How does the Christian Right, e.g. GWB, square the teachings of Jesus and the New Testament with Pre-emptive (or any other, for that matter) War Doctrine, renditioning and ANY form of torture, a state-run discipline and punishment model, with the tenets of Christianity?

This isn't a swat at a hornet's nest but a real curiosity I have concerning how politics and religion can be separate or, indeed be inclusive of one another. Isn't, for instance, Jesus and National Defense or a death penalty in immediate conflict right out of the gate? Doesn't Jesus suggest Socialism is the path to heaven? Isn't Capitalism, by definition, the camel trying to fit through the eye of the needle at Heaven's gate?

Can somebody please explain this mystery to this ignorant one?

Here's for all the Geniuses that think their money's safe !

Bankster laws enacted by 8 family Think Tanked, authored and Paid off Representatives...

TAKING your Money


For the Doubters... live & learn !


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FDIC Plots a Bank Heist Involving YOUR Accounts
by Guy Christopher

There's a new front opening up in the war on your wealth. If you haven't heard yet of the “bail-in,” you will. Even if you have, you need to know the latest…

The bail-in is another weapon in the government's arsenal of capital controls meant to reward Wall Street cronies and separate you from your money.

We've long been familiar with capital controls, such as daily limits on bank withdrawals. Add that to seven years of microscopic interest rates cannibalizing savers' nest eggs combined with planned inflation stealing your money while you sleep. But unlike the drip-drip we're used to, the bail-in will come upon you quickly, harshly, and with finality.

As the world faced a complete financial meltdown in 2008, Congress ponied up fresh taxpayer money – $800 billion for openers and trillions since – to bail-out favored banks and industries. Out-of-favor institutions were allowed to fail. Jobs, fortunes, and futures disappeared while unborn generations were saddled overnight with unpayable debt.

Congress and bankers noted the sharply disagreeable taxpayer reaction. So they recycled an old idea from the Great Depression's playbook – next time, just steal bank depositors' life savings.



That tried and true tactic took a new name: the bail-in. The easy part – the laws they needed had been in place for decades. But for added cover, they passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, a 1930's-styled, bank heist blueprint with a feel-good name.

Those laws altogether say your money in your bank account in your name is not your money. Those laws say the bank owns your deposited money, not you.

Wait...what?

Court cases have upheld for decades that putting your money in savings, a CD, or other banking products means you've become an “unsecured creditor.”

Your deposit is actually an unsecured loan to the bank with all the problems of counterparty risk! Instead of being presented with collateral, you get an IOU that pays a pittance in interest, or in many cases nothing.

A busted bank doesn't have to return your principal deposits. Unlike when YOU are the borrower and THE BANK is the lender, the bank didn’t tender you a lawyered up promissory note or offer you a lien on its assets. Legally speaking, you may as well have handed your money to a stranger in the alley.

“Unsecured creditor” means just what it says: “no security.”

As banks went belly up during the Great Depression, slaughtering depositors' life savings, Congress offered reassurance that banks could be safe by creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC. For decades thereafter, careful depositors walked the tightrope of spreading their deposits among various banks to qualify for insurance protection.

Every depositor should now be aware of the FDIC's congressional mandate to handle the next global economic meltdown. Readers can read that entire scheme here.

It's not an easy read because it was never meant to be. Here are some notes that might help…

The Scheme's Fine Print Reads:
Bank Depositors Are Screwed

It's a joint plan with the Bank of England. Bankers see the next meltdown again going global. The title accurately names the sole intended survivors – “Globally Active, Systemically Important Financial Institutions.” The document reveals a future meltdown was anticipated, discussed, and coordinated years before the publication date of December 10, 2012.

The language “top of the group” refers to creditors, stock holders, and bond holders. They are first in line for slaughter (p. ii, p. iii).

“Resolution tools” and “resolution powers” are used throughout the document. “...applying resolution tools to different parts of the group” means FDIC has authority to make it up as they go (p.1, para 3). “...resolution authorities must not be constrained in exercising discretion” means FDIC decisions carry absolute legal authority (p.1, para.4).



FDIC doesn't like the word “save,” as in “save bad banks.” FDIC substitutes the word “resolve” 18 times.

And then there’s you, the “unsecured creditor.”

As it happens, “unsecured creditors” are quite important with the FDIC, appearing 11 times in the 18 page document. “...unsecured creditors should thus expect that their claims would be written down to reflect any losses that shareholders did not cover” means we'll tell you how much you lost after we divvy up the take (p.6, para 12). That could also point to lowered insurance limits without notice, if any insurance is left at all.

“...it will take time for losses to be assessed for purposes of recapitalization” strongly hints at freezing any l**t in accounts left behind (p.8, para 35).

Your consolation prize, if there's one at all, might be some government-issued bank stock you can't sell.

FDIC congratulates itself 9 times for not “exposing taxpayers,” never mentioning FDIC itself would be bankrupt after the first $50 billion in claims, leaving taxpayers to bail-out the very FDIC created in 1933 to shield their savings deposits. One single zombie bank could easily swallow $50 billion. Estimates of currently insured FDIC deposits exceed $6 trillion.

Bail-in Scheme Has Been Tested
and Is Ready for Use

The bail-in ripoff scheme has been successfully tested. Depositors in Cyprus found their savings largely wiped out early in 2013. That infamous bail-in was a test run, leaving the U.S. government's fingerprints all over Cyprus. It is significant to note Cypr**t authorities claimed, on their website, the legal authority to change rules mid-stream at any time, just as the FDIC claims.

Low withdrawal limits stopped panicked depositors' last minute bank runs. As banks stole their deposits, no citizens stormed banks with pitchforks, no guillotines were hauled into the village square. Bankers from Cyprus to New York congratulated themselves all around.

Poland quickly followed, stealing not bank accounts but private pension funds. Authorities took 50% of Polish retirement funds overnight with the click of a mouse.


Bail-in plans have been adopted by Canada, Australia, and throughout Europe for future use. The G-20, representing the twenty largest national economies, rubber stamped approval for global bail-ins late last year, as has the International Monetary Fund. Just last week, Austria suddenly dumped its version of FDIC insurance altogether.

Governments facing economic annihilation across the globe are now legally authorized to seize banking depositors' savings, either all or in part, overnight, and without notice. The bail-in is a treasure map for bankers and governments at the next hint of worldwide economic calamity.

They know the next meltdown will be your grandfather's Great Depression.

Unlike the 1930's, there will be no point standing in long lines with hat in hand to ask for your money. By the time you hear the news, your money in the bank will already be gone.

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Money Metals columnist Guy Christopher is a veteran writer living on the Gulf Coast. A retired investigative journalist, published author, and former

A Short Poem YOU WON'T FORGET

"A Bump in the Road" ....
Remember that calloused statement the President made referring to the B******i incident as "a bump in the road"???

Today I heard an ex-Navy Seal being interviewed on Fox News regarding a book he has written about how to handle crisis situations in our lives. At the end of the interview he asked if he could make a comment on B******i , and of course the anchor said "yes."

He then thanked Fox News for keeping the B******i story in the news, since other News organizations are not. He said the Seals who died deserve the public knowing the t***h about the whole affair.

Here is a Poem that was written by an anonymous Marine Corps officer:

THE
BATTLING BOYS OF B******I

We're the battling boys of B******i , no fame, no glory, no paparazzi !
Just a fiery death in a blazing hell, defending
our country we loved so well. It wasn't our job, but we answered the call, fought to the Consulate and scaled the wall. We
pulled twenty countrymen from the jaws of fate Led
them to safety and stood at the gate. Just the two of us and foes by the score,
But we stood fast to bar the door. Three calls for reinforcement, but all were denied, So we fought and we fought and we fought 'til we died.
We gave our all for our Uncle Sam, But Barack and Hillary didn't give a damn.
Just two dead Seals who carried the load No thanks to us...we were just "Bumps In The Road" .

So, will this reach every concerning American with a computer? Or do we act like the press and give a pass to the incompetent people who literally sat there in the White House and watched the Seals' execution on live streaming video and did absolutely nothing?

The Obama Administration obviously won't be held accountable because they apparently accept Hilary Clinton's assessment ...

What difference does it make?

Note: As a Veteran, this makes a difference to me, and my
fellow "Band of Brothers" who served their Country with Honor and Distinction...

Some of you accountants or economist can you please start a thread as to what benifit's of Abolishing the Federal Reserve will help this country. All you TP folks that love to insult go play in another sand Box.

I want to hear positives of keeping the Federal Reserve and negatives. It appears that some of the comments on OPP makes sense to abolish but would enjoy reading both sides. Can it be all negative but it appears that it should not be abolish, because of the Fed responsibility.

Very powerful agency, so what would replace the Fed.

So the responsibility of the Fed is.

Conduct the nations monetary policy
Supervise and regulate banks foreign and domestic
Maintain stability of Financial System
Provide certain financial services to the US government
Oversee Nations payment system

So if abolished how do we provide these services to this country.

By now I'm sure you're aware of the f**g controversy that occurred at the University of California-Irvine, where the student government v**ed to ban f**gs, including the American f**g, in student government offices. The American f**g was also termed "offensive." Perhaps, it just wasn't "politically correct" enough to suit the progressive (c*******t) Liberal student government. Anyway, thankfully, a higher student body vetoed that measure, but the debate over the American f**g at the University of California-Irvine still isn't over.

Imagine. Banning an American f**g from student government offices in an American university on American soil where the professors and the administration are paid with American tax-payer dollars? Imagine, in short, banning an American f**g anywhere in America! But, it's happening.

If that isn't outrageous enough, now, in Portsmouth County, VA, Sheriff Bill Watson says he's furious after a group of judges told him to take down an American f**g display he received as a gift from members of the Portsmouth Fire Department.

Watson requested that the display be mounted on the wall in the lobby of the courthouse, but was told by the judges: "Not only do we not want it on the wall, we don't want it in the courthouse."

Watson said that he couldn't believe that these judges didn't want to display the American f**g in a courthouse; he said it was the most asinine thing he had ever heard.

The judges told Watson he could have the American f**g display in his office, but not in the lobby of the courthouse which, according to the judges, was not the appropriate place for the American f**g. I'll repeat that. Not the appropriate place for an American f**g in an American courthouse? First the Bible goes, and now the American f**g. Can you really believe this?

To finish the story, Sheriff Watson told the local news that he plans to display the f**g in the window of his office. He also said that he would rather go to jail than remove the American f**g. Kudos to Sheriff Watson.

I suppose, the way things are going, and considering the present staff and administration in the White House, the dictatorial Islamic-favoring powers that be in America will never be happy until the f**g of Islam is flying over the White House and Shariah law is installed in our courtrooms.

As for me, I'm going out tomorrow to get a great big American f**g to hang on my front porch (the last one finally succumbed to the Southwest winds) and another two to fly from my car and my truck. I'm also sticking bumper stickers on my car and my truck that I support Israel. Enough is enough. But, I know, it isn't going to stop there.

We're in for a rough ride, patriots. I will, however, stand firm all the way for my God, the American f**g, and my country. All true and patriotic Americans must unite against the socialist/c*******t/Islamic assault and invasion of our once great and God-blessed nation.

This is not about the recent claim that the KKK is making about being simple Christian groups, it is history.
Amazing that history is proving the connections, finally.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/01/17/826081/-The-day-the-Klan-messed-with-the-wrong-people?detail=email

Shane Locklear #7
20
04
2010
The readings for this week are from Christopher Arris Oakley’s “When Carolina Indians Went on the Warpath” The Media, the Klan, and the Lumbees of North Carolina. This essay describes the r**t in Maxton after the KKK attempted to gather for a rally near Hayes pond. Led by the Grand D**gon James “Catfish” Cole and accompanied by 50 other members, the Klan organized to protest the “mongrelization” of w****s and Lumbee Indians in Robeson. Before the rally could even begin hundreds of Lumbees came and chased the Klansmen from Maxton. Although no one was k**led, hundreds of Indians fired on the gathered Klansmen. This historical event received a great amount of media coverage that has survived up to the 21st century.

The essay uses many different sources that ultimately reinforce the organization and validity of Oakley’s argument. One strong point of the essay is that it gives various firsthand accounts from Indians of Robeson County and the things that they witnessed at the rally. Having these testimonies adds to the validity of the essay because they are from actual Indians who lived in the area. A great deal of history involving American Indians is from the outsider/white man’s perspective and the information is usually biased. Various pictures of Indian individuals and families from Robeson County and of the incident are used throughout the essay. This imagery gives readers a chance to see the incident and some of the people involved. As the media spread the news of the incident, the people outside of North Carolina began to romanticize the issue. The pictures on pages 58 and 80 show how people began to see the incident from a stereotypical point of view. As wrote in a caption below the picture on page 58 “the news coverage of the clash demonstrated ignorance of Indian history and culture in the South.” Ultimately the media is to blame for these stereotypical viewpoints.

This incident involving a clash between the Lumbee Indians and the KKK represents a sense of unity and kinship. After feeling that their home, people, and way of life were threatened by the Klan, the Indians came together for a common cause. This idea of unity makes me wonder if/what part the community played in this incident. In what way/if any did these outsiders view the Indians idea of kinship? Was this gathering of Indians automatically expected?

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Coty Brayboy Reflection #7
13
04
2010
Christopher Oakley’s article “When Carolina Indians went on a Warpath” recounts a 1958 civil rights event in Robeson County Indian history that many of our grandparents still boast and brag about today. Oakley describes the Indian intervention when the Klu Klux Klan lead by James “Catfish” Cole decided to hold a rally at Hayes Pond in Maxton, NC. Cole’s intent was to speak against the “mongrelization” or mixing of Indians and w****s in Robeson County. He viewed these two groups as incompatible and argued that something must be done to address the problem. He believed Indians should know their place in society. He held rallies and proclaimed that Indian in Robeson County were a group mixed breeds, which in his mind constituted them as mongrels. Local newspapers publicized the rally but to little avail. On rally night, Klansmen were tremendously outnumbered by Lumbee and Tuscarora tribesmen. According to reports, Klansmen were outnumbered 10 to 1. Although many gunshots were fired, the Klansmen scattered into the swamps and luckily no one was hurt. “Catfish” Cole was humiliated and never returned to Robeson County. However, Indian men did help him after his defeat. In fact, they helped to pull his car out of the ditch.

After the battle, newspapers from across the nation published articles that announced the victory of Robeson County Indians over their r****t counterparts. However, many newspapers got the story wrong. Some newspapers inaccurately reported who was actually involved, identifying the Cherokees as the victors and giving a nod to the historical figure Sequoyah. Other papers reported that the Indians warhooped, an action stereotypically associated with Western Indians. This language was used to create a particular mental picture in the reader’s mind, and that image was of a decidedly different Indian than the ones in Robeson County. Oakley’s title “When Carolina Indians went on a Warpath” ironically describes the journalistic problem; how could reporters describe the actions of Carolina Indians, when most people were unaware of the Indians in the state? Reporters resorted to stereotypes that the public could identify as generic “Indian”, like the stereotype of a warpath.

The actual event at Hayes Pond is a great example of real Indian identity in Robeson County. The community united to defeat a common threat, and they carried weapons to defend themselves. Nonetheless, they still assisted by helping to remove Cole’s car, because they were both being gracious and making sure that Cole left town. I would argue that these aspects are identifiably Indian and demonstrate Lumbee and Tuscarora values in Robeson County. However, journalists missed out on reporting these facets of the encounter. Maybe they thought the public would not recognize these Indian values, or maybe the reporters themselves did not consider these values to be “Indian”.

This article made me question how Indians in Robeson County saw their relationship with other Indians, specifically Western tribes. With regard to healing practices, did people feel pressure to adopt Western healing traditions to authenticate their Indian identity? Did they actually take on Western healing ways to prove their Indianness?

To investigate this issue, I would like to look at contemporary usage (which may be more intertribal or based on stereotypically, identifiably “Indian” practices) versus historical usage of sweetgrass and tobacco. There are 4 herbs (tobacco, sage, sweetgrass and cedar) that are known throughout Indian Country as sacred or healing herbs. However, I do not believe sweetgrass grows anywhere in NC. When did NC Indians adopt sweetgrass? Where does it come from?

Another specific issue that comes to mind is traditional tobacco. Does tobacco have specific meanings within the Lumbee and Tuscarora communities given that our families and ancestors are deeply involved in the growing, tying and production of tobacco? Smoking cessation projects such as the one run by the Lumbee Tribe and the Healing Lodge reference traditional or medicinal tobacco versus commercialized tobacco cigarettes. To determine whether or not our people have always made this distinction and research if it is a NC specific or a pan-Indian practice, I could contact these programs. Some resources I could use include:

http://www.lumbeetribe.com/Youth%20Services/Tobacco/Tobacco%20Index.html

I notice that this site references mainstream resources to stop smoking. Do these programs rely on specifically Lumbee ideology to encourage “traditional” or “medicinal” use, or are mainstream American smoking cessation resources the foundation of these programs? Do they use a combination of the two?
This research project on sweetgrass and tobacco would need interviews to fully understand the picture. I could interview people in my grandparents’ generation who worked in the tobacco fields to understand their relationship with tobacco. For instance, my grandmother talks to crops to encourage them to grow. This may be one example of a traditional Indian practice that a New York Times reporter might overlook as “Indian”, even though Indians are generally the only ones who do this practice in Robeson County. I think that my interviews would produce even more specifically Indian practices that originate in Robeson County as well as some pan-Indian practices that people may have adopted. I’d be curious whether they adopted outside healing practices as a way of asserting a public Indian identity, whether they learned them from friends of other tribes, or what other ways they learned about non-Lumbee practices.


Stilling, Glenn Ellen Starr. “Lumbee Indians.” Encyclopedia of North Carolina. Ed. William S. Powell. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2006. Pages 699-703.

In her book Nowhere Else on Earth, Josephine Humphreys provides insight into the discrimination Lumbee’s faced during the Civil War and Reconstruction. However, this discrimination did not end with the Civil War, but continued to be manifested throughout the tri-racial county. Glenn Ellen Starr’s article, Lumbee Indians, provides a brief account of racial discrimination and civil rights violations experienced by the Lumbee people of Robeson County. Although brief, the article provides a great foundation for Lumbee history and civil rights.

Despite the theory that Lumbee’s are descendents of the Lost Colony and were very much assimilated into white culture as evident from their speech and religious practices, they still faced much injustice in the 19th century. The Lumbee’s were classified as “free persons of color,” until 1835. In 1835, the Lumbee’s lost most of their civil right’s including v****g and carrying arms. Josephine Humphreys portrays how important v****g was to the Lumbee through the character Allen Lowrie in her book. The Lumbee’s have been proactive in the violation of their civil rights. In 1837-1857, the Lumbee’s challenged their classification as free persons of color successfully in court. Later, biracial school segregation in a tri-racial county provide the Lumbee’s with another way to oppose the violation of their civil rights and establish their own school systems separate from w****s and b****s. Guy B. Johnson also wrote about the establishment of Indian schools in Robeson County during the 1880’s.

In addition to using the legal system to oppose discrimination, the Lumbee’s were also active in other ways. For example, in January of 1958 Lumbee men united to end a Klu Klux Klan assembly in Maxton sparked in reaction to cross burnings in the county. Karen I. Blu uses the incident as an example of the “mean behavior” used to classify Lumbee Indians. In addition, Lumbee’s along with other ethnic groups held political meetings to protest the unfair conditions in the county during the 1980’s.

http://lumbee.web.unc.edu/2010/02/16/oxendine-source-post-4/

Great News, folks. That h**emonger Rush Limbaugh, is in trouble. Time Magazine even says so. Here's the info:

THU FEB 19, 2015 AT 02:39 AM PST
Time Magazine Affirms - Rush Limbaugh Is In Trouble
byLeslie SalzilloFollow
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Rush Limbaugh, eating a cigar
It seems the larger mainstream media outlets like Time Magazine are starting to realize that 'small-fry' social media outlets have become a force to be reckoned with.
Last week, I published a Daily Kos diary about Wall Street Journal radio statistics. The industry numbers confirmed social media campaigns are winning the fight against h**e radio, namely Rush Limbaugh. And now, Time Magazine is jumping in. Both are seeing social media groups like StopRush, BoycottRush, and FlushRush cause Rush Limbaugh to lose sponsors, radio stations, and market standings. And these groups are supported by larger social media news organization/blogs like Daily Kos, Media Matters, Liberals Unite, UniteWomen.org, Alternet, Addicting Info, Politico, and PoliticusUSA… who continue to cover/promote stories about the Limbaugh protest. Despite all of Limbaugh's money and best efforts to squelch the protest, it just keeps growing.

Time Magazine writer, Brian Rosenwald, chimed in on Wednesday. Rosenwald is completing his doctoral dissertation. In this article he discusses how talk radio has changed politics/public policy and how, now, the internet is changing talk radio. For decades, Limbaugh could get away with atrocities like making up sick songs about AIDS victims and getting away with it. Rosenwald goes on to say it's very different now:

Today, by contrast, every word that Limbaugh says is broadcast and archived. Watchdog groups, such as Media Matters, scrutinize every word, waiting to blast any potentially offensive statements out to the world. Whereas the opinions of non-listeners might have been irrelevant in 1988 and a boycott hard to organize, someone who considered the Elba comments to be r****t could easily use social media to pressure advertisers to remove their ads from Limbaugh’s program (as many did in 2012 after Limbaugh insulted Georgetown student Sandra Fluke).
Most folks following the protest know that current campaigns not only pressured advertisers in 2012, they have continued to do so for three years.
Rosenwald goes on to say Limbaugh's h**eful and inflammatory words now go beyond the ears of his dittoheads/fans/listeners. His vitriol can easily reach hundreds of thousands via social media campaigns:

[Radio] Hosts’ words far more easily reach non-listeners than they did 25 years ago. Indeed, a show’s actual audience need not be bothered for comments to cause trouble. Campaigns against a host can build over time, and social media makes it easy to pressure station management and advertisers.
In fact, the provocative, unpredictable content that produces the best talk radio fits poorly with an advertiser-based business model in the Internet and social media era. This problem may eventually drive the content provided by Limbaugh and his peers to an internet-based subscription platform, where hosts do not have to worry about losing advertisers when they generate controversy.

That's the goal for many protesting Rush Limbaugh. They feel we all have the right to free speech, including Limbaugh, as protestors practice their own First Amendment rights via protests, petitions and boycotts. The difference, many say, is that much of Rush Limbaugh's vile commentary is h**e speech, and he dangerously promotes misogyny, anti-l**t hatred, and r****m. This in turn can lead to bullying, abuse, h**e crimes, violence, and murder. The public has had enough and they want this type of talk show off their public radio. 'Let him take his vitriol private.'
Change is happening - positive change, and it's due to every day people becoming more proactive in fighting extremism. No more do we have to write, stamp, and mail letters to companies with our grievances, then wonder if anyone will read them. No longer to we have to wait on the phone for hours to talk with someone who might care. Now we can simply post our thoughts/complaints onto the company's Facebook/Twitter pages with a few clicks. Most likely someone in the company will see it, and it behooves them to address the consumers. One bad customer experience can go v***l. This may seem intimidating, but in reality it's simply the beauty of America's free market, except this time, free market is to the advantage of the people. This gives citizens the option to boycott/not buy from companies that support odious h**e mongers like Limbaugh and highly abhorrent, propagated media.

To join the massive and successful protest against h**e radio, here are some easy things most anyone can do.

Sign: Boycott Rush Limbaugh Sponsors Petition
Visit/Like: BoycottRush Facebook Page
Join: The Fight To Flush Rush
Visit: StopRush.net for an extensive list of Limbaugh Sponsors
Tweet #StopRush and #FlushRush
For more on Rosenwald's story, visit Time Magazine.
UPDATE: Since posting several articles about Rush Limbaugh th is week, over 16,000 more people have signed the sponsor petition bringing it to a total of over 125,000 signatures! No more do we have to physically go door to door to ask folks to sign petitions. This is about the public using social media to protest h**e speech and h**e media. And it's a wonderful thing to behold.

Thank You, Kossack Richard Myers. Rest In Peace. We Will Finish This.