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  • What If?

    What if right wing, conservative Christians are not really in the majority in America?

    What if adherents of other belief systems tend to remain silent because they think they’re overwhelmingly outnumbered?

    What if there is another kind of morality that has more in common with people of all faiths?

    I believe all of the above is true.

    How can it be?

    Those who would have us believe that the overwhelming majority of Americans are “God fearing,” puritanical Christians are organized. The Church has wealth, contacts and a variety of local chapters in almost every town in the country. It wields its interpretation of how things should be with the strong arm of certainty, abetted by the threat of eternal punishment for disobedience, even “wrong thinking.”

    It’s a tough force to deny. It pervades our everyday life, and has for centuries. It’s become so much a part of our culture that one must really look to see it. When you think about it, you will be amazed at the number of American laws, and customs having the effect of law, whose origins can be traced directly to the Church.

    Sunday closing laws; tax exemption for church property; practically all laws relating to marriage and the relations between the sexes - including country-wide rule permitting only monogamous marriages, and laws against fornication and other taboo sexual relationships; all laws of censorship, for moral reasons, of the press, stage, radio, or speech; certain taboos of word and speech forms; laws prohibiting certain parts of the body being exposed to view, laws prohibiting recreational drug use, laws against smoking cigarettes; anti-gambling laws; any law which takes a paternalistic attitude toward citizens with the purpose of ensuring his moral perfection rather than regulating his conduct to prevent him from damaging other persons and vice versa, prevent others from damaging him.

    Look at sayings and figures of speech. “God bless you.” “Oh my god!” “Jesus Christ!” It’s everywhere. I’ve even heard very young children speak authoritatively of God to their classmates, in a public school classroom. It’s easy to imagine the majority would approve of Christianizing America.

    It ain’t necessarily so.

    Think about it. Today, everyone knows at least someone who is fed up with radical Christian elements trying to intrude further into our private lives. In cities, the most densely populated areas of our country, everyone knows lots of people who truly understand a need for the separation of Church and State, and our numbers are growing in small town America, too. Even moderate Christians cannot get behind today’s radical right wing agenda.

    Don’t be fooled.

    Wealth and power are tough to fight against. In America today, we have already lost much of our free press. Most newspapers and t.v. news are so heavily biased that it’s impossible to learn the truth without hunting for it. We’re being fed the administration’s (read as the radical Right’s) spin on events which chooses to leave out much of the information that the Left is so gravely concerned about. They are trying to play us as if we were an audience attending a magic show, “watch our right hand while the other implements our true, extreme agenda.” We are absolutely left with the feeling that, even though we are disgusted by what we see, the majority accepts it.

    But, do they really?

    As I meet and interact with others I have to say, “NO!” I live in a small, red town and yet I continue to meet more and more people who feel as I do. I even know older, long term, dyed-in-the-wool Republicans who are deeply ashamed of their party today. I am constantly being hit with evidence that says a small minority is really running the show. Look around yourself. What does your research show? How many people do you know who really support the radical right-wing agenda?

    But, Americans voted Dubya into office…

    Did they? Did they really? The amount of controversy concerning the last two presidential elections is enough to make thinking people say, “Hmm.” As this administration progresses, it is plain to see that they are supported by (and beholden to) unbelievable levels of wealth and power. It is also apparent that this administration will go to any lengths to achieve it’s goals, which (based on results) seem primarily concerned with the security and prosperity of itself and it’s cohorts, as opposed to the welfare of average Americans (who really are the overwhelming majority.)

    As time goes by, I feel (not just think) more and more certain that the majority of Americans did NOT vote for George W. Bush. If it’s possible for him to control the media, then why couldn’t he manipulate an election (or two?) In each, issues and concerns were raised surrounding the one area they chose to recount. How many other areas across the country had discrepancies that weren’t even examined? A little interference in several key states would really add up and also insure that a thorough examination of any one area wouldn’t make enough of a difference to change the overall outcome.

    So, what can we do?

    Fight back! We must make our numbers known. We must organize and go public in every way we can to resist the will of the minority. We must use every right and tool at our disposal to reclaim our country and our freedoms.

    Speak up! Let people around you know that you do not approve of the radical Right’s agenda. You may not convince those who do approve, but you will give hope and encouragement to others who feel as you do. They will feel more confident to speak their own conscience and encourage still more people to do the same.

    Get involved! I know you’re busy, we all are. But, if we leave matters like this to others, you see what can happen! We must pay attention and we must take action whenever possible. Here are some of my favorite online activist groups:

    http://www.truemajority.org

    http://www.pfaw.org

    http://www.moveon.org

    http://www.impeachbush.org

    http://www.now.org

    Check them out, subscribe for their action alerts and add your voice to the millions of other voices that are crying out for change.

    Support election reform! It’s a topic that Democrats want to address and Republicans don’t, so it’s be relegated to the bottom of the priority list, way below the “important” stuff like giving more money to the richest top 10% of the population. Public pressure could change that. We need a fully accountable system that will let us verify the results and we need it before any more elections are held. Talk to people and write letters to the editor of your local newspapers. Write letters to your Senators and Representatives in Washington, too.

    Vote! Again, we’ve got to pay attention. We can’t just watch t.v. ads for candidates and make our decisions based on them. We must look into their records and see how they acted before they were being considered for an important office in order to get an idea of what we can expect from them in the future. And remember, president isn’t the only one that counts. If we had a Democratic Congress, Dubya wouldn’t be able to get away half the stuff he’s trying to pull. It’s up to us to make our government work. We really need to pay attention at every level, including the local level.

    Use your power! You know you’ve got it. What you focus on comes to be. Thoughts become things. Use your power for good.

    March 31st, 2009 by admin
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    Overseas Gaming Keeps Bettors at Home

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    Many gamblers will surely have heard of the term “offshore sports betting”, but some are not wholly confident of what it states. An offshore gambling web site basically works extrinsically to the legal power of a distinct nation or alternatively it can be an on-line gaming web site which has its servers inside a nation in which on-line sports gambling isn’t banned. In brief therefore, it’s a sports betting organization in action extraneous to the land of the customer. Internet sports wagering webpages are mostly governed by means of 3 administrations. These are named OSGA (the Offshore Gaming Association), IGC (Interactive Gaming Council) and the Fidelity Trust Gaming Association (the FTGA).

    The OSGA are a self controlling bureau which keeps checks on the modern offshore gambling industry, they strive to supply sports bettors the capability to quickly distinguish honorable internet sites to play games of chance with. The authority seeks to maintain consumer’s rights, additionally they charge no yearly expenses. The OSGA are an expert not to mention non-biased third party company which asserts unbiased conclusions, established around your responses, unprejudiced inquiry, phone conversations, insider prompts and in addition offers industry information.

    The Interactive Gaming Council is a non-profit-making council. The agency was designed to allow a forum for curious participants to address questions also to progress mutual matters in the world-wide web-based sports betting industry, to establish honorable and dutiful trade rules and patterns that raise customer faith in online sports gaming merchandise and services, and in addition to assist as the gambling industry’s general practise advisor and in addition it offers an information base of operations.

    The IGC have worked up a name for trustworthiness, fairness and also plausibility on account of the rigid industry ethics it demands, also its allure to business concerns of honest practise. The IGC regulates offshore sports gambling by upholding a distinctive 10-step operative policy and also bills sports gaming web sites fees for displaying the council’s logo. Disgruntled customers may moreover air their challenges to the IGC.

    The Fidelity Trust Gaming Association has been set up in a venture to construct a standard to improve the actions of live sports betting operations. The agency understand that doing business entirely with credible businesses, they can cultivate a union of the fairest and most expert overseas betting businesses in the world at large.

    So, there are establishments which function to keep an watchful eye on the practises of world wide web based sports gambling and which should with luck help to mitigate any concerns due to the insecurity felt by a lot of bettors. Web based betting internet sites are nowadays absolutely dependable, since personal details should not be required and also the rewards not to mention the gambling odds should be exactly as balanced and sportsmanlike as an orthodox Vegas-style bet. They lessen travel costs, but retain of a gambling casino, only nowadays you are able to game in the comfort of your own home.

    March 29th, 2009 by admin
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    How to Compare Offshore Companies

    Today umteen unscrupulous business firms are proposing corps and bank accounts in many other jurisdictions with a shopping list of countries available most every one of them no longer any use, many being set on Caribbean islands and are false the clients into thinking they are real Offshore Companies with privateness benefits. False!!!
    Let’s analyse some matters to see for when browsing for an offshore company.


    Trust Privateness - Without this we are not engaged. We need the bank to not be able to give away any data about the bank account including whether or not such a banking account actually lives unless there is an order from a competent court of law in the area where the bank is located. More privacy than this does not survive any property today. Numbered accounts are lost. Sparbuch accounts in Austria are complete deceased, yes I am aware that people offer them for sale on sites online but they are all long gone and shut down. The banks silence laws must be written into the law of nature of the country in question. Belize bears no such bank privateness practices of law wrote in their laws, individuals just seem to trust them even though there would be zero jural punishment for them to let out coin bank information if they see worthy to do so. We desire savings bank concealment practices of law to call for prison house and civic punishments for any violations in accession to appropriate for one to bring suit against the bank for violations. Panama fulfills this test.


    MLAT - MutualLegalAssistanceTreaty. Many lands have introduced into these agreements. For a list of countries that take embarked into these arrangements with the USA courtesy of the US Administration.


    It is outraging as to how some countries are in such arrangements. Even Panama is in such an understanding but it is fairly restricted in range.


    Offshore Companies

    March 28th, 2009 by admin
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    The Reconstruction of Europe

    The Second World War was the continuation of World War One and a plan to break down the existing structures in order to make this part of the One World plan come to fruition. They had tried this with the Merovingian Napoleon in a more direct fashion in the century before they put this refined plan in motion. Prince Bernhard was part of the Thulean Gestapo and I think Plantard was his equal on the apparent other side. Bernhard became the CIA man to head the Bilderberg founding and Plantard went on to be the Nautonnier of the Priory which even if it was new they both have been around in some way under some name since the Trojan War as I have demonstrated. Saunire as a top Priory official would have been part of the planning of this effort to unite the world beginning with Europe. Metternich, Czar Alexander II and others had seen the importance of uniting Europe. This Czar was assassinated for trying to create a real democracy or for his efforts on behalf of the US against the Rothschild plan. Clearly the Rothschilds had a change of heart after trying to break the US into many warring factions.

    Hitler, Stalin and the Churchills who were in the pocket of the Rothschilds as well as other visible characters or ‘fronts’ were for public consumption and served their purpose well. This first quote is the reaction of a Canadian military attaché to the Allied government shortly after the second war to end all wars, when Bradley presented his book for comment. I take this a lot further than any book Bradley has written.

    “He wasn’t surprised at the contents. He knew the story already, and said that everyone at appropriately high levels in Europe and North America knew it too. He advised us not to publish any of it.” (2)

    I will give the reader the names of the families and a few more historical insights that include names of people who are very well known and alive today. The whole mess is purposefully confusing as Bradley notes on pages 338-9 of Holy Grail across the Atlantic:

    “..And we may recall that other nonsensical fragment from the Dossiers secrets deposited sometime in the 1950s for researchers to find. ONE DAY THE DESCENDANTS OF BENJAMINE LEFT THEIR COUNTRY {With the help of their Phoenician ‘brothers’.}; CERTAIN REMAINED; TWO THOUSAND YEARS LATER GODFROI VI(DE BOUILLON) BECAME KING OF JERUSALEM AND FOUNDED THE ORDER OF SION {And the French Masons don’t accept SOUL.} Certain researchers had, by 1956, concluded that this Order of Sion had been THE super-secret organization behind the more overt Templars, Knights of St. John (Maltese Knights), Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement, etc. In short, this Order of Sion seemed to be THE Grail Dynasty’s core group. Was this new ‘Prieure de Sion’ registered in 1956 a legitimate descendant of the medieval Order of Sion?

    The Prieure de Sion did not reveal the name of its leader, or Nautonnier, but it did list some officers and its Secretary-General, one Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair. A Saint-Clair again…

    Researchers quickly discovered that the Plantards were an ancient lineage originating from the Pyrenees while, of course, it had long been appreciated that the Saint-Clairs were age-long paladins of the de Bouillon bloodline. The Prieure de Sion claimed a house organ, or ‘newsletter’, called Circuit, but the addresses given for both the Prieure de Sion and for Circuit’s offices did not exist… (pg.342)

    The magazine also published a character sketch written by Plantard’s first wife, Anne Lea Hisler. According to this, Plantard was —the friend of personages as diverse as Comte Israel Monti, one of the brothers of the Holy Vehm, Gabriel Trarieux, one of thirteen members of the Rose-Croix, Paul Lecour, the philosopher on Atlantis, the Abbé Hoffet of the Service of Documentation of the Vatican {If this is not the same young man that Sauniere met who is in the same position it was someone of the same inner sanctum.}, Th. Moreaux, the director of the Conservatory at Bourges, etc. Let us remember that during the Occupation, he was arrested, and suffered torture, by the Gestapo and was interned as a political prisoner for long months. In his capacity of doctor of arcane sciences, he learned to appreciate the value of secret information, which no doubt led to his receiving the title of honorary member in several hermetic societies,….

    On the other hand (pg.343), maybe we of the democratic and mechanistic world-view should not snicker loudly at all. The Marshall Plan, the financial and political plan for the reconstruction of Europe, was thrashed out at Lake Leman {Where Plantard de Saint-Clair had been brought by the Swiss Government, after his time with the Illuminati inspired Gestapo.} in Switzerland {The HQ of the Rothschild/Merovingians, where a town named Sion has an interesting statue.}. The American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had approved this plan, and two of his closest friends and advisors had backgrounds and interests as disreputable as Pierre Plantard’s. One such advisor, the financial wizard Bernard Baruch, was a graduate of a French ‘hermetic’ school and was the financial architect of the so-called Marshall Plan {Kissinger was here too.}. He visited Lake Leman frequently in the immediate post-war years. FDR’s other close friend and advisor was the architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, whose estate, ‘Taliesin’, was named in honour of that boasting Welsh bard we have already (pg. 344) referred to in the section about evidence that Joseph of Arimathaea may have come to the Glastonbury area…

    And we may recall that FDR was the most notable shareholder in the ‘Old Gold Salvage and Wrecking Company’ which was engaged in delving for ‘pirate’ treasure on Oak Island. What did they wreck?

    No, we dare not snicker. Because we do not have the faintest idea what has been going on beneath the comfortable blanket of history, the kind of history that Will and Ariel Durant have dealt with, and Barbara W. Tuchman… Who was the leader? Could he be the actual heir of the Dynasty? Reporters got onto that, too:

    … ‘On February 13 (1973) the ‘Midi Libre’ published a lengthy feature on Sion, Sauniere and the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau. This feature specifically linked Sion with a possible survival of the Merovingian bloodline into the twentieth century. It also suggested that the Merovingian descendants included ‘a true pretender to the throne of France’, whom it identified as M. Alain Poher.

    While not especially well known in Britain or the United States Poher was (and still is) a household name in France. During the Second World War he won the Resistance Medal and the Croix de Guerre. Following the resignation of de Gaulle, he was provisional President of France from April 28th to June 19th, 1969. He occupied the same position on the death of Georges Pompidou, from April 2nd to May 27th, 1974. In 1973… M. Poher was President of the French Senate. As far as we know, M. Poher never commented, one way or the other, on his alleged connections with the Prieure de Sion and/or the Merovingian bloodline. (3)

    As early as 1966 the French author, Saint-Loup, noted the birth of a new mass-movement in Europe. It has not yet spread to North America. Some people had begun to put together what they considered to be the truth about human history. They became ‘Cathars’ and began to make pilgrimages to the monuments of the great struggle, Camelot and Montsegur.”

    My given names Robert Bruce are in honour of our supposed connections with the Douglas clan and Robert de Bruges or the Scottish King Robert the Bruce. The grandfather of ‘Prince’ Henry Sinclair is reported by Bradley to have fought and died beside Sir James Douglas while attempting to bury the silver casket with the heart of Robert the Bruce in the Holy Land. This bloodline of Jesus is not the ‘terrible secret’ of Saunire, that kind of history is not earth-shaking enough to make all these people do the things they have done. We will present much more of them and reasons or possibilities before we present the answer that we think fits the facts - ALL or at least many of the facts. It will not be ‘terrible’ but it is earth-shaking and in line with what Napoleon saw when he sat alone in the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid. He had been told by the genealogists of the Masons that Josephine Beauharnais was a true Merovingian carrier of the blood of Jesus. He was probably directed or encouraged to marry her (a Creole from the Indies) as well as to go to Egypt and begin the uncovering of the secrets in the Pyramid.

    Author of Diverse Druids
    Columnist for The ES Press Magazine
    Guest ‘expert’ at World-Mysteries.com

    March 27th, 2009 by admin
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    School Prayer, Right Or Wrong

    In the Bill Of Rights, the First Amendment to the Constitution, titled “Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression” states the following: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”.

    Now, I am not an attorney nor am I a legal scholar, and I realize that the courts have interpreted the foregoing in numerous ways, however, I also realize that how the Amendment is interpreted depends on which judge is sitting on the bench at the time a case is heard and just because a person is a judge does not mean that that person is infallible and it does not mean that that person does not have his or her own agenda. Judges are, after all, still human.

    In my opinion, having organized prayer in school is not “an establishment of religion”, but is instead the carrying out of the will of the majority of the people in this nation. I further believe that to forbid school prayer is “prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. It is also “abridging the freedom of speech” of the majority. This nation is supposed to be a Republican Democracy where the will of the majority of it’s citizens is supposed to rule. As far as I can determin, the majority of the citizens in this country believe in prayer, of one type or another, and only a small minority, comprised of certain athiests, far left politicians, “Hollywood celebrities”, etc., are against prayer. To allow this small minority to override the will of the majority is wrong. To allow this small, very loud, very activist, very well financed minority to take away the right of the ’silent’ majority, to pray as they wish, is to allow them to corrupt our system and to take away freedom of religion from our citizens. I realize that our citizens can still pray at home and in church, however, public schools are paid for with public tax dollars, and as long as the majority of tax payers want school prayer then they should have school prayer.

    When a teacher leads a class in prayer, no one is forced to pray. Some people claim that when a child does not join in the praying, that child may be embarrassed or ridiculed by the teacher or other students, therefore they claim that class prayer is harmful. I disagree. No good teacher would criticize a student for not praying. If a teacher does so then that teacher should be reprimanded or dismissed because that teacher is not worthy of being a teacher. If some students ridicule a non praying student then those students have not been taught properly about the rights of others and should be corrected. For my own reasons, I never prayed during class prayer and no one ever said anything to me. I was never ridiculed or critcized. I knew others that did not pray and to the best of my knowledge they never had any problems, except that some of their parents embarrassed them by complaining to the school. It seems that while the non praying students did not mind school prayer, their parents did.

    The majority of Americans find hope and comfort in prayer. To deny them the right to pray because a small minority does not approve, is just plain wrong. I realize that in a small number of cases some children do have problems with school prayer, but to deny the large majority of students the hope and comfort of starting their school day off with a prayer is to stomp on their rights. To deny the majority their religious freedom goes against what this country stands for.

    One of the most important things about attending school is that children learn how to deal with other people. All kinds of things go on in school that affect or bother various students. They can not and should not be protected from everthing that they don’t like. Some children are embarrassed by going to physical education class, should we then take physical education off the curriculum? Some children are bothered by certain things taught in history class, should we then take history off the curriculum? Some children are embarrassed because they are not good at math, should we then take math off the curriculum? If we took everything off the curriculum that might embarrass or bother a student there would no longer be any schools. If we protected the students from everthing that bothered them then they would not learn how to cope with problems and would not be able to function as adults.

    In my opinion, forbidding school prayer is just another case of ‘political correctness’ gone overboard.

    David G. Hallstrom, Sr. is a retired private investigator and currently publishes several internet directories including www.resourcesforattorneys.com a legal and lifestyle resources directory for attorneys, lawyers and the internet public. For more lifestyle information see lifestyle.resourcesforattorneys.com, the Lifestyle directory from Resources For Attorneys.

    March 26th, 2009 by admin
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    RoSPA Warning for Better Health and Safety Measures

    The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has recommended that waste management businesses review and rebuild their health and safety setup, as the current state of safety in the sector is nothing less than appalling. With around 4,000 accidents reported every year, a number that is four times the average in the UK, and an accident rate of 2,500 per 100,000 workers, the sector needs a major revamp in its health and safety measures.

    RoSPA’s occupational safety adviser, Roger Bibbings, commented that the health and safety regulations should not be taken lightly in the waste management industry and that a serious effort should be made to make the sector safer for the workers.

    Mr. Bibbings also said that companies should not take action grudgingly and only because of the safety rules, but they should understand the commercial importance of avoiding careless injuries and accidents. He however warned firms, which are not complying with the regulations, saying that as per the Health and Safety Offences Act, harsh penalties await the guilty companies.

    Contact the experts at Workplace Law Training to find out about their range of accredited iosh courses which can assist companies in training staff to be aware of the proper health and safety procedures for all kinds of workplace situations.

    RoSPA in association with the WAMITAB (Waste Management Industry Training and Advisory Board) is also hosting a one-day Health and Safety in Waste Management conference next month to further push the cause of health and safety in the industry.

    March 26th, 2009 by admin
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    Wedding Gift Registries

    When a couple gets married they couple often register for gifts at a well known store well in advance of their wedding. This allows them to make a list of household items, usually including silverware, china and crystalware, and often including bedding preferences, cookery items and similar items. Registries are intended to make it easy for guests who wish to purchase gifts to feel totally comfortable that they are purchasing gifts that the couple really want and the service is quite profitable that most retailers, from luxury shops to discount stores, offer the opportunity to have a gift registry. Wedding registry information should be provided only to guests upon direct request and should never be included in the invitation. Some couples additionally register with services that enable money gifts intended to fund items such as a honeymoon, home purchase or college fund. There’s the other train of thought that bridal registries could be deemed inappropriate. Some say they contravene traditional notions behind gifts such as the notion that gifts are delightful surprises, they take away the element of surprise, and they lead to a type of competition in the price stakes, as the bride and groom will know the costs of each individual item. People say since its inappropriate to invite people to the wedding who don’t know the bride or the groom well enough to be able to pick out an appropriate gift for them, registries should never be necessary.

    March 19th, 2009 by admin
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    Mayor Wonka and the New Orleans Chocolate Factory

    Whether God sent a judgment to New Orleans for its sinfulness is open to debate and perhaps there is no way of knowing that answer until the fat lady sings. What Ray Nagin said about New Orleans being “a chocolate city” is a bit easier to weigh and it weighs in under the lightweight category for sure.

    Since hurricane Katrina Ray Nagin has taken on a celebrity status. Now everything he says is public domain as quick as it is uttered. His sense of responsibility does not seem to be keeping pace with his new fame. There are many now who think Nagin has written his own political obituary with his recent remarks. Given the nature of politics in Louisiana that may not be true. In fact, in the state that produced Huey Long, Edwin Edwards and David Duke it would seem rogue politicians will always have an accepted place in the sportsmen’s paradise.

    The remark has drawn criticism from both white and black groups and leaders. None of them have gone so far as to say the remarks are racist. Let’s take another look at the question by posing it in a reverse fashion. If a white mayor were to state that their city should be a vanilla city what could we expect to happen?

    Cries of racism would be hastily followed by calls for apologies and resignations. Every black group from the NAACP to Rainbow Coalition would be sounding off with indignant repulsion and a good measure of howling and baying. We could only expect that, and rightly so. That leaves only one question. Why hasn’t anyone noticed that the most damaging effect of Mayor Nagin’s remarks is that it is abetting racism?

    America is still working hard to promote racial harmony in this decade but remarks about chocolate cities are more akin to cognitive dissonance than harmony. Nagin who otherwise would be rated among the top of the list of good New Orleans mayors should take notice of what legacy he wants to leave the wonderful city that care forgot and the wonderful nation that spawned such a unique city.

    His divisive remarks have even insulted those within the city of New Orleans. Mayor Nagin said he wasn’t worried about what the folks uptown thought about him. Whew! Having spent twenty years of my life in New Orleans I don’t need a degree in demographics to know that one of the few remaining predominantly white areas of New Orleans is the uptown section.

    Between the civil rights laws of the sixties and common sense of most decent people who want to see America healed from the grievances of our past, it is easy to conclude that America has no chocolate or vanilla cities. We have only cities. I hope!

    March 19th, 2009 by admin
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    Dafur Emergency: A Challenge To Civilisation

    With pain rocking through my whole body today, I cast a bitter glance back at what I called, the ‘tragedy of Dafur’ and decided to settle accounts with my fellow Africans on this matter.

    President Omar el-Bashir has twisted history, invented a distortion in African lexicon and rammed it through our throats. Every mention of anything Sudanese these days sounds much more like ‘Sadness’, and every picture of the attrocious genocide of Dafur seems more like hearing or seeing the destruction wroth by ‘Sulphur’. Anytime I hear the word ‘Janjaweed’ it connotes an imagery of ‘Ganja-weed’ i.e Marijuana, no wonder, the trails of this militia of shame that diplaced 2 million people, leveled an estimated 2,000 villages and killed over 180,000 so horrified the UN that it had to stridently call for their trial by the International Criminal Court.

    The Sudanese leader has suceeded in his 16-year rule, in turning Sudan into one of the poorest countries in the poorest continent in the world: one of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Sudan is now a giant Ghetto dotted all-over with refugee camps hosting millions.

    The death of John Garang last Monday, in an helicopter crash would not change the tempo of the silent revolution that would end dictatorship and bring lasting peace to the 40million people of Sudan.

    It is however a discernible and irrepressible truth that the insurgency by black Africans of Dafur, in February 2003 against alleged discrimination and oppression by the Khartoum government was the trigger.

    This was one battle too much for a regime whose bucket was already overflowing with multiple conflicts, particularly, the two decade fatricidal war against the Southern Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA)led by Garang.

    That battle exposed the under-belly of the Sudanese dragon and stopped the full-fledged speed of the Sudanese government from being the continental capital for the ‘Axis of Terrorism’ in Africa.

    That battle sent the regime scampering for a desperate balance by hastily coming to the negotiating table and conceeding partial autonomy and power sharing with the SPLA.

    It is now certain that the janjaweed and all its vicious attrocities of rape, murder, etc. has failed to break the will of Dafur for freedom, autonomy, democracy, peace and deverlopment. The bell tolls for the 16-year rule of el-Bashir. What Dafur started, Dafur would complete: and that is to sweep oppression and dictatorship off the landscape of Sudan- our Sudan.

    EzineArticles Expert Author Aderemi Ojikutu

    Aderemi Ojikutu (Aderaskeey) is a Motivational Author and Youth Mentor. He is a minister of the Word of God. A political economist and political leader. He is President of the TREASURE WRITERS CLUB in Nigeria(http://ryze.com/go/Aderaskeey). He is also the current President of the National Democratic Forum (N.D.F). He was National Mobilisation Officer of the National Association of Nigerian Students (N.A.N.S) for several years. A revolutionary of over two decades, he was also the political secretary of the defunct Nigerian Labour Party in 1989-1991.

    March 18th, 2009 by admin
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    Medicade Scam; Worse than You Think

    You are not going to believe what is going on in North Western Michigan; Check this scam out, typical health care fraud. There is a $3000 allowance per month if your child is on medicade because the parent is poor. Now some of these people have six kids. So this mental health hospital; all these kids who have health care degrees scour the area to find these kids from poor people and sign them up at the hospital. The hospital is huge. No wonder all these kids who are perfectly healthy are going to the hospital to get checks up. They use up all $3,000 per month for each kid. HMOs want body count, they want to get paid per month per body, so they want to get the people in, and get them out and bill for $3,000.00

    This is what happens when government offers programs like this. Meanwhile many hospitals also pay for transportation to the parents to drive them in from all over Michigan’s NW rural areas. Paying them $40-50 each way per visit and try to get the kid in for test, check ups, whatever twice a week. They also pay the parents sometimes when public transportation is used costing us more but the mom can now get $100 per week, enough to buy and SUV with payments of $400.00 per month with nothing down?

    So what do you think of health Care and “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child Now?” Actually it takes an HMO and the government to create a child, because these parents of six kids are living off the transportation money and the HMOs are making bank and paying the doctors shit. If the money was not offered the kids would not be born in the first place. But check out this math. Transportation fees to deliver your kid to the hospital $100 per month per kid. If you have six kids you get $600.00 per week or $2400.00 per month. If the mom gets a job she does not qualify for her kid to have medicade, therefore she does not want a job. But then again she doesn’t need a job at $2400.00 per month of free money. Then they over medicate their kids making them brain dead. And one lady told me she get paid mileage so, what did she do? She moved into a house 3000 square feet that was 60 miles further away and not anywhere near any hospital. Now she goes to two different hospitals twice a week and nearly tripled her money. Canadians are also coming over a getting free sex to make babies with these women and they love it. If they want to become US citizens it is now easy since they are father to another child in the US. Incidentally, unemployment is growing there and many men are living with these women as boyfriends without marrying them so they can join in on the income. Interesting Ehy? Wonder if they are all US Citizens? Something to think on.

    EzineArticles Expert Author Lance Winslow

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    March 18th, 2009 by admin
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