As the President of a Democracy and defender of the Constitution, it is your role to carry out the will of the people. If you were the CEO of a large corporation, you would have to answer to your Board. In the case of the United States, your Board is Congress. They legislate and you carry out the legislation.
It is anti-American and contrary to the Constitution that you enforce legislation that favors big industry at the people’s expense, and derail legislation that benefits the people at the expense of big business.
You waged preemptive war on a sovereign nation, Iraq, which had nothing to do with avenging the 9/11 attacks. You are prolonging a bloody occupation of a sovereign nation, which is totally unConstitutional. You have enriched your war-profiteering cronies at the expense of thousands of American lives, countless Iraqi civilian deaths, millions of Iraqi refugees, and the unborn Iraqi generations that will be contaminated with the radioactive munitions that were deployed by the USA. Yet, the 9/11 attackers were mostly Saudi and a few Pakistani, both nations count among our best allies in the region.
Vengeance belongs to the Lord. You are not the Lord. Civilized nations negotiate using diplomacy. The military should be our last resort only for defense.
You discarded diplomacy in 2003 and declared preemptive war. You deceived the American People with a premeditated strategy to use fear to justify unConstitutional acts. You have twisted your priorities and sabotaged America to the point of its self-destruction. You depleted the Treasury, decreased revenues, expanded the budget and put our nation in debt for generations to come. Your business policies encouraged the exploitation offshore cheap labor, which terminated manufacturing jobs in the USA. The lack of funding toward education has caused a decline in the education levels, which lowers the quality of the American worker pool. There has been a sharp decline in University applications from abroad due to the declining quality of US education. Your derailing of the environmental protection laws has led to increased contamination and pollution of the common resources, food, water, and air. Your tax and economic policies have widened the gap between the rich and the poor.
You are a liability to America. I suggest you resign instantly!
Saturday, July 21, 2007
The 7 New Deadly Sins
You must check out this post of July 12, 2007 called "The 7 New Deadly Sins."
http://inmindseverywhere.blogspot.com/
http://inmindseverywhere.blogspot.com/
Friday, July 20, 2007
Germany in the 30’s
September 23, 2005
George Bush and the neo-cons remind me of my x-husband: they do "whatever the fuck they want whenever the fuck they want to.” Agreements, promises, treaties, marriage vows, etc. need not be honored. "Rules are made to be broken." And if you don't like it, we will fight. Either "he who yells loudest wins the fight." Or those with the biggest nuclear arsenal win the fight. Or those with the hardest punch win the fight.
I often think of the decent, ordinary Germans back in the 30's, trying to live a peaceful life while all around them they could see a political storm brewing. The youths were all indoctrinated early, but many adults could see what was happening. Any church pastor who didn't preach Nazi divine racism was incarcerated in a concentration camp. Anyone who aided a Jew could be killed. No wonder the whole population of the Third Reich was in unity!
And yes, Hitler made the extermination of Jews into a holy Christian act, just like the South Africans made apartheid into a Christian policy. Now, as during the Crusades, the Muslims, who do worship the biblical ONE G-D and circumcise their sons, have become the enemy of good Christians. Now good Christians believe it is their Christian duty to kill Muslims.
I see only one way out of the quagmire the USA has gotten into. At first I thought it would be an armed revolution. But the thought of peaceful, cooperative people taking up arms was to me an oxymoron. Anyway, the rebellion would be instantly crushed and many good people would lose their lives. But recently, I have understood a superior way. It is by the peaceful people within the USA making allies with peaceful people in other countries and applying pressure on the US Government from abroad, both diplomatically and in the courts. Our government has been seized in a bloodless coup and the US Constitution is about to be trashed once the illegal leader appoints an ultra right wing justice to the Supreme Court. The American Dream has ended and the fascists have taken over.
I suggest that Canada ally itself with Japan, Italy, and a few other European countries to pressure the USA to comply with both common decency and its agreements/treaties. (It didn't work with my husband. He chose to end the marriage rather than curb his arrogant, remorseless behavior.)
George Bush and the neo-cons remind me of my x-husband: they do "whatever the fuck they want whenever the fuck they want to.” Agreements, promises, treaties, marriage vows, etc. need not be honored. "Rules are made to be broken." And if you don't like it, we will fight. Either "he who yells loudest wins the fight." Or those with the biggest nuclear arsenal win the fight. Or those with the hardest punch win the fight.
I often think of the decent, ordinary Germans back in the 30's, trying to live a peaceful life while all around them they could see a political storm brewing. The youths were all indoctrinated early, but many adults could see what was happening. Any church pastor who didn't preach Nazi divine racism was incarcerated in a concentration camp. Anyone who aided a Jew could be killed. No wonder the whole population of the Third Reich was in unity!
And yes, Hitler made the extermination of Jews into a holy Christian act, just like the South Africans made apartheid into a Christian policy. Now, as during the Crusades, the Muslims, who do worship the biblical ONE G-D and circumcise their sons, have become the enemy of good Christians. Now good Christians believe it is their Christian duty to kill Muslims.
I see only one way out of the quagmire the USA has gotten into. At first I thought it would be an armed revolution. But the thought of peaceful, cooperative people taking up arms was to me an oxymoron. Anyway, the rebellion would be instantly crushed and many good people would lose their lives. But recently, I have understood a superior way. It is by the peaceful people within the USA making allies with peaceful people in other countries and applying pressure on the US Government from abroad, both diplomatically and in the courts. Our government has been seized in a bloodless coup and the US Constitution is about to be trashed once the illegal leader appoints an ultra right wing justice to the Supreme Court. The American Dream has ended and the fascists have taken over.
I suggest that Canada ally itself with Japan, Italy, and a few other European countries to pressure the USA to comply with both common decency and its agreements/treaties. (It didn't work with my husband. He chose to end the marriage rather than curb his arrogant, remorseless behavior.)
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
A 2005 letter to Louise Slaughter
Representative Louise Slaughter asked my opinion. 9/16/05
Here is my reply:
Ever since the Supreme Court overruled the Florida Supreme
Court in a "State's Rights" issue by deciding NOT to count
all the votes, it has been apparent to me that the Project
for a New American Century was using George W. Bush to follow
the model of Adolph Hitler's rise to power.
Being a highly ethical person, and fiercly proud of the
American experiment in Democracy, I was plunged into despair
at the unconstitutional actions of the Supreme Court and the
lack of response from the opposition parties. I began a
vigorous letter-writing campaign at that time to try to wake
up our members of Congress who seemed either intimidated by
the neocon power, bought off, or otherwise asleep behind the
wheel.
By the 2002 elections, dirty politics became filthy. The
widespread use of electronic voting machines manufactured by
Republican partisans guaranteed Republican victories no
matter how anyone voted. Hope arose in the 2004 elections,
but rather than choosing a candidate for peace and social
justice, the Democrats decided to run John Kerry, a
candidate who was trying beat Bush using a right-wing
war-oriented platform.
When Kerry was defeated in 2004, once again, the party
providing the only hope of overturning the right-wing agenda,
silently walked away from the most corrupt election in
American history. Only the Green Party and the Congressional
Black Caucus had the courage to contest the corruption. Even
after the corruption was proven, states still plan to use
electronic voting machines manufactured by Republican
partisans. Something is VERY WRONG here!
Once Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf coast, I have been
writing letters like mad. I write to my elected
representatives in Congress, politically oriented people I
know, and Letters to the Editor. During the week after
Hurricane Katrina, I experienced so much anguish that I was
unable to sleep. When I did catch a nap, I dreamed of piles
of dead bodies in the street of my friends and neighbors.
Meanwhile, I saw my President leisurely playing golf and
playing guitar.
The amount of space in this text box is not ample enough to
describe what I see coming. Once John Roberts is confirmed
to the Supreme Court, I see a fascist takeover of our
government in a bloodless coup d'etat. I see fascists taking
over of our public utilities including drinking water, gas
and electricity. I see shanty towns of underpaid laborers
creating a new population in poverty as Halliburton reaps the
benefits of the $60 billion relief package and Blackwater
mercenaries shoot people without recourse to law. I see the
remuddleing of the Constitution and an end to the Bill of
Rights. We are already there in practice, but John Roberts
will assure that it becomes a reality in law.
Being known as a compassionate liberal, I was fired from my
job over a year ago on the grounds that I was dangerous.
They fired me in a moment's notice although they had it
planned out for many weeks. They prepared a dossier of every
minor incident that had ever occurred in my entire career
with the company and invented a few more. They refused to
allow me to rebut the charges, and gave me no other choice
than being fired. Having been fired, it is very difficult to
find another job. Since my unemployment insurance expired, I
have been living solely on my savings. Jobs are few and far
between, and I am not willing to risk the rest of my savings
on opening a small business in a declining economy.
As the toxic wastes from the neglected Superfund sites around
the Gulf Coast, the oil spills, and the human wastes, get
pumped into the Gulf of Mexico thereby contaminating all Gulf
seafood, the coasts of every state and country touching the
Gulf, and eventually contaminating the Atlantic Ocean, the
polluters go scott free not responsible for their toxic
wastes, and with their profit margins rising. Pumping the
toxic wastes out to sea exceeds the contamination illustrated
in the movie "Sahara." It is disaster compounded by disaster.
Almost all of it is manmade, from the global warming that
accelerated Katrina to a Category 5, to the Superfund sites,
to the incompleted levees, to the poor foundations on the oil
tanks, to the global addiction to petroleum products, to the
lack of an evacuation plan in areas that inevitably get
hurricanes, to the pumping of highly toxic wastes out to sea.
I have 2 sons. After spending $60,000 - $100,000 each on
their college educations, where will the jobs be? Where will
the clean water be? Where will the clean air be? What kind
of world will they be growing up into? With so few jobs
available, how does the Bush government expect our children,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren to pay off the
exponentially rising debt?
Every day I wake up in despair. When the fascists come to my
town, the only ones I will be able to turn to will be my
local community. I am working tirelessly to develop and
cement together our local community. It is the sphere of
influence in which I have the most effect.
A 2005 letter to Representative John Conyers
6/12/05
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." --Theodore Roosevelt
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." --James Madison
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." ----President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952-----
Honorable Representative Conyers,
The following is a copy of the Letter-To-The-Editor that I sent out about a month ago to newspapers around the planet. I am sending it to you today because it is still very relevant to what is happening today in our government. Thank you for your efforts to make an issue of the new evidence of what has been obvious for the last 5 years.
5 1/2 years ago, when the Bush neo-cons took the White house in a bloodless coup d'etat, I could see how Bush was following the same formula designed by Adolph Hitler to rise to power.
At that time, I warned our members of Congress not to allow Bush to suspend the powers of Congress. The Hitler formula includes eventually removing all power from Congress in order to consolidate power unto himself. I began calling Bush our "New American Fuhrer."
I thought, for sure, when the Republicans sent themselves Anthrax in the mail and then had to close down the halls of Congress, that it was the end at that time of the House of Congress. But I was wrong. Once they found the source of Anthrax to be a US government lab, the Anthrax incident evaporated from the news and Congress was back in business. I breathed a sigh of relief!
Then, when the neo-cons arranged the attack on the World Trade Center, suppressing the accurate intelligence from the CIA operatives that tried to warn them, and commanding the defense jets to stand down and let the hijackers perform multiple attacks without any opposition, I expected Bush to declare military rule and suspend the powers of Congress at that time. It was equivalent to firebombing the Reichstags that Hitler used to declare war and make the Jews the scapegoats. I was right as far as Bush using the acts of 14 Saudis to declare war and make all Muslims the current scapegoats. But I was wrong again about the timing to suspend the powers of Congress.
Now, the neo-cons, who so conveniently used the filibuster to block many debates during times of Democratic majorities, were unable to attain a super majority in the Senate and have consequently begun to legislate away the powers of Congress by limiting or eliminating any discussion on new laws. Chip by chip, they are eroding any ability of the minority party, or any member of Congress who has a conscience or actually wants to serve the welfare of their electorate, from posing any opposition to their insane plans to bankrupt the American economy, totally reverse the New Deal, and rape the natural resources of the planet to enrich themselves and their corporate cronies.
The American government used to be a TRI-CAMERAL system. The designers of our government set up three houses as a way to keep checks and balances on the government. They well knew how greed for wealth and power could corrupt legislators to favor laws that benefit big business at the expense of the common people. The TRI-CAMERAL system has come to an end. There is only one small power left to block a totalitarian regime: the filibuster.
Once the neo-cons eliminate the filibuster, the Democrats might as well resign their Congressional posts. Why waste time going to the Senate or the House of Representatives when there is absolutely nothing they can do to change the neo-con steamroller?
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." --Theodore Roosevelt
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." --James Madison
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." ----President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952-----
The 2003 coup of California
9/29/03 Comments about the recall election of Gray Davis in California
There is no conjecture in the fact that the Republicans, in cahoots with Enron, set up the bankruptcy of CA to take it over in a similar bloodless coup like it took over the White House. This plan has been unfolding since they began stacking the courts with right-wing judges since the Reagan era. You don't have to be psychic to understand that the Republicans, backed by the New American Century Project <www.newamericancentury.org>, has a plan all laid out as to how they are going to rape the planet to myopically enrich themselves and their handful of corporate cronies. They don't even think about what they are doing to their own grandchildren! And the ironic thing is that when the Earth becomes unlivable, it will be their great-grandchildren that be able afford passage on the rocket ship that colonizes the new virgin planet.
The thing that bothers me is how the American public and the Congress got mesmerized into letting it happen. Even now that Bush and his administration has been exposed as unethical liars and abusers, no one is moving to impeach him. It was OK to try to impeach a president for having adult consensual sex in a closet but it isn't OK to impeach a president that has transformed a national surplus into a $450 Billion debt, waged two wars against regimes originally fostered by the US but now vilified, sacrificed over 300 American lives while Bush himself was AWOL during his own military service, and has turned every regulatory agency into an agency of rape and destruction. Which is worth impeachment, consensual sex in a closet and a budget surplus or raping the planet and bankrupting the nation?
I've been giving money to an internet impeachment process but they don't seem to be able to make any progress. Why, when it is obvious that Bush and his administration are criminals, are we all so powerless to stop them? I have been more active than any other time in my life writing letters, signing petitions, donationg money, going to meetings, and praying, yet the fascist coup continues to expand unscathed. What happened to the "checks and balances" in the government?
Sometimes I think it is all in G-d's plan. But what's the point? Many Christians believe it is the time of the apocalypse. Maybe it is. Maybe that's why we are all powerless to stop the impending disaster. G-d's plan/apocalypse or not, I am driven to right the wrong. I'm not going to sit by idly letting it happen. As far as peaceful means, if Bush is re-elected in 2004, I expect to see an armed revolution. Unfortunately, I will probably be one of the first to die. I have small children, which will leave them motherless. I'm not sure my death in an armed insurrection will help anything at all, and certainly it won't help my children. But what can one do when the Congress is mesmerized, the Supreme Court is sympathetic to the fascists and the American public is opiated by TV drivel?
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Fascist coup d’etat
9/11/05
The confirmation of John Roberts and another neoconservative on the Supreme Court will be the crown jewel in the plan of the neo-cons to fully seize control of America in a bloodless coup d’etat. At that time, all three houses of the US Government will be lock, stock, and barrel in the hands of the corporate fascists. We are already slave to their petrochemical industry, which is polluting our soil, air and water, making the Earth uninhabitable. And now that the latest energy bill opened the door to privatization of public utilities, our municipal water-works will soon be in the hands of a greedy, multinational profiteering corporation financed by Paul Wolfawitz and the World Bank. Once the fascists have control of all clean water in the world, we will see price gouging and ever increasing pollution. The logical end of this excessive exploitation for profit of the requisites of life while remorselessly polluting the only planet we have, will be that the great-grandchildren of the obscenely rich will buy passage upon a flotilla of rockets ships to colonize new planets while the rest of us perish in the toxic wastes. Some people say that the opposition party will retake a majority in the 2006 election; not if the voting machines are produced and controlled by biased partisans, again.
Are we powerless to do anything to stop the neo-con scourge? We need to reach out to our allies abroad for help. There are still those among them who see clearly and recognize that if the neo-cons aren’t stopped, that their country could be next….
The confirmation of John Roberts and another neoconservative on the Supreme Court will be the crown jewel in the plan of the neo-cons to fully seize control of America in a bloodless coup d’etat. At that time, all three houses of the US Government will be lock, stock, and barrel in the hands of the corporate fascists. We are already slave to their petrochemical industry, which is polluting our soil, air and water, making the Earth uninhabitable. And now that the latest energy bill opened the door to privatization of public utilities, our municipal water-works will soon be in the hands of a greedy, multinational profiteering corporation financed by Paul Wolfawitz and the World Bank. Once the fascists have control of all clean water in the world, we will see price gouging and ever increasing pollution. The logical end of this excessive exploitation for profit of the requisites of life while remorselessly polluting the only planet we have, will be that the great-grandchildren of the obscenely rich will buy passage upon a flotilla of rockets ships to colonize new planets while the rest of us perish in the toxic wastes. Some people say that the opposition party will retake a majority in the 2006 election; not if the voting machines are produced and controlled by biased partisans, again.
Are we powerless to do anything to stop the neo-con scourge? We need to reach out to our allies abroad for help. There are still those among them who see clearly and recognize that if the neo-cons aren’t stopped, that their country could be next….
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Buying stock in lojack smart chips
Alice
So this company called me....with an investment opportunity...and with skepticism I listened. I think it is a pretty good idea to put a lojack chip in kids clothing. They are looking for investors - $5000. minimum $10K is better - more than that is even better.
I think having some money in the bank is good, but I would like to see it grow faster. It's risky but I would like to take a chance. What do you think? ALice
www.rfid-weblog.com/50226711/
more_about_protecting_children_with_rfid.php - 107k - Jun 19, 2007
www.smartweartechnologies.com/home.html - 7k
This is the site they told me to look at: www.smartweartechnologies.com/learn
The Mother Ruminates:
Don't ever invest money you can't afford to lose.
Once I saved up my first $10,000, I invested $5,000. In 1981, I could live 2 years on $5000. I invested in a start up and it soon after went bankrupt. The money was tied up in bankruptcy courts for 11 years, and then I got a check for under $1000 for the final settlement. I'm lucky I got anything at all. There is something called "the opportunity cost." This is the probable income if you had put that money in the bank for the same amount of time, 11 years in this case. It is also calculated on the average growth of investments in those same years. Therefore, I didn't only lose $4000, I also lost the opportunity costs of investing $5000 at the average rate of investment growth for those same 11 years. That could amount to about $14,000 at an average 10% rate, triple!
Those smart chips are definitely the wave of the future. Investment newsletters have been tauting them for nearly 2 years. You are swift, my dear, and this could be a smart opportunity for someone who can afford to lose the money. Its a gamble. That, and nanotechnology.
Although the product may be the wave of the future, a great deal of the company depends upon the management. You'd have to do your homework and find out how the business analysts rate their business plan and management style. You might even go visit the company. Sometimes I wait until the company has been in business for N amount of years, and look at their proven track record. I did that with Renaissance Faire stock; after I felt confident, I bought in, and $1000 turned into $4.89 with a change in management within a year. By waiting, for example, like I did with Google stock, I lost out on a fortune by not putting my money on a fragile, intangible, internet company with massive debt.
Another factor in investing is how much risk can you stomach? The first major loss for a new investor stings the worst. Any successful investor can tell you horrendous stories of investment losses.
Then there's the possibility that their one big product is found to cause some freak unexpected scourge on humanity, and the company is slapped with class action lawsuits. Both Apple and Microsoft have had to weather big lawsuits, as well as competition from startups. Will this lojack chip company be strong enough to weather a lawsuit? On the other hand, do you know for sure that this chip company is not cooperating with the NSA on illegal surveillance to curtail our Constitutional freedoms? You should investigate how many military contracts they have. And how much toxic waste they generate in order to make their product.
People who can't afford to lose their money should invest in mutual funds, or CDs. Even mutual funds can significantly go down, but it will eventually rise again higher than ever before, if you have time to wait.
Real estate is the best investment of all. Real estate is something tangible which will inevitably grow in value in the long run. If you have money laying around aching to be invested, I would invest it into real estate. But like with every other investment, your profits depend a lot on you doing your homework. Right now, your homework is putting in the resources and sweat equity to get your LA house into habitable condition. Every day you don't finish construction and get the units rented out has an opportunity cost. The faster you get that house done, the faster your money will grow. The chance of appreciation of your real estate asset is far more assured at an incredibly lower level of risk for a far greater rate of appreciation than you could likely make betting on stocks of companies run by people you don't even know (except if you had invested in Google).
My advice to you is to let people who can afford to lose their money buy the stock in the lojack chips, and you focus your money-making desires on completing the construction in LA ASAP.
In Peace,
Love you!
So this company called me....with an investment opportunity...and with skepticism I listened. I think it is a pretty good idea to put a lojack chip in kids clothing. They are looking for investors - $5000. minimum $10K is better - more than that is even better.
I think having some money in the bank is good, but I would like to see it grow faster. It's risky but I would like to take a chance. What do you think? ALice
www.rfid-weblog.com/50226711/
more_about_protecting_children_with_rfid.php - 107k - Jun 19, 2007
www.smartweartechnologies.com/home.html - 7k
This is the site they told me to look at: www.smartweartechnologies.com/learn
The Mother Ruminates:
Don't ever invest money you can't afford to lose.
Once I saved up my first $10,000, I invested $5,000. In 1981, I could live 2 years on $5000. I invested in a start up and it soon after went bankrupt. The money was tied up in bankruptcy courts for 11 years, and then I got a check for under $1000 for the final settlement. I'm lucky I got anything at all. There is something called "the opportunity cost." This is the probable income if you had put that money in the bank for the same amount of time, 11 years in this case. It is also calculated on the average growth of investments in those same years. Therefore, I didn't only lose $4000, I also lost the opportunity costs of investing $5000 at the average rate of investment growth for those same 11 years. That could amount to about $14,000 at an average 10% rate, triple!
Those smart chips are definitely the wave of the future. Investment newsletters have been tauting them for nearly 2 years. You are swift, my dear, and this could be a smart opportunity for someone who can afford to lose the money. Its a gamble. That, and nanotechnology.
Although the product may be the wave of the future, a great deal of the company depends upon the management. You'd have to do your homework and find out how the business analysts rate their business plan and management style. You might even go visit the company. Sometimes I wait until the company has been in business for N amount of years, and look at their proven track record. I did that with Renaissance Faire stock; after I felt confident, I bought in, and $1000 turned into $4.89 with a change in management within a year. By waiting, for example, like I did with Google stock, I lost out on a fortune by not putting my money on a fragile, intangible, internet company with massive debt.
Another factor in investing is how much risk can you stomach? The first major loss for a new investor stings the worst. Any successful investor can tell you horrendous stories of investment losses.
Then there's the possibility that their one big product is found to cause some freak unexpected scourge on humanity, and the company is slapped with class action lawsuits. Both Apple and Microsoft have had to weather big lawsuits, as well as competition from startups. Will this lojack chip company be strong enough to weather a lawsuit? On the other hand, do you know for sure that this chip company is not cooperating with the NSA on illegal surveillance to curtail our Constitutional freedoms? You should investigate how many military contracts they have. And how much toxic waste they generate in order to make their product.
People who can't afford to lose their money should invest in mutual funds, or CDs. Even mutual funds can significantly go down, but it will eventually rise again higher than ever before, if you have time to wait.
Real estate is the best investment of all. Real estate is something tangible which will inevitably grow in value in the long run. If you have money laying around aching to be invested, I would invest it into real estate. But like with every other investment, your profits depend a lot on you doing your homework. Right now, your homework is putting in the resources and sweat equity to get your LA house into habitable condition. Every day you don't finish construction and get the units rented out has an opportunity cost. The faster you get that house done, the faster your money will grow. The chance of appreciation of your real estate asset is far more assured at an incredibly lower level of risk for a far greater rate of appreciation than you could likely make betting on stocks of companies run by people you don't even know (except if you had invested in Google).
My advice to you is to let people who can afford to lose their money buy the stock in the lojack chips, and you focus your money-making desires on completing the construction in LA ASAP.
In Peace,
Love you!
Saturday, July 07, 2007
America is only a shell of what was once a great nation
Bill Moyer’s new documentary called “Buying the War” was intellectually interesting in that the same reporters who repeated the lies at the build-up to war are now admitting that they were lies. Unfortunately, I believe no matter how much the Bush government’s corruption is exposed, neither will democracy in America ever be restored, nor will America ever again reclaim the dignity, prosperity or power that it once enjoyed.
Take for example the tainted pet food issue. It was discovered that all the tainted pet food found its source in China. It turned out that nearly ALL the pet food in America was tainted. Then they found that the grain that our cattle eat is also tainted with melamine. Then they found out that commercial human food like pizza dough was contaminated with melamine, all from China. Then we discover that 80% of the grain that we feed our cattle is imported from China. Then we discover that our farmers no longer grow grain. Until the issue of tainted pet food, China did not allow US agricultural inspectors into China to inspect the food before it was shipped. The net result was to discover that the USA, which once was the bread basket of the world, which used to ship food aid to India and China, now imports it from China. Where have all the farmers gone?
The same story goes for our manufacturing base. The USA, which once led the world in high quality manufactured items, no longer has manufacturing jobs but rather imports nearly all manufactured goods from China, Central America, the Caribbean, or Malaysia. America now ships the natural resources to other countries to manufacture goods for Americans to import just like when we were a colony of Europe.
Now the only jobs left are service jobs. And we are now creating an enriched middle class in formerly impoverished India by outsourcing our service jobs to them. So if there are no jobs left, where do people get their money?
They simply refinance their mortgage. How many mortgage brokers call you per day? I average 6/day. They all want to do me a big favor by putting money into my pocket and lowering my monthly payments with a low 1% loan. I already know that the best path to wealth is to decrease my debt. I have set upon an aggressive campaign to reduce my personal debt. But what about all the other people who fell for the seduction of the mortgage brokers? They all increased their debt in order to put cash into their pockets, got a reverse amortized loan which increases their debt every month, and then property values fell. The rate of people defaulting on these loans is astronomical, and it has caused a segment of the banking industry to collapse.
So now we have a country which imports grain, imports manufactured goods, has depleted our armed forces and therefore has to hire expensive mercenaries to fight our wars and do our domestic security, our property values are falling, our banking industry is collapsing, our dollar is declining in value, our schools are failing our children, we have a 40% drop-out rate from high school, hate and intolerance is growing, and we fight endless wars financed with debt. What's left? Only the shell of what once was a great nation. Our country will never recover from the damage done by the neo-conservatives.
Thom Hartmann calls them proto-fascists. They don't believe in government, and they set out to destroy this one. And they have succeeded. No Democratic president is going to restore what has been lost. Any Democratic president that might win the 2008 election will be blamed for all I just described. The proto-fascists will do everything possible to discredit him/her like they did to Jimmy Carter, and, if there is ever another election, I predict that a neo-con will win the 2012 election.
I predict that we will be spending Yuan by the end of the decade.
Take for example the tainted pet food issue. It was discovered that all the tainted pet food found its source in China. It turned out that nearly ALL the pet food in America was tainted. Then they found that the grain that our cattle eat is also tainted with melamine. Then they found out that commercial human food like pizza dough was contaminated with melamine, all from China. Then we discover that 80% of the grain that we feed our cattle is imported from China. Then we discover that our farmers no longer grow grain. Until the issue of tainted pet food, China did not allow US agricultural inspectors into China to inspect the food before it was shipped. The net result was to discover that the USA, which once was the bread basket of the world, which used to ship food aid to India and China, now imports it from China. Where have all the farmers gone?
The same story goes for our manufacturing base. The USA, which once led the world in high quality manufactured items, no longer has manufacturing jobs but rather imports nearly all manufactured goods from China, Central America, the Caribbean, or Malaysia. America now ships the natural resources to other countries to manufacture goods for Americans to import just like when we were a colony of Europe.
Now the only jobs left are service jobs. And we are now creating an enriched middle class in formerly impoverished India by outsourcing our service jobs to them. So if there are no jobs left, where do people get their money?
They simply refinance their mortgage. How many mortgage brokers call you per day? I average 6/day. They all want to do me a big favor by putting money into my pocket and lowering my monthly payments with a low 1% loan. I already know that the best path to wealth is to decrease my debt. I have set upon an aggressive campaign to reduce my personal debt. But what about all the other people who fell for the seduction of the mortgage brokers? They all increased their debt in order to put cash into their pockets, got a reverse amortized loan which increases their debt every month, and then property values fell. The rate of people defaulting on these loans is astronomical, and it has caused a segment of the banking industry to collapse.
So now we have a country which imports grain, imports manufactured goods, has depleted our armed forces and therefore has to hire expensive mercenaries to fight our wars and do our domestic security, our property values are falling, our banking industry is collapsing, our dollar is declining in value, our schools are failing our children, we have a 40% drop-out rate from high school, hate and intolerance is growing, and we fight endless wars financed with debt. What's left? Only the shell of what once was a great nation. Our country will never recover from the damage done by the neo-conservatives.
Thom Hartmann calls them proto-fascists. They don't believe in government, and they set out to destroy this one. And they have succeeded. No Democratic president is going to restore what has been lost. Any Democratic president that might win the 2008 election will be blamed for all I just described. The proto-fascists will do everything possible to discredit him/her like they did to Jimmy Carter, and, if there is ever another election, I predict that a neo-con will win the 2012 election.
I predict that we will be spending Yuan by the end of the decade.
A Colossal Ponzi Scheme
David M. Walker, the U.S. Comptroller General, alerted the public this year to the irresponsible levels of spending by the government. He states that, "...we are the world’s largest debtor nation, and time is working against us.” Bush turned a budgetary surplus into $9 trillion of debt. There is little hope that future tax revenues from American workers or successful businesses will make up the difference. Bush and his neo-con cronies have taken an historic national surplus and redistributed it in THE MOST COLOSSAL PONZI SCHEME in history. And what happens when the word gets out that we have all been fleeced? The USA will have to default on its loans. At that point, we might solicit the World Bank to loan us money to service our debts. We might have to solicit Hugo Chavez to bail us out of our World Bank loans!
Impeachment is Constitutional
As I listened to the President's Orwellian double-speak at his State-of-the-Union speech, it became ever more obvious that the only way to stop his brazen acts of terrorism against the Iraqis, the American people, and against the unborn debtors of the future is to IMPEACH!
A "surge" of 20,000 more troops is a drop in the bucket. In order to accomplish the kind of security Bush is referring to, he would have to send in at least 150,000. The troops he had already begun to deploy into Iraq even before he made his speech are nothing more than thumbing his nose in the face of the American electorate and the Democratic majority in Congress. "Just try and stop me!" his words and attitude seemed to say.
Since the "young democracy" he refers to in Iraq is Shia controlled, I believe the 20,000 more troops he plans to deploy with the Iraqi Shia troops will be nothing more than a fascist genocide on Sunnis. Like Hitler, he will credit the coming bloodbath escalation toward protecting the security of America.
Bush referred to "our enemies in Iraq." In fact, there were absolutely NO IRAQIS involved in either attack on the WTC in 1993 or in 2001. It was mainly Pakistanis, Kuwaitis, and Saudis, who are now our strongest allies in the region. So what enemies in Iraq are the President referring to? So why are our troops in Iraq when Iraq never attacked America? The oil magnates that lead our current executive's office make it obvious: O-I-L! It is for oil wealth and oil power that our troops are dying and the wealth of our nation has been squandered. The only way to stop Bush's ruthlessly brazen waste of American resources is to IMPEACH!!!
A "surge" of 20,000 more troops is a drop in the bucket. In order to accomplish the kind of security Bush is referring to, he would have to send in at least 150,000. The troops he had already begun to deploy into Iraq even before he made his speech are nothing more than thumbing his nose in the face of the American electorate and the Democratic majority in Congress. "Just try and stop me!" his words and attitude seemed to say.
Since the "young democracy" he refers to in Iraq is Shia controlled, I believe the 20,000 more troops he plans to deploy with the Iraqi Shia troops will be nothing more than a fascist genocide on Sunnis. Like Hitler, he will credit the coming bloodbath escalation toward protecting the security of America.
Bush referred to "our enemies in Iraq." In fact, there were absolutely NO IRAQIS involved in either attack on the WTC in 1993 or in 2001. It was mainly Pakistanis, Kuwaitis, and Saudis, who are now our strongest allies in the region. So what enemies in Iraq are the President referring to? So why are our troops in Iraq when Iraq never attacked America? The oil magnates that lead our current executive's office make it obvious: O-I-L! It is for oil wealth and oil power that our troops are dying and the wealth of our nation has been squandered. The only way to stop Bush's ruthlessly brazen waste of American resources is to IMPEACH!!!
The Terrorists threatening our nation are from within
Now that our military is depleted and our treasury is long gone and deep in debt, the USA has been rendered totally vulnerable to attack. From the privatization and mismanagement of FEMA, homeland security, and public utilities, we are now facing an enemy far more insidious than a suicide bomber. The greatest threat to the security of the United States is the ruthlessly brutal, privately funded mercenary army, Blackwater. Their troops don’t need to invade; they are already here. In fact, they are better trained, better armed, and in greater numbers than our own troops.
Where did they get the money for their superior weapons? You need only look at the US Treasury to find the source. And, now our country is deep in debt for financing a superior army via the war in Iraq that is stationed within our national borders and answers to no law but the highest bidder.
Where did they get the money for their superior weapons? You need only look at the US Treasury to find the source. And, now our country is deep in debt for financing a superior army via the war in Iraq that is stationed within our national borders and answers to no law but the highest bidder.
The NEW Declaration of Independence
…Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. The history of the BUSH ADMINISTRATION is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the American People. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish their rights
He has called together legislative bodies IN SECRET, at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant, for the sole purpose of
He has
HE HAS DISTRACTED THE PUBLIC FROM THE REAL ISSUES WITH MEDIA CAMPAIGNS FOR POPULAR BUT UNSUBSTANTIVE ISSUES.
He has endeavoured to obstruct the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers AND BY REMOVING THE POWER TO MAKE RULINGS FROM THE JUDICIARY.
HE HAS ILLEGALLY SIGNED OVER 1000 “SIGNING STATEMENTS” HOLDING HIMSELF ABOVE THE LAW.
HE HAS PASSED THE “MILITARY COMMISSIONS ACT OF 2006” WHICH SUSPENDS THE 900-YR OLD WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND ALLOWS HIM TO DECLARE ANYONE TO BE AN “ENEMY COMBATANT,” ARREST AND INCARCERATE THEM WITHOUT EVIDENCE, AND HOLD THEM INDEFINITELY WITHOUT TRIAL.
He has made Judges and U.S. Attorneys dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction CONTRARY TO OUR CONTITUTION, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For protecting TROOPS, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For imposing DEBTS on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas TO OFFSHORE DETENTION FACILITIES to await trial for pretended offences:
He has abdicated THE CONSTITUTION by declaring us ENEMY COMBATANTS and waging War against us.
He has FACILITATED LARGE CORPORATIONS TO plunder our seas, ravage our coasts, POLLUTE OUR AIR, WATER, AND SOIL, PLUNDER OUR NATURAL RESOURCES, and destroy the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow NATIONAL GUARDS to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited VIOLENT insurrections DURING PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS, and has endeavoured to SCAPEGOAT MUSLIMS TO INSTIGATE GENERAL FEAR AMONG THE PEOPLE.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A PRESIDENT, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people!
THEREFORE, we must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
IMPEACH!
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