Jesus and his Apostles taught
The Kingdom of GOD to the Jews.
Apostle Paul taught the Salvation through Jesus Christ to the Body of Christ.
GOD's name is being abused and put to shame by so called Priests and Ministers,
as well as by politicians on a permanent basis.
This has to stop.
GOD does NOT support war or killing. Feel
free to look at the
Commandments
and be aware that the Old Testament is the
history of the Jews and is to be seen as such. Being Christian, it does not
apply to us. Our teachings come directly from GOD, Jesus and the Apostle Paul.
And no, we don't spread any hate, ever. We spread Love and Facts. If you
consider Love and Facts to be something evil, you might be another neo-con or
right wing nut.
We want to make a clear distinction
between “moderate Muslims” and “radical Islamists and
Jihadists.” We expect that immigrants who come
voluntarily to Europe or the US accept our culture and
its framework, which is - or should be - characterized
by democracy, pluralism, equal rights, no discrimination
of gender, race and religion, freedom of speech and free
media. We believe that moderate Muslims can accept
these principles without losing their identity. The
majority of our population is ready to integrate these
people.
On the other hand, we have to fight
against the radical Islamists and Jihadists who want to
abolish our constitution, our laws and rules as well as
our way of life. They often use moderate Muslims as a
camouflage and cover. A new kind of threat derives from
the so-called homegrown radicals – European or US
citizens of the third or fourth generation.
We are defending in our commentaries the
moderate Muslims, which are almost all Muslims, NOT the
small group of mislead terrorists that want to destroy
our way of life.
Going to church
doesn't make you
a Christian anymore
than standing in a garage
makes you a car
Welcome to our Church of
Christian Reformation,
The Eternal Church of Jesus Christ
Pastor Fred is currently performing most of the duties of our
ministry.
Our Church
believes in GOD,
not in Politicians, false Prophets,
Priests or Televangelists
who preach war and violence against GOD's will and rightly divided word.
Rev. Alexander's News & Views
Happy New
Year 2010...
and some thoughts for survival
Every year
this subject is one of my favorites because it proves just how
out of tune we are with
GOD, our world and our own will to survive.
Project Censored specializes in
covering the top stories which were subjected to censorship
either by being ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media
each year.
Project Censored is a research team composed of more than
200 university faculty, students, and community experts who
annually review up to 1,000 news story submissions for content,
reliability of sources, and national significance. The top 25
stories selected are submitted to a distinguished panel of
judges who rank them in order of importance. The results are
published each year in an excellent book available for purchase
at
their website,
amazon.com, and major book stores.
A
summary of the top 25 media censorship stories of 2009 provided
below proves quite revealing and most informative.
Top
25 Stories of 2009 Subjected to Media Censorship
1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street
(For full story,
click here)
Americans get the best democracy money can buy, money coming
more than ever today from Wall Street. Since 2001, eight of the
most troubled financial firms have donated $64.2 million to
congressional candidates, presidential candidates and the
Republican and Democratic parties. Is it surprising how much
they control them? Influential House and Senate finance and
banking committee members got $5.2 million from bailout
recipients like Goldman Sachs, Citibank, AIG, Fannie Mae,
Freddie Mac, and others. In the last election cycle, Obama
received at least $4.3 million from the same institutions. From
1998 - 2007, financial and banking companies spent $1.7 billion
on federal campaign contributions and another $3.4 billion on
lobbyists. In 1999, the Glass-Steagall Act was gutted – the
landmark 1933 law that prevented banks from getting into the
insurance business. In January 2000, the Commodity Futures
Modernization Act legitimized swap agreements and other hybrid
instruments, at the core of today's problems, by preventing
regulatory oversight of derivatives and leveraging, thus letting
Wall Street legally pillage and speculate. The result was a financial coup d'etat
cementing the gradual takeover of the government by a small
class of connected insiders who choose candidates, control
elections, weaken financial regulations, and basically run the
country for their own self-interest. As a
result, Washington today has become largely a subsidiary of the
Wall Street financial giants.
2. US Schools Are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s (For full story,
click here)
According to a UCLA Civil Rights report,
"schools in the US are 44 percent non-white, and ... Latinos and
blacks, the two largest minority groups, attend schools more
segregated today than during the civil rights movement forty
years ago." The result is: unequal education
which denies disadvantaged youths access to college and better
jobs; growing numbers of these youths becoming "virtually
unemployable" for anything more than menial labor or the
military; greater vulnerability to future poverty, poor health,
gangs, crime, and prolonged incarceration in America's vast
prison/industrial complex. The report stresses the need for
"leaders who recognize that we have a common destiny in an
America where our children grow up together, knowing and
respecting each other, and are all given the educational tools
that prepare them for success in our society." The UCLA Civil
Rights Study shows that most severe segregation in public
schools is in the Western states, including California – not in
the South, as many people believe. Eighty-five percent of the
nation’s teachers are white, and little progress is being made
toward diversifying the nation’s teaching force.
The international community has come out in force to condemn and
declare war on the Somali fishermen pirates, while discreetly
protecting the illegal, unreported and unregulated fleets from
around the world that have been poaching and dumping toxic waste
in Somali waters since the fall of the Somali government
eighteen years ago. Foreign interests have been using hundreds
of vessels to loot the country's food supply, according to the
High Seas Task Force (HSTF), stealing "an estimated $450 million
in seafood from Somali waters annually" and ruining the
livelihoods of Somali fishermen.
Somalia has also been used as a dumping ground for hazardous
waste starting in the early 1990s, and continuing through the
civil war there. Instead of rectifying the
problem, the UN passed "aggressive resolutions that entitle and
encourage transgressors to wage war on Somali pirates." NATO,
the EU, and other countries issued similar orders. Some say that
the acts of piracy may actually be born of desperation. What is
one man’s pirate may be another man’s Coast Guard.
4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina
(For full story,
click here)
North Carolina's Shearon Harris nuclear plant contains the
largest radioactive waste storage pools in the country. If the
cooling system malfunctions, the resulting fire would be
virtually unquenchable and could trigger a nuclear meltdown.
Between 1999 and 2003, there were twelve major problems
requiring the shutdown of the plant. In 2002, the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) put the plant on notice for nine
unresolved safety issues detected. When the NRC returned to the
plant a few months later, it determined that the corrective
actions were “not acceptable.” Between January and July of 2002,
Harris plant managers were forced to manually shut down the
reactors four times.
Problems at Shearon Harris continue with chilling regularity.
Yet the NRC ignores the potential risks. A
recent study by Brookhaven Labs estimates that a pool fire could
cause 140,000 cancers, contaminate thousands of square miles of
land, and cause over $500 billion in off-site property damage.
The plant is a nuclear time bomb, and millions in the region are
at risk.
Source: CounterPunch, August 9,
2008, “Pools
of Fire,” by Jeffrey St. Clair.
5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products
(For full story,
click here)
Unlike in America, European countries are moving toward a model
of insisting on environmental and consumer safety that requires
assessing thousands of chemicals for their potential toxic
effects. New regulations will mandate that companies seeking
market access eliminate toxic substances and produce safer
electronics, automobiles, toys and cosmetics. Without compliance
henceforth, the products of hundreds of US companies may be
excluded from European markets, and according to Mark Schapiro,
author of
Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products,
"only five percent of all chemicals in the US have undergone
even minimal testing." Further, new EPA requirements consider
the "costs to industry" in assessing threats to public health as
a reason to side with industry and keep regulations minimal.
The divergence between US and European regulation has made
America the dumping ground for toxic toys, electronics and
cosmetics. The US produces and consumes the toxic materials from
which other countries around the world are protected.
6. Lobbyists Buy Congress
(For full story,
click here)
In 2008, The Center for Responsive
Politics reported that "special interests paid Washington
lobbyists $3.2 billion in 2008," higher than any year on record
and 13.7% more than 2007. That amounts to $17.4 million for each
day Congress was in session, or $32,523 per legislator per day.
Health interests spent the most for the third consecutive year,
$478.5 million, followed by the FIRE sector (finance, insurance
and real estate) at $453.5 million. It's a small investment
yielding big returns for these and other industries, competing
at the public trough for as much as they can get. The payoff is
in the billions for some corporations, and for Wall Street
trillions have been pledged, as well as interest free money from
the banker-owned Federal Reserve.
7. Obama's Military Appointments Have Corrupted Pasts
(For full story,
click here)
After promising not to politicize
intelligence and to keep lobbyists out of top government posts,
Obama appointed many former lobbyists and board members of
companies doing business directly with the Pentagon.
He retained Robert Gates as Defense Secretary despite his
history at CIA of having cooked the books for political reasons.
According to Agency insiders who knew him, he "corrupted the
intelligence product" to suit the White House and further his
own self-interest. When Bush nominated him for CIA Director in
1991, a virtual insurrection among CIA analysts erupted over his
penchant for having politicized intelligence. Independent
counsel Lawrence Walsh states that, despite Gates' touted
memory, he "denied recollection of facts thirty-three times."
Obama's Deputy Defense Secretary, William Lynn, is just as
tainted. The former Raytheon vice president and company lobbyist
caused Republican Senator Charles Grassley to object to his
"very questionable accounting practices" as Pentagon comptroller
during the Clinton years. He and Obama's Undersecretary of
Defense, Robert Hale, who served as Assistant Air Force
Secretary Financial Comptroller under Clinton, are claimed to
have
lost enough taxpayer money to pay for Obama's stimulus plan
four times over. They now again oversee DOD spending. The list
goes on. Most of Obama's national security team is composed of
recycled appointees committed to continued imperial wars and
outlandish amounts of military spending for them.
8. Bailed Out Banks Cheat IRS Out of Billions
(For full story,
click here)
It's an old story. "Only the little people pay taxes," according
to former tax cheat Leona Hemsley (1920 - 2007), and rarely does
anyone like her get caught.
In 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported
that 83 of the top publicly held US companies have operations in
tax havens like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and the Virgin
Islands. 14 of these companies, including AIG, Bank of America,
and Citigroup, received money from the government bailout.
In addition, Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) helped wealthy
clients cheat the IRS out of over $20 billion in recent years,
according to the Department of Justice. Other notorious tax
havens include Austria, Luxembourg, Singapore, Hong Kong,
Monaco, Gibraltar, and the Bahamas. In 2008, havens like these
saved Goldman Sachs billions of dollars through "changes in
(its) geographic earnings mix." For many other companies, it's
much the same through legal provisions in the tax code.
According to some estimates, trillions of dollars in both
corporate profits and personal wealth have migrated offshore,
and the offshore banking world now harbors $11.5 trillion in
individual wealth alone.
9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza
(For full story,
click here)
For decades, America has supplied
Israel, population 7.5 million, with tens of billions in aid,
interest-free loans, and the latest in new weapons and
technology, including illegal white phosphorous shells used
against Gazan civilians during Operation Cast Lead.
In addition, Washington has supplied F-16 fighters, attack
helicopters, tactical missiles, bunker-buster bombs, a wide
variety of other munitions, and undisclosed new weapons for
testing in real time combat situations against Palestinian or
other Arab civilians. In Gaza, shell fragments revealed names of
US defense contractors, including Raytheon. Another was marked
the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas. In shocking support for
Israel's questionable attacks, and in violation of international
and US law, both Houses of Congress overwhelmingly endorsed the
continued aggression. Obama stayed silent on the subject in the
run-up to his January 20 inauguration.
10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate (Full
story here)
In November 2008, Ecuador became the first country to undertake
an examination of the legitimacy and structure of its foreign
debt. In violation of Ecuadorian law, predatory international
lenders were involved in hundreds of illegitimate
irregularities.
Billions in foreign debt at exorbitant interest rates resulted
in debt service far exceeding the principal borrowed, and at a
staggering human cost. In December, President
Rafael Correa announced his country would default. In April
2009, he was re-elected overwhelmingly. Ecuador exposed the corrupted
international finance system in a way that could set a precedent
for the poorest of indebted countries. Correa
asked other Latin American nations "to forge a united response,
(and for) the United Nations to help develop international norms
to regulate the foreign debt market." The April 2008 House
passed Jubilee Act was a positive step forward. However, the
Senate failed to pass its S. 2166 version, then cleared the
legislation from its books. In June 2009, Ecuador agreed with
91% of its creditors to pay 35 cents on the dollar for its debt.
Other countries may now follow suit, especially those most
impacted by the global economic crisis.
Sources: Alternet, Nov. 26, 2008,
“Ecuador
Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate and Illegal,” by Daniel
Denvir. Utube, Fall 2008, “Invalid Loans to Ecuador: Who Owes
Who,” by Committee for the Integral Audit of Public Credit.
Institute for Policy Studies, Dec. 15, 2008, “Ecuador’s
Debt Default,” by Neil Watkins, Sarah Anders.
Other Media Censorship Stories in the Top 25
11. Private Corporations Profit from
the Occupation of Palestine
(For full story,
click here)
US, Israeli, and other international corporations profit from
the occupation of Palestine. They lead real estate deals,
develop Israeli settlements and infrastructure, and help
solidify the continued land theft, economic exploitation, and
apartheid separation of Muslims and Jews, in violation of
international law.
12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell -
Karl Rove's Election Thief
(For full story,
click here)
As Karl Rove's chief IT consultant, Connell was a key figure in
2004 election manipulations for George Bush. Under subpoena
to testify on his role in Ohio, he died mysteriously in a Dec.
19, 2008 plane crash. IT expert Stephen Spoonamore, a
conservative Republican, explained how Connell's vote tabulation
system worked. "It allowed (for) the introduction of an
additional single computer between computer A and computer B."
The centralized collection of all incoming statewide results
made it easy for a single operator, or a preprogrammed computer
to change the results in any way desired by the team controlling
the inserted computer.
13. Katrina's Hidden Race War
(For full story,
click here)
After Hurricane Katrina, a
Nation magazine report explained that "white
vigilante groups patrolled the streets of New Orleans ...
shooting at least eleven African American men." Falsely
portrayed as looters and thugs, they were gunned down in cold
blood by "gun-toting white males," yet city police didn't
intervene or investigate. In addition, Blackwater mercenaries
were deployed in New Orleans right after the storm. In full
battle gear, they terrorized black residents, removed them from
choice areas for development, and assured they didn't return.
14. Congress Invested in Defense
Contracts
(For full story,
click here)
According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics,
over 151 congressional members have invested up to $195 million
in major defense contractors, thus profiting from America's
imperial wars. Major investors include: Rep. Rodney
Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) - $49.1 million; Senator John Kerry (D-MA)
- $38.2 million; Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC) - $37.1 million; Rep.
Fred Upton (R-MI) - $8.4 million; Rep. James Sensenbrenner
(R-WI) - $7.6 million; Rep. Jane Harmon (D-CA) - $6.3 million;
and Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI) - $5.8 million.
15. World Bank's Carbon Trade Fiasco
(For full story,
click here)
On the pretext of environmental protection, the World Bank is
brokering carbon emission trading arrangements that destroy
indigenous farmlands around the world and do little to cut
pollution or reduce the threat of climate change. The scheme is
similar to Obama's cap and trade bill (HR 2454: American Clean
Energy and Security Act) that lets corporate polluters reap huge
windfall profits by charging consumers more for energy and fuel.
16. US Repression of Haiti Continues
(For full story,
click here)
The US government plans to demolish the homes of hundreds of
Haitians to expand an occupying UN force’s military base. The
New York Times has also published a
revealing article titled "Rights Groups Assail US for
Withholding Aid to Haiti, Citing Political Motives." The Bush
administration may have caused the deaths of thousands of
Haitians by blocking aid for cynical and self-interested
political purposes.
17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War
in Sudan
(For full story,
click here)
Huge potential oil reserves explain the significance of Darfur.
Washington's genocide claim is exaggerated for political
purposes. It's part of America's chess game with China for
control of the region's resources. Beijing already gets up to
30% of its oil from Africa. Under cover from International
Criminal Court's fraudulent indictment of Sudan's President Omar
al-Bashir for war crimes and other contrived reasons, America
has exploited the region militarily for geopolitical advantage.
18. Ecuador's Constitutional Rights of
Nature
(For full story,
click here)
In September 2008, Ecuador became the first country ever to
declare constitutional rights to nature, thus codifying a new
system of environmental protection. Its Constitution declares
nature "has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate
its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in
evolution." Ecuador's Rights of Nature hold hope that other
nations may adopt them and start to more fully protect the
environment.
19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to
Defeat Labor
(For full story,
click here)
After receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of
America organized opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)
- legislation to guarantee workers the right to bargain more
fairly and collectively with management. Business is firmly
opposed. On March 10, S. 560: Employee Free Choice Act of 2009
was introduced in the Senate. It was referred to the Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions Committee where it's pending.
Given the Obama administration's opposition, its passage looks
doubtful.
20. Secret Control of the Presidential
Debates
(For full story,
click here)
Since 1987, the Republican and Democrat-controlled Commission on
Presidential Debates (CPD) has run the process, dictates terms,
and excludes unwanted participants. During the 2008 presidential
cycle, the Obama and McCain teams secretly cut a deal on who
could participate, permissible topics, and the debate format
structure. Before he died, Walter Cronkite called the CPD an
"unconscionable fraud."
21. Recession Causes States to Cut
Welfare
(For full story,
click here)
Faced with huge budget shortfalls and little help from
Washington, states have been forced to make major expenditure
cuts, many affecting vital social services, including health
care, education, and welfare. Yet cutting Temporary Assistance
to Needy Families (TANF) began prior to the present crisis so
funds could be redirected to other priorities. Nationally,
welfare rolls dropped over 40% between 2001 and June 2008, and
in some states, like Georgia, up to 90%. America's social safety
net is fast disappearing.
22. Obama's Trilateral Commission Team
(For full story,
click here)
Obama appointed 11 members of the
Trilateral Commission (TC) to top positions in his
administration in his first ten days in office. He was groomed
for the presidency by key TC members. Zbigniew Brzezinski,
co-founder of the TC with David Rockefeller in 1973, has been
Obama’s principal foreign policy advisor. Since the Carter
administration, Trilateralists have held the following very
influential positions: six of the last eight World Bank
presidents; all presidents and vice-presidents of the US (except
Obama and Biden); over half of all US secretaries of state; and
three quarters of the secretaries of defense. The original
stated purpose of the TC was to create a "new international
economic order." For more on powerful secret societies,
click here.
23. Activists Slam World Water Forum
as a Corporate-Driven Fraud (For full story,
click here)
Organized every three years since 1997, activists have blasted
the World Water Forum as a corporate trade show promoting
privatization of water. The Forum's main organizer, the World
Water Council (WWC), is dominated by two of the world's largest
water companies, Suez and Veolia. WWC promotes expensive and
destructive dam and water diversion projects, as well as putting
water services in private hands through the establishment of
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). The result has been huge
price hikes, water pollution, depletion, and cut-offs that deny
people the right to water if they can't pay the exorbitant cost.
24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military
Expansion
(For full story,
click here)
Economist Michael Hudson first addressed this topic in his 1972
book, "Super Imperialism," updated in a 2003 edition. He
revisited it in an award-winning article which explained the
inter-related dynamics of: surplus US dollars pouring into the
rest of the world for financial speculation and corporate
takeovers; global central banks recycling these dollar inflows
into US Treasury bonds to finance the federal budget deficit;
and most important (but suppressed in the US media), the
military character of the US payments deficit.
25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in
Western Amazon
(For full story,
click here)
Home to the world's most biodiverse and intact rainforest, the
Western Amazon may soon be covered with oil rigs and pipelines.
Vast parts of of this region will be opened for oil and gas
exploration, putting some of the planet's most pristine and
biodiverse forests at risk.
It is really amazing that we are
busy cutting our own oxygen and the very air that we breathe for
some oil and gas. GOD help us.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,
December 31, 2009
He that is of
GOD hears HIS words!
He who hears them not is not of GOD!
GOD gave me two gifts today.
I found a long
"lost" friend. THANK YOU LORD!
And
GOD also gave me a Bible quote that pertains to all the self
appointed "Christians" out there, who are lying, waging war on
weaker and peaceful real Christians who turn the other cheek. And then I read in a forwarded email, that a
"liberal" newspaper "surprisingly" printed the statement of a
person saying that they have a deep belief in GOD. To the right
wing fascist so-called Christians the liberals are obviously Godless.
Another proof of the right wing's amazing ignorance. Jesus was a
liberal by every word of their description. The problem is that
they don't listen to GOD's word or follow Jesus Christ and his message. And here
is the Bible
quote GOD gave me today and that might just help them to see the
Truth:
John 8:42-51: Jesus said
unto them, If God
were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth
and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Why do ye not
understand my speech?
even because ye
cannot hear my word.
Ye are of
your father the
devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
And because I tell
you the truth,
ye believe me not.
Which of you
convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not
believe me?
He that is of God heareth
God's words: ye therefore hear
them not,
because ye are not of God.Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we
not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? Jesus
answered, I have
not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
And I seek not mine
own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
Verily, verily, I say
unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Doesn't that
sound familiar? Just listen to the right wing treating the ones
who speak the truth as liars.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,
December 15, 2009
Read, so you
know better!
The so called Health Care reform is still on the
table in the Senate and the House. A question that comes to
mind is: How can representatives that were voted in office by
the people deny these voters a life-saving service and
potentially condemn thousands to death? The public option,
single payer especially, would save Billions and Trillions of
Dollars and it would save hundreds of Thousands of lives in the
long run. It is amazing that in a “civilized” country like ours
a few rich Health care corporations can buy the Senate against
the interests of the people.
The so called Bluedog Democrats are simply bought
and bribed representatives. Strange, that they even form a
group to advertise this fact. The people can easily see who
cares about if their voters live or die. Let us hope that the
coming elections will reflect this knowledge.
It becomes abundantly clear who actually is a
Christian and who is not. To call yourself a Christian you
claim Jesus Christ’s ideas and ideals as your own. Jesus came
to HEAL the people, not to let them die. All the right wing
fascist Christians of our time are acting against everything
that Jesus Christ ever taught and still do their evil deeds in
his name. And all this for MONEY. Here is one of my favorite
Bible passages:
Matthew
19:16-23
And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good
thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said
unto him, Why callest thou me good?there is
none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter
into life, keep the commandments. He saith unto him, Which?
Jesus said,
Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit
adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false
witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. The young man saith
unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what
lack I yet? Jesus said unto him, If
thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and
give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and
come andfollow me.
But when the young man heard that saying, he went away
sorrowful: for he had great possessions. Then said Jesus unto
his disciples, Verily I say unto you,
That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
This is a passage you hardly ever hear from a
Priest or Pastor: Give everything to the poor and come and
follow Jesus. And keeping these uncomfortable commandments: Do
not kill. – Too late, these fake Christians are FOR the war.
Then, do not commit adultery. If you follow the news, all these
Republican and Democratic “Christians” cheat on their wives.
Some with women, some of the fiercest adulterers also prefer gay
prostitutes. What a wonderful hypocrisy. But nothing that would
remotely resemble to be following Jesus Christ. And if they
would love their neighbor (you, who voted them into office or
fill their wallet), they would give you single payer healthcare.
Please think about these facts and begin to read
the bible and compare your Priests, Pastors and Politicians to
the actual word of the Bible. They only get away with lying to
you as long as you don’t read the Bible yourself and let them
lie to you.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,
December 13, 2009
Truth and
Revolution
Hypocrisy –
one of the very things Jesus Christ fought against – is the
mainstay of the right wing Christian fascists and their
Republican representatives. The ones that fight against gays
turn out to be gay, the ones that condemn adultery are caught
one by one being adulterers themselves, as the recent case of
Nevada Republican Senator Ensign proved again. Another
interesting development is IRAN, where we can see how the change
of the political climate changes the inner politics of a
country. Since W. and his boss Dick Cheney are gone and the US
are not trying to start another unnecessary war in the Middle
East, the enemy that the Iranian regime could use as a unifying
factor for their people to distract from reality is gone. Now
the Iranians have time to think about their situation and they
decided that it is bad.
With
President Obama not getting involved and declaring so, the
Iranians are taking matters in their own hands. It looks like
we will see the next Revolution, much like we did 1979. And the
US is not involved this time, so Iran might become the country
their people want and not another dictatorship created by the
US, like Saddam Hussein was, whose power was solely by grace of
the CIA and the US.
Jesus Christ is under attack. Open minded Christians see the
facts that many of Jesus Christ’s attributes were merely copied
from the Egyptian God Horus and many others whose mystical
status much depends on virgin birth, violent death and
resurrection. Some people come to the conclusion that is why
Jesus Christ has never lived, which is being concluded in the
Zeitgeist movie that I have recommended and still recommend,
because their facts are correct, just their conclusions are
subject to serious doubt. So please watch the Zeitgeist Movie
and the Addendum – both available for free download at
www.zeitgeistmovie.com
and with your own thoughts and my
help, you will reach the right conclusion yourself.
I know GOD is. I believe Jesus Christ lived. He is GOD’s son and
he has a special place in the history of Faith. We are all GOD’s
children and created in his image. Jesus Christ’s message
created the basis for our Christian belief. He died on the cross
for our sins, so we are not born in sin. He is the messenger and
the message for us Christians. Jesus Christ stands for the new,
changed message from GOD: No more hate, now the message is LOVE.
And that is what Jesus Christ is about. Jesus sent the
apostles only to the Jews. With little success. Only the
Catholic Church was “founded on Peter”, who was actually the
messenger to the Jews, and hence the pope is basically the
leader of a Jewish Church.
So Jesus Christ recruited Paul as his messenger to the Gentiles.
They actually embraced and listened to the message, but many
obviously misunderstood what it was about. Martin Luther
criticized the Catholic Church for their hypocrisy and started
the Christian revolution that led to the founding of the
Protestant church and subsequently to the founding of many so
called ‘Christian’ churches.
Being Christian means actually following Jesus Christ’s words
and message. Whoever does not do this, has not right to call
him or herself Christian. The worst example of such churches are
many so called Christian Churches in the US. They preach
violence and war, and their sole goal is to extort money from
their congregation. And they do this with surprisingly great
success. As surprisingly as this fact is the fact that their
victims – or congregation, as they call them - obviously never
read the bible. All you have to do is PICK UP A BIBLE AND READ
it. If you do, you see the context of the quotes your pastors
present to you and you will see that almost everything they tell
you is a lie. So please read.
Let me make
this clear: Jesus Christ came to change the message. So the Old
Testament is out. Interesting as the history of the Jews, but
that's pretty much it, if you don't want to end up with the Law
of Leviticus which includes such wonderful suggestions like that
the eating of seafood is an abomination, here a beautiful
passage for Republican Senators who subscribe to the usual right
wing fascist Churches (the adultery part):
Lev 20:9
For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be
surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother;
his blood shall be upon him.
Lev 20:10
And the man that committeth adultery with another
man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his
neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely
be put to death.
So if your
teenager calls you names, you have to kill him or her. And if
someone commits adultery they shall be put to death? Those are
some of the messages that Jesus Christ has changed. And if you
read the context of Leviticus you will find out that these rules
- like the rest of the Old Testament - only applies to the Jews.
Forget the
Old Testament as the message for you. Read the New Testament to
have the background to understand Paul. The writings of Paul
are for us. Nothing else from the Bible, because even the Jesus
in the Bible is only speaking to the Jews. Another reading
suggestion is the
Gospel of Thomas, older than any of the other Gospels, and
it has the advantage that it has not been edited through the
ages. It contains only quotes from Jesus himself and you will
find many of them in the known Gospels, so you know where
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John got them from. We know that the
Bible has been compiled and edited to the taste of the Dictators
through the centuries, so the Gospel of Thomas is one of the few
scriptures that are actually pure and the untainted word of GOD
because they were found in the Middle of the last century. So go
and find the truth!
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,
June 18, 2009
Here a P.S. for those
who would like to keep updated about events that are more ore
less secret, because the Mainstream Media refuses to report the
truth - most of their owners and handlers seem to be in on the
attacks on our democracy. But please judge for yourself:
Ten years ago, when Jon Ronson dared to report on Bilderberg, he
found himself "chased by mysterious men in dark glasses through
Portugal". He was scared for his safety. "When I phoned the
British embassy and asked them to explain to the powerful secret
society that had set their goons on me that I was essentially a
humorous journalist out of my depth, I wasn't being funny. I was
being genuinely desperate," he wrote. I know exactly how he
feels. Only out of sheer desperation did I try to arrest one of
the goons following me and then follow my flimsy leads up the
Greek police ladder, finally catching one of the goons
wet-handed in the lavatory of the department of government
security. And only then did I know the extent of Bilderberg's
paranoia: they had set the state police on me.
So who is the paranoid one? Me, hiding in stairwells, watching
the pavement behind me in shop windows, staying in the open for
safety? Or Bilderberg, with its two F-16s, circling helicopters,
machine guns, navy commandos and policy of repeatedly detaining
and harassing a handful of journalists? Who's
the nutter? Me or Baron Mandelson? Me or Paul Volker, the head
of Obama's economic advisory board? Me or the president of
Coca-Cola? Publicity is pure salt to the giant slug of
Bilderberg. If the mainstream press refuses to give proper
coverage to this massive annual event, then interested citizens
will have to: a people's media. Find the biggest lens you can
and join us for Bilderberg 2010. No idea where it's going to be,
but there's usually a few days' notice. Email me at
bilderberg2010@yahoo.co.uk and we'll start prepping.
Meanwhile, petition newspapers to send a correspondent.
Note: For the entire revealing
series by Guardian reporter Charlie Skelton, who was sent to
report on the ultra-secretive Bilderberg meeting,
click here. And for more on the machinations of the
Bilderberg Group and other secret societies which wield
powerful, unseen influence on global politics,
click here and
here.
"Architects know that you can't have
400 structural steel connections failing per second in a
fire-induced gravitational collapse,"
says architect Richard Gage about the collapse of World Trade
Center 7, a building not struck by a plane, on September 11,
2001. Richard is with
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, a group of
professionals who have factual reservations about conclusions
reached in the 9/11 Report.
Note: To listen to this
path-breaking 7-minute broadcast, click on the link above. For
lots more reliable information showing the official story of
9/11 cannot be true, see our
9/11 Information Center.
Following the attacks of September 11th, a small group of
grieving families waged a tenacious battle against those who
sought to bury the truth about the event.
In this documentary, six of them – including three of the famous
9/11 widows known as the "Jersey Girls" – tell the powerful
story of how they took on the greatest powers in Washington,
compelling lawmakers to launch an investigation that ultimately
failed to answer most of their questions. The
filmmakers collaborated with the media group Globalvision to
stitch together overlooked news clips, buried stories, and
government press conferences, revealing a pattern of official
lies, deception, and spin. As a result, a very different picture
of 9/11 emerges – one that raises new, and more pressing,
questions. To mark the film's U.S. broadcast premiere, Executive
Producer Kyle Hence, Director Ray Nowosielski, and family member
Bob McIlvaine – who lost his son Bobby in the attacks on New
York – will be in the KBDI studios to discuss the film
throughout the evening. Additionally, volunteers from Colorado
911 Visibility will be on hand to answer phones.
Note: To watch this important,
landmark 9/11 documentary,
click here. This highly engaging, well researched film may
be the best way yet to open the eyes of those who don't know
about the major 9/11 cover-up.
Murder, Lies
and CIA -
Zeitgeist Addendum reports the truth
Yesterday I
had a chance to watch the movie “Zeitgeist Addendum”. Looking at
the evidence I can absolutely live with the fact that Jesus
shared the same fate with Horus, an Egyptian God who also rose
from the dead and also shared several similarities in other
aspects of his life. This is something I could even agree
with. I know there is GOD, I believe in Jesus. I speak
directly with
GOD, not with Jesus. Like one of my friends stated recently:
“Why should I talk to the son if I want to reach the father? I
talk directly to the Boss.” And yes, there is a God! A GOD of
love, peace and understanding. Jesus Christ changed the message
from the violence of the Old Testament to love, peace and
understanding.
But apart
from the religious statements made in the movie, everything else
is also well thought out and well researched. The way the
richest and wealthiest deal with the poorest in their country,
as well as the assassinations of heads of state, have never been
a secret to me and the western world. And the events stated in
the movie have not been secret either - at least to the Western
world outside the United States.
Such as
addendum shows the truth how nations are being mistreated and
handled in the name of big capital, how people are being killed
for money, how heads of state who are trying to do the right
thing for their countries are being blackmailed first and then
if this doesn't help being assassinated by the US is not new,
but a necessary reminder of what has been going on in our
country. One of the few who resisted and survived was Hugo
Chavez of Venezuela, who not surprisingly asked the Russians for
military support against the people who are trying to kill him,
the United States.
And once
again we prove that big politics are free from ethics and free
from moral restraints. And those are the people who call the
Moslems murderers. They go to church. They claim Jesus Christ as
their savior and appear to the public to abide in the moral
rules of the church. If you claim to follow Jesus Christ, you
HAVE to follow his commandments and rules:
1.Love
the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind.
2. Love
your neighbor as yourself.
3. Honor
your father and your mother.
4.
You shall not murder.
5.
You shall not commit adultery.
6.
You shall not steal.
7.
You shall not bear false witness
against thy neighbor.
8.
You shall not covet anything that is
thy neighbor's.
9.
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
Jesus said:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest
commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as
yourself.' (Matthew
22:36-40) You have heard that it was
said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you:
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.(Matthew 5:43)
[Romans 13:8-11] Owe no
man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth
another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit
adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt
not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be
any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this
saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love
worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the
fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it
is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation
nearer than when we believed. Click here to download a pdf file with
the commandments.
As it seems,
there are no moral rules that apply to heads of state. All they
adhere to is the orders of the richest people and the call of
money. It is beyond me how anybody could claim to be Christian
and at the same time kill people, rob their own people of their
money and declare a whole religion to be enemies or terrorists
or whatever we are calling the Muslim world. Not to say that
that some Muslims don't do the same thing. The radical leaders
in the Middle East do exactly the same thing that the radical
“fascist right wing Christians” are doing here, they are just
heading in the opposite direction.
Zeitgeist
Addendum points out which other options we would have. Instead
of supporting big oil and the war machines we could actually
produce clean energy from wind, solar, or geothermal processes
and everybody could live happily without starving. And this
would not apply only to the richest and wealthiest in
industrialized countries, it would apply to everybody. The
so-called Venus project is showing ways to realize these dreams
and it is at least worth watching what the suggestions are.
If you should
get a chance to see Zeitgeist Addendum - before that you should
actually watch Zeitgeist - you should definitely do it. You can
get the movies and watch the movies on
www.Zeitgeistmovie.com.
I also had
time to watch some 9/11 movies and I am still deeply concerned
how it is possible that the marketing of B.S. can be so
successful in suppressing and altering the truth. All the
American government did was market a lie. All the efforts to
show the truth, including film footage and unaltered photos make
it so clear even to the dumbest person that the story the
government has been selling to us cannot possibly be true.
But the
government is able to present their very own, well paid,
government contractors lying on television. People like Bill
O'Reilly, Beck, Sean Hannity, and others are only too willing to
keep their careers by the grace of the right wing fascist and
treat people who tell the truth like dirt. One highly
embarrassing example is the initial mistranslation of a remark
the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made
and the following interview, held by – seemingly a CIA
interrogator – who falsely accused the President of telling
lies. The – democratically elected (other than W. Bush who was
appointed by his brother’s superior court protégée and who also
fixed the election the second time around) President of a
sovereign country patiently insisted that he was telling the
truth, but the US interviewer insisted that it was a lie. A few
days later, the whole world knew that the President of Iran had
spoken the truth and the ignorant American had been lying. That
is the picture the Cheney administration showed to the world
over and over again. It is sad and embarrassing to see people
act this way. And yes, he calls himself a Christian.
Especially
with my journalistic background it is hard to understand how
anybody who remotely claims to be something like a journalist
can act this way. Those so-called journalists are government
puppets and have sold out. They sold their soul to the devil and
traded the truth for money. Yes and they all do it in the name
of Christ.
But the
systematic mistreatment and elimination of people who tell the
truth has a long tradition in the world. The latest one that has
been prosecuted, also by the US, was the Nazi regime in Germany
and there, besides Marketing genius Joseph Goebbels, the
President of the highest German Court, Roland Freisler, who made
sure no one could answer a question he posed in cutting the
victim off and yelling at them without even giving them a chance
to say the truth.
Today’s Show
trials are being held by ignorant right wing (which already
implies ignorant) servants of the likes of Beck, Hannity,
O'Reilly and others who try to discredit their interview
partners in the worst way imaginable. These are Freisler-like
show trials, not interviews. If you doubt this statement, feel
free to listen to Roland Freisler, there is plenty of footage
available, and then to one of the aforementioned Clowns. And
please keep in mind that Freisler’s verdict meant death. The
best place to hold these modern trials against the truth is the
Fox television network. FOX News is the only “News-station”,
and I use the word VERY loosely, in the world that has a court
ruling in their favor, that their news do not have to contain
any truth. And as you can tell, they don’t.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,
March 2, 2009
Suppressed Truth in the
US -
Here are the 25 Top Articles
If you read my commentaries regularly, you
know that I am steadily criticizing the suppression of the truth or the
telling of lies. To give you a heads up what is going on in the
Media department, here another article from our friends at
www.WantToKnow.info,
who keep track of the Truth.
Top 25 Stories of
2008 Subjected to Press Censorship
1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US
Occupation?
(For full story,
click here)
Nobody knows exactly how many lives the Iraq War has claimed.
But even more astounding is that so few journalists have
mentioned the issue or cited the top estimate: 1.2 million.
During August and September 2007, a British polling group
surveyed 2,414 adults in 15 of 18 Iraqi provinces and found that
more than 20 percent had experienced at least one war-related
death since March 2003. Using common statistical study methods,
it determined that as many as 1.2 million people had been killed
since the war began. Estimates range wildly and are based on a
variety of sources. In October 2006, the British medical journal
Lancet published a Johns Hopkins University study
vetted by four independent sources that counted 655,000 dead. In
January 2008, the World Health Organization and the Iraqi
government did door-to-door surveys of nearly 10,000 households
and put the number of dead at 151,000. The 1.2 million figure is
out there, too, which is higher than the Rwandan genocide death
toll and closing in on the 1.7 million who perished in
Cambodia's killing fields. It raises questions about the real
number of deaths from US aerial bombings and house raids, and
challenges the common assumption that this is a war in which
Iraqis are killing Iraqis. The Brookings Institute has reported
that
US troops have, over the past four years, conducted about 100
house raids a day. Brutality during these house searches has
been documented (See #9 below). The aggressive "element of
surprise" tactics employed by soldiers is likely resulting in
several thousands of deaths a day that either go unreported or
are categorized as insurgent casualties.
2. Security and Prosperity Partnership:
Militarized NAFTA
(For full story,
click here)
Coupling the perennial issue of security with Wall Street's
measures of prosperity, the leaders of the three North American
nations convened the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The
White House-led initiative — launched at a March 23, 2005,
meeting of President Bush, Mexico's then-president Vicente Fox,
and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin — joins beefed-up
commerce with coordinated military operations to promote what it
calls "borderless unity."
Critics call it "NAFTA on steroids." However, unlike NAFTA, the
SPP was formed in secret, without public input. "The SPP is not
a law, or a treaty, or even a signed agreement,"
Laura Carlsen wrote in a report for the Center for International
Policy. "All these would require public debate and participation
of Congress, both of which the SPP has scrupulously avoided."
Instead the SPP has a special workgroup: the North American
Competitiveness Council [NACC]. It's a coalition of private
companies that are, according to the
SPP website, "adding
high-level business input [that] will assist governments in
enhancing North America's competitive position and engage the
private sector as partners in finding solutions." The NACC
includes the Chevron Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General
Electric, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Merck, Procter & Gamble
Co., and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
A look at NAFTA's unpopularity among citizens in all three
nations is evidence of why its expansion would need to be
disguised. "It's a scheme to create a borderless
North American Union under US control without barriers to trade
and capital flows for corporate giants, mainly US ones," wrote
Steven Lendman in
Global Research.
3. InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
(For full story,
click here)
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have effectively
deputized 23,000 members of the business community, asking them
to tip off the feds in exchange for preferential treatment in
the event of a crisis. "The members of this rapidly growing
group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist
threats before the public does — and, at least on one occasion,
before elected officials," Matthew Rothschild wrote in the
March 2008 issue of
The
Progressive. InfraGard was created in 1996.
Membership now includes 350 of the nation's Fortune 500
companies. The group's 86 chapters coordinate with 56 FBI field
offices nationwide. While FBI Director Robert
Mueller has said he considers this segment of the private sector
"the first line of defense," the American Civil Liberties Union
issued
a grave warning about the potential for abuse. "There is
evidence that InfraGard may be closer to a corporate TIPS
program, turning private-sector corporations ... into surrogate
eyes and ears for the FBI. The FBI should not be creating a
privileged class of Americans who get special treatment," stated
Jay Stanley, public education director of the ACLU's technology
and liberty program. And they are privileged: a DHS spokesperson
told Rothschild that
InfraGard members receive special training and readiness
exercises. They're also privy to protected information that is
usually shielded from disclosure under the trade
secrets provision of the Freedom of Information Act. The
information they have may be of critical importance to the
general public, but first it goes to the privileged membership
4. ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin
America?
(For full story,
click here)
The
School of the Americas [SOA] earned an unsavory reputation
in Latin America after many graduates of the Fort Benning, Ga.,
facility turned into counterinsurgency death squad leaders. The
International Law Enforcement Academy recently installed by the
Unites States in El Salvador — which looks, acts, and smells
like the SOA — is also drawing scorn. The school is funded with
$3.6 million from the US Treasury and staffed with instructors
from the DEA, ICE, and FBI. It's tasked with training 1,500
police officers, judges, prosecutors, and other law enforcement
agents in counterterrorism techniques per year.
It's stated purpose is to make Latin America "safe for foreign
investment" by "providing regional security and
economic stability and combating crime." ILEAs aren't new, but
past schools located in Hungary, Thailand, Botswana, and
Roswell, N.M., haven't been terribly controversial.
Salvadoran human rights organizers take issue with the fact
that, in true SOA fashion, the ILEA releases neither information
about its curriculum nor a list of students and graduates.
Additionally, the way the school slipped into existence without
public oversight has raised ire. As Wes Enzinna noted in a North
American Congress on Latin America report, "Members of the US
Congress were not briefed about the academy, nor was the main
opposition party in El Salvador." Now, after more than three
years in operation, critics point out that Salvadoran police,
who account for 25 percent of the graduates, have become more
violent. A May 2007 report by Tutela Legal implicated Salvadoran
National Police (PNC) officers in eight death squad–style
assassinations in 2006.
5. Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
(For full story,
click here)
Protesting war could get you into big trouble, according to a
critical read of two executive orders recently signed by
President Bush.
The first, issued July 17, 2007, and titled, "Blocking
property of certain persons who threaten stabilization efforts
in Iraq," allows the feds to seize assets from anyone who
"directly or indirectly" poses a risk to the US war in Iraq.
And, citing the modern technological ease of transferring funds
and assets, the order states that no prior notice is necessary
before the raid. On Aug. 1, Bush signed
another order, similar but directed toward anyone
undermining the "sovereignty of Lebanon or its democratic
processes and institutions." In this case, the Secretary of the
Treasury can seize the assets of anyone perceived as posing a
risk of violence, as well as the assets of their spouses and
dependents, and bans them from receiving any humanitarian aid.
Critics say the orders bypass the right to due process and the
vague language makes manipulation and abuse possible. Protesting the war could be perceived
as undermining or threatening US efforts in Iraq. "This is so
sweeping, it's staggering," said Bruce Fein, a former Reagan
administration official in the Justice Department
who editorialized against it in the
Washington Times. "It expands beyond terrorism,
beyond seeking to use violence or the threat of violence to
cower or intimidate a population."
Sources: "Bush executive order:
Criminalizing the antiwar movement," Michel Chossudovsky,
Global Research, July 2007; "Bush's executive order even
worse than the one on Iraq," Matthew Rothschild,
The Progressive, August 2007.
6. The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
(For full story,
click here)
On Oct. 23, 2007, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly
passed — by a vote of 404-6 — the "Violent Radicalization and
Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act," designed to root out the
causes of radicalization in Americans. With an estimated
four-year cost of $22 million, the act establishes a 10-member
National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization
and Homegrown Terrorism. The bill's author, Rep. Jane Harman
(D-Los Angeles) said, "Free speech, espousing even very radical
beliefs, is protected by our Constitution. But violent behavior
is not." In a later press release Harman stated: "the National
Commission [will] propose to both Congress and [DHS Secretary
Michael] Chertoff initiatives to intercede before radicalized
individuals turn violent." Which could be when they're speaking,
writing, and organizing in ways that are protected by the First
Amendment.
This redefines civil disobedience as terrorism, say civil rights
experts, and the wording is too vague. "What is
an extremist belief system? Who defines this? These are broad
definitions that encompass so much. It is criminalizing thought
and ideology," said Alejandro Queral, executive director of the
Northwest Constitutional Rights Center in Portland, Ore. The story didn't make it onto the CNN
ticker, but enough independent sources reported on it that the
equivalent Senate Bill 1959 has since stalled.
After introducing the bill, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Me.), later
joined forces with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on a report
criticizing the Internet as a tool for violent Islamic
extremism.
7. Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human
Trafficking
(For full story,
click here)
Every year, about 121,000 people legally enter the United States
to work with H-2 visas, a program legislators are touting as
part of future immigration reform.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) called this guest worker program
"the closest thing I've ever seen to slavery." The Southern
Poverty Law Center likened it to "modern day indentured
servitude." They interviewed thousands of guest
workers and reviewed legal cases for
a report released in March 2007, which concluded "Unlike US
citizens, guest workers do not enjoy the most fundamental
protection of a competitive labor market — the ability to change
jobs if they are mistreated. If guest workers complain about
abuses, they face deportation, blacklisting, or other
retaliation." When visas expire, workers must leave the country,
hardly making this the path to permanent citizenship legislators
are looking for. Still, Mexicans are literally lining up for
H-2B status, the stark details of which were reported by Felicia
Mello in
The Nation. Furthermore, thousands of illegal
immigrants are employed throughout the country, providing cheap,
unprotected labor and further undermining the scant provisions
of the laws. Labor contractors who connect immigrants with
employers are stuffing their pockets with cash, while the
workers return home with very little money. The Southern Poverty
Law Center outlined a list of comprehensive changes needed in
the program, concluding, "For too long, our country has
benefited from the labor provided by guest workers but has
failed to provide a fair system that respects their human rights
and upholds the most basic values of our democracy. The time has
come for Congress to overhaul our shamefully abusive guest
worker system."
8. Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly
(For full story,
click here)
The Bush administration's Office of Legal Counsel in the
Department of Justice has been issuing classified legal opinions
about surveillance for years. As a member of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) had
access to the DOJ opinions on presidential power and had three
declassified to show how the judicial branch has, in a bizarre
and chilling way, assisted President Bush in circumventing its
own power. According to the
three memos: "There is no constitutional requirement for a
President to issue a new executive order whenever he wishes to
depart from the terms of a previous executive order"; "The
President, exercising his constitutional authority under Article
II, can determine whether an action is a lawful exercise of the
President's authority under Article II"; and "The Department of
Justice is bound by the President's legal determinations."
As Whitehouse rephrased in a Dec. 7, 2007, Senate speech: "I
don't have to follow my own rules, and I don't have to tell you
when I'm breaking them. I get to determine what my own powers
are. The Department of Justice doesn't tell me what the law is.
I tell the Department of Justice what the law is."
The issue arose within the context of the Protect America Act,
which expands government surveillance powers and gives telecom
companies legal immunity for helping. Whitehouse, a former US
Attorney, legal counsel to Rhode Island's governor, and Rhode
Island Attorney General who took office in 2006, went on to
point out that
Marbury vs. Madison, written by Chief Justice John
Marshall in 1803, established that it is "emphatically the
province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law
is."
9. Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify
(For full story,
click here)
Hearing soldiers recount their war experiences is the closest
many people come to understanding the real horror, pain, and
confusion of combat. One would think that might make compelling
copy or powerful footage for a news outlet. But in March,
when more than 300 veterans from the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan convened for four days of public testimony on the
war, they were largely ignored by the media. Winter Soldier was
designed to give soldiers a public forum to air some of the
atrocities they witnessed. Winter Soldier was
originally convened by Vietnam Vets Against the War in January
1971 when more than 100 Vietnam veterans described their war
experiences, including rapes, torture, brutalities, and killing
of non-combatants. The testimony was entered into the
Congressional Record and shown at the Cannes Film
Festival. Iraq Veterans Against the War hosted the 2008 reprise
of the 1971 hearings. Former Marine Cpl. Jason Washburn said,
"his commanders encouraged lawless behavior. 'We were encouraged
to bring 'drop weapons.' In case we accidentally shot a
civilian, we could drop the weapon on the body and pretend they
were an insurgent.'" Interviews with 50 Iraq war veterans also
revealed a general disregard for the traditional rules of war.
Though most major news outlets sent staff to cover New York's
Fashion Week, few made it to the Winter Soldier hearings.
Fortunately, KPFA and Pacifica Radio broadcast the testimonies
live. They were "deluged with phone calls, e-mails, and blog
posts from service members, veterans, and military families
thanking us for breaking a cultural norm of silence about the
reality of war." Testimonies can be heard at
www.ivaw.org.
10. American Psychological Association Complicit
in CIA Torture
(Full
story here)
Psychologists have been assisting the
CIA and US military with interrogation and torture of Guantánamo
detainees — which the American Psychological Association [APA]
has said is fine, despite objections from many of its 148,000
members. A 10-member APA task
force was convened on the divisive issue in July 2005 and found
that assistance from psychologists was making the interrogations
safe.
The task force was criticized by APA members for deliberating in
secret, and later it was revealed that six of the 10
participants had ties to the armed services. Not
only that, but as Katherine Eban reported in Vanity Fair,
"Psychologists, working in secrecy, had actually designed the
tactics and trained interrogators in them while on contract to
the CIA." In particular, psychologists honed a classified
military training program known as SERE [Survival, Evasion,
Resistance, Escape] that teaches soldiers how to tough out
torture if captured by enemies. Eban's story outlined how SERE
tactics were spun as "science" despite a lack of data and the
critique that building rapport works better than blows to the
head. It's been misreported that CIA torture techniques got Al
Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah to talk, when it was actually FBI
rapport-building. In spite of this, SERE techniques became
standards in interrogation manuals that eventually made their
way to US officers guarding Abu Ghraib. Ongoing uproar within
the APA resulted in a petition to make an official policy
limiting psychologists' involvement in interrogations.
11.
El Salvador's Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror
(For full story,
click here)
El Salvador's new Anti-terrorism Law – based on the USA PATRIOT
Act – criminalizes political expression and social protest.
Close range shooting of rubber bullets and tear gas was used
against community members for protesting the rising cost, and
diminishing access and quality, of local water under
privatization. Fourteen were arrested and charged with
terrorism, a charge that can hold a 60-year prison sentence
under the new Anti-Terrorism Law.
12.
Bush Profiteers Collect Billions from No Child Left Behind
(For full story,
click here)
No Child Left Behind has consistently proven disastrous in the
realm of education. Yet the architect, President Bush's first
senior education advisor Sandy Kress, has turned the program
into a huge success in the realm of corporate profiteering.
13.
Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
(For full story,
click here)
Starting one month after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and
continuing for over a year, the United States Federal Reserve
shipped a total of $12 billion in U.S. currency to Iraq. The
U.S. military delivered the bank notes to the Coalition
Provisional Authority to be dispensed for Iraqi reconstruction.
At least $9 billion of that amount is unaccounted for due to a
complete lack of oversight.
14.
Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
(For full story,
click here)
Radioactive materials from nuclear weapons production sites are
being dumped into regular public landfills and being used as
recycled metals. The Nuclear Information and Resource Service
has tracked the Department of Energy's (DOE) release of
radioactive scrap to unaware and unprepared recipients such as
landfills, businesses and recreation areas. Under the current
system, the DOE releases contaminated materials directly, sells
them at auctions or sends the materials to processors who can
release them from radioactive controls.
15.
Worldwide Slavery
(For full story,
click here)
Twenty-seven million slaves exist in the world today, more than
at any time in human history. Globalization, poverty, violence
and greed facilitate the growth of slavery, not only in the
Third World, but in the most developed countries as well. Behind
the façade in any major town or city in the world today, one is
likely to find a thriving commerce in human beings.
16.
Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights
(For full story,
click here)
The first Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights to
be published by the year-old International Trade Union
Confederation documents enormous challenges to workers' rights
around the world. The 2007 edition of the survey, covering 138
countries, shows an alarming rise in the number of people killed
as a result of their trade union activities, from 115 in 2005 to
144 in 2006. Many more trade unionists around the world were
abducted or "disappeared."
17.
UN's Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights
(For full story,
click here)
In September 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted
the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The resolution called for recognition of the world's 370 million
indigenous peoples' right to self-determination and control over
their lands and resources. Three months following the passage of
the Universal Declaration, a delegation of indigenous peoples
were forcibly barred from entering the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change in Bali, despite the fact that the
delegation was invited to attend.
18.
Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
(For full story,
click here)
In states across the U.S., child advocates have harshly
condemned conditions under which young offenders are housed —
conditions that involve sexual abuse, physical abuse and even
death. The U.S. Justice Department has filed lawsuits against
facilities in 11 states for supervision that is either abusive
or harmfully negligent.
19.
Indigenous Herders & Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
(For full story,
click here)
The industrial model of livestock production is causing the
worldwide destruction of animal diversity. At least one
indigenous livestock breed becomes extinct each month as a
result of overreliance on select breeds imported from the United
States and Europe.
20.
Marijuana Arrests Set New Record
(For full story,
click here)
For the fourth year in a row, U.S. marijuana arrests set an
all-time record, according to 2006 FBI Uniform Crime Reports.
Marijuana arrests in 2006 totaled 829,627, an increase from
786,545 in 2005.
21.
NATO Considers "First Strike" Nuclear Option
(For full story,
click here)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials are
considering a first strike nuclear option to be used anywhere in
the world a threat may arise. The authors of the plan insist
"the first use of nuclear weapons must remain in the quiver of
escalation as the ultimate instrument to prevent the use of
weapons of mass destruction."
22.
CARE Rejects US Food Aid
(For full story,
click here)
In August 2007, one of the biggest and best-known American
charity organizations, CARE, announced it was turning down $45
million a year in food aid from the United States government.
CARE claims the way U.S. aid is structured causes rather than
reduces hunger in the countries where it is received.
23.
FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs
(For full story,
click here)
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) turns a blind
eye, drug companies are making false, unsubstantiated and
misleading claims in their advertising, often withholding
mandated disclosure of dangerous side effects. Though companies
are required to submit their advertisements to the FDA, the
agency does not review them before they are released to the
public. [For a powerful two-page essay by a top U.S. physician
on this key topic,
click here]
24.
Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
(For full story,
click here)
Testimony in the Japanese parliament, broadcast live on Japanese
television in January 2008, challenged the premise and validity
of the Global War on Terror. Parliament member Yukihisa Fujita
insisted that an investigation be conducted into the war's
origin: the events of 9/11. [Watch a video with English
subtitles of Fujita speaking to parliament
available here]
25.
Bush's Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer
(For full story,
click here)
The exposure of New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer's tryst
with a luxury call girl may have been the result of a planned
event. Timing suggests that Spitzer was likely a target of a
White House and Wall Street operation to silence one of its most
dangerous and vocal critics of their handling of the current
financial market crisis. [See the
Washington Post article Spitzer wrote just weeks
before the accusations against him emerged]
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If Bush was not so
dangerously stupid, he would be the laughing stock of the world.
All of a sudden many people realize or maybe the just started to
voice their opinions and concerns about the warmonger President
of the last eight years. Pastor Fred sent me an email
today with a text from Paul Waldman, someone who has been
criticizing the Dark Lord in the White House for a while. I am
adding this text to this website, because it sums up many of the
important failures and betrayals of the Bush crime family.
Here a link to one of Paul
Waldman's books. And here the email Pastor Fred sent
me:
Goodbye and Good Riddance
After eight years of President Bush, we almost don't know how to
function without him -- almost. But before we move on, we should
pause to remember just what we're leaving behind.
by Paul Waldman
Just over two years into George W. Bush’s
presidency, The American Prospect featured Bush on its cover
under the headline, "The Most Dangerous President Ever." At the
time, some probably thought it a bit over the top. But nearly
six years later, it's worth taking a moment to reflect on the
multifaceted burden that will soon be lifted from our collective
shoulders.
Since last week, I have stopped short and shaken
my head in amazement every time I have heard the words
"President-elect Obama."
But it is equally extraordinary to consider that in just a few
weeks, George W. Bush will no longer be our president. Let me
repeat that: In just a few weeks, George W. Bush will no longer
be our president. So though our long national ordeal isn't quite
over, it's never too early to say goodbye.
Goodbye, we
can say at last, to the most powerfulman
in the world being such a ridiculous buffoon, incapable of
stringing together two coherent sentences. Goodbye to cringing
with dread every time our president steps onto the world stage,
sure he'll say or do something to embarrass us all. Goodbye to
being represented by a man who embodies everything our enemies
want the people of the world to believe about America -- that we
are ignorant, cruel, and only care about foreign countries when
we decide to stomp on them. Goodbye to his giggle, and his
shoulder shake, and his nicknames. Goodbye to a president who
talks to us like we're a nation of fourth-graders.
And goodbye, of course, to Dick Cheney. Goodbye
to the man whose naked contempt for democracy contorted his face
to a permanent sneer, who spent his days in his undisclosed
location with his man-sized safe.
And while we're at it, goodbye to Cheney's consigliore David
Addington, as malevolent a force as has ever left his trail of
slime across our federal institutions.
Goodbye, indeed, to the entire band of liars and
crooks and thieves who have so sullied the federal government
that belongs to us all. We can even say goodbye to those who
have already gone, to Rummy and Scooter, to Fred o and Rove,
tornados of misery left in their wake.
Goodbye to the rotating cast of butchers manning the White
House's legal abattoir, where the Constitution has been sliced
andbled and gutted
since September 11.
Goodbye to the "unitary executive" theory and its claims that
the president can do whatever he wants -- even snatch an
American citizen off the street and lock him up for life without
charge, without legal representation, and without trial. Goodbye
to the promiscuous use of "signing statements" (1,100 at last
count) to declare that the law is whatever the president says it
is, and that he'll enforce only those laws he likes.Goodbye
to an executive branch that treats lawfully issued subpoenas
like suggestions that can be ignored.
Goodbye to thinking of John Ashcroft as the liberal attorney
general.
Goodbye to the culture of incompetence, where rebuilding a
country we destroyed could be turned over to a bunch of clueless20-somethings
with no qualifications save an internship at the Heritage
Foundation and an opposition to abortion.
Goodbye to the "Brownie, you're doin' a heckuva job" philosophy,
where vital agencies are turned over to incompetent boobs to rot
and decay.
Goodbye to handing
out the Medal of Freedom as an awardfor
engineering one of the greatest screw-ups of our time. Goodbye
to an administration that welcomed gluttonous war profiteering,
that was only too happy to outsource every government function
it could to well-connected contractors who would do a worse job
for more money.
Goodbye to the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war.
Goodbye to the lust for sending off other people's sons and
daughters to fight
and kill and die just to show your daddy you're a real man.
Goodbye to playing dress-up in flight suits,
goodbye to strutting and posing and desperate sexualinsecurity
as a driver of American foreign policy.
Goodbye to the neocons, so sinister and deluded
they beg us all to become fevered conspiracy theorists.
Goodbye to Guantanamo and its kangaroo courts.
Goodbye to the use of torture as official U.S.
government policy, and goodbye to the immoral ghouls who think
you can rename it "enhanced interrogation techniques" and render
it any less
monstrous.
Goodbye to the accusation that if you disagree
with what the president wants to do, you don't "support the
troops."
Goodbye to stocking government agencies with
people who are opposed to the very missions those agencies are
charged with carrying out.
Goodbye to putting industry lobbyists in charge
of the agencies that are supposed to regulate those very
industries.
Goodbye to madly giving away public lands to
private interests.
Goodbye toa
Food and Drug Administration that acts like a wholly owned
subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry, except when it acts
like a wholly owned subsidiary of the fundamentalist puritans
who believe that sex is dirty and birth control will turn girls
into sluts.
Goodbye to the "global gag rule," which prohibits
any entity receiving American funds from even telling women
where they can get an abortion if they need it.
Goodbye to vetoing health insurance for poor
children but rushing back to Washington to sign a bill to keep
alive a woman whose cerebral cortex had liquefied.
Goodbye to the ban on federal funding of
embryonic stem-cell research.
Goodbye to the philosophy that says that if we
give tax cuts to the rich and keep the government from any
oversight of the economy, prosperity will eventually trickle
down. Goodbye to the thirst for privatizing Social Security and
to the belief that the success of a social safety-net program is
what makes it a threat and should mark it for destruction.
Goodbye to the war on unions and to a National Labor Relations
Board devoted to crushing them. Goodbye to the principle of
loyalty above all else, that nominates Harriet Miers to the
Supreme Court and puts Alberto Gonzales in charge of the Justice
Department. And goodbye to that Justice Department, the one
where U.S. attorneys keep their jobs only if they are willing to
undertake bogus investigations of Democrats timed to hit the
papers just before Election Day.
Goodbye to a Justice Department where graduates of Pat
Robertson's law school roam the halls by the dozens, where
"justice" is a joke.
Goodbye to James Dobson and a host of radical
clerics picking up the phone and hearing someone in the White
House on the other end.
Goodbye to the most consequential decisions being
made on the basis of one man's "gut," a gut that proved so wrong
so often.
Goodbye to the contempt for evidence, to the
scorn for intellect and book learnin', to the relentless war on
science itself as a means of understanding the world.
Goodbye,
goodbye, goodbye to it all.
Though President Obama will be spending most of
his time cleaning up the mess George Bush made, we probably
won't have Dubya to kick around anymore. It's hard to imagine
Bush undertaking some grand philanthropic effort on the scale of
the Clinton Global Initiative, or hopping around to
international trouble spots like Jimmy Carter. Republicans won't
be asking him to speak on their behalf, and publishers are
reportedly uninterested in the prospect of a Bush memoir. His
reign of destruction complete, Bush will return to Texas and
fill his days with the mundane activities of a retiree --puttering
around the yard, reading some magazines, maybe enjoying that new
Xbox Jenna gave him for Christmas ("I'm the Decider, and I
decide to spend this afternoon playing Call of Duty 4").
This presidency is finally over. We can say goodbye to an
administration whose misdeeds have piled so high that the size
of the mountain no longer shocks us. In our lifetimes, we will
see administrations of varying degrees of competence and
integrity, some we'll agree with and some we won't. But we will
probably never see another quite like the one now finally
reaching its end, so mind-boggling a parade of incompetence and
malice, dishonesty, and immorality. So at last -- at long, long
last -- we can saygoodbye.
And good riddance.
And I could not
agree more.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,
December 6, 2008
Bush
administration crushed economy
Today Bush
took the cake. After blaming the illegal attack on Iraq on bad
intelligence yesterday (to me this sounds like Hitler saying:
"But Poland shot first and the Jews destroyed the Reichstag"...
both statements have been proven false for a long time), he
admitted that he destroyed more than half a million (533,000)
jobs - the population of a city or the entire State of Wyoming - only in the month of
November. He also admitted that we are in a Recession. Oh, my.
Who told him? By the way the recession has been declared
to exist for more than one year already. Why did I know and they
didn't?
That the
people around Bush who are slavishly devoted to serve the
wealthiest and most abominable people in the world are actively
destroying our country is not a secret anymore. It is
embarrassing that no action is taken against these acts of
treason against our USA. Selling the people out to the banks is
treason against our country. The President's oath has been
broken over and over again and the members of this
administration - as well as the ones standing idly by and
watching this happen - can not be ashamed enough of themselves.
While Bush
is engaging in acts of comedy with his devoted servant Charles
Gibson on ABC and claims that the intelligence that he had
previously fixed by his own people - namely Cheney - would have
been different, and there would have been weapons of mass
destruction, things could have been different... the
economy is falling in shambles.
Other
countries, so Bush's claim had the same intelligence. Yes, they
had the previously fixed US intelligence which was given to them
by the US. The countries which had the information that had not
been tampered with by the CIA refused to go to war under these
false pretenses. France and Germany were ousted and
insulted by Rumsfeld and Bush for making this correct decision
and as we found out later everything France and Germany had
claimed was true. I have not heard an apology so far, just the
outrage of the criminals in the Bush crime family who were
furious that some countries were smart enough not to participate
in their crime and the illegal occupation of Iraq.
Now the
Bush crime family makes the last push: Citibank and City Group
which are owned by Saudi Arabia get bail outs thrown at them,
Billions and Billions of Dollars while the only US car
manufacturers have to beg on their knees to get $34 Billion
Dollars to save three Million jobs. Are we really going nuts
here? The fascist Republican right is blaming the Democrats for
this crisis? More information here from our friends at
www.WantToKnow.info:
The Bush administration backed off
proposed crackdowns on no-money-down, interest-only mortgages
years before the economy collapsed, buckling to pressure from
some of the same banks that have now failed. It ignored
remarkably prescient warnings that foretold the financial
meltdown,
according to an Associated Press review of regulatory documents.
"Expect fallout, expect foreclosures, expect horror stories,"
California mortgage lender Paris Welch wrote to U.S. regulators
in January 2006, about one year before the housing implosion
cost her a job. Bowing to aggressive lobbying - along with
assurances from banks that the troubled mortgages were OK -
regulators delayed action for nearly one year. By the time new
rules were released late in 2006, the toughest of the proposed
provisions were gone and the meltdown was under way. The
administration's blind eye to the impending crisis is emblematic
of its governing philosophy, which trusted market forces and
discounted the value of government intervention in the economy.
Its belief ironically has ushered in the most massive government
intervention since the 1930s. Many of the banks that fought to
undermine the proposals by some regulators are now either out of
business or accepting billions in federal aid to recover from a
mortgage crisis they insisted would never come. In 2005, faced
with ominous signs the housing market was in jeopardy, bank
regulators proposed new guidelines for banks writing risky
loans. Those proposals all were stripped from the final rules.
Note: For many revealing
reports on the Wall Street bailout from reliable sources,
click here.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,
December 5, 2008
The correct
answer to Prop. 8 in California
Having been a
fan of Jack Black for a long time, his participation in this
video is a special treat for me. But not only that, it
also gives me the opportunity to continue my Love against hate
sermon that outrages so many American Christians who are
fighting for their hateful and vengeful GOD. If they would
ever bother to actually read the Bible - a task that "W."
avoided as well - they would be amazed and surprised what the
"good Book" really says. Yes, the Bible allows you to
stone your wife and sell your daughters into slavery. And
according to Leviticus
eating Shellfish (Shrimp among others) is equal to or worse than being gay.
[[Lev 11:10 -
11:12] And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in
the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living
thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto
you: They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not
eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcasses in
abomination. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters,
that shall be an abomination unto you.]]
I am fortunately not in a dilemma, because I
rightly divide the
Bible into the proper parts: The Old Testament is the history
and the law of the Jews. The New Testament is also for the Jews
and the Apostles were sent explicitly to the Jews and NOT to us
Gentiles:
[[Mat 10:5 - 10:6] These twelve Jesus sent forth, and
commanded them, saying,
Go not into
the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans
enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel.]
And our
Apostle is Pauland we follow Jesus Christ's example of
Love, the commandments that were given by Jesus Christ and
verified by Paul. There is no hate in Jesus Christ.
He threw the traders out of the temple. Something we should also
do here in America.
[Mat 21:12
- 21:13] And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out
all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the
tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold
doves, And said unto them,
It is
written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye
have made it a den of thieves.]
So all the
Hagees, Hinns and the other misguided liars and all their likes
should be cast out. Because they are thieves and they do not
preach GOD's word. They want money and they don't care where
they steal it, how many souls are being lost along the way and
how many people despair about their lies. GOD is Love,
Jesus Christ is Love. And the religious thieves who
preach anything else but love are the incarnation of hate, which
is the opposite of Love. Which is ... but this is easy to figure
out. The opposite of GOD is...? But now enjoy the video.
Bush has
raided this our country together with many people who have no soul
and no conscience. The final act of the current "lame duck" is
unfolding right before our very eyes. To make sure that
the new President Barack Obama definitely does not have a dime
left to do anything to save our country and also to give the
ones who did not profit enough from the illegal occupation of
Iraq some undeserved Billions of dollars as well. And we should
be well aware of why CityGroup and CityBank are being "bailed
out": Major shareholder is one of Bush's best friends, a Saudi
Prince. Saudi Arabia, remember, the country where almost all
9-11 Terrorists came from. And the other two alleged Terrorists
came from the United Arab Emirates, remember, where Vice
President Cheney's Company Halliburton moved their headquarters
to avoid paying taxes to the US on the taxpayer money they had
stolen from US taxpayers. The United Arab Emirates, the country
Bush tried to put in control of six of the most important ports
in our US of A.
And today Bush's financial zombies not
only rape and raid our country financially with the 700 Billion
Dollar so called bailout that is going the same way that the
money for the IRAQ war went - into the pockets of Bush's
friends, they also try to punish the people who co-financed the
Loose Change documentary. The reason is to get revenge on the
people who are smarter than the average American and who told
the truth about our Government Terrorists. You can find more
about this revenge actions by clicking
here.
And please be aware that I don't say that there
was no wrong doing,
I am just
surprised that the financial forces go after the little people
while the Government under Bush's fellow criminals is taking the
last pennies from the American taxpayer without any interference
from anyone to line the pockets of the same people who caused
the worldwide financial crisis.
The
filmmakers and scientists who worked on and wrote the
documentary Loose Change 911 are some of the smartest and
internationally recognized scientists and thinkers our country
has. Other than our never elected so called President Bush. To
quote the great George Carlin: "I call him Governor, because
that was the last office that he was elected to." And now Bush's
own financial GESTAPO is trying to hunt down the people who have
been telling the truth about 9-11 for years. The whole world is
aware that 9-11 was an inside job because there was no other way
to pull it off. The only ones naive enough to believe what
Bush's servants tell us about this attack are we, the Americans.
The rest of the world knows there was Evolution, that there is
the law of Gravity and other scientific facts. We are the only
nation naive enough to take what the right wing fascist churches
and the people behind Bush have been dishing out to us. Here
another article from our friends at
www.WantToKnow.info
to
show you how our money will disappear before the new President
takes office.
So you thought Barack Obama's victory signaled the death of
Reaganomics? Wrong, wrong: Reaganomics is very much alive. In a
subtle, bloodless coup, the Reaganomics ideology magically
pulled victory out of the jaws of defeat in the meltdown. The
magic happened fast and quietly, in the shadows, while you were
in a trance, distracted by the election drama. Recently Naomi
Klein, author of
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,
framed the issue perfectly:
"Has the Treasury partially nationalized the private banks, as
we have been told? Or is it the other way around?" The question
was rhetorical, the answer painfully clear. In a few weeks Wall
Street did the old bait and switch, emerging from an economic
and market disaster with new powers, in total control of
America. And thanks to Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson's brilliant bailout coup, Reaganomics is now the new
"sleeper cell" quietly hidden inside the Obama White House and
America's Treasury, where it will be for a long time to come.
Listen closely folks: You and your government are and will
continue being conned out of trillions. Klein further exposed
this insanity in a recent Rolling Stone article, "The New
Trough: The Wall Street bailout looks a lot like Iraq, a
'free-fraud zone' where private contractors cash in on the mess
they helped create." Paulson's privatization, outsourcing and
management of the $700 billion bailout has the exact same
Reaganomics ideological, strategic and deceptive footprints that
President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld used to privatize, outsource and mismanage the costly
Iraq War blunder.
Note: For the powerfully
revealing article by Naomi Klein mentioned in the article above,
click here. For many key articles revealing the hidden
realities of the bailout,
click here.
And to
find out about the man the Republicans called "a Muslim", here a
link and a short article about our President elect Barack Obama:
Barack Obama is alone on this Saturday afternoon in the city,
his press secretary nowhere in sight. He's not carrying anything
with him. Not even notes. Yet he appears confident as he answers
questions about his spiritual life, a subject that would make
many politicians -- on or off the campaign trail -- more
skittish than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking
chairs. If an hourlong conversation about his faith unnerves
him, Obama's not letting on. The first question he fields
without hesitation: What does he believe? "I am a Christian,"
the 42-year-old ... says. "So, I have a deep faith," Obama
continues.
"I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are
many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is
a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people. That
there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us
forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as
well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values
lived." It's perhaps an unlikely theological
position for someone who places his faith squarely at the feet
of Jesus to take, saying essentially that all people of faith --
Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone -- know the same
God. That depends, Obama says, on how a particular verse from
the Gospel of John, where Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth
and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me," is heard.
"Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well,
of our civic religion," he says. "I am a big believer in the
separation of church and state. I am a big believer in our
constitutional structure."
Note: For those who want to
understand the spiritual beliefs of Barack Obama, the full
article at the link above is highly recommended. Even better,
for the powerful transcript of this interview between the
religion columnist of the
Sun-Times and Obama,
click here.
And again,
I am very thankful to our friends at
www.WantToKnow.info to
give us PROVEN facts about the things happening behind the
scenes and the smokescreens of the Bush administration.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,November 23, 2008
The battle is won - but
the war?
I am happy
that my fellow Americans began to favor a President with an IQ
higher than a Lab rat and voted for the eloquent, honest and
intelligent candidate. This battle was won by brains.
Still the IQ of the Republican base (the people who listen to
Rush Limbaugh and watch Fox News) is in single digits.
I don't have
a problem with Republicans, I have a problem with the people who
call themselves Republicans and under that banner spread hate,
stupidity and celebrate their ignorance. Unfortunately these are
the people who have the media outlets under their control.
It is amazing how Republicans - who just used Hitler's and
Goebbels' blue print of how to control Germany and build it into
a NAZI nation - to shred the constitution, commit voter fraud
twice and tried to build up a new GESTAPO with warrentless
wiretaps and the absence of Habeas Corpus, which puts us in a
line with most other Dictatorships and communist countries that
our "Leaders" so loudly criticize for their human rights
violations. After fixing the US elections twice, the
administration - which denied UN observers the right to monitor
the US elections - still sent observers to other countries and
commented about their handling of the elections. The whole
world was standing by in disbelief and inner laughter about the
serious belief of the US Government that no one knew that they
themselves were never elected. The world knew it and the
US did not care. Starting wars, ruining our country is all
this administration has done for us. Nothing for America,
everything to rape and ruin our USA for the bank accounts of a
few. Now they have our money, still taking more right now
(we "bail" them out), and we are idly standing by.
Let's hope
there is something to salvage after the Bushes and the Cheneys
are done. Everything was supported by FOX and their affiliates.
Some people are still dumb enough to believe that the News in
our country are neutral. Below some information for them from
our friends at
www.wanttoknow.info.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,November 18, 2008
Jane Akre—Fox News. After
our struggle to air an honest report
[on hormones in milk], Fox fired the
general manager [of our station].
The new GM said that if we didn’t
agree to changes that the lawyers
were insisting upon, we’d be fired
for insubordination in 48 hours. We
pleaded with [him] to look at the
facts we’d uncovered. His reply: “We
paid $3 billion dollars for these
stations. We’ll tell you what
the news is. The news is what we
say it is!” [After we refused]
Fox’s GM presented us an agreement
that would give us a full year of
salary, and benefits worth close to
$200,000, but with strings attached:
no mention of how Fox covered up the
story and no opportunity to ever
expose the facts. [After declining]
we were fired. (click
for more)
Dan Rather—CBS, Multiple Emmy
Awards. What's going on is a
belief that you can manipulate
communicable trust between the
leadership and the led. The way you
do that is you don't let the press
in anywhere. Access to war is
extremely limited. The fiercer the
combat, the more the access is
limited, [including] access to
information. This is a direct
contradiction of the stated policy
of maximum access to information
consistent with national security.
There was a time in South Africa
when people would put flaming tires
around people's necks if they
dissented. In some ways the fear
[now in the U.S.] is that you will
have a flaming tire of lack of
patriotism put around your neck.
That fear keeps journalists from
asking the tough questions. I am
humbled to say, I do not except
myself from this criticism. (click
for more)
Monika Jensen-Stevenson—Emmy-winning
producer for 60 minutes.
Robert R. Garwood—14 years a
prisoner of the Vietnamese—was found
guilty in the longest court-martial
in US history. At the end of the
court-martial, there seemed no
question that Garwood was a
monstrous traitor. Several years
later in 1985, Garwood was speaking
publicly about something that had
never made the news during his
court-martial. He knew of other
American prisoners in Vietnam long
after the war was over. He was
supported by Vietnam veterans whose
war records were impeccable….My
sources included outstanding experts
like former head of the Defense
Intelligence Agency General Tighe
and returned POWs like Captain
McDaniel, who held the Navy’s top
award for bravery. With such
advocates, it was hard not to
consider the possibility that
prisoners (some 3,500) had in fact
been kept by the Vietnamese as
hostages to make sure the US would
pay the more than $3 billion in war
reparations. [After the war]
American POWs had become worthless
pawns. The US had not paid the
promised monies and had no intention
of paying in the future. (click
for more)
Kristina Borjesson—CBS, Emmy
award winner.
Pierre Salinger announced to the
world on Nov. 8, 1996, that he’d
received documents proving that a US
Navy missile had accidentally downed
[TWA flight 800]. That same day,
FBI’s Jim Kallstrom called a press
conference. A man raised his hand
and asked why the Navy was involved
in the recovery and investigation
while a possible suspect. “Remove
him!” [Kallstrom] yelled. Two men
leapt over to the questioner and
grabbed him by the arms. There was a
momentary chill in the air after the
guy had been dragged out of the
room. Kallstrom and entourage acted
as if nothing had happened. [Kallstrom
was later hired by CBS.] (click
for more)
Greg Palast—BBC.
In the months leading up to the
November [2000] balloting, Gov. Jeb
Bush ordered elections supervisors
to purge 58,000 voters on the
grounds they were felons not
entitled to vote. As it turns out,
only a handful of these voters were
felons. This extraordinary news ran
on page one of the country’s leading
paper. Unfortunately, it was the
wrong country: Britain. In the USA,
it was not covered. The office of
the governor [also] illegally
ordered the removal of felons from
voter rolls—real felons—but with the
right to vote under law. As a
result, 50,000 of these voters could
not vote. The fact that 90% of these
were Democrats should have made it
news as this alone more than
accounted for Bush’s victory. (click
for more)
Michael Levine—25-year veteran
of DEA, writer for New York Times,
Los Angeles Times, USA
Today. The Chang Mai
“factory” that the CIA prevented me
from destroying was the source of
massive amounts of heroin being
smuggled into the US in the bodies
and body bags of GIs killed in
Vietnam. Case after case was killed
by CIA and State Department
intervention and there wasn’t a
thing we could do about it….In 1980,
CIA-recruited mercenaries and drug
traffickers unseated Bolivia’s
democratically elected president.
Immediately after the coup, cocaine
production increased massively.
Bolivia [became] the source of
virtually 100% of the cocaine
entering the US. This was the
beginning of the crack “plague.”…The
CIA along with State and Justice
Departments had to protect their
drug-dealing assets by destroying a
DEA investigation. How do I know? I
was the inside source….I sat down at
my desk in the American embassy and
wrote evidence of my charges. I
addressed it to Newsweek.
Three weeks later DEA’s internal
security [called] to notify me that
I was under investigation….The
highlight of the 60 Minutes
piece is when the administrator of
the DEA, Federal Judge Robert
Bonner, tells Mike Wallace, “There
is no other way to put it, Mike,
[what the CIA did] is drug
smuggling. It’s illegal.” (click
for more)
Gary Webb—San Jose Mercury
News, Pulitzer Prize winner.
In 1996, I wrote a series of stories
that began this way: For the better
part of a decade, a Bay Area drug
ring sold tons of cocaine to the
Crips and Bloods gangs of LA and
funneled millions in drug profits to
a guerilla army run by the CIA. The
cocaine that flooded in helped spark
a crack explosion in urban
America….The story was developing a
momentum all of its own, despite a
virtual news blackout from the major
media. Ultimately, it was public
pressure that forced the national
newspapers into the fray. The
Washington Post, the New York
Times, and the Los Angeles
Times published stories, but
spent little time exploring the
CIA’s activities. Instead, my
reporting and I became the focus of
their scrutiny. It was remarkable [Mercury
News editor] Ceppos wrote, that
the four Washington Post
reporters assigned to debunk the
series “could not find a single
significant factual error.” A few
months later, the Mercury News
[due to intense CIA pressure] backed
away from the story, publishing a
long column by Ceppos apologizing
for “shortcomings.” The New York
Times hailed Ceppos for “setting
a brave new standard,” and splashed
his apology on their front page, the
first time the series had ever been
mentioned there. I quit the
Mercury News not long after
that….Do we have a free press today?
Sure. It’s free to report all the
sex scandals, all the stock market
news, [and] every new health fad
that comes down the pike. But when
it comes to the real down and dirty
stuff—such stories are not even open
for discussion. (click
for more)
John Kelly—Author, ABC producer.
ABC hired me to help produce a story
about an investment firm that was
heavily involved with the CIA. Part
of the ABC report charged that the
CIA had plotted to assassinate an
American, Ron Rewald, the president
of [the investment firm]. Scott
Barnes said on camera that the CIA
had asked him to kill Rewald. After
the show aired, CIA officials met
with ABC executive David Burke,
[who] was sufficiently impressed “by
the vigor with which they made their
case” to order an on-air
“clarification.” But that was not
enough. [CIA Director] Casey called
ABC Chairman Goldenson. [Thus]
despite all the documented evidence
presented in the program, despite
ABC standing by the program in a
second broadcast, Peter Jennings
reported that ABC could no longer
substantiate the charges. That same
day, the CIA filed a formal
complaint with the FCC charging that
ABC had “deliberately distorted” the
news. In the complaint, Casey asked
that ABC be stripped of its TV and
radio licenses….During this time,
Capital Cities Communications was
maneuvering to buy ABC. [CIA
Director] Casey was one of the
founders of Cap Cities. Cap Cities
bought ABC. Within months, the
entire investigative unit was
dispersed. (click
for more)
Robert McChesney—500 radio & TV
appearances.
[There has been a] striking
consolidation of the media from
hundreds of firms to an industry
dominated by less than ten enormous
transnational conglomerates. The
largest ten media firms own all US
TV networks, most TV stations, all
major film studios, all major music
companies, nearly all cable TV
channels, much of the book and
magazine publishing [industry], and
much, much more. Expensive
investigative journalism—especially
that which goes after national
security or powerful corporate
interests—is discouraged. Largely
irrelevant human interest/tragedy
stories get extensive coverage….A
few weeks after the war began in
Afghanistan, CNN president Isaacson
authorized CNN to provide two
different versions of the war: a
more critical one for the global
audience and a sugarcoated one for
Americans….It is nearly impossible
to conceive of a better world
without some changes in the media
status quo. We have no time to
waste. (click
for more)
Obama tells the truth!
Another,
more positive message came in today. Unfortunately without the
name of the sender, but nonetheless, thanks for your support:
God Bless you folks for being true
Christians and not condemning Barack Obama. What I don't
understand is how Sarah Palin or John McCain can even say they
believe in GOD after what I have heard them say in politics.
Again, may GOD bless your church and
teachings.
Thank you my brother or
sister in Christ. How could anyone condemn Barack Obama or most
other Democrats? Republicans violate all the commandments.
McCain and Palin have not said a true word or stated an actual
fact in their entire Campaign. This is called lying and
violates the commandments.
They also support the unethical occupation and the violent killing in the Middle East,
which the
Bush-supporters made possible. Killing is as well against the
commandments. And they steal all of our money, which is
also against the commandments. How could the Republicans
possibly claim GOD for themselves if they violate all his commandments?
Barack Obama tells the
truth, wants to stop the theft by the wealthiest Americans
who are actually ruining our country and he also wants to stop the
war and the killing.
Whose side do you think
GOD is on???
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,October 30, 2008
Still: GOD is LOVE - not
wrath.
Daniel, the
friendly warrior of the unforgiving, vain and violent GOD wrote
an email to save my soul and the souls of the readers of my
website. I appreciate it and I might answer different parts
of his - or, looking at the hate and frustration in there,
probably more likely his pastor's - message one by one over the coming
days. I am currently very busy, but it is too important to let
this stand on its own too long. Hateful Christians are too
interesting to pass up as a subject for my sermons - and also
the component of raking in money in GOD's name and in the
Church's account.
His church wants your
money, so tithing is a major subject for them. And they love to
keep you in fear and terror of GOD, to get
to your money. To check out that my claim is true, have
a look at the website he gave me. On the site, don't be
surprised, first they establish that you
are a bad person and you will certainly go to hell - which by
the way does not exist (click
here to see why) - and you really need their products.
First they will scare you here
(Please click here to see the
site) and then you should click on the link below the
scare tactics site, which then brings you
here,
to a site
which then will sell all their products you think you need for your scared
and fearful soul.
Scaring people, spreading fear and terror without a
reason... Don't we call that terrorism here in America?
What would Jesus do with those people? Would he kick them out of
the temple? Well, for now, here is Daniel's
e-mail, unedited with some brief comments of mine in red.
Hi Alexander,
May I plea with you...
The same God that formed you in your
mother's womb formed me. There is only one God. God created all
things from the word of His power. He formed the earth out of
nothing and created all things that exist. This God is the same
God who came down to see the evils of Sodom and Gomorrah, and
proceeded to judge them with fire. This same God gave Abraham a
promise of a nation who would outnumber the sands on the sea
shore.
This same God freed a people out of the
bonds of slavery and called them Israel. This God punished the
people in the wilderness for casting a false god and worshiping
it. This same God gave His law to Moses and set up the
sacrifices and the priesthood of the Jewish people as a sign of
Him.
This same God destroyed his people, Israel
through the nation of Babylon for claiming to know God, but
secretly worshiped the false Gods of their neighboring
countries.
You make me
think that it is obviously also possible to worship a false GOD
here, in our own country.
This same God knowing that the heart of man
is evil from youth, became a man in Jesus of Nazareth. This
Jesus being equal with God, humbled himself and became a servant
to all. He was blameless before both God and man, and this Jesus
went to the cross to spill His blood for you. God so loved the
world that He gave His only son that who ever believes in Him
should not Perish, but have eternal life. There are two
choices. Believe and be given the gift of eternal life, or not
believe and perish.
I am
trembling with fear. GOD loved me so much, that he gave his own
son for my sins, and I shall fear him? GOD LOVES ME. If you
refuse to be loved by GOD, I can't help you.
Sin is so horrible that the wages for sin
is death. The soul that sins shall perish says the Lord. Sin is
so horrible that no person deserves to approach God while
stained with sin. Yet Jesus made a single way to approach God,
through his death on the cross, burial and resurrection. Every
other spiritual leader has a grave. You too will have a grave.
Jesus said that he lays down his life that he may take it again.
Jesus did not come to judge 2000 years ago,
but to lay his life down for the sheep. But He is coming again
with a sword in His mouth to judge and rule and reign as king.
My soul mourns for you, that you claim to
know the scriptures, but you don't see.
Good that
your position in GOD's court is so high that you think you can
lecture and look down on someone who lives in GOD's eternal
grace. Could you really be blaspheming? Could you really be that
vain and proud? Let's see.
Jesus offers you forgiveness today, but you
must take a leap of faith and trust in his work on the cross to
save you. You must humble yourself and abandon your pride in
your own knowledge, and you must come to the cross as each child
of God has, in humility.
...and give
you all my money. Would you go as far as to claim that my soul
is in your hands and that my blood could be on your hands?
Paul said that those who are teachers
will receive a harsher judgment. Again, when we are there in
heaven and I see you again, your blood will not be on my hands.
I have offered you the truth of the Gospel, the same Gospel that
Paul treasured. Paul said if you preach any other Gospel, even
if it is delivered to you by angels, let that man be accursed.
Any more
empty threats for the faint of heart? Well, you are definitely
not attempting to speak about the true content of the Bible or
any Gospel that GOD or Jesus Christ would condone. Here is some
Paul for you:
[Rom 5:8
-5:11]
But
God commendeth his
love toward us, in that, while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being
now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to
God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we
shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also
joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now
received the atonement.
God will get Glory in the end.
dw
Dear
Daniel, I think GOD already has the Glory. Not through your
praise though, I understand. I already acknowledge GOD in all HIS glory now.
But I doubt that HE needs your or my approval. I refuse to think of
HIM as a flawed character. GOD is perfect and does not need your
fear to feel powerful.
The GOD of
wrath is the GOD of the Jews in the Old Testament. HE changed
HIS message in sending Jesus Christ to the Jews. His message
then was LOVE. And when the Jews refused Jesus Christ's message,
it was given to the Gentiles by Paul. If you would rightly
divide the Bible, you would understand what I am talking about.
But I admit: People who fear GOD tithe
(give 10% of their income) a lot better. And that
was the first thing the website you gave me asked me for: My
money. By the way: tithing is not in the Bible either. So you
should keep your money and not be afraid of a loving GOD. And
yes, there is only one GOD, and HE is above jealousy and HE does
not need your fear or money to feel powerful. HE just is.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,October 30, 2008
GOD is LOVE, not Fear!
Last night,
right after Choir rehearsal, someone gave my wife and me a piece
of paper. A $1,000,000 note with the question on it: "Will
you go to heaven when you die?" Daniel was the person speaking
to me, another holy worker began talking to my wife. Daniel
insisted that GOD was to fear. The judgment would be
terrible, we were all sinners and not worthy. I answered
that I could not worship a GOD that I had to fear. Because my
GOD was full of love and very forgiving. GOD leads my life
everyday and HE does not let me fall in sin just to boost HIS
ego (what a thought...). Daniel told me that his GOD was a
GOD of wrath and jealousy. I answered that I had a problem
to imagine any superior being, especially GOD, to have all these
character flaws that he was describing after Jesus died for our
sins and brought the message of love.
I told him
that I communicate with GOD, try my best to keep HIS
commandments and live in the light that GOD shines on me, my
life and my mission. And I said that I would not trade GOD
for his version of a being with the flawed character who demands to be
feared. GOD send Jesus to show HIS love for us. All we have
to do is try to live according to HIS rules of love and
forgiveness, try to walk in Jesus shoes as far as we can - which
means to live our life in love and understanding for our fellow
man:
[Romans
13:8 -11]Owe no man any thing,
but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the
law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou
shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet;
and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this
saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love
worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the
law.And that, knowing the time, that now it is
high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when
we believed.
So, dear
Daniel, Love is the fulfilling of the law. Not fear. And
about your Bible quotes, please start with this one:
[2Ti
2:15] Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not
to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
And to learn how to rightly
divide the word of truth, please
click here. Again, I thank you for our conversation in
the name of GOD last night and I know that GOD has blessed you.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,October 29, 2008
America is smarter than that!!!
I am happy to
see that America sees through the BS screen Senator McCain and
Sarah Palin are trying to put up to defraud the American people
one more time. Twice it was Republican voter fraud and this time
it seem the Republicans are preparing their third election fraud
in accusing the Democrats of voter registration fraud. Which is
ridiculous because ACORN, the organization that is accused of it
handed the suspicious registrations in after they were lawfully
and rightfully clearly marked as suspicious. So, let's
hope that our votes will count.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,October 22, 2008
McCain in the Glass house!
Senator
McCain who has problems to decide if he wants a cleaner campaign
or keep slinging mud at America's only hope, Barack Obama, has
problems of his own. While the accusations against Barack
Obama have so far turned out to be totally unsubstantiated, the
truth has caught up with McCain, as our friends from
www.WantToKnow.info
report:
Once upon a time, a politician took campaign contributions and
favors from a friendly constituent who happened to run a savings
and loan association. The contributions were generous: They came
to about $200,000 in today's dollars, and on top of that there
were several free vacations for the politician and his family,
along with private jet trips and other perks. The politician
voted repeatedly against congressional efforts to tighten
regulation of S&Ls, and in 1987, when he learned that his
constituent's S&L was the target of a federal investigation, he
met with regulators in an effort to get them to back off. That
politician was John McCain, and his generous friend was Charles
Keating, head of Lincoln Savings & Loan. While he was courting
McCain and other senators and urging them to oppose tougher
regulation of S&Ls, Keating was also investing his depositors'
federally insured savings in risky ventures. In 1989, [Lincoln]
went belly up -- and more than 20,000 Lincoln customers saw
their savings vanish.
Keating went to prison, and McCain's Senate career almost ended.
Together with the rest of the so-called Keating Five ... McCain
was investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee and ultimately
reprimanded for "poor judgment." But the savings
and loan crisis mushroomed. Eventually, the government spent
about $125 billion in taxpayer dollars to bail out hundreds of
failed S&Ls. The $125 billion seems like small change compared
to the $700-billion price tag for the Bush administration's
proposed Wall Street bailout. But the root causes of both crises
are the same: a lethal mix of deregulation and greed.
Note: For key reports on
government corruption from reliable sources,
click here.
Special note:
A fascinating one-minute CNN news video clip shows a
human-powered car which can actually reach 60 mph.
Click here to watch.
I still have a hard time
understanding why Palin and McCain are allowed by the media to
lie openly without asking them any questions about it.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,October 17, 2008
Will we have to suffer another
fake terrorist attack?
I think I
have established that I know for a fact (who could take out
NORAD? - and the plans were in place from our Government for a
"new Pearl Harbor") that the 9-11 attacks were home made to keep
"W" in power and start a war against an innocent country to
control their oil resources. Now some people are afraid
that a similar scam shall be played out for John McCain.
Some people
think that Bush will declare martial law - the military is
already back from IRAQ and according to their orders - which are
by the way unconstitutional - ready to attack US citizens in
their home country. So you and I might be killed by our own
troops because we were voting for the wrong guy?
Are we still
the land of the free? The land of the brave? My Lord. What
an amazing thing Christianity seems to be. According to the
right wing Christian fascists you shall kill, lie and steal.
Those are the new commandments? Something has gone very wrong in
our US of A in recent years.
Others assume
that there will be another homemade attack, a new 9-11, from
Bush's friends to get McCain elected. More - once again - from
our friends at
www.WantToKnow.info who know many things we should seriously
think about to see how we are being manipulated, lied to, raped
and ravaged.
Charlie Black, senior adviser to John McCain, caused a fluff by
saying that a terrorist attack on U.S. soil would be a "big
advantage" to his candidate. No one mentioned that eight years
ago, the
Project for a New American Century called for "a new Pearl
Harbor" that could move the American people to accept the
neoconservative vision of militarized global domination. Then
9/11 happened, lifting George W. Bush from the shadows of a
disputed election to the heights of a "war presidency." Bush has
taken on unprecedented powers since the events of 9/11. On that
day, the president issued his "Declaration of Emergency by
Reason of Certain Terrorist Attacks" under the authority of the
National Emergencies Act. This declaration, which can be
rescinded by joint resolution of Congress, has instead been
extended six times. In 2007, the declaration was quietly
strengthened with the issuance of
National Security Presidential Directive 51,
which
gave the president the authority to do whatever he deems
necessary in a vaguely defined "catastrophic emergency,"
including everything from canceling elections to suspending the
Constitution to launching a nuclear attack.
Not a single congressional hearing was held on this directive.
Please
understand that this is not about Republicans or Democrats.
There are people destroying our country and our lives! I know
that many Republicans are not aware of what the leaders do and
if they were, they would have a hard time to believe it.
Please take a minute to think and get the facts. I know
Americans do not condone what is happening right now. Stand up
and tell the politicians that we are fed up. This is not
cheering for football teams. This is about your and our lives.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,October 15, 2008
Should Lies Get
Them the Job?
If
someone applies for a job and lies in the interview, would you
hire him or her? Probably not. So this is your situation with
John McCain and Sarah Palin. All they tell is lies. Because
the truth would catapult them out of the race immediately.
McCain lied so obviously to America when he told Talk show
legend David Letterman that he had to “hurry back to Washington
to solve the economic crisis” and sat calmly in Katie Couric’s
CBS studio for an interview instead of appearing on David’s show
and David Letterman projected the live feed from CBS on the
Studio screen. Sitting in for McCain was legendary MSNBC host
Keith Olbermann who helped David poke fun at the ignorant
Wannabe President.
McCain has graduated among the last of his
class. And the pattern did not change. His supporters
think Barack Obama is a Muslim, an elitist and an Arab. Sarah
Palin (who does not read a single newspaper) declares that he
has pals who are terrorists and she keeps telling many more lies
to a Lynch mob of Republican idiots and racists who are yelling
for Obama's death, happily supported by a brain free Hockey mom
who was even booed a hockey game. Another set of lying morons in
the White House? Another babbling idiot as our
President? Didn’t we have enough of this?
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,October 12, 2008
With "The
Bailout" they are just stealing more money from us
The "PEN" sends me a lot of
useful and truthful information and it really seems like they
are as upset about our Government stealing from us and selling
out America to the richest of the rich as I am. Anyway,
McCain and Palin are only puppets of the masters behind the
scenes. Like Bush who had one of the puppeteers as his VP.
The Republicans are now selling two brain free candidates to the
US and seem to do well with it. Sometimes I ask myself why the
level of stupidity is so high. No thinking child left behind?
Is our system really only breeding a bunch of morons who can't
tell an innovator who is working with facts and telling the
truth like Barack Obama from a babbling puppet who is only
telling lies - not only to David Letterman - and is more
experienced but not smarter than Sarah Palin, who herself is
dumb as a stick?
Tina Fey does her impression of
Sarah Palin on SNL (Saturday Night Live) with actual quotes from
real Palin interviews and the audience cracks up. So did I when
I heard the original interviews. Most of my friends are
more qualified to lead this country than Sarah Palin
is. But back to the so called Bailout that is supposed to
collect the rest of our money that the weapons industry and the
Iraq contractors did not get their hands on and put it in the
pockets of the rest of our big Corporations that are behind the
Bush administration. The people behind Bush raped, raided
and looted our country with the help of the Republicans. And now
they take whatever is left, to make sure that the next
administration has nothing to work with. If they should
succeed in fixing the elections a third time and McCain/Palin
make it into the White House, some money might magically
reappear to give the impression that the administration knows
their job. And after a brief recovery the looting will
begin again. And there is only one group of losers:
America and 95 percent of Americans. How any American who makes
less than $250,000 can even think of electing their own demise
with the Republican ticket is beyond me. So Obama should
have 95% of America behind him. Why is that not the case?
Here the PEN article I have received today:
Urgent Action Alert: No More Bailout
Votes Till Congress Hears From Some REAL Economists
Why Is Congress Even Listening To Those
Who Caused The Wreck On How To Fix It?
Isn't it a miracle what can happen when
the people actually speak out. Votes change in Congress. And
please take careful note of this fact -- the stock market was
down 600 points BEFORE Congress even voted, and reason is that
investors KNOW that Paulson's plunder plan does not address any
of the real problems, and were as afraid it might pass as not.
It was a non-starter, it needs to be torn up and we need to
draft a new plan from scratch.
Now it is up to us, we the people, to
provide the real leadership that is so lacking in Congress, to
push for real and substantial progressive policy change, and the
underlying principle must be this, and this is what we need to
tell them, with our newfound vocal power.
No More Bailout Votes Until Congress
Hears From Some Real Economists.
And here are the toll free numbers for
Congress again, 800 828-0498, 800-473-6711, now that we know
that they WILL actually listen, at least enough of them, when we
DO actually speak out in greater and greater numbers and loudly
enough. They need to hear from us again now, more that EVER, to
tell them what they need to do instead. Please make your calls and send your
emails. And if your representatives voted for the bailout the
first time, lambaste them, and if they voted "No", thank them
profusely. And we again thank Cindy Sheehan, who is
so seriously challenging Nancy Pelosi for the congressional seat
in San Francisco right now, for her own leadership in making
this action page happen. Before Congress does anything else they
MUST take the time to hear from some real economists, like Nobel
Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz, who offers real wisdom in this
article from his article last week in the Nation magazine. Here
are some excerpts:
With lack of oversight and transparency
the cause of the current problem, how could they make a proposal
so short in both? If a quick consensus is required, why not
include provisions to stop the source of bleeding, to aid the
millions of Americans that are losing their homes? Why not spend
as much on them as on Wall Street? Do they still believe in
trickle-down economics, when for the past eight years money has
been trickling up to the wizards of Wall Street? Why not enact
bankruptcy reform, to help Americans write down the value of the
mortgage on their overvalued home? No one benefits from these
costly foreclosures.
The Scandinavian countries showed the
way, almost two decades ago. By issuing preferred shares with
warrants (options), one reduces the public's downside risk and
insures that they participate in some of the upside potential.
This approach is not only proven, it provides both incentives
and wherewithal to resume lending. It furthermore avoids the
hopeless task of trying to value millions of complex mortgages
and even more complex products in which they are embedded, and
it deals with the "lemons" problem - the government getting
stuck with the worst or most overpriced assets.
Finally, we need to impose a special
financial sector tax to pay for the bailouts conducted so far.
We also need to create a reserve fund so that poor taxpayers
won't have to be called upon again to finance Wall Street's
foolishness. -- End Stiglitz Excepts --
We need open, public and TRANSPARENT
hearings so the American people can hear from REAL experts like
Joseph E. Stiglitz, and decide in the clear light of day what is
to be done with OUR economic destiny, and not in secret back
rooms like it's been done so far, where they confiscate all the
Blackberrys to keep us all in the dark.
And THEN they write the legislation. And
they don't leave town until they do it, because we're not going
to reelect any of them anyway unless they do.
Here is a donations page for also for
Cindy Sheehan. Many of you have donated very generously, but
many of you have NOT. And time is so short. Cindy Sheehan Donations:
http://www.usalone.net/cindy/donations.php
And what if you don't have any money? No
excuses. Do you have a telephone? Does it allow you to place
outgoing toll free calls? So after you call Congress, Cindy needs
phone bankers, lots of phone bankers, now. NOW, now. Use the link
on the page above to volunteer. What Congress is being stampeded into
doing, again, is EXACTLY backwards. Would you buy a "hen
protection plan" from one of the foxes? There is a real simple
solution to this whole mess. These institutions are in trouble
mostly because they were looted by their own corporate
executives. We march an army of forensic accountants in there,
and tell those Wall Street pigs that if they don't find the
money fast they are all going to jail. And then we file negligence and breach
of fiduciary duty lawsuits against them all, to recoup every
dime that disappeared. Our dear Secretary of the Treasury
Paulson pulled down hundreds of millions all by himself. And now
he wants the American people to make up the difference out of
OUR pockets? He can practically finance the bailout PERSONALLY.
And if there were any justice in the world he would. And let them all know, that their job
description is NOT ignoring the will of the American people.
So far the
PEN endorsement of Cindy Sheehan who has been opposed to the
first looting of our country by this administration - the Iraq
occupation - for a long time now. Nancy Pelosi and many other
Bush-Democrats need to change their positions or go. Habeas
Corpus, the shredding of our Constitution, the Concentration
Camps at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the warrantless wiretapping and
spying on innocent citizens with the patriot act and continuous
funding for the occupation of Iraq, and many more things, were
only possible with their help. And they are shielding the
criminals Bush and Cheney from impeachment. Don't you think it
is time to show them what we think of them?
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,September 30, 2008
Contractors trade slaves in IRAQ
Here a brief substantiation of
my warning to be cautious to the young person interested to
study in an Arab country (God
is everywhere you are,
below). Thanks to www.WantToKnow.info we can see that the US - so
called - Christians are in some cases far more dangerous than
the Arab Muslims:
A Washington law firm filed a lawsuit yesterday against
KBR, one of the largest U.S. contractors in Iraq, alleging that
the company and its Jordanian subcontractor engaged in the human
trafficking of Nepali workers. Agnieszka Fryszman, a
partner at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, said 13 Nepali men,
between the ages of 18 and 27, were recruited in Nepal to work
as kitchen staff in hotels and restaurants in Amman, Jordan. But
once the men arrived in Jordan, their passports were seized and
they were told they were being sent to a military facility in
Iraq, Fryszman said. As the men were driven in cars to Iraq,
they were stopped by insurgents. Twelve were kidnapped and later
executed, Fryszman said. The thirteenth man survived and worked
in a warehouse in Iraq for 15 months before returning to Nepal.
The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in California on behalf of
the workers' families and the survivor, claims that the
trafficking scheme was engineered by KBR and its Jordanian
subcontractor, Daoud & Partners, according to Fryszman. This
spring, an administrative law judge at the Department of Labor,
which has jurisdiction over cases that involve on the job
injuries at overseas military bases, ordered Daoud to pay $1
million to the families of 11 of the victims.
Note: For many more reports on corporate
corruption from major media sources,
click here.
And don't forget: this is being done in
OUR name! GOD bless America!
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,September 23, 2008
Black "Strategists" against Obama
It is amazing
how easily the Republicans are getting away with playing the
race card in their favor. Judge for yourself: The
Republican so called "Strategists" on the slightly more
Democratic oriented TV stations are mostly African-American and
spewing hate against Barack Obama, the man who is trying to help
the middle class, the poorer Americans and minorities. It
is amazing how some African-Americans can support the party that
thinks and loudly says they are "uppity". Here a short
explanation for those who do not know the meaning of the word
that southern Congressman
Lynn Westmoreland
called Obama and the people of his complexion:
"Uppity ******* got lynched", and anyone from the
south who does not know this word must be quite young. "Uppity"
were black people who got out of line, they looked at white
women, tried to vote, protected their women from rape by white
men and thought they had rights. They thought they had the
rights you give to human beings. Uppity is a disgusting racial
term, it is one of those code words that many voting Americans
understand whether they admit it or not. And the Republicans
currently use it in the south instead of the "N"-word.
So the so called "Strategists"
the Republicans send to discussions on TV programs leaning
toward the Democratic Party are black to make the false point
that African-Americans would not support Obama. Looking at the
Republican Stations where most Blacks might not even be allowed
to enter through the back door, all you see on those Shows and
Programs are white "Strategists". Some dressed up with
Lipstick and heavy make up to look a little bit like Sarah Palin
(ridiculous as seen on Larry King tonight - why not choose them
either good looking or smart - most of them are neither) to make
sure not one of the right wing nuts gets the idea that the
Republicans talk to black people during the election phase.
Next time you get a chance to watch one the political shows and
magazines, have a conscious look at the people sent out by the
Republican Party.
Another term that is being used
against Barack Obama is "elitist". Barack Obama was raised
on food stamps by a single mother. John McCain is member
of a Military Dynasty, his wife was outfitted for $300,000 when
she appeared with Laura Bush at the RNC and the McCains have
seven houses (some reports speak of nine (9))and they own about
100 Million Dollars. And they - of all people - call Barack
Obama an elitist. How would anyone even remotely believe
anything that comes our of John McBush's mouth anymore, anyway.
The Republicans who are trying to sell Sarah Palin on talk shows
lie through their teeth, destroy their own reputations, because
a child can see that these claims have no merit. To be
able to see Russia from Alaska does not make anyone an expert on
foreign policy. Paris Hilton has extremely more "foreign
experience" than Palin. Maybe McCain should have picked
her as his VP. It would not have made a big difference.
Paris Hilton might even have been a better choice.
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,September 18, 2008
The Media covers up and punishes
Being a
journalist myself, I have been observing this trend for a while. The
channel FOX even won a lawsuit that their news do not have to
contain truth. So here from one of my favorite sources
www.WantToKnow.info - favorite, because they are reliable -
some pointers why our country is in such a mess.
Leading Journalists Expose
Manipulations in the Media
The riveting excerpts below are from the revealing
accounts of 20 award-winning journalists in the highly acclaimed
book
Into the Buzzsaw. These courageous writers were
prevented by corporate media ownership from reporting major news
stories. Some were even fired or laid off. They have won
numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer. Join in
building a better world by helping to
spread this news
across the land.
Jane Akre—Fox
News. After our struggle to air an honest report [on
hormones in milk], Fox fired the general manager [of our
station]. The new GM said that if we didn’t agree to changes
that the lawyers were insisting upon, we’d be fired for
insubordination in 48 hours. We pleaded with [him] to look at
the facts we’d uncovered. His reply: “We paid $3 billion dollars
for these stations. We’ll tell you what the news is. The
news is what we say it is!” [After we refused] Fox’s GM
presented us an agreement that would give us a full year of
salary, and benefits worth close to $200,000, but with strings
attached: no mention of how Fox covered up the story and no
opportunity to ever expose the facts. [After declining] we were
fired. (click
for more)
Dan Rather—CBS,
Multiple Emmy Awards. What's going on is a belief that you
can manipulate communicable trust between the leadership and the
led. The way you do that is you don't let the press in anywhere.
Access to war is extremely limited. The fiercer the combat, the
more the access is limited, [including] access to information.
This is a direct contradiction of the stated policy of maximum
access to information consistent with national security. There
was a time in South Africa when people would put flaming tires
around people's necks if they dissented. In some ways the fear
[now in the U.S.] is that you will have a flaming tire of lack
of patriotism put around your neck. That fear keeps journalists
from asking the tough questions. I am humbled to say, I do not
except myself from this criticism. (click
for more)
Monika Jensen-Stevenson—Emmy-winning producer for 60
minutes. Robert R. Garwood—14 years a prisoner of the
Vietnamese—was found guilty in the longest court-martial in US
history. At the end of the court-martial, there seemed no
question that Garwood was a monstrous traitor. Several years
later in 1985, Garwood was speaking publicly about something
that had never made the news during his court-martial. He knew
of other American prisoners in Vietnam long after the war was
over. He was supported by Vietnam veterans whose war records
were impeccable….My sources included outstanding experts like
former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency General Tighe and
returned POWs like Captain McDaniel, who held the Navy’s top
award for bravery. With such advocates, it was hard not to
consider the possibility that prisoners (some 3,500) had in fact
been kept by the Vietnamese as hostages to make sure the US
would pay the more than $3 billion in war reparations. [After
the war] American POWs had become worthless pawns. The US had
not paid the promised monies and had no intention of paying in
the future. (click
for more)
Kristina Borjesson—CBS, Emmy award winner.
Pierre Salinger announced to the world on Nov. 8, 1996, that
he’d received documents proving that a US Navy missile had
accidentally downed [TWA flight 800]. That same day, FBI’s Jim
Kallstrom called a press conference. A man raised his hand and
asked why the Navy was involved in the recovery and
investigation while a possible suspect. “Remove him!” [Kallstrom]
yelled. Two men leapt over to the questioner and grabbed him by
the arms. There was a momentary chill in the air after the guy
had been dragged out of the room. Kallstrom and entourage acted
as if nothing had happened. [Kallstrom was later hired by CBS.]
(click
for more)
Greg Palast—BBC.
In the months leading up to the November [2000] balloting, Gov.
Jeb Bush ordered elections supervisors to purge 58,000 voters on
the grounds they were felons not entitled to vote. As it turns
out, only a handful of these voters were felons. This
extraordinary news ran on page one of the country’s leading
paper. Unfortunately, it was the wrong country: Britain. In the
USA, it was not covered. The office of the governor [also]
illegally ordered the removal of felons from voter rolls—real
felons—but with the right to vote under law. As a result, 50,000
of these voters could not vote. The fact that 90% of these were
Democrats should have made it news as this alone more than
accounted for Bush’s victory. (click
for more)
Michael Levine—25-year
veteran of DEA, writer for New York Times, Los Angeles
Times, USA Today. The Chang Mai “factory” that
the CIA prevented me from destroying was the source of massive
amounts of heroin being smuggled into the US in the bodies and
body bags of GIs killed in Vietnam. Case after case was killed
by CIA and State Department intervention and there wasn’t a
thing we could do about it….In 1980, CIA-recruited mercenaries
and drug traffickers unseated Bolivia’s democratically elected
president. Immediately after the coup, cocaine production
increased massively. Bolivia [became] the source of virtually
100% of the cocaine entering the US. This was the beginning of
the crack “plague.”…The CIA along with State and Justice
Departments had to protect their drug-dealing assets by
destroying a DEA investigation. How do I know? I was the inside
source….I sat down at my desk in the American embassy and wrote
evidence of my charges. I addressed it to Newsweek. Three
weeks later DEA’s internal security [called] to notify me that I
was under investigation….The highlight of the 60 Minutes
piece is when the administrator of the DEA, Federal Judge Robert
Bonner, tells Mike Wallace, “There is no other way to put it,
Mike, [what the CIA did] is drug smuggling. It’s illegal.” (click
for more)
Gary Webb—San Jose Mercury News, Pulitzer Prize
winner. In 1996, I
wrote a series of stories that began this way: For the better
part of a decade, a Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to
the Crips and Bloods gangs of LA and funneled millions in drug
profits to a guerilla army run by the CIA. The cocaine that
flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America….The
story was developing a momentum all of its own, despite a
virtual news blackout from the major media. Ultimately, it was
public pressure that forced the national newspapers into the
fray. The Washington Post, the New York Times, and
the Los Angeles Times published stories, but spent little
time exploring the CIA’s activities. Instead, my reporting and I
became the focus of their scrutiny. It was remarkable [Mercury
News editor] Ceppos wrote, that the four Washington Post
reporters assigned to debunk the series “could not find a single
significant factual error.” A few months later, the Mercury
News [due to intense CIA pressure] backed away from the
story, publishing a long column by Ceppos apologizing for
“shortcomings.” The New York Times hailed Ceppos for
“setting a brave new standard,” and splashed his apology on
their front page, the first time the series had ever been
mentioned there. I quit the Mercury News not long after
that….Do we have a free press today? Sure. It’s free to report
all the sex scandals, all the stock market news, [and] every new
health fad that comes down the pike. But when it comes to the
real down and dirty stuff—such stories are not even open for
discussion. (click
for more)
John Kelly—Author, ABC producer.
ABC hired me to help produce a story about an investment firm
that was heavily involved with the CIA. Part of the ABC report
charged that the CIA had plotted to assassinate an American, Ron
Rewald, the president of [the investment firm]. Scott Barnes
said on camera that the CIA had asked him to kill Rewald. After
the show aired, CIA officials met with ABC executive David
Burke, [who] was sufficiently impressed “by the vigor with which
they made their case” to order an on-air “clarification.” But
that was not enough. [CIA Director] Casey called ABC Chairman
Goldenson. [Thus] despite all the documented evidence presented
in the program, despite ABC standing by the program in a second
broadcast, Peter Jennings reported that ABC could no longer
substantiate the charges. That same day, the CIA filed a formal
complaint with the FCC charging that ABC had “deliberately
distorted” the news. In the complaint, Casey asked that ABC be
stripped of its TV and radio licenses….During this time, Capital
Cities Communications was maneuvering to buy ABC. [CIA Director]
Casey was one of the founders of Cap Cities. Cap Cities bought
ABC. Within months, the entire investigative unit was dispersed.
(click for
more)
Robert McChesney—500 radio & TV appearances.
[There has been a] striking consolidation of the media from
hundreds of firms to an industry dominated by less than ten
enormous transnational conglomerates. The largest ten media
firms own all US TV networks, most TV stations, all major film
studios, all major music companies, nearly all cable TV
channels, much of the book and magazine publishing [industry],
and much, much more. Expensive investigative
journalism—especially that which goes after national security or
powerful corporate interests—is discouraged. Largely irrelevant
human interest/tragedy stories get extensive coverage….A few
weeks after the war began in Afghanistan, CNN president Isaacson
authorized CNN to provide two different versions of the war: a
more critical one for the global audience and a sugarcoated one
for Americans….It is nearly impossible to conceive of a better
world without some changes in the media status quo. We have no
time to waste. (click
for more)
Let us change this situation:
Go to their site and spread the truth. May GOD be with you always!
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,September 16, 2008
GOD is
everywhere you are!
Last night I received an Email from a young man
who is worried about his future. I took all the information out
of the letter that could reveal
his identity and left the important parts, so he remains anonymous.
GOD is giving him an opportunity to evaluate another culture and
to learn about new things. And GOD will always be by his side. Here the letter:
I am a university student. I
had applied for a study program scholarship at a University in
an Arab Country. Their facilities and the quality of the
education sounds very good and promising for my career. However,
the most difficult thread for me is that it is in a Muslim
country. I'm a true believer of Christ. Here I am active in
Church youth ministry, enjoy my time in worshiping God, have a
special time for Him, the main thing is that my relationship
with God is alive. I have a freedom of developing my spiritual
needs in my country.
However, suppose if later I'll be going to that Arab Country,
I'm afraid if I cannot get a Church there, and I'm a afraid if
my freedom of developing my spiritual needs (time for praying,
worshiping God, etc) will be taken off. Please help me and share
your ideas with me. This is a very difficult task for me to take
a step on it.
I really wonder whether or not I should take that scholarship.
More over, I have heard many news about the religion and culture
there. Thanks...
Dear Student,
Our
churches are not GOD. GOD is everywhere and he sends you and
will keep on sending you to many places that will surprise you
throughout your life. If you read one of my favorite quotes from
the Gospel of Thomas:
(77) Jesus said:
I am the light that is over them all. I
am the All; the All has come forth from me, and the All has
attained unto me. Cleave a (piece of) wood: I am there. Raise up
the stone, an ye shall find me there
then you know that you do not need a
church to be close to GOD.
GOD and Jesus will be with you always, no matter where you
are or what you do, and no church is necessary to communicate
with GOD. I am sure GOD has special plans for you. You do not
need a church to worship GOD, you do it in doing his will.
Learning, teaching, helping people in following the example of
Jesus Christ is not an easy road, but it is a very giving way to
live your life and it is worship in itself.
I am sure that if this
Arab country offers you a scholarship, they will also take care
of your security there and your spiritual needs. Also: The
Qur'an itself is religion of peace, just as the Bible (Muhammad
based the Qur'an on the bible) and I am sure you will find many
fruitful conversations and learn many new things about religion
there (where the Christians also call GOD "Allah").
Careful:
Be aware that some US companies try to lure people to the middle
east under false pretenses to use them as slave labor (as
KBR did with young people from Nepal, who ended up as
slaves without money or the promised jobs. The "American
Christians" from KBR took away their passports and used
them as slaves). Those are so called "Christians" who are led
to believe by US preachers that Jesus Christ does not care about
people, wants America to start wars in spite of Jesus Christ's
teachings and all of the commandments. They teach that all you
have to do is to make money and give this money to them. Jesus
Christ is love and understanding and he came to change the
violent teachings of the Old Testament to the new teachings of
Love (That is why the New Testament is NEW and the Old Testament
is OLD - actually it is the history of the Jews and does not
apply to us). Be aware of the "Christians" from the USA and be
sure to remember Jesus Christ's message of love. Be sure to
check the offer out thoroughly.
Please keep
me posted about your path.
May GOD be with you always!
Amen Rev. Dr. Alexander Hast,September 12, 2008
9/11 was an inside Job!
The myth of September 11 is entering
the race for the Presidency. For the Republicans, who protected all
of the crimes that were committed on 9/11 from detection should be
very careful with this issue. Whoever supported this crime or
it's cover up shares the guilt with the attackers. And the
Republicans have so far done everything to hide the truth and avoid
any kind of impartial investigation.
Hitler called his 9/11 "Kristallnacht"
and blamed the Jews. Bush blamed Bin Laden, to start a war
with Iraq. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Bush was tired of
Saddam Hussein, whom his father had put into power decades ago, and
Bush had to deliver a war to his supporters to be able to make
insane amounts of money on weapons and Oil for them and himself.
Osama Bin Laden is from Saudi Arabia and the Bin Ladens are the only
friends the Bush family ever had. The other two remaining
alleged terrorists were from the United Arab Emirates, whom Bush
wanted to give authority over six major US ports. Why? As a reward?
Osama denied an involvement in the
attacks. In a first statement he welcomed them and regretted that he
was not involved in them. Then the Bush crime family produced
a video with an actor who looked remotely like Osama in which he
confessed to the attacks. Obviously after having a talk with
his family, Bush's best and only friends, he finally said that he
was responsible for the attack on 9/11. A cover up for the
attack of our Government on our own country. Bush made sure that the
US military forces who had cornered Osama Bin Laden several times
let him go or escape every single time. Why? Get the
idea?
And the Republican Party supported
this policy. Otherwise Bush could not have acted this way. So
John McCain is without a doubt part of this attack on the US and the
cover up that followed. The Republicans still support their
concentration camps (Guantanamo Bay) and put up and use additional
concentration camps in Eastern Europe. They still keep Hitlers "Ermächtigungsgesetz"
Everyone who is willing to use their
brain should know by now that September 11 was an inside job. It
could not have been anything else. Here are some more of my personal
smoking guns: Whoever was able to take out NORAD for that day HAS to be at
least involved. Who can do that? ONLY the Government! Who profited from 9/11? ONLY Bush and the companies related
to him or Cheney: Halliburton, Carlisle Group, Weapons
manufacturers, and the Oil industry. Which means: almost the entire
Government of the US.
The guys at
www.WantToKnow.info
have done an amazing job in gathering verifiable evidence of the
true events on 9/11. Here is some of their recent information:
9/11 Cover-up Two-Page Summary Verifiable Media Reports on 9/11
To
verify statements, click on links to articles on major media
websites. Join in powerfully building a brighter future for all by
spreading the word
America’s top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent
people and commit acts of terrorism in US cities to trick the public
into supporting a war against Cuba in the early 1960s. Approved in
writing by the Pentagon Joint Chiefs, Operation Northwoods even
proposed blowing up a US ship and hijacking planes as a false
pretext for war. [ABC
News, 5/1/01,
Pentagon Documents]
1996–2001: Federal authorities are aware for years before
9/11 that suspected terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden are
receiving flight training at schools in the US and abroad. One
convicted terrorist confesses that his planned role in a terror
attack was to crash a plane into CIA headquarters. [Washington
Post, 9/23/01,
CBS, 5/30/02,
more]
1996–2001: On multiple occasions spies give detailed reports
on bin Laden's location. Each time, the CIA director or top White
House officials prevent bin Laden's elimination. [Los
Angeles Times, 12/5/04,
New York Times,
12/30/01,
more]
2000–2001: 15 of the 19 hijackers fail to fill in visa
documents properly in Saudi Arabia. Only six are interviewed. All 15
should have been denied entry to the US. [Washington
Post, 10/22/02,
ABC, 10/23/02] Two top Republican senators say if State
Department personnel had merely followed the law, 9/11 would not
have happened. [AP,
12/18/02,
more]
2000–2001: The military conducts exercises simulating
hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets causing
mass casualties. One target is the World Trade Center (WTC), another
the Pentagon. Yet after 9/11, over and over the White House and
security officials say they’re shocked that terrorists hijacked
airliners and crashed them into landmark buildings. [USA
Today, 4/19/04,
Military District of Washington, 11/3/00,
New York Times,
10/3/01,
more]
Jan 2001: After the Nov 2000 elections, US intelligence
agencies are told to “back off” investigating the bin Ladens and
Saudi royals. There have always been constraints on investigating
Saudi Arabians. [BBC,
11/6/01,
more]
Spring 2001: A series of military and governmental policy
documents is released that seek to legitimize the use of US military
force in the pursuit of oil and gas. One advocates presidential
subterfuge and hiding the reasons for warfare “as a necessity for
mobilizing public support.” [Sydney
Morning Herald, 12/26/02,
more]
May 2001: For the thirles on bin Laden and al-Qaeda. A senior CIA
source calls it “the worst single intelligence failure in the
business.” [60675,00.html">Guardian,
9/30/01,
more]
June-Aug 2001: German intelligence warns the CIA that Middle
Eastern terrorists are training for hijackings and targeting
American interests. Russian President Vladimir Putin alerts the US
of suicide pilots training for attacks on US targets. In late July,
a Taliban emissary warns the US that bin Laden is planning a huge
attack on American soil. In August, Israel warns of an imminent Al
Qaeda attack. [Fox
News, 5/17/02,
Independent,
9/7/02,
CNN, 9/12/02,
more]
July 26, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft stops flying
commercial airlines due to a threat assessment. [CBS,
7/26/01] In May 2002, Ashcroft walks out of his office rather
than answer questions about it. [Fox
News/AP, 5/16/02,
more]
Aug 6, 2001: President Bush receives an intelligence briefing
warning that bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial
airliners. Titled “Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US,” the
briefing specifically mentions the WTC. Yet Bush later claims it
“said nothing about an attack on America.” [Washington
Post, 4/12/04,
Briefing, 8/6/01,
more]
Aug 27, 2001: An FBI supervisor tries to ensure that a
hijacker doesn't "take control of a plane and fly it into the World
Trade Center." [Senate
Report, 10/17/02] Headquarters chastises him for notifying the
CIA. [Time,
5/21/02,
more]
Sept 10, 2001: A number of top Pentagon brass suddenly cancel
travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security
concerns. Why isn't this news spread widely? [Newsweek,
9/13/01,
Newsweek, 9/24/01,
more]
Sept 11, 2001: Data recovery experts extract data from 32
damaged WTC computer drives. The data reveals a surge in financial
transactions shortly before the attacks. Illegal transfers of over
$100 million may have been made through WTC computer systems
immediately before and during the 9/11 disaster. [Reuters,
12/18/01,
CNN, 12/20/01,
more]
Sept 11, 2001: Described as a bizarre coincidence, a US
intelligence agency was set for an exercise on Sept 11 at 9 AM in
which an aircraft would crash into one of its buildings near
Washington, DC. [USA
Today/AP, 8/22/02,
more]
Sept 11, 2001: Hours after the attacks, a "shadow government"
is formed. Key congressional leaders say they didn’t know this
government-in-waiting had been established. [CBS,
3/2/02,
Washington Post, 3/2/02,
more]
Sept 11, 2001: Six air traffic controllers who
dealt with two of the hijacked airliners make a tape recording
describing the events within hours of the attacks. The tape is never
turned over to the FBI. It is later illegally destroyed by a
supervisor without anyone making a transcript or even listening to
it. [Washington
Post, 5/6/04,
New York Times, 5/6/04]
Sept 13-19, 2001: Bin Laden's family is taken under FBI
supervision to a secret assembly point. They leave the country by
private plane when airports reopen days after the attacks. [New
York Times, 9/30/01,
Boston Globe,
9/20/01,
more]
Sept 20, 2001: Several 9/11 hijackers later mentioned in the
9/11 Commission Report turn up alive. "Five of the alleged
hijackers have emerged, alive, innocent and astonished to see their
names and photographs appearing on satellite television...The
hijackers were using stolen identities." [quote in
London Times, 9/20/01, see also
BBC, 9/23/01,
more]
Dec 2001-Feb 2002: The US engineers the rise to power of two
former Unocal Oil employees: Hamid Karzai, the interim president of
Afghanistan, and Zalmay Khalizad, the US envoy. The big American
bases created in the Afghan war are identical to the route of the
projected oil pipeline. [Chicago
Tribune, 3/18/02,
more]
May 17, 2002: Dan Rather says that he and other journalists
haven't been properly investigating since 9/11. He graphically
describes the pressures to conform that built up after the attacks.
[Guardian,
5/17/02,
more]
May 23, 2002: President Bush says he is opposed to
establishing an independent commission to probe 9/11. [CBS,
5/23/02] Vice President Cheney earlier opposed any public
hearings on 9/11. [Newsweek,
2/4/02,
more]
May 30, 2002: FBI Agent Wright formally accuses the FBI of
deliberately curtailing investigations that might have prevented
9/11. He is threatened with retribution if he talks to Congress
about this. [Fox
News, 5/30/02,
more]
July 22, 2004: The 9/11 Commission Report is
published. It fails to mention that a year before the attacks a
secret Pentagon project had identified four 9/11 hijackers,
including leader Mohamed Atta. The Commission spokesperson initially
states members were not informed of this, but later acknowledges
they were. [New
York Times, 8/11/05,
more]
2004 - 2005: A growing number of top
government officials and public leaders express disbelief in the
official story of 9/11. 100 prominent leaders and 40 9/11 family
members sign a statement calling for an unbiased inquiry into
evidence suggesting high-level government officials may have
deliberately allowed the attacks to occur. [Various
Publications]
Aug 9, 2006: A
book by 9/11 Commission chairmen Kean and Hamilton outlines
repeated deceptions by the Pentagon and FAA, including the timelines
of Flights 77 and 93. CNN News: "The fact that the government would
... perpetuate the lie suggests that we need a full investigation of
what is going on." [CNN,
8/9/06 ,
MSNBC/AP, 8/4/06,
more]
2006-2007: Over 50 former senior government
officials and more than 100 highly respected professors publicly
criticize The 9/11 Commission Report as highly flawed, and
call for a new, independent investigation. [Professors,
Officials]
The Republican Party is
trying to sell their candidates the same way they sold you 9/11.
With lies and deception. Let's tell everyone the facts (facts are
the true events, as they REALLY happened, NOT made up or tampered
with. Those are FACTS!) so everyone understands the truth, what is
really happening to our country and our constitution and so freedom stands a chance against lies, oppression and
betrayal.
