
Metaphysically speaking, it is literally the Love that causes the motion in the Universe. This is why 'we' are so important. Every time the human race gets too much negativity going on, the planet starts to wobble radically- it becomes unstable- which affects the rest of the universe and everything in it- bad things start to happen.
When we are loving, things smooth out. It is a fact. Science has yet to account for the 'emotional state' of the humans, and what their actual role is, and how it affects the entire universe. Science is just now recognizing that our thoughts affect matter.
The words we say, the thoughts we think, and the things we do have a profound effect on All, not just humans. "Love makes the World Go Round" is not just a meaningless, sentimental saying- it is a known metaphysical cause-and-effect mechanism. It is The Truth, simply stated. Without Love, 'we' (as in the Universe) do not exist- because the motion would stop. One could look at it in this way: God is the spark- Love is the motion.
So, if you think Life is beautiful- if you have an appreciation for gorgeous sunsets and awesome sunrises, pretty flowers, soft breezes, nourishing rain, colorful rainbows, the smell of grass, the green of trees, the majesty of mountains, the crash of waves, the various lifeforms we share this planet with....LOVE. It is Life itself.
You don't have Time to waste being angry. (unless you are into destroying what was given to you by God).
Just remember the old adage, "Action speaks louder than Words" and you will see that notes, apologies, and the like are outweighed by our actions. (not to say we don't appreciate your saying you are sorry). It is just that we all remember another's actions- like that boy who was mean to you in school- which do you remember more? The mean acts, or the apology...the apology doesn't hold as much weight as the acts did.
The Golden Rule: Treat others as you would want to be treated. It is what the Torah speaks of- chesed. It is AS important as honoring your Heavenly Father and Mother. You honor them by loving- Do unto others as you would have done to you. These are not 'requests'- they are Commandments. God commanded us to follow these in exchange for the Gift of Life. If we accepted living- which obviously is the case, since we are here- then we are 'bound' to do what was/is required of us. Anything less is like telling God to go shove off, which may not be a very good idea...
The challenges and strife are simply there to get us to strive- to get us to act- to activate desire- to drive us to be better. Without them, we wouldn't do much, as we are prone to being complacent. We tend to get caught up in our own little micro-world. And we are a bit self-ish- we don't tend to do anything unless there is some tidbit in it for us- some feel-good factor involved. So we're sort of God's spoiled Children...
God has given us everything to make us happy- a beautiful place to live, free will, breathable air, drinkable water, abundant food, awesome scenery, a variety of interesting life-forms to interact with...and we still insist on wanting more without giving back proper gratitude, without sharing our love. Pretty rotten kids, us lot. (good thing God is more patient than we are).
Of course, since God already knows everything, there was a little glitch thrown in the mix. Learn to love or lose All life Everywhere. Rough choice.
Yet, we silly children keep testing that line- pushing that boundary- seeing just how far we can push the 'Old Man'- seeing just how many times we can mess with 'Ma Earth'...
Not a good choice, of course- but children always do that. And they never realize the seriousness until the damage is done; the plug is pulled. THEN, they MIGHT 'get it', and willingly change their course of action. THEN they MIGHT think of consequences before doing something.
WE are amazing children. We have been given the gift of healing- healing ourselves, healing others. We were given the ability to connect with the hearts and minds of everything and everyone we encounter. How we carry on here affects all - everyone, and every thing.
Do we really want to affect others negatively? Can we really change the damage we have already done? Are we really guaranteed that there will be a tomorrow?
These are questions we must consider carefully.
I struggle with these myself. When I heard that a fellow I had known had been murdered, there was little compassion in my heart- I thought about how he burned my little black kitten's feet years ago, and realized that his loss of life was no great loss to me- hardened heart. I realized I didn't care about 'paying my respects' to this murdered man. I did not think about the loss his children may be feeling. I only thought 'he got his just desserts'. Not very compassionate. I, too, have a lot to learn. He was, after all, also one of God's creations, and his family did not need to experience such a harsh scenario. He may have 'collected his karma', but that is no reason for me to be so cold. It would be more appropriate to feel bad- pity him- because he did not learn his lesson (to be loving and to accept love), and will have to return until he does learn it. He has not been set free, or forgiven. He cannot 'go home' until he has learned (for those who do not accept reincarnation as an option, he may have been sent to Hell- God may not have forgiven him for his ill deeds).
Everyone makes others feel good. Some by coming into our lives, and others by going away.
I don't want to be like that fellow, or so many others like him...I don't want to know people are glad to see me go away. I don't want it to be a scenario of ,"Boy, I'm glad they are finally gone!"
I would rather be someone they want to see- who they welcome openly. And smile.
Clearly, I have a long way to go as far as learning to love. And a long way to go to learn about accepting love.
If I know anything at all, it is that I have this moment. Now, I must learn to make it the BEST moment.
After all, the whole Universe is counting on each and every one of us learning to Love.
(and all this time, you thought you were not important. Nothing could be further from the truth)
Chesed literally means 'loving kindness'. However, hesed (the root of chesed) has a much narrower definition than the English word "love" conveys. In the Hebrew Scriptures, hesed refers to the kind of love that is promised and is owed- 'a mutual exchange of affection and loyalty based on mutual obligations' - love formed in the bonds of covenant. (the covenant between God and God's Children-[humankind]). Literally, Love in exchange for Life/ Life in exchange for Love. God provides Life, as long as we provide Love. God provides Love as long as we provide Life. The mutual exchange of affection and loyalty based on mutual obligation. (Love makes the world go round, literally) It is the glue that binds us. It is the 'cost' of living here.
It is through all our actions, all our thoughts and all our words that Love is expressed.
By doing so, we get our next breath.
Love is not just an emotion.
Love is a collection of actions.
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Love is the most pertinent and imperative thing we can do. Nothing else matters.
*(for those of you who hold an atheist point of view, please understand that compassion, giving, kindness and love also have a place in your lives, and how you express and accept this love affects everything, whether or not you are aware of that or believe it).
May your heart be filled with Love and Blessings!
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Once Again, We're Being Duped! Agenda 21 and what it Really means!
Professor Larry Bell has sent me a new article to post here. He has just recently published this elsewhere, as well (see link at bottom of article). Please be aware of what is going on- or has already happened!- in YOUR area, and understand what this Agenda 21 actually is hoping to firmly accomplish- all under the guise of 'sustainability' in our local communities. If you value your freedom, your lives, and everything you have worked for, everything our founders of this nation fought for....it is time to ACT!
I hope that all the people who read the article do comment, and that they begin to realize that this 'local' pushing of this UN Agenda is affecting all of us who believe in our Constitution and want a free country, unfettered by Global Governance. It is time for the people of our nation to stand up and demand our right to a free nation! Our control over our very lives is being extracted, inch by precious inch, under guise of being 'for our own good'- and it is an outrageous LIE.
I'm sure Most of you will see how your lives have been altered - and not for the better!- in the past decades. We are having less and less money in our pockets after sky-rocketing costs, many have lost their homes and savings, our children are being less and less educated, and we have less and less control over what is happening. We MUST stop hoping that things will get better, and WE MUST take the reins in hand. WE MUST show WHO is REALLY in control of our fate, our nation, and our future. Our leaders have forsaken us. It is up to YOU and ME, and the time is NOW.
Here is Larry's article:
"UN's Earth Summit has it's Head in the Clouds: Advancing Unsustainable Agenda 21 Developments in America".
Roughly 15 years after many “scientific experts” had warned about the arrival of another Ice Age, an estimated 35,000 government officials, diplomats, Non-Government Organization (NGO) activists and journalists from 178 countries attending a U.N.- sponsored 1992 Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, or “Earth Summit”) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, began to negotiate international agreements to counter a reverse climate threat. An observed shift to warming was seized upon as the basis for stabilizing “dangerous” anthropogenic (human-caused) greenhouse gases (principally CO2) at 1900 levels.
By that time they had already established a Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), and determined that “human activities have been substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gasses, that these increases enhance the natural greenhouse effect, and that this will result on average in the additional warming of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere and may adversely affect natural ecosystems and mankind.”
The Rio Earth Summit codified the U.N.’s central theme for the famous (or infamous) Kyoto Protocol, which the U.S. has refused to ratify. Along with the FCCC, which established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it also produced three other much lesser-known initiatives — the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the Statement of Forest Principles, The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, and Sustainable Development Agenda 21. The latter may ultimately prove over the long term to be most broadly influential of all.
Earth Summit chairman Maurice Strong left no doubt about where to place blame for global problems, stating in the conference report: “It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable…A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.”
Addressing the Summit audience, Strong also suggested a primary remedy, whereby: We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrialized civilization to collapse.” Former Senator Timothy Wirth, representing the Clinton-Gore administration as undersecretary of state for global affairs, stated that public concern about global warming could be used to advance that cause: “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” Wirth now heads the U.N. Foundation which has lobbied for hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help underdeveloped countries fight climate change.
The global warming rubric has served as an ideal platform to enable the U.N. to advance large philosophical visions, wealth redistribution agendas, and world governance goals under the banner of environmentalism. If this sounds a bit like conspiratorial paranoia, let’s review some words spoken by then-President Jacques Chirac of France in a 2000 speech supporting a key Western European Kyoto Protocol objective: “For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance, one that should find a place within the World Environment Organization which France and the European Union would like to see established.”
Former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev clearly recognized an opportunity to use climate alarmism to advance global socialistic Marxist objectives following the U.S.S.R.’s economic and political collapse. In 1996 he observed: “The threat of environmental crisis will be the international disaster key to unlock the New World Order.”
“Saving the planet” makes for a great cover story to conceal power and wealth redistribution that have no such laudable purpose as was witnessed at the 2009 Copenhagen Summit followed by Cancun in 2010. This organized movement really originated in the 1970s and early 1980s when Third World countries, by force of numbers, and European socialist green parties, through powers of aggressiveness, seized control of the U.N. and began calling for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) . Continuing goals are to transfer unfair wealth from the industrialized West to their majority; to establish global socialism; and to obtain postcolonial reparations for our past misdeeds.
Now, enter Sustainable Development Agenda 21 (or just Agenda 21). Realizing difficulties in getting some national governments – the U.S. in particular – to enact massive regulatory control over virtually all aspects of energy production and consumption, UNCED leaders launched a campaign to advance the same agenda through state and local initiatives. Since Agenda 21 was a “soft-law” policy recommendation, (not a treaty) it required no U.S. congressional authorization. President Clinton established a President’s council in 1993 on Sustainable Development by Executive Order for the specific purpose of implementing it in the U.S.
The Agenda 21 plan was hatched in 1990 through an NGO called the “International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives” (ICLEI). Its name was changed in 2003 to “ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability” to emphasize “local” and diminish concerns about “international” influence and associations with U.N. political and financial ties. The ICLEI’s are in most of our counties in the U.S.A. today.
That camouflage is pretty transparent. On its web page “ICLEI: Connecting Leaders” the organization explains that their networking strategy connects cities and local governments to the United Nations and other international bodies. In doing so it represents local governments at the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, the U.N.F.C.C.C. and U.N. Conventions on Biodiversity and Combating Desertification. It also cooperates with the U.N. Environment Programme and U.N.-HABITAT II Programme. Habitat II is the implementation plan for Agenda 21.
Agenda 21 envisions a global scheme for healthcare, education, nutrition, agriculture, labor, production, and consumption. A summary version titled AGENDA 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet (Earthpress, 1993), calls for “…a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced—a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources.” The report emphasizes that “This shift will demand a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.”
And don’t think for a moment that this will come about without lots of pain. As Al Gore stated in his 1993 book Earth in the Balance, sustainable development will bring about “a wrenching transformation” of American society. Come to think of it, he does appear a bit stressed lately – with all those big homes to sustain.
ICLEI’s web page states that its Local Agenda 21 [LA21] Model Communities Programme is “designed to aid local governments in implementing Chapter 28 of Agenda 21, the global action plan for sustainable development.” As Gary Lawrence, a planner for the city of Seattle and an advisor to the Clinton-Gore administration’s Council on Sustainable Development and to U.S. AID commented at a 1998 U.N. Environmental Development Forum in London titled “The Future of Local Agenda 21 in the New Millennium”, “In some cases, LA21 is seen as an attack on the power of the nation-state.” He went on to say, “Participating in a U.N. advocated planning process will very likely bring out many…who would work to defeat any elected official…undertaking Local Agenda 21 …So we will call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management or smart growth.”
And so they have. “Comprehensive planning”, “growth management” and “smart growth” (which is Agenda 21 with a new name). All mean pretty much the same thing… centralized control of virtually every aspect of urban life: energy and water use, housing stock and allocation, population levels, public health and dietary regimens, resources and recycling, “social justice” and education.
Richard Rothschild, a candidate for Carroll County commissioner in Maryland, described reasons to stave off smart growth overreach initiatives there: “Smart growth is not science; it is political dogma combined with an insidious dose of social engineering… It urbanizes rural towns with high-density development, and gerrymanders population centers through the use of housing initiatives that enable people with weak patterns of personal financial responsibility to acquire homes in higher-income areas…shifting the voting patterns of rural communities from Right to Left.”
Every county in America now has sustainable development directives guided by federal agencies, NGOs, and/or the ICLEI. ICLEI-USA claims that its official members consistently rank among the greenest cities and “…have led the effort in recent years to envision, accelerate and achieve strong climate protection goals, creating cleaner, healthier, more economically viable communities.” More than 130 of those members are California counties and cities. They include all major metro areas — Los Angeles, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, San Diego, and San Francisco — as well as smaller communities from Alameda to Yountville. So much for influences on economic viability!
And as for goals of “sustainability”, what, according to the ICLEI definition, does this term actually mean? Former Earth Summit chair, now president of the UN’s University for Peace council Maurice Strong provided an answer in the forward he wrote for the Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide published by ICLEI, the International Development Research Center (IDRC) and U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1996. “The realities of life on our planet dictate that continued economic development as we know it cannot be sustained…Sustainable development, therefore, is a program of action for local and global economic reform- a program that has yet to be defined.”
In other words, it means whatever the United Nations ultimately decides is best for all of us.
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Are YOU paying attention yet?
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I hope that all the people who read the article do comment, and that they begin to realize that this 'local' pushing of this UN Agenda is affecting all of us who believe in our Constitution and want a free country, unfettered by Global Governance. It is time for the people of our nation to stand up and demand our right to a free nation! Our control over our very lives is being extracted, inch by precious inch, under guise of being 'for our own good'- and it is an outrageous LIE.
I'm sure Most of you will see how your lives have been altered - and not for the better!- in the past decades. We are having less and less money in our pockets after sky-rocketing costs, many have lost their homes and savings, our children are being less and less educated, and we have less and less control over what is happening. We MUST stop hoping that things will get better, and WE MUST take the reins in hand. WE MUST show WHO is REALLY in control of our fate, our nation, and our future. Our leaders have forsaken us. It is up to YOU and ME, and the time is NOW.
Here is Larry's article:
"UN's Earth Summit has it's Head in the Clouds: Advancing Unsustainable Agenda 21 Developments in America".
Roughly 15 years after many “scientific experts” had warned about the arrival of another Ice Age, an estimated 35,000 government officials, diplomats, Non-Government Organization (NGO) activists and journalists from 178 countries attending a U.N.- sponsored 1992 Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED, or “Earth Summit”) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, began to negotiate international agreements to counter a reverse climate threat. An observed shift to warming was seized upon as the basis for stabilizing “dangerous” anthropogenic (human-caused) greenhouse gases (principally CO2) at 1900 levels.
By that time they had already established a Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), and determined that “human activities have been substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gasses, that these increases enhance the natural greenhouse effect, and that this will result on average in the additional warming of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere and may adversely affect natural ecosystems and mankind.”
The Rio Earth Summit codified the U.N.’s central theme for the famous (or infamous) Kyoto Protocol, which the U.S. has refused to ratify. Along with the FCCC, which established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it also produced three other much lesser-known initiatives — the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the Statement of Forest Principles, The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, and Sustainable Development Agenda 21. The latter may ultimately prove over the long term to be most broadly influential of all.
Earth Summit chairman Maurice Strong left no doubt about where to place blame for global problems, stating in the conference report: “It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class…involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, ownership of motor vehicles, golf courses, small electric appliances, home and work place air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable…A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.”
Addressing the Summit audience, Strong also suggested a primary remedy, whereby: We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrialized civilization to collapse.” Former Senator Timothy Wirth, representing the Clinton-Gore administration as undersecretary of state for global affairs, stated that public concern about global warming could be used to advance that cause: “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” Wirth now heads the U.N. Foundation which has lobbied for hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help underdeveloped countries fight climate change.
The global warming rubric has served as an ideal platform to enable the U.N. to advance large philosophical visions, wealth redistribution agendas, and world governance goals under the banner of environmentalism. If this sounds a bit like conspiratorial paranoia, let’s review some words spoken by then-President Jacques Chirac of France in a 2000 speech supporting a key Western European Kyoto Protocol objective: “For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance, one that should find a place within the World Environment Organization which France and the European Union would like to see established.”
Former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev clearly recognized an opportunity to use climate alarmism to advance global socialistic Marxist objectives following the U.S.S.R.’s economic and political collapse. In 1996 he observed: “The threat of environmental crisis will be the international disaster key to unlock the New World Order.”
“Saving the planet” makes for a great cover story to conceal power and wealth redistribution that have no such laudable purpose as was witnessed at the 2009 Copenhagen Summit followed by Cancun in 2010. This organized movement really originated in the 1970s and early 1980s when Third World countries, by force of numbers, and European socialist green parties, through powers of aggressiveness, seized control of the U.N. and began calling for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) . Continuing goals are to transfer unfair wealth from the industrialized West to their majority; to establish global socialism; and to obtain postcolonial reparations for our past misdeeds.
Now, enter Sustainable Development Agenda 21 (or just Agenda 21). Realizing difficulties in getting some national governments – the U.S. in particular – to enact massive regulatory control over virtually all aspects of energy production and consumption, UNCED leaders launched a campaign to advance the same agenda through state and local initiatives. Since Agenda 21 was a “soft-law” policy recommendation, (not a treaty) it required no U.S. congressional authorization. President Clinton established a President’s council in 1993 on Sustainable Development by Executive Order for the specific purpose of implementing it in the U.S.
The Agenda 21 plan was hatched in 1990 through an NGO called the “International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives” (ICLEI). Its name was changed in 2003 to “ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability” to emphasize “local” and diminish concerns about “international” influence and associations with U.N. political and financial ties. The ICLEI’s are in most of our counties in the U.S.A. today.
That camouflage is pretty transparent. On its web page “ICLEI: Connecting Leaders” the organization explains that their networking strategy connects cities and local governments to the United Nations and other international bodies. In doing so it represents local governments at the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, the U.N.F.C.C.C. and U.N. Conventions on Biodiversity and Combating Desertification. It also cooperates with the U.N. Environment Programme and U.N.-HABITAT II Programme. Habitat II is the implementation plan for Agenda 21.
Agenda 21 envisions a global scheme for healthcare, education, nutrition, agriculture, labor, production, and consumption. A summary version titled AGENDA 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet (Earthpress, 1993), calls for “…a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced—a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources.” The report emphasizes that “This shift will demand a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.”
And don’t think for a moment that this will come about without lots of pain. As Al Gore stated in his 1993 book Earth in the Balance, sustainable development will bring about “a wrenching transformation” of American society. Come to think of it, he does appear a bit stressed lately – with all those big homes to sustain.
ICLEI’s web page states that its Local Agenda 21 [LA21] Model Communities Programme is “designed to aid local governments in implementing Chapter 28 of Agenda 21, the global action plan for sustainable development.” As Gary Lawrence, a planner for the city of Seattle and an advisor to the Clinton-Gore administration’s Council on Sustainable Development and to U.S. AID commented at a 1998 U.N. Environmental Development Forum in London titled “The Future of Local Agenda 21 in the New Millennium”, “In some cases, LA21 is seen as an attack on the power of the nation-state.” He went on to say, “Participating in a U.N. advocated planning process will very likely bring out many…who would work to defeat any elected official…undertaking Local Agenda 21 …So we will call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management or smart growth.”
And so they have. “Comprehensive planning”, “growth management” and “smart growth” (which is Agenda 21 with a new name). All mean pretty much the same thing… centralized control of virtually every aspect of urban life: energy and water use, housing stock and allocation, population levels, public health and dietary regimens, resources and recycling, “social justice” and education.
Richard Rothschild, a candidate for Carroll County commissioner in Maryland, described reasons to stave off smart growth overreach initiatives there: “Smart growth is not science; it is political dogma combined with an insidious dose of social engineering… It urbanizes rural towns with high-density development, and gerrymanders population centers through the use of housing initiatives that enable people with weak patterns of personal financial responsibility to acquire homes in higher-income areas…shifting the voting patterns of rural communities from Right to Left.”
Every county in America now has sustainable development directives guided by federal agencies, NGOs, and/or the ICLEI. ICLEI-USA claims that its official members consistently rank among the greenest cities and “…have led the effort in recent years to envision, accelerate and achieve strong climate protection goals, creating cleaner, healthier, more economically viable communities.” More than 130 of those members are California counties and cities. They include all major metro areas — Los Angeles, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, San Diego, and San Francisco — as well as smaller communities from Alameda to Yountville. So much for influences on economic viability!
And as for goals of “sustainability”, what, according to the ICLEI definition, does this term actually mean? Former Earth Summit chair, now president of the UN’s University for Peace council Maurice Strong provided an answer in the forward he wrote for the Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide published by ICLEI, the International Development Research Center (IDRC) and U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1996. “The realities of life on our planet dictate that continued economic development as we know it cannot be sustained…Sustainable development, therefore, is a program of action for local and global economic reform- a program that has yet to be defined.”
In other words, it means whatever the United Nations ultimately decides is best for all of us.
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Friday, June 10, 2011
U.N. Agreement Should Have All Gun Owners Up In Arms
PLEASE TELL YOUR SENATORS TO VOTE NO!!!
The following article is reprinted with the gracious permission of the author, Dr. Larry Bell:
What, exactly, does the intended agreement entail?
While the terms have yet to be made public, if passed by the U.N. and ratified by our Senate, it will almost certainly force the U.S. to:
More from contributor Larry Bell
Although professing to support the Second Amendment during her presidential election bid, Hillary Clinton is not generally known as a gun rights enthusiast. She has been a long-time activist for federal firearms licensing and registration, and a vigorous opponent of state Right-to-Carry laws. As a New York senator she ranked among the National Rifle Association’s worst “F”-rated gun banners who voted to support the sort of gunpoint disarmament that marked New Orleans’ rogue police actions against law-abiding gun owners in the anarchistic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
President Obama’s record on citizen gun rights doesn’t reflect much advocacy either. Consider for example his appointment of anti-gun rights former Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels as an alternate U.S. representative to the U.N., and his choice of Andrew Traver who has worked to terminate civilian ownership of so-called “assault rifles” (another prejudicially meaningless gun term) to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Then, in a move unprecedented in American history, the Obama administration quietly banned the re-importation and sale of 850,000 collectable antique U.S.-manufactured M1 Garand and Carbine rifles that were left in South Korea following the Korean War. Developed in the 1930s, the venerable M1 Garand carried the U.S. through World War II, seeing action in every major battle.
As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama was an aggressive advocate for expanding gun control laws, and even voted against legislation giving gun owners an affirmative defense when they use firearms to defend themselves and their families against home invaders and burglars. He also served on a 10-member board of directors of the radically activist anti-gun Joyce Foundation in Chicago during a period between 1998-2001when it contributed $18,326,183 in grants to anti-Second Amendment organizations.
If someone breaks into your home when you are there, which would you prefer to have close at hand: 1) a telephone to call 911, or 2) a loaded gun of respectable caliber? That’s a pretty easy question for me to answer. I am a long-time NRA member, concealed firearms license holder and a regular weekly recreational pistol shooter. And while I don’t ordinarily care to target anything that has a mother, will reluctantly make an exception should an urgent provocation arise. I also happen to enjoy the company of friends who hunt, as well as those, like myself, who share an abiding interest in American history and the firearms that influenced it.
There are many like me, and fewer of them would be alive today were it not for exercise of their gun rights. In fact law-abiding citizens in America used guns in self-defense 2.5 million times during 1993 (about 6,850 times per day), and actually shot and killed 2 1/2 times as many criminals as police did (1,527 to 606). Those civilian self-defense shootings resulted in less than 1/5th as many incidents as police where an innocent person was mistakenly identified as a criminal (2% versus 11%).
Just how effectively have gun bans worked to make citizens safer in other countries? Take the number of home break-ins while residents are present as an indication. In Canada and Britain, both with tough gun-control laws, nearly half of all burglaries occur when residents are present. But in the U.S. where many households are armed, only about 13% happen when someone is home.
Recognizing clear statistical benefit evidence, 41 states now allow competent, law-abiding adults to carry permitted or permit-exempt concealed handguns. As a result, crime rates in those states have typically fallen at least 10% in the year following enactment.
So the majority in our Senate is smart enough to realize that the U.N.’s gun-grab agenda is unconstitutional, politically suicidal for those who support it, and down-right idiotic—right? Let’s hope so, but not entirely count on it. While a few loyal Obama Democrats are truly “pro-gun”, many are loathe to vote against treaties that carry the president’s international prestige, causing him embarrassment.
Also, don’t forget that Senate confirmation of anti-gun Obama nominee Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Many within the few who voted against her did so only because of massive grassroots pressure from constituents who take their Constitutional protections very seriously.
Now, more than ever, it’s imperative to stick by our guns in demanding that all Constitutional rights be preserved. If not, we will surely lose both.
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PLEASE uphold our Constitution! Contact your Senator, and demand that a NO vote is made on the Small Arms Treaty! The SOONER YOU do this, the better!
The following article is reprinted with the gracious permission of the author, Dr. Larry Bell:
U.N. Agreement Should Have All Gun Owners Up In Arms
It may not come as surprising news to many of you that the United Nations doesn’t approve of our Second Amendment. Not one bit. And they very much hope to do something about it with help from some powerful American friends. Under the guise of a proposed global “Small Arms Treaty” premised to fight “terrorism”, “insurgency” and “international crime syndicates” you can be quite certain that an even more insidious threat is being targeted – our Constitutional right for law-abiding citizens to own and bear arms.What, exactly, does the intended agreement entail?
While the terms have yet to be made public, if passed by the U.N. and ratified by our Senate, it will almost certainly force the U.S. to:
- Enact tougher licensing requirements, creating additional bureaucratic red tape for legal firearms ownership.
- Confiscate and destroy all “unauthorized” civilian firearms (exempting those owned by our government of course).
- Ban the trade, sale and private ownership of all semi-automatic weapons (any that have magazines even though they still operate in the same one trigger pull – one single “bang” manner as revolvers, a simple fact the ant-gun media never seem to grasp).
- Create an international gun registry, clearly setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.
- In short, overriding our national sovereignty, and in the process, providing license for the federal government to assert preemptive powers over state regulatory powers guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment in addition to our Second Amendment rights
More from contributor Larry Bell
Although professing to support the Second Amendment during her presidential election bid, Hillary Clinton is not generally known as a gun rights enthusiast. She has been a long-time activist for federal firearms licensing and registration, and a vigorous opponent of state Right-to-Carry laws. As a New York senator she ranked among the National Rifle Association’s worst “F”-rated gun banners who voted to support the sort of gunpoint disarmament that marked New Orleans’ rogue police actions against law-abiding gun owners in the anarchistic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
President Obama’s record on citizen gun rights doesn’t reflect much advocacy either. Consider for example his appointment of anti-gun rights former Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels as an alternate U.S. representative to the U.N., and his choice of Andrew Traver who has worked to terminate civilian ownership of so-called “assault rifles” (another prejudicially meaningless gun term) to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Then, in a move unprecedented in American history, the Obama administration quietly banned the re-importation and sale of 850,000 collectable antique U.S.-manufactured M1 Garand and Carbine rifles that were left in South Korea following the Korean War. Developed in the 1930s, the venerable M1 Garand carried the U.S. through World War II, seeing action in every major battle.
As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama was an aggressive advocate for expanding gun control laws, and even voted against legislation giving gun owners an affirmative defense when they use firearms to defend themselves and their families against home invaders and burglars. He also served on a 10-member board of directors of the radically activist anti-gun Joyce Foundation in Chicago during a period between 1998-2001when it contributed $18,326,183 in grants to anti-Second Amendment organizations.
If someone breaks into your home when you are there, which would you prefer to have close at hand: 1) a telephone to call 911, or 2) a loaded gun of respectable caliber? That’s a pretty easy question for me to answer. I am a long-time NRA member, concealed firearms license holder and a regular weekly recreational pistol shooter. And while I don’t ordinarily care to target anything that has a mother, will reluctantly make an exception should an urgent provocation arise. I also happen to enjoy the company of friends who hunt, as well as those, like myself, who share an abiding interest in American history and the firearms that influenced it.
There are many like me, and fewer of them would be alive today were it not for exercise of their gun rights. In fact law-abiding citizens in America used guns in self-defense 2.5 million times during 1993 (about 6,850 times per day), and actually shot and killed 2 1/2 times as many criminals as police did (1,527 to 606). Those civilian self-defense shootings resulted in less than 1/5th as many incidents as police where an innocent person was mistakenly identified as a criminal (2% versus 11%).
Just how effectively have gun bans worked to make citizens safer in other countries? Take the number of home break-ins while residents are present as an indication. In Canada and Britain, both with tough gun-control laws, nearly half of all burglaries occur when residents are present. But in the U.S. where many households are armed, only about 13% happen when someone is home.
Recognizing clear statistical benefit evidence, 41 states now allow competent, law-abiding adults to carry permitted or permit-exempt concealed handguns. As a result, crime rates in those states have typically fallen at least 10% in the year following enactment.
So the majority in our Senate is smart enough to realize that the U.N.’s gun-grab agenda is unconstitutional, politically suicidal for those who support it, and down-right idiotic—right? Let’s hope so, but not entirely count on it. While a few loyal Obama Democrats are truly “pro-gun”, many are loathe to vote against treaties that carry the president’s international prestige, causing him embarrassment.
Also, don’t forget that Senate confirmation of anti-gun Obama nominee Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Many within the few who voted against her did so only because of massive grassroots pressure from constituents who take their Constitutional protections very seriously.
Now, more than ever, it’s imperative to stick by our guns in demanding that all Constitutional rights be preserved. If not, we will surely lose both.
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PLEASE uphold our Constitution! Contact your Senator, and demand that a NO vote is made on the Small Arms Treaty! The SOONER YOU do this, the better!
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Crisis
I believe that this crisis was caused many, many years before the 1965 legislative action took place. It was the consequence of the decisions made at the turn of the last century by those who were in 'control' at that time. You will find my added notes, along with other remarks from other readers, following the article that Mr. Wooldridge has so graciously allowed me to reprint:
The Tragedy of Detroit, Michigan, immigration and the Great Society
By Frosty Wooldridge
Detroit, Michigan: created by “The Great Society” of Lyndon Baines Johnson of unlimited welfare
(Frosty Wooldridge is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler)
By Frosty Wooldridge
For 15 years, from the mid 1970's to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan . I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash everywhere!
Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!
With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.
A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's 'Great Society' flourish in Detroit . If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing
Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America, outside of Richard Daley in Chicago, rode Detroit down to its knees... He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant "in charge".
You can figure out the rest.
Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.
As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.
Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan, but most work in Detroit. As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.
As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife! Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America .
Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC's Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America. English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.
Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC's Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America. English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.
Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. In Time Magazine's October 4, 2009, "The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell, and how it can rise again," I choked on the writer's description of what happened. "If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about it," said Daniel Okrent. "If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we'd see it on the evening news every night." Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.
But Detroit, once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.
Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making."
Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making."
As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kickbacks and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city's death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit .
"By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit 's treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services," Okrent said. "The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans , unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit today, the unemployment rate is 28.9%. That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent.
At the end of Okrent's report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said, "That's because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city's collapse, it's also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century
If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can't find a way to get up, what does that say about America’s future?"
As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner's book,"$20 Per Gallon", the auto industry won't come back. Immigration will keep pouring more and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit , thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America . If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit . Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.
You have already seen it in Madrid, Spain, London, England and Paris, France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country and way of life.
I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON'T STAND UP, AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON , AND OUR STATE, CITY AND LOCAL LEADERS THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA . IF YOU THINK MEXICANS AND MUSLIMS AND OTHER FORIEGNERS WILL EVENTUALLY FIT RIGHT IN THEN YOU HAVE ANOTHER REALITY COMING.
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." --Benjamin Franklin
(the following are comments from this reader):
The original email I received that attached Mr. Wooldridges' article had this as its closing comment (words in blue are this reader's addition):
"I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON'T STAND UP, AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON , AND OUR STATE, CITY AND LOCAL LEADERS THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA . IF YOU THINK MEXICANS,ASIANS AND MUSLIMS AND ASIANS WILL EVENTUALLY FIT RIGHT IN THEN, YOU ARE AS BIG A PART OF THE PROBLEM AS THEY ARE"..
The original email I received that attached Mr. Wooldridges' article had this as its closing comment (words in blue are this reader's addition):
"I PRAY EVERYONE THAT READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON'T STAND UP, AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON , AND OUR STATE, CITY AND LOCAL LEADERS THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA . IF YOU THINK MEXICANS,ASIANS AND MUSLIMS AND ASIANS WILL EVENTUALLY FIT RIGHT IN THEN, YOU ARE AS BIG A PART OF THE PROBLEM AS THEY ARE"..
(these comments are from other readers of the article):
IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I'M SORRY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO STAND AND FIGHT FOR AMERICA - A COUNTRY SO GREAT, THAT SHE ONCE STOOD AS THE MANUFACTURING CENTER OF THE WORLD. SHE WAS PROUD OF HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO LIVE. SHE IS NOW BEING RAVISHED AND TURNING INTO GHETTOS, ALL BECAUSE OF THE ILL DECISIONS OF OUR LEADERS. LEADERS WHO LIE, AND ARE ARROGANT, AND WHO HAVE LITERALLY PUT OUR GREAT NATION ON THE PATH OF DESTRUCTION, ALONG WITH THESE POWER MONGERING CONTROL FREAKS. IT IS TIME TO RID OURSELVES OF THESE LEECHES, ONCE AND FOR ALL!
IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I'M SORRY. I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO STAND AND FIGHT FOR AMERICA - A COUNTRY SO GREAT, THAT SHE ONCE STOOD AS THE MANUFACTURING CENTER OF THE WORLD. SHE WAS PROUD OF HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO LIVE. SHE IS NOW BEING RAVISHED AND TURNING INTO GHETTOS, ALL BECAUSE OF THE ILL DECISIONS OF OUR LEADERS. LEADERS WHO LIE, AND ARE ARROGANT, AND WHO HAVE LITERALLY PUT OUR GREAT NATION ON THE PATH OF DESTRUCTION, ALONG WITH THESE POWER MONGERING CONTROL FREAKS. IT IS TIME TO RID OURSELVES OF THESE LEECHES, ONCE AND FOR ALL!
PS. Detroit is only 700 miles from Quebec.......
(comments below from this reader):
(comments below from this reader):
This is what has happened to the infamous Motor City, once one of the greatest manufacturing centers of the world.
Why? How? Because we TRUSTED a few men - men who have corrupted our country. Men who have bought our leaders, and repeatedly lied to us. Men who are not American, in any sense of the word. They belong to no country. They may have started companies here, but as soon as the working people figured out they were being used, and being lied to, they 'disappeared', and now base their overly-wealthy mega-conglomerate companies elsewhere. These men play with countries as if these countries and all the inhabitants were Chess pieces- and the common people- the ones who have always made nations great- are their pawns.
Why? How? Because we TRUSTED a few men - men who have corrupted our country. Men who have bought our leaders, and repeatedly lied to us. Men who are not American, in any sense of the word. They belong to no country. They may have started companies here, but as soon as the working people figured out they were being used, and being lied to, they 'disappeared', and now base their overly-wealthy mega-conglomerate companies elsewhere. These men play with countries as if these countries and all the inhabitants were Chess pieces- and the common people- the ones who have always made nations great- are their pawns.
These men have done this same thing to every country they have engaged in their game. They strip the country of its cultural heritage, its values, its economy, all the while polluting and poisoning the hearts, bodies, minds, and souls of the countrymen. Once they have infiltrated a country, claiming they are American companies, they substitute once great products with shoddy ones. They de-educate the young, disrespect our elders, and try to impress upon us that what they offer is far better than what we had.
We have seen this happen to many countries in this past century. It is time we take back what we all worked for. It is time to oust these leeches, and take away from them the profits they have gotten at our expense. It is time to heal. It is time we helped our fellow nations recover from their devastation, and time we healed ourselves. America, the Great, did not get that way from the labor of these leeches- she got greatness from the labor and love of her countrymen- the common working people. And it will be the common working people who will be the ones who save their country. It will be them, also, who reach out to help to restore their neighbors who also have suffered at the hands of the controlling, greed-driven few.
The cultural diversity offered by countless nations cannot be stripped away without a loss to every one of us. None of us can be homogenized without great loss to all of us.
WE must step up to the plate. WE must do whatever is necessary. WE must, once again, become great. We MUST, once again, BECOME SELF-RELIANT, and we must assist all the other countries to become self-reliant, if they want our help. We are not alone - this has also happened to our neighbors, and it was stamped in the name of America, even though most countrymen had no idea of the diabolical agenda of these few controlling entities.
We can no longer rely on goods and services from those whose only agenda is to destroy what we all value so highly.
The illegal immigrants who refuse to integrate into and adopt a country's ways are the result of these power players crippling the country- and they, too, think that this destruction will not happen to them. They, too, mistakenly think that they will be able to control their environment if they allow these power mongers to assist them. They are being deluded, just as we all have been.
We MUST insist that these illegals GO HOME and work out own their country's problem, and we MUST work out ours. If they choose not to adopt the ways and culture of their adopted country, and they do not integrate, then they need to go home. Once we get our own country back on track, then we can assist other countries get self-reliant and reclaim their own culture if they want our help.
We have seen this happen to many countries in this past century. It is time we take back what we all worked for. It is time to oust these leeches, and take away from them the profits they have gotten at our expense. It is time to heal. It is time we helped our fellow nations recover from their devastation, and time we healed ourselves. America, the Great, did not get that way from the labor of these leeches- she got greatness from the labor and love of her countrymen- the common working people. And it will be the common working people who will be the ones who save their country. It will be them, also, who reach out to help to restore their neighbors who also have suffered at the hands of the controlling, greed-driven few.
The cultural diversity offered by countless nations cannot be stripped away without a loss to every one of us. None of us can be homogenized without great loss to all of us.
WE must step up to the plate. WE must do whatever is necessary. WE must, once again, become great. We MUST, once again, BECOME SELF-RELIANT, and we must assist all the other countries to become self-reliant, if they want our help. We are not alone - this has also happened to our neighbors, and it was stamped in the name of America, even though most countrymen had no idea of the diabolical agenda of these few controlling entities.
We can no longer rely on goods and services from those whose only agenda is to destroy what we all value so highly.
The illegal immigrants who refuse to integrate into and adopt a country's ways are the result of these power players crippling the country- and they, too, think that this destruction will not happen to them. They, too, mistakenly think that they will be able to control their environment if they allow these power mongers to assist them. They are being deluded, just as we all have been.
We MUST insist that these illegals GO HOME and work out own their country's problem, and we MUST work out ours. If they choose not to adopt the ways and culture of their adopted country, and they do not integrate, then they need to go home. Once we get our own country back on track, then we can assist other countries get self-reliant and reclaim their own culture if they want our help.
We can no longer be a dumping ground for those who wish to destroy us.
It is time to STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR WHAT WE ALL HAVE WORKED SO HARD FOR. IT IS TIME TO RID OURSELVES OF THE REAL CAUSE OF THESE PROBLEMS. It is not the workers nor the common countrymen; it is not our form of government that is at the seat of the problem. We know what is at the root, and we WILL rid ourselves of this death grip. LET US STAND TOGETHER NOW AND HEAL.
It is our responsibility, our choice, and our duty.
Lest we forget....WE ARE THE MAJORITY. IT IS OUR COUNTRY, AND WE WILL SUCCEED!
It is time to STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR WHAT WE ALL HAVE WORKED SO HARD FOR. IT IS TIME TO RID OURSELVES OF THE REAL CAUSE OF THESE PROBLEMS. It is not the workers nor the common countrymen; it is not our form of government that is at the seat of the problem. We know what is at the root, and we WILL rid ourselves of this death grip. LET US STAND TOGETHER NOW AND HEAL.
It is our responsibility, our choice, and our duty.
Lest we forget....WE ARE THE MAJORITY. IT IS OUR COUNTRY, AND WE WILL SUCCEED!
Friday, May 6, 2011
Demand Your Rights Back!
At this crucial time in America, it is more important than ever to demand your rights back. The government will use the killing of Bin Laden as further excuse to keep pouring our hard-earned money into military causes, and keep our rights on hold, issuing new threats from various quarters.
Anyone with a lick of sense will see that this was orchestrated to KEEP squashing American rights, and will also KNOW that a Free Nation is best defended by people who are free to defend themselves. That, after all, was what our Forefathers intended. Who better to protect ourselves than our selves?
It is more important now that we assert ourselves, and demand ALL of our rights back. Otherwise, we subject ourselves to more and more campaigns that strip us of our rights even further, ultimately leading to total submission. It is past time to rally together and make it very clear that we have had enough of all the hoopla involved with stripping us of our rights. A nation that is strong and free is one where the PEOPLE have the power- the power to decide, the power to defend, and the power to lead us, as a whole, in the direction that is important to the people.
Let us turn our attention to getting our rights back, stabilizing our economy, providing jobs and homes for our people. Let us turn our attention to developing worthy energy sources, and food sources, medicines and useful products that are free of harmful ingredients. Let us be a true leader nation for the world to emulate.
Demand your rights back NOW! Otherwise, we will face endless wars, thousands of more lives lost, more and more rights lost, and will ultimately be lead to slaughter.
Stand up, America! We CAN, and MUST get our rights back NOW!
Anyone with a lick of sense will see that this was orchestrated to KEEP squashing American rights, and will also KNOW that a Free Nation is best defended by people who are free to defend themselves. That, after all, was what our Forefathers intended. Who better to protect ourselves than our selves?
It is more important now that we assert ourselves, and demand ALL of our rights back. Otherwise, we subject ourselves to more and more campaigns that strip us of our rights even further, ultimately leading to total submission. It is past time to rally together and make it very clear that we have had enough of all the hoopla involved with stripping us of our rights. A nation that is strong and free is one where the PEOPLE have the power- the power to decide, the power to defend, and the power to lead us, as a whole, in the direction that is important to the people.
Let us turn our attention to getting our rights back, stabilizing our economy, providing jobs and homes for our people. Let us turn our attention to developing worthy energy sources, and food sources, medicines and useful products that are free of harmful ingredients. Let us be a true leader nation for the world to emulate.
Demand your rights back NOW! Otherwise, we will face endless wars, thousands of more lives lost, more and more rights lost, and will ultimately be lead to slaughter.
Stand up, America! We CAN, and MUST get our rights back NOW!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Are WE really in control of our lives?
We think we are making our own independent choices when it comes to running our lives, but maybe that is really not the case. Maybe there are those who have made a study of how colors and images, etc. effect what choices we make. For example, red and yellow compel a person to buy. Did you ever notice that the best selling brands in the grocery stores have red and yellow packaging? Somehow, I doubt this is coincidental.
Other consumer items, like cars or cosmetics, are sold by using an image, placing people in the hopeful delusion that we will be viewed like that specific image or prestige or beauty. A lot of these choices we are making are triggered by manipulative tools designed to make us, unbeknowst to us even, purchase said items.
This manipulation or controlling, if you will, is rampart within our lives and ranges anywhere from products and services, political choices, and basically any area of our lives we care to fully examine.
Why would anyone go to that much trouble to assure we behave in certain ways? Good question! Perhaps it boils down to control and power. And just who are these power mongers? Perhaps they are the same people, who throughout history, have always maintained control of the populace. Perhaps nothing has changed, other than the controllers have achieved new levels, new methods of controlling.
It seems as if the only chance one has to attain a state of freedom is to be entirely self-reliant. Notice the word 'chance'. Those in control do not take kindly to those who are not complying with their wishes, and one must acknowledge and be aware of that.
We can educate our own selves and our children. We can figure out independent means for transportation, livelihood, and sustenance, etc. It takes a bit of courage to face the odds that are present today to be self-reliant, yet it is the only option for those who wish to live free.
Other consumer items, like cars or cosmetics, are sold by using an image, placing people in the hopeful delusion that we will be viewed like that specific image or prestige or beauty. A lot of these choices we are making are triggered by manipulative tools designed to make us, unbeknowst to us even, purchase said items.
This manipulation or controlling, if you will, is rampart within our lives and ranges anywhere from products and services, political choices, and basically any area of our lives we care to fully examine.
Why would anyone go to that much trouble to assure we behave in certain ways? Good question! Perhaps it boils down to control and power. And just who are these power mongers? Perhaps they are the same people, who throughout history, have always maintained control of the populace. Perhaps nothing has changed, other than the controllers have achieved new levels, new methods of controlling.
It seems as if the only chance one has to attain a state of freedom is to be entirely self-reliant. Notice the word 'chance'. Those in control do not take kindly to those who are not complying with their wishes, and one must acknowledge and be aware of that.
We can educate our own selves and our children. We can figure out independent means for transportation, livelihood, and sustenance, etc. It takes a bit of courage to face the odds that are present today to be self-reliant, yet it is the only option for those who wish to live free.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
PRIVACY Non-existent with Your IPhone
In the London Guardian newspaper is something you might want to be aware of concerning privacy.
IPhone keeps record of everywhere you go:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-tracking-prompts-privacy-fears
Please read the entire article.
I am not sure WHY Apple has done this, but it certainly is a dangerous feature since nearly anyone can access your whereabouts- and not just where you are at the moment. According to the article, this locational information can track every place you've been or will go for up to a year. Is this REALLY something you'd want others to access?
It is not just the IPhone, but Apple computers, IPad, etc. and who knows how many other companies will want to do the same? The biggest issue, besides the obvious one of privacy, is that they do NOT have an 'opt-out' option available.
I'm not sure about you, but one must surely ask if the convenience of a cell phone is worth the invasion of your privacy.
IPhone keeps record of everywhere you go:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-tracking-prompts-privacy-fears
Please read the entire article.
I am not sure WHY Apple has done this, but it certainly is a dangerous feature since nearly anyone can access your whereabouts- and not just where you are at the moment. According to the article, this locational information can track every place you've been or will go for up to a year. Is this REALLY something you'd want others to access?
It is not just the IPhone, but Apple computers, IPad, etc. and who knows how many other companies will want to do the same? The biggest issue, besides the obvious one of privacy, is that they do NOT have an 'opt-out' option available.
I'm not sure about you, but one must surely ask if the convenience of a cell phone is worth the invasion of your privacy.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Are YOU willing to step up to the plate?
There are numerous problems involved with anyone willing to run for Presidential office. One is that their life is no longer their own. Every single word they utter, every association they have, every single thing in their past will be dug through, twisted, and made public for all the world to see. It would be worse than living in a glass house because not only will they live under the microscope, every person they know or have ever had any interaction with, and every relative would be as well.
I doubt that there are too many people who would wish this type of constant invasion going on during their campaign, whether or not they won the election. And it goes on long after the election. In the case of someone who actually won, it goes on all during their tenure, and would be on-going for years after their term was ended, even if they never held another political office.
Other problems include finding the time to 'advertise' their desire for office, finding the funding to allow for that time- one has to support themselves (and possibly their family) in the interim, being able to articulate clearly what their goals are, and finding people who share common ideas and will vote for them.
Even though, for example, I might have some ideas on how to turn things around, and have the ability to listen to what people need and want, there is fierce opposition amongst the big business conglomerates who want to 'stay in charge' of puppeteering our elected officials. They own the banks, they have the ability to actively bring about undesirable questions as to one's integrity, and they can 'make or break' anyone.
The corruption that goes on is not just within our borders. It extends to all countries. These powerful few have been playing chess with the world a very long time, and will avoid, at any cost, being put in a losing position.
How many common-sense people are willing to tackle that sort of opposition? It could cost a person very dearly, possibly including their very life, to confront or oppose such power.
Yet, we desperately need someone to brave that opposition, and be willing to make those sacrifices. We need an honest, ethical person who is willing to unfailingly uphold our founding documents, and do what is in the best interest of the sovereigns of this nation.
Many today are disenchanted with the offerings of candidates presented thus far. We must actively seek out a person of integrity who understands the problems of the common man as well as the workings of the many aspects of governing- the economy, the foreign interactions, and many other factors. This person must remain level headed and be able to objectively listen to all sides- usually in a short amount of time- and come to a fair decision that best suits the country's interest. They must not let their own personal preferences bias their opinions, but rather listen to their countrymen and countrywomen on all matters.
They must be strong enough to withstand the constant assault on their character, their past, their words, and their intentions.
They must be educated well enough to understand the complexity of law, and of human character. And they must possess a huge amount of common sense, compassion and understanding when dealing with all the intricacies presented to them.
According to our Constitution:
Article. II. - The Executive Branch
Section 1 - The President
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He
shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President
chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number
of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the
State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person
holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an
Elector.
(The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two persons, of
whom one at least shall not lie an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they
shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which
List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the
United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall,
in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and
the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be
the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed;
and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of
Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them
for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the
said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the
Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; a
quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two-thirds of the
States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case,
after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the
Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have
equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice-President.) (This clause
in parentheses was superseded by the 12th Amendment.)
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which
they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of
the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall
any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five
Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
(In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or
Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the same shall devolve on
the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal,
Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what
Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the
Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.) (This clause in parentheses has
been modified by the 20th and 25th Amendments.)
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which
shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been
elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United
States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or
Affirmation:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of
the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States."
Section 2 - Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States,
and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United
States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the
executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective
Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the
United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make
Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and
by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other
public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the
United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which
shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such
inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in
the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the
Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their
next Session.
Section 3 - State of the Union, Convening Congress
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union,
and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and
expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them,
and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment,
he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors
and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and
shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Section 4 - Disqualification
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed
from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high
Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Now, who do YOU know that can be considered for President in the upcoming election?
We MUST find the appropriate person, who is willing to withstand the constant barrage of intrusion into their life, and who has the knowledge and skill to get our country back on a good, solid standing. They MUST defend and protect our Constitution, and be accountable to the sovereigns rather than selling out to special interests, big business, and other influential groups that would have us destroyed. This country represents all the world's common man's hope. This country MUST remain free.
Clearly, it is our duty to find someone fit, rather than just another 'politician' who is trained to say one thing and do another. It is rather obvious that the sovereigns of this nation are tired of the "same 'ol, same 'ol" when it comes to our 'representatives'. We are tired of seeing them represent their own best interest instead of ours.
LET THE SEARCH BEGIN!!! And let us support our choice whole-heartedly, so this person has the ability to take on the dragons that would rather destroy them than have their comfortable game dissolved.
Let us begin in earnest to find this person, and vote for them, so we can get back to the business of being a free nation.
I doubt that there are too many people who would wish this type of constant invasion going on during their campaign, whether or not they won the election. And it goes on long after the election. In the case of someone who actually won, it goes on all during their tenure, and would be on-going for years after their term was ended, even if they never held another political office.
Other problems include finding the time to 'advertise' their desire for office, finding the funding to allow for that time- one has to support themselves (and possibly their family) in the interim, being able to articulate clearly what their goals are, and finding people who share common ideas and will vote for them.
Even though, for example, I might have some ideas on how to turn things around, and have the ability to listen to what people need and want, there is fierce opposition amongst the big business conglomerates who want to 'stay in charge' of puppeteering our elected officials. They own the banks, they have the ability to actively bring about undesirable questions as to one's integrity, and they can 'make or break' anyone.
The corruption that goes on is not just within our borders. It extends to all countries. These powerful few have been playing chess with the world a very long time, and will avoid, at any cost, being put in a losing position.
How many common-sense people are willing to tackle that sort of opposition? It could cost a person very dearly, possibly including their very life, to confront or oppose such power.
Yet, we desperately need someone to brave that opposition, and be willing to make those sacrifices. We need an honest, ethical person who is willing to unfailingly uphold our founding documents, and do what is in the best interest of the sovereigns of this nation.
Many today are disenchanted with the offerings of candidates presented thus far. We must actively seek out a person of integrity who understands the problems of the common man as well as the workings of the many aspects of governing- the economy, the foreign interactions, and many other factors. This person must remain level headed and be able to objectively listen to all sides- usually in a short amount of time- and come to a fair decision that best suits the country's interest. They must not let their own personal preferences bias their opinions, but rather listen to their countrymen and countrywomen on all matters.
They must be strong enough to withstand the constant assault on their character, their past, their words, and their intentions.
They must be educated well enough to understand the complexity of law, and of human character. And they must possess a huge amount of common sense, compassion and understanding when dealing with all the intricacies presented to them.
According to our Constitution:
Article. II. - The Executive Branch
Section 1 - The President
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He
shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President
chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number
of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the
State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person
holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an
Elector.
(The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two persons, of
whom one at least shall not lie an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they
shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which
List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the
United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall,
in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and
the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be
the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed;
and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of
Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them
for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the
said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the
Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; a
quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two-thirds of the
States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case,
after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the
Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have
equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice-President.) (This clause
in parentheses was superseded by the 12th Amendment.)
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which
they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of
the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall
any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five
Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
(In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or
Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the same shall devolve on
the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal,
Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what
Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the
Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.) (This clause in parentheses has
been modified by the 20th and 25th Amendments.)
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which
shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been
elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United
States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or
Affirmation:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of
the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States."
Section 2 - Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States,
and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United
States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the
executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective
Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the
United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make
Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and
by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other
public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the
United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which
shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such
inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in
the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the
Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their
next Session.
Section 3 - State of the Union, Convening Congress
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union,
and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and
expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them,
and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment,
he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors
and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and
shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Section 4 - Disqualification
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed
from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high
Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Now, who do YOU know that can be considered for President in the upcoming election?
We MUST find the appropriate person, who is willing to withstand the constant barrage of intrusion into their life, and who has the knowledge and skill to get our country back on a good, solid standing. They MUST defend and protect our Constitution, and be accountable to the sovereigns rather than selling out to special interests, big business, and other influential groups that would have us destroyed. This country represents all the world's common man's hope. This country MUST remain free.
Clearly, it is our duty to find someone fit, rather than just another 'politician' who is trained to say one thing and do another. It is rather obvious that the sovereigns of this nation are tired of the "same 'ol, same 'ol" when it comes to our 'representatives'. We are tired of seeing them represent their own best interest instead of ours.
LET THE SEARCH BEGIN!!! And let us support our choice whole-heartedly, so this person has the ability to take on the dragons that would rather destroy them than have their comfortable game dissolved.
Let us begin in earnest to find this person, and vote for them, so we can get back to the business of being a free nation.
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