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Cheap/Slave Labor Crimes: Illegal Immigrant Children Used to Fool the American People

I have become more suspicious of politicians and the establishment that is constantly being formed. Evermore so since the 2008 Bank Bailout that cost taxpayers $611 billion, $388Bhas been returned. I had very high hopes in this presidency, but somehow Obama has skirted around directly helping me, a black woman heading a household on a part-time income. The suspicious feeling again with a recent meeting in Dallas between Present Obama and Texas Governor Rick Perry, discussing a so-called 'humanitarian situation' involving 52,000 unaccompanied illegal immigrant children crossing the southern border in larger numbers, that have not been deported. Why? I cannot seem to figure that out. It seems entirely possible that most of the children will be deported, which leaves to reson that the bill is more of an amnesty issue for illegals living here already. Almost immediately I felt a little concern and suspicion as the pictures of the children melted my heart. I couldn't imagine my own children living in jails, eating frozen food and being raped.

Imagine my brain trying to connect the dots as to why this situation is being compared to Hurricane Katrina. Although a hurricane helped to break a levy that flooded the homes of those that couldn't afford to leave, chose not to leave or were handicapped and couldn't leave. This immigrant flow has been steady since the 50's Without detour I went to the Immigration Reform bill to see how that has gone over with the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the bill has been parked there for more than a year and is considered dead, despite the amendments to the bill.

"The American people expect to see their President when there is a disaster," Perry told CNN's Kate Bolduan in an interview that aired Thursday, citing Obama's trip to the East Coast to tour damage caused by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. "He showed up at Sandy. Why not Texas?"

-Governor Rick Perry

"There's nothing that is taking place down there that I am not intimately aware of and briefed on. This isn't theater. This is a problem," -Obama

I believe now that the immigrant children are being used as a tool to pass the Immigration Reform Bill or lesser known as S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act. Before the Child jail photos 'leaked', (wink wink)...Republicans favored deportation 42%, though 80% of democrats feel as though deportation of all immigrants in unrealistic, which it is. We are being told that the issue is the children, but have not heard as much coverage on adults, or in specific #Mexican. We all know the issue is truly Mexican amnesty. Mexican Americans make up more than 50% of our estimated illegal immigrants. This is a really big problem the country is facing, not simply because the government has no knowledge of how many people are in the US, where these people come from, but because of all the tax revenue Uncle Sam is missing out on......Which brings me to my first topic:

Get out of Jail Free CardA little-discussed provision buried in the immigration bill which passed out of the Senate on June 27, 2013 (S. 744) would let employers off the hook for previously hiring illegal immigrants—a Get Out of Jail Free card that could help companies dodge millions of dollars in fines and penalties, legal fees, and evade prosecution or imprisonment for guilty executives. Employers who have allowed illegal immigrants to work off the books can come forward safely and provide their work history without fear of prosecution, and businesses that knowingly employed someone using a bogus or stolen Social Security number likewise would get a pass, according to an analysis of the bill by the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that wants a crackdown on immigration.

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All this time, employers took fake ssn's and ID's and paid the worker next to nothing, no taxes deducted. However, since the laws have been so unswervingly broken by so many employers over decades, it is time forgive crimes of commerce by selling amnesty. Think about it. Over 600 companies are in support of this bill, big companies such as Apple, Facebook, Google, Hilton, Intel, Marriott, and Microsoft, Caterpillar Inc, The Coca-Cola Co, Motorola Solutions. Read the full list here. Fines for employing an illegal alien can be as high $16,000. Afterall, Obama bailed out the Banks , retailers like Google and Microsoft want a return on campaign contributions (...ahem, $800K+). Millions of dollars being lost in tax revenue that the Government is looking for a way to save big business from fines and taxes. Immigrants will lower the deficit by paying taxes(Current Deficit $16,787,451,118,147 if you needed help on the commas, that 16 trillion dollars). If ever there was a win-win situation.

In 1999, under Clinton, the US collected $3.69 million in fines from 890 companies for employing undocumented workers. In 2004, under Bush, the US collected $188,500 from 64 companies for employing undocumented workers. And in 2004, the Bush Administration levied NO fines for US companies employing undocumented workers. The average fine under Obama ($21,851) has increased about 30 percent compared with the Bush era ($16,666). Criminal arrests of employers have jumped 45 percent since 2008. In the last five years more than 1.5 million undocumented migrants have been deported under the Obama administration. Of the 196 employers arrested last year, 42 have been sent to prison so far, with sentences ranging from time served to 3 1/2 years. Many cases are pending.

This past monday 07132014, The Black American Leadership Alliance protested against immigration reform by march in D.C. They fear that mass immigration and amnesty puts African-Americans from all walks of life out of work and suppresses wages, causing them to compete with aliens willing to work in poorer working conditions for cheaper pay. Walter Ewing, a senior researcher at the Immigration Policy Center disagrees and states, "The fact is that minorities living in high-immigration cities tend to have lower unemployment and higher wages than minorities in low-immigration cities. Immigrants create jobs, they don't steal them."

It is the citizens who control how a representative votes, and if the citizens are softened to the immigration situation, the votes can and possibly would change. Politicians fill the jail for photo opportunities, treating the immigrant children in custody similar to animals in a zoo, and presto...Children are released and the Immigration bill passed with a slew of other laws. Of course, in an 844 page legislation bill, there are plenty laws, but the most notable laws that will go into effect are:

1. E-verify will become required nationwide, persons eligible to work in the US will be issued a number that will allow businesses to determine the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States.

2. Copies of employment records or other evidence of employment provided by an alien or by an alien’s employer in support of an alien’s application for registered provisional immigrant status under section 245B may not be used in a civil or criminal prosecution or investigation of that employer.

2. adding high-tech surveillance equipment and doubling the number of border agents to about 40,000[9] The bill has also passed the Senate by 68-32.

3.In his testimony to the Senate Judiciary, Dr. Ron Hira observed the bill is targeted at reducing cost to corporations by outsourcing USA citizen jobs to lower-cost foreign workers, rather than bringing the best and brightest into the USA. He states “S.744 expands the base cap substantially from 65,000 to 110,000.

4. Other provisions will benefit the nation’s undocumented immigrants, low skilled foreign workers, high skilled foreign workers. The Senate immigration reform bill would raise the H-1B quota. At present, the country grants 65,000 H-1B visas and an additional 20,000 visas for people who hold advanced degrees, per year. If the bill is passed, the H-1B quota will be raised.

5. STEM graduates, (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), A UK based recruitment agency and job board, would become eligible for US Green Cards and the US Congress would issue Green Cards to high-skilled foreign workers. The Senate bill would create a merit based system and issue merit based Green Cards. This system would permit the US Department of Homeland Security to weigh few factors such as education, employment, family ties, etc and issue immigrant visas to foreign nationals based on these factors.

6. DREAMers will become citizens through military service.

Read the comprehensive 844 page, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 here.

White House Requests $3.7 Billion To Address Surge Of Young Immigrants Crossing US Border. The Department of Justice would receive $64 million to hire more immigration judges and provide legal counsel to children undergoing removal procedures. The Department of Homeland Security would get $1.1 billion to boost immigration and customs enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection would receive $433 million. $300 million would go to the Department of State to assist Central American countries in repatriating the deported civilians.$1.8 billion, would go to the Department of Health and Human Services for caring for the children.

Obama on the U.S. Mexico Border Fence

“So here’s the point. I want everybody to listen carefully to this. We have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very Republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement. All the stuff they asked for, we’ve done. But even though we’ve answered these concerns, I’ve got to say I suspect there are still going to be some who are trying to move the goal posts on us one more time. You know, they said we needed to triple the Border Patrol. Or now they’re going to say we need to quadruple the Border Patrol. Or they’ll want a higher fence. Maybe they’ll need a moat. Maybe they want alligators in the moat. They’ll never be satisfied. And I understand that. That’s politics.”

May 10, 2011, speaking at the Chamizal National Memorial in El Paso, Texas

I am against the bill as it is. It seems that Big companies will not stand for crimes again labor law, that Mexican illegal immigrant hopes for citizenship will be exploited at their own cost and is only a pathway to oppression, and because African Slaves or blacks received no compensation or reparation for 400 years of slavery, which paved the way for US big business. Latinos, hispanic, illegal immigrants must understand any mass move toward citizenship may benefit some of the people but the establishment will benefit far greater.

Here are a few more facts. There are 4,258,356 illegal immigrant children in school, and since 1996 it has costed taxpayers $13,784,719,088. There are an estimated 11.1 million illegal immigrants in America today. If illegal aliens were given amnesty and began to pay taxes the estimated annual net fiscal deficit would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total net cost of $29 billion. 3% of Illegal Aliens Do Low-Paid Stoop Agricultural Labor. Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household. Among the largest costs are Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion).

Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That's 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001. –world net daily.

In 1980, our federal and state prisons housed fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. By the end of 1999, these same prisons housed over 68,000 criminal aliens. Today, criminal aliens account for over 29 percent of prisoners in Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities and a higher share of all federal prison inmates. These prisoners represent the fastest growing segment of the federal prison population.

Houston Caribbean Festival 2014- Jou'vert - Paying for Pushing with your Life

Since 2009 I have been attending Houston Caribbean Festival's Jou'vert celebration. I love the scary dark African allure the event leaves me with. I love the themed groups covered in oil and blowing fire, I love the music, country flags and black people celebrating. However this year's Jou'vert left me trampled, scared, running for my life and witness/nearly-victim to a shooting that left a 16 year old young black man dead from a gunshot wound to the face, another young man in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the neck, two other young black men shot in the upper body that are expected to survive. There were also two females treated for injuries from being trampled as crowds rn in panic.

Jou'vert, this year was held in the same place as 2013, in a large open-air rodeo arena that can easily hold 5,000+ people. The arena property is situated on a large lot perhaps 25-40 acres, mostly grassy areas for parking. The event, while largely poplular for 20 years with carribean-americans and africans living in the US, has began gaining local fame with the urban hi-hop youth during radio advertising through 97.9 the boxx. This year the expected turnout was 5,000 attendees, but the effective advertising brought an estimated 10,000 party-goers. The staff was far beyond overwhelmed and could not control crowds near the entrances and exits. When approaching the entrance, I met al least 500-600 people confused and jammed into close quarters on a one way street, unsure of ticket locations, unsure of entrance locations. I myself, spent a few minutes waiting for entry only to be redirected toward the real entrance. I finally made it inside of the event, with no search of me or my bag. As I waited for my freind D, I saw the crowd force past security in droves, again with no searches, no tickets collected. It was enough to make you want to go home, but I expect large crowds at Jou'vert, I expect pushing and shoving. So we went to the arena where we noticed a much larger crowd than 2013. We went into the stands to take a picture, then made our way to the arena floor to party it up! We may have enjoyed a full hour of vibing before litterally being run over by a stampede of half-nude paint-covered children. All the people were young, too young to be in Jou'vert. I , 34 years old, shouldn't be partying with a 16 year old boy.

After the shots were fired, perhaps during the run, I heard a taser going off, people running back and forth in panic. I saw police walking around with huge rifles, a body being wheeled out, people running from exits saying we were not being allowed out, people crying on cellphones recanting the incident expressing their fear, people escaping over 20foot+ fences and a car wreck. I thought it better to leave out throught the back exit and did not see anymore violence after that, but heard on police radios about the fighting at the exits. There are rumors about stabbings and fighting but I did not see any of that.

I have heard many negative statements against American blacks bringing violence to the event.

Regular patrons to Houston Jouvert have witnessed the erosion of the festival over the past few years. Local Hip Hop radio station 97.9 The Box’s G.T., a popular DJ of Caribbean descent, has been instrumental in the commercial growth of Houston Jouvert over the years.

Nonetheless, the question often echoed among West Indians is how do you reconcile the message of Bob Marley’s “One Love” within a music mix that includes Rick Ross?

http://antilliacultura.com/2014/07/05/popularity-houston-jouvert-threatened-urban-appeal/

Violence is apart of the Jou'vert culture, included along with rage, anger, mourning, and joy. This violence is evident at Jouvert celebrations in both Isalnd and state functions. St. Thomas and Brooklyn's 2011 Jouvert parties were both ended in gunfire and murder. Point Fortin, Antigua was shot up in 2010. In Trinidad's 2012 Jouvert a woman was raped by three men, a 14 year old was stabbed and a 31 year old man was shot.

So, for the record Houston's jourvert has not been a consistent source of violence. However, being that the event is sytematically violent, I could be lead to believe that it is the perception of Caribbean people that Americans are violent. I don't believe this. I believe the Mission of the Carribean Festival is failing, which is to promote and preserve the carribean culture to Houstonians and the world. Many of the party goers were not educated on the history of Jou'vert or the purpose, the only purpose mentioned was that it was a paint and foam party. What history and culture can be gained at a paint and foam party?

The criminal element will always try to gain access to functions, as security routinely searches attendees at almost every function worldwide. Promoters know the importance of this function, especially within expected large crowds. HCF was understaffed as I myself was not searched, and several people simply rushed past staff without showing a ticket or being searched. Security was overwhelmed and appeared unfamiliar with aggresive crowds and how to reimplement control. The staff were threatening patrons, and unprofessional. HCF should look to the promoters of the event to question aptability in organizing an event that has drawn a crowd of 10,000. Obviously there was oversight in staffing, security, promoting and education.

Another point of interest is the promotion and preservation of the Caribbean culture. I love the culture, simply for the level of African identity Caribbeans were able to retain. I really respect how strong the identity is and how diverse the people are. All of the things that I love about the culture were hardly diplayed at Jou'vert this year, instead there was a mix of hip-hop and carribean, the music is similar if you compare dancehall and hip-hop, but for a community with bellies full of hip hop it seems nonsensical to play Rick Ross, Rich Homie Quan and Ace Hood. It is not for discrimination of Hip-hop it is for promotion and preservation of the culture.

I was terrified that I would get shot, angry that I waited all year for Jou'vert to have a vision imprinted in my mind of murder. Angry that Jou'vert was set up for the people, but instead of showing off in the Caribbean way, we disrespect the culture by bringing in guns. I'm angry because as a woman from the U.S. descended from slaves, Jou'vert is the closest thing to an African American Independence celebration. It is the ties with the long ago culture that I love and support. It is important to link together in our struggles because we are from one motherland, and have nearly the same stories to tell.

What was missed at 2014 Houston Caribbean Festival Jou'vert was flags and colors, there was hardly any of that this year. I also missed the bands. There was no one covered in oil stick fighting, no blue devils, no stilt walkers. It was simply half Jouvert, half urban Houston Party that ended in murder.

I send my condolences to the family of the young man that was gunned down for pushing in a crowded arena. Black-on-black violence is a shame that we carry along with the saddness of the loss of young life and potential. May God receive this young man and give the family peace and comfort that I am sure was shattered July 4, 2014.

Concern over Euphrates River Water Depletion

It is in recent news that Turkey has stopped the flow of the Euphrates river, causing Syria to scramble to replace their main and only regional water source. This news has Bible Scholars in a frenzy contemplating the end of the world as the scripture reads:

Revelation 16:12
The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East.

This drying up is the last cup of wrath poured out befor the coming of man. This last wrath is preceded by loathsome sores, bloody seas with dead sealife, bloody rivers, scorching sun, and darkness and gnashing pain.

People need to stop. There is an order to the prophecy and one wrath will not come out of order. I could be lead to believe that aids lesions could be the loathsome sores, but the seas will have to be bloody and all sea life will die first....before the rivers, before the scorching sun, before the darkness and pain.

I believe in the whole word of God. and I don't support it being twisted or used for political reasoning. As a matter of fact, The euphrates runs strong from the melting ice caps of Mount Ararat to the persian gulf. Stong until May 2014 when the Turkish Government decreased the flow of the Euphrates for 6 days by damming the river in at least 4 of the 5 Euphrates dams, gradually stopping completely near the middle of May.

Historically, Turkey has been in conflict with Syria and Iraq over the control of the Euphrates. Since 1994, Turkey agreed to guarantee a minimum share of the water from the Euphrates to Iraq and Syria. But since Syria has been in a civil war tensions have risen. Syria downed a Turkish plane on a training flight 2012. Turkey has condemned Syria for supporting the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization internationally by a number of states and organizations, including the USA, NATO, and the EU and has claimed that Syria employed Alois Brunner to train Kurdish militants for attacks against Turkey.

Since the Syrian Civil War, Diplomatic ties between Syria and Turkey greatly deteriorated. The Syrian civil war began to impact Turkey when at least 3,000 Syrian refugees fled crackdowns by the Syrian Army on towns such as Jisr ash-Shugur. In June 2014, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan described to Anatolian Agency his feeling that "They are not acting in a humane manner. This is savagery."

On 23 March 2014, Turkey shot down a Syrian combat jet Turkish-Syrian border. Turkey claims that Two Turkish Air Force F-16s downed the plane that was heading Turkish territory and ignored warnings.

By May, the Euphrates River flow was stopped by a dam, so to speak the river still exists...and as a result this scenario does not fit bible prophecy.

Sidenote: Islam believes that the euphrates will dry up and reveal a mountain of gold.

Bush Advisors Back with More Iraq Intelligence

With the intensifying war in Syria, Ukraine, Nigeria and Afghanistan I did find it interesting that Iraq has been in the news recently claiming an insurgency of Sunni militants have taken seize of a northwestern province, near the Syrian border. The insurgents claim that Iraqi president is discriminating against them based on the Sunni Shia difference.

Considering the humiliating blow America received in the aftermath of invading Iraq based on false intelligence, and then the subsequent assasination by hanging that Saddam Hussein Received...I feel obligated to peer closely at who might be offering intelligence to new information. Afterall, the US has spent more than a pretty penny on warring with Iraq that had no substantiated proof of weapons of mass destruction, no obtained any despite 191,000+ violent deaths caused by the Iraq War and a 757.8 billion price tag.

On queue, and without surprise, three unforgettable names associated with the 2003 invasion of Iraq; Dick Cheney, John Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice have stepped forward critical of President Obama and his security team, and also giving recommendations as to how to respond to current Iraq situations. I am no politician, by any stretch of the word, (even though I was elected PVAMU Freshman Student Council Secretary in 1997) and I could use a political science class, but anyone can see these three spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E (or Halliburton, take your pick).

As much as allowed, I am annoyed by all of the warring, death and intervening into many countries's problems. My largest reason is that African Americans were never paid reparation or offered repatriation after slavery, yet the US has spent 2 trillion 576 billion 283 million on wars since the Spanish American War in 1898, by which nearly a million African Americans were disabled or killed. I consider it a disrespect to demand patriotism from and tax individuals that were never given a fair start in this country. But thenagain, the US has made other poor decisions and major flubbs like failing at assasinating Cuba's Castro and getting caught, and the suuuper slow response to Hurricane Katrina victims, etc...but to REassociate with the likes of Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld is just asking for avoidable and foreseeable death and war without reason.

My Grandparents R.I. P.

My Grandmother Thelma Florence Mitchell-Elliott, 3rd right
My Grandfather Ora Hermann Elliott, far right
1952 Austin Texas

Lakers' Sterling not Free to Speak

Where did freedom of speech run off to? what happened to calling spades 'spades' or telling it like it T-I-Z? LA Lakers owner Donald Sterling recently came under fire for using the word with his girlfriend which was recorded and then publicly released. The recording wasn't the most offensive statement I have ever heard and was somewhat soft considering lynchings, attack dogs and water hoses.

It is simply a glimpse into the narrowing racist mind that hopes for separatism and privacy. Obviously those sentiments are well reserved for those that dont require a paycheck from an company with established ethical policies. In that mind a brotherhood exists to use the n-word and share the same racist ideas without exposure which almost always leads to african americans protesting or boycotting and sharing opinions online or in the media.

To me, the real protest should begin within our own race. Yes, affecting or modifying our own behaviors to exclude the use of the word entirely. Otherwise, we are but a hypocritical people without personal experience of slavery, complaining of a fraudulent hurt of oppression. Reasoning that blacks are still truly hurt by oppression, leads to inquiry of how the n-word term was embraced in our current culture.

The word has been present since slavery. It was used to identify blacks. Over time the word was ignorantly internalized and equated to iNnapropriate behavior, ignorance, loud boastfullness, risky choices, and short sightedness...basically, the impulsive and uneducated.

I wasn't allowed to use the n-word growing up but I did with friends. Only becuase it was a word we could use with other blacks that somehow showed solidarity and brother/sisterhood, and identified the gender as male...(females were b-words, which could be said about any woman). We always knew other races couldn't use it. So I could never totally understand how blacks could use it. But using the n-word is not nearly as bad as the thoughts rotating in the heads of many people that often are fed images of blacks killing each other, using drugs, relaxing on government assistance, having babies, not contributing to society, weighing down advancing blacks, etc.

The media refuses to report the advancing or average black truths, but would rather force or drive the reckless negative aspects of black society. The result is an overall perception that all american blacks are short sighted, violent, unintellegent, hypersexual, self-denegrating and lazy (among other things).

I have been burned by whites, by a Punjabi, by women, by men, banks, corporations, blacks (especially), family, friends, random strangers...by many, and all colors. Many of whom are black and I still keep speaking to blacks. But when the N word drops from the lips of a white person, blacks come charging ready to fight racism. Al Sharpton, Quanell X, Farrakhan, Brother Delloyd Parker will be the first on the scene to fight against the word, but blacks need to show up picketing other blacks from saying it casually and on other sources of recorded media that we use as entertainment.

The n word and negative feelings about blacks are a cancer or leech onto blacks overcoming in america. There are plenty post slavery africans succeeding in America, however, there is a class of blacks that accept the n-word, embrace the violence, the drug life, emprisonment, oppression, hypersexuality and subjection without much struggle and live with it and around the system. This is usually the source of the media attention that exploit blacks for the worlds desire to view blacks under oppression.

Despite the negative attention, there are plenty blacks aware of the world perception of 'us' and do nothing to change the perception but only change the truth, within themselves and in their homes. I appreciate them. Because I am tired of american blacks being the precursor or leaders in music, dance, fashion, sports, and popular slang, etc....always under scope...and hardly ever leading in any industry domination. Let them that wish to, entertain...they will be lost to that insatiable beast.

They Have Ears, but They Hear Not

Eyes Have They, but They See Not

My opinion is not the strongest. I dont want to fight. I don't want to judge. I am no judge. I have my own faults that have more of my attention, BUT blacks do aggrivate the situation by using the word so often, what matter of time will it be before the perception of blacks and use of the n-word is main street, ethical, daytime America?

Either way, we are living in a country where freedom of speech is lawful, I cant fully understand the persecution of the oppressor for his speech when we do not persecute our own for the same usage of terms. With each hateful expression there are a million kept in secret by not only blacks or whites, and by every censorship gripes are silenced and separatism/racial hatred is growing...

Rev 4:18
Come out of her, my people,’
    so that you will not share in her sins,
    so that you will not receive any of her plagues

My sister Lauren Charleston Rice 1995 Westbury High School

Oil Conflict Ukraine vs. Russia

There is a war brewing in the eastern Donets'k region of Ukraine over who the country should look to or submit to, as a center of government....the East or West. The western and more liberal portion of Ukraine recognizes a partnership with Poland, whilst the eastern portion is more populated by Russian speaking Ukrainian citizens that recognize the Eastern border neighbor, Russia. These divisions have long-standing roots. During the 16th and 17th centuries, for instance, much of Ukraine was under the control of the Poland-Lithuania. This country, which at one point constituted the largest nation in Europe, declined in the 18th century and was eventually partitioned by its stronger neighbors Prussia, Russia, and Austria. Interestingly enough the western portion of Ukraine has strong ties to Europe including Poland, Italy, and Germany and all have very large 75 billion+ discounted trade agreements with Russia for their natural gas. The problem for me is that Ukraine, is a considerably small country of 233,090 sq mi (ref: Texas 268,820 square miles) and over half of that wants to join Russia. The other half wants to maintain ties to Poland (read: Europe and ultimately The United States), regain control over the eastern region, and still maintain the agreement for discounted gas prices...this, for me, is either two faced or serving two masters... Rep. Ted Poe says 'Cold War II' Is Coming. Mar. 22, 2014 - According to Ted Poe, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,

"the Ukraine issue is causing another Cold War."

He said,

"We're in Cold War II. The Russians know it ... but I don't think the United States knows it."

He suggested that the U.S. might be able to make progress in this situation by providing natural gas to European NATO nations. This would lessen their dependence on Russian energy and allow them to stand against further aggression from Putin. I actually agree on this reccomendation, absent the recommended resouces available to supply the 2.2 trillion cubic feet (per year) of natural gas that europe will require. The U.S. has on reserve 223 billion barrels of oil equivalents, which include crude oil and gas currently, so it is possible to offer a portion of the reserve as a resource. However, and importantly noted, that this is not a smart strategy when thrawting off war. Ukraine has long been recieving gas from Russia for discounted prices in exchange to utilize the Crimea port and land, which sounds quite fair personally, and to cry wolf to the United States when no bloodshed has occured is not fair to the soldiers and citizens that could potentially lose thier lives behind a conflict that surronds divided civilly, and is a local issue. Only in this issue does Leslie the Barber agree, becuase Ted Poe is famous for racist statements including comparing immigrants to grasshoppers, quoting the Klu Klux Klan Grand Master Nathan Bedford Forrest on the Senate Floor, and because Ted Poe has sentenced over 20,000 criminals as former 228th Felony District Court judge. Nationally Poe is renowned as a firm believer in harsh punishment and in humiliating criminals, ordering thieves to carry signs in front of stores from which they stole; required men who abused their wives to publicly apologize on the steps of Houston's City Hall; commanded sex offenders to place warning signs on their home after serving jail time; and directed murderers to securely place a photo of their victims on the wall of their prison cells, creating a daily reminder of their crime. He voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006 and against the DREAM Act when it was introduced in 2010. More recently, he opposed the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, calling it "an imperial decree to unilaterally ignore portions of the immigration law of the land". He is the sponsor of the Deport Foreign Convicted Criminals Act of 2011 (H.R. 3256), which would provide for denial of immigrant and non-immigrant visas to nationals of countries which have "refused or unreasonably delayed repatriation" of persons ordered deported from the United States.

United States Oil Resources 2013

Revelation 13:14

This second beast fooled people on earth by working miracles for the first one. Then it talked them into making an idol in the form of the beast that did not die after being wounded by a sword.

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Thalassemia Belt

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Black Hebrew Israelite into West Africa - Thalassemia Disease

Recently, I began sketching out my family tree and the research finding are quite interesting to say the least. Firstly, I am able to identify via U.S. Census my great great great grandmother Betty Thomas, born 1866. Start your own Family Tree. Tracing my lineage was prompted by reading the lineage of Jesus and seeing how important ancestry and history are to God's chosen people. For some time now I have been researching the possiblity that I may be a member of the Lost Tribe of Judah that have been prophesied to suffer the curses of dispbedience as described in Deutoronomy 28. Unfortunatley I cannot proove nor deny that I actually am, however I have two valid reasons why I may be. First Reason: I am a descendant of slaves brought to america from africa. My grandmother described to me that she and her family would pick cotton at harvest time to make money and that her parents and grandparents were slaves near giddings Texas. That my ancestors suffered captivity and I am from that I can conclude that I can identify with the scattering, captivity, and subsequent oppression. Second Reason: I have thalassemia. I got the trait from my father who also is a desendant from slavery. Thalassemia is a genetic blood disorder. People with Thalassemia disease are not able to make enough hemoglobin, which causes severe anemia. Hemoglobin is found in red blood cells and carries oxygen to all parts of the body. When there is not enough hemoglobin in the red blood cells, oxygen cannot get to all parts of the body. Organs then become starved for oxygen and are unable to function properly. Thalassemia is a complex group of diseases that are relatively rare in the United States but common in Mediterranean regions and South and Southeast Asia. I came to know when I began having children and tests were run on my blood to look for possible genetic problems. Each healthcare worker would be so confused at how a black woman in america could possibly have this blood disease when the origin of the disease is in the mediterranean. I was so perplexed at how this might happen so with a little research I located a term called 'Thalassemia Belt' which describes the areas of origin as being basically surronding Israel, lower europe, asia minor, Egypt, North Africa and West Africa, particularly Senegal, Sierra Leonne, and Liberia. When I read the information, I knew that this important information could assist in identifying those suffering under the curses as prophesied. Why I think this information important is blacks in America wish not to be identified as being of Africa, but as I grow to know history and how it relates to the bible prophecy I cannot help but to share the information. Often I feel less than confident when speaking about the Tribe of Judah, where they were scattered and if it were actually possible to reach West Africa from Israel prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade. I am confident now in that I have a genetic blood disorder that originates from the areas near Ancient Judea. p

Tonsure to Weave Industry

As a small gesture towards time and maturity, I felt it appropriate to change an opinion about weave hair. My typical feeling about weave is that your own hair could be styled as nicely as purchased hair. Even when the stories of alopecia or cancer are brought up i look to the spirit of the individual and question vanity.

The importance of image is a personal standard, one that I cannot control or judge. So recently I became interested in sacrifices and offerings and went first to the bible to find:

1 Corinthians 10: 27-33
27 If an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go, eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. 28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience. 29 I am referring to the other person’s conscience, not yours. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?30 If I take part in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of something I thank God for?

33 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 32 Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God—33 even as I try to please everyone in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.

I thought of how this relates to the topic 'Tonsure' a practice of Hindus offering their hair to Neela Devi, one of many Hindu deities. It is both a ritual custom and ritual cleanse. The hair is then harvested and sold into hair weaving industries.

Of course this hair is only a portion of how hair comes to the heads of those who can afford it and do so. So it leads me to wonder about the exploiters and customers, as it relates to me.

firstly, the exploiters are the temples that sell the hair, and then accompanied by the order of preparation, transport and then retailers. If their God(s) allow and encourage sacrifices like this, then do so as you choose. My God however, is asking for a living sacrifice. Also, man being the head of woman would translate to the  Christian as cutting off the man. See:

1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Lastly, the customers, if Christian, CAN wear the sacrifices of hair because they were sacrificed to an idol, which is nothing to God. But if the conscience bothers the individual who eats the sacrificed meat, or in this case hair, they should not wear/eat it.

Sometimes, truly it bothers me to cut hair knowing the bible says:

Numbers 6:5
All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord,he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.

...but it also says:

Ezekiel 44:20
They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads.

I dont mind any of the practices now. Tonsuring, shaving, wearing weaves, or never cutting/trimming the hair. The hair as it grows from my own scalp is fine for me.

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Valentine's Day/Rome's Founding Day - Lupercalia

Over the past few years, I have awakened a side of actuality that has never been there before. Everything I encounter I find myself researching and understanding almost everything on a much deeper and tactile level. Happenstance that each time I research American holidays, I find some Pagan source of sky watchers or Gods. Apparently the Pagans founded the USA and have brought all of their traditions and holidays with them disguised as holy days. For my Valentine’s Day post, I was going to whine about not having the reciprocating love that I have always aspired. That woulda been wack. Wackety-Wack. So to scratch my research-loving historian's itch (that resides deep within) I will cover...(#Drumroll)...Lupercalia! (Read: Valentine's Day) Lupercalia was a very ancient, possibly pre-Roman pastoral festival, observed on February 13 through 15, the day Rome was founded (traditionally, 753 B.C.), to avert evil spirits and purify the city Rome, releasing health and fertility. Lupercalia subsumed Februa, an earlier-origin spring cleansing ritual held on the same date, which gives the month of February (Februarius) its name. Many of the noble youths and of the magistrates run up and down through the city naked, for sport and laughter striking those they meet with shaggy thongs. And many women of rank also purposely get in their way, and like children at school present their hands to be struck, believing that the pregnant will thus be helped in delivery, and the barren to pregnancy. Romulus and Remus are the twin brothers and central characters of Rome's foundation myth. Their mother is Rhea Silvia, daughter to Numitor, king of Alba Longa. Before their conception, Numitor's brother Amulius seizes power, kills Numitor's male heirs and forces Rhea Silvia to become a Vestal Virgin, sworn to chastity. Rhea Silvia conceives the twins by the god Mars, or by the demi-god Hercules; once the twins are born, Amulius has them abandoned to die in the river Tiber. They are saved by a series of miraculous interventions: the river carries them to safety, a she-wolf (in Latin, lupa) finds and suckles them, and a woodpecker feeds them. A shepherd and his wife find them and foster them to manhood, as simple shepherds. The twins, still ignorant of their true origins, prove to be natural leaders. Each acquires many followers. When they discover the truth of their birth, they kill Amulius and restore Numitor to his throne. Rather than wait to inherit Alba Longa, they choose to found a new city. The story seems very much like the story of Moses being set into a basket and onto a river to be saved by as slave. I find it interesting that the notion of Moses feels true, though the Remus and Romulus story feel like mythology. There are some other ties to a priest that would marry couples despite a law prohibiting marrying lovers, but the true source of Valentine’s Day is Rome's Founding Day. This is exceptional considering the differences between the Hebrew Jews of the time and the Romans, being that Romans believed in and prayed to many Gods including Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Isis and Vulcan among many others....and well Jews believe as Christians do that there is but One (1) God. I don't mean to convince anyone, but thought this enlightenment might do the good that it should, so I shared. Comment if you care to do so.