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With the emergence of the New Year, we have seen the launch of a plan to bring forth a single global currency. The first I saw on this was when I was sent a link to the following interview - http://www.cmn.tv/news/new-world-currency/ . I encourage you to watch it before reading the rest of what I have to say.

 What you will have seen here is a message packaged as one of hope and freedom, delivered by people and through a channel that I, and I suspect you, would judge to be dedicated to the freedom and enlightenment of humanity. Certainly, I would say this is true of the interviewer from cmn.tv and perhaps also the one delivering the message.

This message has been carefully packaged to appeal to the fears and sense of powerlessness that so many that have begun to recognise the abuses in this world are feeling. It promises debt forgiveness in a time when most people have significant personal debt and most economies also carry massive sovereign debt. It also acknowledges the “bad guys”, the New World Order crew, saying this isn’t coming from them. Well, that’s a relief…

However I see something very different. I see a massive con job being sold here.  

 

This is the sell job on the world currency. David Icke calls it “Problem, Reaction, Solution”. Forgiveness of debt is the carrot, and all the rest of this stuff about addressing the world’s problems is a con job. The debt is fictitious, fiat money and can never be repaid, so what does it cost them to forgive it? Nothing. That’s why they fostered it in the first place. These people have a long term view. They give up on the little things to achieve the bigger ones in the long term. They’re willing to forgive debt to achieve a single world currency, to fix people’s short term pain for their long term gain.

 

If you have not yet watched “Thrive” http://www.thrivemovement.com/ (DVD available from http://goo.gl/bGsS3 ), I encourage you to do so. It provides an important context for what we are seeing here.

I want you to compare this message about a New World Currency to what happened at 9/11. They are completely different approaches for the different objectives, but the model is the same model. Problem, Reaction, Solution. Begin to understand how sophisticated these people are. Man this is slick!!!

One world currency is NOT about liberation, and doesn’t work economically for the participants. We have already seen this with the Euro. Those driving this don’t care if they destroy state sovereignty and economics. They want that and they want complete control of everyone, with their ability to just cut off your access to the one world currency if you don’t play ball. With the press of a button, you are completely financially isolated, whether you are an individual, a company or a country.

 

These people think in terms of decades and centuries, not months and years. They plan long term and create issues that they can then offer a solution to that moves their agenda forward.

I encourage you to evaluate this carefully for yourselves, and if you agree with Carolyn’s and my view on this, do everything in your power to alert others to what I see as a massive con job.

Blessings, Joy, Love and Peace.

Richard Presser


www.the2012countdown.com

Under SOPA, you could get 5 years for uploading a Michael Jackson song, one year more than the doctor who killed him.

All About PIPA and SOPA, the Bills That Want to Censor Your Internet

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) are two bills that sound like they have a mildly positive aim but, in reality, have serious potential to negatively change the internet as we know it. While the Obama administration has come out against SOPA, effectively shelving it indefinitely, the very similar PIPA bill is still alive and well. Both SOPA and PIPA put power in the hands of the entertainment industry to censor sites that allegedly "engage in, enable or facilitate" copyright infringement. This language is vague enough to target sites you use every day, like Facebook and Google, making these bills a serious problem. Here's what you need to know about the bills and what you can do about them.

What Are SOPA and PIPA All ABout, and Why Should I Care?

The idea behind these bills sounds reasonable. They came about in order to try and snuff out piracy online, as the entertainment industry is obviously not excited that many people are downloading their products without payment or permission. The issue is, however, that it doesn't really matter whether you're in support of piracy, against it, or just don't care. The methods are ineffective. Here's what they are and why they're problematic.

All About PIPA and SOPA, the Bills That Want to Censor Your Internet

SOPA and PIPA were initially designed to do two things. The first was to make it possible for companies to block the domain names of web sites that are simply capable of, or seem to encourage copyright infringement. This would have been bad for everyone because such a measure doesn't actually prevent piracy. The reason that blocking a domain name isn't effective is because any blocked site can still be accessed via its numeric IP address. For example, if lifehacker.com were blocked, you could still find it by visiting a number-based address. In fact, before the bills were even supposed to come to a vote, tools were created to automatically route domain names to their IP addresses to completely render this measure of SOPA and PIPA useless. As a result, the IP-blocking provisions have been removed from both bills.

The other, still-active measure present in the SOPA and PIPA bills would allow rights holders to cut of the source of funding of any potentially infringing web site. This means any other companies doing business with this site would have to stop. Whether that means advertising, links in search engines, or any other listings would have to be removed.

There is, however, an important difference between SOPA and PIPA. SOPA targeted any site that contributed to copyright infringement, even if it was simply facilitating the act by providing a tool that could be used for illegal purposes (regardless of intention). PIPA, on the other hand, requires the targeted site to have no significant use beyond copyright infringement. Basically, PIPA can only be used to censor a site if it's more likely to be a source of illegal content than not.

This is still problematic because a tool designed to accept user-generated content is, to some extent, at the whims of its users. If infringing content is found, rights holders already have the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) to help them request the legal removal of that content. They also have the ability to sue infringers for damages, as we've previously seen with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) when they, for example, sued a 12-year-old for downloading music. SOPA and PIPA provide a means to censor the tool that provided a means for the infringing content to exist on the internet rather than the content itself. This puts a lot of power in the hands of rights holders and has significant potential for abuse.

We here at stingraysstudios.com oppose the proposed legislation, as World Copyright Law already exists which allows us to not only stop you from stealing our property, but also provides that we can take EVERYTHING YOU OWN as compensation for your action, so we just send some "dudes" over to your house or business, take whatever we want and leave you with your head jammed way up your ass !!...that works for us !



(content provided courtesy of Graham Hancock website)

While the mass media largely ignored the issue of the greatest threat we've yet encountered to the free and open internet, many tens-of-thousands of websites rallied together in protest and left a very clear message with lawmakers to stay off our internet and to keep it free for all mankind.

Despite the overwhelming and extraordinary response of the people against these bills, they are not yet dead. And despite an announcement that SOPA was to be shelved, it has been announced that the SOPA markup is set to resume in February. The Senate Cloture Vote on PROTECT IP is still set to go ahead on January 24th. $94 million was spent lobbying congress to get the bills written, and you can bet they're not going to just forget about it. Nevertheless, our voice has been heard and support for these two bills has been rapidly shrinking.

Google says 4.5 million people signed anti-SOPA petition today


When Google speaks, the world listens.

And today, when Google asked its users to sign a petition protesting two anti-piracy laws circulating in Congress, millions responded.

A spokeswoman for Google confirmed that 4.5 million people added their names to the company's anti-SOPA petition today.

Not too shabby.

The petition, which was available via a link from Google's homepage, states that although fighting online piracy is important, the plan of attack described in the SOPA and
PIPA bills would be ineffective.

 

 

In Fight Over Piracy Bills, New Economy Rises Against Old

WASHINGTON — When the powerful world of old media mobilized to win passage of an online antipiracy bill, it marshaled the reliable giants of K Street — the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Recording Industry Association of America and, of course, the motion picture lobby, with its new chairman, former Senator Christopher J. Dodd, the Connecticut Democrat and an insider’s insider.

Yet on Wednesday this formidable old guard was forced to make way for the new as Web powerhouses backed by Internet activists rallied opposition to the legislation through Internet blackouts and cascading criticism, sending an unmistakable message to lawmakers grappling with new media issues: Don’t mess with the Internet.

...& speaking of the "Old Economy" :

We wanted to share with you the news: this afternoon the Obama Administration announced that they are denying the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. You did good work, against some of the longest possible odds.

For years, the knock on the President Obama was that he backed down too easily in the face of opposition. Not here. When Republicans in Congress forced the issue again by passing a 60-day time limit on the President's final decision, he stood strong and denied the permit. And that was despite the most explicit threats from Big Oil: that they would exact ‘huge political consequences’ if he did the right thing on Keystone. Make no mistake—this is a brave decision.

And make no mistake about this either—Big Oil will do everything it can to overturn that decision, because they are not used to losing. They have one weapon—money. They’ve used it to buy the allegiance of many Representatives and Senators and now they’ll use Congress to try and get their dirty work done. That’s what happened when the President delayed the permit last November, and we should expect them to try again now.

That’s why we’re going to Congress and Big Oil, beginning next Tuesday the 24th. If you can join us, we’re meeting at noon on the West Lawn, and you should wear a referee’s shirt. We’re going to ‘blow the whistle’ on the corruption that passes for business as usual on Capitol Hill, where people take money from companies whose interests they vote on. If this happened at the Super Bowl it would be a national scandal; we’ve got to make sure it’s seen that way in our political life too. We know it’s short notice, but we hope we can get at least 500 people there. Not to get arrested, at least not this time, but to make quite a noise.

If you can make it, click here to join the action in DC.

If you can't make it (or even if you will be there) can you help us spread the word about the good news, and the action next week?

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We’ll be fighting to prevent Keystone, but we’ll also be fighting to shut off the flow of handouts to the oil, gas, and coal industries, and to take away their right to use the atmosphere as an open sewer into which to dump their carbon for free. This industry, simply because it is rich, has been cosseted too long. Time to fight back.

What you’ve done these past eight months is quite amazing—and against all the odds. We’ve won no permanent victory (environmentalists never do) but we have shown that spirited people can bring science back to the fore. Blocking one pipeline was never going to stop global warming—but it is a real start, one of the first times in the two-decade fight over climate change when the fossil fuel lobby has actually lost.

Rest assured they’ll fight like heck—their world-record profits depend on it. We better fight just as hard, because the world depends on it.

Michael Savage Offers Newt Gingrich One Million Dollars To Drop Out Of Race

First Posted: 12/12/11 04:31 PM ET Updated: 12/13/11 04:11 AM ET


Savage Gingrich

Conservative radio host Michael Savage has offered Newt Gingrich $1 million to drop out of the Republican primary race.

Savage posted the announcement on his website, and will go over the specific terms during his radio show on Monday.

He wrote that the Republican primary race has come down to two candidates: Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. He said that Romney was the only candidate capable of beating President Barack Obama in the general election. Therefore, he has offered Gingrich $1 million to "drop out of the presidential race for the sake of the nation."

Savage, who hosts the third-highest rated radio program in the country, outlined the reasons why he believed Gingrich was incapable of beating Obama. In addition to his marital infidelity, checkered past as Speaker of the House, and involvement with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Savage wrote that Gingrich "will come off badly compared to Obama" during presidential debates. Savage wrote that he will "look like nothing more than what he is: a fat old white man."

In order to claim his prize, Gingrich must drop out of the race within 72-hours. Savage urged Gingrich to "take the money."





^ WE HAVE ALL SEEN THIS HAPPEN EVERY DAY !
THE "COPS" GO SPEEDING AROUND AND...NOTHING HAPPENS !
YOU AND I WOULD GET A "SPEEDING" TICKET IF WE DROVE THAT WAY
BUT...NOT THE POLICE THEY CAN SPEED ALL THEY WANT....
FOR NO REASON AT ALL !!!!

WHY DO "COPS" THINK THEY CAN SPEED ?

(because they are social parasites ...???)




OCCUPY WALL STREET HAS CREATED
CRIMINALS WHO ARE EXERCISING THE RIGHTS OF FREEDOM TO ENDORSE THE WORLDWIDE REVOLT EXPRESSING THAT PEOPLE IN GENERAL ARE FED UP WITH THE INEQUALITY OF WEALTH :



" PEOPLE MATTER FIRST...NOT CORPORATIONS "



SO YEAH, THAT WORKS AS NOBODY REALLY NEEDS A FASCIST COUNTRY  BUT,...


HOW ABOUT OCCUPY THE BANKS AS THEY ARE THE COMPANIES WHO HOLD ALL YOUR MONEY...SO,
WTF ?
ARREST PEOPLE WHO ENABLED THE BANKS TO COMMIT TREASON
TO BETRAY & WEAKEN THE U.S.A :

THEY ARE TRAITORS
, HANG 'EM


^ Yes, as CIA Director & President, I betrayed America & YOU "

Under Article III, Section 3, of the Constitution,
any person who levies war against the United States or adheres to its enemies by giving them aid and comfort has committed treason within the meaning of the Constitution. The term aid and comfort refers to any act that manifests a betrayal of allegiance to the United States, such as furnishing enemies with arms, troops, transportation, shelter, or classified information.
 If a subversive act has any tendency to weaken the power of the United States to attack or resist its enemies,
aid and comfort has been given.



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Document Disclosures Reveal CHASE BANK Guilty of Federal Criminal Mortgage and Insurance Fraud :

Case in Point ; At this time Chase Bank has defrauded this "customer" by deliberately returning mortgage check payments to place the property in "default"...so as NOT to escrow and distribute an Insurance Check issued to repair the home from "storm damages".

This is the "Technique" used by Major Banks to allow them to "confiscate" YOUR HOME.

What has been done in this case to STOP the criminal theft of the homeowner was to contact the Department of Justice and deliver the entire "case file" to them for prosecution, and a placement of a "Contractor Lien" on the property for repairs which has precedence in Court of Law as a "First Payment" from the sale of the home, thus negating any gain from the Bank foreclosing upon the property...as they get little or NOTHING if the value of the lien is more than the current owed amount of the mortgage, as is the case in this present case...;

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  1/20/11


Chase Home Finance, LLC
Loss Drafts Department
2405 Commerce Avenue
Building 2000, Suite 100
Duluth, GA. 30096


Chase Bank,

    This letter is to inform you that Chase Bank is liable for unlawful Violations pertaining to Mortgage and Insurance Fraud Laws, due to actions related to the account of XXXXXXX, which have resulted in severe criminal actions by Chase Bank regarding the handling of the fiduciary responsibility assigned in this matter.

    A complete intelligence investigation is now being conducted and the file contents sent to the Department of Justice,.Fraud Division for criminal prosecution. The case in point here relates to the total failure of Chase Bank to execute, as required by Law, regarding the escrow and the subsequent payment to XXXXXXX, for repairs as specified in a Insurance Draft Check issued for such purposes as previously delivered to Chase Bank for escrow and disbursement..

    The circumstances created by these actions on behalf of Chase Bank require a strong and stiff penalty for the total disregard of Lawful conduct in these type of matters. Indeed the series of documented actions by Chase Bank provide ALL the evidence needed to convict on several main charges ;

    1.) Insurance Fraud.

    a.) Chase Bank Failed to escrow Insurance Draft within a reasonable time after delivery.
    b.) Chase representative offered to apply Insurance funds to Mortgage payments, claiming the Mortgage was in default, which was subsequently exposed as a boldface lie, in that the payments as agreed were all up to date at the time the Insurance check was delivered to Chase Loss Draft Department for escrow.
    c.) Chase Bank returned the Insurance Check after cashing Mortgage payments from XXXXXXX, which such fabricated failure to make such payments, were the “false justification” used to deny the establishment of the required escrow account..
    d.) Chase unlawfully denied escrow of the check draft as issued by the Insurance Company, by claiming the fraudulent reasons as outlined above, resulting in failure of payment to the intended contractors to effect repairs and the placement of Contractor Lien issuance upon the property owned by XXXXXXX.

    These violations would be severe enough to prosecute Chase Bank for the complete ignorance of Federal Requirements pertaining to Insurance Fraud laws, but the crimes are more...

    2.) Mortgage Fraud

    a.) Chase Bank claimed that the Mortgage was in “default”, proven NOT to be the case on the date surrounding the delivery of the Insurance Draft Check.
    b.) Chase Bank cashed payments after the delivery date of the Insurance Check, which by acceptance provides “execution of acceptance” by Chase and further documentation that indeed there was NO DEFAULT in the mortgage of XXXXXXX, as all the payments were current.
    c.) Chase Bank sent a fraudulent statement letter, claiming default within weeks of cashing the current mortgage payment from XXXXXXX, when in fact the mortgage was current and accepted by Chase on the terms as agreed at that time.
    d.) Chase did cash mortgage payment checks from XXXXXXX AFTER the date which Chase Bank claimed the “Default” to have occurred...and AFTER receipt of the Insurance check intended for escrow.
    e.) Chase Bank returned the following month’s Mortgage payment checks from XXXXXXX, to “Force” a default condition in the status of the Mortgage, thus creating a “factitious” reason to justify the PAST actions by the Bank regarding this return, stating that they had “terminated” the current conditions of the Mortgage and as well to “cover” the Bank’s failure to escrow the Insurance Check as required by Law.
    f.) Chase Bank has failed to deliver Tax Statements to XXXXXXX regarding interest paid on Mortgage Payments during 2010, in itself a Federal Violation of Tax Code practice.
   
    Taken as a “Complete Picture”, the combined effect of Chase Bank’s actions are clearly Criminal in intent, in that they desired to apply the funds from the Insurance Check to Mortgage payments, thus reconciling the total amount as previously owed, prior to the prior agreement to alter such monthly scheduled payments from XXXXXXX, who has always provided such payments under all conditions in a timely manner as agreed. The application of Insurance Funds to Mortgage payments is expressly denied in the issuance of the draft by the Insurance Company, who specifies that these funds are to be applied to the repair of the property exclusively.

    Furthermore, Chase Bank is now liable for the payment of ALL funds related to the TOTAL expenses of repair to the property, as already undertaken by contracted personnel, and the complete satisfaction of the Contractor Lien, as well as the fees owed to the Insurance Adjustor, and any and all additional costs, expenses, fines, legal costs, court fees, criminal and civil penalties as are appropriate to the circumstances as created by Chase Bank in defiance of Federal, State and Local laws.

    Chase Bank is hereby ordered to Cease and Desist on any and all attempts to collect, foreclose or trespass upon the property of XXXXXXX, located at VVVVVVVVVVVV. All such claim to a Mortgage on the aforementioned property is herewith forfeited and is to be terminated in a Court of Law with prejudice presently.

    It is the specific intent herein to hold Chase Bank accountable for all violations, actions and costs related to this matter, prosecute all individuals involved, and publicize the facts of this case to inform the public of the ongoing practices of Fraud being committed by Chase Bank.

    We would advise you to Govern yourselves accordingly, and make every effort possible to reconcile the blatant violations outlined in this letter immediately. Further let it be known that any and all legal representations which Chase Bank may hire to “defend” themselves in this matter will also be held liable for conspiring to commit Mortgage and Insurance Fraud, and their assets will be “at risk” for satisfaction of the crimes, violations and all costs outlined herein, as well as additional criminal and /or civil charges which may be applied.

    We welcome your intelligent response from a responsible officer of Chase Bank and look forward to a complete resolution, which in addition of the forfeiture and termination of ALL Mortgage Agreements will include the completion of  all payments for the violations, compensations, contract and legal fees, imprisonment, Federal, State and Civil penalties as set forth by law, damages, recompense, and other related costs as outlined herein.


Sincerely,

AAAAAAAA
Agent of Record for XXXXXXX



TO REQUEST THE FULL SET OF LEGAL FILINGS CLICK BELOW :

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

IN AND FOR BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA

CIVIL ACTION

            Case No : XXX                           Case Type: Civil

            Division : XX

JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Association,

 vs,                                                                               

 XXX, et al,

MOTION TO DISMISS IN ENTIRETY ALL OF PLAINTIFF’S FILINGS, to further ORDER A CEASE & DESIST FROM ALL FURTHER ACTION BY THE PLAINTIFF AGAINST THE DEFENDANT, and to PROVIDE A SUMMARY JUDGEMENT WITH PREJUDICE AGAINST THE PLAINTIFF as well as ISSUE AN ARREST WARRANT AGAINST THE PLAINTIFF FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFIED AS COMMITTING FRAUD & TRESPASS.

( as may be conjoined in a D.O.J. investigation. ) * see attachments

            PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT in response to an assumed foreclosure filing during the month of 1 / 2010 as alleged to have been filed by Plaintiff, and in an assumption of  a direct answer thereof to a filing as found to be dated 2/2/2010 :

The Defendant dose Hereby petition the Court to Dismiss such filing which was based upon the case of ;  Jordan vs. Sayre 24 Fla. 1, 3 So.329 which states : “ 5. - The Obligor(s) have made no valid tender of payment of the Mortgage Note and Mortgage and have not reinstated the Mortgage Note and Mortgage “    Which with respect to the circumstance of this case constitutes a “False and Fraudulent Filing” in that a Criminal Misrepresentation was committed by the Plaintiff and their  Legal Consul by knowingly filing a fraudulent claim against the property of xxxxx who has and continued to tender payment on terms as agreed, executed and accepted by performance on part of the Plaintiff, negating the Entire premise of the filing.

Furthermore : We petition the court to enforce an immediate all encompassing Cease and Desist Order  (with respect to a full review by the Department of Justice for Criminal Fraud Violations of Federal Insurance and Banking Laws as allegedly committed by the Plaintiff in this case, and Furthermore to issue a Final Summary Judgement with Prejudice against the Plaintiff under the guidelines of evidence outlined : and further to issue arrest warrants for ALL such individuals of JP Morgan Chase ( to be determined.) and Legal Consul ( Florida Default Law Group P.L. (Ashely M. Whitney)  & Professional Recovery Services, Inc (John Crosby) for participating in this Criminal Fraud Action against the Defendant as detailed in the following:                                                            

We ask the Court to Grant this request for the Order(s) as follows: 

MOTION TO DISMISS IN ENTIRETY ALL OF PLAINTIFF’S FILINGS, to further ORDER A CEASE & DESIST FROM ALL FURTHER ACTION BY THE PLAINTIFF AGAINST THE DEFENDANT, and to PROVIDE A SUMMARY JUDGEMENT WITH PREJUDICE AGAINST THE PLAINTIFF as well as ISSUE AN ARREST WARRANT AGAINST THE PLAINTIFF FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFIED AS COMMITTING FRAUD & TRESPASS. ( as may be conjoined in a D.O.J. investigation. ) * see attachments

WE are asking the Court for the following; 

A.) Dismiss the Illegal Foreclosure Filing of  2/2/2010. As the Plaintiff did continue to accept and cash mortgage payments as made by the Defendant, by which in doing so constitutes acceptance in the performance of execution to the terms as agreed between the Parties. If indeed the Plaintiff desires to file a Foreclosure action, it must be posted with a date following a reasonable time period of no payments from the Defendant, and as the Plaintiff has elected to return payments made by the Defendant, they must obviously be acknowledging the Debt THEY OWE to the Defendant for filing a False Civil Action, and committing a Criminal Action of Fraud which entitles the Plaintiff to provide to the Defendant compensations as outlined herein.

B.)  Enforce a Cease and Desist Order against the Plaintiff in filing a Foreclosure Action, and in all attempts to collect a debt or Trespassing upon the property located at XXXX XXXX, XXXX, xxx xxxxxx, in possible conjunction with a pending a review by the Department of Justice for Federal Criminal Fraud actions as alleged to have been committed by the Plaintiff against the Defendant herewith *( copy of this motion is sent to the D.O.J. as our report review )

C.)  Require that the Plaintiff provides Discovery Materials related to ALL activity, including every internal memo(s), Postal Mail, Fax and Email correspondence, legal requests, taped telephone conversations, et al to the Defendant directly within 30 days from the date above (which we reserve the right to use as may be required by D.O.J. prosecution proceedings).

D.) Conjoin ALL mortgage instruments as administrated, owned and/or assigned to Plaintiff related to the property and Defendant under the exact same conditions as requested above herein.

E.)  Issue a Final Summary Judgement with Prejudice against the Plaintiff for All costs, expense and equity as was  “put at risk” (estimated to be a minimum of $150,000.00)  by the attempts to file a fraudulent foreclosure and justify insurance fraud upon the Defendant’s owned property in direct violation of Constitutional Rights, Federal and State Laws and Common Decency.

F.) We ask the Court to demand that the Plaintiff provide the payment of the sum of Nine Thousand Four Hundred Fifty Eight Dollars and Forty One Cents ( $9, 458.41) to XXXX Public Adjusting Corporation, XXXX, XXXX, Fl., XXX.

G.) We  ask the Court to demand that the Plaintiff identify specific individuals and insist upon the Arrest & Imprisonment of those individuals who illegally trespassed upon the property based upon an assumption purported by a False Fraudulent Filing on part of the Plaintiff.

H.) Allow the Defendant to “perfect” this motion under further guidance of Legal Consul and to make further amendments to this filing as may be deemed needed, if any.

We ask the Court for ALL of these requests because:

A.)  The Plaintiff did execute acceptance by performance in cashing mortgage payments from the Defendant on terms as agreed between the parties form 1 /2010 until 11 / 2010 to entirely resolve any and all such previous dispute(s) related to the Mortgage(s) as held by Defendant.

B.)  The Plaintiff did in 10 / 2010 violate the fiduciary responsibility to escrow and endorse an Insurance Payment Draft Check made payable to the Defendant, Insurance Adjustor ( Ameriloss Public Adjustors ), and the original Mortgage holder ( Washington Mutual Bank).

C.)  The Plaintiff did in letter form offer to violate Federal Law by assigning said Insurance Check to payment of the Mortgage, under a False Claim that there was a Default in mortgage payments, which was IN FACT proven NOT to be the True Fact as admitted by the Plaintiff.

D. ) The Plaintiff did violate Federal Law by refusing to escrow and endorse the said Insurance Payment and returning the draft to the Defendant without cause, Furthermore the Plaintiff’s representative3did state that as of 2 / 2011 they are willing to escrow said draft, as even if a foreclosure is in process they are NOT prohibited and CAN endorse, escrow & distribute such funds under a “self Contractor basis” to the homeowner. Unfortunately, the home owner in this instance has already taken the burden & expense to repair and improve the property “out of pocket” and in consideration of the Gross Violation by the Plaintiff in this instance must demand adequate compensation and damages for both the adjustor as well as the contracted work on the property, which has exceeded the sum of the Insurance draft check.

E.)  The Plaintiff did subsequently send a notice of “Forced” default on the Mortgage to the defendant, dated in the Month of 10 / 2010 and following such notice continued to cash mortgage payments as made by the Defendant constituting a clear criminal fraud violation of Federal Mortgage Law.

F.)  During 11 / 2010 the Plaintiff did in order to “Force” a default return mortgage payments made by the Defendant as was paid under the agreed and accepted terms. This post dates the alleged Foreclosure filing by nearly One (1 )Year, during which time the Plaintiff accepted ALL payments as made by the Defendant.

G.) In the Month of  2 / 2011 the Plaintiff failed to make Insurance payments to the Defendant’s Home Insurance Company after receiving such notice to do so and pay the invoice as should be expected from funds already collected by the Plaintiff by payments made on behalf of the Defendant, a portion of which is supposed to be in escrow as intended to secure such existing property Insurance. Plaintiff subsequently added a more expensive policy to the property in direct violation of the Defendant’s demand to pay the existing Insurance policy from proceeds as previously paid.

H.)  In the month of 4 / 2011 the Plaintiff used the exact same “forced default” tactic to disavow knowledge regarding payments made by the Defendant to the 2nd Mortgage, after One (1) year of continuous payments, stating they have no record of all such payments, yet returning a mortgage payment check, this is tantamount to Treason in the USA, for a bank to steal property from Homeowners that have paid, continue to pay, have the ability to pay and willingness to continue to pay after 20 or more years of payments. This is part of the justification as to why I ask for Summary Judgement with Prejudice against the Plaintiff at this time.

I.) As of the date herewith the Plaintiff continues to violate the Cease and Desist letter as sent by the Defendant, and has trespassed upon the property several times, and in the last instance leaving a note to call “today”, ...with such number that is illegible which construes continuing Felonious Harassment in the face of previous Criminal Action perpetrated by the Plaintiff and all such individuals thereof. (copy of said note attached as evidence). This is the BEST the World’s Largest’s Bank can afford, a note that is unreadable taped to the door of a Homeowners Property. It is then High Time that this “Criminal Operation” be brought down and prosecuted for the Deliberate, Intentional and Traitorous Actions against the Individual Citizens of the U.S.A.

J.) The Plaintiff continues (and can be expected to) and has demonstrated INCOMPETENCE and total disregard for the Law, in the coordination of these matters, showing an arrogance as well as deliberate intent by “strategic plan” to defy, subvert, and abuse the Law of the Land, and ALL common decency by taking away the “American Dream” of hard earned home ownership from customers who have paid loan payments for several decades or more and now find that they MUST Fight for the Right to Own what they have paid for against a Worldwide Criminal Organization known as JP Morgan Chase Bank...that is pathetic and the Prime Reason I ask for a Summary Judgement WITH PREJUDICE against the Plaintiff at this time. 

We are attaching the following documents or affidavits, if any, that support this request:

A.) The entire documentary package on this case as sent to the Department of Justice.

B.) Defendant reserves the right to supply additional documentation as appropriate.

I have read this document. To the best of my knowledge, information and belief the information contained in this document is well grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law.

I have not been determined by any court in Florida or in any other State to be a frivolous litigant or subject to an Order precluding me from serving and filing this document.

I am not serving or filing this document for any improper purpose, such as to harass the other party or to cause delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation or to commit a fraud on the court.

I understand that if I am not telling the truth or if I am misleading the court or if I am serving or filing this document for any improper purpose, the court can order me to pay money to the other party, including the reasonable expenses incurred by the other party because of the serving or filing of this document such as court costs, and reasonable attorney fees.

...But, THAT is NOT going to be the case here as EVERYTHING REPRESENTED herein is backed by TRUE Fact, and we will NOT rest until the stated objectives are accomplished, regardless of all considerations...

WE WILL “STICK TO OUR GUNS” and ANYTHING LESS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

Please SEE attached Documents as supporting evidence.

(we reserve the right to provide additional documentation and or discovery evidence if needed).

With ALL Due Respect, ....we tender this motion to please the Court.

GOD Bless the United States of America,

DEFENDANT XXX

^ THAT IS A REAL REVOLUTION.
THE OVERTHROW OF THE CORPORATE ENSLAVEMENT OF YOUR LIFE BY BANKS WHO ARE HELL BENT TO "ACQUIRE" YOUR HARD EARNED ASSETS & DESTROY YOU AS WELL.
 
    WATCH AS CHASE BANK TAKES A BUICK UP THE ASS !!
STAY TUNED IN HERE AS WE FILE "SANCTION" AGAINST CHASE BANK AND FORCE THEM TO PAY !!

THE "ENEMY" IS A "CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER" :

Jamie Dimon is an American Businessman, he has a net worth of $200 million. Jamie dimon has earned his net worth as is the current CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co, and previously served as a Class A director of the Board of Directors of the New York Federal Reserve, a three year term which started January 2007.He began his career at American Express, then went on to co-found Citigroup. He became the CEO of BankOne in 2000, and moved to J. P. Morgan Chase in 2004. He was born March 13, 1956 in New York City, New York, to Theodore and Themis Dimon, of Greek descent. He Time magazine named him one the world’s 100 most influential people in 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2011. He studied psychology and economics at Tufts University, then he went on to earn an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.

How much is Jamie Dimon Net Worth and salary

Jamie Dimon's  Net Worth

...Straight Out of YOUR Pocket !

He started his business career at American Express along side Sandy Weill, then went on to co-found Citigroup. He became the CEO of BankOne in 2000, and moved to J. P. Morgan Chase in 2004. Dimon’s role at the New York Fed “includes approving the Bank’s budget, overseeing operations, and appointing the Bank’s officers.” JPMorgan Chase received $25 billion from the US Treasury Department on October 28, 2008 via the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Dimon was there to oversee the transaction. Dimon is married to Judith Kent; they have three children: Julia, Laura, and Kara Leigh.

The 2011 HBO film Too Big to Fail by Bill Pullman, was a portrayal of Dimon, he was also portrayed in the BBC TV film The Last Days of Lehman Brothers by Michael Brandon. Jamie worked in Obama’s adopted hometown of Chicago, he is a democrat and it was rumored that President Obama would appoint him to the position of United States Secretary of the Treasury, however he appointed President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Timothy Geithner to the position.



  

More Evidence that proves CHASE BANK guilty of Fraud :

PACKAGING OF WAMU AND CHASE MORTGAGES SOLD TO VARIOUS "INVESTMENT" GROUPS WITH NO "OWNERS" ;

“The basic problem is that a huge number of American domestic and business mortgages, (50 million by conservative estimate) are sliced up, put into ‘investment packages’ and sold to customers both domestic and foreign.

This results in the frightening fact that the holders of mortgages, so chopped and packed, are not possible to identify by MERS or anyone else, at any time and by any agency.

This means that any property holder, be they a domestic home owner or a business owner, is paying their monthly fees for property they can never own.

Because of the diversity of the packaging, it is totally and completely impossible to ascertain what person or organization owns a specific mortgage and as a result, a clear title to MERS-controlled property is impossible to get at any time, even if a mortgage is fully paid.

No person or entity, has been or never can be, identified who can come forward and legally release the lien on the property once the loan is paid.

In short, MERS conceals this fact from the public with the not-unreasonable assumption that by the time the owner of the home or business discovers that they have only been paying rent on property they can never get clear title to, all the primary parties; the banks, the government agencies, the mortgage companies, or the title companies, will be dead and gone.

MERS is set up to guarantee this fact but, gradually, little by little, mostly by word of mouth, the public is beginning to realize that their American dream of owning a house is nothing but a sham and a delusion.”

 
DO NOT MISS THIS !!...STAY TUNED IN HERE AS THE SHIT IS GOING TO HIT THE FAN AND CHASE OWNS UP !!

...AND JP MORGAN CHASE IS NOT THE ONLY SCUM :

Citigroup settles charges of misleading investors

Citi logo

The charges relate to a product sold in 2007

Citigroup is paying $285m (£180m) to settle civil fraud charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The SEC said that Citigroup misled investors when it invited them to invest in a product based on US mortgage debt.

It said that Citigroup did not inform investors that it was betting on the value of the investment falling or that it had chosen the assets itself.

Citigroup settled without admitting or denying the charges.

Credit Suisse was also involved in the the transaction and has paid $2.5m to settle the case, also without admitting or denying the charges.

The SEC said that Citigroup built a collateralised debt obligation, or CDO, made up of about $1bn of home loans in 2007.

It alleges that Citigroup sold the CDO to investors, but took a short position itself, betting that the value of the assets would fall.

"The securities laws demand that investors receive more care and candour than Citigroup provided to these CDO investors," said Robert Khuzami from the SEC.

"Investors were not informed that Citigroup had decided to bet against them and had helped choose the assets that would determine who won or lost."

The CDO defaulted within months, leaving the approximately 15 investors facing losses while Citigroup made $160m in fees and trading profits.


Konstantinos Alexopoulos Suing BofA For Giving Away His Account To Man With Same Name

First Posted: 11/17/11 11:16 AM ET Updated: 11/17/11 02:31 PM ET

One man is suing Bank of America after the company allegedly handed over his account to another customer with the same name.

Konstantinos Alexopoulos opened up an account at Barnett Bank -- which was ultimately acquired by BofA -- in 1992 when he came to the United States for college, the Tampa Tribune reports. He returned to Greece in 1997 and continued making deposits to the account totaling $59,000 in 2003, but when he checked his balance in 2005, it had dwindled to $1,400.

Alexopoulos alleges that's because the bank mixed up his account with that of another man of the same name, who subsequently withdrew the money, according to the Tribune.

If Alexopoulos' claims hold up in court, it would be far from the first BofA mix-up. The bank also gave the same 10-digit account number to two customers in Riverside, California, according to a July report by the Los Angeles Times. One of the customers -- an 88-year old World War II veteran -- ended up losing out on $30,000 worth of social security payments as a result. After an investigation by the San Bernardino County district attorney's office, he ultimately got the money back.

In September it was reported that a Hawaiian woman sued BofA after she received computer-generated calls as often as every 15 minutes from the bank over a missed mortgage payment, while she was grieving for her recently deceased husband.

BofA has also had some notable blunders issuing foreclosures. The bank threatened to foreclose on a Utah couple's home earlier this month, after they had already sold it. The bank also tried to foreclose on a home last month that was destroyed by Hurricane Ike in 2008. In addition, the bank asked a Massachusetts man in August to pay a $0.00 balance to stave off foreclosure.

The account and foreclosure mix ups likely aren't the worst public relations disaster for BofA in recent months. The bank backtracked from a plan to start charging customers $5 to use their debit cards after consumers and lawmakers blasted the proposal.

Still, BofA isn't the only big bank to make a big mistake. JPMorgan Chase had a man jailed for four days last summer for trying to deposit a check the bank itself had issued him.



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   SOCIAL MEDIA "REVOLUTIONS"....MYTH OR FACT ?

     
         " I WAS A MUSLIM BITCH, ...NOW I HAVE A CELL PHONE, MAKEUP AND A NEW CHEVROLET !! "

ARE THE WORLD UPRISINGS WE SEE TODAY REALLY DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS, ....OR JUST CORPORATE TAKEOVERS ??....YOU DECIDE, IT IS YOUR PLANET... BUT BEFORE YOU DO THAT, ASK YOURSELF ; "WHY ARE THESE SO CALLED REVOLUTIONS TO TOPPLE DICTATORS ALL CENTERED IN MIDDLE EASTERN, OIL PRODUCING COUNTRIES...??",...IS THIS THE NEW WEAPON OF THE CORPORATE WORLD DOMINATION SCHEME DISGUISED AS "FREEDOM, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL" ? OR...

              
                   ...IS THIS ALL THE REAL DEAL ?

January 26, 2011 4:00 AM PST

There's no such thing as 'social media revolution'


There seems to be a contingent out there that analyzes each of the globe's various political conflicts and attempts to figure out, through plenty of speculation and the occasional Wikipedia look-ups of far-flung sovereignties, which uprising will mark the first true "social media revolution."

A dictator toppled by Twitter or ousted through the efforts of a Facebook group? It's an enticing idea, particularly for those who are in the business of social media and have a personal stake of sorts in tallying each instance of social media's global value making headlines. Twitter punditry this week has been peppered with speculation about whether upheaval in Tunisia or the subsequent anti-government protests in Egypt might amount to the "first" true revolution spawned by social media. But this just isn't the right way to measure things: the occurrence of a "social media revolution," at this point, should be neither noteworthy nor remarkable. If a dictator is overthrown or a government ousted, it would be notable if Facebook or Twitter weren't used.

That's because social media is a part of the world we live in and has become such a crucial form of communication that it will factor into any political movement nearly anywhere in the world. In other words, the use of Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube should not be what's worth talking about. At this point, it takes away from the substance of the revolution (or lack thereof) itself.

This sort of rhetoric has been going on for nearly two years when an anti-government uprising in Iran swelled up through Twitter and, as a result of traditional media crackdowns, became the primary medium in which much of the world knew about what was going on in the Islamic nation. The activists' efforts ultimately had far less impact on the government than many of the breathless Twitter observers expected, and for too many of them it's now known as the movement in which everyone tinted their Twitter profile photos with green as a sign of solidarity (which now seems awfully passive). This, alas, wasn't "the social media revolution." And so the pundits moved on.

So let's look at the basic numbers. Facebook has more than 600 million users around the world, an inarguable lock on the mainstream in much of the world and significant penetration even in the countries where it doesn't have as much reach. Twitter is about one-third its size, though its most active users tend to be more in the vein of newshounds and culture fans than FarmVille players and vacation photo swappers--which may be the reason why the smaller Twitter is as important, if not more so, than Facebook in political activism. Both social media services are actively looking to expand their reach in developing countries, particularly Facebook, which has launched mobile sites and applications geared to lower-end cell phones and slower connections.

The truth is that smaller elements of "social media revolution" have been all around us already for over half a decade--even in our own, comparatively humdrum political system in which "revolution" means a switch in the partisan balance of a governing body accompanied by plenty of red-and-blue news-ticker graphics on cable networks. George Allen, a Republican senator from Virginia, was in a tight race for re-election in 2006 until a video from a campaign rally surfaced on YouTube in which he called one of his opponent's campaign staff volunteers by a bizarre epithet that turned out to be a racial slur of sorts. The video went viral, Allen lost, and his "macaca moment" has been widely highlighted as the source of his downfall--in spite of the presence of countless strategists, publicists, and glossy campaign ads, social media's power prevailed.

Yes, social media can lead to the improbable rise of leaders who otherwise might never have had a shot. Without Meetup and the readership of liberal blogs, former Vermont governor Howard Dean might never have had a shot at the Democratic presidential nomination (which, of course, he lost). In 2008, Barack Obama's campaign team's digital savviness was a crucial component in the candidate's popularity among young voters who heavily favored him at the polls. Two years after Obama's inauguration, these things should no longer surprise us--nor should we be surprised that, yes, social media is a vital instrument in political change all over the world.

That's the way things are in an age full of widely accessible yet largely uncontrolled media, in which the barrier to entry for any individual has been vastly lowered and the potential power of an organized mass can impact longstanding establishments. These technological developments have been groundbreaking. But they are not new. And "revolutionaries," whoever they may be, will use social media as an expanded set of tools for the tasks that have always been and remain the most crucial to activists: amassing support, communicating with like-minded people, and spreading the word. The tactics haven't changed. It's just that the available channels of communication have expanded.

Where it does get interesting, social media-wise, is where and when governments choose to crack down. On Tuesday evening, Twitter finally confirmed that Egypt was blocking access to its service after initially refusing to comment on the matter directly, but there were no reports on attempts to control Facebook or any other grassroots organization tool. This sort of thing provides some insight into what a government sees as its biggest digital threats and how it attempts to control and dissuade opposition forces. But the real focus ought to be on what's being said. The real meat of a political uprising is the message itself, and hype about digital media's impact on it all should be well enough accepted by now that it shouldn't take over the limelight.

And should that successful "social media revolution" come along, I hope the digerati gives the successful activists some credit: If they topple a dictator, the real reason isn't that Facebook Groups made it possible for them to organize or because they generated a clever Twitter hashtag. Social media has changed the world, but by no means does it provide a substitute for the human energy and willpower that can bring down governments and cause global reverberations. Let's focus on understanding what really happens.


    

...SO, NOW YOU HAVE "FREEDOM"...AND THE BIG BANKS ARE READY TO FUCK YOU OVER EVERY WAY YOU TURN !!
WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD YOU STUPID DUMBASS !

 ....AND YOUR WILLING TO DIE FOR THIS ?....WOW !!!

REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION OR ROBBERY ?
...Mr. Banor, WHERE ARE THE JOBS ?

ALL WE SEE ARE "TAX CUTS " FOR THE RICH ??
...AND HOW DID THEY GET SO RICH, WELL WE CAN JUST LOOK AT THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA :
  
AMERICA TAKES A "FREE FALL"
            ...ONCE AGAIN....
                 
Editorial on the 2010 Nov, 2nd Elections :

1. If your an Immigrant to the USA that thinks you have a chance at a "Better Life" here in the USA...
Go HOME !!

2. If your a "White Middle Class" American...You are seriously Fucked Over. Sell your house, Buy a boat and declare yourself a "3rd World Country".


3. If your a "Black American" hoping to better your life and opportunity for your family...RUN as fast as you can to Sears and buy a shitload of shotguns. you need 'em !


4. In the overall resulting analysis, stay away from the "center" of the USA "states"...your safer on the coastal cities, but not by much, as a second "Civil War" is about to erupt that will be far worse than the first one.


5. If you have any "relatives" from 1776 who are still alive....offer them an "apology" for the Ignorant, Selfish Dumb Fucks who voted for the "Retardation of the USA" the day of Nov, 2nd 2010...Our Forefathers really appreciate you for the complete destruction of ALL that They worked for !!




^ America's "Top Ho"
 
She quit public service to suck the Media Dick for Fame & Fortune,
Forsaking her oath of office to get herself a TV Series...
Are These are the "Values" our U.S.A. citizens REALLY Support ?

Drink That TEA America....It is most likely your Last Gulp

 

^ Now you have to ask yourself...is this the way that AMERICA REALLY works ???....NO, we think Not. SAD TO SAY...it shows the lack of purpose which has taken a great toll upon the minds of those in the USA,...and the true inability to dedicate a social purpose for the benefit of All Americans.

Returning to a past which was responsible for Poverty, Injustice, Greed and Evil in so many ways, is No Answer...IT IS CORPORATE SLAVERY !!!

 

^ Fast Cars, Fast Food & Fast Women did NOT create this LACK of ability in the people of the USA...
FALSE VALUES, FAKE WARS, & FOOLISH IDIOTS DID !!!
America Has Once Again been Deceived by FEAR & Lies.
The "UNITED" States of America...Has run out of time.
What remains is now a country of Idiots run by Fools.




Like the Fools at Toyota of America...Who decided that our truthful comments were more than they wanted you to see...So they banned our posting on Toyota You Tube Videos. You will also notice other derogatory comments on Toyota there as well, ( although they only singled us out to ban our posts on their videos ) as well you will see comments from other idiots directed towards our commentary, which of course now we are unable to defend...so,...Go Do It For Us !!!  THX.

TOYOTA BANS AUTO ARTIST ON YOU TUBE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH !



Toyota USA has blocked comments from stingraysstudios.com, which is the World's Number One Auto Art Studio on the web. After posting a comment which pointed out the recalls and defects of the Avalon and that the "ad theme" of a WWII styled commercial was "inappropriate" for Toyota to use in selling cars to Americans, Toyota banned the Studio from You Tube video comments.

Stingraysstudios designs custom cars and concept designs for many Detroit Auto Companies and individuals, including renowned Racing Drivers, and has stated that this action by Toyota shows how desperate the car company really is today. "They are afraid of the Truth and will do anything to prevent the facts from interfering with their onslaught Ad Campaign to sell more defective cars" said Peter Archer, the founder of stingraysstudios.com. A clear slap in the face to the First Amendment of the USA, Toyota has again shown the true nature of their efforts to blindly continue selling cars regardless of the dangers inherent in their products.






In a statement issued by Peter Archer from the Studio, "the facts cannot be denied that Toyota is indeed afraid of even the slight of being caught in a lie", which after the deaths of nearly 100 Americans in Toyota products has intensified the reaction of the car company to any adverse commentary.

"It is a very sad state of affairs when a giant car company has the will to seek out a small art studio and ban the right to express a true statement on a public forum like You Tube." said Mr.Archer in the statement today.


for more on this topic please contact :

Peter@stingraysstudios.com


9/15/10


( courtesy of Jalopnik.com )



For more FACTS on the REAL TOYOTA,...Go click below ;

   

    ^ LIV'IN IN AMERICA...YA JUST GOTTA LOVE THIS !!

ARE IMPORTED PRODUCTS BETTER THAN DOMESTICS ?

It seems that no matter what Country you live in there is more "appeal" to buying stuff not made in your Home Nation ?...and that it somehow is more "prestigious" if you buy imported products ??

People assume that imported wine or beer is better than any domestic brand, and in Europe & Japan it is a sign of status if you drive an American Car there !! Why has this become an acceptable "norm" ?


   

Know what ? ....HERE IS THE REAL DEAL AS TO WHY PEOPLE BUY "IMPORT CARS" & PRODUCTS :


I am going totally disagree with the basic premise that "people inside a country" think the Grass is just Greener from somewhere else, ...hence they buy "import cars"..that is just BS.


The Real Reason is Trade Quotas, Government Tax Breaks and Billion Dollar Manufacturing Deals.


For instance, Japan IS a fucking ISLAND, so there are a limited # of cars that they can sell "in country" and in order to make a profitable company, they ALL ( Japanese Car Companies ) MUST sell outside the Home Nation to support the variety of corporations they have established there which provide manufacturing employment for the Majority of the population.


So they come to the USA, get FREE factories, Tax abatement for YEARS on both the property and the product manufactured there, which allows them to "employ" more people, make more REVENUE, and prop up the IMAGE that they are a World Manufacture operation, thus getting more capital from the Home Nation, it's Government, who then "adjusts" the valuation of their currency in order to secure MORE CAPITAL from other sources Worldwide.

    


This then enables them to spend BILLIONS in Advertising & Marketing to convince buyers in markets outside Japan to purchase their products over the domestic brands. Even if they are inferior @!!!


It is NOT that people Prefer "IMPORT" product to the domestic product...rather it is that the power of media saturation is able to sway these people away from what they have bought for years by instilling "doubt" or Fear that they are NOT buying the BEST Car out there.


Of Course, with the unprecedented recalls of Toyota, that has been proven to be a lie, a very BIG BS LIE, and in spite of this FACT, now you see that Toyota is spending even MORE MONEY than Ever on Advertising to SELL people on what a Great Deal they can get on a new Toyo right Now....More BS lies that they have to prop up because if they falter in sales the entire "house of cards" they built will crash to the floor, taking the Japanese Government with them into Oblivion.


    


EVERY NATION however has to some degree or another done this same "strategy" to impose themselves into "untapped markets" and gain a majority of market share. Look at the American auto companies in China, they OWN that Market, and in the case of GM, have done so from as far back as the turn of the Last Century, when BUICK began to build cars In China, and so now today BUICK is the Number One car in China !!!


Now, due to this "Industrial Attack" from import companies, the domestic manufacture has NO ALTERNATIVE but to turn to their GOVERNMENT for Help, or they will Die...as we have seen happen to the Electronics Industry in the USA, the Auto Industry in England, and many other corporate operations who have been "displaced" by Companies from outside the "Home Country" who can't compete with an "unfair or extremely lower cost" in producing the same "type" of product.


If ANY company can create Enough INFLUENCE to get consumers to CONSISTENTLY buy the product they manufacture, they CREATE CASH FLOW REVENUE,....they don't NEED to make a profit, just KEEP SELLING the stuff they make, no matter what !!! The Government in their "Home Nation" then has little choice but to support them as they employ so many citizens, pay taxes and distribute "Trade" around the World that in effect provides the MONEY to Run A Country with !!!




It is called technically by definition a "Fascist" State form of Government, where the Companies Run & Dictate the policy of the Nation. It is "Capitalism" gone Bad, and unfortunately, That is exactly what we see happening all around the World today as this is still a WAR, Now a GLOBAL WAR mentality leftover from World War 1 and 2, where the "enemy" was much more Obvious to see, and was then blatantly oppressive and dictatorial, which made then "easy to Hate".


...today the SAME Philosophy & Politics are at play in the Manufacturing & Oil industries, Banking and yes, in Government who takes away the freedom of choice little by little and offers "Technology" in return to make your life just a bit "Better" by getting you to BUY NEW STUFF. 



That is My Soapbox for the day, take it for what you can get out of it, but THINK about this next time you buy ANYTHING...because It Dose Matter what you CHOOSE....or you'll LOSE that option.


Now Please excuse me as I MUST GO WATCH NASCAR'S GRAND AM SERIES AS THEY CONDUCT A RACE IN CANADA !
                                     
See what I am saying ?.....LMFAO.
 

                                                     
OK, ...I have a Personal Rant to post here for your comments regarding the Renewal of my Driver's License/I.D. here in Florida

So, Here is the deal,...I go to renew my " Florida license" for which I had to schedule an appointment 30 days in advance to avoid waiting for hours in a line to get and when I walk in I find that "NEW DOCUMENTS" are now required to enable me to accomplish this renewal.

Keep in mind that I have had this "license" for over 40 Years !!...and NOW I am asked to provide my Birth Certificate, Passport or some Proof that I am an AMERICAN !!!

Oh, but that is not all, I also must show a Social Security Card, Paycheck, W-2 Form or some type of payment regarding my employment...& wait for it, that is NOT All, as well I need to show a Deed for my Home, or a Mortgage Payment booklet, a Utility Bill & 2 documents with my address on them !!!!!

What The Fuck is that Bullshit ???

I am Born & Bred in the United States of America !!...and I already posses a "License" ??

The Information requested is NONE of the State of Florida's Fucking Business, it is mine.
Of course I told them EXACTLY what I thought of this, as stated above, and walked out.

I have NO INTENTION of providing that type of information to get a damn license ever !

What do you think ?.................    Let us hear from you on this !!!

 Maybe it's just that they got a GOOD LOOK at the Car I DRIVE ....ya Think ???....;

  
  
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President Obama on the Auto Industry :

Can manufacturing save us? When President Obama bailed out Chrysler and General Motors, sending them to bankruptcy court last year, the nascent administration touted the Detroit Three as the last bastion of big-time manufacturing in the United States, a necessary part of our economy. Now that the economic recovery is stalling, GM, Ford and Chrysler are still growing. All three are profitable for the first time since 2004, Obama told a crowd of cheering United Auto Workers Friday. The bailouts saved about 1 million jobs, and the auto industry has added 55,000 more in the last year, he said.



This was a midterm election campaign rally, held at Chrysler's Jeep Grand Cherokee assembly plant on Detroit's Conner Avenue. This is what presidents of either party do as the midterms approach.

"We were in the midst, when I took office, of a deep and painful recession, that cost our economy about 8 million jobs. And took a terrible toll on communities like this. Our economy was shrinking about 6 percent per quarter. Now, this morning, we learned our economy grew by about 2.4 percent for the second quarter of the year. So that means it has been growing for one full year."

The growth is slowing. That 2.4-percent growth in the second quarter is about one point below economists' projections, and down from 3.7 percent in the first quarter and 5 percent in the last quarter of '09. It's up from 0 percent in 2008. Overall, according to Commerce department figures, the economy shrank about 2.6 percent in 2009, mostly in the first half of the year.

But Obama reiterated the three options his administration had in dealing with the failing American auto industry. Three options that the Treasury department's manufacturing chief, Ron Bloom, outlined for me in an interview earlier this year. The new administration rejected one, the unmitigated federal bailouts; two, letting GM and Chrysler fail; for three, the bailouts as we know them today. The bankruptcies left many investors and creditors with nothing, UAW workers with a two-tier wage formula and union-owned retiree benefits and many fewer jobs, and thousands of dealerships without franchises. GM's bankruptcy cut itself nearly in half, and I'm still amazed how quickly and effortlessly the General went from eight to four brands in North America.

Here's part of the campaign pitch: "our strategy was to get this company and this industry back on its feet ... take a hands-off approach, saying 'you guys know the business, we don't. We're going to give you a chance, but we know you've got a chance."

He shot back at opponents of the GM and Chrysler bailouts, which at the time, and probably to this day, seems to include anyone outside Michigan and a few struggling cities elsewhere in the Midwest.

"The fact that we're standing in this magnificent factory today is a testament to the decisions we made and the sacrifices you, and countless stakeholders across this industry and this country were willing to make. So today, this industry is growing strong. It's creating new jobs. It's manufacturing the fuel efficient new cars and trucks that will carry us toward an energy-independent future."

There's the nod to factory workers and environmentalists who helped Obama win the presidency in 2008. If a good number of them, more than the number who usually come out for mid-terms, vote in November, Democrats may stem the expected shift to Republican majorities in both houses of Congress.

Obama announced Friday that Chrysler will keep open past 2012 its Sterling Heights, Michigan, assembly plant, where it builds the Chrysler Sebring and Dodge Avenger. Chrysler/Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne told reporters after Obama's speech that the factory, which Chrysler was planning to shut down in the first quarter of next year, will build the facelifted midsize sedans, and then the full redesign scheduled for the 2014 model year.

After the Jeep plant, Obama appeared at the Chevrolet Volt assembly plant in nearby Hamtramck, where GM announced it would boost Volt production by 50 percent in its second full year, 2013. That's from 30,000 units in calendar '12 to 45,000 in '13, pretty good numbers for a car on which GM will lose money because of the cost of the high technology. This stuff doesn't come cheap.

Obama even took what GM describes as an "impromptu" 40-foot drive in a production Volt at the Hamtramck plant. GM's event seems a subtle jab at Rush Limbaugh's confused attack on extended-range hybrid. (At one point, he told his radio audience, according to reports, that the Volt goes just 40 miles before running down its electrical charge.) Limbaugh said that the Obama administration had to offer a $7,500 tax credit in order to get anyone to buy the Volt.

The 0-$7,500 tax credit was renewed in Obama's 2009 economic recovery act, but that was after the Bush administration renewed the tax credit in 2008, from its own Energy Policy Act of 2005. Don't tell me Limbaugh's against renewing a Bush-era tax break?

The Volt is getting it from both sides. Days before Limbaugh's uninformed rant, the self-important Hybrid Owners of America put out an email comparing the Chevy Volt with the Nissan Leaf. "How can you have a 'battle of the electric cars' when there's only one electric car in the match?" it asks, while going on to point out that the Volt will require "pricey premium unleaded" for its gas-powered generator.

Ah, well. No matter what GM, Chrysler, and even Ford build in the next several years, it's going to take some time before the U.S. auto industry gets the kind of respect Asian and European brands have enjoyed, including from the automotive and non-automotive press.

The president may have been campaigning Friday, but he had good reason to crow about the auto industry. It's smaller and healthier today, able to make a profit at lower volumes, which are volumes that indicate how weak the economy remains. I don't know whether a majority of Americans today would say they're better off today than they were a year ago. I can tell you that one factory-full of Chrysler workers would say "yes," and those still working at GM and Ford, and a good number of those of us who live in and near Detroit would agree.


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COMMENTS ON THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA :

WHAT IS THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE ?...WHY DOES IT EXIST ?

The Electoral College consists of the popularly elected representatives (electors) who formally elect the President and Vice President of the United States. Since 1964, there have been 538 electors in each presidential election.[1] Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution specifies how many electors each state is entitled to have and that each state's legislature decides how its electors are to be chosen. U.S. territories are not represented in the Electoral College. The Electoral College is an example of an indirect election.

The election for President and Vice President is not a direct election by United States citizens. Citizens vote for electors, representing a state, who are the authorized constitutional participants in a presidential election. In early U.S. history, some state laws delegated the choice of electors to the state legislature. Electors are free to vote for anyone eligible to be President, but in practice pledge to vote for specific candidates and voters cast ballots for favored presidential and vice presidential candidates by voting for correspondingly pledged electors.[2][3]

The Twelfth Amendment provides for each elector to cast one vote for President and one vote for Vice President. It also specifies how a President and Vice President are elected. The Twenty-third Amendment specifies how many electors the District of Columbia is entitled to have.

Critics argue the Electoral College is inherently undemocratic and gives certain swing states disproportionate influence in selecting the President and Vice President. Proponents argue that the Electoral College is an important and distinguishing feature of federalism in the United States and protects the rights of smaller states. Numerous constitutional amendments have been introduced in the Congress seeking to alter the Electoral College or replace it with a direct popular vote; however, no proposal has ever passed the Congress

( courtesy of Wikpeida )

HOWEVER....No, I don't feel the electoral college is fair, at all. This was something I learned 25 years ago in elementary school. I think most of us were given the example of how someone could win the popular vote, but still lose the election, based on the electoral college. We heard about this every election year in history, social studies, and civics. We saw this proven by the Bush vs. Gore election. Regardless of the actual/true/supposed outcome of the electoral votes, Gore had the popular vote of most voters.

I think there was a time and a place for the electoral college (200 years ago), but with modern technology and communication, there isn't a need for it. It's outdated. And it doesn't show the true choice of the American voters.
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COMMENTS ON OUR ENVIRONMENT :

" If the Government really wants to reduce CO2 emissions, then they should pass a law that every Human Being takes ONE LESS BREATH PER MINUTE, as that would reduce the total CO2 emitted by MORE THAN ALL the Automobiles On the Planet each day "

                                                                  ( Paraphrased from a comment by Bob Lutz )

   

  Now you may think that Bob ^ was wrong in saying that, but actually he was 100% correct !!!

  If we can just get some of the Blowhards out there to shut the fuck up, we will all be better off.

  Unfortunately that dose not seem likely, so we have to really find other ways to solve this :


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July 29, 2010

 

EPA Rejects Claims of Flawed Climate Science

 

WASHINGTON The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today denied 10 petitions challenging its 2009 determination that climate change is real, is occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities, and threatens human health and the environment. 

 

The petitions to reconsider EPA’s Endangerment Finding claim that climate science cannot be trusted, and assert a conspiracy that invalidates the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the U.S. Global Change Research Program. After months of serious consideration of the petitions and of the state of climate change science, EPA finds no evidence to support these claims. In contrast, EPA’s review shows that climate science is credible, compelling, and growing stronger.

 

“The endangerment finding is based on years of science from the U.S. and around the world.  These petitions -- based as they are on selectively edited, out-of-context data and a manufactured controversy -- provide no evidence to undermine our determination.  Excess greenhouse gases are a threat to our health and welfare,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson.  “Defenders of the status quo will try to slow our efforts to get America running on clean energy.  A better solution would be to join the vast majority of the American people who want to see more green jobs, more clean energy innovation and an end to the oil addiction that pollutes our planet and jeopardizes our national security.”

 

The basic assertions by the petitioners and EPA responses follow.

 

Claim: Petitioners say that emails disclosed from the University of East Anglia ’s Climatic Research Unit provide evidence of a conspiracy to manipulate global temperature data. 

Response: EPA reviewed every e-mail and found this was simply a candid discussion of scientists working through issues that arise in compiling and presenting large complex data sets.  Four other independent reviews came to similar conclusions.

 

Claim: Petitioners say that errors in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report call the entire body of work into question. 

Response: Of the alleged errors, EPA confirmed only two in a 3,000 page report. The first pertains to the rate of Himalayan glacier melt and second to the percentage of the Netherlands below sea level. IPCC issued correction statements for both of these errors. The errors have no bearing on Administrator Jackson’s decision. None of the errors undermines the basic facts that the climate is changing in ways that threaten our health and welfare.

 

Claim: Petitioners say that because certain studies were not included in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, the IPCC itself is biased and cannot be trusted as a source of reliable information. 

Response: These claims are incorrect. In fact, the studies in question were included in the IPCC report, which provided a comprehensive and balanced discussion of climate science.

 

Claim: Petitioners say that new scientific studies refute evidence supporting the Endangerment Finding.  

Response:  Petitioners misinterpreted the results of these studies. Contrary to their claims, many of the papers they submit as evidence are consistent with EPA’s Finding. Other studies submitted by the petitioners were based on unsound methodologies. Detailed discussion of these issues may be found in volume one of the response to petition documents, on EPA’s website. 

 

Climate change is already happening, and human activity is a contributor. The global warming trend over the past 100 years is confirmed by three separate records of surface temperature, all of which are confirmed by satellite data. Beyond this, evidence of climate change is seen in melting ice in the Arctic, melting glaciers around the world, increasing ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, shifting precipitation patterns, and changing ecosystems and wildlife habitats.

 

“America’s Climate Choices,” a report from the National Academy of Sciences and the most recent assessment of the full body of scientific literature on climate change, along with the recently released “State of the Climate” report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration both fully support the conclusion that climate change is real and poses significant risk to human and natural systems. The consistency among these and previously issued assessments only serves to strengthen EPA’s conclusion.

 

Information on EPA’s findings and the petitions: http://epa.gov/climatechange/endangerment/petitions.html 

 

More information on climate change: http://epa.gov/climatechange

 

Review America ’s Climate Choices report: http://americasclimatechoices.org/

 

Review State of the Climate report:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100728_stateoftheclimate.html

 

 

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We're Hot as Hell and We're Not Going to Take It Any More

Three Steps to Establish a Politics of Global Warming
By Bil McKibben (Cross Posted from TomDispatch.com)

Try to fit these facts together:

  • According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the planet has just come through the warmest decade, the warmest 12 months, the warmest six months, and the warmest April, May, and June on record.
  •  A "staggering" new study from Canadian researchers has shown that warmer seawater has reduced phytoplankton, the base of the marine food chain, by 40% since 1950.
  • Nine nations have so far set their all-time temperature records in 2010, including Russia (111 degrees), Niger (118), Sudan (121), Saudi Arabia and Iraq (126 apiece), and Pakistan, which also set the new all-time Asia record in May: a hair under 130 degrees. I can turn my oven to 130 degrees.
  • And then, in late July, the U.S. Senate decided to do exactly nothing about climate change. They didn't do less than they could have -- they did nothing, preserving a perfect two-decade bipartisan record of no action. Senate majority leader Harry Reid decided not even to schedule a vote on legislation that would have capped carbon emissions.

I wrote the first book for a general audience on global warming back in 1989, and I've spent the subsequent 21 years working on the issue. I'm a mild-mannered guy, a Methodist Sunday School teacher. Not quick to anger. So what I want to say is: this is fucked up. The time has come to get mad, and then to get busy.

For many years, the lobbying fight for climate legislation on Capitol Hill has been led by a collection of the most corporate and moderate environmental groups, outfits like the Environmental Defense Fund. We owe them a great debt, and not just for their hard work. We owe them a debt because they did everything the way you're supposed to: they wore nice clothes, lobbied tirelessly, and compromised at every turn.

By the time they were done, they had a bill that only capped carbon emissions from electric utilities (not factories or cars) and was so laden with gifts for industry that if you listened closely you could actually hear the oinking. They bent over backwards like Soviet gymnasts.  Senator John Kerry, the legislator they worked most closely with, issued this rallying cry as the final negotiations began: "We believe we have compromised significantly, and we're prepared to compromise further."

And even that was not enough.  They were left out to dry by everyone -- not just Reid, not just the Republicans. Even President Obama wouldn't lend a hand, investing not a penny of his political capital in the fight.

The result: total defeat, no moral victories.

Now What?

So now we know what we didn't before: making nice doesn't work. It was worth a try, and I'm completely serious when I say I'm grateful they made the effort, but it didn't even come close to working. So we better try something else.

Step one involves actually talking about global warming.  For years now, the accepted wisdom in the best green circles was: talk about anything else -- energy independence, oil security, beating the Chinese to renewable technology. I was at a session convened by the White House early in the Obama administration where some polling guru solemnly explained that "green jobs" polled better than "cutting carbon."

No, really?  In the end, though, all these focus-group favorites are secondary.  The task at hand is keeping the planet from melting. We need everyone -- beginning with the president -- to start explaining that basic fact at every turn.

It is the heat, and also the humidity.  Since warm air holds more water than cold, the atmosphere is about 5% moister than it was 40 years ago, which explains the freak downpours that seem to happen someplace on this continent every few days.

It is the carbon -- that's why the seas are turning acid, a point Obama could have made with ease while standing on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. "It's bad that it's black out there," he might have said, "but even if that oil had made it safely ashore and been burned in our cars, it would still be wrecking the oceans." Energy independence is nice, but you need a planet to be energy independent on.

Mysteriously enough, this seems to be a particularly hard point for smart people to grasp. Even in the wake of the disastrous Senate non-vote, the Nature Conservancy's climate expert told New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, "We have to take climate change out of the atmosphere, bring it down to earth, and show how it matters in people's everyday lives." Translation: ordinary average people can't possibly recognize the real stakes here, so let's put it in language they can understand, which is about their most immediate interests. It's both untrue, as I'll show below, and incredibly patronizing. It is, however, exactly what we've been doing for a decade and clearly, It Does Not Work.

    

Step two, we have to ask for what we actually need, not what we calculate we might possibly be able to get. If we're going to slow global warming in the very short time available to us, then we don't actually need an incredibly complicated legislative scheme that gives door prizes to every interested industry and turns the whole operation over to Goldman Sachs to run.  We need a stiff price on carbon, set by the scientific understanding that we can't still be burning black rocks a couple of decades hence. That undoubtedly means upending the future business plans of Exxon and BP, Peabody Coal and Duke Energy, not to speak of everyone else who's made a fortune by treating the atmosphere as an open sewer for the byproducts of their main business.

Instead they should pay through the nose for that sewer, and here's the crucial thing: most of the money raised in the process should be returned directly to American pockets. The monthly check sent to Americans would help fortify us against the rise in energy costs, and we'd still be getting the price signal at the pump to stop driving that SUV and start insulating the house. We also need to make real federal investments in energy research and development, to help drive down the price of alternatives -- the Breakthrough Institute points out, quite rightly, that we're crazy to spend more of our tax dollars on research into new drone aircraft and Mars orbiters than we do on photovoltaics.

Yes, these things are politically hard, but they're not impossible. A politician who really cared could certainly use, say, the platform offered by the White House to sell a plan that taxed BP and actually gave the money to ordinary Americans. (So far they haven't even used the platform offered by the White House to reinstall the rooftop solar panels that Jimmy Carter put there in the 1970s and Ronald Reagan took down in his term.)

Asking for what you need doesn't mean you'll get all of it.  Compromise still happens. But as David Brower, the greatest environmentalist of the late twentieth century, explained amid the fight to save the Grand Canyon: "We are to hold fast to what we believe is right, fight for it, and find allies and adduce all possible arguments for our cause. If we cannot find enough vigor in us or them to win, then let someone else propose the compromise. We thereupon work hard to coax it our way. We become a nucleus around which the strongest force can build and function."

Which leads to the third step in this process. If we're going to get any of this done, we're going to need a movement, the one thing we haven't had. For 20 years environmentalists have operated on the notion that we'd get action if we simply had scientists explain to politicians and CEOs that our current ways were ending the Holocene, the current geological epoch. That turns out, quite conclusively, not to work. We need to be able to explain that their current ways will end something they actually care about, i.e. their careers. And since we'll never have the cash to compete with Exxon, we better work in the currencies we can muster: bodies, spirit, passion.


    

"Get back to work YOU mutherfuckers "

Movement Time

As Tom Friedman put it in a strong column the day after the Senate punt, the problem was that the public "never got mobilized." Is it possible to get people out in the streets demanding action about climate change? Last year, with almost no money, our scruffy little outfit, 350.org, managed to organize what Foreign Policy called  the "largest ever coordinated global rally of any kind" on any issue -- 5,200 demonstrations in 181 countries, 2,000 of them in the U.S.A.

People were rallying not just about climate change, but around a remarkably wonky scientific data point, 350 parts per million carbon dioxide, which NASA's James Hansen and his colleagues have demonstrated is the most we can have in the atmosphere if we want a planet "similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted." Which, come to think of it, we do. And the "we," in this case, was not rich white folks. If you look at the 25,000 pictures in our Flickr account, you'll see that most of them were poor, black, brown, Asian, and young -- because that's what most of the world is. No need for vice-presidents of big conservation groups to patronize them: shrimpers in Louisiana and women in burqas and priests in Orthodox churches and slumdwellers in Mombasa turned out to be completely capable of understanding the threat to the future.

Those demonstrations were just a start (one we should have made long ago). We're following up in October -- on 10-10-10 -- with a Global Work Party. All around the country and the world people will be putting up solar panels and digging community gardens and laying out bike paths. Not because we can stop climate change one bike path at a time, but because we need to make a sharp political point to our leaders: we're getting to work, what about you?

We need to shame them, starting now. And we need everyone working together. This movement is starting to emerge on many fronts. In September, for instance, opponents of mountaintop removal are converging on DC to demand an end to the coal trade. That same month, Tim DeChristopher goes on trial in Salt Lake City for monkey-wrenching oil and gas auctions by submitting phony bids.  (Naomi Klein and Terry Tempest Williams have called for folks to gather at the courthouse.)

The big environmental groups are starting to wake up, too.  The Sierra Club has a dynamic new leader, Mike Brune, who's working hard with stalwarts like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. (Note to enviro groups: working together is fun and useful). Churches are getting involved, as well as mosques and synagogues. Kids are leading the fight, all over the world -- they have to live on this planet for another 70 years or so, and they have every right to be pissed off.

But no one will come out to fight for watered down and weak legislation.  That's not how it works. You don't get a movement unless you take the other two steps I've described.

And in any event it won't work overnight.  We're not going to get the Senate to act next week, or maybe even next year. It took a decade after the Montgomery bus boycott to get the Voting Rights Act. But if there hadn't been a movement, then the Voting Rights Act would have passed in… never. We may need to get arrested.  We definitely need art, and music, and disciplined, nonviolent, but very real anger.

Mostly, we need to tell the truth, resolutely and constantly. Fossil fuel is wrecking the one earth we've got. It's not going to go away because we ask politely. If we want a world that works, we're going to have to raise our voices.


COMMENTS ON POLITICIANS :

Why do some people "buy into" the Ignorant and self-serving Politicians who present a "opinion" that AMERICA is a personal "tool" to protect the well off from assumed "threats" to their present status quo ?
                 
FEAR & IGNORANCE ABOUND IN THESE JERKS
...and WE ALL need to stop these Idiots Now :

 
 ^  "Police Car State" Have we not seen these characters here before, like 60 years ago ? ...
                                    Yea Think So, time to get rid of them... AGAIN !

The lack of Responsibility of Corporations like BP & Toyota, as well as the complete arrogance of going about "covering up" obvious judgment errors is an unacceptable manner of conducting "business"... Then this "state of mind" has now enabled a STATE to go directly against the Bill of Rights & the U.S. Constitution by enacting a "law" that allows for direct violations against the very fabric of the Country, in that most ALL of the citizens in the USA today, at some point came from "somewhere" else, allowed to become a part of the USA and participate in our way of life. That IS the American way....



 
 Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. 

'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'
 

Theodore Roosevelt 1907


Feds sue over Arizona's tough immigration enforcement law

We've known this was coming for a while, ever since Arizona passed a law requiring police to arrest illegal immigrants -- a law that's one of the toughest in the country and one of the most controversial. (Though, according to opinion polls, very popular.) Now, it's official: The federal government is taking Arizona to court. They're trying to get it knocked down and, while they're duking it out, want an injunction blocking the law from taking effect. Take it away, AP:

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix argues that Arizona's law requiring state and local police to question and possibly arrest illegal immigrants during the enforcement of other laws such as traffic violations usurps federal authority.

"In our constitutional system, the federal government has pre-eminent authority to regulate immigration matters," the lawsuit says. "This authority derives from the United States Constitution and numerous acts of Congress. The nation's immigration laws reflect a careful and considered balance of national law enforcement, foreign relations, and humanitarian interests."

The government is seeking an injunction to delay the July 29 implementation of the law until the case is resolved. It ultimately wants the law declared invalid.


WHY DOSE ANOTHER "CROOK" GET TO BECOME A GOVERNOR ?

TODAY HOWEVER WE HAVE PROFESSIONAL "CROOKS" LIKE THIS GUY BELOW WHO SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO RUN FOR ANY OFFICE, HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FRAUD & THEFT OF WELL OVER $1 BILLION OF FEDERAL FUNDS BY HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA, AND NOW ??...HE IS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA ? & WANTS TO BRING THAT STUPID ARIZONA LAW TO FLORIDA TOO ?, WHY ? THERE IS NO BORDER PROBLEM IN FLORIDA,

...HE IS JUST TOTALLY INSANE !
 

"Tricky Ricky", largely self-financed with $15 mill of his own money gained from his hospital adventure (Columbia Scandal) is loose on his quest to buy himself a Senate seat. Odd how he claims total ignorance of the Medicare scams. Lately courting the religious right with his anti-abortion talk. Perhaps equally ignorant of abortions performed in his hospitals? 

Need some "Politico 101" ? Go check out Kurt Waldheim. (Past President of that "Sound of Music" country Austria, formerly head of the United Nations and admirer of the "Non-aligned socialist nations like Cuba, He began his career as a Nazi Party member and intelligence officer who later claimed ignorance of what was going on and/or forgot what happened.)

Richard Lynn "Rick" Scott (born December 1, 1952) is a candidate for Florida governor, a businessman, healthcare industry executive, lawyer and founder of Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR), a group that advocates against expanding the U.S. government's role in healthcare. He is competing in the 2010 Florida gubernatorial election.[1]

Scott served in the U.S. Navy and then went into business redeveloping donut shops while in college. He earned a business degree, law degree and joined a Dallas firm where he became partner. In 1987 he helped found the Columbia Hospital Corporation with two business partners. It was merged with Columbia Hospital Corporation of America in 1989 to form Columbia/HCA and eventually became the largest health care company in the U.S.

Scott was ousted by Columbia/HCA's board of directors in 1997 in the midst of the nation's biggest health care fraud scandal. The company ultimately settled the Medicaid and Medicare fraud allegations and paid out a total of $1.7 billion dollars in fines and civil claims.[2][3] After his departure from Columbia/HCA, Scott established Richard L. Scott Investments, a private investment firm based in Naples, Florida that owns stakes in health care, manufacturing and technology companies
 
O
r maybe you would prefer we acted like this :
 

Officials: Taliban executes boy, 7, for spying

By Matiullah Mati, CNN
June 10, 2010 11:06 a.m. EDT
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Officials: Taliban executes 7-year-old
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • NEW: Afghan president calls execution a 'crime against humanity,' if true
  • Boy was accused of spying for the government
  • Official: Other such executions have taken place in the province
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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Suspected Taliban militants have executed a 7-year-old boy, accusing him of spying for the government, officials in southern Afghanistan said Thursday.

The execution took place Tuesday in the Sangin district of Helmand province, said Dawoud Ahmadi -- the provincial governor's spokesman.

In the past, militants have carried out similar killings of those accused of spying, Ahmadi said.

Three years ago, a 70-year-old woman and a child in the Musa Qala district of the province were executed following the same allegations, he said.

During a news conference Thursday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said officials were looking into reports of the execution and said he condemned the act if it is confirmed to be true.

"I don't think there's a crime bigger than that that even the most inhuman forces on earth can commit," Karzai said. "A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy. A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a 7-year-old boy, and therefore hanging or shooting to kill a 7-year-old boy ... is a crime against humanity."


COMMENTS ON CORPORATIONS :

OK, ... SO LET'S KILL SOME COMPANIES : Express yourself & Take the "Death to Toyota Survey" your response will make a difference...MAYBE ?..OR NOT

Click here to take survey

 
 
Toyota Invests $50 Million in Tesla Venture Despite Project Contention
by: Joel West May 21, 2010

Thursday night, Palo Alto-based Tesla Motors announced that its long-promised Model S electric sedan would be built at the closed NUMMI plant in Fremont. The announcement came with a $50 million investment from Toyota (TM).

Given this 25-year joint venture between Toyota and GM had established infrastructure, and its April 1 closing was a source of great embarrassment to Toyota, this seems like a no-brainer. However, apparently it only dates to an April meeting between the Toyota CEO, Akio Toyoda, and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, who made the joint announcement Thursday.

When I heard this, however, it reminded me of all the previous places that Tesla had promised to build a factory:

* Albuquerque (promised 2007, abandoned 2008)
* San José (a greenfield site, promised 2008, abandoned January 2009)
* Palo Alto (a former HP factory, promised August 2009 — and apparently still on)

Runaway Bride (Widescreen Edition)This reminded me of the Julia Roberts movie “Runaway Bride,” about a woman who kept planning weddings but then abandoning them at the last minute.

Most recently, the company had been negotiating with Long Beach (the former Douglas Aircraft plant for making DC-9s) and Downey (a former NASA site) in the LA area. Musk said:

It's gonna be a tough decision, because I think frankly both Long Beach and Downey would be great locations.

Downey officials had approved nearly $9 million in incentives to attract the factory. The facility had been once listed in Tesla’s proposal for a $465 million “advanced technology” federal loan. Needless to say, city officials were upset. Downey City Councilman, Mario Guerra, said:

We are shocked, upset and betrayed. We can see why the public is so upset with corporate America.

He adding that Tesla had told the city it would sign the lease for the Downey plant on Friday.

According to proponents, the plant would create 1,000 jobs. The company has cumulative losses exceeding $200 million on sales of about 1,000 cars and total revenues around $100 million. For such a tiny car company — selling a niche product — it had been tremendously successful getting publicity and promises of subsidies from local governments.

Or as a Councilman Mario Guerra said:

I couldn’t be more disappointed. Ifeel like I was stabbed in the back. We were promised all along that we weren’t being used and this is what happens. Elon Musk personally gave me his word that we weren’t being used. Somebody is a very good poker player and I guess that’s how you become a billionaire.

Tesla had also been promised as the salvation of the American auto industry, which has lost 100,000s of jobs in the past three years. Now, with the strategic investment by Toyota, there is the possibility that its exit strategy will be to become a subsidiary of Japan’s (and the world’s) largest auto company.
 
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Interview with Detroit born founder of "Stingraysstudios.com", Peter Archer, as published by Local Motors website (LINK BELOW):

Hey, LMers. ( edit: LMers refers to Local Motors Members) As promised, here is a first in a series of interviews with Detroiters. Today we hone in on Peter Archer, aka stingraysstudios to you.

I asked Peter questions that definitely spurred inspiring answers; we owe him a debt of gratitude for his willingness to share! I also asked questions that may have hit a few nerves, but he answered eloquently and passionately, and I find that his opinion mirrors a few other Detroiters that I know (see question #6). I know many who would disagree as well. But, our objective is to gain perspective; a Detroiter's perspective. So read on :

This is a single Detroit point of view, and we will have more to come! Tomorrow we will interview Larry Edsall; he is a prolific auto writer who was an editor at Auto Week, and the writer of several fantastic design books.



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1.) AF: Hi, Peter! Thank you for taking the time to share your vision of Detroit with the community. Can you tell us how much time you spent in Detroit, and whether you still consider it to be home?

PA: I was born in Detroit, so it will always be "home" for me, Growing up there ( in the 1960's) was a great place for a "kid" of my interests in Auto Design, Motor Racing & Music...or perhaps it was Because of Detroit that I grew into these interests as they are all "native" to the Detroit area. The area I grew up in was Franklin Village, an "upscale community" in that time, which was home to many of the Big 3 auto executives & I lived there until I was 16, when my family then moved to Ft; Lauderdale, Fl... which is where I live today.

Franklin was a very unique "village" as it has a center street where there was a Cider Mill, Meat Market, Church, Kindergarten School, Hardware store & that was it !.The Cider Mill was built in the 1800's had a giant wooden wheel that turned water from the stream behind up into the mill mashing the apples into make Cider, they also made fresh donuts every Sunday & people drove from miles around to come there after Church. It was a very close little community & a good place for a kid to grow up.



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2.) AF: What were your favorite past times during your Detroit years?

PA: Well, I was fortunate to have friends whose fathers were in the top executives of the Auto Industry & they very supportive of us "kids" who "drew cars", which I have been doing from age 5 !!!...lol. One of my best friends dad was Chuck Jordan, the head of GM Design who took the time to show & allow me to see the "inner workings" of the design studios at GM Tech Center. Going there was always a "treat" for me, to see cars from the future being "dreamed up", then to go into the assembly line factories & watch them actually build the cars I had seen on the drawing board, was a powerful experience.

Detroit is a very Diverse City, in that you have so many various areas where different social groups live & work, around the factories the workers there made a home for their families, Where I lived (about 40 miles from downtown ) the executives had big homes & yards, and downtown was the heart of the city, where the Real MOTOWN lived & flourished.

There you could find all the trappings of a successful metropolitan center, Art Museums, Symphony Halls, Corporate towers, Penthouse apartments, restaurants of every ethnic origin, Neighborhoods of mixed races & occupations, (something that back then in the 1960's was a fairly rare occurrence)...and of course the emerging Music Industry of Motown Records !! The people of Detroit truly influence the World in the work they did, & they know that well, it created a determination among the population that demands the very best of each person, because what they do each day matters to everyone, weather others understand that or not, Detroit truly became "The Heartbeat Of America"...& the World..

The City was always jump'in,... 24 hours a day !...& another unique aspect was the "tunnel" under the Detroit River which took you into Ontario, so you could "leave the Country" & come back in a night on the town !....another thing people may not realize is that there is a Giant salt mine Under the city of Detroit !!

In the summer months, we would go "up north" where my family had a cottage on the Lake, there we would fish in the streams (fly fishing for trout mostly), go boating (we had a speedboat with a Mustang 289 in it ! )...and take speed buggy tours of the sand dunes, where you would get in a Big Olds Convertible, & they would drive 60 mph or more over the dunes, it was a blast to do this !!!

In the Winter we would go snow skiing, snowmobiling & tobogganing down the steep hills of northern Michigan, & even in my neighborhood we had some big "Hills" ...so, you learned real quick how to control a sled...or you crashed, hard !...lol.

But I have to say my favorite "pastime" aside from drawing cars, was Go Kart Racing, we had several different types of Karts & mini bikes, we even had a fiberglass bodied Monza GT go kart !!..it looked like the Stingray Corvette design !!!, ...my friend even had one of these built by GM for him !





3.) AF: What places really yell "DETROIT!" to you? What activities do you associate specifically with the Motor City?

PA: Woodward Avenue. The "infamous" strip of asphalt that runs across town, that led to it being known as the Underground Drag Racing Capital of the USA....for no small reasons. Anything you could imagine & more that you could never believe showed up here !! Even Chevrolet engineering brought a 427 VEGA to "The Avenue"...it became a "unofficial" test track for all the Big 3 back in the day !!!

Cobo Hall. This was the main showcase for Detroit Automakers each year, where they came to the hall like Gladiators in the Rome, to do battle against each other for the top honors. The building even has a Freeway running UNDER the length of it !!!...where else but Detroit !!!

Tiger Stadium. When I left Detroit in 1968 to move to Florida, the Detroit Tiger Baseball team won the World Series Pennant, it was a affirmation of the City after the 1967 race riots that burned almost 1/25th of the city into ashes. These were very turbulent times, in spite of the fact Detroit WAS much more "integrated" than most American cities at the time, today those problems pale in comparison to the Present Day Crisis within Detroit. But Tiger Stadium was the REAL crowning jewel of the City that year, when all of the people there were "Detroit" !!






4.) AF: Are you a sports fan? If so, which teams do you support?

PA: YES, ...as long as the sport involves motor racing !!! ....
In my opinion Mr. Earnest Hemingway said it best : "There are only 3 sports that are TRUE SPORTS, Mountain Climbing, Boxing & Auto Racing....WHERE A PERSON RISKS HIS LIFE TO DO THIS,...the rest are just guys playing with balls "








5.) AF: What made you leave Detroit? Do you ever intend to go back to live there?

PA: I really did not have a choice in that, my family moved to Florida when I was 16, so....but I did agree to go, so....it was a new adventure for me at the time, & I have no regrets about it at all. Had I stayed in Detroit, I have No Doubt Whatsoever that I would be designing cars for General Motors today, I had the skills, the connections & most importantly the Talent to do that. I have thought about going back & buying my old home there as well, for a " summer house", as it get's pretty Hot in Florida during the summer months, I even went to a Realtor to find out what it would cost to buy my old house, (it was not for sale), I should probably go back Now & buy it as it would most likely be a "deal" & a half considering the current economy in Detroit !!!....but that is not me, I have no pleasure or desire to take advantage of someone's misfortune for my personal gain. So, no.... I'm not going back.



      




6.) AF: Detroit has had a turbulent couple of years. What do you think the city needs in order to begin the regrowth process?


PA : Detroit needs nothing more than the opportunity to show it has, it can today & will continue to lead the World in the Automotive Industry. I think that most of the reason Detroit is in such a desperate condition today falls upon the Federal Government of the USA, for failing to provide the "Level Playing Field" required by a Free Trade Global Economy.

For over 100 years the Big 3 have taken care of ALL the employees who ever worked for them & thier families too !!...via health care & pensions which those people EARNED with hard work & long hours of dedication to the Auto Companies of Detroit. PEOPLE THAT BUILT THE USA INTO A REAL FREE COUNTRY & WORLD POWER TO BE RESPECTED.


Detroit still sells more cars combined than the rest of the World, In spite of the FACT that now, the Import companies have those "costs" taken care of for them by thier respective Governments, & Detroit Companies do not, creating an "unfair" trade imbalance due to the cost per vehicle produced, the average cost of each car built in Detroit comes with a $5000 fee attached, to pay for those costs, Before the Car is even Built !!!...

Import companies have been allowed to undercut Detroit, hire workers at half the rates, provide none of the benefits, & get Tax Free incentives & Free Land with existing factories, Had Detroit been given these same considerations & the Government "stepped up to the level of the World Market game" by providing some sort of Health care & pension relief for the Big 3, this current "crisis" would NEVER have occurred.

It is a SAD commentary on the state of the USA, that this has been allowed to happen as there was NO EXCUSE for it at all. GM continues to build as many cars as anyone worldwide, yet has been "singled out" to pay the price for ALL of this, just at the time they are about to introduce a series of new models that are revolutionary in nature, like the Chevy Volt.

It is NO coincidence that these "troubles" are coming at this exact time, when Detroit is ready to forsake the "OIL COMPANY" base of
the automobile, for a cleaner more dynamic design method. Big Money is at stake here & right now,..indeed the future of the World Auto Market is on the line.

I have no doubt that the PEOPLE of Detroit & those in the American Auto Companies can & will prevail over these current challenges,...they are some of the smartest people I have ever known in my life, & are under no delusions as to the real causes of what is happening today !!

If I have any hesitations from the course of my life, it would be that I wish I was in Detroit today, ...just so I could be part of kick'in the World in the ass.




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