Last night after attending our meeting I recalled a talk that I gave in front of about 80 or so brothers and sisters. What I recalled was how I gave the talk and how others give their talks. The training I call it to become a great speaker. I thought of those who inspired me. Although some may find it offensive you must admit these are indeed great speakers.
Here is another one that I often enjoyed listening to
Here is another one that I often enjoyed listening to.
Please note that I don't share his views on how he feels but you must admit just hearing him makes you want to hear more. Notice his speech, notice how he gives he speech, and notice how much emotion he puts into his speeches. That's what I mean. Martin Luther King's I dream speech was a great speech. I love it. When I give my talks, I often try to give as much emotion that I can do without over doing it.
I remember giving a talk on counsel or the proper view of it. Till this very day people still talk about that talk. I tell them thank you but the feeling I get inside is joy because I helped encourage another brother or sister to fight another day in this wicked system of things. It's hard to stay moral or have any when there is so much wickedness to turn to.
It's funny because just the other day at work they were talking about other celebrity woman and asked who I would sleep with if I had the chance. I told them that I don't look at any other woman in that fashion. I love my wife very much. For some odd reason they couldn't understand that. You have understand what Jesus said. Jesus said that everyone that keeps on looking at a woman so as to have a passion for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
I love my wife very much and to think of any other would be very dis-respectful of her and my marriage. Call me old fashion but remember Jesus's words next time you go to a strip club. If Jesus wouldn't go with you to a strip club why should you go? Common sense folks. Anyway have a great day.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Word
Several questions thrown my way. Sorry for the delay in answering them. I will try and answer most covering various topics. The first question asked was
Q. Why do I think that 9/11 was an inside job.
A. Well, if you haven't checked any of my posts on why then I suggest that you do. I also suggest that you just google search 9/11. There is always new information coming out about it. Keep an open mind when researching 9/11.
Q. Along time ago you talked about your son and a girl. What happened to that relationship.
A. Well they both had different priorities in life. Jesse wanted to devote his entire time serving God and his friendship with her was hurting him spiritually. He does care deeply about her but wanted to make sure his relationship with God was first.
Q. You say that Jesus is God's son but if you look at John 1:1 it states that he is God?
A. I have tried to explain this scripture many times. It's hard for some to believe that Jesus is the Son of God and not God himself. Keep this in mind. Jesus himself said he was created. The scriptures tell us that Jesus had a beginning thus being created. Someone had to create Jesus? The scriptures also tell us that God has always been. That alone should tell you that they are different. Father and Son.
Q. You say that you gave up many games, can you tell me what games you play now and what games you gave up?
A. I play wow, rockband, baskball on xbox. I used to play Urban Terror, Call of Duty, Quake series, Battlefield series. I gave those all up.
Q. What do you expect of people since you talk so much about your God?
A. I expect people to be themselves without closing the door or window to what might be truth. When I mentioned that I lived in the world that means that at a time I did study other religions before becoming a witness. I didn't have to do that but I did and each and every time someone comes along and tries to show me what they believe I just don't agree with them but I expect them to be respectful, all of us should be that way. If someone talks about going to Heaven, well I don't believe that we do and that scratches many religions of my belief meter. When they say we die and go to hell, I scratch them off my belief meter. It's ok to quote scripture and many do it but to understand what it means is an entire different thing. Even Jesus had to show many who read scriptures often that they didn't have a clear understanding.
Q. Did you know that the leader of the Watchtower was a freemason
A. I didn't answer this the last time it was asked so sorry I just forgot. Many ask about Charles Taze Russell. Many have tried to say that he was a freemason after his death. They even tried to say even back then that witnesses were a cult. Kinda like those who say Obama is a terrorist and never even met the man. But for Charles many of these things were said after his death. Freemasons, for their part, have stated that Russell was not a Freemason. They stated this not Witnesses and yes I know there are sites out there always trying to connect the two but there are also sites showing that even the Pope himself worships Satan. History is nothing more than His Story...
Q. You mentioned Halloween and I understand what you meant by not celebrating it, what about other holidays such as thanksgiving and Christmas?
A. Well I spoke of Halloween simply because I find it offensive to God. No different than if several guys put on white sheets and go to a black hood. Note I used to live in the hood and my mother lives there now thus the reference to hood. I find it offensive. As for thanksgiving. While admitting that the present celebration has some connection with the Pilgrims, where did these get the idea of a thanksgiving festival? Historians note that ‘harvest festivals’ were among the oldest known holidays. And there were several different harvest celebrations in existence at the time of the Pilgrims.
Of special interest is the fact that the Pilgrims did not flee directly from England to North America. They first fled to Holland. Although religiously free there, they were disappointed with the industrial way of life, the “new” language and their economic circumstances. So from Holland they sailed on The Mayflower to the “New World.” But, argue some, the time in Holland would have brought them in touch with European harvest festivals.
Special celebrations over good harvests had occurred in several of the early American colonies. Hence, the 1621 celebration was not unprecedented.
Eventually this holiday was observed annually in the New England area. However, it was not until 1789 that the first national Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed by George Washington. And, even after that precedent, this practice was not carried on by succeeding presidents. It is claimed that Thomas Jefferson condemned it during his two terms. Finally, as already noted, in 1863 Abraham Lincoln established a yearly national festival, which ensuing presidents have honored.
Why did some people oppose the idea? For one thing, many governors felt that it was an example of state interference with religion. Actually, in time the celebration itself became more political.
Not to mention what happened to the Indians after the meal. There is nothing really to celebrate since many men, woman, and children died.
Christmas well, I'll have to answer that one later but Jesus was not and I repeat not born on that date. I'll talk about that tomorrow. I want to thank you all for your questions, I know I didn't get to all of them. I do have them on a list and will answer them maybe every Friday or sometime during the week. Thank you.
Q. Why do I think that 9/11 was an inside job.
A. Well, if you haven't checked any of my posts on why then I suggest that you do. I also suggest that you just google search 9/11. There is always new information coming out about it. Keep an open mind when researching 9/11.
Q. Along time ago you talked about your son and a girl. What happened to that relationship.
A. Well they both had different priorities in life. Jesse wanted to devote his entire time serving God and his friendship with her was hurting him spiritually. He does care deeply about her but wanted to make sure his relationship with God was first.
Q. You say that Jesus is God's son but if you look at John 1:1 it states that he is God?
A. I have tried to explain this scripture many times. It's hard for some to believe that Jesus is the Son of God and not God himself. Keep this in mind. Jesus himself said he was created. The scriptures tell us that Jesus had a beginning thus being created. Someone had to create Jesus? The scriptures also tell us that God has always been. That alone should tell you that they are different. Father and Son.
Q. You say that you gave up many games, can you tell me what games you play now and what games you gave up?
A. I play wow, rockband, baskball on xbox. I used to play Urban Terror, Call of Duty, Quake series, Battlefield series. I gave those all up.
Q. What do you expect of people since you talk so much about your God?
A. I expect people to be themselves without closing the door or window to what might be truth. When I mentioned that I lived in the world that means that at a time I did study other religions before becoming a witness. I didn't have to do that but I did and each and every time someone comes along and tries to show me what they believe I just don't agree with them but I expect them to be respectful, all of us should be that way. If someone talks about going to Heaven, well I don't believe that we do and that scratches many religions of my belief meter. When they say we die and go to hell, I scratch them off my belief meter. It's ok to quote scripture and many do it but to understand what it means is an entire different thing. Even Jesus had to show many who read scriptures often that they didn't have a clear understanding.
Q. Did you know that the leader of the Watchtower was a freemason
A. I didn't answer this the last time it was asked so sorry I just forgot. Many ask about Charles Taze Russell. Many have tried to say that he was a freemason after his death. They even tried to say even back then that witnesses were a cult. Kinda like those who say Obama is a terrorist and never even met the man. But for Charles many of these things were said after his death. Freemasons, for their part, have stated that Russell was not a Freemason. They stated this not Witnesses and yes I know there are sites out there always trying to connect the two but there are also sites showing that even the Pope himself worships Satan. History is nothing more than His Story...
Q. You mentioned Halloween and I understand what you meant by not celebrating it, what about other holidays such as thanksgiving and Christmas?
A. Well I spoke of Halloween simply because I find it offensive to God. No different than if several guys put on white sheets and go to a black hood. Note I used to live in the hood and my mother lives there now thus the reference to hood. I find it offensive. As for thanksgiving. While admitting that the present celebration has some connection with the Pilgrims, where did these get the idea of a thanksgiving festival? Historians note that ‘harvest festivals’ were among the oldest known holidays. And there were several different harvest celebrations in existence at the time of the Pilgrims.
Of special interest is the fact that the Pilgrims did not flee directly from England to North America. They first fled to Holland. Although religiously free there, they were disappointed with the industrial way of life, the “new” language and their economic circumstances. So from Holland they sailed on The Mayflower to the “New World.” But, argue some, the time in Holland would have brought them in touch with European harvest festivals.
Special celebrations over good harvests had occurred in several of the early American colonies. Hence, the 1621 celebration was not unprecedented.
Eventually this holiday was observed annually in the New England area. However, it was not until 1789 that the first national Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed by George Washington. And, even after that precedent, this practice was not carried on by succeeding presidents. It is claimed that Thomas Jefferson condemned it during his two terms. Finally, as already noted, in 1863 Abraham Lincoln established a yearly national festival, which ensuing presidents have honored.
Why did some people oppose the idea? For one thing, many governors felt that it was an example of state interference with religion. Actually, in time the celebration itself became more political.
Not to mention what happened to the Indians after the meal. There is nothing really to celebrate since many men, woman, and children died.
Christmas well, I'll have to answer that one later but Jesus was not and I repeat not born on that date. I'll talk about that tomorrow. I want to thank you all for your questions, I know I didn't get to all of them. I do have them on a list and will answer them maybe every Friday or sometime during the week. Thank you.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Word up
I was thinking about this over the weekend because of what was mentioned to me a week ago. That is video game addiction. For some it can be just like a person who is addicted to drugs. You may deny it but it's real. I have read and written about video game addiction. I have known personally those who were addicted to video games.
Back in the day - Pac-Man, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Battlezone and Donkey Kong, video games have landed themselves not only in amusement arcades but also in corner drugstores, supermarkets, gas stations, fast-food parlors and nearly everywhere else that people congregate. This was before they entered into your home.
I remember stealing money from my mother just to play Donkey Kong jr. Pacman and games like it are in a different league compared to games today. Take for example Grand Theft Auto. The object of the game is to advance in a criminal organization by taking part in various crimes, such as prostitution and murder. Each of your actions has consequences. If you kill pedestrians in your stolen car, police officers chase you.
If you shoot one of them, the FBI gets involved. Kill an FBI agent, and the military seek to destroy you. Although the game is intended for those 17 and older, stores have been known to sell the game to younger children. Even 12-year-olds are expressing interest in playing. Reason I picked this game is because of what was said yesterday. Gabriel who is 5 years old, my son of course received a letter from another 5 year old in his class. After asking Gabriel in his letter a series of questions, one of the questions asked " What was your favorite video game ". His answer to his favorite game was " Grand Theft Auto 3 " I then said to myself, Wow this kid is 5 years old and his parents allow him to play this game?
At any age is this kind of game or games like it healthy for you? Spiritually speaking it's not. I often mentioned having a balance in life along with what entertains you. If you do play games make sure you do not neglect every other part of your life. For example, if you have a wife - you know that your wife has needs. Make sure those needs are met. If you have children, make sure you are playing with your kids. Last thing you want is your wife to leave you and your kids not knowing who their father was.
Is it real? Yes it is. One of the most popular games right now is World of Warcraft and since they just released WOTLK everyone is in a hurry to get to 80. Spend hours and hours and hours neglecting everything else in their life just to get to 80? It doesn't stop there. Now comes gearing up! Requires even more time. How are you going to do it? If you are to play games, you need to balance it out. If you have an addictive nature then maybe you shouldn't be playing at all.
Another popular game that was recently released was Call of Duty 5. I was a big fan of Call of Duty 4 and did play it for sometime before I deleted it and games like it. The scriptures don't spell everything out for us but there are guidelines we can follow of what to play and what not to play. For example you will not find a scripture that says not to smoke but there are guidelines and thus with games its the same thing. Use caution on what you do with your time. Before you know it, your kids are young men and women. Before you know it, your wife has left you or your husband has left you. Before you know it you are alone..................Till tomorrow....
Word up!!
Let me add because I was asked. This has nothing to do with me. Just pointing out the obvious. My family are very happy. Our relationship is great. I couldn't ask for a better wife and couldn't ask for better children. We are in the process of getting Jesse his first car!!
Back in the day - Pac-Man, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Battlezone and Donkey Kong, video games have landed themselves not only in amusement arcades but also in corner drugstores, supermarkets, gas stations, fast-food parlors and nearly everywhere else that people congregate. This was before they entered into your home.
I remember stealing money from my mother just to play Donkey Kong jr. Pacman and games like it are in a different league compared to games today. Take for example Grand Theft Auto. The object of the game is to advance in a criminal organization by taking part in various crimes, such as prostitution and murder. Each of your actions has consequences. If you kill pedestrians in your stolen car, police officers chase you.
If you shoot one of them, the FBI gets involved. Kill an FBI agent, and the military seek to destroy you. Although the game is intended for those 17 and older, stores have been known to sell the game to younger children. Even 12-year-olds are expressing interest in playing. Reason I picked this game is because of what was said yesterday. Gabriel who is 5 years old, my son of course received a letter from another 5 year old in his class. After asking Gabriel in his letter a series of questions, one of the questions asked " What was your favorite video game ". His answer to his favorite game was " Grand Theft Auto 3 " I then said to myself, Wow this kid is 5 years old and his parents allow him to play this game?
At any age is this kind of game or games like it healthy for you? Spiritually speaking it's not. I often mentioned having a balance in life along with what entertains you. If you do play games make sure you do not neglect every other part of your life. For example, if you have a wife - you know that your wife has needs. Make sure those needs are met. If you have children, make sure you are playing with your kids. Last thing you want is your wife to leave you and your kids not knowing who their father was.
Is it real? Yes it is. One of the most popular games right now is World of Warcraft and since they just released WOTLK everyone is in a hurry to get to 80. Spend hours and hours and hours neglecting everything else in their life just to get to 80? It doesn't stop there. Now comes gearing up! Requires even more time. How are you going to do it? If you are to play games, you need to balance it out. If you have an addictive nature then maybe you shouldn't be playing at all.
Another popular game that was recently released was Call of Duty 5. I was a big fan of Call of Duty 4 and did play it for sometime before I deleted it and games like it. The scriptures don't spell everything out for us but there are guidelines we can follow of what to play and what not to play. For example you will not find a scripture that says not to smoke but there are guidelines and thus with games its the same thing. Use caution on what you do with your time. Before you know it, your kids are young men and women. Before you know it, your wife has left you or your husband has left you. Before you know it you are alone..................Till tomorrow....
Word up!!
Let me add because I was asked. This has nothing to do with me. Just pointing out the obvious. My family are very happy. Our relationship is great. I couldn't ask for a better wife and couldn't ask for better children. We are in the process of getting Jesse his first car!!
Friday, November 14, 2008
The question asked
Yesterday I posted tons of info on what most likely will happen within the next four years. If a guy who has predicted what will happen in our future and has been correct tells us what's going to happen in our future again, I have confidence that it will happen.
It's no different than what the Bible tells us for our future. The topic is the question asked. The reason is because that was the exact question that was asked the other day. What attracted you to the truth?
As I heard several comments on what attracted others, I could help but think of what attracted me. I love my father very much. So much so that when he died I pulled him out the coffin just to give him a hug. I could not accept the fact that he was gone.
Because my father did black magic I was not sure if he went to Heaven. I felt that if the soul does go somewhere that he would have ended up in Hell. After all, when was the last time you heard any priest say, he is going to hell. He has no chance in Heaven.
Then I found out the truth about the condition of the dead and the possibility of their future return. At first I didn't believe it. What I was taught went against everything I was being taught. After all, we believe in an invisible God that we never saw. Kinda like Children who believe in Santa at first even though they never saw him. We believe in Jesus based on what we have read, we never saw him as well. So since I always had an open mind and always considered the possibility well, I looked into it.
What I learned not only brought me joy but also gave me the feeling of purpose. For the first time in my life I found out why were are here. Why were not created in Heaven first. Why we suffer and die. All these questions that plagued me.
The thought of seeing my father smile again is what attracted me. That is what I felt inside. You might reason that I would see him again once I die. One of the reasons why I don't believe that has nothing to do with scripture but common sense.
Let's say I die now at the age of 35. My wife would suffer. My children would suffer. As an angel I would see them suffer and have no power to do anything. I would hurt till the day they die and if my wife moved on to another, I would suffer.
Let's say my wife lived to the age of 90 that would mean for 55 years I would suffer watching her with another. Watching her get old. Watching her get sick. Seeing my children go through their issues. Then they all die and come up to Heaven and I can't hug them because we are all spirits now. You might reason that we would all be together but the cycle would always continue because now my children are watching their children suffer. It's hard for me to believe that God would setup that kind of system.
If God is a God of love which he himself says he is Love then that would not be loving of him. That is what we are taught. We die, we go to Heaven. Were bad, we go to hell. I was pleased to know that when we die, we are just asleep. Note what it mentions at Ecclesiastes 9:5,10.
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” Notice what it says in the new world translation
For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.
They are not conscious at all. You would think that being an Angel perfect in all ways would remember your earthly life and be conscious of all that has happen. Scripture shows otherwise.
At Isaiah 25:8 the prophetic promise is made that God “will actually swallow up death forever. I trust in God that I will see my father again. I trust that he is the only one that can make this possible. Looking at the direction of the world condition, there is much to worry about.
The scriptures tell us to trust in God. To put his kingdom first. For my part, I shall do the best I can. Have a great weekend.
It's no different than what the Bible tells us for our future. The topic is the question asked. The reason is because that was the exact question that was asked the other day. What attracted you to the truth?
As I heard several comments on what attracted others, I could help but think of what attracted me. I love my father very much. So much so that when he died I pulled him out the coffin just to give him a hug. I could not accept the fact that he was gone.
Because my father did black magic I was not sure if he went to Heaven. I felt that if the soul does go somewhere that he would have ended up in Hell. After all, when was the last time you heard any priest say, he is going to hell. He has no chance in Heaven.
Then I found out the truth about the condition of the dead and the possibility of their future return. At first I didn't believe it. What I was taught went against everything I was being taught. After all, we believe in an invisible God that we never saw. Kinda like Children who believe in Santa at first even though they never saw him. We believe in Jesus based on what we have read, we never saw him as well. So since I always had an open mind and always considered the possibility well, I looked into it.
What I learned not only brought me joy but also gave me the feeling of purpose. For the first time in my life I found out why were are here. Why were not created in Heaven first. Why we suffer and die. All these questions that plagued me.
The thought of seeing my father smile again is what attracted me. That is what I felt inside. You might reason that I would see him again once I die. One of the reasons why I don't believe that has nothing to do with scripture but common sense.
Let's say I die now at the age of 35. My wife would suffer. My children would suffer. As an angel I would see them suffer and have no power to do anything. I would hurt till the day they die and if my wife moved on to another, I would suffer.
Let's say my wife lived to the age of 90 that would mean for 55 years I would suffer watching her with another. Watching her get old. Watching her get sick. Seeing my children go through their issues. Then they all die and come up to Heaven and I can't hug them because we are all spirits now. You might reason that we would all be together but the cycle would always continue because now my children are watching their children suffer. It's hard for me to believe that God would setup that kind of system.
If God is a God of love which he himself says he is Love then that would not be loving of him. That is what we are taught. We die, we go to Heaven. Were bad, we go to hell. I was pleased to know that when we die, we are just asleep. Note what it mentions at Ecclesiastes 9:5,10.
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” Notice what it says in the new world translation
For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.
They are not conscious at all. You would think that being an Angel perfect in all ways would remember your earthly life and be conscious of all that has happen. Scripture shows otherwise.
At Isaiah 25:8 the prophetic promise is made that God “will actually swallow up death forever. I trust in God that I will see my father again. I trust that he is the only one that can make this possible. Looking at the direction of the world condition, there is much to worry about.
The scriptures tell us to trust in God. To put his kingdom first. For my part, I shall do the best I can. Have a great weekend.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Economic 9/11
This is a mess folks. It's interesting to note that the date mentioned mentioned by the Mayan was 2012 which some say is the end of the world as we know it. Seeing how the books were destroyed it's hard to say what will happened year 2012. In the view he mentions 2012
This really is an Economic 9/11.This is a classic Titanic situation in the sense that what we saw with the Fannie and Freddie bailouts and the Bear Stearns bailouts and now the AIG request for more than forty billion more dollars from the federal government – it’s just like the Titanic where the rich and affluent were given the lifeboats and the rest of the people went under from steerage. The rich and powerful are too big to fail; the rest of us are too small to save.
The Feds cannot print enough money to save the day. We’re going into the worst depression that any living person has ever seen. It’s going to be worse than the Great Depression of 1929. I can and will promise you that.
Do you realize that Barack Obama recently said that he would not rescind the Bush tax cuts. He said this on ABC, September 7, 2008, IF the economy were in a recession. IF the economy is in RECESSION?! This is worse than a recession! We’re going into the greatest depression and people better beware.
I’ll tell you what I know other people are doing. They are taking their money out of the banks. People with a lot of money are moving it overseas into what they think are safer banks. LOL. There’s going to be a day here in the United States that the authorities are going to call a Bank Holiday. AIG is calling for more than $40 billion today. The Feds just bailed out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mac to the tune that could cost taxpayers up to $300 billion or more. Our national debt has been increased to at least $12 TRILLION Plus! Again - the Feds cannot print enough money to save the day.
You’re going to hear all those fat mouths out there that were saying that everything was OK, the FDIC was going to insure your money. Just like they did in Argentina and they did it in Brazil when their economies collapsed and their currencies collapsed and their economies were sinking. You’re not going to be able to get all your money out at one time. Our government is going to say, ‘It’s insured. Don’t worry about it, but we need to pause. Take a deep breath.’ Oh, boy, do they love that phrase! ‘Take a deep breath.’
September 13th the New York Times headlines story on the business page is to just pause and reflect. Don’t panic. Everything is OK. The ship is sinking and the best they can say is, ‘Doesn’t the band sound great!’
How is this the worst? Let's see how
1) In the 1929 Depression, not many people owned homes, so they weren’t carrying that heavy mortgage load. The people who did have homes did not have something called ‘home equity loans,’ which is more money owed on top of the other money. They used to have something else back then called a ‘second mortgage.’ If you had one, you were a loser.
2) Back in the 1929 Depression days, people didn’t have things called ‘credit cards.’
3) The United States didn’t have $14 Plus trillion worth of debt.
4) We still had a manufacturing base in the United States so that when WWII broke out and the economy improved afterwards, we were still able to produce more so than any other country in the world. But now, the U. S. off-shores so much manufacturing now.
5) Back in the Great Depression of 1929, the U. S. government was not $14 trillion in debt and they had a trade surplus, not a trade deficit.
6) We weren’t fighting two wars that have sapped already $2 trillion from our American treasury and it’s getting worse.
The American Dollar. Folks Keep your eyes open.
If you look at the markets today, what’s going up and what’s going down? The softer commodities are retreating and the only thing going up in the markets today is gold. It’s coming off its lows where it’s been battered down, but it’s up some $17.
What people I know are doing is taking their money and putting it into other currencies, particularly the Swiss franc, and putting it into more secure international banks, and betting against America on every level. And its only going to get worse. There is nothing to turn this around. What is the Federal Reserve going to do? Print more money?
When the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates not If when, they lower interest rates, you’re going to see the dollar plummet and yes I know they already have. If they keep interest rates the same, then we have the same situation we’re in now. They can’t raise interest rates. If they do, they will put the brakes on an already credit-squeezed economy and that will really push us into a really steep depression quicker than what anyone has seen. Looking across Europe, you can see the markets collapsing, along with the Russian market down 45%. There is no safety net. Ships do sink!
It’s about preserving what you have.In China, factory orders are plummeting. They have 1.2 billion people and millions of problems. So, they are not going to escape this global economic collapse either. There is no way out.
Remember the old fable about the grasshopper and the ant. The grasshopper played during the summer thinking it didn’t have to do anything to survive the cold winter coming. People are still acting like grasshoppers. What people are saying is, ‘I’m going to wait until after the elections to see what happens.’ To see what happens for what? The people running for office don’t have the economic skills.
So what will happen in 2009. Remember I posted this.
Take retail sales, for example. This Christmas 2008, you’re going to see major chains go bankrupt. If you can see Lehman Brothers go under – guess what? Macy’s, J. C. Penny, GAP and the rest of them could go down, too.
All these companies, like the leverage buyout firms, have been built on an economic model of growth and expansion. That means opening new stores in new locations, but not necessarily increasing in store sales. You’re going to see major bankruptcies. It’s going to happen. It has happened, remember C.City?
You’re also going to see violence go to levels we’ve never seen before. You’re going to start to see gangland mentality that is running through Mexico start seeping up north into the United States. The Mexican government cannot control the level of violence. And we’re going to start to see it happening here: more gangs, more kidnappings, more violence and crime. The knee jerk reaction, of course, will be more police on the streets and that is not going to solve the problem.
We’re also going to see more movements for the break up of the American government – not necessarily in 2009 and so on, but we can certainly see the secessionist movements that have been gaining more strength because the federal government cannot fix this problem. It’s too big.
Greenspan is the guy that’s behind this whole collapse. By lowering interest rates during the dotcom bubble of 2000. They lowered the interest rates to 46-year-lows and created the situation that exists now for all this cheap money and all the financial games. Greenspan is the Prince of Destruction. The Federal Reserve is what is behind the destruction of this country and now Greenspan is warning us! He’s the one who caused all this!
Ron Paul has informed the people that the Federal Reserve is basically a rogue organization. It’s a private bank, it’s not a federal agency. They have taken the power of the money printing press out of the hands of Congress (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5) that gives Congress the sole authority to print and regulate the money supply. And Alan Greenspan is the one that caused this Great Depression. He started it by bailing out the big guys following the 1987 Stock Market Crash, following the 1997 Asian currency crisis, following the 1998 long-term capital management bailout. This is what keeps happening – bailing out the big guys by printing cheap money because their friends are too big to fail.
The 9/11 attack happened and it was the greatest military strike in history, I don't care which side you think did it. It brought down the financial pillars of the United States figuratively and literally.
The United States as not recuperated from the great strike of 9/11 and the debacle of the dotcom crash. It was temporarily ameliorated by Greenspan by putting interest rates at 46-year-lows and creating the credit bubble. So, it’s over now.
The United States looks like to me what you see when a third world country starts going into chaos like any other failing empire. It’s going to be a very ugly scene. As I said, we’re going to see more crime. We’re going to see more federal intrusion into our lives. We are going to see more geopolitical turmoil. We’re going to start seeing our minds diverted from the financial crisis into more geopolitical affairs. We can also see by Election Day 2008 that the United States is involved in a major geopolitical confrontation, whether it is Iran or Russia.
You know, the Russians are really angry at America right now because of Georgia invading South Oscettia and Russia’s response!!
Start watching the gas spicket being turned going into the Ukraine and Europe. I’m not certain of the number, but I believe it is 40% to 60% of the natural gas that Europe uses comes out of Russia. You’re going to start seeing Russia turn off spickets. You’re going to see the same thing happen in Venezuela. Those countries are going to start making energy really difficult to get. They aren’t going to give their product away. At the end of the day, Russia and Venezuela are going to get more money for their petroleum products.
The U. S. has no leverage with anybody now. We’re leveraged out. We used to be able to play the financial card. We can’t play that anymore. We used to play the military card. We can’t play that anymore. The United States is losing third world street fights in Afghanistan and Iraq. I don’t care about people telling me the surge is working. That is fairy tale language. As soon as there is a little rest, they are going to attack again. There were major bombings again this last week and they are not going to stop until the United States is thrown out. So, now you have all these countries that have weapons of mass destruction. They are not going to bow to America. It’s not like the old days of Venezuela or Chile or Argentina or Bolivia getting out of hand and the United States sends down gunboat diplomacy.
Folks those days are over. They are going to fight back and not with bows and arrows and little weaponry. They are armed to the teeth. So, the U. S. has lost its military supremacy and its economic supremacy. Yes, the United States could obliterate any country and bomb them into the Stone Age. But that country, what’s left of it, will retaliate again.
There is still a hole in the ground after the 9/11 attacks. That’s a metaphor. If anybody thinks the American government has the wherewithal, the intelligence or the integrity to get anything done, there is still a hole in the ground seven years later, there are still levees that have not been properly re-built after Katrina and people still can’t vote in the United States and have their vote properly counted because the voting machines don’t work. That’s America now.
It’s ironic in the fact that the international community bought into the same myths as everyone else. It’s greed that ruined this country and it’s greed that is ruining others. They all played the quick money game.
Another irony is that people could thrive in these times because as the old is dying, something new is being born. If there is intelligence, integrity and dignity behind the next movement, we could move into a new Renaissance, a brighter time and not a dark one.
I don't know how long it will take to get out of this mess. As long as it took 1929 and that was a war. And unfortunately, that’s the way authorities will start thinking. The only thing more I can say for this country is that the American people need to regain their dignity and look at their own moral base and what they are accepting as truth and lies. The only thing that will save us is enlightened leadership. I think it has to come from the individual and move up.
And unless people change the way they are living their lives, nothing is going to change. These people, Obama, McCain, Biden and Palin aren’t my leaders. They couldn’t lead me across the street! When are the American people find their own strength and become their own leaders? Until individual people find their own greatness within, nothing is going to change.
To everybody out there, make provisions now like the ant did for a cold, brutal winter wherever you live. Things are going to get very tough. Don’t waste a dime you don’t need to waste. Preserve and Save.
Let me just add for those who were upset over the 700 Billion dollar payout not bailout look at this
http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/11/12/paulson-bernanke-fed-biz-wall-cx_lm_1112bailout.html
This really is an Economic 9/11.This is a classic Titanic situation in the sense that what we saw with the Fannie and Freddie bailouts and the Bear Stearns bailouts and now the AIG request for more than forty billion more dollars from the federal government – it’s just like the Titanic where the rich and affluent were given the lifeboats and the rest of the people went under from steerage. The rich and powerful are too big to fail; the rest of us are too small to save.
The Feds cannot print enough money to save the day. We’re going into the worst depression that any living person has ever seen. It’s going to be worse than the Great Depression of 1929. I can and will promise you that.
Do you realize that Barack Obama recently said that he would not rescind the Bush tax cuts. He said this on ABC, September 7, 2008, IF the economy were in a recession. IF the economy is in RECESSION?! This is worse than a recession! We’re going into the greatest depression and people better beware.
I’ll tell you what I know other people are doing. They are taking their money out of the banks. People with a lot of money are moving it overseas into what they think are safer banks. LOL. There’s going to be a day here in the United States that the authorities are going to call a Bank Holiday. AIG is calling for more than $40 billion today. The Feds just bailed out Freddie Mac and Fannie Mac to the tune that could cost taxpayers up to $300 billion or more. Our national debt has been increased to at least $12 TRILLION Plus! Again - the Feds cannot print enough money to save the day.
You’re going to hear all those fat mouths out there that were saying that everything was OK, the FDIC was going to insure your money. Just like they did in Argentina and they did it in Brazil when their economies collapsed and their currencies collapsed and their economies were sinking. You’re not going to be able to get all your money out at one time. Our government is going to say, ‘It’s insured. Don’t worry about it, but we need to pause. Take a deep breath.’ Oh, boy, do they love that phrase! ‘Take a deep breath.’
September 13th the New York Times headlines story on the business page is to just pause and reflect. Don’t panic. Everything is OK. The ship is sinking and the best they can say is, ‘Doesn’t the band sound great!’
How is this the worst? Let's see how
1) In the 1929 Depression, not many people owned homes, so they weren’t carrying that heavy mortgage load. The people who did have homes did not have something called ‘home equity loans,’ which is more money owed on top of the other money. They used to have something else back then called a ‘second mortgage.’ If you had one, you were a loser.
2) Back in the 1929 Depression days, people didn’t have things called ‘credit cards.’
3) The United States didn’t have $14 Plus trillion worth of debt.
4) We still had a manufacturing base in the United States so that when WWII broke out and the economy improved afterwards, we were still able to produce more so than any other country in the world. But now, the U. S. off-shores so much manufacturing now.
5) Back in the Great Depression of 1929, the U. S. government was not $14 trillion in debt and they had a trade surplus, not a trade deficit.
6) We weren’t fighting two wars that have sapped already $2 trillion from our American treasury and it’s getting worse.
The American Dollar. Folks Keep your eyes open.
If you look at the markets today, what’s going up and what’s going down? The softer commodities are retreating and the only thing going up in the markets today is gold. It’s coming off its lows where it’s been battered down, but it’s up some $17.
What people I know are doing is taking their money and putting it into other currencies, particularly the Swiss franc, and putting it into more secure international banks, and betting against America on every level. And its only going to get worse. There is nothing to turn this around. What is the Federal Reserve going to do? Print more money?
When the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates not If when, they lower interest rates, you’re going to see the dollar plummet and yes I know they already have. If they keep interest rates the same, then we have the same situation we’re in now. They can’t raise interest rates. If they do, they will put the brakes on an already credit-squeezed economy and that will really push us into a really steep depression quicker than what anyone has seen. Looking across Europe, you can see the markets collapsing, along with the Russian market down 45%. There is no safety net. Ships do sink!
It’s about preserving what you have.In China, factory orders are plummeting. They have 1.2 billion people and millions of problems. So, they are not going to escape this global economic collapse either. There is no way out.
Remember the old fable about the grasshopper and the ant. The grasshopper played during the summer thinking it didn’t have to do anything to survive the cold winter coming. People are still acting like grasshoppers. What people are saying is, ‘I’m going to wait until after the elections to see what happens.’ To see what happens for what? The people running for office don’t have the economic skills.
So what will happen in 2009. Remember I posted this.
Take retail sales, for example. This Christmas 2008, you’re going to see major chains go bankrupt. If you can see Lehman Brothers go under – guess what? Macy’s, J. C. Penny, GAP and the rest of them could go down, too.
All these companies, like the leverage buyout firms, have been built on an economic model of growth and expansion. That means opening new stores in new locations, but not necessarily increasing in store sales. You’re going to see major bankruptcies. It’s going to happen. It has happened, remember C.City?
You’re also going to see violence go to levels we’ve never seen before. You’re going to start to see gangland mentality that is running through Mexico start seeping up north into the United States. The Mexican government cannot control the level of violence. And we’re going to start to see it happening here: more gangs, more kidnappings, more violence and crime. The knee jerk reaction, of course, will be more police on the streets and that is not going to solve the problem.
We’re also going to see more movements for the break up of the American government – not necessarily in 2009 and so on, but we can certainly see the secessionist movements that have been gaining more strength because the federal government cannot fix this problem. It’s too big.
Greenspan is the guy that’s behind this whole collapse. By lowering interest rates during the dotcom bubble of 2000. They lowered the interest rates to 46-year-lows and created the situation that exists now for all this cheap money and all the financial games. Greenspan is the Prince of Destruction. The Federal Reserve is what is behind the destruction of this country and now Greenspan is warning us! He’s the one who caused all this!
Ron Paul has informed the people that the Federal Reserve is basically a rogue organization. It’s a private bank, it’s not a federal agency. They have taken the power of the money printing press out of the hands of Congress (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5) that gives Congress the sole authority to print and regulate the money supply. And Alan Greenspan is the one that caused this Great Depression. He started it by bailing out the big guys following the 1987 Stock Market Crash, following the 1997 Asian currency crisis, following the 1998 long-term capital management bailout. This is what keeps happening – bailing out the big guys by printing cheap money because their friends are too big to fail.
The 9/11 attack happened and it was the greatest military strike in history, I don't care which side you think did it. It brought down the financial pillars of the United States figuratively and literally.
The United States as not recuperated from the great strike of 9/11 and the debacle of the dotcom crash. It was temporarily ameliorated by Greenspan by putting interest rates at 46-year-lows and creating the credit bubble. So, it’s over now.
The United States looks like to me what you see when a third world country starts going into chaos like any other failing empire. It’s going to be a very ugly scene. As I said, we’re going to see more crime. We’re going to see more federal intrusion into our lives. We are going to see more geopolitical turmoil. We’re going to start seeing our minds diverted from the financial crisis into more geopolitical affairs. We can also see by Election Day 2008 that the United States is involved in a major geopolitical confrontation, whether it is Iran or Russia.
You know, the Russians are really angry at America right now because of Georgia invading South Oscettia and Russia’s response!!
Start watching the gas spicket being turned going into the Ukraine and Europe. I’m not certain of the number, but I believe it is 40% to 60% of the natural gas that Europe uses comes out of Russia. You’re going to start seeing Russia turn off spickets. You’re going to see the same thing happen in Venezuela. Those countries are going to start making energy really difficult to get. They aren’t going to give their product away. At the end of the day, Russia and Venezuela are going to get more money for their petroleum products.
The U. S. has no leverage with anybody now. We’re leveraged out. We used to be able to play the financial card. We can’t play that anymore. We used to play the military card. We can’t play that anymore. The United States is losing third world street fights in Afghanistan and Iraq. I don’t care about people telling me the surge is working. That is fairy tale language. As soon as there is a little rest, they are going to attack again. There were major bombings again this last week and they are not going to stop until the United States is thrown out. So, now you have all these countries that have weapons of mass destruction. They are not going to bow to America. It’s not like the old days of Venezuela or Chile or Argentina or Bolivia getting out of hand and the United States sends down gunboat diplomacy.
Folks those days are over. They are going to fight back and not with bows and arrows and little weaponry. They are armed to the teeth. So, the U. S. has lost its military supremacy and its economic supremacy. Yes, the United States could obliterate any country and bomb them into the Stone Age. But that country, what’s left of it, will retaliate again.
There is still a hole in the ground after the 9/11 attacks. That’s a metaphor. If anybody thinks the American government has the wherewithal, the intelligence or the integrity to get anything done, there is still a hole in the ground seven years later, there are still levees that have not been properly re-built after Katrina and people still can’t vote in the United States and have their vote properly counted because the voting machines don’t work. That’s America now.
It’s ironic in the fact that the international community bought into the same myths as everyone else. It’s greed that ruined this country and it’s greed that is ruining others. They all played the quick money game.
Another irony is that people could thrive in these times because as the old is dying, something new is being born. If there is intelligence, integrity and dignity behind the next movement, we could move into a new Renaissance, a brighter time and not a dark one.
I don't know how long it will take to get out of this mess. As long as it took 1929 and that was a war. And unfortunately, that’s the way authorities will start thinking. The only thing more I can say for this country is that the American people need to regain their dignity and look at their own moral base and what they are accepting as truth and lies. The only thing that will save us is enlightened leadership. I think it has to come from the individual and move up.
And unless people change the way they are living their lives, nothing is going to change. These people, Obama, McCain, Biden and Palin aren’t my leaders. They couldn’t lead me across the street! When are the American people find their own strength and become their own leaders? Until individual people find their own greatness within, nothing is going to change.
To everybody out there, make provisions now like the ant did for a cold, brutal winter wherever you live. Things are going to get very tough. Don’t waste a dime you don’t need to waste. Preserve and Save.
Let me just add for those who were upset over the 700 Billion dollar payout not bailout look at this
http://www.forbes.com/home/2008/11/12/paulson-bernanke-fed-biz-wall-cx_lm_1112bailout.html
WOTLK
With all that is happening I forgot to mention that WOTLK was released today. The long awaited DeathKnight is finally here. I've read what they can do and what they are about. Also the level cap of course is 80. For those who have been waiting for something new well WOTLK will do it for you.
I have seen some of the new instances and it looks simply amazing. But my love right now is Rockband....
Of Course here is a video of the Guitar
Drums:
Woot!!!
I have seen some of the new instances and it looks simply amazing. But my love right now is Rockband....
Of Course here is a video of the Guitar
Drums:
Woot!!!
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